recordings of this project from this family.Throughout this project, Betty provides mainly managerial support and verbal support, thoughshe also steps in to provide physical support several times. She is mostly a project manager andfacilitator, keeping Harper moving through the project while also balancing home lifemanagement. While Harper is still designing her bot, Betty collaborates in parallel as sheattempts to figure out how to connect the battery and motor. Betty’s managerial support is partlyproject related, partly behavior related, and partly family life related. Betty’s involvement andsupport is interrupted by friends visiting, dinner plans, baby brother, and other household tasks.While Betty is present for much of the activity, she is off
Teamwork, Empathy, members together provide leadership, create a collaborative and Honesty, Courage inclusive environment, establish goals, plan tasks, and meet objectives. SO6: an ability to develop and conduct appropriate Critical Thinking, Honesty experimentation, analyze and interpret data, and use engineering judgment to draw conclusions. SO7: an ability to acquire and apply new knowledge as needed, Resilience, Creativity, using appropriate learning strategies. Curiosity, Purpose, ServiceWhile a range of virtue development enhances all seven student outcomes independently, Figure2 illustrates the theoretical framing for how collectively these virtues lay the foundation forPractical
Paper ID #37190the NSF-funded AWAKEN Project, which documented how people learn and use engineering, and cur-rently co-directs the National Center for Cognition and Mathematics Instruction. He is a faculty memberfor the Latin American School for Education, Cognitive and Neural Sciences. As part of his service to thenation, Dr. Nathan served on the National Academy of Engineering/National Research Council Commit-tee on Integrated STEM Education, and is currently a planning committee member for the Space StudiesBoard of the National Academy of Sciences/National Research Council workshop Sharing the Adventurewith the Student: Exploring the Intersections of NASA Space Science and Education. At the Universityof Wisconsin, Dr. Nathan holds affiliate
?id=qmSySHvIy5IC[28] N. C. M. Hartsock, “The Feminist Standpoint: Developing the Ground for a Specifically Feminist Historical Materialism,” in Discovering Reality: Feminist Perspectives on Epistemology, Metaphysics, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science, S. Harding and M. B. Hintikka, Eds., Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 1983, pp. 283–310. doi: 10.1007/0-306-48017-4_15.Appendix A - Macroethics lesson plan Learning Objectives: Students will be able to gain confidence and tools to discuss macroethics in aerospace engineering a. Understand that there are a variety of answers b. Understand that positionality and power influence how
hearing all voices prior to decision-making takes time. Dr. Cox was leading this project with several of the “antidotes” to urgency described by Okun, including a commitment to equity and a work plan based on the experience of the people involved [33]. This Dialogue with Dr. Cox completely reshaped my idea of what true collaboration means and forced me to reflect on how often “urgency” got in the way of inclusive collaboration in my past work. I have grown to recognize my impatience when decision-making is taking a “long time” and to challenge the root of that impatience.Embracing differences through Dialogue can help develop accomplice behavior [11]. Workingwith Dr. Cox has challenged Dr. Ita to move
probably start on this assignment earlier so I could focus on it more; it just happened to come at a period of a lot of assignments and I wasn’t able to start earlier. • However, from the next assignment forward, we will brainstorm and create a plan of working before the due date so that we do not have to rush. • We will try to meet with the professor beforehand as well to make sure the expectations for the assignment are clear and we know how to properly complete the assignment.4.3 Student Suggestions for Continuous ImprovementWhen implementing a change in your course for the first time, it’s important to collect feedbackfrom students and reflect on opportunities to improve in subsequent course
followed the same detailed grading rubric, grading styles (e.g., being more liberal withpartial credit) could potentially have affected the results. Further, while comparing metrics fromthe TRAD with the AL and AL+BT groups, it is not clear if the actual Bloom’s Taxonomyquestions or the method of delivery of the questions (i.e., active learning) influenced studentperformance. In the following semester, the authors plan to deliver the targeted Bloom’sTaxonomy questions without active learning by eliminating the collaborative in-class activities,describing answers to the higher-order questions as part of the lecture, and having the‘understand’, ‘analyze’, and ‘evaluate’ questions as part of the homework and quizzes. Bycomparing student performance
engineering in undergraduate engineering through asocial justice lens. Future work needs to continue to investigate the challenges and benefits tosuch integration from the perspectives of the students and the instructors, which we plan topursue through future empirical work. The papers that we focused on in this review containthorough descriptions of the development and implementation of curriculum that integrate socialand technical aspects of engineering through a social justice lens, which is an essential first stepin working towards this goal. For example, Mejia et al. [23] describe in detail the developmentand implementation of two courses, and Hendricks and Flores’ [34] described in detail thecurricular materials that they used. While Mejia et
the near future to obtain a “seat at the table,” it gives me hope that thereare also several dialogues happening to ensure a right step forward in terms of gender equity. Ininstitutions and workspaces in recent times, there have been multiple dialogues and in some casesratification of contracts to ensure an expansion in the paid parental leave, and this step woulddefinitely reduce barriers for early career womxn who are planning on starting a family. Also,there are a lot of free resources available for those who want to educate themselves and practiceinclusivity in their workspace. Additionally, I think it is important to create initiatives (industrybased fellowship/internship opportunities to pursue higher studies) that encourage more womxn
Paper ID #37635Examining the Impact of Introductory Mathematics Courses onUndergraduate Students’ Desire to Pursue a STEM MajorSydney Hunt, Duke University Sydney Hunt is a Reginaldo Howard Memorial Scholar at Duke University (Class of 2023). She is ma- joring in Electrical/Computer Engineering and Computer Science with a concentration in Artificial Intel- ligence and Machine Learning. She is also minoring in Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies. Syd- ney plans to pursue a Ph.D. in Electrical/Biomedical Engineering post-graduation while continuing to be heavily involved in organizations dedicated to mentoring and
asengineering learners and educators as well as their understanding of the importance of communication indiverse engineering teams.Table 2 below shows the overall structure of the interview protocol for both student and facultyparticipants. The table also shows the relationship between the questions asked for each group in order tosubstantiate evidence of similarities and differences between the two groups, as well as links between theinterview questions and the research questions. 5. Plans for data analysisWe have concluded the data collection for this research and are currently in the process of analyzing theinterview data. This qualitative study will use coding practices derived from grounded theory (Saldaña,2016). After segmenting the data, we
recommend the following: • Gain familiarity with basics of MATLAB and/or Python programming. This could be through prior experience, a workshop such as those offered through AIChE or Software Carpentry, or through the self-paced resources for Python [40, 41, 49-55] and MATLAB [49-52, 56] (annotated in Table 1). • Access our workshop materials online [1], particularly our library of interactive coding templates. • Work through Active learning exercise 1 (described above) to learn how to create a MATLAB Live Script or Jupyter Notebook. • Work through Active learning exercise 2 (described above) to make a simple lesson plan in a MATLAB Live Script or Jupyter Notebook. • Skim through our library
process”, and “oral exams focusing on the concepts andassessing conceptual understanding”. For the areas of improvement, students suggested addingmore clarifications on the problems, offering practice oral exams, and increasing the exam time.The researchers plan to incorporate the student suggestions in modifying the oral exam logisticsfor future implementations. Showing students the questions in the written format and utilizingsome visual aids such as diagrams in the questions might potentially address the concerns raisedby some students. Applying such modifications could also result in utilizing the exam time moreefficiently to assess students’ understanding of the materials.Future WorkFrom analyzing the students’ responses to the open-ended
vital to the implementation of engineering-centric instruction anduse of engineering design. Most if not all of its 12 indicators align with the features described inthe aforementioned iSTEM framework [12]. However, Moore and colleagues [20] determinedthat among these indicators, three are central to engineering and engineering education. Theseare Processes of Design (POD), Apply Science, Engineering, and Mathematics content (SEM),and Engineering Thinking (EThink). First, engineering practice is centered on design processes.Solving engineering problems is an iterative process involving knowledge building, planning,and evaluating the solution. Second, the application of science, mathematics, and engineeringconcepts are vital to the practice of
-planning, and add-on effect ofthe wide-ranging and scattered quality of the data collection process.First, this study reinforced the importance of interacting with a site in-person. GIS science isindeed resilient to online learning environments, however, the learning outcomes sought byintegrating site-based research processes using GIS/GPS data collection cannot easily bereplaced by virtual interactions. This includes the exposure to community and the design-valuefound in intuitive and qualitative understandings of site. Modifications made to these courseswere not able to replicate the learning outcomes of the in-person versions of the courses.However multiple new skills and workarounds were developed. This allowed aspects of hybridsite
Paper ID #37899Design and Implementation of Experiential LearningModules for Steel DesignJ Chris Carroll (Associate Professor and Civil Engineering ProgramCoordinator) Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Civil, Computer, and Electrical EngineeringJohn Aidoo (Professor)Matthew D. Lovell (Associate Professor) Matthew Lovell is an Associate Professor in the Civil Engineering Department at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, and he currently serves as the Senior Director of Institutional Research, Planning, and Assessment office. He received his Ph.D. from Purdue University, and he holds his PE license in
in this course, study its impact to student learning, and surveystudent perceptions and opinions. Moreover, it’s interesting to see that online students in Spring2021 did not statistically perform worse than face-to-face students in Fall 2018 and Spring 2018in spite that some students’ time commitment to this course was negatively impacted by thepandemic or related situations. To explore and explain why this happened, we plan to design anddevelop some new research method and use it to collect data in future semesters because ourcurrent method focuses on performance comparison instead of what causes the same or differentperformances.REFERENCES[1] I. Naimi-Akbar, L. Barman, and M. Weurlander, “Engineering teachers’ approaches toteaching and
England, haspublished their consultation on student outcomes. Their plans, which make use of absolutenumerical baselines on student outcomes, stipulate that 60% of full-time first-degree studentsat every university go into “managerial or professional employment” or further study [14].The introduction of such measures sends clear messages about the role of HE. Students arealso protected by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) which means that they haveconsumer rights when ‘purchasing’ their degree, something which reduces flexibility incourse delivery and limits changes that can be made to the course. Perhaps more concerningis that, in some instances, the TEF metrics are included as KPIs of individual academics andcan thus be linked to
frameworks manifest themselves within their own department, the institution, orthe discipline at large. It is possible that as we continue to interview additional members of thesefields including faculty and students of various ranks from the department, further patterns willemerge. In future work, we plan to interview students to determine where they witness andinteract with frameworks in their discipline thus enabling us to compare the two perspectives –what the experts perceive the discipline is promoting versus what the students perceive they areacquiring.Given this limitation in demographics, we did not code the number of times an experience,content, or audience was mentioned because the number of times an individual refers to aspecific
outline at least one experiential learning module forStatics and one for Dynamics. A proposed assessment plan to measure comprehension andretention of engineering students taking these courses will be included.MotivationEngineering mechanics courses are the fundamental courses for mechanical and civil engineeringstudents that build the foundation to be able to analyze and design a system that is at rest(Statics) and in motion (Dynamics). From designing a simple ladder to the formulation of a spaceshuttle trajectory, a deep comprehension of these core courses is required. Thus, these coursesserve as a prerequisite for many upper-level engineering courses in most universities; however, ahigh drop-out rate in Statics and Dynamics is widely reported
science on human relationships [53]. Half a century later, the National Academy ofEngineering would advance a plan for educating 21st century engineers that includes empathy,global awareness and social responsibility [6]. The ability to respond to urgent 21st Centurychallenges in the arenas of security, poverty, and sustainability relies on an engineering cultureinfused with empathic concern, equity, social responsibility and social justice.Engineering programs are losing students who choose engineering for altruistic reasons. Womentend to choose career paths that afford them the ability to make a positive difference in the livesof others [53], [13], [54], [55], [56], [57], [58], a drive shared by minority students [13], [56],[59]. Ninety-one
neverconnected the dots until I completely stepped away from my education. I had always been toldthat I was made this way. I never considered that I might be different. But, now I had truly failed:not to reach my potential or plan ahead. I had failed where others could try harder and succeed.The difficulties I had with engineering weren’t with the content or the structure of the program.The difficulties I faced were from my ability to function as two people: a working adult and astudent. The way that I functioned didn’t facilitate that many responsibilities andcomplexities now that the built-in educational supports were gone and I had added theresponsibilities of work. My default method of functioning was different.What was your experience with
collaborative and inclusive environment,establish goals, plan tasks, and meet objectives” [2]. In order to better prepare students to solvecomplex challenges of the future and meet the needs of the civil engineering profession, thegovernment and engineering industry have likewise called for engineering educators toemphasize leadership skills as a part of their undergraduate education [1], [3], [4]. Prior work hasidentified leadership and subsets of leadership competencies that are vital to a student’s careerpreparedness as industry and academia work to address the gap in knowledge that students facewhen entering the workforce [5]–[8]. Further research in engineering leadership developmentindicates that there is a lack of curricular focus and formal