STEMchallenges. The results demonstrated that the REU program effectively increased participants'enthusiasm for STEM fields and encouraged many to consider advanced education and careers inSTEM. Participants reported a heightened sense of self-efficacy, particularly in conductingresearch, problem-solving, and critical thinking. Additionally, students expressed a strongercommitment to pursuing STEM pathways and identified new career interests as a result of theirengagement with research mentors and peers. The findings highlight the REU program’s role inpromoting diversity and inclusion within STEM by fostering a supportive and challengingenvironment for students. 1. IntroductionThe National Science Foundation's (NSF) Research Experiences for
and knowledge” (p. 1189).32 During the third phase, one develops a “new perspective” on the issues which arose the initial discomfort (p. 1190).32 This new perspective may lead to or may perpetuate intentional self-development efforts or may result in changes to one’s values or behaviors, hence the two-way connection from Reflect & Evaluate in Figure 1 to Develop Action Plan and the one-way arrows from Reflect & Evaluate to both Affirm Values and Understand Behaviors.4 Research StudiesPer the project methodology, this research project was divided into two phases. Catalyst studiescarried out by a multi-disciplinary team of researchers were focused on applying the generalizedpedagogical approach across
. Students were able to organize theinformation according to their interpretation of the NOM, generating an extensive analysis of Page 26.234.14how they interpret to provide guidance, criteria, and report on these issues. Students adequatelyincluded their own ideas on the subject ("writing").In the documents submitted by students it was observed an information organization that enabledthem to propose their best solution. Each paper shows a theoretical framework that sustains theirtwo proposals, as well as analysis and organization to logically present their findings. Using thisPSLE, students were able to incorporate new knowledge and apply it to
face some challenges2 that could be solved by using UDL concept.These challenges or concerns of most students can be summarizes as: – Students are struggling: • To be more pro-active • Because of slow start on projects • Because of lack of research interest • To work together • To understand transfer of technology from academia to industry – Students are not knowing: Page 14.988.2 • How to allocate resources • How to schedule and manage time and resources (i.e. using MS project) • How to
implementation of the Ideas to Innovation (i2i) Laboratory, which opened in August 2008 and houses classrooms and laboratories used by the 2000 students in Purdue’s First-Year Engineering Program. He oversaw the daily operation of the i2i lab, and was responsible for the personnel, logistics, and technology used in the classroom and labs. Eric also helped build and directed the College of Engineering sponsored Artisan and Fabrication Lab (AFL), which houses a machine shop, carpentry shop, and a prototyping lab used by all students in the College of Engineering for project work. In 2009, he received a New Employee Staff Award of Excellence from the College of Engineering for his work in launching the i2i lab. Eric has served
,therefore the Army must respond by developing leaders who understand the complicatedtechnological issues of today. The challenges for today’s Army officers are much different than those of the Cold Warera. Army leaders must understand complex devices like dirty bombs, computer-basedtechnology, and countless types of high-tech gadgets that shower today’s battlefield. Thechallenge is to ensure that future leaders are able to understand how these devices work and themethods needed to prevent an enemy from using them against our forces. At the United StatesMilitary Academy, all third class cadets (sophomores), regardless of academic major, completetwo semesters of calculus-based physics. The USMA Department of Physics has workeddiligently to
AC 2011-909: ”WEARING THAT HARD HAT AND THOSE BOOTS ANDBEING THERE WITH ALL THE DUST”: STUDENTS’ CONCEPTIONSOF BECOMING A CIVIL ENGINEER.Nicky Wolmarans, Department of Civil Engineering and Centre for Research in Engineering Education (CREE),University of Cape Town I am currently an ”Academic Development Lecturer” in the Civil Engineering Department at the Univer- sity of Cape Town. As an ADL I am part of a programme in the Engineering and the Built Environment Faculty initiated to address issues of student experience and success.Corrinne Shaw, Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Centre for Research in Engineering Education(CREE), University of Cape Town After graduating from the University of Cape Town, I worked
learning, interactions between BMEs and medicallearners, and ways to improve future offerings of the MDS.Each MDS session was attended by four to five engineering students, four to eight medicallearners and a faculty member who facilitated the activities: simulated use of common medicaldevices, discussion of confusion and use errors associated with the design, and brainstormingand/or prototyping of redesign to address the errors. Six different simulated use scenarios (listedbelow) were developed for the MDS based on similar medical learner patient safety trainingmodules previously reported. [1, 2] MDS Device Exercises 1. Automated external defibrillator in layperson setting 2. Exam table in
University,Southeastern University, New Jersey Institute of Technology, University of Arizona,Pennsylvania State University, Clarkson University, Texas A&M University, and Iowa StateUniversity. The primary objectives of the surveys are to determine if there are differencesbetween male and female faculty and students in their perceptions of the academic climate, and ifso, to identify factors that need to be addressed to improve the climate for both males andfemales. At the University of Washington (UW), the Women in Engineering Initiative wasestablished in 1988 to increase the participation of women in engineering. With interventionprograms that range from peer tutoring and mentoring to graduate programs and internationalexchanges, women
and diversity programs, AI-STAARS, PINC (Promoting INclusivity in Com- puting), Gen-PINC, and gSTAR-PINC.Prof. Shasta Ihorn, San Francisco State University Shasta Ihorn is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at San Francisco State University. She received her doctorate in School Psychology from the University of Texas at Austin, completed her predoctoral in- ternship in school psychology with the Louisiana School Psychology Internship Consortium at Louisiana State University’s Health Science Center, and completed her postdoctoral residency in clinical psychol- ogy at Kaiser Permanente. Dr. Ihorn’s primary research interests focus on issues of equity, diversity, and access in education and health care.Carol E. Tate
&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 agencies. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016Women in Industrial Distribution: emerging opportunities and challenges for female college
-year students, Great Ideas, and graduate students, Discover Design Delight. At the intersection of these two fields, Pa- terson leads several national initiatives for learning engineering through service, recently taking the reins for the American Society for Engineering Education’s newest division startup, Community Engagement in Engineering Education. He is PI, or co-PI, on several large projects assessing the impacts of learning through service on students, faculty, and communities around the world.Dr. Chris Swan, Tufts University Chris Swan is an Associate Professor of civil and environmental engineering with additional appointments in the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Citizenship and Public Service and the
. M. (2012). Teaching and learning at a distance: Foundations of distance education. 5th Edition. Person Education, Boston.Ward, M. E., Peters, G., and Shelley, K. (2010). "Student and faculty perceptions of the quality of online learning experiences." The International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 11(3), 57-77.U.S. News and World Report Education (2018).”National universities rankings.” 〈 https://www.usnews.com/education/online-education〉 (Feb. 21, 2019). APPENDIX A List of codesSource: Alotaibi et al., (2016) APPENDIX B Top-ranked E-learning Programs in the U.S. Source: us news and world
the feasible BIM-based work flow for fulfilling the Body ofKnowledge (BOK) requirements in ConE, such as cost estimating, construction scheduling andcontrol, project administration, and contract documents. This paper describes the procedures foridentifying the strengths and weaknesses of each software package, and proposes a protocol ofimplementing BIM in ConE curricula. Finally, conclusions are made and recommendations foravenues of future research are made.INTRODUCTIONToday’s architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) professionals are handling energyconservation, sustainability, and environmental compliance of construction projects frominception to disposal. Often time all three of these critical industry issues need to be
the right height,allowing them to use their legs. If the user prefers arm power, they could attach the handles tothe pedal arms and remove the bike seat. This would also allow them to mount the crusher to atable, or sit down behind the crusher. The new design with the handles is shown in Figure 6.Price is still a parameter, but since only the design drawings will be sent to India, size and weightis not a major concern. This is also only a guideline design for how to make a human poweredgrain crusher. The design can be changed to fit locally available materials. One example of thisis the larger grinding plates. Madurai Mill Stores12 sells much larger grinding plates, and theseare the plates that are available in the section of India in which
Paper ID #9633Work-in-Progress: A Novel Approach to Collaborative Learning in the FlippedClassroomDr. Neelam Soundarajan, Ohio State University Neelam Soundarajan is a faculty member in the Computer Science and Engineering Department at the Ohio State University. His research interests include software engineering and engineering education.Swaroop Joshi, The Ohio State University Swaroop is a PhD student in Computer Science and Engineering at the Ohio State University. His interests include a range of problems in software engineering as well as the use of technology in the classroom.Dr. Rajiv Ramnath, Ohio State University
Welch, P.E., received his B.S. in Engineering Mechanics from the United States Military Academy in 1982. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the University of Illi- nois, Champaign-Urbana in 1990 and 1999, respectively. He became the dean of Engineering at The Citadel in July 2011. Prior to his current position, he was the department head of Civil Engineering at The University of Texas at Tyler from Jan. 2007 to June 2011. Dr. Welch served in the Corps of Engineers for over 24 years, eleven of which he spent as faculty at the United States Military Academy.Dr. Michael J McGinnis, University of Texas at Tyler Dr. Michael J. McGinnis is an assistant professor and the McNally Civil Engineering professor
Paper ID #29158Incorporating Practical Computing Skills into a Supplemental CS2Problem Solving CourseProf. Margaret Ellis, Virginia Tech Assistant Professor of Practice, Computer Science Department, Virginia Tech My research interests include examining ways to improve engineering educational environments to facil- itate student success, especially among underrepresented groups.Dr. Catherine T. Amelink, Virginia Tech Dr. Amelink is Acting Vice Provost for Learning Systems Innovation and Effectiveness, Virginia Tech. She is also an affiliate faculty member in the Departments of Engineering Education and Educational
mobile communication Systems, vehicular networks, Wireless network connectivity, and interference modeling.Dr. Susan F Freeman, Northeastern University Susan Freeman, is a member of Northeastern University’s First-Year Engineering team, a group of teaching faculty expressly devoted to the first-year engineering students and development of courses and curriculum to serve the program at Northeastern University. The focus of this team is on providing a consistent, comprehensive, and constructive educational experience that endorses the student-centered, professional and practice-oriented mission of Northeastern University. Susan has been part of ASEE and the First-year Programs Division for many years, serving in all
despite the number of audit trackstudents decreasing by about 50%. It will be interesting to see if the larger percentage of ID-verified students affects the participation and/or completion rates and how the course isperceived by students.Changes are also being planned for the Fall 2018 offering. These include making more of theassignments for the 10-week project instructor graded so that the ID-verified students get morefeedback from trained assessors. This is to address one of the concerns mentioned in the studentfeedback from this first course offering. Also, a new instructional module is being developed toaddress the role of peer feedback in the engineering profession as well as provide insights onhow to give good feedback to other students
,” International Journal of Information Management, vol. 36, no.6, pp. 1350–1359, 2016. [Online]. Available: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2016.04.005.[31] E. M. Rogers, (1995). Diffusion of Innovations (4th ed.). New York, London: The FreePress, pp. 518, 1995.[32] R. A. Sánchez and A. D. Hueros, ‘‘Motivational factors that influence the acceptance ofMoodle using TAM,’’ Comput. Hum. Behav., vol. 26, no. 6, pp. 1632–1640, 2010. [Online].Available: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0747563210001834.[33] N. Fathema, D. Shannon, and M. Ross, ‘‘Expanding The technology acceptance model(TAM) to examine faculty use of learning management systems (LMSs) in higher educationinstitutions,’’ J. Online Learn. Teach., vol. 11, no. 2, pp. 210–232
timber (CLT) and etc.and concrete design courses are offered with regularity at almost every university and are eitherpart of a core curriculum or regularly offered electives. In addition to pointing out thedeficiencies, the survey suggested the likely reasons for Universities not offering wood designcourses. These reasons are summarized as: a lack of faculty or expertise in the area, budget andfaculty load issues, and a general belief that wood design is too similar to steel and concrete andthus does not justify separate course. The lack of available expertise and faculty in the area ofwood engineering can be traced to historically limited US research opportunities related to wooddesign. This, over time, has produced a scarcity of university
show acase study of framework for a class environment through class activities and relationships amongstudents and the instructor. This framework is based on freshmen in a university constructionprogram. The elements of class activities are mainly designed in relation to the course materialsfor students’ learning and improvement of relationships with peers and the instructor in the class.Having a good relationship in class plays an important role in creating a good atmospherebecause a good class has to satisfy students’ psychological and intellectual needs. This paperaddresses various issues of the learning environment including “factors of environment”, “goaland achievement”, and “activities and rewards” from our literature review and then
, it is their first exposure to the oil and gas industry in general. Students are assigned toone geographic site, where they travel with professors and teaching assistants and visit oil andgas fields and facilities. In Summer 2016 and Summer 2017, those sites included California,Texas, Wyoming and North Dakota. The field sessions are characterized by intense activity andtogetherness, as students and faculty spend up to 12 hours a day together, touring sites andsharing meals and activities.In Summer 2016, two faculty members from the Liberal Arts and International Studies joinedtwo Petroleum Engineering Field Sessions in California and Texas to incorporate CSR in thecurriculum. This included assigned readings for the students, debrief sessions
indicated a disconnectbetween industry desired skills and the training received by BME graduates [9], [13]. Otherresearch discussions proposed that the lack of consistency in what is taught across BMEprograms has contributed to industry’s limited understanding of the knowledge andcompetencies they can expect of BME graduates [10]. In acknowledgement of these issues, someprograms have expressed a need to better market their students’ abilities and prepare students tocommunicate their skills to address this perceived disconnect [11].In examining industry jobs available to students within the BME field, it appears that BMEindustry placement with an undergraduate degree is difficult. Despite concerns surroundingindustry job placement associated with a
sections were designated as either control (solo) orexperimental (paired) sections. In some cases there were different faculty conducting the lecturesfor these sections, but they used a common syllabus. Each lecture section, in turn, had multiplelab sections that were taught traditionally (solo programming) for the control sections and usingpair programming for the experimental sections. When students initially enrolled for the class,they had no knowledge of the experiment or that one section would have paired and other wouldhave solo labs. All sections used the same lab exercises.The pair programming arrangement raised the concern that there would be unequal contributionby each student towards the completion of the lab. Peer evaluations allowed
. Jarvie-Eggart is a registered professional engineer with over a decade of experience as an environmental engineer. She is an Assistant Professor of Engineering Fundamentals at Michigan Technological University. Her research interests include technology adoption, problem based and service learning, and sustainability.Dr. Jon Sticklen, Michigan Technological University Jon Sticklen is an Associate Professor with the Engineering Fundamentals Department (EF) and Affiliated Faculty with the Department of Cognitive and Learning Sciences (CLS). He served as Chair of EF from 2014-2020, leading a successful effort to design aLaura Albrant, Michigan Technological University After completing a bachelor’s degree in computer science
member of the Network for Compu- tational Nanotechnology (NCN) education team.Aladar Horvath, Ivy Tech Community CollegeProf. Heidi A. Diefes-Dux, Purdue University, West Lafayette Heidi A. Diefes-Dux is a Professor in the School of Engineering Education at Purdue University. She received her B.S. and M.S. in Food Science from Cornell University and her Ph.D. in Food Process Engineering from the Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering at Purdue University. She is a member of Purdue’s Teaching Academy. Since 1999, she has been a faculty member within the First- Year Engineering Program, teaching and guiding the design of one of the required first-year engineering courses that engages students in open
, housing construction, among others. He was also a Project Management Associate for a Habitat For Humanity housing project in the USA. (ii) RESEARCH: Miguel Andrés' research focuses on (1) decision-making for the design and construction of infrastructure projects, (2) the planning of sustainable, smart and resilient cities, and (3) the development of engineers who not only have solid technical and practical knowledge, but also social understanding for, through infrastructure, address local and global challenges on humanitarian, environmental, social and equity issues. (iii) EDUCATION RESEARCH: Related to STEM education, Miguel Andrés is developing and applying contemporary pedagogies and tools for innovation and
equipment requirements (bothfilming equipment and equipment used in the video lesson). A typical day on-set included 1-2hours of transportation and setup, 2-5 hours of filming, and 1-2 hours of teardown. Multiple takesand incremental re-shoots were done for each video, with the GMU-TV team coaching theperformers on delivery techniques, and faculty/subject matter experts on hand to clarify anycontent issues that arose.Figure 1: Venue 1 – Engineering building electronics laboratory during build video with on-screengraduate student talent and GMU-TV team (left); engineering building atrium during videodemonstrating impact of helium purity on forces on a balloon with undergraduate student talentand GMU-TV team (right).Figure 2: Venue 2 – Two settings