effectively as well as to communicatethrough oral, visual and written mechanisms. Modern advances in technology will necessitate theeffective use of virtual communication tools." Courses in the arts, humanities, and socialsciences (AHS) can address the need, at least in part, for broadening the educational base forengineering students. AHS courses that focus on the development of creativity, multiple meansof effective communication, improving critical thinking skills, and engagement by students withthe larger questions of living within contemporary society today would address some of theimportant concerns enunciated in these reports. However, AHS courses form an exceedinglysmall fraction of the total number of course credits required for graduation
design courses and are evaluated as graduate attributeoutcomes integral to the Canadian Engineering Accreditation Board (CEAB) evaluationprocesses. Continual course improvement processes require reflection on the success oflearning activities, the tools used for teaching, and alignment of learning outcomes,activities, and assessment. Peer evaluation and feedback tools can encourage studentlearning and leadership development. The method of data collection, the type of feedbackand the contextual validity of the feedback may impact students’ development of useful teambehaviours and personal strategies for working in team environments. Mixed methodsuccessive case study analysis provides insights enabling targeted improvements to learningactivities
andscience. This difference has been linked to gender gaps in engineering enrollment andpersistence. Our study of engineering students extends research on gender differences byexamining how confidence with design interacts with academic preparation and the frequency ofdesign experiences in engineering coursework. We also compare patterns of gender differenceswithin the racial/ethnic majority and minority groups. Our findings reaffirm prior research onthe gender gap in engineering students’ academic confidence, where men tend to report higherlevels of confidence. In particular, the analysis showed that the gender differences in confidenceand perceived academic preparation to engage in design are primarily accounted for by thegender gap within the
department is always looking to improve how material relevant to major explorationis incorporated into its introductory course as it can have a significant impact on individualstudents as well as the retention and persistence statistics in the engineering majors.Over the years, the General Engineering department has implemented a variety of methods toencourage and/or require students to learn about the different engineering majors offered atClemson. For several years, students were required to complete a series of assignments as part ofan “Individual Reflection Portfolio.” These assignments required students to researchinformation about the different engineering disciplines then write reflections related toengineering ethics and future engineering
Johnson, R.T., “Pedagogies of Engagement: Classroom-Based Practices,” Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 94, No. 1, 2005, pp.87-101.[10] Olds, B.M., and Miller, R.L., “The Effect of a First-Year Integrated Engineering Curriculum on GraduationRates and Student Satisfaction: A Longitudinal Study,” Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 93, No. 1, 2004,pp.23-35.[11] Hoit, M., and Ohland, M., “The Impact of a Discipline-Based Introduction to Engineering Course onImproving Retention,” Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 87, No. 1, 1998, pp.79-85.[12] Felder, R.M., Brent, R., “The Intellectual Development of Science and Engineering Students. Part 2:Teaching to Promote Growth,” Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 93, No. 4, 2004
traditional classroom experience. Specifically, it supports theAccreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) Criterion 3 Program Outcomes addressingthe students ability to design a system to meet specific needs of a community, function as a member of amultidisciplinary team, identify and solve engineering problems, understand professional and ethicalresponsibilities, communicate despite the potential language barrier, understand the impact of the projectin a global and societal context, recognize the need to engage in life-long learning to allow them toaddress real problems outside of traditional discipline-based engineering challenges, and show knowledgeof the contemporary issues connecting community health and sustainable engineering
journey of joy: A caring college professor has a clear understanding of the value ofthe topics and course material that he/she teaches and their impact on the professional andpersonal development of students. As an example, if a teacher treats applied mechanics asan end in itself, he/she is not stimulating the students in putting the material in the mostmeaningful context. Although the material may eventually become “second nature” to thestudents, they may fail to appreciate and enjoy the subject because they did not perceiveits relevance and applications to their future course work and their career. This is amissed opportunity that the faculty member ought to capitalize on! And make the courseenjoyable irrespective of its standing in the overall
, participants work in a collaborativemanner around common themes or goals. They are shaped by a joint enterprise, or domain ofinterest (in our case this is mechanics education) and depend on mutual engagement to help buildrelationships in the community. Finally, the CoP typically develops a shared repertoire, whichmight consist of communal resources and tools, shared activities and ideas, or differentapproaches to teaching. A sustained involvement in a CoP centered around faculty developmentallows participants to develop a sense of community, attempt new teaching practices and discussimplementation with other colleagues, and share different teaching resources.One successful implementation of a community of practice built around developing a student
conceptual understanding of university students about abstract physical concepts, specifically in the introductory and upper-division electromagnetism courses. She has published five peer-reviewed articles in high-impact journals indexed in Web of Science and/or Scopus, and one peer-reviewed book chapter. She has partic- ipated in several international educational research conferences, resulting in five conference proceedings indexed in Web of Science. In 2018, she participated in the local organizing committee for the confer- ence of the International Research Group on Physics Teaching (GIREP, from its name in French) in San Sebastian, Spain. She was also part of the organizing committee of the annual meeting of the
’ conveyanceof what is known, as well as the deeper development of knowledge by students, a practice knownin the literature as ‘communication to learn.’ Therefore, isolating students’ learning professionalcommunication skills from the material they will need to communicate as professionals.As some of the most challenging and rewarding career opportunities for our students hinge onstudents’ abilities to critically apply and communicate the material they learn and to be able towork across geographic and field boundaries, we must work towards ways to engage them incourse material in richer ways. Interdisciplinary team teaching offers one promising approach foraccomplishing the integration of technical engineering skills development and communicationskills
with the Office for Equal Opportunity to create adatabase and attend recruitment fairs for prospective minority faculty.Leadership Development ProgramsThe institution’s ADVANCE program sponsors a series of workshops and events to buildspecific leadership skills, including communication skills, resolving conflict, negotiation, powerand influence, and time management. These workshops utilize both on campus experts andoutside consultants. Leadership seminars for senior women faculty give them the opportunity tointeract with current leaders across the university and outside the institution, includingdepartment heads, associate deans, deans, research center directors, vice-presidents, andprovosts. In addition to seminars and workshops open to all
Director of Research and Professional Development at the Center for CriticalThinking and Chair of the National Council for Excellence in Critical Thinking, Dr. Richard Paulis an internationally recognized authority on critical thinking. Dr. Paul has written books forevery grade level and has done extensive experimentation with teaching tactics and strategies,and devising, among other things, novel ways to engage students in rigorous self-assessment.The author has largely benefited from the principles of Socratic Taxonomy outlined by RichardPaul. The author has utilized these principles in his previous ASEE conference presentations.The author has also incorporated several ideas from these outlines while he experimented withthe discovery approach
for program evolution based on lessons learned, it is clear fromthis research that students’ self-efficacy within and outside of the class, their feelings ofcommunity, and their desire to persist computing have been impacted.7 Acknowledgements We would like to thank Duke University, Aeris, CTC, Lineage, Salesforce, Zuora, andanonymous donors for their generous and ongoing support of the program.8 References[1] N. C. Chesler and M. A. Chesler, “Gender-Informed Mentoring Strategies for Women Engineering Scholars: On Establishing a Caring Community,” J. Eng. Educ., vol. 91, no. 1, pp. 49–55, 2002, doi: 10.1002/j.2168-9830.2002.tb00672.x.[2] C. C. Healy and A. J. Welchert, “Mentoring Relations: A Definition to Advance Research and
Paper ID #34480A Semester Like No Other: Use of Natural Language Processing forNovice-Led Analysis on End-of-Semester Responses on Students’ Experienceof Changing Learning Environments Due to COVID-19Dr. Sreyoshi Bhaduri, McGraw Hill Dr. Sreyoshi Bhaduri is an Engineering Educator and People Researcher. She currently heads Global People Research and Analytics at McGraw Hill, where she leads research leveraging employee data to generate data-driven insights for decisions impacting organizational Culture and Talent. Her research interests include assessing the impact and effectiveness of inclusion initiatives as well as
meeting (i.e., for 5 hours and20 minutes per week). Both team teachers attend all class meetings. Each week's instruction isorganized to include four (4) primary activities, each designed to target some specific aspect ofengineering or communication education. These activities include engineering lectures,communications lectures, team meetings (which include a status report and an informal briefing),and open work sessions.The first activity is an engineering lecture, given by the AE professor the first class meeting ofthe week. This lecture lasts approximately 1 hour and is carefully designed to provide timelyreminders of key concepts, processes, and equations that students are most likely to use in thecoming week. As previously mentioned, one of
manner • E) Health and safety benefits and/or negative impacts are equitably distributed within affected communities… the project does not disproportionately burden one community over another (e.g., social / environmental justice)” • QL3.1 Advance Equity and Social Justice [24, p. 48] • “Degree to which equity and social justice are included in stakeholder engagement, project team commitments, and decision making A) When projects impact, or potentially impact, indigenous communities, specific attention is given to developing a relationship of respect and mutual understanding that supports the autonomy, authority, and rights of these communities. F) …qualified
the capstone experience. Althoughthere is much written on senior design programs around the country, literature that solely focuseson technical writing within the capstone experience is somewhat limited [20-26]. Furthermore,the author has come across only very limited studies on engineering undergraduates writing to arange of audience prior to their capstone experience. In this paper the author focuses on literaturewhere engineering students write to an audience other than the course instructor outside of asenior capstone course. To meet the demands of the Silicon Valley employers, San Jose University College ofEngineering redesigned its technical communication course with the goal of developing writingand speaking skills that students
impacting engineering education in a scholarly way. Theprimary goal is to cultivate a diverse community of engineering education Scholars who canthink and work across engineering and education disciplines with the ultimate aim of improvingthe engineering student experience. A secondary goal is to formulate principles and models foradvancing this scholarship community. Both goals address a mission of building capacity(people and models) to advance engineering education.Transforming ISEE goals to objectives encompasses two ways of considering impact: impact onparticipating Scholars and impact of Scholars on engineering education. Impact “on”participating Scholars is defined by the following meta-level learning objectives: contribute toengineering
topics in a VCP is only part of the objective of thegroups. Adopting new strategies in real time more completely quantifies the impact of the VCPs.Many times, one time, and never were the choices for adoption related to the pedagogy and/ortechnology topics. Next, two questions related to the creation of a community were asked. Whilethe data will be presented at the conference, in brief, the VCPs impacted faculty across rank,location, AIChE or AIChE Education Division member status, and beyond. Finally, threesummative questions and the opportunity for free response comments completed the survey.ConclusionsThe AIChE Education Division VCP program provided an engaging framework in order toprovide professional development and support to chemical
students, faculty, and others, in the form of new curricula, reviseddepartmental practices, etc. Additionally, as a result of their work on NSF RED projects, REDproject team members also experience a positive impact through their participation in acommunity of practice. A community of practice (CoP), is defined by Wenger as follows: Communities of practice are groups of people who share a concern or a passion for something they do and learn how to do it better as they interact regularly. (Wenger 2011) More than just a collection of individuals who possess a shared interest, a community ofpractice is characterized by several distinct features: they are practitioners; they develop ashared repertoire of resources (such as
even broadly to all thesis research.Part III: Future Research and Concluding RemarksThe GAPS program is still in its initial stage of development. After our first cohort concludes,we will assess the progress made and make plans for expanding and improving the GAPSprogram accordingly. The project management course will also act as a seed to grow our GAPSlearning community. We aim to broaden the engineering backgrounds represented by studentsin future cohorts. Additionally, we aim to continue to engage with past cohorts as the programexpands to continuously build the community. As more students graduate from our course, theywill join the GAPS community to help other students with their thesis and professional skilltraining. We will upload on our
implementation and studies on Rumble Strips and Stripes, a synthesis of thecurrent state-of-the-art knowledge regarding the safety impacts of these countermeasures wasprovided.The results presented in this paper are very important for the scholarly community, because theycan be used as the foundation for similar studies in other states and it has the potential to directlybenefit construction education by serving as an example of good practice in engineeringeducation Page 12.1299.11ReferencesAgent, K; O’Connel, L; Green, E; Kreis, d; Pigman, J; Tollner, N; (2003) “Development of Procedures forIdentifying High-Crash Locations and Prioritizing Safety
, theAraypallpa, Peru project provided a way for students to engage in service-learning projects, learnabout appropriate technology and sustainability, work on a multi-disciplinary team, and learnhow engineering skills can be used to serve the needs of the global community. In addition,students developed a set of skills that typical classroom education does not provide. A volunteer-based program may be especially useful as a mechanism for service-learning since theundergraduate engineering curriculum is normally very full, or it may be a first-step inintroducing service-learning into the engineering program.AcknowledgementsWe would like to thank Dr. LeeAnne Kryder for her guidance and feedback on this paper;Humphrey Blackburn for sharing his expertise on
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Temple University c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 ASEE Safe Zone Workshops and Virtual Community of Practice to Promote LGBTQ Equality in EngineeringAbstractEven though recent years have seen significant advances in LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual,transgender, and queer) equality in the U.S. through legislation and social acceptance, researchshows that LGBTQ students and faculty on college campuses still experience exclusion and dis-crimination. This paper describes a transformative project that links diversity research with afaculty development initiative to promote LGBTQ equality in engineering. The aims of the pro-ject are to
. Additionally, educationalexperiences that are active, social, contextual, engaging, and student-owned lead to deeperlearning. The benefits of collaborative learning include the development of higher-level thinking,oral communication, self-management, and leadership skills; increase in student retention, self-esteem, and responsibility; exposure to and an increase in understanding of diverse perspectives;and preparation for real-life social and employment situations (Center for Teaching Innovation,2023; Stump et al., 2011).Integrated Curriculum: Individuals live and work in a connected world. An integrated curriculumcan simply be described as “making connections” (Drake and Burns, 2004). Connected learningis brain-building (NE DOE, 2017). The more
virtual communities of practice models for faculty developmentAbstract Faculty development is a possible pathway to inform and encourage adoption of research-based education practices into engineering classrooms. We developed a model for facultydevelopment called a virtual community of practice. In this model we sought to engage facultywith research-based education practices, and more specifically, focus on their implementation ofthese practices in their courses. Two different VCP designs were utilized in our program. Thefirst cohort (Cycle 1) consisted of faculty that were grouped based on similar courses (n = 77).The second cohort (Cycle 2) consisted of faculty that were grouped based on similar
course. The case study selected focuses on steel beam elements with point loads.The goal of this study is to evaluate the application’s ability to engage students in structuralanalysis of some defined problems. The results of this pilot study will indicate the effectiveness ofaugmented reality usage in the educational setting and potentially demonstrate its new approach’spotential to contribute to student learning through interactive, three-dimensional visualizationfeatures, which in turn support the cultivation of strong engineering students.Keywords: Augmented Reality (AR), Engineering Mechanics, Virtual Reality (VR), FiniteElement Method (FEM), Engineering EducationIntroductionStructural design considers the behavior of steel and concrete
audience. Past student teams have presented to a variety of audiencesranging from college level liberal arts classes to middle and high school science, math, andtechnology classes.This paper includes an overview of both projects in their current forms; results of projectassessment, including samples of student feedback, which have been collected and analyzed overthe past five years; the strategy used during department-level assessment to support outcomesrelated to life-long learning, communication, and team work abilities; experience gained throughtranslation of projects to other courses; and future plans for project refinement.I. IntroductionRochester Institute of Technology (RIT) has one of the oldest cooperative education programs inthe country
trajectories, student motivation, and learning. Sreyoshi has been recognized as a Fellow at the Academy for Teaching Excellence at Virginia Tech (VTGrATE) and a Fellow at the Global Perspectives Program (GPP) and was inducted to the Yale Bouchet Honor Society during her time at Virginia Tech. She has also been honored as an Engaged Ad- vocate in 2022 and an Emerging Leader in Technology (New ELiTE) in 2021 by the Society of Women Engineers. Views expressed in this paper are the author’s own, and do not necessarily reflect those of organizations she is associated with. Learn more about Sreyoshi’s impact - www.ThatStatsGirl.comDr. Racheida S. Lewis, University of Georgia Dr. Racheida S. Lewis, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor
will showcase inclusive pedagogy and content at thecourse level. It is important to note that inclusion can take many forms, some of which requireonly a small effort but offer a potentially high impact. The authors would like to stress that theCEE Department is currently developing multiple ways to engage diversity with their studentsand no one particular path will be given preference.There are times in which developing an inclusive curriculum can be seen as challenging [8]However, the perception of difficulty is no excuse to shy away from implementing a moreinclusive classroom setting. ABET has included in its criteria for student development, a “respectfor diversity”, a recognition of how engineering has societal and global impacts, and an