Paper ID #31721Influences for Engineering Majors: Results of a Survey from a MajorResearch UniversityDr. SANDRA B NITE, Texas A&M University Sandra Nite, Ph.D., is a Research Scientist at in Department of Mathematics at Texas A&M University, where she has taught 10 different courses in mathematics and mathematics education. She has served on several committees in the mathematics department, including course development for teacher education in mathematics. Her research agenda includes engineering calculus success, including high school prepa- ration for college. Previously, she taught 8 additional courses at the
Batrouny is a PhD candidate in Mechanical Engineering at Tufts University. Her engineering education research interests include upper elementary engineering education, integrated science and en- gineering, collaboration in engineering, and decision making in engineering. For her Master’s thesis, she uncovered talk moves used by 4th grade students that fostered collaborative, disciplinary decision-making during an engineering design outreach program. For her dissertation, she intends to explore the ways in which team mental models function in teams of novice engineers and how novice engineers can be trained to collaborate more effectively on diverse teams.Dr. Kristen B Wendell, Tufts University Kristen Wendell is
Batrouny is a PhD candidate in Mechanical Engineering at Tufts University. Her engineering education research interests include upper elementary engineering education, integrated science and en- gineering, collaboration in engineering, and decision making in engineering. For her Master’s thesis, she uncovered talk moves used by 4th grade students that fostered collaborative, disciplinary decision-making during an engineering design outreach program. For her dissertation, she intends to explore the ways in which team mental models function in teams of novice engineers and how novice engineers can be trained to collaborate more effectively on diverse teams.Dr. Kristen B Wendell, Tufts University Kristen Wendell is
Paper ID #30046Young Adolescent Perceptions of Engineers Within a Summer OutreachProgram (Work in Progress)Ms. Selene Y. Willis, University of South Florida Selene Willis is a Ph.D. Candidate at the University of South Florida. She is currently working on her dissertation proposal in science education - curriculum and instruction with a focus on justice centered science pedagogy and curriculum. Selene has taught science and biology at the middle school and high school levels and she currently teaches general science in a local middle school.Dr. Tonisha B Lane, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Dr. Lane’s
Asian Arm/claw 3 2 2 1 2 0 Male Female White African American Hispanic Asian Wheels 2 1 1 0 1 1 Total 11 10 7 4 5 5Figures 3—5 depict three sets of drawing by three teachers. In the pretest (see Figure 3(a)), teacherA drew a fixed base robot whereas in the posttest (see Figure 3(a)), the same teacher drew awheeled robot. The pre and posttest drawings of Figures 4(a) and 4(b), by teacher B, show that
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seek to describe two cases, Group A andGroup B, from upper elementary school classrooms in the same socioeconomically, ethnically,and linguistically diverse suburban school district in the Northeastern United States.Group A comes from a 3rd-grade classroom that was implementing our “Animal Habitats” unit.The design challenge in this unit centers on a large commercial development in the students’town and the habitat destruction and fragmentation that it caused. Students aim to aid animalsthat have been displaced by the development by moving them to a more natural habitat. Tosupport their thinking in the design challenge, students study related science phenomena aboutanimal habitats and survival. Group B comes from a 4th-grade classroom enacting
Paper ID #31028A Situative Understanding of the NGSS Science and Engineering Practices(Fundamental)Mr. Richard J. Aleong, Purdue University-Main Campus, West Lafayette (College of Engineering) Richard J. Aleong is a Ph.D. candidate in the School of Engineering Education at Purdue University. He received his M.A.Sc. and B.Sc.E in Mechanical and Materials Engineering from Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada. His research interests are focused on integrative thinking and design, interdisciplinary collaboration, and educational development to support students’ personal and professional learning and growth.Dr. Robin Adams
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colors that the students indicated are presented. In addition, student rationales were 17classified into the following thematic categories: (a) distance from the fixed pivot, (b) closest tothe end, and (3) other. The two authors coded this assessment. Their agreement was 100%. Blueprint item. This item (Figure 9) was scored according to an analytic framework(Table 5). The framework did not have a prescribed solution strategy; any strategy that generatedthe requisite motion was accepted. In addition, the framework discriminated between studentswho were reasoning about machine components, structure, or mechanism. Two researcherscoded the assessments. Their agreement was 93%. Table 5
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University after this experience b) I was challenged by the academics of this program c) The teachers/professors were knowledgeable d) Your interest in the subject matter has increased as a result of this course As stated previously, the pre-college programs are fairly new at Northeastern University,thus only limited data from the past two years (2018 and 2019) was considered as shown belowin Figure 3. Secondly, not all program participants who receive the survey complete it. Based onthe data used for the study, the average number of survey responses across all pre-collegeprograms to the various questions in the survey were 80 and 73 responses for 2018 and 2019,respectively. The average number of responses specific to EID during the
, etc.) ratio can also be a way to make sure all students in thiscourse are equally exposed to the technology and engineering topics.References[1] P. Plaza, E. Sancristobal, G. Carro, M. Blazquez, F. García-Loro, S. Martin, C. Perez, and M. Castro, “Arduino as an educational tool to introduce robotics,” in 2018 IEEE International Conference on Teaching, Assessment, and Learning for Engineering (TALE), Dec 2018, pp. 1–8.[2] Z. Pei and Y. Nie, “Educational robots: Classification, characteristics, application areas and problems,” in 2018 Seventh International Conference of Educational Innovation through Technology (EITT), Dec 2018, pp. 57–62.[3] M. Petre and B. Price, “Using robotics to motivate ‘back door
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with mentors in the lab oneto four times per week, depending on their project and its direct connection to their mentors’research. When asked to grade their mentors, the majority of participants gave a grade A with thelowest grade being B-. The graduate student mentoring training was refined and perfectedthroughout the years thanks to the analysis of interviews and surveys administered each year, atthe beginning and at the end of the summer program, to both mentors and Scholars. For example,in 2018, the YSs reported that the mentors did not adequately connect the research to the realworld. This feedback was important in the 2019 mentors’ training with increased emphasisplaced on connecting the project with a real world application, in order to
Ingenier´ıa - Universidad Nacional de Asunci´on Is a student of the Faculty of Engineering at the National University of Asuncion (FIUNA), currently doing his Final Degree Work to obtain the title of Mechatronic Engineer. He is also a Teaching Assistant at FIUNA for more than four years. From a young age he was interested in education, teaching and technology. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 CanSat Pico-satellite building workshop as an effective tool for STEAM education, a case studyOrtiz1↑, J. Moreira2↑↑, L. Moreira3↑↑, D. Stalder4↑↑, B. Vega5↑↑↑, J. Kurita6↑↑↑↑↑Jekupyty Moheñoiha, Caaguazú, Paraguay↑↑Facultad de Ingeniería – Universidad Nacional de Asunción
of the ten winning teams in Verizon’s ’5G EdTech Challenge’, contributing in the development of several educational virtual reality applications.Dr. Nikos Makris, University of Thessaly Nikos Makris is a Research Engineer working for University of Thessaly, Greece. He received his B. Eng. in 2011, his M. Sc. degree in Computer Science and Communications in 2013 and his PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2019 from the same department. Since 2011, he has been participating in several collaborative research projects with University of Thessaly. During the summers of 2018 and 2019, he was a visiting scientist in New York University (NYU) working in the outreach activities of the COSMOS project. His
in BCCalculus at a high school in a mid-sized city in the intermountain west of the United States. Atotal of 17 students participated in filling out each survey, although four students onlyparticipated in one portion of the data collection. The pre-activity survey and part 1 of the post-activity survey asked students to define,describe, and diagram how they think mathematicians/scientists/engineers create a mathematicalmodel (see Appendix B for survey questions). The analysis of these questions involved adirected content analysis approach [20]. One researcher used the six steps of the GAIMMEmodeling process [15] for the theoretical framework. Student responses were divided intophrases (subsections of responses separated by punctuation
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41 SEP group 15 CC group 12 Total number of components 913 Total number of relations between components 2,145 *12 topics repeat in all grade bandsAlmost all existing representations of NGSS content follow a tree-like, hierarchical model. Figure 1,for instance, shows a commonly found representation of two PEs (1-ESS1-1 and 1-ESS1-2), their 3Delements and their articulation across grade bands via three DCIs: PS2.A (grade 3), PS2.B (grade 5) andESS1.B (grade 5) [4]. Figure 1. Common display of NGSS Performance ExpectationsOne can find similar representations in on-line K-12 STEM
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datawhich are elements of authentic learning. This pedagogy allows the students to relate the mathand science concepts to engineering and real-life use.The effectiveness of the approach was assessed using a quasi-experimental within-subjectresearch design. The intervention was a week-long professional development workshop forteachers (Figure 1a) followed by a week-long summer camp for middle school students (Figure1b). The teacher professional development workshop included elements of best practices [23] i.e.(a) Content focus, (b) Active learning, (c) Collaboration, (d) Use of models and modeling, (e)Coaching and expert support, (f) Feedback and reflection. The teachers learned the basics ofphysics of flight, aircraft flight controls and practiced
developing this understanding is supported by validThis ASEE paper will a) summarize the NOEK framework used to frame the VNOEK; b) instruments, the creation of which was the purpose of this work.describe the development of the VNOEK questionnaire; (c) discuss the validity and reliability ofthe VNOEK; (d) describe the participant groups in the validation study; and (e) discuss the use of Development of the Views about Nature of Engineering Knowledge (VNOEK)the VNOEK for work with K-16 teachers