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dexterityimpairment in rounds 2 and 4, rather than using a shaking mouse, which is not used on a mobiledevice, we implemented shaking balls to simulate the difficulty that someone with a physicalimpairment may have when trying to click in the area. For the Blindness Game, in addition toverbally announcing color instructions, people had the option to swipe and tap on the screen: they (a) Round 1. (b) Round 2. Figure 1: Round 1 and round 2 of the Blindness Game.could swipe up or down to select a ball and use a two-finger tap to pop the ball. In addition, theBlindness Game had a different look, with a vertical instead of a random layout for the balls. Thisrepresented how a screen
of educationalpartnerships that can inspire future efforts to enhance STEM learning and build well-educated,creative, and resilient communities. These programs create a stronger community of futureinnovators!AcknowledgmentThis educational program is based upon work partially supported by funding from the Ohio CodeScholars and gift funding to THE Ohio State University from the Two Sigma Faculty ResearchAward.References[1] B. Fralick, J. Kearn and S. Thompson, “How middle schoolers draw engineers and scientists,” J. Sci. Educ. Technol. 18, 60- 73, 2009.[2] M. Liu, F.K. Chiang, “Middle school students’ perceptions of engineers: a case study of Beijing students,” Int J Technol Des Educ 30, 479–506, 2020.[3] J. Rodrigues
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, Florida,USACorrespondenceAtota B. Halkiyo, 10555 W Flagler St, Miami, FL 33174 | Florida International University,U.S.AEmail: ahalkiyo@fiu.edu 1AbstractThe issue of race-based disparities in higher education, particularly in engineering, is a pressingconcern in the United States. Many faculty developers are actively seeking ways to bridge thisgap and foster racial equity, including workshops for culturally responsive pedagogy. Facultydevelopment workshops and seminars are inherently constrained by limited time, limitedconnection to and responsiveness to each faculty’s context, and limited ability to exploreeffective interventions. This paper presents
% 8% 5% Disagree 0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Strongly DisagreeFigure 1. Chart showing the sense of belonging among both students and faculty members.In terms of understanding the importance of diversity in engineering (Figure B1, Appendix B),Most engineering students (72%) affirm their understanding of diversity and its importance toengineering. When asked about the role of diversity in engineering, 45% strongly agree thatdiversity can provide benefits to the field, and an additional 22% agree. In contrast, 21% ofstudents strongly disagree, and 12% hold a neutral perspective
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) program under Award No. 2400983. The authors express their gratitude for thisessential funding, which has significantly contributed to the research and findings presented in thispaper. 6. References[1] R. M. Marra, K. A. Rodgers, D. Shen and B. Bogue (2012). Leaving engineering: A multi-year single institution study. Journal of Engineering Education, January 2012.[2] B. N. Geisinger and D. R. Raman (2013). Why they leave: Understanding student attritionfrom engineering majors. International Journal of Engineering Education 29(4): 914–25.Available at https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1890&context=abe_eng_pubs[3] ASEE Retention Project https://www.asee.org/retention-project/keeping-students-in-engineering-a-research
contributes to the growing body of literatureadvocating for innovative and inclusive approaches to teacher training, fostering a deeperappreciation for science among educators and their students.AcknowledgmentsThis material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under AwardNo. (NSF 2048930)References[1] C. Dede, Online Professional Development for Teachers: Emerging Models and Methods. Harvard Education Press, 2006.[2] C. D. Lay, B. Allman, R. M. Cutri, and R. Kimmons, “Examining a Decade of Research in Online Teacher Professional Development,” Front. Educ., vol. 5, Sep. 2020[3] G. Lichtenstein and M. L. Phillips, “Comparing Online vs. In-Person Outcomes of a Hands-On, Lab-Based, Teac her Professional
aspects of the courses they teach. While we are using a Jetson Nano-based myCobot,an Arduino-based robot is sufficient for a short robotic demonstration for this course. In class,robot programming can be quickly demonstrated using myBlockly drag-and-drop graphicalprogramming language.The first robotic task consists of the following subtasks. 1. Verify that the robot is operational by remotely controlling the robot by using your phone. You will need to download the Mycobot-Controller app to your phone. 2. Using myBlockly, program the robot to perform the following actions twice. a. Turn the LED matrix of the Atom 5 red b. Hold for one second c. Turn the LED matrix green d. Hold for one second e
2021.Figure 2: (a) COE enrollment by gender where male enrollment is plotted on the left y-axisand female enrollment is plotted on the right y-axis. Note that both y-axes have a range of800 students to allow a comparison of slopes. (b) COE enrollment by gender plotted on the left y-axis, and the percent of total enrollment attributed to female-identifying students plotted on the right y-axis. Figure 3: COE enrollment based on gender for (a) white, (b) African American, (c)Hispanic, and (d) Asian enrollments, where enrollments based on gender are plotted on the left y-axis, and the percent of enrollment attributed to female-identifying students within the given racial group is plotted on the right y-axis
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]. Students may also be forced to rely on grassroots efforts to build their own supportsystems and lead DEI efforts, understandably at a much smaller scale. Without intentional effortto serve graduate students at HSIs, these students are left with an ongoing lack of institutionalsupport. This paper presents a plan to recruit, interview, and compare the experiences of 9 first-generation graduate students in STEM majors from three, 4-year HSI universities to understandhow potential changes in resources and support systems are affecting their degree progression inlight of emerging anti-DEI policies. University A resides in a historically conservative statewhere anti-DEI legislation was passed, University B also resides in a historically
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perspectives.Insights on engagement from participant reflections: This section presents the set of five themes that we noticed from the participants’ captionsacross all activities. We noticed that memorable takeaways were related to experiences,emotional engagements, skill learning, knowledge or factual gain, and awareness about topicsrelated to the semiconductor industry. Table 5 presents a brief description of the theme andillustrates it with a sample reflection from the participants.Participant lighting up an Participant operating the BBC A team making a stakeholder LED from Activity 1 micro:bit from Activity 2 map from Activity 3 Photograph (a) Photograph (b) Photograph (c
discussed in this paper was offered in Fall 2024 with anenrollment of ~70 total students (Figure 1). Classroom time is structured to consist of mini-lectures from experts in the field of bioengineering coupled with in-class discussions. Studentsvisit research institutes on campus, participate in medical simulation activities, and converse withresearchers and graduates in the field. Course assignments allow students to work on identifyingreal-world biomedical problems, technology gaps, and innovation needs. (a) Class Makeup by Gender (b) Class Makeup by Year Freshman
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the map. For the rest of the paper, the produced mapsare shown without the California boundary. Figure 2: Burnt area of California state in the year of 2010ResultsAs discussed in the previous section, a total of 24 maps were produced to check the wildfireseverity. To conserve space, not all of them are displayed in the paper. A total of 12 maps areshown. The first set of maps are selected from 2000-2014 when the wildfire severity isn’t thathigh (Figure 3) whereas the next set of maps are selected from 2015-2023 (Figure 4) when thered dot areas kept increasing across the state. (a) (b) (c
seeks to provide insights into what motivates these individuals to remain employed at asingle workplace for over three years or to leave within the first year. The research utilizedsurvey responses from two cohorts of international graduate students, collected in Fall 2023(referred to as Cohort 1) and Spring 2024 (referred to as Cohort 2). A total of 50 participants (25from each cohort) completed questionnaires addressing two key topics: (a) factors that wouldencourage them to stay with the same organization for more than three years, and (b) factors thatwould lead them to leave within one year of employment. The collected data was categorizedinto different tables by counting the occurrences of each factor. This data was then plotted
designing the spaces, facades and circulation corridors. Chat GPT to verifycompliance with standards in design.2. Assignment of roles: Students will be divided into groups of 3 students and will beassigned the respective roles for each stage of the project.Tesfit: Student A will be in charge of designing the green spaces while student Bmakes the geometry of the building and student C the access roads.Hypar: Student A will be in charge of locating the terrain and the design of the space,while student B will be in charge of the façade design and student C will design thecirculation corridors and the placement of the elevator.At the same time, all participants will be in charge of verifying that the designcomplies with construction standards using
team who debriefed as a group before integrating and interpreting the resultingdata. (a) Mathematical formulation for the centroid. (b) Applied formulation from course notes. Figure 2: Formulations for calculating the centroid presented to study participants.In addition to the observed student difficulties with centroids, observations from priorimplementations of this work [10-12] also noted the potential importance of reflective thinkingin transferring knowledge and solving the statics problem (Fig.1). Anecdotally, expert problemsolvers (faculty participants) were observed to be significantly more metacognitive and reflectivethan novice problem solvers (students) and the only student who correctly solved the problemunaided was very
approaches in engineering education.Future research should examine how these different approaches to spatial reasoning might beeffectively combined in engineering education to prepare students for both technical precisionand practical problem-solving. Additionally, investigating how these findings translate acrossdifferent craft activities and engineering contexts could provide valuable insights forcurriculum development.ReferencesBailey, S. K. T., & Sims, V. K. (2014). Self-reported craft expertise predicts maintenance of spatial ability in old age. Cognitive Processing, 15(2), 227-231. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10339-013-0596-7Casey, B. M., Andrews, N., Schindler, H., Kersh, J. E., Samper, A., & Copley, J. (2008). The
strategy. (b) ML models training and testing procedure.Figure 1: a) Undersampling percentages allude to the ratio of students who did not persist compared to students whopersisted during training. b) Overall model training and testing (evaluation of never-seen data) procedure.Results and AnalysisFigure 2 illustrates the trend of the NN model performance when the proposed data balancingstrategy is employed. The values presented are related to the test set (the portion of available datareserved for model evaluation) and considering later data. The observed spread is due to the multi-ple iterations during the training loop, with the focus on the ML model’s median performance (redbar of the boxplot). While accuracy and precision do