agreed to take part.Moreover, no information was collected regarding their ethnicity, race, sexual orientation, etc.,which would have broadened the study and helped to explain the sense of belonging of theparticipants in greater depth.In the future, the objective is to conduct interventions in the classroom in order to investigatehow sense of belonging changes as a result of these interventions. The planned interventionsinclude increasing student-centered activities and promoting inclusion in the classroom throughawareness-raising workshops, among other similar initiatives. In addition, it is the intention ofthe authors of this study to design a pilot mentoring program with which to empower women CEstudents.AcknowledgementsThe authors would like
the classroom that can impact our class performance. If you would like to meet to discuss a plan moving forward in this course, please come to my office hours at your earliest opening or if they conflict with your schedule, please reach out to our assigned GTA for assistance.”12) Video Quizzes (podcasts)Video quizzes [21] offer students an opportunity to explain course concepts in their own words(podcast) with the option of preparing slides (video quiz). Students are at the center of the contentcreation. In this way, the students feel like engineers and are exploring their sense of belonging inthe engineering community.Portions of the Video Quizzes (podcasts) are adapted from projects described by Joseph P.Hoffbeck in
Paper ID #37342Talking Tech: How Language Variety in Engineering Curriculum InstructionCan Ease Delivery and Engage StudentsIngrid Scheel, Oregon State University Ingrid Scheel is a Project Instructor at Oregon State University. She works to teach from an integrated sociotechnical perspective in engineering science and design courses. Her focus is systems engineering and program management. Scheel has experience in small business strategic planning and risk assessment, designing and deploying fiber optic sensors and sensing systems, prototype development, instrumentation, data acquisition and analysis, and reporting
to communicate effectively. However, there arefewer centers catering specifically to the needs of engineering students [12] and resources areoften allocated to undergraduate writing instruction [7]. More importantly, the tutoring can bevery different between multilingual writers and English-native writers [13]. Silva [14] foundthat multilingual writers’ writing processes (planning, reviewing) and products (fluency,quality) were distinctive from their English-native peers. Moreover, for graduate studentswho need discipline-specific support, having a tutor with limited academic writing experiencein that field will likely face resistance for giving discipline-inappropriate advice [15]. As aresult of doubt in tutors’ domain-specific knowledge
Tech, and Director of the Frith First Year Makers program and of the Minecraft Museum of Engineering. His research focuses include creativity-based pedagogy, the interactions of non-humans with the built environment, and the built environment as a tool for teaching at the nexus of biology and engineering. He earned his graduate degrees from Virginia Tech, including an M.S. Civil Infrastructure Engineering, M.S. LFS Entomology, and a Ph.D. in Environmental Design and Planning. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.com Student Engagement with a Nontraditional First-Year Engineering Project ThemeAbstractFor many
yearsof teaching experience, and 28% having less than 10 years of teaching experience. While the vastmajority of the respondents taught engineering technical cores, 9% taught complementary studiescourses (i.e., humanities, social sciences, and business courses). Most of the respondents (>70%)were white and male.The interviews focused on the effective teaching practices that instructors had introduced from2020 to 2022, and their plans for future teaching. Of the 11 interviewees, three instructors taughtengineering courses but in different engineering fields while others were instructors who taughtcourses in other disciplines than engineering. We recruited most of these participants via aquestion in the instructor survey and a few from student
more to students [e.g., FGP21 De, Female; FGP41 Ad, Male]. In preparation for making faculty aware of students and their needs, the students also suggested educating faculty about identifying students in distress, which aligns with recommendations from Wilson et al. [50]. • Encouraging co-curricular activities and practices: Students suggested that curricular and co-curricular planning include efforts to build social connections (e.g., interactions among peers and faculty). Students also suggested that faculty could take the initiative to engage in non-academic activities (e.g., teambuilding exercises, games, etc.) with students to provide some relief from their academic responsibilities
involveintense identity exploration and a period of planning for the transition to a career and adulthood[1]. When coupled with the demands of rigorous academic coursework and requirements, thisperiod of development can present significant psychological challenges. Indeed, mental healthconcerns have been increasing on college campuses, as students report more symptoms of stress,depression, and anxiety [2], [3]. This is concerning given the evidence of the link betweenmental health during college and students’ academic achievement, retention, work-ethic, andsocial well-being [1], [4]. Perhaps more alarming is the fact that suicide is the second-leadingcause of death on college campuses [1], [5].Seeking help from mental health professionals is one way
and content knowledge. This is an important consideration for CS education, asteachers must understand how to integrate computer science skills and competencies into theirlesson plans. Pilot projects and localized programs have shown success in developing thiscapacity within teachers. For example, a researcher group from University of SouthernCalifornia collaborated with nine teachers in three elementary schools in the Latino communityof Boyle Heights in Los Angeles and created the Building Opportunities with Teachers inSchools (BOTS) program [11]. The focus of this program is to use robotics and other non-computer-based activities to teach CS concepts in a physical form. One of the long-term goals ofthe BOTS program is to provide a low-cost
used to understand or demonstrate your ethics framework. (You may also point to other real-life or hypothetical examples or scenarios that would help demonstrate your assigned ethicalframework.) ● Introduce your group members and explain the focus of your discussion. (Who are you, what is your topic, and what are the main points you plan to discuss?) ● Assume your audience, though educated, has never heard of your ethics framework and provide the necessary background information. ● Also assume that your audience has some basic knowledge of the Challenger, Columbia, Therac-25, and Theranos cases, but no prior knowledge of any other engineering case study you may choose to incorporate. Provide details/context/background
itsdemonstrated strength in promoting skill development and deepening content understanding.PBL is shown to improve student self-efficacy through challenging students to solve real-worldproblems in a collaborative environment [4]. Furthermore, PBL facilitates the creation oflearning communities [10] and strengthens bonds between students [11]. Design-build projects,sometimes a subset of PBL, has gained popularity as it can increase student interest in contentmaterial while also teaching manufacturing skills [12], [13], [14], [15].Many universities taught courses entirely online in the Fall 2020 semester, and even the schoolsthat planned to reopen for in-person learning could not guarantee how long students would beable to remain on campus [16]. Remote
understand its utility [11] - [14]. A recentreport showed that a large number of universities planned to build blended learningenvironments [15]. Previous meta-analysis studies have shown the benefits of blended learningfor student learning [11], [16], [17]. However, other researchers have argued that the effects ofblended learning on student learning should be examined based on a blended learningenvironment as a whole learning system, rather than separate blended learning techniques basedon causal effects of research intervention [4]. In this paper, we consider Freeform as a learningsystem that offered active and collaborative learning opportunities to students in and out of theclassroom.Jeong and Hmelo-Silver proposed seven computer supported
education should be provided to students who plan to be leaders: And I don't think that we should, we should say that everybody has to be a leader. I think what we need to do is we need to find, you know, where the students find out who they are…. Leadership is important, but I think it's more important to align the students with who they are and the areas they're going into.Dr. Dan explained that not all students want to take leadership positions in their careers. Hisdescription of leadership is conflated with management where one is assigned with a role andpower to control, supervise, and direct other people. As a result, he believed that providingleadership education, which can solely be beneficial for students
of students who ranked at least one scenario as making learning “almost impossible” or“highly challenging” was higher in the 2021 cohort.Student comments supported the idea that in the summer, they felt as if they were missing out ona key piece of their engineering education – “As an engineering major, I feel that this is noreplacement for hands-on learning in a classroom… Our major is simply more difficult to dovirtually, and because of this I think it should be planned for differently. We rely too much on inperson instruction to keep being virtual.” Students learning from home also experienced a shiftin learning environment. On campus, they are surrounded by peers who are in similar academicmindsets. For students who moved to their family
] recommendation to not perform statistical adjustments in the resultswhen a small number of planned comparisons are performed. The items included in the secondhypothesis were: • Women are not fit to be in a jobsite • There is gender discrimination in the construction field • Men are more capable than women in the construction domain • Women in construction are a better fit for office jobs rather than being on the field • I feel recruiters for construction companies prefer hiring males over females for jobsite- related positionsResultsWe have obtained 68 responses to our survey, with 67 respondents being in a constructionrelated major and one being in a construction related minor. Considering the total major studentsin the
mechanics. His major areas of research interest centers on pavement engineering, sustainable infrastructure development, soil mechanics, physical and numerical modeling of soil structures, computational geo-mechanics, con- stitutive modeling, pavement design, characterization and prediction of behavior of pavement materials, linear and non-linear finite element applications in geotechnical engineering, geo-structural systems anal- ysis, structural mechanics, sustainable infrastructure development, and material model development. He had been actively involved in planning, designing, supervising, and constructing many civil engineering projects, such as roads, storm drain systems, a $70 million water supply scheme which is
. Hartley, "Increasing Resilience: Strategies for Reducing Dropout Rates for College Students with Psychiatric Disabilities," American Journal of Psychiatric Rehabilitation, vol. 13, no. 4, pp. 295-315, 2010, doi: 10.1080/15487768.2010.523372.[12] D. E. Montaño and D. Kasprzyk, "Theory of reasoned action, theory of planned behavior, and the integrated behavioral model," in Health behavior: Theory, research, and practice, 5th ed. San Francisco, CA, US: Jossey-Bass, 2015, pp. 95-124.[13] D. L. Morgan, "Pragmatism as a Paradigm for Social Research," Qualitative Inquiry, vol. 20, no. 8, pp. 1045-1053, 2014/10/01 2014, doi: 10.1177/1077800413513733.[14] V. Yefimov, "On Pragmatic Institutional Economics," 12/03 2003
designed” andthus, perhaps overcoming the design fixation.3. Deep Structure: Approach to DesignBuilding on the relationship between breadth, depth and design, instructors mentioned thatdesign prepares students “for some of the practical realities of being an engineer” and providesan opportunity to “use a knowledge of math and science technical knowledge to create some newproduct” while experiencing “open-ended questions”. Design was also mentioned to be a vehicleto enhance other skills such as teamwork, communication skills, persistence and planning a largeproject in stages. Instructors who teach design were explicitly asked to comment on the role ofdesign in engineering science vs. in other, more traditional engineering programs. No