providecase studies on the impact of nuggets and other provided resources, we will follow up withsubscribers on any adoption of UDL practices introduced by nuggets or our other resources.AcknowledgmentsThis research, including nugget and vignette creation, data analysis, and survey, was fundedby the Grainger College of Engineering of the University of Illinois with a 2021-23 StrategicInstructional Innovations Program (SIIP) award. Portions of this work refers to ClassTrascribe toprovide captioned videos and INotes. ClassTranscribe is a University of Illinois projectsupported by National Center for Supercomputing Applications, Microsoft, and the NationalScience Foundation under Grant No. 2119589.References[1] K. Hamrick, “Women, minorities, and
, and engineering education efforts to create inclusive classrooms and programming.Dr. April Dukes, University of Pittsburgh Dr. April Dukes is the Faculty and Future Faculty Program Director for the Engineering Educational Research Center (EERC) and the Institutional Co-leader for Pitt-CIRTL at the University of Pittsburgh. April’s research and teaching efforts engage graduate students, postdocs, and faculty to inform and support systemic change toward excellence and inclusivity in higher education.Dr. Amy Hermundstad Nave, Colorado School of Mines Amy Hermundstad Nave is a Faculty Developer in the Trefny Innovative Instruction Center at the Colorado School of Mines. She earned a BS in Mechanical Engineering from
learning, engineering, the social sciences, and technology, particularly sus- tainability, designing open-ended problem/project-based learning environments, social computing/gaming applications for education, and problem solving in ill-structured/complex domains.Dr David F Radcliffe, Purdue University, West Lafayette Dr. David Radcliffe is the Kamyar Haghighi head and Epistemology Professor of Engineering Education in the School of Engineering Education at Purdue. His research focuses on the nature of engineering; engineering habits of mind, how engineering knowledge is created and shared and how it is learned especially outside the classroom. Over the past 20 years he has conducted field research on the practice of
gregoryl@my.bridgeport.edu dtenney@bridgeport.edu Abstract-Employee attrition is a persistent challenge for revealed that while the models were accurate, they lacked fullorganizations, leading to high costs related to recruitment, transparency in predicting attrition for specific employees,training, and knowledge loss. Predicting the factors contributing highlighting the need for continuous refinement and explanation.to employee turnover is critical for improving retentionstrategies. This research not only focuses on predicting employee In conclusion, this study demonstrates how MLX offers aattrition but also emphasizes the application of Machine crucial enhancement over
specific number of points.This challenge was the catalyst to look for new methods of grading, though there were other drawbacks ofthe quality based grading that we also wished to overcome. Traditional grading has been shown topropagate biased and colonial structures [1]. The focus on single submission evaluations like examscaused a great deal of anxiety among students of all skill levels and contributed to greater errors andstereotype threat [2]. Finally, assigning a one-dimensional score to a student's work is necessarilysubjective and invites application of unconscious and conscious biases in grading. While these otherdrawbacks existed prior to the pandemic, their importance was often overlooked or underestimated.Labor-based grading had already
-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, and conference papers. He is the lead editor of the book on Triboluminescence (Triboluminescence: Theory, Synthesis, and Application), published by Springer in 2016. He has co-authored several book chapters including a chapter in the book, Nan- otechnology Commercialization: Manufacturing Processes and Products, published by Wiley in 2017. At the RBASOE, he is taking a leading role in the design and implementation of the DesignSpine sequence and the development of entrepreneurial mindset in engineering students. He combines practical technol- ogy commercialization experience from co-founding two technology startup companies and serving as a consultant for others. He is also a
engaging teaching style. She maintains a strong interest in technology literacy and educating the general public. Professor George has prepared several innovative courses. She has taught a course specifically about fuel cells that mixed senior engineering students with students from other disciplines and adult learners (non-engineers). Professor George has also spearheaded several international service-learning projects in Haiti and Mali. These innovative projects included students from the department of Modern and Classical Languages, the communication studies department and the engineering program for an interdisciplinary year-long effort.Yvonne Ng, College of St. Catherine Professor Yvonne
1). Page 14.920.4After seven years of very low levels of monographic acquisitions (approx. 6000 new volumesadded to the collection from 2001 to 2007), in 2008 the library established a comprehensive bookapproval plan, which is bringing in roughly 2,000 new volumes per year. This change and shiftto collecting focus and priorities came after consultations with the six academic departments ofthe School of Engineering and as a response to the School’s adopted strategic plan, which placesthe focus of research and priorities for the academic programs on four major areas of societalneed: energy, environment, health and security. The school
sensing, smart system applications, and engineering education.Ray Luechtefeld, University of Missouri-Rolla RAY LUECHTEFELD received his Ph.D. from Boston College in Organization Studies. He holds an MBA from the University of Minnesota and a B.S.E.E. from University of Missouri-Rolla. He is currently an Assistant Professor at UMR. His research interests include approaches to organizational learning and effectiveness, simulations and games for learning and research, action research and Action Science, and facilitating group learning. Page 11.986.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006
learning. For example, students may not bepushed to engage in dialogue with their peers or leverage their creativity when they can rely oniPads for answers. This is just one way technology integration can actually disempower students.On the other hand, iPads can be used to facilitate authentic collaboration with peers, connectstudents with experts in the field, expose them to applications and programs that mimic realworld engineering skills, etc.In order to move into critical technology integration rather than informed technology integrationor creation, it is important to build awareness of historical context, examine possibilities forsynergies and trade-offs,36 interrogate positionality, apply a critical lens in the design andevaluation process
Paper ID #36621A Reflection on Action Approach to Teamwork FacilitationAparajita Jaiswal (Graduate Research Assistant)Devang Atul PatelYi ZhuJin Su LeeAlejandra J. Magana (W.C. Furnas Professor in Enterprise Excellence) Alejandra J. Magana is the W.C. Furnas Professor in Enterprise Excellence in Computer and Information Technology with a courtesy appointment in Engineering Education. She holds a B.E. in Information Systems and an M.S. in Technology, both from Tec de Monterrey; and an M.S. in Educational Technology and a Ph.D. in Engineering Education, both from Purdue University. Her research program investigates how
, describe project management concepts for project development, develop acost estimate and project schedule, and gaining the ability to navigate, interpret, and calculateconstruction plan sets.The course was structured to allow class time for informal pair and group work and formal team-based activities and projects while students learn the majority of the technical content outside ofclass. Lectures presenting the technical content were recorded using various technological toolsranging from Camtasia, a screen capturing software application, to Lightboard, a glasschalkboard that allows recording video lectures facing the viewer and writing glows on the glasschalk board (Figure 1). A total of seventeen lecture videos with an average length of
engineering courses. By some estimates, roughly half thestudents that initially enroll in an engineering program change their major. In this two-yearproject, faculty from engineering and science education have teamed together to design,implement, and study a number of interventions related to two aspects of classroom instruction: 1) classroom community and; 2) relevancy.As proxies for retention, we used three measures to examine specific constructs: 1) engineering identity; 2) engineering self-efficacy and; 3) sense of community.In addition, we implemented a classroom observational protocol to examine instructionaldifferences between treatment and control courses.In the first and second iteration of the project, we examined the impact of
2011, Dr. Barankin was a lecturer at the Hanze University of Applied Sciences in Groningen, where he taught both in Dutch and in English. During this time his primary teaching and course develop- ment responsibilities were wide-ranging, but included running the Unit Operations laboratory, introducing Aspen Plus software to the curriculum, and developing a course for a new M.S. program on Renewable Energy (EUREC). In conjunction with his teaching appointment, he supervised dozens of internships (a part of the curriculum at the Hanze), and a number of undergraduate research projects with the Energy Knowledge Center (EKC) as well as a master’s thesis. In 2016, Dr. Barankin returned to the US to teach at the Colorado
Paper ID #22301Argumentation in K-12 Engineering Education: A Review of the Literature(Fundamental)Dr. Amy Wilson-Lopez, Utah State University Amy Wilson-Lopez is an associate professor at Utah State University who studies culturally responsive engineering and literacy-infused engineering with linguistically diverse students.Ms. Christina Marie Sias, Utah State University Christina Sias is a PhD. student at Utah State UniversityAshley R. StrongJared W. Garlick, Utah State University Jared Garlick is a Graduate Student in the Secondary Education Master’s of Education (MEd) program through the Emma Eccles Jones College
political and geographical boundaries by users motivated in thepursuit of mutual goals and interests. There is little doubt that the nature of communication ischanging with the emergence and growing influence of social media. Communication is in manyways more immediate, interactive, and more frequent. Because social media are digital andmachine-based, they readily allow for storage and access to archival data from the website,providing opportunities to assess the current mindset of groups and to track changes in thinkingover time.In the internet application described here, we have added interactive technology to anundergraduate engineering ethics course at Texas Tech University. The technology is being usedto connect engineering students in this
department of Computer Science and Engineering, Texas A&M University. His primary research interests span from computer systems, system modeling, and to the future generation of real-time, distributed systems. He is keen on developing innovative technologies to enable students in overcoming the common learning barriers, especially the STEM fields.Dr. Robert M. Capraro, Aggie STEM @ Texas A&M University Robert M. Capraro, is Co-Director of Aggie STEM, Director of STEM Collaborative for Teacher Pro- fessional Learning, and Professor Mathematics Education in the Department of Teaching Learning and Culture at Texas A&M University. Dr. Capraro’s expertise is applied research in school settings, program
collection, analysis, and reporting, and provides training, guidance, and support for the effective integration and use of quantitative and qualitative data collection methods for evaluating and assessing DE and blended course redesigns. Chris holds Master’s degrees in Survey Research, Education, and Public Administration, and is currently a PhD student in NC State’s Educational Leadership, Policy and Human Development program.Dan Spencer, North Carolina State University Dan Spencer is a Postdoctoral Research Scholar in the department of Distance Education and Learning Technology Applications (DELTA) at North Carolina State University. As part of the DELTA Planning & Assessment team, Dan provides support of empirical
]. Thus, the short videos over one concept were followed by a short online graded quiz thatassessed primarily if students had watched the videos. The other objective of these online quizzeswas to determine if the students had some conceptual challenges with the learning at the knowledgeand comprehension levels. These identified challenges were clarified in the class. The studentswere then involved in active learning activities during class time. These activities were designedat the ‘application’ and ‘analysis’ levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy [51]. The activities promoted peer-to-peer learning (group learning), communicating their understanding through explaining their
Paper ID #12881A Transdisciplinary Approach for Developing Effective Communication Skillsin a First Year STEM SeminarDr. Jeffrey J Evans, Purdue University, West Lafayette Jeffrey J. Evans received his BS from Purdue University and his MS and PhD in Computer Science from the Illinois Institute of Technology. His research interests are in artificial intelligence for music composition and performance and adaptive computing systems, focusing on the effects of subsystem interactions on application performance. He is a member of the ASEE, ACM and a Senior Member of the IEEE.Prof. Amy S. Van Epps, Purdue University, West
increase in instructor workload. Despite all that is currently known about ourstudents, the best mechanism for assigning reviewers to reviewees in a peer review of artifacts isstill considered to be blind, random assignment. The underlying conjecture of this researchproject is that “there has to be a better way”. This paper represents a follow-up to earlier work bythe author1. That study presented the results of an attempt to develop a classification schemausing a large archival database of student work. This paper takes the resulting algorithmsproduced from that archival dataset and applies them to new student work, identifying how wellthe archival-based classification works on a new data set. The implications of that application onfuture
received a BSE from Princeton in 1992 and PhD from MIT in 1997. He has worked in commercial software development and run his own company. He is currently an assistant professor in the Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering department at Iowa State University, as well as Associate Director of ISU’s Virtual Reality Application Center and its Graduate Program in Human Com- puter Interaction. His research focuses on technology to advance cognition, including interface design, intelligent tutoring systems, and cognitive engineering.Dr. John Jackman, Iowa State University John Jackman is an associate professor of industrial and manufacturing systems engineering at Iowa State University. His research interests
open courses held great promise. MOOCs wereanticipated to make advanced learning available to anyone with access to the internet and interestin the content they offered. While they have not disrupted education to the extent predicted,institutions have increasingly sought to integrate MOOCs into formal degree, certificate, andprofessional development programs [2]. Corporations have begun to utilize MOOC platforms toreach large work-forces, and professional learners have turned to MOOCs to increase their on-the-job skills and continuing educational needs. Shifts in online learning from open and freeaccess to formal acknowledgements (e.g., certifications) have in no way reduced the fundamentalchallenges of evaluation for MOOC providers. MOOCs
Paper ID #281062018 Best Zone II Paper: Comparison of Student and Faculty Perceptions ofIntent and Effectiveness of Course Evaluations in an Engineering Curricu-lumDr. Thomas P. James P.E., Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Tom James is presently a Professor of Entrepreneurship at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. His major interests are new product development and global business ventures. He currently teaches courses in accounting, finance, and entrepreneurial studies. In addition to teaching, Dr. James directs the ES- CALATE program, a living-learning community focused on integrating entrepreneurship and technical
project.Procedure: Description of the study For the purposes of this study, active learning in the class room consisted of thetime when the student were actively solving problems alone or in a group, verballyanswering and asking questions to/from the instructor or working on internet-basedresearch or computer simulation. The other class time, not attribute to active learning,consisted of the instructor lecturing, verbally responding to questions from the studentsand verbally posing questions from the students. During the first two to three weeksegment (segment A) of the fall 2007 semester (seven 50 minute classes), as introductoryconcepts were covered, the instructor used the same teaching style for both sectionswhich included spending approximately
materials, Page 13.708.5we schedule a real-time CPR demo in class and provide support for individual students who havedifficulty using the interface.CPR does not accept PowerPoint files to be uploaded as texts in the Text Entry stage, so theinstructional designer developed a special procedure to circumvent this problem. Students firstemail their poster PowerPoint files to the instructional designer. She removes their names fromthe posters to protect students’ anonymity during the Review stage, uploads each poster file tothe Internet, and assigns a distinct url to each poster. She then sends each student an emailmessage that contains some text and
Paper ID #9545A Course in Biomaterials Taught Using the Socratic MethodDr. William H Guilford, University of Virginia Will Guilford is an Associate Professor and Undergraduate Program Director of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Virginia. He received his B.S. in Biology and Chemistry from St. Francis College in Ft. Wayne, Indiana and his Ph.D. in Physiology from the University of Arizona. Will did his postdoctoral training in Molecular Biophysics at the University of Vermont under David Warshaw. His research inter- ests include the molecular mechanisms of cell movement and muscle contraction, and effective means
,major work appeared in the 1930’s for streamlines photographed around submerged objects (seeBatchelor for various plates of photographs)6. More recently, experiments and photographs canbe found on the Internet. Flometrics offers a commercial unit for experimental demonstration7.Rowan University8,9 and Rossi10 offer further details about fluid flow experiments and thenumerical analysis related to such. An excellent CD-ROM available from Cambridge UniversityPress contains many types of visual flow patterns11. Examples include "Low Reynolds NumberFlow" copyright by Educational Development Center, Inc. Newton, MA, and Rotating Tanks,copyright by B.R.Munson and Stanford University. Other recent papers related to fluid mechanicexperiments are listed
Education”screen and was clearly indicated throughout the simulation with bolded headings andsignaling words such as Step 1, Step 2, etc.(Morrison, Ross & Kemp, 2004). Directionswere given in an active rather than a passive voice, and were worded in a concise mannerthat avoided the overuse of subordinate clauses (Hartley, 2004).Macromedia Flash Simulation DevelopmentFlash was chosen as the media to deliver the activities because of its ubiquity (its contentis accessible by 98.2% of internet-enabled computers*), and for its ability to deliver richinteractive content efficiently, while at the same time having enough back-end capabilityto communicate with a database. Given the nature of this course in a classroom setting –with lots of fun, hands
group learningincluding the laboratory work. The time schedule for the course can be adjusted to allow a longerblock of time for completing experimental and group work.Our key area of work in classroom laboratory kits has been in the development of extensive kitsand a new classroom environment for our Process Control Class. This is meant as a developmentand proving ground for ideas and materials that have much broader application. We have set upa new classroom for small classes of approximately 20 students. The classroom has four groupworktables. Each worktable includes a PC for the groups to work with. The course meets twotimes per week for two hours each time. The setting and timing allow a great deal of flexibility torun the entire course