decreased motivation levels and increased stress levels.BackgroundWith the emergence of COVID-19, all facets of life across the globe were disrupted and had toadapt to the unprecedented situation. In particular, schools faced a massive shift to onlinelearning at every level of education. The stress of multiple rapid changes due to the pandemicand national current events has affected student learning in ways we are just beginning tounderstand. College curricula that heavily rely on hands-on learning and collaborativeapproaches, like engineering, have especially been impacted by this switch.This study explores how engineering students have navigated the sudden shift to virtual learning,what pedagogical practices have been effective, and how it has
Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Overcoming Comfort Zones to Better the Self-Efficacy of Undergraduate Engineering Students (Tricks of the Trade) (WIP)INTRODUCTIONCommunity College SuccessInvolvement in co-curricular activities, including participation in student and professionalorganizations, can significantly enhance the overall educational experience [1]. Engineeringprograms in community colleges strive to reinforce student engagement that increases studentacademic and extracurricular success. [2-5] One factor that reduces engagement amongststudents in co-curricular activities is low self-efficacy. [6] Students believe that participation inco-curricular activities will take time from their academics [7] regardless of the
protégés being mentored gain the benefits ofpsychosocial support, and they can assuage discomfort that may arise from sharing insecuritieswith others. It can also serve to encourage minoritized undergraduates to persist, and to developconfidence [23]. Traditional mentoring also has a positive relationship with satisfaction,commitment, and involvement in ones’ major [26]. Thus, being a mentor or/and mentee haveimportant impacts on students’ knowledge, skills, commitment, and participation in their field.Volunteerism or altruism is another activity and experience students can engage in/with to increasetheir sense of belonging and to appeal to intrinsic motivation to persevere in computing fields.Participation in volunteer activities allows students
avirtual team project; however, with the rise in remote work in industry, many students will havejobs that include virtual work on teams. As such, investigating the communication challengesundergraduate engineering students experienced provides important insights to guide classroominstruction and tips for students working on virtual teams. Furthermore, this work has thepotential to improve both virtual and in-person team project designs and increase the impact ofteam projects on the education of engineering undergraduate students by encouraging effectivecommunication. We collected open-ended survey responses and conducted interviews with arange of engineering majors and class standing. We analyzed the data with a conventionalqualitative content
follow the K-12 engineering education principles byutilizing the project-based learning (PBL) approach. The PBL is introduced by Kilpartick andthis method is used in education by Dewey. This method is based on designing or creatingproduct, solving problem, investigating, and developing an answer (J Dewey, 1980; J Dewey,2008; Kilpatrick, 1918). The PBL approach improves group work skills and collaboration whilekeeping students more engaged in learning by keeping them motivated as the key element of thisstrategy (Harun, Yusof, Jamaludin, & Hassan, 2012; Huang, 2010). The fundamental norms of agroup of students working together are communication and collaboration skills as well as anintrinsic motivation to become an effective group (Blumenfeld
Paper ID #33779Insights Gathered from the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE)About Engineering/Computer Science Participation in High-impactEducational Practices at Two Western Land-grant InstitutionsMr. Ebenezer Rotimi Ewumi, Washington State University Ebenezer Ewumi is a Computer Engineering master student at Washington State University. His research is in engineering education and software engineering techniques. His recent research focuses on the effect of high impact practices on engineering and computer science undergraduate student outcomes around academic success and persistence.Dr. Olusola Adesope
detail to understand the process betweenobjectives. Consequently, certain actions needed to be implied.5. There are several different perspectives involved in defining project success[32], but thisinvestigation considers solutions that best represent the goals of the client community to befavorable.References[1] K. T. Jahnke, A. Hansen, A.-P. Witmer, J. B. Elliott-Litchfield, and M. H. Goldstein, “Assessing the Impact of International Project Participation on Student Practitioners and Engineering Education Outcomes,” dissertation, 2020.[2] D. Nieusma and D. Riley. Designs on development: engineering, globalization, and social justice." Engineering Studies 2(1), pp 29-59, 2010.[3] A.-P. Witmer, “Contextual Engineering To
our university community, the combination of these factors translated todeclining levels of engagement with our student, staff, and faculty members.As a combined result of stressors surrounding COVID-19 and racial injustice, many graduatestudents suffered a decline in their well-being as levels of anxiety, depression, and PTSDsymptoms rose [1]. While research on the impact of extracurricular involvement on graduatestudent well-being is limited, studies of undergraduate students have demonstrated that studentgroup and extracurricular involvement is associated with increased well-being and belonging [2].A few small-scale qualitative studies on graduate students have demonstrated that extracurricularinvolvement can enable graduate students to
Paper ID #34448Student Experience with COVID-19 and Online Learning: Impact ofFaculty’s Ability to Successfully Navigate Technological Platforms forRemote InstructionMs. Melissa Shuey, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Melissa Shuey is an incoming Ph.D. student in Science and Technology Studies, at Virginia Tech (Blacks- burg, VA). She received her B.S. in Mechanical Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Troy, NY) with a minor in Science, Technology, and Society. Under the direction of Dr. Atsushi Akera and Dr. Alan Cheville, she has worked as an undergraduate and post-baccalaureate research assistant on two
; Building personal 1st-year network. Broader Individuals to interact with Graduates more exposed to broad social issues and how Society & students, materials on diversity/ they might impact them through civic engagement; Larger cross-culture. Graduates better equipped in disciplinary area and Community application; Graduates understanding of how disciplinary and design knowledge can impact causes they value through professional engagement. Instructors Time and expertise; Personal
-create innovative solutions for community challenges.Ms. Maggie Favretti, Design Ed 4 Resilience Maggie Favretti is a lifelong learner, and authentic engagement educator. Throughout her career teach- ing high schoolers and teachers, college students and professors, and community adult leaders, Maggie converges disciplines and aligns sectors toward shared efficacy and problem solving. Maggie’s current work recenters the role of designer (design thinking) in youth, educators and community, and focuses on disaster recovery, youth empowerment, and climate justice.Nathalia Ospina Uribe, Nathalia Ospina Uribe earned her B.S. degree in Architecture from the Univ. La Gran Colombia (UGC) (2013). Finish her M.E. degree in
focus on how to engage students better to prepare their minds for the future. Her other research interests include empirical studies to assess impact of good supply chain practices such as coordinated decision making in stochastic supply chains, handling supply chains during times of crisis and optimizing global supply chains on the financial health of a company. She has published her research in Journal of Business Logistics, International Jour- nal of Physical Distribution and Logistics Management and peer-reviewed proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education.Dr. Sarah N. Gatson, Texas A&M University American c Society for
(SEM) and explore how thoseexperiences relate to academic success (i.e., academic achievement, persistence, and creativity).For this work-in-progress paper, we present our project’s conceptual framework and share howspecific aspects of it may relate to the academic success of students with ADHD. Our frameworkis based on Terenzini and Reason’s college impact model, which includes precollegecharacteristics and experiences, the organizational context, the college experience, and students’educational outcomes (i.e., academic success). We also describe the quantitative portion of ourtwo-part research study that will analyze longitudinal data from three nationally-administered,multi-institutional surveys. That analysis will guide further qualitative
country and our families?), logistics and planning(for example, when will we have to engage with students in-person?), or even personal or healthrelated (for example, when will I have access to the vaccine?). Thus, we quickly understood thatthese COVID-19 websites were helping address concerns not only of students and their parentsbut also other stakeholders from diverse backgrounds, who just like us were facing a different setof challenges and looking for answers. We decided to study different university web pages tounderstand how universities were communicating information and changes through the pandemicand collate strategies that administrators were sharing to help their specific learning communitiesface the challenges brought on by the
. Various methods were used to create adiverse and engaging learning experience for the students, while simultaneously creating a senseof community during a period of loneliness for many of the students. Anecdotal student feedbacknoted that the sense of community the course encouraged was one of the best aspects of thecourse. Two main ways the instructor helped to build this element of community was through theuser experience and through course assignments.1. IntroductionOn December 8, 2019 the first case of pneumonia was reported and around a month later it wasidentified as the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) [2]. It then spread worldwide becoming aglobal pandemic. On Monday March 9 of 2020 many universities in the United States, includingthe
in the form of capstonedesign projects and programs like Engineers without Borders [3-6], and in response to therecognition that to be effective engineers, students need to be able to consider the impacts theirdesign decisions have on communities [7]. Supported by college staff, individual faculty, studentprograms, or community-engagement offices in universities, such programs have made strides toprovide such learning opportunities for students. Yet, for many organizations that have funds tosupport efforts to broaden participation, this work takes them into relatively uncharteredterritory.Inspired by past work on teacher professional development [8] and ways an assessment tool canshape such development [9], we sought to create an educative
educators so students may understandthe value of STEM in their lives.Pilot-Program DescriptionThe pilot program is funded by The Nexteer Steering the Future Fund and focusses on theunderrepresented population who are at or below the poverty level and have lower mathematicsscore in Michigan Student Test of Educational Progress (M-STEP). The research study is basedon the GLBRA recommendations such as 1) increase the engagement of families/parents in STEMwith educators and business leaders and 2) increase diversity. The program focusses on conceptssuch as mentoring, 21st century STEM activity, training educators and education and careerinfluencers to evaluate short- and long-term impact of the 2-day STEM exploration camp. Theprogram aims to provide
community colleges andan additional two years at an established four-year engineering and computer science university. The overall goal of this NSF funded program is to increase access to high qualityuniversity engineering and computer science education for academically talented, low-incomestudents with demonstrated financial need. The program aims to address two significant barriersfaced by engineering and computer science students at the participating community colleges.One barrier is the highly impacted nature of the engineering and computer science programs atthe university, and the other is the university’s focus on admissions practices that cater to first-time-in-college (FTIC) students. The impacted nature of the engineering and
Paper ID #32402Engage in Practice: Hosting Math Competitions in College of EngineeringDr. Ziliang Zhou, California Baptist University Ziliang Zhou is a professor of Mechanical Engineering at California Baptist University American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Engage in Practice: Hosting Math Competitions in the College of EngineeringAbstractThis paper shares the experience of community engagement through hosting math competitionsfor the local middle and high school students. This engagement had positive impact not only onrecruiting prospect students for our
jurisdictionalauthorities to establish a $200 million airport infrastructure improvement program, which issolely focused on increasing roadway capacity for a critical area surrounding an internationalairport and associated industrial manufacturing facilities. The transportation improvementprogram includes three new interchanges and a realignment of the primary airport access road.The capstone design project at The Citadel focused on determining an optimal solution for one ofthe new interchange locations. The use of this real-world assignment as a capstone design projectwas enthusiastically supported by the region’s airport authority, local jurisdictions, consultingengineering, and construction community. Students work in teams of 4-5 to develop designsolutions to
Paper ID #33888Examining the Impact of Interpersonal Interactions on Course-levelPersistence Intentions Among Online Undergraduate Engineering StudentsJaveed Kittur, Arizona State University Javeed Kittur is currently a doctoral student (Engineering Education Systems and Design) at Arizona State University, USA. He received a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering and a Master’s degree in Power Systems from India in 2011 and 2014 respectively. He has worked with Tata Consultancy Services as Assistant Systems Engineer from 2011-2012, India. He has worked as an Assistant Professor (2014 to 2018) in the
installation in the Western Desert and getting their in-home kitsworking. Integrating online learning with hands-on experiential learning and real life, community-based engineering challenges facilitated international internship experiences without physicaltravel. Student experiences were evaluated through feedback forms and compared to the 2018 in-person version of the program. The impact on the community is evaluated qualitatively throughinterviews and quantitatively when data is available.1.1 BackgroundThis international engineering internship addressed fundamental engineering challenges linked tothe sustainability of ecosystems, societies, and economies, and thus topics the global communityshould address through concerted action. Eliminating
inception toimplementation during their first semester. The project requirements are derived from the specificneeds of a non-profit community organization. Under normal circumstances, the SLP activitieswould produce a physical product or working prototype that would be installed at a communitysite. In 20/FA, however, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, various cautionary measures andguidelines were put in place by the University to prevent the spread of the virus within the campuscommunity. This hampered the usual ways of carrying out SLP activities in this course. Underthese circumstances, after much deliberation among the course instructors, a simpler but stillmeaningful project concept was devised in an effort to mitigate the impacts on SLP activities
educationbegan to become accepted in the U.S. in the 1990’s when the idea of combining action incommunity and structured learning began to be institutionalized as a pedagogy and as a field[1],[2]. The idea was called service-learning. Bringle and Hatcher [3] defined service learning as“a credit-bearing educational experience in which students participate in an organized serviceactivity that meets identified community needs and reflection on the service activity in such away as to gain further understanding of the course content, a broader appreciation of thediscipline and an enhanced sense of civic responsibility” (p. 222).Community service and civic engagement has been ingrained in the Indian culture from a verylong time. A modern example of such a
being connected but also making their career progress through it and the networks ofrelevant people are powerful [9]. Recent studies show that social media plays a vital role ineffective information dissemination even in extreme situations for a particular group of people[10]. The degree of influence of a particular student group and other people connected with thesestudent’s activities were monitored and found a positive impact of connectivity of the groupthemselves and with the practicing professionals too. The engagement of STEM learningstudents can greatly increase the number of STEM enrollment. The development of society andprogression greatly depends on STEM knowledge and empowerment. One of the greatestchallenges of the University has
the communities or do not always provide theexpected long-term benefits to communities. For example, in water, sanitation, and hygiene(WASH) projects, the extensive monitoring, evaluation, and maintenance required for effectiveWASH interventions decrease the likelihood student-led projects will be successful in positivelyimpacting a community’s health over the intended design life [8], [9]. Furthermore, theconstraints of the academic calendar and the high turnover rate of students from year-to-yearoften results in students only being engaged for a single year, while many infrastructure projectstake multiple years to complete from planning to construction to monitoring and evaluation.As a result, it is often a challenge to identify service
courses and areas they could consider adding or adapting the feedback they provide. By compiling the [1] A. L. Pawley, “Shifting the ‘default’: The case for making diversity the expected condition forSelf-Determination Theory (SDT) [5] is the framework used to explore results and creating tables showing what activities are employed, which of those activities feedback is engineering education and making whiteness and maleness visible,” J. Eng. Educ., vol. 104, no. 4, pp. 531–533, 2017.feedback and its impact on student engagement
The Impact of Strength-Based Projects on the Engagement of Students in the Mechanics of Materials Course Sarira Motaref Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Connecticut Topic: Work in progressAbstractThe Mechanics of Materials course has been offered in flipped modality over the past 8 years atthe University of Connecticut. This course is an entry-level course required for severalengineering majors such as Civil, Mechanical, Biomedical, Materials Science, andManufacturing Engineering. The goals of this flipped course are to improve student learning inlarge enrollment classes and promote inclusive teaching by
theirexploration and operations from a government body without receiving approval or acceptancefrom the people represented by those governments. The SLO became the way to avoidcommunity members stopping operations but fell short of the kind of meaningful communityengagement desired by many inside and outside of industry.The SLO, interestingly, rarely comes into discussions of community engagement in engineeringeducation, though we share evidence below that suggests it is poised to play a larger role in thisarena. In this paper, we draw on a five-year NSF study of the intersection of corporate socialresponsibility (CSR), engineering practice, and engineering education to investigate how acritical take on CSR shapes the ways in which engineering students
not within University with ethical issues through critical policy bounds and so that's not... consideration of their impact on both a And I, I think it's wrong that... professional and personal level with Just because one has the more emphasis on ethical standards and how the participant's actions might have situation you think, but you an impact on the life of the student. should.” Reflecting upon the possible outcomesValues Commit to engaging in an active, “I tell them, ‘You can ask mepluralism purposeful, transparent and equitable anything that you have in mind