Paper ID #43295Pedagogical Changes to a Capstone Course to Foster Refinement of ProfessionalSkillsDr. Corinna Marie Fleischmann P.E., United States Coast Guard Academy Captain Corinna Fleischmann is a licensed Professional Engineer with military, academic and research experience in water resources engineering, environmental engineering, coastal resiliency, construction project management and engineering education. CAPT Fleischmann is a career educator who has been a member of the US Coast Guard Academy (CGA) faculty since 2004. She served as the Department Head of the Civil and Environmental Engineering Program from 2017-2021
]. Decisions under climate change are deeply uncertain, and DMDU approaches havefrequently been applied for long term planning for urban infrastructure [2]–[4]. Decision makersmust plan and take some form of adaptive action (including no action or deferred action) toaddress the impacts of climate change. These actions tend to be informed by complex modelinganalyses, and it is often difficult to communicate the modeling results as well as the advantagesand disadvantages of different actions to stakeholders and decision makers. It is equally if notmore difficult to communicate these concepts to civil and environmental engineering studentswho will be confronted with similar decisions in their future careers. Serious games may offersome solutions to these
– extremely)Post survey items to measure engineering self-efficacy (response options strongly disagree – strongly agree): I will be able to achieve most of the engineering-related goals that I have set for myself When facing difficult tasks within engineering, I am certain that I will accomplish them I believe I can succeed at most any engineering-related endeavor to which I set my mind I am confident that I can perform effectively on many engineering-related tasksPost survey items to measure commitment to engineering (response options): I have no doubt that I will graduate with a degree in engineering (strongly disagree – strongly agree) It is my intention to pursue a career in engineering (strongly disagree – strongly agree
response from higher-level classcontradicts this. Authors should investigate the reason behind this result further.Response to question 4 “ChatGPT should be used for every assignment, occasional assignments,only difficult assignments or problems, no assignment” is shown in Fig 4. As can be seen, thereis a consensus among students about minimum use of ChatGPT for assignments. All theinstructors in our research group allocated the first session of class to emphasize the importanceof learning material in depth and the consequences of relying entirely on AI platforms in relationto future career. Here, a similar trend was observed in the junior-level class with 9.9%, 21.2%,54.5%, and 15.1% responding to these four answers, respectively
even just a few months ago.” “This made me really rethink the way I used food. I was more careful about not buying too much food, especially fruits and vegetables that go bad quickly. I also made sure I was taking leftovers home when going to a restaurant.”Impact of the course was also seen in terms of how the course will affect their future professionalwork, and also how they have started sharing information about the course (specifically on S/CCtopics) with others. For example: “I still hope to build a career for myself in the cosmetics industry, but now I want to go in with the hopes of trying to make a difference in the ingredients and materials used in the products put out.” “My favorite unit in
Paper ID #43159Optimizing Database Query Learning: A Generative AI Approach for SemanticError FeedbackAbdulrahman AlRabah, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Abdulrahman AlRabah is a Master of Science (M.S.) in Computer Science student at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He holds a Graduate Certificate in Computer Science from the same institution and a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from California State University, Northridge. He has experience in various industries and has served in multiple roles throughout his professional career, including in oil and gas and co-founding a food &
furthering the student's abilityto not only recognize other applications of the concepts covered, but to develop the valuableability of connecting concepts and theories across disciplines. A traditional approach may haveyielded more competence in applying the current techniques of compression, encryption, anderror correction. The students might have been more skilled at algorithmic development for theimplementation of a specific encryption scheme, for instance. But that deep knowledge wouldgradually become less useful, as the implementation specifics and schemes evolved over theircareers. Instead this course provided the students, something that would become gradually moreuseful over their careers – to expose them to how basic concepts are
forth by the US government and NASA. The processof reverse engineering the design decisions made in the history-making Project Mercury lays theframework for modern engineers to leverage past knowledge to better understand the potentialsolutions of today’s aerospace challenges. IntroductionThe modern engineer is in a very unique position. There is an enormous amount of knowledgeavailable from past engineering efforts readily available. One hundred plus years of aerospaceknowledge build-up and millions of engineers’ careers can be found in books, internal companydocuments, technical memorandums, design reports, press briefings and others. The concern for Proceedings of the 2013 ASEE
of fostering inclusive, cooperativeenvironments that reduce anxiety and improve skills [21]. Together, these studies support acomprehensive strategy that goes beyond conventional boundaries to address mental health inengineering education and develops students who are resilient, well-rounded, and successful intheir careers. These studies' findings are consistent with the customized interventions, research-based teaching techniques, and community-building initiatives put forth [13][16][19-21].Exemplar Studies: Together, these studies explore the nuanced terrain of mental health amongundergraduate engineering students and social identities. The study conducted in 2021 by Jensenand Cross focuses on self-reported stress, anxiety, depression
cyberinfrastructure (CI) environment. 2. Scientists require increased knowledge and proficiency in team science to conduct transdisciplinary research within a CI environment. 3. There is a decrease in the number of students entering the STEM disciplines. 4. Curricula for existing students require new courses that are built on the principles of team science and methodology for conducting transdisciplinary research within a CI environment. 5. Learning environments must increasingly engage students in STEM disciplines, build awareness of team science and transdisciplinary research within a CI environment, and inspire students to further investigate or pursue a career in these areas. 6. To
Page 22.13.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 in that regard. He served on a committee of the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board to develop a statewide articulation compact for mechanical engineering. He also served on the Texas State Board of Education committee preparing the standards for career and technical education. He is currently serving on the Engineering Education Task Force of the National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying.David Walton Gardner, Ph.D., Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board As Deputy Commissioner for Academic Planning and Policy and Chief Academic Officer, David W. Gardner leads the Coordinating Board’s Planning and
expectations clearer. What is significant tonotice about this trend in comments, however, is that students are acknowledging—thoughperhaps not being totally aware that this is what they experienced—that open-ended project-based learning assignments are full of ambiguity as many other researchers havediscussed.19,20,21,22,23 Engineering student are most comfortable with clear cut formulas that havespecific uses and applications in specific contexts. They are not as comfortable with open-endedand ambiguous assignments, which may make them feel disoriented about how to achievesuccess or how to recognize success. Nevertheless, we believe it is important to expose learnersto open-ended project-based learning earlier in their academic careers to better
and statistical investigations of the significance of theirresults; 7) expose students to how engineering models can be used to address real-worldproblems; 8) prepare students for careers that cross disciplinary boundaries; 9) help students indeveloping teamwork abilities; and 10) promote students interests in science and engineering 3.Individual experimental active-learning hands-on modules Page 22.103.5 All four modules were composed of two parts. The first part was experimental and thesecond part was theoretical focused mainly on mathematical modeling of experimental datacollected in part 1 of the module. A brief description of these
astudents’ undergraduate career, are not fully realized or utilized until after graduation. In manyways, what educators are tasked with is providing students with models of the skills andcompetencies that will be required to continue self-education beyond the end of formalschooling. As educators, we need to provide the “spark”. However, as Mourtos[in 44] has pointedout, the main component of the ABET criteria 3i “…recognition of the need for… lifelonglearning” is not an aspect of the traditional cognitive domain usually focused on in highereducation. Rather, it belongs to the affective domain, not a skill that can easily be “taught” anddirectly assessed, but still vitally important. The second component of 3i “…an ability to engagein lifelong
AC 2011-1370: ALL INNOVATION IS INNOVATION OF SYSTEMS: ANINTEGRATED 3-D MODEL OF INNOVATION COMPETENCIESWilliam D. Schindel, ICTT System Sciences William D. Schindel is president of ICTT System Sciences, a systems engineering company, and devel- oper of the Systematica Methodology for model and pattern-based systems engineering. His 40-year engineering career began in mil/aero systems with IBM Federal Systems, Owego, NY, included ser- vice as a faculty member of Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, and founding of three commercial systems-based enterprises. He has consulted on improvement of engineering processes within automotive, medical/health care, manufacturing, telecommunications, aerospace, and consumer
understanding of subject matter. They found that service-learning is moreeffective over four years and that the messiness inherent in helping solve real community-basedproblems enhances the positive effects (Eyler & Giles, 1999). Astin et al. found with longitudinal data of 22,000 students that service-learning had significantpositive effects on 11 outcome measures: academic performance (GPA, writing skills, criticalthinking skills), values (commitment to activism and to promoting racial understanding), self-efficacy, leadership (leadership activities, self-rated leadership ability, interpersonal skills),choice of a service career, and plans to participate in service after college. In all measures exceptself-efficacy, leadership, and
; Leary7 found that girls liked learning science in a social context where they couldinteract with others and take part in learning experiences that did not isolate them. They alsofound that girls selected science careers because they had a strong desire to help. The AmericanAssociation of University Women Educational Foundation-AAUW8 noted that “Girls and othernontraditional users of computer science – who are not enamored of technology for technology’ssake – may be far more interested in using the technology if they encounter it in the context of adiscipline that interests them” (p. v). In a 20049 report that surveyed Science, Technology,Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) programs which focused on gender equity in thesciences, the AAUW found
program in 2015.Ms. Meghan M. Alexander, Texas A&M University Meghan M. Alexander is the assistant director for Engineering International Programs at Texas A&M University. She has an M.Ed. in Counseling and over 15 years experience in international education and partnerships.Mr. Victor Manuel Camara-Poot, Yucatan Government Ministry of Education A graduate of the Masters in Government and Public Policy by te Universidad Aut´onoma de Yucat´an (UADY) , workink since 2 years ago as Head of the Department of Planning and Strategic Projects at the Department of Higher Education in the Ministry of Education of the Yucatan Government in Mexico . Throughout his career he has worked in entrepreneurial activities
would certainly benefit from formal instructortraining. The granting of a degree (Ph.D. or M.S.) does not automatically bestow teaching skills,especially effective teaching skills. Most professors simply try to emulate observed styleswithout any justification as to the effectiveness of different teaching styles. The lack of formaltraining programs at most universities, and nearly nonexistent programs to provide constructivecriticism from peers relegates most faculty to the very slow process of developing effective (ifthey are lucky and persistent) teaching styles through a long career of trial and error. Add thedemands of research and the priority at many universities of the greater importance of researchover teaching, and it is easy to
build deeper conceptual understanding of disciplinary skills. Theemphasis on building products and implementing processes in real-world contexts gives studentsopportunities to make connections between the technical content they are learning and their professionaland career interests.Standard 6 -- CDIO WorkspacesWorkspaces and laboratories that support and encourage hands-on learning ofproduct and system building, disciplinary knowledge, and social learningDescription: Workspaces and laboratories support the learning of product and system building skillsconcurrently with disciplinary knowledge. They emphasize hands-on learning in which students aredirectly engaged in their own learning, and provide opportunities for social learning, that is
different personnel in the day-to-day research activities, including a number of post-graduate and under-graduate students.This is to be expected given that one of academia’s key aspirations regarding collaborativeventures is the provision of industrially relevant, “real world” research project s for studentsand the exposure of students to industry in preparation for their future careers. A recentreport by the Business-Higher Education Forum (BHEF) 16 in the US has stated that, for thisreason, “graduate students can enhance or impede a collaboration, but they are almostalways used”. However, given that there is considerable evidence in the literature ofsignificant problems arising from fundamental differences between academia and industry, itseems
exposurewill motivate increasingly larger numbers of U.S. students particularly to do an experienceabroad during their undergraduate years. Additionally, as the standards, practices and processes,become more common throughout the world it will make it easier to develop internationalcooperative partnerships, exchange course credits and embark upon distance learning as amodality so as to insure lifelong learning independent of where an individual chooses to pursuetheir career or life. As a result, we see the need for a global experience as early as possible in theeducational program increasing, and the ease with which this can become accomplishedincreasing as well. This hopefully will lead to a time when more then half of the undergraduateengineering