rates.The main goal of this study is to understand how interdisciplinary instruction affects students’ability to identify, formulate, and solve problems, function on multidisciplinary teams, engagewith contemporary issues, communicate effectively in writing, verbally and visually, developappreciation of the impact of planning and engineering solutions in a variety of societal contexts,and develop understanding of their professional and ethical responsibilities. Soft skills, such ascommunication, team spirit, leadership, sociability, time management, documentation,presentation, ethics, negotiation, etc., are all critical in successful delivery of a standout App. Oursurvey questions cover these aspects in a succinct manner.Evaluation Design for
) Joyce B. Main is Assistant Professor of Engineering Education at Purdue University. She holds a Ph.D. in Learning, Teaching, and Social Policy from Cornell University, and an Ed.M. in Administration, Planning, and Social Policy from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.Dr. Susan M. Lord, University of San Diego Susan M. Lord received a B.S. from Cornell University and the M.S. and Ph.D. from Stanford University. She is currently Professor and Chair of Electrical Engineering at the University of San Diego. Her teach- ing and research interests include electronics, optoelectronics, materials science, first year engineering courses, feminist and liberative pedagogies, engineering student persistence, and student
. Amy Hurst, researching the potential uses of 3D printing and modeling in education. Upon graduation in May, she plans to continue pursu- ing research involving children’s interactions with technology and how technology could be designed to continue to enable children’s natural sense of creativity and sociability.Dr. Amy Hurst, University of Maryland, Baltimore County Amy Hurst an associate professor of Human-Centered Computing in the Information Systems Department at UMBC and studies accessibility problems and build assistive technologies. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Fabricating Engagement: Benefits and Challenges of Using 3D Printing to Engage
designed to 1) fill the void created by NSF’s elimination of the preliminaryproposal review process for the ATE program in 2012; 2) address the challenge thatapproximately two-thirds of the nation’s 1,123 community colleges have never received NSFfunding; 3) better manage the rapidly growing number of requests received by ATE centerprincipal investigators and NSF program officers related to grant proposal development andproject management ; and 4) most importantly, develop grant writing and leadership skillsamong STEM faculty members at two-year colleges.The Mentor-Connect project resulted from a comprehensive planning process that involved NSF-ATE principal investigators, NSF-ATE program officers, potential NSF-ATE grantees, theNational Academy
was needed and provided documentation ofwhat was being built on other university campuses. All of this information would be presented tothe Board of Regents of Georgia to justify the construction of a new library (Box 5, Series 2).Crosland continued to investigate the preliminary plans with other library directors and wrote toEmerson about her concerns. Mr. John Burchard, Head of Humanities and former director oflibraries at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, was invited to the campus to do a librarybuilding study. He supported Crosland’s view that the Carnegie Library was too small and that anew building was needed (Annual Report, 1949-1950).In 1951, Crosland’s dream for a larger library became a reality. Groundbreaking
[15][Bellevue College FG07, as cited in [14]]. This is recommended in theservice-learning literature as well [5]. ii. Intentionally and explicitly connecting reflection to learning outcomesAn observed or suspected obstacle to reflection is the thought that it is irrelevant to the task athand [Cal Poly-SLO FG02, as cited in [14]][12][15][10]. This challenge seems to be addressedby the recommendation found in the literature to establish a clear link between reflection and thelearning or course outcomes. This is in reference both to planning of reflection activities [Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology FG09, as cited in [14]][9][17] and also in making thisconnection explicit to students [14][9]. iii. Practical and cultural
specifications, milestones, feedback, andreporting procedures along with the challenges encountered by both the students and theinstructors. The paper also presents the analysis of the student outcomes accessed by theinstructors, student comments, and discussion on methods to increase student motivation,participation, and project evaluation. This paper will serve as a teaching aid for the instructorswho are currently teaching or plan to teach senior design in the near future. Most specifically,this will help newly joined junior faculty members in planning the senior design course andadapting some of these material and reporting procedures.Keywords: Engineering technology, Multi-disciplinary senior design, Autonomous vehicle1. IntroductionThe two main
, simple programming and operation, easytroubleshooting, flexibility in assembly, configuration, and reconfiguration, simple power supply, easystorage, and appropriateness of its functions and capabilities in explaining middle school science and mathcontent [1-2,4,6,8,9,16,19].Figure 1: A LEGO Mindstorms EV3 robotic system developed by the teachers to be used in teaching and learning of middle school STEM lessons.4. The Development of Robot-aided STEM LessonsThe project facilitation team and the PD program participants collaborated in different ways to plan anddevelop several robotics-aided STEM lessons for middle school classrooms. The teachers shared a fewexisting middle school science and math concepts that they deemed pedagogically
-person observations. The data presented in this paper is a subset of the large data set describedabove. We center our experiences building a coherent group of diverse scholar activists withprior experience in nation-wide social/intellectual movements to broaden participation inacademic science and engineering. Our findings in this paper are based on ethnographic researchactivities aiming at intentionally breaching personal and professional identities and data thatemerged in team meetings as the group planned the two symposia: LATTICE I, for early-careerfemale faculty in EECS and LATTICE II, for early-career URM female faculty in engineering.We collected data in a variety of ways: semi-structured interviews, group interviews, detailedmeeting
. 16. Learning a foreign language other than Spanish is more .671 .548 useful than Spanish. 6. I would like to have more space in my schedule for foreign .453b .553 .612 language and culture classes. 2. I plan to graduate with a minor in a language other than .501 .696 Spanish. 22. I am interested in travelling outside the U.S. .782 .724 20. I want to study abroad in a country where English is .306b .780 .660 not the main spoken language. 23. I like getting to know people from other countries. .637 .509 Percentage of variance explained by
Themes, Definitions, and Participant Examples Evaluation Criteria: Intellectual Merit Theme Definition ExampleConferences Mention conferences “Once I have determined the effectiveness of my improvements, I generally or specifically plan to continue presenting the results of my research at conferences such as the International Workshop on MPI. This will allow others with an interest in the field to learn about or incorporate my ideas and further their own research
overseas issues. Although they are easy to plan, manage, require less funding, andrequire less curriculum changes to incorporate, they have low educational impacts. By increasingthe time that students are involved, and requiring them to engage in different stages of the projectsuch as data acquiring, design, and assessment of alternative solutions, they can create deeperimpacts [7]. Students require time to absorb important components of their service learning.Therefore, longer exposure and involvement helps them acquire more aspects of the designprocess.Another factor in designing an international service learning program is to determine if studentsare going to be required to travel to the site project or can they stay connected remotely too
with their mentees on anindividual level. The semester concludes with DREAM Day, when all participating menteesvisit Rice University for a day to test their designs, tour campus engineering facilities, and askquestions of a student panel about the college experience. Mentors do not receive payment orcourse credit for their time, nor do they fulfill any university requirement by participating. This study focuses specifically on the motivations of the student organizers of DREAM,known as Head Mentors. In addition to leading the mentoring sessions, Head Mentors alsoattend weekly planning meetings, recruit and assign mentors to specific school mentorshipsessions, manage the logistics of transportation and school communication, and plan
courses based on the engineeringdiscipline (Statics for civil engineering, Circuits for electrical engineering, and Statics andCircuits for mechanical engineering). Therefore, graduation rates for engineering majors arebased on only those that make it through these Gateway courses. At The Citadel, students mustdeclare a major before they arrive to campus for their first semester. The Registrar’s Office thenbuilds the appropriate course schedule around their major choice. So each student counts ingraduation statistics from the day they enter The Citadel. Therefore, some type of plan wasneeded to address the issues mentioned above.The new Dean led an inclusive team to establish a six year strategic plan (LEAD 2018) whilepresenting data noting areas
with program planning, management, and evaluation and an academic interest in leadership de- velopment in academic contexts. She holds a M.A. in Education from Michigan State University and an M.A. in English from The Ohio State University. Page 26.1785.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 “Leaning In” by Leaving the Lab: Building Graduate Community through Facilitated Book DiscussionsAbstractThis paper describes the design, implementation and evaluation of a facilitated discussion seriesdesigned to build community among graduate students in STEM
students), then integrate that advice into an action plan. • Students in a difficult circumstance are not always good at integrating and acting on advice. The UGO staff discovered that students often did not follow up with ODOS (which was always part of our advice), or if they did, subsequent follow-up with the UGO or ODOS was lacking. Students struggled to manage and act on the on-going conversations across the UGO and ODOS offices, especially when they are in a Page 26.1049.4 compromised state due to their circumstances. • ODOS was not near the engineering precinct. The ODOS offices are centrally located on
, all play a role in each case.Case 1: The Peace Bridge is an international border crossing for approximately 6million cars, trucks, and buses a year, connecting the City of Buffalo, NY to FortErie, Ontario over the Niagara River.24 It is owned and operated by the tax-exempt Buffalo and Fort Erie Public Bridge Authority (PBA), which draws itsrevenue primarily from toll charges, duty-free sales, and lease payments on itsproperty.25 For the past 7 years, PBA has been trying to implement a majorexpansion project that would widen the Bridge entry point into the US in order toimprove vehicle access to the 16-lane US customs plaza in the Lower West Side ofBuffalo. PBA’s plans have been met with fierce resistance from residents livingclose to the
Page 26.331.16EngineeringGraduation Baseline 2012-2013 2013-2014 2014-2015 2015-2016 2016-2017Rate 5-year averageSix Year 44% 44% 45% 47% 50% 54%MethodologyAn evaluation plan utilizing both quantitative and qualitative data was implemented usinginternal evaluation tasks focused on data collection via surveys. The quantitative data wasanalyzed utilizing descriptive statistics while the qualitative questions were analyzed usingcoding and themes. The following evaluation questions were addressed: (1) How have projectactivities impacted retention and performance of engineering undergraduate students? (2) Howhave the project’s mentoring activities impacted the mentors
the third week of the fall semester at the end of aclass meeting of an upper level required technical communications class (ECOM) at a westernpublic land-grant institution. Surveys were administered over the span of a week and responseswere collected in class after participants finished the paper survey. The population consisted ofengineering majors who have taken at least two years of engineering courses. The class isdependent on a four year plan and has prerequisites that restrict students from taking the courseuntil their third year of engineering. A total of 202 survey responses (96% response rate) wereturned in from the participants. A 96% response rate was obtained for this survey administrationdue in part to the instructor’s mandatory
in their first three years of study (Figure1). These workshops are envisioned as experiential learning activities based on team-basedengineering activities. The first three workshops intend to provide an introduction to (1) team-forming and building, (2) communication, and, (3) conflict management, respectively. The lastthree workshops provide reinforcement and opportunities for application in the same areas and inmultidisciplinary settings, as well as instruction in planning, role development, and collaborativeand creative problem solving. The workshops are designed based on the principle that teamworkskills are best learned by doing1, i.e., by practicing in a context that approximates common teamexperiences in engineering, while also
fourmiddle school science and math teachers. Prior to the workshop, the engineers and educationresearchers created a standards-aligned curriculum consisting of five math and five sciencelessons aimed at mitigating content-specific pedagogical struggles through the integration ofrobotics. Unlike a technocentric approach, in which lessons are planned around a technologicalapplication,11 the development of each lesson was driven by content-specific needs. Throughoutthe PD, a TPACK perspective was employed to introduce each lesson to the teachers, allowingthem to examine, understand, and critique the teaching and learning benefits derived from therobot-based lesson. The strength of TPACK became apparent during the third week of PD wheninvestigating a
Evaluation and Action Research Asso- ciates and also serves in the same role with the Gates Millennium Scholars Program/UNCF. Prior to this, he served as the Director of the Center for Assessment, Planning and Accountability (CAPA) with the UNCF Special Programs Corporation (UNCFSP). Dr. Nagle joined UNCFSP to establish the center in November, 2004.Prior to joining UNCFSP, Dr. Nagle was the Research & Evaluation Specialist Team Lead at NASA Peer Review Services in Washington, D.C. working primarily with NASA’s Office of Ed- ucation.Dr. Nagle was a public school educator in Pennsylvania and North Carolina for 11 years and has worked in the research and evaluation field for the past 20 years.Dr. Nagle has a B.S. in
programs. Specifically highlighted as part ofthe transfer model are curriculum alignment and mapping, degree-specific “flight” plans, andprogram-geared advising. Participating students must satisfy rigorous core requirements butthey customize their track and their electives. Figure 2-Overal Structure of the CAPTURE ProgramThe CAPTURE program has expanded computer science and computer engineering capacityas follows: FAU students and State College students with either an AA or AS will be qualified for admission to the program. Therefore, the program is designed with sufficient flexibility to accommodate students with different backgrounds. FAU and the State Colleges have developed a streamlined and
students. Jorge collaborates with NEWT’s In- dustry Liaison Officer and Innovation Ecosystem Director, and the Student Leadership Council in the planning of educational opportunities for NEWT graduate students and postdocs with the center’s indus- try partners and other professional development activities. At Rice, Jorge is an Adjunct Professor in the Civil & Environmental Engineering and Bioengineering Departments, where he developed and teaches CEVE/GLHT 314: Sustainable Water Purification for the Developing World, a project-based course on sustainable strategies for safe water supply in low-income and developing regions of the world. He col- laborates in other project-based courses at Rice, such as Introduction
into future plans for makerspaces on the Boise State campus. As an undergraduate and graduate student, she has been involved with the Society of Women Engineers, and also taught a materials science laboratory course as a graduate teaching assis- tant. She has volunteered at numerous STEM outreach activities on and off of the Boise State campus throughout her time as a student and is passionate about increasing diversity in STEM and helping girls and women to recognize that STEM is a path that is open to them if they want to take it.Ms. Katherine Christine Tetrick, Washington State University Katherine directs the Washington STate Academic RedShirt (STARS) program at Washington State Uni- versity. She holds a Master
Figure 1, blended learning environments arecharacterized by a thoughtful combination of in-person andonline learning activities, allowing for a seamless integrationof technology into the learning process. This intentionaldesign includes the development of learning materials,instructional strategies, and assessments that align with boththe face-to-face and online components. In contrast,emergency remote teaching, as experienced during theCOVID-19 pandemic, differs from carefully planned blendedlearning environments because it often involves a reactiveresponse to unforeseen circumstances, leading to a temporaryreliance on online tools and platforms without thecomprehensive planning and instructional design associated Figure 1
. Each sketch should be accompanied by a brief written description and credit to the artist/creator. Your report should demonstrate contributions from all group members.3: Compare A typed mini-report with a description of the process used to select the best possibleDesigns and solutions among the multiple presented. Your selected designs will be used during milestoneMake 5, so the report should also include detailed documentation of your plan for parameterDecisions testing. You must also describe the planned construction process in words.4: Hand Deliver hand drawn dimensioned sketches of your team’s alpha designs that will be used inDrawings parameter testing. The hand drawings
community or social causes A responsible engineer actively participates in events or projects that improve people's quality of life I believe that engineers should be involved in public discussions about the impact of civil engineering projects on society A responsible civil engineer educates others about environmental issues associated with the planning, design and implementation of civil engineering projects To achieve a fairer society, the most important contribution that engineers can make is to behave honestly and with integrity in their professional
areopportunities for social interaction such as talking about concerns and emotions, sharingexperiences, and making plans [20]. Following these social events, the mentors providedfeedback to their mentees on their applications for REU programs or graduate school. Table 2. Length and Frequency of Meetings and Modes of Communication (n = 11) Time Spent Per Month on Frequency of Meeting Per Modes of Communication Mentoring Relationship Month Less than 1 hour 18% Less than once 18% Email 91% 1 hour 45% Once 36% Text 55% 2 hours 36% Twice 45% Zoom 45
workshop that bringstogether teachers and researchers. In our search for research and materials, we were unable to findpublications that covered this type of workshop. Finding none, we designed our workshop basedon research conducted on ways to engage two or more groups. Our initial planning discussionssurfaced our main tenet in the workshop design. We wanted to center and focus on the teacherperspectives and experiences. For researchers, we wanted them to better understand the needs ofthe teachers while they were designing their future research projects.2.1 GoalsWe started our development of workshop activities by creating goals for the participants first andthen designing activities that would achieve those goals. We wanted to ensure that the