an online format, and many students struggled in this environment. Mathematics was one of the subjects most affected by online learning. At a large R1 university in the mid-Atlantic region, more engineering students than ever before entered their first year, placing in Pre-Calculus instead of Calculus 1, and were classified as pre-math-ready. Being ‘math ready’ and placing into Calculus 1 is critical for engineering students due to the engineering curriculum's reliance on mathematics and the barriers related to the subject. This study shares the experiences of 15 first-year engineering students who were behind in math during the 2022-2023 academic year. Most participants were in their
western half because of the higher proportion of coal displaced there(Buonocore et al, 2015). For both solar PV types, utility-scale and rooftop, the Great Lakes/Mid-Atlantic regions had the highest benefits per MWh and the lowest were in California, Southwest,and Rocky Mountains by a factor of four (Buonocore et al, 2019). The transition to renewableenergy can significantly reduce these costs by improving air quality. 15Research has also shown that there is a positive correlation between GPD and energyconsumption in a country (GDP and Energy, L Topolewski, 2021). With affordable and easyaccess to solar energy, the impact on a country’s GDP can be expected to be positive.Equity (or Social Justice
their courses with a theme that related to their areas of interest; theinstructor may add additional learning outcomes related to the theme. Students prioritize their topchoices of themes and typically are placed into one of their top three choices; sections are cappedat no more than 16 students. The course discussed in this paper, entitled “Sustainable Cities:Urban Infrastructure and Equity,” enrolled 13 students, five of whom expressed an intention topursue one of the available engineering majors. Unusually, all 13 students were male. The1-credit course met for two 75-minute class sessions per week and also for lunchtime guestspeakers and other out-of-class activities (all 1-credit courses at Lafayette College are equivalentto 4-credit
may not be meeting those challenges.MethodsContext: This research was conducted at a single large research intensive (RH-VH) public universitylocated in the mid-Atlantic region of the United States, as part of an NSF Funded S-STEM program. S-STEM programs are intended to support low-income students in their trajectories to and through school.While most funded SSTEM programs in the United States are aimed at undergraduate student support, thisSSTEM is unique in that it supports low income Master’s students to obtain thesis-based MS degrees.Students in the program are supported financially, have substantial professional development programming,regular mentorship meetings with faculty affiliated with the program, and peer/near-peer mentoring. At
LeTourneau University in the mid-2010s. That project provided junior-level environmental engineering students the opportunity toconstruct and operate pilot-scale water treatment plants. Water was retrieved from a local riverand students were initially provided 55 gallons to treat. Groups of 3-4 students designed, built,and tested a system that produced a volume of 35 gallons of potable water within 48 hours andmet water quality testing of alkalinity, pH, solids, conductivity, turbidity, and bacterial growthaccording to TAC 290. The plant operations were permitted to be a combination of batch andcontinuous flow. Initial ImplementationThe environmental engineering course in this study was first taught at Cedarville University inFall 2020 as a
following: RQ 1. How do graduate engineering and design students commonly conceptualize interdisciplinary education across two universities? RQ 2. What are the variations in students’ conceptualizations of interdisciplinary education across the two universities?MethodsStudy BackgroundStudy Site 1: A United States UniversityOur first project site was an interdisciplinary graduate program (referred to as the IDR Programfrom here) funded through the National Science Foundation (NSF) Research Traineeshipprogram at a large land-grant university in the mid-Atlantic region of the United States. As theNSF website states, “The NSF Research Traineeship (NRT) Program is designed to encouragethe development and
, workshops, design challenges, andpresentations that illuminated presumptions and prejudices through a technical, ethical, social, and legal lens(complete list of activities in Appendix C). Following lectures, participants did hands-on AI case-studies. In additionto the week-long group case studies, the mid-week project was a large collective case study on AI’s uses for theprediction of antibiotic resistance conducted by Concordia University. At the end of the week-long program, therewere group presentations and roundtable discussions. This allowed for a variety of perspectives to emerge ondifferent topics, time for questions, and inspiration for post-program plans.Participants have generally deemed the program delivery to have been strong and the
ecosystem at a time is also beneficial for distilling meaning from as tudy using Ecological Systems Theory[9]to understand an already complex set of systems such as those associated with interdisciplinary graduate education.MethodsProject Background econdary data for this study came from an interdisciplinary graduate certificate program calledSthe Interdisciplinary Disaster Resilience (IDR) program. The IDR program was located in a land-grant university in the mid-Atlantic region of the United States. It was funded through the National Science Foundation Research Traineeship (NRT) program and grew out of an existing collaboration that created a university-funded interdisciplinary graduate program. As mentioned, though