observe their experiences from many perspectives” (p. 30).Similarly, Mezirow theorized that critical reflection of experiences can have a transformationaleffect in learners’ lives [8] [9]. Learning, in this vein, becomes a cyclical process in which newmeanings and perspectives are gained. There have been calls to integrate reflection within theengineering education curriculum, which implicate reflection as an essential skill for helping tocultivate a strong sense of professional identity, increase critical thinking, and deepen learningthroughout the engineering educational experience [10] [11] [12]; however, these calls have notdeveloped rich insights into how to design, embed, and create reflection activities that encouragedifferent perspectives
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Training Programs Province Figure 2 entrepreneurial Capability Training System in XJTU3.2.1 A Research -and-Teaching-Integrated Model for Engineering Education InnovationResearch and teaching integration consists of two parts: entrepreneurial curriculum and collaborationwith industrial partners. To begin with, XJTU creates an overall systematic plan for practicaleducation that features a comprehensive entrepreneurial curriculum. With inputs and participationfrom the industry, XJTU’s plan increases the proportion of practical education in students’ credits.This is done in part by creating for-credit entrepreneurial courses. The plan also providesopportunities for industry to play a greater role in cooperative education
the new curriculum on student understanding of social justice and students’ perceptionof the relevance of social justice to the profession. Student evaluations and written reflectionswere also examined to gauge how students perceived the integration of social justice into anintroductory engineering course. Survey results indicate that student awareness of the relevanceof social justice to the engineering profession increased over the course of the quarter. Inaddition, findings indicate an increase in understanding of social justice concepts along with anincrease in ability to identify social injustice. As seen through course evaluations and writtenreflections, student response to the course has been positive and most students are receptive
weekly and the solutions to the problems areprovided. Homework assignments are not graded, but must be worked thoroughly with thestudents to prepare for a follow up quiz given to the students in one week upon receiving therelated assignment. This approach of assessing student's knowledge has been tested for severalconsecutive years and proved to be very effective in student’s comprehension of a subject taught.The other assessment tools used in the EM course are the midterm and final examinations, andstudents’ presentations. To make students more well-rounded engineers, the development of thestudent soft skills is becoming an integral part of the curriculum in most universities. In most ofclasses offered in the School of Technology at Michigan
that theproject is in the context of just one course out of many, and like most courses the project activityis deadline-driven. Yet in the context of a learning process, exclusively performing deadline-driven activities implies the learning process suffers, as compliance drops and contextualizedlearning benefits are limited. This is one of the prime motivations for a platform that performscontinuous assessment, provides timely feedback and identifies compliance issues as soon aspossible.Continuous assessment interpreted from an agile software engineering perspective is closelyrelated to the practice of continuous integration and testing2. This practice is fundamental to agilesoftware engineering in that it supports transparency, visibility
Engineering from the University of Madras and M.S and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from Indiana University. During his time at Rose-Hulman, Sriram has served as a consultant in Hadoop and NoSQL systems and has helped a variety of clients in the Media, Insurance, and Telecommunication sectors. In addition to his industrial consulting activities, Sriram maintains an active research profile in data science and education research that has led to over 30 publications or presentations. At Rose-Hulman, Sriram has focused on incorporat- ing reflection, and problem based learning activities in the Software Engineering curriculum. Sriram has been fundamental to the revamp of the entire software engineering program at Rose
describe the importance of service courses to an engineering curriculum andthe role that engineering service courses can play in a liberal arts curriculum. Several examplesare given as well as suggested opportunities for engineering departments to service theiruniversity through technical literacy courses. A specific example of a technical service course isa course taught by the author while on sabbatical at the USAF Academy. This course was anintroductory course in aeronautics required by all students at the USAF Academy. The author’ssection had 23 students from majors as varied as English and History as well as Chemistry andCivil Engineering. In the syllabus 50 points (out of 1000) were allocated to instructor points tobe used how the instructor
the projects. Throughout my graduate studies I have worked with undergraduate engineering and business students, high school students, high school teachers, community college students and many more to aid in develop- ment of a well-rounded professionals. Mentorship is an integral part of the engineer I want to be, through giving back to my peers and fostering a community where we encourage each other to reach their full potential, I know that I am positively impacting my community. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Paper ID #18171Catherine M. McEntee, North Carolina State University
curriculum and teaching methods in public schools often reinforce traditional genderroles and may marginalize the contributions and experiences of women, particularlywomen of color. Addressing these biases is essential for creating an equitable educationsystem.CoNECD Presentation 2025 Acker Coley Johnson Sims Page 6 of 24The impact? These historical practices and systemic inequities have created a foundationof oppression that continues to influence the challenges and disparities faced in highereducation today.The solution? Intersectionality in Education - Understanding how race, gender, and classintersect in the experiences of female students is crucial for addressing equity ineducation. Initiatives that focus solely on
application areas of biometrics used by commercial, governmentand law enforcement agencies. The global biometrics market has a compound annualgrowth rate of 21.3 percent. There is much research interest in different biometricsystems and this has led to increasing efforts in ensuring that biometrics is taught at theundergraduate level [2][3][4][5][6][7]. The authors are in the final year of an NSF TUESType 2 grant that is based on the theme of vertically integrating biometrics experimentsthroughout the undergraduate curriculum [7]. Three universities have joined together inthis effort [8][9][10][11][12].Biometrics involves signal/image processing in a pattern recognition framework [13][14].There are two types of biometric systems. Biometric
-based learning, STEM integration, engineering education, curriculum development, and self-efficacy.Dr. Meltem Alemdar, Georgia Institute of Technology Dr. Meltem Alemdar is a Associate Director and Principal Research Scientist at Georgia Institute of Technology’s Center for Education Integrating Science, Mathematics, and Computing (CEISMC), Dr. Alemdar made significant contributions to the fields of STEM education. Her research focuses on improving K-12 STEM education through research on curriculum development, teacher professional development, and student learning in integrated STEM environments. Dr. Alemdar currently serves as PI and co-PI for research on various NSF funded projects that focuses on engineering
computing. This paper discusses the summer program and curriculum, culturally-responsive teaching strategies deployed, student learning outcomes, and perceptions of culturalresponsiveness assessed in the Females are Cyber Starssummer programs.IntroductionMeeting the future cybersecurity challenges requires the United States to utilize all of its availableworkforce talents. There is a shortage of nearly three million cybersecurity professionals and staff. Almost60% of organizations report that they are at an extreme or moderate cyber risk due to the high staff shortage[1]. Although women are a significant resource pool, historically the technology industry has done a poorjob recruiting women in
skill development. In response to thischallenge, a collaborative partnership between the Psychology and Engineering department at theUniversity of Calgary has yielded a theoretical-based communication technique applied to theengineering curriculum in order to enhance team effectiveness.While teams stimulate an innovative environment, the interdependence of individuals leads to anincreased risk of conflict between members2. Teams literature has identified three types ofconflict that can arise3: task conflict (TC), relationship conflict (RC) and process conflict (PC).Briefly, TC involves contrary perspectives and opinions about the task, RC refers to perceivedinterpersonal incompatibilities (i.e., personality clashes), and PC involves discordant
medieval and Renaissance Europe, wasinvited to serve as “Humanist in Residence” in the WFU Engineering program in the fall of2018. The position was funded through WFU’s Mellon grant, whose one goal was intended tobring a series of humanists into close collaboration with the new Engineering program. Dr.O’Connell attended engineering classes, attended curriculum retreats, and met with engineeringfaculty to learn about their curricular structure and the goals of each individual course. She thenproposed a series of modules across three different engineering courses, the most elaborate beingin EGR 111 and described herein. We wanted history to be an integral component of theengineering curriculum, as emphasized in [8], and thus an integrated approach
entrepreneurial studies. In addition to teaching, Dr. James directs the ESCALATE program, a living-learning community focused on integrating entrepreneurship and technical disciplines. Dr. James is also an avid inventor with over a dozen patents and he has several publications in peer reviewed journals related to his research in biomechanical systems. Prior to joining academia, he worked in the consumer products industry for 13 years where he was the Director of En- gineering at Milwaukee Electric Tool. Following an acquisition by Techtronic Industries, he became the Senior Vice President of Global Engineering for the power tools division, headquartered in Hong Kong, where he lived and worked. c
about an intervention anddescribed it. There was no assessment or analysis of theeffectiveness. This trend has changed over the years and nowwe are seeing research papers making up over half of thearticles in 2018. 18 Types of Interventions Described by Articles 60 50 40 ‘- 30 20 10 0 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 Activity (for students) Curriculum (for students) Professional Development
fully context-driven model presentedalongside a case study for empathy education in a BME design curriculum. This framework is particularlyuseful when developing and evaluating a program curriculum. The pillars of this model encouragepedagogy that not only equips students with empathic design skills, but also facilitates valuesdevelopment. The pillars can be traced throughout a curriculum to ensure empathy education iscontinuously integrated. Therefore, each model can be used to the advantage of engineering educators in avariety of ways and course context should be considered for the selection of a given model.Pedagogical StrategiesIn this section, instructional activities for empathy education that have been implemented in BME coursesare
Paper ID #40724Student Recruitment and Retention Improvements through Success in FirstYear Mathematics: A Multi-faceted ApproachDeirdre Donovan Dr., Wentworth Institute of Technology Deirdre Donovan is the Director of First Year Mathematics at Wentworth Institute of Technology. Prior to joining Wentworth, she was program chair for mathematics, data analytics, and cybersecurity. Chairing three unique data-rich disciplines under one umbrella enabled an interdisciplinary approach to meeting student needs and curricular development. Scholarship has focused on mathematical problem solving, first year programs, student success
integral component of the first-year engineering course, with participation inthese sessions contributing to the students' final course grades.Expanding the Peer Mentoring Program to include transfer students necessitates greaterflexibility compared to students following the traditional FEP curriculum. Given that the transferclass operates as an asynchronous remote course, adjustments were made to the Transfer PeerMentoring Program to accommodate both remote and in-person meetings. Existing mentorsvolunteered to also serve the transfer student population and were matched with mentees basedon declared major and meeting preference (i.e., in-person vs. virtual). Instead of providingpredetermined topics, mentors adopted a more personalized approach
Education 2of engineering courses in our curriculum. These visits are planned by individual course instructorsfor the students in their specific class. This approach allows the instructor to tailor the content andobjectives of each visit so that it is most relevant to the course instructional material. To date, ourdepartment has integrated industry visits for all academic years except the junior level classes,although this is an important academic level to include, since students are subject to at least sixdiscipline-specific courses at this level. An industry site visit for a freshman level course serves tofamiliarize the students with the industries and processes where chemical engineers are
how to integrate and teach engineering in their classrooms. Weconjecture that this is due to engineering being viewed as more difficult to comprehend andintegrate than translanguaging practices.Preliminary ResultsThus far one of the teacher participants, Emma (a pseudonym), has taught two engineeringchallenges in her classroom. As she had an additional number of Spanish speaking students joinher class, she created a group with all the Spanish speaking students to work together andappointed the bilingual student as a leader and facilitator of the group. Emma designed a Spanishlanguage version of the English language brainstorming sheet used by the rest of the class(Figure 1). During testing, Emma also asked the students questions in Spanish
learningwithout specifically requiring service learning activities in undergraduate curriculum. Focus onmulti-disciplinary team experience, formulation and solution of engineering problems, andeffective communication1 all comprise the easily achieved outcomes from service learningopportunities.While a single engineering department is capable of developing an experiential learningopportunity for undergraduate students, the development of a robust service-learning programcan be hindered by a lack of resources and inability to provide truly interdisciplinary projects forstudents. Faculty support, continued program maintenance, and overall program managementrequires resources not always available at a department or college level. A formal service-basedor
through the integration of active learning and technology-enabled frequent feedback. Prior to her role and Director of Instructional Effectiveness, she worked as the Education Project Manager for the NSF-funded JTFD Engineering faculty development program, as a high school math and science teacher, and as an Assistant Principal and Instructional & Curriculum Coach.Dr. Eugene Judson, Arizona State University Eugene Judson is an Associate Professor of for the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College at Arizona State University. He also serves as an Extension Services Consultant for the National Center for Women and Information Technology (NCWIT). His past experiences include having been a middle school science teacher
studydemonstrated that students in the treatment group were engaged in active discussion and reflectionand showed higher scores for intercultural competence measured using Intercultural DevelopmentInventory (IDI). A similar study was conducted by Krishnan et al. [11] has also revealed theimportance of curriculum infusion and guided reflections in helping students develop interculturalcompetence. Both studies have emphasized that curriculum integration is an effective and moreeconomical method to impart intercultural learning. The prior studies [1], [4] conducted at theintersection of STEM and intercultural competence have revealed that infusing the concepts ofintercultural competence in pedagogy and allowing the students to reflect on their experiences
Paper ID #18137Comparison of Intrinsic Motivation of Freshmen Engineering Students asthey Participate in a Multinational Design ProjectDr. Jorge Rodriguez P.E., Western Michigan University Faculty member in the Department of Engineering Design, Manufacturing, and Management Systems (EDMMS) at Western Michigan University’s (WMU). Co-Director of the Center for Integrated Design (CID), and currently the college representative to the President’s University-wide Sustainability Com- mittee at WMU. Received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering-Design from University of Wisconsin- Madison and received an MBA from Rutgers
. Current interests include bone tissue mechanics, engineering pedagogy, and robotic football. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Improving Student Engagement in a Senior-level Manufacturing Course for Mechanical Engineering StudentsIntroduction:The mechanical engineering curriculum prepares students for employment in a broad range ofindustries [1]. In the Midwest, many graduating mechanical engineering students will findemployment in manufacturing-related fields. This is especially true in Ohio, where 17.8% of thetotal gross state product is accounted for by over 12,000 manufacturing firms [2]. For this reason,manufacturing courses play an important role in preparing mechanical
] L. Bosman and S. Fernhaber, Teaching the entrepreneurial mindset to engineers. Springer International Publishing, 2017.[2] H. E. Dillon, L. Hamilton Mayled, M. L. Nagurka, M. I. Carnasciali, and D. E. Melton, “Intercollegiate Coaching in a Faculty Professional Development Program that Integrates Pedagogical Best Practices and the Entrepreneurial Mindset Intercollegiate Coaching in a Faculty Professional Development Program that Integrates Pedagogical Best Pract,” 2020.[3] C. Vest, “Open Content and the Emerging Global Meta-University,” EDUCAUSE Review, 2006.[4] W. J. Frey, H. D. Sánchez, and J. Cruz-Cruz, “Ethics Across The Curriculum: An Effective Response To Abet 2000,” in 2002 Annual Conference
ConvivenciaSocial.Program Models for International ExperiencesStudy abroad courses that are faculty led and short term are seen as one of the major vehicles forstudents to integrate an international experience in their curriculum. The opposite is true for theGlobalCUNY model, which consists of eight weeks or more of a research experience modeledafter the traditional REU programs. In earlier work, several essential operational elements wereidentified in the programming [43]. In the Colombia based programming, a site coordinator whoserves as a liaison to the host site’s international office is key. This role is sometimes filled by agraduate student who may also be conducting research with a host faculty. The internationaloffice is also crucial in securing housing
University of New York, Farmingdale c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Introducing a New Graduate Degree in Technology Management: Program Overview and Assessment PlanAbstractOffering a new graduate degree requires curriculum development, course scheduling anddeveloping an assessment plan. A proper assessment plan ensures program success andcontinuous improvement. This paper provides the initial assessment plan for a new master’sdegree. The timeline of the proposed assessment activities is shared and the initialimplementation of the assessment plan for the Spring 2019 semester is discussed. Datacollection techniques and assessment benchmarks for the course level and program