as appropriate to context.Furthermore, the prototypical engineering leader practices servant leadership. These perspectivesfocus our treatment of networking. Accordingly, having the heart of a servant in the practice ofleadership, one benefits greatly from having a robust network to with which we can marshal peopleand resources to satisfy a need. As previously stressed, trust and reciprocity are the foundation of solidnetworks.Considering the mean and mode ratings in the student assessments, students perceived the content andactivities of the course to be positive. To promote student involvement through “easy wins,” wepurposefully included simple and low-risk exercises along with the course material. We try to reducethe friction to forming
significant impact. We note that in Year 1 of theprogram, we gave feedback to the program administrators on ways to strengthen Research andEntrepreneurship presentations to respond to student confusion, questions, and fears about thesepathways, which we had assessed qualitatively [4]. Thus, we anticipate the substantial increasesin Knowledge on nearly every item represent a programmatic improvement. As an area of furtherimprovement, the program could focus on helping students know how to find funding andknowing the areas of computing research they could focus on, as these were positive butinsignificant item increases. However, increased knowledge alone will not alleviate all students’fears and personal constraints regarding selecting their career
improvement in the presentcurriculum. Clearly, this is a missing gap that must be addressed in phase 4 (curriculumrevamp) of this study. Suggestions for the curriculum revamp exercise are presented insection 4 of this paper.Figure 4 assesses the agility and adaptability of Materials Engineering graduates/students,which includes ability to apply knowledge and skillsets in different contexts, ability todevelop innovative ideas and identify new opportunities, ability to thrive in situations with nodeterminate solutions, ability to work autonomously and be resourceful when required andcapacity to work under pressure. While the alumni and employers have given a relativelyhigh rating on all aspects surveyed, the students were slightly less confident. This
regarding the purpose of the study. The primary difference in timing was that the fourth-year students were given the survey towards the beginning of their semester, whereas the first-yearstudents were given the survey towards the end of the semester. For the former, the survey was giventowards the beginning of the semester so as not to conflict with major assessments that often occur inthe last half of the semester. For the latter, the survey had to be given towards the end of the semesterbecause the survey asks questions related to experiences that happen in the first few months duringthe transition to university.Figure 6 summarizes the response rates for the 267 at SFU ENSC and the 44 students at VIU. Thedefinition of the categories of Started
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yearsprior to the introduction of the Arduinos. While there was not any official assessment doneduring this time, none of the students who had taken the class during this period had ever usedLabview in any projects outside of the instrumentation class. In fact, many of the students whohad taken the class did not remember that they had used Labview at all when it was mentioned incasual conversation.6. Recommendations for Future Applications After seeing the success and proliferation of the Arduinos in the Mechanical Engineeringprogram, the next logical step would be to include them a little earlier in the curriculum. Basedon other literature, Mechatronics is a popular class to include Arduino based education [5,10].Since there is a version of a
. We investigate theeffectiveness of VS Code as a desired IDE for CS1 programming courses and developcomprehensive guidance to assist students with varying programming backgrounds. We performevaluations among students and validate the practicality of VS Code and assess the quality of ourVS Code guidance. We continuously update and improve the guidance based on collectedfeedback. We are practicing VS Code and our VS Code guidance in additional CS1 programmingcourses that cover languages beyond Python.Our future work is two-fold. First, we will continue exploring useful VS Code extensionsavailable in the marketplace that benefit education. Second, we will develop our own extensionsto further support education-related activities. Specifically, we
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: international and domestic undergraduate students in focus in the United States higher education institutions. In addition, Mr. Halkiyo is interested in broadening the participation of engineering education in Ethiopian universities to increase the diversity, inclusivity, equity, and quality of Engineering Education. He studies how different student groups such as women and men, rich and poor, students from rural and urban, and technologically literate and less literate can have quality and equitable learning experiences and thrive in their performances. In doing so, he focuses on engineering education policies and practices in teaching and learning processes, assessments, laboratories, and practical internships. Mr. Halkiyo
Excel. It is important to note thatno previous information about the elastic resistance was given, so the students were able toqualitatively compare and to classify them.The activity can be divided into four stages: pre-class, during class, post-class, and studentperception. Pre-Class and Post-Class Activities consisted of providing equal quizzes beforeand after the class (they can be seen in the appendix), with questions covering both low-order and high-order thinking skills related to elastic forces (Hooke's Law and non linearones) and energy. The purpose of these quizzes was to assess and compare students'understanding before and after the class. Approximately 350 students participated in thisactivity. The comparison was necessary because
prestige and student mental health.Higher educationUniversity rankings are ubiquitous in U.S. higher education, having emerged into their presentform over the 20th century as part of a system in which institutions compete for status and rank(Cohen & Kisker, 2010; Gonzales & Núñez, 2021; Wilbers & Brankovic, 2023). Although acomprehensive analysis of how competitive, ranked global higher education emerged in itscurrent form is outside the scope of this literature review, it merits emphasizing that competitionbetween institutions was by no means the norm in the first part of the 20th century. Wilbers andBrankovic (2023) explain that early modern assessment efforts evaluated institutions againstemerging standards through individual expert
anddevelopment is what had me work multiple jobs during the school year so I could pay for myexpenses while also affording tuition.This research opportunity has brought me many new practical experiences and a deeperunderstanding of coursework theory that is covered in the Mechanical Engineering curriculum.In classes, especially in the lab courses, I conducted experiments to assess theories, followingsteps provided by the instructor. However, in conducting this research, I was only given ageneral scope of study. Instead of detailed step-by-step instructions on what to do, I was onlygiven a certain objective. I was responsible for finding out how to conduct the practical work onmy own. At the end of the Spring 2023 term, one of my professors approached me
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of Washington Tacoma. Dr. Hadnagy received her Ph.D. at the University of New Hampshire. Her work falls in the broad areas of surface water quality assessment, physicochemical treatment technology development, and engineering education research. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 From Cooperation to Alliance: Transforming a Transfer Partnership to Promote Engineering Degree Pathways for Underrepresented StudentsAbstractStudents who transfer from one institution to another face a variety of challenges as they exploretransfer pathways and acclimate themselves to their new institution’s policies and practices,including lack of sense of belonging
therefore we are basing our initial evaluation of the course on faculty observations made during the course. Future offerings of the course will include higher enrollment and a more detailed survey to assess particular desired outcomes. All students taking the course were senior level students, andall students successfully completed the course. Faculty observations from the course wereencouraging. Students reported strong satisfaction and value with the labs, projects, andhomework developed. Students were impressed with the delivery of the class for a first timeoffering. One particular student mentioned they had enrolled in the class due to schedulingnecessity and reported that they were glad they had to take the course since they
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career • My parents would like it if I choose a science career. • (No question assessed whether parents would like the participants to choose a career that uses technology) • My parents would like it if I choose an engineering career. • My parents would like it if I choose a mathematics career.4. Desire among participants to select a career • I am interested in careers that use science. • I am interested in careers that use technology. • I am interested in careers that involve engineering. • I am interested in careers that use mathematics.5. Whether their friends like science • My friends like science.The average participant score for each statement (with respect to each separate field of STEM) isgiven in Table 5
” during lab sessions to help pique student interest in not only what they aredoing now (as procedural labs can often feel boring), but also to excite them for what theirtraining makes possible.With a large team, consistent grading can also present a challenge. It is recommended that youprovide example student submissions (“good, bad, and ugly”) that are scored by a “mastergrader” to demonstrate strong, formative feedback. These can be an excellent tool for studentsand TAs alike to learn how a grading rubric is to be applied to an assignment. To improve thefeedback mechanism, tools provided by Canvas or Gradescope, for example, allow for TAs togenerate and reuse feedback while grading assessments. Anyone who has been responsible forgrading
program? Before diving intoo deeply, it is important to step back and think about alternatives, and what is most appropriategiven the scope of the program.While there could be many approaches, let’s consider two basic approaches to justifying anundergraduate research program: the first is to spend nine months creating a theoretical basis,and the second is to run a pilot and assess the results. • For the first approach, we will assume two people each spend 25% of their time doing research, meeting with stakeholders, and surveying students and faculty. If each person makes $100k per year and works on this project for 9 months, this amounts to a cost of $37,500 for the first approach. • For the second approach, someone
[4], [6], [8], [9], [10], [12],[13]. The concept of intuition in the workplace has been established in business management,nursing, and recently engineering [10], [12], [14], [15], [16]. Due to intuition’s relatively newemergence in the literature, research thus far has focused on qualitatively describing perceptionsof intuition, how it is used, and how it may be developed. Previous work specific to engineeringdefines engineering intuition as “subconsciously leveraging experience to assess a situationand/or predict a future outcome” and situates its usage in the problem solving process as a toolused by experts when the problems they are tasked to solve face constraints [10]. Further work inthe domain of engineering suggests hands-on
identified the importance of developingexpectations and guidelines that align with diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) best practices,along with a willingness to commit to continuous assessment and change, as being central tocreation of a positive maker culture [14]. In prior work, the authors pointed to the importance ofa simplified work environment and welcoming atmosphere to the development of an inclusivemakerspace environment [15].When students engage in learning opportunities in a makerspace, it has the potential to positivelyimpact their educational experience and academic success. The term student engagement refersto the extent to which students invest, value, and participate in their educational experience in ameaningful way [16] [17
, race,gender, class year, and transfer status. The next section of the survey included a validatedself-efficacy instrument for engineering students. There are 30 of these questions and theycorrespond to a self-efficacy instrument designed by The Assessing Women and Men inEngineering Project (AWE) in partnership with the Society of Women Engineers [20]. Questionsrevolve around a student’s academic confidence level, the grades they have received, and theirfeelings of social inclusion. The answers for the questions use a Likert scale with an extra optionfor “Don’t Know”. The survey was scored on a scale of 0-6. A score of 0 indicates all "StronglyDisagree", and a score of 6 indicates all "Strongly Agree". The final section of the survey
demographic information, such as gender, race/ethnicity, and grade level, andquestions related to the constructs: science interest, science anxiety, mathematics interest,mathematics anxiety, and problem-solving and inventing. Students completed a pre-survey at thebeginning of their five-day Camp Invention summer program, prior to any instructional lessons.Subsequently, on the program’s final day, a post-survey was administered. Each survey tookapproximately 15 minutes to complete. The instrument comprised of 27 Likert-type questionswhere students were asked to express their level of agreement. The response options range from“Strongly Disagree” (1) to “Strongly Agree” (4). Cronbach’s alpha is a measure assessing theinternal consistency of a construct
by measuring variables before and after an intervention (e.g., assessing project outcomesbefore and after the implementation of AI tools). These designs can help provide strongerevidence for the impact of AI usage on project management outcomes, beyond the correlationalfindings of the current study. Additionally, conducting longitudinal studies could provideinsights into how the usage of AI in project management evolves over time, offering a dynamicperspective on the adoption and impact of AI technologies. Future inquiry could also divedeeper into specific AI applications in project management, such as machine learning for riskassessment or natural language processing for team communication, providing a more granularunderstanding of their
training and practice of Ph.D. candidates who wish to pursue careers in academia (3) to assess its progress both internally and externally to assist the transfer students best and improve the program The ACE Fellows program provides Ph.D. students looking to have a career in academia,and who would like to build their teaching skills, the opportunity to become the instructor ofrecord for a course at Clemson University and to teach, or co-teach, an engineering course at apartnered technical college. Applications were accepted from any upper level PhD studentstudying either engineering or computing. Students who apply for the ACE Fellows programundergo an interview process during which they must provide a