, curiosity, retention and accessibility ofknowledge, value-creation, and other desired learning outcomes. Much of the recent adoption ofactive and collaborative learning, self-directed learning, problem-based and project-basedlearning (PBL), peer to peer learning, and other similar learning strategies are aimed atdeveloping innovative and entrepreneurial mindset skills, but they have been limited to CapstoneDesign courses. Our aim is to develop the entrepreneurial mindset much earlier in the studentengineers’ undergraduate education.The Iron Range Engineering program is entrepreneurial in nature, based on continuousimprovement, self-directed learning, and reflective practice. Our student engineers learn incontext, by applying technical engineering
writing, this office action is being addressed by thecorresponding student group.E.2. Changes in ESIP ConceptsDescriptive statistics were computed for each survey item. Next, the items were checked forinternal consistency reliability by computing Cronbach’s alpha. The data evidenced acceptable(α > .70) to excellent reliability (α > .80) [12] for nearly every construct, with the exception ofpre-course responses to the Careers in Patent Law construct, which was minimally acceptable (α= .69). Given its proximity to the proposed threshold of .70 for acceptability, and the excellentinternal consistency reliability evidenced from post-course responses (α = .83), the construct wasretained as originally designed.Next, the data were aggregated into
are commonly considered paramount in any engineering field(and it should go without saying that this includes computer science), this manuscript focuses on ourefforts toward achieving the goals associated with ethics, morality, inclusion, diversity and socialjustice. To a large extent, it is a gloss written from the author’s first-person perspective as the socialscientist on the CSP-Hatchery project team, and individual most directly responsible for preparing anddelivering (or ghost-writing) relevant curricula and supporting other faculty in incorporatingprofessional, context-aware and responsive social ethics across the BSU CS curriculum.Background: Not `the way it is,` but `the way we have allowed it to become`The fact that groups other
collaborators (locally, nationally, internationally) • Learn about research and funding opportunities Teaching • Develop/enhance teaching skills; learn new pedagogical approaches • Facilitate networking to identify potential collaborators and/or mentors • Increase awareness of the teaching professor role within the college Networking • Seeking to connect with a community of scholars within the university (internal) • Seeking to connect with a community of scholars outside the university (external) Skill/Capacity building • Develop leadership skills • Develop communication skills • Develop/enhance proposal writing skills • Enhance ability to promote publication and dissemination of my work Publications and awards
time was then focused on what the students gave asfeedback for the more difficult topics and example problems. My peers and I found this to be amuch more helpful way of using time. This student and her partner were in the second semesterof the Beta Labs experiment. She said that my lab partner and I participated in these and I caneasily say they have had the biggest impact on my learning techniques and abilities of anything Ihave done in my other classes thus far. I learned to be proactive in my learning, to fight to learnon my own … to write full and comprehensive lab reports, and to take pride in my work throughthe presentation of my design.Another student was both a Circuits student as well as a Graduate Teaching Assistant. As astudent that
peer institution (who took circuitsas a service course from their EE department) via anonymous surveys administered to bothgroups (in both cases, 6 to 12 months after completion of the course). In addition, through aninternal end-of-semester assessment tool, we compare our students’ perception of their ability toachieve each course objective to embedded indicators based on performance in selected courseassessments. Finally, evidence of proficiency in circuit design and implementation is manifestedin students’ subsequent senior capstone projects, in which some groups have designed and builtPCBs to power and embody the main electronic components in their designed systems.`IntroductionIn the fall of 2012, QU held its first freshman engineering
Kwak Tanguay is a Ph.D. Candidate in Multicultural Education at the University of Washington. Her research examines how educational policy & practice, curriculum, and instruction mediate cross- racial and cross-ethnic peer relations among students, and how these peer relations shape students of color’s educational experiences, trajectories, and access to opportunities.Dr. Joyce Yen, University of Washington Joyce Yen, Ph.D., is the Director of the ADVANCE Center for Institutional Change at the University of Washington where she focuses on advancing women and underrepresented minority faculty in STEM fields and leading faculty professional development programs. Her diversity and faculty work has received over
technical contexts while making stronger connections to practice 1early in the undergraduate curriculum has been supported through numerous studies (Passow andPassow, 2017).The case for integrating oral and written communication curriculum into existing undergraduateengineering coursework is not a new idea (see ASEE Engineering Enhanced Liberal ArtsProject) with approaches that range from writing across the curriculum, to interdisciplinarycourses and integrated programs (Leydens and Schneider, 2009; Ford and Riley, 2003; Nutman,1987). The teaching of communication skills in ways that will more effectively transfer to futureworkplace expectations to learners is a widely recognized objective among
primary interest centers on postsecondary success for minoritized women and men in STEM fields. Following this interest, she has conducted re- search in several areas including the intersectionality of race and gender in engineering; including un- derstanding the culture, climate, and infrastructure of an engineering program (policies, organizational norms, interactions with faculty & peers, etc.) that may reinforce racial and gender stereotypes, engen- der feelings of racial and gender subordination, and disproportionately validate and privilege members of some racial groups at the expense of others.Tiffany D. Pan, University of Washington Tiffany Pan is a Graduate Research Assistant at the Center for Evaluation
theforums and traditions practiced in their field. Students responded to the prompt, What does‘ethics’ mean in the context of STEM fields? Why is thinking about ethics important for STEMstudents and professionals? Students then responded to discussion question in an online forumevery other week for 10 weeks. The peer-review occurred between paired students that read andoffered critiques of one another’s writing from different engineering subfields and then met inperson and shared their critiques with the professor and their peer-review partner. The fourthform of communication was publicly available on Twitter and students were required to post 10tweets during the semester.These encounters were designed to afford student with opportunities to engage
teacher (or other STEMGROW “EduGuides;” faculty, staff and peer guides) provides briefmentoring responses to their activities, meant to engage students in additional writing andreflection.A 2016-2017 student survey revealed the following top impact areas, based on 473 studentresponses [4], to show growth or positive impact: “More self-motivated” (73%) “More confident to achieve: (68%) “More curious to learn new things” (66%) “Listen better to feedback” (65%) “Encourage and mentor others” (63%)In our EPCC and UTEP incarnation of the EduGuide process, students are tasked to use SMARTtechnology online activities for up to one hour per week outside of the classroom (for which theytypically will receive some course credit
plastic o 1 solid carbide 2 flute straight end mill Lab supplied: o 3D printer filament No hardware (i.e., screws, bolts, nuts, washers, etc.) may be printed o Scraps (testing purposes only) o Welding materials (counter weight only) Student supplied materials: o Counter weight (if needed)At the completion of the project, students had the opportunity to submit a peer review of eachteam member (see Appendix – Peer Evaluation Form). The instructor used the peer review dataand self-observations to adjust individual students’ project grade as needed. The professor used aself-created rubric to aid in evaluating each teams’ performance (see Appendix – Project Rubric
active learning environments and thus increase studentengagement and improve learning [2] - [4]. To realize and enhance active learning classes,undergraduate learning assistants (LAs) appear as catalysts. LAs are undergraduate students whohave typically completed the particular course and return to assist with its instruction. PracticingLAs increase interactive engagement of the students in active learning classes by providing near-peer help. The processes of facilitating student learning are also construed as a learningexperience of LAs themselves.The generalized LA program developed by the Learning Assistant Alliance has three coreelements [5]. First, LAs receive professional development in pedagogy during their firstacademic term as an LA
audiences. The addition shouldhave no effect on the program assessment of student outcomes as most curricula havestudents communicate with faculty, peers within their discipline, peers outside theirdiscipline and members of industry, which constitute an array of audiences. It does makedeveloping program objectives more difficult. Program objectives which describe whatstudents can do three to five years after graduation must be noticeably different fromstudent outcomes and can result in a shortcoming when they are not. It is difficult in thearea of effective communication to make the student outcome different from a programobjective. One way to highlight this difference is to make the program objective reflecthigher level communication with a wider
Paper ID #22728Undergraduate Engineering Students’ Use of Metaphor in Presenting Proto-types to a Technical and Non-technical Public AudienceMr. Jared David Berezin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Jared Berezin is a Lecturer in the Writing, Rhetoric, and Professional Communication (WRAP) program within the Comparative Media Studies/Writing Department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Jared teaches in a range of communication-intensive courses at MIT, including Communicating Science to the Public, Product Design, Flight Vehicle Design, Environmental Engineering, and Nuclear Science. He has also been a
-physical systems, Internet-of-Agents, as well as AI, data analytics and knowledge engineering applied to problems in health care. While at the University of Houston (2009 – 2012), he did research in machine learning, multi-agent distributed computing and control, data mining and distributed database systems, emerging behavior in complex networks, ”smart energy” and computational game theory. During his graduate studies and combined five years of non- tenure-track academic research, he has authored over 70 peer-reviewed publications. He has a versatile R&D experience spanning three different high-tech industries, with both big companies (Cisco Systems and Microsoft) and high-tech startups, as well as with a leading
?Three distinct phases of a woman’s journey were examined. First, a sample of women who havealready completed an undergraduate engineering degree from a public university was studied.Secondly, women in their upper division year of their undergraduate degree program were askedto reflect on their experiences over their undergraduate career. Both of these groups of womenwere asked questions from the same interview protocol. Finally, classes were observed anddiscourse was analyzed in gatekeeper courses to understand the interaction of women and theirprofessors as well as women with their peers, both male and female. The lens of Feminist PostStructuralism and of Sense-Making allowed the critical analysis to shine a light on theunderlying cultural
engineering graduate students on their needs for library instruction. Thesurvey differentiated between students who are writing theses and those who are not. By lookingat students who are doing research and those who are not as two separate populations, the surveymay identify needs for instruction that go beyond common library instruction topics such asliterature reviews and the library had not previously considered. This paper will summarize theresults of the survey and discuss plans for implementation of an instruction program ofinformation literacy topics.BackgroundIn fall semester 2017, a group of graduate students in the College of Engineering (CoE) at theUniversity of Michigan (U-M) were awarded a community grant from the U-M Rackhamgraduate
design industry for IBM and Broadcom for over ten years. He holds five US patents, several publications, and has circuits in over a billion chips around the world. His current research interests include laboratory teaching pedagogy, matrix converters in electric drives, and the application of power electronics in HVDC power systems.Mr. Kia Bazargan, University of Minnesota Kia Bazargan is an Associate Professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Minnesota. Has has published over 70 peer-reviewed papers and book chapters related to FPGAs and VLSI computer-aided design. He received his Bachelors degree in Computer Science from Sharif University, Tehran, Iran, and the MS and
Maryland’s PROMISE AGEP,LSAMP, and LSAMP-BD delegations demonstrated a clear need to assist the global community.They were particularly interested in working on problems related to industry innovation,infrastructure, gender equality, sustainable cities, and communities. Students realized thatapproaches to solutions could not be centralized to their own country, and that their proposalshad to be feasible and logical for other parts of the world. As an example, challenges withbringing clean water to remote regions and approaches to sanitation required a need to take timeto learn from peers from other countries. Students were asked to provide ubiquitous solutions tothe problems. They were asked to consider themselves as part of the respective
program hosted by the College of Engineering. The author had the scope to interact periodically with his peers and other professors to discuss and improve teaching. 5.3. As part of the Graduate Teaching Fellows program, the author was required to attend a certificate program called Academy for Future Faculty (AFF), intended to train graduate students interested in an academic career on several aspects of college teaching, such as course development cycle, syllabus design, addressing diversity in classroom, etc. The author had a chance to practice
productive and providethe reasoning to support their argument. When students are provided the opportunity to engagein these practices and receive feedback from peers, they are able to model the norms andexpectations of both epistemological communities.The ADE instructional framework is based on Argument Driven Inquiry (ADI), a instructionalmodel that centers on student engagement in scientific inquiry. Research on ADI suggests thatstudents using the ADI model in science show gains in content knowledge, writing andcommunication skills, research design abilities, and capacity to argue from evidence [13-15].Building the ADE framework using previous ADI work allowed the integration of engineeringpractices emphasized in the Framework into an evidence
method at the same time through reflective practice and critical evaluations.It is expected that in every reflection, the student goes through a cycle or series of personalquestions and debates attempting to learn, resolve, and create personal stories. In addition,students reflect on their personal narrative of the meaning, the connection, and the methodologythat they are experiencing [18]. During in-class reflective activities, the student is exposed to theviews of other team members. They are encouraged to think, discuss, share, and write their ownreflections. Then the student needs to critically evaluate his/her choices, and create an informeddecision. This is not a trivial process. In practice, we try to follow students development
allworking professionals, most with considerable to extensive project management experience.These, like nearly all adult learners, want education that is authentic, relevant, immediatelyapplicable to their work, and substantiated by experiences of their own or credible peers [10],[11], [12], [13]. As the authors have taught this course over the past eight years, a shared,consistent goal and commitment to our students has been to make the course “authentically real,”speaking directly to the experiences and learning goals of these project-experiencedprofessionals. Following is a brief description of a few key ways in which our teaching ofeffective, real project management has evolved.An Emphasis on Living Order“Living order” is a concept that the
experience atthis institution of converting a physics course to PBL (Bowe & Cohen, 2004), supervisingeducation research PhD projects, and reading and writing about the topic (Bowe, 2007).While this effort seems minor in comparison to institutions like as Aalborg (Moesby, 2002), it wasa significant development for engineering education at DIT, and it has been sustained in the periodof years since this case study was conducted. The shift is in line with recommendations byEastman, McCracken, and Newstetter (2001), McKenna et al. (2011) and the National ScienceBoard (2007). As such, the context for our study was this prevalent and sustained transformation—from a traditional teacher-centered pedagogy to student-centered learning—through
to that, he was working as a Research Specialist in the Department of Physiology at University of California, San Francisco. He has authored over 85 peer-reviewed publications in journals such as Langmuir, Biomaterials, Journal of Orthopedic Research, Journal of Biomedical Materials Research, etc. and has and h-index of 37. He has also presented his work at numerous national and international level conferences. He received his Ph.D. in Bioengineering from University of Illinois at Chicago in 2003, M.S. in Chemical Engineering from Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago in 2000 and B.E. in Chemical Engineering from M. S. University in India in 1998.Dr. Kimberly Catton P.E., Colorado State University Professor of
or she can change the world and make a differenceforever, that mentor leaves an indelible mark on the mentee. Above all other professions,engineering has the power to change the world on a large scale. Since I started to take my mentorship duties seriously, and I started reading aboutmentoring and visiting websites dedicated to mentoring, I realized that my vision and myphilosophy are similar in some ways to other mentors, but in some ways, they also are quiteunique. Upon discussing them with other faculty, I could see that when people write aboutmentoring they make it appear more institutionalized and well regulated but when they talkabout it, mentors emphasize the personal touch and the relationships that they developindividually
Diversity Council to implement programs and initiatives that reflect the College’s commitment to diver- sity. She is the advisor for the NSBE (National Society of Black Engineers) student chapter and SHPE (Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers) student chapter. Ms. English serves as the primary point of contact and liaison with internal and external constituencies. Hannah Rosen, M.Ed., is the Coordinator of Engineering Student Programs and Recruitment for the Washkewicz College of Engineering at Cleveland State University. Originally, from Phoenix, AZ, Hannah earned her undergraduate degree in English and Creative Writing from the University of Arizona and her Masters of Education in Higher Education from Arizona
equivalentto a B+ as compared to a B of their peers” 6. Medsker et al. conducted an experimental study onthe impact of the S-STEM program on student outcomes 7. Based on relevant retention andgraduation data collected in their study, they found that unmet financial needs play a significantrole in student retention and when mitigated, led to enhanced academic success 7.Our project was funded in 2015 by the NSF S-STEM program. The project has two goals. Thefirst goal is to provide S-STEM scholarship support for academically-talented, financially-needyundergraduate students in two engineering departments at our university. These two engineeringdepartments include the Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering (MAE) and theDepartment of Civil
founder head of the innovation Center. Dr Waychal earned his Ph D in the area of developing Innovation Competencies in Information System Organizations from IIT Bombay and M Tech in Control Engineering from IIT Delhi. He has presented keynote / invited talks in many high prole international conferences and has published papers in peer- reviewed journals. He / his teams have won awards in Engineering Education, Innovation, Six Sigma, and Knowledge Management at international events. His current research interests are engineering edu- cation, software engineering, and developing innovative entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs. He was chosen as one of the five outstanding engineering educators by IUCEE (Indo-universal