Psychology and Measurement, and Journal of Data Analysis and Information Processing. She is also the Fellow of the Academy for Teaching, Learning, and Leadership and the Faculty Fellow at The University of Central Florida.Dr. Richard Catrambone, Georgia Institute of Technology Richard Catrambone is a Professor in the School of Psychology at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He received his B.A. from Grinnell College and his Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology from the University of Michigan. The question Catrambone likes to ask–and the thread that runs through the projects he does alone and in collaboration with others–is: What does someone need to know in order to solve novel problems or carry out tasks within a
betterretain them. Certain occurrences in students’ learning processes could lead to more desirableoutcomes, but to learn what these occurrences are, it is necessary to study the holistic learningexperience of undergraduate engineering students. With this review, we aim to gain a larger understanding through literature of how MAEstudents experience learning engineering. We define engineering student learning experiences tobe any experience during students’ undergraduate studies that in some way affects their learningof engineering, internalizing and reinforcement of engineering, or applying of engineering. Wepropose that it would be beneficial to observe learning experiences through three dimensions:professional communities, personal
and retooling of the course. A high percentage of students aremultilingual language learners as well as native speakers, and students at different stages of theirprogram, ranging from their first to sixth year and beyond. Meeting such different starting pointsrequires an individualized approach that includes extensive feedback with follow through to supportmeaningful revision. Most students go through multiple iterations of class assignments which mirrorsthe extensive revision process of academic output. Guiding students in revising their work has meantbeing available to provide feedback when they are in process of writing a consequential communication,often up to submission deadlines.Components of the writing course include research ethics
performance, and neurocognitiveresponses to creativity.In this paper, we present an experiment on creative language processing, using the Event-Relatedbrain Potentials (ERP) technique (funded by Core R&D Programs). ERPs are derived fromElectroencephalography (EEG) recordings that measure variations in electrical activity producedby large populations of brain cells by electrodes placed in key positions on the scalp. ERPs arederived from the large amplitude EEG through a filtering and averaging process, and reflectregularities in electrical brain activity that are time-locked to an external event (for example, asound or a word). ERPs provide a millisecond-by millisecond record of the brain’s electricalactivity during mental processing as it unfolds
situations, especially with communication and teamwork. Participating in co-curricular activities can be one solution for developing these required skills. uch of the existing literature displays these co-curricular programs in a positive light,Memphasizing the many benefits offered to students. Students can gain confidence in their major and beyond through hands-on learning experiences that supplement classroom instruction. tudents who engage in these programs have found higher employment rates, higher successSrates, larger profits and sales, and greater firm entry [6]. In addition, participating in innovation programs such as business plan competitions increases student discipline, industry knowledge, and business
-minded learning (EML) strategy has been of recent interest incollegiate-level courses to encourage an application-focused framework of thought. EMLapproaches to coursework involve the development of assignments or projects that lead studentsto actively think and participate in designing and justifying the practical application of products.For biomedical engineering (BMEG) students, this approach has value due to the high degree ofimportance that design in healthcare and commercial BME-related ventures entails. We created anEML project in a sophomore-level biomechanics course that aimed to develop entrepreneurialskills through designing an orthopedic implant using biomechanical concepts. We have previouslydemonstrated that this approach increased
is a self-reflection activity which encourages independent learning thereby becoming transformative [22].A third example is team contracts that may offer a level of accountability leading to learnersatisfaction with group projects [23].ProcedureA narrative research design with a qualitative sensibility was selected to describe the personalexperiences associated with the COVID-19 pandemic intervening in the classroom. The rationaleis that a narrative study affords an opportunity to tell the story through teacher reflection [24].The story is a first-person, autobiographical account [25] with prompting from archived coursedocuments. The classroom setting is a private institution with architecture students takingstructural engineering
have assessment methods embedded that arekeyed from the competencies the students are expected to demonstrate through the deliverablesproduced.An often-used technique is to establish a rubric that describes the nature of competentperformance for a task. The instructor then evaluates each student’s work against this rubric.Those meeting the required standard are rated as competent. Those who excel beyond the basicrequirements are rated as exceeding expectations. Those who are deficient on one or more factorsin the rubric are rated as needs improvement and they must repeat certain deliverables until thequality meets the competent standard.Accreditation Issues: With the advent of outcomes based accreditation criteria, such as TC2Know being
matter coursework,nor is it appropriate: the student population for secondary mathematics and for universityteaching are quite different, as are the contextual issues associated with higher education.However, it is worth examining effective practice in the preparation of secondary teachers to seewhat components might be translated appropriately to graduate student preparation.The use of case study in professional preparation has a long history, not only in law, business,medicine, and engineering, but more recently in K – 12 teacher preparation 7,11,16,28,30 . It has alsobeen suggested as an effective method for preparation of graduate students 2 . It is the use of casestudy in the professional preparation of mathematics GTAs that we examine in
obligatory practice for most of the private universities in the developingcountries. These private universities through these collaborations are looking for some kind ofrecognition and hoping to gain a competitive advantage among the perspective students and theirparents. In some cases it is also possible that individual research group, in order to seek visibilityon the science and technology scene internationally, also have international collaboration at thegroup level.International collaborations also include few additional factors, which may not be important toconsider for local collaboration, namely historical and socio-cultural traditions. These factorssometimes play very critical role in the success and sustainability of such
approximately 9% of South Dakota’s population but remain disproportionately underrepresented inengineering fields (NSF, 2019). However, South Dakota’s K-12 and Higher education sectors havecontinued to create opportunities for their student population through outreach & afterschool programs,educational investments, and apprenticeship programs in STEM-related career paths. For instance, theSouth Dakota DOE (2018) grant featured a diverse pool of students supporting 6,770 girls and 6,839 boysthrough various grade levels, races, and socioeconomic statuses. Serving 5,1230 American Indianstudents through various services and activities (South Dakota Department of Education, 2018) to helpwith academic enrichment, career and technical education, and
, Institute of Electrical andElectronics Engineers, 2013, 19 (12), pp. 2396 - 2405.[2] Jansen, Y. Dragicevic, P. Isenberg, P. Alexander, J. Karnik, A. Kildal, J. Subramanian, S. andHornbæk, K. Opportunities and Challenges for Data Physicalization. CHI 2015, April 18–23,2015, Seoul, Republic of Korea.[3] Data Physicalization Gallery, http://dataphys.org/list/gallery/[4] Noë, Alva. “What Art Unveils.” The New York Times, The New York Times, 5 Oct. 2015,archive.nytimes.com/opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/10/05/what-art-unveils/.[5] Rohit Ashok Khot, Larissa Hjorth, and Florian ‘Floyd’ Mueller. Understanding PhysicalActivity through 3D Printed Material Artifacts. CHI 2014, April 26 - May 01, 2014, Toronto,ON, Canada.[6] Vetria L. Byrd. Usability of
technologyprograms through rigorous review and monitoring, and promoting leadership in applied science,engineering and technology accreditation. In 2001, ABET required that graduates must possess aset of hard and professional skills, which ex-tend beyond the minimalist standard of engineeringpractice to include professional standards of high quality, multidisciplinary, global andcollaborative focus23. There is a definite need for developing modern information tools that mapsthe extensive breadth and depth of curricular content so that students meet the ABETrequirements.Professional engineering societies such as ASCE have constantly revised their curriculumguidelines to assist educational institutions in preparing graduates for an effective practice
: while a strong technical background is important for an engineer, all forms ofcommunication are critical for professional and personal success. To promote self-introspectionand awareness, some of the circles utilized personality evaluations, such as the Myers-BriggsType Indicator (MBTI) in their mentoring sessions. Some circles chose to have just twoadditional mentoring events (beyond the Kick-off), while some circles had as many as fiveevents in the fall semester. As previously noted, the mentors were represented by a broad cross-section of UA alumni located across the country, so most interactions were virtual. However,some circles took advantage of personal interaction through in-person meetings on-campus.Figure 2 shows a photograph of a
certain applications, the coursesemphasize the more general problem: “Given a set of operational specifications, how does onedevelop the PLC program?” This emphasis is beyond what is covered in the typical engineeringtechnology program. The first course addresses these topics with the ladder logic programminglanguage only. The second course extends the material to cover other languages, moresophisticated applications, and an engineering approach to multi-team projects. The motioncourse covers servo motion control applications and safety. All three courses present the designprocess: the tasks involved, breaking the program into manageable pieces, standard code for thevarious parts, and handling the sequential parts of the problem.All three courses
planning module may play an importantrole in character development for engineers that goes beyond case studies.IntroductionThis paper describes a classroom module designed to increase engineering student skills inethics. Traditional engineering ethics education has focused on case studies of past engineeringdisasters [1].In the business discipline an alternative viewpoint on ethics education has been articulated byMary Gentile [2]. She argues that students often have a strong ability to identify an ethicalchallenge, but they may not have the skills needed to articulate it in a professional context. Forengineering students, this implies that they can easily identify that they should not replicate pastdisasters by designing a bad bridge or flawed
advertisements using an application programming interface (API) thatextracts the sample data as a single comma-delimited text file. To ensure focus on technicallyoriented jobs and set a reasonable frame for the sample, jobs for engineering positions in theChicago area during a one-month period were collected through the API. The API extracted 82 job advertisements for engineering positions in the Chicago area.The Indeed.com database requires that the company posting the advertisement enter anEngineering Type. A frequency distribution of the engineering types supports that a broad rangeof engineering disciplines are included in the sample (Table 5). Table 5 provides the frequencyof the engineering types exactly as they were provided by the posting
of tools may not be able to replace any well-developed syllabus inthe curriculum. Therefore, it entails an extracurricular venue which provides flexibility for students toexplore novel technologies or popular topics at their time beyond their core engineering curriculum, inresponse to the dynamic developments of the digital era. On the other hand, MTR equips maintenancestaff with the necessary technical knowledge and skills through a comprehensive training programfocused on junior supervisors, ranging from foundational to intermediate levels. While advanced digitaltechnologies may be available in research labs or on the market, the operational knowledge of thesetechnical tools may not be readily accessible to train the frontline staff. This
innovation as opposed to our comprehensive approach. 2MethodsData SourcesTo inform the full study an exploratory convenient interview-based pilot study of engineeringinnovativeness was conducted with engineering innovators.Participant Selection and Sampling ProcessStudy participants were identified using a purposeful criterion and snowball sampling methods.We recruited participants by contacting engineering professionals in multiple disciplines andlocations to act as connectors and also recruited using snowballing through engineeringinnovators. This process took about 6 months. The data were collected through interviews withexperienced and recognized
is it for faculty to create coursespecific textbooks? In particular, is a new professor, steeped in the demands of tenure a goodcandidate for this type of undertaking? Beyond considering the amount of time and effortinvolved, how does the lack of a traditional textbook influence course design and delivery?II. BackgroundOur decision to create a unique textbook is based on several important factors. To begin with aparticular course, Fuel Science 451, Energy Conversion Technologies, with unique attributesprompted our looking at alternatives to traditional textbooks. Alternative energies (wind, solar,biomass, geo-thermal) have emerged in the spotlight in recent years. New technologies and
) givesundergraduate students a chance to “Learn Space by Doing Space” through a two-semester capstone course taught by the Astronautics Department. This program allowscadets to gain real-world experience with rocket system design, assembly, integration,testing, and operations within the context of a two-semester engineering course. Anothergoal of the program is to provide a useful platform for University or Department ofDefense (DoD) upper atmospheric experiments. Through FalconLAUNCH participation,cadets are given a hands-on opportunity to apply the tools developed in the classroom toa real program, ideally preparing them for the situations they may encounter as officersand as engineers after graduation.Because rocket design is multi-disciplinary, select
departmental continuous improvement practices,evaluation was conducted and minor modifications proposed to improve the process forsubsequent course offerings. TAC of ABET criteria regarding written communications andimplementation of continuous improvement plans were met through this process.REFERENCES1. Technology Accreditation Commission, Accreditation Board for Engineering Technology, “Criteria for Accrediting Engineering Technology Programs,” ABET, January 1997.2. Baren, R., “Teaching Writing in Required Undergraduate Engineering Courses: A Materials Course Example,” Journal of Engineering Education, Volume 82, Number 1, January 1993.3. Hawkins, S, Coney, M.B., and Bystrom, K-E., “Incidental Writing in the Engineering Classroom,” Journal of
through multi-year assessment of program SOs [25].However, for all of the papers cited above, the assessment tools were developed for the now-outmoded ABET 2000 “a through k” SOs.More recently, Ozis et al. developed SO assessment methods based on internship experiencesthat map to the modern “1-7” Criteria 3 SOs [13]. Moreover, the authors discuss the impacts thatinternships have on the perspectives and experiences of underrepresented engineering students.The authors identify mapping to six of the seven SOs. The Criteria 3 SOs are, in brief : (1)problem solving; (2) engineering design, (3) effective communication, (4) ethical responsibilities,(5) teamwork, (6) experimentation, data interpretation and engineering judgment, and (7) theability to
investigator of a U.S. Department of Education funded PT3 (Preparing Tomorrow’s Teachers to Use Technology) grant. He is currently the co-principle investigator on the NSF-funded UTeach Engineering grant (MSP) and the Beyond Blackboards grant (ITEST). His research interests include informal science learning, engineering education, and the development of expertise. While at The University of Texas at Austin, he helped establish the UTeach Natural Sciences Teacher Preparation Program. His research articles have appeared in the Journal of Science Education and Technology, The Journal of the Learning Sciences, Mathematical Thinking and Learning, Educational Computing Research, and The American Educational Research Journal.Mr
Chronicle of Mentoring & Coaching [Special Issue 13] (2020), 6(1)[2] “ASPIRE West Texas Regional Collaborative: A mentoring model for future faculty” Rodriguez, S.E., Banerjee, A., Flores, B.C. ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition- Minneapolis, MN. Jun 26-29 (2022)[3] “Advancing STEM undergraduate learning: Preparing the nation's future faculty”. Pfund, C., Mathieu, R., Austin, A., Connolly, M., Manske, B., and Moore, K. Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 44(6), (2012), 64–72.[4] “Looking beyond research in doctoral education” Campbell, S.P., Fuller, A.K., Patrick, D.A.G. The Ecological Society of America, 3, (2005), 153-160.[5] “Mentoring graduate students for community college careers” Rodriguez, S.E., Flores
support the broader effort by qualitatively analyzing the experiences ofLatine/Hispanic TFF who have successfully navigated the pathway to the professoriate and arenow in the early stages of their professional careers. By better understanding how this populationbenefits students beyond what is formally required, we aim to indicate to colleges anduniversities the unique and meaningful support these professors offer their students. Our analysis finds that this population of engineering faculty, through their service andteaching, create and design spaces/programs that profoundly work to provide a foundation for theinclusion and retention of Latine/Hispanic students within their discipline. Additionally, theyprovide a crucial source of
determine thespeed of a passing automobile by observing its Doppler shift as it passes. Through this projectstudents gain an appreciation of the exciting real-world problems that they can solve with adegree in electrical engineering.IntroductionRetention in regard to electrical engineering students can be defined as the percent of theentering class who continue on to get a degree in any major, or, it can be defined as the percentof students who continue on to get a degree in electrical engineering. In this paper we will callthe former "university retention" and the latter "electrical engineering retention". We are goingto further limit our definition of retention to the first year – that is, we are interested in thenumber of students who
learners of every age: they practice problems, they checktheir work, and they consider what they have learned through the process [6]. Such holisticpractice helps students learn how to “acquire new knowledge, skills and attitudes” consistentwith the life-long learning objectives of the ASCE BOK [18].A recent study has provided a methodology for evaluating the effectiveness of a dual submissionhomework method beyond simple perceptions or a philosophical reasoning [15]. This studyshowed quantitatively better learning outcomes for a dual-submission homework method overtraditional homework methods. Though a metacognitive emphasis showed clear improvement inmastery, the grade earned did not correlate well with exam performance. Rather, the
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master’s level programs include thosefor the baccalaureate level programs with the addition of one year of study beyond thebaccalaureate level plus a project or research activity culminating in a report demonstratingmastery of the subject at a higher level and with commensurate communication skills. TheCriteria 2001 for associate degree programs restate the eight criteria, reflecting lesserexpectations than for the baccalaureate level programs.Some of the criteria are quite similar to those for EC 2000 and ET2K. For example, Criterion 3for the ASAC baccalaureate programs has items (a) through (k) that are similar to those in EC2000 with the word engineering being replaced with engineering-related.Criterion 4, Professional Component, is less