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- early and industry industry experts opportunities recruitment experts opportunitiesThe participants were surveyed about their experience with this project and encouraged to providefeedback. Overall, the diverse nature of the team involved in this project was instrumental to itssuccess. No one member held all of the knowledge needed to answer the research questions posed.Each member of the team was aware of his or her responsibility within the execution plan of theproject.Participating in projects such as these has been shown to build student self-efficacy as well as asense of belonging [14] [15]. These attributes contributed to the overall success of
spaceshad a positive impact on many attributes vital to engineering, such as design and analyticalabilities, design self-efficacy, communication skills, management skills, and working effectivelyas a team [6], [8], [9], [10].About the MakerspaceThe makerspace being studied is relatively new, having only opened in 2016. The space isapproximately 1700 sq. ft. and is divided into several distinct areas. The front of the room closeto the entrance has a dual-function whiteboard/table, a couch, and a 60” monitor. It is setup formeetings, training for new users, lectures, planning, and if desired, relaxing. The middle of theroom has several large tables and is designed for testing out ideas and assembling small tomedium sized projects. The area can also
60minutes in length were conducted with four current or former CPMs. Interview questions askedstudents to describe how they approached narrowing down needs, developed clinical handbooksand videos, identified and scoped clinical problems, and assisted clinicians with their designproject proposals in order to investigate what students learned from their experience.The interview protocol was developed through multiple iterations and included additionalquestions probing rationale for program participation, expectations, and career goals to elucidatethe students’ expectancy, values, and self-efficacy about their experiences [2, 3, 4]. Samplequestions from the interview are listed in Table 2. Table 2: Types of questions asked
of here than we have to. I mean not in a bad way like I equipment for personal projects, love this space.” ease in learning, application of Student: “So I'd really like to come in and make skills, enthusiasm, engagement, something I've just been busy you know.” self-efficacy, struggle, creative Director: “It's people that I see here on a daily basis expression coming in utilizing the equipment, having that spark, that desire to be here.” Affordances and Student independence, Student: “… and then timing management is, well like
time when (an instructor) asked us to write, I was like ‘ughhh.’ Ihad no idea. I just made up something. I did not know how to tackle it. I definitely did not try inthat class.”Whether students acquire these self-concepts through exposure to stereotypes or throughunpleasant experiences in writing (e.g., “red pencil” comments and poor grades), they interferewith students’ acquisition of technical communication habits and impede writing fluency,especially critical in a career where so much rests on the ability to communicate complexconcepts accurately and clearly. As demonstrated in one review of the research on self-efficacyand writing achievement [40], self-efficacy may influence students’ choice of majors and thusengineering students may
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succeed, ortheir self-efficacy, is a major limiting factor for identity development [25], [26].Unique in the research around middle and high school engineering identity is an investigation ofthe background factors that predict engineering students’ engineering identity and success factorswithin an aerospace engineering program [27]. This study examined 98 aerospace engineeringstudents’ backgrounds through both qualitative and quantitative measures. Both the qualitativeand quantitative data indicated the importance of pre-college engineering experiences on thedevelopment of an engineering identity. The authors stated that “we found that takingengineering classes in high school or middle school significantly increases the development of
primarily designed and implemented byMerrimack College’s STEM Education majors – college students studying to be STEM teachersat the elementary and middle school level. The engineering students therefore support the STEMEducation majors and the local youth.Through participation in this program, engineering majors practice their technical skills, discoverthat they HAVE technical skills, and practice their communication skills at the same time -developing higher self-efficacy and seeing the community’s need for the skills they already have.Meanwhile, middle school students are mentored by college students, gaining insight into what itwill take to be on that path, and being inspired to take up a career in STEM. Finally, STEMEducation majors provide
303L) was increased to 2 credit hours in 2014 and to 3 Engaging biomedical engineering (BME) students in the credit hours in 2016 to allow for more time to teachfirst year has been an important part of The University of engineering design and analysis topics. The first design/labTexas at Austin’s strategy to improve student motivation, module for BME 303L is an alginate bead drug delivery whichretention, and self-efficacy. First year engineering curricula has been
, 2002, p. 110). In the context of this study, the expectancy-value theorypredicts that students’ motivation to develop and practice leadership will be influenced by theirperceived level of importance of, and their subjective competency in, this skill. Understandingstudents’ perceived importance of leadership ability and their confidence in it can therefore shedlight on their motivation to develop and practice this skill (Chan et al., 2017).In the expectancy-value theory, expectancies can also be understood in terms of self-efficacy, inthat “an individual’s beliefs about their abilities influence their motivation to engage in relatedlearning activities” (Chan et al., 2017, p. 303). In other words, students’ perception of theircompetency in
been sparse research conducted on non-traditional collegestudents, and in particular those who have career paths in engineering and science. It is howeveruseful to note the important work of Rosenbaum and his colleagues who have studied suchstudents.18 These researchers determined that in general, community colleges performed poorlyin terms of providing out-of-class support to their non-traditional students. Our study measures,build upon the work of Deil-Amen, Rosenbaum and colleagues in addition to our pilotcommunity college engineering and science study that informed this research design.What must be better understood about community college support for studentsCommunity colleges have taken on a “demand absorbing” role, which includes
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courses, students were incentivized witha nominal amount of extra credit for the course in which they were recruited. All studentscompleted an electronic survey online and outside of class. Surveys were collected withidentifying information so that duplicates could be removed before aggregating data for analysis.All results were cross-sectional. In the survey, students reported their perceptions of variousitems related to engagement, belonging, effort, peer harassment, task value, self-efficacy, TA andfaculty interactions, and other measures of course achievement as well as multiple demographicitems.InstrumentsThe part of the study reported in this paper focuses on a five primary engagement variables andfour demographic measures (gender, race
experiences to assist students with choosing an intended major [1]. The commonfirst-year experience provides students with a place to explore and address their misconceptionsabout the engineering profession and its disciplines, a setting which student motivations becometangled with those of the department and faculty.MUSIC model of academic motivationMotivation theories attempt to explain the relationships between beliefs, values, and goals withrespect to action. A number of motivational theories are related to the student themselves such asSelf-Determination Theory [5], Expectancy-Value Theory [12, 13] or Self-Efficacy [14]. In thisstudy, the MUSIC model of academic motivation [4] was used to measure student motivation inthe FYE courses. The MUSIC
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) their experience in professional seminars.This reflects ongoing work in the multiple dimensions of identity development, particularly inconnecting academic competence (‘can I do this’, or academic self-efficacy) to professionalaspirations (‘do I belong’, or professional role confidence).Course Performance - ‘The Ultimatum’Course performance is the first measure freshman students use to determine how well they fitin the engineering program. This was true across majority groups and underrepresentedstudents. However, many students who were well prepared and had strong family supportcommented that adjusting to college and learning how to study were the biggest obstacles theyfaced during their first year. Those students, who arrived to college with
students’ self-efficacy [44]. Our own work has built on this approach, finding thatdiverse undergraduate students bring engineering assets from their everyday experiences [1-3].Like funds of knowledge, asset-based approaches aim to meet students where they are, valuingtheir experiences and engaging them as co-constructors of their expertise [45].In this study, we extend prior research on asset-based approaches by investigating how to helpstudents see professional skills as assets they and their teammates bring.MethodsWe used the design-based research (DBR) approach to developing and testing our theory thathaving students view their teammates from a strengths-based stance and critically consider theircollective team strengths and gaps would help
and URM who passed the test increased dramatically by the end of the semester,closing the gap in spatial ability initially observed at the start of the semester.Students who did not attend the workshop also showed significant increases in their test scores however.This result could indicate that completing the graphics course yields similar improvements in spatial skillsas completing the workshop. The question then arises: what advantage does the workshop provide overthe engineering graphics course itself? If significant improvements in spatial ability can be made after a 4-week workshop session, in comparison to a 14-week graphics course, the workshop could have a positiveoutcome in student self-efficacy and potentially stronger learning
tracked for five semestersbeyond.Foundationally, this engineering major discernment study is theoretically founded in SocialCognitive Career Theory (SCCT) to consider students decisions14-15. SCCT is used to evaluate thegoals, outcomes expectations, and self-efficacy beliefs14. An engineering education based studyon engineering major discernment used SCCT by VanDeGrift and Lao reported that courseprojects, faculty advisory interactions, and other laboratory experiences were influential inengineering major selection. The current study expects to reveal that other targeted courseexperiences would likewise influence students16.Research Questions: 1. How effective is the engineering informed decision making module at meeting its intended goals
promote effective knowledge construction (i.e., mentalprocess in which a learner takes many separate pieces of information and usesthem to build an overall understanding or interpretation), skill mastery (i.e.,learning a skill thoroughly), learning transfer, and motivational aspects associatedwith effective learning, such as self-efficacy (i.e., belief that one is capable ofexecuting certain tasks and achieving certain goals) and mastery orientation (i.e.,belief that one is capable of accomplishing challenging tasks) [10].With a digital twin, students can get immediate feedback on system behavior (inresponse to what-if injects), identify issues, and develop a mental model for howthe physical twin is likely to perform in the real-world under
process,communication skills, and research self-efficacy [2-4].In order to provide multidisciplinary, authentic research opportunities for undergraduate studentsat all academic levels, from institutions without significant resarch activity, and from groupstraditionally underrrepresented in STEM, two NSF-funded Engineering Research Centers(ERCs) put forth a joint Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) site addressing theNational Academy of Engineering’s grand engineering challenges [5]. This REU experience isdesigned to give students a multidisciplinary perspective on the global energy challenge. In-depth research topics ranging from nano-scale human body energy harvesting all the way tomanaging distribution of energy on the grid are
in the optimization of product development [35, 36]. Similarly, in our work,we have found that senior engineering students’ engineering design self-efficacy wassubstantially increased through particular creativity training [37]; other benefits associated withteaching creativity in the engineering curriculum derive from the overall increase in studentperformance [7, 38]. During this work, our group measured substantial increases in key outcomemeasures of creativity from engineering students who underwent a semester-long senior designcourse using evidence-based methods (that implement specific creativity learning methods intothe traditional engineering coursework) [39-42].None of these studies, however, has focused on the impact of creativity
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a result of receiving the TPT, and if not,faculty advisors have long been found to support satisfying what barriers do they report?degree programs, student self-efficacy, progress toward 4. Did BME students engage in any career developmentgoals, and future career success [7-9]. Previous research behaviors as a result of receiving the TPT? Proceedings of the 2018 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Section Annual Conference The University of Texas at Austin April 4-6, 20182. Materials and Methods students would receive the pre-survey, TPT, and post-2.1 Fall 2016 Study
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, autonomy, andrelatedness. In other words, students’ individual motivation is constrained by the normsof the classroom (Goldin et al. 2016). When students’ basic psychological needs aresupported by the classroom structure, they are more likely to internalize their motivationto learn (Niemec & Ryan 2009). Many prior studies in education, ranging fromelementary school to college, have shown the importance of promoting autonomousregulation in the classroom (Deci et al. 1991). In general, more autonomous forms ofmotivation have been linked to increased interest, excitement, and confidence. This hasbeen shown to lead to higher performance and persistence, even among students with thesame level of self-efficacy (Ryan & Deci 2000).ContextTo study
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[17] to assess students’systems thinking skills. In addition to gauging changes in students' systems thinking skills via aconcept inventory, the effects of the learning materials are assessed by studying changes instudents' self-efficacy and surveying students on the appeal of the new learning materials.Results are presented for a class of 37 students that features a mix of undergraduate and graduatestudents. The graduate students form a particularly interesting cohort in that they havepresumably previously taken a conventional capstone senior design course as undergraduatestudents.This paper is organized as follows. First, a description of the course is provided along with aglimpse into the curriculum structure and student backgrounds
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