; Margo Donlin, PhDc1,2; Kelsey Neal, PhDc1,2 Sarah I. Rooney, PhD1; Judson Wagner, EdD3; Laurie Dearolf, PhD2 M. Gail Headley5; Amy E. Trauth, PhD1,2,4,5; Jenni M. Buckley, PhD1,2,4,5 1 University of Delaware, College of Engineering 2 The Perry Initiative 3 Brandywine School District 4 New Castle County Vo-Technical School District 5 University of Delaware, College of Education and Human DevelopmentIntroductionBiomechanics is uniquely positioned to serve as a gateway for recruitment and retention ofdiverse engineering talent for
Science Departments (IUSE/PFE: RED) grant, our vision is to focuson faculty development and culture change to reduce the effort and risk experienced by faculty inimplementing pedagogical changes and to increase iterative, data-driven changes in teaching.Our project, called Teams for Creating Opportunities for Revolutionizing the Preparation ofStudents (TCORPS), is an adaptation of the “Additive innovation” model proposed by ArizonaState University [1].The Department of Mechanical Engineering at Texas A&M University has a long legacy ofindividualistic and---in many cases---a fixed mindset [2] approach to teaching with theexpectation of top-down management of change. The goal of our project is to evolve thedepartmental culture to a bottom-up
to determine the impact on technicians and the Florida Department ofEducation’s response to Future of Work issues was acquired by creating/conducting a Caucus that brought 130 varioussize Florida manufacturers across the stateand all the 25 Florida State College systemcollege technician program leaders together.This collective group, plus additional inputfrom Florida Regional ManufacturingAssociations, identified Industry 4.0technologies that are beginning to impactFlorida manufacturing productivity today.Figure 1 presents these technologies asgrouped by the Boston Consulting Group.1The analysis of the acquired surveyinformation lead to: (i) the identification of themost important skills and skills gaps that impact Florida’s manufacturing
this PSS micro-insertion, it is aimed to convert the other troublesome knowledge areas into PSS for improvedstudent learning.Keywords: Problem-solving studio, troublesome knowledge, ICAP, cognitive learning, Enzymekinetics1. IntroductionTroublesome knowledge, as explained by David Perkins, can be categorized as ritual, inert,conceptually difficult or foreign [1]. Mostly, mathematical models and word problems can becategorized as ritual and conceptually difficult. This means students are focused on crunchingnumbers to match the final answer without having a deeper understanding of the concept. Thiscan be attributed to the high-stake grade-driven environment of the lecture class, low cognitivelearning environment or the difficulty associated
. The applications of robots have been extended broadly from their traditional industryroles to all aspects of our daily activities, such as medical, military, transportation, companion, aswell as more recently, household serviceRobotics education has been attracting increasing attention. Educators have been exploring themethods of robotics education for all ages [1]. Traditional robotics education heavily focuses onmechanical design, circuit design, sensor application, and control theories [2]. Recentdevelopments in robotics pose new challenges for educators. How can we integratebreakthroughs in artificial intelligence, computer vision, sensor fusing, into the classroom, forstudents to experience? On one hand, research finds project-based
lessons learned thataffected later virtual events. The paper starts with a short background on the reason thecompetition was created and then is followed by a description of the competition’s organizationprior to the pandemic. Next, the first virtual event held in 2015 is reviewed and how it helpedprepare RWDC for the pandemic. Finally, the virtual events held during the pandemic arediscussed in detail.RWDC BackgroundRWDC was founded with the goal to motivate and prepare students for the STEM workforce andteach innovation. Around the time the founder was performing research to create the competition,several reports, such as Rising Above the Gathering Storm [1], came out indicating that the UnitedStates was not producing enough STEM professionals
dynamicscourses. The data collected includes 1) Students’ exams and final grades for several terms 2)Quantitative and qualitative results of the Student Perception of Teaching Surveys (SPOTS), 3)Midterm Surveys, 4) Gateway Surveys.IntroductionStatics and Dynamics are core courses for the Mechanical and Civil Engineering curriculum aswell as service courses for Electrical Engineering. These courses are taken yearly by more than900 students in our institution, Florida International University (FIU). For the MechanicalEngineering curriculum, Dynamics is a first-semester sophomore course that advances staticsand multivariable calculus as direct prerequisites. Dynamics represents the gateway of foursubsequent core courses that are prerequisites to each other
Engineers (NSBE). © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.comCOVID-19 and U.S. Higher Education: The Realities of Undergraduate International STEMStudents’ ExperiencesWORK IN PROGRESS - STUDENT PAPERAbstract Higher Education is the fifth largest service export sector in the United States, with international students contributing $17.7 billion to the U.S. economy each year. There is a plethora of reasons why students migrate to the U.S. to further their education, including but not limited to: (1) increasing their chances for long-term success and increasing self-efficacy; (2) supporting their family through educational
that has completed one full-time semester at another college. If the transfer student has less than 30 credit hours they arerequired to enroll in the course sequence that traditional first year students take: EGR 101, 102,and 103. Students with 30 credits or more that have taken Calculus 1 or will be taking Calculus1, and have also taken a programming course, or will be taking EGR 102 – Fundamentals ofEngineering Computing, can enroll in EGR 215.Background – Enrollment and Diversity GoalsIn the last decade we have seen STEM occupation growth outpace non-STEM by a factor ofnearly 2:1 [1]. At a rate of nearly 100%, these occupations require some type of postsecondaryeducation for employment as opposed to 36% for non-STEM occupations [1]. This
mechanics course, discussed in thispaper, decided to flip the classroom. This involved creating pre-recorded lecture videos forstudents to view asynchronously, designing ungraded quizzes for self-assessment purposes, anddeveloping group activities for online and in-person deliveries to keep the students engaged intheir learning.Flipped learning, or a flipped classroom, is nothing new. It has been around for decades with nospecific person or persons claiming to be the creator. In 2012, however, the pedagogical modelgained popularity after the release of [1] by Sams and Bergmann which describes the flippedclassroom and what it has to offer. As teachers, Sams and Bergmann wrote the bookdocumenting the methods used in their own flipped classroom
show a marked improvement inthe learning and understanding of the science of energy. The approach described in the paper canbe applied in the teaching, learning, and understanding of other thermal/fluid science classes.Keywords: thermodynamics, basic laws, teaching, and learningIntroductionEngineering is the use of scientific principles to design and build machines, structures, and otheritems, including bridges, tunnels, roads, vehicles, and buildings. The discipline of engineeringencompasses a broad range of more specialized fields of engineering, each with a more specificemphasis on particular areas of applied mathematics, applied science, and types of application[1]. Engineering education involves teaching, learning, and understanding of
ExperiencesIntroductionThe unprecedented effects of the COVID-19 pandemic have further pushed online learningdevelopment and have made distance learning an integral component of undergraduate education[1]-[3]. Although standard lectures have transitioned to virtual space in a relatively seamlessmanner, laboratory components have presented a greater challenge [2]. Maintaining dynamic yetrelevant practical, hands-on learning experiences within a virtual platform has demonstrated mixedsuccess [4]. Since laboratory experiences remain a keystone to biomedical engineering (BME)education, it is critical to design curricular experiences that provide active, sensory, visual learningexperiences to maintain student engagement in the virtual space to promote cognitive
covering some weaknesses that teaching the subject can have.1 Introduction Language learning has been a topic of interest for many researchers throughout the past decades.[1, 2, 3] Factors like technological advancements and the sudden shift towards globalization in themodern world have enabled the field of Linguistics to study the intricate process of language ac-quisition and its neurological, psychological, and pedagogical aspects. Language acquisition isstill a developing branch of Linguistics, lacking strong conclusive results on several research ques-tions, such as the extent of bilingual advantage [4], the nature of code-switching [5], etc. However,various models of language learning [6] have been developed, with similar factors and
mechanical engineering. For instance, at theInstitute of Forming Technology and Lightweight Materials at TU Dortmund studentsexperiment with a remote-controlled robot arm that handles specimens for cupping, tensile, andcompression testing [1]. A remotely operated industrial-scale Flowloop test was developed forteaching multi-phase fluid mechanics at the Clausthal University of Technology [2]. In anotherstudy, students program control algorithms for operating mobile remote-controlled robots [3]. Apilot study reports the use of IoT for remote control and monitoring of a 3D printer as anacademic exercise [4]. While the infrastructure for creating remote-controlled experiments withIoT is at a good maturity level, there are a very limited number of case
retention at the firstsemester of the program.IntroductionStudent retention and persistence in engineering is particularly important for small programs.Recent reports suggest that college enrollments in the United States have fallen by 1 millionstudents during the pandemic [1]. Further, population data show a decline in the population ofages traditionally considered college-age within the next five years [2].Engineering programs have reported 30-50% attrition of students in the first year [3]-[4] withvarious analyses of contributing factors. A number of studies have considered studentpreparation as indicated by standardized test scores or high school GPA [4]-[6]. These studieshave generally concluded that students who persist in engineering are
of a student, a plan was designed to integrate and advance what students are learning from the first common year to their sophomore, junior, and senior year with more emphasis, given to programming/ data science, Bio-inspired engineering design class, and ethics & humanities. To effectively integrate these courses into the upper-level courses, a group of faculty members from different engineering departments, called disciples, were designated. The main duties of these disciples are: 1. providing relevant examples from each engineering major related to computational thinking, bio-inspired design, ethics, and humanities to the faculty members teaching the common first year (FCY). 2. monitoring the advancement and integration of
studentfeedback results with the prior offering in fall 2020. Instructor feedback is included, and furtherrefinements are also proposed.Background:Much effort has been expended in determining what helps engineering students persist in theireducation and in practice [1], [2]. Some have studied the impact of identity, gender, andstereotypes in engineering education persistence [4] and conclude that identity as an engineer is abigger driver (than demographics and stereotypes) of persistence for first-year engineeringstudents. One approach to improve engineering identity and outcomes for engineering educationis the use of ill-structured design problems as put forth by ABET in EC2000 [5]. Work byPrendergast & Etkina [6] show the effects of making changes
doctorate degree and has experience teaching undergraduate first-year engineering and mid-level biomechanics courses. Meagan is currently working with the Kern Entrepreneurial Engineering Network partnership at OSU, integrating her interests in STEM education, entrepreneurial partnerships, and community engagement. Long term, Meagan is passionate about leveraging biotechnological advances in physiological data collection to both 1. promote factual science communication and learning and 2. to innovate community-driven engineering solutions centered around health and wellness. She values authenticity, connection with others, & integrity and prioritizes these values as an educator, bioengineer, and scientist.Krista M
information technology and related computerindustries is expected to increase exponentially over the next decade. Current trends indicate thatthe medical and health-related industries will require innovative software packages to managehealthcare and that all facets of life depend on computing. It is also anticipated a substantialgrowth of 25.6 % in the telecommunication and information technology sectors from 2018 to 2028[1], [2]-[5]. As a further indicator, the US News and World Report has ranked softwaredevelopment jobs as number one among the best one hundred jobs for three consecutive years(2017-2020) in a row, and the number 2 spot in 2021 after physician assistant due to coronavirusdisease [6]. Cybersecurity-related jobs will increase the
investigates the impacts that this rapid transition to online learning on thestudents in an undergraduate making-centered and design-focused engineering program. Focusgroup interviews were conducted during the pandemic with four different undergraduate cohortsin the academic program. Results demonstrate how the disruption to in-person learning impactedcommunity, collaboration, and learning. Qualitative data analyses highlight similarities anddifferences in experiences across cohorts. Based on the responses, an understanding of howstudents adapted to this shift to online learning is revealed. This study provides themes andpatterns for student adaptations and learning experiences in an undergraduate engineeringprogram.1 IntroductionThe rapid pivot to
community important to students’ lived experiencesduring the portion of the pandemic when online and hybrid learning were most prevalent.1 IntroductionThe Covid-19 pandemic disrupted student expectations and preexisting mental models of thecollege experience. With the rapid pivot to online instruction, students were sent home and hadto adapt quickly to remote online learning. Throughout the spring of 2020, student projects,courses, and relationships had to adapt to the current unprecedented situation. This qualitativeresearch study explores the implications of this pivot on the community within an engineeringdepartment, between students, their peers, and their professors. Student accounts provide insightinto disconnecting with peers and professors
coordinator. General descriptions of studentworkers’ classification are presented in Table 1. Generally, student workers progress on the scalewith time, experience, and training. Table 1: Women in Engineering Program student workers classification Position Type Job Duties Experience Skill Level Supervision Duties are Entry None to limited No particular Closely simple Level experience is necessary skills are necessary supervised to perform Particular skills Moderately Skilled Some related
first-year engineering students[1]. The course is held in a makerspace-like classroom, where engineering students learn to usebasic prototyping tools and methods. The course begins with two weeks on HCD, then six weeksof learning various prototyping technical skills, followed by a final six weeks of integrating theseskills while working as teams to research, design, and build a functional physical prototype toaddress a human-centered societal need. HCD principles are threaded throughout the course andstudents engage with a HCD process to create the final prototype designs [1]. Student teamsprepare formal design reports and give presentations on their functional prototypes.This work focuses on an analysis of student perceptions of the value they
giving and receiving critical feedback [1], [2].Studies have shown that peer-evaluations have the most value when done with a set criteria andreliable measures, as the main deficiency of solely relying on peer evaluations as a formativeassessment, is its validity in comparison to traditional assessments such as the lecturers’evaluations [3], [4]. As peer evaluations have become more widely applied in higher educationworldwide, it has proven to be a more effective assessment tool when compared to that of theeducator’s evaluations—especially when anonymity is ensured throughout the evaluation process[1], [5].Anonymity is shown to be a factor that improves the quality of peer-assessments as it mitigatesthe potential influence of interpersonal
completion programs forall engineering degrees in the CoE assume students will begin their math course of study inCalculus I; however, many of our students are required to take remedial math courses before theycan begin the calculus sequence. Although there are variations to math placement each year, onaverage, approximately 40% of CoE students begin in Calculus 1 while 20% begin ahead (inCalculus 2 or higher), and 40% of CoE students begin one or two math class behind (inPrecalculus or College Algebra).The goal of this research was to look at the graduation rates of engineering students based ontheir initial math course taken at the university. The data analyzed spanned from 2007 to 2015.We found that starting math class is a significant factor in
graduation and retention rates. An ancillary goal of the program is for students topursue a graduate degree or apply to graduate school due to early research exposure (i.e., in theirfreshman year). Graduation and retention rates were accessed for the cohorts each semester andwere obtained from TAMU’s Office of the Vice Chancellor and Dean. Based on the UniqueNumber Identification (UIN) of enrolled students and their consent, we were able access allstudents retention and GPA. Students were also provided a pre- and post-survey to determinechanges to research skills or cultural knowledge. Table 1 shows the number of students whocompleted the pre and the post survey. Data was obtained for each cohort, beginning with the 2015 cohort, which are
last five years, and under 15% for the 9 previous years [1], [2].Additionally, in 2019, 17.9% of newly licensed engineers in Canada identified as women [2],[1]. Black and Indigenous peoples are also vastly underrepresented, constituting approximately5% and 3%, respectively, of the engineering labour force [3], [4]. These disparities have beenexplained through various interconnected factors such as aptitude; academic performance;primary and secondary educational environments; interest and opportunities in STEM; andstereotyping and racism [5]. When underrepresented students do enter STEM fields, theycontinue to face obstacles that challenge their ability to persist, thrive, and belong [6], [7]. Oneway to understand how we can bolster students
Manager)Lisa Mcnair Lisa DuPree McNair is a Professor of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech and Director of the Center for Educational Networks and Impacts (CENI) at ICAT. Her work focuses on building networks between the university and multiple community sectors and supporting evidence-based outreach in science, engineering, arts, and design. She translated a decade of interdisciplinary initiatives into VT’s Innovations Pathway Minor, and has directed 11 PhD dissertations, served on 17 PhD committees, and funded and mentored 6 post-graduate scholars (5 PhD, 1 MFA). Her funded NSF projects include revolutionizing the culture of the VT ECE department, identifying practices in intentionally inclusive Maker spaces
Information Modeling (BIM), Virtual Reality(VR), and if we add to this a video game such as Call of Duty: Warzone (CoD: WZ) for educational purposes, the benefitsof this could be explored. Until now, the advantages of BIM, VR, and video games have been studied separately, however,there is no evidence of an approach that implements all three technologies. The research in this study consists of thedevelopment of a methodology for the implementation of a user-friendly application of the Infra-3D-Lab software withspecific pedagogical objectives for EAC education. This study based on the development of high-tech educational toolsaims to: 1) make more effective use of learning hours through playful interaction with BIM, VR, and CoD: WZ models; 2)improve
-based laboratory exercises [1]. And in the intervening years, thecommunity has certainly mobilized to answer the call. Kheir et al. identified a number ofjustifications for introducing simulation- and hardware-based laboratory exercises for students ofcontrol systems: 1) the labs create sensory feedback for students to build intuition about controlsystem dynamics; 2) they prepare students for practice and expose them to the nonlinearity ofreal world controls problems; and 3) they engage students’ curiosity through exploration andbegin them on the journey of lifelong learning required by the field. Yet, as educators of controlsystems understand, creating labs that simultaneously meet all these objectives poses a nontrivialchallenge.One of the