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throughoutthe planning and implementation phases. Since its launch, educators have used the materials in avariety of ways, some of which the development team had not previously considered. This paperwill particularly focus on the implementation and evaluation of the engineering content on thesite. We will present and discuss results from (1) educator feedback surveys, (2) websiteanalytics, and (3) educator focus groups. We will also reflect on the challenges and opportunitiesin promoting new web-based educator materials. Our team has implemented a number ofstrategies to reach teachers, including social media, conference attendance, and emailnewsletters. Now that the materials have been available for over 18 months, we are able to sharelessons learned
asolution. Students are required to meet our departmentally owned and embedded ECE academicadvisor each semester to holistically review degree progress, provide planning, support, andadvocate for students’ needs, including mental health concerns. Academic advising iscomplementary to degree-field-focused faculty advising and mentoring. Advising is integratedwith other ECE student administration, including the course scheduling processes, classmanagement, and curriculum. The academic advisor was key in hearing consistently concerningfeedback about Introduction to Microcontrollers in student advising meetings, holding a broadoverview of the student cohort, understanding departmental context, and seeing a wider picture ofthe course over a period of
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based on gender, race/ethnicity, or other factors (e.g.,previous design experiences, career plans). Future work stemming from this research will alsodelve into understanding why students seem to prioritize other considerations at the expense ofstakeholders during their engineering design process. Exploring the remainder of the survey willgive an insight on how students perceive, experience, and define engineering design as well ashow these perceptions and experiences can impact a student’s design experience. Future workwill also explore the changes made during the redesign of the two-semester Senior Design courseand how these specific changes may have impacted students’ experiences in the course as well astheir design processes and
because of the logs? I try to answer the question instead of waiting for the answer even I speak in a low voice. And I will ask other classmates questions I don't understand after class and watch some relevant videos sometimes. After I need to finish the log, I will use the options on the log to plan what I will do in class or after class. For journaling reasons, I tried something I hadn't done before. Because of the participation log, I began to take notes in class and communicate with my classmates about the question that I have. I become more engaged especially out-of-class because I should pay more efforts and time to the course to earn the points for participation log. I have tried to answer the questions asked by teachers in class and as I
found that freshmen generated more solutions and had fivetimes greater activation in regions of the brain related to memory, planning, decision making,and ability to think about multiple concepts at once than seniors. On the other hand, seniors hadten times the activation in areas associated with behavior control, uncertainty management, andself-reflection in decision making.5 Preliminary ERP investigationAs noted above, there are currently no ERP based experiments of engineering design andcreativity. Furthermore, as of date, our research has not found any ERP studies related toengineering in any aspect. In order to investigate ERPs near the realm of engineering, our lab hasrun a pilot study investigating the N400 response of engineers
Center, May 30, 2019, https://calbudgetcenter.org/blog/california-college-students-are-increasingly-experiencing-mental-health-issues-and- need-improved-support/ , accessed on Jan 11, 2020.5. Wilcox, Holly C.; Arria, Amelia M.; Caldeira, Kimberly M.; Vincent, Kathryn B.; Pinchevsky, Gillian M.; O'Grady, Kevin E. (2010). "Prevalence and predictors of persistent suicide ideation, plans, and attempts during college". Journal of Affective Disorders. 127 (1–3): 287– 294. doi:10.1016/j.jad.2010.04.017. PMC 2924459. PMID 20471691.6. Burrell, J., (2019), “College and Teen Suicide Statics,” Verywellmind, Nov 5, 2019, https://www.verywellmind.com/college-and-teen-suicide-statistics-35707687. Twenge, J. M., 2017, iGen: Why Today’s Super
ISSUE 2 17 ADVANCES IN ENGINEERING EDUCATION Implementation of Blended Learning for a Large Size Engineering Mechanics Courseachieved by placing a time restriction of one hour for each weekly quiz. Implementation of the timerestriction on the quizzes needs to be term-planned in the course timetable to avoid class clasheswith other courses. We will monitor if the time restriction on the quizzes provides students withbetter ability for self-assessment and progressive learning
more than their fair share of time and words in most deliberations.Some research has explored the relationships between gender composition and teamperformance. Woolley, Chabris, Pentland, Hashmi, & Malone (2010) investigated the linkbetween collective intelligence factor of a group and their corresponding performance on variousteamwork tasks (e.g., brainstorming, planning events). They showed how collective intelligencewas more a function of social sensitivity of the members than the sum of individual intelligenceof each member. Notably, these factors were positively correlated with female participation andnegatively correlated with the number of speaking turns took during execution of tasks. Thesefindings emphasize that power dynamics and
department assessment committeeto guide the department is assessment of various ABET student learning outcomes for thecoming years. The results have shown how a course has started to close the loop on studentlearning on various outcomes. The department plans to use this pilot and collect additionalartifacts for future endeavors to assist in instruction intervention, assignment re-design andcurriculum changes.Work Cited1. Allen, M. J. (2004). Assessing Academic Programs in Higher Education. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.2. Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHED). Regional Accrediting Organizations. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.chea.org/regional-accrediting-organizations on January 7, 2020.3. WASC Senior College and
” perspective of our persisting students.18 In addition, we see growth mindsetrepresented in the way that the students appear to be ready and willing to adapt and improve, as afixed mindset, on the other hand, would be in direct contradiction to these efforts.195. Future workIn an effort to address our driving research questions, the next steps of our ongoing work in thisstudy will be focused on completing the final coding of all 23 transcripts. As a component of ourprocess in developing conclusions via a grounded theory approach, we will report on the relativeprevalence of any coding strings from our master codebook. In addition, we also plan to searchfor patterns that may point to potential causal links between occurrences. As a hypotheticalexample
deviations to characterize errors in their measurements. They also investigate the effects of averaging multiple samples to reduce random noise and associated measurement error.• Learning Objectives 1. Become familiar with the equipment used for electrical measurements (power supply, multimeter, DAQ, etc.) 2. Understand the importance of inherent measurement error in the lab setting. Be able to articulate the difference between relative error and absolute error 3. Develop and implement an experimental plan to find a mathematical expression for the relationship between voltage and current in a simple resistor circuitLab 2 – Electric Potential and Electric Fields• Summary – In this lab, the students use a
learning, while meeting the community needs. Capstone senior project designcourses are a natural way for incorporating service-oriented learning into any engineeringprogram.There are a variety of ways in which service-oriented learning projects can beincorporated into senior engineering capstone design courses. Some of these experiences fulfillthe rigorous definition of service-oriented learning (SoL), while others meet some but not allrequirements. However, by exploring this instructional approach that is providing a frameworkfor an authentic learning experience, a comprehensive and sustainable plan is needed to ensure asuccessful, synergistic integration of service-oriented learning in an engineering pedagogicalframework. The design project goal
. Teaching Methods that Work”,Chemical Engineering Education, 34 (1), 26-39.[9] Weiss T. June 3, 2009. The 10 hardest jobs to fill in America. Online reference available at:https://www.forbes.com/2009/06/03/hard-jobs-fill-leadership-careers-employment.html#41f226df758e accessed July 2019.[10] Jones BD, Paretti MC, Hein SF, and Knott TW. (2010). “An Analysis of MotivationConstructs with First‐Year Engineering Students: Relationships Among Expectancies, Values,Achievement, and Career Plans,” Journal of Engineering Education, 99: 319-336.[11] Jackson SA. (2002). The Quiet Crisis: Building Engineering and Science Talent, San Diego,CA. Online reference available at: https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/view/25874662/quiet-crisis-building-engineering-and
groups that determine exact square footage of each room in the building to veryapproximate percentages. So long as results are within 10% of the solution set the methods arelikely reasonable with grading deductions mostly taken for gross errors. The grading of theseassignments can focus more specifically on likely errors, such as floor distributions of seismicbase shears, proper distribution of wind load and snow drift calculations. Other assignments arefairly straightforward application of these loads, although determination of appropriate lateralforce resisting systems (when both brace and moment frames do not exist in the structure) cantake some effort and planning of the assignment. As an added bonus, homework assignments arefairly
experiences that other students do.Future work will involve disseminating this survey at the authors’ home institution, to gatherdata about the wide variety of project teams at the university. The findings from the firstdissemination of the survey will likely influence future research directions. One planneddirection is to use the findings of the survey to determine how to develop ways to better engagewith and encourage the teams that do appear to have poor team culture. By connecting teams thatare more welcoming with teams that are still developing ways to be more inclusive, we may beable to push project teams to adopt more inclusive recruitment and retention strategies.Another planned direction is to make the survey available for use at other
through videos andonline learning systems), leaving the classroom time to be devoted to more hands-on, active, andcollaborative learning activities [13]. The flipped learning approach has gained significantmomentum since 2012, with 27% of higher education faculty surveyed (in all disciplines) statingthat they planned to incorporate flipped classroom techniques and 29% saying that they werealready using a version of flipped delivery in their instruction [14]. While the numbers of facultyemploying flipping techniques tends to be lower in the engineering disciplines than in the overallhigher education classrooms presented in the survey, research supporting the use of flippedlearning in engineering continues to grow. Engineering faculty, who have
setto begin during Spring 2019 and will involve stakeholders including faculty, students, alumni,and industry partners. The first set of examples will be developed by a student leadership teamthat was formed during Summer 2018. The student leadership team is responsible forimplementing initiatives that bring industry and academia closer together, including both thecurrent initiative and many of the existing program components mentioned in the introduction(i.e.: networking events, career symposiums, etc.).Implementation of the initiative will be part of the department’s larger assessment plan, whichincludes evaluation of students’ understanding of what it means to be an engineer in practice.Ongoing feedback will also be gathered from department
collaborative 0/3 0/5 and inclusive environment, establish goals, plan tasks, and meet objectives (d) (6) an ability to develop and conduct appropriate (b) an ability to design and experimentation, analyze and conduct experiments, as well as 0/4 0/5 interpret data, and use
at both the 200- and 300-levels found the experiences to be both worthwhile and enjoyable.This paper summarizes student growth and feedback in response to the first implementation ofthe integrated design projects, spanning one academic year. The amount and quality of studentfeedback we have received, both via survey and anecdotally, and our own observations haveprompted us to enact improvements to the projects going forward. We have highlighted a few ofour plans in the list below. Although the projects are meant to be mostly self-guided by student teams, we need to develop tutorials to better guide student learning of new skills (e.g., use of finite element analysis software, physical computing in Python). Student
was to have support from some of the VTPEERS team. For example, one teacher indicated being confused initially by the lesson plan foran engineering activity and indicated that It looked very complicated. However, they gained abetter understanding of the lesson after a VT PEERS team member taught one of the engineeringlessons: “But when you came in and you did it, it was like oh, okay. I know what I'm doingnow.” This indication of confidence through getting help and seeing the lesson is an indicator ofthe development of self-efficacy through vicarious experience.Student RolesThis sub-code was identified in all grade levels’ transcripts. One teacher indicated the rarity ofbeing able to be the in the role of a student as a teacher
opportunities for students. Capstone course instructors are faced with the challenge ofaccommodating the expectations of governing bodies both internal and external to the homeinstitution while creating a valuable learning experience, often dared to be dynamic or innovativeto enhance the specific institute’s missions and strategic plans. While the variation is supportedas the mechanism for students to choose the most appropriate program catered to their interestsand ambitions, faculty members may struggle to identify the suitable expectations to define theirprogram as successful. A survey of “biographical” information for civil engineering programshas been conducted to obtain data to capture the state of the art of civil engineering senior designcourse
-reason-your- city-has-no-money. [Accessed: 04-Feb-2018].[42] E. J. Heikkila and R. B. Peiser, “Urban sprawl, density, and accessibility,” Pap. Reg. Sci., vol. 71, no. 2, pp. 127–138, Apr. 1992, doi: 10.1007/BF01434259.[43] G. Pryce, Y. Chen, and G. Galster, “The Impact of Floods on House Prices: An Imperfect Information Approach with Myopia and Amnesia,” Hous. Stud., vol. 26, no. 2, pp. 259– 279, Mar. 2011, doi: 10.1080/02673037.2011.542086.[44] H. Clarke, “Planning Urban Water Investments with an Uncertain Climate,” Econ. Pap. J. Appl. Econ. Policy, vol. 32, no. 4, pp. 426–439, Dec. 2013, doi: 10.1111/1759-3441.12055.[45] M. Spackman, “Time Discounting and of the Cost of Capital in Government,” Fisc. Stud., vol. 25, no
Good Category Strengths Areas for Improvement Format Interpretation Planning / Procedure Solution Execution Figures Equations Units Checking WorkReflectionWhat answers from the Initial Attempt coversheet, if any, changed after assessing the work?____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Reflect on how to improve concept mastery and homework performance in the next homework.____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
EV300(Environmental Science), EV350 (Environmental Engineering Technologies), and EV450(Environmental Engineering for Community Development), all of which are required coursesthat are designed for non-environmental engineering majors to be introduced to the field in athree-course sequence. The small courses (EV397 Air Pollution Engineering, and EV481 WaterResources Planning and Design) are upper-level courses that are required for environmentalengineering majors, and serve as electives for other engineering majors.Embedded indicator data was taken from two to three recent semesters of each course. Theembedded indicators ranged from entire assignments (e.g., “homework 1”) to portions ofassignments (e.g., “exam questions 2,3, and 7”), and were
. Developing astrategy to approach this problem involves several aspects that need to be carefully considered ifwe are to understand, plan, and successfully achieve our goal.Such a journey is a call to us to explore what we know and what we need to know about climbingthe mountain. We have our preconceived notions and prior knowledge of climbing mountains, butwe are challenged to increase our consciousness about the problem so that we may take ownershipof the problem. We need to decide on how we will comprehend what we don’t know. Once, ourqualitative mindset can recall the references of our prior experiences in our structures ofassumptions. Then, we begin listing our ideas of possible ways to reach our goal.As the journey is set to be time-sensitive
determining and teaching bestpractice make at least three important contributions to science and engineering education. First,they offer students a contextualized experience for cumulative knowledge-building and then anopportunity to present that knowledge in ways consistent with a vertical knowledge structure thatthe community of scientists and engineers both understands and values. Second, too often labnotebooks are trivialized as simple recounts. That may provide some explanation for the lack ofguidance. But, as we see in Jaun’s entry, notebooks can serve several purposes, e.g., planning,problem-solving, realizing the best possible solution (rather than the ‘right’ solution typical ofhomework problem sets) – actual knowledge practices critical to
1. C.L. Dym, A.M. Agogino, O. Eris, D.D. Frey, L.J. Leifer, “Engineering design thinking, teaching, and learning,” Journal of engineering education 94, no. 1, 2005, pp. 103-120. 2. T. Nakazawa, M. Matsubara, S. Mita, K. Saitou, “Teaching materials and lesson plans for hands- on mechanics education,” Experimental Techniques 38, no. 6, 2014, pp. 72-80. 3. G. Lemons, A. Carberry, C. Swan, L. Jarvin, C. Rogers, “The benefits of model building in teaching engineering design,” Design Studies 31, no. 3, 2010, 288-309. 4. T. Trust, R. W. Maloy “Why 3D Print? The 21st-Century Skills Students Develop While Engaging in 3D Printing Projects,” Computers in the Schools, vol. 34, no. 4, pp 253-266, 2017. 5. G.G. Tipker, M
of a patient are often more effective. Local solutions involvehorizontal innovation networks to create assistive technology that is modifiable by healthcareprofessionals and patients, not just the engineers that created the device. However, the ability tocommunicate between engineers, healthcare professionals, and patients requires empathy.A number of other researchers have investigated the importance of developing empathy in theirengineering courses. Mitchell and Light (2018) have incorporated initial challenger interviews,subject matter expert speakers or videos, stakeholder engagement plans, and reflection exercisesto help students develop empathy in “EPICS,” a first-year design course at Colorado School ofMines [2]. In another first-year