replaceexams with projects, so that the major assessments in the course better aligned with authentic problem-solving practices.Figure 5: How similar students found section problems compared with exam problems.Conclusions:Overall, we see that students liked the section problems better than typical homework problems and foundthem more helpful for their overall learning than regular homework problems. However, students foundthat the section problems did not align with how they were assessed in the course. Overall we see somegains in problem-solving throughout the course, but we cannot attribute this gain to the section problemswithout a control group. However, it seems plausible that students did get more exposure to ideas aboutprocess safety in this
no time in industry, oftenstruggle with connecting course learning objectives to the wider outside world. However,students benefit from intentional interactions with professionals in their area of study [1].Informational interviews, site visits [2], industry-sponsored projects [3], and adjunct instructorsfrom industry [4] all provide educational advantages within the context of an engineeringcurriculum. Each of these can require a great deal of time on the part of the industry liaison ornecessitate curricular changes. Another common tactic is to bring in a guest lecturer for a singleclass session to give a talk on her specialty or to tie class material to industry. This is a fairlycommon practice and relatively easy to schedule because one
experience working with several diversity and inclusion initiatives at her university, and is currently in her second year as the graduate assistant for this paper’s program.Dr. Marianna Savoca, Stony Brook University Marianna Savoca is both an administrator and faculty member. She teaches career development, leader- ship, and external relations, collaborates with faculty on research and programmatic initiatives, as well as oversees internships and practicum experiences for graduate and undergraduate students. She leads campus-wide efforts to scale career development and access to high-impact experiential education for students in all majors and degree levels. She is Co-PI on two NSF-funded projects with a focus on STEM
involve significant hands-on and/or problem-solving components. In this regard,engineering education has been profoundly impacted by the challenges associated withdelivering laboratory content and design experiences remotely. In a qualitative survey conductedby the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) to help assess the impact of thepandemic on the engineering education community [1], respondents overwhelmingly consideredthe loss of lab-based, hands-on instruction to be the leading problem faced by engineeringeducators. Approximately 120 out of 207 responses included the terms “hands-on,” “lab” or“laboratories,” or both, and another 20 mentioned “team,” referring to activities and projects. Incomparison, although lecture courses have
acoding activity with a robot mouse game. Our study attempts to contribute to the existingliterature by providing details about the learning activities and resources used for understandingCT competencies in young students. We intently implemented this project to examine how thesecompetencies appear in young students. The preliminary results show that students from the twogroups we analyzed demonstrated Algorithms & Procedure and Debugging/Troubleshootingcompetencies during the robot mouse game. There are two possible directions for futureexploration. We want to see which other competencies students demonstrate and also whetherthe prevalence of these two competencies is seen for the entire class. The instance of patterningcan also be explored
University. Her work centers on engineering education research as a psychometrician, program evaluator, and data analyst, with research interests in spatial ability, creativ- ity, engineering-integrated STEM education, and meta-analysis. As a psychometrician, she has revised, developed, and validated more than 10 instruments beneficial for STEM education practice and research. 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. She has also served as a co-PI, an external evaluator, or an advisory board member on several NSF-funded projects
- agement and director of the PhD Program in Technology Management at Indiana State University. He has published over 50 articles in different journals and conference proceedings. He has served as an investi- gator for research projects sponsored by National Science Foundation, Ford Motor Company, and the US Army. Before working at Indiana State University, he was a faculty in the University of Louisville for 10 years. He also has over four years of industrial experience. He received his D.Eng. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Lamar University (USA) in 1999, M.Sc. in Materials Engineering from Isfahan Uni- versity of Technology in 1991, and B.Sc. in Metallurgical Engineering from Tehran University in 1988. He is a
). Engaging middle school studentswith engineering education, curricular integration and societal relevance. Proceedings of the2010 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, Louisville,KY.[19] Pleasants, J., Olson, J. K., & De La Cruz, I. (2020). Accuracy of elementary teachers’representations of the projects and processes of engineering: Results of a professionaldevelopment program. Journal of Science Teacher Education, 31(4), 362–383.https://doi.org/10.1080/1046560X.2019.1709295[20] Authors (2020). Journal of Pre-college Engineering Education[21] Gentner, D. (2002). Psychology of mental models. In J. J. Smelser & P. B. Bates (Eds.),International encyclopedia of the social and behavioral sciences (pp
improving,expanding, and deepening learning for engineering students.They are many platforms that have been adopted to convert regular class meetings to online suchas Zoom. The use of Zoom as a tool to deliver online class has become very popular since theCOVID-19 pandemic began in the spring of 2020. The Zoom platform has been largely adoptedby institutions during the pandemic across the U.S. and around the world. It is used as a method toconnect, present, and deliver lectures to students, and also as a way for students to interact withgroup projects during a time when learning in person has become potentially unsafe. Zoom iscommonly used to facilitate the communication and interaction between teachers and students, andalso meets the demands for a
the 2008 Section Outstanding Teaching Award.Todd Haskell Todd Haskell is a cognitive scientist interested in learning and the development of expertise, especially in STEM fields. He is currently Associate Professor of Psychology at Western Washington University. In previous projects Dr. Haskell has worked on understanding how chemistry novices and experts navi- gate between macroscopic, symbolic, and small particle representations, and how pre-service elementary teachers translate an understanding of energy concepts from physics to other disciplines.Dr. Lee Singleton, Whatcom Community College Lee Singleton is a professor at Whatcom Community College, in Bellingham, WA. He holds a BS in mathematics from Harding
[Tamilnadu, India], her MS in Industrial Engineering from Auburn University, her MA in Management Science and MS in Applied Statistics from The University of Alabama. She has experi- ence working with many industries such as automotive, chemical distribution etc. on transportation and operations management projects. She works extensively with food banks and food pantries on supply chain management and logistics focused initiatives. Her graduate and undergraduate students are integral part of her service-learning based logistics classes. She teaches courses in strategic relationships among industrial distributors and distribution logistics. Her recent research focuses on engineering education and learning sciences with a
community, (iii) to promote STEM to under-served communities close to SCU. In additionto the ELSJ learning objectives, this course was designed with the hope that students would also:• Develop educational materials and hands-on STEM activities as a service to the community• Develop project/time management, organizational, and leadership skills.• Develop effective listening/collaboration skills while working with community partners.• Recognize and understand ethical responsibilities of engineers.In the lecture component of the class, students are introduced to concepts that can help themwhen performing their outreach. Specifically, there is a nine-lecture sequence where thefollowing material is discussed:Lecture 1: Introductions, Course
provided toHiH group for all the labs. Figure 10. Breadboard configuration for the Widlar Source shown in Figure 8.III. ResultsIn order to assess improvement in learning via HiH lab enhancement, two means of assessmenthave been used: the results obtained from the project using a survey and the comparison oflearning outcomes between online laboratory and simulation groups.LUEE began content delivery in Digital eLearning format effective Fall 2015. Our ContentDelivery system relies heavily on Blackboard and includes closed-captioned videos, tutorials,lecture slides, discussion forums, assignments and most importantly our online labs. In our study,both groups have accessed to the same learning material via Blackboard Content ManagementSystem
benefit them, whereas Wieman et al. thought of the department as the unit of changeand have a large financial backing for the project, and were able to guide and worked together withthe departments to provide them appropriate financial incentives [7], [8]. While incentives can bea powerful tool for convincing faculty to join a change initiative, they are only as successful insofaras they are valued as heavily as other research-focused incentives [11]. Incentivizing facultythrough tying research and teaching together through the tenure track process may incentivizefaculty that may not have had the inclination to do so otherwise. 2.3.Competing Goals When attempting to shift the culture of a department, college, or university with a
students to write a summary of what has been covered in the lectureto asking them to collaboratively work on real-world problems and projects. The effectiveness of activelearning strategies compared to the traditional lecture approach, when implemented well, has beenempirically validated and documented in engineering education literature. The purpose of this mixed-methods study was to explore engineering faculty’s use of active learning strategies in their teaching in aMidwestern university’s college of engineering context. Data sources included a survey about the facultyknowledge and use of active learning strategies and follow-up semi-structured interviews that aimed togather an in-depth understanding of their implementation of active learning
design and construction of devicesusing the deposition of thin and thick metallic films and of resistivefilms on dielectric substrates. Some microcircuit projects are servingas master's and doctoral thesis subjects for students in the Micro-electronics Group. The School of Engineering has a library of 5000 volumes and sub-scribes to over 300 technical journals. Physics and Mathematics alsomaintain their own libraries. Lack of strong bibliographic supportrequires the professor to develop extensive bibliographic resources ofhis own at considerable personal expense. 121 IV. Conclusions Even though graduate programs in Brazil have their shortcomings, webelieve they can
mathematics, scienceand reading curriculums.The partnership between an engineering professor and kindergarten teacher made it feasible tointegrate the engineering activities into the curriculum with only a minimal interruption of thenormal routine. The Everyday Mathematics curriculum was typically covered during theafternoon through whole-group instruction followed by small group, partner or individualactivities. Stations were regularly used to give each student the opportunity to work in a varietyof different groups settings while learning, applying and completing new skills. These stationactivities balanced teacher-directed instruction with opportunities for open-ended, hands-onexplorations, long-term projects and on-going practice of skills. The
.), Lessons Learned: Practical Advice For the Teaching ofPsychology (pp. 57-60). Washington, DC: American Psychological Society.Reid, K.J., & Gwinn, S. (1997). Administration and Results of Extra Credit Projects. AmericanSociety for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, Milwaukee, WI: Session1275.Wilder, D.A., Flood, W.A., & Stromsnes, W., (2001). The Use of Random Extra Credit Quizzesto Increase Student Attendance, Journal of Instructional Psychology, 28(2), 117-120.Wilson, M.L. (2002). Evidence that Extra Credit Assignments Induce Moral Hazard. AtlanticEconomic Journal, 30, 97. Proceedings of the 2010 ASEE North Midwest Sectional Conference AppendixExtra
, and often team-based, research projects in systems biology whilealso educating a new breed of researcher to assume leadership positions in this emerging field.Notably, California has the opportunity to create a 21st Century multi-ethnic workforce to meetthe evolving and complex challenges of converging technologies—particularly nanotechnology,Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems or MEMS, and advanced manufacturing technology—thatwill dramatically change the state’s manufacturing sector by 2015.The proposed education and research program is centered on the impact of nanotechnology onoccupational and environmental health and safety from two perspectives, (Figure 2). The lifecycle of nano-based products envisioned is depicted in Figure 2. The
faculty of science and technology, Fes, Morocco. He is involved in many projects for improving engineering education in Morocco. He holds a PhD from the University of Sherbrooke, Canada. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 A CONTEXT-CENTERED VISUAL TOOL FOR THE DESIGN OF ENGINEERING EDUCATION SOLUTIONSAbstractIn a rapidly changing world, it is crucial to empower engineering students with 21st century skills.This can be achieved by the design of effective educational solutions that equip students with thesesought-after skills. However, since the delivery of education cannot be isolated from theenvironment in which it takes place, the design of
-source equivalent. Proceedings of the IEEE, 91.5, 2003, pp. 817-821.[4] R. Hashemian, Hybrid equivalent circuit, its properties and application, and alternative to Th´evenin and Norton equivalents, Proceedings of the Midwest Symposium On Circuits and Systems, MWSCAS, 800-803, 2009.[5] R. E. Bryant, J. D. Tygar, and L. P. Huang. Geometric characterization of series-parallel variable resistor networks, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Fundamental Theory and Applications, 41.11, 1994, pp. 686-698.[6] A. Penin, About the definition of parameters and regimes of active two-port networks with variable loads on the basis of projective geometry. WSEAS Transactions on Circuits and Systems, Vol.10, No.5, 2011, pp. 157-172
understanding where their own skill level is and that they can learn to improve it, can lead tofrustration and the decision to leave engineering, particularly for members of groups that suffer fromimposter syndrome and the like.In a garden, different plants need different conditions for their best growth. Some plants benefit frompart sun/part shade, some cannot withstand full sun. In the garden metaphor, some students benefitfrom close proximity to mentors and advisors like living and learning communities and mentoringprograms. At NC State University WMEP hosts a Tools Workshop to allow students to learn skills, likesoldering, that they will need in laboratory and project work in a judgement free and community-centered atmosphere. Living and learning
events to ensure students get the community networking and professional development that will help themsucceed at Mines and beyond.Although not the focus on this presentation, Mines offers Making the Connection Program sponsored by Halliburtonwhere accepted women students come to campus to connect with current students and faculty as well as other acceptedwomen. This program received the Women in Engineering Initiative Award from WEPAN (Women in EngineeringProActive Network) in June of 2016 for an outstanding project or initiative that serves as a model for other institutions topromote Women in Engineering. The visit program takes place three times a year and results in higher yield (67.53%)than our regular campus tours (39.9%) or other visit
revise socio-educational systems rather than “fixing” the women anddemonstrated sustainability of systemic change initiatives. For faculty and staff in undergraduatecomputing interested in making similar improvements, the strategies discussed are worthconsidering, and if found suitable, customizing, trying, and revising.ES-UP is an on-going project. With previous funding, we worked with institutions that wererequired to create collaborative teams that included both computing and engineering departmentsand our recruitment and retention strategies were implemented for both disciplines [23].Recently, we have created a new implementation and consulting process that serves smallinstitutions (e.g., liberal arts colleges and universities and community
less attracted to these majors but also that when they do explore these majors,they choose not to stay.IntroductionRetention and graduation rates in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM)careers are a worldwide concern [1], which has led to a shortage of professionals in STEM fields.Additionally, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, computer science (CS) is the onlySTEM field where there are more jobs available relative to the amount of graduating students. Ithas also been reported that computing occupations are projected to increase, to nearly half amillion new jobs; which is by far more than any other group in STEM (U.S. Bureau of LaborStatistics). More importantly, the disparate representation is of concern because
questions Q1-4 and Q9 and is associated withsetting up goals, starting projects, and working/managing others. Factor F3 involved questions Q5,Q7, and Q8 and is associated with direct influence over a team or community. Factor 4 (Q17-19)focused the professionals’ self-efficacy towards affecting their community.3. Results3.1 EFA results Due to the low sample size of 25 usable professionals’ entries after the data imputation, EFAwas not ran on the professionals’ responses. Moreover, the Central Limit Theory for theassumption of normality is not applicable; hence non-parametric tests had to be conducted. Instead,the factor distribution from the student data was used, and further analyzed, when analyzing theprofessionals’ responses, see Table 3 of
Nevada, Reno. He graduated with his Masters in 2019 from the University of Nevada, Reno, and plans to pursue a career in academia in the future. His research interests are in graduate student attrition rates within academia, engineering identity development, and factors that influence decision making on persistence.Dr. Adam Kirn, University of Nevada, Reno Adam Kirn is an Associate Professor of Engineering Education at the University of Nevada, Reno. His research focuses on the interactions between engineering cultures, student motivation, and learning ex- periences. His projects involve the study of student perceptions, beliefs and attitudes towards becoming engineers, their problem-solving processes, and cultural
the field, gaining a betterunderstanding of the mentoring experience from their perspectives can provide vital informationregarding how volunteerism contributes to the new cultural norms of engineering.Project OverviewThis paper is situated in a larger project that aims to understand the impacts of broadening participationvolunteerism at the pre-college, undergraduate, and graduate levels on those doing the volunteering. Thepurpose of this work-in-progress is to explore the impacts of broadening participation volunteerism onstudents from underserved communities at the undergraduate level. We utilized Volunteer FunctionInventory (VFI) (Clary et al., 1995) as a theoretical framework to understand the aims, benefits, andconsequences of
instructional support programs for faculty, providing evaluation support for educational proposals and projects, and working with faculty to publish educational research. Her research interests primarily involve creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship education. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Leveraging Inquiry-Based Simulated Laboratory Exercises in a Virtual Classroom EnvironmentTrack Selection: Experimentation and Laboratory-Oriented Studies DivisionAbstractWe report on the implementation and impact of virtual laboratory modules in a specializedengineering course titled ‘Nondestructive Evaluation of Flaws’ offered virtually in
specialized portable instrumentsas they are needed to take measurements from the projects and provide electrical signals to thecircuits. Students had to purchase or borrow a personal instrument for use at home, some hadacquired it for a previous introductory course, but others had to obtain it during the first weeks.Some available devices used for Circuits Lab were Analog Discovery from Digilent orADALM2000/1000 from Analog Devices. These devices include an oscilloscope, variable powersupply, multimeter, and function generator for lab execution. Table 1. Portable Equipment required for Circuits Lab - Options Equipment Software Manufacturer