, Palestine and Libya.Dr. Nazmi Abdel-Salam Almasri, The Islamic University of Gaza - Palestine Nazmi Al-Masri is an associate professor of TEFL and curriculum development. Since he obtained his PhD from Manchester University, UK, in 1994, he has been working at the English Language Department, the Islamic University of Gaza- Palestine. He teaches Technology in TEFL, ELT Methodology, ELT Research Methods and ESp courses.He participated in building the English language curriculum and textbooks used in Palestinian schools and currently participating in four EU funded projects.Ms. Anna Rolinska, University of Glasgow Anna Rolinska has 15 years of experience in teaching English as a Foreign Language. For the last 6 years she
goal setting. All these sessions were conducted by guests invited from acrosscampus and the project PIs. In addition, design, based on an engineering challenge and hands-oncohort team building activities were integrated into the seminars to promote social interaction.For the design activities, scholars were divided into teams of four, with facilitation provided by apeer mentor. They were given constraints on the materials and supplies they could use. Theseminars and design activities were held in person before the pandemic but due to safetyguidelines during the pandemic, they were moved to an online video format. All theme seminarsand team activities were followed by food and soft drinks. When activities were held remotely,the scholars joined
. Manycolleges wait until the later stages of their programs to begin instruction in presentations. Thispractice leaves students and faculty with little time to promote, practice, and hone skills. Oralcommunication skills must be introduced and developed early, and not delayed until postgraduate or after they enter the workforce8. A high value has been placed on developing theseskills early in an undergraduate curriculum and when students have this early experience they aregiven a strong foundation for developing their presentations skills17. Late integration of oralcommunication education are deemed to be less effectively developed, according to surveyedacademics. These academics believe that if left to a late capstone experience or independentpractice
examine current engineering programs in light of these anticipated changes and tosuggest improvements to the curriculum/programs. Increasingly, the Industrial Advisory Boardswill become an important source of industry trends to help define the skills needed for thegraduating engineer.At Baylor University, these skill requirements can be broken down in to five main areas. Firststudents need academic skills as broadly identified by ABET and the individual institution.While some standardization does exist, there is much each institution can control to make theexperience unique to their institution and to emphasize what is important for their programs.Second, professional skills are necessary so that the graduating engineer can function in
’ integration in the industry, with constraints set from conception to delivery. It takes itfurther by using assessment tools to evaluate, not only the student knowledge about the variousdisciplines, but also by monitoring students’ change in perceptions about the roles andresponsibilities of the various disciplines, including their own roles.MethodologyThe proposed educational model consists of a thread developed in the Civil Engineering (CE)Curriculum in order to integrate students from different technical areas. The thread consists of thecombination of an existing Architectural course with a newly developed Senior Project experience.Through the overlap of the CE 491/492/493 civil engineering senior project sequence, the ETC461/462 construction
Paper ID #40715Beyond Math Readiness: Understanding Why Some Women Pursue Engi-neeringOlivia Ryan, Virginia Tech Engineering Education Olivia Ryan is a Ph.D. student in Engineering Education and a Master’s student in Engineering Mechanics at Virginia Tech. She holds a B.S. in engineering with a specialization in electrical engineering from Roger Williams University. Her research interests include understanding curriculum barriers in engineering related to mathematics.Dr. Susan Sajadi, Virginia Tech Susan Sajadi is an assistant professor at Virginia Tech in the department of engineering education. She has a BSE and MS
this, the faculty contacted the CEE subject specialist librarian looking to partner oncreating an integrated requirement to include diverse voices in graduate research with the hope ofexpanding the requirement to the entire department. I am now transitioning into this subjectspecialist role and exploring how to continue the critical citation work. In this section I proposethe shape the CEE critical citation graduate requirements can take, the methods and tools that canbe used to support such a requirement, and my role as a librarian in continuing this work.The approach taken to integrate critical citation practice into graduate requirements is importantto consider. It would be difficult to have rigidly specific requirements that are uniform
Paper ID #32896Teachers Navigating Educational Systems: Reflections on the Value ofFunds of Knowledge (Fundamental)Dr. Joel Alejandro Mejia, University of San Diego Dr. Joel Alejandro (Alex) Mejia is an assistant professor in the Department of Integrated Engineering at the University of San Diego. His research has contributed to the integration of critical theoretical frame- works and Chicano Cultural Studies to investigate and analyze existing deficit models in engineering education. Dr. Mejia’s work also examines how asset-based models impact the validation and recognition of students and communities of color as holders
% in 2018) [4] in a subject that is critical to the nation’s economic andsecurity health.There is now unprecedented support from business, nonprofit, and community leaders advocatingfor CS education. In July 2022, a letter encouraging governors and education leaders to make CSpart of the standard K-12 curriculum across the U.S. was released with more than 800 signatories(a full list can be found at www.CEOsforCS.com). An excerpt of the letter follows: The undersigned commit our support by collectively creating employment opportunities for CS students in every city in the USA, and in every sector, from manufacturing to banking, from agriculture to healthcare. Many of us offer internships to help these students find their
need to research and implement innovative interventions for retention andcareer readiness of underrepresented students in science, technology, engineering andmathematics (STEM) [1,2]. In 2017, a four-year curriculum was developed to elevate an existingsupport program for undergraduate women in STEM into an academic honors program. Thisrenewed Women In Science and Engineering (WISE) Honors program at Stony BrookUniversity (SBU), a public research institution, recruited its first new cohort in 2018. Thepurpose of this paper is to present formative findings of the research and evaluation plans thatexamined the effectiveness of one of the new courses, WSE 381: Service Learning in STEM.Theoretical FoundationHigh-impact practices, the educational
questions asking if the student anticipated adhering to academicintegrity rules (Q13), if they felt that others would not adhere to academic integrity rules (Q14),and if the student felt that they were skilled enough in computer literacy to succeed in an onlineenvironment (Q15) or if there would be technical problems due to the online environment (Q16).ResultsPopulation CharacteristicsAs summarized in Table 2 the paired data population included four disciplines, namely CivilEngineering (CE), Chemical Engineering (ChemE), Electrical Engineering (EE) and MechanicalEngineering (ME). Of the four disciplines the majority was ME at 61% and CE at 36%. 84% ofthe students identified as male, 15% female, and 1% identified as agender. Fourth-year studentsmade
Paper ID #16361NUE: The Freshman Experience and Nanotechnology Solutions to Engineer-ing Grand ChallengesDr. Edward W. Davis, Auburn University Edward W. Davis received his PhD from the University of Akron in 1996. He worked in the commercial plastics industry for 11 years, including positions with Shell Chemicals in Louvain-la-Nueve Belgium and EVALCA in Houston TX. He joined the faculty at Auburn University in the fall of 2007. In 2014 he was promoted to Senior Lecturer. He has regularly taught courses in three different engineering departments. In 2015 he began his current position as an Assistant Professor in the
on the responses, three of the researchers selected the participants to balance a number offactors: • number of teachers vs number of researchers • experience with educational research as a participant or part of research team (teachers) • research topic focus (researchers) • gender diversity of participants • school diversity (public vs private, large vs small, urban vs rural, geography within the US)Once the potential workshop participants accepted their invitation, we examined participants’areas of interest with respect to CS education and topics of CS education research and found twodistinct areas: curriculum specific (e.g., CS integration, curriculum alignment, anddevelopmentally appropriate practices in CS) and
, Virtusis aligned with the curriculum and structure of Flexus. For example first-year students arerequired to live in a common residence hall, participate in a one credit seminar each semester,and participate in various academic, social and professional development activities.Through various types of activities, programs, and services as living and learning communities,Flexus and Virtus facilitate both academic and social integration within the Clark School. All ofliving and learning students are required to participate in the peer mentoring program.SEEDS Peer MentoringThe SEEDS Peer Mentoring program was designed to be inclusive of all first-year engineeringstudents and new transfer students in the Clark School. The primary goal of the program is
increasing graduation rates and numbers in the STEM disciplinesProf. Peter Stiling, University of South Florida Dr. Stiling is currently a professor in the Department of Integrative Biology at the University of South FloridaDr. Kevin Yee, University of South Florida Dr. Yee is the director of the teaching center at USF.Dr. Ruthmae Sears, University of South Florida Ruthmae Sears, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor at the University of South Florida. Her research focuses on curriculum issues, the development of reasoning and proof skills, clinical experiences in secondary mathematics, and the integration of technology in the teaching and learning of mathematics.Dr. Catherine A. Beneteau, University of South Florida
atimproving interest and literacy of BME and neuroengineering principles to high school students.The authors will also introduce the program into our current undergraduate curriculum as part ofa project that will be conducted alongside our current EEG experimental laboratory during thenext year, as it will reinforce principles learned during the existing course content and provide aBME application of the laboratory.Introduction:Advancing an interest and literacy in Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics (STEM)fields in high school students through summer and after school programs has been widelypopular since the 1990’s, and these programs are effective at improving retention and persistenceafter graduation [1]. These initiatives have been
for use;and promoting academic integrity to ensure ethical uses of ChatGPT in an academic context (ThiThuy, 2023).The following research was done by conducting interviews with graduate students and facultiesto understand ChatGPT's abilities by providing the output on the topic of how AI and GPT willimpact academia and libraries. This research explores how graduate students are using theChatGPT and can be used to improve various research capabilities. ChatGPT can be used toimprove research and scholarship in academia in several ways. The breakdown of ChatGPT’suses by graduate students for their research is listed as follows. Based on the student’s giventopic or keyword, ChatGPT can help the researchers in identifying relevant literature
majors,but also including students in computer science or applied math programs. The engineeringprograms at Wentworth Institute of Technology strongly focus on project-based learning.Devices and prototyping are therefore an integral part of many of the courses for which physicsis a prerequisite. Hence, it is essential that students leave with a working knowledge of basiccircuit concepts as well as an appreciation for the complexity that can arise in circuit analysis.Given this population, the main learning outcomes of the new game-based exercise were forstudents to: 1. Demonstrate the ability to add resistors in series. 2. Demonstrate an ability to add resistors in parallel. 3. Decompose a complex circuit into its basic elements. 4
students to work alongsideindustry professionals to tackle real-world space exploration challenges and offersolutions through an array of investigations, experiments and design projects withproject-based learning. The curriculum and project themes for each year build uponeach other for a comprehensive experience of the challenges and opportunities involvedwith space exploration. Concepts addressed by the effort include the development ofrockets, robotics, space construction and space architecture for habitation in Earth’sorbit and within lunar lava tube caves on the Moon. LCATS takes place during theschool year on alternating Saturday mornings for 2 sessions a month, with a total of 16sessions a school year.Each 4-hour long Saturday session
investigated to be used to further improve the game to the expectations of the students. 2Serious games are critical for experiential learning as well. Experiential learning is termed as theprocess, whereby the knowledge is created through the transformation of experience [18][19][10].Experiential gaming models are also proposed in the literature, where gaming and experientialeducation principles are integrated. One of the early works proposed an experiential gaming modelwhich was based on integration of experiential learning theory, flow theory and game design [20]In this study, we focus on developing a serious game that can be used as part of classroom
reasonsbeyond follow up on the survey Figure 4. Analyzed responses to Question 3 regarding the relativequestions. In general, inquiries that importance of various specializationsfollowed up to the survey questionsprovided a means to elicit more detailedinput on the subject of the HEVE curriculum. Although the interviews were too unstructured tolend themselves to qualitative coding and analysis, they provided a window into the moredetailed concerns and need of the industry. As an example, one of the questions that we soughtanswers to was the role of fuel cell systems in the future of hybrid electric vehicles and HEVEeducation. The results of the surveys (see
Gifted Education, and an M.S.Ed. in Research Methods and Measurement with a specialization in Ed- ucational Psychology, both from Purdue University, IN, in the United States. She also holds an M.S. in Astronomy and Astrophysics and a B.S. in Astronomy and Meteorology from Kyungpook National Uni- versity, South Korea. Her work centers on engineering education research as a psychometrician, program evaluator, and data analyst, with research interests in spatial ability, creativity, engineering-integrated STEM education, and meta-analysis. As a psychometrician, she has revised, developed, and validated more than 10 instruments beneficial for STEM education practice and research. She has authored/co- authored more than 70
department.Instrumentation For the purpose of this investigation several surveys were designed and developed. Thesesurveys focused on “capturing” the experiences of partner faculty and their students as they workedthrough the COVID-19 pandemic. These surveys were administered online. Faculty were asked to share their perspectives on the integration of the new rules into theircourse platforms and plans. Included in this paper is an outline of their responses organized bytheme, to questions about how they worked through the pandemic situation. For students, questions focused on identifying barriers to learning, opportunities forlearning, sources of information, and collaborations, overall impact of learning virtually and thequality of the student
includedtopics such as troubleshooting failures, analysis of systems, integration of parts into a whole,prototyping, and designing to meet specifications. As most, if not all, of the projects focusedintensely on the development of a product, students were regularly challenged to design forspecific needs and to prototype, as well as learn from failure and integrate components into awhole. Students generally had significant confidence increases in their engineering abilities as aresult of their participation in the REU, and we attribute this to the specific and applied nature ofthe research projects, as opposed to other REU projects where the applicability of the subjectmatter may be more theoretical and further removed from an everyday product with
Ph.D. in Microelectronics-Photonics from the University of Arkansas. He attended Oklahoma State University where he graduated with a B.S. in Computer Science and an M.S. and B.S. in Electrical Engineering. He is currently a facultyDr. Emilie A. Siverling, Minnesota State University, Mankato Emilie A. Siverling is an Assistant Professor of Integrated Engineering and the Iron Range Engineering Bell Program through Minnesota State University, Mankato. She has a Ph.D. in Engineering Education, an M.S.Ed. in Curriculum and Instruction - Science Education, and a B.S. in Materials Science and Engineering. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 A Self-Study of Faculty Methods
data science micro-credential have unique opportunities to improve critical super-skills, including writtencommunication, project management, iterative thinking, and real-world problem-solving.THE NEED FOR DATA ACUMENEngineering disciplines are increasingly adopting and integrating data science into their problem-solving and experimental approaches [1-3]; yet few engineering programs directly integrate datascience and visualization into their curriculum. In an effort to address this need and respond tothe NASEM report on Data Science for Undergraduates, which calls on institutions to increase“data acumen” through “a range of educational pathways,” [REDACTED] School ofEngineering and Applied Sciences launched an undergraduate micro-credential
: Page 26.1583.6International Business EnvironmentThe current learning outcome for the course is somewhat “Think Local, Act Local”. Studentsidentify an engineering problem in the community or in industry and then develop a product orservice to fit local customers, regulations, and market requirements. One of the anticipatedlearning outcomes of the proposed curriculum modification was to broaden the course objectiveto “Think Global, Act Global”. Students are expected to learn about global business dynamics,economic integration, supply demand, manufacturing, supply chain, logistics, etc. whichenhance students understanding about multinational businesses and global engineeringproblems, and needs for solutions.Cross Cultural Elements of Engineering
,and is followed up with writing assignments. CSE 1002 Intro to CSE is open to freshmen CS andSE majors and is offered only in fall semesters. Objectives of the course are defined as:• Enhance understanding of the CS and SE academic majors,• Develop team building skills and encourage group participation,• Develop computational thinking skills,• Provide an awareness of ethical issues unique to computing,• Provide an understanding of the history of computing, and• Develop an awareness of the career opportunities available to computing majors.Experience with summer computing camps for high school and middle school students hasdemonstrated that using a robot-based curriculum helps increase confidence in the use
process of newly hired employeeslearning the necessary behaviors, attitudes, and required skills and knowledge for achieving arole in an organization [1]-[4]. As its outcomes linked to employee job performance andretention [4]-[6], new employees' proactive or motivated behaviors in the socializationprocess [7]-[9] have been explored and defined by many scholars. According to previousstudies, new employees' proactive behaviors affect short-term outcomes in the socializationprocess, such as better understanding their roles and jobs, mastering the required knowledgeand skills, and getting socially integrated into the workgroup [6], [8], [10]. In addition, theirproactive behaviors also affect long-term outcomes such as job satisfaction and job
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