, efforts made to diversity campuscannot be chalked up to individual accomplishments or failures, but rather demonstrate howinstitutional cultures determine which policies are adopted and acted upon [13]. We have selected these frameworks to reflect our commitment to better understanding howinstitutions, in conjunction with individual actors, can improve their diversity outcomes.Furthermore, our rationale is to look specifically at the institutional barriers that participantsmention that prevent them from being effective at carrying out diversity work, even if they arecommitted to that effort.Methods, Context and SampleThis paper developed from a larger project aimed at creating a sociotechnical framework toview, analyze and understand the
generate a moreinclusive classroom [6].The term STEM was first used in 1990 by the National Science Foundations in the United Statesas an acronym for policies, projects, and programs in the disciplines of Science, Technology,Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM). STEM programs and projects have been developed forprivileged populations that have had access to the best schools and universities in the world, sotheir benefits for vulnerable populations such as migrants and refugees have not been studied.However, STEM Education presents barriers and myths that discourage the interest of children andadolescents in these disciplines [7]. This context makes necessary an educational intervention atearly ages so that children become interested in STEM
Paper ID #39326Work in Progress: Introducing a coffee break to improve exam performanceand reducing student stress in construction majors ´ Esteban ToscanoRaulVanessa Guerra, University of VirginiaDr. Miguel Andres Guerra, Universidad San Francisco de Quito USFQ MiguelAndres is an Assistant Professor in the Polytechnic College of Science and Engineering at Uni- versidad San Francisco de Quito USFQ. He holds a BS in Civil Engineering from USFQ, a M.Sc. in Civil Engineering in Construction Engineering and Project Management from Iowa State University, a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering with emphasis in Sustainable Construction from
drink redeemable at the department’s cafe.Collected responses were divided into two groups based on whether or not students completed theassignments. For each, plots were constructed to represent the responses to Likert items. Shortresponses were subject to multiple rounds of inductive coding. Axial coding was then utilized togroup related codes into thematic groups where appropriate. A researcher experienced withqualitative analysis but external to the project was given the resulting codebook and a randomsubset of student responses. Interrater reliability was calculated using Krippendorff’s Alpha andfound to be 0.84, well exceeding the accepted minimum threshold of 0.68 [23, 24].ResultsThe results of the study are divided into four categories
the world. Developments overthe past decade have focused on sustainable long-distance aviation technologies, urban airmobility, low-cost access to space, and the commercialization of human spaceflight, to name buta few. These and other projects continue to demand talented engineers to support their researchand development. The NSF REDO-E grant supporting this study identifies several ways in whichdiversity in engineering consistently yields improvements across many facets of the discipline.Groups with higher diversity consistently demonstrate improved overall performance [1] as wellas improved understanding of relevant subject matter [2]. Such groups are also more adept atmaking ethical decisions [3], which is of especially critical
engineering [15],engineering programs have focused on the alignment of course LOs, curriculum (e.g., classactivities, tasks, projects), and assessment to achieve the various educational outcomes necessaryfor professional practice.Two weaknesses of the alignment between the LOs and their assessment is that instructors rarelyuse LOs as a basis for student assessment, and students are rarely asked to use them as the basisof self-assessment of their abilities. When explicitly using LOs for assessment, instructors arebetter able to ascertain the extent to which students are achieving the LOs [3], [16], [17]. Whenstudents are asked to reflect on their abilities by referring explicitly to the LOs, their attention isdrawn to what they should be learning and
students expend on their learning, while the self-reflectionphase occurs after the learning efforts, and it helps in mediating students’ reaction to theirlearning. The cyclical nature of the self-regulation theory is completed with the forethoughtphase, which facilitates students’ subsequent learning cycles. Figure 2 below is the self-regulation model.Figure 2: Self-regulation model culled from Zimmerman [15]III. MethodologyA. Research Design and Project OverviewThe setting for this case study design is the Probability and Statistics for Engineers course at aUS Southeastern R1 university. The title of the course is introduction to the field of probabilityand statistics with an emphasis on topics and problems relevant to engineering. The
: interdisciplinary projects that provide safe drinking water to underserved communities in El Paso, Ciudad Ju´arez, Puerto Rico, and Haiti; a bridge that connected communities in Puerto Rico; a solar charging station for natural disasters in Puerto Rico; innovation and entrepreneurship activities on water quality sensors and phyto-remediation; remote sensing applications using Hyperspec- tral cameras on UAVs for water quality and agricultural applications; and study abroad opportunities that ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Paper ID #40102 advance the emerging field of Peace Engineering in
the students to determine one of two audiences first: Is this person trying to learn?Or is this person giving you grief? Either way a four-step heuristic script can help: (1) Optional graciousappreciation; (2) Return to the mission; (3) Provide some evidence; and (4) Offer to follow up. Afteroffering the heuristic, Author 1 provided a number of example scripts. “Thanks for that question. We see our mission as a problem-solving mission: to address the exclusion of particular groups of people from engineering and STEM more broadly. So, in terms of problem definition, particular end users fall outside of the specs for this project and organization because, simply put, not all end users face this problem. In the
independence, increasing self-efficacy gains,and reinforcing a growth mindset [16]. By taking time to cover the general problem solving stagesin class, they reduced the amount of students stuck in the design process that didn’t know how toapproach solving a problem by 2.3%. Additionally, Loksa and Ko explored how self-regulationimpacts student success on programming projects [5]. In their think-alouds, they found that themajority of participants explicitly verbalized planning. Only two of their participants from a CS1course did not mention planning. They noted that the more participants mentioned planning andcomprehension monitoring, the fewer errors the participants tended to have, indicating that havingstudents focus more on planning stages of
. This was evident in students’ discussions and the time it took forthem to complete the goals associated with each engineering challenge. Another tension that instructors encountered was their desire to facilitate socially constructedknowledge while encouraging independent thinking. This was rooted in the nature of someactivities, which relied upon jointly created designs. One instructor commented that the 3-Dprinting activity only allowed for one design per team to be printed: I would rather have such a project where every student has their own computer so they can utilize more of the design time and what not… It would have been maybe kind of more creative to have each student have their own design rather than have one
the lab and going to our work area. And this is the whole of the canoe which concrete gets placed on. And then that's how the canoe is created. So, I think this glimpse made me feel like an engineer because throughout my college career so far, most of our work has been just very ... Like writing, you don't actually get to see real-world applications.”Under theme 2, students described spaces where they were able to get together with other students tosocialize and plan outside of the classroom setting such as crafting projects, club meetings, and potlucks.One University B student described her crafting project, Figure 4: Cider made by RedShirt student to unwind after a test. “I was like in a quiz
Platform4.1 Application to Skills Development 4.1.1 Relevance to Mining EngineeringThe following summarises the relevance of the Simulacrum to skills development for miningengineers: • Puff-Puff test: Test in which the effectiveness of the ventilation system is assessed through visual inspection of the time taken for a puff of smoke to move between two designated points. • Ventilation design: Used to support design projects for mining engineers in order to optimise the ventilation system in an underground mine. This is particularly useful when considering that many operations in South Africa are undergoing a change from diesel to electric equipment which affects temperatures, diesel particulate matter and
. The third author is a faculty memberin an Educational Psychology program and the primary investigator of the second study.She is an experienced researcher who has used CI techniques on many projects and offeredher own wisdom during the second study. The fourth author is an undergraduateengineering student who conducted many of the interviews in the first study together withthe first author. The first and fourth authors were conducting CIs for the first time duringthe study and took extensive field notes to document their process. In the first study, thefirst and fourth authors were concerned about developing a survey as novices and lackingintuition about survey design, and they were encouraged by the second author to exploreand document the
mean that engineering is relegated to only high school students, if atall, despite the advantages it can bring to K-8 classrooms. Many times, these misconceptions canbe defeated by giving teachers specific examples and approaches to a more problem-based and aholistic approach to integrated teaching.Designing for TeachersProgram Objectives and Audience NeedsCustomizing teacher professional development sessions ensures relevancy for teacher needs inimplementing engineering content knowledge and hands-on open ended engineering challengesinto their classroom. The K-8 school principal requested an overview of engineering and how itrelates to Science, Engineering, Technology, Art and Mathematics (STEAM) and Project BasedLearning (PBL). Recognizing
, Architectural Technology, and a Master’s in Facility Management. His field experience includes residential and light commercial construction. He has been an architectural designer as well as superintendent for single and multi-family residential construction projects. Mr. Ray worked as an engineering design manager in the Building Components Manufacturing Industry for over fifteen years.Dr. Brandon Sorge, Indiana University - Purdue University, Indianapolis Brandon Sorge is an Assistant Professor of STEM Education Research in the Department of Technology Leadership and Communication at the Purdue School of Engineering and Technology at IUPUI. His research interests include all aspects of STEM education, espeDr. Katrenia Reed
sizeable enrollmentranging from 150 to 225 students per semester, the ECE Discovery Studio program relies heavilyon the utilization of Peer Leaders (PLs), a cohort of 15 to 20 upper-level EE and CmpE studentsselected to a stipend-eligible academic-year-long fellowship. The Peer Leader Fellowship (PLF)is facilitated in parallel to ECE Discovery Studio with the goal of providing easily accessiblementorship from students who have gone through similar experiences and have commonacademic interests within the expansive ECE curriculum. Each PL is assigned a mentee group of10 to 15 ECE Discovery Studio students and the course is designed to promote networkingamong small groups through interactive studio activities, peer reviews, team projects
-12 Engineering Learning [1], which recommends leveragingmaking as a form of active learning. Despite interest in this area, research still needs toinvestigate how to design and implement technology-rich training opportunities that motivateyouth from diverse backgrounds to participate in meaningful technical work and what the impactof such experiences is.In this study, we collaborated with a community partner that provides technology-rich learningexperiences for youth to set up an afterschool professional training program involving running a3D printshop for youth focused on digital modeling and fabrication. Over two years, two cohortsof youth (a total of 12 participants) participated in the project and worked at the 3D printshop attasks that
bachelor’s degree in Physics Engineering from Tecnologico de Monterrey and a doctoral degree in Mathematics Education from Syracuse University, NY. Dr. Dominguez is a member of the Researchers’ National System in Mexico (SNI-2) and has been a visiting researcher at Syracuse University, UT-Austin, and Universidad Andres Bello. Her main research areas are interdisciplinary education, teaching methods, faculty development, and gender issues in STEM education. She actively participates in several national and international projects, in mathematics, engineering, and science education. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023Students' perception of active learning in the Acoustic Physics
the initiation phase, Zafira crosses a threshold into a new and unknown world of engineeringstudies that requires her to overcome engineering tasks and trials, which she manages with helpfrom others, including a male peer mentor from Saudi Arabia who coaches her patiently until sheunderstands. He isn’t permitted, by his religious beliefs, to make eye contact or interact sociallywith any woman outside his family, but he finds innovative ways to assist Zafira by, for instance,using screen share to coach her on coding prior to an important project deadline.Equipped with new understandings of herself and a crucial sense of atonement with her father,Zafira enters the return phase, where she returns to the ordinary world with rewards from
-world problem encounteredafter graduation enjoys no such context [7]. In addition, the difficulty of creating one’s decision-making schema naturally becomes greater as the number of possible tools or approachesincrease, or as the decisions otherwise become more complex.Having years of practical experience is not the only possible way to build a level of expertise thatincludes conditional knowledge. Swan, Plummer, and West [4] contend that intentional focus onbuilding conditional knowledge can help improve the level of expertise developed in a universityprogram. Problem-based learning, capstone projects, and other teaching methods 1 may all helpstrengthen student conditional knowledge [5], [6], to a greater or lesser extent.Another instructional
Lab in the Department of Mechanical En- gineering at Stanford University. She has been involved in several major engineering education initiatives including the NSF-funded Center for the AdvanProf. George Toye Ph.D., P.E., is adjunct professor in Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University. While engaged in teaching project based engineering design thinking and innovations at the graduate level, he also con- tributes to research in engineering education, effectDr. Micah Lande, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology Micah Lande, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor and E.R. Stensaas Chair for Engineering Education in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the South Dakota School of Mines & Technology. He
Engineers, India, M.E. (Production Engineering) degree from PSG College of Te ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023Using Tutor-led Support to Enhance Engineering Student Writing for AllAbstractWriting Assignment Tutor Training in STEM (WATTS) is part of a three-year NSF IUSE grantwith participants at three institutions. This research project seeks to determine to what extentstudents in the WATTS project show greater writing improvement than students using writingtutors not trained in WATTS. The team collected baseline, control, and experimental data.Baseline data included reports written by engineering and engineering technology students withno intervention to determine if there were variations in
.3. Tests. Two in-person tests gauge individual knowledge acquisition.4. Group Project. Groups of 2-3 members present the solution to a science or engineering problem of their choosing from other courses in their respective majors.3. Typical Illustrative ExamplesThe following examples illustrate the teaching methodology using computational thinking andcomputation tools to solve mathematical problems. Note that the process will help students takethe systematic steps to solve ‘complicated' problems. Computational thinking takes the followingsteps: first describe the problem in words, second decompose the problem into simpler sub-problems, then solve the sub-problems, and finally build the solutions up to complete the wholesolution.Example I
Paper ID #39845A Literature Review to Explore a Relationship: Empathy and Mindfulness inDesign EducationMs. Rubaina Khan, University of TorontoDr. Adetoun Yeaman, Northeastern University Adetoun Yeaman is an Assistant Teaching Professor in the First Year Engineering Program at Northeastern University. Her research interests include empathy, design education, ethics education and community engagement in engineering. She currently teaches Cornerstone of Engineering, a first-year two-semester course series that integrates computer programming, computer aided design, ethics and the engineering design process within a project
the instructors such as flipped classroom, guided notes, oneminute paper, peer discussion, interactive quizzes, preparing artifacts, collaborative learning,educational trips, problem-based learning, and group projects [3, 6]. However, most of theseactive learning techniques seem difficult to keep students engaged throughout the lecture.Additionally, some of these techniques require a lot of preparation and excess class-time. Withsome innovative techniques, active learning could become interesting to the students throughengaging them [7]. Two or multiple styles could be merged to effectively utilize these methods.In this study two active learning styles: guided notes and interactive quizzes are merged into acomprehensive two-step method. The
complete tasks and make up for each other in helping eachother.Hands-on activitiesAs a complement to the virtual experience, the system provides a series of hands-on activitiescentered on human functions. These simple experiments enrich the learning experience andprovide concrete models that correspond to theoretical concepts. A variety of hands-on activitiesrelated to the human body will develop engaging lessons and interactive activities to educate andinspire the next generation of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) professionals.The target audience for this project is middle school students in grades 6-8. Various areas ofSTEM are demonstrated through three activities themed around the human heart. Subtopicsinclude how the heart
thefunctionality desired for this project.Significant academic research on the topic of synthetic data generation was done by theSynthetic Data Vault project within the MIT Data to AI Lab (https://dai.lids.mit.edu/) which wasrecently transferred to a private company, datacebo (https://datacebo.com/). Their core productis described in the paper The Synthetic Data Vault. [4]Dataset Specification SystemWe have developed an initial capability in the form of a Python library named analyticsdf built“on top” of the Pandas package. Full documentation is located in the github repositoryhttps://faye-yufan.github.io/analytics-dataset/ and is summarized below.The analyticsdf class implements a single object called AnalyticsDataframe which consists oftwo data
for how this construct can be defined, included inESP programming, and assessed. Each whitepaper will provide a roadmap (groundedin social science theory and literature) on how to measure the impact of the ESP onentrepreneurial attributes on student engineers. Figure 1 illustrates the progression fromthe Delphi Study to the workshop series. The whitepapers will then be disseminatedthrough a website and workshops provided through [a national organization-anonymized for paper review].Figure 1 Delphi Study and Workshop SeriesAcknowledgements:The authors acknowledge the National Science Foundation (Award Number: 2220329)for providing funding for this project. Any opinions and findings expressed in thismaterial are of the authors and do not