national attention. Some include indices that correlate resources to specific state ornational academic standards. Most improve convenience and accessibility by at least an order ofmagnitude over conventional Internet searches.Our purpose here is to recount how program assessment and lessons learned over three years offielding the portal have helped us to identify PRISM’s core competencies for transforming middleschool STEM teaching and learning.1.0 PRISM: A Portal with a PurposePartnerships between K-12 and collegiate institutes have proliferated over the last two decades.Add the power of the Internet, and you have many vertical alliances hoping to transformeducation. We believe PRISM represents one of the best of its category. PRISM addresses
college undergraduates incomputational research techniques. In this program, learning outcomes focused on increasingparticipant familiarity with data science research methods (see Table 1). Participants formulatedindividual research questions within the broader research goals of their assigned team.In the initial weeks of the program, we reviewed quantitative skills in analyzing large-scalelanguage data, introduced design principles for data science analyses, and applied these newskills. Through guided collaboration sessions with graduate mentors, the participants gained Table 1: Program Learning Outcomes Objective Description Knowledge Gain knowledge and skills to analyze large-scale
Friday, April 1, 2011 (Afternoon) 02:30 – 03:45 PM Concurrent Session Presentations Experiential Learning Michael Jenkins, A Truss by Any Other Name May Still Not Be a Truss: A ‘Do-Say’ 64 Pedagogical Laboratory Exercise Satbir Sekhon, et al., Embedded System Data Logging 74 Collin Heller, et al., Accident Reconstruction: A Model-Eliciting Activity in 82 Dynamics Educational Technique Bradley Hyatt, Effectively Utilizing Industry Members to Assess Student Learning 104 Outcomes in a Senior Project Course Fariborz Tehrani, Implementation
required aconsiderable amount of faculty time. Fortunately, faculty time supported not only the academicgoals of the course, but also faculty research through development of the product.Sustainability of this type of learning experience, given its scale and associated funding, is animportant concern. There is no guarantee that such large-scale research projects will be availableon a regular basis for undergraduate capstone experiences. Fortunately, this concern wasaddressed by coupling the project with the experimental research program being conducted withinthe Space Systems Laboratory at MIT. This allowed the project to tie strongly to the researchside of the Department thereby providing motivating, cutting-edge projects; augmented funding;as
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Disparity in STEM Disciplines: A Study of Faculty Attrition and Turnover Intentions,” Research in Higher Education, vol. 49, no. 7, pp. 607–624, Nov. 2008, doi: 10.1007/s11162-008-9097-4.[29] K. Buch, Y. Huet, A. Rorrer, and L. Roberson, “Removing the Barriers to Full Professor: A Mentoring Program for Associate Professors,” Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, vol. 43, no. 6, pp. 38–45, Oct. 2011, doi: 10.1080/00091383.2011.618081.[30] C. Grant, J. Decuir-Gunby, and B. Smith, “Advance Peer Mentoring Summits For Underrepresented Minority Women Engineering Faculty,” in 117th ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Louisville, KY, Jun. 2010, p. 15.129.1-15.129.20, Accessed: Jun. 29, 2016. [Online]. Available: https
from the pilot IM course conversion volunteered to serve as peer mentors. These peermentors acted as team leaders for three learning teams during their weekly consultation meetingsto help reduce the teaching load of the TAs. These students volunteered because they had had apositive experience in the pilot course and they recognized an opportunity to learn teammanagement skills which they hoped would be helpful later in their careers as engineers. Weexpect that more students from the scaled IM course conversion will similarly wish to return aspeer mentors. If sufficient numbers of students volunteer as peer mentors, we could potentiallyeven lower the financial cost of the IM course conversion by reducing the number of TAsrequired to run the
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the Executive Director of WISE Ventures, an internal initiative at Stanford, designed to communicate, build networks, and help seed new and needed ventures across the Stanford campus to advance gender equity in science and engineering. She also directs Stanford’s Faculty Women’s Forum. A longtime university administrator, educator, and social entrepreneur, her past experience includes service as Associate Dean for the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College, where she co-founded the campus-wide Women in Science Project. She founded and was chief executive of MentorNet, a large- scale online nonprofit global mentoring network advancing diversity in engineering and science (1996- 2008). At Stanford, she was
). Going paperless proved to berelatively easy due to the professor’s technical proficiency and the type of courses taught.The focus of the majority of the professor’s assigned courses were on the developmentof technical skills within a digital environment, such as computer-aided design (CAD),programming, and graphic design. Over one academic year, which included sevencourses (six different), the professor was able to meet the original goals of the framework.Based on the end of course surveys, student feedback, and self-observations he alsobelieves that the framework was positive for the students and the start of his academiccareer. This paper presents the framework used along with lessons learned and tips forthose who are interested in embracing
industry working on water and wastewater treatment infrastructure projects.Dr. Eileen Kogl Camfield, University of California at Merced Since 1997, Eileen has been a college instructor, curriculum designer, and faculty pedagogy coordinator. She spent five years as Director of a University Writing Program, which included leading faculty learn- ing communities for Writing in the Disciplines. She subsequently served as the Executive Director of Student Academic Success Services. Eileen’s deep commitment to advancing equity, diversity and inclu- sion connects with her research interests pertaining to student success, writing self-efficacy development, resilience theory, and authentic assessment. At UC Merced, she has a dual
Engineering and MS in Environmental Engineering from the University of Arkansas. She previously served as a project manager at a water resources center, but returned to the University of Arkansas to teach general introduction to engineering and to coordinate the Freshman Honors Innovation Experience.Mr. Clint E Johnson, University of Arkansas Clint Johnson is the Director of the Supply Chain Management Research Center and the Director of the McMillon Innovation Studio as well as an instructor at the University of Arkansas. Clint’s back ground focuses mainly on developing strategies for innovating and implementing large scale retail focused initiatives, specifically as it relates to the blending of the online and brick and
softwaredevelopment than the comprehensive lifecycle approach taken in many traditional softwareengineering courses. DCST offers a traditional Software Engineering course and it served as aprerequisite to the Factory course. The factory course, like many software engineering andcapstone courses, has students work in teams to solve problems using tools and techniquesadvocated by two software process used in industry, RUP and XP. The factory course was fairlyunique in that all projects had to be developed and deployed for real customers. We reportedvaluable lessons learned through four iterations of this course[1][2]. We noted that continuity ofsoftware projects across semesters was very difficult, yet single semester projects were limited insize and
spectrumof positive active learning experiences that involve peer to peer interactions and real life problem solving[34], and that are important for both the development of professional capabilities [31] and for theretention of students in engineering programs [5]. In their studies of collaborative interaction, Katz andMartin [24] noted the “need to work in close physical proximity with others in order to benefit from theirskills and tacit knowledge.” In social network terms, this implies instruction within a defined and Page 25.1345.3deliberately conceived network, or project team.$"#"! " # $ "%A “social network” refers to a set of
Engineering Education, 2012 I2D2: Imagination, Innovation, Discovery, and DesignAbstractA large-scale collaborative learning project involving first-year engineering students at a privateresearch university and fifth graders from local schools was developed and implemented duringthe fall of 2010. Entitled “I2D2: Imagination, Innovation, Discovery, and Design,” theprogram’s success in the first year has inspired program continuation during the 2011 schoolyear and beyond. The program focuses on creativity and innovation, and using experimentationto test ideas. While this could be classified as an outreach event, the program was developedwith an intended dual benefit of both college and intermediate school students. The collegestudents
-02). Below, we record some of theexperience by one of the authors (L. Vu-Quoc) in coaching LMCO IPPD projects.Typically, each year, the LMCO Engineering Director, who has been a strong proponent of theIPPD program, would contact the leaders of on-going large-scale projects inside LMCO toinform these project leaders about, and to encourage them to support, the IPPD program bydefining a portion of the work in their projects that would fit the IPPD project scope. The successof the previous IPPD projects funded by LMCO has been the key persuading argument that theLMCO Engineering Director used to convince the project leaders to subcontract a small portionof their project to the IPPD program. To this end, the LMCO Engineering Director kept in
duration of their graduate career. The continuity,technical depth, and disciplinary breadth of these teams are intended to:• Provide the time and context necessary for students to learn and practice many different professional skills, make substantial technical contributions to the project, and experience many different roles on a large design team.• Support long-term interaction between the graduate and undergraduate students on the team. The graduate students mentor the undergraduates as they work on the design projects embedded in the graduate students’ research• Enable the completion of large-scale design projects that are of significant benefit to faculty members’ research programs
technology parks tolure back native talent and produce world-class companies. South Korea graduates nearly thesame number of engineers as the US though it has 1/6th the population and 1/20th the GDP. Ifthis continues the percentage of foreign doctoral recipients who stay in the U.S. may return to thelower 50% level that existed until 1992.Recognizing the needs identified above, the U.S. NSF established the Research Experiences forUndergraduates (REU), to fund both summer and academic-year REU Sites. A REU Site isdesigned for engineering, science, and mathematics undergraduates who are U.S. citizens orpermanent residents. This paper documents REU Site programs implemented by the author asthe Project Director (PD) from 1992 to 2008 at two different
, 20 peer-reviewed journal articles, 15 conference proceedings, and over 40 conference presentations/poster sessions. He is an associate editor for the ASCE Journal of Environmental Engineering and a member of the NSF CLEANER (Collaborative Large-Scale Engineering Analysis Network for Environmental Research) Education Planning Committee.Tim Wentling, National Center for Supercomputing Applications Dr. Tim L. Wentling is a Professor of Information Science in the Graduate School of Library and Information Science and a Senior Research Scientist at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois. Dr. Wentling is the leader of the Knowledge and Learning Systems Group
scholars, research, and mentoring: Current and future issues,” Educational Researcher, vol. 23, no. 4, pp. 24-27, 1994. Doi: https://doi.org/10.3102/0013189X023004024.[27] B. Sato, Professors of Teaching: Lessons Learned from a Unique Teaching-Focused Faculty Model, Mathematical Association of America, May 23, 2024. [Online]. Available: https://maa.org/math-values/professors-of-teaching-lessons-learned-from-a-unique-teaching- focused-faculty-model[28] A. N. Harlow, S. M. Lo, K. Saichaie, and B. K. Sato, "Characterizing the University of California’s tenure-track teaching position from the faculty and administrator perspectives," PLoS One, vol. 15, no. 1, p. e0227633, Jan. 2020.[29] M. Stains, J. Harshman, M. K. Barker
interests include the use of machine learning in general and deep learning in particular in support of the data-driven and self-driven management of large-scale deployments of IoT and smart city infrastruc- ture and services, Wireless Vehicular Networks (VANETs), cooperation and spectrum access etiquette in cognitive radio networks, and management and planning of software defined networks (SDN). He is an ABET Program Evaluator (PEV) with the Computing Accreditation Commission (CAC). He served on many academic program design, review and planning efforts. He serves on editorial boards of multiple journals including IEEE Communications Letter and IEEE Network Magazine. He also served as chair, co-chair, and technical
development; cognition; learning;achievement; informal education; non-formal education; mentor; out-of-school; after school;enrichment; and extracurricular.Overall, multiple searches in the formal education, informal education, and cognitive areasuncovered over 500 reference citations. The abstracts of these articles were reviewed to gleanmore information about content and relevance. Papers were initially included if the programdescribed or studied integrated at least two STEM subjects. Four other criteria were alsoconsidered: Does the integration include engineering as one of the integrated subjects? Does the article provide empirical evidence regarding the impact of the program or a review of research on
experiences in which theypractice solving real-world problems, using industry-grade tools, and communicating with coworkers andcustomers may be an effective way to develop these skills. 4) Prevalence of CSE Internships: Universities implement a variety of approaches to address this need:some are incorporating real-world projects into their courses [21], creating on-campus centers wherestudents work on projects for real clients [22], encouraging student participation in internship programs[23], or even creating programs that combine undergraduate research with industry internships [24]. Allthese experiences provide students with additional preparation for careers in CSE beyond what is offeredin academic courses. Such experiential learning experiences
not) innovativeness and creativeness in order to establish a baselineand then to measure and evaluate our programs and the effects of changes we make to them.Lessons Learned and Final ThoughtsWe have learned many excellent lessons through developing, implementing, and improving thisprogram to this point in time. Probably first, and foremost, remains that an innovation programpedagogy needs retrospectives, iterative improvements, new innovations based on curriculumand course feedback, and an ability and willingness to be flexible. We have also found astudent-center pedagory of an open-ended, active learning-based, problem
interests include the educational climate for students in science and engineering, assets-based approaches to STEM equity, and gender and race stratification in education and the workforce.Dr. Cara Margherio, University of Washington Cara Margherio is a Senior Research Associate at the UW Center for Evaluation & Research for STEM Equity (CERSE). Cara serves as project manager for program evaluation on several NSF- and NIH-funded projects. Her research interests include community cultural wealth, counterspaces, peer mentoring, and institutional change.Kerice Doten-Snitker, University of Washington Ms. Doten-Snitker is a Graduate Research Assistant at the University of Washington’s Center for Eval- uation and
jeopardizing their continuation in thescholarship program. Activities were designed to maximize coordination with student schedules.Traditional Retention ProgrammingEngineering Pathways Fellows were required to participate in the following programs designedto enhance the first year experience. These programs included a summer bridge, a housing optionand continuing mentoring from faculty and peers to encourage community building andestablishment of long term relationships early on. Three of these activities are detailed below: Pre First-Year Engineering & Science Program (PreF) - This introductory, 6-week, residential summer session was designed for first-year students who were accepted to the College of Engineering. The program
program. The lessons learned are presented and theways to improve project management are discussed. Our senior design project course is a 3-termcore course sequence usually taken by the students during their terminal year. This paperdescribes the content and motivation of the renewable energy course and the issues related to theinclusion of the renewable energy projects into senior design and power electronics courses.These projects were first offered in the Senior Project Design course sequence during the 2009-2010, and 2010-2011 academic years19,20. The Senior Project Design courses are intended tostimulate the problem-solving capabilities of the students. The topics for the projects aresuggested by the author. The other aims of our paper are
single facultymember teaching a fixed number of students in a specific teaching mode such as lecture or lab.The unique aspects of a large scale team basedinterdisciplinary studio demands a teaching space thatcan accommodate a variety of student groups in avariety of teaching modes from a private mentoringsession with two or three students to a large scalepublic lecture for the entire class of 72 students.To support this landmark endeavor, three adjacentclassrooms have been dedicated to the course in thenew CM building at Cal Poly. While many featuresof the new rooms have worked very well, there havealready been lessons learned that could significantlyimprove the functionality of the class rooms. These Photograph 1three
sustaining ofcurrent and future CoTs that seek to reimagine and reshape educational systems.References[1] K. A. Connor, and L. Huettel, “Virtual Community of Practice: Electric Circuits,” Proceedingsof the 2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Indianapolis, IN, USA, June 2014.[2] E. L. Ingram, R. A. House, S. Chenoweth, K. C. Dee, J. Ahmed, J. M. Williams, C. G.Downing, and D. E. Richards, “From Faculty to Change Agent: Lessons Learned in theDevelopment and Implementation of a Change Workshop,” Proceedings of the 2014 ASEE AnnualConference & Exposition, Indianapolis, IN, USA, June 2014.[3] A. Kezar, and S. Gehrke, "Sustaining communities of practice focused on STEM reform,”The Journal of Higher Education, vol. 88, no.3, pp. 323-349, May
ARCE facultyby keeping them better integrated with their department and benefits the course bybringing a variety of ideas and approaches to the course. However it reduces the abilityof individual ARCE faculty members to effect long-term changes to the course. Thecourse serves roughly 220 students per year, however the distribution by department hasnot been uniform. In some quarters, there have been as many as three CM students forone ARCE student. This has resulted in a course that is more expensive for somedepartments.Logistical IssuesClass Room Facilities – The course requires a teaching space or spaces that canaccommodate a range of student group sizes varying from private mentoring sessionswith two or three students to large scale public