Facilitating the learning of engineering Educators' assessment supportive toolsDevelopment educators through researching, critically -evaluate practices that affect the reflecting, and evaluating teaching ecosystem performanceS3: Practice of Cultivating a culture of care and Professional development (pedagogy fordeveloping collaboration with transparent engineering educators, new curriculum,practice communities of practice principles as system support condition, practice such as coaching and - Knowledge transfer/communication conducting action research within
? Reflection on methodsfor fine-grain data analysis." (2008).Säljö, R. (1999). Concepts, cognition and discourse: From mental structures to discursive tools.New perspectives on conceptual change, 81, 90.Simoni, M., Aburdene, M., & Fayyaz, F. (2013, October). Why are continuous-time signals andsystems courses so difficult? How can we make them more accessible?. In 2013 IEEE Frontiersin Education Conference (FIE) (pp. 761-763). IEEE.Steif, P. S., Lobue, J. M., Kara, L. B., & Fay, A. L. (2010). Improving problem solvingperformance by inducing talk about salient problem features. Journal of Engineering Education,99(2), 135-142.Streveler, R. A., Brown, S., Herman, G. L., & Montfort, D. (2015). Conceptual change andmisconceptions in engineering
test rigs, evaluating the sophisticated mesh configurations andperforming non-linear analysis.The most important outcomes of the new research methods were; students’ eagerness andenthusiasm to establish the test platforms, learning all the necessary hands-on skills despiteobstacles and limitations, learning new simulation packages, and presenting in variousconferences and symposiums in a professional way. The reflections provided by studentsdemonstrated their extraordinary satisfaction of this life-long learning experience, and theimportance of their gained skills in future graduate programs and/or high-level industrypositions.Keywords: Undergraduate Research, Civil Engineering, Post-tensioned Concrete.IntroductionEngaging undergraduate
is constantly changing; therefore, it is vital to embrace and grow with thechange. Additive manufacturing (AM), broadly known as 3D printing, transforms how productsare designed, produced, and serviced. 3D printing is one of the key future technologies that willproduce design solutions based on specifications and constraints defined by engineers [1-3]. Thisemerging technology can be used in numerous automotive, aerospace, and medical industries.Implementing 3D printing projects in the classroom will encourage critical thinking, solvingcomplex problmes, collaborating , and engaging deeply in the learning process [4-6]. Cognitiveskills can help students to observe and reflect on the complex design problems and optimize theprocess of 3D
. These assignments were designed to provide a way for the student to learn aboutresources, activities, and engagement opportunities as well as to reflect on the challenges theyare going through and to define strategies to face these challenges. The main research questionguiding this study is how does engagement in a pre-college activity influence a student’s sense ofbelonging, thus, success. Survey data collected in these activities has been analyzed to identifypatterns among students and thus, identify the needs among them and define better programs tosupport them. Results from the 2021 program offering, included in this paper, indicate studentswho participated developed a greater sense of belonging.IntroductionFirst-year college students face
building knowledge among students, improves the perception of learning quality, and encourages critical and reflective thinking. ● The use and integration of ICT in the educational process lead to improved academic results, producing greater assimilation of key concepts through the "learning by doing" methodology. ● This methodology improves how they work, facilitates and broadens their points of view, opens up their technical knowledge, and allows greater interaction with their classmates and the teacher. When carrying out real projects, it provides solid support in performing their work. ● The use of the software and the personal search for solutions to the problems raised are validated, requesting support, when
alternate location for the 50kW PVarrays installation.City of Huntsville officials offered us a new location with well-open space and no sun-blockingtrees and ultimately no land ownership by TxDOT. However, the new location is close to anearby local airport, and at the time of this final paper’s submission, we were checking anypotential issues for PV reflections for pilots landing and taking off the airport. The necessity ofextended underground power cabling trenching to connect the PV arrays output to the Entergygrid may be another challenge. Figure 7 depicts conceptual design of PV arrays on the newlocation. After multiple considerations and discussions, Figure 8 shows the aerial view of thefinal ballasted ground rack design for the 120 PV panels
not gender-balanced. 7 Likert Scale This class had a gender gap. 8 Likert Scale I would have formed better relationships with my peers if this class was gender-balanced. 9 Likert Scale I belong in engineering.At the end of the survey, students were directed to a set of demographic questions. These includedgender identity, racial identity, and major choice. Students were also provided with text boxes toself-describe their gender identity and race if they chose.With IRB approval, the survey was distributed using Qualtrics at the beginning of the Spring 2021semester. Students were asked to reflect on their Autumn 2020 semester experience when takingthe
interviewsadministered to 32 STEM faculty members across six U.S. Universities nationwide and atheming scheme, the opinion and narratives of these faculty members were garnered in a roundone and round two sets of interviews, in Summer 2020 and then in Spring 2021 (following thesemesters of interest). Some of the main new themes that were detected in faculty interviews during the Fall2020 semester and which reflect faculty perceptions are represented as follow: COVID-19impact on student and faculty motivation, COVID-19 impacts on labs and experiential learning,COVID-19 impact on mental health, COVID-19 impact on STEM students' involvement inSTEM experiential learning opportunities and research. Other previous themes detected andwhich are revisited to
thediscipline of interest. For a multidisciplinary engineering class, a broader code can be used suchas the ABET Code of Ethics of Engineers. In selecting a code as a basis, ensure that the verbiageand detail is commensurate with the experience of the students participating in the exercise.Similarly, the method of assessment selected should also reflect the expected competencies ofthe students. While there are many publicly available quizzes and practice exams for engineeringethics, not all may be appropriate for this exercise depending on the experience of the studentsand the code of ethics used. While it may not be possible to devise scenarios for all the principles or canons listed in agiven code, ensure that the scenarios are distinct. For
reflect the views of the NSF.ReferencesBertolini, R., Finch, S. J., & Nehm, R. H. (2021). Testing the impact of novel assessment sources and machine learning methods on predictive outcome modeling in undergraduate biology. Journal of Science Education and Technology, 30(2), 193-209.Brown, T.B., Mann, B., Ryder, N., Subbiah, M., Kaplan, J., Dhariwal, P., Neelakantan, A., Shyam, P., Sastry, G., Askell, A. and Agarwal, S., (2020). Language models are few-shot learners. arXiv preprint arXiv:2005.14165.Burstein, J., Horbach, A., Kochmar, K., Laarmann-Quante, R., Leacock, C., Madnani, Nitin., Pilan, I., Yannakoudakis, H., Zesch,T., Proceedings of the 16th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications
two students reflect on their experiences working with that professor. Thecard, to include the video and instructor guide, can be viewed athttps://engineeringunleashed.com/card/2880 (see Figure 2).The third video had the title “Making Peoples' Lives Better: Product Commercialization”. Thefocus of this video is the commercialization of prototypes. Baylor University has a new groupcalled Lab2Market which helps bring university research to commercialization. This process isdescribed by a faculty member from the Entrepreneurship Center and there are interviews fromtwo students who worked on the commercialization process. The card, to include the video andinstructor guide, can be viewed at https://engineeringunleashed.com/card/2878 (see Figure 2
], [56]. The concept of agency comesfrom the work of Holland et al. [57] who defines agency as “the realized capacity of people to actupon their world ... purposively and reflectively, to reiterate and remake the world in which theylive...” [p. 42]. The capacity students hold to make changes in their lives and the world aroundthem by using engineering as the vehicle to make a change can subsequently supports students’views of themselves as an engineering type of person [52], [56], [58]. There was no expectationthat these students would have already started developing a critical engineering agenticperspective, as most students were beginning to learn about engineering through the virtualsummer academy. The aim was that the culturally relevant
Clean Water Act) [7]. The range of activities that require environmental engineeringexpertise continues to evolve with time and the needs of society, and very likely will continue tofor the foreseeable future [8].Today ABET accreditation is widely held as foundational for engineer’s professional licensure inthe United States. As of the time of publication, ABET has 91 current programs in the US withaccredited Environmental Engineering Bachelor’s degrees [9]. This compares to a total of 294programs with accredited Civil Engineering Bachelor’s degrees. These relative programfrequencies may be seen as another reflection of the more recent emergence of environmentalengineering as an independent discipline.1.3. U.S. Federal Service Academies and
. Renee's current research includes the use of adaptive learning and systematic reflection in the mechanical engineering flipped classroom to drive pre-class preparation and metacognitive development, respectively. She received the Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from the University of Pittsburgh and the MS in Mechanical Engineering from Case Western. She has 30 years of experience as an engineer, IT analyst, and researcher in industry and academia. She completed her post-doctoral studies in engineering education at the University of Pittsburgh. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.com Development
education [1]. The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), the primaryfederal agency for collecting data related to education, manages the program [2]. The purpose ofCIP codes is to aid in collecting, organizing, and reporting information regarding academic fieldsof study. The system was created in 1980 within the U.S. Department of Education. There havebeen several revisions, with the most recent being CIP-2020.CIP codes are statistical coding tools reflecting current academic practice [1]. Most designationscorrespond to academic programs in higher education. These programs offer undergraduate andgraduate degrees, certificates, and other awards. The CIP code titles and descriptions are meantto be generic categories for placing program
and competent toevaluate the credibility of sources. And nine respondents (64.3%) strongly agreed that they feltconfident and capable of creating a knowledge map to assist their research projects effectively.Compared to the start-of-session survey results, the end-of-session survey results reveal that sixmore students strongly agreed that they felt confident and competent to effectively create aknowledge map to assist their research projects.Figure 4: Column chart of the end-of-session survey reflection question resultFigure 4 shows that all respondents (100%) agreed or strongly agreed that this library instructionsession introduced them to new research strategies or library resources. No students disagreedthat this library instruction
Education Survey, and Solar PV retains a commanding positionas the top ranked priority for faculty professional development. This no doubt is a directreflection of the extraordinary growth of the solar PV industry over the past two decades.Energy storage surpassed solar PV in the rankings for growth and technological change for thefirst time and climbed into the second position for priorities for faculty professionaldevelopment. This is a significant jump that has occurred since the previous survey and islikely reflective of the fact that energy storage technology has become much more cost effectiveand is now finding traction in the energy marketplace.Electric vehicles received comparatively few votes for any questions included in the last
analysis they have conducted. For example, withGroup 5 making $2 a unit, the likelihood of success is difficult without other sources of revenue.A few groups did give a breakdown of how many units to cover the cost. However, the more in-depth reflection would have students look at the numbers they provide in Table 2 and tell howsuccessful their game console may be. It will also be helpful to have an individual reflectionpaper that can assess each student with the improvement of EML in the pre-survey.7. Future ChangesThe EML material and Makerspace activities were beneficial and successful with the students.Furthermore, the created modules do not have to be connected to the SoC course examined inthis paper but could be used in any course with a
session, two to three graduate students presented theirwork in 10-15 minute presentations. To receive course credit, undergraduate students wereresponsible for contributing to research discussions by asking questions or writing aone-paragraph reflection on each presentation.We evaluated the impact of FYRP by administering a pre- and post-course survey. The resultsindicated that undergraduate students had (1) an improved awareness of on-going research, (2)increased comfort in asking about research positions, and (3) heightened confidence whenengaging in research discussions. Students requested to include ‘graduate student life’ as part ofthe discussions. Additionally, students requested more time with professors to obtain a broaderperspective of
location (see Fig. 3). Fig. 3 Challenge: Structural Design of WarehouseIn order to cover all the topics included in the course’s syllabus, four different modules weretaught by the professors and instructors: a) Structural Topology, b) Classical Methods forStructural Analysis, c) Modern Methods of Structural Analysis and d) Seismic and WindLoadings in Buildings. Students analyzed different options for the configuration of the proposedstructural system and reflected on the benefits and drawbacks of each alternative, applying thetheory of Structural Analysis and at the same time, developing some competences for theworkplace by applying their knowledge to the solution of a real case scenario.The teaching of the aforementioned
as well, and builds ourconfidence that we can use this model to predict future values.Prediction Test:How much money will a customer spend, if she or he stays in the shop for say 5 minutes? Ourresult of customer spending about $22.88 seems to reflect our curve relationship.Figure 6. Customer Spending if she or he stays in the shop for say 5 minutesMatlab Machine Learning Tools:The Classification Learner app lets you train models to classify data using supervised machinelearning. Using classification learner , one can perform machine learning tasks such asinteractively exploring your data, selecting features, specifying validation schemes, trainingmodels and assessing results.Figure 7. Classification LearnerOne can choose from several
in 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic [5].In a very ad-hoc reflection, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and CulturalOrganization (UNESCO) stated that “the world was not prepared for an educationaldisruption on such an unprecedented scale, where schools and universities had to closetheir doors overnight, hastening to deploy distance education solutions to ensurepedagogical continuity” [6].Despite the above, Fada et al. [7] state that the educational community made considerableefforts to continue educational processes, aligning themselves with new scenarios anddeploying the best possible solutions for students. As presented in [8], research findingsmay identify resources or support that instructors may take advantage of in adapting
Paper ID #37552Success Factors in a Project-Based Industrial EngineeringSenior Design Capstone CourseMichael Sherwin www.mdsherwin.comAlison Linares MendozaRenee M Clark (Director of Assessment) Renee Clark is Research Assistant Professor of Industrial Engineering and Director of Assessment for the Engineering Education Research Center (EERC) in the Swanson School of Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh. She conducts education research that focuses on active learning and engineering professional development. Renee's current research includes the use of adaptive learning and systematic reflection in the
expectations for student growth in each area.Flipped classrooms in the field of engineering and technology offer unique advantages whilefacing specific challenges [2]. A major benefit of the flipped classroom is to free up time fromteaching new information for practice and examples in class with real-time reflection andfeedback on students’ understanding of course materials. Another advantage is to allow studentsto pause and rewatch instruction videos for more effectively following complicated steps andunderstanding difficult concepts. However, the initial learning through video recordings could befrustrated by the lack of immediate feedback and potential distractions outside of the classroom.Some flipped classrooms in engineering and technology also
material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grantnumber #2010696. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed inthis material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the NationalScience Foundation. The authors gratefully acknowledge the participants in this study and thecontributions of our research team.References[1] McDaniel, R., "Bloom's taxonomy," Vanderbilt University, 2010. [Online]. Available: https://cft.vanderbilt.edu/guides-sub-pages/blooms-taxonomy/. [Accessed: 05-Feb-2022].[2] "Action words for Bloom's Taxonomy," Action Words for Bloom's Taxonomy | CTE - Miami University. [Online]. Available: https://www.miamioh.edu/cte/assessment/writing
and 0 in column three represent theavailability and non-availability of instructors to teach onsite, respectively. Each instructor is given a weight score 𝑤𝑖𝑡 , which quantifies the instructor t’s overallqualifications and preference to teach course i. The score 𝑤𝑖𝑡 has an integer value between 0 and3 and is a measure of interest, qualification, and preference of instructor t in teaching course i. Ascore of zero indicates the non-existence of qualification and preference for the instructor while ascore of 3 reflects the instructor’s high interest and high level of qualification to teach the class.Table 3 provides the description of the scores. The preference is to staff classes with the mostinterested and qualified instructors. Table
. The students neededto primarily present the related background, literature review, and examples related to theirassigned role first. They were allowed to make teams of similar roles to make a presentation, butthey needed to present their work in that PowerPoint presentation.After the presentations, the discussion and debate were open, and the students presented anddefended their views and position role title. Each student was required to reflect on their opinionin the debate. The students were asked to present their knowledge, be ethical and moral, and knowthe regulations and bylaws related to such roles and conditions. They were asked to find theordinary resolution and solutions as professionals.The students needed to prepare a short report
complete both an engineering degree and a social sciencedegree in college, which affects my constructivist and interpretivist worldviews on thrivingwithin the culture, norms, and values of undergraduate engineering programs. This worldviewhelps me engage in reflective exercises to acknowledge and respect other realities separate frommy constructions of them. Being explicit about my worldviews and the multiple truths that cansimultaneously exist has helped reconcile my desire to support more thriving engineeringstudents who may experience lived realities incongruent with mine. With this approach towardthe research collaboration, I hope to understand and empower people who may otherwise feelmisunderstood and disenfranchised in the engineering
with research participants, and deeply reflecting on the researchers’relationship to systems of power are several ways that researchers can promote alignment of theirmethods with asset-based frameworks and research questions (Martin et al., 2022).Table 2: Asset-Based Research Questions for Co-Curricular Professional Skill Development Institutional Support Student Services Support Curricular Support Co-curricular What institutional How can engineering What faculty actions in Activities support systems foster programs work with student the classroom encourage student involvement in affairs administrators to student engagement with