) andasynchronous learning modalities. This study examines the self-reported time commitments for a sample of both USMA facultyand cadets at over several mid-semester weeks during the fall semester, following further evolutionto USMA’s institutional learning practices. We approached this topic with the hypothesis that therelative ranking of highest to lowest weekly time commitment over a several week span isunrelated in faculty and cadet respondents as a result of manipulating the group type ofrespondents. Our survey is designed to tabulate several types of academic-related timecommitments to include real-time class attendance, lesson preparation, time spent on graded workand other categories with a parallel faculty and cadet activity set. The
the United States (U.S.), with the U.S. lagging behindmany countries in producing a sufficient number of STEM graduates. A better understanding ofthe barriers that result in students dropping out of STEM fields is essential for increasingengagement and retention of STEM undergraduate students. In this regard, a growing body ofresearch demonstrates that psychosocial factors such as STEM self-efficacy, sense of belonging,intelligence beliefs, and grit are associated with STEM outcomes such as engagement andretention. In this review paper we examine how these key psychosocial variables (STEM self-efficacy, sense of belonging, intelligence beliefs, and grit) impact engagement and retention ofundergraduate STEM students. An introduction to each of
, students need tosee themselves represented in success stories and in role models in specific fields. Withoutseeing themselves in these success stories, their confidence to succeed academically and withcareer aspirations will be impacted. Identity-conscious advising (1) understands intersectionality,(2) recognizes systemic barriers, (3) promotes inclusive excellence, and (4) supports “wholestudent” identity and development. Best practices for identity-conscious advising requiresadvisor development across areas of cultural competency, identity awareness, bias recognition,and intersectionality, as well as recruitment of diverse advisors for showcasing broadrepresentation of success to the student body. Identity-conscious advising also requires
, attempting to distill best practices and impacts, but are limited by a relativelyshallow literature pool. [19] Suggestions about how to develop rubrics are widespread (e.g. [20]),but the literature is sparse with respect to combining standards-based scores across assignmentsor formulating an overarching course grade in a standards-based system.The primary purpose of this work is to propose a methodology-based classification schemethrough which to frame future discussion around standards-based grading score aggregation. Aseries of exemplars of the grade aggregation methods encompassed by the classification schemeare provided. The exemplars were generated by applying various schemes to a set of hypotheticalstudent profiles for a first-year engineering
quickly gather data on the feedback practices being [9] J. W. Creswell and V. L. Plano Clark, Designing and conducting mixed methods research. Sage Publications, 2017. their motivation and course engagement? employed in specific courses. This data can then be logged for reference, output for comparisons, or [10] J. Fredricks, P. Blumenfeld, and A. Paris, “School Engagement: Potential of the Concept, State of further evaluated
Paper ID #14442The Making of a Technology Literacy CourseDr. Dan G. Dimitriu, University of Texas at San Antonio Dan G. Dimitriu has been practicing engineering since 1970 and taught engineering courses concurrently for more than 20 years at various institutions. In 2001, he joined San Antonio College full-time as the Coordinator of its Engineering program and in 2004 he joined the faculty at University of Texas at San Antonio as an adjunct professor. He has been involved with several engineering societies and became a member of the Two-year College Division of ASEE in 2002. His research interests are in alternative fuels
the highereducation system aspire to send their children to the best universities so they can get aneducation that, hopefully, will turn out to be a pathway to a successful and financially secure life.And this is where the dilemma begins. Most of the nation’s top universities who compete forundergraduate students tend to build their reputation (and prestige) reflected through rankingsand tables predominantly on national and international research performance, which means, inessence, external funding level, research quality of the faculty, scholarly journal publications,and Ph.D. graduation rate4. The rankings on undergraduate programs, on the other hand, arenormally not based on any quantitative information. For example, US News
Paper ID #12420Towards an integrated Hardware And SOftware Book (HASOB)Prof. Mohamed Abdelrahman, Texas A&M University-Kingsville Dr. Abdelrahman is currently the Associate Vice President for Research and Graduate Studies and a Professor of Electrical Engineering at Texas A&M University Kingsville. Dr. Abdelrahman has a diverse educational and research background. His research expertise is in the design of intelligent measurement systems, sensor fusion and control systems. He has been active in research with over 80 papers published in refereed journals and conferences. He has been the principal investigator on
and with that lost opportunities for networking, gender bias from bothprofessors and male peers, less research opportunities and trainings for females, lack of supportand mentorship, particularly in terms of female role models and interaction with alumnae, andthe lack of participation and advocacy for women in the Society of Women Engineers as themain aspects affecting them within TAMUQ. These institutional challenges are compounded byindustry-wide practices in Qatar that are detrimental for women engineers. Participants, in thisrespect, indicated perceptions of companies not accepting female employees and not sponsoringfemales to study engineering, a prevalence of gender bias and disparity, and cultural expectationsaffecting women in the
. Issues in Information Systems, 2020. 21(4).3. Dwivedi, Y.K., et al., Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on information management research and practice: Transforming education, work and life. International Journal of Information Management, 2020. 55: p. 102211.4. Georgiadou, A., S. Mouzakitis, and D. Askounis, Working from home during COVID-19 crisis: a cyber security culture assessment survey. Security Journal, 2021: p. 1-20.5. Lallie, H.S., et al., Cyber security in the age of covid-19: A timeline and analysis of cyber-crime and cyber-attacks during the pandemic. arXiv preprint arXiv:2006.11929, 2020.6. Furnell, S. and J.N. Shah, Home working and cyber security–an outbreak of unpreparedness? Computer Fraud
to fall 2024), and by a combination of college and industry funding for 2021and 2022. As the NSF grant was expiring, industry sponsorship of the summer program elementand scholarships was sought.Summer Bridge ExperienceThe summer bridge component varied throughout the years. Typically, the one-week programwas held the week directly before the fall move-in day and contained a variety of experientiallearning experiences, including: a hands-on engineering design challenge, field trips, math andchemistry instruction and practice sessions, seminars, and social activities. Faculty, staff, peer,and industry mentors led and participated in the activities.In 2013, the summer bridge experience was extended to four weeks and allowed students to earnsix
of ASEE, IEEE, and ACM, and a member of several honor societies, including Tau Beta Pi, Eta Kappa Nu, Phi Kappa Phi, and Golden Key. Rabih has a passion for both teaching and research; he has been teaching since he was a teenager, and his research interests include wearable computing, activity recognition, and engineering education. For more information, refer to his website: www.rabihyounes.com.Cecil´e Sadler, Duke University Cecil´e Sadler is a first-year graduate student in Computer Engineering at Duke University and 2019 GEM Fellow. She is from Charlotte, NC and received a B.S. in computer engineering from North Carolina State University. In addition to her master’s coursework, Cecil´e assists her faculty
director, or they may have been the product of such a program. In neither case,however, is it possible for new directors to understand and learn every aspect of planning andstrategy. Even if the previous director desires to impart all that they know, it is possible that thereis knowledge or meta-knowledge that they, themselves, are unaware they possess.Another challenge is the lack of widespread understanding of the state of the art in diversity,equity, inclusion, and belonging from a practitioner standpoint. The community exists in a stateof functional dichotomy between those designated as researchers and practitioners. In addition,there are many members of the academic community who are not aware of either the currentstate of practice OR
. Lastly, the study seeks to understandstakeholder perceptions, exploring the views of educators and students on the efficiency,fairness, and acceptability of AI-assisted grading and whether these perceptions vary betweenundergraduate and graduate stakeholders.3.3. Broader ImplicationsThe research aims to contribute to the growing literature on AI in education, offering practicalinsights for adopting AI-assisted grading systems. By addressing these objectives andquestions, the study seeks to inform best practices for integrating AI into academic workflowswhile ensuring fairness, consistency, and quality in grading [10].4. MethodologyThis study adopts a mixed-methods approach to evaluate the efficiency, fairness, andperceived usefulness of AI
Department Head for Graduate Programs in Vir- ginia Tech’s Department of Engineering Education. She has her doctorate in Engineering Education and her strengths include qualitative and mixed methods research study design and implementation. She is/was PI/Co-PI on 8 funded research projects including a CAREER grant. She has won several Virginia Tech awards including a Dean’s Award for Outstanding New Faculty. Her research expertise includes using motivation and related frameworks to study student engagement in learning, recruitment and retention in engineering programs and careers, faculty teaching practices and intersections of motivation and learning strategies. Matusovich has authored a book chapter, 10 journal
oxidative stress in in vitro models of Parkinson’s disease. During her prior graduate and postdoctoral work in neurodegeneration, April mentored several undergraduate, graduate, and clinical researchers and developed new methods for imaging and tracking mitochondria from living zebrafish neurons. In her work for the EERC and Pitt-CIRTL, April Dukes collaborates on educational research projects and facilitates professional development (PD) on instructional and mentoring best practices for current and future STEM faculty. As an adjunct instructor in the Department of Neuroscience at the Univer- sity of Pittsburgh since 2009 and an instructor for CIRTL Network and Pitt-CIRTL local programming since 2016, April is
,” and the 2012 ASEE Mid-Atlantic Region ”Distinguished Teacher” Award. He teaches courses in both analog and digital electronic circuit design and instrumentation, with a fo- cus on wireless communication. He has more than 15 years experience in the development and delivery of synchronous and asynchronous web-based course supplements for electrical engineering courses. Dr. Astatke played a leading role in the development and implementation of the first completely online un- dergraduate ECE program in the State of Maryland. He has published over 50 papers and presented his research work at regional, national and international conferences. He also runs several exciting summer camps geared towards middle school, high
fill this requirement.Most recently, BIOE 2100 has been modified for specific designation as a “writing-intensive”course at the university level. UGA’s Franklin College Writing Intensive Program (WIP)administers the process by which courses acquire the “W” suffix (i.e., BIOE 2100W) andstipulates what is expected of such courses: The W suffix is used for courses taught as writing intensive, which means that the course includes substantial and ongoing writing assignments that a) facilitate learning; b) teach the communication values of a discipline — for example, its practices of argument, evidence, credibility, and format; c) support writing as a process; and d) prepare students for further writing in their
monitoring and analysis of multiple similar zones of which one isused for control purposes and the others are configured with different set points. This wouldshow the impact of weather conditions on the air handlers and provide a clear view of the energysavings. Further research will include analysis of the building automation system to explore theenergy saving opportunities for the air handlers across the campus.AcknowledgementsThe authors wish to thank the Facilities and Management at Western Carolina University, Ms.Lauren Bishop for the project support, and Mr. David King for helpful suggestions and guidance.Bibliography1. N. Mohan, Power Electronics: A First Course. MA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.2. U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Turning
, 2]. Training students to develop design thinking and skills will allow them to enterprofessional practice ready to participate in the challenge of infrastructure re-design. Indeed,ABET requires that students have “an ability to apply engineering design to producesolutions…” upon graduation [3]. Perhaps the most effective way to guide students indeveloping design skills is through engagement in real-world projects. Furthermore, providingauthentic design experiences in a supportive educational environment that encourages successcan build self-efficacy (one’s beliefs in their ability to achieve specific tasks), which in turn fuelsmotivation to succeed as an engineer [4]. Promoting engineering self-efficacy is a promisingstrategy for retaining
, the program waslaunched with an initial class of approximately 100 first-year students in fall of2016.Building a new school of engineering affords a number of unique opportunities,including the chance to develop a program based on best practices, engineeringeducation research, and the recommendations of national reports such as"Educating the Engineer of 2020,"1 among others. It also provides the opportunityto recruit and graduate a more diverse cohort of engineers, by taking into accountresearch on attracting and retaining a broad spectrum of students. Given the dean’spersonal passion about and expertise in creating a culture of success for a broadspectrum of students, diversity was quickly added to the list of program goals.Those goals
also in charge of faculty mentoring in the School of Engineering and Computer Science at OU.Ms. Caymen May Novak, Oakland Unversity Caymen Novak is a current Ph.D. candidate in Biomedical Engineering at the University of Michigan. Her research investigates the influence of mechanical stimulus on ovarian cancer response. She is currently the outreach chair for the Graduate Society of Women Engineers at the University of Michigan where she organizes engineering events for local elementary schools. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 REU programs and K-12 outreach: A natural synergyIntroduction:Since the summer of 2006, the department of Mechanical Engineering at
bioprocessing for conversion of waste into products of value. Adhikari devotes his efforts to teaching and research in the area of bioenergy and bioproducts and circular economy. He teaches Heat and Mass Transfer, Renewable Energy and Biomass and Biofuels courses for both undergraduate and graduate students.Fredricka Saunders, North Dakota State University Fredricka Saunders, M.Ed., is a doctoral candidate at North Dakota State University, specializing in institutional effectiveness in higher education. Her research focuses on underrepresented groups’ experiences, supported by qualitative methods. She’s also managing editor of the Journal of Women and Gender in Higher Education and a research assistant
.2 in Appendix – A.The program is divided in five conceptual phases: (i) lecture and lab phase: the participants areintroduced in fundamental and some advanced concepts in wireless communications andnetworking; (ii) design phase: the participants inspired by the first phase are called to research onpotential educational NGSS STEM lessons with a hands-on wireless labs (activities) usingcomponents of the ‘COSMOS Educational Toolkit’; (iii) development phase: the teachers co-develop with the researchers their best ideas on how to use the wireless labs for NGSS-alignedSTEM lessons; (iv) implementation phase: teachers and students use the developed lessons in theclass during the school year; (v) feedback phase: teachers provide feedback in order
Project-based learning (PBL), recognized as a high-impact practice [1, 2], is an increasingly commonfeature in US engineering programs, with implementations ranging from first-year experiences throughcapstone design projects. The Buck Institute of Education, whose work focuses mostly on K-12 education,has articulated a set of essential elements of “Gold Standard PBL” [3] that are readily applicable to thehigher education context: 1. Key Knowledge, Understanding, and Skills: Make clear the learning goals for PBL assignments. Often these are a combination of disciplinary knowledge and transferrable skills and abilities. 2. Challenging Problem or Question: Engage students with a driving problem or question with a suitable level of
interviews, in addition to counseling sessions to helpstudents discern their vocational aspirations. In terms of unconscious bias training and learningto work with other students with empathy, there is a proposal to do that within the context ofCore curriculum classes for all first-year students in the university. This issue is not peculiar toengineering, but needs to be addressed campus-wide.That said, we are creating a task force to look at the first-year experience of engineering. Thetask force is charged with researching best practices elsewhere and making recommendationsregarding what may work at SCU. 6. Make alterations to syllabiCurrent syllabus statements include several mandatory sections, including on reportingdiscrimination and
supervision for a PhD student studying teamwork in engineering teams aspart of a dissertation.The other end of the spectrum is practice, or leadership development. This refers to theactual skill development and behavioural change involved in improving students’competencies as leaders. A number of programs exhibit this extreme, and one example isTufts’ Masters of Science in Engineering Management, which focuses on integration ofskills and real world application in corporate engineering contexts.The majority of programs are strongly oriented towards the application of leadershiplearning to practice. Very few programs are aiming to produce new research or scholarsin engineering leadership, and most seek to improve the capacity of their graduates tolead
system protection course with a lab component. Dr. Dolloff received a B.S.E.E. from Tennessee Tech University, an M.S. and a Ph.D. in E.E. from Virginia Tech University, and an M.B.A. from Morehead State University.Dr. Renee M. Clark, University of Pittsburgh Renee M. Clark is a research assistant professor of Industrial Engineering and Director of Assessment in the Swanson School of Engineering and the Engineering Education Research Center (EERC). She received her MS in Mechanical Engineering from Case Western and her PhD in Industrial Engineering from the University of Pittsburgh while working for Delphi Automotive. Her research interests focus on the propagation and assessment of active and experiential learning in
Academic Boot Camp (ABC)which was initiated by the Purdue University Minority Engineering Program. It was created toaddress a nine percentage point difference between the 2004 underrepresented minority (URM)first year retention rates and the overall cohort’s retention (67% vs 76%). The program wasoffered for the first time in summer 2005. This program was designed to address transition issuesexperienced by URM students entering a majority institution through a rigorous simulation of thefirst semester engineering experience. Embracing the best practices of learning communities,engineering students are required to live, study, and attend classes together in preparation forglobal competition. Through these methods, the Academic Boot Camp aims to
instudent-initiated and student-led change and building learners’ self-determination. The centerwas re-scoping and constructing new facilities based on the direction of students, who knewtheir needs best. The researcher was developing an agenda to understand how learners outsideof formally credentialed engineering settings could best develop solutions to theircommunity’s problems. Given this alignment, the two groups were well-placed for a smallinternal university-funded seed grant, which led to their co-design of the first version of thecurriculum. We built the first curriculum based on student interviews about their interests,goals, and aspirations. Early pilot testing focused on students and teachers, especially on howstudents learned best (e.g