demonstrated by the rest of theworld from the 1950s into the 1990s (Figure 1) correlate to convergence of the per capita GDPgap through the mid 1990s (Figure 2). Higher U.S. productivity since the 1990s, however, hasrestored some of the GDP advantages the U.S. enjoyed through most of the 20th century relativeto Japan and Germany. Page 12.606.7 Figure 2. GDP at current prices and exchange rates per employee, comparison U.S., FRG, and Japan.Acceleration of U.S. productivity in the 1990s reflects many engineering and technologyenhancements that go beyond improvements exclusive to the manufacturing process. SelectedU.S
variety of ESLcourses. Many students require no placement at all after testing. It is a matter of historicalinterest that in the many years that most of the authors of this paper have been at NJIT, we haveseen a marked improvement in the English language communications skills of our newinternational students. This reflects the experiences of those of us who have traveled overseasand particularly to locations in Asia.The ESL courses that are recommended to students are generally at the intermediate level orhigher. There are courses on accent reduction and on technical writing which may be requiredby some academic programs. Most courses are graded Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory but count as ifthey are credit-bearing classes for the purpose of
It is imperative that distance-learning faculty know thelearning preferences of their students and their familiarity with various instructional methods sothat curricula can be designed effectively. Effective online courses are those that engage thelearner while reflecting the instructor’s personality through the content.5 The intent being toutilize the appropriate method and format for instruction provided the instructional goalfacilitates its use.The design of an online course greatly affects its quality. In addition, the role of an online facultymember changes from lecturer to facilitator. Proper media selection for the content of an onlinecourse can either help or hinder the facilitation process, particularly the critical student-to
academia, disciplinary paradigms, assessment,and balancing academic and personal life. GRAD 59000 is posted to the academic transcript butcannot be used to fulfill Plan of Study requirements.PFF aims to socialize doctoral students to the diversity of faculty roles and responsibilities alongwith the expectations of excellence in research, teaching, and service through a mentoring modelusing a conceptual framework which incorporates research, teaching, service, career planning,and career and life balance, to guide student exploration and reflection. Using Purdue as a model,students customize the framework with mentoring tips and strategies learned from the speakers.In addition to representing different roles and positions at Purdue, each speaker
other’s scholarly, professional and personal development through collaboration, encouragement, knowledge sharing, and critical and reflective analysis as we contribute to the engineering education discipline. Page 25.677.2About GEECSThe first meeting of what would become GEECS was held in early 2010 through the facilitationof two engineering education faculty members. The goal was to provide a space and opportunityfor collaboration among EER graduate students in both engineering education departments andthose who were dispersed among contributing disciplines. From 2010 to 2011, the organizationformalized, selected a name, and
conversation was recorded and fieldnotes were taken. Page 25.860.3The data analysis began by summarizing each survey. Member checking was performed on thesummaries in order to establish credibility and prevent misinterpretation of results 25. Thisprocess was accomplished by emailing the participants a summary of their survey, and askingthem to review the summary, and to respond if it did not correctly reflect their conversations.Two participants suggested minor changes to their summary, such as the number of yearsbetween completing their bachelor and doctoral degrees. Six participants replied to the emailstating that the summary correctly reflected
3 years or more Figure 6 - Length of ASEE Membership (n=97)Learned about ASEE through …The majority of respondents (52%) learned about ASEE through a faculty member. This wasfollowed by Web Searches (12%). Although this might not be a reflection of the overall studentmembership, it was surprising to see a low percentage (6%) of students in the sample thatlearned about the ASEE through student chapters. Other 5% Campus Chapter 6% Publication 7% Classmate 8% Conference 9% Web Search
-reflect upon the process of creating scholarly ideas and communicating them to others intheir field. REACH Activities that support the tenet of Intentionality include monthly REACHseminars. The outcomes of the seminar focus on three main areas: (1) peer mentoring throughdiscussion of daily activities, coursework, research, and other topics, (2) a professionaldevelopment component focused on skill development and strategies that enhance their careerdevelopment, (3) feedback back from REACH PIs on options.Multiple relationships, the second tenet of the REACH Scholars’ multiple apprenticeship model,focuses on student engagement with numerous intellectual mentors. In addition to the student –advisor relationship, central to the graduate education
actionsinclude:Articulate a Broad Diversity Vision and Specific Criteria for Comparison withComparative and Aspiration Institutions:At the core of effective diversity management is the articulation of a meaningful vision ormission statement for diversity that reflects the institutional commitment to diversity andequity goals. The institutional units must also develop meaningful and consistent support forDiversity and Equity in words and actions through allocation of sufficient resources. Theleadership must appoint and designate high level institutional leadership personnel with tenuredfaculty appointments to unify the vision for change deep into the institutional culture withappropriate language and expectations that can be embraced and duplicated at multiple
cultureof STEM departments [21], makes it more difficult for students who do not reflect these imagesto enter the community of practice [2], [22, p. 1207]. Engineer, researcher, student, and educator roles are commonly enacted by engineeringdoctoral students during their graduate studies [23]. While these academic roles may align with adoctoral students’ interests, they may also be strictly defined by the institution that the doctoralstudent serves. For example, a doctoral student may or may not be interested in being in the roleof an educator but may have to be a TA as part of their graduate program. However, regardlessof how interested they are in that role, the expectations and structure of their behaviors whenenacting that role are
successfully navigate and copewith the biases of their peers, faculty, and staff based on the complexities and intersections ofrace, class, and gender.Another building block of resilience forms from the past experiences that have helped shapedtheir inclination to persist within their programs. They are motivated to work harder and provethe naysayers wrong, especially when the nays are coming from faculty members that they arenot fond of [20].But, in some instances, the experiences at their respective institutions resulted in them exploringmore avenues that helped yield a greater resilience. Some students left their programs to self-reflect [19], some transferred to more supportive departments or universities [20], and someimmersed themselves in
engineering can have on human lives, as is the focus ofmany recruitment campaigns and messages within undergraduate engineering programs as partof diversity campaigns. Indeed, the fact that the National Science Foundation requires thegraduate students to meet the same Intellectual Merit and Broader Impacts criteria required bygrant awardees signifies commitment to requiring engineers, future academicians, andresearchers to carefully consider the merits and impacts of their work. This is potentially avaluable form of reflective practice (essential for developing expertise)35, and contributes to thedefinition of the essence of engineering and what it means to be an engineer, although facultydefinitions of engineering largely still differ from the
differentiating featureto this PhD degree versus the traditional PhD advertised at University, the Transition Zone™,this degree’s bespoke training program supporting the researchers’ development as the leadersand entrepreneurs of the future, positioned the degree as an attractive option for those pursuing aHigher Education degree. Amongst the non-PhD topic-related skills sought when consideringthis degree, the top three sought-after skills were: • Self-management skills: being able to set SMART objectives for themselves, reflective and reflection on the task (i.e., a past experience) and in the task (i.e., during an experience), record-keeping, sense of ownership as a motivator, leading and motivating oneself. • Business acumen: how to
& Exposition, pp. 26.15109.1-26.1519.16, 2015.[10] D. W. Hess, Leadership by Engineers and Scientists: Professional Skills Needed toSucceed in a Changing World, Hoboken, NJ, Wiley/AIChE, 2018.[11] D. W. Hess, “Leadership Skills Awareness and Development via Interactive EngineeringCourses or Workshops”, Chemical Engineering Education, vol. 53(1), pp. 33-41, Winter, 2019.[12] D. Hess, Leadership by Engineers and Scientists: Professional Skills Needed to Succeed ina Changing World, Hoboken, NJ, Wiley/AIChE, 2018, pp. 40-42 and Appendices A and B.[13] A. N. F. Versypt, “Self-evaluation and Reflection for Professional Development of ChEStudents”, Chemical Engineering Education, vol. 53(3), pp. 157-161, Summer, 2019.[14] Kolbe Group: https
) ‡ Average agreement with the statement “The session helped me perform my role as a TA,” with 1 = strongly disagree, 2 = disagree, 3 = neutral, 4 = agree, and 5 = strongly agree We are gratified by how positive these ratings are—particularly the post-semester ratings,which reflect the students’ evaluations of the value of the workshops in light of their actualexperience as TAs. At the same time, we recognize the limits of self-assessment for evaluation ofthe effectiveness of training programs, and one might wish for student ratings of the TAs’performance with which to triangulate the self-assessments. Unfortunately, the engineeringdepartments at this university do not collect such data except in the very rare cases whenteaching
the classes, and returning materials (homework, quizzes, etc.) to the students.These results are a direct formative evaluation, which should be given adequate attention 4. Thisshows that students pleased with their instructors in most respects but would like to see atechnology available in the classroom to reflect advances in technology in commercial andindustrial settings.While respondents were asked about their “in the classroom” experience, it is understood thatthat is only one part of the interaction between the student and the University and that thestudent’s experience “in the office” is also important to gauge. In the office setting, respondentsrated instructors highest in caring about the students in their class. This shows that
institutionalizing change21-24. Theseinclude barriers to faculty, students, and administrators25. According to Gumport andSnydman26, the organization of universities is both programmatic and bureaucratic. As they seeit, “…universities and colleges both reflect and reconstitute classifications of knowledge and inso doing establish categories of expertise and knowledge worth knowing”26. The popularity of anew idea may also be at issue, as innovations that are well-liked are more likely to be Page 14.683.3 2integrated27. The first step to overcoming
question.The second question focuses on different types of data. The varied backgrounds and experiencesof the students mean their disciplinary perspectives are different and will be reflected in the typesof data they will work with in their research practices [4]. Students have a general understandingof what data is but may not be aware of the different types of data sources (i.e., primary,secondary and tertiary). The worksheet provides a short description of the types of data sourcesto facilitate recall of the in-class lectures and discussions on the topic. Students are asked toidentify a minimum of three data sources, and a variety of sources (where applicable).The third question addresses the challenge of identifying appropriate data sources to
scope isinterdisciplinary including design, development and research. The research paper is relevantto Chi Xu’s Ph.D. dissertation. Furthermore, the information is also used in a graduate levelpublic works engineering and management class that is offered each fall semester. Thismakes it relevant to the theme of the ASEE Graduate Studies Division.IntroductionThe solar energy is an ideal energy can gain from the sun, as a type of renewable energy, solarenergy has its advantage: widespread, low contamination and flexibility. High concentratedphotovoltaics is new solar technology which can produce electricity cost-effectively. Byusing a reflection system to concentrate solar radiation can decrease cost and increase theefficiency. HCPV uses cooling
in fall 2016. The goal of the course was to providegraduate students who come with undergraduate degrees in engineering, plant sciences, or datasciences, with a common knowledge base in the area of predictive plant phenomics. The firstoffering of the course was successful, but areas for improvement were identified, and includebetter coherence between course topics and improved student assessment throughout the course.A revised course is now being planned for fall 2017.AcknowledgementsThis material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under GrantNumber DGE-1545463. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressedin this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of
Page 25.560.86. ClosingWe concluded the session by once again revisiting the training objectives. A final opportunitywas given to the trainees to ask any other questions that may not have been covered during thetraining. We also take this opportunity to inform the students any resources available on campusthat may be of value to them during their TAship. The facilitator who shared the “Golden TA”closed with reflections on how their own attitude had changed after they had finished their firstTA appointment at the University.6.1 SurveyAt the end of the two sessions, we administered a brief survey to gauge the overall effectivenessof the program. The survey consisted of eight five-point Likert-item2 questions and threefreeform questions. For
facilitated discussion at the end of the semester, students expressed frustration with the“report back” parts of exercises. This is reflected in the student feedback in Figure 2 wherestudents wanted to see fewer instances of cross-university student interactions. The large numberof groups among the three universities made it difficult to maintain attention during informalreport backs, especially since audio and video feeds were difficult to hear and see. Studentsrecommended that future reporting from active learning activities incorporate visuals such asslides so that students at other sites could clearly make out what was being shown
, J. L. (1991) “Factors Influencing the Decision to Return to Graduate School for Professional Students”.Research in Higher Education 32(6), 689–701.10 Crede, E. and Borrego, M. J. (2011) “Undergraduate Engineering Student Perceptions of Graduate School and theDecision to Enroll”, American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, Vancouver,Canada11 Perna, L. W. (2004) “Understanding the Decision to Enroll in Graduate School: Sex and Racial/Ethnic GroupDifferences”, Journal of Higher Education, 75(5), 487-527.12 Anderson, M. S. and Swazey, J. P. (1998) “Reflections on the Graduate Student Experience: An Overview”. NewDirections for Higher Education, no. 101, 3-13.13 Fairweather, J. and Paulson, K. (1996
Paper ID #10334Workshops on Fundamental Engineering Skills: A Graduate Student-LedTeaching InitiativeJustin M. Foley, Applied Physics Program, University of Michigan Justin is a doctoral candidate in the Applied Physics Program at the University of Michigan. His disser- tation research involves spectral manipulation, including broadband reflectance and narrowband filtering, using subwavelength dielectric gratings. He is currently the president of the student chapter of ASEE at the University of Michigan. In addition to his research and education interests, Justin holds a position with the Office of Technology Transfer
Technology,Inc., ABET) [3] agencies already have communication requirements. In addition, ABET intro-duced new language for 2016-17 requiring an ability to communicate effectively with a range ofaudiences [4], reflecting the fact that the communication demands of engineers are increasing inscope as well as intensity.Recent graduates likewise recognize the importance of communication in their professional lives.A recent study of graduate opinion places communication as fourth out of twelve ABET require-ments in terms of importance (related “teamwork” placed first) [5]. Nevertheless, graduates them-selves have emphasized communication as a weakness [6], with most feeling insufficiently pre-pared [1].1 These findings suggest that communication is one
wholly inclusive ofthe online learners as legitimate members of the course community. Below we will brieflydiscuss each of these components and how they work to support the program. Notably, what isdescribed here reflects the reality of a pre- (and likely post-) COVID environment whengenerally residential students meet in person and online learners participate in the courseasynchronously. 1. Technology infrastructure. Lecture capture is a relatively common practice in higher education generally [16] and online engineering education specifically [17]. The quality of the recordings are important determinants of distance learners’ experiences [18], [19].Low quality videos marked by things like poor audio and unclear video can
outside of academia.’Questions of validity for the percentage comparisons between ethnic groups exist for severalreasons: several female subjects identified as both White and Asian/ Hispanic, one subject didnot indicate their ethnicity (N=14), and the way that, when completing the survey, somerespondents selected all reasons, while others chose just two or three.Even though study statistics are not significant and are somewhat limited in their validity,reflecting on both the gender and ethnic comparisons brings out several statistics that we plan tocontinue to monitor as subsequent cohorts participate in the NRT. The strongest finding is thatwomen, both White and Asian/ Hispanic, appear to be more strongly attracted to theinterdisciplinary nature
community colleges that can supportand facilitate their transition into community college faculty positons.9 AcknowledgmentsThis material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grants No.1723209 and 1723245. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed inthis material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the NationalScience Foundation.10 References[1] R. W. Fairlie, F. Hoffmann and P. Oreopoulos, "A Community College Instructor Like Me: Race and Ethnicity Interactions in the Classroom," The American Economic Review, vol. 104, no. 8, pp. 2567-2591, August 2014.[2] A. Perrakis and L. S. Hagedorn, "Latino/a Student Success in Community Colleges and