degree at the primaryinstitution. Finally, 100% of the students who have graduated from this program have eitherplaced into graduate school or accepted a position within the engineering industry. Overall, thisprogram has been a success.Sources:1 J. Roy, “Engineering by the Numbers,” ASEE Engineering Statistics, Washington D.C., July 2019.2 Z. Alavi, K. Meehan, K. Buffardi, W. R. Johnson, and J. Greene, “Assessing a Summer EngineeringMath and Projects Bootcamp to Improve Retention and Graduation Rates in Engineering and ComputerScience,” Paper presented at 2020 American Society for Engineering Education Virtual AnnualConference, June 2020.3 M. Shadaram, T. B. Morrow, and C. M. Agarwal, “A Comprehensive Plan to Improve Retention andGraduation
compilation of course grades or assessment scores inside and outside of classroomenvironments (e.g., ACT, SAT) are considered indicators of students’ knowledge and competencies.These indicators have been shown to be predictive of whether a student persists in engineering (Geisinger& Raman, 2013; Kuley et al., 2015; Zhang et al., 2004) and many times serve as a benchmark for thenecessary knowledge and competencies needed to be an engineer. If a student cannot demonstrateachievement of the necessary levels of knowledge or demonstrate competencies, they are excluded fromengineering by either not being admitted (e.g., Admittance requirements (Department of Mechanical andAerospace Engineering, 2022)) or told they must leave the program they are
Spring 2020, various alternative pedagogical models emerged.Marquez and Garcia designed and implemented a model termed CIRE (acronym forCommunication, Initiation, Reduction, and Extension). Based on its assessment, it was reportedthat students exposed to the CIRE model were academically and personally satisfied with theimplementation of the four practical strategies, which addressed the challenges associated withremote instruction and learning [24].However, despite the effectiveness of several pedagogical methods and practices that emergedduring the period of online instruction, numerous students attending a private university in Texasdecided to return to campus in the Fall of 2020. The intention of this study is to understand whyseveral
of IoT kits. The instructors work on developing IoT relatedcourse material appropriate for the targeted courses to assist students with the IoT concepts,devices, applications and implementation. Finally, student learning is assessed through surveysand student performance. Student learning is improved from lessons learned by fine tuning theprocess as well as teaching material, delivery, and other methods based on feedback and otherobjective methods.Student RecruitmentThree categories of courses are targeted for remote engaged student learning through IoT at thetwo HSIs. The first category of courses includes senior capstone design project courses, whichare a sequence of two courses which incorporate PBL in collaborative team projects in the
like there were opportunities that would allow me to create that network of people that could provide me that guidance and support. It was what I was looking for, but mainly allowed me to see where I could take my PhD. So, it’s more the career side more than anything.Emotional Intelligence The ability to continuously assess our own emotions and reflect on our proficienciesallowed us to persist through our programs of study. Both Kayyali and McKie focus onmanaging their reactions in the face of adversity to maneuver oppressive environments. Ourawareness of conflicting ideals offered us opportunities to use our emotional intelligence tocommunicate effectively, empathize with others, overcome challenges, and defuse
and receiving her Ph.D. in Educational Studies (Science Education), Dr. Merritt was a high school chemistry and physics teacher in Charlotte, NC. Her areas of expertise and research focus on: (a) designing science and engineering curriculum materials and assessments to investigate P-20 student learning, and (b) preparing teachers to teach science equitably in the inclusive, culturally and linguistically diverse classroom. Her work has been funded by the National Science Foundation and Department of Education. She has authored or co-authored a book, several book chapters and journal articles.Joel Alejandro Mejia (Dr.) Dr. Joel Alejandro (Alex) Mejia is an Associate Professor with joint appointment in the Department of
sustaining pedagogy topromote learning, identity development, and sense of belonging to STEM. It consisted of twokey components: near-peer mentors and storytelling. Near-peer mentors were the primaryfacilitators for the students. The mentors were two undergraduate engineering studentsresponsible for designing the project curriculum, testing, developing student support, andfacilitating most of the sessions throughout the summer camp, with supervision from facultymembers. The students created two machines, the Walking Jansen and the Up-and-Down Crank.Furthermore, students were encouraged to use their personal experiences and identities to tellstories through their projects.To assess the benefits of near-peer mentoring, we asked What did near-peer
our data.Esploro has a function called “Smart Harvest” that will look for potential publications by aperson and then assess the likelihood they are by the local person, using keywords, namevariants, identifiers such as ORCID and email address, and previously connected publications[6]. These then can be loaded immediately or can be reviewed by staff, based on the quality ofthe match. We opt to review all matches. Because the previously loaded publications inform thematching process, the records loaded from Digital Measures resulted in better quality matches inSmart Harvest and saved us a considerable amount of time. Common names, such as ChaoWang, can result in a very large number of matches, so in these cases in particular adding asmany known
programming syntax. Instead, the questions attempt to assess fundamentalreasoning skills that we hypothesize are important for success as a programmer. A multiplelinear regression finds a significant correlation between scores on some of the diagnosticquestions and exam scores in the course, but there remains substantial variance in exam scoresunexplained by the model, even after accounting for students’ major and different instructors.Nonetheless, students with low scores on one particular diagnostic question have a much higherrisk of earning a D, F, or W in the course (44%) compared to the other students in the course(13%), as computed on a validation data set.IntroductionContent throughout introductory programming courses—commonly called “CS1
in their sophomore year, the minor consists of 16credits, comprised of both an academic year minor and highly successful venture acceleratorprogram - the Engineering Entrepreneurship Summer Institute (E2SI). Throughout the durationof the seven-week summer institute, students from various colleges at Villanova and otheruniversities participate in a fast-paced venture launch experience while earning a minor from theCollege of Engineering.Annually, 25-30 students from the College of Engineering, the School of Business as well as theCollege of Arts and Sciences participate in E2SI. The minor consists of the following courses:Entrepreneurial Technologies, Creativity and Innovation, Opportunity Assessment, FeasibilityAnalysis, Prototyping, and
combinetheory and practice, and design to establish knowledge base in system thinking concepts andtools, and focus on the unique challenges for management, governance, communication, andpolicy in the FEW nexus. Course grading includes reflections and analyses, creating systemcomponent maps with Loopy (a free online tool for thinking in systems), and a final project, anintegrated system map. All assignments are individual assignments. The NRT external evaluatordesigned an annual NRT survey that assesses the NRT program at our university, including theimpacts of the NRT Integrated FEW Systems course. Student ratings about their perceivedability to perform interdisciplinary systems tasks improved from the beginning to the end of thecourse, from ‘somewhat
content knowledge that PBL demands, someinstructors have struggled with the time-consuming preparations for PBL projects, themonitoring and assessment of individual student performance, and the lack of time to fulfillcurriculum requirements [3], [10]. At the same time, students have reported the lack of guidanceand help from supervisors [10]. In practice, more faculty and staff for each project may facilitatethe success of PBL implementation. According to [7], half of the 22 reviewed courses revealedthat classes with up to 30 students were supervised by one or two instructors, with project groupstypically consisting of three to five students. Two course descriptions explicitly reported thatgroups of three to four students received faculty
relays to connect aspecific configuration of panels to the electronic loads for current-voltage (I-V) and power-voltage(P-V) characterizations. Once the I-V/P-V curves are acquired, students can save the data to anexcel file. To perform different experiments, the learner can simply switch between the tabs on theLabVIEW interface.Laboratory Exercises:A set of six lab exercises have been developed, details of which are explained below:Exercise # 1: — Surveying and Site Assessment: In this exercise, students are given an in-person(or virtual) tour of the PV system. A recording of the installation video is also shared with thestudents. This exercise introduces the basic components of a PV system, such as solar modules,charge controllers, PV combiner
or a few courses with writing requirements to more fully integrated approaches [7]. Forthe more fully integrated models, programs might use a Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC)approach, where writing is deliberately embedded in a range of courses and levels and faculty areprovided support and professional development for teaching and assessing the writing studentsproduce [7]. Some universities have communication programs housed within the engineeringcollege to support writing intensive courses, such as the University of Michigan [8]. Otherprograms have engineering communication centers that support students with their engineering-specific writing assignments and faculty to integrate writing, such as Virginia Tech [9] and (atone point
offers two research projects that explore PLM, while Section 7 concludes the paper. TheAppendix contains the seminar and workshop student assessment survey.2. Product Lifecycle Management – Processes and Tools Product Lifecycle Management is a strategic software umbrella that integrates a variety ofdifferent computer tools together to streamline and bolster product development and businessmanagement. An underlying PLM strength is the premise of seamlessly integrating and allowinginformation to be produced, recorded, and stored for later retrieval by stakeholders as shown inFigure 2. In some ways, PLM may be considered an operating paradigm as it incorporates not onlythe design and possible automatic manufacturing of a product, but also
engineeringdesign education. Proceedings of the ASME Conference. August 18-21. Anaheim, CA.Ohland, M.W., Loughry, M.L., Woehr, D.J., Finelli, C.J., Bullard, L.G., Felder, R.M., Layton,R.A., Pomeranz, H.R., & Schmucker, D.G. (2012). The Comprehensive Assessment of TeamMember Effectiveness: Development of a Behaviorally Anchored Rating Scale for Self and PeerEvaluation. Academy of Management Learning & Education 11 (4): 609–630.Song M., Dyer B., and Thieme R.J. (2017) Conflict management and innovation performance:an integrated contingency perspective. Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science 34(3).DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0092070306286705Strong, D. (2011) Towards effective multidisciplinary engineering education: themultidisciplinary design
(Peek Inside your Computer hArdware BOx andexplOre) curriculum leverages equitable practices, experiential learning, and collaborative,inquiry-based learning approaches to support engineering identity and engineering persistence.The curriculum will be offered in an elective undergraduate course for all engineering majors intwo large public US universities and will be tailored to high school students' summer programexperiences focused on STEM. No prior knowledge of hardware, electronic circuit design, andprogramming is required.To perform a formative evaluation of our efforts, we conducted usability testing of the first twogames. The objective was not to assess the implementation of the first two modules but rather toevaluate the usability of
] so they are aware of how thesepowerful tools can support their experiments and deepen their understanding of the science. Thatbeing said, to avoid overburdening students in this initial rollout, we make the modules optionaland let the students decide which tools they wish to use for data analysis in the labs.At the start of the semester, we explained to all students in MSE 104L the purpose of the learningmodules and the details of this research study, which qualified for exempt status through the UCBerkeley Institutional Review Board (CPHS #2022-10-15691). Students are surveyedanonymously at the start of the semester to assess their academic preparation and predispositionstoward DS and SW, and then they are surveyed a second time (not linked
STEM fields are more likely to believe that it is possible for them toachieve similar STEM positions and are encouraged to remain in STEM degree programs andcomplete their education [6], [21].3.0 Method3.1 Data Source The data used in this analysis was obtained from the Assessment, Institutional Research andEffectiveness (AIRE) Office at City Tech. The AIRE Office provides student-related data tosupport grants, assessment/accreditation, and research. The criteria used to gather the data for this analysis included data related to female and maleminority STEM students and female and male non-minority STEM students who were first-timefreshman, enrolled full time in a STEM bachelor degree program, and were in cohort years 2012through 2016
, and recruitment bias in tech impose on black women in computerscience. This future work will also examine geographical, environmental, and cultural factorsthat may influence the perceptions of black women in the tech industry.From an assessment standpoint, it is the plan to employ additional approaches for collecting datasuch as forming an in-person focus groups and/or one-on-one interviews. The use of either in-person focus groups or one-on-one interviews, respectively, could help the participants freelyvoice their opinions more (and alleviate instances of social desirability bias). Another addition tothis study will be to include a male control group. Having a control group comprised of male CSmajors and professionals will enable
, communication, collaboration, andparticipation, issue negotiation and resolution, and reflection and self-assessment) werediscussed as major factors impacting the productivity of a team. While a team possesses uniqueaspects, and each aspect imposes a different effect on the structure, processes, feedback loop, andoutputs of the team, it is vital to consider major common characteristics when developing a teamto perform tasks or, on a larger scale, a project. Koolwijk et al. [2] explored the effects of a no-blame culture on the effectiveness of project-based design teams across different project deliverymethods in the construction industry. They concluded that project managers should determinethe level of teamwork and encourage collaboration within a
the University of Nebraska - Lincoln. Her role in the College of Engineering at UNL is to lead the disciplinary-based education research ini- tiative, establishing a cadre of engineering education research faculty in the engineering departments and creating a graduate program. Her research focuses on the development, implementation, and assessment of modeling and design activities with authentic engineering contexts; the design and implementation of learning objective-based grading for transparent and fair assessment; and the integration of reflection to develop self-directed learners.Mrs. Katie Mowat, University of Nebraska, Lincoln I am an engineer who loves to work with people, learn about new ideas and
implications of their designprojects. Although this did not show up as one of the themes, it does not mean it is not a conceptthey did not learn. Our study is limited in that it only assessed the perceived learnings based onone question from the course evaluation. The course evaluation question also asks students aboutthe most important concept they took away, so they may have learned the ethical implications indesign and other concepts but did not mention it as the most important. Future research could beconducted to see if ethical implications were grasped and understood from the course. Currently,we engage students in ethics with a lecture on design equity and ongoing discussions in teammeetings. Specific reflection or additional structured
creates digital content for engineering textbooks to help make textbooks more engaging and accessible for students.Mr. Bryan Gambrel, zyBooks, A Wiley BrandMs. Linda Ratts, zyBooks, A Wiley BrandJennifer L. Welter Jennifer ”Jenny” Welter has been a publishing professional for more than two decades, specifically fo- cused on engineering publications and courseware during the majority of her tenure. She is passionate about supporting engineering education, specifically focused on content and assessment development for more effective student learning. She earned her BA in English from The University of Iowa.Dr. Ryan Barlow, zyBooks, A Wiley Brand Ryan Barlow obtained his Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering from the
Paper ID #38055Work in Progress: The Power of Cross-Institutional ”Speed” Mentoring andNetworking Program in Advancement of Women, URM, and ForeignBorn/Trained Engineering FacultyDr. Arezoo SadrinezhadDr. Lalita G. Oka, California State University, Fresno Dr. Lalita Oka is an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil and Geomatics Engineering at the California State University, Fresno. She teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in Geotechnical Engineering. Her research interests include experimental geotechnics, numerical modeling, liquefaction assessments, and dam safety. She is also interested in issues related to
the materials that use. And how much energy these problems of now and the future processes use so that it can tackle the issues of regarding sustainable construction sustainability deeper than just the design level.ConclusionIn order to assess the level of sustainability preparation students in architecture and constructionmanagement received during their university education, this paper looked at how studentsperceived sustainable design and construction options. Specifically, the goals of the study wereto ascertain students' perceptions of sustainable courses in higher education, their intentions tocontinue studying sustainability after graduation, and their observations of sustainability benefitsand challenges in the
leader of the Socially Oriented Interdisciplinary STEM Education Research Group of the Institute for the Future of Education at Tecnologico de Monterrey. He collaborates with the Faculty of Engineering, Universidad Andres Bello in Chile. He is National Researcher Level 2 in Mexico. His research lines are interdisciplinary STEM education, social oriented education, conceptual understand- ing, active learning, assessment tools, and faculty development. Dr. Zavala was appointed to the editorial board of the PRPER (2015-18). In the AAPT, he was a vice-presidential candidate, member of the Com- mittee on Research in Physics Education, member and chair of the International Education Committee, and elected member of
engineering courses.Approximately 75 students take the course annually. Most are civil engineering majors atUSAFA, but approximately one-third of the students come from other military colleges andReserve Officer Training Corps programs from around the country. The course includes fieldtrips, lab exercises, and hands-on activities intended to give students a practical frame-of-reference that is helpful in subsequent analysis and design courses.Most activities consist of some pre-reading, a short classroom lesson, the hands-on portion, andfinally a quiz or laboratory practical exercise. Both the quizzes and practical exercises serve aslow stakes assessments. Faculty develop the course materials and teach the classroom lesson,but to execute the hands-on
biology course and its effect on aspects of the student learningexperience. They further studied the identification of the course design associated with studentengagement, motivation, and confidence. The authors reported positive results in support of theflipped classroom model and its effect on enhancing student’s learning outcomes and experience.In [5], the authors conducted a study to in a high school-level chemistry course in Iraqi schools.They assessed the effect of flipped classroom model on motivation, creative thinking, andachievement. After holistically exploring student preference, teacher preference, learningflexibility, teaching aid effectiveness, working environment, and student participation, theyrecommended shifting to the flipped
the author’s knowledge, there has been no significant attempt to conduct anin-depth review of the literature that has been published since the passage of the bill. This paperreviews recent studies published about the educational choices and preferences of studentveterans. It will also look at current research on the experience of veterans in STEM (Science,Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) majors. Finally, there will be an assessment ofoutreach programs and other events sponsored by academic libraries for this often-overlookedpopulation, with a focus on events designed to encourage or assist STEM student veterans.Trends, successes, and failures will be noted. The intent is to understand the needs of veteranstudents, as well as learn