arealso able to relate with industrial partners more easily. They “talk their language” and cantherefore help forge additional bonds with industry. Examples of these alliances along with howstudents and employers have responded to the curriculum changes are also explored. Studentshave indicated that as a result of including these real world engineering experiences in thecurriculum they became more job ready and were actually receiving job offers as a result. Finallythe paper will present the authors reflections for the future and how they intend to stay in touchand keep the pulse of a changing industrial landscape.IntroductionGraduates of engineering programs today are expected to be productive from their first day onthe job. This implies a very
principles introduced in the TSW. Over a period ofweeks the adjuncts plan a lesson, which is then demonstrated in the real world classroom. Thisphase emphasizes reflective practice and culminates with a reflective paper written by theadjunct faculty member. Teaching in the Community College introduces participants to broaderteaching topics that go beyond the planning of an individual lesson. These topics affect theplanning of an entire course or propose the introduction of an entirely new approach or teachingpractice throughout a course. Each of these three will be described in greater detail below.The Teaching Skills Workshop is based on “microteaching” practices used nationally.Microteaching essentially requires teachers to teach 15-minute lessons
, and advocate for a holistic consciousnessof the factors that many underrepresented students face in engineering.Critical TheoriesAccording to Horkheimer21, there is a distinction between traditional and critical theory.Traditional theory seeks to only understand or describe society, while critical theory seeks tocritique and change society as a whole. Critical theory recognizes the complexity of socialprocesses and its main task is “to reflect upon the structures from which social realities and thetheories that seek to explain it are constructed” (p. 139).22 Although critical theory originated inthe Frankfurt School with a focus on a criticism of modern social structures,22 critical theoryprevails in other fields such as sociology and
in structural engineering.In response to these challenges, there is a growing sense that the structural engineering disciplinemust transform itself in order to preserve its viability as a professional entity. As evidenced byarticles in recent publications and initiatives, this need for transformation is being manifested in: calls for substantial increases in the technical structural engineering coursework offered by university engineering programs;2,3 a growing consensus that a master’s degree is required for structural engineering practice in all but the smallest firms;1 and strong advocacy for structural engineering licensure.4,5,6Although these various calls for change reflect a broad and growing consensus
the culture of their home campus. Students alsoutilized digital portfolios in the course to complete reflections on class content related to eachGrand Challenge theme area. It should be noted that, ASU operates a well-established NAEGrand Challenge Scholars Program that enrols more than 100 students every year. Throughthe knowledge transfer initialized by the joint course, UNSW aims to gradually launch itsown Grand Challenges for Engineering program locally in Australia.This work provides information about the course and describes the outcomes of the course asrelated to the students’ experience, instructor’s experience, and comparison to other courses.Formal assessment of course effectiveness was not completed in this pilot effort. To
; this approach can be problematic as the examplesshown are not universal. In trying to solve problems by relating them to a few fundamental cases,the students sacrifice adaptability, and in turn forgo critical thinking.The aim of this paper is to demonstrate a means of building intuition in students throughexperiential learning, so that they can have a gut feeling for how the system works. Experientiallearning is often referred to as ”learning through reflection on doing” 1 . Felder and Silverman 2state that “babies do not come into life with a set of general principles, but rather observe theworld and define inferences”.The learning models of Kurt Lewin 3 , John Dewey 3 , Jean Piaget 3,6 , as well as Benjamin Bloom’sTaxonomy 4,5 , will assist
Sky’s the Limit: Drones for Social Good courseincludes critical aspects that relate to multiple engineering disciplines, which allows students toidentify the connections between drones and their particular engineering concentration. Thecourse is also multi-disciplinary and encourages critical social reflection. Students consider abroad range of applications of drones with the goal of promoting social good. The courseculminates in an entrepreneurial project that incorporates knowledge and skills from severalengineering disciplines in the context of engineering for social good.Research has found that female, Black, and/or Latinx engineering students are drawn to pursuingcareers that they identify as promoting social justice and a greater social
teacher then tried literacy instruction and debriefed themwith the coach, with an emphasis on iterative improvement after reflection and with anemphasis on building collaborative relationships.Data for this study included observations, conducted periodically throughout the school year,as well as monthly interviews with each teacher regarding their perceptions and practices ofliteracy instruction. Two researchers analyzed the data using inductive constant comparativeanalytic methods. Specifically, they inductively developed codes from the interviews, such ascodes related to the teacher’s perception of literacy. The research team then inductivelydeveloped codes from the teachers’ literacy instruction. The research team then compared thecodes from
(the final course) can be found in Table 1, reflecting averages across all semestersthat these courses have been offered. Relative to students taking other courses in the College ofEngineering, a higher percentage of Applied Computing students are female andunderrepresented minorities (Engineering: 19% female, 22% URM) [10]. The most popularmajor among Applied Computing students is Psychology, followed by Economics and lesscommon majors such as Sociology, Behavioral Science, Communication Studies, and Business.Additionally, the majority of Applied Computing students have limited or no programmingexperience prior to enrolling in the minor. Via an informal survey given at the beginning ofENGR 120, 68.4% of students report no programming
. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Reflecting on #EngineersShowUp: Outcomes and Lessons from Organizing a Campaign among Engineering EducatorsAbstractIn an open dialogue format, participants and organizers of #EngineersShowUp report on theorganizing work, actions, discourse, and reflections emerging from an NSF-funded week ofaction campaign that occurred from February 23rd - 29th, 2020. Participants helping to organizeand take part included students, faculty, administrators, postdoctoral researchers and othersconnected to the world of engineering education. The intention of this week of action (directlyfollowing E-Week) was three fold. First, we aimed to test approaches from social movementsand assess
includedmodeling and doing orthographic drawings. Moreover, Demirbas¸et al. [4] concluded thatvarious types of learning were effective on the performance scores of students in different stagesof a design problem through the studio process and that there is a shift from the learning thattakes place by experiencing and learning by doing, to learning by reflecting and learning bythinking. Therefore, in producing these two major design projects in the Architectural Designcourse, specifically the students’ own individual designs, the students would have to draw fromtheir learning experiences from their construction and design related courses where applicable.The aforementioned process would necessarily be valid as Oxman [5] notes that ArchitecturalDesign
AbstractBroadly stated, accountability for a regional university is value created versus cost.Value reflects social and economic needs of the community, state, and region. Cost ofcreating value is cost of implementation strategies to achieve institutional goals. The state’shigher education coordinating board, a university board, and faculty senate are proxiesfor engaging community, state, and regional stakeholders in institutional accountability.Complex endogenous and exogenous challenges require an effective means for allocatingresources within the organization, monitoring effectiveness of institutional strategies, and, asnecessary, adapting strategies to ensure institutional accountability.This paper examines these issues and recommends an
context. Particularly, professional skills such as communication and cultural andglobal adaptability enable future professionals to work on transnational teams.Working effectively with multicultural teams is becoming more relevant. While it is clear thatengineering and construction education has made some change to preparing future professionalsfor working in these complex teams, much more progress toward preparing students as holisticprofessionals is needed [4] to work in an increasingly globalized economies. Students must betaught in such a way that develops not just technical skills, such as math, but also professionalskills, such as creativity and reflection. The National Academy of Engineering suggests thatsignificant opportunities will
peers on anengineering design project.6-8 Yet, there is a gap in the literature about how that communicationis perceived by the students themselves. Little is known about middle school designers’perspectives on their own communication challenges or their perspectives on peers’communication challenges. Further, few studies report on interventions aimed at improvingyoung students’ ability to negotiate communication challenges during collaborative designsessions.In previous analysis of students’ self-reported data related to communication challenges duringengineering design teams, we found that middle school designers grew in their metacognitiveawareness of their group’s communication patterns across an engineering design-reflect-designprocedure
mechanical,electrical, or industrial engineering degrees. Upon further explanation, the alumni clarified thatwhat they meant by this statement was that they did not use their disciplinary expertise. Theydid, however, emphasize the ways that the abilities they acquired in their engineering education-- namely technical problem solving, critical thinking, communication, and teamwork -- werewhat allowed them to succeed as engineers. To the surprise of our current students, the panelistsall agreed that one of the most useful classes they took was public speaking. Recognizing theneed for a broad curriculum that reflects the diversity of skills engineers require, including thosewithin the liberal arts, we have started a new major in General Engineering. In
-directedlearning towards problem-solving. Throughout the problem-solving process, IRE students areengaged with purposefully designed metacognitive reflection activities. The reflection activitiesinclude writing memos centered on their learning and problem-solving strategies utilized whilethe projects are ongoing to completion, and when completed, they write on the processes thathave gone into the projects, including what went well or what could have gone better. Thesewritten memos serve as metacognitive tools [3] that help students to monitor and control theirthinking in the process of attaining desired outcomes—both critical components ofmetacognitive procedural knowledge—and to take stock of what they have learned to helptransfer their newly gained
, complexity, and context [4, 7]. 2 Knowledge of strategies encompasses general learning and problem-solving strategies, as well astask specific strategies [4, 8].Within metacognitive regulation, our framework focuses on planning, monitoring, controlling,and evaluating. Metacognitive planning involves integrating the elements of metacognitionfocused on a specific task, setting task goals, sub-dividing more complex tasks, and predictingtask outcomes [8, 9]. Monitoring and control are necessarily linked activities. Monitoring isbeing reflective during a task, keeping track of progress, how things are going, and if selectedstrategies are working [8, 10
student experience3 and favors learning styles that are intuitive, verbal, reflective,and sequential, as defined by the Felder-Soloman Index of Learning Styles (ILS). Felder andBrent point out the futility of trying to tailor instruction individually4 and Alghasham posited thateducational planners desiring to enhance teamwork should group students of mixed learningstyles.5-7 A balanced pedagogy blending learning styles will challenge students to step outsidetheir comfort zone to “stretch and grow.”3 This allows those that favor the opposite end of thelearning style spectrum, sensory, visual, active, and global, to benefit from the proposedpedagogy. Through the approach presented, new graduates will have a better chance to apply anappropriate
Pedagogically-trained LAs Chemistry 5 2628 Pre-post assessment by topic Fall 2014 Concept Warehouse; Cooperative learning studio; Engineering 4 1389 Reflection Mathematics 1 70 Clickers; Treisman Excel Studio Physics 1 398 Clickers; SCALE-UP studio Integrative POGIL; Clickers; Inquiry-based laboratories; 4 1933 Biology Pedagogically
AR raised students’ interest whichincreased the majority of participants learning of science concepts. Still, the majority of currentAR literature reflects the prior point: researchers’ attempts to evaluate and measure studentlearning in AR applications has little basis in learning science or educational literature. Webelieve our guide will add to the literature by designing AR applications within the situatedlearning environment.Situated LearningSituated learning theory is based in the situative conceptual framework and examines howlearners gain knowledge through social contexts and interactions with materials and people.When discussing theory, it is important to understand the nature of knowing and consequentlywhat signifies learning and
leadership and teamwork11.Developmental bibliotherapy (guided reading) is a tool that uses fictional written stories to helpdevelop social, emotional, or psychological growth at all levels of development12-13. In 1949,Shrodes identified four stages of developmental bibliotherapy: 1) identification - where thereader identifies with a character in a story; 2) catharsis - when a reader is able to experience theemotions of the character of the story; 3) insight – a deeper understanding which is achievedthrough reflection on the identification that the reader makes with the characters and situations ofthe story; and 4) universalization - when a reader is able to apply the insights the reader hasgained through reflection to situations they encounter in
well as the affordances andconstraints of various technological learning tools were evaluated. As a result, a variety of technology learning tools based on research associated with active andcollaborative learning (e.g., Logisim, Chipcast, circuit testing equipment, Arduinomicrocontroller) and the inverted/flipped classroom techniques (e.g., video preview of classes,pre-class quiz, team-based hands-on activities, brief reflections, discussions on cutting-edgeresearch and innovations) were introduced into the course. Further, overall structure and offeringof the course had to be flipped as to encompass several aspects in the domains of technology,pedagogy, and content knowledge as presented in Figure 1.3. Course Implementation The course was
oninterpersonal skills showing the strongest connection to results8. Effective training is directlyrelated to performance, adaptation, and skills, and indirectly related to empowerment,communication, planning, and task coordination9. Ideally this brief video would be paired with aclass discussion or a reflection assignment to crystalize learning, similar to the reflectionassignment modeled by the students near the end of the video10, but the video can also standalone as an educational tool.Individuals are more motivated by work if they believe it to be important to them personally11,and receive the most benefit from training when they are highly motivated to learn12. As a result,the teaching of team skills and communication, which may seem out of place
Learning Objectives this course, students will… Students will integrate concepts into their daily life and participate in communication understand the importance of effective building practices/activities. Students will 1 communication in all aspects of their work evaluate communication experiences and life. (through reflection) and predict possible outcomes of communication scenarios (positive and negative). view themselves as qualified to provide Students will evaluate
described by text or bya graphic. Application of the instrument lead us to reflect that, once the appropriation is achievedthrough the motion context, it could be easier for students to apply it without connection with areal context. It also reveals the difficulties for interpreting graphical information based on thederivative function. These findings are part of the overall results of a doctoral dissertationconcerning with the use of digital technologies for the learning of Calculus.Keywords: Calculus learning, digital technologies, linear motion, real context, mediation.BackgroundDigital technologies are important tools in our daily activities, and it looks easy to use them inclassroom to support learning. According to Hillman1, a lot of research
their own experience through immersion and examination. Teams documentedtheir observations using blogs that focused on the same general area of inquiry they wouldpursue in Lumbisi. The blogs were available to the garden community and organizers, as well asother teams, allowing them to dialogue about their understanding of the subject. Research teamsalso were required to review other teams’ blogs and comment on observations.During the course development, coordination across educational units, universities, organizationsand countries flowed surprising smoothly and without issue. Perhaps the greatest challenge of theentire effort came when devising a course name that would reflect the interests of engineers,social scientists, planners and
quantitative data from an Infrared thermographytechnique. The specification of the Fluke infrared camera used in this work is given in Table 1.Also, as part of the thermography process, Extech Model 451181 was used to record thetemperature of the inside air, temperature of the outside air, wind velocity, and relative humidity.The main problems experienced are the special technique used for the measurement of emissivity(ε) value of the target surface and the evaluation of the reflected temperature.Table 1. Technical specification of the Infrared Camera used in this work. Name Fluke TI25 Field of view 23° x 17° Thermal sensitivity ≤0.1 °C at 30 °C (100 mK) Spectral range
. 6) The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning is an area of scholarly work that is receivingincreased attention in higher education and many engineering education faculty are embracingmore scholarly approaches to teaching and learning. Streveler, et al.2 outlined a wide range ofinquiry in engineering education, and was informed by scholars in and outside the field ofengineering education (e.g., Hutchings and Sulman, 1999; Lohmann, (n.d.); and Streveler,Borrego, Smith, 2007 as cited by Streveler, et al.2). Table 1 summarizes the variety of ways inwhich engineering faculty can engage in engineering education research and practice in fourlevels of inquiry. Level 0 Teach: Teach as taught and without reflection Level 1 Effective
competitiveness of the US economy. This endeavor has become a national priority1.However, the ECE enrollment and attrition trends in recent years are sources for concern.Enrollment in U.S. institutions of higher education has grown steadily at all levels rising from14.5 million students in 1994 to 20.7 million in 2009, but such a growth is not fully reflected inscience and engineering. Institutions of higher education in the United States granted engineeringdegrees in the mid-2000s at a lower rate than in the mid-1980s. The number of Americanstudents earning bachelor’s degrees increased by 16% over the past 10 years, however, thenumber of bachelor’s degrees earned in engineering decreased by 15%. Nationally, less than50% of the students who enrolled in
structures and examine alternative ideologies.In the narrative I sketch of the lesson plan evolution, I draw on the lesson plans, notes takenduring class and pictures of board work, and reflections written after the class. Where students’ideas were similar in pattern across many semesters, I take the liberty of synthesizing them into asingle list. Where ideas changed markedly either due to some idiosyncrasy or in response to achange in the lesson plan, I note that. I start with a section on review of relevant constructsbefore launching into course context and lesson plan evolution.BackgroundIn this paper, I draw on two constructs to organize my narrative. One, responsive teaching,comes from research on teacher education. The second is two related