2006-2580: ENGAGING ECE STUDENTS IN THE PRACTICE OF ENGINEERINGBruce Ferguson, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Bruce A. Ferguson received the B.S., M.S., and the Ph. D. degree in electrical engineering from Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana in 1987, 1988, and 1992 respectively. He is currently an associate professor in the ECE department at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in Terre Haute, IN. His technical interests include communication systems and fiber optic systems, including his specialty of analog fiber optic links. He has previously worked with space and ground communication systems and photonics at TRW Space and Electronics (now NGST), and taught at The
Paper ID #13438Creating a student organization to engage female students betterDr. Malini Natarajarathinam, Texas A&M University Dr. Malini Natarajarathinam is an Associate professor with Department of Engineering Technology and Industrial Distribution. She teaches classes on strategic relationships for industrial distribution, distribu- tion information systems and new directions in Industrial Distribution. She is also the founding faculty and advisor for the Society of Women in Industrial Distribution (SWID). She works on many service learning projects with her students where they work with many local community
University of Puerto Rico - Rio Piedras. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Work in Progress: Impacting Engineering First-year Student Retention through a Non-conventional Engineering Learning CommunityAbstractThis work in progress explores the impact of activities developed to improve students’persistence in engineering undergraduate programs as part of a five-year NSF grant. TheProgram for Engineering Access, Retention, and LIATS Success (PEARLS), has been runningfor one year in the College of Engineering (CoE) in our institution attempting to increasepersistence, retention and graduation rates, and professional success
Paper ID #33406The Impact of Department Diversity on Student Persistence and Success inEngineeringMr. David Ray Waller, Purdue University, West Lafayette David Waller is a PhD student in the School of Engineering Education at Purdue University. His research focuses on understanding engineering student experiences from a complexity paradigm. He is interested in how network-based methods can be used to study complex educational systems and how these methods can inform data-driven decision making. Prior to starting his PhD, David completed his Bachelor of Engineering in Aerospace Engineering and his Master of Applied Science
training, exchange of information, andintegration of scientific research from diverse STEM disciplines with teaching to make scienceexciting for students. Sponsored by NSF's GK-12 program, the GMU implementation serves asan exemplary model for the emerging trends in STEM education at the elementary school level.One of the objectives of this project is to provide professional development opportunities tofellows, particularly, communication and teaching skills. This paper presents project evaluationevidences (quantitative and qualitative) of the impact of the project on the professionaldevelopment of its participants, particularly the graduate fellows. The data and the resultsindicate that the fellows significantly improved their communication
Impact of Grades on Engineering Students Well-BeingThe authors conducted a preliminary research study to understand the emotional and academicimpact grades have on engineering undergraduate students. Grades in higher education havebecome a priority for students to secure internship opportunities, post-graduation employment, andgraduate school acceptance. However, students’ desire to attain high grades in engineeringdisciplines may lead to negative psychosocial effects such as additional anxiety and increasedmental exertion, physical exhaustion, and overall lack of work-life balance. A survey wasconducted with a cohort of 45 students enrolled in a prerequisite, introductory engineering courseto understand their
Paper ID #9695Faculty Perceptions of Student Engagement: A Qualitative InquiryMariaf´e Taev´ı Panizo, James Madison University Mariaf´e Panizo is a second year graduate student in JMU’s Graduate Psychology program. She has been working on engineering education research projects for one and a half years, focusing on non-cognitive factors that impact engineering student success. She is currently working on her M.A. thesis on Beliefs on Depression.Mr. John Hollander, James Madison UniversityDr. Jesse Pappas, James Madison UniversityDr. Olga Pierrakos, James Madison University OLGA PIERRAKOS is an associate professor and
engagement and learning outcomes [8]. These ten practices are: first-yearexperiences, common intellectual experiences, learning communities, writing intensive courses,collaborative assignments, experiencing different worldviews, community-based learning,capstone experiences, undergraduate research, and internships. In particular, undergraduateresearch and internships are relevant to engineering education but are not utilized by allundergraduate students (as opposed to a required capstone design experience). Thisunderstanding of high impact practices, the engineering education landscape, and the variationsin access to these experiences amongst students led to the focus on the role of undergraduateresearch and internships on engineering task self
). Washington, DC: American Association of Higher Education.Ellerton, S., Di Meo, C., Kemmerer, A., Pantaleo, J., Bandziukas, M., Bradley, M., & Fichera, V. (2014). Service-learning as a pedagogical tool for career development and vocational training. In A. E. Traver & Z. Perel Katz (Eds.), Service-learning at the American community college (pp. 211-224). New York: Palgrave Macmillan.Eyler, J., Giles Jr, D. E., & Braxton, J. (1997). The impact of service-learning on college students. Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning, 4, 5-15.Finley, A., & McNair, T. (2013). Assessing Underserved Students’ Engagement in High-Impact Practices. Washington, DC: Association of American Colleges and Universities
, Mississippi State University Michelle Garraway rejoined the Mississippi State family as the Center for Community-Engaged Learn- ing’s (CCEL) Program Coordinator in August 2013. After graduating from MSU with a bachelor’s degree in Secondary Education in 2003, Michelle spent some time teaching in Alabama before moving to Hat- tiesburg, MS. There she served over 20 different area nonprofit agencies in her position as Community Impact Coordinator with the United Way of Southeast Mississippi. In 2010, Michelle and her husband David moved back to Starkville where she worked in the Starkville-Oktibbeha Consolidated School Dis- trict before coming on board with CCEL. Michelle enjoys connecting faculty with community partners
Paper ID #37930‘Socially Distanced Community Engagement’ –Teaching GISSite-Analysis during COVIDJessie Zarazaga (Sustainability & Development Program Director)Cindy Hua Hello! I am a Ph.D. student in Applied Science for Engineering at Southern Methodist University. My research interests center on how community-based STEM can impact learning patterns and interest in STEM careers. I am equally interested in how such learning can also become a tool for student voice. During my time as a Human Rights Fellow, I created a STEM education program, STEM+Z: Investigating an Undead Apocalypse, using aspects of popular
and safety, activities, conflict resolution, and reflection. Further details on the programmatic aspects of this camp can be read in paper titled “Towards a global virtual community of female engineering students and professionals : II . Impacts of leadership camp on Liberian undergraduate women studying engineering”, also presented at the ASEE 2016 Conference [15]. 4. Building a global engineering community Apart from being a oneofakind experience, the camp had specific goals in regards to the global engineering community. The primary goal of the camp was to engage undergraduate students from both countries in crosscultural peertopeer collaborations. We believe this grassroots approach will build a close knit international community
), students become better engineering problem-solverswith better communication skills and improved abilities to work with diverse people.2 Well-designed project-based learning (PBL) that provides students the opportunity to apply abstractconcepts to hands-on activities in context not only leads to knowledge acquisition, but also hasbeen shown to increase engineering-student retention rates.3 Additionally, other behaviorsindicate that students are operating contextually while in college. The National Survey ofStudent Engagement (NSSE) annually surveys college students “to assess the extent to whichthey engage in educational practices associated with high levels of learning and development.”6Distinguishing between what Boyer7 once termed “competence
environments allow students to gain additional skills that are typically notreceived through traditional teaching/learning experiences. During this project students workedin collaborative teams to complete interesting assignments and learned how to collaborate withother professionals in multiple locations utilizing various communication tools. Instead offocusing on their individual specialty the students worked inter-disciplinarily to gain a holisticappreciation of the overall context of the project. Due to the uniqueness of this project studentshad to learn and use critical thinking and problem solving skills to overcome the variousengineering and physical location challenges encountered – language barriers, remote location,and limited resources
, Q10, Q11Questions 9. What do you like the most about service learning?Observations: Based on the answer provided by the students, we conclude that they likedservice learning because of one or multiple of the following reasons: it helped them share theirknowledge, give back to their community, the opportunity to teach, improve theircommunication skills, teach critical thinking and problem solving skills, help to learn the coursebetter, getting students interested in Engineering, Robotics, STEM, helped relax from the stressof school, have an impact on the lives of the school kids.Following are comments from the students:“I liked getting to share my knowledge with elementary school students. They are curious andneed guidance in order to be
with some students who would rather not be there.”Another founder of the team said, “I like the opportunity to reach out to the community anddesign something to make an impact. This club gives me an opportunity to get hands onexperience in design and manufacturing before I would have in classes and gain experience” asan underclassman. “Delivering the products, in the face of all the [COVID-related] challengeswe faced, has been very rewarding.”A junior electrical engineering student appreciated the “eye opening” (problem finding) aspect ofthe team’s mission. “I've enjoyed getting experience working on real-world engineeringproblems, as well as finding projects from the surrounding community.”As an all-volunteer team, they clearly take pride in
from the project clients on their experience and theuse of the final design project reports. Based on preliminary student and stakeholder feedback,our community engagement efforts are having a positive impact on both groups.Conclusions and Next StepsMuch like the work of Dulaski, we found that students received multiple benefits from acapstone experience that engages them with real community stakeholders. These benefits includedeveloping engineering skills that are transferrable to real-world engineering problems andenhanced skills in oral communications by delivering presentations to stakeholders [5]. Studentswere also able to practice professional written communication skills while writing emails,proposals and reports for their clients. We
diversity of human population.Currently, white students represent the majority of the student population and Latino and otherminority groups are underrepresented in higher education in the United States. With the nationalpopulation demographics shift, the Latino community continues to outpace other racial/ethnicgroups1. This change in demographics will have an impact in higher education. In a reportpublished by the National Science Foundation(NSF), engineering is the second most populardestination among the sciences for Latino students2 . This suggests a strong likelihood of greaterdiversity with the increase in the numbers of Latinos in engineering. This might change theclassroom environment and may impact the dynamics of the instruction.Several
pedagogy, and UDL in the higher education context. Holly is an active member of the Contemplative Practices Learning Community at the UVM Center for Teaching and Learning. She has her own mindfulness practice and strives to incorporate mindfulness practices into classrooms and meetings on the UVM campus. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 WIP: The impact of short mindfulness practices on student attention and focus in upper-level civil engineering design classIntroductionThis work-in-progress (WIP) research study investigates the impact of short mindfulnesspractices on student attention and focus in an upper-level civil
), Requirements and Project Management (RPM) and MobileApp Development (MAD). The goal of the project setup is to engage students in the coursecontent, and course projects in the context of professional software development practices [2].Our goal also includes observing how effective the study setup is in learning software engineeringmethods, practices, tools and techniques. An empirical study will be performed to quantify theinstructional goals according to the bloom’s taxonomy on the participants.IntroductionThe gap between software engineering students and professionals has significant impact onstudents [3] [4] [5]. When shifting to professional practice, computer science (CS) graduatesoften face difficulties adjusting to new environment unless they
engineering coursefocusing on the civil engineering discipline and ii) a seminar course focusing on career planningand design and process improvement theory. The courses were developed to prepare college civilengineering freshman for the rigor of upper level engineering courses by introducing them tovarious engineering systems, design philosophies, and basic engineering computations. A one-credit first-year introductory course can be utilized by institutions who are limited by statemandated maximum total credit-hours and cost, but still require sufficient student engagement,motivation, and retention.In the project-based course, a special focus is placed on civil engineering systems which includestopics on structural health monitoring, concrete
Paper ID #40284Student Involvement in Choice of Work in Progress: Course Activities andthe Impact on Student ExperienceDr. Taru Malhotra, University of Waterloo Dr. Taru Malhotra is a postdoctoral fellow in Engineering Education at the University of Waterloo’s Faculty of Engineering. She completed her Ph.D. (Language, Culture, and Teaching) at the Faculty of Education, York University, Toronto, Canada. Her research focuses on faculty development, exploring instructor beliefs and practices in STEM courses, online and blended learning, student perception, engagement, satisfaction, and achievement, course de- sign
its relationship to the research question of interest. However, thereis significant overlap between the foundational theories of engagement.12 Two overarchingfamilies of theories and frameworks have guided research on college impacts over the past thirtyyears: developmental, which have focused on intra-individual changes relating to the nature,structure, and processes of individual growth; and college impact models, which have placedemphasis on environmental and inter-individual origins of student change.34 Astin1 first expounded a theory of student involvement in the educational process in hisseminal paper on the methodology of college impact, developing the IEO model. In this model,he considered the direct effects of student inputs
. Page 13.1239.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 The Impact on Engineering Graduate Students of Teaching in K-12 Engineering ProgramsMany K-12 engineering education initiatives implemented by U.S. universities and colleges havebeen well documented, providing us with descriptions of program logistics, partnerships,methods and curricula, as well as the impact on involved students, teachers and undergraduateand graduate students.1-9 Several initiatives have further evaluated their participating engineeringstudents and revealed measurable impacts in the areas of communication, teamwork,understanding of K-12 education, and time management.1-6As one of those established K-12engineering programs, we
Paper ID #33834Using Data Science to Create an Impact on a City Life and to EncourageStudents from Underserved Communities to Get into STEMProf. Elena Filatova, City University of New York Assistant Professor at CUNY, New York City College of Technology, Department of Computer Systems Technology. Director of the Bachelor of Science in Data Science program.Dr. Deborah Hecht, Center for Advanced Study in Education As Director of the Center for Advanced Study in Education, at the CUNY Graduate Center I am involved in a wide range of educational evaluations of funded and local projects. I also mentor graduate students interested
thefrequency of keyword clusters from the student responses and provides a visual representation ofcommon words. We developed in-class instruction to guide students in areas of leadership,teamwork, communication, and deadlines based on student responses to the SLR.Course Embedded LessonsThe instructors engaged with students throughout the semester on the importance of teamworkand leadership. That is, they provided students with instructions on how to interact during smallgroup working sessions and encouraged students to interact with their peers outside theclassroom environment. In addition, a short lesson (2 to 3 mins) on how to work effectivelytogether was provided each time students were working with their teams. Specifically, thelessons focused on
-service-learning.[6] J. Eyler, D. E. Giles, C. M. Stenson and G. C. j, At A Glance: What We Know about the Effects of Service-Learning on College Students, Faculty, Institutions and Communities, Omaha: Higher Education, 2001.[7] G. Ngai, S. C. F. Chan and K.-p. Kwan, "Challenge, Meaning, Interest, and Preparation: Critical Success Factors Influencing Student Learning Outcomes from Service-Learning," Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, vol. 22, no. 4, p. 55, 2018.[8] G. Kuh, "High-Impact Educational Practices: What they are, who has access to them and why they matter," AAC&U, Washinton, DC, 2008.[9] S. E. Henry and M. L. Breyfogle, "Toward a New Framework of “Server” and “Served”: De(and Re)constructing
learning course is to provide freshmen the opportunity not only to complete a hands-on project but also to learn and develop real skills that would benefit them in future coursework, student group activities, research and internships. Moreover, the course was also designed to meet in small (24 students) sections to allow engagement between students, and between the faculty instructor and the students. Lastly, the project focus affords students the opportunity to gain experience with the design process, teamwork, and communication. In this paper, the course is described in detail along with examples, results, impact and future plans. Course Organization and Development An important first consideration in the development of
(Mechanical and Mechatronics) in a new light, with more options, and interest.” “I liked being able to see and use the machines we talked about.” “Exposing us to how the topics fit into nature is a big plus. Perfect way to hook students.” “I would like to have spent more time on the applications of nanomaterials and possibly career paths involving class.” “The class was kept very engaging.” “More lab times to practice.” “Overall process of production of nanomaterials interest me. If a job came up with that, I would take it.”4. CONCLUSIONSThe majority of the students in CSU Chico are first generation college student in their familiesand come from minority communities. This course was their first opportunity to
Paper ID #18739Work in Progress: The Impact of Faculty Development Workshops on Shift-ing Faculty Teaching Beliefs and Classroom Practice toward Student Cen-terednessMs. Elizabeth Lopez, Arizona State University Elizabeth Lopez is a Master’s student at Arizona State University studying biomedical engineering. She has undergone the undergraduate engineering curriculum and has facilitated the implementation of evidence-based instructional strategies in the biomedical senior design course. In JTFD, she has evaluated and analyzed the shift in instructor fidelity towards student-centered learning.Dr. Yong Seok Park, California