population. The real opportunity lies in activatingthe much larger population of “maker-curious” students, those who may feel excluded fromtechnical spaces due to confidence gaps, identity mismatches, or a lack of prior exposure. Forthese students, early encouragement, scaffolded access, and low-to-no barriers to entry allcontribute to the likelihood of engagement and thus our ultimate goal of retention.Program Description MSI’s impact approach is based on a progressive pipeline where students start in highlystructured activities and as their confidence in their skills grow, they move to self-directedengagement. First-year engineering students encounter makerspaces through ENES100:Introduction to Engineering Design, a required course where
personalization of theconcept, a graduate school success strategy, and an assessment component. Examples include theSpeed Networking building block and the CV Peer Review workshop.(3) Engagement and service opportunities. A variety of opportunities for the AGEP scholars aremade available for developing skills that will aid them in the professoriate. The students arepresented with numerous activities in which they can volunteer to participate in during thesemester. These include working one-on-one with under-represented undergraduate students, inpreparation for careers in the professoriate.(4) Travel awards. AGEP students are encouraged to develop their presentation skills andenhance exposure within the scholarly community. Travel awards are awarded to
* ECASE stands for Engaging the Community to Achieve Success in Engineering building connections with their peers (through social functions and ECASE study tables), withthe faculty (through faculty advisors), and with the profession (through an industrial mentoringopportunity). Our ECASE program also provides funds for individual tutoring when necessaryand funds for each ECASE scholar to attend one engineering conference in order to expose himor her further to a sub-discipline of interest as well as to the engineers actively doing research inthat area.Engineering faculty get to know our ECASE students rather well since they take multiple classesfrom each engineering faculty member. They also interact regularly with the ECASE programcoordinator
of the faculty development initiatedin STEP 1A that is offered to members of both BRCC and LSU communities with eachinstitution alternating as host. These annual joint faculty workshops focus on active learningtechniques with plans in the future to include metacognition and diversity topics. Since 2013,over 60 faculty, staff, graduate students, and supplemental instructors have participated in theseworkshops.Assessment In order to improve STEP activities and to evaluate their impact, both formative andsummative assessments are conducted. Evaluation data include surveys, focus groups, andretention statistics from the university registrar. This section will highlight each programcomponent’s assessment that has been completed as of the
determinethe effects of blogging on student retention in engineering programs, establishing a sense ofcommunity, and other more long-term outcomes beyond the course where the blogs areemployed. A final opportunity rooted in student feedback towards the end of the study is thevalue of instructor presence within the blogosphere, where the instructor is actively engaged inthe conversation. It would be of benefit to study if there is any significant effect on studentparticipation, sense of community, perceived learning or collaborative constructivism caused by Page 25.620.14instructor presence.6. ConclusionBlogging in academia is not a new but rather
including untold stories throughout the history of computing andalgorithms, identity and intersectionality in engineering, designs from engineering that have highsocietal impact, the LGBTQ+ experience in engineering, engineering and mental health, andcultural diversity within engineering. Each module gives a brief overview of the topic, followedby an associated assignment. We made all of these modules available to the students in thecourse and told them to choose one to complete. Each student engaged with their selectedmodule in four specific ways: (1) watching a relevant video; (2) reading and annotating aprovided article; (3) responding in a written reflection to a set of specific prompts relevant to themodule; and (4) conducting an interview
Teaching Professor working jointly in the College of Engineering and in the Department of STEM Education within the College of Education at North Carolina State University. She earned a B.S. in Biological EngineMicaha Dean Hughes, North Carolina State University Micaha Dean Hughes is a doctoral student in the Educational Psychology program in the Teacher Education and Learning Sciences department at North Carolina State University. Her research interests include community-engaged approaches to educational equity and access in STEM education, college recruitment and K-12 outreach practices for women and minoritized students in STEM, mathematical identity development for adolescents and young adults, and culturally
a system, component or process to meet desired needs. d. an ability to function well on multi-disciplinary teams. e. an ability to identify, formulate, and solve engineering problems. f. an understanding of professional and ethical responsibility. g. an ability to communicate effectively. h. the broad education necessary to understand the impact of engineering solutions in a global and societal context. i. a recognition of the need for, and an ability to engage in lifelong learning. j. a knowledge of contemporary issues. k. an ability to use the techniques, skills, and modern engineering tools necessary for engineering practice
the American Accreditation Board forEngineering and Technology (ABET) both stipulate that every student must have real world,team-oriented, open-ended design experiences before graduation1,2.Mount Royal College instructors believe that students should be exposed in their first year to adesign class that incorporates elements of team work, communication skills and creative problemsolving so that they begin to develop these skills in parallel with their technical knowledge.Engineering Communications and Design I and II (ENGR 1251 and 1253) are two such courses.The communications component includes oral, written as well as visual communication skills,with a strong emphasis on sketching, which has been shown to have a positive impact on
process allowsall the team members to engage in “a good old-fashioned conversation and then organizing it inthe form of a map.”18 Consequently, story mapping encourages the practice of several EM-associated skills – e.g., adaptability, empathy, and critical thinking – while allowing a student tofurther develop informal interpersonal communication skills.NABCThe NABC model was developed by SRI International; as described by Carlson and Wilmot,20 itserves as a communicative tool for identifying important needs and proposing innovative valuecreation. It is based on the premise that the application of the following fundamental questions issufficient for the early vetting of the potential of delivering customer value for a particularproject: What
design students tasked with constructing dorm rooms for individualswith special needs. Additionally, integrating service-learning projects (SLP) has been explored toenhance community engagement in engineering education. Carrico et al. [9] studied the impactof a multidisciplinary project-based service-learning experience, fostering collaboration, deeplearning, teamwork, and communication between Mechanical Engineering and Speech-LanguagePathology students. The collaboration involved developing manufacturing processes for the in-house fabrication of cost-effective therapeutic materials. Keshwani and Adams [10] observedpositive effects on engineering students' communication and leadership skills through a cross-disciplinary project-based service
between authentic engineering learning and student engagement [35],professional identity or learning interest [36] , student-perceived learning outcomes [37], reasonableassumptions and problem-solving abilities [32], engineering learning self-efficacy [38] and so on.RESEARCH PURPOSEThe current study was situated in the engineering learning in communities of practice. Communities ofpractice were seen as an effectively collaborative learning situations with a group of learners sharingprofessional knowledge and common career enthusiasm. In our previous study, we found community ofpractice is an important engineering learning context and engineering learning happening in communitiesof practice usually focused on solving the authentic engineering
of the versatility ofthe internet. Recent increases in on-line publications, open-access publications, personalwebpages and blogs are some examples of how internet communication has evolved from asimple text based webpage. Engineering educators should understand and encourage the newmethods of communication in a computer mediated context [2]. Engineering students need to betrained to use the latest technology when communicating with others for their projects andtechnology. Web publication of their project reports inspire students to develop skills at workingwith a digital medium while essential elements for written communication is still the samefundamentally. It still encourages students to constantly improve and refine their writing skills
networking. Residents ofHypatia and Galileo are strongly encouraged to join in the spring activities (and we providemotivators – e.g., an iPod raffle), but they are not required to do so. An aspect of community participation that must be emphasized is that students self-selectto participate or not. Though we do go through an application procedure, essentially anyengineering student who wishes to join the communities is accepted. This self-selection is notnecessarily the same decision making process for freshman males as it is for freshman femalesand, therefore, does not necessarily wield the same impact on expected outcomes. Theassessment results that follow are thus divided by community whenever possible
Electronics Engineering Technology program went through a change infocus, a major curriculum revision, and a name change. The Electronic Systems EngineeringTechnology (ESET) program, as it is now named, has a strong focus on embedded system-basedproduct and system development3 and prepares students for long-term careers that cut acrossmany industry sectors including automotive, energy, oil/gas, communications, medicaltechnology, semiconductor and quality-of-life. In fact, the value proposition of offering anexperiential learning-based degree that prepares students for careers in electronics-based productdevelopment has proven to resonate well with both transfer and freshman students and has had asignificant impact on recruiting and outreach. In
gateway to higher education for large numbers of students, especially minorityand low-income students. Preparing community college students for their future engineeringcareer and engaging them in professional development is one of the major objectives of theNASA CIPAIR (Curriculum Improvements and Partnership Award for the Integration ofResearch) program. In the San Francisco Bay Area, a collaborative NASA CIPAIR programbetween Cañada College, a federally designated Hispanic-serving community college, and SanFrancisco State University, a large urban university, has developed a summer internship programthat provides freshmen and sophomore community college students an opportunity to participatein a ten-week study of earthquake engineering. For the
Generation Z students are looking for larger-scaleopportunities that target societal root causes of problems. These are students that have their sights seton making lasting impact; on changing the world for the better. They envision using theirentrepreneurial tendencies to help eradicate problems at their source and bring about social change[14]. “For example, why tutor one third grader in reading when developing and instituting a literacyprogram could help all third graders in a community?” [4, p.275]. Generation Z comes to college with high rates of volunteerism already on their resumes,largely due to preset requirements as part of a class or society. In fact, almost 90 percent of highschool seniors indicated that they were frequently
least one, and up to three student no-shows or late cancellations.The focus group questions considered the top (and bottom) concerns, the top program areas,target audience, program structure, engagement, and communication methods. The exit questionasked the participants to consider what had been discussed within the group and to state how thewomen in engineering program could best meet the needs of current students going forward.Following discussion from the exit question, the moderator verbally reviewed the itemsemerging as the biggest themes and asked each group for their agreement, disagreement, oradditions to them. Only when all members of each focus group agreed with the items did thefocus group conclude.Following each focus group, the
school STEM studies. FLATE's camp is designed to pique student interest in advanced manufacturing through a positive exposure to robotics, and embed technology oriented problem solving experiences within a fun and active hands-on environment. Campers are exposed to new career possibilities that are based on mastery of STEM curriculum. The camp challenges provide “real world” engineering based project work within a comfortable, safe, and supportive environment to encourage students to distinguish themselves both individually and as a team, and gain experience in the practice of independence and autonomy. It engages campers within a fun and small community environment setting and reaches out to students who might not
Accrediting Engineering Programs (CAEP), for example, guides programs onprogram educational objectives, student outcomes, assessment of these outcomes, and thenprocess improvement/evaluation determining how well the program addresses these criteria.2 TheStudent Outcomes a-k have almost universally been adopted by engineering departments tocharacterize their programs without modification, usually to simplify the accreditation process.Outcome f, an understanding of professional and ethical responsibility, is typically satisfied by acourse on ethics, often taught outside the department and from a non-engineering perspective.Outcome h, the broad education necessary to understand the impact of engineering solutions in aglobal, economic, environmental and
asentrepreneurship, financial planning, cross-cultural communication and gender issues inengineering. Although many of the guest lecturers have a background in chemical engineering,all lectures are presented to engage a general engineer. As applicable, some of these lecturesinvolve exercises that the students must complete either before or after the lecture. For example,a lecture on entrepreneurship requires the students to develop a 30 second elevator pitch to a jobrecruiter. Term Project: The objective of the course project is to give the students the ability toapply the problem solving heuristic in teams to a particular business or organization. Each teamis required to carry out the analysis presented in Table 2 for their business
encourage a deeperunderstanding of the technical content, as opposed to a stand-alone course (Riemer, 2007; Troy etal., 2016), the introduction of the first-year and second-year spine courses provides the opportunityto expand the vertically-integrated communications program and its impact on student learning. This curriculum innovation initiative introduces early engagement and extends verticalintegration in a spine of courses that are to be required for all students in the program.The Spine Courses The spine refers to a set of four vertically-integrated courses designed to create a cohesivelearning experience connected across each year of the civil and environmental engineeringundergraduate curriculum. While the engineering content of
Khonsari, M.M., 2007, ”Granular Collision Lubrication: Experimental Investigation and Comparison with Theory,” ASME Journal of Tribology – V. 129, pp. 923-932 Synergistic Activities: Engineering Program Manager, Baton Rouge Community College, August 2011 – Present: LA-SiGMA EPSCoR - collaborate with LSU engineering and mathematics faculty to develop modules to train community college students to use sophisticated materials research instrumentation, assist with the Beowulf Boot Camp for high school students and teachers and facilitate the participation of BRCC students in the research experiences for undergraduates (REU) programs focused on computational and experimental materials science NSF S-STEM Scholarships
curriculum of a university, as it culminates the students’ learning ina final hands-on project2.The traditional engineering capstone course provides students with these real-world problemsby working with an advisor from the field through an apprenticeship 4. These advisors can beindustry representatives, entrepreneurs, physicians, faculty members, or other professionals inthe field. This client-advisor mentorship provides students with the opportunity for situatedlearning in which they can apply their skills and knowledge towards a robust understanding ofwhat is means to be an engineer 4. Furthermore, it allows students to be able to becomeexposed to the professional community and understand how research, industry, andentrepreneurs solve problems or
Solving (CPS); and to communicate the potential impact of thisscaffolding on underserved minority students’ higher-order skill development through Project-Based Service Learning (PBSL). It contends that adoption of engineering design process inexperiential learning could promote students’ demands for cognitive and metacognitive strategiesof Self-Regulated Learning (SRL) and Creative Problem Solving (CPS), and scaffolding withquestion prompts based on cognitive research findings could better facilitate SRL and CPSprocess of underserved minority students, and lead to their enriched metacognitive experience,meaningful accomplishment, and improvement of self-efficacy and higher-order skills. Theoverall goal of the presented scaffolding instruction is
: communication, teamwork, ethical and multiculturalawareness, and project management. The questionnaires provides a definition of each learningobjective, and 10 statements assessing competencies under that domain; responses are on a 5-point scale. The tool is administered to all of the students in the program at the end of thesemester. Only the responses of students who consented to participate in the research study areincluded in any of the analyses of service-learning or reflective thinking activities.Analyses and ResultsFour independent samples t-tests were conducted to evaluate the hypothesis that service-learningprojects and/or engaging in formal reflection exercises promote higher self-assessments ofcompetence in students in our program. The four
accessible community for the very individuals to whom it was designed to serve.As demonstrated through recent ethnographic attempts to study these spaces, access into amakerspace emerges in a variety forms, including how easy a space is to enter, how one isintroduced and oriented to the space, and how the space is physical designed (Penney et al.,2016). Such accessibility to a makerspace, in general, can impact how students perceive makingand even how they perceive themselves as a maker (O'Connell, 2015). A space becomessuccessful and sustainable through providing access to technology and partnerships (Myers,2015).Beyond access, other literature noted best practices include: proper training for users, a clearlydefined mission, encouragement of
bio-medical engineering. This paperwill provide details on the WID interventions, as well as the other efforts at improvingcommunications within the CCE. Communications in the Capstone Design CoursesWhile the WID program was developing at the UH Writing Center, the CCE wassearching for ways to improve the communications skills of its graduates. The capstonedesign instructors approached the Writing Center’s WID program after a new capstonedesign course in ECE was merged with the existing capstone design course taken jointlyby mechanical engineering (ME) and industrial engineering (IE) students, increasing theenrollment from 30 to nearly 90 students a semester. The capstone instructors workedwith the WID program manager to develop
students for their profession. Various pedagogical tools such as embedding asocial justice framework into engineering curriculum and developing a sense of community inthe classroom have been reported to improve student belonging [7], [8]. But there has been a lackof actionable guidance for faculty about inclusivity when teaching more technical courses. Froman instructor perspective, the lack of practical guidance in the literature makes implementationchallenging because of the overlap in practices, uncertainty of timing, and the lack ofinformation on which strategies have the highest impact. This study aims to address this gapthrough developing and providing pragmatic, proven, and trusted strategies for engineeringfaculty who are seeking to make
which students engage inactivities that address human and community needs together with structuredopportunities intentionally designed to promote student learning and development” [1].These structured activities must provide opportunities for students to reflect on meaningand significance of the service-learning projects they have undertaken. It is alsoimportant that in doing so they take into consideration the perspectives of those forwhom they have provided service.While relatively new in engineering, service-learning is well established in thehumanities and social science disciplines, and in disciplines where clinical experienceforms part of student learning. Campus Compact, a national organization supported byuniversity presidents who are