undergraduate cross-class researchproject (UCCRP) which relies on hands-on projects that students can work on throughout their4–6 years of undergraduate studies with a mixture of students from all undergraduate levels andmentored by peers, TAs, and instructors. The UCCRP was successfully implemented at Texas A&MUniversity at Qatar and the details of one project and its results are delineated here. Student self-assessment, competency based assessment, and the “structure of the observed learning outcome(SOLO)” technique are used to assess the level of attainment of the intended learning outcomes (ILOs).Key words: Experiential Learning, Project Based Learning, Achievement Goal Orientation Theory,Outcome Based Learning, Undergraduate Research
undergraduate cross-class researchproject (UCCRP) which relies on hands-on projects that students can work on throughout their4–6 years of undergraduate studies with a mixture of students from all undergraduate levels andmentored by peers, TAs, and instructors. The UCCRP was successfully implemented at Texas A&MUniversity at Qatar and the details of one project and its results are delineated here. Student self-assessment, competency based assessment, and the “structure of the observed learning outcome(SOLO)” technique are used to assess the level of attainment of the intended learning outcomes (ILOs).Key words: Experiential Learning, Project Based Learning, Achievement Goal Orientation Theory,Outcome Based Learning, Undergraduate Research
. Students write about their experience during the last ten (10) minutes of class. Students wrote they felt “refreshed” after the meditation experience and were going to try to add reflective time to focus on stress management into their schedules. Many students were very concerned about their Life Stressors Index and wrote about coping mechanisms they plan to employ in order to improve their own lives. They also wrote about how they will look for signs of distress in their construction crews and work to improve work-life balance for themselves and their subordinates.Week 4 – Leadership, Personality, and Learning Styles The module begins by juxtaposing the definitions of leadership and management. For this first class in the
active learning and peer-to-peerinteraction in the online environment. Expert talks feature faculty members from variousinstitutions and industry professionals discussing their research and industry related-work aroundspecific challenges within each theme and promote deeper understanding of the issues.Throughout the course, students also work on a project involving entrepreneurially-mindedlearning (EML). They identify an opportunity to create value related to one or more of the fourthemes; perform customer discovery and needs analysis; imagine and develop a futuristicsolution to address the needs; identify and research current technologies, which, when furtherdeveloped, could enable the development and implementation of their futuristic solution
the 2019 RAMP program, and how wepropose to continue this iterative process in the 2020 RAMP program. As we write this, RAMPin 2020 is expected to be fully online, a virtual program, as we shelter from the Covid-19 virus.Finally, we suggest why the PAR approach may be especially helpful for creating moresupportive and beneficial environments for women in engineering majors.In Section 2.0 RAMP student recruitment and demographics are discussed. The design andimplantation of PAR focus groups and online survey methods are presented in Section 3.0.Section 4.0 shows the results of data analysis and Section 5.0 summarizes the contributions andoutlines future work.2.0 RAMP Student Recruitment and DemographicsThe RAMP program is advertised to all
neutral and 14% disagreed. Questions 10and 11 evaluated the communications skills. Over 90% agreed that the project successfullyenhanced their skills on writing effective reports and reporting the solution to the customer while10% were neutral and 5% disagreed. Similarly, 91% strongly and 9% agreed that the projecthelped them to improve their skill on working with their peers. Survey Results 100 90 80 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 0 No.1 No.2 No.3 No.4 No.5 No.6 No.7 No.8 No.9 No.10 No.11
spatialability has been shown to be a predictor of student success in first-year engineering students [12].The students are also trained to develop metacognitive skills and work to develop growth mindsets,both of which have been linked to success in STEM courses [13–15]. Importantly, this seminar isalso serving as the launch point for peer and faculty mentoring.Engaged engineering projects: As part of this project, Scholars are invited to participate inEngaged Engineering projects which focus on enabling our Scholars to tackle real-world/authenticdesign challenges [16] with the goals of improving sense of belonging [17, 18], and gainingengineering skills that are required for upper level capstone senior projects, and, more broadly, theworkplace [19]. We
knowledgestudents have assimilated through various courses in their major for professional success. ProjBLpedagogy has been adopted and implemented in ME425. This engaged pedagogy aims to helpstudents enhance their cognitive, non-cognitive and critical thinking skills through engineeringdesign tasks.CMG250 has been identified as one of the most critical courses in the Construction Managementmajor. ProjBL has been adopted and implemented for CMG250 course. In this course anindependent project is assigned to each student to calculate the estimation of a building project.The students work on the project with their peers with necessary guidance from the instructor.The project aims to improve students’ study habits, and enhance their abilities for
Construction (ASC)competition. The ASC competition then serves as the model for the culminating event, in whichthese 12 students leverage their experience to assume a leadership role among their peers. Nearthe end of the second semester, students transition from their traditional capstone coursesequence to a culminating design event. During this transition, the 12 students who participatedin the ASC competition form teams of 12-15 students each, which they will lead as they competeacademically to “win” a design-build contract for a real project. Teams integrate students’experiences from four sub-disciplines represented in the major: construction, environmental,geotechnical, and structural engineering. Additionally, both faculty members and
School Psychology at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She has extensive research experience in the field of psy- chology. Her thesis explored the influence of individual differences in executive functioning on learning outcomes in active learning environments.Dr. Chuang Wang, University of Macau Dr. Wang is Distinguished Professor of Quantitative Research Methodology at the University of Macau. His expertise includes educational research design, statistical data analyses, and program evaluation. He has published 7 books, 19 book chapters, 103 peer-reviewed journal articles, and 12 conference proceed- ings. Dr. Wang also has 18 invited presentations and 98 paper presentations at national and international
introduced the basics of scientific literature searches, hypothesis creation, andresearch methods. The worksheet was instructor-led, but also served as a reference guide as theparticipants completed their research projects. The next activity introduced participants to peerreview and feedback. The participants were able to present their proposed research topics to theirpeers and instructors and get “peer review” feedback, which they integrated into their projectdesign.The next activity was an introduction to writing college-level research reports and incorporatingcitations, beginning with how and why sources are used and how to cite sources properly. Thesession then covered data, information, and statistical analysis. The instructor pointed out
Mentz, University of Wisconsin-Platteville Randy Mentz joined the University of Wisconsin-Platteville staff in 2003 as a field technician for the university’s Pioneer Farm in the Agro-Ecosystem Research program. Mentz’s main duty was operating and maintaining edge-of-field runoff monitoring stations that were designed to measure and sample storm and snowmelt runoff water from farm fields. With experience, he took on additional responsibilities, such as data management, quality assurance, methods development, data analysis, presenting at conferences, grant writing support, grant administration, training and supervision, outreach, and project management. Mentz joined the Division of Professional Studies in June
Engineers. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Misunderstandings, mistakes, and dishonesty: A post-hoc analysis of a large- scale plagiarism case in a first-year computer programming courseIntroduction In this evidence-based practice paper, we discuss the issue of plagiarism in a first-yearengineering computer programming course. Plagiarism is an issue that can plague any coursethat asks students to submit independently created work. Traditionally, plagiarism has beenassociated with writing assignments, and there are a wide variety of tools and interventionsavailable for both identifying and preventing plagiarism on these assignments. However,although computer programming courses also report a
of designing solutions for ill-structured problems [2]. Wewanted to understand this reflection-in-action component. Like the “water” that the fish swimthrough in Wallace’s story, we see parallels to the ways in which our design students navigatethe design processes they engage in. Here, questioning “what the hell is water?” is a moment ofreflection-in-action. Schön writes that professional practitioners often consider their actionswhile they are doing them and states that they ask questions like “‘What features do I noticewhen I recognize this thing? What are the criteria by which I make this judgment? Whatprocedures am I enacting when I perform this skill? How am I framing the problem that I amtrying to solve?’” (pg 50).Our goal for our
research projects. He has collaborated extensively with colleagues across the University on the design, analysis, and presentation of data from both surveys and experiments. He is a co-author on peer-reviewed publications and a co-PI on funded research projects each year. He teaches both undergraduate and graduate level courses in statistical methods, regression analysis, statistical research design, and data analysis. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Towards Creating Motivationally Supportive Course Structures for Introductory CalculusAbstractThis paper reports the qualitative phase of a sequential explanatory mixed
format. For example, in a face-to-face format, collaboration and pairprogramming works well. Some instructors have even been successful implementing distributedpair programming in an online course [5]. However, in a flexible schedule, online format (Flex),the implementation of these activities is particularly challenging. In the Flex format, studentsstart the course at different points in the semester, work at their own pace and may not beworking on the same module at the same time. The asynchronous nature of the class makes itparticularly difficult for students to interact with each other. We propose the use of discussionboards within the learning management system to help create peer-to-peer code sharingexperiences in a Flex class. In this
Women in Computer Science (WiCS), the Director of the Computer Science Fellows program, and is a KEEN Fellow. She has authored and co- authored over fifty peer-reviewed papers. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Code Hardening: Development of a Reverse Software Engineering Project AbstractIn CSI 2334, “Introduction to Computer Systems” (CompSys), at Baylor University, we introduce agroup project to the students whose purpose is to simulate a team project on the job. Group projectsare used very frequently to provide a similar learning environment which capitalizes on the benefitsof peer-to-peer instruction, or cooperative learning. In this group
undergraduate world where engineersare often working in groups consisting of peers of different levels of age, knowledge andexperience [1]. Therefore, exposing students to a cross-cohort project would introduce them to anenvironment more similar to what they would experience in the future. This type of projects, hashad positive impact on students’ learning by providing the opportunity for them to see theapplication of theoretical course concepts through design and analysis of engineering systems [2].Literature Review: Current research has shown that multidisciplinary group projects inengineering education is beneficial to students since it better reflects the standard practice inindustry [3, 4]. Though this paper is discussing an interdisciplinary
graduated courses in their senior year.Novel Technical Elective – Cpr E 432 Cyber Security PracticumThis course focuses on the design and implementation of a secure networked environment that ispenetration tested by peers in the course. Evaluations are made of each environment andwhether it withstood testing, as well as what vulnerabilities were able to be exploited. After thisattack phase, students complete an evaluation of their security plans and take the necessaryremediation steps to further harden their networked environment. The lecture targets the tacticsneeded to be taken by the students in their weekly lab practicum. In addition to using technicalskills, students use their technical writing skills in their design documents
these materials were investigated. During the concluding ceremony of theSAMS program, a mini-symposium-style final project presentation gave students the opportunityto share their results and educate their peers about their insights on the role of sustainableengineering in their respective domain.IntroductionThe development of pipelines for students to introduce them to STEM careers before college andto increase their confidence in STEM-related skills is the key for the students’ success [1-5]. In2001, the Summer Academy for Math and Science (SAMS) program at Carnegie MellonUniversity was established to provide opportunities for rising high school seniors fromunderrepresented communities (i.e., students that belong to one or more of the
amicroaggression scale than their White peers (Forrest-Bank & Jenson, 2015). As these slightinsults may be intentional or unintentional, microaggressions likely have contributed to theracial/ethnic and gender disparities in the engineering field. Within the last decade, engineeringeducators have expressed interest microaggressions and how these interactions impact thelearning environment, later workplace. Table 1 Microaggression Taxonomy, Sue et al. (2007) and Lewis and Neville (2015) Microinsult Microinvalidation Microassault Ascription of Alien in own land Assumptions about Intelligence style & beauty
increase the likelihood of first-yearand second-year student retention for low-income STEM students as compared to theirincome/high school GPA-ACT (or SAT)/geography-matched peers within STEM? RuralArkansas has experienced economic hardships that have severely limited STEM education-relatedresources for K-12 students as school systems in these areas have continued to struggle financially[3]. Data have also shown that students from rural areas receive limited exposure to academicenrichment programs. This can lead to lower levels of confidence as well as the belief that theyare not prepared to be successful in STEM programs [4]-[11]. Secondly, can the PTG supportinitiatives significantly increase the average first-year and second-year GPA for low
learninginclude that students dislike forced interaction, dislike the increased responsibility for their ownlearning, and prefer instruction solely from an expert perspective [7]. The distribution ofcriticisms of active learning techniques are adopted as identifying elements of their practice inthe corresponding three categories: ‘Increased Interaction’, ‘Increased Responsibility’ and‘Decreased Expertise’. Decreased expertise in this context involves removal of the professor asthe primary authority for information as presented from the peer-directed activity; their peers areviewed as having decreased expertise compared to the knowledge of the instructor. It is ofinterest if there is parity in the criticism of the presented active learning activities in
three areas in which I believe graduate students will benefit most: developing coursematerials, in-classroom experience, and receiving feedback. For developing course materials, Ifound meeting with my faculty mentor before the semester began to discuss the syllabus and courseevolution was helpful for seeing how past experience can be used to continuously improve a course.Meetings with our supervising professor and graduate student peers were opportunities to brainstormand refine my ideas for in-class activities. Also as a result of our meetings and reflective writing, Iwas able to ensure that each activity could be mapped to the learning objectives. For example, thein-class worksheet for my instrumentation lecture was a tool for students to
unusually large population of students who were homeschooledwhen they graduated from high school (about 1/5 of students university wide and 1/4 of studentscurrently enrolled in the School of Engineering and Computer Science). In this paper, I investigatethe retention rate and calculus readiness for homeschooled students entering the School ofEngineering and Computer Science as compared with their non-homeschooled peers.In this study, I hypothesized that homeschooled students might have a different likelihood tosucceed in engineering school compared to their non-homeschooled peers. The results of the datastudy support this hypothesis and suggest that homeschooled students are more likely than othersto succeed in engineering school, with retention in
, project-based learning but also gives students opportunities to develop the ability towork in a team to accomplish self-assigned responsibilities; give and receive peer critique; anddevelop empathy. A common reason for student interest in the course is motivation to make apositive contribution to society. Table II. Representative comments from student reflections on HuskyADAPT course “…it was wonderful to work on a project that individuals have a real need for. Many of my design experiences have involved hypothetical end products that don't necessarily benefit its potential users.” “I really enjoyed the difficulty of the challenges presented to me in this project. Most engineering challenges are very deterministic and straight forward, whereas
increases culturalcompetence and creates a graduate experience that enhances the success of diverse andinclusive graduates and future faculty: A variety of initiatives have been identified to addressdepartment concerns: (1) Develop a mentor-mentee work/communication styles learning moduleinto the graduate program core course required for all new graduate students, (2) Host aworkshop on how to write and evaluate a job application diversity statement that will trainfaculty and graduate students, (3) Develop a peer mentoring program for graduate students, and(4) Provide conference travel funds for graduate student(s) and/or faculty member(s) toparticipant in a conference URM program/event, (4) To revisit the doctoral qualifyingexamination in
I2C question in TCES430 exam Fig. 2. A programming I2C question in exam checking Individual effortsOne feature of our teaching of µPs/µCs is that students are required to write to low level registers directlyinstead of calling existing library functions. Still using I2C lab as an example, students needed to generatethe right sequences of calling functions in transmitting/receiving data as shown below in Fig. 3, with allthe functions writing to low levels by referring to datasheets [12], as shown in Fig. 4. Fig. 3. Implementing I2C communication by calling functions in main() Fig. 4. Example code segments of developing I2C functions by writing to registers directlyWe note here that when the microcontroller
toward the institutional mean, others tendingnegatively away from it. We conclude that NSSE-IL in 2016 has in fact allowed us to observe ananomaly, that Seniors in one specific program do not share a perception of information literacyexperiences in common with their peers in other programs at the same institution; this, in spite ofwording in the survey instrument that includes built-in assumptions that, taken at face value,could have led to an inaccurate or misleading profile of GVSU Engineering graduates'experience.IntroductionHigher education in the twenty first century is increasingly driven to engage in continuousimprovement cycles toward goals of delivering an excellent educational experience, effectivelearning, and well-prepared graduates
) interpreting acquitted data. Scientific writing; National fellowships. BBL Jul. Continue research tasks. Plan/adapt &/or invoke Seminars: Effective poster presentations; Writing (Week-8) contingency plans to finish on time. abstracts, papers & publishing. BBL Jul. Abstract due! Wrap-up research. Prepare Seminars: Conflict Resolution; Transition from (Week-9) paper/presentation/poster. Trial presentation. undergrad to grad school/beyond. BBL Aug. Research paper due! Group presentation. Poster due/presentation! TAMU Summer(Week-10) Formulate individual career plans (guided). Research Symposium. Awards ceremony.@ TAMU Post-program survey (by