recommendations to strengthen game research, theauthors made note of the high potential for games to impact learning.As with the previous five years, the three themes were distinct on the concept map. The topicswere also conceptually similar, with a topic on design of the learning environment (i.e.,Instructional Design; Figure 4), a topic on pedagogical frameworks (i.e., Concepts), and a topicon content areas (i.e., STEM). Figure 4: 2011-2015 concept map.Several of the trends in the abstracts continued from the the previous five years, but with a shift infocus (Table 3). First, the Instructional Design topic included concepts on strategies for activelearning and teaching. Studies include project-based 37 38 and engineering
Paper ID #32319High School Student Outcome Expectations on Postsecondary Pathways inTwo Regions of Virginia (Fundamental)Kai Jun Chew, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Kai Jun (KJ) Chew is a PhD candidate in the Virginia Tech Department of Engineering Education. In the past, he has been involved in the engineering education field by working with Dr. Sheri Sheppard, engaging in multiple projects, such as ABET accreditation, curriculum redesign and others.Dr. Holly M. Matusovich, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Dr. Holly M. Matusovich is a Professor in the Department of Engineering
orneeded help. She always respected my opinion and listened to any problem I had.”)Giving and Receiving KindnessThose who give kindness reap benefits in their feelings of well-being [45]. So providing studentsopportunities to give kindness to others may be impactful. There are examples of this throughservice-learning activities [46] and through acts of intentional kindness [45]. An ideas that fitsinto more traditional engineering courses with team projects includes requesting that teammatesgive a few elements of positive feedback to their peers. In most engineering settings the normappears to be that good behavior is not commented upon because it is expected. That means thatpeople are more often given critiques or negative feedback. Intentionally
theMakerspace. This course provides students with training to access NJIT Makerspace systems,which is reinforced with a NJIT Makerspace project that students currently have an option topursue virtually or in person. The final condition is the general use of the NJIT Makerspace bystudents with varied interests. The presented findings from Fall 2020 will not only provideguidance for hands-on Manufacturing Education during the COVID-19 pandemic, but alsopotential options for safety processes that could be used in other applied academic activities.INTRODUCTIONBackgroundThe COVID-19 pandemic has presented a number of challenges throughout society and inseveral industries. The pandemic has; however, highlighted the importance of the manufacturingfield as
concepts in project management, business, public policy, and leadership; analyze issues in professional ethics; and explain the importance of professional licensure. 2. Faculty The program must demonstrate that faculty teaching courses that are primarily design in content are qualified to teach the subject matter by virtue of professional licensure, or by education and design experience. The program must demonstrate that it is not critically dependent on one individual.The CEPCTC’s working draft of the revised CEPC (as of February 2021) is as follows (withmajor changes annotated in bold type): These program criteria apply to engineering programs that include “civil,” “infrastructure,” or similar
solve a problem. Reflection prompts can guide studentsto articulate a problem and develop their problem-solving skills [3].In a Data Structures and Algorithms courses we expect students to use their knowledge fromintroductory programming courses to implement data structures and algorithms for solvingproblems efficiently in terms of space and time complexity [4]. Assignments and projects in DataStructures and Algorithms require students to make decisions about what data structures to useand are challenging enough that jumping straight into coding is not an efficient way to solve theproblem. Students often have a hard time choosing the most efficient data structure, which maybe less familiar, rather than the data structures they are comfortable
optimize operations. Other research interests include the Deming System of Profound Knowledge (SoPK), developing continuous improve- ment programs as well as sustainable management systems based on ISO 9001, ISO 14001, and other international standards. He has over 20 years of experience in the quality management field as a quality engineer, corporate quality manager, consultant and trainer. His experience is extensive in quality management systems as wells as Lean and Six Sigma methods. In addition, he coached and mentored Green & Black Belts on process improvement projects in the manufacturing and service industries. Dr. Shraim is a Certified Quality Engineer (CQE) & a Certified Six Sigma Black Belt (CSSBB
Engineering from the University of Colorado Boulder. Dr. Canney currently works as a Senior Project Manager for Taylor Devices, Inc. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Using a Values Lens to Examine Engineers’ Workplace ExperiencesIntroductionThe development of a skilled and robust U.S. engineering workforce is more crucial than ever asnumerous social, environmental, and health crises unravel on a national and global stage [1]. Yet,productivity and retention remain prominent concerns for the engineering profession [2] [3].Studies have addressed these issues by focusing on the persistence of a “skills and knowledge”gap, noting how engineers’ preparation
, and selfies represented the lowest three categories. The topcategories show that engineering study abroad programs are more focused on engineers’definitive work via images of structures, bridges, campus infrastructures and designs,laboratories, factories, communal interventions through community projects, and thesustainability of nature, etc.). While the bottom categories do not present a significant attachmentto engineering, they account for the pride of students’ experience from visiting places, getting toexperience the heritage of host countries, and the institution’s prestige. When separated, someinstitutions produced a higher number of images in some categories than others. For example,MRU1 produced the highest number of images in the
specialization courses designed to meet students'graduation profile. Also, the curriculum includes four integrative courses, whose aim is toincorporate knowledge acquired by students from previous courses and integrate it into activitiesfor current projects and/or for use by companies out in the field. The last integrating course iscalled Degree Portfolio and culminates with the completion of the study program. This course isbased on multidisciplinary projects carried out by teachers of different specialties, finishing in anindividual examination before a commission composed of the course lecturers and externalevaluators who are invited exclusively for this process.Around 70% of college courses are specialized and are concentrated in the last 3 years of
]; this is important forengineering teams because many engineering problems are complex and require interdisciplinaryteams where team members are able to share their expertise [47]. Psychological safety alsoimpacts both decision quality and team performance [46]. Again, these factors are relevant forengineering design teams because engineers often work on projects with lasting impacts; gooddecisions and good team performance can contribute to better outcomes for society. Finally, partof psychological safety is inclusion safety, which leads to an increased sense of belonging [39].This suggests that psychological safety is a relevant construct for engineering educationresearchers and practitioners.2.4 Improvisational trainingImprovisational
alone.Kayla’s NarrativeOne of the reasons that I was drawn to the company was because the recruiters were explicitabout how important it was to have women working in engineering firms. A lot of companiesprobably say that, but I really felt like they genuinely meant it because they did have a lot offemale engineers working for them. My company took pride in hiring lots of female engineeringstaff. I had one supervisor, whose name is Amy and then her supervisor who I was also incontact with, Jane. They were the two primary people that I talked to.I was working on one project, primarily, and I would just do kind of the odds and ends on otherprojects. I worked on things that were not busy work, but also did not need critical engineeringskills, obviously
furtheruse their perspectives for more informed intervention design.In this work in progress paper, the findings that are presented are a part of an ongoing NSFfunded project to understand how to get more Black male engineers to pursue advanced degreesin engineering and go into the engineering professoriate. Of the research questions that are a partof the ongoing work: 1) What factors influenced Black males to pursue graduate degrees inengineering? 2) What assets/strengths do Black males possess who persist or plan to continue inengineering beyond undergraduate studies? Only research question 1 will be explored in thispaper. This manuscript provides a brief review of the literature and overview of the study’smethodology. Findings are then presented
(Mack et al., 2019).MethodThis participatory case study used iterative analytic practices. Author 1 has fourteen years ofexperience with the case at hand through multiple project evaluations and social science researchefforts, including 5 years evaluating the RED grant. Author 2 is a faculty member at Universityof Texas at El Paso in a social science department and led social science efforts with a team ofgraduate students locally, including course observations, interviews and focus groups withstudents, and participant observation in RED grant meetings. We employed Merriam andTisdell’s practice of intertwining data collection and analysis (Meriam and Tisdel 2015),utilizing constant comparative methods of meaning-making (Charmaz, 2006). First
was selected over HACK due to the connotations of the term, particularly in its exclusionof craftsman and artistic elements [8]. A 2020 analysis of co-words provides continual supportfor this hypothesis. The name is neither controlled nor regulated by MAKE, unlike many othercategories."FabLab" had its origin in the MIT Center for Bits and Atoms, as a project to introducefabrication tools to students and wider communities [9]. The Fab Foundation, founded in 2009 asa nonprofit, [10] now maintains a user-submitted directory of "FabLabs" [11]. The termmakerspace is used as a generic signifier, with FabLab used as a specific member organization.Similar to FabLab, TechShop was a for-profit enterprise started in 2006 intended to provideaccess to
. Students participated in one of the following design projects in their firstsemester at the university: (1) designing a recycling sorting process for hand towels in a localbasketball arena; (2) designing a modality to improve safety of campus infrastructure; (3)designing toys for differently abled children in collaboration with a local partner; or (4)participating in a separate community-engaged experience. Thus, most students did notparticipate in a course explicitly focused on service-learning, but all students participated in acommunity-oriented design project. Table 1 includes participant pseudonyms.Table 1. Participant overview Student Interview Mode Amelia In-person Ethan In-person Grace In-person
motivation on the exam performance.Ahn et al. [3] investigated one component of the hybrid course format for the Mechanics ofMaterials course. The student’s interaction with online videos in terms of their video-viewingbehaviors was examined.Kazeruni et al. [4] focused on the comparing two different pedagogical approaches betweentraditional engineering and business school courses to develop complementary skills amongststudents by combining both approaches in a single course of Introduction to Nanobiotechnologyand Nanobioscience. The study lacked in showing the design of the instructional coursestructure, which could have proven beneficial for the faculty.A project-based approach was introduced for an aerospace engineering course that used thedesign
manages the day-to-day administrative and program functions of the graduate traineeship in rural resource resiliency for food, energy and water systems.Prof. Matthew R. Sanderson, Kansas State University Matthew R. Sanderson is the Randall C. Hill Distinguished Professor of Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work and Professor of Geography and Geospatial Sciences at Kansas State University. Currently, he is working on several projects that examine co-evolving relations between humans and ecosystems.Dr. Rebecca Cors, Wisconsin Center for Education Research Rebecca Cors is a researcher and evaluator with the Wisconsin Center for Education Research, UW- Madison, who focuses on science and nature learning, which often happens
-Car Competition Conference and Liberal Arts International Conference (LAIC). Her current research focuses on Designing Novel Electro-catalysts To- wards Selective and Robust Saline Water Oxidation and Reduction. She aspires to work as a chemical engineer in the oil and gas industry in Qatar.Rand Yehia Alagha, Texas A&M University at Qatar Rand Alagha is a Petroleum Engineering undergraduate at Texas A&M University at Qatar. She does research in different areas related to petroleum engineering all as part of the Undergraduate Research Experience Program (UREP). In addition, she has done research projects that are interested in improving the students’ learning experience as part of the Transformative
Engineering, all first-year students follow a commoncurriculum, as part of a “Cornerstone to Capstone” curriculum design adopted in 2015. TheCornerstone course is taken in the students’ first year, and uses projects to emphasize the ways inwhich engineering can develop practical problem-solving applications. The course was carefullydesigned to help first-year students achieve success in the program regardless of the specificengineering major they select in their second year. The program has been continually reevaluatedand redesigned over the past several years, and the addition of the information literacy workshophas been one step in Cornerstone’s evolution. Prior to the workshops, instructors noted limiteduse of citations and academic references in
, we strongly encouragethem to apply for many scholarships. We believe once they apply for one, they will not stopseeking new scholarship opportunities. They just needed that little push to encourage newexperiences.! Topic: Career Center Services Presentation and CAPSPurpose: Staff from these professional centers came to our class and introduced all their servicesand their importance. Job mine, Internships, Peer Career Advisors, Mocking Interviews, andfinally help with Resumes. For CAPS, the counseling center's stress workshops and theimportance of balancing outside school life for mental health.! Topic: Research Projects 1 and 2Purpose: As with all of our lectures, each of our projects has a unique purpose. The first projectwe asked for was a
inengineering is consistent within a national context. Although engineering programs are theprimary intervention of interest, discussions of STEM programs were also included to allow forarticles that do not separate engineering from science, technology, and mathematics. Theprograms’ approaches to fostering interests in engineering careers and retaining studentparticipants in STEM were studied.Research QuestionAlthough this research project fits within a larger goal of understanding how to prepareunderrepresented minority students to be engineering professionals, the research question for thisproject is concerned with how high school intervention programs contribute to underrepresentedminority student success in STEM. The research question is:What does
hero Dr. Robert “Bob”Moses created the successful Algebra Project to provide low-income and minoritized youth withaccess to college prep curriculum in STEM subjects like math (Wilgoren, 2001). He has a PhD inmath from Harvard University and experience teaching in New York K-12 schools (Wilgoren,2001). Dr. Moses believes “the demands of a high-tech age make math literacy as much an issuetoday as voting was in the Jim Crow South a half century ago” (PBS, 2002). A small number of programs across the nation matriculate significant numbers ofstudents from underrepresented and economically disadvantaged backgrounds into engineeringprograms. Some of the most successful programs are: Detroit Area Pre-College EngineeringProgram (DAPCEP), SECME
conditions. This work explores the relationshipbetween stigma of mental illness and help-seeking attitudes of engineering students usingresponses from an online survey from 79 students at two institutions. Results show a negativecorrelation that suggest that higher general stigma levels are associated with lower help-seekingattitudes. In addition, the relationship between students’ engineering department diversityorientation and help-seeking attitudes differed between those who had experiences with MHCand those who did not, suggesting that the perceptions of diversity orientation might also differamong the two groups. This is part of an ongoing research project aiming to characterize thedynamics of engineering culture and wellbeing through multiple
number of different fields.Bioengineering: A large body of research on the incorporation of adaptive expertise inundergraduate curricula stems from the field of bioengineering. Much of this work derives fromresearchers connected to the the VaNTH Engineering Research Center for BioengineeringEducational Technologies, funded by NSF with the aim of “developing the educational resourcesto prepare for the future of bioengineering” (Linsenmeier 2002). The educational strategiespursued as part of this project were based on the “How People Learn” (HPL) framework(Bransford, 2000), which suggests that learning environments be: ● Student centered: use students’ current capabilities as a starting point for learning ● Knowledge centered: focus teaching
of IntersectionalityKristen R. Moore, University at BuffaloWalter Hargrove, University at BuffaloNathan R. Johnson, University of South FloridaFernando Sánchez, University of St. ThomasAbstractUsing a citation network analysis, this project analyzes the 209 instances of the term“intersectionality” in the ASEE PEER repository to locate the central authors and texts thatinform the field’s use of the term. In this citational analysis, we suggest that the limited citationof Black women should be interrogated and redressed as a form of inequity. Framing this projectwithin the politics of citation and the current campaign to #CiteBlackWomen, we work toexplore how the term “intersectional” has been embraced, whose theories have been adopted,ignored
, she recently, in December 2020, graduated with a Master of Science in Project Management from The Citadel.Dr. Nandan Hara Shetty, The Citadel Dr. Nandan Hara Shetty is an assistant professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering at The Citadel, located in Charleston, South Carolina. He received his BE from Dartmouth College and his MS/PhD from Columbia University, researching the performance of rain gardens and roof gardens. He also worked for 11 years as an environmental engineer on construction and research of green infrastructure for the New York City Parks Department. Nandan is highly interested in engaging students, while pursuing dialogue with cities on urban climate and water research.Dr. William J. Davis
funded clusters of projects inengineering education research and practice that seek to define this emerging pattern. In addition,a series of academic articles, authored by influential policy thinkers, including universitypresidents and officials at the MoE, help elaborate the background, objectives, and implicationsof the 3E policy [16-19]. The official 3E policy documents are quite succinct in stating the goalsand strategies of engineering education reforms. To provide more context about the policydiscourse, we also examine four academic articles that aim to interpret the policy, authored byscholars who participated in the conversations that led to the formulation of the official 3E policydocuments.The following three sections present a close
classroom and laboratory curricula including online course platforms, and integrated technologies. She has been involved in both private and government grants as author and project director, and is currently PI of an NSF ATE grant, ”Increasing the Number of Engineering Technicians in Southeastern Pennsylvania.” A major goal of this collaborative effort with Drexel University is to connect for-credit, occupational technician education to workforce development certification programs. She was the faculty advisor to two student teams that made the final round of the NSF AACC Community College Innovation Challenge (CCIC) in 2016 and 2017. She and her students have been involved in STEM related outreach to local community
; Tamblyn, 1980; Boud & Feletti, 1997). The method requires carefully defined sets of problems that engage students in a structured process to develop a higher level of learning (Dahlgren, 2003). Class time can be dedicated for mini lectures to help scaffolding the problem, class discussions or students reporting (Norman & Schmidt, 1992; Weiss, 2003). Students learning in problem-based learning is self- directed, with the instructor playing the role of a facilitator (a coach, or a “guide on the side”) (Duch, Groh & Allen, 2001; Tan, 2003) 10 • Project-based learning: Project