instruction (i.e., students’ learning andunderstanding) when designing a course. Then, we analyzed and characterized the course'scontext, content, assessment, and pedagogy to smoothly integrate VL into the existing labcoursework. When implementing the VL, we conducted thorough literature review of howeducators from wide range of backgrounds implemented the virtual technology, such asengineering ([7], [8], [9], [10], [11]), computer science and math ([12], [13], [14], [15], [16]),physics and chemistry ([17], [18], [19], [20], [21]), and life science ([22], [23], [24], [25], [26]).In Spring 2019 – Spring 2020, we implemented VL for AAE 35201 Structural Analysis ILaboratory [1]. Figure 1 depicts the AAE 35201 VL. Since the implementation periodcoincided
-hired engineerswith the most detailed and descriptive information. It then also achieved the team agreementon the coding results. These results from newcomers were utilized to establish a basiccodebook.Furthermore, the research team tested the inter-rater reliability of the basic codebook on theother three selected interview transcripts. Krippendorff mentioned that coders could selectparts of the full transcript to assess IRR, demonstrating that coders need to choose the codesclosely relevant to the research question and appear in the text with a reasonable frequency[36]. Therefore, the coders coded the participants’ responses only to the questions asking hownew engineers took action in the four domains instead of coding the complete
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Paper ID #35574Lessons Learned from Conducting a Diversity-Focused Faculty Cluster Hireat a Predominantly White InstitutionDr. Robyn Sandekian, University of Colorado Boulder Robyn Sandekian, PhD, is the Director of Faculty Advancement for the College of Engineering and Ap- plied Science (CEAS) at the University of Colorado Boulder (CU Boulder). In this role, Robyn has a key leadership role with responsibilities for identifying, implementing, and assessing outcomes of policies, programs, and procedures to meet CEAS goals for faculty recruiting, hiring, retention, and advancement including increasing faculty diversity
regarding their wellbeing. The findings on the lack of perceived support areorganized by departmental and university-level influences. The students also identify areasfor improvement that have posed barriers to their awareness and utilization of universitysupports and services and to their overall wellbeing. The method of soliciting studentperspectives has implications for institutions wanting to examine their own practices andpolicies in order to better support students’ whole selves.Keywords: wellbeing, student support, undergraduate, student experience, studentperception, thematic analysis1. BackgroundHigher education is dealing with a mental health crisis [1]. According to the 2019 ACHA-National College Health Assessment II (ACHA-NCHA II
and applying new knowledge. In many engineeringprograms these two categories of ABET assessment can be the most difficult to assess and scorehighly when evaluating student opinions. Although seven respondents is a minimal sample size,the investigators were pleased to receive such high scores in all seven categories. We believe thatthe high scores are directly tied to student motivation and interest in the project. It was evidentfrom the start of the AgPV research project that the students were interested and enthusiastic aboutthe research category. The students also expressed a high level of motivation because of the real-world implications of this research and the potential positive societal impacts that the researchconclusions could provide
behavior using severalitems developed by Eisenberg et al. [2] 6Attitudes About Mental Health and Professional TreatmentMental health stigma was measured using two items—one for externally-perceived stigma (i.e.,“Most people think less of a person who has received mental health treatment.”) and one forpersonally-held stigma (i.e., “I would think less of a person who has received mental healthtreatment.”). Students rated their agreement on the same six-point Likert scale ranging from 1(Strongly Disagree) to 6 (Strongly Agree). Two items were used to assess the degree to whichstudents found therapeutic treatment to be helpful. Students were asked, “How
University of Waterloo. She is also re- sponsible for developing a process and assessing graduate attributes at the department to target areas for improvement in the curriculum. This resulted in several publications in this educational research areas. Dr. Al-Hammoud won the ”Ameet and Meena Chakma award for exceptional teaching by a student” in 2014 and the ”Engineering Society Teaching Award” in 2016 and the ”Outstanding Performance Award” in 2018 from University of Waterloo. Her students regard her as an innovative teacher who continuously introduces new ideas to the classroom that increases their engagement.Prof. Scott Walbridge P.E., University of Waterloo Scott Walbridge has been a professor in the University of
technologies, and network design and management. In addition, trending topics in datacommunication and networking, such as the Internet of Things (IoT), cloud computing, and 5Gwere integrated into the course curriculum. For a major part of course assessment and grading, aterm-project is assigned, with the main objective to extend student knowledge and research skillsin addition to the hands-on classroom activities. To complete the term project, students arerequired to prepare a proposal, a mid-term report, and a final report. The semester ends with livepresentations and demos of the term projects. There are several project options available to thestudents, and these are: hardware and software development with Arduino or Raspberry PI forIoT
Paper ID #34214Student Usage of Auto-graded Activities in a Web-based Circuit AnalysisTextbookDr. Nikitha Sambamurthy, zyBooks, A Wiley Brand Nikitha Sambamurthy completed her Ph.D. in engineering education at Purdue University. Nikitha is the engineering and IT content lead at zyBooks, a Wiley brand that develops interactive, web-native textbooks for college courses in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) disciplines.Ms. Efthymia Kazakou, zyBooks, A Wiley Brand Efthymia Kazakou is Sr. Assessments manager at zyBooks, a startup spun-off from UC Riverside and acquired by Wiley. zyBooks develops interactive, web
including ethical theory in engineering education, concluding it will “allow a more reflectivepractice founded on a broader view of engineering.” When incorporating ethics instruction, ateacher must consider approaches that will encourage nuanced analysis and that lend themselveswell to assessing students’ understanding of ethical theory and application, with a goal ofpreparing students to appreciate their role within a complex and changing society.Instructional Approach 1 (prior to the COVID-19 outbreak)For several years, MSU’s engineering students have been required to write and present aboutengineering disaster case studies, with ethics discussion as a key component but formal directionabout what students’ ethical analyses should entail left to
as well. Kohlberg [41] and Gilligan [42] reinforce Perry’s moral development theories [40] where students go from having strong, uninformed views to more subtle, accountable views, where their steps are assessed in context according to an assortment of factors.Instructors must set reasonable expectations for the dialogue and it’s expected impact as theyconsider a student's current level of intellectual development. Development should not becoerced, rather, it should be fostered and motivated by presenting apt challenges andadministering necessary support to cultivate knowledge-based growth [43]. Faculty skilled infacilitating difficult dialogues can use them as a tool to encourage student development andgrowth.Identity and
what explicitskills are requested of postdocs in position postings. Meanwhile, women postdocs in engineeringand CS remain underrepresented. The most recent data from the 2018 National Center for Scienceand Engineering Statistics (NCSES) Survey reported only 23.6% women for postdoc positions inengineering and 20.6% women postdocs in computer sciences [7]. By extending the prior worksabout gendered languages in postdoc job postings to the male-dominated engineering and CS dis-cipline, our work seeks to explore the implicit expectations for postdocs in this domain to furtherour understanding.Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to explore and to assess what are the stated and hiddenexpectations about postdocs during the recruitment process
University in 2008 and 2012, respectively. Her current engineering education research interests include engineering students’ understanding of ethics and social responsibility, sociotechnical education, and assessment of engineering pedagogies. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Faculty Interpretations of Sociotechnical Thinking in their Classrooms: Techniques for IntegrationIntroductionEngineers consider both social and technical elements within the problem spaces in which theywork [1] - [3]. Yet, engineering education often better prepares students to address technicalissues within well-defined technical problem spaces, with
Male 46 1.76 Somewhat agree 0.970 Instructors’ approachability Female 21 1.67 Somewhat agree 0.483 Comfortable to interact with Male 46 1.57 Strongly agree 0.910 instructors Female 21 1.81 Somewhat agree 0.680The following subpart assesses students’ perceptions of their peers. In this subpart, we had twoquestions that were negatively worded (reluctance of classmates to team up and prove self forpeer recognition). The answers for those two questions had higher standard deviations thanothers in this subpart. Interestingly, many female students felt they need
three asthey were the only ones that showed significant differences amongst the students.Factor AnalysisWe performed a factor analysis on the collected data from the IMS to assess patterns amongst thequestions indicating students’ underlying perceptions of their ideal mentor. To do so, weconducted a principal-axis factor analysis with an oblique rotation on the 15 questions numberedin Table A within the Appendix. In the initial analysis, there were several correlation coefficientsbelow 0.3, which would lead to issues with multicollinearity. We removed questions 2, 3, 4, 5,10, and 11 from the analysis to reduce this problem. Doing so resulted in a final factor analysiswith a correlation matrix determinant of 0.002 which is larger than the
Department, as well as the ABET assessment coordinator. Professor Bielefeldt was also the faculty director of the Sustainable By Design Residential Academic Program, a living-learning community where students learned about and practice sustainability. Bielefeldt is also a licensed P.E. Professor Bielefeldt’s research interests in en- gineering education include service-learning, sustainable engineering, social responsibility, ethics, and diversity. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 How are Engineering Ethics Integrated into High School STEM Education in Colorado?AbstractEngineering education continues to become
Computing FieldAbstractThere is a substantial shortage of students pursuing graduate degrees in computing fields in theUnited States [1], and when examining participation rates of minoritized populations the disparityis even greater [2]. In order to attract more domestic students to graduate schools in computing itis important to understand what factors encourage or discourage them from participating.Literature suggests that students’ family, friends, school, and society play an important role in theireducational paths and self-perceptions. Using social impact theory as the guiding lens, we exploredsupport from family and friends, as well as social and program-related experiences, in this studyto assess their impact on undergraduate students
potential users.Design co-creation provides a means to integrate people into concept generation by includingstakeholders during design sessions; however, there is a great need to support designers inthinking about human users when design work occurs without user engagement, such as whendesign research ends and development of early concepts begins.How can engineers (and students) keep people in mind when users are not present? Our previouswork introduced our hypothesis that representing people during conceptual sketching may helpengineers more deeply consider who their users are and their users’ contextual concerns [21].This study seeks to investigate idea generation with mechanical engineering students to capture aqualitative assessment of how they
-posed solu- tions to patient-specific pulmonary health problems using multi-scale modeling techniques. He and his research team specialize in assessing the occupational exposure risks using computational fluid-particle dynamics (CFPD) models and Physiological based Toxicokinetic (PBTK) models spans over 10 years and has been summarized in more than 30 peer-reviewed journal papers and 40 conference proceedings. Dr. Feng is currently the Vice Chair of Health Related Aerosol Working Group in the American Association for Aerosol Research (AAAR). American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Kidney and Lung Demonstrations to Introduce Engineering
providevaluable feedback on time and must resort to checking only for completion.We propose a solution to the feedback and time constraint problems in the form of a webapplication called Mechanix that utilizes novel sketch-recognition algorithms to assess a sketchedfree body diagram and automatically grade students' responses to homework questions. This is themodern iteration of our previous system with the same name [8]. We recreated the system as a webapplication to support as many students and devices as possible. The interface has been improvedto help guide students while remaining unobtrusive. We designed new algorithms for recognizingtrusses and curved arrows. The new truss algorithm gives us more flexibility in what kinds oftrusses we can accept
, University of Colorado Boulder Angela Bielefeldt is a professor at the University of Colorado Boulder in the Department of Civil, Envi- ronmental, and Architectural Engineering (CEAE) and Director for the Engineering Plus program. She has served as the Associate Chair for Undergraduate Education in the CEAE Department, as well as the ABET assessment coordinator. Professor Bielefeldt was also the faculty director of the Sustainable By Design Residential Academic Program, a living-learning community where students learned about and practice sustainability. Bielefeldt is also a licensed P.E. Professor Bielefeldt’s research interests in en- gineering education include service-learning, sustainable engineering, social
scholar received a travel scholarshipfrom TAPIA conference. During the 2020 calendar year, two students had planned to attendSouthern Data Science Conference in April. Because of COVID-19, all in-person conferenceswere cancelled for all 2020 and spring 2021, but we hope they will resume in the fall of 2021.Initially, we intended to send a faculty representative with the students. But given the number ofconferences chosen and the timing these conferences, this did not work out. The lack of facultyattendance did not seem to affect the student experience – they gave very positive feedback inour evaluation as shown in section 5.5 Evaluation of Program ElementsA multi-method evaluation plan has been created to assess the effectiveness of the program
on elementary school students and students in medical training programs,which showed increased aesthetic growth in students that transfers to a broader range of skillsincluding critical thinking whereby, for example, students habitually provide evidence to back upinferences and speculate among various possible interpretations. Those skills, particularly formedical students, are expected to be translated into their professional world. For instance,Agarwal et al. (2020) evaluated the impact of participating in VTS workshops on first-yearmedical students. They found that VTS training using museum art increased the followingmeasures on the clinical-image-based pre/post assessment: (a) the total number of words thestudents used to describe the
, and students do not often receive feedback or formative assessment on earlier stagesof their writing. Grades tend to focus on propositional, technical knowledge not writing. [7].These experiences often leave students untrained in thinking about the rhetorical nature ofwriting tasks within engineering contexts. Additionally students have limited understanding ofthe rhetorical nature of engineering writing compared to engineers in the field, suggesting thatengineering students lack opportunities to engage in writing meaningfully as a situational andresponsive activity [8].Though writing is often relegated to writing-focused courses or integrated implicitly in courseassignments, some researchers have intentionally integrated writing into core
Disabilities in Science and Engineering: 2021,” Alexandria, 2021.[2] I. Villanueva, M. Di Stefano, L. Gelles, K. Youmans, and A. Hunt, “Development and assessment of a vignette survey instrument to identify responses due to hidden curriculum among engineering students and faculty,” Int. J. Eng. Educ., vol. 36, no. 5, pp. 1–21, 2020.[3] S. Nieto, Affirming diversity : the sociopolitical context of multicultural education. Longman, 1992.[4] I. Villanueva, M. Di Stefano, L. Gelles, P. V. Osoria, and S. Benson, “A race re-imaged, intersectional approach to academic mentoring: Exploring the perspectives and responses of womxn in science and engineering research,” Contemp. Educ. Psychol., vol. 59, p. 101786, Oct
functionalcomplications and long-term confusion over leaders' and managers' roles. [25] Blurring thedifference between leadership and management is not just a matter of semantics but causesdifficulties in measuring, testing, assessing, hiring, developing, and promoting them. [25] [26]Goethals et al. (2004), the Encyclopedia of Leadership editors, argue that “…there is no singleand universally accepted definition of leadership.” [25] The literature on the two subjects oftenconveys that leaders are not managers and vice versa, but leadership and management areinterrelated and perform similar functions. Leading is an essential skill for an effective manager[25], and in fact, Covey notes that “…leadership is the highest component of management.“ [27]In the same vein
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