Multidisciplinary Engineering, Texas A andM University, College Station. She received her Ph.D. in Engineering Education from the School ofEngineering Education, Purdue University, USA. The Department of Energy, National Science Foundation,and industry sponsors fund her research. Her research potential and the implication of her work arerecognized through national and international awards, including the 2023 NSTA/NARST Research WorthReading award for her publication in the Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2023 New FacultyFellow award by IEEE ASEE Frontiers in Education Conference, 2022 Apprentice Faculty Grant awardby the ERM Division, ASEE, and 2020 outstanding researcher award by the School of EngineeringEducation, Purdue University. Dr. Anwar
theirlearning.MotivationEngineering students take basic classes in writing and communication. However, recent effortshave focused on communicating with broader audiences [1], including actual users of theproducts/services designed by the engineers, prospective investors who may support theproduct/service development, and marketing professionals who can direct users’ attention to theproducts/services. A recent study by the U.S. Census Bureau found that only 49% of collegeengineering graduates work in STEM fields [2]. Other research showed that engineers are morelikely to become successful entrepreneurs than their colleagues with MBA degrees but withoutengineering degrees [3]. Moreover, even if they remain in technical fields, at various stages oftheir careers engineers must
Engineering and Architecture Effective building design requires both technical and experiential considerations, whichare addressed by engineers and architects through their disciplinary expertise. Although theirdistinctions may be less clear with newer digital tools, it has been observed that the professionsapproach design differently in pursuit of their disciplinary goals [3] and receive distinctprofessional training. This training is useful when addressing their expert tasks but may causeconflict when addressing multidisciplinary problems. Engineering students mostly followoutcome-based strategies [18] but can struggle to solve open-ended or ill-defined tasks [19],especially if their curriculum has not adequately prepared them for these
community (2 nd ed.). Oxford University Press, 2014.[2] A. R. Bielefeldt, K. Paterson, and C. Swan, “Measuring the value added from service learning in project-based engineeringeducation”, International Journal of Engineering Education, 26(3), 535-546, 2010.[3] K. Litchfield, A. Javernick-Will, and A. Maul, “Technical and professional skills of engineers involved and not involved inengineering service”, Journal of Engineering Education, 105(1), 70-92, 2016.[4] K. Litchfield and A. Javernick-Will, “Investigating gains from EWB-USA involvement”, Journal of Professional Issues inEngineering Education and Practice, 140(1), 2014.[5] C. Swan, K. Paterson, and A. Bielefeldt (2014). “Community engagement in engineering education as a way to
related industries. Over the past several years, Chinesemainland has implemented the policy of “mass entrepreneurship and innovation” andpromoted “innovative and entrepreneurial education”. How to achieve effective integration ofengineering education and entrepreneurship education is a top priority for higher education inChinese mainland. Horizontally, the entrepreneurship education of Chinese mainland is animportant tributary of the international entrepreneurship education. Vertically, colleges anduniversities should also need to excavate the essence of Chinese culture and exerting itsleading value, which helps to form specific entrepreneurship education model. Thus,entrepreneurial culture in higher engineering education needs to be examined
aviation industries have committed to becoming more sustainable. Thechallenge is to continue carbon neutral growth past 2020 and to reduce CO2e by 50% by 2050,based on 2005 levels [1]. This challenge has been affirmed through agreements in industryorganizations such as IATA, A4A, ATAG, CAAFI, and many other similar organizations aroundthe globe [2][3]. Aerospace companies recognize improving aircraft technology as one way tocontribute their knowledge, skills, and abilities to achieving the global industry goal of reachingthe 50% reduction by 2050. To achieve these dramatic reductions, it will take global industry-wide efforts concentrating on aircraft technology, operational improvements, sustainable fuels,and market-based measures [1]. There is a
schoolthat focused on promoting STEM learning for underrepresented populations through makerspaceexplorations bounded in STEAM practices. This paper and research ask, “What do kindergartenmakerspaces look like in the El Paso-Juarez border region?”, “How do engineering and artintersect in kindergarten makerspaces?” and “What occurs, is experienced or learned in theseintersections in a kindergarten makerspace?” We contend that skills and knowledge developed in makerspaces straddle STEM,specifically the design process commonly discussed in engineering education, in relation to theEngineering is Elementary model [3] and studio art practices, described by Hetland et al’s [4]Studio Habits of Mind. Our approach, very much like Lachapelle and
reformeducation by moving away from the boundaries of traditional classroom-based methods to project-based3-7, concept-based, team-based8-11, market-based, customer-driven12-13, skill- and knowledge-integrated approaches using the real-world situation, in our case - the “Silicon Valley”.Silicon Valley also represents an international environment, and a good mixture of startup andestablished companies. Students across the entire University are eligible to participate in thisprogram. This program is particularly appealing to those who are highly motivated and naturallycurious about how things work, and those who are interested in technical innovation, technologytransfer, startup companies, product prototyping, and the culture of entrepreneurship in the
education possesses the characteristic of"technology-led, project-based team learning, close ties with the industry”. To name a few,Stanford University launches Stanford Technology Ventures Program (STVP), providingcustomized entrepreneurship courses for engineering students according to their educationlevel, which are given by both school and industry mentor [2]. Technical University ofMunich, a paragon of European entrepreneurial universities, sets up UnternehmerTUM andStart TUM to provide students with comprehensive guidance on the whole process of theirstarting a business, such as providing hands-on entrepreneurship training, basic equipment forproducing product prototypes in their start-up period [3]. Numerous School ofEntrepreneurship and
promoting self-confidence, communication, critical thinking, innovation, and STEM career interest andawareness. In addition to work with girls, the STEM Academy involves parents in discussions ofcollege admissions and financial aid; academic preparation for college; social needs andexpectations; and schooling options: 4-year college; community college, predominantly whiteinstitutions (PWIs), and historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs).Over the last eight years, the STEM Academy has had over 400 girls in grades 7-12 participate,enrolling an average of 50-60 middle and high school girls each year. These STEM Academyscholars participate in 10 sessions annually between August and May, including a programorientation, six STEM technical
EngineeringTechnology, STEM Education and Professional Studies, and Modeling, Simulation, andVisualization Engineering. The primary objectives for the workshop are: 1) focusing on the skillsdevelopment related to the workshop concepts (additive manufacturing – AM, computer aideddesign – CAD, reverse engineering – RE); 2) fostering of sailors’ STEM knowledge andprofessional development, 3) introducing skills needed for opportunities in advancedmanufacturing, and 4) empowering active duty military personnel to solve problems through acreative design approach. A long-term goal for the project is for active duty personnel to obtainsuch skills, so once the 3D printers are deployed to their naval vessels they will have the necessaryskills for efficient on-board
enhance your ability inconducting experiments independently and critically evaluating experimental data?Question 5: In your opinion, did the semester project enable you to develop your ability toresearch and utilize physical and other technical literature, as well as other relevant sourcesof information, for research work and the development of technical projects?Based on the information from question 3, it seems that the semester project contributed to abetter understanding of important physical theories for 50% of the students overall.Additionally, it helped develop the ability to independently perform experiments and criticallyevaluate experimental data for 58% of the students (question4), and develop the ability toresearch and use technical
body is a key and necessary component for addressing DEIB concerns withinengineering. It has been suggested that engineering leaders in academia, including faculty, sharethe responsibility of educating themselves and others about topics surrounding DEIB. Thus,exploring engineering faculty practices about DEIB can begin to shape and reshape the academiccultures that promote, ignore, or hinder DEIB efforts.Previous literature states that faculty are key to promoting participation in education and creatingsafe, equitable, and inclusive environments for student success [3]. Nonetheless, engineeringfaculty members who are novices to discussions of race and inequity or lack DEIB backgroundknowledge may inadvertently adopt viewpoints, assumptions, or
., Selwyn, N.,& Gašević, D. (2022). Assessment in the age of artificial intelligence. Computers and Education:Artificial Intelligence, 3, 100075. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.caeai.2022.100075Cotton, D. R., Cotton, P. A., & Shipway, J. R. (2024). Chatting and cheating: Ensuring academicintegrity in the era of ChatGPT. Innovations in education and teaching international, 61(2), 228-239.Chan, C. K. Y. (2023). A comprehensive AI policy education framework for university teaching andlearning. International journal of educational technology in higher education, 20(1), 38.Sharples, M. (2022). New AI tools that can write student essays require educators to rethink teachingand assessment. Impact of Social Sciences Blog.https://blogs.lse.ac.uk
. Statistical calculations form quantitative resultswhile qualitative results rely on the voice-recorded interviews. This research is currently inprogress and a summary of the results will be included in the abstract once it is completed.3. Quantitative ResultsIn this section we focus on the quantitative results derived from the collected numerical data. Theinitial stage of research investigation relied on the normal distribution nature of the data for furtherimplementation of the statistical analysis as well as the statistical distributions of the data that willbe explained next. What follows next is the application of Wilcoxon Ranking Sum and the Mann-Whitney U tests as the normality analysis indicates the need for non-parametric analysis
Paper ID #33301Positive Impact of an S-STEM Scholarship Program on Computer ScienceStudents’ Academic Performance and Retention RateDr. Zhijiang Dong, Middle Tennessee State University Dr. Zhijiang Dong is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Middle Tennessee State University. His research areas are in the fields of formal methods, system verification and validation, and computer science education. He received his BS in Mathematics from Huazhong University of Science and Technology at China, and his PhD in Computer Science from Florida International University.Dr. Joshua Lee Phillips, Middle Tennessee State
help undergraduatestudents master introductory programming concepts. In the microlearning approach, the learningcontent are broke up into small, targeted activities that are delivered digitally in an easilyconsumable form. Some of the benefits of microlearning include (1) increased learningperformance, (2) better knowledge retention, (3) increased learner engagement, (4) improvedlearner attitudes, and (5) high learner satisfaction. Even though microlearning has gained increasedpopularity in Computer Science & IT education, it still has received little attention for teachingintroductory core programming courses. In this work, based on principles outlined in the literature,we integrated microlearning intervention to teach database
thinking, reflection, and identity development [3].Pedagogical methods underpinning the broadening of engineering education generally involvedeveloping the reflective practitioner, as exemplified in the work of Donald Schön [4]. Schönproposed that reflective practice should accompany the traditional engineering curriculuminvolving technical expertise. Expanding on that idea, Bolton and Delderfield [5] asserted thatprofessionals are responsible for not only their own actions and values, but also for the broadercontexts involving the political, social, and cultural situations within which they live, learn, andwork. The development of a reflective practitioner involves developing self-awareness andextracting meaning from experiences for personal and
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our“Bird-Friendly Highway” unit. This unit blends the life and physical sciences around a problemfacing migrating birds: light and sound pollution near highways. Students aim to aid migratingbirds by building a structure to shield the natural area near highways from disruptive light andsound. To support their design work, students learn about the physical properties of light andsound as well as the biological structures that allow birds to see, hear, and generate sound. Thetwo groups and their members are described in Figure 1 below. Figure 1. Case study groups (all names are pseudonyms).In both classes, students were first introduced to the context of the design challenge. They thencompleted 3 to 4 sessions of science
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. Howles, “A study of attrition and the use of student learning communities in the computerscience introductory programming sequence,” Computer Science Education, vol. 19, no. 1, pp.1–13, Mar. 2009, doi: 10.1080/08993400902809312.[3] L. E. Margulieux, B. B. Morrison, and A. Decker, “Reducing withdrawal and failure rates inintroductory programming with subgoal labeled worked examples,” International Journal ofSTEM Education, vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 1–16, 2020.[4] L. J. Barker, C. McDowell, and K. Kalahar, “Exploring factors that influence computerscience introductory course students to persist in the major,” ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, vol. 41, no.1, pp. 153–157, Mar. 2009, doi: 10.1145/1539024.1508923.[5] T. Beaubouef and J. Mason, “Why the high attrition
elementary teachers becamefamiliar with EMU through a “we do, you plan, you teach” approach. First, within the sciencemethods course at the university, two three-hour class sessions introduced the PET to teachingengineering design through an exemplar EMU involving life vests. The PET participated asstudents in each of the five steps of the EDP as envisioned by the authors of EiE [1, 3]. Day 1included (1) Ask; (2) Imagine; and (3) Plan. Day 2 included (4) Create and (5) Improve. ThePET designed, tested, and improved life vests for dolls based on set criteria. The professor paused several times during the exemplar lessons to engage the PET asteachers. The engineering design process and engineering terminology were introduced in thecontext of
andflow. They rarely cited their works and chose a topic for their infographics. Since the previousrubric did not ask them to cover those parts (Appendix B), there was a need for a newpedagogical elements including Rubric (Appendix A), Quiz (Appendix C), Patel (2015), Krauss(2012). These elements were introduced during November of the 2016 fall semester for 12sections (of 40-45 students each) of the Design Thinking course. 3 In addition to a full 50-minute class period in which to develop infographics with their group,students in the Fall 2016 version of the course was given: ● a more detailed rubric to guide their design process ● assigned readings on principles for creating effective
that every university student must encounter while interfacing with severaltopics in the field of physics [2]. The role of physical laboratories is simply to cultivate students’technical skills and improve their scientific thinking towards the course in the subject. It helpsenhance their understanding and heightens their motivation for the fundamental concepts. It is,therefore, important that the appropriate technologies are employed during these laboratorysessions.Active learning is one of the recent approaches that educators have adopted to increase studentmotivation [3]. It is the use of different instructional techniques that increases the level of studentengagement and interaction during their learning sessions. This pedagogy focuses on
fortechnical presentations and interviews. As part of leadership development, three lectures onentrepreneurship were integrated into the course to allow students to contemplate on the businessaspects of engineering. Students were requested to formulate in teams a business plan related toquadcopters. Moreover, multiple industry speakers and start-up founders were invited for classpresentations regarding engineering design, career options, and cutting-edge research andtechnology to encourage interaction and participation of the first year students with industryleaders. We will report the results of incorporating entrepreneurship in future papers.In each quarter, lab sessions were co-taught by TAs and technical staff. Each lab session had upto 24
in STEM education andpromote its universality[3]. At the same time, ISSE (International Society for STEM inEnglish), a worldwide education alliance consisting of eight universities (ColumbiaUniversity, University of Calgary, University of Sydney, Queensland University ofTechnology, Beijing Normal University, Northeast Normal University, SouthwestUniversity and Shanghai Normal University), started the International STEM inEducation Conference in 2010 to promote international exchange and collaboration inSTEM. China has always prioritized innovation and human resources development andhas put forward essential strategies such as strengthening the country through humanresources and rejuvenating the country through science and education
-Pohl, “Self-efficacy and subjective task values in relation to choice, effort, persistence, and continuation in engineering: an Expectancy-value theory perspective,” European Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 45, no. 1, pp. 151–163, Jan. 2020, doi: 10.1080/03043797.2019.1659231. [6] J. P. Monat, T. F. Gannon, and M. Amissah, “The Case for Systems Thinking in Undergraduate Engineering Education,” International Journal of Engineering Pedagogy (iJEP), vol. 12, no. 3, pp. 50–88, May 2022, doi: 10.3991/ijep.v12i3.25035. [7] C. L. Dym, A. M. Agogino, O. Eris, D. D. Frey, and L. J. Leifer, “Engineering Design Thinking, Teaching, and Learning,” Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 94, no. 1, pp. 103–120, Jan
models throughout theentire semester in a production setting is outlined. Such models and processes can be crucial forhigher education institutions in providing timely support to struggling students, therebyimproving learning outcomes and student retention.Bibliography[1] R. Umer, A. Mathrani, T. Susnjak and S. Lim, "Mining Activity Log Data to Predict Student'sOutcome in a Course," in Proceedings of the 2019 International Conference on Big Data andEducation, New York, NY, USA, 2019.[2] S. V. Goidsenhoven, D. Bogdanova, G. Deeva, S. v. Broucke, J. D. Weerdt and M. Snoeck,"Predicting Student Success in a Blended Learning Environment," New York, NY, USA:Association for Computing Machinery, 2020.[3] P. Shayan and M. v. Zaanen, "Predicting Student
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