. Assessment was donethrough these student reflections; as well as student reflections and course evaluations at the endof the semester when they compared the international project to other aspects of the class. In this presentation, we will report the analysis of the perspectives from the students, lessons learned, and plans to make this type of project scalable to larger classrooms, given the expected increase in size of the groups in the near future.1. IntroductionInternational teamwork is a skill valued by employers with a global footprint and one of the keyelements of organization success or failure. Teamwork has been shown to increase innovation,efficiency , and productivity [1,2], and when nurturing, boost higher
intellectual andinterpersonal skill development [12]–[14], and have experiences that inform career planning andprofessional development [15], [16]. Choosing what activities to participate in also providesopportunities for students to tailor their educational experiences to their personal interests andcareer aspirations.In addition, participating in identity-based extra-/co-curricular activities can provide supportnetworks and cultural capital to minoritized students. Several studies have demonstrated howLatinx-based organizations can provide support and family-like environments for Latinx students[9], [10], [17], [18]. Banda and Flowers III [10] found that most of their participants sought outrace-specific organizations for the support and sense of
final report and present a video‘elevator pitch’ at a virtual symposium organized by the lead institution. The top 9 REUparticipants across the entire SCR2 Mega-Site program are encouraged to continue their researchafter the program by being awarded a research fellowship to support additional researchactivities guided by local faculty.At the same time, RET participants are engaged in developing lesson plans on how to integrateSTEM topics, fundamentals of engineering, and research into their curriculum. At the end of thesummer, host institutions provide additional support to the RET participants by purchasingnecessary hardware and logistics to effectively implement the lesson plan they developed duringthe program [16].Changes in Method:Program
Amazon offices around the world, along with techworkers from other companies in the worlds’ first “cross-tech” walk out tried to encourage thecompany to take a stronger leadership role in combating climate change. The day before thewalkout, Bezos announced plans—the company’s “Climate Pledge,” to convert to renewableenergy by 2030 and to be carbon neutral by 2024. The activists applauded this gesture, butclaimed that it was not enough, and that the company needed a more urgent and intensiveresponse. Additionally, the Climate Pledge was perhaps intended to assuage customers that thecompany is in fact making changes (Peltz, J, 2019).This protest apparently (according to employees) led to Amazon enforcing a strictercommunications policy for its
the bottom-up, student-centric process usedfor updating the CE/ENVE PEOs, the stakeholders involved, and the students’ key contributionsto the process. A comparison between the revitalized PEOs and the original PEOs are presented.The focus of the work encompasses the challenges encountered during this experience and thelessons learned. Finally, this paper outlines the CE/ENVE Department’s plan to integrate thenew PEOs into the curriculum, including specific examples of implementation of the PEOs intoselected courses and development of appropriate metrics for student outcomes. This update ofthe PEOs is a critical step towards re-shaping the CE/ENVE curriculum to educate the studentsabout social justice and its strong connection to engineering
Interview 2)Discussion: Kellam’s increase in the thought and use of empathy in her classroom activities,developing a deeper understanding of empathy and continued plan to improve the actions for thenext semester are indicators of positive change in perception about teacher empathy. She felt thatteacher empathy and empathetic actions helped her to have a better classroom environment [23],one that she also enjoyed as a faculty while having better student engagement [8]. She also feltthat teacher empathy helped in reducing teacher burnout [24].Kellam found herself motivated through having a teaching team with similar empatheticintentions, positive feedback from students and her fundamental intention to provide a betterlearning experience and make
various materials and equipment through a series of daily hands-on activities that combined Figure 1: Adaptations instructional science kit in use.elements of programming and elemental electronics, in varying proportions based upon theemphasis of a given 6 week period. A similar approach was conducted for the productionengineering concepts including introduction to manufacturing systems, master productionschedule, material requirement planning, inventory management, and lean production.The spring semester was characterized by a focus on the interweaving of the Making andproduction related concepts covered in the fall semester, alongside with the introduction ofsubjects digital fabrication and production management
Fall 2021 Combined Female Male %FemaleFigure 1: FSC Fall Term Enrollment of Computing Degrees by Gender. The new Computer Science (CS) degreeprogram has started in fall 2021 (with 20 female and 72 male students) in addition to the existing ComputerProgramming and Information Sciences (CPIS) degree program.(CS) degree that has started in fall 2021, has doubled and reached at its peak to about 600students. However, the female student population in computing degrees has remained steady at8-15% over the last decade as depicted in Figure 1. The long-term plan and strategic vision forthe FSC Computer Systems Department is to ultimately
concerns about teaching and learning effectiveness in an onlineenvironment and its long-term sustainability [10]. Thus, remote instructional platforms had to be rapidlymodified and deployed for theoretical-based courses and practical experimentation courses such asRobotics Lab.Teaching robotics remotely poses a set of challenges, especially during a pandemic. Roboticsmanufacturing is a practical and interdisciplinary technology involving electronics, computing, andmechanical devices. Hence, strategic planning, organization, creation of didactic materials, and reliablesynchronous communication platforms between all stakeholders are necessary to engage students andfacilitate learning. Infrastructural tools and systems such as uninterrupted internet
, inspecting U.S. small passenger vessels and foreign vessels from 2016 to 2018. Prior to his assignment at Sector Los Angeles – Long Beach, LCDR Brahan served as a Staff Naval Architect at the Marine Safety Center from 2013-2016. In this assignment, he reviewed general arrangements, structures, stability, and structural fire protection plans and calculations for floating production platforms, offshore supply vessels, and barges. As a collateral duty, he served as a duty officer on the Salvage Engineering Response Team (SERT) working on over 50 salvage cases and deploying on three separate cases. He served as a Student Engineer onboard USCGC TAMPA (WMEC 902) from 2008-2011, and is a 2008 graduate of Officer Candidate School
internships thus giving students more time to work on their projects. Figure 3. Robotics/Project Lab During the Early-Pandemic PhaseFull-Pandemic Phase – Spring 2021. As a part of preparations for the senior project, in the SeniorSeminar class, in Fall 2020, industrial funding or working on industrial projects was stronglydiscouraged until a clear set of requirements for industry could be developed. Also, students wereasked to provide alternative design plans not relying on university resources such as thedepartment’s machine shop and the department’s 3D printers.There were four senior design projects in this phase, “Agricultural Seed-Planting Robot,”“Counterfeit Metal Sensor,” “Semi-Automated Tour Guide Robot,” and “H.E.R.M.Es
advisor. It provides early feedback on project appropriateness including whether the project is a significant design experience on a suitable project and describes how the student plans to demonstrate mastery of each outcome. 2. Outcomes Matrix is an individual document where students document that all outcomes were achieved over the two-semester experience. It is more comprehensive and specific than the IER. Students must achieve the outcomes specified by their respective major to receive a passing grade. 3. Project Description is a document that describes the work completed on the project and summarizes how the outcomes have been met across all senior design students on the team. These are reviewed by the
assessingstudent understanding of specific concepts and as a tool for curricular planning [20]–[22]. Forexample, Hoffenson et al. recently explored how student concept maps reflecting the engineeringdesign process changed after being introduced to market-driven design concepts and tools [23].Bodnar and Hixson asked students to generate concept maps around the content of an“entrepreneurial mindset” [24]. The student-generated concept maps were scored using theIntegrated Rubric for Scoring Concept Maps [20], a rubric that permits concept map evaluationon the dimensions of organization, comprehensive, and correctness. Bodnar and Hixson positthat educators and instructors can use these maps for preparing educational activities that alignwith program/course
to producea successful casting. The reasons varied from improper pattern designs that ultimately cause themold to break to pattern features that are too large or fine to reproduce on the casting. In the firstintervention, the instructor did not anticipate this being an issue and had the students producetheir castings during the last week of class. Unfortunately, a large majority of the castings failedand were not completed, and because there was not sufficient time left for a second castingattempt, the students finished the course with a high level of frustration. Additionally, theinstructor had to assess these projects differently than was planned, due to the unsatisfactorycasting results. Therefore, the course schedule was adjusted in Fall
advisors and student success and the subsequent lack of awareness of theirwork by the faculty. Recognizing the need to communicate the work of the advising staff to thefaculty and facilitate a relationship, we decided it was important to create a platform tocommunicate the importance of the academic advisors to the faculty. The second focus of thispaper demostrates how we chose and created a white paper to bring attention to the academicadvisors and create a bridge for communication. The white paper incorporated current researchregarding academic advising and findings from the ECE department’s culture and climate study,in combination with a semester-long data collection plan to produce a data-drive white paperdescribing and quantifying the work of
Paper ID #37057Work-in-Progress: Project-based Learning in a SummerEngineering Program Implemented VirtuallyMatthew Lucian Alexander (Associate Professor) Dr. Matthew is an associate professor in Chemical Engineering at Texas A&M University-KingsvilleMichael Preuss (Co-founder and Lead Consultant) Michael Preuss, EdD, is the Co-founder and Lead Consultant for Exquiri Consulting, LLC. His primary focus is providing assistance to grant project teams in planning and development, through external evaluation, and as publication support. Most of his work is on STEM education and advancement projects and completed for
whatextent were academic career plans of recent doctoral engineering graduates affected by theCovid19 pandemic?The survey was developed by the researchers in this study, using an evaluation framework togenerate questions that were aligned with the goals of the program [22]. The questions includedLikert scale items and open-ended questions, which covered on the following topics: 1. Areas of current or intended employment (academic, industry, government, etc.), 2. Aspects of academic work participants felt most prepared and least prepared for, 3. Engagement in academic activities after completing the program (publications, grant proposals, etc.), and 4. Impact of the pandemic on career prospects.ParticipantsAn online survey was sent to
online delivery.We will first briefly go over the typical challenges as they provide a pathway for futureimprovements and then present our teaching approach for electrical engineering courses with andwithout lab components. We will then compare students’ teaching evaluations and commentsover this period with the prior two years for several of our electrical engineering courses. Sincewe also collect student learning outcomes surveys, we will present the comparative results forthe past two years. The data provide a better sense of students’ achievements and how COVID-19 has affected learning. We also briefly discuss the mental health impact on students andinstructors. Finally, we present our plan for future course delivery based on the lessons
experiment starts by providing students with a fictionalcase study. Then, students are asked to analyze the case study and produce a plan of action basedon the value proposition balance of credibility, promise, differentiation, risk, effort, and price,illustrated in Figure 2. Figure 2: Value Proposition Balance ModelThe case study has the following details. An engineer who works in a credible company thatproduces scientific calculators just discovered an error in the lookup tables that were burned asread-only memories on the chips of the first beta version calculators. The error affects the leastsignificant bits of the mantissa. The company is promising a high precision calculator that issupposed to be sold for a higher
paper was to shift the focus of the juniormechanical engineering laboratory course from following fully pre-planned experiments toexperimental design. The efficacy of the changes were tracked with matched pre- andpost-surveys.Prior Course StructureIn its previous iteration, the course began with five weeks of relatively traditional in-classinstruction to teach students probability, statistics, and lab safety. That five-week period was thenfollowed by four two-week lab sessions that were conducted in four-to-five person teams. Withinthese lab sessions, there were four unique experiments occurring simultaneously, with a team oneach. After two weeks, the teams rotated. The prior structure is shown in Table 1. For eachexperiment, students were
, peers, and community members seemed to influence their engineering identitydevelopment as well as their career and educational goals. Lastly, students’ described howtheir families—and in particular, their fathers—shaped their engineering identitydevelopment. Taken together, our study indicates the importance of students’ identities andsupports as factors shaping their pathways through undergraduate research experiences andonward towards careers in these fields. Thus, structured mentorship opportunities includingand beyond funded REU summer internship programs may encourage students to developa plan to continue to develop STEM identities by participating in meaningful experiencesand opportunities at their home institutions. Continued
on three key components: 1) Design of relevant project tasks; 2) seamless alignment ofproblems in the field with the class content; and 3) effective communication with companyworkers.Design of a WIL Relevant ProjectPrevious research has demonstrated that the use of authentic problems as class projects awakenscuriosity, participation, and commitment of students (Aizman et al., 2017; Beichner et al., 2007;Chen, Kolmos, and Du, 2021; Díaz et al., 2017; Kolmos and de Graff, 2014; Shekhar andBorrego, 2017), fostering the development of professional and transferable skills. The use ofauthentic problems ensures that classwork will be relevant to the present and future life ofstudents.Therefore, the planned learning experience was built considering
meetings, enhancing the development oftheir self-guided learning [8].As students within the design studio do not necessarily start at phase one or end at phase seven, themilestone model aids not only in ensuring projects move through each phase of the process but also inthe onboarding of new students in the middle of an ongoing project. Asynchronous learning content hasbeen developed for each stage of the design process within our module layout, which establishes aframework for the specified phase, orients new members and facilities project on-boarding. Projectdocumentation of all module assignments provides background information regarding the client, needs,project scope, solution selection, verification and validation plans, engineering analysis
dilemma. 2) communicate effectively with other team members to assess barriers and any possible consequences. 3) be competent and service-oriented. 4) be creative and have strong project management skills. 5) have the skill to revise plans/actions/options. Role-play scenarios are a useful way to depict the complexities of being an ethicalengineer. RPSs allow for introducing relevant topics to students through case studies that theycan explore on a deeper level [12]–[14]. RPSs do this by helping students situate themselves inscenarios through character roles. As the scenarios are developed for the learning environment,they let RPS administrators take a fictive approach to discuss topics of interest
positively impact student learning beyond direct assessment methods. A well-planned course design targeted towards learning outcomes rather than content can help to achieve higher learning objectives by leveraging key active learning engagements. Keywords: service-learning, community outreach, course design, scaffolded assessment1. Introduction The course EV310 Aquatic Science is a foundational course targeted to EnvironmentalScience and Environmental Engineering majors within their third or fourth year of undergraduatestudies. Today, there are seven expected course outcomes which nest within the hierarchy of theEnvironmental Science Educational objectives. The course has evolved
) theoryspecifically tailored for modeling user acceptance of information systems." [22]. Precisely, TAMis best known for investigating factors affecting user acceptance of information systems [22]-[24]. It has shown immense potential to explain and predict a user's behaviors and reactions toinformation communication and technology [23]. Since its inception in 1985, TAM has beentested with various applications (e.g., learning management systems, health information systems,mobile application enterprise resource planning) [25]. Additionally, TAM has become the mostwidely applied user acceptance model and usage model [22], [23], [26].The TAM framework presents three critical constructs [22] [23]: perceived ease of use (PEOU),perceived usefulness (PU), and
dynamics to aid in surgical planning and improving the understanding of pediatric cardiovascular diseases. He is also interested in improving the recruitment and retention students from marginalized communities in STEM, which has motivated him to contribute to initiatives such as STEM Pride at UM.Peter Walczyk Peter Walczyk is a current Neuroimaging Data Analyst. He received his B.S.E in Biomedical Engineering at the University of Connecticut and his M.S in Biomedical Engineering at the University of Michigan. In the future, Peter would like to pursue a Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering to further develop understandings of the underlying mechanisms of consciousness and create models of consciousness. Peter also has made
outcomes to better prepare our engineering graduates to enter the professionalengineering workforce post graduation, including “an ability to function effectively on a teamwhose members together provide leadership, create a collaborative and inclusive environment,establish goals, plan tasks, and meet objectives” [8]. Representation of women in STEM shouldnot only be reflective of the larger population but should also include representation acrossleadership levels to best improve progress towards global competitiveness.With the increased focus on relevant teamwork experiences in engineering undergraduateprograms comes a focus on how to navigate team dynamics and students’ roles on project teams.Specifically, faculty are curious on how to evaluate
in this paper. Plans are outlined forassessment of the effectiveness of the lab in improving conceptual understanding of the technicalcontent, broadening the experimental experience, and enhancing the ability to use appropriatetechnical language when comparing test data and theoretical predictions.IntroductionStudents generally learn more when actively engaged in the classroom, especially in collegelevel STEM courses [1]. Despite the benefits, instructors experience time management andbudgetary barriers when creating predominantly active learning events such as a hands-onlaboratory activity [2]. For these reasons, the majority of large-enrollment college courses stilluse traditional passive based lecture environments [3].At the United States
lighting and electrical systems, foundation management. engineering The 5 core courses in an option in the 4th year must be thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, Architectural taken Studio, Building Physics, Completed 3 of the 5 junior level courses MEP design, 3 structural design, plan reading, professional practice, and systems integration design first courses in lighting design and mechanical systems; second course in structural analysisSetting pre-requisite knowledge is key to benchmarking expectations for projects. That said, dueto cramped curricula, it is often necessary to teach additional content in capstones [21]. The surveyasked