introduced in this work has served as the basis for a project proposalsubmitted to the Austrian Ministry of Science and Research in the scope of the SparklingScience research grant Programme (BMWFW, 2015). The proposal was accepted in July2014 and the project was officially launched in October 2014 and will end by October 2016.By the time of writing, six online laboratories are being deployed with the Experimentdispatcher and several experiment engines have been developed in different platforms toserve as templates for lab owners. Some of these engines were developed by users who werenot specialists in online laboratory development, but the laboratories were successfullyimplemented.As previously mentioned, the developed frameworks supports only
assigned as her peer mentor. A shared workspace and regularone-on-one meetings between the two librarians facilitated greater collaboration in reference,instruction, and collection development. Both librarians learned more about specialized resourceswith which they had been less familiar. For instance, the engineering librarian gained newexpertise in market research and shared knowledge about patent searching with the businesslibrarian. Their closer working relationship led to a partnership in support of entrepreneurship oncampus. They developed and presented a faculty workshop on entrepreneurship research and arecurrently collaborating on a series of instructional videos on the subject.Literature ReviewA review of the literature found several
recommendations with an opportunity toshare their perspectives and to glean insights. Tenure and promotion continue to be ubiquitoustopics on which to write and present at the ASEE Annual Conference and similar conferenceswhere many of the attendees, including audience members and presenters, are pursuing tenureand promotion or who make tenure and promotion recommendations. Administered properly,tenure and promotion panel discussions and question and answer sessions can be of value tothose pursuing tenure and promotion and to those who make tenure and promotionrecommendations.IntroductionThrough 2011 and since 1996, when ASEE began indexing its annual conference papers1, a totalof four annual conference papers were published containing the term
degree in electrical engineering at Seattle PacificUniversity. This paper focuses on our specific objective to maintain retention rates significantlyabove national averages. To achieve this, we have recognized the students’ academic, social, aswell as financial needs, and the importance of building a sense of community among thestudents, not only with the university, but with the profession as well. Thus, we have developed anumber of programs and activities designed to address these issues. These programs are focusedon building connections with the faculty (through faculty mentors), their peers (through socialfunctions and the ECASE study hall), and the profession (through industrial mentors). Thus far,in the second year of the program, all of
reports to sponsors andso on. What is then appropriate for Engineering Technology? We cannot establish ourselves asan independent discipline if we don’t have our own set of best practices in dissemination ofscholarship but continue following what our colleague s in other areas, mainly engineering do.Engineering has used publication in peer reviewed journals and in conference proceedings as thetraditional methods to disseminate the scholarship in their discipline. Is Engineering Technologyfollowing the steps of Engineering? Should we consider the same dissemination procedures? Orshould we consider –and accept- other methods of dissemination? If we are accepting differentdissemination methods, will all have the same value? Or will we weight
theirexperiences and discuss the application and implications of the experience. The finalreflective process occurs over 12 days as students write up their report on the activity. In thisreport they are required to present arguments which both support and refute those made bytheir persona. This stage requires the students to step outside of the position they had in theForum and consider other perspectives. Page 9.353.3 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationExample of the design of the Telecommunications Forum
an engineering career, only 12% of LD malesexpressed the same interest. Interestingly, 2% of women with learning disabilities wereinterested in a career in engineering, which was the same percentage as the interested womenwithout a learning disability.The 1997 Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) defines learning disabilities as “adisorder in one or more of the basic psychological processes involved in understanding or inusing language, spoken or written, which may manifest itself in imperfect ability to listen, think,speak, read, write, spell or do mathematical calculations…The term does not include a learningproblem which is primarily the result of visual, hearing, or motor handicaps, of mentalretardation, of emotional
. Requirements for teaching and service may vary from university to university but theyare very similar in most of the aspects. This paper presents the typical requirements at GannonUniversity, Erie, PA in each of the above mentioned areas. A comparison will also be made withsix others teaching-based institutions. Requirements at Gannon University have changed over theyears from no scholarship requirements before the 1980s to significant scholarly activityrequirements today. Faculty members rely on student evaluations conducted at the end of eachsemester and once a year peer evaluation to satisfy teaching requirements. At GannonUniversity, the Boyer’s model of scholarship was adopted around 2000 to satisfy scholarshiprequirements.New faculty starting
these explained by their peers in many cases.This paper will report on one study involving two sections of a freshman introductory course.The course is Digital Circuits I in an Electrical Engineering Technology program, consisting oftwo sections of approximately 35 students in each section. Both sections went through half ofthe semester (including two exams) with a classroom format that was about 90% traditional and10% active/collaborative, with 100% traditional laboratory experiments: student pairs workingthrough a weekly laboratory experiment. At the midpoint of the semester, the format of onesection continued (although a group design project was introduced), while the other lecture andlaboratory changed. The new lecture format was mini
improvegender-based performance. However, this could also be due to the sampling bias.The analysis from the second class showed similar trends; hence, we do not elaborate on theresults from the second class here.Summary: We draw two conclusions from our evaluation. First, we observe that anonymousgrading can lead to better grades for certain ethnicities (Ethnicity 2). Secondly, we observe thatanonymous grading does not lead to better grades when considering gender. Figure 7: Grade differences between two genders considered for the two groups.Potential PitfallsWe have found three main limitations of our study. 1) Writing style: The assessments we are considering are handwritten in-person submissions. Some identifiers, like handwriting or
introducestudents to research work through rhetorical analysis of scholarly work. These first-timeundergraduate researchers are recruited from various universities and bring with them diverseexperiences based on their backgrounds. The REU program is designed to prepare students forgraduate studies by immersing participants in a authentic research conducted within a tier oneresearch facility alongside graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, research staff, and faculty.The program also provides career development workshops on applying to graduate school,writing personal statements, developing a professional network, working in academia andindustry as well as creating graduate level research products (i.e., posters, presentations, andpapers).The Natural
in the fall of 2022, the inauguralcohort comprised eight students, including new first time (NFT) students and transfer students.The following year saw the addition of a second group of 15 students, increasing the totalnumber of students enrolled into the program to 23. Beyond offering financial aid, ASESsupports its participants with academic resources, such as a credit-bearing course on engineeringleadership and career development, and access to faculty and peer mentorship in a mentorshipprogram. Throughout its first three semesters, spanning from Fall 2022 to Fall 2023, the programsuccessfully retained a significant number of its students.The literature suggests that bolstering student support systems and fostering faculty
isabout “Fill-in Worksheets”, a tool that was developed to increase student engagement inclassroom and allows for incorporating PBL, AL and CL along with Peer Instruction (PI).The paper describes the steps and thought process that was used in developing the fill-inworksheets over the past several years. The worksheets have enabled the author toincrease student engagement, include AL, CL and implement PI in the classroom.Introduction“Educators, researchers and policy makers have advocated student involvement forsometime as an essential aspect of meaningful learning.”1 To engage students, educatorshave used techniques like active2 and cooperative learning3, 4, inquiry and problem basedlearning, team projects, service learning and undergraduate
1 3. Initialization of the Motes and working of the sensors 1-2 4. Combining the sensors with MATLAB for Simulation 1 5. Simulation of the whole system 1 6. Application based Real-time launching of the sensors 1-2 7. Taking real life examples for the operation of the ring sensors over 1-2 increased distances 8. Implementing the sensors for other medical applications 1 (like Arthritis, Kidney Diagnosis) 9. Writing the report for the entire experiment 1-2 10. Reviewing and editing the final report
enhancing the understanding ofbiomass conversion technology and meeting the challenges of implementation in a developingnation. This project focuses on a global problem, energy demand, and utilizes an existingcollaboration to develop a miniaturized hands-on learning module for implementation in theclassroom and train future engineers from both sites while exposing them to internationalcollaborations to develop their problem-solving skills. The module is being designed toovercome process implementation barriers in resource limited environments like Nigeria.Discussions for writing and submitting the USAID-PEER proposal that supports this work wereinitiated by Washington State University (WSU) with Ahmadu Bello University (ABU) in Zaria,Nigeria, and
the teaching of concepts in an introductory thermodynamics coursethrough video. This generation of students is technology savvy, and regularly communicates bymeans other than face-to-face interactions (e.g. texting). Additionally, the popularity of sites suchas Khan Academy makes the idea of teaching with video difficult to ignore. Thus, we assert thatthere is value in using this media for instruction, and that this media can be leveraged for use in achemical engineering course. During this study, students will be asked to 1) take a conceptdiscussed during class, and articulate it in video media using everyday examples that otherstudents can relate to (autodidactic learning) 2) watch peer-made videos that teach these concepts(peer-to-peer
frequently usedskills such as technical writing, presentation of calculations, and creation and iteration of drawingusing CAD or 3D modeling packages. This cycle also challenges students in leadership positionsto design assignments for their peers on a variety of topics and for a variety of project phases.These students must critically assess the project’s scope and fit the work to be done into week-by-week assignments.Though the projects completed in Humanitarian Design Projects are community-basedinfrastructure in nature, the model described in this paper has significant potential forimplementation with other PBL opportunities that are typically excluded from the classroom, suchas extracurricular engineering project and competition clubs. The
Composition at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and graduated in the spring of 2019. Jordan has previously been employed as a Special Projects Assistant for the Residential Life department at the University of Massachusetts Amherst where he was responsible for performing benchmarking research and reporting, among other duties. When not at work he can be found writing music, tinkering with his 3D printer, or buying more house plants that he doesn't have room for.Amanda Menier Amanda Menier joined SageFox Consulting Group in 2019. Amanda has a Master of Arts in Industrial and Organizational Psychology from Montclair State University and is interested in the way that people shape and are shaped by the institutions in
and non-uniform across graduate students. The result ispotentially leaving many newcomers with gaps in their knowledge regarding the processes of graduateschool. A panel of peers who can make explicit some of the implicit knowledge can help students moreconfidently navigate their environment.The literature on successful transition programs indicates that students should know what services andresources are available to them 5, 15. During these sessions, participants had the opportunity to meetwith personnel from different support departments on campus, including the university librarian who isdesignated to work with the College of Engineering, representatives from the Writing Center, and stafffrom the Graduate School who oversee diversity
disabilities. Design is an integral part of engineering education at Olin College of Engineering. In Olin College’s largely project-based curriculum, students spend much of their time in design teams. These courses can present barriers for students with disabilities who are entitled to the same access to learning resources, including classroom culture, as their peers. Project-based courses present a wide range of challenges for students with disabilities, including, but not limited to, the ability to fully participate in hands-on learning and as a contributing team member. As larger numbers of students with identified non-visible disabilities enter engineering schools, and engineering schools increasingly adopt project-based design courses, the
Paper ID #11658Graduate Women ”Lean In”: Building Community and Broadening Under-standingJulie RojewskiDr. Katy Luchini-Colbry, Michigan State University Katy Luchini-Colbry is the Director for Graduate Initiatives at the College of Engineering at Michigan State University, where she completed degrees in political theory and computer science. A recipient of a NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, she earned Ph.D. and M.S.E. in computer science and engineering from the University of Michigan. She has published more than two dozen peer-reviewed works related to her interests in educational technology and enhancing undergraduate
. 3) Professionalism and Ethics - Helping students understand the role of the engineer in our department and our profession. Learning Communities To facilitate the creation community, the class is divided into “families” of approximatelyten to thirteen first year students per family. Each of these teams is led by a pair of peer-mentors (students in the Madison Engineering Leadership Program). Learning Activities Students are instructed to share and document their process, sources of inspiration, andprototypes through sending tweets to the class Twitter account. The use of Twitter helpsus: 1) Create community within and across the department 2) Encourage students to think about their professional online
There is no doubt that peer pressure works to motivate most students. The avoidance of embarrassment seems to be in direct correlation with Maslow’s Safety Need. It’s not the avoidance of physical harm but the avoidance of emotional harm; that is, embarrassment. This has some interesting dynamics as a motivator. The professor can use “peer review” to allow students to read one another’s paper. They write at a higher level when it is known in advance that their peers will read their paper. In Construction Management classes we use low and high stakes writing to interest the students in the subject. They do better and more meaningful research when their peers are about to read and comment on their paper. I allow
and compound sentence structure. Conveying ideas in simple sentences is an art form that student should be encouraged to learn. • Student report usually rely on text only. This habit may have been created by the tools given to them, the smart phones and handheld devices. Given these text-only tools, students are less likely to choose a table or a graph, which can tell a better story. When graphics are done, they tend not to be professional in nature; rather they are the simple images with limited quality (e.g. like poorly take pictures that are fuzzy or shadows and backgrounds showed on non-scanned images). • Student reports need detailed peer review for grammar and structure. Team writing often
describingproblems experienced by youth, e.g. “If I could change one thing about school, it would be…”, “I wish thepeople around me would…”, “I wish teachers knew…”, etc. These two activities provided youth withopportunities to think not only about the game mechanics they will be designing but also about the story ofthe game and how they want players to feel. The second stage, problem-framing, involved youth thinking together as a group about thechallenges they observe among their peers. Participants were asked to write down on a collaborative boardideas about challenges youth face at home, at school, at work, but also challenges they envision for theirfuture or for future generations. Once each team had brainstormed a list of issues, they would
: thestudents involved, their classroom peers, the instructor of the course, the department, college,and university where it is occurring. On a large scale, the integrity of the institution ischallenged by graduates who have not learned the techniques of their discipline, but rather,have simply cheated their way through. The employers that hire the graduates receive aproduct that is second rate. Eventually, it can affect the public perception of the institutionwhen graduates boast that their education was easy and they could fraudulently pass their waythrough. For the instructor, it presents a dilemma of whether the cheating should bechallenged, which requires extra time and effort (as outlined in the remainder of this paper) orwhether the easier way
undergraduate seniorswithin the department. We determined the types of badges to offer based on feedback from studentsurveys, a senior student focus group, and our External Advisory Board. These groups helped usidentify the badges which would be the most valued and meaningful for both students andemployers. We have offered students the opportunity to earn badges for Outstanding Team Membersince Spring 2018 and Outstanding Mentorship since Fall 2019. Two new badges, Outstanding OralPresentation and Outstanding Writing, will be awarded January 2020. These badges are usuallyearned in the Fall semester to allow students to showcase these competencies on their resume orgraduate school application. Management and Earning of Badges
used to drive periodic (e.g., monthly) workshops and brown bag lunch series. Thesefaculty resource efforts are being hosted and implemented by the Center for InstructionalTechnology and Distance Education. Thus, it requires minimal time investment by the newfaculty cohort members.Most recently, expansion of the cohort has resulted in the formation of the Junior Faculty WritersGroup. The focus of this group is to provide a framework for peer review of manuscripts invarious stages of the writing process, review journal or conference papers, grant proposals, bookchapters, academic portfolios, or any other scholarly works. The group is not only an extra set ofediting eyes, but also a source of encouragement for each other to produce high
piece of information onthe bottom of the card as shown in Figure 1.They then had to use solely oralcommunication – no drawing or writing – toexplain the symbols on their card and gatherfeedback on what their card was meant torepresent. This meant that they had to listenclosely to their peers to ensure that they weregetting the description of a symbol theyneeded. They also had to be careful in how Figure 1. Sample ROYGBIV game cardthey described their symbol so that it wouldnot be misinterpreted. To get the necessary information to solve their code, students needed tospeak to a lot of different students in the class, not just their peer group as each student was onlyprovided with the one piece of information at the bottom of their card
, and the impact of this environment on student development.For this paper, we focus on engineering students enrolled in business-related concentrations,minors, or certificates, and explore the similarities and differences between business-interestedengineering students and their peers. Technological innovation and entrepreneurship arebecoming increasingly important for preparing students for the workforce, and many engineeringschools are introducing entrepreneurship and business education into coursework. What do thesenew programmatic opportunities look like? Which type of student is most likely to takeadvantage of these new opportunities? What are possible outcomes of these opportunities? In aneffort to understand the effectiveness of