apprenticeship highlights the cognitive tool for accumulation and utilizationof knowledge in authentic domain activity.25 Coaching is a central concept of cognitiveapprenticeship. While learners can use their prior knowledge when faced with various kinds ofsituations and opportunities, they cannot obtain such knowledge without proper coaching fromtheir teachers. In particular, teachers help identify the kinds of information learners should absorband offer increasingly complex opportunities to allow learners to apply and practice theirknowledge set.25 Collaboration, especially in a classroom setting, is a beneficial component of theframework of Ref. 25 that exposes learners to perspectives from their teacher and peers alike invaried ways to tackle a
interpretingdata, conducting experiments, and locating and learning from literature. A study by Berdanier etal. examined the knowledge, skills, and attributes graduate students intending to pursue work inacademia and industry identified as important.5 Both groups of students emphasized problemsolving, meeting deadlines, communicating with a particular audience (both orally and inwriting), strong analytical ability, managing multiple projects, working in teams, and meetingdeadlines. Skills and knowledge emphasized exclusively by students intending to pursue industrycareers tended to industry-specific, like writing technical reports and learning new technologies.Those graduate engineers entering academia also emphasized skills that related to their
on AIliteracy in high school education. We explore how researchers have explored high school AIliteracy in their research and identify areas requiring further investigation. Kitchenham andCharters guiding principles [5] shown in Fig. 1, including phases for planning, conducting, andreporting, are what we used to develop this systematic literature review. Phase 1: Planning Phase 2: Conducting Phase 3: Reporting •Identify need •Search strategy •Extracted results •Specify RQs •Quality Assessment •Discussion •Develop reivew protocol •Data Analysis •Write report
creative arts interventions (e.g.creative writing and drama), patient interviews, communication and interpersonal skills training,and experiential learning, with the latter three having the most pronounced impact on empathydevelopment [60], [61]. Integrating peer-support, structured self-reflection, and course-basedcommunity service has also been shown to prevent the empathy decline that typically occursduring medical training [62].An example of service-learning as a tool for teaching empathy is “Project for Sharing” whereinstudents work with stakeholders to create devices for underserved community members [56].Student projects included building an infant/child location detector for blind parents and asimple-to-use communication device for deaf
inequity in STEM, and indenying the existence of the challenges women in STEM are forced to navigate, men reifyexisting gender disparities [40] For example, in their study of over 700 participants in which30% of respondents were faculty, Handley et al. [40] found that men were less receptive toscholarship that examines gender bias in STEM than their women peers. The failure of the majority of men to acknowledge the well-documented issue of genderinequity in STEM makes men allies all the more important [40]. Although allies may not be ableto affect the beliefs of all men, they may be able to influence some colleagues – both women andmen. In the case of supporting women, the efforts of a man ally may support a woman’sretention in a STEM
peers, to decreasingtheir mental health and making them less likely to complete their degrees. Coley et al. (2023) andMcGee, et al. (2019) similarly found that racialized experiences within STEM contributednegatively to the wellbeing of Black graduate students. Finally, Farra, et al., highlight theimportance to mental health of cultivating sense of belonging among women international studentsin STEM, and the negative impact on their well-being of not doing so.Despite the growing and rich body of literature addressing the mental health concerns of STEMgraduate students, including recent work focused specifically on the impact of systems ofoppression on both Women of Color and international students in STEM, less known about thespecific
- cation with specific emphasis on innovative pedagogical and curricular practices at the intersection with the issues of gender and diversity. With the goal of improving learning opportunities for all students and equipping faculty with the knowledge and skills necessary to create such opportunities, Dr. Zastavker’s re- cent work involves questions pertaining to students’ motivational attitudes and their learning journeys in a variety of educational environments. One of the founding faculty at Olin College, Dr. Zastavker has been engaged in development and implementation of project-based experiences in fields ranging from science to engineering and design to social sciences (e.g., Critical Reflective Writing; Teaching and
40 peer-reviewed papers, co-author of Engineering and Sustainable Community Development (Morgan and Claypool, 2010), and editor of Sociotechnical Communication in Engineering (Routledge, 2014). In 2016, Dr. Leydens won the Exemplar in Engineering Ethics Education Award from the National Academy of Engineering, along with CSM colleagues Juan C. Lucena and Kathryn Johnson, for a cross-disciplinary suite of courses that enact macroethics by making social justice visible in engineering education. In 2017, he and two co-authors won the Best Paper Award in the Minorities in Engineering Division at the Amer- ican Society for Engineering Education annual conference. Dr. Leydens’ recent research, with co-author Juan C
design Another vital part of the design process is communicating the design. As mentionedalready, the teams write specifications documents, conduct weekly standups, participate informal design reviews, present to the industrial advisory board, and draft many engineeringdocuments. The “Quad Chart” [2] is yet another required communication product that the teams mustprepare, which is beneficial for both engineering presentations as well as presentations to non-engineers. This gives the students practice communicating with brevity and impact. Thematurity of this Quad chart evolves throughout the year as the project matures, and teams adjustit slightly for various audiences. Toward the end of their projects, the engineering
as important as content knowledge,” we refer to a practice as an intentionalbehavior with specific meaning within a community. In addition to easing the burden oneducators trying to inspire the next generation of engineers, these strategies are based on bestknown practices to 1) retain students as populations across the United States decrease and changedemographically, and 2) to graduate engineers ready to tackle incredibly complex socialproblems.During this formative time in engineering education, the curriculum, interactions with facultyand peers, and course options give students insight into which skills are necessary and which aresupposedly optional for practicing engineers. Berdanier [11] makes it clear the “optional” skillsoften are
different sectionssigned up for the same time slot, the interviewer reached out and asked if their schedules couldaccommodate a different time. If no alternate time could be scheduled, the student would bethanked for their time but no interview would occur. Students were informed of this plan (and itsreasoning) both in writing and verbally before they signed up. In the case of this semester ofinterviews, all 12 students who signed up were able to be accommodated.Demographic information of the 25 recruited participants can be seen in Table 1. Students werepredominantly (though not exclusively) in their first year of college and did not have any previousexperience with Computer Science. Table 1: Demographic Information of
tied to engineering culture’sdepictions of hegemonic masculinity and homophobia: as Hughes states, “expressions ofmasculinity in the culture and climate of the engineering school informed students’ perceptionsof the risks of being open about their sexual orientation with their peers…due to the ways theirpeers’ expressions of masculinity were homophobic or heterosexist” (2017, p. 396). Culturalscripts of heterosexism and masculinity in engineering led to significant discomfort for the gaymen Hughes studied – while they felt a strong sense of belonging in the engineering community,the belonging was mediated by the experiences of silence and heterosexism in their engineeringspaces. The effects of cultural scripts on LGBTQ+ engineering
, team assignment, peer evaluation, and active and collaborative teaching methods and his team received Best Paper awards from the Journal of Engineering Education in 2008 and 2011 and from the IEEE Transactions on Education in 2011 and 2015. Dr. Ohland is an ABET Program Evaluator for ASEE and was the 2002–2006 President of Tau Beta Pi. He is a Fellow of the ASEE and IEEE. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Catalyzing a Research Agenda for Enhancing Engineering Education through Institutional CollaborationsAbstractTo augment the extensive engineering education research that has been done over the pastdecades, greater opportunities are needed for
interest evident in observed behavior or verbal expression is astudent’s intrinsic readiness to acquire new domain- specific knowledge and to explore an idea orconcept about the object of interest meta-cognitively.50 Taking work home, asking to borrow abook on the subject, or teaching peers are examples of personal interest. We followed the Hideand Fenninger model12 in our study and analyzed observed behavior and student self-reportedinterest through written and verbal indicators.MethodologyThe research was conducted one day a week for nine weeks, within the sixth-grade class of amiddle-grade after-school science club program sponsored by the state university through thelocal 4-H. The school district had a disproportionate percentage of recent
Paper ID #25655The Moral Foundations of Chinese Engineering Students: A Preliminary In-vestigationDr. Rockwell Franklin Clancy III, University of Michigan-Shanghai Jiao Tong Joint Institute Rockwell F. Clancy is an Associate Teaching Professor in engineering ethics and philosophy at the Uni- versity of Michigan-Shanghai Jiao Tong University Joint Institute, Research Fellow in the Institute of Social Cognitive and Behavioral Science at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and has acted as a long-term educational consultant, setting up a course and writing a corresponding textbook with Heinz Luegen- biehl, entitled Global
“organize and execute courses of action required to dealwith prospective situations that contain many ambiguous, unpredictable, and often stressful,elements” [8]. The development of self-efficacy relies on four key components [9]: performance accomplishments: when individuals experience direct success; vicarious learning: wherein learning results from observing successful peers perform tasks, also known as modeling; verbal persuasion: led by verbal persuasion that an individual can perform a task; and emotional arousal: anxiety filled situations can weaken confidence, therefore efforts to reduce anxiety is vital for strong self-efficacy.When all four components are addressed, teachers develop strong self-efficacy
better.Story as a Way to Understand Meaning Stories etch grooves deep enough for people to follow in the same way that water follows certain paths down a mountainside. And every time fresh actors tread the path of the story, the groove runs deeper. [1]For decades, researchers have realized that the stories we tell are important artifacts of what wevalue and how we find meaning. Schrank’s study of artificial intelligence included a deep diveinto how the stories we tell relate to human memory and understanding [2]. Further, he notes thatboth the act of telling a story and the process of listening to someone else’s story shape thememories we have of our experiences. Pennebaker’s extensive work with guided writing, atechnique where
the development of empathy for the community, as is (again) adopting a mindset thatde-emphasizes one’s prior knowledge in order to develop an unbiased view and holisticunderstanding of a community’s true needs.4.3 CommunicationEffective communication skills are an essential component of utilizing empathic designtechniques to understand users’ needs, within or outside of service-learning contexts. Walther,Miller, and Kellam8 developed a series of four modules for cultivating empathic communicationskills among engineering students. These modules included (a) a direct focus on improvingspecific communication skills such as talking, listening, and observing, (b) role-playingactivities, (c) reflective writing exercises, and (d) “rich picture
given dataand engineering and math alone vs. also factoring in related bodies of knowledge andassumptions.We are not suggesting here that faculty have to re-write all the problem statements they assign intheir ES classes. These interventions can be made gradually—first, for example, by assigningextra-credit opportunities for those students re-writing problems, then by allowing problemrewriting sessions (with a TA) every other week, then incorporating them in exams. It is clearthat initially, integrating SJ may provoke discomfort and seem outside any given instructor’s areaof expertise; however, with time and gradual integration, along with examples of suchintegration like those below, instructors should notice greater comfort and, more
to develop a critique of the epistemologicaland axiological assumptions and privileges of educators, scholars and studentswho engage with communities that exist on the margins. I argue that asstudents, teachers, and researchers, we equate the minds of those who occupyeconomic and social margins with the possession of marginal intellect whenwe set out to help or aid them without recognizing the validity of andvalorizing their ways of knowing. Learning how members of socially andeconomically marginalized communities apply their minds, mouths, handsand feet to solve locally occurring problems may help us interrogate ourscholarly, pedagogical, and ethical objectives in a more reflexive manner. Drawing on ethnographic research and writing
, engineeringlearning through out-of-school experiences prepare more African American boys and men tosucceed and have a positive impact in our society both nationally and internationally.During precollege years, Black boys participate in similar activities to other children; however,they face additional challenges. Much of the research on precollege informal learningexperiences focuses on mathematics and science exploration. [3-5]Research also reveals thatAfrican American male children have to contend with their multiple competing identities, withrespect to participating in science, technology, engineering, mathematics (STEM) relatedactivities, and their status among peers in their community. There are examples ofmathematically gifted African American boys who
acombination of the two. These pioneers helped individuals succeed in a variety of activities,mostly some combination of research and teaching work.Intellectual support, research work: By intellectual support, we mean support taking the form ofguidance on relevant content, pedagogy, or research techniques. For example, Sheri Sheppardspoke about her work in “facilitating people getting up to speed in this,” and “helping peoplelearn to do the work at high quality.” She gave the example of mentoring a fellow engineeringprofessor “on how you do this other kind of writing. And how do you make arguments now on adifferent kind of data than she’s ever been used to working with.” In other words, Sheppard hasleveraged her own experience and knowledge of doing
comparison of the InterdisciplinaryExperimental Engineering Project Course to a capstone course is offered in this paper.I. IntroductionMost engineering and technology programs require their undergraduate students to take a seniordesign/capstone course to complete the degree. Most capstone courses are yearlong or a semesterlong, are specific to the student’s major, and are designed to demonstrate, in some way, thestudent’s knowledge of the discipline. To fulfill the requirements of a capstone course, thestudent accomplishes a field-specific project by herself/himself and is required to prepare apaper, a presentation, and/or poster to present the project before a group of peers. In some cases,industrial advisory board members are invited to the
engineering projects course at theUniversity of Colorado at Boulder, Knight et al. found that students who took the coursedemonstrated increased retention when compared with their peers who did not take the course [3].When Knight et al. discussed possible explanations for this increased retention, they attributed itto “the impact of active hands-on pedagogy, creation of student learning communities, an earlyexperience on the human side of engineering, self-directed acquisition of knowledge by students,instructor mentoring, and the success orientation of the course” [3]. It has been shown that ifstudents have a strong, positive conviction about their knowledge in engineering, then they aremore likely to succeed academically in the specific subject, as
has become more explicitin recent years, the preamble to the National Society of Professional Engineers’ (NSPE) [14]code of ethics has stated for decades, “The services provided by engineers require honesty,impartiality, fairness, and equity, and must be dedicated to the protection of the public health, 1safety, and welfare” (emphasis added). Likewise, ASCE has recently integrated a specific focuson equity with/for peers into their code of ethics [15]. Non-discrimination and anti-discrimination (each of which are ostensibly DEI-related) were recently introduced into the IEEEcode of ethics [16] and NSPE code of ethics [17], respectively. These
and assumptions about the GS students received fromthe mainstream community instead reinforced their visible differences and outsider status,isolated from conventional curricular pathways. Changes to key aspects of the GS Program hasled to more student success and growth in the program. These changes included providing moreflexibility in course selection, peer mentoring and tutoring, a diverse set of internship andresearch opportunities, and employment in engineering departments in the College.Background: Asset vs. Deficit MindsetIndividual mindset development: Yeager and Dweck (2012) studied the negative consequencesfrom placing community college students in pre-college, or remedial, math classes. Up to twothirds of such students did not
we have recently received grant funding to create a digital projectenvironment for this generation of digital native students in NEET.3.5 External outreachNEET is already being acknowledged in academic and professional forums as an initiative that is worthwatching. Two articles titled “Following the Thread” and “NEET --- New Approach to EngineeringEducation” were published in the Fall 2018 issue of Spectrum5. A peer-reviewed paper on NEET waspresented at the 2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition , Salt Lake City, Utah in June 20183. Anop-ed piece authored by NEET leadership has been published in a 2018 edition of MechanicalEngineering magazine6. NEET had commissioned an independent consultant to conduct a globalundergraduate education
performs the role of challenging the group’s assumptions and conclusions. • a problem solver who works to arrive at both technical and interpersonal solutions. • an outreach communicator who is tasked with being the liaison to the other groups.On campus, before the program begins, students read Bruce Tuckman’s description ofteambuilding 8 to aid in developing highly effective team dynamic upon their arrival in Florence.Once in Florence, two peer reviews are performed to help students evaluate how effectively theirgroups are performing as cohesive research unitsAll groups are initially given the task of viewing Florence in light of six major elements of acity’s infrastructure: • water • transportation
demand they interact with faculty and peers about substantive matters; typically over extended periods of time. 3. Increase the likelihood that students will experience diversity through contact with people who are different than themselves. 4. Allow students to get frequent feedback about their performance. 5. Provide opportunities for students to see how what they are learning works in different settings. 6. Help students gain a better understanding of self in relation to others. pp. 14-17.One of the teaching and learning practices Kuh (2008) identified as a high-impact experience isinternships.Internships place students in work experiences in which they have little or no control over thesequences or difficulty of
, to university structures and national research agencies; they can also include relationships with peers, faculty, and other significant actors in their academic environment as well as the expectations of the roles these students and others take on when in these spaces[50]. At the heart of the EST model forhuman development is the developing person, along with their attributes, interests, and goals, as well as previous experiences, meaning that students are not blank slates when they enter school and are rather agents of change with an entire life history. However, EST also proposes that developing individuals are embedded in multiple nested environmental systems, ranging