to adopt best teaching practices in theclassroom is essential [17] for their success. According to [18], there are ten practices consideredthe best for teaching math and science. These include: use of manipulatives and hands-on learning;cooperative learning; discussion and inquiry; questioning and conjectures; justification ofthinking; writing for reflection and problem solving; use of problem-solving approach; integrationof technology; teacher as a facilitator; and use of assessment as a part of instruction. In addition,understanding students’ misconceptions also supports teachers’ pedagogy [10,19].The research literature indicates that providing effective technology PD to STEM teachers has apositive effect on teacher and student learning
the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the NationalScience Foundation. The authors wish to thank the STRIDE team and survey participants fortheir engagement with this study.References [1] M. Credé and N. R. Kuncel, “Study habits, skills, and attitudes: The third pillar supporting collegiate academic performance,” Perspectives on Psychological Science, vol. 3, no. 6, pp. 425-453, 2008. [2] A. Godwin, “Unpacking Latent Diversity,” in American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference and Exposition, Columbus, OH, 2017. [3] J. J. Lin, P. K. Imbrie, K. J. Reid, and J. Wang, “Work in progress—Modeling academic success of female and minority engineering students using the student attitudinal
GrantNumber DUE1525775. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressedin this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the NationalScience Foundation.References[1] R. M. Felder, D. R. Woods, J. E. Stice, and A. Rugarcia, "The future of engineering education II. Teaching methods that work," Chemical Engineering Education, vol. 34, pp. 26-39, 2000.[2] S. Freeman, S. L. Eddy, M. McDonough, M. K. Smith, N. Okoroafor, H. Jordt, et al., "Active learning increases student performance in science, engineering, and mathematics," Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 111, pp. 8410- 8415, 2014.[3] B. Kerr, "The flipped classroom in engineering
increases in confidence for this high school students were in Computer Engineering (from 2.7 to 7.3), Biomedical Engineering (from 3.8 to 7.4), and Neurology (from 1.3 to 7.4). The data reflects their confidence in their knowledge, not their knowledge of that material. We did not conduct any final examinations on the material. The increase in confidence can be traced to the interaction between the high school students, undergraduates, graduate students, faculty, and industry professionals working in that area. When the students were working on their project, their knowledge was constantly being strengthened and reinforced by their partners. Therefore, a potential benefit of the proposed holistic approach is significantly
Learner Capstone Panels Approach In this approach, the students select their preferred technical focus in computer systems design topicsamong a set of 5 to 7 technical focus topics such as reliability, circuit energy, memory read/write powerconsumption, etc. as identified by the course Instructor. Students are mentored on extending the coursematerial from a topic list by the laboratory Graduate Teaching Assistants (GTAs) and the courseInstructor. The students gain experience composing a scholarly article and produce a substantial paperthat reflects a deep understanding of a topic having narrow breadth. Extra Credit (EC) is allotted to thoselearners who go beyond the baseline requirements and explore additional papers in order to provide amore
upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No.1741611 Encouraging Civil Engineering Retention through Community and Self-EfficacyBuilding. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this materialare those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National ScienceFoundation.References[1] "Infrastructure Report Card." American Society of Civil Engineers. (accessed 2 Feb., 2019): https://www.infrastructurereportcard.org/.[2] S. Hatch, Diversity by Design: Guide to Fostering Diversity in the Civil Engineering Workplace. Reston, VA: American Society of Civil Engineers, 2008.[3] "Criteria for accrediting engineering programs 2019-2020." ABET. (accessed 2
andindividualism [32]. In many individualistic cultures, practices reflecting the ethic resulted in self-esteem and a new spirit of enterprise, commitment, and excellence [49]. As defined in theHofstede study [35], the United States has low power distance, weak masculine, and weakuncertainty avoidance dimensions compared to the Arab nations, characterized as having highpower distance, strong masculine traits, and high uncertainty avoidance [35]. Elenkov [25]suggested that the culture-specific way people deal with lower power distance and uncertaintyavoidance is important and may be indicative of intra-country, i.e., economic activities within thecountry. Franke [27], and Hofstede [36] similarly noted that in general, rich nation’s scores showlow power
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actually do the engineering work, basically costing companies twice as much as it should.In this zero-sum game, any recognition that engineering work is sociotechnical in nature or anywhiff of preparing engineers for the professional expectations of the 21st century workplace istantamount to technical disaster, as if professional skills are some kind of kryptonite erasingtechnical skillsets. Diverse engineers are presumed incapable and pitted against “real engineers.”Yet ABET’s new requirements for diverse teaming reflect the reality that if our students don’tget basic training in power relations across categories like race, gender, class, ability, sexualorientation, gender identity, nationality, immigrant status, and veteran status, they
engineering students acrossdemographic and academic variables, we do not know the extent to which our data and therebyfindings are representative of the total population. Second, the findings should also be taken withcaution because of the potential social desirability issue. Some respondents may have rated theimportance of the 11 skills and their confidence in them in ways that do not reflect their truevalues and ability beliefs about these skills. We did not have any means to triangulate thecollected data. Lastly, given that the leadership ability item was loosely defined in the survey, itis not immediately clear what the survey respondents thought of leadership when completing thesurvey, which may have influenced their importance and confidence
the experiences theygain through their funding. Additional attention should focus on the role of postdoctoralpositions both in industry and academia on engineering doctoral career advancement. Educationwas categorized for all positions within academia and K-12 employment. Future work shouldinvolve looking at what types of positions graduates obtain within Education, such as tenure-track faculty positions or lecturer or other part-time positions.AcknowledgementsThis research was funded by the National Science Foundation through grants #1535462 and#1535226. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions in this article are the authors’ and do notnecessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.ReferencesAustin, A.E. (2002). Preparing
, construction manager, and constructionengineering. This shift is mostly associated with reductions in previous sports career interests, asthere is a notable drop in sports career interests from middle-school (16%) to high school (2%),as students become increasingly aware of some challenges to their sports career goals. Changesin career interests associated with science, engineering, and arts are minimal, with no changeobserved in the percentage of respondents interested in fine and performing arts.College: During the early college years, most of the respondents showed interest in technology,engineering, science, sports, and arts (Table 1); however, 2% of the respondents indicates thatthey have no career interests at this stage. This reflects undecided
university student employees, the research team analyzed theresponses of the interviewees and identified patterns. Descriptions of students’ reflections oftheir work experiences will be presented, along with the discovery of themes prevalent to thecharacteristics of a good employer abiding the ADA and Section 501.Based on the review of the literature and preliminary research findings noted, an employmentguideline for employers hiring Deaf and Hard of Hearing (DHH) employees will be developedand disseminated. It will include, but not be limited to, effective ways to communicate betweenDHH employees and their hearing co-workers, different ways to overcome cultural differences,and ways to become a quality advocate of co-workers.IntroductionAt the
manufacturing in both of these disciplinesis needed8. Many current engineering programs do not emphasize the marriage of design andmanufacturing in a modern industrial technical workforce [10].Many research studies have assessed the quality of exposure to manufacturing through the seniordesign or capstone course. McMasters and Lang indicate that few people in industry have anunderstanding of how the current engineering education is undertaken. Through design projects,the inclusion of industry partners in the education process will enhance the education provided tothe students and better reflect the expectations of industry [11]. Universities are exposingstudents to manufacturing through senior capstone design courses to offer students with arealistic
the experiment.Imagine all of the factors that must come together to result in a realistic and effectiveexperiment. The lab experiment content, software and hardware, miscellaneous components allmust work together and conclude in the desired learning experience. Additionally, it is importantto realize that in our ever-fast-changing technological era, it is necessary to offer degreeprograms that reflect the changes in industry and the job market. This realization in a largemeasure is the responsibility of the instructor to update and maintain course and programrelevance to the real world. The intent of changes of the course content were based on the suggestions from engineersand technical sales representatives during annual ASEE
activities, (d) technology training, and (e) a practice teaching session.This research focuses on the online community, workshop series, and community of scholars’activities, with the workshop series being the main hub for content delivery. The content wasdelivered in a series of three workshops anchored in engineering education that brought inelements of today’s student, how people learn, course design using an engineering designmindset, planning for all students, and an introduction to different types of active learningstrategies. Also included in each workshop was deliberate time given for faculty to do bothindividual and group reflection and discussion of the content, how it applies to their course(s),and to begin developing an implementation
the concept of entrepreneurship whenIngeniería 2030 began, but with time they integrated it. Authorities integrate entrepreneurshipinto their discourse, which mobilized people.When the idea of entrepreneurship is present in the discourse of the highest authority, the ideaflows downwards and transcends faculty members, staff, and students. In our sample, the top-down model is best reflected at the PUC case. Here, the Ingeniería 2030 project strengthened analready existing emphasis already in the dean, increasing its importance among the facultymembers and other actors, who did not necessarily share the vision of the entrepreneurialengineer. One strategy was to make them see that this was a public policy matter and not somewhimsical move on the
Foundation [CollaborativeResearch: Florida IT Pathways to Success (Flit-Path) NSF# 1643965, 1643931, 1643835]. Anyfindings, conclusions, and recommendations expressed in this work do not necessarily reflect theviews of the National Science Foundation.References[1] A. Hogan and B. Roberts, “Occupational employment projections to 2024,” Mon. Labor Rev., 2017.[2] “Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, Occupational Outlook Handbook, Computer Programmers, on the Internet at https://www.bls.gov/ooh/computer-and- information-technology/computer-programmers.htm (visited January 29, 2019).” .[3] X. Chen, Stem Attrition: College Students & apos Paths into and Out of StemFields. Statistical Analysis Report
my life that everybody from neighbors to families, everybody came toyour house and you had food together, such delicious food all over the table, thatexperience, I think, I'm never gonna to get again. I really felt home and I really felt thatyou know, fireworks and all that for the Chinese culture in the Chinese New Year. ButI think the Chinese culture might be similar to our culture. Pakistan is also in Asia. Werespect our ancestors, respect our parents our professors, whoever teaches us, really,have the highest respect.” -- PhillipSkills DomainIn the skill domain, students’ perception of their learning gains mainly reflected in thefollowing aspects: software
dates back to the American philosopher John Dewey who defined it asreflective thinking. Dewey defined reflective thinking as “…the ground or basis for a belief isdeliberately sought and its adequacy to support the belief examined” [4]. This definition evolvedinto intellectual abilities and skills by Benjamin Bloom who developed Bloom’s taxonomy ofeducational objectives [5]. Currently, P21 classifies critical thinking as reasoning effectively, usingsystems thinking, making judgements and decisions, and solving problems [3]. Critical thinking is important to develop in students. The Femineer® Program is able tohelp students develop critical thinking skills by introducing systems thinking into the WearableTechnology curriculum. This will
reflected in one of the Program Education Objectives (PEOs): Within 3-5 years aftergraduation from the JI, the graduates should be able to apply their creativity and globalperspective in their engineering or non-engineering professions. We use this paper to report tothe community our thoughts, practices, and outcomes of the interdisciplinary engineeringeducation at the JI.Interdisciplinarity in Engineering CurriculaThe curricula of the engineering programs at the JI are enriched with elements beyond technicaltraining. There is a first-year Introduction to Engineering course that allows students to have ataste of engineering in an interesting subject area before they claim a major; the capstone designprojects allow the students to join each other
in a style that should be interesting and accessible tostudents and is not overly long. However, it is somewhat dated. The paper could form the basisfor in-class discussion or a written reflection if an instructor generated appropriate prompts.There are also more detailed case studies related to privacy that would be good vehicles forinstruction, including Google Street View [40, 41] and “optimizing schools” [42]. These cases donot explicitly discuss a human rights perspective, so this framing would need to be added by theinstructor.Right to Property – Article 17Article 17 relates to the right to own and not “be arbitrarily deprived of [ ] property” [1]. Thisrelates to civil engineering and the use of eminent domain for projects, which is of
. This diversity in the team background was reflected in the development of theworkshops, throughout the materials presented, and through the complexity of the final productof the workshops. The faculty team collaborating on this project decided to approach theteaching of the making process from a multidisciplinary perspective, using this very specializedproject based theme, of the bio-inspired robots. Some specific topics included in the workshopsare currently included in the courses they teach regularly, such as the “Bioinspired Robotics”course which is offered to undergraduate students in the Mechanical Engineering program, the“Introduction to Mechatronics” course which is offered to undergraduate students in Mechanicaland Electrical
; Faust 1994) by examiningimportant relationships reflected in the strength, direction, and complexity (or number) of tiesembedded in a network. The strength of such an approach is that it enables an analysis of socialphenomena beyond the abstract social structures (e.g. social, economic, political) traditionallystudied by researchers in the social and behavioral sciences (Wellman 1999).Ego-centered (or personal) networks make the individual the focus of attention where egodescribes people (alters) close to him or her (Boissevain 1974; Wellman & Berkowitz 1988).According to Wellman (1999), such investigations “enable researchers to study community ties,whoever with, wherever located, and however structured…and avoid the trap of looking
andcommitment from teachers. Secondly, researchers commented on the time involved in theprogram with two suggesting the program should involve multiple school visits and one sayingthe program was too “time-intensive” already. Another student suggested have funding fordemonstration or activity supplies. The feedback from researcher participants was very positiveand reflected a high level of commitment and interest in continuing the program.Teacher Feedback All ten of the participating teachers responded, “Yes, definitely!” to the question, “Wouldyou be interested in participating in Grad Student STEM Share again?” The teachers alsounanimously selected “Excellent” to describe the following components of the program. Overall value of Grad Student
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(SVE)experiences. The attendees self-organized into two tables. They were asked to “identify anddiscuss common challenges veteran and military students face” to address the followingquestions: • How can ASEE build early awareness of engineering technology, engineering technologist, and engineering pathways? • How can ASEE ensure academic recognition for prior military work experience? • How can ASEE provide seamless support from government agencies, academic institutions, and industry?Each participant silently reflected and wrote their ideas as they related to the prompts on stickynotes. At the end of the session, the session leaders reorganized the notes into initiativecategories, as applicable. As
asked simply do you know any engineers and if so who. More thanhalf (56%) reported not knowing any engineers. These results are interesting, because the stateof Michigan as a whole has one of the largest per-capita populations of engineers in the country.Yet, the greater Lansing metropolitan area is a bit of an exception to that trend, with very fewtechnology based employers. That is reflected in this data, with only 14 students reporting thattheir parents are engineers. The majority of those responding that they knew an engineer tendedto cite a more distant relationship both in terms of bloodline and geography.Many of the survey questions focused on student perceptions of what do engineers do, and whatdoes it take to become an engineer. These
for the academic year 2017/18, withapproximately 125,000 students in Year 1. Considering the impending increase, taking 125, 000as the population size, a sample size of 383 is needed to achieve a 95% confidence level with a5% confidence interval. Data collection in the project reported on in this paper is currently stillongoing with the aim of collecting data from 400 Irish 3rd Year students and 400 Swedish Year 9students. The results reported in this paper reflect the current stage of data collection (ntotal = 513)and come from five random Irish schools and five random Swedish schools. Participants fromIreland (nIreland = 302) had a mean age of 14.63 (SD = 0.54) and comprised of 136 males, 149females, 9 participants who identified as other