of ages, majors, andinvolvements. Group mentoring provides a space for mentors to assist other mentees and sharetheir story. In addition, it allows mentees to get other advice from other mentors, especially inareas their mentor may not intersect. Overall, group mentoring creates community and nurturesthe sense of belonging among females in STEM. Members feel like they are a part of somethinglarger than just themselves and recognize they are not alone.The group mentoring participants are the same students engaged in the one-on-one mentoring.The first group mentoring event kicked off in September to provide information and socialopportunities. Mentors arrived a half hour before and were briefed on their expectations forparticipating in the
credit course since the beginning of the NSF ATEproject grant in 1999 and over 500 faculty attended or were impacted by the TSW anddisciplinary outreach and workshops.Motivating Rationale/Need:The need to increase the number of U.S. students who achieve undergraduate degrees andwho successfully achieve skills to contribute to their own and the nation’s economy andthe success of the workforce is well documented, especially in the President’s Committeeof Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) report to the President: Engage toExcel: Producing One Million Additional College Graduates with Degrees in Science,Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics. (February 2012). The PCAST report citeswhat they call three imperatives: • Improve the first
productive learning environment where students can bemotivated and actively engage in their learning. - Pre-recorded vs live lectures – Each lecture format has its advantages and disadvantages, and a similar contrast could be made to one-to-few live tutorials versus face-to-face live lectures for hundreds of students. As such, neither is better in all situations. Instead focus on opening communication with students and creating a strongly student-centered approach in the online classroom. - Move from being a “sage on the stage” to being a “guide on the side”. - The face-to-face model many instructors have grown accustomed to is extremely teacher centered. Online learning provides the student the ability to
more impactful for women than for men when predicting persistence [29], possiblydue to the existence of negative gender role biases to which women are continually exposed. Forthese reasons, belonging to a STEM community can work to counteract negative influences ofgender biased peers, and positively impact the development of STEM-based occupationalidentity [27]. In addition, students who experience belonging in STEM are more motivated,more engaged, and demonstrate increased academic performance and intent to persevere inSTEM fields [12], [30]. Taken as a whole, this body of evidence strongly underscores theimportance of the STEM community and local environment in which girls participate in highschool.Next, discourse with like-minded peers
importance of problem formulation through doing problem formulation on the term-long project.As can be seen in Table 1, references to the Chair of Scrap emerged as responses to differentquestions. Three students cited problem formulation as a main takeaway. This made problemformulation the most cited takeaway, with other themes including: Prototyping, teamwork, and design process (each mentioned by 2 subjects) Ideation, “making” skills, systems thinking, communication, and iteration (each mentioned by 1 subject)DiscussionThe results indicate that the one-week Chair of Scrap project is the driver of increased learningabout problem formulation. The increased focus on user engagement in the term-long projectwas not as important
learning, creativity and adaptation. Also the reportconceptualizes humanism as critical in facing global issues that require engineers to beembedded in the human and environmental contexts of their work.To implement this vision, the Faculty of Engineering at UGA is currently designing anddeveloping its Environmental Engineering curriculum. This integrative curriculum is intended toovercome engineering students’ commonly observed difficulties in developing innovative andhumanistic designs for local complex systems.15 In each of the semesters of their program,Environmental Engineering students will be required to take Synthesis and Design Studios with afocus on observation and modeling, management and communication, problem framing, andsynthesis. As
- sional Responsibility. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Designing for a Sustainable World: Integrating the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals into a First-Year Engineering Course in Science, Technology, and SocietyIntroduction I am an instructor on a teaching team for a required first-year engineering course inscience, technology and society (STS) at the University of Virginia. The course enrolls 360-400students each semester, and its primary learning goals are to introduce students to social andethical aspects of engineering design and to help them hone communication skills relevant toengineering practice. The major project in the course is a
prototypedevelopment further engage students and prepare them for careers in the medical device field.Drawing on two years of course implementation, this paper discusses the challenges, successes,and key outcomes of this approach, offering practical advice for educators interested in creatingsimilar industry-collaborative courses.IntroductionThe Twin Cities region is a global leader in the medical device industry, home to a thrivingecosystem of established companies, innovative startups, and renowned healthcare institutions.This dynamic environment drives both economic growth and advancements in medicaltechnologies, creating a high demand for engineering graduates who possess not only technicalexpertise but also practical, industry-relevant skills
activitiesAdaptations were made for class activities such as in-class exercises and group discussions. Fourparticipants stated that they initially had Q&A time for in-class exercises, but these activitieswere discontinued because of the lack of feedback or inconvenience of communicating to bothvirtual and in-person students. For similar reasons, two participants canceled group discussionsessions for their courses.Two participants tried using the Zoom breakout room function for group discussion. Two otherparticipants mentioned using polls to help engage students. Also, two other participantsmentioned using more help from teaching assistants to moderate virtual discussions.3.2.6. Adaptations made for examsExams were held online for the hybrid classes and
research on curriculum development, teacher professional development, and student learning in integrated STEM environments. Dr. Alemdar currently serves as PI and co-PI for research on various NSF funded projects that focuses on engineering education, teacher networks and STEM learning environments. Her expertise includes program evaluation, social network analysis, mixed methods, and advanced quantitative methods. Dr. Alemdar is passionate advocate for equitable and inclusive STEM education. She actively engages with educators, students, and communities to promote the importance of STEM disciplines and education research in preparing the next generation for the challenges of the future.She received her Ph.D. in
; Urban Analysis from Appalachian State University. Her focus includes taking a holistic approach to inte- grating sustainability and waste reduction systematically across the campus community. It is a dynamic goal that includes utilizing campus as a living learning laboratory for student engagement, research, and high impact learning. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Overcoming the Challenges to Launch a Successful Initiative of an Engineering Faculty-led Travel Course While Boosting Interdisciplinary CollaborationsAbstractThe benefits to students in achieving learning outcomes through faculty-led travel courses havebeen studied in the
. Externalbenchmarking with engineering librarians at peer institutions provided a broader perspective on bestpractices and innovative approaches to supporting engineering education. The findings emphasizedthe importance of strengthening faculty-library partnerships to address these challenges effectively.By cultivating collaborative relationships, libraries can play a pivotal role in supporting facultyteaching goals while enhancing the educational experience for students. This partnership-drivenapproach paves the way for innovative instructional practices.This paper emphasizes the transformative potential of faculty-library collaboration in fosteringstudent-centered learning environments. By integrating high-impact educational practices withtailored library
transformative ways. Feminist pedagogy resists the assumptions of a de-raced, de- gendered, de-classed student and instead acknowledges the influence that social locations have on histories and styles of learning. 7While “feminism” is characterized by a broad heterogeneity of perspectives and diversetheoretical frameworks, “feminist pedagogy” at its core addresses the specific practices relatingrelations of power, both as central to organizing classroom relations and in producing/sharingknowledge. Feminist teaching practices represent a “stance”8 in which specific classroomstrategies address issues such as reformation of the relationship between teacher and student,empowerment, building community, privileging voice, respecting diversity of
the design and requirements but also from learning about concepts such as getting acertificate of training on research on human subjects, conducting and inscribing surveys,extracting and visualizing basic factors and trends from the collected data.Our paper details the students’ academic and professional experience in working with a real-lifeproject with profound health and social impact on their local community. It also lays thefoundation for continuous collaboration involving faculty and students between the involveddepartments.IntroductionComputer Science is an applied science by its nature. Its applications are seen everywhere suchas in the Internet, communications, e-commerce business to business and business to customersystems
traditional engineering context. Cornerstoneand capstone projects are often pre-determined by external clients or faculty advisors and littleemphasis is placed on truly understanding the customer or real-world impact of some designprojects. Encouraging students in this area means creating space for engaged brainstorming andintentionally returning to that process often as students mature in their thinking. Three quotes fromstudent reflections echo this idea: The fellowship allows me to put STEM subjects into context, especially of business, and to understand the creative aspects, seeing how something goes from invention to the market has been a really valuable experience. Discovering the potential for real-world impact through
Engineering Leadership Development Program.David’s main course, Model Based Systems Engineering, is also now officially sponsored by Boeing.David has also received multiple recognitions for his educational work from the Obama White House Of-fice of Science and Technology Policy and was an invited guest for the official start to the National Weekof Making and the CS4ALL initiatives. David also led the broader impacts video game creation for theNSF Expeditions in Computing Grant on Computational Sustainability and is the head faculty advisor forCornell Cup Robotics and Cornell University Sustainable Design (CUSD), which is commonly Cornell’slargest and most diverse student project team. David was also a screenwriter for Walt Disney
effective collaborative learning in large enrollment FCs can be a challenging task. Strategies should engage all learners, support open communication, and maintain accountability for both the individual student and the collaborative group. Use of organizational structures such as Think-Pair-Share, Round Robin, and Jig-Saw [16] offer conventional, technology-minimal approaches. More recently, numerous technology-based tools have become available to facilitate real-time, in-class online collaborations. The integration of some the most rudimentary of these tools into teaching and learning environments is becoming increasingly ubiquitous. Such tools include dedicated Student Response Systems based on clickers, LMS-based tools (e.g., Canvas, Moodle
the Colorado School of MinesThe results of a 2017 comprehensive survey of 70 programs [1] revealed that the unit opslaboratory course offered during a 6-week summer “Field Session” at the Colorado School ofMines is an outlier from other U.S. programs in many ways. The biggest differences betweenthis course and the typical unit ops course run concurrently with other courses are the immersiveexperience and the extent and nature of the real-time formative and summative assessmentsprovided. Students and faculty work full- or close to full-time (students ~40-60+ and faculty~30-40+ hours per week) exclusively on this course. This level of personal interaction &feedback, and the ways in which they are conducted, build connections and community
- riential learning in engineering education, evidence-based teaching practice, and engineering assessment models supporting students’ learning, classroom management techniques, and retention. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021Work In Progress: Remote Teaching Robotics Design Project Olukemi O. Akintewe University of South Florida, Tampa, FL., Olukemi@usf.eduAbstractA first-year mandatory engineering project-based course aimed at developing an engineering mindsetwas taught through students engaging in active learning strategies built on the design-thinkingframework by Ulrich and Eppinger. Course outcomes were
. This paper also includes brief descriptions of student projects along with testingand fabrication results.Keywords: Electromagnetic Fields, Project Based Learning, Hands-on ExperienceIntroduction: Fundamental concepts of Electromagnetic Fields is the building block for manyengineering designs and applications such as wireless communications, radar systems,transportations, RFID systems, medical imaging systems, and bio-electromagnetics.Fundamentals of Electromagnetic Fields includes abstract Physics and Mathematics. Studentshave difficulties to make a connection between Electromagnetic Fields (EMF) and engineeringapplications due to the abstract nature of the subject matters. Some institutions reported thatstudents’ interest in EMF was waning
’ exposure to and participation in conversations in casual spoken English.Students with low English proficiency levels were therefore deprived of an opportunity topractice their listening and speaking skills in English, as evidenced by the commonphenomenon of students acting as translators for other students on these teams. Whilenative-language communication among teammates is helpful for clarifying points,ongoing translation of class material by students for other students may also introducedistortions to the material being communicated because the student translators may not beproficient at understanding the material themselves. Students relying on peer translatorsmay also lead to a distorted power dynamic within the class, in which the peer
. Lower-income students with heavyemployment burdens are disadvantaged in the area of involvement, but undergraduate research(UR) is a way to involve them. When started early in a college career, UR engages and retains awide variety of students, [96], especially female and minority students [97]. AAC&U lists UR asa high-impact practice [98], while engineering researchers affirm the role of UR experiences inpromoting communication, teamwork, and leadership skills [99]. Strayhorn found involvementin campus activities, committees, organizations, college life in general positively correlated withbelonging [24]. He further suggests that many STEM faculty may not realize how importantbelongingness and involvement are to academic success but would
privateinvestment into creating a more GAI-powered world. However, there remain many unanswered questions about theethical and moral impact of this emergent technology, both in terms of the harms caused by the outputs of GAI toolstowards historically marginalized identities (e.g., [1]–[4]) as well as the ecological impacts of producing and runninglarge GAI systems on a global scale (e.g., [5]–[7]). In such a climate, there arises a strong necessity for trainingengineering students and future industry professionals in the ethical usage of GAI tools, such that they maychampion ethical and harm-informed GAI design and incorporation strategies to their employers. Towards this end, we developed and taught a 10-week college course on considerations and
Initiatives,” Charlotte, North Carolina, Jun. 1999, p. 4.229.1-4.229.12. [Online]. Available: https://peer.asee.org/7630[5] D. Budny, C. Paul, and B. B. Newborg, “Impact of Peer Mentoring on Freshmen Engineering Students,” Journal of STEM Education: Innovations and Research, vol. 11, no. 5, Oct. 2010, [Online]. Available: https://www.jstem.org/jstem/index.php/JSTEM/article/view/1471[6] R. Pillay and M. Laeequddin, “Peer Teaching: A Pedagogic Method for Higher Education,” International Journal of Innovative Technology and Exploring Engineering, 2019, doi: 10.35940/ijitee.a9106.119119.[7] E. R. Kahu and K. Nelson, “Student engagement in the educational interface: understanding the mechanisms of student success,” Higher Education
recruiting components from 2-year technical colleges and 4-year28 universities. Through strong collaboration with advanced manufacturing industries in Kentucky,29 we find an inventive way to engage with industry partners to bring hands-on and experiential30 learning projects to students in the Fujio Cho Department of Engineering Technology at the31 University of Kentucky. Based on extensive hands-on training, a new curriculum is designed to32 solve practical problems at its center to prepare the future workforce. Most importantly, a new33 curriculum supports not only disadvantaged student groups but also more diverse and34 underrepresented student groups than other programs in the Pigman College of Engineering35 (UK-COE).36 Demand
furtherwork.IntroductionVertically Integrated Projects (VIP) is a project-based model for higher education that unitesundergraduate education and faculty research in a team-based context. The VIP model wasdeveloped in 2001 at Purdue University, growing out of the Engineering Projects in CommunityService (EPICS) program, which involved faculty led, project-based learning in verticallyintegrated teams, with “vertically integrated” referring to the inclusion of lower level and upperlevel students [1]. While EPICS projects focused on community service, VIP shifted the projectfocus to faculty research [2]. This increased both scalability and sustainability, as projects canbe initiated in any discipline, and VIP teams’ contributions to faculty research cultivates deeplong-term
implemented in a current junior electrical course at the University of Idahoand will be the subject of this paper. The practical implementation of fundamental engineeringtheory, the National Electrical Code and its application and methods to conserve energy arecovered in the lectures and are explored by students in two separate projects. Studentparticipation, learning and engagement in the material have made a difference in their approachto electrical machinery, power calculations and perspective on their roles as future engineers.Work samples from the student’s projects will be presented and an assessment and observationof these samples and the student involvement will be discussed.I - IntroductionEngineering programs within colleges and
Community Engagement,focus on the sustainability of the relationship between the institution and the community ingeneral including the industry and the alumni. Criterion 6, Academic Support Services, measures Page 26.46.4the sustainability of different administrative services, such as, the registrar, admissions, etc.Criterion 7, Student Support Services, evaluates student activities, behavior, grievance, andcareer and employment services. Criterion 8, Faculty and Staff Support Services, measures theorganization climate, retention, professional development, promotion, and other incentives.Criteria 9, measures campus services, public relations, and
to the overseasstudents' growing appreciation for the utility of hands-on, lab-based learning as they progressthrough the course.Research Question 3: Impact of project-based learning on motivation and teamwork for studentsabroad in an exam-based academic culture?To assess the impact of potentially unfamiliar teaching methods on students at the overseasinstitution, students were assessed with survey questions about motivation at the end of eachterm. The results as shown in Table 4 suggested that the students at the overseas institution werehighly motivated throughout the course, which included engaging in substantial individual work,persisting through challenges, and feeling successful in mastering the course materials. Notably,the overseas
shouldbe active developers and assessors of their own portfolios, and there is general agreement in theassessment community that students must take the lead in documenting their learning. Towardsthat end, most portfolio assessment systems provide students at minimum with a general outlineor “menu” of contents (suggested and/or required entries) and the evaluative criteria that will beapplied.The AP ® Studio Art portfolio assessment has served as a critical model in conceptualizing aconsiderably open-ended portfolio assessment that will capture the engineering design process.That program was built on a foundation of scoring research that provided a framework foreffectively evaluating nearly thousands of portfolios a year31. In reference to the