College Academic PerformanceCohort 2 is in their second semester of college as of this writing. Thus, there is limited collegeacademic performance and retention data for them. However, we examined several objectiveindicators that were available: fall semester math course grades, fall semester grade pointaverage, and spring semester enrollment at the University. The data are shown in Table 2 for thebridges combined and in Tables 5a and 5b for the programs separately. Math course letter gradeswere converted to a numeric grade point equivalent using a standard scale (e.g., A = 4.0, F =0.0). Students who participated in the math-intensive summer bridge programs earnedstatistically higher grades, by half a letter grade, in their first college math
STEM education. His second research strand focuses on studying STEM classroom interactions and subsequent effects on student understanding. He is a co- developer of the Reformed Teaching Observation Protocol (RTOP) and his work has been cited more than 2200 times and he has been published in multiple peer-reviewed journals such as Science Education and the Journal of Research in Science Teaching.Dr. Keith D. Hjelmstad, Arizona State University Keith D. Hjelmstad is Professor of Civil Engineering in the School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment at Arizona State University.Prof. James A. Middleton, Arizona State University James A. Middleton is Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and
practices prevalent in high school and introductory university physics and math courses, and developing recommendations to increase gender diversity in engineering education and the engineering profession. Kathy is an elected Councillor for APEGBC (the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of British Columbia), has served on several educational and governance committees at Camosun College, and is a qualified restorative justice facilitator, peer coach and liturgical musician. Page 26.1734.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Where are the women
other concepts.As a last step in the study, each participant was asked to group their concepts into categories ofsimilar designs. The intent was for the individuals to assess the commonalities emerging from theirconcepts over their entire set. A survey question asked students: Consider your set of concepts again. Some concepts may seem related, while others are one of a kind. How many different KINDS of concepts are in your set? Write down each group of similar concepts in your set. Add a label to describe why you put them together. Make sure every concept is listed either in a group or by itself.The complete session lasted 75 minutes.Data AnalysisAll of the students completed the exercise within the time frame of the
support the collaborative teamwork during the week at theNB.Compared with their peers, significantly fewer veterans under the age of 30 have completed anassociate’s degree or higher, arguably in part due to the military occupations in lieu of collegeexperiences. While this gap in college degrees decreases between veterans and non-veterans ofolder cohorts, the observed spike in unemployment for veterans underscores the importance ofproviding programs and services that support a successful transition to post-military careers(Dayton, 2016; Rothwell, 2014). Exploration throughout the course of the NWP may shed morelight on this observed finding, clarifying if other factors, besides the obvious choice differencesin post-high school directions, may
theirprototypes and prepare and present a detailed progress report as well as a final engineering reportand present their work in a seminar-type venue.As Student Learning Outcomes the following are pertinent to our sequence: 1) Students gain experience and expertise in solving real-world design problems and communicating their results in a professional format, in both written reports and presentations. 2) Significantly improve students’ skills in the areas of system analysis and design, technical writing, public speaking, teamwork, project and time management.Senior design course sequence is a part of our core curriculum since the inception of thisprogram (2002) and ever since the following schedule has been followed:Deliverables
international conference on interaction design and children (pp. 613-616). ACM.Bowen, G. A. (2009). Document analysis as a qualitative research method. Qualitative Research Journal, 9(2), 27-40.Brahms, L., & Crowley, K. (2016). Making Sense of Making: Defining Learning Practices in MAKE Magazine1. Makeology: Makers as Learners, 2, 13-28.Buechley, L. (2013). Closing Keynote: FabLearn 2013. October, 2013. Stanford University: Palo Alto, CA.Capobianco, B. M. (2007). Science teachers' attempts at integrating feminist pedagogy through collaborative action research. Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 44(1), 1-32.Emerson, R. M., Fretz, R. I., & Shaw, L. L. (2011). Writing ethnographic fieldnotes. University
Christine Haas brings over ten years of experience working in marketing and communications with a focus on the science and engineering fields. She’s held positions as the director of marketing for Drexel’s College of Engineering and director of operations for Worcester Polytechnic Institute - Engineering. Now, as Principal of Christine Haas Consulting, LLC, Christine travels around the world teaching courses to scientists and engineers on presentations and technical writing. She has taught clients across gov- ernment, industry and higher education, including Texas Instruments, Brookhaven National Laboratory, European Southern Observatory (Chile), Simula Research Laboratory (Norway) and the University of Illinois-Urbana
retention and success has been the subject of many studies. Forexample, Kuh’s multi-phased study identified high-impact practices including first-year seminarsand experiences, common intellectual experiences, learning communities, writing-intensivecourses, collaborative assignments and projects, undergraduate research, diversity/global learning,service learning/community-based learning, internships, and capstone courses and projects.4Another study published by the California State University Chancellor's Office shows that"Participation in high-impact practices has been shown to improve both learning and persistencefor all students, but especially for the historically underserved."5 This study also indicates thatparticipation in more than one high
collecting information on abilities required tosucceed in startups and entrepreneurial companies.b The advantage of this data gatheringtechnique is that it can be conducted in the interviewee’s natural setting18. Chilean participantswere interviewed face to face, while participants abroad were interviewed through a Skypeconversation. The audios of the conversations were recorded under the consent of theinterviewee. Research assistants transcribed these audios under a confidentiality agreement.Data Analysis Plan We established certain dimensions of analysis to code qualitative information collected inthis study (see Table 2). Two reviewers codified semi-structured interviews transcripts in threerounds, and peer-checking assessed consistency
serves approximately 9,000 students in grades K-12, 61% of whomare eligible for the National School Lunch Program. About 40% of graduating seniors go on toattend a 4-year institution of higher learning while 42% attend a 2-year college, and 57.6% enterthe workforce. Less than 2% enter the military. As a whole, the district falls well below theeducational standard measured by state testing, performing better than only about 32% ofdistricts statewide. The middle school, and three of the seven area elementary schools areidentified by the U.S. Department of Education as Title I schools requiring additional resourcesto allow students of low socio-economic to meet educational benchmarks at the same rate astheir wealthier peers. 100% of the roughly
students then wrote programs so that the robot would locate a flashlight beamand move towards it, follow the lines printed on poster paper, and navigate through a maze.Tutorials were provided to explain the concepts of a control system and how to program aproportional-integral-derivative (PID) controller for the DC motors of the robots as studentsbegan writing the project code. Several applications of optical sensing, PWM, and PIDcontrollers were described during discussions with the students.On Fridays, student teams demonstrated the projects that they had completed during the week.These were outdoor activities as the campus was closed on Fridays during the summer. Afarewell luncheon with all of the faculty and student mentors was held after the
Paper ID #31275Challenges in a Freshman General Education ClassDr. Michelle Maher , University of Missouri-Kansas City Dr. Michelle Maher explores student research, teaching, and disciplinary writing skill development and higher education access and equity issues.Miss Kathleen O’Shea, University of Missouri - Kansas CityDr. Jacob M Marszalek, University of Missouri-Kansas City Education: Dr. Marszalek received his Ph.D. in Educational Psychology, Statistics and Measurement at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2006. Teaching: Dr. Marszalek teaches undergraduate quantitative statistics and graduate courses in
Summer Research Program 2018During the first year’s REU program, the students were given tasks to find and read relevantliterature and software tutorials, to write scripts in R on machine learning algorithms, and to writea script for basic algorithms in Python to control smart cars.Although not defined formally as designed activities, the students’ projects aimed to developcyber-attack, detection, and mitigation models on transportation networks for connected andautonomous vehicles. Tasks contained methods to be applied such as attack tree modeling(graphical) and the development of traffic and communication simulations. These tasks included: 1. Students used ARC-IT architecture (i.e. connected vehicles, (U.S. DOT, 2018)) to import defined
program and undergo an interview process. Factors considered in theselection of participants include academics, work experience, effective communication, andinvolvement in student or civic organizations. Since its inception, the program has always beenled by either the currently acting dean or a former dean of the College.The course is structured with the following elements:Curricular elements: 1. Leadership literature and leadership from history: Students were regularly assigned articles and books on leadership and leaders. Students then were required to write reflections on these and to discuss these within the class. 2. Learning from leadership journeys of alumni before: Successful alumni of the college were invited to
write what aspect of their experience was included in ASEE and an Ally workshop based on findings from the North Dakota State University ADVANCE project [20] were added. This year, ASEE was the full sponsor for the diversity booth, indicating the strong commitment of the society to diversity and inclusion. 8) Columbus 2017: A significant addition to Committee programming was a call for papers and special sessions, developed in 2016, that resulted in a conference program that included Safe Zone workshops and Ally workshops as in previous programs, but also workshops for facuty and advisors, peer-reviewed papers responding to the call, and a session of best diversity papers from across the conference
product. 4. Analyze the operation or functional performance of a complete system. 5. Troubleshoot a failure of a technical component or system.Undergraduate Research and Internship ExperiencesIn 2008 George Kuh identified ten “high impact practices” in higher education literature found toincrease student engagement and learning outcomes [8]. These ten practices are: first-yearexperiences, common intellectual experiences, learning communities, writing intensive courses,collaborative assignments, experiencing different worldviews, community-based learning,capstone experiences, undergraduate research, and internships. In particular, undergraduateresearch and internships are relevant to engineering education but are not utilized by
, we are committed to broadening the definition of engineering.Instead of perpetuating a false division between technical and social aspects of problems, weseek to explicitly recognize engineering as a socio-technical discipline. As Erin Cech writes,“Prioritizing certain ‘technical’ features (faster, smaller, cheaper vs. quality or sustainability) overothers is a social and political choice at its core. Thus, the notion that engineering work cansomehow be separated from the social world is itself a cultural frame for understanding whatengineering is [13].” We envision an innovative engineering culture that is inherentlyinterdisciplinary, engaging faculty across engineering departments and across campus toprovide students with an engineering
Systems Development; Computing Sciences Pedagogy; Assistive Technology for Persons with Disabil- ities and the Elderly; Cyber Security Analytics, and Interdisciplinary Data Analytics. He has published about 90 peer-reviewed technical articles in international conferences, journals, and book chapters. Dr. Seliya is proactive in computing sciences scholarship and pedagogy enhancement, including grants, un- dergraduate research, and curriculum and course development. His prior professional endeavors include: Assistant (& Associate) Professor of Computer and Information Science at the University of Michigan- Dearborn; Adjunct Instructor of Computer Science and Technology at the State University of New York, Orange; and
Purdue University. She also holds a M.S. in Astronomy and Astrophysics and a B.S. in Astronomy and Meteorology both from Kyungpook National University in South Korea. Her work centers on engineer- ing education research, as a psychometrician, program evaluator, and institutional data analyst. She has research interests on spatial ability, creativity, gifted education, STEM education, and meta-analyses. She has authored/co-authored more than 50 peer-reviewed journal articles and conference proceedings and served as a journal reviewer in engineering education, STEM education, and educational psychology, as well as a co-PI, an external evaluator or advisory board member on several NSF-funded projects (CA- REER, iCorps
networkanalysis results. The table below is based on the analysis of five interviews; 3 HBCU and 2 PWI. PWI HBCU Mentors: Peers Mentors: Faculty Interviewer: Do you have a mentor at the Female Speaker: I have professors that are readily university? available that I can go to and get help if need be. Would I specifically call them my mentor? No. Male Speaker: A mentor? Not specifically. They are available for help. B(another senior
the Humanities Cologne. Her PhD thesis focused on identity models in the transcultural space and used specific examples of German speaking literature from Bohemia and Moravia in the Czech Republic. Whilst a lecturer at the universities of Cologne and Olomouc and writing various publications, Kristina Lahl researched sociocultural references in German literature from the age of Enlightenment to the present using transdisciplinary approaches. Her main areas of research are sociotechnical narratives, ritualization and human self-assurance in interaction with artificial intelligence, as well as Second-Order Cybernetics.Dr. Rene Vossen, RWTH Aachen University Dr. Rene Vossen is Managing Director of the Institute for
funding policy. Dr. Madhavan also served as Visiting Research Scientist at Microsoft Research, Internet Services Research Group. His research has been published in Nature Nan- otechnology, IEEE Transactions on Computer Graphics and Applications, IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, and several other top peer-reviewed venues. Dr. Madhavan currently serves as PI or Co-PI on federal and industry funded projects totaling over $20M.Dr. Michael Richey, The Boeing Company Dr. Michael Richey is a Boeing Associate Technical Fellow currently assigned to support technology and innovation research at The Boeing Company. Michael is responsible for leading a team conducting engineering education research projects that focus
. The lessons learned are presented and the ways that the experiential framework mayimpact our ET curricula are discussed. Our senior design project course is a 3-term core courseusually taken by the students during their terminal year in the ET program.Project Overview, Design Selection and SolutionSenior Design Project is a capstone sequence of three-quarter project-oriented design coursesrequired for all the BSET concentrations in Drexel University ET department, and is focused onplanning, development, and implementation of an original, innovative engineering projectincluding formal report writing, project documentation, group presentations, and projectdemonstrations and testing of working prototypes. The goal of these courses is for
. Page 26.1465.6Table 3 Bloom’s Taxonomy Levels of Cognitive Achievement for Course Objectives Focusing on Leadership Development Course Leader Com. Com. Com. Bus Team Self-dir. Public Project No. Course Goals ship Ethics Graph Oral Write Policy work Learning Policy Man. CIVL 317 7 - attitudes supportive of PE practice 2 CIVL 317 8 - leadership principles 2 CIVL 103 2 - ethical cannons, licensure 1 CIVL 205 4 - surveying ethical responsibilities 1 CIVL 210 3 - software ethics 3 CIVL 235
Luchini-Colbry is the Director for Graduate Initiatives at the College of Engineering at Michigan State University, where she completed degrees in political theory and computer science. A recipient of a NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, she earned Ph.D. and M.S.E. in computer science and engineering from the University of Michigan. She has published more than two dozen peer-reviewed works related to her interests in educational technology and enhancing undergraduate education through hands-on learn- ing. As a volunteer for Tau Beta Pi, the Engineering Honor Society, Luchini-Colbry facilitates interactive seminars on interpersonal communications and problem solving skills for engineering students across the U.S.Dr
adopt principles only after they have been vetted within their peer group. 14‘The instructor’s role is no longer that of a teacher, but more a facilitator. Guidance for methodsof facilitation can be found outside of traditional academia in programs that are designed to buildhigh performance teams. Rohnke and Butler state that “the leader/facilitator doesn’t provide allthe answers to the group; primarily the participants learn from each other.” 15 The authors go on tocontrast leading versus facilitating by stating “leading the group – helping them to learn – orfacilitating – helping them to learn from each other.” 15Role-based learning also lends itself well into integration with problem based learning. Byintroducing students to an environment
before theproject, but used no gendered terms after the project, or included the term “she” when referringto engineers. For example, Sara described an engineer with the following words: I feel like she would try any material she thinks would work. She would also test it out a lot. She would write a lot of notes, so when other people look at her experiments or when she tries to show it to someone, she could show she did trial and error. And be like “This is why this is the best one I did, this is why I think it’s a better material to use.”Sara changed her perception of engineering as being male-oriented to a field were females arealso active participants. Her perception of engineering included activities where women
instruments (HPLC, UV,TOC,GC, KF—etc.) and also monitoring drug shelf life through both accelerated and shelf life stability programs. After which started at GlaxoSmithKline Beecham Egypt in which i was a laboratory senior analyst an- alyzing all dosage forms as finished products dealing with all laboratory instruments with very good experience on HPLC and GC in addition of GLP and GMP knowledge, SOP writing and audits carry out internally then i was promoted to a section head of validation and quality assurance for the pharmaceuti- cal industry for both Lactam and non-Lactam areas in which i was responsible for sterile and non-sterile areas qualification, validation and periodic verification dealing with process
of technology in the classroom provides an opportunity for studentsto interact more efficiently with information and peers in a learning environment. The interactiveteaching methods discussed in this paper relate to active, inductive, and problem based learning(PBL). Active learning is most generally defined as any instructional method of engagingstudents for the entire duration of the teaching contact time6. In addition to traditional homeworkand examination, active learning allows students to participate in collaborative activities thatpositively influence student attitudes and study habits for course material6. Inductive learningencompasses interactive instruction techniques including inquiry learning, PBL, project-basedlearning, case