multi-faceted, multidisciplinaryengineering issues. They are then asked to determine the most important problem/s and todiscuss stakeholders, impacts, unknowns, and possible solutions. Table 2 presents a summary ofsample scenarios, and Appendix B provides three full scenarios with instructional prompts. TheEPS Rubric, an analytic rubric, was developed to measure the extent to which studentperformance in response to a given scenario achieved the six learning outcomes associated with Page 22.38.2the ABET professional skills. This method is flexible, easy to implement, and can be used at the course level for teaching and measuring engineering
. Occasionally, but rarely, students willdiscover these connections on their own, even though they may be readily apparent toteachers, curriculum designers, and other content experts. Examples of explicit andimplicit math integration in a PLTW course follow.Example 1: Excerpt illustrating explicit integration of math with engineering In this example two students are discussing the design of their project, aballistic device, with their instructor: S: ((At the same time)) Different, different angles. S: A protractor sitting here. With a string with a weight on it. So as you tip it it'll that'll tell you what degree you're tipping it. T: I like that. That's nice. S: So that tells you what degree so we can figure that out. In
-year calculus-based physics course reduced the achievement gap between menand women in the course, and elevated women‟s modal grade from a C to a B.20 In the first yearcourses for civil and environmental engineering at the University of Colorado (CU) therespective BOK6,1 is presented to students in order to show that a diversity of knowledge, skills,and values are important, in the hopes that students will find some parts of the profession withwhich they can personally identify.A secondary goal of this research was to determine if there were significant differences in theattitudes toward sustainability of the first year students in the civil engineering course versus theenvironmental engineering course. My hypothesis was that a higher
what was going on because he wasn’t telling us directly what we needed to do but instead bringing up more questions for us, and more problems to solve.” • All students interviewed found the DMM beneficial to the project. “Those meetings gave us direction, he would mention things that we had forgotten and stuff like that, with his way of asking questions about stuff we said.” “just getting [coach]’s feedback was beneficial. Finding out like if what we came up with Page 22.635.8 on our own was a good idea or if we missed something.” • Students expressed that they appreciated the coach asking difficult
and may offer insights into their futuretrajectory. STEM students and faculty thinking about their career trajectories (e.g. whether topursue a job in a research university vs. bachelor’s only institution in light of balancing withfamily responsibilities) may also benefit from the findings of this study.Our data come from the National Study of Postsecondary Faculty (NSOPF). NSOPF includesfaculty member and institutional data. Our dataset for this study contains data from 1993 and2004, which is the last year the NSOPF was administered. These two years were selectedbecause FMLA was passed in 1993. NSOPF 1993's data collection started in 1992 and cantherefore serve as a baseline of the patterns of policy distribution before FMLA’simplementation
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transfer in biological systems. Students worked in teams to build confidence withexperimental and analytical skills while deepening their understanding of biological systems. Inthis project, students tested the properties of soils that emulated other permeable materialsrelevant to bioengineering.Forming Teams with CATMECATME’s Team-Maker software [19] was utilized to diversify teams of students in BIOE 120.Students completed a survey that requested data about their racial and ethnic identity, genderidentity, college (e.g., Engineering, Liberal Arts and Sciences, Business), major(s), and classyear (Table 2a). They were then asked to rate their experience level with various technical skillsas well as their preferred leadership style and if they
prerequisite concepts, and implementing strategies thatreshape students' perceptions of difficult courses. By addressing the challenges identified in thisstudy, educators can help students navigate the rigors of engineering statics, ultimately reducingfailure rates and fostering a more engaging and effective learning experience. This workunderscores the need for intentional instructional practices that not only improve academicsuccess but also prepare students for the demands of their engineering careers.References[1] S. Rajasekaran, Engineering Mechanics Statics And Dynamics. Vikas Publishing House, 2009.[2] P. S. Steif, “An articulation of the concepts and skills which underlie engineering statics,” in 34th Annual Frontiers in Education
. For example, Scenario 3 on‘general-purpose’ AI is inspired by the EU AI Act’s requirement [28] that proprietors of ‘generalpurpose’ AI systems report details about model architecture and training processes to national AIauthorities. Each scenario, along with the proposed AI regulations that Congress can vote on, aredescribed in Appendix B. To start the game, only members of Evil Inc. are told internal companyinformation that motivates their lobbying efforts. For example: “Evil Inc.’s large language modelis only successful because its model architecture is kept a secret, so Evil Inc. should preventCongress from requiring the disclosure of any model architecture information.” Each round, EvilInc. members decide how to distribute a limited
, emphasizing that entrepreneurial metacognition is rooted in theexternal environment, metacognitive awareness, metacognitive knowledge and experience,metacognitive strategies, and metacognitive monitoring [15]. This model highlighted howentrepreneurs develop a "higher-order" cognitive process in nature to navigate and succeed intheir entrepreneurial pursuits. This study adjusted Haynie et al.’s entrepreneurial metacognitionmodel to build the conceptual model (Figure 1). The model demonstrated how students’entrepreneurial metacognition awareness developed through the metacognitive monitoring andmetacognitive reflection processing (Figure 1).Figure 1Adjusted entrepreneurial mindset metacognition model External Environment Student
improved confidence among students in their informationsearching abilities. Other studies have shown similar results, although Han & Schuurmans-Stekhoven [27] note that graduate students also feel that these benefits are diminished if theylack effective composition and communication skills, especially among those who speakEnglish as a second language.The lasting impact of IL instruction on undergraduate students in various academic domainshas also been demonstrated in the literature, particularly in the North American context [9],[16], [28]. One of the earliest examinations is Hardesty et al.’s [29] three-year study ofDepauw University’s undergraduate population. Walters et al. [20] conducted a five-yearyearly assessment of an IL program at
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capture photos/images in response to prompts,however, photovoice is a methodology designed to support participants in documenting,communicating, and reflecting on their experiences. Photo elicitation is not a full methodology,but a qualitative method used to yield rich data and circumvent some of the limitations oftraditional interviews.Concept mappingA concept map as a research technique aims to visualize how people connect and relate differentconcepts. Concept maps are hierarchical, and different concept nodes are connected with arrowsthat explicitly define the relationship(s) between the concepts. For example, a concept map aboutphoto synthesis may have ‘the sun’ and ‘plant life’ as two nodes, and the relational arrow fromsun to plant may be
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when creating the project and just use personal skills learned in classes before. The con for this method is not knowing how much to do to receive a higher grade.” “The lack of detailed instructions made me the most nervous at the beginning of the project, but as our group progressed, it turned out this was a non-issue and instead gave us more creative freedom to really let us make our project what we wanted it to be.”Discussion and Future WorkThe Engineering Museum Exhibit (EME) was overall a success. Students were encouraged to getcreative, and the resulting displays at the live showcase embodied the KEEN 3Cs. Using Guay etal.’s [24] pre-validated questionnaire
response questions that specifically asked about studentmotivation, but unsolicited students did mention motivation or described motivating thoughts.Overall there were 315 positive comments made with 5 of them relating to increased motivation.There were also 171 comments about areas of improvement with 1 negative comment aboutmotivation. Below are comments coded as related to motivation and selected other comments.1. Question: In what way have the oral assessment(s) changed your interaction with faculty/TAs/tutors, your studying strategy, or any other aspects of your course experience? a. It makes me want to understand things taught in [redacted] course better b. know my stuff more c. I got to meet with TA in person and
in most impactful undergraduate course by modified Carnegie classification. Research Universities Bac/A&S International (VH, H, DRU, Masters) Kruskal-Wallis Test Philosophies (n = 6) (n = 16) (n = 66) Median %1-2 %4-5 Median %1-2 %4-5 Median %1-2 %4-5 χ2(2) p Perennialism 4.0 13.7 74.2 5.0 16.7 83.4 4.0 18.8 62.5 1.816 0.403*,1 Social
information waswell-advertised. Students in biomedical and environmental engineering from the majoritypopulation felt that they had to seek out the opportunities. Women in the same programsperceived lab environments in these departments provided valuable experiences. One studentwho is a member of a URG noted that her research experiences have helped the student tobuild an identity as a budding engineer: “I feel like I do [response to being asked if (s)he feels like (s)he is becoming anengineer], because I’ve done research for so long. So, I started my first research project thefall of my sophomore year. And that one was not really my project. I was just mostly doingdata collection for a professor. But I’ve been doing a project that’s mostly
Paper ID #18662An Exploratory Study of Power Dynamics and Feedback in Design ReviewsMr. Mitchell James Cieminski, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering Mitchell J. Cieminski was born in Fontana, CA in 1995 and grew up in Greeley, CO. He received a B.S. in electrical and computer engineering from Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering in Needham, MA in May 2017, and currently studies science and technology studies at Rennselaer Polytechnic Institute. In 2014, he worked at Insper University in S˜ao Paulo, Brazil as a Junior Partner and visiting student to their developing engineering program. His research interests
. Government WorkplaceAbstractThis paper reports the results of a quantitative, nonexperimental, cross-sectional, one-time, web-based survey on the career self-efficacy1 of self-selected black engineers in the engineeringworkplace—a workplace that has been described as a “haven of whiteness and masculinity”3,p.14and “pale” and “male”4,p.86. Engineering has been a key component of the U.S.’s globaltechnological superiority. However, U.S. racial demographics are changing. The number ofwhites currently in the workforce and the number of whites entering the workforce will decreaseover the next several decades. Given current college and university graduation rates by race, thenumber of underrepresented minority engineers is not on a path to maintain the
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