apresentation to the class on a recently planned or built electricity generation facility of theirchoice, focusing on both on the technical details of the plant and the cultural and geographicalcontext of the project.The textbook we chose is Our Energy Future [38], which addresses both the fundamentals andscience behind alternative energy for electricity generation and alternative fuels fortransportation. In covering alternative transportation fuels, we cover the link betweenconventional food production and fossil fuel use and the disruption of the nitrogen cycle byammonia-derived fertilizers. The course also covers carbon dioxide removal (CDR)technologies including enhanced weathering, biochar, afforestation, and direct air capture(DAC).The final
most applicable. • Mindset: “Professional Humility was probably my biggest area of growth during this Elaborate on one of program”… “I got to witness people surviving in a third world country. [The service the competencies learning] was extremely eye-opening and gave me a sense of how little attention these where you feel like underdeveloped places are given.” you experienced the • Skillset: “The research for the pontoon design improvements really helped with the most growth. strategical thinking and planning on how the new changes will improve the pontoons’ effectiveness” • Knowledge: “I learned that its impossible
Paper ID #36795Rethinking the admission processes to higher education inEngineering: the case of a university in ChileMarcela Cárdenas Marcela Cárdenas, has a Master in Human Resources Management and Management Skills from the Universidad del Bio Bio, Chile, Bachelor of Business from the Universidad de las Américas, Chile, and Auditor Accountant from the Universidad de Concepción, Chile. She has more than 15 years of experience in the industry, in the areas of management, accounting planning, human resources and Administration. She is a teacher with 10 years of experience in universities in the areas of
. Because there was a needfor communication between three different disciple groups, a project management plan wasneeded for how the OM students would manage both marketing and the NFPA team.Organization of the multidisciplinary student collaboration in the projectAs the project started, roles for the students began to be assigned. The OM project instructorinformed the OM students that she would like to see them use the Agile Project Managementmethods to manage the project. She then gave the three OM students a crash course on SCRUMand Agile. Using SCRUM Agile Management all students on the NFPA team would be at thesame level with the expectation that everyone will do equal work and would also volunteer to dowork when they felt it was within their
. Flexibility, uniqueness, and personalization of theservices offered are inherent in the model.These changes in the information environment have pushed librarians at the Arthur LakesLibrary at the Colorado School of Mines (Mines) to re-think the current model of reference,especially for faculty and graduate researchers. The library plans to build upon the successfulaspects of current initiatives and better integrate them with reference services to create acohesive program. This new model aims to provide specialized in-depth support for researchteams, departments, and research centers across campus through consultations, small groupinstruction sessions, and curated resources. Leveraging staff strengths and current successes willhelp reallocate
Students create innovative and novel ideas or solutions 4.8 2.5 and display divergent thinking. Students display analytical and strategic thinking. 4.25 3 Students assess problems involving the use of available resources and review multiple strategies for resolving 4.21 3.1 problems. Students negotiate the pros and cons of ideas, approaches, and solutions and analyze options using “if- 4.26 2.9 then” rationale. Students plan steps, procedures, or approaches for
includes three mandatory co-op work experiencesthat alternate with the academic semesters after a student completes their second year. The firstsemester of the Capstone project is in the second half of a student’s third year during the Summersemester, and the second semester of the project is in the first half of their fourth year during theSpring semester.The Engineering Capstone course objectives are for engineering seniors, operating in designteams, to apply principles of the design process to create a product or process to meet the needs ofa customer. Projects may originate in industry, as a contest sponsored by a professional society, orin other venues. The design team, with the guidance of a faculty advisor, must plan, direct,conduct, and
at a level not seensince the Vietnam War era. Most of these veterans use the Post-9/11 GI Bill, an educationalassistance plan for eligible veterans, but many more programs are available to veterans andactive duty military members. This paper presents an overview of many of these educationassistance programs available to this growing population. With no end date for the Post-9/11 GIBill and the demand for engineering degrees in an increasingly technical job market, largenumbers of veterans will continue to enroll in higher education institutions. Likewise, active dutymilitary members will be part of the engineering education landscape to support the currentdemand for technical expertise in the military. Every student has different needs and
Professoriate. MiguelAndr´es’s research includes sustainable infrastructure design and planning, smart and resilient cities, and the development of engineers who not only have strong technical and practical knowledge but the social awareness and agency to address global humanitarian, environmental, and social justice challenges. For him, social justice is a concept that should always be involved in discussions on infrastructure. Related to STEM education, Miguel Andr´es is in developing and applying contemporary pedagogies for STEM courses, teaching empathy studies in engineering as a tool for innovation, and assessing engineering students’ agency to address climate change. Currently, MiguelAndr´es is validating his
Repair Guide provide leadership, create a Project 4: Presentation collaborative and inclusive environment, establish goals, plan tasks, and meet objectivesAs summarized in previous studies in 2004, 2021, EC has historically been accomplished inengineering curricula in ways that accommodated historical curricular priorities, faculty interestand expertise, and the constraints of credit-hour loads and time-to-degree completion rates.Crucially, both foregoing studies were developed from pre-COVID-19 institutional data,suggesting that now is the time to restructure our approach to teaching EC, as ‘mindset’developing initiatives gain momentum [3-4] and students themselves express a desire for coursecontent that more closely matches the
employment with host companies upon completion of the 19-weektraining and apprenticeship program.In its first year, the program received over 400 applications for 21 available positions, hosted bythree cybersecurity companies and a county government. 43% of the cohort identify as female,and veterans represent 19% of trainees. Underrepresented population groups in STEM compriseover 90% of this cohort. One company, in particular, saw the immediate impact of their trainees,offering full time employment to their entire cohort, with plans to potentially double the cohortsize in 2023. Feedback from the trainees has been equally enthusiastic; one of them says: “Beingone of the twenty-one people selected out of four-hundred (...) was nothing short of
4.3 Code core linear algebra concepts in MATLAB with autograder incorporated 12 4.3.1 Example . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 4.4 Establish application projects in MATLAB Grader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155 Assessment 15 5.1 Survey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 5.2 Tests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176 Conclusion and Future Plan 187 Acknowledgements
questions were: § Here’s our plan – to ensure that infrastructure education ensures that students consider the long-term impact, negative or positive, that their decisions as future engineers have. This will be organized/facilitated by the CIT-E Community of Practice. What capacity is needed in a Community of Practice to make this happen? § What do you see as the biggest single barrier to change in higher education? § What is the biggest key to success in making change in higher education? o Do you have any examples? § We are considering community of transformation/community of practice as our ‘theory of change’ – what do you think? § What traps might we fall into with regard to change theory in
effective participation. TCU students and faculty may encounter imposter syndrome. Individuals at TCU’s may incorrectly conclude that their institution’s smaller scale and scope precludes participation in major research initiatives. Make a clear plan on how the TCU can best participate and what it is looking for in the partnership. Check in frequently and share feedback early and often with all members involved. Do not ignore cultural norms or traditions because the RU culture doesn’t account for it. These are teaching moments and they should be celebrated, not shrouded.• Foster trust outside of TCUs. Historic trauma and/or a fear of ‘saying the wrong thing’ have the potential to limit the free exchange of ideas. Pair up
program began.This overall increase (from 50% to 72%) in the comparison group is likely due to programmaticchanges that are synergistic with this program’s goals, including redesigning the first- andsecond-year seminars and adding mid-semester intervention for first- and second-year students.The retention rates in Figure 1 also project preliminary graduation results. Although both cohortsare not yet expected to have graduated, the majority of students (12 out of 18) are on track to doso within the next year or shortly thereafter, which conforms to a 4- to 5-year time to graduation.In fact, three students have graduated early (within 3.5 years), which already gives a resultinggraduation rate of 33% for the first cohort. A fourth student also plans
operative units of the competencies. These learning outcomesexplicitly define what a student is expected to know, understand, demonstrate, or accomplishby the end of a learning period [11] - [14]. According to Williams [15], defining the learningoutcomes for an engineering undergraduate program is the critical first step in revising thecurriculum, developing courses, and creating an assessment plan. Learning outcomes can be used by faculty to assess students' learning progress throughoutthe program and should be defined for each competence. Evaluation rubrics have beenadopted to measure the various levels of competence development. Rubrics are valuable toolsin student assessment and help indicate students' learning level for the learning
allows us to consciously chooseclean power while maintaining the lifestyle that we rely on. EvaEnergia plans to build two new plants surrounding Sao Paulo that will ultimately produce 19 MW ofenergy using residents' waste. This company was a major proponent in recognizing the current habits wehave and striving to create clean energy from them.Prio Petrol Rio, or Prio for short, was a premier Brazilian oil company based out of Rio de Janeiro. Arelatively new company, they are based around bringing sustainability to an unlikely industry, fossil fuels.Brazil has a massive oil field off the southern coast, with oil tycoons like Shell and Chevron owningdrilling sites. Prio’s primary business model is buying old or failed wells from these
responsible for selecting a real-life project, planning andmilestone identification, implementation of the work, written project specification, oralpresentation, and a final written report. The capstone project is so comprehensive in nature that itprovides the faculty to assess a wide range of student learning that is directly related to studentoutcomes of the ABET requirement. In addition, the students also work as a team to accomplishthe goal of the class. In order to attain the program educational objectives (PEO), five StudentOutcomes (SO) are set. Capstone Design class hosts the student outcome criterion 5 whichdemonstrates the students’ ability to work in a team. Three performance indicators(communication, fulfilling responsibilities, listening
, served as chair for two terms. She also chaired the Driver’s Education Advisory Committee and the Motorcycle Safety Advisory Com- mittee for the Michigan Department of State—work that resulted in new legislation for Michigan. She began her career as an engineer for General Motors Truck Group and has been nationally recognized in higher education as both an American Council on Education Fellow and a New Leadership Academy Fellow. Currently Dr. El-Sayed serves on the Bloomfield Hills Board of Education, serves as a director on the BHS Foundation Board and serves on the Advancement Committee for the Society for College and University Planning (SCUP). She is married and has three adult children.Ray Phillips, American
believe that other teammembers lack the knowledge, preparation, dedication, attitude, or motivation to follow their tasks.They expect good grades and want to take advantage of the opportunity because of the low qualityof the product of other team members. So, the reality is that they prefer to sacrifice teamworkrather than entrusting the project portions to be implemented by other team members.Teamwork planning debatesIn some groups, there are problems in planning and scheduling as to deciding individual duties.Some debates occur because other team members need to follow their preplanned tasks, timeline,and due times. These problems are common in undergraduate groups but only are reflected by theprofessor if the group loses points as the overall
the reflective qualityof reports submitted by students who had completed the ePortfolio assignment and those whohad not.MethodsTo explore this question, we compared second-year lab reports from two cohorts of students.Students who plan to graduate in the Class of 2024 did not create ePortfolios in their first-yeardesign course. This cohort will hereafter be called the “Control Cohort”. Students who plan tograduate in the Class of 2025 created ePortfolios in the first-year design course, hereafterreferred to as the “Experimental Cohort”.All classes took place at a small liberal arts college in the northeastern United States. Lab reportswere collected from a second-year design course for both the Control and Experimental cohorts.Our cohort size
transcripts by two investigators. Thistheme included 23 codes, each representing a type of coping strategy used by participants (e.g.,socializing, exercise, using a routine).Measures. The initial interview protocol (Appendix A) was 16 questions long and asked aboutcampus life, self-reported highest sources of stress, follow-up questions about specific sources ofstress that we derived from the literature, symptoms of stress, coping strategies, and feedback onstrategies for improving graduate education. The interview was designed to be conducted for 30-60 minutes. Follow-up interviews (not reported here) were 5-9 questions long and checked in onstudents’ goals, accomplishments, new or changed stressors, and future plans. Each follow-upinterview
intrapreneurial skills and activities within the context of Engineering, andthe Engineering discipline is still very much a focus. While TEKS standards and ABETstandards do not really conflict, they are different. Thus, it has become important to develop ashared language and understanding around what each program must accomplish. This has beenthe backbone of the collaborative activities that are planned for the future. Additionally, the university and the high school have begun to collaborate on project-based learning ideas. Here, too, there have been some tensions around how to create projects thatwould allow students to develop intrapreneurial competencies while also gaining and leveragingEngineering-specific knowledge while completing the
of the comments [21]–[23]. However, peer feedback specifically during oralpresentations is not as well studied as other assessment types (e.g., writing samples) [24], has anemphasis on peer grading rather than qualitative comments, and an increasing focus on theincorporation of technology (e.g., clicker systems, exam software, mobile apps) [25]–[27].PeerPresents is an example peer feedback collection tool developed by researchers at four U.S.universities [28]. This real-time response system, similar to an online discussion board, featurespre-planned questions for student reviewers to respond to while watching peers’ presentations.Reviewers can then up-vote or down-vote other reviewer comments. The research team collectedfeedback using the
indiscussion with the presenters and each other throughout. The first activity, which is also anactivity for students that had been previously tried early in the semester at WCC, involvedwriting a paragraph about a recent learning experience (related to the course topic if done withstudents) describing: 1. What you were trying to learn and why; 2. How you planned to use yourlearning; 3. A positive experience during your learning; and, 4. A negative experience duringyour learning. After that, in a second activity, pairs of participants: 1. Reviewed each others’paragraphs; 2. Captured empathy and encouragement points; and, 3. Verbally summarized whatthey learned about each other. For students in their classroom, this activity would be replaced bythe
included interacting with clients from the local community, completing 3D modelingand 3D printing tasks, maintaining digital fabrication equipment, and representing the printshopat different outreach events. In this paper, we report on findings from qualitative exit interviewswith the youth and focus on understanding the impact of participating in the program from theirperspectives.In this research, we pursued the following research questions: (RQ1) What are the motivations ofyouth for participating in an afterschool technology-rich professional learning program? (RQ2)What is the impact of participating in professional learning programs on youths’ STEM careerinterests and long-term career plans? (RQ3) What are the youth’s own reflections about
realistically do to mitigate (lessen) climate changes.How and why would your plan work? (Open response) [Source:https://www.laneysiegner.com/climate-literacy-assessment] [*Rubric: Answers could includediscussion of electric charging infrastructure, improved energy efficiency building standards,solar gardens, reforestation, etc.]II. Climate Change Adaptation Section:1) Which of the following descriptions most completely fits the definition of “climate changeadaptation”? [Sources Note: For (c), it is the definition of “climate resilience” provided by theCenter for Climate and Energy Solutions; For (d), it is the complete UNFCC definition.] a. the measurement and assessment process of climate change-induced environmental hazards b
networks. How would you advocate defensible networks to yourorganization's leadership (if you do not already have one)?ChatGPT Answer:“The concept of a defensible network, as described by Richard Bejtlich, refers to a networkarchitecture that is designed to be secure and resilient against threats and attacks. A defensiblenetwork is one that is carefully planned and structured, with layers of security controls andmonitoring in place to detect and respond to potential threats.I believe that defensible networks are worth the effort for organizations that are concerned aboutthe security and integrity of their data and systems. A well-designed and implemented defensiblenetwork can help to prevent or mitigate the impact of cyber-attacks, which can be
allocated time to plan their micromoment activity for immediate implementation following.December Creating Value Facilitators led a discussion to describe what value means through related to the KEEN Framework and to the students. Creating Motivation value was discussed in two meetings. In this meeting, faculty were introduced to Deci and Ryan’s Self-Determination Theory [15] and how students engage in activities based on autonomy, competence, and relatedness. Undergraduate students were invited to discuss with faculty what motivates them and what
their initial desire. for medicine. She didn’t work hard enough to score well, and she didn’t get accepted into any programs she likes. She had no backup plan and ended up taking her dad’s suggestion to study engineering like her brother was already doing in Dublin. 3. Supernatural The student receives unexpected Her father, retired from the military, joined her for her entire first year in Aid help or advice regarding their Dublin, doing all the cooking, cleaning, ironing, and taking her to the career trajectory