technology professors each led workshops in a week. The fourtenure-track engineering mentors, assisted by student research assistants, each mentored threeteachers on projects ranging from additive manufacturing to thermal/fluids, materials, andenergy. The group also participated in field trips to local companies including ARC Specialties,Master Flo, Re:3D, and Forged Components. They worked with two instructional trackengineering technology professors and one professor of education on applying their learnings tolesson plan design. Participants also met weekly for online Brown Bag teacher seminars to sharetheir experiences and discuss curricula, which was organized by the RET master teacher. On thefinal day of the program, the teachers presented
. Tori’s undergraduate focus on Sociology and Applied Physics allows her to easily translate between technical and non-technical team members. Tori obtained an MBA from the University of Texas and is a continued advocate of increasing the number of women in STEM careers.Teresa L. Larkin (Associate Professor of Physics Education) Teresa L. Larkin is an Associate Professor of Physics Education and Director and Faculty Liaison to the Combined Plan Dual-degree Engineering Program at American University. Dr. Larkin conducts educational research and has published widely on topics related to the assessment of student learning in introductory physics and engineering courses. Noteworthy is her work with student writing as a
Memphis used it in 1998 (Bartzet al., 1996). Short-term and long-term studies have been applied to investigate the efficiency ofthis method in different engineering fields. (Vaz & Quinn, 2015, Apelian et al., 2016, McConvilleet al., 2017 ). Harvard explains the history and development as a pioneer of the pedagogy ofreacting to the roleplaying game (Heinricher et al., 2013)Project Development before 2018The project was planned and improved in the years that the educator taught in different universities.The purpose was to fulfill the ABET goals. The main idea was to create a condition similar to thereal-world projects to widen the students' knowledge about the possible scenarios in which theywould be involved in the construction industry. The
contrary, the employees need to know if andhow some types of medical marijuana may be allowed.The data collected in this study clearly show that students who may enter the field of constructionare aware and/or engage in the use of marijuana. Thus, the industry should be mindful to addresswhat may become a broader issue on which drugs are okay to use during the workday and whetherit influences job site safety.Keywords: education, Construction education, Construction Industry, Medical Marijuana,MarijuanaIntroductionThis research aims to investigate the knowledge of the use of marijuana in the constructionindustry. For this research, the term "MEDICAL MARIJUANA" refers to a licensed or accreditedphysician recommended and supervised treatment plan
an open door policy, encouragingteachers to contact them at any time even outside of the scheduled PD sessions to answer questions.PD sessions were primarily conducted virtually over zoom or by phone, with limited in-personinteractions. Efforts were made to increase collaboration among teachers by having them attendPD sessions together. However, the teachers’ differing work schedules limited the number ofcollaborative sessions.A typical PD session lasted one hour and included an update from the teachers on the course attheir school and request for materials, an introduction to an advanced manufacturing conceptand/or technology, and concluded with a discussion of next steps. Time was also built into thesessions for lesson planning. The
. Specifically, we synthesize the following guidelines: (1) Planned change theory, likeKotter's change model, is an accessible place to start, but don’t expect the change process to belinear. (2) Embed a community of practice in existing structures and norms, such as facultymeetings. Be creative in bringing discussions of teaching into such spaces. (3) Developmultidimensional measures of student assets, growth, and development. Staying only withmeasures of progress on conceptual learning misses much about students' development aschemical engineers. With regard to supporting students, we also share two key strategies: (4)When teaching technical communication, offer limited but specific feedback and require revisionand reflection. (5) If developing design
staff collaborates with university-wide programs topromote STEM education and contribute to the university’s quality enhancement plan (QEP). Thepaper shares details regarding faculty and student involvement, the development of preparatorycourses, institution-wide resources, and student outcomes from the project with the academiccommunity.IntroductionThe STEM Center at SHSU seeks to increase the number and quality of STEM graduates byestablishing a strong foundation for learning using innovative teaching practices, supportingstudents in finding research and internship opportunities, and building lifelong skills needed foradvancement and leadership in STEM careers. In 2012, the President’s Council of Advisors onScience and Technology (PCAST
assignment was a modification of a lesson plan developed byRePicture that can be used for any science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) course.For this assignment, students researched and wrote about a structural engineering project andthen posted their article on the RePicture website. The RePicture platform includes an instructordashboard which allowed the instructor to review and privately comment on the student’s work.Once their work was completed, the student could then publish it on RePicture.com for the worldto see. The online article the student created can be used as a sample of their writing abilities, todemonstrate their depth of knowledge about structural engineering projects to potentialemployers, and to enter contests sponsored
online and distancelearning in that it is a temporary shift under crisis conditions and is often delivered by instructorswho have not had adequate time to prepare or have formal training in online instruction.Traditional online instructors must deal with the complexity and flexibility of online coursedelivery. Instructors must consider the various and diverse combinations and permutations thatexist in the use of tools, interaction with students, pedagogical approaches, and organizationalsupport [1]. Adedoyin and Soykan [3] assert that effective online learning requires careful andadequate planning and design of instruction.Many of the complexities found within traditional online course design and delivery were alsofound during ERT. ERT required
continuous im- provement methods can be applied to a wide variety of problems, including healthcare, business agility, and engineering education.Dr. Kris Jaeger-Helton, Northeastern University Professor Beverly Kris Jaeger-Helton, Ph.D. is on the full-time faculty in the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at Northeastern University (NU) teaching Simulation Modeling and Analysis, Human-Machine Systems, Facilities Planning & Material Handling, and Capstone. She is the Director of Senior Capstone Design in Industrial Engineering as well as the Founding Director of the Galante Engi- neering Business Program at NU. Dr. Jaeger-Helton has also been an active member of Northeastern’s Gateway Team, a
collaborative and inclusive environment, establish goals, plan tasks, and meet objectives6. an ability to develop and conduct appropriate experimentation, analyze and interpret data, and use engineering judgment to draw conclusions7. an ability to acquire and apply new knowledge as needed, using appropriate learning strategies.Brief background of the senior design sequence The engineering capstone course sequence has evolved over more than three decades.Initially, electrical engineering was SPU’s only engineering major with a capstone project. Itfocused on team design projects but did not include close teaming guidance or connections withindustry professionals. The presentations and documentation requirements mid-project were lessformal
together provideleadership, create a collaborative and inclusive environment, establish goals, plan tasks,and meet objectives5a: Collectively provide leadership, with each member having a well-defined team role.5b: Create and sustain a collaborative and inclusive team environment where each member could make a meaningful contribution to the team’s goals.5c: Plan tasks as a team and organized team activities towards the completion of a project.5d: Establish goals as a team and evaluated if objectives were met.The University of Mount Union’s general education curriculum is referred to as the IntegrativeCore (IC). The IC is composed of a first-year seminar, four foundations courses, two junior levelexplorations courses, and a capstone course for
“welfare”, “global”, and “cultural” were added. Thesechanges indicate that ABET shifted focus regarding what is expected of students in the designprocess, which appears to align with The National Academies of Sciences’ EnvironmentalEngineering Grand Challenges for the 21st Century [6]. (6) For the transition between SO (d) to SO 5, the concept of “multi-disciplinary” waseliminated and instead replaced with team-related concepts of “leadership”, “collaborative”,“inclusive”, “goals”, “tasks”, and “objectives”. Additionally, the student actions “provide”,“create”, “establish”, “plan”, and “meet” were added. These changes indicate that ABETredefined how it expects graduating engineering students to function on a team. These changescan also be
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students through a series of activities and resources todevelop research skills and knowledge [46]. AMPP selected four of the manuals’ core principlesas focus areas of training: developing effective communication in the mentoring relationship,aligning expectations between mentors and mentees, fostering mentees’ research independence,and promoting mentees’ professional development. AMMP’s unique approach is at the program design. The program is organized into aseries of five parallel training sessions for mentors and mentees, each session addressing a singletraining theme: (1) effective communication, (2) researcher independence, (3) expectationalignment, (4) networking, and (5) individual development plan. Mentors are introduced to thetopic
Paper ID #37291Designing International Research Experiences to EngageUnderrepresented Minority Undergraduates and IntroduceThem to Graduate SchoolMichael Preuss (Co-founder and Lead Consultant) Michael Preuss, EdD, is the Co-founder and Lead Consultant for Exquiri Consulting, LLC. His primary focus is providing assistance to grant project teams in planning and development, through external evaluation, and as publication support. Most of his work is on STEM education and advancement projects and completed for Minority-Serving Institutions. He also conducts research regarding higher education focused on the needs and
Paper ID #38326S-STEM: Creating Retention and Engagement forAcademically Talented Engineers - successes and challengesIndira Chatterjee (Associate Dean of Engineering)Kelsey Scalaro (Graduate Student) Kelsey is an engineering education Ph.D. student at the University of Nevada, Reno. She has a master's degree in mechanical engineering and 5 years of experience working in the aerospace industry. Her research focuses on identity development and motivation. After graduation, she plans on teaching project-oriented mechanical engineering classes or returning to industry working in training or retention.Ann-Marie
solidunderstanding of professional and ethical responsibilities.Civil Engineering Program Learning OutcomesThe program learning outcomes set to help graduates of the civil engineering program to gaincompetence, and to apply the knowledge of mathematics, science, and engineering. The plan wasdesigned to enable students to gain the skills to design and conduct experimental testing,simulate, analyze, and interpret data and can design a system to meet the set needs withinrealistic boundaries such as environmental, social, economic, political, ethical, health and safety,and sustainability. Students are expected to have the capacity to work effectively onmultidisciplinary teams, to develop the skills to classify, articulate, and solve engineeringdiscrete problems
Paper ID #37718Engineering Learning Community Introduction to ResearchAbroad A 5 year AssessmentMaria Claudia Alves (Senior Director, Halliburton Engineering GlobalPrograms) Dr. Maria Claudia B. Alves serves as Senior Director for Engineering Global Programs at the College of Engineering at Texas A&M University. In this position since July 2012, she developed and implemented a multi-year strategic plan on global education programs that led to measurable outcomes such as increase in student participation and learning, as well as faculty engagement in global programs in the College of Engineering. Some of her most
incorporation of Responsible well-being in faculty and students (undergraduate and graduate). Through an innovative research-based assessment plan, they determined the levels of moral development achieved by participants. In the past two years, Santiago has incorporated theories on social cognitive career choices and student attrition mitigation to investigate the effectiveness of institutional interventions in increasing the retention and academic success of talented engineering students from economically disadvantaged families. Finally, the latest project explores the relationship between the institutional policies at UPRM and faculty and graduate students’ motivation to create good relationships between advisors and
end of thesurvey only in 2021 asking: “To what extent has COVID impacted your ability to help the Centerbecome more diverse and inclusive?” on a 5 point scale including: none at all, a little, a moderateamount, a lot, and a great deal. There was an optional final comment box to explain.In future, we plan to include a question assessing if any factors (e.g., COVID-19, impactful societalor personal life events) influenced their ability to engage in diversity and inclusion-relatedactivities. The survey ended with one last optional opportunity to provide “other comments.”ResultsThe Culture of Inclusion survey instrument was deployed in April of 2020 and again in April of2021. In 2021, the survey was sent to 126 people; 91 people completed the
landscape of the future. Moreover, this course provides anentry point to Computer Science field, and it is designed to be flexible that students of any levelsand backgrounds can have a good experience with. We also share our successes andimprovements as the result of teaching the course for one semester.The paper is organized as follows: section 2 describes the design of the course in detail; sections3 and 4 discuss our successes and improvements respectively. We conclude our paper in section5 with some plans for future work.2. Course DesignThis course offers an introduction to the intersections between Computer Science and Societythrough a survey of digital projects and techniques. The frameworks of the Humanities andSocial Sciences to relevant
study presented here is that only limited anecdotal evidence was collected tomeasure the success of the virtual labs. We plan to collect additional evidence in the future. Ourgoal is to understand if the virtual labs help students to connect the underlying concepts to theirreal-life actualization. To create a meaningful assessment, we are looking for collaborators whocan impartially evaluate the impact of the materials on student outcomes.Considerations for Designing Virtual LabsThe dynamic model complexity and visual fidelity are two essential considerations for designinga lab. We used the discipline as a primary selection guide for the visual fidelity. In the circuitslabs, less focus was placed on the visual model, because basic electrical
consideration of coastalchanges may lead to an increase in coastal erosion over time, causing damage to the city in thelong term. Conversely, through careful planning, the player can limit the impacts of climatechange while developing areas of the city. Historical coastal data, combined with environmentalmodels of coastal change and weather, will be integrated as part of the game’s simulation andmechanics. SimCoast seeks to help the public, as well as policymakers, develop a richerunderstanding of how coasts have changed in the past, and are likely to change in the future.Through game-based engagement, our work will help members of the community understand thetradeoffs inherent in policy decisions.In addition to helping to educate the public about
these studies aredone on specific course topics or topic areas and not overall program content [5, 6, 7, 8, 9]. [10] StudiedConstruction Management Programs’ curricula in 2011.Two of the most commonly offered construction programsare Construction Management (CM) and Construction Engineering (ConE). While "engineering" and "management"are supposedly two distinct streams of education, the distinction between ConE and CM becomes blurred in real-lifesituations. For example, the word "Engineering" is defined as "using scientific principles to design and buildmachines, structures, and other things, including bridges, roads, vehicles, and buildings" [11]. However,Construction Engineers commonly plan, coordinate, budget, and supervise construction
provided over five years thatprepared scholars to secure academic positions and successfully engage in the research, teaching,and service requirements of early career faculty positions (activity labeled “Career Planning andPursuit” in Figure 2 in the Activities column), this activity is vitally interconnected with othercomplementary activities of the model. Figure 3 illustrates these complementary activities alongwith examples of connected events. Figure 3. Alliance model activities complementary to job search and preparation supportRecruitment and Needs AssessmentThe AGEP alliance originally recruited twelve dissertators across the four participatingcampuses from different engineering and science disciplines who were Ph.D. students
liud@pfw.eduABSTRACTABET CAC (Computing Accreditation Commission) is in the semi-final stage of approving program criteria for Data Science withinComputing programs for the first-time. Pilot CAC Data Science accreditation is being planned for the upcoming 2021-2022 accreditationcycle. In the meantime, ABET ANSAC (Applied and Natural Science Accreditation Commission) is also working with AmericanStatistical Association in initiating the Data Science accreditation within Applied and Natural Science programs. This paper describes theABET General and proposed or potential Data Science Specific Student Outcomes and Curriculum criteria within both ComputingPrograms and Applied and Natural Science Programs. Based on these criteria, we reviewed our
. Her research interests include learning analytics, experiential learning, and equitable grading and assessment. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.comWork-in-Progress: Understanding learners’ motivation through machine learning analysis on reflection writingAbstractEducational data mining (EDM) is an emerging interdisciplinary field that utilizes a machinelearning (ML) algorithm to collect and analyze educational data, aiming to better predict students'performance and retention. In this work-in-progress paper, we plan to report our methodology andpreliminary results from utilizing an ML program to assess students’ motivation
the outcome-based educational framework. She has also incorporated the Content, Assessment, Pedagogy (CAP) model to the development and redesign of courses, laboratories, and educational experiences implemented successfully in the course offerings at UPRM. Another research area includes the incorporation of Responsible well-being in faculty and students (undergraduate and graduate). Through an innovative research-based assessment plan, they determined the levels of moral development achieved by participants. In the past two years, Santiago has incorporated theories on social cognitive career choices and student attrition mitigation to investigate the effectiveness of institutional interventions in increasing the
, sometimes hard,questions that pushed our thinking. The team has strengths in both quantitative and qualitativeapproaches which was important to the focus of our study. We also wanted a team that was goingto nudge us when needed and who we could rely on doing the work in a timely and efficientmanner.Working with the evaluators in this context is similar to the ways we work with external evaluatorson grants or contracts. We defined the focus. Together we developed the study plan and contract.We processed the contract as a “work for hire” contract with procurement with payments due afterconcrete deliverables. The final payment due after the final report is submitted and accepted.Because this was a formative evaluation, we were integrally involved in