preceding the study had evolved from “a definite teaching plan” and “pedagogic consistency” [p. v] to a “chaotic condition” [p. 6]; and • an integrated approach to humanistic studies that recognizes “human values and costs” as important considerations in engineering [p. 92] and has the potential to develop “a unity of purpose and outlook which will be a great asset in developing a professional consciousness among engineers” [p. 97].Mann takes an outcomes-based approach to curriculum design that is recognizably the same asthat used in Engineering Criteria 2000 (EC2000). Like the framers of EC2000, Mann recognizesthat STEM competencies are necessary but not sufficient for successful engineering practice. Acrucial
teaching space and discuss the anticipatedrenovations and improvements which will soon be in place. Surveys that were administered tostudents, faculty, and advisory board members will highlight key findings which serve as a basisfor the transformation, and future plans for additional steps are also included in this study. Itshould be noted that this is an ongoing project which plans to analyze the long-term effects ofchange and improvement in one particular classroom, therefore final conclusions may be issuedin future publications.In addition, this paper reviews the literature which discusses similar research and observationsfrom comparable studies to evaluate student learning environments embedded within othermajors as well as additional higher
instructionalguidance on preparing for an oral exam for both examiners and examinees, need to be consideredand carefully planned. Our StudyThe full project aims at developing oral exams that maximize their formative benefits to ourstudents and addresses the design challenges associated with their scalability and adoption forhigh-enrollment classes. In this paper, we focus on understanding the full picture of oral exams:connecting students’ psychological and learning experiences with their academic performancesacross several courses. We specifically aim at addressing three components of oral exams. First,we examine the overall psychological experience on the student’s end in preparing for, during,and after the oral exam. Specifically, we asked students
)?” Group average All students (N = 189) 0.17 Students who are planning to take -0.02 the oral assessment (N = 36) Students who are not planning to 0.14 take the oral assessment (N = 15) Figure 7. Initial student comfort level reaching out the instructional team (from the pre
understanding the pressing issues including legislative opportunities (new CSEdcoordinators, call for state CSEd plans, or funding allocated for CSEd).The sessions during the Initial framing phase on subjectivity and bias and, relatedly, on engagingothers with the data story are important in enabling the teams to understand in advance a) howthey want to own their state BPC story and b) how others in the BPC arena make choices abouthow they present data in ways that may be counterproductive to the ECEP team’s BPC advocacywork. These sessions are both cautionary and empowering for the teams.Understanding the data ecosystemWithin the first 6 months of the first CMP cohort the research team designed a process thatallows for a clear understanding of where
schedules, andlecture materials. This included a daily “Foundation” of the 5 lean principles ensure the benefitsof repetitive practice, yet in different formats to ensure student engagement. 1.4.1.4 Pull. With respect to pull, LEI states that customers should be able to “pull” thenext product when desired rather than it being “pushed” on them from inventory stockpiles [28].While we did not directly allow a large class of students to work self-paced, we migrated ourmaterials to modular mini-lecture of 25 minutes so that topics were easily moved based onexternal variability, such as mid-western winter storms. Furthermore, we plan to further shorteneach to ten minutes to enable a YouTube channel. 1.4.1.5 Perfection. Finally, LEI states
. We produced 20 copies of this system to serve 40 students at a time (a). A team of two students troubleshot the error that we have implanted in the setup (b).The learning objectives of the exercise are as follows. • Ability to plan and execute strategies to solve troubleshooting problems. • Ability to work with a partner in a structured problem-solving activity. • Ability to use engineering domain and device knowledge in practical problem-solving scenarios. 3. Results and DiscussionThe structured troubleshooting presented in the Introduction section involves identification,hypothesis generation/verification, and solution tasks. Hypotheses present a spectrum of possibleerrors causing the malfunction. Hypotheses need to be
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interpretations, we propose conducting a qualitative study byinterviewing students. We plan to couple current exploratory study with performance data andsubmitted queries to more strongly identify successful problem-solving patterns and groups ofstudents in need of support. Ultimately, we aim to develop an automated analysis tool forinstructors to identify students who may require help during lecture sessions or collaborativeassignments, as some students who would benefit from help may feel shy from seeking it.ConclusionsOur study seeks to address the lack of knowledge about student group problem-solving behaviorsin a collaborative learning setting and assist instructors in understanding the temporal patterns instudent group submission sequences
their project rankings in hindsight to determine how the experience changed their expectations.• Is there a relationship between project source and perceived project difficulty?• Do the students’ post-graduation plans impact their choice of sponsor source?The authors look forward to collaborating with courses who also use multiple types of projectsources to compare results and determine potential improvements for ensuring students haveoptimized learning experiences.References1. P. Brackin, D. Knudson, B. Nassersharif, and D. O'bannon. "Pedagogical implications of project selection in capstone design courses." International Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 27, no. 6, 2011.2. S. Howe and J. Goldberg, “Engineering capstone design
requirements have changed as thecampuses and student focus have changed. The following paragraphs describe this change andPNW’s plans to keep senior capstone projects relevant through 2030 [11].Organization of Senior Design courseEngineering Technology programs have been in place at Purdue University Northwest since the1960s. As soon as Bachelor of Science Degrees in Engineering Technology became available,senior capstone courses were part of the curriculum. Initially at PNW, these courses wereinformal, often did not meet on a regular class schedule and consisted of a project at the student’splace of work loosely supervised by a faculty member. While this was an informal process, itwas typically successful because of the industrial basis for the
obtain studentinformation and preferences. This study examines the process of students providing theirpreferences after learning about the available projects.This study stems from a well-established capstone design program where students work inmultidisciplinary teams for two semesters in planning, designing, building, and testing projectsprovided by industry, academic and service sponsors. In this program, students are placed inteams by the program staff, based on their responses to the course Project Ranking Survey (PRSurvey), which they complete after learning the descriptions of each project. The staff has twogoals when assigning students to projects. First, that projects have the ideal talent for success, asidentified by the coach, and
class sections was capped at 49 students, and most of thestudents that registered to be in-person still opted to attend the class virtually. Figure 1: Weekly plan of the CS1 flipped courseFigure 1 shows the standard weekly timeline for the course. Since the course used the flipped class-room model, students were expected to watch module lectures and complete the weekly gradedquiz before class. Class time was reserved for reviewing the content taught in the video lecturesand completing in-class programming problems with the instructor and peers. Students worked onthe module homework assignments outside of class, which were due at the end of the week.The key programming concepts covered in the modules included input/output
fall quarter of their first academic year both Scholars andother pre-major engineering students throughout the department were invited to complete a presurvey, with entry into a gift card drawing offered as an incentive. The research study receivedInstitutional Review Board approval and all participants completed an informed consent form atthe time of their first survey administration. To create a matched group of Comparison students,individuals were identified within the pool of non-Scholar pre survey respondents who weresimilar to Scholars in terms of academic trajectories (i.e., planned major) as well asdemographics (self-identified gender, race/ethnicity, and first-generation student status). BothScholars and the identified Comparison
top. To prepare the rollout plan for the sensitization and adoption ofOER, it is mandatory to understand the existing situation/awareness among the facultymembers. Determined Internally INDIVIDUALS may be Volition INSTITUTIONS may be against of OER adoption. against of OER adoption. to adopt OER Availability of relevant OER of requisite quality Capacity to find, use, create and/or
an artifact of the time-constraint associated with the in-class preparation constraints or the planned usage (the examsare solved by individuals, not teams of students) is unclear.From a performance standpoint, the same course (with the same instructor) was taught in 2021,2022 and is currently being taught in 2023. In 2021, using individually prepared study guides,student performance between exam 1 and exam 2 decreased by 2.9 points (mean). In 2022 (thefocus of the current study and analysis), student performance between exam 1 and exam 2decreased by 2.5 points (mean). In 2023, students individually prepared study guides for exam 1and exam 2 (similar to 2021), and the student performance between exam 1 and exam 2decreased by 3.7 points (mean
. Eventhough the proposed framework can serve as a template to design a course-wide game for anycourse, the focus of this paper was how to utilize it to motivate exploratory learning of studentsthat go beyond the basics of a STEM course. Three cases studies were conducted in threedifferent engineering and science discipline, all of which demonstrated positive impact onstudents learning.The implementation of the proposed gamification framework requires a significant amount ofupfront game design work and manual effort to maintain the game during the course, which maypose a challenge for instructors. To overcome this, we plan to explore the possibility ofautomating a portion of the gamification-related tasks, such as automated tracking of gamestatistics
atengaging students in exploring real-world engineering and engineering design principles focusedon K-12 engineering education and offers more than 1,800 lessons and hands-on activitiescontributed by 57 contributors (including 40 National Science Foundation (NSF) funded GK-12and Research Experience for Teachers (RET) engineering education grants) and with over 3.5million users annually (TeachEngineering, 2023). The students had the opportunity to pursueclassroom testing of their designed activities and lesson-plan publication with TeachEngineeringafter the intervention (after the post-survey) unless they notified the course instructor to object tothis pursuit.Survey InstrumentThe survey instrument began with an informed consent statement. This was
multivariate statistical modelsthat control for psychological safety and demographics. In future work, we plan to exploremultivariate analysis. 1IntroductionThis paper examines how teamwork experience may shape or be shaped by students’ engineeringidentity (EI). Engineering identity can be defined in whole by how much a student seesthemselves as an engineer (Tonso 2006). Alternatively, EI can be defined in a multi-dimensionalway, including performance/competence, interest, and recognition (Hazari, et al. 2010, Carloneand Johnson 2007). Survey instruments for both definitions have been developed and validated(Choe, et al. 2019, Patrick, Borrego and Prybutok 2018). Both definitions will be used in
,application, and operations.In April 2021, Vaughn College applied for an FAA grant to educate the next generation ofpilots and aviation professionals as part of the Aviation Workforce Development GrantsProgram. The grant aims to provide a tuition-free early higher education experience for highschool students, allowing them to fulfill 80% of the UAS certificate program’s credits duringthe summer, evenings, or weekends while they are still enrolled in high school. The FAAstrongly supports this proposal because creating a robust pipeline of skilled and diverseprofessionals is essential to maintaining the safest and most efficient aerospace system, andeducation needs to start from young adults. The college plan to recruit students fromeconomically
of the elements underagency for learning, that is self-reflectiveness, self-regulation, forethought-extrinsic, forethought-intrinsic, intentionality- planfulness, and intentionality- decision competence.Initial Self-Efficacy, Self-Determination, and Agency LevelsAnalysis of the initial levels of each of the three constructs was carried out. A single-factorANOVA analysis was done on the pre-survey (2022) to compare the constructs and assess meandifferences. A post hoc analysis was done further using a Tukey HSD test to check forstatistically significant differences between the frameworks. These comparisons were performedto determine which constructs students were experiencing at the start of the course. The sameanalyses were done on the pre
computationalfluid dynamics simulations [23] (Li et al., 2017) while in in the mechanical engineering andmanufacturing fields, near real- time result streamlining with detector networks, imageprocessing, and tangible user interfaces are common uses of AR [23].In civil and construction engineering, AR was used to examine how students could use 2Ddesign plans to understand the sequence of constructing a wall in a typical residential building.This experiment had two groups of students, where the first group recorded their results on a 2Dworksheet the other group used AR [26]. The task the students were given were aimed atresembling a typical carpentry task that one might encounter on a construction site, and theresults showed that even though the students who
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-sought andthought-out goals as the first step to course curriculum development followed by an assessmentplan and learning plan. Backward design is like a “road map” to a set destination.3.2 The Seven Factors Analytical FrameworkComplementing the backward design model by Wiggins and McTighe (2005) [30], we developour goals as a first step for our proposed first-year undergraduate happiness and wellbeing course.The Seven Factors Analytical Framework conceptualized by us in a previous study [31] and seenin Figure 1 helped us develop six goals for our course. The framework was conceptualized basedon an exploratory study involving undergraduate engineering students’ interviews. The study isexplained in the methods section below.The seven factors
they met outside the classroom if they would be interested in beinginterviewed about their experiences.The interviews were done individually or in a group of two students based on the participants’availability. The original plan was to perform focus groups but often students did not respond atthe same time, making scheduling individual interviews easier. The researchers did not observedifferences in the answers from focus groups or individual interviews. For example, the studentswere asked “If you feel comfortable, did finances play a role in your track selection?” and allstudents chose to answer the question, often saying which option was the most affordable tothem. The students knew their peers in the focus group from the class at least for
It became clear even from the early stages of designing and conducting this researchwhat a significant element the differences between institutions posed. Contextual factors, bywhich we mean specific, often contingent facts or background circumstances that shape theconditions for conducting this research or the resulting findings, continuously popped up asissues in our planning and research design. Often they rose to our attention because somefactor was not shared uniformly amongst participating institutions. Some key examplesinclude that undergraduate engineering degrees in the Netherlands are three years long,whereas in the U.S. and China take four years; that all incoming undergraduate engineeringstudents at some universities begin
new procedures, plan for optimal methodologiesor pursue best practices. This was new territory for everyone.After the COVID-19 pandemic slowed, the hospital maintained the visual management systemsimplemented during this project to attempt to ensure a balance of room allocations even as roomassignments were more consistent with the 3-room assignment pre-COVID standards. TheCOVID suite of rooms was maintained, requiring the maintenance of the newly created supplyarea and restocking system by mid-shift nurses. As volumes decreased, charge nurses noted thevalue of training nurses of more efficient techniques to increase the speed of care for all patients.This not only assists with patient satisfaction but also helps to prepare for future times
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workingthrough difficult obstacles. Students were handed a role card with the description of theresponsibilities for each role and given 5 minutes to plan amongst themselves. Students were thenallowed to enter the escape room before the 55-minute timer began counting down (Figure 1).The puzzles were organized into multiple concurrent pathways to provide students with theoptions for exploration, collaboration, and to prevent potential bottlenecks at more challengingpuzzles. Successful completion of each of four pathways will provide students with one of fourdigits to a bottle labeled as “The Cure”. Successful escape occurs when all four numbers areentered in the right sequence before the timer runs out.Figure 1: (Left) Two students attempting to solve a