investigate, theauthors decided to adopt the model developed in 1988 by Richard Felder, an engineeringprofessor at North Carolina State University, with help of psychologist Linda Silverman thatfocuses on aspects of learning styles particularly significant in engineering education3, 8. Themodel currently has four bipolar dimensions describing Perception (Sensing-Intuitive), Input(Visual-Verbal), Processing (Active-Reflective) and Understanding (Sequential-Global) ofinformation, with scores in the range of 6-7 indicating a balanced learning style with mildpreference either way, scores in the range of 8-9, indicating a moderate preference, and scores inthe range of 10-11 indicating strong preference for a particular mode of learning. In 1991
instructors and students,must include specific examples related to the skill set the course is intended to provide. Ibelieve that student responses to these skill set-specific examples also reflect students’ beliefin their abilities to learn and solve problems in areas beyond traditional engineeringapplications. 2. Course Design to enhance student self-belief in learning ability:There are many references regarding the value of problem-based, active learning environmentsfor improvement of student comprehension and engagement.9,10,11 The results of a recent studyby Braxton, et al., suggest that development of an active learning approach in courses directlyenhances student perception of learning gains, which in turn helps students to view
reverse connections to Ports 1 and 2 to determine S21 and S12.Each S-parameter is a complex number and is expressed in both rectangular and polar formsdepending on the use. Unless the device under test is perfectly matched at a given frequency,there will be a reflected voltage that is not in phase with the incident or applied voltage.Similarly, the voltage b2 has been altered either because of gain/loss and group delay through thenetwork such that it is also out of phase with voltage a1. The difference between a vector networkanalyzer and a scalar network analyzer is that the VNA can measure both the magnitude andphase components and displays the S12 (input reflection loss) and S21 (forward transmissiongain/loss) in those terms. As a matter of
questioning learner’s own cross-cultural attitudes anddeepening their understanding of foreign cultures. Some of the topics introduced may causeheated debates among learners, which is why they need to be carefully moderated by anexperienced instructor. In any case, thought-provoking subjects and tasks facilitate eagerparticipation by learners and provide for a fruitful debriefing and reflection phase with theteacher, which follows on each of the four activities. The tasks presented may serve as Page 14.1003.2contributions to a cross-cultural training course to be designed by instructors who teachengineering and business students or practising
outreach ambassador orientations toward teachinginfluence this variation. Particularly promising for engineering teaching and learning, we observed ambassadors makingbids to elicit student ideas, pressing for evidence-based explanations, and revoicing students’design ideas. These moves are characteristic of ambitious instruction and have the potential tosupport students to engage in reflective decision-making and to guide students towardproductive, more expert engineering design practices. Our analysis suggests that engineeringoutreach ambassadors notice and respond to students’ ideas, thereby engaging in ambitiousteaching practices which can be expected to support elementary students in making progress inengineering design. This analysis of
can be conducted in class, online or a combination of both. Inthe discussion question shown in Appendix A for the Cost of Production module, the instructorposes an open-ended problem with a clearly stated learning objective. Students are required torespond with an initial post that outlines their planning solution in response to the problemposted. Each student will review the initial responses from peers and reflect on their solution tothe problem. Finally, everyone must respond to the posts and comment on at least two otherposts in the follow-up discussion. Students are requested to follow netiquette protocol and extendan observation or comment on an insight they did not consider.Description of Select Modules The online modules target
designed with the help of contemporaryunderstandings of effective instruction methods (e.g. table 1 below), also relying extensivelyon available mechanical design texts such as Dieter & Schmidt.7Table 1: Instructional practices that create effective learning experiences8Affective • Arouse interest to students of contrasting abilities and goals • Provide stimulating, interesting, and varied assignments that are within the range of students abilities but challenge them to reach for the top of that range • Make connections to students interests and intended careersMeta-cognitive • Build self-regulative abilities by explicitly teaching students about them • Promote reflection to enhance attention to meta-cognitive
, motion and energy. Teams were required to document their design and construction processes in an electronic engineering notebook. The notebooks were examined for evidence of student understanding and communication of the engineering design process, reflective learning, and kinematic principles as well as the level of participation of each individual in the team. Integrating engineering into math and science courses is new to many inservice teachers and research has documented that science teacher efforts focus more on engineering practices such as teamwork and communication rather than the application of the math and science concepts that are important to engineering problem solving. The research objective was to identify tools and practices
learned from the hands-onactivities and reflect back on how this can inform their understanding of, and solutions to, theGrand Challenge (Stage 6).This paper begins with a description of the framework including its foundation in contextuallearning theory and the motivation for using the Grand Challenges. Subsequently, theimplementation of the framework in two engineering courses is described. Details of the learningmodules and activities corresponding to the six stages of the framework are presented for eachcourse. Similarities and differences in implementation are highlighted, illustrating how acommon framework can be applied to seemingly very different courses. Finally, the use of theframework is evaluated in terms of its impact on student
required performance to succeed in engineering. The reasonsresulting their failing or dropping out of engineering may include: (1) lack of motivation andinterest in learning engineering; (2) lack of good learning habits, strategies and efforts in theirstudies; and (3) lack of connection with other students and faculty members for seeking support.This paper presents a new instructional framework that integrates SRL process model into courseinstruction. The integrative instruction is to simulate four phases of SRL in series of self-directedfeedback cycles, and to prompt application of learning strategies and self-reflection at thedifferent phases of learning and problem-solving process. This is implemented throughintegrating self-assessment
. With experiential education,young students have the opportunity to learn by doing in-class experiments. The goal of theWestern Michigan University (WMU) student team was to design and construct an apparatus tobe used in a K-12 classroom that properly displays the properties of light as they occur in nature.The reflection, refraction, transmittance and absorption properties of light are recurrently shownin textbooks as if they occur individually, while in reality they occur simultaneously. Based onthe expressed need of a local middle school teacher for such a device, the team drafted designs asan assignment in an entry-level freshman engineering course. After one design was decidedupon, the device itself was produced, and given to the teacher
professional development research. Cognitive science research indicates that conceptualunderstanding is necessary for situating information, content, and ideas into a particular context,for example engineering into science. Concepts provide learners with the components needed tocreate a connected web of knowledge, allowing learners to apply what they have learned to newsituations and learn related information3. From an instructional standpoint, concepts provide away to organize knowledge into meaningful instruction4. In addition, research indicates thatprofessional development should take into account teachers’ conceptions of teaching and of thelearning process and allow for active learning and reflective participation5, 6, 7. Engaging inactivities
humanperceptions, understandings, and realities are based on the lived experiences of individuals(Cardellini, 2006; Crotty, 1998; Gordon, 2009; Kincheloe, 2005). Individuals create, interpret,and recognize knowledge in diverse and contextual ways (Windschitl, 2002). An individual isseen as an active knower and as a consequence personal reflections on experiences are integral tothe data collection process (Crotty, 1998; Fosnot, 2005; Schwandt, 2001). In the context of thethink aloud method discussed in this paper, students generated knowledge about their problem Page 22.1084.4solving strategies and approaches by reflecting actively and in real-time on
the home institution provide an overview ofstudent attitudes about the course. (2) Instructor observations and course grades are used toassess the efficacy of the delivery of technical material. These observations are compared tosimilar courses taught in a semester-long format at the home institution. (3) Students writeweekly reflection papers concerning their total experiences. Finally, (4) a survey instrument isused to assess the international experience of the students.In the following, each of the two engineering courses is described. Next, the assessmentmethods are described and assessment results are presented and discussed. Finally, conclusionsare drawn from the assessment results.II. Description of these two Compact International
included a summary of the author’s mainpoints, a discussion of the author’s sources and finally their critical reflection on the material. Preand Post surveys of each student’s view of their future role in science and engineering wereconducted to determine any change in perception or attitude. Further weekly emails sent by thestudents were collected to determine their growing awareness and confidence in theirunderstanding of each week’s reading and discussion. In response to the reading assignments onmedia and learning, a few students generated their own digital documentaries of student life. Thefindings from pre and post class surveys, along with the final anonymous student evaluations,indicated that most students found the class helped them
professional practice, the culture of the classroom must emulate the community ofpractice [4-7]. The instructional approach that has guided the evolution of the course has beenbased on the following principles: • Business Environment. Assignments and assessments should be grounded in and resemble business practice. • Assignment Timing. Assessments and student reflection exercises should be coordinated with the completion of a major challenge. • Cycle Iteration. Multiple cycles of both the business model and technical solution generation are necessary. • External Reviews. External input and review of the projects is sought at every stage of the process.Each of these principles is discussed in paragraphs that
teamwork in URPs, as well as the methods and processesthat students use to manage teamwork effectively.Methods: The study was conducted in a 10-week summer, full time, onsite REU program at alarge Midwestern University. Fourteen students from all over the US worked in teams on avariety of research projects in the fields of engineering and applied energy at the host university.At the end of the program, the students completed a guided reflection, and the collected data wasthematically analyzed to reveal perceptions about their experiences working as a team.Results: Students reported diverse strengths in teamwork, such as the importance of differingperspectives and experiences, positive mentorship dynamics, and the value of adaptability andeffective
University. She earned her B.S. in Software Engineering from Makerere University and her M.S. in Information Technology, with a focus on Software Engineering & Data Science, from Carnegie Mellon University. Her research focuses on reflective practices and outcomes in scaffolded computational modeling and simulation engineering projects, alongside the integration of data and ethical reasoning in engineering, and computing education within the African context. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Developing the Design Reasoning in Data Life-cycle Ethical Management FrameworkAbstractHuman-designed systems are increasingly leveraged by data-driven methods and
IDIsoftware. These scores correlate to produce reports detailing individual and/or group results thatprovide insight into characteristics within each phase. These results were then assessed usingMicrosoft Excel’s statistical toolset to analyze the changes across the IDC continuum of theoverall group, subgroups, and individuals. Changes (+/-) 7 on the IDI scoring are consideredstatistically significant.Qualitative Data CollectionQualitative data were collected from a modified Student Assessment of Learning Gains (SALG)Survey, developed using the SALG assessment tool [20] with reflection activities guided by [21],and course artifacts including student assignments, focus groups, individual interviews, classdiscussions, reflection activities, and related
experience. These are situations in which the designer(s) are most likely not to reflect anunderstanding or shared identity of end users’ needs and conditions. While the field ofengineering is diversifying, in the United States, nearly three-quarters of engineering positionsare still held by men, two-thirds of whom identify as white [12]. Until there is greaterrepresentation in the sciences and engineering fields, new pedagogical approaches are required toensure that engineering designs are inclusive and appropriate for the sociocultural contexts intowhich they are implemented.Many institutions develop DEI education as a separate, focused course to assist engineers inunderstanding place-based context. Social science courses may go some way in
. This course was designed to help students understand the motivation for theOpen Science movement and be most prepared to navigate these new standards, as they enter aresearch field. As a team of students and an instructor, we explored high-level concepts ofresearch linked to Open Science, and how modern tools facilitate reproducible research. Theobservations stated here are not considered comprehensive results from formal research, ratherthis paper provides reflections from a unique course that may inspire others to incorporate OpenScience practices into courses and research.Reproducibility along the research lifecycleThis course was centered around students understanding and creating reproducible research bydeveloping and assessing open
contribute to the higher emphasis on ethics in design engineering firms compared to construction companies? How might these differences impact decision-making processes? Consider organizational culture, project timelines, and stakeholder expectations. 2. Reflecting on Cesar's concerns about working under pressure in a construction company, how do you think time constraints and financial pressures can potentially compromise ethical decision-making in engineering projects? What strategies can engineers employ to maintain ethical standards while meeting tight deadlines? How can project managers and team leaders support this balance? 3. In what ways might Cesar's worries about prioritizing time and money over
be customized to align with EPICS. Anexample is that the reflection assignments in the new course built on the EPICS experiences. Forexample, critical and reflective thinking is an area assessed in EPICS but first-year students oftenstruggle. To help them, a weekly reflection was included in the common engineering course ontheir EPICS experience. Feedback was provided and this helped their work in the EPICS course.The common course also provided a means to address issues that may arise in EPICS. For example,the EPICS assessments are modelled after professional performance appraisals and requirestudents to identify their most significant accomplishments and document them for evaluation.This method is often foreign to students, but it was
of ethics, discussing theresponsibilities of professionals to society, employers/clients, and colleagues. The use of casestudies brought up by the instructor as well as the ones the students research and find can fosterthe discussions on the topic (McGinn, 2003; Rabins, 1998).Any EJ coverage in class brings along SJ concerns, and it is best to cover both conceptssimultaneously. Therefore, starting with basic definitions, especially developed by the students isa great starting point. The students may start by reflecting on what these terms mean to them,then get in groups to discuss their definitions and perspectives with each other. Finally all classcomes together to share their definitions. Class discussions may continue around the case
maycapture and analyze one of their own physiological signals. Flash-labs are designed to takebetween 20-30 minutes in class, with about 60 minutes of follow up work to be completedoutside of class. Students execute the activities, then report on and discuss their findings withtheir classmates in small groups and through reports and reflective posts in their DSP-Portfolio.DSP-PortfolioOriginally, after completing each Flash-lab, students submitted their findings and observations asassignments onto the learning management system (LMS). However, this was limiting becauseonly the instructor got to review the assignments. To further enhance in-class collaboration andengagement, in the spring of 2022, DSP-portfolios were added for students to share their
, Energy.Theoretical FramingIn order to investigate the impact of the program on faculty identity and motivation, weemployed the Longitudinal Model of Motivation and Identity (LMMI) to frame our research [8].The LMMI combines Self-Determination Theory [9] and Possible Selves Theory [10] to studymotivation and identity development during an experience. This model gives us the capability toobserve how the program has made an impact on individual faculty members as well as seeingthe impact of the program holistically across the participants.The LMMI has previously been used to study graduate teaching assistants’ motivation andidentity development as teachers [8]. For that work, one data collection measure included havinggraduate teaching assistants reflect on
Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Engineering Education Guilds: Understanding Their Vision for InnovationIntroductionThe major aim of this project is to understand how, and the extent to which, engineeringeducation guilds (e.g., the Consortium to Promote Reflection in Engineering Education (CPREE)and the Kern Entrepreneurial Engineering Network (KEEN)) foster propagation and adoption oftheir respective pedagogical innovations. Engineering education guilds like CPREE and KEENseek to work at the forefront of educational innovation by creating networks of instructor changeagents who design and implement a particular innovation in their own context to further theprofessional formation of
engineering research practices, information-literacy skills, andcritical evaluation of information. Students undertook an iterative writing process and submittedfinal projects, recording their resource-selection process. These were evaluated to determine theimpact of the asynchronous learning module on students' information-seeking behavior. Finally,the results of this pedagogical reflection were compared to similar data recorded the previousyear following in-person instruction of the same material [8]. Our results demonstrate that theasynchronous learning module significantly enhanced the students’ critical evaluation of sources.These results have dramatic implications for how we understand students’ information-seekingbehaviors, pedagogical design
enhance the curriculum of a graduate-level engineering ethics course, Engineering Ethics and the Public, at Virginia Tech, a large land-grant, Research 1 university. The course is a three-credit elective course offered annually to engineering students. The overall course itself was originally co-conceived and co-developed by an engineer, one of the authors of this paper, and a medical ethnographer, with the support of the National Science Foundation (NSF) [1]. The learning objectives, topics, and assignments are presented in Table 1. The course aims to address relationships between engineering, science, and society by incorporating listening exercises, personal reflections, individual
projectStarting in the Spring 2019 semester, a pre and post reflection survey has been given to the studentsto measure their confidence on working on real-world problems and their familiarity with thedesign process before and after the course. The pre-reflection survey is given during the first weekof class, and the post-reflection survey is given in the last 2 weeks of the semester. For Spring2019 we had 77 and 62 responses to the pre and post surveys respectively. We had 67 and 61 forthe pre and post surveys respectively for Fall 2019. The pre-reflection survey had an ~86%response rate and the post-reflection survey had an ~74% response rate over the two semesters.Using a Likert Scale (5 very prepared, 1 not prepared at all) we ask the following