syllabus statement on diversity, equity, and inclusion that has been adopted in severaldepartments, and is currently being discussed for college-wide adoption as a required part of allcourse syllabi.Feedback regarding these initiatives has, to this point, been anecdotal, but positive. We describethe aspects that have been particularly noted by students, faculty, and staff to have been helpful.We conclude the paper with a reflection on how we can improve our community building eventsand the online community and describe our future support services for underrepresentedstudents.1. IntroductionSeattle University is a small, private, religiously-affiliated and mission-driven institution locatedin Seattle. Our urban campus is home to eight colleges and
focusgroup protocol. Furthermore, the elements in Bragg’s model are more within the locus ofinfluence for engineering programs and educators with a focus on the college experience. Futurework could employ a more contemporary and comprehensive model of socialization tounderstand ESI in engineering education.Project ContextThis study is part of a larger project exploring ESI education. The mixed methods project beganwith an online survey that was designed to understand educators’ practices and perspectivesrelated to ESI (for more information, see [23],[24]). Respondents (n=1448) were asked if theyintegrate ESI topics in the courses they teach or the co-curricular activities they mentor and wereprompted to indicate the characteristics of the setting
all grading wasdone by the faculty instructor. Course sizes are typically 20-30 students, with a three-coursefaculty load each semester. If one were to implement this in large courses with multiple graders,consistency in feedback would need to be a focus.If one were to implement this in their own courses, they must make sure the final grade policy iscompatible with the school’s overall policy. In the courses discussed here, the syllabus had adirect mapping of the competency-based grading outcomes to a final university-wide gradingscheme.Note regarding 2020 courses: This work was completed during the 2020 COVID-19pandemic. The original versions were taught using in-person lectures and labs, supplemented inmost cases with on-line recorded
Department, was happy toteach GEOL320 (Geology for Engineers, a popular technical elective for our engineeringstudents). Those three classes, in addition to the two taught by Dr. Quadrifoglio (CVEN322,Civil Engineering Systems, and CVEN349, Civil Engineering Project Management, bothrequired for most our civil engineering students), were eventually deemed suitable to offer a fullsemester abroad to our CVEN (civil engineering) students. All the courses were offered inEnglish following the Texas A&M syllabus as the CVEN ROME program is a faculty ledprogram where students enroll in Texas A&M courses and not Roma Tre courses. iii. Organizational StructureThe CVEN Rome Program has been deployed twice so far with this main structure
forimprovement was creation of a collaborative and inclusive environment. Overall, most scoresincreased between semesters. This may be a function of more time spent together as a team,learning each other’s nuances, and figuring out how to best work toward a common goal. Withthat stated, the teamwork survey was completed after the March 2020 pandemic stay-at-homeorders were issued and courses went online. There is a chance that greater empathy was realizedduring those trying times, especially considering that the competitions were canceled for 2020.The 2020-2021 teams responded (Table 7) with higher agreement with “my team fosters acollaborative environment” and “my team fosters an inclusive environment” than the 2019-2020teams. Overall, the 2020-2021
. ABET Learning Outcomes 3 (regarding effective communication) was adequately addressed. 4. The diversity and inclusion topics were introduced to the class with minimal additional preparation effort on the behalf on the instructor. 5. No technical coursework (traditional civil engineering calculations and analyses) was removed from the course to create room in the syllabus for the topics of diversity and inclusion. 6. Students felt comfortable sharing their thoughts through both verbal and written means of communication. 7. Students clearly gained an appreciation of the broader socioeconomic impacts that engineering projects have on communities. 8. The case was robust enough, and the teaching interventions
or control [2],[44], [45], [46]. Table 6. Summary of themes identified from participants’ approaches to developing their students’ sense of Autonomy (i.e., sense that one has a choice and control of one’s learning). Themes Participant Approaches (Direct Quotes) Student involvement in program/course Feedback on different phases of project refinement Assessment on team dynamics Graduating seniors' input for future advising Input on syllabus Student to demand that
systems companies in the Midwest. In addition to one U.S. patent, Schilling has numerous publications in refereed international conferences and other journals. He received the Ohio Space Grant Consortium Doctoral Fellowship and has received awards from the IEEE Southeastern Michigan and IEEE Toledo Sections. He is a member of IEEE, IEEE Computer Society and ASEE. At MSOE, he coordinates courses in software verification, real time systems, operating systems, and cybersecurity topics. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021Assessing the Effectiveness of Individual Reflections on Video FeedbackAbstract: We know from research that feedback to students is
assignment where students must interview stakeholders in the translational pipeline for drug delivery products. After exposure to these topics, students are tasked to write a review and present to the class on a drug delivery topic of their choosing in groups. Several class sessions are dedicated to in-person group presentations. For Semester A, a new, dedicated HD and SDOH module was included prior to in-person group presentations.3.5 HD and SDOH module intervention An asynchronous online-lecture was developed by course instructors in which students were exposed to public health topics of HD and SDOH. Students were tasked to answer a pre-survey on their engineering social agency awareness and familiarity on HD and SDOH
-19 has affected all aspects of life, including how we travel. As faculty membersresponsible for teaching infrastructure courses across four universities, the authors collaboratedon creating a teaching module addressing this critical issue. The module focuses on the impactsof COVID-19 on different transportation systems from various stakeholder perspectives. Themodule was implemented in two universities (n = 25): Southern Methodist University (SMU)and New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology (New Mexico Tech, NMT) in fall 2020and will be implemented again at other schools in fall 2021. This paper presents the resultsobtained during the first implementation of the COVID-19 teaching module during the fallsemester of 2020 and addresses how
engineeringtopics and skills. Bucciarelli, Drew, and colleagues have developed example modules of thistype. One explores the historical development of the engineering of cantilever beam failure, alesson that brings together the history and philosophy of science with static mechanics. Eachmodule is problem-based and benefits from collaborative instruction. The LSE model has alsobeen suggested as a “transformative solution” to the persistent problem of low enrollment ofwomen in STEM majors and careers [10]. Although some courses and online modules in theLSE mold exist, the broader curriculum remains, according to the authors, a “sociotechnicalimaginary” useful for demonstrating to conventional engineering educators that real integrationwith the humanities is
projects • Materials addressing issues arising from the team’s review of the Self-Study Report or online instructional materials • Documentation of actions taken by the program after submission of the Self-Study Report as being available for review, and • Materials necessary for the program to demonstrate compliance with the criteria and policiesThe programs should confer with PEV to ensure that display materials will provide adequate evidenceof meeting the accreditation criteria.About two months prior to the on-site virtual visit, the program reviewed in fall 2020 provided thePEV access to an on-line OneDrive folder that contained the following electronic binders. 1. Course Binder: this binder contained some or all of the
success. However, the difference between eachgroup was only 3 students given the small sample size, In addition, the groups were taughtduring two consecutive offerings of the course, rather than in a simultaneous offering. Thepresence or absence of the case study was the only change in syllabus between offerings. Theoutcome of this pilot evaluation is hopeful. A more robust and reliable assessment seems calledfor in the future. To continue this work, the case study could be used in a larger class withmultiple sections with collection of evidence more directly assessing prior and postdemonstration of student comprehension of the learning objectives. A suitable civil engineeringcourse for continuing evaluation of the efficacy of using this case
education, with a particular focus on theexperiences and needs of groups historically limited in participation in engineering and otherscientific disciplines.Data collection and sourcesWe collected both primary and secondary data. Primary data included the responses to a designtask, complemented with information about the course by compiling ENG-DIV course materials(e.g., syllabus, fieldnotes) about the experiences of students. Although these materials and thecourse are not the main focus of this work, they allowed us to contextualize and capture a partialpicture of participants’ experiences during the quarter, including the nature and level ofinvolvement in the course activities and the plausible learning environments where the activitiesof the
course syllabus and mapped to the specific course outcome(CO) using the performance indicator (PI) for each ABET student outcome (SO). Table 2: Tasks and timeline Semester (Months) Task Details Spring 2021 (Jan.-May) Technical documentation of IPP DCNN, OC, and CA modules Summer 2021 (May-Aug.) Prepare laboratory experiments Participate in the IGVC and project activities on the IPP Develop and test the software, for the courses listed in Table 1 determine the hardware Redesign and test the IGV components required to
tried to revise howshe gave feedback, taking cues from Haswell’s “minimal marking’ paper [36].In Spring 2019, Alice learned about Kristen’s work on visualizing arguments. Simultaneously,Alice was revising the course to be able to be presented online pre-COVID (although withsynchronous components). Alice and Kristen worked together over spring 2019 to incorporatesome of the ideas Kristen had been developing into the course. Kristen advised on a structure tointroduce the content, suggested papers, modeled graphical page forms on papers my studentswere reading, and Kristen’s graduate student, Kehinde, produced 4 introductory videos forAlice’s students to watch.Casey, as a scholar in chemistry education, took a different course with Alice on race
emphasizethat consideration is a necessary component in order to solve the complex problems faced inthe field of engineering.The initial implementation of the class was in the Spring semester of 2020. The class is asophomore level course required for integrated engineering students moving forward. TheSpring class consisted of 18 students, 17 being second year students, one being a third-yearstudent. The class included6 women and 12 men taught primarily by a White male professorwho has conducted research on socio technical dualisms that exist in engineering in the past.The course description stated in the syllabus: Ever wonder what “energy” really is? In this course you will learn the engineering behind both energy production and consumption
simple activity, the IM, to be implemented. Theeducator scaffolded conversation around inclusion in multiple ways. She was also aware of herlimitations, as someone who was interested in promoting inclusion in her course, but did nothave enough previous experience with creating inclusive spaces. From here on, we will refer tothe educator as Dr. YH.Scaffolding a DEI InterventionIn an effort to virtually build a community in Fall of 2020 that addressed issues in diversity,equity and inclusion, the Dr. YH took the following actions in an Engineering Design course: 1. Included a DEI statement in the syllabus. This statement was discussed in the first class session. This action was a part of a new department wide effort to
Paper ID #34558Transforming Curriculum to Improve STEM Learning and Advance CareerReadinessDr. Ekaterina Koromyslova, South Dakota State University Dr. Ekaterina Koromyslova is an Assistant Professor in Operations Management. She teaches several courses, including Operations and Supply Chain Management, Engineering Economic Analysis, and De- cision Making in Management. She has several years of industry experience as an analyst-consultant for manufacturing companies and as a leading manager in supply chain and logistics. Her research inter- ests are in engineering education, including learner-centered teaching strategies
&M University. He is also the Assistant Lab Director at the Sketch Recognition Lab.Dr. Shawna Thomas, Texas A&M University Dr. Thomas is an Instructional Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineer- ing at Texas A&M University. She is a member of the Engineering Education Faculty in the Institute for Engineering Education & Innovation at Texas A&M. She enjoys project-based learning and incorporat- ing active learning techniques in all her courses. She received her Ph.D. from Texas A&M University in 2010, focusing on developing robotic motion planning algorithms and applying them to computational biology problems including protein folding. She continued this work as
at home or virtually, and without being in the same location as other students. o Examples: conducting a literature review, design a product/machine using CAD or other software, programming of remote/virtual machines, conducting simulations in virtual environments, and carrying out hands-on activities at home with mailed- in kits. • When viable, allow students more flexibility with their trajectory through the course or program they are enrolled in, including postponement to a later semester. • A comprehensive syllabus is helpful in helping students with understanding class requirements and instructor expectations, and is even more helpful in a situation where
. While the instructor did not teach this course again due to rotating instructor coverage,she implemented this approach in her Thermodynamics course.Details are presented in Appendix A.Thermodynamics (Spring 2020)While an epic finale approach was already planned, the instructor felt it was particularlyappropriate given the quick pivot online during COVID in Spring 2020. All students had beenassessed individually on partial exams and a cumulative FE-style quiz. The epic finale wasconducted virtually on Zoom and was less structured. Students were placed into random breakoutgroups and asked to figure out how a hospital ventilator works with schematics drawn,components identified, and technical considerations and related to thermodynamics and
model combines the student input variables(i.e., background, purpose…) and the learning outcomes, while taking into account the learningexperience and educational environment (i.e. courses, teaching/learning activities, structure,facilities…) [8].Building on the above-mentioned conceptual models, this work proposes a Context Canvas as anactionable framework to facilitate gathering information and finding correlations between theelements that influence the ideation of educational concepts. As a design tool, the context canvasaims to help educators move from the problem space to the solution space in the process ofeducational solution development.This paper is organized as follows. First, overviews of conceptual models for design are
5 3 3 2018 6 5 10 1 4 0 2019 4 9 8 5 1 1The first day experience consisted of a welcome, schedule, pre-assessment, module pretest,networking, campus tour, library workshop, and lab tour. A program syllabus and a schedulebooklet detailing daily commitments within the program were given to the teachers. The teacherswere enrolled in an online learning management platform to access handouts, notes andassignments online. For each module, a faculty mentor provided lectures to introduce theresearch and then had teachers work with the mentors to participate in
entrepreneurship principles for the betterment of the community they were part of. Thedetailed structure of the class comprising the study of affordable and accessible engineering throughsocial innovations, frugal engineering, and servant leadership is discussed in the next section.2. Description of course: Thesis, synopsis, course material, and executionUsing global cases of social innovations, students in the class researched and studied the fundamentalsof (1) engineering social innovations, (2) globalization, and (3) leadership for effective implementationand success. The course also involved a project component where students were challenged for theidentification of project statements and developing a well-thought-out engineering solution for
have been culturally and traditionally dominated by white males, inthe past they didn’t feel like there was a need to consider DEI issues, hence, engineeringprograms are perpetuating a dominant culture and a way of teaching engineering that does notrecognize nor value cultural, racial, linguistic, and economic differences.Q3: Alisha Sarang-SieminskiDrawing on the idea of stereotype threat developed by Claude Steele [21] and others, I thinkabout how students’ ability to thrive and succeed is impacted by their sense of belonging. Myown work in the classroom falls into 2 categories. First is what I think of as creating anaccessible and inclusive environment. This comes through intentional work in the course designand syllabus to make the
individual and team-level patterns that would help us address the following researchquestion: How can critique as a pedagogical strategy promote metacognition of learning andtransdisciplinarity?Setting. This study was performed at a mid-Atlantic research university in an interdisciplinaryproject-based course that encourages creative thinking and productive critiques. The class metonline during Fall semester 2020, using Zoom and other apps to meet and collaborate with peersand invited guests from the community and businesses.The course description in the syllabus states: This course is designed to lead students through the process of creative inquiry, design, and collaboration to explore the nexus of the arts, science, and design. Through
in Aero- nautics and Astronautics (space systems design, astrodynamics and propulsion), Electrical and Computer Engineering (artificial intelligence, fields and optics) and Engineering Education (design cognition and human communication inquiry) all from Purdue University. He also has an undergraduate degree in Me- chanical Engineering (design) from the University of Jordan, and an undergraduate degree in Aeronautics and Astronautics from Purdue. He taught courses in use-inspired design at ASU and in transforming ideas to innovations at Purdue. Prior to joining ASU, Hadi worked at the University of Jordan as a facilitator for curricular change and design content instructor at the Department of Mechatronics. He was
projects an 8% increase for employmentin STEM occupations from 2019 to 2029 (BLS, 2020). The educators and the community need tomake sure that the education system is keeping students ahead of the curve and providingemployers access to a world-class workforce.The National Aeronautics and Space Administration Office of STEM Engagement (NASA -OSTEM) strives to increase K-12 involvement in NASA projects, enhance higher education,support underrepresented and underserved communities, strengthen online education, and boostNASA’s contribution to informal education. In an effort to increase K-12 involvement andawareness about NASA STEM topics, a NASA-sponsored project was carried out at FloridaAtlantic University (FAU) to bring NASA-STEM contents to
down the results. These were not included in the searchstring because every iteration that included them turned out very few results.Search Database 3The topic informed the choice of the following subject-specific databases used in our searchand they are as follows: • Education Research Information Centre, ERIC – an online digital library for education research and information [18]. • Education Source – the world’s largest and most complete source of full-text educational journals [19]. • Professional Development Collection – a highly specialized database of full-text electronic information for educators, professional librarians, and education researchers [20