of talking about this familiar experience. (p.214)Our project provided senior engineers with a systematic way of talking about “this familiarexperience,” by prompting them to describe two memorable events (a proud moment and astruggle) and reflect on how each of these experiences shaped their leadership development.Bennis and Thomas [32] have coined a phrase to characterize this type of powerful catalyst forleadership development—“leadership crucibles” (p.39). After analyzing interviews with 40business leaders, they learned that regardless of age or stage, all participants had lived through“intense, often traumatic, experiences that transformed them and became the source of theirdistinctive leadership abilities” (p.39). By focusing on “proud
limitations of the self-efficacy construct have been identified. Onesuch is a critique that the construct serves more as a reflection of motivation rather than adeterminant and therefore researchers should endeavor to understand the various sources of self-efficacy in greater depth in order to interpret its meaning [5]. These insights motivate a deeperinvestigation into the relevance of self-efficacy in this context.Our students’ transformation as they undergo design-build experiences is likely multi-faceted. Aseeming increase in confidence, ergo self-efficacy, stood out in the lead author’s initialobservations. Through reflection and discussion with colleagues at the university, two otherpossible experiences emerge for investigation. Students may be
thecomplexity of the teaching responsibilities that is prescribed by the difficulty of disciplinarycontent, the role of technology in the content, and the objectives of the engineering programs thatnow include acquiring soft skills, such as collaboration and communication, in addition to theknowledge of the engineering content. Research studies have shown that semester-long courses(16 weeks) are the most effective formats for preparing GTAs to teach in engineering and computerscience [7]. Nevertheless, for these courses to be effective, they must offer GTAs opportunities tolearn, apply, and reflect on different teaching practices so they develop competencies associatedwith the TPACK domains. In this study, an existing semester-long teaching and
[35], life sciences [36], engineering [37], and computer scienceteacher education [38]. Through the implementation of these pedagogies in the leadership course, the instructorssought to develop in CS students an awareness of the impact of technological advances insociety, an increase in confidence, and a sense of empowerment in their ability to handle conflictin a positive manner as they develop into future computing professionals. The pilot leadershipcourse integrated cooperative principles in all classroom activities, in particular, the purposefuland intentional development of skills for leadership. Komives et al. [3] argue the importance ofthese skills for leadership, especially perspective-taking, communication, reflection
not calculate the centroid. Both made reference to not using this skill in other courses and typically dealing with simple shapes (i.e. squares and rectangles) or using tabulated values of centroids. Neither had “prepped” for this topic in the statics course yet. Solution Evaluation & Do participants reflect Relatively few students reflected on any of their work Sense-Making on their work as they as they progressed through the problem. Only two solve the problem? students were
,2) classroom observations and reflections with teachers, and 3) analysis of student justificationsmade during the comparative sessions. All together, these activities have prepared us forprogress in the next phase of investigation about the efficacy of learning by evaluating. Theory of Action: Why LbE? Building on our pilot work with students, our theory of action is that the experience ofcomparing example work 1) meaningfully supports students’ design thinking mindset (helpingstudents think like designers), 2) critical thinking and reasoning (helping students to make andexplain decisions), and 3) ultimately their design performance (as students apply their thinking).These three variables are critical
teaching styles tend to rely on thedissemination of fundamental concepts in a lecture-style format with limited learner stimulation,active and experiential learning approaches prioritize both learner engagement and reflectionthroughout and often include lesson contextualization [9], [10].Although sometimes used synonymously, active learning and experiential learning are twoseparate pillars in modern education. The most widely accepted and cited definition of activelearning is provided by Bonwell and Eison in 1991 as: “Involving students in doing things andthinking about what they are doing [6].” Millis further elaborates on this definition and adds thatit often involves reflection and doing or taking action, and often uses cooperative
the classroom and what beliefs they specifically draw upon to create instructional movesfor more equitable spaces. Fifty written reflections were analyzed from LAs from twoinstitutions who taught various STEM courses, including: chemical engineering, biologicalengineering, mechanical engineering, environmental engineering, chemistry, and biology. Thesereflections detail their thoughts about a chapter in Ilana Horn’s book [7], which discusses what itmeans to be “smart” in a mathematics classroom and ways to create instructional moves thatpromote more equitable learning environments and mitigate status differences. The concept ofsocial status was originally defined by Max Weber as cultural capital or otherwise described associetal values [8
it well worth the effort. The opennessof project topics has led to student creativity and expression in class projects, including theembracing of their unique identities and exploration of more advanced materials under instructorguidance. Projects that address a gender-specific, interest-specific, or queer concern also letstudents (the project makers and their classmates alike) understand that computing applies inmany disparate domains and there is great value to a diversity of voices in technology. Thispaper describes the approach, general project design outline, the ethical reflection embedded inthe project, and experiences from several years of teaching (since Fall 2017). A list of studentprojects with brief descriptions is included so
from a Critical Feminist lens. Kinzie[1] reflected on their personally discouraging experience with science in college and theorized tounderstand inequities in women’s participation with four pathways: ‘nevers,’ ‘departers,’‘joiners,’ and ‘persisters.’ [13] examined STEM mentoring programs in their meta-analysis usinga Critical Feminist approach. Gender, oppression/patriarchy, challenges within institutions, andsystemic challenges were identified as obstacles for girls and women in STEM and the authorscritiqued STEM mentoring programs failed to address concerns for individuals who do not fitinto the binary gender category and the intersectional oppressions. There are many cases wherethe authors apply a Critical Feminist lens without explicitly
].Indeed, education researchers advocate for integrating HCD in higher education curricula [14],[7]. When using an HCD approach, designers focus on the human elements in the project andimplement processes such as exploring, empathizing, reflecting, brainstorming, and iterating toidentify and connect with stakeholders, generate ideas, and create and test prototypes of solutions[10], [11]. Within HCD, solutions may be products, services, experiences, or changes. Authors[15] visualized the HCD process as consisting of five spaces and 20 processes (Fig. 1).Figure 1: The human-centered design spaces and processesMerging Engineering Design and HCD: The Conception of Human-Centered EngineeringDesign FrameworkIn this paper, we argue that it is important
electronic displays in student common areas. In thiscourse, interdisciplinary engineering students will work with non-engineering students inmultidisciplinary teams on case studies and projects to learn to identify and apply underst andingof social attributes to engineering problems. Course activities will include lecture to introducesocial and emotional competencies and the principles of user-centered design, case studies tofacilitate discussion of the impact of social attributes on engineering projects in a multicultural andglobal context, and projects using multidisciplinary teams to work with small scale engineerprojects, applying a user-centered design framework. Students will journal to support reflection onsocial and emotional competencies
of debuggingand fixing errors in the code. Finally, looking back or reviewing is when one reflects on the finalproduct, thinking metacognitively about the entire process to improve upon the steps taken forfuture problems.General coding mistakes is one of the large barriers to success for students with no programmingexperience. Prior studies exploring student problem solving primarily focused on students’coding, debugging, and errors. These studies show that most errors can be categorized into ahandful of common errors that students with no prior experience make [9], [10], [11]. Focusingon these errors to find better ways to prevent students from making them is an importantendeavor. However, these errors do not solely come from coding itself
pre-calculus in Fall 2022 (so failed to place into Calculus1 or higher) and did not have strong participation in the course or completion of basic reflections,homework, or lab assignments. At the end of the semester, the students who earned a D or F in thecourse had a lower engineering identity, feelings of belonging at the university, and feelings ofbelonging in the course in comparison to students who earned an A, B, or C in the course. Theresults indicate that in the local context there is still further work needed to best support the needsof students with respect to their math skills as they transition into college.INTRODUCTIONMuch has been written about the challenges that many college students encounter with math, andthat math is
gatherfeedback from a real audience to support their design proposals. This supplied a goal andpurpose for the activity and was a leading factor in exploration. To support promoting the EM inthe activity, students focused on providing a solution to a real-world problem and proposing amarket-driven solution based on research and product analysis. Proposals were also required tointegrate Bio-inspired components in their designs and use media artworks to reflect purpose andaudience in the final product.Over six weeks, students were introduced to several system design components. A preliminaryanalysis of results indicated that the hands-on experience facilitated higher-order reasoning andallowed the students to think systematically about the feasibility and
theimportance of interdisciplinarity in sustainable solutions that align with the SDGs. The resultssuggest that interdisciplinary designs boost sustainability in multiple SDGs through the samesolutions, making interdisciplinary design more efficient and with higher impact to the world.The authors reflect on the future steps that educational institutions could take to form newpedagogical approaches that highlight interdisciplinarity within engineering schools.Implications for research and practice are provided.IntroductionToday’s world faces complex problems such as environmental, social, and economic challenges.In response, many organizations and interdisciplinary teams have shifted their focus towardsustainable design. The Sustainable Development
framework has involved the role of theresearcher, including both teacher librarians [12] and qualitative researchers [13], and stories ofpreservice teachers [14], adult learners [15], and women returning to education [16].This study responds to the lack of research on engineering leavers [17] as well as the gap in thedocumentation of women’s stories globally [4], by analyzing and re-telling the story of a womanwho tried engineering and left, but who nonetheless reflects heroism. She reported experiencingan apotheosis, or period of catharsis, which she took the time to share with us during her last dayin Dublin, before her flight home.The analysis reported in this paper applies and further tests a multi-part methodologicalframework for analyzing
Alignment Model,In this paper, the authors attempted to investigate current engineering entrepreneurship educationthrough the lens of Constructive Alignment. We want to understand if this framework can capturethe nuts and bolts of the abovementioned diverse entrepreneurship education program designs. Theauthors proposed a modified model for the existing constructive alignment model to reflect thefeedback we received from the field.2. Methodology2.1 Data SourceTo obtain a comprehensive view of Canadian entrepreneurship education, we accessed the list ofdesignated educational institutions from the Canadian Federal government’s web tool provided byEmployment and Social Development Canada. We limited the scope of the project to educationalinstitutions
[2,3] showed that students have high self-reported IL skills but are in factlacking in their academic ability; finding, evaluating, citing, and synthesizing information.Providing a way to link IL to the field makes it more relevant and worthwhile for students. Thisalso is a way to support students in the development of their writing skills in a supportive,content-related way.ObjectivesLearning objectives for the collaboration between the engineering faculty and librarian includedteaching the first-year engineering students information literacy skills; the set of integratedabilities encompassing the reflective discovery of information, the understanding of howinformation is produced and valued, and the use of information in creating new
specific place where students are personallyattached and live within the context [8], [14]. Many underrepresented students encounterdisconnects between formal instruction and their home experiences as the content often used inclassrooms does not reflect their community-based experiences. PBE addresses this challenge asit seeks to overcome this dissonance by leveraging learning from local surroundings [14]. InPBE, students are provided opportunities to explore local environments, phenomena, history, andeconomy in place. Teachers in rural school settings can use these place-based elements to createa meaningful STEM learning context for underserved populations [9], [10], [8]. The impact ofimplementing PBE in STEM activities can be powerful. Unique
development, grant proposal reviewIntroductionIt can be both thrilling and scary to receive an invitation to review on a National ScienceFoundation (NSF) panel. Conventional wisdom is that it is good for us; we know we will learnabout the differences between good and bad proposals, and developing a relationship with aprogram officer or two can’t be a bad thing. And then what? Logging into Fastlane and figuringout the process for submitting a proposal review is one part, and tutorials can help with that.Constructing a review that shows our understanding of the field, reflects an understanding of theproposed work, and provides useful feedback to both the principal investigator (PI) and theprogram officer is another part. If this were a journal article
changes to the product backlog to reflect the refinements to theapplication functionality identified by the research team. A sprint retrospective conducted onlyby the development team typically followed, where the team discussed the lessons learned duringthat sprint.Throughout the project, we used a number of technologies and tools to support the cohort’sprogress. Slack was used for all aspects of team communication. Trello was used for high-levelproject planning and interacting with the product owner, while GitHub Projects was used fortracking software development progress.The last meeting of this class concluded each semester with a project retrospective, during whichthe cohort reflected on what went well, what didn’t, and how students can
. Theprojects and the deep collaboration with the entrepreneurs make the experience authentic. Thestudents also see the relevance of their input towards their professional formation and the growthof the entrepreneurs and their startup companies. Another principle of experiential learning is thestudent’s ability to connect their experience to their professional formation through reflection [5,6].The students submit weekly reflection papers about what they have learned about innovation andentrepreneurship. They do this by reflecting on their interactions with industrial speakers andtheir experiences from their projects, as well as the book they read. The projects also makelearning active. This principle of experiential learning helps to “fully engage” [5
around the globe, economically,culturally, socially, and ethically. In the present project, we have launched and have begundevelopment of a web platform open to the world that focuses on economic, ethical, andcommunity issues in global oil production. Development of the web platform, titled PetroleumEngineer, is modeled on the highly successful web platform for students’ reactions toengineering ethics, the Ethical Engineer: https://EthicalEngineer.ttu.edu. The PetroleumEngineer website is being developed through a required undergraduate course in the PE major.The primary materials for the Petroleum Engineer website are petroleum engineering casestudies, approximately 1000 words in length. Students read and reflect on a case study, post acomment
and about STEM.We identified that empowering and establishing rapport with teachers was important for creatingopportunities for teachers to reflect on their teaching practices. The teachers sought to createSTEM learning opportunities that explicitly drew on students’ funds of knowledge, specificallytheir home language practices (including translanguaging) and border-crossing experiences. Theproject also allowed teachers to create materials that could result in a sustained and equitablechange in the educational experiences of working-class Latino/a/x in STEM learning. Finally,students constantly created ways to represent their identities and ways of being through theengineering activities, and reflected on the impacts of engineering design in
and thus effective teamwork?InterventionWe have adopted several modules of the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Tools for Teamwork:Asset Mapping and Team Processing Handbook [11] to introduce students to important teamconcepts. Prior to forming groups and as part of the Handbook, students are asked to reflect ontheir identities, strengths, communication and conflict styles. As part of this, they complete aseries of self-assessments [12] and generate an asset map where they give thought to how theirlife experiences, not only educational experiences, will benefit a team. For an example of whatan asset map looks like, see examples in [4], [13]. Further, students read several articleshighlighting diversity and engineering and write a short
incorporated in the training of new chemical engineers: • Communication: This is an interpersonal behavior. It means speaking up and promoting discussions that incorporate multiple perspectives and heighten individual knowledge. • Collaboration: This requires cooperation, mutual respect, effective feedback, and common goals within the team. • Experimentation: This aspect is related to the independence created by uncertainty; it required teams that assess and learn from their actions. • Reflection: Teams need to be critical of their results and they need to be ready to implement the changes necessary for their improvement.We propose this model fits best the current needs of chemical engineering students as theconcept and
,foliage), and navigation processes (i.e. changing user viewpoint and maneuvering around site);and bringing all of these elements together into a working system prototype. The students wereprovided with mentorship from two faculty members of the San Francisco State University, onefrom Computer Science department and the other one from Civil/Structural Engineeringdepartment), along with feedback from the SEAONC DES committee to advance their work.This support system provided them the necessary technical support while providing expertise inthe context of the application.3. ResultsNote: The following reflects the experience of the student participants reported as co-authors tothis paper.Pre-Assessment: Reflecting on the computer science curriculum
reported their confidence in each answer both pre- and post-comicon a 1-4 Likert scale. In all cases, average student confidence increased with the second time they answeredthe ConcepTest questions as presented in Table 6, which would again reflect the general self-reportedimprovement in confidence as measured in the additional survey questions. The greatest confidence bothpre- and post-comic were expressed by students who answered correctly pre-comic and then stayed withtheir same correct answer. The lowest confidence were expressed by students who were incorrect pre-comic and changed their answer to another incorrect option.Table 6. Average student reported confidence in their ConcepTest answers from pre-comic to post-comic,for each combination
1understanding (or the lack thereof) of a science concept, using a rubric to identify strengths andweaknesses in one's persuasive essay, writing reflective journal entries, and so on” .So, what is self-assessment? Two key definitions of self-assessment that guided this study werethose of Brown and Harris [5] and Panadero et. al [6]. Brown and Harris [5] defined self-assessment as a “descriptive and evaluative act carried out by the student concerning his or herown work and academic abilities”. Panadero et. al [6] went a step further to include themechanisms and techniques involved in performing the self-assessment work. They defined self-assessment as a “wide variety of mechanisms and techniques through which students describe(i.e., assess) and possibly