and content knowledge. This is an important consideration for CS education, asteachers must understand how to integrate computer science skills and competencies into theirlesson plans. Pilot projects and localized programs have shown success in developing thiscapacity within teachers. For example, a researcher group from University of SouthernCalifornia collaborated with nine teachers in three elementary schools in the Latino communityof Boyle Heights in Los Angeles and created the Building Opportunities with Teachers inSchools (BOTS) program [11]. The focus of this program is to use robotics and other non-computer-based activities to teach CS concepts in a physical form. One of the long-term goals ofthe BOTS program is to provide a low-cost
used to understand or demonstrate your ethics framework. (You may also point to other real-life or hypothetical examples or scenarios that would help demonstrate your assigned ethicalframework.) ● Introduce your group members and explain the focus of your discussion. (Who are you, what is your topic, and what are the main points you plan to discuss?) ● Assume your audience, though educated, has never heard of your ethics framework and provide the necessary background information. ● Also assume that your audience has some basic knowledge of the Challenger, Columbia, Therac-25, and Theranos cases, but no prior knowledge of any other engineering case study you may choose to incorporate. Provide details/context/background
itsdemonstrated strength in promoting skill development and deepening content understanding.PBL is shown to improve student self-efficacy through challenging students to solve real-worldproblems in a collaborative environment [4]. Furthermore, PBL facilitates the creation oflearning communities [10] and strengthens bonds between students [11]. Design-build projects,sometimes a subset of PBL, has gained popularity as it can increase student interest in contentmaterial while also teaching manufacturing skills [12], [13], [14], [15].Many universities taught courses entirely online in the Fall 2020 semester, and even the schoolsthat planned to reopen for in-person learning could not guarantee how long students would beable to remain on campus [16]. Remote
understand its utility [11] - [14]. A recentreport showed that a large number of universities planned to build blended learningenvironments [15]. Previous meta-analysis studies have shown the benefits of blended learningfor student learning [11], [16], [17]. However, other researchers have argued that the effects ofblended learning on student learning should be examined based on a blended learningenvironment as a whole learning system, rather than separate blended learning techniques basedon causal effects of research intervention [4]. In this paper, we consider Freeform as a learningsystem that offered active and collaborative learning opportunities to students in and out of theclassroom.Jeong and Hmelo-Silver proposed seven computer supported
education should be provided to students who plan to be leaders: And I don't think that we should, we should say that everybody has to be a leader. I think what we need to do is we need to find, you know, where the students find out who they are…. Leadership is important, but I think it's more important to align the students with who they are and the areas they're going into.Dr. Dan explained that not all students want to take leadership positions in their careers. Hisdescription of leadership is conflated with management where one is assigned with a role andpower to control, supervise, and direct other people. As a result, he believed that providingleadership education, which can solely be beneficial for students
of students who ranked at least one scenario as making learning “almost impossible” or“highly challenging” was higher in the 2021 cohort.Student comments supported the idea that in the summer, they felt as if they were missing out ona key piece of their engineering education – “As an engineering major, I feel that this is noreplacement for hands-on learning in a classroom… Our major is simply more difficult to dovirtually, and because of this I think it should be planned for differently. We rely too much on inperson instruction to keep being virtual.” Students learning from home also experienced a shiftin learning environment. On campus, they are surrounded by peers who are in similar academicmindsets. For students who moved to their family
] recommendation to not perform statistical adjustments in the resultswhen a small number of planned comparisons are performed. The items included in the secondhypothesis were: • Women are not fit to be in a jobsite • There is gender discrimination in the construction field • Men are more capable than women in the construction domain • Women in construction are a better fit for office jobs rather than being on the field • I feel recruiters for construction companies prefer hiring males over females for jobsite- related positionsResultsWe have obtained 68 responses to our survey, with 67 respondents being in a constructionrelated major and one being in a construction related minor. Considering the total major studentsin the
mechanics. His major areas of research interest centers on pavement engineering, sustainable infrastructure development, soil mechanics, physical and numerical modeling of soil structures, computational geo-mechanics, con- stitutive modeling, pavement design, characterization and prediction of behavior of pavement materials, linear and non-linear finite element applications in geotechnical engineering, geo-structural systems anal- ysis, structural mechanics, sustainable infrastructure development, and material model development. He had been actively involved in planning, designing, supervising, and constructing many civil engineering projects, such as roads, storm drain systems, a $70 million water supply scheme which is
. Hartley, "Increasing Resilience: Strategies for Reducing Dropout Rates for College Students with Psychiatric Disabilities," American Journal of Psychiatric Rehabilitation, vol. 13, no. 4, pp. 295-315, 2010, doi: 10.1080/15487768.2010.523372.[12] D. E. Montaño and D. Kasprzyk, "Theory of reasoned action, theory of planned behavior, and the integrated behavioral model," in Health behavior: Theory, research, and practice, 5th ed. San Francisco, CA, US: Jossey-Bass, 2015, pp. 95-124.[13] D. L. Morgan, "Pragmatism as a Paradigm for Social Research," Qualitative Inquiry, vol. 20, no. 8, pp. 1045-1053, 2014/10/01 2014, doi: 10.1177/1077800413513733.[14] V. Yefimov, "On Pragmatic Institutional Economics," 12/03 2003
designed” andthus, perhaps overcoming the design fixation.3. Deep Structure: Approach to DesignBuilding on the relationship between breadth, depth and design, instructors mentioned thatdesign prepares students “for some of the practical realities of being an engineer” and providesan opportunity to “use a knowledge of math and science technical knowledge to create some newproduct” while experiencing “open-ended questions”. Design was also mentioned to be a vehicleto enhance other skills such as teamwork, communication skills, persistence and planning a largeproject in stages. Instructors who teach design were explicitly asked to comment on the role ofdesign in engineering science vs. in other, more traditional engineering programs. No
instructorscaffolds with dialogue as needed. As a tertiary benefit, students become familiar with the pair-programming paradigm used in industry. The worksheet problems are a single arc where studentsconstruct a solution/algorithm (computational thinking [20]), rather than work backward from anexisting solution. The pairs are randomly assigned each day. Pairs are chosen carefully by theinstructor to avoid towers of knowledge [41] and ensure zone of proximal development [42]–[44]. The worksheets are graded and worth 25% of an overall grade. Adjusting the plan for theday based on JiTT was a time intensive process that significantly increased prep time for theinstructor by one to two hours before each lecture, in addition to the large one-time cost
, clearance, means of transport Operation Noise, wear, marketing area, destination Maintenance Servicing intervals, inspection, exchange, repair Recycling Reuse, reprocessing, waste disposal, storage Costs Maximum manufacturing cost, tooling cost, investment and depreciation Schedules End date of development, project planning and controlThe scenario-based questions provided by Pahl and Beitz encourage the designer to consider theusage scenario of the design solution being developed in each stage of the design
strategies. It is questionable, too, whether or not the adaption of such proactive strategies wouldcontinue to be effective under the conditions of the global COVID-19 pandemic, as they had notpreviously been assessed on students undergoing the unprecedented conditions of collectivetrauma. The relatively small subfield of trauma-informed pedagogy has risen to the fore over thepast year, and research in this area suggests that students who have experienced (or who may becurrently experiencing) trauma(s) will likely struggle not only with time management, but morebroadly with related executive-functions such as planning and problem-solving [10], [11]. It iscertainly possible that we are only learning about the long-term effects of the
aspects of the course, providing a framework for any future instructor.AcknowledgmentsThe authors would like to thank Wake Forest University’s Center for Advancement of Teaching(CAT) for financially supporting the summer course development as well as CAT’s Dr. KristiVerbeke and Dr. Anita McCauley for overseeing the course development activities and providingclassroom observations respectively.Survey QuestionsModule Reflection SurveyQuestion 1. How well did your team follow through on your original plan of action? Whatchanged and why?Question 2. For each team member (including yourself) justify the score you assigned. Listcontributions, comment on effort and attentiveness, or describe anything else you feel helpsscoring.Question 3. Reflect
within each top tier or phase. However, the original survey was intended forteams of four to six members. Given a team of ten members, the time to complete each surveybecomes prohibitive. Initial responses establish that the required survey time is approximatelynine to ten minutes, or one minute per team member evaluated. This aligns with other peer-evaluation studies on capstone design teams [57]. The survey questions are included as Table 3. Table 3: Case Study Survey Instrument To what degree do you rely on John for: 5-Frequently if not always, 4-Fairly often, 3-Once in a while, 2-Sometimes, 1-Never Planning: identifying main tasks, setting goals, developing ① ② ③ ④ ⑤ performance
at a different pointin time. We surmise that research on engineering ethics and social responsibility may neverresult in a single unifying theory due to the complexity of the questions being asked and of theparticipants being studied.ConclusionThis paper uses single-case analysis to understand one student’s experiences and perspectives,including when those perspectives (and the student’s corresponding description of them) follow apath that is difficult to characterize. In future work, we plan to expand this analysis to includeadditional cases. While we are not aiming for generalizable results (which the case study methodis not intended to provide), we hope that adding additional cases to our findings will allow us tocompare across cases and
design rationale building, would preventdesign defects, redundancies, and lost work due to overridden decisions. A reward structureshould be thoughtfully planned, to encourage effective contribution to the design work, and alignactor interests such that a shared success would be rewarded.Each set of learning objectives may be further studied in the framework of threshold concepts[8], [9]: Which learning objects are difficult to achieve, yet critical for holistic thinking,interaction roles, and interest alignment? In what sequence should they be learned, and how cansuch skills be recognized and rewarded in the formal curriculum?Table 4. Proposed Learning Objectives for Engineering Management and Design Education Value-Creation Knowledge
proximal development [17].This study is also influenced by the work on the collaborative nature of the engineering designprocess. The Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) [18] proposed three steps to theengineering design process (define, develop solutions, optimize) that promote learners’understanding of fundamental concepts and skills in engineering. This model was designed forfour different age groups: kindergarten to second grade, third to fifth grade, sixth to eighth grade,and nineth to twelfth grade. For elementary-aged children, the Engineering is Elementary (EiE)design process model further suggests five steps in the engineering process: ask, imagine, plan,create, and improve [19]. This model is popular because of its potential and
in creating student cohorts. These algorithms are relativelycomputationally inexpensive, and easily translate to student cohort creation with somemodifications.Data and ToolsOfficial student enrollment data are released to the research team by the University Registrar.The datasets have been fully anonymized by the Registrar, with the uniquely identifiable studentID removed, and replaced with an ID increasing sequentially from one. Other attributes of thereleased datasets include: • Enrolled academic program of the student • Primary academic plan of the student • Projected academic year • Term ID • Class number • Subject of the enrolled class • Catalog number of the enrolled class • Class section • Class start time
successful (or unsuccessful) students. This paper presents a rubric-buildingmethod incorporating a novel use of personas, adding to the literature in both domains andproviding an example case study to help bridge the theory-to-practice gap.References[1] C. J. Finelli, S. R. Daly and K. M. Richardson, "Bridging the Research-to-Practice Gap: Designing an Institutional Change Plan Using Local Evidence," Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 103, no. 2, pp. 331-361, 2014.[2] R. M. Felder and R. G. Hadgraft, "Educational Practice and Educational Research in Engineering: Partners, Antagonists, or Ships Passing in the Night?," Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 102, no. 3, pp. 339-345, 2013.[3] M. Borrego, S. Cutler, M. Prince, C
phase.Conclusions: In future work, the researchers aim to develop tools to assess technical skill development. Ifthere was a way to demonstrate growth or improvement in skill development during the undergraduateexperience, it would serve two purposes. First, it could serve as a method to evaluate the technical workthat occurs in the design classroom, more fairly and with clear transparency to the students. Second, itwould allow students to see how their skills have developed over the course of their education. In general,differences among gender, 1st-generation and students with low- and high- engineering self-efficacy allsuggest that a variety of these activities should be planned intentionally to promote exposure to anddevelopment of technical skillsets
. Knight is an Associate Professor in the Department of Engineering Education and Special As- sistant to the Dean for Strategic Plan Implementation at Virginia Tech. He is also Director of Research of the Academy for Global Engineering at Virginia Tech and is affiliate faculty with the Higher Education Program. His research tends to be at the macro-scale, focused on a systems-level perspective of how engineering education can become more effective, efficient, and inclusive, tends to leverage large-scale institutional, state, or national data sets, and considers the intersection between policy and organizational contexts. He has B.S., M.S., and M.U.E.P. degrees from the University of Virginia and a Ph.D. in Higher
techniques applied tothe same volumetric data set in two side-by-side display panels, allowing students to make an easy comparison byadjusting parameters such as cutting planes, lighting, and viewing. The two display panels also react synchronicallyto interactions when parameters are changed. This is more helpful for students to understand the respective strengthsand weaknesses of these rendering techniques rather than solely relying on instructors in explaining the differences.P4: Modular and web-friendly. We design VolumeVisual with possible future expansion in mind. Therefore, we fol-low a modular design, making it easy to include other additions not yet planned. WebGL is used for easy deployment,which is based on the widely-adopted Internet
influential. The data from both sources suggested astrong connection with interests, career plans, and family influences for females.For females, in both the quantitative and qualitative data, the perceptions of other peopleincluding parents, friends, and teachers could be strong factors influencing their interest.Qualitatively speaking, regarding the males, teachers’ and parents’ perceptions did not make thetop 10. Instead, money and the ability to get good grades in STEM topics could be strongerinfluences.However, the qualitative data differs from the quantitative data when it comes to parents andfamily being strong influencers. The quantitative data showed that parents were not a very stronginfluence on interest, however in the open-ended
, further contributing to hostile working environments and isolation [20].Self-efficacy and its four sources Self-efficacy refers to an individual’s beliefs in their capabilities to plan and take actionto achieve a particular outcome [21]. There are four major sources of self-efficacy [21]: (1)mastery experiences, (2) vicarious experiences, (3) social persuasions, and (4) physical andemotional states. Mastery experiences are the interpreted result of an individual’s pastperformances, such as how a woman evaluates her self-efficacy in a course based upon the gradesreceived for that class.Vicarious experiences are where individuals observe others performingtasks, such as a woman undergraduate student observing a fellow woman undergraduate
onlineimages that were plentiful were Hidden Figures themed coloring pages for children and multiple lesson plans forteachers including a NASA Hidden Figures Toolkit with resources for K-12 teachers to teach a variety ofmathematics and science lessons. I also came across a Katherine Johnson Barbie doll Mattel created as first in a lineof dolls celebrating inspiring women as historical pioneers. I found artistic interpretations [71], [72] of the threemain characters in posters and artworks that similarly showed the figures wearing the clothes from the film and eachcharacter’s body type, hair style, and posture evident. However, I noticed that often the facial features wereabstracted and sometimes the faces were blank and devoid of features in these