establish a weekly problem set of traditional textbookproblems, lead an opening discussion of how to approach them, and then allow students time towork on them in class, with opportunity to consult directly with me, a peer tutor, or with a fellowstudent. I aimed that students would ‘crack the egg’ of the fundamental ideas during theseworking periods, and then complete them for homework. Nevertheless, I still had the mentality“to cover the material” and “to show students how”. Thus, lectures would tend to migrate backto me serving as the central figure leading a class discussion on how to outline problemsolutions. True, I was not reciting lecture notes, and using a Socratic style, I would not show anyexplicit steps unless a student provided it. I
Engineering EducatorRegistered).Applying to become a registered International Professional Engineering Educator is acomprehensive and quite rigorous process. Potential educators are required to digitally submitthe necessary evidence of the competencies they possess in all the domains as an educator,fill out an application form, submit their portfolio, and evidence of their professionaldevelopment achievements.Each application is reviewed by three international experts (members of the Evaluation andMonitoring Committee) necessarily from other countries and preferentially from othercontinents, to verify that it meets the criteria of the ENTER Registry.Once the peer review is complete, the educators will be notified whether they are eligible
teaching and learning (1) creating a safe space,2) multiple entry points, 3) cognitive conflict, 4) passive vs. engaged learning, and 5) intrinsicmotivation); a critically reflective dialogue on which ideas from the “The Heart of a Teacher”[16] (assigned in the Inclusive Teaching Program [11]) they agreed or disagreed with and howtheir identity and their awareness of their identity influence their teaching.Cultural Wealth: This session focuses on Yosso’s framework of community cultural wealth [7]and includes: a short reflective writing exercise on how fellows connect with students and helpstudents connect with the material; a small group discussion on Yosso’s description of deficitthinking and Freire’s banking model of education [17]; a journal
living-learning community, expansion of university tutoringinitiatives to allow access for community college students, and promoting a new peer mentoringinitiative. The program emphasizes career opportunities including promoting on-campus careerfairs, promoting internship and co-op opportunities, and bringing in guest speakers from variousindustry partners. A goal of the program was to allow community college students to buildrelationships with university students and faculty so they can more easily assimilate into thestudent body at the university upon transfer. This paper presents the challenges presented to theproject in the first year and the pivoting that occurred due the pandemic. Data is presentedregarding recruitment of scholars in both
-level math and aerospace engineering courses during the Spring and Fall 2020 semesters.The major change was a move from face-to-face to remote learning during the mid of the Springsemester (March) and the fall semester. The face-to face in-class active learning (peer-to-peer,white board activities, team projects/presentations etc.) had to be aligned with the virtualdelivery/interaction modality. To encourage students prepare for the virtual lesson and watch thepre-class preparatory videos and other learning materials, graded short pre-class online quizzesusing the learning management system and virtual in-class quizzes were administered. Theauthors had provided several professional development workshops to the faculty on thesestrategies prior
presenting their projects to their classmates via an oral presentation, eachteam is given approximately one month to conduct background research on their challenge and toreceive peer feedback from other groups. Student groups are asked to create slides to accompanytheir presentation and are required to include a reference slide listing the resources theyconsulted during this process.Project-based learning assignments like this one, in which students develop their own questionsand propose potential solutions to real-world problems, often benefit from information literacyinstruction (ILI) [4], [5]. Successful ILI interventions empower students to explore the contextssurrounding a problem and to synthesize the information they find in order to identify
educational initiatives designed to increase and broaden participation in STEM fields.Mr. William Henderson III, University of Kentucky Mr. William Henderson III is the co-director of the mentoring program as well as the Director for Di- versity Programs and Diversity/Out-of State recruitment for the University of Kentucky (UK) College of Engineering. Originally from Lexington, Kentucky, William obtained his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Math Education and Secondary Math Education, respectively, from UK. He has performed a number of functions at UK including: grant writing, strategic planning for the university in general and for diversity in particular, coordinating student affairs, advising, and outreach programming
researchers, “the results suggest that academics are less ofa reason for leaving engineering than the less tangible feelings and beliefs side of the equation”.While the tendency is to relate a sense of lack of belonging to underrepresented students, the datasuggest lack of belonging may be the strongest factor for all students [12], irrespective of socialgroup. Strategies for creating a welcoming and inclusive climate within the academic settinginclude: 1) directing student-peer interactions; 2) broadening the scope of early course work; and3) providing students with authentic learning experiences.Reshaping Engineering Classroom NormsAt the heart of student identity formation is students’ sense of belonging. Students’ sense ofthemselves as engineers
detailed in Boyer’s articulate and visionary review 14 ofscholarship in a post-war, modern environment.As a general rule, definitions of scholarship and research are characterised by Page 12.795.5originality, have investigation as a primary objective, have the potential to produceresults that add to humanity’s stock of knowledge (theoretical or practical) and aredeemed so by public scrutiny via peer appraisal. Yet they are also sufficiently broadand flexible to be useful in a TTOC environment.Research MetricsResearch metrics should be defined for a transition period as research activity growswithin the TTOC, and then final metrics can be implemented
. Worksheets included step-by-step instructions for implementing the projects. Using the Tablet PCs, students were required to illustrate their designs, capture and paste their Verilog code and simulation waveforms, and write their observations. At the end of each worksheet more in-depth questions were provided to probe the students understanding of the project and their knowledge of the underlying digital design fundamentals. The class projects were designed to be completed within one 100-minute class period. Afterwards students had one week to submit their worksheets. During the five class periods, students worked on their designs independently but received help from the professor and their peers. If students needed
professionals,asking questions in a fashion that encouraged the interviewees to volunteer information. Thesesurveys, which followed the customer discovery approach used in lean design [11], were thenanalyzed to understand how AE is received outside of the classroom. Participants in the survey showed that once they learned the AE style, they preferred to useit for presentations in industry and research. Since the style is not widespread, though, participantsdescribed facing resistance from superiors and peers because of uncertainty about the style andopposition to deviating from company standards and traditional methods. Defying this resistance,many participants who attempted to incorporate elements of the AE style found that they had
instructor goes around answering students questions, providing guidance and/orcorrecting their mistakes as needed. Thereafter, the faculty continue with the succeeding part ofthe lesson. Throughout the years, students have positively evaluated this format emphasizing thatinstantaneous correction of errors by the instructor or the students’ peers is of a tremendousbenefit to the students and helps them understand the subsequent professor’s explanation withinthe same lecture.Students rarely use their graded exams to study and many just quickly go over their gradedassignments without giving the necessary attention to their errors, let alone discoveringalternative solution methods to the same problems. The reality is that many students seldom usethe
Engineering UndergraduatesAbstract:When engineers enter the workforce they are expected to have professional skills and thetechnical background. However, beside some isolated presentation and writing trainingsincorporated in courses such as senior design, usually there is no official training for suchprofessional skills in engineering curriculum. With the support from National ScienceFoundation, we have developed a program where students have the opportunity to receivetraining on professional skills and practice them in a non-threatening environment. In thisprogram students prepare engineering related lesson plans and present them to local middle andhigh school students. The program offers special workshops on leadership, teamwork,presentation
12engineering topic of self-healing infrastructure, explore contextually relevant knowledge,synthesize actual self-healing concrete samples, and synthesize online and offline findings topresent in front of a peer audience. They are also well-suited to project-based courses and“unconference” sessions that inculcate greater interaction and collaboration between participants.For instance, at the time of writing, Elsevier’s Engineering team has partnered with a series ofAiChE Regional Student Conferences to launch similar sessions having as many as 100participants, to provide a professional development experience around real industry corrosionmitigation and asset management challenges. The format is agnostic to the particular challengeor toolsets used and
impacted their leadership development and careeradvancement. Through data collection and analysis, the researcher will identify emergentdevelopmental relationship functions specific to engineering faculty. Researcher field notesreveal anticipated findings such as the power of observation and the significance of rolemodeling experienced by the participants. The anticipated findings support new functionsidentified in previous research specific to the population of higher education leaders. Theimportance of peer relationships and the existence of multiple developers are also consistent withprevious findings. Results from this study will inform a mentoring model being developed bythe author which will help faculty focus on being intentional about
large library of thermodynamics videos, suitable toact as “learning objects” for topic introduction or further study outside of class, enhanced studentengagement, student demonstration of the capacity to engage in lifelong learning. By the draftpaper due date, we will also be able to say whether or not it also resulted in a significant changein students’ thermodynamics concept inventory scores. In previous years of the study, simplywatching videos or generating a single video on a larger team did not improve student scoresover control.BackgroundPeer instruction has been shown to be a powerful tool for learning(1). The goal of this work wasto see if the benefits of peer instruction could be attained asynchronously via the medium ofvideo. In the
ElectricalEngineering, and six in Mechanical Engineering. All of these students should certify within theirmajor in the next year and have joined their peers as successful students in engineering.In this paper, we present an in-depth view of the program as well as evaluation results from thefirst two years of the program. We also showcase best practices and lessons learned in supportingat-risk students in engineering.STARS ProgramRecruitment and SelectionSTARS enrolls approximately 32 students from low socio-economic backgrounds each year ateach university. To qualify for the program, a student must be Pell Grant-eligible, graduate froma Washington high school with thirty percent or more of the students receiving free- or reduced-priced lunches, and express
Standards (NGSS)foregrounds the importance of collaboration in science and engineering practices by integratingcommunication as a fundamental criterion at all levels of K-12 education: “Engineers need to beable to express their ideas, orally and in writing, with the use of tables, graphs, drawings, ormodels and by engaging in extended discussions with peers.” 13 Such communication practicesare necessary for generating design solutions and for planning and carrying out collaborativeinvestigations.Previous studies indicate that young learners encounter communication challenges related totask, relational, and identity issues when collaborating on engineering design projects.14, 15 Otherresearch has identified effective scaffolding to support middle
. Page 26.293.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Bringing Technology to the First Year Design Experience through the use of Electronic Design NotebooksIntroductionIncluding a coordinated curriculum that provides an atmosphere of collaboration and supportfrom peers with first-year engineering students has been shown to increase graduation rates andthe overall positive experience for students.1,2 Our freshman Introduction to Engineering designcourse strives to accomplish this in part by providing a collaborative real-world engineeringdesign experience that pushes students to work well together to accomplish a design goal. Manyof these first year engineering students take
apositive impact on the usage and utilisation of Online Laboratories. After developing the userinterfaces based on the mock-ups they had the chance to discuss with their peers from otherpartner schools and try the online labs developed by their colleagues. The project runs untilNovember 2016. At the time of writing we are in the process of carrying out tests and asurvey where the students will test labs developed by their peers. Results are expected to beavailable during the summer break.In general, we value this self-paced student activity as a kind of inquiry and project-basedlearning. Students showed high engagement with the project objectives and clealy enjoyedparticipating. They had additionally the opportunity to work together with other
increasingstudent retention as a part of an NSF IUSE grant, Texas State STEM Rising Stars. One of thesestrategies is to introduce a new first-year course, “Introduction to Engineering & EngineeringTechnology,” that was designed to support student retention through exploration of relevantacademic and career issues, early contact with faculty as mentors, and development of a learningcommunity with peers in the major. A special challenge for developing this new Introduction toEngineering course is that the state legislature implemented a law2 that limits the number ofhours that can be required for a college degree. As a result, a new course cannot simply beadded to the existing curriculum of the university’s engineering and engineering technologydegrees
demand for graduates who have hands-on experience with ERP software has increasedsignificantly [14]. More so, graduates who have completed ERP coursework have seen a nearly a$4,000 higher average salary than their peers who have no ERP experience [10]. This iscomparable to previous research that has shown career success regarding salaries and promotionsfor students related to performance on simulations [8].An effective set of simulations to develop student knowledge of business process and ERPsystems has been developed by the ERPsim Lab at HEC Montreal https://erpsim.hec.ca/en. TheERPsim Lab has a suite of business simulations using a live SAP ERP software environmentaccessed through the SAP University Alliance (UA). The SAP UA has over 3,200
failure mechanisms based on fracture surfaceanalysis, microstructural analysis, and a basic stress analysis of the incident that caused failure.Students are responsible for sectioning, hardness testing, metallographic sample prep, andbackground research on the component and/or material. All project deliverables, including thefinal summary report, consist of presentations made to their peers in lab.Feedback from students indicates that they find the project to be a valuable part of the course.The students make noticeable improvements in their presentation skills over the course of thequarter. In some cases, the in-lab presentations lead to discussions of different failure modes orloading scenarios among the students. Interviews with graduating
again demonstrate problemdefinition and resolution through case studies as well as their own project activities.To improve ethics instruction, two phases of assessment are implemented. Overall courseassessment is performed for all courses using a collective Peer Evaluation of CourseEffectiveness at the end of the semester. In addition, ethics-specific assessment is incorporatedinto the Program Outcome: ME graduates can judge appropriate professional and ethicalconduct. Program Outcomes are measured using several methods and are reviewed on an annualbasis.The integrated Professional Component structure provides a framework for building uponprevious coursework, assessing student progress, and adjusting course coverage based on priorassessments to
. Page 23.574.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Experimental Vehicles Program Creates Lasting Partnerships with National and International IndustriesAbstractThe Experimental Vehicles Program (EVP) was created in 2004 as an umbrella program for fivedifferent undergraduate experimental vehicle design teams. These projects consist of the SolarVehicle, Moonbuggy, Baja SAE, Formula SAE, and Solar Boat. The goal of the EVP is to fosterundergraduate student development through the construction of experimental vehicles with theguidance of faculty mentors as well as partnerships with both national and international industryleaders.Students work in peer-led teams to annually
responsibilities in Undergraduate Biology, Graduate Level Science Curriculum, Philosophy, and Issues; Elementary and Secondary Science Methods; Student Teacher Supervision, and Educational Tech- nology. Additional duties included grant writing, management, and evaluation; and university committees. RESEARCH INTERESTS: Include teaching and learning cognition skills, informal learning environ- ments and strategies, and curriculum design. Page 24.35.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 A Comprehensive Approach on Delivering Calculus to Engineering
module. Thedeliverables included a (1) product pitch, (2) marketing plan, (3) visual prototype, test plan,customer feedback analysis, and functional prototype, (4) final presentation, (5) fundingproposal, and (6) peer evaluation. See Tables 1 and 2. Page 23.386.3Table 1. Schedule (Part 1 of 2)Topic Deliverable Description Grade %Module 1: Product PitchCourse overview Product Pitch Individually, or as a group of 2, develop a 2- 8%Strategic market page paper
development.At the time of this writing, SPIRIT II is ready to launch. We are hopeful that a launchopportunity will be offered in early April. We present preliminary conclusions about the outcomeof that project and lessons learned from the manifold differences between these two efforts. Weresist the temptation to ascribe value judgments such as “success/failure”. Work on a programevaluation is ongoing. Rather, our purpose is to compare the two very different outcomes ofSPIRIT I and SPIRIT II. In addition, we present the current evolution of the characteristics andgoals of this unique program.Characteristics of a “SPIRIT Project”The SPIRIT projects are designed to provide a supportive environment1,2 for students todemonstrate newly acquired skills and to
the exercise was good from the experiential learningstandpoint, it was not properly exploited for all the information it could provide to both theindividual student and the class in general. Students should get more practice with the variousaspects of technical communication (both oral and written)1 and more feedback from theinstructor and from their peers on the success of those efforts. To this end, students were assignedthe task of producing fact sheets during various sections of the revised course. The firstassignment called for students to work in groups, to prepare both the fact sheet and the moreformal presentation of their findings on air pollution detection and/or control. A secondassignment called for them to individually produce a
capabilities,creativity, writing ability, and student interest in exploring engineering fields. Page 10.146.2 “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education” Notification. All applicants are notified of their decision with either an acceptance orrejection letter. Those students who are accepted then go through another round of selectionwith the corporate partners and are placed as closely as possible to their stated interests. Program launch. The program begins with an initial orientation at each