change anapproach is identified.Here we present the narrative of an educator implementing a weekly reflection activity, theInclusivity Meter (IM), that allows students in a senior capstone course to communicate howincluded they felt in their teams or in the overall class that week. Through the narrative, wehighlight the conversations that happened as the educator reflected on the work in her classroomwith the two other authors. The conversation themes highlighted include the motivation fortrying this new activity, concerns throughout the quarter about student response rates, and twocases that surfaced issues of inclusion, prompting further discussion.After recounting this narrative, we dive into a discussion on how the engineering
beused to support the design process approached during the charrette. A charrette is anintense period of design planning or activity, often collaborative in nature. It served asa vehicle to engage professionals and push students to produce at least three fairlydeveloped design schemes to inform their first round of simulations. The charrette tookplace over the course of six hours and provided at least one professional from eachdiscipline to work with each of the three student groups throughout the day. Theprofessionals played a key role in helping guide the student‟s communication with theother disciplines. The charrette was critical in reinforcing the need for students todesign quickly and iteratively at a pace that would carry throughout the
Paper ID #22106Enhancing 3D Modeling with Augmented Reality in an After-school Engi-neering Program (Work in Progress)Miss Srinjita Bhaduri, University of Colorado, Boulder Srinjita Bhaduri is a PhD student in Computer and Cognitive Science at University of Colorado Boulder. Her research examines how educational technology can improve student engagement and student learning, often focusing on underserved populations.Katie Van Horne Ph.D., University of Colorado, BoulderMr. Peter Gyory, University of Colorado, BoulderMs. Hannie NgoProf. Tamara Sumner, University of Colorado, Boulder I am also a Professor at the University of
to take a new look at the curriculum and begin to implement significant changes throughout the curriculum, starting with ‘design’ and enhancing students’ abilities to solve open-‐ended design problems. Having approximately 250 ME students graduating every year, this proved to be a difficult feat in itself. One of the key changes to the ME degree program included implementation of open-‐ended design problems or challenges throughout the degree program. Open-‐ended design problems are challenging for students when they are confronted with the fact that there is no ‘right numerical answer’ for them to achieve. The uncertainty of no one
thesixth course taken from some other area such as geotechnical engineering. Alternatively, astudent could choose to take an elective course in each civil engineering discipline as well as onecourse from an allowed technical area outside of civil engineering such as math or community ®ional planning.This previous curriculum had several weakness. Students during their first two years often onlyhad a civil engineering faculty member teaching one 1-credit course during their first two yearsas the civil engineering graphics and geomatics for civil engineers courses have been typicallytaught by faculty from other departments. This lack of belonging to their declared major isknown to lead to students leaving engineering [1, 2, 3]. Additionally
Poor Very long right short short Poor Figure 6: Survey results on students’ interest level, material and engagement, class length, and objectives met or not.While the survey results assured us that the workshop was interesting to the students and propertopics were selected, we investigated the situation further and realized the following might be thereasons for the decrease in attendance:− No Access to Hardware and Software: Since the workshop was originally offered in WIT, the high school didn't buy any equipment from their side. The students did not have any access to the robots outside of the workshop. Thus, it was very hard for the
types of leadership and decision-making situations that occur in afast-moving stream of risk management in construction projects.Delivery of the course includes a compilation of carefully chosen reading assignments,comprehension quizzes, guided lecture notes, in-class activities, experiential learning, andindustry guest presenters. Each week students are randomly assigned into groups of three-to-fourstudents. This forces to students to collaborate with everyone in the course, builds community,and teaches team dynamics. The culminating project for the course are student-created videovignettes that each capture one of the course topics. These vignettes are short, fictional storiesthat leave an impression on the audiences’ mind [11]. The purpose
, optimization, and trade-offs (Katehi et al., 2009), teachers may focus onvariable testing only without a orienting the purpose of variable testing as a function of design(Dare et al., 2014), digressing to step-by-step processing (Dare et al., 2014; Holstein & Keene,2013) or to trial and error (Dare et al., 2014). In practice, some teachers focus on studentenjoyment and “hands-on” engagement (Dare et al., 2014; Katehi et al., 2009) instead ofexploration, analysis or interpretation (Holstein & Keene, 2013). In effect, recommendations thatlimit student choice and critical thinking to preserve the authority and comfort of the teacher mayreduce the authenticity and impact of engineering design integration.Though the NGSS encourages using
studentsoverpassed those of students from New York State and the country. We believe that this is apractical course model can be easily replicated by programs with the same interest.I. IntroductionUndergraduate research is a high-impact practice leading to student success, engagement,interest in higher education, and skills development [1] [2]. There are two well-known modelsfor incorporating research experiences in a program: Undergraduate Research Experiences(UREs) and Course-based Undergraduate Research Experiences (CUREs) [3]. UREs representthe apprentice model. They feature individual students in faculty research laboratories andprovide the opportunity for one-on-one mentoring. On the other hand, CUREs are embedded intothe curriculum and are available
from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She also completed a training program in Agriculture Management at Weihenstephan Triesdorf University of Applied Sciences in Germany. Through her ex- perience of pursuing a global education, she noticed a gap in the education system of developing and developed countries, and became interested in science education. Her current research interests revolve around next generation CAD tools and their impact on the engineering design process and learning. She currently works as a fabrication consultant and instructor at Champaign-Urbana Community Fab Lab and develops learning curricula for teaching students design and computer-based design tools. c
main research questions in thispaper include: 1) How open are students to the design review process? 2) Which helped studentsto maintain steady progress on their project: scaffolded milestones, design review assignments,or both? 3) Did students benefit from design review and how? Did it impact their project orskill set? 4) Did design review affect their engineering design identity? Do they see themselvesas designers? To determine effectiveness of the framework, an anonymous Qualtrics survey hasbeen developed and administered to students to determine the impact on their learningexperiences, skills, and engineering identity. The survey results indicate that students arereceptive to constructive feedback and open to a (peer) design review process
problem-solving mission of the class, it was important for us to emphasize thatthe procedural component of a measurement project serves the user’s thinking process, but is notthe learning goal of the project. This approach was developed intuitively, but we found that italigns nicely with the refinements offered by recent research on teaching and learning in thesciences.All lab instructors are aware of the impact Graduate Teaching Assistants can have on students’motivation and learning, and Velasco’s argument for training the teaching staff to engage withstudents reinforces our approach to the important role TAs play [4] in student learning.Specifically, lab staff, usually TAs, is best positioned to interact with students at critical projectpoints
more welcoming environment,going forward we will use DEIJ with social justice at the helm. Prioritizing engineering curriculacan potentially address engineering students’ diminished concern for public welfare and socialimpact. When the importance of diverse perspectives is not cultivated, it can perpetuate scenariosin which only specific voices are heard and prioritized. However, those efforts are thwarted whenthe impacts of engineering projects on human wellbeing and community conditions areconsidered. Professors are an important part of the overall process of what is being taught whileensuring students are well-rounded engineers. In this paper we seek to better understand theperspectives of the professors regarding the implementation of DEIJ
approach we embraced was to empathize, define, ideate, iterate andlaunch. We started with our search for empathy.Each team member talked with many members of our academic community, students, facultyadministration and staff, to find out how they viewed the current state and desirability ofinnovation and entrepreneurship on our campus. Our goal was to gain empathy for the peoplewho would engage with the activities and resources we sought to create. How did students“innovate” things on campus? How many student entrepreneurs were actively working onstartups? What resources were available and how were they used? Each of these questionsfacilitated new learning for the team and new insight on how to define our evolving objectivesand projects.By
Architectural Engineering (CEAE). She has served as the Associate Chair for Under- graduate Education in the CEAE Department, as well as the ABET assessment coordinator. Professor Bielefeldt was also the faculty director of the Sustainable By Design Residential Academic Program, a living-learning community where interdisciplinary students learn about and practice sustainability. Biele- feldt serves as the chair of ASEE’s Community Engagement Division and on the AAAS Committee for Scientific Freedom and Responsibility. She is also a licensed P.E. Professor Bielefeldt’s research interests in engineering education include service-learning, sustainable engineering, social responsibility, ethics, and diversity.Dr. Jacquelyn F
2 visits they made.- The realization that modifications within one discipline had a profound impact on the work of another discipline.Challenges:- The reluctance/fear of students to engage in system level conceptual design and analysis across disciplines- The reluctance of many students to engage in discussions that went outside their own discipline – especially when it came to apply their discipline specific knowledge to interdisciplinary research and analysis to quantify and be more specific on findings from the problem/stakeholder analysis- Misalignment of departmental expectations vs project expectations, which led to “busy work” for the students, and loss of motivation towards the project.- In the first semester of
improve the impact for the final deliverable, the research team sought to find a way toreinforce the early semester information literacy lesson. In week nine of the fall 2019 semester, abrief lesson was piloted in six of the 26 course sections. It replaced one of several brief check-inassignments already scaffolded throughout the course. In the assignment, students were asked torevisit the information literacy lesson in Canvas and then answer a series of reflective questions.The research team then interviewed four professors, split between those who had and had notpiloted the lesson, to learn more about their perspectives of the lesson. This stage of the researchwill lead to another pilot of the reinforcement lesson and more comprehensive
of incorporating VR technology as acomplementary mode of teaching in biomedical engineering labs. It also aims to assess the utilityof VR-based labs in terms of student engagement, potential for future use, understanding andretention of material and tasks, and usability. Thus far, student scores on quizzes and lab reportssuggested that VR might be helpful in visual demonstration, understanding, and retention of thelab procedures while the traditional teaching methods may be more suitable for explaining labconcepts. A comparison of the two cohorts suggests that the advanced equipment reduces thediscomfort associated with watching VR videos. Apart from equipment quality, content quality,and teaching styles may also impact the experience of
change in practice required arising from all opportunities being available for all students. Data analytics and assessment supported by the grant analyzed for impact on all demographics and community colleges. Math readinessAt the University of North Texas (UNT), all eight long-semester (fall/spring) degree plans inengineering and computer science require enrollment in Calculus 1. Calculus has been the focus ofmany interventions
techniques16,17. The DTEACh program demonstrates toteachers how the engineering design problem-solving process provides a way for students tolearn math and science concepts through Active Learning. DTEACh is supported by the CockrellSchool of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin, and is led by engineeringprofessors. The program provides guidance to K-12 teachers on how to use open-endedproblems in their classrooms. Each institute comprises one week of instruction in engineeringconcepts through the use of everyday technology, directed laboratory activities, and designbriefs. The pedagogy used in the institutes, summarized in the next section, is similar to the 5Emethod (Engage, Explore, Explain, Elaborate, and Evaluate)18. The institutes are
school?• In what city did you attend junior and senior high school?• Did your school offer AP chemistry?• Did your school offer AP physics?• What was the highest level of math you completed in high school?Initial Takeaways• The monolithic view of Black students in engineering programs is misguided• Outreach programs are not reaching a wide audienceLimitations• Survey information was self-reported• Only one organization was interviewedContinuing Research Studies• Collect more surveys and begin conducting interviews of Blacks engineering students about pathways to engineering• Study how high school math and science preparation impacts first year engineering experience?• What is the pathway for non-magnet students to matriculate into
student success is describedby the mismatch of the faculty member’s teaching style with the prevailing learning style of thestudents in the class. Such a mismatch can have serious consequences.8 The benefits ofcooperative learning, peer learning, and active learning are well established in the literature, sothe extent to which individual faculty use those instructional methods will have an effect on thesuccess of the classes that they teach. The collective performance of a class of students willalso be affected by peer group effects that are beyond the influence of the faculty member’sinstructional choices. More generally, research on the impact of student-faculty interactiondescribe another mechanism that will have the effect of creating section
data from CHBE 263, such as reactorconversion and product composition, to perform detailed material balance calculations. Theassignment includes designing a preliminary process with key unit operations, such as a reactor,liquid-liquid extractor, and distillation column, while considering recycling streams, chemicallosses, and reaction selectivity. Students also assess economic feasibility by estimating grossprofit, incorporating costs for feed, separations, and recycle streams. In addition to buildingconnections between courses, the goal for this assignment was for students to engage with real-world, ill-defined problems, develop tolerance for uncertainty, and explore the impact of processparameters on gross profit. Importantly, this
learning in a senior/graduate mechatronics course. In [19], theauthors showed how virtual software and hardware environment can provide enhanced learningopportunities for mechatronics engineering technology majors. The project-based approach ofteaching mechatronics was presented in [20]. Development of a senior mechatronics course formechanical engineering students was described in [21]. In [22], the authors presented thedevelopment of an introductory mechatronics course for the students who had completed theirsecond year at the community college and planned on pursuing a bachelor’s degree in anengineering field. In [23], the authors investigated the use of agile methods enhancingmechatronics education through the experiences from a capstone
Community: Faculty should have opportunities to discuss the “business of teaching and learning.” Through their interactions with peers, students and staff, faculty enhance their instructional skills to meet the needs of a diverse student body. 3. Learning Environment: Technology enhanced instruction appropriately used promotes learner outcomes and quality student/faculty interactions. Learning Ø Enhance the educational experience Experience through a focus on student learning Ø Support the faculty, staff, students and other constituencies in this endeavor
independent study over developingan advanced course was quite positive. It was important to have interested and dedicatedstudents on this project, which was ultimately fairly time-consuming. It was also essential toextend the work across two semesters to successfully complete all phases of the project: design,build, create specimens, test, and analyze data.1. IntroductionUndergraduate research is a great mechanism for students to apply their basic skills, developexperimental methods, and to address challenging and difficult problems. Kuh [1] identified thisas one “high-impact” educational experience. Research forces students to wrestle with a problemin much more detail – and for a much longer amount of time – than the majority of theundergraduate
ideologies in STEM, centering Latino/a/x student experiences—especially of those along the U.S.-Mexico border. His work draws on Chicana/o/x studies, raciolinguistics, and bilingual education to explore how language, race, and socialization shape engineering pathways and engineering practice. In 2025, Dr. Mejia received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) Award for his contributions to engineering education.Prof. Gordon D Hoople, University of San Diego Dr. Gordon D. Hoople is an assistant professor and one of the founding faculty members of integrated engineering at the University of San Diego. He is passionate about creating engaging experiences for his students. His work is
impacts on the broader community and resilience. By extending the view of riskmanagement to be more holistic, the concept of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) has gainedattention in risk management as well, since overall community resilience can only be achievedby the well-functioning of all community components. The national emphasis on the increasedembracement of DEI is also noted by ABET’s EAC Criterion 5 expansion. Additionally,emphasis of social impact and the curricular inclusion of DEI have been noted by currentundergraduate students as critical factors to attract new students [3].However, the current structural engineering curriculum at our institution, University of IllinoisUrbana-Champaign, offers students only minimal
engineering college,and who matriculate in our college, receive a scholarship. Over the pastfive years, the program has grown in size, scope and impact, such that itis now a residential experience and one that students across our stateare eager to apply for. We consider it a model worth sharing for two keyreasons:1) This is a unique university-corporate partnership. We have beenable to fund this with corporate support because we found a way toaddress corporate priorities and our priorities simultaneously.2) We’ve used intentional and thoughtful assessment andoperated through a model of continuous improvement. As such, we’vebeen able to demonstrate significant improvements in five years. We
Design ergonomics impact the user. Students learn • Measures of central tendency how to collect and use data on human • Box-and-whiskers plot dimensions for the purposes of design. • Standard deviation & normal distribution 6) Household Allows students to analyze design systems for • Multiplying decimals Container Recycling recycling household containers using single • Unit conversion stream processes at materials recovery • Bar graphs