infrastructure for recording portfolios, amethodology to dynamically record and analyze those data collected in response to learningenvironments and learning conditions is essential for the development of students’ creativityin learning. A sound analysis on learning portfolios and exploring those links among learningbehaviors will substantially lead us to discover the factors that motivate creativity andobtained findings can be used by educators for teaching, guidance, and assistance.Therefore, this study explores two analytic factors: learning behavior and cognition portfolioin light of the theory of creativity development. According to the instructional outline andlearning objectives of the engineering curriculum, in this study we introduce the
a visiting research scientist in the Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering, visiting faculty in the Center for Entrepreneurship, and a visiting Fellow in the Center for Education and Research in Information Security at Purdue University.Dr. Justin L. Hess, Purdue University, West Lafayette Justin L. Hess received his PhD from Purdue University’s School of Engineering Education along with his Master’s of Science and Bachelor of Science from Purdue’s School of Civil Engineering. Justin is currently a Postdoctoral Researcher in the STEM Education Research Institute at IUPUI. Justin’s research interests include developing pedagogical strategies to improve STEM students’ ethical reasoning skills; exploring the role
preparation of engineering graduate students for future careers.Mr. Ekembu Kevin Tanyi, Norfolk State University E. Kevin Tanyi started his career in Oldenburg in East Friesland, Germany. There he earned his bachelor degree in engineering physics with a focus in medical physics and finished with honors. During a four- year sabbatical, he worked as a Call Center Agent and finally as a Web-programmer/ designer. Returning to his field, he pursued a Professional Science Master degree in applied physics at Towson University. There he carried out research in the fabrication and characterization (AFM, XRD, and four-point probe resistivity measurements) of colossal magneto resistant perovskite thin films. He also embarked on a
environment.Cooperative learning researchers and practitioners have shown that positive peer relationsare essential to success in college. The positive interpersonal relationships promoted throughcooperative learning are regarded by most as crucial to today’s learning communities. Theyincrease the quality of social adjustment to college life, reduce uncertainties about attendingcollege, and increase integration into college life. Isolation and alienation, on the other hand,often lead to failure. Two major reasons for dropping out of college are: failure to establish asocial network of classmates and failure to become academically involved in classes. (29, 30)Cooperation is more than being physically near other students. It is actually a state of mind.A
with thesematerials. It is primarily a call to consider how students engage in their college experience,and to search for proper tools that can be deployed to stimulate learning.In moving forward, there are numerous tools available to select from, including the modelspredicated on cooperation; i.e., working together to accomplish shared goals. Withincooperative activities, individuals seek outcomes that are beneficial to them and also benefitall other group members. (2, 3) Cooperative learning researchers and practitioners have shownthat positive peer relations are essential to success in college. The positive interpersonalrelationships promoted through cooperative learning are regarded by most as crucial totoday’s learning communities. They
) undergraduate classrooms when activeand collaborative instructional strategies are utilized; these are commonly referred to as inductiveteaching methods as compared to traditional lecture and discussion (deductive). However, thisdocument indicates that for more systemic change across STEM instruction, researchers need todevelop/evaluate pedagogical innovations that do not require substantial external funding ortime, and therefore can be easily adopted by other educators.1 This was one of the motivationsfor undertaking the study presented in this paper.The inquiry-based learning activities described in this paper address the necessity for engaging,student-centered experiences in the freshman civil/structural engineering curriculum with arelatively
Associate Dean of Research, Graduate Studies and Professional Education in the College of Engineering. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Facilitating Learner Self-Efficacy through Interdisciplinary Collaboration in Sustainable Systems DesignAbstractAn educational partnership between a minority-serving community college and a researchuniversity has been offering STEM students an eight-week summer internship in sustainableenergy systems with the goal of providing applied research experiences while strengtheningcommunity and institutional bonds. In 2015, the interns’ involvement in the successful design,development, and implementation of an innovative testbed for assessment
construct a local typology to be shared and vetted in workshops and focus groups with stakeholders, including faculty, industry representatives, and students. Feedback from stakeholders on culture findings compared with current practices will enable the research team to develop a theory of engineering culture that can inform pedagogies of innovation and collaboration.We have chosen the departments of ECE and ISE within the college of engineering and partnersites for several reasons. First, both majors are innovative, large, and highly ranked relative toother departments nationwide. Second, both locally and nationally, these two departments are atopposite ends of the diversity spectrum, with ECE among the
), was implemented as the treatment intervention. Data gathered in thetreatment sections of Calculus I and II (AY 2014-2015) are the subject of this study. The calculus instructor required students enrolled in the treatment sections to postquestions related to concepts or out-of-class assignments (i.e., homework) in the online forumweekly. Posting was required a) to provide opportunities for collaborative learning and peer-to-peer instruction among students and b) to improve instructor-based support for thegeographically dispersed student body. Researchers selected the Piazza platform as theintervention based on its a) wiki nature that allows participants to edit posts for organization andcontent, b) conceptual organization, and c) built
research with the University of Rochester Center for Photo-Induced Charge Transfer. Since 2003, Dr. Walz has taught chemistry and engineering at Madison Area Technical College, and he is also an adjunct professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Wisconsin. He has served as teacher for the UW Delta Center for Integrating Research, Teaching and Learning, and has mentored several graduate students who completed teaching internships at the technical college while creating new instructional materials for renewable energy and chemical education. Dr. Walz is also an instructor with the Wisconsin Center for Environmental Education and the K-12 Energy Education Program (KEEP), delivering
sociocultural dimensions of engineering education.Andrew Elby, University of Maryland, College Park Andrew Elby’s work focuses on student and teacher epistemologies and how they couple to other cognitive machinery and help to drive behavior in learning environments. His academic training was in Physics and Philosophy before he turned to science (particularly physics) education research. More recently, he has started exploring engineering students’ entangled identities and epistemologies.Dr. Ayush Gupta, University of Maryland, College Park Ayush Gupta is Assistant Research Professor in Physics and Keystone Instructor in the A. J. Clark School of Engineering at the University of Maryland. Broadly speaking he is interested in
on October 3, 2015 on thecampus of LU. Over 120 students and faculty attended sessions created to emphasize improvingSTEM education. College and university faculty members, administrators, and peers involved inSTEM education, or interested in getting involved, were invited to share and explore research,best practices, and ideas with their colleagues around the states of Texas and Louisiana. Theconference was also attended by eight S-STEM PI or co-PIs. This paper describes the ASCENTapproach, its structure and its expected results.Keywords- Bridge program, undergraduate research, STEM retention, timely graduation Introduction ASCENT is a collaboration between the Department of Mathematics (MATH) and
the learners by allowing them to modify, or “tweak” their role. For reasonspreviously stated, gamification of this experiment was intrinsically motivating as was the noveltyof controlling a MUAV.2. Collaboration and cooperative learning: On the day before the experiment, the students weredivided in the groups of their respective role and given ample time in class to meet and discusshow they might approach the experiment as a whole. Likewise, they had ~10 minutes toexchange thoughts at the parking lot just prior to beginning the experiment when theirexcitement was building. In between each trial, the graduate researcher instructed each group tothink critically out loud about the previous trial and how their role affected it. As a result
communities21, service learning22, problem-based learning23,24, cooperative learning24and the use of team projects25. More recently, researchers have tried to improve engagement byintroducing cultural touch stones for teaching engineering concepts in large classrooms26,collaboration with multiple disciplines27, collaboration between multiple schools28, ethnographicrecords and virtual learning experiments29.Recent research efforts have identified the role that faculty plays in the classroom to create anenvironment that is engaging to the students30. This is especially true in teaching focusedschools such as Tuskegee University31,32. The way teacher behaves in classroom and his/hercommunication ability plays a crucial role in the engagement of students8
the development of programs that assist entering freshman engineering students, including academically disadvantaged students, succeed during their first year. Of particular note are the highly successful counseling and cooperative learning programs for first-year stu- dents that he created within the freshman engineering programs at Purdue University and at the University of Pittsburgh. Dr. Budny has numerous publications and presentations on engineering education. He is widely recognized for outstanding teaching, receiving awards at both Purdue and Pittsburgh Universities, plus national and international awards. Dr. Budny is very active in ASEE within the Freshman Programs and the Educational Research and Methods
California, Santa Cruz. Beckett’s continuing dissertation research examines a community-university collaboration situated in a low-income, predominantly Latino community, that created and used digital stories as artifacts and learning tools to engage members of the community (parents, teachers, district officials, union leaders, students, non-profit service providers, etc.) in reflection and dialogue around the economic, social, and cultural barriers that constituents face when advocating for student academic achievement, and to identify the strengths and solidarities that can be created to change the school system to better serve the student body (Beckett, Glass, & Moreno, 2012). Beckett has presented her research at
. & Mclean, M. (1996). Peer Observation of Teaching and Staff Development. Higher EducationQuarterly, 50(2), 156-171.10 Bell, M. & Cooper, P. (2013). Peer Observation of Teaching in University Departments: A Framework forImplementation. International Journal for Academic Development, 18(1), 60-73.11 Woodman, R. J. & Parappilly, M. B. (2015). The Effectiveness of Peer Review of Teaching when performedbetween Early-career Academics. Journal of University Teaching & Learning Practice, 12(1).12 Carroll, M. P. (2014). Shoot For The Moon! The Mentors and the Middle Schoolers Explore the Intersection ofDesign Thinking and STEM. Journal of Pre-College Engineering Education Research, 4, 14-30.13 Hidi, S., & Renninger, K. (2006
Paper ID #16930Group Problem Solving Coupled with Hands-on Activities: Conceptual Gainsand Student Confidence in an Introductory Biomechanics CourseDr. LeAnn Dourte Segan, University of Pennsylvania Dr. LeAnn Dourte Segan is a senior lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Pa. Her primary teaching focus is in the field of solid biomechanics at the undergraduate and graduate levels.Dr. Emily R Elliott, Center for Teaching and Learning, University of Pennsylvania Emily R. Elliott is an Associate Director of the Center for Teaching and Learning at the University of Pennsylvania. She received her PhD in Biomedical
perspective, we can also usediscourse identity to determine students’ internalization of the discipline’s ethical canons anddisciplinary identity based on how they discursively position themselves in relation to the valuesof the profession. For example, research conducted by Dannels [17] and Douglas and colleagues[43] explored the discursive practices utilized by students throughout a variety of academiccontexts. They found that students did not perceive themselves as engineers; they perceivedthemselves as students working for a grade that would lead them to graduate from an engineeringprogram. In these studies, these students utilized discourse to maintain their student identitiesand separated themselves from engineers. To strengthen the link
-10 school year and the ASEE Pacific Northwest Section Outstanding Teaching Award in 2014.Ms. Tessa Alice Olmstead, Highline College Tessa holds a bachelor’s degree in Bioengineering from the University of Washington, and a second bach- elor’s degree in Dance. She is currently researching the use of reflective practices to improve engineering education at Highline College. She also serves as a research scientist for the Department of Neurosurgery at the University of Washington.Ms. Judy Mannard PE, Highline Community College c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Changing Student Behavior through the Use of Reflective Teaching Practices in an Introduction to
structures.To increase students’ learning, two teaching methods were used: case studies and problem-basedlearning (PBL). These methods were well-suited for teaching prospective scientists and engineersbecause they focus on cooperative sharing of ideas as well as healthy discussion and resolution ofproblematic issues [10, 11]. PBL-structured case studies promote higher-order learning skills, suchas application, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation. During case study-based learning modules,students were presented with a selected case to resolve the core issue by critically evaluating theinformation they had researched. They had opportunities to find the latest developments in a fieldand associate them with most recent social issues. This approach overcame
from the University of Victoria in 1987. As a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Waterloo, his research focus is machining, and he is well known for developing innovative 5-axis tool-positioning and flank- milling techniques. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Towards a Multi-Disciplinary Teamwork Training Series for Undergraduate Engineering Students: Development and Assessment of Two First-Year WorkshopsAbstractTeams have become the default work structure in organizations; thus, in work settings thatemphasize teamwork, employees must have knowledge, skills and abilities (KSAs) tocommunicate and coordinate with their
% of students will be engaged in some form of mentoring. They will be expected to take part in cooperative education communities through advising, tutoring, conducting seminars, or working as Teaching Assistants (for university credit or for pay through other university funds).7. The program will provide post-graduation preparation. There will be career training as well as opportunities to learn about graduate work and internships. Objective: Scholars will have the opportunity to attend career-related workshops such as seminars about professions in the STEM disciplines, resume writing workshops, or mock interviews. Those that wish to further their education will be provided information and training for GRE completion
sustainable energy technologies. She holds a BS and MS in Engineering Mechanics and a PhD in Biomedical Engi- neering from Virginia Tech.Dr. Robin Dawn Anderson, James Madison University Robin D. Anderson serves as the Academic Unit Head for the Department of Graduate Psychology at James Madison University. She holds a doctorate in Assessment and Measurement. She previously served as the Associate Director of the Center for Assessment and Research Studies at JMU. Her areas of research include assessment practice and engineering education research.Cheryl Alyssa Welch Alyssa Welch is a Psychological Sciences master’s student in the concentration of Experimental Psychol- ogy, and a Graduate Teaching Assistant in the
the effect of increasing momentum—communication and cooperation-- whenever a job needs to be done. • Informal interactions have proved to increase accountability among all involved. 14 • Other STEM groups want to work with the lead evaluator. NoteThis research was supported and funded partially by SystemsGo, Inc. (www.systemsgo.org). Wethank Mr. Brett Williams, founding teacher and former executive director of SystemsGo, and theentire SystemsGo group for allowing us to observe students and teachers in their program
biosensorrequire the cooperation of professors and graduate students in biology, chemistry, computerscience, electrical and computer engineering, and mathematics.To mirror the practice of this interdisciplinary research students participating in this study werechallenged to design and test “sensing” related problems of their choice. For example, teams made up of math, anatomy/physiology, and engineering and technology students designed bicycle helmets fitted with sensors to test impact absorption and collect data related to helmet materials and design
Elisabeth Kames is a graduate student pursuing her M.S. in Mechanical Engineering with a concentration in Dynamic Systems- Robotics and Controls. She graduated with her B.S. in Mechanical Engineering in May 2015. Her research is focused in the field of Automotive Engineering under the advisement of Dr. Beshoy Morkos.Dr. Beshoy Morkos, Florida Institute of Technology Beshoy Morkos is an assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the Florida Institute of Technology where he directs the STRIDE Lab (SysTems Research on Intelligent Design and Engineering). His engineering design research focuses on developing computational represen- tation and reasoning support for managing complex system
auniversity-school partnership and its related professional development activities fostered a senseof collaborative learning among elementary school teachers. By immersing fifth and sixth gradeteachers in authentic, ill-structured design problems, STEM faculty helped teachers to learnfirsthand how to utilize design thinking and reasoning as a way of developing their ownunderstanding of and emerging practice for engineering design-based science instruction.Simultaneously we leveraged the role of experienced SLED teachers as master teachers tofacilitate engineering design-based science instruction during the summer professionaldevelopment and within SLED schools.As the teachers integrated various curricular activities grounded in the engineering
with other fields besides electrical engineering, wearrange a tour of the School of Earth and Space Exploration. There are two major parts of thetour. The first part is a guided tour that helps students to understand the kind of stellar researchbeing performed including the collaboration between the university and NASA. The second partis a 3-D astronomy show at the theater. The movie takes the students on a journey from theEarth to outer space by introducing the planets and stars. The students have shown great interestin this tour and have said they have learned a considerable amount about space engineering aswell as what aerospace engineers do for their study and research. We broaden the students’ exposure to the allied fields of
the Policies and Programs That Support Them” explored the challenges that female engineering faculty faced in their careers, as well as the institutional policies and programs (i.e. family-friendly policies, diversity/equity programs, mentoring initiatives, etc.) that helped them to be successful in obtaining tenure. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Leaning into Engineering: Tenured Women Faculty and the Policies and Programs That Support ThemAbstractWhile researchers have documented the barriers that women in engineering programs face (i.e. genderbias, work/family conflict, “dual career” issues, limited access to information networks), few