Paper ID #27003Peace Engineering: A Recipe of Proactive Engagement for the Betterment ofHumanityDr. Ashraf Ghaly P.E., Union College Ashraf Ghaly is Director of Engineering and Carl B. Jansen Professor of Engineering at Union College, Schenectady, NY. Published over 250 papers, technical notes, and reports. Supervised over 50 research studies. Registered PE in NYS. ASCE Fellow and Member of the Chi-Epsilon Civil Engineering Honor Society. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Peace Engineering: A Recipe of Proactive Engagement for the Betterment of
thinking and depth in student reasoning.Theoretical FrameworkIn this study, we used the legitimation code theory and more specifically semantic gravity andsemantic density, to explore abstract knowledge across specifications in the design problem, andthe relational levels among different concepts or ideas. The Legitimation Code theory (LCT) hasbeen used to support knowledge-building by enabling dialogue between theory and data or to relatetheory and practice [6]. Used in many disciplines such as biology, physics, nursing, English,cultural studies, music, and design, LCT connotes five principles that explain disciplinarydispositions, practices, and discourse: a) autonomy; b) density; c) specialization; d) semantics; ande) temporality. Each one of
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qualitative and quantitative methods) and identify theoretical frameworksthat can help to understand the impact of this work. It is expected that the proposed workshops 6will be offered every semester to support the efforts of the recently formed Chemical Engineeringdesign team at our institution. This provides a potential for longitudinal studies within the chemicalengineering education community.References:[1] R. S. Voronov, S. Basuray, G. Obuskovic, L. Simon, R. B. Barat, and E. Bilgili, "Statistical analysis of undergraduate chemical engineering curricula of United States of America universities: Trends and
preparedness prior to the observed lesson, (b) studentsurvey on their interest in the STEM field before and after the unit implementation, (c) on-siteobservation, and (d) Open-ended short interview of the instructor to reflect on the lessonobserved. Since not all schools implemented the curriculum unit in the fall, and some units need afew more weeks than others, the pre- post-surveys from students are still undergoing. However,collected responses thus far from (a), (b), and (d) above show that the RET program is valuableto the teachers. All teachers observed agree that going through the curriculum unit designprocess helps them to be “very prepared to teach”. In answering “what did you learn fromteaching this unit?”, one teacher did not hesitate
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academic outreach programs impact college-going among underrepresented students.” Pathways to College Network Clearinghouse, Washington, DC.[20] Schmidt, P. (2003) “Academe’s Hispanic future: The nation’s largest minority group faces big obstacles in higher education, and colleges struggle to find the right ways to help.” The Chronicle of Higher Education., Nov. 28, A8.[21] Thayer, P. B. (2000). “Retention of students from first generation and low income backgrounds.” National TRIO Clearinghouse, Washington, DC.[22] Hall, R.M., and Sandler, B.R., (1982). “The classroom climate: A chilly one for women?” American Association of Colleges, Washington, DC.[23] Marra, R. M., Rodgers, K. A., Shen, D., and Bogue, B. (2012). “Leaving
Paper ID #26631What Are They Talking About? Depth of Engineering Student SociotechnicalThinking in a Technical Engineering CourseDr. Natasha Andrade, University of Maryland, College Park Dr. Natasha Andrade is a Lecturer in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at the Uni- versity of Maryland College Park. Her responsibilities include teaching various undergraduate courses in environmental engineering (such as Engineering for Sustainability and Environmental Engineering Sci- ence) and conducting engineering education research. She has specialized in redesigning engineering courses to make them learner-centered
NYC teachers for their participation in this study.References[1] S. Fayer, A. Lacey, and A. Watson, “STEM occupations: Past, present, and future,” in Spotlight on Statistics, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2017, pp. 1–35.[2] R. Noonan, “STEM jobs: 2017 update (ESA Issue Brief # 02-17).” US Department of Commerce, Economics and Statistics Administration, Office of the Chief Economist, Washington, DC, 2017.[3] B. Scafidi, D. L. Sjoquist, and T. R. Stinebrickner, “Race, poverty, and teacher mobility,” Economics of Education Review, vol. 26, no. 2, pp. 145–159, 2007.[4] W.C. Symonds, R. Schwartz, and R.F. Ferguson, “Pathways to prosperity: Meeting the challenge of preparing young Americans for the 21st
constrain our students instead tothink directly about the signal flow through an instrumentation setup. This simple electronicsecosystem also reduces the difficulty of debugging errors, allowing students to make productivemistakes while still completing their lab work. Figure 1. Representative elements of our Electronic Ecosystem. A) Wheatstone Bridge, B) Amplifier Circuit, C) Coupling Circuit, D) Thermocouple Linearization CircuitFor our second problem-solving action, the collection and processing of data, we have avoidedthe common approach of having students analyze their data after they have left lab. Instead, wewant students to do their data processing while they are in lab with their instructors and TeachingAssistants, and we
with an opportunity to (a) be introduced topractices and tools they may not otherwise have encountered, and (b) develop interests, socialpositions, and connections that can support longer-term participation in engineering and relateddomains. These goals do not preclude improvement of the product or work toward solution of aproblem, but are prioritized when creating structures and supports for design and engineeringwork.Because young people coming into maker or engineering spaces may be unfamiliar with toolsand may not initially understand affordances of these spaces, we see iteration as an importantchance for learners to build and exert agency. Learners can use iteration to come back to projectplans and problems with a clearer sense of what
majors (engineering, mathematics, chemistry, biology, computerscience, political science and English). The responding students included incoming freshmen,sophomores, juniors and seniors.Two assessment instruments will be used to establish the intellectual development mental modelsof the students. The first one (B-D scale) is a 16-item scale developed by Bateman and Donald[36]. Their instrument is a questionnaire that measures the stages of development in four broadercategories (dualism, multiplicity, relativism, and commitment) with four items for each stage. Thesecond instrument is the Learning Environment Preference (LEP) Instrument developed by Moore[37] to measure the development positions 2-5 (Intellectual Development). Positions 6-9
andposter presentation by a faculty in Communication Department. Outside judges gradedstudents’ presentation. A selection of images from the course will be available on a publicwebsite. (a) (b) (c) Fig. 9. Sample Final Projects: a) burning mums, b) water balloon, c) dancing drops.F. Art/Science Competition Entry (Extra 10 points)Students were encouraged to submit their work to art/science competitions for extra credits.Students were asked to submit their intention at the beginning of semester and only one studentsubmitted his work to the Gallery of Fluid Motion, which has been sponsored by the Division ofFluid Dynamics of the American Physical Society, since 1985
. Voice Recognition. Voice is the main approach to support user interaction with the app. The Audio app uses Google’s Voice Input AI to conduct real-time voice recognition and text to speech features. The recognition works in both online and offline mode, so the app can still function in the conditions when the Internet connection is not available. Natural Language Processing. Most of the quiz questions are multiple-choice questions, where students only need to answer simple choices such as “A”, “B”, “C” and “D”. This type of answers can be captured and supported easily because it does not have much complicated language context. However, we also plan to support the questions that require brief
Industrial or Manufacturing 128 5.2 Mechanical 323 13 Software 70 2.8 Other (Environmental, Geological, Material/Metallurgical, Mining / Mineral) 106 4.3 Other (miscellaneous) 164 6.6 Did not identify discipline 4 0.2 Academic standing High-performing, A-, A or A+ (3.5 or above) 890 35.8 Average-performing, B or B+ (2.9 to 3.4
Engineering Education Annual Conference, Atlanta, GA, USA, June 2013.[2] C. Gattis, B. Hill, T. Shields, and S.G. Davis, “Breaking Barriers: Pathways to Graduation for Underrepresented Talent,” Proceedings of the 117th American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference, Louisville, KY, USA, June 2010, AC2010-1286.[3] M. Rossetti, E. Clausen, C. Gattis, M. Hale, and K. Needy, “Enrichment activities in support of a student integrated intern research experience,” Proceedings of the 2014 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference, Indianapolis, IN, USA, June 2014.[4] C. Weishaar, M. Rossetti, K. Needy, R. Specking, and T. Dodson, “Effectiveness of GRE workshops to increase awareness
for modern construction management. Indoor and Built Environment 2013:1420326X13498400. doi:10.1177/1420326X13498400.[30] Fernando TP, Wu KC, Bassanino MN. Designing a novel virtual collaborative environment to support collaboration in design review meetings. Journal of Information Technology in Construction 2013;18:372–96.[31] Berg M. Exploring the impact of virtual reality in design review processes. Master Thesis. University of Twente, 2014.[32] Castronovo F, Nikolic D, Liu Y, Messner JI. An evaluation of immersive virtual reality systems for design reviews 2013.[33] Hobbs B, Dawood N. Harnessing the power of virtual reality–the potential for VR as a virtual integrated environment for project development in
insulation may interchanged). The pre-and post-course surveys that will be used are provided in Appendix B. Table 3. Evaluation Plan Outcome or intention: Assessment or evaluation: Collaboratively design an Student designs will be evaluated using rubrics. Design innovative tiny house that serves as outcomes will differ for each affiliated course (e.g., a learning space and as a showcase models, drawings, presentations, calculations). of best practices related to Innovation is included as a component of the sustainable design and construction. evaluation rubric for each course. A sample project description, including rubrics, for
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a scoring guide, rubric, or answer key. For instance, Osgood andJohnston [25] developed a measure of design ability, which they operationalized as problemframing, evaluating alternatives, and communicating their design ideas. Their measure includedthree scenario-based multiple-choice items and five Likert-scale questions related to problemframing. The multiple-choice scenario involved designing a chair for someone over six feet talland posed questions such as "You just finished the first meeting with the client to discuss theproblem, which lasted 15 minutes. Of the following, the first task you should complete is: (a)Develop a schedule of all tasks to be completed. (b) Find out more about chair design andbackground information. (c
for posing open-ended engineering problems: Model-eliciting activities,” in Proceedings of the 34th ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, 2004.[11] H. A. Diefes-Dux, M. Hjalmarson, J. S. Zawojewski, and K. Bowman, “Quantifying aluminum crystal size part 1: The model-eliciting activity,” J. STEM Educ. Innov. Res., vol. 7, no. 1–2, pp. 51–63, 2006.[12] R. Lesh, M. Hoover, B. Hole, A. Kelly, and T. Post, “Principles for developing thought- revealing activities for students and teachers,” in The handbook of research design in mathematics and science education, A. Kelly and R. Lesh, Eds. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2000, pp. 591–646.[13] D. Ifenthaler and N. M. Seel, “Model-based reasoning,” Comput. Educ
, whetherfemale attributes are viewed as prototypical when race/ethnicity is included, e.g. a White femalevs. URM female or URM male, requires additional research to directly probe these intersections.References[1] ASEE, "Transforming Undergraduate Education in Engineering, Phase I: Synthesizing and Integration Industry Perspectives.," 2013.[2] E. S. Ng, L. Schweitzer, and S. T. Lyons, "New generation, great expectations: A field study of the millennial generation," Journal of Business and Psychology, vol. 25, no. 2, pp. 281- 292, 2010.[3] K. Crenshaw, "Demarginalizing the intersection of race and sex: A black feminist critique of antidiscrimination doctrine, feminist theory and antiracist politics," U. Chi. Legal F., p. 139, 1989.[4] B
A. Sweetman, “A Course in Flow Visualization : the Art and Physics of Fluid Flow,” in Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, 2004, p. 11.[2] K. Goodman, J. Hertzberg, T. Curran, and N. D. Finkelstein, “Expanding Perception : How Students ‘ See ’ Fluids (#12169),” in ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings, 2015.[3] J. Hertzberg, B. R. Leppek, and K. E. Gray, “Art for the Sake of Improving Attitudes towards Engineering,” Am. Soc. Eng. Educ., 2012.[4] K. Goodman, J. Hertzberg, and N. Finkelstein, “Aesthetics and Expanding Perception in Fluid Physics,” in Frontiers in Education, 2015, pp. 1747–1751.[5] J. P. Mestre, A
professional relationship - Goals: to be agreed upon by each mentor:mentee pairOnce all expectations were introduced and discussed, the mentors and mentees were guided through ashort tutorial of the MentorCity platform and features they might be able to use to elevate theirmentorship experience. One required feature for each mentor:mentee pair, to be completed that eveningbefore their departure, was discussion and submission of the Mentorship Program Agreement, which wasavailable on the platform and contained questions/topics for discussion as follows: - (A) Meeting Formats - How would you like to meet? Would you like to have some meetings in- person and some over the phone/video conference? (B) Frequency of meetings - Would you like
projects through which the Youth Scholars framed theirlearning about socio-technical issues. Our ultimate goal was to remove barriers to participation,preparedness, and identity development for students from populations underrepresented inengineering. In the current study, we focus on the extent to which participants gained socio-technical engineering knowledge as they engaged in program activities, and we consider theimplications for future such learning programs.These Youth Scholars learned about photovoltaics, engineering, community engagement, andcollege success; (b) collaboratively designed a community solar engineering research project thatcontributes to a larger program of research; and (c) communicated about energy policy withneighborhood
-11].Each unit contained a lesson plan, in-class activities, an infographic fact sheet, and homeworkassignments (with answer keys for instructors). The in-class activities engaged students with oneof three data sets: • A student writing data set, which included 99 files of student technical and scientific writing, including abstracts, critical reviews, process explanations, progress reports, proposals, and white papers. All the texts earned a grade of “A” or B” from the instructors of record. • A professional writing data set, which included 240 files of published writing in cell biology, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, applied linguistics, marketing, philosophy, and physics. All of the
notion of done beingbetter than perfect and acknowledging that no training effort will reach 100% of its intendedaudience, we are considering the possibility that a standalone handout (not just for TAs butfaculty, staff, and anyone else serving a teaching, mentoring, or advising role) could be betterthan nothing. Continuing collaboration with the counseling center, as well as research on similarefforts on other campuses, will undoubtedly inform the details of these implementation efforts.References[1] National Institute of Mental Health. (2017). Mental illness. Retrieved from https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/statistics/mental-illness.shtml[2] Evans, T. M., Bira, L., Gastelum, J. B., Weiss, L. T., & Vanderford, N. L. (2018
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