had acomplete program experience without a COVID-19 disruption. Moreover, each cohort has beenaffected differently and at different points in the Endeavour Program. Endeavour S-STEM wasdesigned to be an engagement-focused program and was severely limited in how it could engagewith its students. The disruptions have made the originally planned engagement study infeasible.However, COVID-19 was not the only obstacle in collecting engagement data. Initially,engagement data for two of the engagement dimensions (cognitive and affective) were to becollected through a validated survey. However, after conducting the survey multiple times in thefirst two years it was felt that the initial data failed to capture the high levels of engagement thatthe
collection, anexploratory factor analysis of the two pilot surveys. Additionally, we are developing a usermanual for this questionnaire, which we plan to disseminate in Year 3. In Year 3, we willconduct a full administration of this survey beside multiple previously published measuresincluding mental health distress symptoms [25], intention to persist [26], and potentially otherconstructs such as engineering culture, quality of life, and quality of social relationships.Analysis of Year 3 data will provide further, confirmatory validity evidence and establish thecorrelative or predictive power of measuring the stressors found in the SDSQ-E with relatedtopics.AcknowledgmentsThis material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation
, earned her PhD in Biological Sciences from Stanford University, and did a postdoctoral fellowship at Cornell University. She was faculty at North Carolina State University for seven years before joining the University of Oregon. Dr. Singh’s research focuses on evolutionary genetics and uses Drosophila melanogaster as a model system.Elizabeth A. Wentz, Arizona State University Dr. Elizabeth A. Wentz is the Vice Provost and Dean of the Graduate College and Professor in the School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning at Arizona State University. She earned her PhD in Geography from the Pennsylvania State University and MA and BS from the Ohio State University. Her research focuses on geospatial technologies in
editions. This demonstrates theneed for clearer communication of what books are required and what editions are acceptable toavoid unnecessary costs.ConclusionsThough the survey indicates that students are spending $100 per quarter or less, we feel that thisis not representative of what students are being asked to spend on textbooks for their courses.Because of this, we are still pursuing ways to make textbooks more affordable to students in theschool of engineering and across Dartmouth. We conclude that there are several ways to reducestudent textbook costs at the school of engineering.For professors interested in reducing costs but still planning to use a textbook from a publisher,considering the upfront cost of the current edition and being open
contexts • ABET 5: Function effectively on a team whose members together provide leadership, create a collaborative and inclusive environment, establish goals, plan tasks, and meet objectives • ABET 7: Acquire and apply new knowledge as needed, using appropriate learning strategiesCommunication, ethics, teamwork, and learning strategy development have been identified askey elements of success in the engineering workplace [4]. By incorporating these elements ofprofessional development into undergraduate curriculum, students have time to learn and grow inthese areas before they enter the workforce. This combination of technical and professional skilldevelopment helps to launch recent graduates into successful careers
importanceof building in some time for networking, both structured and unstructured. To facilitate this, wedrew from successful events from previous Summer Schools. There were informal buttopically-structured networking events on Monday and Thursday, after the last regular session ofthe day and before dinner. There were also two poster session events for new attendees onMonday and Tuesday evenings to allow participants to share their work, current or planned, aswell as interact with more senior members of the community. Finally, on Wednesday there wasan Industry Expo, which allowed participants to interact with corporate and academic partnersand sponsors, followed by a variety of social events, ranging from a Colorado Rockies Game towhitewater rafting
show deeper understanding in their communications,verbalism, and capabilities. They challenge the instruction team constructively in well thoughtout ways. The teams work in unity to overcome challenges. The instruction team shifts awayfrom facilitating the discussion during the games as the teams are self-sufficient. Concerns usually associated with team-based learning especially in terms of completing thecurriculum are greatly diminished by this stage. The students are now autonomous learners. Theywillingly put in the effort and work effectively as a group to cover topics quickly. The instructionteam comes up with a study plan that the teams execute on their own based on their individualstrengths and weaknesses. The emancipation stage
Pylint, and weconsider linter output in our assessment rubrics. These works provide support that our practices inhow we teach software engineering in the context of SoftDes are effective, and provide us withideas for further improvement.Next StepsWe are continuing to interview students. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the vast majority of our surveyrespondents are majors in a computing-related field, and most of them have used skills fromSoftDes in further courses at our institution and in industry rather than in graduate studies oracademia. We hope to recruit and interview more students in these areas to get a more diverserange of perspectives on the course.Once we have a complete dataset and have identified themes in participant responses, we plan
variety of engineering fields, and their proposals and budgetary plan were reviewedby the senior club members for revision and final approval. Accordingly, as will be discussedlater, the second implementation of the mentorship program was modified to provide effectivesupport and to leverage for enhancing mentoring experience. Engineering and education mentors: Voluntary student mentors from both theengineering and education departments in the State University of New York (SUNY) at NewPaltz were selected to participate in the mentorship program. Engineering students, majoring inelectrical, computer, or mechanical engineering, were at different years of their 4-year degreewith varying experience in robotics. As an ABET-accredited
, environmental, and societal contexts. 5. an ability to function effectively on a PBL is often conducted in small teams team whose members together provide working collaboratively. leadership, create a collaborative and inclusive environment, establish goals, plan tasks, and meet objectives. 6. an ability to develop and conduct PBL can be extended from conceptual to appropriate experimentation, analyze, and experimental, allowing students to evaluate interpret data, and use engineering their designs. judgment to draw conclusions. 7. an ability to acquire and apply new PBL does not follow textbook examples and knowledge as needed, using appropriate requires students to research
robotics andthe problem of protein folding/unfolding. One of the interesting moments in this presentation waswhen the students got excited when hearing about the fact that some of the underlyingoptimization, path planning, and control algorithms that are utilized for solving challengingrobotics and autonomous vehicle control problems can also play an integral role for guidednumerical simulation of protein folding/unfolding processes. In addition to the presentation, thestudents had the chance to inquire about some of the tools that they were asked to work with inperforming the project tasks.Challenges and opportunitiesOne of the main challenges in the first implementation of this PBL initiative was trying to exposesenior year students who were
difficult it can be to take ideas and designs that I have created and drawn on paper and turn them into functional prototypes.” • “I worked on these processes on my own and was able to learn more about each of them. It helped me learn a lot about the overall design process.”There are many more comments like these. Some comments indicate students appreciated theopportunity to work for a short term outside of the project team. Students also learned how muchknowledge can be acquired from a test that fails. This realization and learning did not occur priorto adding the prototyping and testing assignments. This analysis, however, is incomplete. Asstated previously, a study using a text analysis tool is planned for the near future
student stress around recordingthe “perfect” presentation. Additionally, for every module, regardless of finalpresentation mode, students gave a short in-person preliminary presentation describingtheir plans for their project before beginning working on the actual code. In the shortanswer, one student noted that they preferred to have the final presentation be pre-recorded and the preliminary presentation be in-person in order to practice presentationskills for both but being able to pay better attention to other groups’ final presentations inclass rather than practicing their own before delivering it.Conclusions and Future Directions In conclusion, students indicated a strong preference for in-person presentationsover pre-recorded
choosing a format, language, or graph that enhances meaning. Make clear the interdependence of language and meaning, thought, and expression. Envision a future self. Make plans that build on past experiences that have occurred across multiple and diverse contexts. Table 2 Likert Scale Values 1: Not at all - I am not aware of or do not recognize this behavior. 2: Low Degree - I am only aware of and recognize this behavior. 3: Somewhat Low Degree - I cooperate or comply with this behavior if required by others. 4: Somewhat High Degree - I recognize the value of and prefer this behavior. 5: High Degree - This behavior is an important priority to me. 6: Very High Degree - This behavior is natural to me, is habitual to me, and embodies who I am.In an
go back and change previous answers. The first three questions aredemographics questions to allow the authors to separate out non-mechanical engineeringstudents and determine how far into the program the students are. Of the 258 total respondents,193 were Mechanical Engineering students with 68 identified as first-year, 34 identified assecond-year, 27 identified as third-year, and 64 identified as fourth-year. One plan for futureimprovements on the survey is to have separate surveys for each course, so students do not haveto self-identify which course they are currently taking. This self-identification problem was anunexpected issue as the ME 4810 Capstone I course only had 54 enrolled students, yet 64claimed they were currently taking ME
techniques to designinstructional videos. However, there is a need to establish clear guidelines for implementingmixed reality techniques to augment training and education for design and manufacturingeducation. Faculty might also face cognitive dissonance when being pressured to utilize noveltechnologies within their pedagogy to implement the teaching curriculum. Cognitive dissonancecan also occur when a person holds two or more contradictory beliefs or attitudes. For example,faculty believing in the value of hands-on learning might question the efficacy of AR/VR tools.Still, they might also value exposing future engineers to the latest technology. Hence, wepropose a framework that faculty could use to develop a systematic transition plan for
the lab activities tied to the investigated technical skills. Therefore, preliminaryresults confirm that the new proposed course can be considered successful. Insights fromstudents’ feedback will be considered for improvement for Fall 2023.Future plans include developing a pre-course survey in addition to the exit survey and extendingthese surveys to all the sections in the ECE program to have higher number of participants. Along-term study will be conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of this course in guaranteeingstudents’ success and satisfaction and in increasing the retention rate of first-year students.Moreover, the impact on students’ success from diverse groups will be analyzed. References
Blackfaculty [5]. Federally funded colleges and public institutions benefit from a more diverse faculty[5]. A higher likelihood of women faculty appears in research institutions with plans to focus onthe needs of women. The quantity of African American/Black women and Hispanic/Latinawomen faculty employed remains small among prestigious engineering and science researchinstitutions compared to other universities and colleges [5]. Women and multicultural facultybear little presence in selective universities as well [5]. Women of Color professors hold a scintilla of authority with less power and value thantheir cohorts [8]. Departments hire women of Color to instruct sizeable introduction and newpreparation courses [8], which leads to heavy
Paper ID #36945Teamwork as a Core Competence in Construction and Engineering Educa-tionSaeed Rokooei, Mississippi State University Saeed Rokooei is an assistant professor in the Building Construction Science program at Mississippi State University. His professional responsibilities include project planning and management as well as architectural design practice in private and public construction and engineering firms. He has taught in architecture and construction programs since 2006. Dr. Rokooei’s primary research interests include simulation and serious games, project management methodologies, construction education, data
relatable to other people in the same culture sincehistory is shared in the group.Research has found that emotions can impact the “attention, memory, thinking and problemsolving” ability of educators [20, p. 610]. Negative emotions can cause working memory to belimited and decrease motivation, whereas positive emotions can promote creativity [21].Furthermore, emotions can impact the “well-being, job satisfaction, burnout risk and retention”and “teaching strategies, curriculum selection and lesson planning” [22, p. 1236]. Positiveemotions have been correlated with success in teaching and research [23]. Research findings havealso pointed to the idea that fostering positive emotions may improve instructors’ ability to teachand complete
value. You may also use a drag coefficient(s) from other sources, but be sure to document the source. Pick something that interests you but don’t select something too difficult to solve as your first attempt at CFD. You will need to plan the project by pre-selecting the dimensions, fluid, and velocity based on the Reynolds number. You should know your goal drag coefficient before running the simulation. Run the CFD analysis using any code you’d like including SolidWorks Flow Simulation, COMSOL, Fluent, ANSYS CFD, or even any open source code you’d like (OpenFOAM?). Be sure to document this process with specific values and screen captures as you’re doing them. Be sure to refine the grid mesh
-global-markets.html[4] Lightcounting, October 2020 Market Forecast Report, Lorton, VA: Lightcounting, 2020. [E-book] Available: https://www.lightcounting.com/report/october-2020-market-forecast-report-20[5] E. Verlage, S. Saini, A. Agarwal, S. Serna, R. Kosciolek, T. Morrisey and L. C. Kimerling,“Web-based interactive simulations and virtual lab for photonics education,” in FifteenthConference on Education and Training in Optics and Photonics: ETOP 2019, Québec City, P.Q.,Canada, May 21-24, 2019, ETOP 2019 Papers (Optica Publishing Group, 2019), paper11143_136.[6] M. Batty, “Digital twins,” Env. and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science vol. 45(5),pp. 817-820, 2018; doi: 10.1177/2399808318796416[7] A. Fuller, Z. Fan, C. Day and C. Barlow
. • I think keeping an open and creative mind (to not limit your options) is the biggest takeaway, as well as the fact that everyone has different ideas and can contribute in different ways! • The importance of visually communicating information • teamworkTeamwork • The importance of taking initiative but also relying on teammates • Team dynamics and how so buff time is spent planning • How to solve problems within a team.
. The third activities are thatdesign teams are required to work together on design projects for at least six hours per week.The fourth activity is that they need to prepare engineering documentation including technicalreports, technical posters, and 3D models and drawings. The fifth activity is the presentationsincluding two informal presentations and one formal presentation as described concisely below. • The first informal presentation is to present modified final design options and project construction plans in the third week. • The second information presentation is the presentation of the status of the prototypes’ building and some testing on some subassemblies in the eighth week. • The third presentation is the
should take (e.g., over email, in person, online chat,etc.), what additional training may be helpful for the faculty and peer mentors to be effectivementors to this population of students, and generally what aspects of the mentoring experience ismost impactful for the students. We plan to use these results to improve the existing scholarshipprogram and to share effective strategies with the engineering community on how to motivateand support engineering transfer students.AcknowledgmentThis material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant #1742627. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this materialare those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the
stakeholders …… examination …… Teachers: ……ethical the understanding and 1. The proportion of these contentsnorms mastering of engineering in the teaching plan and syllabus ethical norms …… (3) Behavior Level Evaluation Behavioral Level evaluation refers to the degree to which trainees apply what they have learned in training to practical work and the behavioral changes brought to trainees. In applying training evaluation, many projects only go to the Reaction and Learning levels; the application of the Behavior and Result levels are often missing. As a result, the
driving features to their design. This process exposed 13project participants to various challenges in developing a system and scaling that to be used in acourse. In terms of future work, there are several additions planned such as utilizing additionalsensors such as LiDARs for obstacle detection and switching to local hotspot and a local server-based system for enhanced connectivity and restricted-free access.6. Acknowledgments The authors would like to thank the students in the ABC course for utilizing MPAD and providingvaluable suggestions. The authors would also like to thank the Mechanical EngineeringDepartment for financing the purchases
thatfor construction school graduates to be ready to enter the workforce, they should be equippedwith hard skills (technical) and soft skills (non-technical) that enable them to apply theirknowledge directly in the work setting.”One study [4] identified twelve separate clusters of soft skills relevant to the constructionindustry were identified and include skills associated with; communications, problem-solving,conflict management, collaboration, stress management, professionalism, productivity, ethics,diversity, planning and organizing, self-awareness, and interpersonal relationships. Anotherstudy [7] reported that the most important soft skills for job seeking, as identified by students,were positive attitude, oral communication, self
the course.By focusing on the intended learning outcomes, instructors can perform a backward design byidentifying acceptable evidence before planning instruction. Thus, instructors are able to identifywhich concepts are enduring outcomes, important to know, or good to be familiar with (contents).Backward design also enables instructors to intentionally approach how they would achieve theirlearning outcomes in choosing appropriate pedagogies and assessments that determine if indeedstudents have achieved the intended learning outcomes.Thus, the CAP alignment follows the order prescribed above. First, we introduce the contents ofthe course, beginning with a distinction between course objectives and learningobjectives/outcomes. In this paper, we
their academic careers.Students who engage with this content in the classroom will be surveyed to assess theeffectiveness of the modules. There is a plan to conduct student surveys at the end of each courseand one-year post exposure to evaluate both the immediate and long-term impact of thematerials. The project team hypothesizes that students who engage early with the videos andpaired curriculum will be more likely to participate in research and remain engaged for longer.Preliminary survey results support this hypothesis, showing students self-report learning gainsand an increased interest in research and research-related careers.This project is part of a Kern Entrepreneurial Engineering Network (KEEN) initiative to infuseEM into UGR