Google Sites, categories. The above statements show that the studentsWix, Weebly etc. to build their ePortfolios. A few samples really think ePortfolios helped them in marketing forof student ePortfolios are given below as hyperlinks: employment and gave them an opportunity to illustrate theirePortfolio 1 [6] mastery in technical skills learned in their academic life.ePortfolio 2 [7] In addition to the above, students were also asked for feedback to improve the activity or general comments aboutePortfolio 3 [8
- 2. What helped assembling the widget the fastest, i.e., 1. Carburetor was it the written instructions or accurate parts list or 2. Lunar Excursion Module (LEM) both? 3. Hologram Apparatus 3. What did you learn about an engineering design 4. Atmospheric Water Generator (AWG), aka Cloud process? Seeding Device 4. If a team finished first, who should get credit for it
studentat the beginning of the semester. Each student has an assigned advisor who they will work withthroughout the first year. With a student-to-advisor ratio of over 430 – 1, students were onlyallotted 20 minutes to meet with their advisor during the advance registration period. Advisorsprimarily worked with students to help them plan courses during these sessions, without muchtime for development and reflective advising.The First Year Advising Program, in order to move away from this more prescriptive approach,implemented a flipped advising model in the spring 2016 semester. In this model, the student isasked to complete assignments before attending the advising session. These assignments aregeared toward helping the student create their own
Development at North Carolina State University and serves as the Graduate Assistant for the Engineering Living Learning Village. She received her Bachelor’s in History and Peace, War, and Defense from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2015. After graduation, Rachel became a College Adviser at John Motley Morehead High School in Eden, NC as a part of the Carolina College Advising Corps. This work helped Rachel develop a passion for ensuring college access and success for first-generation, low-income and underserved students.Dr. Lori Nero Ghosal, North Carolina State University BIOGRAPHY Lori Nero Ghosal, Ed.D., ACC Career Identity Coach NC State University lori ghosal@ncsu.edu 919.515.1557 https
meeting times include a one-hour lecture, 90-minute recitation, and three-hour labeach week. Course projects are completed outside of scheduled class time, with the exception oftwo lab sessions. Recitation and lab are taught in 21 different sections with a maximum of 18students per section.In order to prepare first-year students for work in the makerspace, the first-year program facultyand teaching assistants developed new lab exercises, projects, and trainings. Each semester thereare nine lab sessions and one 12-week team project. Figure 1 depicts the timeline for theintroduction to engineering and design course. The methods section will describe the training,labs, and projects that support makerspace activities. The students completing the new
orientation course, University 101 (UNIV101). Although UNIV 101 is a university-wide initiative with general requirements, the Collegeof Engineering modified the course content to accommodate incoming engineering students. Theaverage class size was 27 students. Topics taught in the course varied weekly and included:navigating the campus; finding available resources at the University; how to schedule classes;defining what sub-disciplines of study were available in each of the specific engineeringdisciplines; and interacting with Professors who came into the classroom as Guest Speakers totalk about their research or how they became professors. The courses were taught byUndergraduate Advisors (typically matching the Advisors with their Advisees in the
Shifting Perceptions, Attitudes, and Cultures in Engineering (SPACE) Lab group and her research interests include broadening participation in engineer- ing, engineering leadership, and experiential learning experiences in engineering. She received her B.S. in Industrial Engineering from the University of Pittsburgh and her M.S. in Human Systems Engineering from Arizona State University.Dr. Meseret F. Hailu, Arizona State University Dr. Meseret F. Hailu is an Assistant Professor of Higher and Postsecondary Education at Arizona State University. Her research focuses on the retention of minoritized women in STEM higher education path- ways. Recently, her work has focused on 1) how Black immigrant women in the U.S. persist
challenges that negatively impact first-year student success. The summer componentincludes abbreviated classes in General Chemistry, Calculus, Project Design, Introduction toResearch, Health and Fitness and Machine Learning. Additional activities include, evening studyhalls, corporate tours, a corporate speaker series and student development workshops aimed topromote the holistic development of the student (An Academic, Professional and Personal HolisticDevelopment Model). The non-residential component of the STEPUP program takes place duringthe fall and spring semester and involves peer mentoring, academic support and additional A.P.PHolistic Development programming.History of the Summer-Bridge Program at UFIn 1994, The University of Florida
. Generally such Introduction to Engineering courses do not have significantconstituencies of undecided students exploring engineering as a career option. This is regrettablebecause it has been shown that non-engineers have a high interest in understanding how thingswork and in having a more empowered relationship with technology [1]. Lack of an appealinggateway course could be partly responsible for the lack of gender and ethnic diversity inengineering.Method:To develop an Introduction to Engineering course that can meet the needs ofundergraduates with varying degrees of commitment to engineering an approach was developedthat focuses on the nature of technological systems and the various processes utilized by
Table II shows the summary of different customers’freshman engineering students’ entrepreneurial mindset behaviors for two sample/example products/services selecteddefined by the Kern Entrepreneurial Engineering Network for the session 1. It can be seen that the sustaining(KEEN) [3]. technologies and their products/services commonly target to the under-served customers, while the disruptive ones forSESSION 1: INTRODUCTION TO SUSTAINING AND both the over-served and not-served customers because of DISRUPTIVE TECHNOLOGIES AND TYPES OF existence of a room or
fewer quantities, students discussed the importance of presenting to an audience,learning basic CAD skills (the only technical skill reported by more than two students in eitherset of data), as well as improvements to their design thinking and problem solving capabilities.Some students felt there was no value to the experience, or viewed it as busy work, most oftenbecause they felt the content was too general to be of any real use specific to their own majors,and because it was viewed as disjointed, “jumping from one topic to the next,” as one studentexplained.RecommendationsGiven an open slate to design their own first-year engineering experience, the students were notshy about offering suggestions. Yet other than a few key commonalities, the
design project.In EXEP Cohort, students are registered for fall semester during summer orientation into thesame section of Algebra II, a First-Year CEAS Experience (ENGR 2100), and Introduction toEngineering Analysis (ENGR 1002). Depending on a student’s intended CEAS major, a fourthcourse – Engineering Graphics – or General Education course(s) are added to the schedule toattain full-time academic status, which is at least 12 credit hours. For the spring semester, afterthe EXEP students passed Algebra II with a grade of B or higher and are in Pre-Engineering orPre-Engineering Technology or Computer Science, they are registered into the same sections ofPrecalculus, Technical Communication, and General Chemistry I and Lab. Students add a CEASmajor
Resources, Inc. 1997.[3] Eccles, J. S., & Wigfield, A. , “Motivational beliefs, values, and goals”, Annual Review of Psychology, 53(1), pp. 109-132, 2002[4] Honken, N. & Ralston, P. “Freshman engineering retention: A holistic look”. Journal of STEM Education: Innovations and Research, 14(2), pp. 29-37, 1997.[5] Anderson-Rowland, Mary R. "Understanding freshman engineering student retention through a survey", Engineering Student Retention: Reducing Attrition and Improving Graduation Rates of Upperclassmen Engineering Students. An Annotated Bibliography, pp. 1-9, 1997.[6] Microsoft. “Microsoft releases national survey findings on how to inspire the next generation of doctors, scientists, software developers and
could use this knowledge. Ourgoal is to measure individual progress over the course of a semester by using a repeatable andinternally developed rubric for grading the assignments, and comparing participants’ responsesover time to the intellectual development scales found in the Perry Model and in the ReflectiveJudgement Stages of King and Kitchener.IntroductionThe Engineering Competency Model contains five tiers of competence: Personal Effectiveness,Academic Competencies, Workplace Competencies, Industry-Wide Technical Competencies,and Industry-Sector Functional Areas. [1] We assert that specific competencies in Adaptabilityand Flexibility, Lifelong Learning, Critical Thinking, Creative Thinking and Engineering Ethicsare enhanced through
. course section; both instructors, a graduate teaching assistant (fellow), and two undergraduate teaching assistants COURSE STRUCTURE (mentors) were present at all lab sessions to interact with theTable 1 shows the course structure and schedule for the students. Following lessons learned from teaching theAutonomous Robot Vehicle section of ENGR 101, the first introductory Engineering Technology course on which thiscourse in the three-course engineering design laboratory section was based, the instructors recommended that teamssequence beginning in the fall quarter
the operationalization of LMMI in thecontext of EML which will inform future curriculum development, particularly for large first-year engineering design and project-based learning courses.References[1] A. J. Dutson, R. H. Todd, S. P. Magleby, and C. D. Sorensen, “A review of literature on teaching engineering design through project-oriented capstone courses,” J. Eng. Educ., vol. 86, no. 1, pp. 17–28, 1997.[2] D. Clive et al., “Engineering design thinking, teaching, and learning,” J. Eng. Educ., no. January, pp. 103–120, 2005.[3] C. Charyton and J. A. Merrill, “Assessing general creativity and creative engineering design in first year engineering students,” J. Eng. Educ., vol. 98, no. 2, pp. 145–156, 2009.[4
opportunities at the copies of a six inch standard dog-bone for tension testingfirst year level which is critical to the development of which are shown in Figure 1.successful student research methodologies and achievingscholarly publications.Index Terms – additive manufacturing, 3D printing, materialtesting, student research. INTRODUCTIONThe benefits of additive manufacturing (A.M.) and the impacton traditional manufacturing industries have been well FIGURE 1established [1]. In fact, A.M. has been called the next COMPRESSION AND TENSION TESTING SAMPLES.industrial revolution [2]. However
at the vectors and trigonometry for use in introductory engineeringend of the semester. The question specifically asked was – mathematics courses. Upon completing the lab, students“Please comment on the physical l abs that you did. Did those should be able to:help you understand the topic better than the virtual labs?” 1. Understand 2D vectors and apply them toListed below are some of the comments received categorized engineering problems.as positive, neutral and negative. In general, the students 2. Understand and apply the law of cosines.liked having a hands-on experience and could understand the 3. Be able to perform the direct kinematics for two-concept better. A couple of
development in the First Year Experience at the University of Houston, the Course Coordinator for ENGI 1331 (Computing and Problem Solving), and is the outreach and student organization director the Program for Mastery in Engineering Studies (PROMES).Dr. Erin J. McCave, University of Houston Erin is an Instructional Assistant Professor in the Cullen College of Engineering at the University of Houston. She joined the University of Houston after completing a postdoctoral/lecturer position split between the General Engineering program and the Engineering & Science Education Department and a Ph.D. in Bioengineering from Clemson University. Erin’s research interests include preparing students for their sophomore year
Session W1A TABLE 1 Notebook Assessment Rubric Performance Criteria Unsatisfactory 1 Developing 2 Satisfactory 3 Exemplary 4 Common formatting Infrequent formatting More than 2 required mistakes/oversight. At least All required elements are oversight or mistakes. All formatting
the latter being the most prevalent [1]. The results suggested there isgeneral consensus that student learning and attitudes improve with game-based activities.However, additional research needs to be done in the engineering education community toexplore game-based learning strategies and continue to evaluate their effectiveness.Three examples of game approaches in engineering education include one-off games,badges/points/leaderboard examples, and the introduction of narrative elements into the class.One-Off Games: One-off games are completed in a single sitting. They generally are easy to setup, explain, play, and debrief in a constrained time frame. Many faculty may already use one-offgames without realizing it - for example, a Jeopardy
challenge when designing the students to reconnect their lab setup and to remembera first-year engineering course. It is increasingly difficult where they were in the lab procedure.for first-year students to maintain their focus throughout Instead, we propose that students be given the supporta 150-minute laboratory session. An alternative is to necessary to complete a substantial laboratory experience increate laboratory experiences that provide students with just one academic period of 50 minutes. This can beself-contained hands-on experiences that can be accomplished using a combination of four strategies:completed within a traditional 50-minute window. Inelectrical and computer
Assistant Professor and the Associate Director of Academics for the Freshman Engineering Program at the University of Arkansas. Dr. Schluterman completed his B.S. and Ph.D in Chemical Engineering at the University of Arkansas.Mrs. Leslie Bartsch Massey, University of Arkansas Leslie Massey is an instructor in the Freshman Engineering Program at the University of Arkansas. She received her BS in Biological Engineering and MS in Environmental Engineering from the University of Arkansas. She previously served as a project manager at a water resources center, but returned to the University of Arkansas to teach general Introduction to Engineering and to coordinator for the Freshman Honors Innovation Experience.Mr. Brandon
conducted through Zoom, taking approximately an hour.Interviews were recorded and transcribed using Zoom’s built-in recognitionsoftware, and we applied qualitative content analysis to identify somecommon themesWe covered age groups ranging from 18 to 65, with 4 in the range of 18-25, 2from 26-35, 2 from 36-45, 3 from 46-55, and 1 from 56-656 participants identified as female, 4 as male, one as two-spirited, and 1preferred not to say5 reported having a disability and 7 did notOf those 5, 4 of them reported having chronic illness, 3 of them reported amobility-related disability, 2 had a vision-related disability, and 1 hearing-relatedStudents seemed generally lonely. Most of them, even the ones who foundin-person classes difficult, were looking
post-COVID, the case likely represents a similar phenomenon at other large engineering programs. articipants and SamplingPSince the case involves several individuals situated in the same context[43], purposeful sampling was used to find participants for the study[44]. The participants in the study are first-year engineering students at a large R1 university enrolled in Calculus 1 during their second semester. After receiving approval from the IRB, we collaborated with the General Engineering Advising Coordinator at the university to contact all first-year engineering students enrolled in Calculus 1 during the spring semester. If students were interested in being interviewed, they were asked
activities, and in the development of DEI proposals to expand outreach 5efforts in K-12 schools, community colleges, and higher education institutions. CLICKThese are all funded using funds allocated to the Faculty Engagement Fund with theobjective to:(1) assist COE faculty with the administrative burden of accessing and spending funds on DEI activities while developing outreach ideas to maximize impact;(2) encourage faculty to partner with each other and existing programs;(3) track and measure the impact of COE efforts; and(4) help faculty strengthen their research proposals to external agencies.Since the program’s inception, the
generation of K-12 students will have undergone a periodof prolonged grief, which may transition into pathological grief and higher education willneed to adapt [1]; [7].Essentially, higher education now faces a generation of learners who have lived througha historical trauma, and it is prudent to explore how other populations have faced andmet this challenge with relative success. The focus of this paper is to look at thesuccessful Pre-Engineering Education Collaborative (PEEC, pronounced as a mountain‘peak’) that operated in North Dakota primarily through distance learning pre-COVIDand describe the take away lessons learned that may be integrated into mainstreamclassrooms in order to ensure successful college and university experiences
is important. Krupczak, et al.,1 discuss how the general populace needs tounderstand technology, including its creation and its impact on society. They also differentiatebetween technological literacy and engineering literacy. The American Association for theAdvancement of Science, and the National Academy of Engineering have weighed in on theimportance of everyone being literate with respect to technology and the role of engineering insociety.2,3 Klein and Balmer4 summarize some of the reasons for increasing technologicalliteracy, particularly among students majoring in the liberal arts. In the preface to itstechnological literacy standards, the International Technology Education Association points outthat while society is increasingly
) Division ofASEE . TELPhE had a series of papers, sessions, and publications to define and clarify ourposition on that are Technological and Engineering Q1: What is Technological Literacy? Q2: What should Technological Literacy classes cover? Q3: What is Engineering Literacy? Q4; What should Engineering Literacy classes cover? Q5: Do you think there is a difference between Technological Literacy and Engineering? Please explain.literacy3-20.Exhibit 1: The questions for this study Views on Technological and Engineering Literacy: Sharing what we think. Thank you for your participation, and for helping our research. Please note: 1. Please share your thoughts and ideas. 2. There are no right or wrong answers. PLEASE DO NOT DO GOOGLE SEARCHES
map to detailthe steps for finding the root cause of the malfunction. In this phase, we are interested in thepercentage accuracy between the student’s map and the expert’s map. This accuracy is not onlythe key indicator for assessment purpose, but also the feedback on which the students rely torevise their maps. The second round sees the re-submission be evaluated for accuracy again, andthe percentage is reported back to the students and recorded for comparison with the first roundresults.Assessment ResultsCase Discussion The first case is a diagnostic task in electrical power generation andtransmission, courtesy of Duke Energy. Figure 1 shows the concept map developed by an expertthat details the diagnosis thought process in a systematic way