successful students will be able to do at the end of the course because of thecourse. These new skills the students will have should include at least some that are higher-level(create, evaluate, analyze…) and will likely also include some that are lower-level (recall, define,explain…). As an instructor, your first job is to analyze what skills the students must gain inyour course in order to be successful – in later courses, as a working scientist or engineer, etc.Then write student-focused learning outcomes that are SMART (originally defined by GeorgeDoran as Specific, Measurable, Assignable, Realistic, and Time-Related but slightly re-definedto apply to student learning outcomes). Many courses have learning outcomes that are writteneither in terms
Mathematics Department was formed in 2002, and it is akey component of our active mathematics learning community. Currently it has 130 activestudent members, and that number is roughly half of the number of UTA mathematics majors.The average number of the SURGE scholars has been 20, which is about 7% of all UTAmathematics majors and about 15% of the MAA Chapter members. All of our SURGE scholarsare very active in the MAA Student Chapter, and they hold key leadership positions there.Over the last ten years, our MAA Chapter has become a great venue for mathematics majors tointeract with faculty, build a peer support network, develop study skills, enhance professionaldevelopment, perform community services, organize social activities, gain leadership
12engineering topic of self-healing infrastructure, explore contextually relevant knowledge,synthesize actual self-healing concrete samples, and synthesize online and offline findings topresent in front of a peer audience. They are also well-suited to project-based courses and“unconference” sessions that inculcate greater interaction and collaboration between participants.For instance, at the time of writing, Elsevier’s Engineering team has partnered with a series ofAiChE Regional Student Conferences to launch similar sessions having as many as 100participants, to provide a professional development experience around real industry corrosionmitigation and asset management challenges. The format is agnostic to the particular challengeor toolsets used and
demand for graduates who have hands-on experience with ERP software has increasedsignificantly [14]. More so, graduates who have completed ERP coursework have seen a nearly a$4,000 higher average salary than their peers who have no ERP experience [10]. This iscomparable to previous research that has shown career success regarding salaries and promotionsfor students related to performance on simulations [8].An effective set of simulations to develop student knowledge of business process and ERPsystems has been developed by the ERPsim Lab at HEC Montreal https://erpsim.hec.ca/en. TheERPsim Lab has a suite of business simulations using a live SAP ERP software environmentaccessed through the SAP University Alliance (UA). The SAP UA has over 3,200
, environmental, and societal impact of manufacturing.For this activity, students formed themselves into teams of 2-3 students. Part of the lecture timewas devoted in the beginning to explain students about the module, rubrics, assessments anddeliverables. A feedback on student progress was given in week 3 during in class lecture time.Module activities were performed out of class majority of the time. The project stages were asfollows: (i) Week 1-2- Types of Souvenirs-Manufacturing process decided and e-mailed.(ii) Week 3-4- the economic and environmental, impact of manufacturing –paper submission.(iii) Week 5- Report and Presentation. Guidelines about how to write a bid were also given [9].These are given in Appendix 1.To jump start student discussion
. Once ascholar has graduated from NCSU, he/she does not need to repay any of the financial aid back tothe program, nor does he/she need to submit any progress reports back to the STEM Scholarsprogram after graduation.Program ActivitiesAlong with maintaining a high academic merit, each scholar is expected to participate in at leastone extracurricular activity. This includes industry internships, undergraduate research, studyabroad, writing/tutoring services, faculty seminars and workshops, and academic/service on-campus organizations. Participation in such activities enhances students’ academic maturationand professional skills. It helps develop professionalism, teamwork, and time-management skills,which will benefit students in their future
UTAs activity has evolved; in several cases they aresuperseding Graduate Teaching Assistants. First year students relate more with second yearstudents than with graduate students, seen as much older than their peers. Time UTAs spendtutoring students is now greater than it used to be at the beginning of the program. Some of themeven hold regular office hours for specific tasks, for instance Matlab or R.Now that their role is more relevant, their inexperience can have a greater impact on the class. Inaddition we are recruiting many more UTAs, and we cannot expect from all of them the sameexceptional response we had from the few.Literature ReviewAccording to the National Center for Educational Statistics, nearly half of undergraduate STEMmajors
student’s schedule.Universities generally staff career services offices for their students, offering a host of resourceson finding internships, writing resumes and cover letters, and practicing effective interviewstrategies. However, nearly 40% of students never even visit their universities’ career servicesoffices [1]. Disseminating useful information on career and professional development, therefore,must occur through the individual department. And, the timing of such exposure should be suchthat the student can contextualize any career advice received; giving students advice in interviewstrategies, for example, when they are in the midst of finding internships is more effective thanadvice given pre-college, which is naturally proffered in the
performancerelative to the traditional instructional format [14].In STEM education, the flipped classroom model has been found to be used mostly used to teachpure science and mathematics courses. This model has rarely been used to teach subjects from theapplied science, technology, and engineering fields [5]. In a recent study of fifty-eight peer-reviewed research studies on flipped learning in the higher education STEM disciplines, resultsindicate that only about 6% of these studies were conducted in the applied science, technology,and engineering domains [5]. There are a few works where a flipped model has been usedsuccessfully in the applied science, technology, and engineering disciplines ([3]; [7]; [10]; [11];[13]; [10]; [16]). Similar to the non-STEM
yearengineering and computer science students.At UIUC, Redshirt students take a course for credit that focuses on academic support, studyskills, and engineering projects. This course is similar to an introductory engineering coursetaken by all first year students, but has a stronger focus on academic and professionaldevelopment. Students are also required to take a writing course, introductory chemistry course,introductory physics course, and a math course.Pre-matriculation Summer Programs/Community-BuildingAll Redshirt programs have a required pre-matriculation summer program to help students get ajump start on their academics and begin bonding with their Redshirt peers, though theseprograms look quite different from school to school. At CU-B, UW, UIUC
engineering research.Northwestern University’s Master’s Certificate in Translational Biomedical Researchdistinguishes itself from existing programs within Northwestern University and translationalMaster’s (MS) programs offered at other peer institutions in the background of the participatingstudents and its focus. Participants are recruited from the MS student pool within the school ofengineering. The curricular focus is on the integration of engineering in the translationalpathway.The interdisciplinary program is designed to immerse the students in the integrative approachand experience needed to take their engineering background to the clinical space and industry.The certificate program capitalizes on the existing extensive research collaborations
well-being of a patient undergoing physiological recordings as the ultimate goal. Every problemrequires the students writing a discussion addressing the likelihood of having a diagnostic errorand its clinical consequences. The students are required to support their argumentation usingquantitative predictions, the applicable device standards and the medical practicerecommendations issued by the medical societies. The instructor provides handouts with“extracts” and interpretations from the standards that have been either purchased by theUniversity or obtained trough the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) UniversityOutreach Program. For example, the American Heart Association recommendations along withthe International Electrotechnical
comprehensive understanding of the specific needs ofthe customer and sponsors/stakeholders. Solution to this struggle is not addressed in theseSystem Engineering resources. Several of these resources cannot be taught in a few lecturesessions or exercised as in-class activities. Based on our survey, 80 to 90 % of students face thisproblem irrespective of the available resources. The novelty of the 4-step method/approachintroduced in this paper is the logical breakdown of the required steps for defining productrequirements into simple questions and tasks, which can be quickly incorporated as in-classworkshops, peer review exercises, case studies of previous projects and/or sponsor meetings.Moreover, the method tasks and questions can be applied to a wide
earthquake damageimages, coding and testing the machine-learning algorithm, to writing papers for and presentingat conferences. In addition, the unique nature of this project exposes students to a field andpossible career path they may not have encountered in their typical course of study. The authorsprovide a comprehensive discussion of the results of faculty and student surveys/ interviews andconclude by highlighting some of the greatest benefits of the multidisciplinary project. They alsopoint out lessons learned engaging in a project with a large scope, diverse experts (who havelimited knowledge of the partnering disciplines), and a number of undergraduate students whobegan as novices in their respective research area.Introduction:The
socioeconomicbackgrounds, social positioning influences peer-to-peer relations and their status within anengineering team. Furthermore, we aim to explore how this position relates to their engagementwith engineering concepts, practices, and habits. We expect the rich examples of how K-12students experience status in collaborative engineering projects to inform curriculum design andinstructional practice.The methods applied follow a case study approach where video-recorded observations of peerinteractions and one-on-one interviews comprise the data in this case. The case is a two-weeksummer engineering camp for students in grades 6-8. In this case study, we conducted interactionanalysis of the video data by coding peer-to-peer exchanges and the associated impact
demographics of our country are changing at a rapid pace. According to thelast American Community Survey (ACS) from the Census Data (2015), 71.81% of schoolage individuals, who are speakers of languages other than English, identified themselvesas Spanish speakers. Soon, Hispanics and Latinx will become the largest minority in ournation. In this population, 60% of the households are considered by the system as LimitedEnglish Proficiency with low levels of college attainment (US Census, 2015). Yet, yearsof educational reform have no resulted in educational gains for students who are Englishlearners. For instance, during the 2011 NAEP writing assessment, 99% of eighth- andtwelfth-grade students classified as English language learners (ELL) performed
specialized interests (Itoet al., 2009), but it has expanded to be used as a way to describe informal learning experiencesthat seek to support these interactions.High-school aged youth can participate in the weekend program as long a single semester to aslong as four years. Each year, new teenagers are recruited to participate when other teensgraduate. Each cohort of 25 interns includes five returning interns who lead a group of five newinterns. At the start of a 10-week long session, youth in teams are presented with a designchallenge: to imagine then create an engaging and educational visitor experience. Interns work inteams to communicate their ideas effectively with one another as they exchange information andconcepts, and engage in peer-to-peer
than on learning activities in general. A collaborativequiz is one based on the idea of paired programming, a technique that has become well-receivedin computer science. This type of quiz requires the pair of students to program together, usingone computer to turn in one final solution. The second method, a cooperative quiz, allowsstudents to collaborate as much or as little as they prefer. For a cooperative quiz, students musteach use their own computer to write and submit their own solution, but any collaboration withtheir partner is allowed. To account for student preferences for active or independent learning,these strategies were also guided by how students are paired. To do this, the Felder-Silvermanlearning style inventory was used to
teaches graduate-level engineering communication courses. Her research involves engineering commu- nication, technical communication pedagogy, and knowledge transfer. She has published and presented widely including work in the Journal of Engineering Education, the Journal of STEM Education: Innova- tions and Research, IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication, the Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, Technical Communication and Technical Communication Quarterly. Julie has a PhD in Rhetoric and Professional Communication from New Mexico State University, an MA in English with Technical Writing Emphasis from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, and a BA in English from Elon University.Dr
required from each team that details the team’swork in order to integrate the various components into the complete design 7 . The entire team willbe responsible for ensuring its completeness and organization. The submission of the designprojects is mandatory. Completion of the prototype is a requirement of this course, which isdefined as the building, testing, and evaluation of the prototype. Additionally, each student will berequired to maintain an engineering logbook of the efforts on the project, keeping track of thetime spent, the tasks being worked on, etc. The logbook is submitted to the instructor at the timeof the final examination. Peer evaluations also are used for assigning grades, which increasescooperative learning 8 .The major
programming platform that provides feedbackon incorrect code entries. The homework problems generally require fewer than 5 lines of codeto answer a homework problem relating to a single programming concept (e.g. define a variable,write an expression comparing two variables, write an if statement), whereas the projects ask thestudent to write a program that accomplishes a specific task requiring blocks of code that can beup to 30 lines long.The comparison being made takes account of two separate semesters of the course, Fall 2016 andFall 2017. In 2016, the programming component of the course was a 6-week portion of thecourse with Chapters 1-6. For this study, the researchers only used Chapters 1-5 to be consistentwith the chapters used in 2017. In
wasformative, conversations centered on how to use the information for improvement. Formativefeedback from instructional coaching provided a roadmap for improvement, and helped move theconversation away from final, summative evaluations of teaching ability that are commonly apart of performance reviews. Feedback was specific and timely.Professor K (see Table 3) asked, “Could you write a letter for my P and T case about my partici-pation in the grant and observations?” K’s unit head was very receptive to including such a letterin the promotion dossier. Observations made by a trained professional using the RTOP instru-ment are a reliable supplement and possible replacement for peer observations that are often usedto support the promotion and tenure
commented that it might be useful to find ways thatassessments could be built into the courses such that they do not conflict with the final projects.Despite the difficulties the staff members believed that quantitative tools could be useful andcomplement qualitative assessments. They stated that sometimes it is difficult for youth toexpress themselves through online writing. Additionally, some youth are not as expressiveduring public events such as the showcase. While anecdotal information from the youth parentsand peers showed positive outcomes, capturing these using structured, detailed methods wouldbe useful. Thus, the staff expressed that with better assessment tools and procedures, surveys orquestionnaires could still be useful in this
. Discuss the results based on statistical theory;9. Write the final report with the team members and prepare the poster for final presentation in consultation with the academic training advisor. Submit the final report and make the oral and poster presentation.In addition, this project is designed to fully/partially satisfy some of the ABET's student learningoutcomes (a-k) and/or proposed new outcomes (1-7) that include:b. An ability to design and conduct experiments, as well as to analyze and interpret data (new outcome 3);c. An ability to design a system, component, or process to meet desired needs within realistic constraints such as safety, manufacturability, and sustainability (new outcome 2);d. An ability to function on
-centered computing, and interdisciplinary research methods for studying cognition. I have written 140 articles on these topics, including over 80 peer-reviewed scholarly publica- tions. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 From toys to tools: UAVs in middle school engineering education (RTP, Diversity)AbstractWe have developed, implemented, and studied a 16-week, afterschool engineering programaimed at low-income middle school youth. The curriculum is based on Unmanned AerialVehicles (UAV/Drones), which participating youth must use and modify as appropriate toconduct a range of scientific investigations, culminating in the aerial survey of a mock
this case provided by the NASA Space Grant.The student is living minority status in three dimensions (3D) as being a woman, a first-generation college student, and a Native American studying engineering.It is fascinating to analyze how one’s environment and experiences influence their resiliency.Data will be collected on her readiness for an academic career along measures including but notlimited to understanding of the research process, skills in academic writing, self-efficacy, andcompetence in oral presentation. The case study will explore her story. What experiences shapedher determination and brought her to this level, and what benefit did she gain from NASA Spacegrant? The goal is that sharing her story will encourage others to believe
onenhancing communication skills (thesis, grant, and award writing, oral presentations, etc.) thatwill help students be successful in their research. The knowledge translation activity takes placewithin this mandatory course and students usually take this course in the first semester of theirgraduate studies. The learning outcomes for this course are framed as follows: 1) apply searchtechniques to inform and support research, 2) create a thesis proposal, 3) evaluate written andoral work, 4) communicate your thesis to a non-specialist audience and 5) transfer yourknowledge to a broad audience. To enable these outcomes, the course was structured with a mixof individual and team work. Students worked individually to deliver a 4-page written
students to improvisation through a series of warm-ups and games.Facilitators then lead a discussion of how science and technology have changed in the past 100years, followed by a group activity in which they build an artifact from 100 years in the future.The workshop culminates with a performance during which the students work with theperformers to envision the ways their designed artifacts might impact future societies.One of workshops primary learning goals is to help students develop a growth mindset, thus,potentially enhancing retention in STEM. Part and parcel to building a growth mindset isenabling students to confidently and effectively communicate with their peers and instructors.This is accomplished by providing an environment where
students to expand their learning by exercising creative andcritical thinking skills in small groups.2016-2017 – In response to student feedback, two modifications were made to the course: 1) animmersive approach used to introduce critical thinking as a framework within a module onengineering design failures and accident investigation rather than as its own module on criticalthinking theory and 2) the use of peer evaluations was eliminated. This stronger connection toapplication of the theory in the engineering profession improved student engagement with themodule. In this module students are shown how the critical thinking framework [3] is used touncover the sources of the failures and use that knowledge to prevent repeating the samemistake. Next
capability for engineering education.Dr. Timothy Yuen, University of Texas at San Antonio Timothy T. Yuen is an Associate Professor of Instructional Technology in the College of Education and Human Development at the University of Texas at San Antonio. His research investigates how learning technologies and transformative practices can improve learning, engage students, and broaden participa- tion in computer science and engineering.Stephanie Ann Garcia, University of Texas, San Antonio Stephanie Garcia is a Graduate Research Assistant with a MAED from the University of Texas at San Antonio with a concentration in Curriculum and Instruction. Her work with TRESTLE involves training Peer Assisted Learners (PALs) and