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University in theirjunior year and retention in the Engineering and STEM majors. Cohort 3 Jump Start students willenroll in May 2019. After all three cohorts have been enrolled and tracked through the entranceto major, future analyses can examine whether the program had a differential effect on studentsas a function of gender, race/ethnicity, and first-generation status. ReferencesBailey, T., & V. Morest. 2006. Defending the Community College Equity Agenda. Baltimore MD: John Hopkins University Press.Berger, J. B., & Malaney, G. D. (2003). Assessing the transition of transfer students from community colleges to a university. NASPA Journal, 40(4).Cohen, A. M., & Brawer, F. B. (2003). The
, while others weremore. However, what empowered these women in those environments are the abovequalities/features of their experiences in ESPTs. In one way or another, these women wereempowered to respond in a way that transformed that environment, despite the pervasiveness ofsexism. Although the results herein present three stories from one university, we are expandingour study. We are currently interviewing women leaders in ESTPs from Kansas State University,a four-year land-grant institution in the Midwest. The preliminary results highlight many of thesame themes in the thematic passage presented herein.References[1] P. Meiksins, P. Layne, K. Beddoes, B. Acton, M. Lewis, A. Masters, and M. Roediger, “Acompendium of the SWE annual literature
the years and changes in society the needs of the work force have changed, which alsochanges the demand for certain degrees at the collegiate level. The information provided fromForbes describes the top five worst degrees based on unemployment rates for recent graduates[22]. 1. Anthropology and Archeology a. Unemployment rate: 10.5% b. Median earnings 28k 2. Film, Video, and Photographic Arts a. Unemployment rate: 12.9% b. Median earnings 30k 3. Fine Arts a. Unemployment rate 12.6% b. Median earnings 30k 4. Philosophy and Religious Studies a. Unemployment rate 10.8% b. Median earnings 30k 5. Liberal Arts a. Unemployment rate 9.2% b. Median earnings 30kThe combination of the
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Figure 2 serves to reinforce the topics of 3D orientation, extrusion symmetry, draft angles, andsketch constraints. This is a typical assignment in the third week. Figure 2: Example Sketch & Extrude AssignmentThe following in-classroom cases are witnessed: • Student A believes he/she has met all five grading criteria prior to class start or during class time. An available evaluator evaluates the work and finds no mistakes. Student A may exit the class. This is the quickest case, and the evaluation process ranges from 30 – 180 seconds per assignment. • Student B believes he/she has met all five grading criteria prior to class start or during class time. An evaluator is not free, as all are
nearly 200 working definitions of service-learning, the definition offered by Bringle and Hatcher [2] is the most encompassing and widelyadopted. In this, service-learning is identified as a “course-based, credit bearing educationalexperience that allows students to (a) participate in an organized service activity that meetsidentified community needs and (b) reflect on the service active in such a way as to gain furtherunderstanding of course content, a broader appreciation of the discipline, and an enhanced senseof civic responsibility (p. 112).” Clearly, it is key that the service efforts with the partner bereciprocal and mutually valued, connected and committed to advancing the learning goals of thecourse, and include critical reflection
, “Representation use and strategy choice in physics problem solving,” Phys. Rev. Spec. Top. - Phys. Educ. Res., vol. 8, no. 2, Nov. 2012.[16] P. B. Kohl and N. D. Finkelstein, “Effects of representation on students solving physics problems: A fine-grained characterization,” Phys. Rev. Spec. Top. - Phys. Educ. Res., vol. 2, no. 1, May 2006.[17] N. M. McNeil and E. R. Fyfe, “‘Concreteness fading’ promotes transfer of mathematical knowledge,” Learn. Instr., vol. 22, no. 6, pp. 440–448, Dec. 2012.[18] V. M. Williamson, M. Hegarty, G. Deslongchamps, Williamson K.C., and M. J. Schultz, “Identifying Student Use of Ball-and-Stick Images versus Electrostatic Potential Map Images via Eye Tracking,” J. Chem. Educ., vol. 90, no. 2, pp. 159–164
’, and ‘Lymphomas’.Assessment techniques include student-based surveys (included in Appendix B) conducted at theend of each class (both cohorts) when a game was played in the experimental cohort, pre- andpost-quizzes, intervention vs. comparison group statistical analysis, and course evaluations. Inthis way, technical knowledge as well as students experience with games in the past and theirperception of their effectiveness was evaluated.The focus of this study was utilizing concurrent cohorts comprised of two (2) sections of anundergraduate, Introduction to Environmental Engineering course. One section of the class wastaught utilizing traditional active learning techniques (think-pair-share, group discussion) as wellas the direct transmission
student outcomes as well as to evaluate the datathrough the context of the Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK) andConstructivist theoretical models.Beginning in the fall of 2018, a 200-level mechanical/aerospace course, Statics, was taught bythree different faculty members at a large university in the Southwest. Each of these sectionswere taught in different ways: (a) traditional lecture format, (b) flipped style classroom, and (c)mixed version, which utilized videos created for the flipped classroom as supplemental materialbut delivered course content primarily through lecture style. Student-level data were collected forall three of the Statics sections of interest in this study. Data were analyzed to determine ifstudents
. Industry partners’ assessments of participating students and the collaboration4. Students’ weekly and final reports, including reflective writing assignments5. Students’ research presentations6. Group interviews with participating faculty7. interviews with participating undergraduate students,8. Formal project implementation reviewEvaluation question 1: What were the effects of the summer research experiences on theparticipating undergraduate students?A. How successful was the project in recruiting and supporting students from underrepresentedgroups?B. How do the participants understand research in the context of engineering, and anysimilarities or differences between academic and industrial research?C. How do the participants describe
. Also, though insightwas gained into engineering leadership styles, it is unknown to what extent these styles compareto those employed in other disciplines. In order to improve upon this study, a larger sample ofengineers as well as individuals in additional disciplines could be considered. Using aquantitative approach, established leadership assessment tools could be used to determinedifferences in leadership behaviors across disciplines. This comparative approach may serve tofurther enhance the understanding of leadership within an engineering context.References[1] Hartmann, B. & Jahren, C. (2015). Leadership: industry needs for entry-level engineering positions. Journal of STEM Education, 16(3),. Laboratory for Innovative
, development, and evolution ofstudent-focused programs can be applied broadly across different contexts and targetpopulations.References[1] N. Lin, Social Capital: A Theory of Social Structure and Action, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge, 2004.[2] A. Cooper, The Inmates are Runing the Asylum: Why High-Tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How to Restore the Sanity, Indianapolis IN: SAMS, 1999.[3] "Personas," Open Design Kit, 2017. [Online]. Available: http://opendesignkit.org/methods/personas/.[4] T. Adlin, H. Jamesen and T. Krebs, "Fake People and Sticky Notes: Fostering Communication for Human-Centered Software Design," Akamai Technologies, Inc., Seattle WA.[5] S. B. Merriam and R. S. Grenier, Qualitative Reserach in Practice: Examples for
results. The authors notethe following limitations of the study: (a) small sample size; (b) self-developed survey instrument;(c) convenient sampling procedure.IV. RESULTSCase 1The first segment of the administered survey inquired how undergraduate students joined thepiloted research group. The survey responses consisted of three items: actively sought anopportunity; invited by current/past group members; recruited by the faculty advisor. Primaryresults, as displayed in Table 2, indicate that 63.64% of the students on the piloted research groupactively sought an opportunity to engage in undergraduate research, while 36% of the participantswere invited by the faculty advisor. None of the undergraduate students in the group were invitedby a past or
production B-105Lighting the Way, the Boba Straw Lamp BBH - 364 Arduino Circuitry LWH - 3105 Underwater ROV exploration FA - 107 Underwater ROV exploration FA - 107 Folding, Fanning, Flying! BBH - 360 Building a Robotic Arm BBH - 113 Build a Spinning Motor! B - 158 Launching Rockets … Sky is the limit BBH - 112 Building a Robotic Arm BBH - 113 Charging the battery with the Sun
provide additional context and information, and also help the teams develop theircollaborative skills and senses of team identity.The final deliverables for the project are (a) an individual report from each student(specifically addressing how the team’s proposed intervention is informed by the researchthat student performed in the literature review), as well as (b) a group-prepared poster andpresentation to the combined class. Non-presenting students are designated as potential“investors” for each project, therefore accountable for posing questions about the proposedresearch and development (R&D) – from schedule and budget to underlying assumptions toquestions about cultural sensitivity and implementation. In Figure 3, representative
Study (HMS). The aim of this study is to answer the following research question: How doesthe presence of (a) self-sufficiency, (b) sense of belonging, and/or (c) social self-efficacy impactan SEM graduate student’s mental health?Attention to the mental health of students in higher education has grown in recent years. Prior workhas shown that several factors can influence an individuals’ mental health, including, but notlimited to, a students’ demographics, social factors, available resources, values, motivation, andacademic discipline. The purpose of this study is to focus specifically on how social aspects caninfluence graduate students’ mental health, or mental and emotional well-being. Therefore, thispaper will pull on past work that has
’ orientation to social responsibility influenced theirexpectations of academic curricular? b. How have the students’ orientation to social responsibility influenced theirexpectations of faculty engagement?A thematic analysis will be used to analyze the interview data [10]. The results of the survey andthematic analysis will be used to propose several interventions, with a target fall 2019implementation.References[1] National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, “Quality in the UndergraduateExperience: What Is It? How Is It Measured? Who Decides? Summary of a Workshop,” TheNational Academies Press, Washington, D.C., 2016.[2] B. Cook and Y. Kim, “From soldier to student: Easing the transition of service members oncampus,” Lumina
andindustrial chemistry; biochemistry, medicine and surgery. (a) (b) Figure 2: Correlation coefficient of UME chemistry scores for the Chemistry based courses in public universities in Enugu State Nigeria As shown in Figure 2, the predictive validity indices for biochemistry in Federal and StateUniversities are as follows: 0.11 and 0.18 for industrial chemistry, 0.37 and 0.02 for medicineand 0.14 and 0.13 for surgery. These are interpreted to mean that for biochemistry, there is weakpositive relationship in both the Federal and State Universities between students’ UME scores inchemistry and their first year scores. In industrial chemistry, while there is weak
unique open-ended feature. “In most of schooling, you go from A to B, but in STEM, students are choosingtheir own path to get to B,” said one teacher Stiefel interviewed; “In my class, how students aregoing to get there is up to them. There’s a lot of trial and error” [7]. So, spurring high schoolstudents to think like engineers necessitates inducing an open-ended, creative, iterative, anddesign-oriented mindset.Among best practice approaches that induce an engineering mindset in learners is the Design,Build, Test (DBT) pedagogy whose key attributes are outlined by Elger, et al [8]. DBT curriculamust 1) be fun and motivating; 2) meet educational objectives; 3) include a major modelingcomponent; 4) include aspects of engineering practice [CAD
collaborations become exercises in social consciousness.LTU had two goals in developing the introductory and intermediate GCSP curriculum: a) toallow the GCSP paradigm to emanate as broadly outside the confines of the program members aspossible, and b) progressively to winnow cohorts of Grand Challenges students focused onspecific Grand Challenge senior projects. Those Grand Challenge projects are further supportedprogrammatically with liberal arts research seminars developed in collaboration with their STEMfaculty mentors. Grand Challenges students working on senior projects in the areas of climatechange or alternative energy can take the GCSP Political Science seminar “The Geopolitics ofNatural Resources” and find case studies directly related to
on Present Worth, Annual Worth, and Future Worth: 62 and 1 month: $1642 per month 67: $2418 per month 70: $3057 per monthAssume the individual lives until they are 85 years old (i.e., they die on their 85th birthday).Assume Social Security does not run out of money.Assume an 8% MARR (i.e., time value of money interest rate).Assume payments received at the end of the month (i.e., they get the last payment). b) Use Excel to determine the “optimal” choices for a “death” at age 62 and 1 month until 100 years old. (I apologize for the morbidity of this question.)Hint: It may be better to do this (visually) with a line graph, after creating a table of monthly cashflows and then calculating PWs based on ages.Assume Social
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education at the University of Michigan.Dr. Mar P´erez-Sanagust´ın, Universit´e Paul Sabatier Toulouse III Mar P´erez-Sanagust´ın is a researcher and Associate Professor at the Computer Science Department of the Universit´e Paul Sabatier and associate researcher at the Pontificia Universidad Cat´olica de Chile. Her research interests are technology-enhanced learning, engineering education, Self-Regulated Learning, MOOCs and b-learning.Dr. Jorge Baier, Pontificia Universidad Cat´olica de Chile He is an associate professor in the Computer Science Department and Associate Dean for Engineering Education at the Engineering School in Pontificia Universidad Cat´olica de Chile. Jorge holds a PhD in Computer Science from
. While there were numerous lessonslearned on effective project implementation, overall the project was viewed as a success atintroducing longitudinal design in a structural engineering course sequence.References[1] G. Nowak, B. Shoop, and L. Shay, “Deliberate Longitudinal Curricular Integration: Topical Linkages and Concept Reinforcement,” 112th ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Portland, OR. https://peer.asee.org/14924, 2005.[2] Y. Li, “Enhancing Undergraduate Education Through Research-based Learning: A Longitudinal Case Study,” 122nd ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Seattle, WA. https://peer.asee.org/24010. [Accessed November 2018], 2015.[3] Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U
event in the 4th through 6th grades that they are eligible;that is, they attend for all three years. As repeat activities would be boring for the girls, newactivities are created each year, to maintain their interest in both the GEE event and STEM in (a) Group Assembly in 2018 (b) Lunch Room in 2017 Figure 1: GEE Event Photographsgeneral. Each GEE activity is designed to last for approximately 25 minutes. A typical GEE eventday is shown in Table 1. Girls are provided with T-shirts printed with the GEE logo on the day ofthe event. Different color T-shirts identify different groups of participants. Colors listed inTable 1, therefore, refer to T-shirt colors. Volunteers are also
experience (in which our undergraduate students teachSTEM activities in elementary after school programs in diverse communities) influence theirideas about: (1) STEM, (2) teaching elementary students about STEM, and (3) teaching diversepopulations of students?, and B) Were there differences in these ideas depending upon theelementary school site where the service learning practicum took place? The undergraduates’experiences and developing perspectives are examined through written reflections and fieldobservations throughout the semester. Instructors' field notes from the service learningexperience are used as a data source of triangulation. In general, results from this study indicatethat undergraduate students’ ideas about STEM and STEM teaching
acceptable. They are graded based on the rubric in Table 1.Table 1 - The rubric for the Puzzle Project. This table provides an outline of the expectations forthe Puzzle Project. For a full grading scale with an exact point breakdown see the Puzzle Projectdocumentation in the Appendix. A Innovative, unique puzzle. Leads the user to a Reviews show an understanding solution through its design (without being trivial of another person’s work and to solve). Elevator pitch conveyed the idea offers constructive, positive behind the puzzle and excited the audience. criticism to improve the puzzle. B Clever puzzle. Fulfills the requirements above Reviews offer constructive