communities as ameans of assessing the practicality of potential approaches. Students’ perspectives changedthroughout the course of the conference, as they reflected on their ability to bring global contextsto their research. After participating in these conferences, students experienced a greaterawareness of sustainability. They were also inspired to experience different cultures, cultivatinggreater appreciation for the need to engage with the international community when sharingresearch. The exposure to humanitarian engineering perspectives influenced global STEMidentity, while appreciating disciplines outside of engineering, e.g., psychology, social behaviors.Further, students learned that strides can be made toward solving global problems
professional skills (e.g., communication, leadership, teamwork) and identitythrough exposure and practice [5]. This paper describes the process used to integrate desiredlearning outcomes across the curriculum by developing and implementing new required IPBCcourses for first- and second-year environmental engineering students. A companion paper [6]describes the impact of these IPBC courses on professional identity formation, a key outcome forthis RED project.2.0 MethodsThe EENV faculty determined three pillars of competency essential to a modern environmentalengineering practitioner which connect all the outcomes in the program: systems thinking,professionalism, and sustainability (Figure 1). As described previously [7], [8], [9] the threepillars
popular low cost retailer in the midst ofdowntown it will expose people to the other attractions in the area. Dore to Door consultingcreated a marketing plan that focuses on hosting a series of community events to promote therevitalized downtown. The events range from an initial grand opening celebration to weeklyparties held in the town square. The group also proposes creating a slogan and logo for the newdowntown. The students operational plan begins with recruiting major retailers to establish apresence in the area, their next step is to begin renovating existing structures, and finally tocreate a park in the town square. The Consultants are seeking a loan of $50,000 to be repaid over5 years; they predict their risk to be moderate.Please rate
institution, what programs had you heard of?” Inresponse to this question, students ranked the entrepreneurship LLC fifth (n = 141) among thetop ten programs identified, Table 1. Table 1 Response to freshman questionnaire: “Prior to coming to our institution, what programs had you heard of?To amplify our in-person marketing effort, we plan to enlist current program participants asguides for tours with prospective students and parents. This may increase the eventual numberof applications if more students join our institution specifically because we have this program.The freshman survey sought to address the issue of program attractiveness with the question,“Which of the following programs had an impact on your decision
. Students will design stories/messaging to reach specific audiences and exploring metrics for measuring impact and effectiveness. Students will practice and refine presentation skills. Students will learn and develop strong time/project management skills. Throughout the semester, students worked on several projects and exercises that relied onuser testing and feedback to inform their process and directions. Projects included the design ofobjects, tools or creative activities that linked to and complement new ways of thinking andworking collaboratively about global security. Students developed engagement strategies thatpushed the conventional messaging of nuclear issues and linked these strategies to specific callsto action
Paper ID #42083Faculty Development Symposium: Building a Community for Early-CareerEngineering Hispanic Faculty’s Success and AdvancementDr. Dayna Lee Mart´ınez, Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers, Inc. Dayna is a Senior Director of Research & Impact at the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE), where she leads a team of professionals who specialize in data-driven design and implementation of programs and services to empower pre-college students, parents, graduate students, and faculty members in STEM fields, with a particular focus on advancing Hispanic representation and success. With over 15
K-12 students. Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education, 8(4), 342–366. Waynesville, NC, USA: Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education.Thomas, D. R. (2006). A general inductive approach for analyzing qualitative evaluation data. American Journal of Evaluation, 27(2), 237–246. https://doi.org/10.1177/1098214005283748Tonkal, M., Wu, A., & Rogers, C. (2024). Exploring the Impact of Systems Engineering Projects on STEM Engagement and Learning. Proceedings of the 2024 Frontiers in Education (FIE) Conference.Trevelyan, J., & Tilli, S. (2007). Published research on engineering work. Journal of Professional Issues in Engineering Education and Practice, 133(4), 300–307.
(and acting upon it),communicating openly, and showing empathy9, 10, 12, 16.Instructional style. Approaching teaching in a variety of ways, and using activities that focus onvisual, auditory, and tactile delivery of content can support learning10. Murray17 documentedinstructor enthusiasm as an important feature of instructional style. While the ways instructorpresent material is important, students’ level of engagement and involvement in their owneducation is essential for their success18, 19. Even in the best lecture classes, student gains arelower than in interactive engagement classes20, 21. Active learning has been shown to have apositive impact on personal development, personal satisfaction, quality of relationships,psychological
following research lines: conceptual understanding of students on subjects of physics, transfer of understanding between the different areas of knowledge, use of tech- nology in learning, impact of using innovative learning environments and development of assessment tools. He has 76 articles in refereed journals and conferences, over 450 citations according to the ISI Web of Science, 6 books, 13 book chapters, 139 national and international presentations in countries like Korea, Denmark, Hungary, Cuba, United States, Chile, Ecuador and Argentina and 29 international work- shops in Mexico, Chile, Argentina and Italy. Genaro Zavala was appointed to the editorial board of the Physical Review Special Topics-Physics Education
, collaboration, and overall performance ofthe engineering profession [19].Alternatively, the question is what factors make women stay and succeed. According to Amelinkand Meszaros [20], hands-on applications of engineering tend to sustain women’s interest in thefield for the long term. When women can engage in hands-on activities, they feel moresuccessful and relate more to the engineering community. Furthermore, teamwork experiences ofwomen play a large role in how much they enjoy engineering. In their interview study of 55undergraduate students, Riney and Froeschle [2] found many of their women participantsreported a lack of respect from both peers and professors. They also reported a constant need toprove themselves to male peers. In other words, the
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small group sessions with students andemail between faculty mentors and scholars was used to improve communication. Additionally,six seminars were held with follow up discussions and student reflections. While the averagenumber of program activities in which students participated increased somewhat, the program teamwas concerned that these program-specific activities were having limited reach and impact. During the grant period, loss of the team’s clinical faculty member led to a reevaluation ofthe program structure, specifically the role of the cohort facilitator. In the academic year 2018/2019the program team made the decision to hire a graduate student to serve as the coordinator ofactivities and primary point of contact for students
(e.g., theoretical, empirical, case study, etc.), student outcomes from therespective story-driven learning approaches tended to align across articles. Most commonly,outcomes tended to involve at least one of the following areas: 1) leadership and career skills, 2)well-being, 3) empowerment among marginalized groups, 4) self-concept clarity, 5) empathy andsense of belonging, and 6) learning skills and engagement. While the results from our analysisrevealed a relative paucity of story-driven learning in higher education, the conclusions show arange of positive impacts for students—highlighting the potential utility of story-driven learning. 2
course was taught by having representatives from each department come into theclass to provide information on employment opportunities to the students enrolled in the class.The rank of the top class meetings (see Figure 1) revealed that the students enjoyed theprofessors who were more engaging and provided both demonstrations as well as time forquestions from the students. Reasons why the students listed these meetings as their favoriteincluded: interesting, informative, showed objects, and helpful in learning about major. Thelowest ranked class meetings (see Figure 2) were from the professors who came in and presentedwithout interaction. Reasons listed why students ranked these meetings lower include: tooadvanced, not related to chosen major
of the computer science community and deemed to be of great importance inrealizing the smart grid vision. The environmental and economic topics focus on sustainableenergy solutions and expose the students to issues related to the SG expected impacts.2.2 Course Level JustificationOur electrical and power engineering programs have been carefully designed to prepare studentsfor the profession of electrical engineering through study, experience and practice, and tobecame professionals and business leaders in our state with objectives, such as: electricalengineering graduates with the training and skills to enter the job market or to continue theireducation by attending graduate school, become business leaders and entrepreneurs, engaging inlife
. Logan, PhD Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Ohio Northern UniversityAbstractTo encourage autonomy, improve motivation, foster inclusion, and spark curiosity, theEngineering Museum Exhibit (EME) classroom project was developed for use in a junior-level,required civil engineering course. The EME provides a creative way for students to makeconnections and create value across course content, while learning science communication in aunique way. The junior-level course has traditionally focused on real-world examples, labs, andlecture content. Adding the EME allows for student autonomy, which boosts motivation, thusleading to better competence of course content. With this autonomy, students can create theirown
when we congregated at the end of each day to discuss the accomplishments and failures of each of our efforts. The whole experience proved to be very physically, as well as mentally and emotionally, demanding. It was apparent through our nightly conversations within the group of students that we were all greatly impacted by the magnitude of this health problem on this community and its people. What made the impact even more profound was observing the way of life of these people and their perception of the problem. Many of the children were more interested in the way our digital cameras or GPS units worked rather than the blood that was coming through their urine. And others were more
tips with their audiences. Ambassadors are alsoencouraged to create materials to be included in the library. This initiative will promote digitalsafety, enhance community engagement, and foster leadership and communication skills amongstudents.By participating in the Cybersecurity Ambassador Program, students gain a deeperunderstanding of cybersecurity concepts and how to apply them to their personal andprofessional lives. They will also develop valuable communication and leadership skills as theywork to educate others on this critical topic.Ultimately, this program aims to create a network of local chapters of CybersecurityAmbassadors who can promote basic cybersecurity literacy in their communities and helpprevent cyber threats such as
?Founding of the ABC University ProgramIn 2009, a faculty member of ABC collaborated with EWB to start a student chapter. EWB hadcompleted a site assessment and health survey for a village in Bolivia. The assessment reportidentified low technology, high impact projects that would benefit the community. ABC wasinterested in designing and implementing the project and as a result ABC’s program was born in2010. During subsequent projects, ABC partnered with EAI which provided significant supportand experience in working with Bolivia. As a result of this relationship, ABC began arelationship with several Bolivian engineers that have significantly reduced the projectconstraints on resources and logistics. The Bolivian engineers are also the in country
STEM on the Road is a peer-to-peer outreach program that focuses primarily onstudents in the College of Technology and the College of Engineering and Science, it isanticipated that it will have broader impacts on the university community as a whole. With slightmodifications, SotR can easily become more directly tied to university efforts of recruitment,retention, and increasing diversity. ● Recruiting: As discussed earlier, there are many foundational components to recruitment already present in the SotR visits. It is anticipated that some of the SotR student participants will become university peer mentors and hired to play an active role in student recruiting. ● Retention: Although Tinto’s classic theories on
, 3(c). ethical, health and safety, constructability, and sustainability. 10 Sustainability B 3 Apply the principles of sustainability to the design of traditional Not addressed by any current criteria. and emergent engineering systems. 11 Contemporary B 3 Drawing upon a broad education, explain the impact of historical Partially addressed by GCBLP Criteria Issues and Historic and contemporary issues on the identification, formulation, and 3(h) and 3(j). The ability to explain Perspectives
students succeed both in and out of theclassroom [3]. Examples include campus activities, socialization, recreation, leadershipopportunities, service opportunities and engagement in academic activities with peers. However,this culture of inclusiveness begins before the student veteran arrives, while they are on campus,and extends into workplace employment. Unlike many large universities with support staff toassist student veterans, the institution’s faculty are directly involved early in the transition all theway past graduation. Student veterans are part of the overall strategic plan for the School ofEngineering. This paper focuses on veteran and active duty students’ transition to and fromcampus life as well as their time on campus.Background
GECS behavioral. These results suggest that the COIL activitysignificantly impacted the GECS cognitive scale. Evaluating individual survey questions mayserve to understand specific changes achieved with the COIL activity and students using theGECS. Figure 3: Mean change in GES and GECS scores for COIL intervention5.4. Engineering Course Coupled to a Community Engaged Project As observed in Figure 4, the intervention appears to have a significant impact on developing theglobal mindset and global engineering competency of students with a net positive score changeacross all GES and GECS scales. Additionally, it is noted that as an elective course andassociated breakout, the participating students had elevated mean pre scores across
problem solving.To facilitate the development of self-authorship among first year students, we designed thediscussion sessions as a developmental pathway introducing self-awareness, identity work andgoal setting. The framework and details of the content were created and delivered by peerfacilitators on a weekly basis. The peer facilitators were given time to add their own personalaspects to the content to imbue the session with personal credibility, create an respectful sharingatmosphere and engage students in open discussion. Table 1 provides a list of the discussiontopics covered through the course of the semester. Appendix A1 provides the full session listingincluding the original course structure and the modified course structure with lecture
impact of engineering solutions in a global/societal context; (i) a recognition of the need for and an ability to engage in life-long learning; Q) a knowledge of contemporary issues; and (k) an ability to use the techniques, skills and modern engineering tools necessary for engineering practice. ” Many of the criteria in the second half of this list exemplify desirable student performance outcomesthat are frequently associated with study in the humanities and social sciences. (It is wol~h noting that theH/SS-related outcomes are couched not in terms of “ability” but in distinctly vaguer terms, perhapsacknowledging greater difficulties in assessing non-technical outcomes--solving calculus problems vs.ethical
impact of engineering solutions in a global/societal context; (i) a recognition of the need for and an ability to engage in life-long learning; Q) a knowledge of contemporary issues; and (k) an ability to use the techniques, skills and modern engineering tools necessary for engineering practice. ” Many of the criteria in the second half of this list exemplify desirable student performance outcomesthat are frequently associated with study in the humanities and social sciences. (It is wol~h noting that theH/SS-related outcomes are couched not in terms of “ability” but in distinctly vaguer terms, perhapsacknowledging greater difficulties in assessing non-technical outcomes--solving calculus problems vs.ethical
to the course in 2010. He is co- author, with Robert Irish, of Engineering Communication: From Principles to Practice (Oxford Canada, 2008), and is also on the writing team for a new design/communication textbook for first-year engineering students. Page 25.507.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 Effects of lecture capture on a large first year engineering courseIntroductionOur first year engineering classrooms are undergoing many obvious changes, such as increasingclass sizes, growing international student body, greater diversity in student background, and
and computerengineering classes.1. IntroductionThe COVID-19 pandemic has affected education in different ways. Because of the closure ofuniversities and schools, in-person instructions transitioned to online instruction. Instructors andstudents had to adapt to remote teaching swiftly. Previous studies on distance education haveshown that online teaching requires a different pedagogy and set of skills from that of the in-personclassroom [1], [2]. Educators are faced with new pedagogical issues regarding student interactionsand communications, course content design and delivery, adopting new types of assignments andperformance expectations, and different assessment and evaluation techniques [3]. This new teaching environment urged decisions and
," Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning, vol. 11, no. Spring, pp. 49-60, 2005.[8] J. Dahlgren, "Reflection's Impact on Student Learning," Moorhead, 2020.[9] M. Lew and H. Schmidt, "Self-reflection and academic performance: is there a relationship?," Advances in health sciences education : theory and practice, vol. 16, no. 4, pp. 529-545, 2011.[10] W. Schilling, "Using Performance Bonuses to Decrease Procrastination," in Proceedings of the 2010 ASEE Annual Conference, Louisville, 2010.
academic secretary at the Faculty of Engineering of the Andrés Bello University. The areas of research interest are the impact, relationship and integration of the gender perspective within communications and marketing in the various areas of development, digital marketing and content marketing.Maria Elena Truyol María Elena Truyol, Ph.D., is full professor and researcher of the Universidad Andrés Bello (UNAB). She graduated as physics teacher (for middle and high school), physics (M.Sc.) and Ph.D. in Physics at Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina. In 2013 she obtained a three-year postdoctoral position at the Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil. Her focus is set on educational research, physics education, problem-solving