and access to the laboratory space. Goals for these sessions included communitybuilding, working practice problems with feedback from their instructor, open-ended projectwork, and reviewing course concepts.Due to the inclusion of the Friday sessions for ENGR 120, the SI sessions had a bias towardsmath. Out of the 30 total SI Sessions, 13 were exclusively MATH 240, 6 were exclusivelyENGR 120, and 11 were hybrid.There were thirty-one SI sessions available over the course of the ten-week quarter. A typicalweek consisted of four sessions. These were offered Tuesday/Thursday from 10AM-12PM andMonday/Wednesday from 3:30PM to 5:30PM. These times were strategically chosen outside thescheduled class restraints of the SS students. The average
science.Stacie Pisano, University of Virginia After receiving a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, Stacie Pisano worked as an Electrical Engineer and Technical Manager at AT&T and Lucent Technologies Bell Laboratories for 16 years, designing and developing telecommunications equipment. She has been teaching at University of Virginia since 2002, and is currently the Director of the Center for Applied Math.Jennifer Felder Marley, University of Virginia Jennifer Marley is an Associate Professor of Applied Mathematics at the University of Virginia. She received the B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from North Carolina State University and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical
do not explicitly includestandards for measurement processes within data collection. Moreover, “measurement is oftenconceived as a mundane activity, and in school it typically arrives pre-formed” [3, p. 723],reducing opportunities for students to confront real situations involving measurement processes.Particularly, first-year engineering students face limited opportunities to encounter real-worldsituations because they are often perceived to have limited experience with the nature ofengineering work [4]. The way in which STEM fields are taught is relevant and they must go“beyond traditional lecture and laboratory instruction, by incorporating rich integrated STEMlearning opportunities” [5, p. 10]. Therefore, it is imperative to explore how