-down>10) Taking into account students’ skills, abilities, and interests in helping them <6-option <6-option choose courses. drop-down> drop-down>11) Knowing the student as an individual. <6-option <6-option drop-down> drop-down>12) Encouraging students to assume responsibility for their education by <6-option <6-option helping them develop planning, problem-solving, and decision-making drop-down> drop-down> skills.Part 2: Please read the following 18
engineering situations and make informed judgments, which must consider the impact of engineering solutions in global, economic, environmental, and societal contexts; 5. an ability to function effectively on a team whose members together provide leadership, create a collaborative and inclusive environment, establish goals, plan tasks, and meet objectives; 6 an ability to develop and conduct appropriate experimentation, analyze and interpret data, and use engineering judgment to draw conclusions; 7. an ability to acquire and apply new knowledge as needed, using appropriate learning strategies.Student Feedback and Lessons LearnedEvery semester, the university administers the Student Perception of Instruction
studentsparticipating are performing, at baseline, approximately the same as other students in their age anddemographic range in terms of their quantitative score on instruments such as the EERI and DIT-2.Analysis of surveys completed both before and after the introduction of the game-based ethicaleducational interventions have not shown significant differences: changes in ethical reasoning afterformal engineering ethics instruction (either via games or through more traditional approaches likecase studies) show no significant changes and effect sizes are all small.Since student ethical reasoning as measured by these instruments seems stable over the course ofsingle semester, we planned to collect follow-up data from senior engineering students to see ifthere
tasks. It “involves solving problems,designing systems, and understanding human behavior” [3], all part of daily routine like trying tofigure out how to dress up or what to do when the water pipe in the bathroom breaks. Theseexamples involve identifying the problem and thinking of the best possible solution, breaking theoriginal problem into smaller tasks, reformulating the problem in a way it reminds us ofsomething we are familiar with, planning, learning, and developing an action plan in the presenceof uncertainty [3].Wing [4] comments that one of the most important aspects of CT is the concept of abstraction todefine patterns previously identified, generalize, and do a parametrization. The capacity toabstract is precisely what will allow
. This study showed apotential for black women to effectively identify with CS. One reason could be due to the natureof CS and the variety of spaces it provides to accommodate one’s interest. Moreover,establishing settings in CS that foster the equity and inclusion of black women may be vital toimprove representation. Aforementioned, support systems and mentorship opportunities couldassist in this effort, which could promote increased representation of black women inadministrative, managerial, and related positions of leadership in CS that could further motivateyounger black women to aspire to pursue careers in this field.To expand upon this study, it is the plan to explore specific problems and hurdles that racial,institutional, educational
networking, wikis, and alternate reality worlds have grown significantly. Some instructorsshare their course materials and teaching ideas broadly, which expands learning and educationequity. Online content such as open educational resources (OERs) have been developed to supporthigher education students. Open educational resources are teaching, learning, and researchmaterials, commonly in the digital medium and public domain; an open educational resource maybe released under an open license [1]. In other words, an OER allows others to access, use, adaptand redistribute the materials at no cost. An OER may include complete courses, individual courseunits or modules, textbooks, lesson plans, syllabi, lectures, assignments, game-based learningprograms
reflective exerciseon their own learning, with biosystems engineering students to identify skills and discoverprofessional ambitions [8], with multidisciplinary undergraduate student teams to address‘wicked’ problems [9], with teaching practitioners for assessment discussions [10], and withstaff in an Education School to identify university’s strategy and planning [11]. The use ofLSP opens the door to the externalization of ideas more explicitly, with a deeper meaning,facilitates internalization of new knowledge and accelerates socialization by structuring theinteractions within the group [9]. It opens the door to ‘play’, facilitates communication bylowering the barrier, putting people at ease which fosters students’ insights and self-awareness
ability to gain the perspective of thetarget audience. By gathering feedback from a broader range of participants, event organizerscan gain more accurate insights into visitor experiences and perceptions, which can inform futureevent planning and development that aligns with the target audience perspective. Thepreliminary results of the meme analysis show that meme creation has great potential as a way toexplore participants thinking, particularly for demographic groups that have a history of non-participation (teenagers and historically marginalized populations).Figure 2: Examples of memes created.In summary, the visual method used in this case study is the creation of memes by participants asa form of data collection and evaluation. The
collectively to gain ameaningful understanding of sociocultural phenomena reflected in their autobiographical data”[32, p. 23-4]. In our case, the autobiographical materials are our past experiences as women inengineering as well as the panel discussion transcript. The sociocultural phenomena we arestudying is the panel topic, the role of women in building diversity, equity, and inclusion inengineering.We plan to follow the iterative process outlined by Chang et al. [32] for conducting acollaborative autoethnography: data collection through both individual writing and reflection andgroup sharing (i.e., our panel discussion and subsequent meetings); and individual data review,coding, group meaning-making and theme search. Specifically, we plan to
-0.07 -0.10 0.00 0.02 0.73 -seem to be? (1.58)Significance and implicationsIncorporating opportunities for consequential agency into more traditional laboratoryexperiments is important and worthwhile, however, it is not well understood how and whatchoices would have the most impact on the student’s perception of agency. Therefore, weconducted exploratory factor analysis to evaluate a survey as a means to measure different facetsof agency. We found strong support for items measuring agency as responsibility, authenticity,agency in the communication domain, agency in the experimental design domain, andopportunity structure. In our ongoing work, we plan
criteria included predetermined end users, electrical/mechanicalcomponents that must be integrated into the escape room design, and floor plans to build.In this work, we assess student performance with the Creating Value Direct Assessment [18] inboth the standard and honors course sequences of our FYEP at the beginning (see Figure 1) ofthe Appendix for the first assessment) and end (see Figure 2 of the Appendix for the secondassessment) of the 2021 spring semester. The deployment of the assessment before contentcoverage supplied students an example scenario to identify points of value creation while thedeployment at the end of the academic year required students to identify a scenario based ontheir semester-long design project. Upon collection of
Engineering department. Coordinator of final year projects in the department and an enthusiast of Innovation.Dr. Justin J. Henriques Justin Henriques is an assistant professor in the Department of Engineering at James Madison Univer- sity. He holds a Ph.D. and M.S. in systems engineering, a masters in urban and environmental planning (M.U.E.P.), a B.S. in applied science, and a B.A. in pJoseph Towles, Swarthmore College Joseph Towles is a Lecturer jointly appointed in the Mechanical Engineering and Bioengineering De- partments at Stanford University. Joe completed his PhD in Mechanical Engineering at Stanford. Joe also completed a research post-doctoral fellowship in the Sensory Motor Performance Program at the
change impacts can bemitigated with urgent action to increase climate resiliency and drastically reduce greenhouse gasemissions. There is great need for sustainable development of our societies, which enables us tomeet our present needs “without compromising the ability of future generations to meet theirown needs” [2]. To achieve this, many industries must make changes to manufacturing andproduction methods in order to prioritize resource efficiency and reduction of emissions andwaste, while meeting demands of an increasing consumption population.In 2015, the United Nations adopted the “2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development”, providingan ambitious plan to address global problems, including climate change, environmental health,poverty, and
laboratory” tool of Open LMS was added to the project in designthinking methodology step. Using this tool, students can submit the initial seminar planning tobe evaluated by teachers and at the same time do peer review of other groups activities [18],[19], [20]. They can ask questions and made reflections about other groups activities sodeveloping critical thinking during this process before submitting the final seminarpresentation.The “evaluation laboratory” tool consists of a peer evaluation mechanism, enabling, in additionto sending open feedback, through suggestions, the elaboration of parameters for workevaluation (structured feedback). This resource can also contribute to issues related tointerpretation skills, critical analysis and the
from Sharif University of Technology, and a B.S. degree in civil engineering from Tabriz University. Her research interests focus on mental health and wellness in engineering, retention of engi- neering students from underrepresented groups, engineering student interactions with peers and faculty, and system thinking and system analysis. Dr. Gholizadeh has also work experience as an educational data analyst and strategic planning project manager.Prof. Ed P Gatzke, University of South Carolina Ed Gatzke is currently the Faculty Principal for the Green Quad Living and Learning Center at the Uni- versity of South Carolina. For eight years he served as the faculty advisor for the USC Engineering and Computing Living and
examinedfour cohorts of students for three semesters: (a) fall 2018 sophomore students, (b) fall 2019sophomore students, (c) fall 2018 junior students, and (d) fall 2019 junior students. Thesophomore and junior students’ persistence was tracked over a period of three semesters— thusthe pre-COVID-19 cohorts (i.e., fall 2018 cohorts) did not have their education disrupted overthis time frame (fall 2018 to fall 2019) by COVID-19 while the COVID-19 cohorts (i.e., fall2019 cohorts) did have their education disrupted in spring 2020. Next, due to our large sample,we were able to break down and examine student persistence rate by student demographic groups(i.e., gender, financial need, first generation status, and race/ethnicity).Plan of Analysis We
Engineering Connect,was designed for the first-year students in an engineering department with the idea of increasingstudent success, engagement, and retention. The program was implemented into a CornerstoneEngineering Design course being offered for first-year students in the engineering department.The students were assigned to complete weekly reflections on the course Canvas space onmatters related to their learning and campus experiences as an engineering student. The inputsfrom these weekly reflections were analyzed by faculty each week and an engagement plan wasset in place with the students who were identified as needing help and guidance on courseworkand/or campus related matters. Also, the students having a successful week were
Paper ID #36943Teamwork Perception in Engineering Programs through the Lens of Genderand RaceDr. Raheleh Miralami, Mississippi State UniversityDr. Saeed Rokooei, Mississippi State University Saeed Rokooei is an assistant professor in the Building Construction Science program at Mississippi State University. His professional responsibilities include project planning and management as well as architectural design practice in private and public construction and engineering firms. He has taught in architecture and construction programs since 2006. Dr. Rokooei’s primary research interests include simulation and serious games
goal should be to validate consumer needsand willingness to buy the product. Determining the demographic to which the product appeals tocan narrow down a target market and the features of the product that interest customers.Additionally, customer surveys, market analysis, and business plans are some important elementsfor success. How to conduct market research is especially vital. This article will focus onsuccessful market research methods, sample survey questions, survey samples, results, and ananalysis of productive innovations. New product designs developed by undergraduate studentsusing market research will also be summarized. In addition, this work teaches students to mastervarious skills, such as research, persistence, design
through a more planned approach in whichstudents support their decision making through argumentation.Our program of research helped teachers to see argumentation as a tool to promote criticalthinking in young people across disciplines and to provide teachers with ideas about how toimplement argumentation in their teaching of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics,as well as lessons integrating coding into the other fields (which we refer to as integrativeSTEM). In this paper, we investigate how the existing Teacher Support for CollectiveArgumentation (TSCA) framework [7], which was developed for mathematics classrooms,applies to this interdisciplinary STEM context. We present examples of how an elementaryschool teacher implements
, 2011; Kopcha, 2012; Schwarz &Gwekwerere, 2007). Despite planned teacher training and the availability of instructionalmethodologies, participating instructors' experience indicates that the scope of simulationapplication may remain limited in some circumstances. As a result, certain elements affectinstructors' application in training and pedagogical techniques, which should be investigatedfurther. But, in this study, we developed an easy-portable-technology-friendly setup aiming to toovercome those limitations.Material testing and how a specimen responds to a tensile force are taught in the mechanicalengineering lab at University of Houston-Clear Lake (UHCL) by faculty who use the UniversalTesting Machine (UTM) equipment. The students
a wider audience remotely. The coursestructure contains e-books, readings and online lectures along with these modules for students toplay with interactive VR experience12-13.3. Renewable Energy VR experienceRenewable energy such as solar energy provides heat, light and electricity. It is important forstudents to learn how to learn and manage this resources and add this to their lesson plan in theiracademic study plan. But at the same time, learning theory about such important issue is notenough. Students need to know how to choose materials, equipment, how to design them. VRprovides such opportunity to students to interact with real-life scenario to grasp complex conceptsand researchers have to test numerous scenarios without severe
Director of Qeexo Week 8 - 15 Term Project (& ML Contest) Providing technical seminar and remote Q&A ▪ Topic selection - presentation sessions by engineering staff of Qeexo in ▪ Hands-on project development technical areas such as SW Installation and ▪ Final presentation Issue Resolutions.Term Project Description(s)Class term projects requested students to search for and choose project topics which could applyembedded ML to solve the relevant engineering problem(s). Term projects included three mainparts: Part I – ML Project Planning/Framing, Part II – ML Project Implementation, and Part III –Report and Presentation. Along with the course schedule, the major project
whoidentified as non-male. This was spurred by a series of observations the SELs made duringevents, specifically related to comments from female-identifying students about their experienceas engineering students. Working with their faculty mentor, they decided the first step was tohear more from other students. This motivated the SELs to connect with the campus Office ofCivil Rights and Title IX compliance and form a focus group for individuals who identified asnon-male. The SELs took a leadership role in planning, organizing, and hosting the focus group.Office staff from the CRTC office supported the students as they developed the focus groupprotocol, created talking prompts, created the invitation, and conducted the focus group. It isimportant to
people to look beyond their self-interest, andinspires people to reach for the improbable. The effectiveness of vision, though, depends on boththis affective reaction and also perceived utility: affective reaction reflects the extent to whichfollowers would find the plan to be attractive, leading them to want to be affiliated with theorganization, and perceived utility reflects the extent to which followers believe a plan wouldlead to effective organizational change [5]. Regardless of the extent that feelings of affiliationincrease, the perceived utility will be stronger to the extent that followers see the vision as usefulnot only for the organization but for them personally, too. Because transformational leadershipboth articulates a vision and
concept to be presented to the students at least four times. Once when aconcept is introduced, once when the students apply it, once when the students’ results arediscussed, and once when reviewing for exams. The interactive atmosphere of the freshmenengineering class at Texas A&M University requires that the students play an active role indiscussing issues that they encountered when applying a particular concept.The flexible timeline that was adapted was critical. The initial schedule planned was for a seven-week period. Monitoring feedback from instructors, teaching assistants, peer teachers, and thestudents, the schedule was modified so that more time could be spent on instructor-identifiedissues. Balancing time to spend on a project is
concept to be presented to the students at least four times. Once when aconcept is introduced, once when the students apply it, once when the students’ results arediscussed, and once when reviewing for exams. The interactive atmosphere of the freshmenengineering class at Texas A&M University requires that the students play an active role indiscussing issues that they encountered when applying a particular concept.The flexible timeline that was adapted was critical. The initial schedule planned was for a seven-week period. Monitoring feedback from instructors, teaching assistants, peer teachers, and thestudents, the schedule was modified so that more time could be spent on instructor-identifiedissues. Balancing time to spend on a project is
reflectiveactivities such as discussions.ConclusionData collected by this study has provided our department with a valuable perspective on thelearning preferences of the undergraduate engineering student and faculty populations. While werealize that this was a small sample size, based on the data collected we can conclude from thisdata set that students and faculty exhibit a large variety of learning preferences. A statisticallysignificant difference in the learning preference distributions of faculty and BE students wasfound for the Active/Reflective scale. For the other scales, the populations exhibit similarpreference distributions. Future plans for this study include scaling this study to includeBiological Engineering students, Engineering Technology or
after working atDr. Jin Ho Jo Dr. Jin Jo is a Professor of Technology at Illinois State University, teaching in the Sustainable and Renew- able Energy program. Dr. Jo also leads the Sustainable Energy Consortium at the university. Dr. Jo is an honors graduate of Purdue University, where he earned a B.S. in Building Construction Management. He earned his M.S. in Urban Planning from Columbia University, where he investigated critical environmen- tal justice issues in New York City. His 2010 Ph.D. from Arizona State University was the nation’s first in sustainability. His research, which has been widely published, focuses on renewable energy systems and sustainable building strategies to reduce the negative
by completing a carefully planned sequence of laboratory exercises and hands-oninvolvement with manufacturing processes” [6]. The facilities the proposed lab course would betaught are recommended to include a manufacturing laboratory with student-use desktop CNCmachines and a computer lab with PCs installed with Autodesk Fusion 360. Fusion 360 is cloud-based, 5-axis capable CAM software that is common in the private sector and educationally free-to-use, which makes it a natural choice to teach a computer-aided manufacturing course. Based onFigure 1. Pocket NC V2 5-axis desktop CNC Mill (left) and simulated toolpaths for a part generated in Fusion 360(right).the current market, the Pocket NC V2 (Figure 1) stands out as a suitable CNC model