mature and regular study habits. As different as this format was from literally all of my other classes, it fit very well how I could schedule my time. Overall, it was a huge adjustment, but it's an adjustment I am glad I was able to make. As far as work periods, I enjoyed coming to them. It was a place I could not only work with [Instructor], but also with peers, because sometimes all you need is an extra pair of eyes. • The flexibility has been great, as the pre-recorded lectures essentially allowed for 5 office hours periods per week. Sometimes I have been ahead on lectures, and other times behind. My favorite feature is being able to rewind and pause videos if I ran out of time to write something
, aligning with the profession’s values, and developing a professional identity[6]. Thus, the study of social belonging confidence in students, particularly through professionalsocialization, is a key step in understanding persistence in the field of ML/AI. We study socialbelonging through the lens of confidence, another predictor of persistence [7]–[9]. We define socialbelonging confidence as how confident a person feels that they will fit in with the social and culturalaspects of a profession and develop meaningful relationships with their peers. Belonging uncertainty,defined by Walton and Cohen [10], may be interpreted as a lack of this confidence.Lower levels of confidence have been found to negatively affect persistence of women and girls
Values, Modules Lab 10, 10b 11 (11/5-11/9) Writing Functions, Scope Lab 11, 11b 12 (11/12-11/16) Functions and use in top-down/bottom-up design Lab 12, 12b 13 (11/19-11/20 ) Systematic Debugging Lab 13, Team Project assigned 14 (11/26-11/30) Topic TBD 15 (12/3-12/5) Last exam Finals Week NO FINAL Team Project due MethodsThe new engineering course's curriculum redesign was already complete. The purpose of this workwas to establish a pilot program to
Education, Sustainable Infrastructure, Resilient and Sustainable Post-Disaster Reconstruction, and Circular Economy. He also holds professional credentials in LEED Green Associate for sustainable buildings and ENV SP for sustainable infrastructures as well as several micro-credentials in the commercialization of research. As a Ph.D. Candidate, Piyush has published a dozen peer-reviewed journals and several conference papers. ¨Ms. Claudia Calle Muller, Florida International University Claudia Calle M¨uller is a Ph.D. student in Civil and Environmental Engineering at Florida International University (FIU). She holds a B.S. in Civil Engineering from Pontificia Universidad Cat´olica del Per´u (PUCP
a professional educationcomponent consistent with the institution's mission and the program's educational objectives andpromotes diversity, equity, and inclusion awareness for career success [3]. "The need to feelbelongingness and linked with others" is how relatedness is defined (Baumeister and Leary [8]).According to studies, learning environments that provide a sense of connectedness to peers,parents, and instructors can enhance motivation and improve academic results (Ryan, et al. [9]).Self-efficacy, engagement, interest in school, higher grades, and retention have all beenconnected to feelings of relatedness, which are measured in terms of "school environment" andinstructor-student connections (Inkelas, et al. [10]). Research on
. At the time of this writing, they all work in a large, Southeastern research-intensive R1higher education institution in the United States. Some of the authors do not self-identify asLatiné/x but rather by their home country (Villanueva et al., 2022). All authors have differinglevels of educational experiences, both in their home country and in the United States. All havecommonly migrated to the United States as part of their professional growth. Each of themconsiders themselves to be insiders of their Latin heritage and culture but outsiders to theexperiences the other authors have faced. All recognize that their identities are non-Monolithic
research” or “grant-writing activities” have been understoodunder very different angles based on cultural settings, communicational abilities, or even financialsources. Therefore, when working together, various misconceptions regarding proposed tasksrequired consistent clarifications among multicultural participants. This factor caught authors’attentions: the issue was broader than just limited English proficiency of the local Uzbek facultyor students. Even those who spoke English fluently, they thought very differently about goals andoutcomes of common team working. As an American faculty-member who works withinternational graduate students on a routine daily basis, multicultural communications became atopic of the author’s special interests
provided the big picture status of the project.Over the course of this project, students were successful in characterizing the dynamic forces andvibrations experienced via a design of experiments (Figure 2(a)). These results along with thegraduate mentor’s numerical analysis have been documented as a peer-reviewed conferenceproceeding [1] and eventually as an archival journal publication [2]. Students also finalized thedesign of an actuator and manufactured a functional prototype (Figure 2 (b) and (c)) along withperforming psychophysical tests to understand human perception to the vibration and its changes(Figure 2(d)). The human perception study provided useful information to determine theessential aspects of force and vibration that needed to be
component to data science is extracting the data in various ways. A very common method of collecting this data is through web-scraping various web pages. This workshop introduced students to the concept of web scraping and writing python scripts to automate this collection method. • High Performance Computing Workshop: A mechanical engineering professor at WTAMU hosted a workshop about high performance computing and the utility it has in a variety of disciplines. The students who participated had the opportunity to actually SSH into the WTAMU HPC cluster and run various distributed systems scripts. Tentative 2- Day Hackathon schedule can be found in Figure 1. Day Time
usable low word errorrates, the generated text output is an incomplete representation of a multi-party conversation; Inshort, it solves the “what” but not the “who.” This creates barriers to our ideal of an inclusive andequitable learning community. Thus students who are deaf or hard of hearing are furthermarginalized and excluded from multi-party peer discussions with non-deaf participants becauseit is hard to visually follow who is speaking. To address these communication barriers, weutilized the Human Centered Engineering Design framework to identify a set of features thatovercomes the above barriers. This paper explores computerized diarization techniques thatutilize a wide set of algorithms and audio metrics to assist in speaker
thoroughly enjoyed the mentoring aspect of the program. . . my mentor for the last year . . . helped me in more ways than I could imagine.”In year 3 we continued with virtual professional development sessions, peer and facultymentoring, and one social event each semester. It is challenging to navigate communitybuilding during a pandemic, but we have found ways to get together. In fall 2020 we hadan outside bonfire and served dinner. In spring 2021, we had a star gazing party withbonfire and dinner. Mentoring sessions have continued either virtually or online (at thediscretion of the mentoring pair) and we look forward to reporting from Spring 2021.Finally, we ordered shirts for everyone with a design inspired by a
, and her storymay be similar to other students who do not make it through the gauntlet of engineering, andinstead find fulfillment outside of engineering.Additionally, an extensive body of research shows that students’ personal epistemologies–howthey think about the nature of knowledge and knowing – affect how they approach learning inscience, mathematics, and engineering [14-19]. A disconnect between how students perceiveknowledge and engineering pedagogy fosters a lack of belonging in engineering. For example, inone study, “Michael,” a student who valued sense-making over memorization, felt different andisolated from his peers and community [11]. His approach to solving engineering problemsresulted in a deeper understanding, more creative
involved writing aprogram to automate the cube stacking task performed TABLE 1manually in the previous week. In the subsequent weeks, to ensure that students build intuition about howcobots are used in manufacturing, two practical projects were formulated with strong relevance to real-world manufacturing processes: (1) automated part assembly and (2) machine tending. i) Automated part assembly: The manufacturing process of all sorts of items/equipment involves one ormore steps of part assembly. The use of robots enables the automation of this labor-intensive, repetitive,and oftentimes, dangerous process. In this project, students were tasked to develop a LEGO vehicle (truck)assembly station (see Fig. 1). With the
. Design 8. Design control systems in the frequency domain using Bode/Nyquist techniques. 9. Be familiar with the most common controllers in industrial use. Lab 10. Integrate the concepts of feedback control systems with real-time simulation using MATLAB.2.2 Create inclusive learning environment using different technologiesIn distance learning, students can feel disconnected from instructor and their peers [3]. Weexplored various technologies to create a friendly and inclusive learning/teaching environment. Zoom was used in synchronous virtual meetings. Professional zoom license was providedby the institution. Instructor and students hold synchronous weekly meetings
engineering career pathways atdisproportionately lower rates than their peers. Research suggests that the disproportionately lowrates may result in students disengaging with STEM careers like engineering as they progressthrough middle school and high school. Therefore, to contribute to research exploring the gapbetween exposure and enrollment in engineering programs, this work in progress paper intendsto explore the relationship between middle school students’ perceptions of engineering, theirinterests, and self-efficacy to better understand how an out-of-school engineering interventionmay influence their engineering career aspirations.This paper uses a concurrent mixed-method, case-study approach, to analyze participants’ surveyand interview data to
differingclientele as the vision evolves.Impetus for this study is comprised of literature-based studies, peer and performance-evaluatingadministration observations, and my personal experiences regarding the chasm existing between(1) the understanding of engineering and the supporting knowledge and skills of the typicalcollege of engineering-bound high school students, and (2) the level of knowledge and skill setsexpected to exist in first-year college of engineering students by the college of engineering first-year professors.My unique perspective and experience (bulleted below) has afforded me diverse front-lineexperiences involving a range of instructional differentiation practices required to address thevarying levels of preparation observed in a wide
students. Mike also has over a decade of industry and research experience – mostly revolving around the semiconductor and bioinformatics industries – with specific experience at Texas Instruments, Intel, and Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. In addition to his industry experience, Mike spent two years, while completing his Ph.D., as a National Sci- ence Foundation GK-12 fellow – teaching and bringing real-world STEM applications in two urban high schools. Since then, he has worked with university faculty to promote and extend K20 STEM outreach in Ohio, Oregon, Texas, and Wyoming. He has authored peer-reviewed articles and papers, presented at national and international conferences, and taught undergraduate
with their mentors, or scrum master manager, weekly.ECE students and their mentor agreed on a set of features (from the product backlog) thatshould be demonstrated at the end of a Sprint. Similarly, BME students and their mentorsselected tasks from an informal scrum backlog that were necessary for successful completionof the scrum product.At the end of each sprint, each team was expected to have completed some tangible portion oftheir project. They were then required to present what they had accomplished to the largergroup and to faculty advisors and clients. In the BME course, product demonstrations weredone during class time in a conference exhibit hall format. Feedback from both peers andinstructors was provided to teams in both ECE and BME
Technological University since March 2014. She has the position of an interpreter and her current area of activities includes: organization international conferences, visits of foreign delega- tions, writing minutes of the meetings; preparation documents for concluding international agreements and making calendar and end-of-year reports. Marina is the author or co-author of about 15 research papers.Dr. Phillip Albert Sanger, Purdue University, West Lafayette Dr. Sanger is a professor in the School of Engineering Technology in the College of Technology of Purdue University. His focus and passion is real world, industry based, senior capstone experiences both domes- tically and internationally. He has successfully developed
professional expectations of engineering as a career and discipline [9], [10]. Someprograms also use these courses to foster engineering ethics, writing and communication skills,teamwork competencies, and to develop community and engineering identity within students toaid in retention of engineering students [11], [12]. In other words, first-year engineering designstudents are typically gaining other competencies beside academic objectives (the what part ofengineering) in addition to learning how competencies are enacted within the engineeringdiscipline.While all engineering programs may structure their first year and design experiences differently[11], engineering education and design literature concurs that the emphasis on authentic andexperiential
activities.Recruitment processThe recruitment is mainly done through the STI program director’s annual letter on announcingSTI Program to the guidance counselors of the feeder high schools. This is done in the first weekof March. Additionally, it is also informed through the local science fairs such as Miami ValleyScience and Engineering Fair-West District Science Day and Dayton TechFest, and through theCSU students and the STI alumni who may know suitable applicants among their peers andjuniors in their high schools.The letter to the high school counselors summarizes the requirements and the details of thescholarships. The typical scholarship package includes tuition, workshops and handouts, roomand board, facility usage, equipment and supplies, travel (field
. While this course uses active learning approaches and team projects, the scope of theircontents distinguish them from similar courses that seek to achieve improved graduation andretention rates. For instance, in this course, soft skills such as technical writing, use of Excel,developing an individual academic plan of study, cooperative education, internships, culturaldiversity, quality, safety, and ethics are covered. Basic technical skills covered include math,mechanical, electrical, and computer engineering technology. The rationale for this course is toexpose students to these subjects and topics before they enroll in core engineering technologycourses such as applied statics.Assessment of learning:While the author plans to conduct this
alsoeducated about careers that require this skill set and were introduced to a programminglanguage called “Processing”. We observed that students showed increased enthusiasmtowards CS. In addition, we noticed that the group activity component of the classesencouraged sociability and idea synthesis among peers. This CS community outreachprogram motivated us to extend the effort to teach science concepts using the Processinglanguage. This may potentially promote sociability, creativity, and empowerment inSTEM among middle school students. Specifically, we plan to use the Processingprogramming language to facilitate learning of biological and chemical concepts, sincesuch concepts can be difficult for students to visualize from a textbook. This
editorial boards for 7 interna- tional journals, and served as the Chair and Co-Chair for 12 international conferences. For recognition of my research activities, I have been invited to a number of international conferences as Invited Speaker, chaired panel discussions and numerous international conference sessions. I have served on more than 200 international conference program committees. Furthermore, I have published number of articles in peer- reviewed international journals and conferences. I am also an active member of ACM, ASEE, ASEE/PSW and CSAB.Dr. Abdulbaset Abdulaziz Gaddah A.G., University of Umm Al-Qura Dr. Abdulbaset Gaddah is currently an assistant professor in Computer Science at the University of Umm
on problem solving and STEM related. 3. Doing activities that hands on, messy, relevant to the girls’ world, and age appropriate (11yo to 14yo).Engineering is based on design that includes identifying a problem and finding a solution whileconsidering constraints and trade-offs. While students are introduced to STEM concepts andnotions, there is a stringent need to present them with design principles blended with open-endedproblem-solving approaches faced by engineers in real life applications.The activities presented aimed to tap into the natural curiosities of the young women for inquiry,communication, construction and expression. Inquiry into the topics presented below for processunderstanding of design, communication through peer
well as the type of math coursestaken during the student’s first year. Chen [5] discovered that taking a lighter course load withless challenging math courses while having a poor performance in those courses lead to ahigh chance of switching out of STEM. Another noteworthy result from this study: All other factors being equal, bachelor’s degree STEM entrants who first attended public 4-year institutions had a higher probability of leaving STEM by switching majors than those who started at private nonprofit 4-year institutions. Bachelor’s degree STEM entrants who were male or who came from low-income backgrounds had a higher probability of leaving STEM by dropping out of college than their peers who were female or came from
, digital analysis, sustainability, materials and state-of-the-art construction methods. Participants visit contemporary buildings such as the Millennium Bridge, St. Mary Axe, London City Hall, London Shard tower, Pinnacle tower, the new Stadium and Aquatics Center (host to the 2012 Summer Olympics). Students learn directly from architects, engineers and builders responsible for these buildings [6]. • For 2 weeks, students are immersed in Chinese culture and experience numerous culturally significant sites, visit local universities, meet with Purdue alumni, tour engineering based labs and production facilities, and meet one on one with Chinese peers in partner universities. Additionally, expert
with engineering programs did notdisclose a breakdown of faculty demographics on the latest 2018 ASEE data).The number of engineering deans signing the ASEE diversity pledge from those 113 R1institutions has reached 85 at time of writing of this paper. Given there is such an interest indiversifying the engineering professoriate, a logical question is what is the status of the tenure-line black engineering faculty 5-years after the pledge? Findings are reported by incorporatingmulti-level factors, including but not limited to gender, rank, geographical location, andprivate/public status of the institutions. Note that tenure-line in this paper refers to both tenure-track and tenured faculty. This work-in-progress does not include non-tenure
daily Homework-12% assignments (short Free response Attendance- 3%(2003-2005) quizzes, assigned Final Exam- 25%Calculus 5th Edition problems, short(Stewart 2002) writing assignments, No additional problem passing conditions presentations, or projects)SCALE-UP (2006-2013)The SCALE-UP (student centered activities for large enrollment undergraduate programs)instructional model was implemented in Fall 2006. This method encourages active learning andminimizes lecture time in the classroom. Beichner et al. (2007
Camp Assistant Director for two years. In addition, he taught students in the camp as well as assisting with teacher professional development. His honors include the Lechner Scholarship and the College of Education Graduate Strategic Support Scholarship. As a graduate student, he distin- guished himself through his extensive publications on STEM teaching and learning and has participated in the writing of several grant proposals. He presented his research at several educational research con- ferences including AERA, NCTM, and SERA as well as having papers in proceedings of FIE and AAEE in engineering education. He earned several publications including journal articles, book chapters, and conference proceedings. He