generally had three components.1) First, conceptual questions were asked using a hand-held personal response system (TurningTechnologies, 2020). Most of the questions were carefully chosen to go beyond recall anddefinitions. An example of a conceptual question from the topic of Prerequisites toInterpolation is shown in Figure 5. If a polynomial of degree n has more than n zeros, then the polynomial is A. oscillatory B. zero everywhere C. quadratic D. not defined Figure 5. A typical conceptual question asked via a personal response system2) The second component is where the students solve free-response questions in a think-pairformat (Lyman, 1987). For this activity to work, groups of two students each
course. The grading scheme is summarized bypresenting how each of these three categories of practices were implemented.Rethinking the 0-100% ScaleGrading in this course is based around tokens; 26 tokens are required for an A, 23 for a B, 20 for aC, and so on. Students earn tokens by answering exam questions, completing labs, and/orcompleting mini-projects. The token progression was built around Webb’s Depth of Knowledge, alearning taxonomy that breaks learning into 4 levels, shown in Figure 1 [12]. To earn a C,students must meet all of the level 2 objectives. Level 3 and 4 objectives could be completed toearn additional tokens.Depth of Knowledge 1 (DK1) is recalland reproduce. In the case of Circuit Analysis1, a DK1 skill might be using Ohm’s
theirqualitative feedback.In order to gain data on the activity, the author developed a survey with short answer and Likertscale questions to be administered following the final exam in the course beginning with the Spring2021 semester. The author also gathered feedback from 13 students who had participated in theAMechanics Race activity in the course prior to the Spring 2020 semester (COVID-19 pandemic)using the same survey. The survey is given in Appendix B, Figure 14 and results are presented.Survey Questions- Short AnswerPlease write 1-2 sentences summarizing your opinion (positive/neutral/negative) of theAMechanics Race activity and provide any feedback for the professor. • Past Students (prior to Spring 2020)- 13 Responses o “Enjoyable
, where each question has answers lettered (i.e., A, B, C, D)and the quiz taker reads their results based on these (i.e., “If you answered mostly As, you…). Inaddition to careful wording, we saw this format as a means to mitigate the sense of being ranked.We wanted to invite members of the organization to comfortably place themselves on thetrajectory toward becoming community engaged, not reject it as out of reach. Thus, to also offeropportunities to learn and grow, we linked the categories (e.g., mostly Bs) to descriptions andideas; for example: “Your program is characterized as for the community. The role of the community is consultant. There may be an advisory board that the organization selected or identified out of
A: Ability to determine the scope of a software project by taking into account various constraints. B: Ability to develop a software project plan. C: Ability to enact a software project plan. D: Ability to estimate various software project parameters. E: Ability to measure and control software products and processes. F: Ability to manage software project risk. G: Ability to lead a diverse team of software developers.Figure 1: Self-assessed contribution of course
Paper ID #33644Building a Sense of Community in a Multidisciplinary, Split-level OnlineProject-based Innovation Design CourseDr. Melissa Mae White, University of Florida Dr. Melissa Mae White develops and instructs course curriculum in Engineering Innovation and Engi- neering Entrepreneurship to the students in the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering at the University of Florida. She works with faculty and students to build an ecosystem focusing on creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship across campus and in the community. She received her Bachelor of Science degree in Biomedical Engineering with a minor in
, attitudes, and intentions. In B. Eitam & P. Haggard (Eds.), Human Agency: Functions and Mechanisms. UK: Oxford University Press.[20] Dasgupta, N. (2015). Role models and peers as a social vaccine to enhance women's self- concept in STEM. The American Society for Cell Biology. Retrieved from ascb.org/role- models-and-peers-as-a-social-vaccine-to-enhance-womens-self-concept-in-stem/.[21] Dasgupta, N., McManus Scircle, M., & Hunsinger, M. (2015). Female peers in small work groups enhance women's motivation, verbal participation, and career aspirations in engineering. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, accessed online from pnas.org/content/early/2015/04/03/1422822112.[22] Dasgupta, N
. Dabipi, Y. Jin, P. Matin, "Inspiring Undergraduate Students in Engineering Learning, Comprehending and Practicing by the Use of Analog Discovery Kits," Frontiers in Education (FIE) 2015, Oct. 2015, El Paso, TX.3. K. Connor, B. Ferri, K. Meehan, A. Ferri, D. Walter, M. Chouikha, Y. Astatke, D. Newman, “Experiment Centric Pedagogy and Why it Should be a Core Part of Every Engineering Student’s Learning Experience,” NSF Envisioning the Future of STEM Undergraduate Education, Washington, DC, 27-29 April 20164. K. Connor, D. Newman, K. Gullie, Y. Astatke, C. Kim, J. Attia, P. Andrei, M. Ndoye, “The Implementation of Experiment Centric Pedagogy in 13 ECE Programs – The View from Students and Faculty,” ASEE Annual Conference
authenticity on student engagement and information literacy in academic library instruction,” Reference Services Review, vol. 42, no. 2, pp. 229–245, Jun. 2014, doi: 10.1108/RSR-08-2013-0043.[8] A. J. Carroll, H. N. Eskridge, and B. P. Chang, “Lab-Integrated Librarians: A Model for Research Engagement,” College & Research Libraries, vol. 81, no. 1, pp. 8–26, Jan. 2020, doi: https://doi.org/10.5860/crl.81.1.8.[9] A. Assor, H. Kaplan, and G. Roth, “Choice is good, but relevance is excellent: Autonomy- enhancing and suppressing teacher behaviours predicting students’ engagement in schoolwork,” British Journal of Educational Psychology, vol. 72, no. 2, pp. 261–278, Jun. 2002, doi: 10.1348/000709902158883.[10] A. J. Carroll, J. D
President? a. How would you explain the divulging of proprietary information? b. Would you recommend pursuing the job under these circumstances? c. Would you recommend any procedures to prevent such situations? 2. Would you communicate any concerns to the Pastor? 3. Would you communicate any concerns to the Architect? 4. Would you communicate any concerns to the other Contractors?This list of questions can be extended depending on the level of response from the audience. It isessential to underline that the project is still not awarded to any party at the time of the report tothe President. There is a motivation to secure the job regardless of the circumstances.Our experience suggests that the instructor should initially
Paper ID #34231Engagement in Practice: Lessons From a Large Engagement Program Dur-ing aPandemicDr. William ”Bill” C. Oakes, Purdue University at West Lafayette William (Bill) Oakes is a 150th Anniversary Professor, the Director of the EPICS Program and one of the founding faculty members of the School of Engineering Education at Purdue University. He has held courtesy appointments in Mechanical, Environmental and Ecological Engineering as well as Curriculum and Instruction in the College of Education. He is a registered professional engineer and on the NSPE board for Professional Engineers in Higher Education. He has been
coordinator.Figure 10(b) provides the code for receiving the message. This message is then displayed on the PCusing a terminal program (e.g., Putty). Figure 9 – Remote Sensor Network Schematic1. from machine import ADC # imports ADC class from the machine library2. from sys import stdout # imports stdout class from the sys library3. import time4. import xbee5. # TODO: replace with the 64-bit MAC address of your target device.6. COORD_ADDR = b'\x00\x13\xA2\x00\x41\xA8\x02\xC6'7. # List of LCD commands as an array of bytes.8. home = bytearray([0xFE, 0x46]) # returns the cursor to line 1 column 19. line2 = bytearray([0xFE, 0x45, 0x40]) # places the cursor to line 2 column 110. clear = bytearray([0xFE, 0x51]) # clears the entire display11
Paper ID #34397Overview and Challenges in Developing a Comprehensive LeadershipDevelopment Program in a Fortune 500 CompanyDr. Gregg Morris Warnick, Micron Technology Inc. Gregg M. Warnick is a Global Executive and Leadership Development, Sr. Program Manager for Micron Technology. He provides leadership development and program management globally. He is also Founder and Chief Learning Officer of Boost Leadership Group. He provides consulting and training in leadership development and project management working with fortune 500 companies throughout the world. He previously worked as the Director of the Weidman Center for
programming. To my knowledge, the new ENGR 102 curriculum corrects for this by a) teaching in Python, and b) teaching basics of coding a specific language. I believe this to be a much more appropriate approach to teaching coding, especially for students who had no prior experience, such as myself” [6]. • “I think ENGR 102 was a great course to ease students who don’t have any coding experience into coding. There reason for this is because this course solely focused on coding. I took ENGR 111 [previous first semester course] and in this course, we were taught more than just coding which made it hard to just focus on learning that new skill” [6].Graduate teaching assistants
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Origins of Young Adult Environmental Behavior. Psychological science, 29(5), 679-687.[22] Lawton, J., (2019). Poverty a problem in St. Lawrence County; 29% of kids live below poverty line. North Country This week, Monday, April 22, 2019. Accessed 9/20,2020 at https://www.northcountrynow.com/b U.S.iness/poverty-problem-st-lawrence-county-29-kids-live- below-povert-line- 0257011#:~:text=A%20family%20of%20three%20earning%20%2421%2C330%20or%20less%20is %20considered%20impoverished.&text=According%20to%20a%20report%20from%20the%20St.,C ounty%20residents%20live%20in%20poverty.[23] SERC (Science Education Resource Center; nd). Why use the Campus as a Living Laboratory? Pedagogy in Action, the SERC portal for Educators
list of assignments (Appendix A) and content map (Appendix B) were created tohelp faculty see how the material was used in other classes and ensure that courses had minimaloverlap in reading assignments.The ImplementationThe communications curriculum was initially developed and tested in a sophomore levelmechanics course, ME222. This course was identified as a good starting point because it is oneof the first engineering courses taken by Mechanical Engineers at Michigan State University.This is the first place that the Mechanical Engineering department can create a student culture ofvaluing professional communication. Additionally, at Michigan State University, the sophomoreyear is often a year where students receive little or no writing or
for the needed preparation, aninterview can be conducted live or asynchronously, through video or face-to-face, and the subjectmatter can span any assessment topic the professor seeks to capture (see Appendix B for additionalcontent). In project-based learning courses, progress interviews can serve as a mechanism forstudents to make guided partial progress, reiterate their process to affirm correctness of theirapproach, solicit feedback in a low-stakes assignment and in advance of grading of the majorproject assignment, and request input from the professor. An ePortfolio is another element usefulin the hybrid project-based course as a tool to perform assessment, moderate progress, andencourage creative thinking. In some cases, very similar to
education has been widely noted. Thishas been driven by the need to develop a wide range of skills such as innovativeness, creativity,and problem-solving in engineering students to succeed in today’s technology-driven economy.Increasingly, graduates are expected to adapt their complex problem-solving skills to align withthe modern-day multidisciplinary practice of engineering [1], know how to integrate theirscience and technical training to enhance industrial practice [2], and successfully navigate futurechallenges through continued innovation [1]. As noted by Torres, Velez-Arocho, and Pabon [3],“The contemporary engineer must be able to (a) effectively communicate orally as well as [in]writing, (b) be capable of working in multidisciplinary teams
Paper ID #32249A Study of Alumni of the ’Leveraging Leadership for a Lifetime’Leadership Development CourseDr. Ronald J. Bennett F.ABET, University of St. Thomas Dr. Ronald J. Bennett, the Founding Dean of the School of Engineering at the University of St. Thomas, started teaching in the Engineering Graduate Program in 1987. He was active in buiding the engineering program, and in 1993 was named the Thwaits/3M Chair. During Bennett’s tenure at UST, he began sev- eral new degree programs, increased enrollments, introduced and developed the STEPs summer camp for girls and created the School of Engineering. Bennett holds a
(7) 𝐹𝐹 𝑡𝑡𝑏𝑏 = 𝑚𝑚𝑒𝑒 𝑉𝑉𝑡𝑡 = 𝐼𝐼 (8) 𝐹𝐹 = 𝑚𝑚𝑡𝑡 𝑎𝑎� (9) 𝐾𝐾𝐾𝐾 = 0.5 𝑚𝑚 𝑉𝑉𝑡𝑡2Practical Experience: Rocket Car LaunchesEach team launched all three vehicle types: coupe, truck, and bus using progressively morepowerful engines of A, B, and C type. A total of about 65 data gathering experiments wereperformed in addition to 25 other practice and fun (e.g. collision) test launches. Figure 3 shows atruck just launched
: An analysis of the failure of constructivist, discovery, problem-based, experiential, and inquiry-based teaching,” Educational Psychologist, vol. 41, no. 2, p. 75–86, 2006. [2] J. Hattie, “Visible learning,” 2008. [3] H. Siy, B. Dorn, C. Engelmann, N. Grandgenett, T. Reding, J.-H. Youn, and Q. Zhu, “Sparcs: A personalized problem-based learning approach for developing successful computer science learning experiences in middle school,” 2017 IEEE International Conference on Electro Information Technology (EIT), 2017. [4] D. Brabazon, L. Donovan, M. Melia, M. P. O’Mahony, A. Egan, and B. Smyth, “Supporting problem-based learning in moodle using personalised, context-specific learning episode generation,” Proceeding of 1st
Paper ID #33450Cohort-Based Supplemental Instruction Sessions as a Holistic RetentionApproach in a First-Year Engineering CourseMiss Nisha Abraham, University of Texas at Austin Nisha coordinates the Supplemental Instruction program. She received her B.S. in cell and molecular biology from The University of Texas at Austin in 2007, her M.S. in biology from Texas A&M University in 2012 and her M.A. in STEM Education from The University of Texas at Austin in 2019. Additionally, she has over five years of combined industry and science research experience, has worked as a senior bioscience associate at UT’s Austin Technology
semester. Somestudents also secured A+ grade, as compared to no A+ grades in the previous semester. In thecurrent semester, there were no F or C grades, only 10% secured D grade. In the previoussemester, B grade was the most common, some C, D and F grades were also assigned. Overall,there was better student performance in the semester. Fig. 2 Student grades for the course (ECE425) with and without online delivery.This led to better instructor evaluation as compared to the previous semester.9. Improvements made in future semesters based on lessons learntEven though teaching during Spring 2020 semester was successful as far as better student andinstructor performance was concerned, several different platforms like zoom, course
section.2. CyberSec LabsIn the learning system, a GUI application was designed to help learners navigate the system [5].In total, eight CyberSec labs were designed: Web defacement lab, Remote secure login lab, FTPserver DoS lab, Patch management lab, Backdoor lab, SQL injection (SQLi) lab, Honeypot lab,and Secure plain text traffic labs. Each lab included two sub-labs (attack and defense) andobjectives were included in each of the labs. Figure 1a displays the GUI application and Figure1b shows the two sub-lab buttons after clicking the Secure remote login lab. Table 1 shows theCyberSec labs and their corresponding objectives.(a) (b) Figure 1. (a) CLaaS GUI application (b) Sub-labs of
community to have intervening communication facilitators in the role of mentors[22]. In this paper we present the development and evolution of a guided mentorship programadministered by the ESP mentors over the first two years of this program, in which eight studentsreceived support during Year 1 (Cohort A) and an additional eleven students were supported inYear 2 (Cohort B). Findings from Years 1 and 2 will be used to support additional considerationsas this program matures and prepares for the transfer of FCC students to a four-year institution tocomplete their engineering degree.MethodsWe distinguish Years 1 and 2 of the ESP program by their discernibly different approaches tomentorship. During the first year of this program, mentorship took an
a complete redesign of the chucks(see Figure 2) and carefully controlled collection protocols designed and implemented byexperienced users, our datasets became very consistent and had good correlation with theoreticalcalculations (see Figure3).Figure 2. Custom chucks redesigned as part of a move to calibrate collected data to theoreticallyderived and published values: (a) old design allows for movement within the connection; (b) newdesign utilizes keyless, self-adjusting drill-type chucks for more consistent connections.Figure 3. Euler’s and Johnson’s theoretical critical buckling load equations (black and grey) andmeasured dataset (orange) show a close correlation. (a) Yield = 48Kpsi; (b) Yield = 54Kpsi.The situation with our joint testing
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culture of learning through peer-assisted tutorials," European Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 35, no. 1, pp. 17 - 32, 2010.[9] E. J. Coyle, L. H. Jamieson and W. C. Oakes, "EPICS: Engineering Projects in Community Service," Int. J. Engng Ed., vol. 21, no. 1, pp. 139 - 150, 2005.[10] D. M. Hall, A. J. Curtin-Soydan and J. H. Blackshear, "Creating a Layered Assessment Model to Engage and Retain Diverse Learners in Gateway STEM Courses," in Transforming STEM Higher Education presented by the Association of American Colleges and Universities, Atlanta, GA, 2014.[11] B. Toven-Lindsey and M. Lewis-Fitzgerald, "Assessing and Improving Persistence of Underrepresented Minorities in Science," in Transforming STEM Higher
6 5 3 4 3 5 0 A B C D F Grades Figure 2: Grade distributionAs data from the recitation course is gathered, it will be compared to the baseline. Students withsimilar midterm 1 exam scores will be compared to measure the correlation between passingrates of those with and without the recitation course.Student SurveyA survey was