Paper ID #15817Changing Student Behavior through the Use of Reflective Teaching Practicesin an Introduction to Engineering Course at a Two-Year CollegeMr. Richard Brown Bankhead III, Highline College Richard B Bankhead III is the engineering department coordinator at Highline College. At Highline Colleg,e Richard is committed to developing the behaviors of successful engineering students in transfer students as well as preparing them academically for the challenges of junior level engineering courses. Richard has taught at Highline since 2004 and was awarded the Faculty of the Year Award at Highline Col- lege for the 2009
accompanyingrubric(s), reviews them with the assessment coordinator, and meets with, trains, and collectscompleted assessments from all instructors who teach the course. The assessment chair alsomeets with and receives feedback from the instructors and constructs a reflective summary forthe course. The chair then compiles all of the assessment results, including the reflectivesummary, and transmits them to the assessment coordinator.At the discretion of the assessment chair (and approved by the assessment coordinator),assessment devices may include qualitative, quantitative, and/or mixed direct and indirectmeasures. Rubrics are used to assess essay questions, projects, portfolios and presentations, andthey are provided to the instructors who conduct and
integrates requiredcourses with career planning and support, followed by a paid internship with a partner company,completed by final reflection and placement. The net cash outlay for a participant is $4,400 withthe opportunity to earn the equivalent or more during the paid internship. We have developedtwo tracks for the program, one in Innovation and one in Technology. Each track shares severalfoundational courses and has been designed to meet the diverse needs and prior skills of ourtarget population.Courses/core curriculumManufacturing certificate programs are offered at MassBay Community College and are part ofthe engineering department offerings. The college is an open access institution and thecertificate programs do not have prerequisite
course, students on averageanswered 90% of these questions correctly, reflecting an average increase of 38%. Thiscorresponds to an average normalized (Hake) gain12 G of 0.79; in other words, students achievedon average 79% of their possible learning gain on this assessment instrument.As is customary with concept inventories, learning gains were somewhat more modest asmeasured by the MCI, with average scores increasing from 44% pre to 61% post, an averageincrease of 18%, and a normalized gain G of 0.32. Although this indicates that only one-third ofthe potential gain in conceptual understanding was realized on average, these results comparefavorably with those reported by others for the MCI. During initial development and testing ofthe MCI
personality, experiences, skills and values. This frame can provide insight into the ways that adult engineering students build their sense of professional identity through multiple modes. Successful development of an engineering identity is reflected by professional persistence. Work by Lichtenstein et al found that a minority percentage (42%) of seniors definitively planned on 12pursuing an engineering related career following graduation. Undergraduate engineering programs must try to do better to foster engineering identity development so that professional persistence is improved and the workforce is provided a steady stream of capable degreed engineers from a variety of
reading or video assignments that prompted students to thinkabout concepts and strategies for success in what they read or watched, reflect on newknowledge they gained, and how these strategies applied to their own journey throughengineering education.The second hour of the lecture meeting was generally used to explore engineering careersand conceptual background and applications for the lab activities and design projects.Topics included measurements and error analysis, computational methods and analysiswith MATLAB, mechanical properties of materials, trusses and structures, fundamentalelectronics, sensors and signal conditioning, Arduino programming, and robotics andsimple control scenarios.All of the lab activities and design projects listed in
, Texas was one of five majorityminority states11. These partnerships increase educational opportunities and support efforts toproduce engineers reflective of the community. This paper shares the challenges and successeslearned during the first three years of the program and the planned expansion to further recruit,retain, and graduate a more diverse engineering demographic through a pathway of co-enrollment and partnership with two-year institutions.II. Background of the PartnershipsThe Texas public education system includes 39 public universities, 50 public community collegedistricts with multiple campuses and 75 of the 409 designated Hispanic Serving Institutions(HSIs) in the United States (18.3%)12,13. From 2000 to 2015, the number of