didactic staff of the science ofpedagogy constitutes the basis of the essential pedagogical competencies of engineeringteachers, along with specialized competencies. The basic teaching model of the Science ofEngineering Pedagogy follows the principles of an iterative process, making it an effectivetool for the design of a study program, study plan, syllabus, course, or conference. Finally,the integrated quadruple instruction model of Engineering Pedagogy Sciences is the basisof integrated course design and one of the preconditions for effective teaching and learning,as well as the basis of the teaching competencies expected of engineering teachers.Teachers’ pedagogical competencies are becoming increasingly important in evaluating thequality of
Interventions Faculty Can Deploy to Increase Retention: A Faculty 2 Cookbook for Increasing Student Success 3 4 Byron Hempel^, Kasi Kiehlbaugh^, Paul Blowers^ 5 ^Chemical and Environmental Engineering, University of Arizona 6 Abstract 7 8 Student retention in college is often expected to be handled by advisers, staff, and administrators. 9 Faculty, however, are the only members in academia that students are required to interact with regularly.10 For most courses offered in higher education, the contact time between faculty and students is normally11 three hours per week, allowing faculty to have a large impact on student outcomes. This paper discusses12 how to deploy
. Specifically, if a course offered by the commu-nity college has substantially similar learning outcomes to some course offered by the university,a student successfully completing the community college course can petition to have this courseaccepted as transfer credit by the university. The work involved in establishing these so-calledcourse equivalences typically involves a review of the community college course syllabus by afaculty member in the department that offers the potentially equivalent course at the university.This is often a time-consuming process that can take months to complete and is sometimes re-ferred to as credit recognition. Unfortunate bias can also be introduced at this stage. For instance,we have heard university faculty claim
syllabus statement on diversity, equity, and inclusion that has been adopted in severaldepartments, and is currently being discussed for college-wide adoption as a required part of allcourse syllabi.Feedback regarding these initiatives has, to this point, been anecdotal, but positive. We describethe aspects that have been particularly noted by students, faculty, and staff to have been helpful.We conclude the paper with a reflection on how we can improve our community building eventsand the online community and describe our future support services for underrepresentedstudents.1. IntroductionSeattle University is a small, private, religiously-affiliated and mission-driven institution locatedin Seattle. Our urban campus is home to eight colleges and
.• Facilities: o On campus: standard classroom o In Rome: UW Rome Center• Cost: o Program fee: $4,800. Other administrative fees add another $300. o Recommended student budget: $7,000 to $7,500 is recommended for students to cover the program fee, airfare, food, and other living essentials.• Syllabus: o Course catalog description: Engineering-focused Exploration Seminar that covers Roman civil engineering over 3,000 years from Ancient Rome to the present day. Introduction to civil engineering topics reinforced by practical engineering calculations, local experts and site visits. Provides international and historical perspective on engineering and the
assumptions Ensuring classroom Build availability about current and is physically Pre-Semester for students into 100% former students and re- 83% accessible and 67% your schedule4 commit to increasing usable by all your awareness1 students1 List contact information Explicit course Promote empathy Syllabus 100% for University 100
safety critical settings, using tools such as Monte Carlo Tree Search.Dr. Morgan Louise Hooper, California Institute of Technology After completing her PhD at the Graduate Aerospace Laboratories of the California Institute of Tech- nology (GALCIT), Morgan Hooper is now an Assistant Professor (Teaching Stream) at the University of Toronto. There, her teaching focuses on building community within hands-on Engineering Design courses and beyond. She encourages students to engage with multi-faceted, trans-disciplinary engineer- ing projects to learn the complex ways in which engineering, design, and community interact.Yazmin Gonzalez, California Institute of Technology Yazmin Gonzalez brings over a decade of experience
the “big picture”data pipeline and “what was under the hood” of the platform. This feedback was given to the PIand instructors. Mid-course corrections were made for the Spring CSPII Practica to provide morebasic instruction and in-class mentoring by instructors to allow for a more satisfactory learningexperience, particularly for students with less informatics backgrounds. In addition, a “broadpicture” overview of where bioinformatics fits into research design and the data pipeline as well as provision of a syllabus with detailed learning objectives and timeline beginning Spring 2017 resulted in more positive ratings of the Spring course. Other revisions from the 1st two years are described below. Additional revisions to address challenges
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occurredoutside of the scheduled Friday classroom sessions. These activities included recorded lecturesand instructional videos that could be viewed at a time of the student’s choosing. They alsoincluded participation in specific campus events that were integral to success in the course.Students were generally expected to complete the distributed learning activities before the nextFriday class session.A syllabus for the course that details learning outcomes, and lists all learning activities andassignments, is provided in the Appendix to this paper. A style of problem-based learningpedagogy was utilized consistently throughout the course, in that content and pacing were drivenby the twenty-one (21) assignments listed on the syllabus. These consisted
Department, was happy toteach GEOL320 (Geology for Engineers, a popular technical elective for our engineeringstudents). Those three classes, in addition to the two taught by Dr. Quadrifoglio (CVEN322,Civil Engineering Systems, and CVEN349, Civil Engineering Project Management, bothrequired for most our civil engineering students), were eventually deemed suitable to offer a fullsemester abroad to our CVEN (civil engineering) students. All the courses were offered inEnglish following the Texas A&M syllabus as the CVEN ROME program is a faculty ledprogram where students enroll in Texas A&M courses and not Roma Tre courses. iii. Organizational StructureThe CVEN Rome Program has been deployed twice so far with this main structure
Immerwahr at Villanova University [36] andshown in Table 5 [40]. A copy of this rubric was included in the course syllabus to communicatediscussion expectations to students.All FYS courses at Lafayette College are writing courses, and the St. Martin’s Handbook [41] isused as a secondary text for students learning academic writing skills. They employ a process-writing approach in which students submit first drafts which they then revise after feedback froma peer Writing Associate and the instructor.The first writing assignment, which is given out during the first week of class, asks students toreflect on their own lived experience with semiconductor technology in terms of how they learnand work, communicate with friends and family, and seek
of Engineering Accreditation and Assessment office to support the ABETengineering accreditation process. More recently, by working closely with the deans, directors,and graduate program coordinators, the liaison librarian assisted with the corroboration of theavailability of information sources listed in the syllabus bibliography of 146 courses. Thiscollaboration supported the approval of five new programs (one undergraduate and fourgraduate).Overall, the Engineering liaison librarian has implemented novel approaches to efficiently meetthe Engineering research community’s needs and expectations. With this underpinning, newpartnerships came forth to prepare competitive grant proposals. One example was the successfulestablishment of the
forimprovement was creation of a collaborative and inclusive environment. Overall, most scoresincreased between semesters. This may be a function of more time spent together as a team,learning each other’s nuances, and figuring out how to best work toward a common goal. Withthat stated, the teamwork survey was completed after the March 2020 pandemic stay-at-homeorders were issued and courses went online. There is a chance that greater empathy was realizedduring those trying times, especially considering that the competitions were canceled for 2020.The 2020-2021 teams responded (Table 7) with higher agreement with “my team fosters acollaborative environment” and “my team fosters an inclusive environment” than the 2019-2020teams. Overall, the 2020-2021
the course based on completion of the11 units in the app. Note that students were told at the beginning of the class that use of the appwas required, although the syllabus did not state what role it would have in the grade. Studentswere not told that the app would be for extra credit only until the last week class. Figure 3: Completion rate of app lessons by weekOf the 102 students who opted in to the study, 10 had actually passed the pretest. To avoid aceiling effect, we took those 10 students out of our sample. The intervention in this study was theuse of the augmented reality app as a supplement to the standard course content. Students in 2 ofthe 4 sections of the class were invited to use the app. In total, 57
impact.” “My experience will definitely have an impact on student achievement. The more honest experiences I can provide to my students whether directly in a lesson or just in conversation then the more students will feel a direct link to a program or plan of furthering their own education.” “I think there will be an impact on helping prepare kids for research.” “Yes, it will have a great impact on the students, because I met other colleagues teaching the same course as mine and we brainstormed on how to effectively improve our teaching skills in the field of robotics, automaton and mechatronics. Besides that, the research experience I had will be incorporated in my syllabus.” “Yes, I
the first 2 weeks). The conversation should be informal in nature and faculty should allow time for additional, unexpected conversation topics. Schedule about 20 minutes per student. Have a copy of the syllabus available so you can refer to course outcomes, etc. Common questions should focus primarily on the course (outcomes, topics, projects, etc.), in addition to the following: o Ask students to share a bit about their background (could be education and/or personal in nature depending on what the student wants to share) o What are you excited about related to this course? o Is there anything you are anxious about? o Do you have any questions about the course
reveals that students were very positive aboutthe focus on a real-life engineering design project. As institutions of higher education considermethods of engaging typically under-represented youth in engineering, this project provides auseful model as to what can be achieved by students.Appendix A - Grant Logic ModelAppendix B-- Details about Each Cohort Cohort 1 OverviewThe first cohort met at the university from mid-fall of 2013 to April of 2014. This cohort wasenrolled for transferable credit in the College of Engineering freshman design course taught by auniversity instructor who also taught this course concurrently with university freshman. Theprogram course used the same syllabus, projects and metrics as the college level course, but
students (this was the case for thedynamics class at HSKA). These skriptums tend to be much shorter than textbooks, andconcentrate on the really important things.Prof Deutsch Reflections on Class StructureIn the US all instructors have to set up a syllabus, which not only displays the course ofinstruction but also defines how the final grade is determined. A typical grading scheme mighthave Homeworks at 20%, Quizzes at 10%, Midterms at 30%, and the Final Exam at 40%. InGermany this does not exist, since it’s entirely the final exam which determines the grade.Sometimes the German professors let the students do homework or have tests to make thestudents reflect on the content and work on problems, but these assignments don’t influence thefinal
education organization, astate science teacher organization, to teachers who visited the Center for class field trips, andthrough social media. Recruitment tasks were accomplished by Center education staff andpartner organizations. Interested teachers applied through an online application system during afour month submission window. To be considered complete, submitted applications had toinclude a resume, a series of short essays, and a form completed by two of their professionalreferences. Completed applications were reviewed by Center education staff, with finalacceptance decisions being made by the program manager.Participant Demographics Self-reported demographic information for the 22 teachers who have participated in theRET program is
expertise research and design inspiration); and the final two weeks on thestudents supporting themselves as future designers who are aware of their design processes (9.Design awareness and design signatures, 10. Presenting final ideal design signatures andreflection). These topics as well as class activities and assignments are presented in Figure 1 andcan be found on the Design Signatures website at the following address:https://www.designsignatures.org.The seminar was a 2-credit optional course offering that students applied to. It was graded ascredit/no credit. The first instance of the seminar was delivered in the winter quarter (January -March) 2020 in person, with a pivot to online for the final class as the pandemic started. Allother
students and provides the instructor anadjustment factor for use in grading. Though the CATME adjustment factors are often used toadjust team grades upward or downward for individual assignments, in this class formulas areused to convert an "average" peer feedback score into a grade of 85% and a "best possible" peerfeedback score to a grade of 100%. This scaling is identified in the course syllabus, which helpsto calibrate student expectations. All scores are posted to an online grade book visible to thestudents, allowing them to make adjustments in how they interact with their team as the semesterprogresses.The CATME system also allows students to provide private comments to the instructor on howthe team and its individuals were working (or not
. ABET Learning Outcomes 3 (regarding effective communication) was adequately addressed. 4. The diversity and inclusion topics were introduced to the class with minimal additional preparation effort on the behalf on the instructor. 5. No technical coursework (traditional civil engineering calculations and analyses) was removed from the course to create room in the syllabus for the topics of diversity and inclusion. 6. Students felt comfortable sharing their thoughts through both verbal and written means of communication. 7. Students clearly gained an appreciation of the broader socioeconomic impacts that engineering projects have on communities. 8. The case was robust enough, and the teaching interventions
Paper ID #14512Inquiry-Based Learning to Explore the Design of the Built EnvironmentMs. Anahid Behrouzi, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Anahid Behrouzi is a doctoral student of civil engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She has been involved with STEM education beginning in 2003 as a volunteer and summer instructor with the North Carolina Museum of Life and Science. She has been engaged with undergraduate/ graduate course delivery in the topic areas of engineering problem-solving, structural engineering, and reinforced concrete design at North Carolina State University (2008-2011), the
, faculty,alumni, and IAB) and the recommended action, implementation of CAS Calculators has beencompleted. The ET department faculty implemented the recommendation of requiring CAScalculators by incorporating a statement in the syllabus in fall II 2021, spring, spring I & II 2022,and summer III 2022 in several of its MATH based 2000 level courses, 3000 and 4000 levelcourses.(I b) Documented evidence demonstrating that the results of student outcome assessment andevaluation are systematically utilized as input for the program's CI actions – Continuedimplementation of Oral Presentation in ENGT 2030, AC Circuits and Applications, a course thatis required for the BS in EET program:In fall 2019, assessment and evaluation were performed in ABET SO 2
or control [2],[44], [45], [46]. Table 6. Summary of themes identified from participants’ approaches to developing their students’ sense of Autonomy (i.e., sense that one has a choice and control of one’s learning). Themes Participant Approaches (Direct Quotes) Student involvement in program/course Feedback on different phases of project refinement Assessment on team dynamics Graduating seniors' input for future advising Input on syllabus Student to demand that
Paper ID #28865 education (OBE) workshop. He manages the PhD in Computing programme and has been implementing OBE to design curriculum and courses, contributing to its successful accreditation. He serves as a pan- ellist in the accreditation of various programmes and courses. He publishes research works in the areas of applied artificial intelligence, networking, as well as information and communications technology in education.Dr. Ing. Joao Ponciano P.E., University of Glasgow Eur. Ing. Dr. Jo˜ao Ponciano (CPE, LLB (Hons), M.Eng (Hons) , M.A. (Distinction), PhD, FIET, C.Eng, MBCS, CITP, SFHEA, MIEEE, FinstLM) started his career as a researcher for the International Or- ganisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) in
Monday. The lab experiment related to the material and homeworkstarts on the Monday following the due date and continues through that week. All lecture notes,homework, projects, and labs are posted prior to the start of class in multiple formats. Thetextbook is presented online in the TopHat engagement tool and includes videos, sampleproblems, and example data to provide multiple routes to learning the material. This course doesnot have exams as the grades are determined by the homework, in-class work, lab reports, and aterm project done with their lab group.In Fall 2020, in response to the pandemic, the course was taught in a hybrid mode whichcontinued through Spring 2021. During that time the university launched a campaign to raiseawareness
assignment where students must interview stakeholders in the translational pipeline for drug delivery products. After exposure to these topics, students are tasked to write a review and present to the class on a drug delivery topic of their choosing in groups. Several class sessions are dedicated to in-person group presentations. For Semester A, a new, dedicated HD and SDOH module was included prior to in-person group presentations.3.5 HD and SDOH module intervention An asynchronous online-lecture was developed by course instructors in which students were exposed to public health topics of HD and SDOH. Students were tasked to answer a pre-survey on their engineering social agency awareness and familiarity on HD and SDOH
-19 has affected all aspects of life, including how we travel. As faculty membersresponsible for teaching infrastructure courses across four universities, the authors collaboratedon creating a teaching module addressing this critical issue. The module focuses on the impactsof COVID-19 on different transportation systems from various stakeholder perspectives. Themodule was implemented in two universities (n = 25): Southern Methodist University (SMU)and New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology (New Mexico Tech, NMT) in fall 2020and will be implemented again at other schools in fall 2021. This paper presents the resultsobtained during the first implementation of the COVID-19 teaching module during the fallsemester of 2020 and addresses how