currently working on writing a book chapter for Algebraic and Combinatorial Computational Biology, an Elseiver publication. Additionally, Prof. Ghosh-Dastidar has extensive experience mentoring more than thirty students through different programs such as the NYC-AMP program, City Tech’s Emerging Scholar Program, and MAA NREUP grants.Dr. Diana Samaroo, NYC College of Technology and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York Diana Samaroo is an Associate Professor and Chair of Chemistry Department at NYC College of Technol- ogy, CUNY. Her pedagogical research is the area of peer led team learning in Chemistry and integrating STEM into curricula. With a background in biochemistry, her research interests are in the
Fellow of the IEEE and the OSA and currently the Vice President for Publications for the IEEE Photonics Society. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Intensive Mentoring and Micro-Electronics Research for Students in Engineering (IMMERSE)AbstractThis paper describes an undergraduate research program called IMMERSE that has beenimplemented in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Brigham YoungUniversity. Approximately 50 students per year participate along with 12 faculty members. Theobjectives of the IMMERSE program are to prepare student to continue on to graduate schooland to enable students to publish their research in peer-reviewed venues
multinational teams that in the context of the 2007 Dubai AirShow explored different branches of the industry with regards to environmental policies andstrategies. These branches included the airlines, airports, manufacturers, and regulatoryagencies. In addition, a series of workshops on research skills, presentation skills,professional communication and behavior, were offered to prepare the students both for asuccessful experience at the Air Show and to assist them in presenting their findings in aclosing presentation to their peers, a faculty panel, and industry representatives.The results assessment was initially constructed on the assumption that the student motivationto participate in the project would be strong, because a portion of the grade for
, for students who are just learning these processes, auniversal model may not be the best way to build performance skills. This work was undertakento help novices understand unique characteristics of each process and the circumstances underwhich each process is most effective and efficient. This paper examines two tools that werecreated to build this understanding: (i) a matrix analyzing the similarities and differences amongthe processes and (ii) a graphical presentation highlighting key skills that are hypothesized foreach process. Effectiveness of the two tools was evaluated in a freshman design course whereteams of five students work on a six-week design mini-project. Data collected included notes bythe instructor, observations by peer
simple and robust, functioning in almost any Internet environment • To be accepted, the system must make online teaching and learning easyScalable network delivery: In 2001 our laboratory took on the challenge of creating a solutionthat meets this challenge. We have created Network EducationWare (NEW) primarily fromopen-source software that is available with no license fee to all. The tools with which we startedwere created for use with Internet multicasting5, where one station sends an identical message tomany others. This approach is sometimes called peer-to-peer operation because all computershave identical ability to send to each other. It offers a simple model for scaling to large numbersof participants and has attracted talented
rewarded forbeing competitive, getting the right answer, and getting higher grades than most of theirclassmates. However, in courses where team performance becomes part of the evaluation process,the student must master an entirely different set of abilities that demonstrate knowledge by [3]: (1) Help team members and cooperating in a group; (2) Helping to plan; (3) Pacing and scheduling projects; (4) Getting peer and teacher feedback on work; and (5) Teaching classmates. Therefore, learning teamwork skills may be difficult for engineering students. The shiftfrom the traditional system of education to one based on groups and student participation alsoredefines what a good student does, which can threaten and raise the
student teams. The peer assessment appears in the figure below: Page 7.275.8 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering Education Please write the names of all of your team members, INCLUDING YOURSELF, and rate the degree to which each member fulfilled his/her responsibilities in completing the homework assignments. Sign your name at the bottom. The possible ratings are as follows: Excellent Consistently went above and beyond, tutored teammates, and routinely went above and beyond the basic team
mentioned during the interviews, “...they [thestudents] are going to be the messengers that carry the message of AMR forward to their peers,into their homes, to their parents.” The curriculum incorporated storytelling elements in the formof narrative-based educational videos, retellings of student experiences, and humanizingpathogens in story building (Figure 5).Figure 4. Examples of the curriculum's utilization of storytelling elements. (Left) Discussionslides use human-scaling for pathogens to create context, (Right) narrative-based storytelling instudent activities.Preparing the students to become the “messengers” to their communities required the ability toarticulate the concept of AMR orally. With the goal of fostering communication skills
learning canstrengthen academic performance as well as provide social benefits (Gafney and Varma-Nelson2007, Haidet, Kubitz et al. 2014, Talbot, Hartley et al. 2015, Van Dusen, Langdon et al. 2015),particularly for low-performers (Conway, Johnson et al. 2010, Haidet, Kubitz et al. 2014). Inaddition, team-based learning is relevant to the development of interpersonal, communication,and leadership skills that are in high demand in the engineering industry (Kumar and Hsiao2007). In cooperative learning, students can create a network amongst their peers and develop anincreased sense of confidence, encouraging participation in class discussions (Astrachan, Duvallet al. 2002).In an effort to shift to an active learning culture, the classroom environment
involvesconfidence in taking on research challenges, learning new skills, and contributing to the project team.Finally, recognition by others plays a pivotal role in solidifying an engineering identity. It can be definedas “recognition (i.e., beliefs that they are seen as a good student in the subject by peers, parents, andteachers) as being the type of person that can do a particular subject” [17, p. 2]. In the context of thisstudy, recognition reflects both interpersonal validation from engineering peers and mentors as well aspersonal internalization of external recognition. Through others identifying their engineering talent andtechnical contributions, students begin to think of themselves as good engineers worthy of that field. Withengineering interest
faculty development, community building, peer review of learning materials, and dissemination of educational innovation. She is PI for the project ”Learning from the Best: How Award Winning Courseware has Impacted Engineering Education.” This research focuses on determining how high quality courseware is being disseminated and how it is impacting the culture of engineering education as measured by changes in student learning, teaching practices, and the careers of the authors of these materials.Elizabeth Nilsen, National Collegiate Inventors & Innovators Alliance (NCIIA) Elizabeth Nilsen is Senior Program Officer for Epicenter at NCIIA. Her professional focus is on the de- velopment and growth of STEM and
technical writing skills, which are often not demonstrated in traditional exams. We emphasized developing connections that can facilitate belonging. We focused on buildingconnections between students and four other factors: the professor, the course content, the peers,and the ChemBE major. Connection between students and the professor can be fostered throughthe professor’s display of care and support [17]. Understanding the relevance of the courseworkthrough real-world applications can promote connections with the course content and the major.Participating in cooperative learning can provide opportunities to interact with peers and facilitatepeer connections.Supportive Classroom in Cell Biology for Engineers During the course introduction, the
Copyright 2001, American Society for Engineering EducationWith the adoption of these new requirements, engineering technology educators must developnew ways of evaluating their courses and/or programs. Although there may be many ways tomeet these new requirements, whatever method is developed should include the followingcharacteristics: a. be easy to learn and use, with minimal faculty time commitment, b. allow faculty to easily write appropriate educational objectives based upon the new eleven criteria for their courses, c. encourage students to write meaningful outcomes of true learning, based upon the eleven new criteria, d. provide tabular and graphical information that can be used to validate that the instructor’s
complete Linux commandline tutorial, and how to install Ubuntu and programming in C and Linux. At the end of the first week,we also introduced topics on how to read research papers, how to write research papers, how to give aresearch talk, and how to prepare a research poster.We also hosted a virtual weekly seminar between the 2nd and the 9th week. PIs and the faculty mentorspresented various computer systems research areas in embedded and multicore systems; mobile andextensible distributed systems; cloud and data-intensive processing systems; machine learning; and 4memory, storage, and file systems. We also covered various computation, storage
reflection and metacognitionactivity in the engineering curriculum (Ambrose, 2013). The present researchaims to address this and investigate the outcomes.To this end, in a fluid mechanics course at a large southeastern university, in-classproblem-solving in a flipped classroom was coupled with intentionalmetacognitive skills instruction and repeated reflection to enhance undergraduatestudent metacognition. As part of this NSF IUSE study, intentional, step-by-stepinstruction in planning, monitoring, and evaluation was provided in conjunctionwith weekly exercises to support metacognitive skills development and problem-solving. Each week, students intentionally planned, monitored, or evaluated theirproblem-solving and were asked to reflect in writing
grades over the course of the semester?Final grades for the course were determined through two individual assignments (20% of thefinal grade), and five team assignments (40% of the final grade), where every team memberreceives the same grade. The remaining 40% consisted of a combination of individual- and team-based grades: reflective journal, peer evaluation, mentor evaluation, and engineering graphics.Because assignments in engineering graphics contribute 20% to the final grade, and were gradedon a pass/fail basis, we compared student performance both with and without the graphics Page 26.1740.2grades.On an overall basis, we have not found a
minor in Education from the University of Florida in 1996. Previously, he served as Assistant Director of the NSF-sponsored SUCCEED Engineering Education Coalition. In addition to this work, he studies peer evaluation and longitudinal student records in engineering education.Sherrill Biggers, Clemson University Sherrill B. Biggers is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Clemson University. His research interests include computational solid mechanics, progressive failure and nonlinear response of composite structures, and optimum design. He has taught courses in structural and solid mechanics, and finite element methods. He received his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Duke
studentsCombined with the considerable depth and diversity of the project task, the differences incultural backgrounds provide the students with formidable challenges, requiring a well-considered choice of candidates. The student selection process at SNU is somewhat tied to theBK-21 funding and associated faculty (more on BK-21 in Section 4). An effort is made toinclude graduate students from the research groups of every faculty involved in the BK-21program. The faculty recommend students for enrolment in GPD.In TUB and UM, the course is hugely oversubscribed and the challenge is to devise a good andfair selection process. In TUB, every student is required to write an application to explain theirmotivation for the GPD course and must provide an academic
purposefully avoidstreating minority gender identities as an afterthought13,25. The ability to select as many labels asappropriate prevents situations in which a respondent might have to choose between “Male” and“Transgender Male,” a situation that can be alienating. Our approach also balances length withinclusion13. In this configuration, a woman who identifies with her biological sex would be ableto select both “female” and “cisgender” to describe herself. If an individual’s gender identity didnot fall into the categories listed in the survey, they were prompted to write in their specificidentity next to “a gender not listed.” The phrasing of this item was crafted to treat write-inresponse as equally valid as the other options provided13.We defined
beginning this project, Dr. Genau began teaching a history-rich course called theEvolution of Engineering Materials as a technical elective within her department. The course wasoffered as a study abroad class in Germany (see [13], [14] for details) and very well received bystudents. Some of the content from that course informed the development of the new historycourses.The authors also surveyed the web to find out what equivalent courses, if any, were being offeredat regional peer institutions. Auburn University has a two-course Technology and Civilization(HIST 1210/1220) sequence that meets the same state-mandated core requirements, withmultiple sections of each offered every semester, indicating a high degree of student interest.Fruitful
Technology. She received her B.S. in Engineering from Brown University, her M.S.E.E. from the University of Southern California, and her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California in 1999. Her area of research is centered around the concept of humanized intelligence, the process of embedding human cognitive capability into the control path of autonomous systems. This work, which addresses issues of autonomous control as well as aspects of interaction with humans and the surrounding environment, has resulted in over 180 peer-reviewed pub- lications in a number of projects – from scientific rover navigation in glacier environments to assistive robots for the home. To date, her unique
above. Type Definition Total Desirability A Advocacy groups and nonprofits 126 Medium B Scholarly books, handbooks, encyclopedias 26 High G Government websites and publications 194 High I Industry publications, specification data and websites 419 Medium M Magazines, newspapers and news sites 75 Low O Popular sites and blogs 144 Low P Peer reviewed articles and conference papers 165 High
. Thesuccess of the project organized teaching on this semester is measured by the way in whichthe participants handle situations and problems that occur during execution of their team-based project. At the weekly mandatory meeting with the team supervisor, members of theteam are asked to rotate duties such as chairman and secretary functions. This is done toensure equity and responsibility and assessment. Twice during the semester group membersgrade each other using a self and peer assessment system provided. Further, students attendtutorial discussion sessions with oral presentation exercises, and they participate in arrangedgroup meetings to report on the progress of their group project to other groups. At thosegroup meetings full use of visual
) and they also complete a peer feedback form that goes back to thepresenter. This form, adapted from the U.S. Military Academy’s T4E evaluation form8, is usedas a tool to objectively provide critical feedback to the presenter, and also to give the workshopdevelopment team information on potential problem areas that could be the focus of newworkshops. In addition, each presenter’s session is video-recorded. At the end of the day,participants receive copies of their feedback and a DVD of their microteaching session. Thefinal assignment is for each participant to review the feedback, watch the DVD, and write andsubmit a one-page reflection that discusses the strengths and weaknesses of his or her ownsession, as well as any other observations from
software system calledCalibrated Peer Review.23 This system was developed at UCLA, is currently in use at about 100institutions for writing instruction, and is now under development for use with presentations atLouisiana State University.24Bibliography1. Payne, D. and B. Blakely, eds. "Multimodal Communication: Rethinking the Curriculum". 2004-2008, ISUComm at Iowa State University: Iowa City, IA. Page 15.1021.102. Payne, D. and B. Blakely, eds. "ISUComm Foundation Courses: Student Guide for English 150 and 250". 2007, ISUComm at Iowa State University: Iowa City, IA.3. Carnegie Mellon Enhancing Education Program
meeting the program educational objectives.Project also covers all steps of design process (from idea generation to design, fabrication, andcompetition), and provides practical application of engineering principles to real-world designchallenges, students gain a valuable experience in: 1. problem identification and solving, 2. conceptual and detailed design, 3. procurement and fabrication, 4. resource and project management, 5. product testing, 6. developing oral and writing skills: report writing; presenting findings and vehicle design to peers, professors, and judges 7. outreach activitiesProject Activities DescriptionThe fall 2009 Moonbuggy frame team examined the frame designed by the last year’s team.Upon inspection of
as a researcher. A great example is the patent mining activity described later in thispaper. In this activity, students learn about intellectual property and practice developingpatentable inventions – a skill which advisors find a useful part of the student’s technicaltraining. One of our communication activities is a peer manuscript review, in which groups ofstudents provide feedback on each-other’s technical papers. This activity improves the students’technical writing skills while easing the editing burden on the advisor.The various TESP activities are offered monthly at all partner institutions. Some activities canbe shared among institutions via online teleconferencing technologies (WebEx, GoogleHangouts, Skype), but many are
, and quality, prioritizing peer-reviewed papers andreputable journals. Then, organize and categorize the literature by grouping studies with similarthemes, methodologies, or theoretical approaches, using an outline to visualize connections. Next,analyze and synthesize the information by comparing findings, identifying trends, gaps, orinconsistencies, and determining their relevance to the research question. Finally, revise and editthe review for coherence, clarity, and logical flow. Ensure proper citation and formatting and seekfeedback from peers or mentors to refine the final product.Figure 1: Seven steps of the literature review process: A cyclic process starting with identifyingyour question, reviewing discipline styles, searching the
data analysis showed differentpatterns between male and female students‟ peer relationships and support systems. Furthermore,male and female students also tended to adopt slightly different coping strategies relative to thedemanding course workload. While male students were more likely to form a quick socialnetwork and to build “learning relationships” with “like-minded” others most female studentstended to work alone and exclusively focused on academic work while not seeking more diverseand non-academic social networking opportunities. Each strategy seems to present some positiveand negative consequences.IntroductionDuring the last two decades, there has been growing consensus among engineering educators andpolicy makers that the retention
narratives.Author 1 invited Authors 3 and 4 to take part in the data collection process based on their sharedinterests. We then began writing individually. To write individually, we engaged in a “datageneration exercise” [12], which includes chronologically listing major events or experiences,the circumstances of these events as well as stating why these events are important. In terms ofcollaboration style, we adopted Partial concurrent collaboration, where researchers contribute todifferent stages in the process but do not fully engage from the beginning to the end.The concurrent model allowed us to write individually based on the overarching prompt and thenshare stories with the team. Sharing the stories with the group helped us add probing questions