Experience (ERE), transitioned that small-scale scienceand engineering residential program with approximately 150 students to a large-scale living-learning community program with a potential to accommodate more than 400 undergraduateengineering students. It also incorporated the Cornerstone Engineering program into a singlefacility.We have developed a living and learning environment that assists students in thinkinganalytically and to succeed in the MSU College of Engineering. This community brings anotherdimension to our common first-year curriculum and further enhances student knowledge of theengineering profession, cultivates their problem solving skills, connects them with campus andcommunity resources, and enhances their communication
together to understand one another better and findadditional places to collaborate, it could be detrimental to the connections made with thestudents.Limitations of this study largely result from the fact that it is that it is solely a self-study. Theresearchers’ roles within the program might have influenced the coding and interpretation ofresponses. An external research team could help mitigate this concern in the future. It was also alow response rate, leading to small sub-groups, limiting the robustness of the conclusions and thetransferability to other programs. Future work could include exploring how this student supportcompares to other institutional models that do not have both facilitators and professorssupporting students to determine
the software program “Blackboard Collaborate”. The lead instructor had over 4semesters of experience with the virtual classroom and has found great success in connectingwith students.The use of the virtual classroom, online office hours and the practicing engineer interviews wereall used to help meet the challenges of offering the EGR 105 course in an online environment.The faculty felt that these methodologies would help the students receive an educationalexperience similar to the experience they would receive in a face-to-face delivery mode.AssessmentDuring the same semester the online course was initially offered, it was also offered in itstraditional format by a member of the course design team. Assessments were conducted tocompare the
GRE are made as with the SAT and ACT exams. For many test takers,scores are shown to improve after being familiarized with test taking strategies.MAT. In addition to the GRE many social science and educational graduate programs use theMiller Analogies Test (MAT) created by Harcourt Assessment, Inc. Research has shown thatperformance on analogies involves multiple levels of cognition and that makes it a superbmeasure of g, verbal comprehension, and analytical thinking.1, 18 Kuncel et. al. 200414 showedthat the MAT and GRE measure abilities shared with other cognitive ability instruments, and thatthese abilities are generally valid predictors of both academic and vocational criteria
your responsibilities and Days common concerns about the first day? How do you make the transition from being an undergraduate student to a TA teaching undergraduates? Will you also have time for course work and research? Working in small groups, you will come up with answers to these questions. Experienced TAs will share some of their stories. Workshop 2: This interactive workshop will provide strategies for active teaching and Engaging Students learning in your courses, including elements of instructional design, and approaches to promote and assess student learning. Safety Lunch This workshop
-Study revealed a small number of areas where proceduralimprovements needed to be made to the program to assure satisfaction of ABET criteria. Forexample, a review of procedures for dealing with student exceptions to the satisfaction ofprerequisite and corequisite course requirements revealed that on occasion, a form to documentreasons for the lack of completion of pre- and co-requisite courses had not been completed andincluded in student’s files. To solve this discovered problem, a new procedure was establishedimmediately: copies of the first day attendance sheet for each BME course whereon each studentindicated which pre- and co-requisite courses had been completed was to be provided to theBME Program Head. The Head would then call a brief
]. Sentence embedding models take in a sentence or paragraph as input and generate asingle embedding as output [3].We use an embedding similarity technique in an application of Engineering Education (EngE)research. EngE emerged as a research field in the early 2000s, a notable shift away from a solepedagogical focus [4]. Around the same time, newly formed engineering discipline-basedacademic units began offering PhDs and other graduate degrees in EngE to prepare students forfuture faculty careers [5]. These programs recognized that candidates qualified in engineeringwho could also bring expertise in pedagogy and assessment would be especially desirable foracademic jobs [5]. In the years following, scholars came together to establish the boundaries
second semester. A checklist of desired writing abilities makes it easier to grade the large number of papers. Furthermore this ensures that all staff involved in the evaluation process uses the same criteria to grade and for providing feedback. This paper describes the implementation of the writing program and how it was evaluated by collecting survey-data. Keywords: technical writing skills; peer review; interactive lecture; project-based learning; first year engineering course1. Introduction and Course DescriptionThe KU Leuven is a Catholic University situated in the Dutch speaking part of Belgium. Theengineering curriculum at KU Leuven consists of a three year Bachelor’s program thatprepares the students for a
a lab component to allowthe students to apply what they have learned in the classroom. The 3-credit spring coursereplaced an existing 2-credit hour course which introduced basic programming using Lego’sNXT equipment. The new course incorporates Arduino microcontrollers and several teamoriented design projects.4.0 ConclusionsLessons LearnedThe following observations are offered for institutions seeking to perform a similar assessment inorder to capture data related to attrition. The complete survey can be found in Appendix A.Response rates for this type of survey were expected to be low so several incentive techniqueswere utilized including: personal phone calls from faculty, a gift card raffle and a small $10 giftcard for all responders
forsophomores through seniors, with some data on the characteristic measures of a student as theyenter college (SAT scores, GPA, skills in math and science) and demographics. These are large,extensive detailed studies that informed our work.The vast amount of data from the P2P study is used in a number of ways. Knight16 used clusteranalysis to group skills of senior mechanical and chemical engineers. The professional skillsidentified by the students as strengths were leadership, teamwork, communication and contextualawareness, demonstrating that our graduates are likely bringing these desired skills to their futurework, and our programs are accomplishing this. In a study that asked undergraduates their viewon excellence in engineering education17, the
time per week is ~30-60 min. The videos are hosted on the Cal Poly Pomona Mechanical Engineering Department’s YouTube channel.103) Self-assessment: Students complete an ungraded "sanity-check quiz" to self-assess whether they understand the concepts discussed in the videos. Feedback is provided automatically if students provide incorrect answers. The sanity-check quizzes were created using Blackboard’s Test feature.4) Prepare for graded assessment: Students complete an ungraded "pre-quiz" which asks them to predict the output from a VBA program. The pre-quiz ensures that students understand the basic rules of programming before they apply them to real-world situations. Students download a PDF that contains the program from
modules in electronics,programming, 3D printing, innovation, and data analysis assignments.Learning outcomes include using software, hardware-based technologies, and research-based inquiriesto design, fabricate, test, and improve an autonomous robot. Measurement of these outcomes wasaccomplished through course assessments, student evaluations, and the final project showcase results.This remote course structure fostered an engineering mindset, technical know-how, innovation andpromoted essential competencies like teamwork, leadership, and critical thinking. Despite thepandemic-transformed pedagogy, students acquired relevant toolsets for manufacturing, synthesis,analysis, and technology that support engineering solutions.Introduction
AC 2011-2500: THE IDAHO SCIENCE TALENT EXPANSION PROGRAM:FRESHMAN ORIENTATION FOR STEM MAJORSJanet Callahan, Boise State University Janet Callahan is the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at the College of Engineering at Boise State University and a Professor in the Materials Science and Engineering Department. Dr. Callahan received her Ph.D. in Materials Science, her M.S. in Metallurgy and her B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Connecticut. Her educational research interests include freshmen engineering programs, math success, K-12 STEM curriculum and accreditation, and retention and recruitment of STEM majors.Judith A. Garzolini, Boise State University Jude Garzolini coordinates science
Patricia Rodriguez The University of Texas at San Antonio AbstractExamining changes in confidence, identity, and attitudes toward science, technology, engineering,and mathematics (STEM) careers among Latina/o middle and high school students who are at-riskand low-income is essential for promoting equitable educational opportunities. Conducting thoroughdata collection from community-based STEM programs helps us understand these changes and canguide targeted interventions that empower students in their academic journeys.This quantitative study investigates the effects of an intensive summer pre-engineering programtailored for middle and high school students in a large urban
intime to graduate is most likely due to the periodic offering of some upper division requiredcourses in one or two departments due to small student numbers. Additionally, 15/19 (79%)graduates had ACT Math scores of 20-25 and 4/19 (21%) had ACT Math scores of 17-19 withsimilar numbers in each group (32 and 29 respectively). The program is increasing retention inengineering and increasing graduation rates.BackgroundA Summer Engineering Enrichment Program (SEEP) was initiated in summer 2009 with theobjective of increasing retention and graduation (BS) rates in an engineering major (civil,computer, electrical [since fall 2012] and telecommunications engineering and computer science)for first year students with ACT Math scores of 17-25 (equivalent
Cohorts A and B is beyond the scope of this paper. Ultimately, this work shouldprovide a template for a larger and expanded future study that would include all engineeringmajors at the University.First-Year Engineering: Course StructureAll incoming students interested in engineering at the subject University are required toparticipate in a common FYE program. The coursework consists of a multi-disciplinary, two-class sequence, with one course offered in each the Fall and Spring semesters. Each course isthree credits and meets twice per week for 75-minutes per meeting. The Fall semester courseteaches engineering skills and concepts that focus on the general engineering design process,including forming design statements, performing needs assessment
studentretention. The former affected retention via motivation and adjustment, whereas the latter didthe same, but affected GPA as well. One area that has received much attention is EmotionalIntelligence (EI) and how that impacts retention. Qualter et al. 38 showed that higher EIpositively influences a student’s ability to progress, while also evaluating an EI-basedintervention program using recent theoretical work to ground their results. This approach istypical. Schools that use EI assessment will generally follow up with the student, i.e. offeropportunities for the student to boost their competency in areas where their EI assessment is low.Other researchers have focused on retention programs and the characteristics of the learningenvironment that
afoundational course for the minor program. The course provides an introduction to the physicalprinciples of materials and structures at the nano-scale and how these principles are connected toexciting applications in different fields such as nanoelectronics in electrical engineering,nanofluidics in mechanical engineering, or nano-biotechnology in biomedical engineering. Thecourse textbook, titled Nanotechnology: Understanding Small Systems9, highlights these variousapplications effectively for a multidisciplinary classroom. To underscore the multidisciplinarynature of the minor, the course is listed as a general engineering (E) course under the college ofengineering as opposed to cross-listing the course among multiple departments. It is important
development andacademic success.This paper will begin a preliminary examination into how specific aspects of an innovative peermentorship program at a large urban research university, called the Layered Mentorship Program(LMP), are related to the students’ continued academic success and corresponding retentionrates. The hypothesis is that as students transition from being mentees to mentors, differentaspects of this program will aid in the development of a heightened STEM identity that will, inturn, indicate increased and continued academic success and retention. The relevant researchquestions are: • RQ1: How does continued student participation in the Layered Mentorship Program relate to retention in the engineering college and academic
into Why Well-Supported StudentsLeave a First-Year Engineering ProgramAbstractThis complete research paper examines retaining traditionally underrepresented groups (URGs) inSTEM fields. For the purposes of this paper underrepresented groups include women, first-generation students, and underrepresented minorities (URMs). The retention of URM students inSTEM fields is a current area of focus for engineering education research. Following a literaturereview and examination of best practices in retaining the targeted group, a cohort-based,professional development program with a summer bridge component was developed at a large landgrant institution in the Mid-Atlantic region with a programmatic goal to increase retention ofunderrepresented students
application, consulting, facilitation and training of such methodologies and business practices as TRIZ, Competitive Opportunity Management, Strategic Planning, Competitive Intelligence, Product / Process Development and Optimization, Business Process Innovation, Design for Manufacture and Assembly, Quality Function Deployment, Technology Research and Organizational Engineering.Donald Reimer, Lawrence Technological University Donald M. Reimer is currently a fulltime senior lecturer and Associate Director of The Lear Entrepreneurial Program in College of Engineering at Lawrence Tech. Mr. Reimer holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial Management from Lawrence Technological University and
). However, sometimes these challenges may be too large to allow all team members toengage in the design process deeply. Further, instructors cannot observe teams in action duringtheir design process, which makes it difficult to provide feedback. Nor can they assess teams’workflow process as they transfer what they learn into knowledge needed to define a solution.Over the past two years we have used a collection of small design challenges at multiple times ofthe year to help teams practice and reflect on their processes of design, teaming and projectmanagement. These two hour design sessions engaged learners in a short conceptual designaround an interesting problem. After each session the students reflected on their process andthen discussed as a
, Page 24.743.2Introduction to Programming I, a Python®-based programming course, as their introductorycomputing requirement.Beginning in 1993, the MSU College of Engineering was actively involved with the ResidentialOption for Science and Engineering Students (ROSES) initiative. This was a small-scaleresidential living-learning program intended to provide a supportive and collegial environmentfor new first-year students intending to pursue majors and careers in technical fields. Starting inFall semester 2009, the Engineering Residential Experience (ERE), transitioned that small-scalescience and engineering residential program with approximately 150 students to a large-scaleliving-learning community program with a potential to accommodate our
parentheses will be used later when referring to these questions. 1. How do we know atoms exist (Atoms)? 2. If a penny is made of tiny particles (atoms) why doesn’t it fall apart (Penny)? 3. What do a pencil, diamond ring, car tire, and charcoal have in common (Pencil)? 4. How can a gecko walk upside-down on the ceiling (Gecko)? 5. When will gold no longer be the color gold (Gold)? 6. How did aspirin stop my headache today and my fever last week (Aspirin)? 7. What kinds of machines are small enough to fit inside a living cell (Machines)? 8. What can be done to keep a window clean, making sure water and dirt do not stick (Window)? 9. How can we make DNA act like a robot (Robot)? 10. What do Styrofoam, fog, milk
Paper ID #37999Three-Year Review of a Short-Term Faculty-EmbeddedAerospace Engineering Study Abroad Program in BrazilAli P Gordon (Interim Associate Dean of Graduate Affairs) Ali P. Gordon is the Associate Dean for Graduate Affairs in College of Engineering and Computer Science and a Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of Central Florida. As associate dean, his role is to maintain oversight of the college’s graduate students and graduate programs. His leadership focuses on recruitment, retention, professional development, program assessment, and the introduction of
were actually pretty good I have to say as, as a whole sup- surprisingly for a, for a smaller school they ...We do score better on, um, standardized tests than the surrounding schools I guess, which isn't saying that much because we score about the average, which isn't like tremendous, but it is better than ... So we're like one of the better academic schools in the area I guessAlthough some students were able to frame the struggles they faced moving from a small ruralhigh school to a large engineering school in a positive light, it is worrisome the impact this mayhave on their confidence, self-esteem, and ability to persist in the program. For example, StudentF asserts that his school is average based on standardized
skills and education achieved by thestudents in our programs have resulted in their future success in further education and theworkforce. Since most Federal and State grants fund just the development and piloting ofthese technical programs for only a limited timeframe of three to four years, the studentimpact measures tend to be limited to student progress to degree and certificate anddegree completion during the term of the grant. Even the CREATE consortium, whichstarted in 1996, has not been able to do longitudinal studies as each successive grant hasfocused on developing and implementing successively changing types of new andemerging technical programs, with no funding to retrospectively assess the previousstudents’ continued progress.Another
increasinglybeing taught by single individuals. Currently, only eight of 16 sections are being taughtby teams. Given the number of different people teaching UNST 130, there is muchdiversity in classroom style and format. Some utilize extensive small group exercises;others utilize more traditional lecture formats. All use TurningPoint student responsetechnology for real time formative assessment of student performance on course learningobjectives. During the first two years the course was taught, sections were capped at 160students. Currently, sections are capped at 63 students.UNST 130 focuses on helping first-year students develop their understanding of thenature of providing “support” for claims or beliefs. Common to everyday human life isthe activity of
and Innovative Design in Engineering Academy, or iRIDE for short. Before joining Rice STEM, I taught middle and high school mathematics for 9 years.Dr. Christopher Barr, Office of Research, Rice University Rice University Office of Assessment and Evaluation of STEM Programs led by Dr. Barr is the Direc- tor of Assessment and Evaluation of STEM Programs at Rice University. He has been an evaluator and psychometric expert on several federally funded projects in education, natural science, and engineering. His focus is to conduct rigorous quantitative and qualitative measurement and program evaluation utiliz- ing validated assessment tools with published psychometric properties, qualitative rubrics with reliable
does not fall too far downF – change procedure She should find a more efficient way to sample the cells.G – Chamber - redesign Use a small door so heat loss is minimal, program blower so that it doesn't heat too much, this will take trial and error to find exactly how much the blower must heat to get the incubator temperature just right.Goal - 3. Actively remove heat from the system (e.g. A/C, or exhaust system).Category – feature and Example of student responsesolutionH- Add heat reduction system introduce a more efficient cooling system in order to avoid the rapid initial heating