learning,perseverance, reflection, commitment [5] [25]. Despite the challenges, it is important forengineering programs (and faculty) to commit to doing this work as it is an essential componentof educating future engineers.Internal Motivation & Course Development ProcessWestern Washington University (WWU) is a public institution with approximately 15,000 full-time undergraduate students. The Engineering and Design Department (ENGD) at WWU hasfour undergraduate-only programs: Electrical & Computer Engineering (EECE), IndustrialDesign (ID), Manufacturing Engineering (MFGE), and Polymer Materials Engineering (PME).Students interested in majoring in engineering at WWU must formally apply to a program aftercompleting a series of prerequisite
course.In partnership with the ASP program, we developed a new lab section reserved for ASP studentswhich focused on creating a supportive learning community. Our pilot started with two sectionsenrolling 20 students each. A first emphasis was building community between students. To fostercommunity, instructors provided students with multiple, structured opportunities to engage withone another during lab, including working together in lab teams and reflecting on and sharingtheir values and interests. We also built connections between students and instructors by creatingdedicated office hours that were staffed by the ASP lab instructors (non-ASP students use asystem where the instructor assisting may not be known by the student), requiring office
Surprises along the Path toward Equity in Engineering and Computer Science EducationAbstractThe Partnership for Equity: STEM (P4E) is a collaborative project funded by the NSF IUSEprogram. Four partner institutions have been working together for the past five years to develop,implement, and assess curriculum activities to enlighten students attending requiredundergraduate engineering and computer science courses about the relevance and importance ofdiversity, equity, and inclusion to the fields of engineering and computer science. As the P4Eproject nears completion, we use this poster session and accompanying paper to reflect on whatwe have learned during the past five years. We focus on the surprises we encountered during
. Participants included engineering teachers fromlocal school districts, who participated in professional learning (PL) in the summer of 2020 andsummer of 2021. Design-based research (DBR) methodology guided the development andrefinement of the PL experiences across the two summers, and conjecture maps were developedto reflect our high-level conjectures (overall goals of the PL), the embodiment of the learningdesign (the PL experience), the mediating processes, and the outcomes associated with the PL.The findings illustrate that during the 2020 PL, teachers' overall experiential learning promotedexploration fostering conceptual understanding of BID integration into engineering. However,the specifics of drawing inspiration from nature, such as
learner-centered pedagogies [4]. Through interactions, self-reflection, andcritical introspection, the participants contribute to the collective creation of knowledge [4].Research suggests that the resources movement actors gain access to might be closely related tothe structure of learning itself. For example, Cornfield and colleagues [5] find that activists of theNashville nonviolent civil rights movement relied on nonlinear and iterative processes ofcollective learning to design and implement action. Leaders of the Highlander Folk School, acritical center that trained and empowered many activists during the Civil Rights movement [11],relied on experts and guest speakers to deliver content to the participants, but they also usedtechniques such
, students completed a photovoice reflection for one of the assignments(manufacturing lesson on corrosion and erosion) to reflect on the manufacturing survey. In thispaper, we present the survey assignment and photovoice reflection on corrosion and erosion,specifically, as it is traditionally considered a negative surface phenomenon. Thematic analysisof the photovoice reflections show that students are motivated to explore mechanisms forincreasing system value and identifying opportunities. Ultimately, findings suggest that the useof hands-on surveying assignments to compliment the traditional teaching methods used inmanufacturing classrooms can promote an entrepreneurial mindset when studying manufacturingcontent.1. Introduction Industry 4.0
twoundergraduate student developers of this curriculum participated in the honors program,so they were familiar with the rigors and expectations of honors coursework. Finally, thehonors program awards funding for a student teaching assistant for each course selectedthrough the competitive process.Course Topics and ThemesThroughout the course, students are asked to reflect on who gets to be a scientist orengineer, who defines which questions researchers ask and which problems engineerssolve, who benefits from these solutions, and what role social justice plays in science andengineering practice.Through a social justice lens, we explore the ethical implications involved in howtechnologies impact underrepresented people with specific focus on race, gender
feedback can be more constructive for students in adesign curriculum [36]. As such, verbal feedback plays a significant role in success and teamperformance for students in engineering design curriculums [37]. Prior research shows evidencethat elementary students have navigated the demands of giving engineering design peer feedback[38]. Even more, student discourse helps students to understand how their drawn designs (e.g.conceptual models) can be used during an engineering design challenge in an elementary scienceclassroom [39].Peer comparison can also facilitate student reflection. Through reflection, students can evaluatethe pros and cons of student models, intentionally select solutions, and purposefully chooseimprovements. Prior studies
oppression and encouraged to reflect on their own location withinstructures of power and privilege. Critical pedagogies are particularly useful in challengingparticipants to explore structural inequities within the university, to examine how policies,procedures, and practices have been constructed in ways that reproduce hierarchy anddominance, and to imagine a transformed future in which institutional structures and individualbehaviors are socially just. This paper describes two types of transformative learning practicesthat have been found particularly effective in helping ADVANCE seminar participants meetlearning outcomes: critical imagery and messaging analysis, and the theatre of the oppressed.Specific examples of each type of transformative
planning, monitoring, and evaluation of thinking Formative assessment for Promote both knowledge more learning opportunities and regulation of cognition. Post-activity reflection Students perception on Collect diagnostic clues to intervention meet Individual needs A B Figure 1: (A) Process-oriented activities for improved student engagement and performance and (B) Process-oriented intervention for creative and critical thinkingThere is a lack of knowledge of
investigate, theauthors decided to adopt the model developed in 1988 by Richard Felder, an engineeringprofessor at North Carolina State University, with help of psychologist Linda Silverman thatfocuses on aspects of learning styles particularly significant in engineering education3, 8. Themodel currently has four bipolar dimensions describing Perception (Sensing-Intuitive), Input(Visual-Verbal), Processing (Active-Reflective) and Understanding (Sequential-Global) ofinformation, with scores in the range of 6-7 indicating a balanced learning style with mildpreference either way, scores in the range of 8-9, indicating a moderate preference, and scores inthe range of 10-11 indicating strong preference for a particular mode of learning. In 1991
instructors and students,must include specific examples related to the skill set the course is intended to provide. Ibelieve that student responses to these skill set-specific examples also reflect students’ beliefin their abilities to learn and solve problems in areas beyond traditional engineeringapplications. 2. Course Design to enhance student self-belief in learning ability:There are many references regarding the value of problem-based, active learning environmentsfor improvement of student comprehension and engagement.9,10,11 The results of a recent studyby Braxton, et al., suggest that development of an active learning approach in courses directlyenhances student perception of learning gains, which in turn helps students to view
reverse connections to Ports 1 and 2 to determine S21 and S12.Each S-parameter is a complex number and is expressed in both rectangular and polar formsdepending on the use. Unless the device under test is perfectly matched at a given frequency,there will be a reflected voltage that is not in phase with the incident or applied voltage.Similarly, the voltage b2 has been altered either because of gain/loss and group delay through thenetwork such that it is also out of phase with voltage a1. The difference between a vector networkanalyzer and a scalar network analyzer is that the VNA can measure both the magnitude andphase components and displays the S12 (input reflection loss) and S21 (forward transmissiongain/loss) in those terms. As a matter of
questioning learner’s own cross-cultural attitudes anddeepening their understanding of foreign cultures. Some of the topics introduced may causeheated debates among learners, which is why they need to be carefully moderated by anexperienced instructor. In any case, thought-provoking subjects and tasks facilitate eagerparticipation by learners and provide for a fruitful debriefing and reflection phase with theteacher, which follows on each of the four activities. The tasks presented may serve as Page 14.1003.2contributions to a cross-cultural training course to be designed by instructors who teachengineering and business students or practising
outreach ambassador orientations toward teachinginfluence this variation. Particularly promising for engineering teaching and learning, we observed ambassadors makingbids to elicit student ideas, pressing for evidence-based explanations, and revoicing students’design ideas. These moves are characteristic of ambitious instruction and have the potential tosupport students to engage in reflective decision-making and to guide students towardproductive, more expert engineering design practices. Our analysis suggests that engineeringoutreach ambassadors notice and respond to students’ ideas, thereby engaging in ambitiousteaching practices which can be expected to support elementary students in making progress inengineering design. This analysis of
can be conducted in class, online or a combination of both. Inthe discussion question shown in Appendix A for the Cost of Production module, the instructorposes an open-ended problem with a clearly stated learning objective. Students are required torespond with an initial post that outlines their planning solution in response to the problemposted. Each student will review the initial responses from peers and reflect on their solution tothe problem. Finally, everyone must respond to the posts and comment on at least two otherposts in the follow-up discussion. Students are requested to follow netiquette protocol and extendan observation or comment on an insight they did not consider.Description of Select Modules The online modules target
designed with the help of contemporaryunderstandings of effective instruction methods (e.g. table 1 below), also relying extensivelyon available mechanical design texts such as Dieter & Schmidt.7Table 1: Instructional practices that create effective learning experiences8Affective • Arouse interest to students of contrasting abilities and goals • Provide stimulating, interesting, and varied assignments that are within the range of students abilities but challenge them to reach for the top of that range • Make connections to students interests and intended careersMeta-cognitive • Build self-regulative abilities by explicitly teaching students about them • Promote reflection to enhance attention to meta-cognitive
, motion and energy. Teams were required to document their design and construction processes in an electronic engineering notebook. The notebooks were examined for evidence of student understanding and communication of the engineering design process, reflective learning, and kinematic principles as well as the level of participation of each individual in the team. Integrating engineering into math and science courses is new to many inservice teachers and research has documented that science teacher efforts focus more on engineering practices such as teamwork and communication rather than the application of the math and science concepts that are important to engineering problem solving. The research objective was to identify tools and practices
learned from the hands-onactivities and reflect back on how this can inform their understanding of, and solutions to, theGrand Challenge (Stage 6).This paper begins with a description of the framework including its foundation in contextuallearning theory and the motivation for using the Grand Challenges. Subsequently, theimplementation of the framework in two engineering courses is described. Details of the learningmodules and activities corresponding to the six stages of the framework are presented for eachcourse. Similarities and differences in implementation are highlighted, illustrating how acommon framework can be applied to seemingly very different courses. Finally, the use of theframework is evaluated in terms of its impact on student
required performance to succeed in engineering. The reasonsresulting their failing or dropping out of engineering may include: (1) lack of motivation andinterest in learning engineering; (2) lack of good learning habits, strategies and efforts in theirstudies; and (3) lack of connection with other students and faculty members for seeking support.This paper presents a new instructional framework that integrates SRL process model into courseinstruction. The integrative instruction is to simulate four phases of SRL in series of self-directedfeedback cycles, and to prompt application of learning strategies and self-reflection at thedifferent phases of learning and problem-solving process. This is implemented throughintegrating self-assessment
. With experiential education,young students have the opportunity to learn by doing in-class experiments. The goal of theWestern Michigan University (WMU) student team was to design and construct an apparatus tobe used in a K-12 classroom that properly displays the properties of light as they occur in nature.The reflection, refraction, transmittance and absorption properties of light are recurrently shownin textbooks as if they occur individually, while in reality they occur simultaneously. Based onthe expressed need of a local middle school teacher for such a device, the team drafted designs asan assignment in an entry-level freshman engineering course. After one design was decidedupon, the device itself was produced, and given to the teacher
professional development research. Cognitive science research indicates that conceptualunderstanding is necessary for situating information, content, and ideas into a particular context,for example engineering into science. Concepts provide learners with the components needed tocreate a connected web of knowledge, allowing learners to apply what they have learned to newsituations and learn related information3. From an instructional standpoint, concepts provide away to organize knowledge into meaningful instruction4. In addition, research indicates thatprofessional development should take into account teachers’ conceptions of teaching and of thelearning process and allow for active learning and reflective participation5, 6, 7. Engaging inactivities
professional practice, the culture of the classroom must emulate the community ofpractice [4-7]. The instructional approach that has guided the evolution of the course has beenbased on the following principles: • Business Environment. Assignments and assessments should be grounded in and resemble business practice. • Assignment Timing. Assessments and student reflection exercises should be coordinated with the completion of a major challenge. • Cycle Iteration. Multiple cycles of both the business model and technical solution generation are necessary. • External Reviews. External input and review of the projects is sought at every stage of the process.Each of these principles is discussed in paragraphs that
teamwork in URPs, as well as the methods and processesthat students use to manage teamwork effectively.Methods: The study was conducted in a 10-week summer, full time, onsite REU program at alarge Midwestern University. Fourteen students from all over the US worked in teams on avariety of research projects in the fields of engineering and applied energy at the host university.At the end of the program, the students completed a guided reflection, and the collected data wasthematically analyzed to reveal perceptions about their experiences working as a team.Results: Students reported diverse strengths in teamwork, such as the importance of differingperspectives and experiences, positive mentorship dynamics, and the value of adaptability andeffective
University. She earned her B.S. in Software Engineering from Makerere University and her M.S. in Information Technology, with a focus on Software Engineering & Data Science, from Carnegie Mellon University. Her research focuses on reflective practices and outcomes in scaffolded computational modeling and simulation engineering projects, alongside the integration of data and ethical reasoning in engineering, and computing education within the African context. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Developing the Design Reasoning in Data Life-cycle Ethical Management FrameworkAbstractHuman-designed systems are increasingly leveraged by data-driven methods and
shown that learning activities that reinforce concepts help students understand thecontent they previously struggled to master [12]. This approach also improves theirunderstanding of concepts, the principles that link concepts, and the linking of concepts andprinciples to conditions and procedures for application [13]. It is critical to allow students torelate concepts to their application by providing realistic scenarios for students to solve usingtheir knowledge of STEM. Integrated STEM activities can foster self-regulated/self-directedlearning in several ways. One is by prompting students for explanations via guiding questions,which help students reflect upon and integrate the knowledge they require to solve the problem[14]. For the
intention is totransform the identity and mindset of the learners in our engineering programs from ‘student’ toengineer in training, or engineering apprentice.A key feature of pro-ops is that students take on professional roles in experiences intentionallydesigned to resemble a professional experience in all aspects, to differentiate them from justanother class project. We use immersion as a measure of the level of industry-like context, with ahigh level of immersion being required to qualify as a pro-op. The overarching goal of Pro-opeducation is to create a healthy professional culture (Pro-culture) within our engineeringprogram, where students engage in repeated professional experiences and tell stories about themthrough the reflective lens of
IDIsoftware. These scores correlate to produce reports detailing individual and/or group results thatprovide insight into characteristics within each phase. These results were then assessed usingMicrosoft Excel’s statistical toolset to analyze the changes across the IDC continuum of theoverall group, subgroups, and individuals. Changes (+/-) 7 on the IDI scoring are consideredstatistically significant.Qualitative Data CollectionQualitative data were collected from a modified Student Assessment of Learning Gains (SALG)Survey, developed using the SALG assessment tool [20] with reflection activities guided by [21],and course artifacts including student assignments, focus groups, individual interviews, classdiscussions, reflection activities, and related
experience. These are situations in which the designer(s) are most likely not to reflect anunderstanding or shared identity of end users’ needs and conditions. While the field ofengineering is diversifying, in the United States, nearly three-quarters of engineering positionsare still held by men, two-thirds of whom identify as white [12]. Until there is greaterrepresentation in the sciences and engineering fields, new pedagogical approaches are required toensure that engineering designs are inclusive and appropriate for the sociocultural contexts intowhich they are implemented.Many institutions develop DEI education as a separate, focused course to assist engineers inunderstanding place-based context. Social science courses may go some way in
. This course was designed to help students understand the motivation for theOpen Science movement and be most prepared to navigate these new standards, as they enter aresearch field. As a team of students and an instructor, we explored high-level concepts ofresearch linked to Open Science, and how modern tools facilitate reproducible research. Theobservations stated here are not considered comprehensive results from formal research, ratherthis paper provides reflections from a unique course that may inspire others to incorporate OpenScience practices into courses and research.Reproducibility along the research lifecycleThis course was centered around students understanding and creating reproducible research bydeveloping and assessing open