making utilizing theinstrument. Traditionally, engineering curricular approaches to ethics have been case-based orhave centered around lecture and discussions about ethical frameworks. While necessary, suchapproaches can be supplemented by individual assessments of students’ ethical reasoningabilities and reflective activities about the tasks. Specifically, we address curricular interventionsin multidisciplinary project teams focused on real world applications. These interventions Page 23.1350.3leverage the utility of engineering ethical reasoning models and instruments into curricula. Wefocus on the EERI but recognize that similar models and
engagement through working in teams, interactive introduction to engineering fields,hands-on applications, and examples of diversity in engineering, rather than the more traditionalmethod of prescriptive learning. To increase the effectiveness of these approaches, the courseutilized a combination of problem-based learning projects, engineering exemplars, near-peermentoring, and provided a psychologically safe and encouraging environment.Working in TeamsThe course design prioritized the development of student awareness surrounding diversity and itsimpact on team effectiveness. An initial reflective activity encouraged students to examine theiridentities and delve into the multi-faceted nature of diversity. Subsequently, students discussedand
determining the extent to which students’ engagement with Frankensteinwas able to facilitate ethical reflection and professional identity formation. To address thisquestion, the current study begins by situating the class discussion of the novel within thebroader aims and structure of the course; then, it analyzes a series of student written reflectionson moral aspects of the novel and its portrayal of Victor Frankenstein specifically. The analysisorganizes the data into salient themes that emerge from the written reflections illustrated byselections of student writing. The data indicate that students were able to articulate severalethical themes that emerge from the novel’s depiction of Victor Frankenstein’s practice of roguetechno-science and
qualitative case study research design and identifies the successes andchallenges of institutionalizing a successful NSF-funded S-STEM recruitment and retentionprogram. Institutionalization of successful educational programs is a goal of many NSF-fundedprograms. Reflection and critique of the institutionalization of our program will provide criticalinsights for similar programs on planning their institutionalization and contribute to theunderstanding of the institutionalization process, timeline, and effort areas. Throughout a“COVID-interrupted” 7-year period, this NSF-funded S-STEM program implemented research-based student success and retention strategies to serve 90 students and provide scholarshipsupport to 42 students. As programmatic elements
space to support the adoption of evidence-based strategies, transfer of methodologies and tools,critical self-reflection of teaching practices, adoption of improved pedagogy by new instructors,and learning of innovative teaching techniques by more established instructors [3], [4]. Althoughmulti-lecturer courses bring these advantages to students and instructors, they can be difficult toplan, execute, and assess. Some of the challenges reported are consistent messaging, classhousekeeping, overlapping roles, the dominance of one discipline, loss of individual autonomy,and poor logistics [2], [5].This paper discusses a team-taught engineering course for pre-college students. Over the pastfour years, a team of three to five graduate student
student reflections, an assignment which asks students to write about what they havelearned during the semester.Results and DiscussionThe finished adventurers showed that the students used additional manufacturing techniques anddesign know-how to develop more creative finished products (Fig. 1). The instructors observedthat the students were generally more engaged because there was more work to spread among theteam members and more ways to succeed in the obstacle challenge. Figure 1. Whegs and giraffe-themed adventurer attached to remote controlled car.Adding the adventurer increased the number of materials and manufacturing techniques eachteam used. The most popular material was cardboard (82%), followed by plywood (18%) andacrylic (11
write notes covering important material. Students with a kinesthetic learning style learn andgain a better understanding of some problems by experience and practice. For instance,kinesthetic students may benefit most by practicing some lecture material in a hands-on,laboratory setting9. For students who favor visual learning the chemical structures of the reactantmolecules and microscopy results will provide a deeper understanding of the self-assemblyprocess.Another model of learning styles is that proposed by Felder and Silverman7, who lookedspecifically at engineering education. The model contains four scales each of which reflects astudent’s particular element of their learning style. They are: (1) sensory versus intuitivelearners, (2
) connect socially and culturally to engineering; and c) find solutions to theworld’s most pressing societal and technical issues. These experiences will be described with examples of interdisciplinary and design-based teaching at The University Texas at Austin. TheGrand Challenges Scholars’ reflections and survey results will represent ways that they engagedin and responded to international and interdisciplinary engineering education projects.Specifically, the experiences of the design and launch of an enterprise in Ghana will create athick and rich description about interdisciplinary, international, service-learning, andentrepreneurial components of engineering designs framed within the 21st Century EngineeringGrand Challenges. This
universities and industry in 14 countries around the world over thepast three years. These cross-departmental teams of three to five faculty are lead by a facultymember. Prior to departure, the team creates goals which reflect the College’s mission to growand expand international partnerships and opportunities for our faculty and students.As noted in the attached IMPACT “Key Initiatives Criteria,” faculty are encouraged to incorporatethe following into their international visits: - Research Opportunities - Course Credit Compatibility - Faculty & Students Exchanges - Industry Visits - Investigation of Large Group Programs - Experiencing the CultureThe following are examples of the results from
Reflection 5 Students present their AI projects and participate in discussions about the ethical implications of their work.The camp was designed to give a diverse group of students a strongfoundation in several topics. The students participated in a workshop onethics and how it can drive decisions and were given resources on how to formdebate positions and how to tell an effective story. The program included acapstone project that was judged by local IT leaders.Day 1 The group was provided an introduction to AI with respected educatorsleaders in the fieldDay 2 The day focused on the creating ethical frameworks. The facilitator leda workshop on ethics and making decisions along ethical lines. The studentsalso learned
card on EngineeringUnleashed.com,and (5) Upload a minimum of four completed student metacognitive reflection submissions tothe learning management system.2.1.2 Curriculum Development - Training Overview The professional development training followed the backwards curriculum designapproach ([11], a structured approach to curriculum development that ensures student learning isguided toward assessments designed to provide evidence students have mastered the learninggoal or objectives. Participants received peer and facilitator feedback three times throughout theprofessional development program. The Learning Goal was provided to the participants [8]. The purpose of the learninggoal is to articulate how students will be changed as a
ideas, formed teams,worked to identify and address important elements and issues, and presented their project. Thispaper briefly describes the current and planned structure of the Palm GreenLab; describes theStartup Weekend; reports results from participant reflections; and outlines lessons learned andfuture directions. Projects included agricultural products, education software, and electionsoftware. During the weekend, participants completed a Strength - Improvement - Insight (SII)reflection. Strengths focused on teamwork and collaboration, entrepreneurial thinking, andcreativity and problem solving. Improvements focused on teamwork issues and the foodprovided. Insights focused on the value and challenges of teamwork.1. IntroductionPalm
these environments. However,whether LGBTQ students experience self-concept or social fit may determine avoidancebehaviors that may ultimately lead them to abandon a STEM major and their STEM career goals.The disclosure of LGBTQ identity to others then reflects both higher self-concept fit and socialfit in that LGBTQ students can be their “true selves” in STEM environments and have theirLGBTQ identities validated by their peers. The decision to compartmentalize LGBTQ identitieswithin STEM environments reflects social identity threat posed by a lack of self-concept and/orsocial fit. Given what prior research has indicated about the LGBTQ climate in STEM, then,these environments would be expected to pose more social identity threat than many
pre-studyof existing and best practices (activity 1 in figure 1) and on establishing and testing out virtualSTEMlabs (activity 4) as well as on recruiting schools, pre-college engineering institutions andteachers to LabSTEM (activity 5). In early 2022, the iterative process of developing a problem-based and STEM-integrated teaching approach and testing it in practice has commenced(activities 2 and 3).Preliminary findingsAs DBR allows for, and emphasizes the continuous reflection on and adapting to potentials,challenges, and critical issues in practice to improve theories, methods, designs, and practicingawareness and reflexiveness is crucial in all stages of proposing, preparing, facilitating andassessing research and educational designs
, but ratherdue to the unpredictability of the number of projects each semester, the specific needs of thoseprojects, the number of students from each major taking Capstone that particular semester, andthose students preferences regarding the available projects. Potential systemic solutions to these issues all have clear limitations. Removing theability of the students to provide project preferences would likely exacerbate the enumeratedproblems. Requesting that sponsors provide a larger number of potential projects that could beimplemented selectively depending on the distribution of student majors in a given semester is anexcessive burden on sponsors and likely would not reflect their needs regarding potentialimmediacy of solutions
discussion on preparing for multi-campus course development.• Reflect on some best practices for teaching multi-campus courses in an international context.As implemented, learning material for this module is heavily interactive and includes videos andH5P content such as slideshows to promote engagement. Learning activities are structuredaround reflection and role playing, where the student considers the possible variety of learningexperiences available within a multi-campus learning context. By framing benefits andchallenges early in the course, participants are provided motivation to approach the rest of themodules through a very practical lens.C.3. Module 2: Multi-campus instructional frameworkThis is an asynchronous module and is the last module
accounting of how the experience generated by thecrossroads that the program creates, share how they are served by the program. The experiencesgenerated between the professional interdisciplinarity, the approach to infrastructure’ssustainability, and the concept of resiliency have impacted the experience of servingness forstudents in the program. This paper presents students’ reflections on the contribution of RISE-UP in students’ development of the following non-academic outcomes of servingness:leadership identity, critical consciousness, research and graduate school aspirations and civicengagement.2. Methods and Results.The methodology selected for this study is based on case studies. Case studies can be used togain insight on in-depth personal
Latino/a/x teachers. The research teamcoached teachers to create and adapt engineering lessons for their students, which included a highpercentage of students classified as ELs. Together we created a community of practice that fosteredconfianza (trust) [9] and colaboración (collaboration) where teachers could share and have access toexpertise from member of the community of practice, and facilitated through both formal and informalinteractions. These strategies were intended to serve as a resource for collaborative reflection anddeeper learning of and about engineering and funds of knowledge. Three researchers with expertise inengineering, bilingual education and learning sciences facilitated the coaching sessions whereworkshops, monthly
thinking and reasoning. To be effective problem-solvers, students mustunderstand the relationship between the MKT, SRC and SRM throughout the problem-solving activities.Four research questions will guide the research: (1) How do students perceive their self-regulation ofcognition (SRC) and motivation (SRM) skills for generic problem-solving activities in EM courses; (2) Howdoes students’ metacognitive knowledge about problem-solving tasks (MKT) inform their Taskinterpretation?; (3) How do students’ SRC and SRM dynamically evolve?; and (4) How do students’ SRCand SRM reflect their perceptions of self-regulation of cognition and motivation for generic EM problem-solving activities?A sequential mixed-methods research design involving quantitative and
. • Developed Separate evaluation instrument for each focus area. • Conducted several evaluations site visits.Faculty involved: Seven (7)ResultsIn this project, faculty peer observation was conducted in two groups, with one group focusing onthe flipped classroom model and the other on lecture-based teaching method. Both groups startedby developing a peer observation instrument that was specific to their teaching modality. The maincontent for these two instruments is shown below in table 1. This instrument was used to gatherfeedback from peers on various aspects of teaching, including course design, classroommanagement, and student engagement. The results of the evaluation showed that the peerobservation process encouraged instructors to reflect on
programming constructs, (2) facilitatingcollaborative learning, and (3) implementing pedagogical strategies for differentiation. Thesethree practices are not novel; in fact, they are supported by extensive research in computingeducation and cognitive science [7, 8, 9, 10]. We provide reflections on strategies to adapt thesepractices to support instructors in resource-constrained settings in enabling computing for all.MethodologyThe approach discussed in the paper is exploratory and incremental. The first author, who alsoteaches an introductory programming course, observed that towards the end of the semester, manystudents who completed his introductory programming course voiced uncertainty regardingvarious concepts covered in the class. The
objectives of the module 0% Lesson Theory-focused passive content with 10% automatically graded quizzes at the end of the content. Emulate Long-form video showing worked 20% example problems using a think-aloud protocol. Students are required to submit the emulated problem solution. Activity Akin to traditional homework, these are 30% new problems that can be solved using the tools and techniques shown in the emulate and lesson content. Reflection Self-reflective survey about the students’ 3% learning. Next Steps Project mini-milestones aimed at
, sophomore laboratory course?IntroductionThis work-in-progress study assesses the impact of reflective practices, including peer reviewusing a co-created rubric, on written assignments in a sophomore-level, biomedical engineeringlaboratory course. As an introduction to experimentation, the course covers the statistical designof experiments and the quantification of measurement data quality. Topics include problem-solving skills, scientific writing, and hypothesis generation amongst other research-related topics.Evidence-based pedagogy used in the course includes standards-based grading and reflection.This study is motivated by work demonstrating the inclusive and effective nature of peer review,co-created rubrics, and standards-based grading. An
entrepreneurial-mindedlearning (EML) with DEI efforts through the design prompt. It is beneficial to make connectionsfrom historical designs to inspire novel approaches to design opportunities. Reflecting onindividual’s unique designs and their individual influences from historical approaches can bringawareness. It can be difficult to initiate conversations around DEI, especially in engineering designclassrooms. The incorporation of DEI in this DfAM workshop helps to naturally coach students toengage in an inclusive classroom environment where they feel an increased sense of belongingand become more socially aware of others differing cultures by talking about one’s own uniquebackground with classmates. This workshop spearheads discussions on diversity
equipping faculty with the knowledge and skills necessary to create such opportunities. This work is integrated with Dr. Zastavker’s efforts to understand the ways in which such environments may be sup- ported by critically reflective practices and how these environments serve to induct engineering students into educational careers. One of the founding faculty at Olin College, Dr. Zastavker has been engaged in development and imple- mentation of project-based experiences in fields ranging from science to engineering and design to social sciences. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Lessons Learned doing Secondary Data Analysis in Engineering
layers, to calculate contrast of reflected light betweenregions with a crystal and without. The equation was noted to be easily derived to fit multiplelayers of incidence stacked on top of one another by changing electric field (E) equations withmatrix forms. We begin from matching the E-field above and below each interface:𝐸𝑛 = 𝐸𝑖𝑛 + 𝐸𝑟𝑛 = 𝐸𝑡𝑛 + 𝐸′𝑟(𝑛+1) ,where n represents the layer count, i indicates E-field from an incident ray, r from a reflected ray,and t from a transmitted ray. The prime indicates a phase shift across the thickness of the layer.The light’s magnetic fields (H) are described in the terms of electric fields in the form: 𝜖𝐻𝑛 = √𝜇0 (𝐸𝑖𝑛 − 𝐸𝑟𝑛 )𝑛𝑛−1 𝑐𝑜𝑠𝜃𝑖𝑛 , 0where nn is the
from historicaland cultural perspective. This research first analyzes the origins of entrepreneurial culture inhigher engineering education; secondly, explores the influences of entrepreneurial culture inhigher engineering education; finally, analyzes the implications of entrepreneurial culture inhigher engineering education based on a cultural perspective, especially in the culturalecology of Chinese mainland. This research preliminarily shows that the practice ofengineering entrepreneurship education within colleges and universities in Chinese mainlandurgently seeks rational reflection on the inheritance of traditional culture, the valuesexcavation of traditional business culture, the value recognition of entrepreneurship education,and
) understand specifications of commercially availableparts and use them to create a system – “obstacle avoiding robot” and v) create a robot or asubsystem. In addition, the course envisaged that students develop lesson plans in order toengage in mentoring of middle school students based on the understanding of their educationalbackground, write a weekly reflection report and make improvements on the delivery of lessonplan and help mentees build a finished product – an obstacle avoiding robot, from thecommercially available parts. Topics covered in the course included – Microcontrollers, Programing, Digital I/O,Encoders, Infrared sensor, Ultrasonic sensor, LIDAR, Gyroscope, Accelerometer,Magnetometer, Wireless interface to microcontroller, RC
of the Center for Educational Networks and Impacts at the Institute for Creativity, Arts, and Technology (ICAT). Her research interests include interdisciplinary collaboration, design education, communication studies, identity theory and reflective practice. Projects supported by the National Science Foundation include exploring disciplines as cultures, liberatory maker spaces, and a RED grant to increase pathways in ECE for the professional formation of engineers.Dr. David Gray, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Dr. Gray receieved his B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Virginia Tech in 2000. He then earned a M.S. and a Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from Virginia Tech in
meeting with teammates.At the beginning of ERT, students delivered team products through traditional written formats ofWord and Google Docs. Holding onto what had worked well in the past, it appeared thatcompleting team-based work was limited with reliance on “cut-and-paste” methods.New tools that reflected a virtual environment were needed to shift the focus to collaborativelearning. In a just-in-time fashion, faculty learned and utilized tools such as JamBoard [5] andMural [6]. These tools provided platforms for students to discuss, learn from each other, and stillproduce a product. They also allowed the faculty to see students’ collaborative processes, whilestill having a finished product to assess with rubric criteria.Students, used to face