It facilitates hydrosanitary pipes cross the Good initial promotin structured beams. So with BIM this would be organization g planning known earlier and this problem is of the team, communi and real- avoided. with clear cation. time roles and progress Working on a BIM project, team defined tracking. building has been more
continued during Fall 2023 and Fall 2024. Theassessment of the mentoring program was strategically planned to ensure complete datasets werecollected to investigate the experiences of mentees and near-peer mentors, and the effectiveness ofthe integrated mentoring model. Therefore, the first semester (Fall 2022) was dedicated to studyingthe experience and feedback from mentees, and the second semester (Fall 2023) was focused onexamining the learning experience and mentor identity development of the near-peer mentors. Theresults from the third semester will holistically inform the experiences of the three acting groups,including mentees, peer-mentors, and professors, as well as the effectiveness of the integratedmentoring program. But these results
add value to society. ● Identify and analyze issues when bringing a solution to scale. Blue Thread: Engineering Professional Skills ● Use various engineering communication methods. ● Collaborate effectively in a team. ● Develop, implement, and adapt a project management plan. Green Thread: Engineering Design ● Identify and describe a problem that can be solved with a potentially new product or process. ● Identify appropriate stakeholders and content experts and evaluate their input. ● Plan and conduct research by gathering relevant and credible data, facts, and information. ● Articulate appropriate STEM practices and principles in the design ● Evaluate
thinking, teamwork, andtechnical skills that are essential for their future careers. Through hands-on projects, students gainexposure to the entire lifecycle of a PV system, starting with the conceptual stages of system designand planning, followed by the installation, testing, troubleshooting, and performance analysis,Working in teams to address practical, real-world challenges, students not only deepen theirtechnical expertise but also develop key soft skills such as communication, adaptability, andleadership. For instance, they might collaborate to design and install a PV system for a specificapplication, analyze its performance under varying environmental conditions, or devise strategiesfor optimizing its efficiency. These tasks encourage
training, and curriculum development [4]. In one partnership between a university and aschool district in the U.S. West, undergraduate students were hired as tutors for the schooldistrict’s students and teachers [4]. For community partnerships focused on engineering, service-learning can also play a significant role in community engagement [5]. For example, in afreshman engineering course, students developed lesson plans to help teachers with limitedrobotics experience. They worked with middle-school teachers and student teams for 8 weeks todesign robots for a competition [6]. Teachers in this program appreciated the freshmen“engineering experts” because this was their and their students’ sole exposure to engineering [6].Undergraduates who work
things make you stressed? Why? Be detailed. Have you Mindfulness used mindfulness strategies in the past? Which ones? What are some mindfulness strategies you plan to use moving forward? How do you think these strategies will help you manage your stress? 4 - Belonging, Part 1: What identities are important to you? What do you feel is the Identity, Meaning, & most important part of your identities? How about the least? How Purpose does this identity contribute to meaning & purpose you have for your life? Part 2: Has this semester's focus on mental health in engineering shifted your
curriculum covers tool setup, initiation of checks, scripting for automation, and result analysis to confirm design consistency. Mastery of this stage is essential for ensuring circuit reliability and performance, solidifying students' expertise in design verification. e) Physical Design Stage: In this final module, students dive into the physical design process, which is critical for producing the final GDSII layout. They start by learning how to import and analyze design files, execute floorplanning, and manage pin assignments and power planning. The course then guides students through placement optimization, clock tree synthesis, and routing, complemented by detailed extraction, timing, and power analyses
engineering program have used this rubric in various courses formany years up to this point, they have never received direct instruction in interpersonalcommunication. To encourage students to find solutions to their own problems within their team,the course includes a “dismissal protocol” to address behaviors that violate established teamrules. Designed to be used after other approaches have failed, this protocol requires that teammembers prepare a written statement, deliver it to the course instructors, engage in a meeting tohear concerns and develop plans to remedy them, and, if the behavior is not corrected, a studentcan be removed from the course so long as the department chair approves. This requires thestudent to enroll in the course sequence
). The plan wasstructured around the best retention practices at the time, with the following major initiatives: 1.) Development of a new 2-semester “Intro to Engineering” course sequence to replace the beginning “Engineering Graphics” course that was standard in all disciplines at the time. These courses would contain multidisciplinary projects to provide students with hands-on activities as well as answer the question “What do engineers do?” 2.) Development of the “Cornerstones” transition to college course utilizing engineering faculty to teach the course and mentor new students. 3.) Development of peer mentors to work with FTIC students by creating discipline specific first-year interest groups (FIG’s
andintegrate criticism into improved product outcomes.Additionally, following each studio, students wereasked to submit a 1–2-page reflection detailing theirexperience, as outlined below.Data Collection: Student Reflections. Studentsreflected on their studio experience through twosections: Observations of Other Teams' Work andPersonal Reflections (Appendix List 1). The firstsection encouraged students to critically evaluateothers' work, identifying best practices to enhancetheir own team's performance. In the secondsection, students reflected on their personalexperiences, exploring what they found mostinteresting, challenges faced, and how they plan toapply their learnings. The assignment was graded for Figure 1. Conceptual framework usedcompletion
. Maria Isabel Doval, Universidade de Vigo PHD in Psychopedagogy. Associate Professor at Faculty of Education Sciences (University of Vigo, Spain)Breixo Martins-Rodal Breixo Martins Rodal holds a PhD in Geography and Territorial Planning from the University of Santiago de Compostela. He has taught tourism, geography and international relations at the University of Vigo. His career is developed as coordinator and director of international research and education projects in both public and private entities. He has extensive experience in international cooperation projects, cross-border research development and cooperation for higher education management. He is currently a researcher in projects for the development of
projects that students areintegrated into the team and experientially learn project planning, project execution, and professionalskills necessary to be a key contributor in the biomedical and healthcare fields.Biomedical engineering and clinical experts utilize 3D printing and other traditional manufacturingmethods to assist clinicians, faculty, and industry innovators in translating their needs into models anddevices that enhance patient care. The team of biomedical, mechanical, electrical, software, and qualityengineers support the design, testing, and fabrication of a breadth of medical products. The M4 teamdesigns with the medical device product development regulatory pathway in mind, thus leading tooutcomes that take innovations from “bench-to
professionals, providing students with the opportunity to practice ethical decision-making in realistic scenarios.Table 2. Proposed Strategies for Improvement in Ethics Education Ethics education should be seamlessly integrated throughout the CEM curriculum, rather than treated as an isolated module. This integration can be achieved by Integration of Ethics as a embedding ethical discussions with core courses such as project planning, cost Core Component estimating, safety, and project management. Additionally, a dedicated course on construction ethics should be included to provide a strong
judging by the slightly larger A-grade EIvalue, they were at the same or better proficiency levels than the white male subgroup.Similarly, in the theory section of the untimed exams, the scores in the high context questions wereconsistently higher than the rest of the theoretical questions. The average scores for the regulartheory questions were 79.68% and 77.34% while the average score for the high context questionswas 87.19% and 93.61% for exams 1 and 3, respectively. Given the small sample numbers, nostatistical analyses were performed. However, the same intervention is planned to be repeated inthe spring 2025 and fall 2025 semesters to combine the three-semester data and ensure minimumsubgroup samples of 10 students, the minimum size
, opticalsciences and engineering, software engineering, systems and industrial engineering, and ourinterdisciplinary first-year and capstone design courses. The teaching assistants were fromengineering and mathematics departments. The courses where innovations were implementedspanned from first-year undergraduate courses to fourth-year and master’s level courses. Many,but not all, of these courses, included a focus on engineering design and team-based projects.After the initial professional development retreat, we analyzed the resulting innovation plans andnotes from debriefing and/or check-in sessions with participants and compiled an inventory ofpractical asset-based strategies that were designed or adapted by instructors, which is the focusof this
. This profile may be updated, allowing the LLM to incorporate changes inpreferences over time. We conclude the paper with a brief discussion of middle school students’perceptions of this framework and its potential implications for engineering education.A Framework for Implementing Personalized Learning Using Large Language ModelsIn this section, we present a two-agent framework designed to leverage LLMs for PL. As pastresearch has shown, LLMs often exhibit enhanced performance when multi-step reasoning tasksare addressed through a structured sequence of sub-tasks. For instance, Luan et al. [10] achievedenhanced performance in robot task planning using LLMs when one agent first decomposedcomplex requests into single-objective actions before a
(anxiety etc.).There have been many studies on gender differences. Jones [5] studied how gender differencesaffect student motivation constructs, achievement, and career plans, along with the interactionsamong them. Jones found that female students did have lower self-efficacy, but not necessarilyto a statistically significant level. In Hutchison et.al. [4], it was found that females who persist inSTEM have lower self- efficacy perceptions than their male colleagues. These were also brokendown by race and ethnicity. Fraley et.al. [3] assessed confidence and competency of first yearengineering students. It was found that many students enter class with a pre-conceived notion ofalready knowing the material. It was also found that female students
engineeringeducation [3]. Two of those outcomes are the EOP Systems Thinking 1 and 3, quoted in theAbstract.Before obtaining this grant, our university community began a five-year strategic plan “Reigningour Strategic Directions 2022-2027,” which includes an effort to reimagine and revise ourcurriculum [4]. The campus is also strongly committed to sustainability, evidenced in decades ofenvironmentally-conscious initiatives by the university facilities departments and the support forthe decade-old Center for Environmental Justice and Sustainability [5,6].This grant was awarded to three engineering departments: Civil and Environmental, Electricaland Computer, and Mechanical Engineering. It now involves six engineering faculty members,four faculty members from
articulated clear intentions for academic and careeropportunities that integrated business components into their engineering realities. Based on thesefindings, authors were inspired to explore the conceptual development of an entrepreneurialengineering identity and its practical application to engineering degree (re)design, student academicadvisory and career planning. IntroductionThe inextricable link between innovation and commercial enterprise has provided a suitable nichefor entrepreneurship within engineering programs and industries1,2,3,4,5,6. Recent economic andsocietal trends have illuminated a need for future engineers to be equipped with business acumenand, in particular, entrepreneurial
4. Stages of the Raise Your Handfor each of their projects, such as the overhead project.dome screen and the computer vision system,which comprises cameras and pose detection software. Also, some students attempted to make acomputer visual model of what the whole exhibit would look like.In the second semester, the VIP team focused on developing higher fidelity prototypes for mostof the projects and ended the semester with demonstrations of the projects. The instructors hadexpected these demonstrations to be cohesive demonstrations by each sub team, however, theyended up being done project-by-project, in series by individuals or pairs of students. Even thoughthe exhibit plan called for desktop computers in the lab to be what controls the
professionals to enhance their knowledge and experience.This paper aims to present the ongoing and planned efforts to address the environmental issuespertinent to the transportation industry in an ABET-accredited environmental engineeringprogram in a minority teaching institution.Transportation studies at Central State UniversityIn the past decade, the ENE program at Central State University identified the transportationindustry as a niche industry for which the workforce program can produce environmentalengineers. The ENE faculty enhanced the program with transportation industry-relatedcoursework, research, and internships with the support of the Department of Transportationfunding and collaborators. The faculty implemented these activities from the
decide to switch to on-campus participation later.One student opted to start remotely and pre-planned to come to campus after a few weeks.The data presented herein, thus, must be considered in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic,which was well into its second year of pronounced societal impact at the time of the summerprogram. Its economic issues [22] likely had some impact on students other opportunities anddecision to participate in an REU program (as opposed to, for example, pursuing private sectoremployment). The effect of the pandemic on participants mental health [23], [24] (with thepandemic impacting everything from interpersonal relationships [25] to suicide rates [26]) alsobears consideration. In this second year of pandemic operations
data collection. However, the intended plan of action is givenbelow. We requested and received a year extension from the NSF Program manager.Theoretical FrameworkAs the theoretical framework for this project, we hypothesize that there is an association betweenengineering students’ personality attributes with experiential learning theory and transformativelearning theory as shown in Figure 1. Figure 1. Hypothesized Associations Between Personality Attributes and Experiential and Transformative Learning from STSAPResearch Objective for Year 1The objective for the first year is to explore any differences by demographic group in personalityattributes (biogenic, sociogenic, experiential learning style) and transformative
-accreditation of its programs under the conventional criteria. While preparing for the ABETevaluation visit, the Division also initiated work for future accreditations under EC-2000 criteria.The Division of Engineering organized a faculty retreat off campus in early October 1998 tofocus on team building, long term planning, and brainstorming. The EC-2000 criteria werepresented as an opportunity for further development and improvement of the engineeringprograms, as the Division had recognized that the proactive view of engineering educationassessment was essential in achieving its educational mission. During this retreat the facultypresented, discussed, and documented a roadmap to EC-2000 criteria.Following the retreat, faculty members in each program
)? if they are a valued member of the team. The RPP establishes rou- Siloed Decision Making (SD): tines that promote collabo- Leadership (PI/Co-PIs) making What team norms, if any, rative decision making and decisions about planning and were developed? Are they guard against power imbal- implementation without soliciting followed? How? ances input or feedback from wider team. Are all team voices included RPP members establish Recommended RPP Improvements in collaborative decision norms of interaction that (RR): recommendations from either making? If yes, how? If no, support collaborative deci- partner on ideas to improve the part- please describe your sion making and equitable nership
suggested academic plan should have completed theorycourses for material structure and properties and enrolled in the heat transfer coursesimultaneously. Potentially, this explained the increase in neutrality in applying previous courseknowledge for the Thermofluid students since not all students had previous Heat Transferexperience. Figure 4. Student's rating of the effectiveness of the course to help them understand the real- world application of the theory (Thermofluid: n = 75; Mechanical: n = 82) Figure 5. Student's rating of the effectiveness of the course to help them apply previous curriculum knowledge (Thermofluid: n = 75; Mechanical: n = 82)c. Evaluate the effectiveness of different built-in activitiesWe
Massive Online Open Course (MOOC).The intent of GVV is not to persuade people to be more ethical. Instead, it starts from thepremise that most people want to act on their values, but also want their actions to be successfuland effective. Rather than focusing on ethical analysis, the GVV curriculum focuses onimplementation and teaches students to ask themselves: “What if I were going to act on myvalues? What would I say and do? How could I be most effective?” Students learn to do this bydeveloping action plans and practicing scripts they compose.The seven principles, or “pillars,” of GVV guide students through the process of thinking aboutwhat is at stake when addressing ethically challenging situations. Figure 1 summarizes thepillars: Values
transformativerepresentation of a range of professional applications of communication skills that STEMprograms foster.IntroductionWhat if Alexander Graham Bell never told anyone about his idea for a telephone? What if HenryFord had not been able to communicate how he wanted to build cars to his initial investors? Whatif Steve Wozniak had not been able to communicate to Steve Jobs his plans to add a hard drive tothe original Apple computer? Becoming an engineer is a challenging task for any young person.However, it turns out that they may be facing an even greater task: developing the ability tocommunicate their ideas to others clearly [1]. Having a good idea is where engineering innovationstarts; however, having the ability to communicate that idea to others is a
the student starts to have problems completing the work, then you can either (a) help them or (b) you know that the student is not what you expected. If you give a new student a project that you don't know how to complete, then you don't know if it is the student or the problem.He also advises asking this question: “‘and how will you evaluate that?’ There are lots of greatresearch ideas, but if we can't evaluate it, we can't get a paper published on it.”Be sure to talk with your student and set goals for each year they are in the graduate program.An Individual Development Plan (IDP) can be used [Marcus 2016]. This involves identifyingcareer goals, assessing one’s own knowledge, and discussing how to overcome weaknesses
prepare students to dedicate themselves todiversity that values the richness of human society as a divine gift and to pursue justice bymaking an action-oriented response to the needs of the world.[12]” Given the uniquely holisticaims of the LUM community, the practice of reflection laying at the core of the Jesuit traditioninvigorates all corners of the university to respond to nationwide calls for social, political, andeconomic justice.At present, LUM’s strategic plan places a strong emphasis on DEI through the recruitment ofstudents and faculty from underrepresented groups and the creation of more inclusive classroomsand curricula. The university’s stated diversity aims include “awareness of the structural sources,consequences, and