concept maps while solvingproblems in class and on exams. All students included some form of the concept map on thepersonal reference sheets permitted for exams; however, only two students appeared to havemodified the map shared by the instructor. Future work will include student-developed conceptmaps, as well as self-reported data from student surveys on the effectiveness of concept maps inthe heat transfer course.References [1] Greitzer, E., & Soderholm, D. H., & Darmofal, D., & Brodeur, D. (2002, June), Enhancing Conceptual Understanding With Concept Maps And Concept Questions Paper presented at 2002 Annual Conference, Montreal, Canada. 10.18260/1-2—11019 [2] Moore, J. P., & Pierce, R. S., & Williams, C. B
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calculationcan be seen at the web site of Dr. Polik and the text by Holman2.Matlab ApproachUse of Matlab for this calculation is incredibly simple. A listing of the Matlab code is shownbelow, and a description of the code follows. % Written by Dr. Fithen % Arkansas Tech University N=1000000; % Radius Setup x = 5.5:0.01:6.5; %setup x axis on histogram r = 6+.1* randn(N,1); %generate random normal distribution figure(1) hist(r,x) % create histogram title('Radius') mr=mean(r); Sr=std(r); S=sprintf(' R_{mean}=%8.5f\n R_{std}=%8.5f',mr,Sr); text(5.45,N/80,S,'HorizontalAlignment','left') % print results on
72000). Trust is defined by Avolio et al., (2000) quoting (Mayer, Davis, & Schoorman , 1995, p.712) as “the willingness of a team member to be vulnerable to the actions of other teammember(s) based on the expectation that the other(s) will perform a particular action important tothe trustor, irrespective of the ability to monitor or control other team member(s).”Trust is critical in virtual work since direct supervision, similarity in backgrounds, andexperience and a common form of social control in traditional workforce are not feasible. Hence,leadership in virtual workforce should facilitate the formation of trust building in a virtualworkforce context. As a result, the effects of leadership on trust should not be underestimated.Since
Developing Problem Solving and Critical Thinking Skills in Physics and Engineering Physics Courses Parameswar Hari Department of Physics and Engineering Physics, The University of Tulsa, 800 S. Tucker Dr., Tulsa, OK 74104AbstractPhysics instruction at the university level is conducted through lectures, demonstrations,discussions, and problem solving recitation sessions. Students are tested and evaluated for theirmastery of physical concepts through carefully designed problems in almost all physics courses.Unfortunately, several studies 1-3 show that traditional methods of problem solving may not bethe best approach for developing problem
coating at 2000 rpm for 4 minutes. After deposition, a thin strip ofITO was exposed by swabbing with hot water (approximately 80 °C). The panels were then annealed at90 °C for 30 minutes in order to drive out the resident water in the PEDOT:PSS layer and to improve thecontact between this layer and the active layer.[4]Immediately after the panels had cooled to room temperature, masks were applied and the panels wereloaded into the thermal evaporator. Gold or silver electrodes were deposited at a rate of 1 Å/s in avacuum of 5x10-5 torr.After evaporating, data was taken on the cells over a period of a few days. Transient photocurrentbehavior was studied by light illumination for up to 30 minutes.Results:It was found that cells using a ZnO layer as
dedicated students who participated in the co-design of theInclusive Teaching Toolkit, as their engagement and thoughtful contributions shaped this work.We especially thank Frannie Ello, the third member of our initial team in designing this toolkit,without whom this work would not have been possible.References[1] S. Ghosh and S. Coppola, ‘This Class Isn’t Designed For Me: Recognizing Ableist Trends In Design Education, And Redesigning For An Inclusive And Sustainable Future’. arXiv, Feb. 19, 2024 [Online]. http://arxiv.org/abs/2403.15402.[2] J. T. McDonald et al., ‘Program Encryption Toolkit: A Tool for Digital Logic Education and Undergraduate Research’, in 2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access, 2021.[3] C. N. Onyeador et al
week for grading it). Thus, the students may strugglewith their misconceptions for a long time, largely hindering the study of further knowledge basedon prior materials, which is especially the case for Statics.4-6 Although the in-person help forhomework assignments can be achieved by required or optional problem sessions, these sessionswould consume extra time of the instructor(s). Many schools start to offer statics as an onlineclass, but it is still delivery as video lecture format,7 and the students still normally work onhomework assignments outside the assigned online lecture period without the instantaneoushelps from the instructor(s).In recent years, flipped classroom (or inverted classroom) approach has been introduced as analternative
.” All learning styles are important part of do I need to learn this stuff?”the learning process. Moreover, “most students show apreference for one or two particular kinds of learning and this” Contextual learning is a project learning where activitiesliking specifies students’ dominant learning style(s) (Coffield, go from class to class and underline the necessity of differentMoseley, Hall, & Ecclestone, 2004) p.233.’ skills complete the project effectively, all the way down to a project assessment on the success of that activity. In addition, Kolb’s studies demonstrate that most students by “feeling
conclusions.Reference[1] Martin, M.J., S.J. Diem, D.M.A. Karwat, E.M. Krieger, C.C. Rittschof, B. Bayon, M.Aghazadeh, O. Asensio, T.J. Zeilkova, and M. Garcia-Cazarin, The climate is changing.Engineering education needs to change as well. Journal of Engineering Education, 111:740-746,2022.[2] Milovanovic, J., T. Shealy, and A. Godwin, Senior engineering students in the USA carrymisconceptions about climate change: Implications for engineering education. Journal ofCleaner Production, 345, 131129, 2022.[3] Sinatra, G.M., and P.R. Pintrich (Eds.), International Conceptual Change. Lawrence Erlbaum,Mahwah, NJ, 2003.[4] P. Molthan-Hill, L. Blaj-Ward, M. F. Mbah, and T. S. Ledley, “Climate Change Education atUniversities: Relevance and Strategies for Every Discipline
. • C represents the number of bytes used by the constant fields of header e.g. address field, error correction bits etc. • T represents the number of bytes used by usual timestamp. • S represents the number of bytes used by timestamp sequence. Fig. 3: Graphical result showing Percentage reduction in data packets for • P represents the Payload different C’s.Packet size according to normal timestamp can beapproximated as: C+T+P Fig. 2 shows the numerical calculations based on the above
switch, it informs Core S witch Core S witch all the access/ToR to route the packets accordingly. An algorithm is used to provide the solution called Edmonds algorithm [11]. Aggregation Layer Switch Aggregation Layer Switch Core S witch Aggregation Switch Aggregation
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effective. While the game is still in development, the proposed design representsgreat potential to improve learning in a core engineering course.References[1] R. Austin and B. Hunter, “ict policy and implementation in education: Cases in canada, northern ireland and ireland,” European Journal of Education, vol. 48, no. 1, pp. 178– 192, Feb. 2013. doi:10.1111/ejed.12013[2] O. S. Kaya and E. Ercag, “The impact of applying challenge-based Gamification Program on students’ learning outcomes: Academic achievement, motivation and flow,” Education and Information Technologies, vol. 28, no. 8, pp. 10053–10078, Jan. 2023. doi:10.1007/s10639-023-11585-z[3] L. Jaramillo-Mediavilla, A. Basantes-Andrade, M. Cabezas-González
1Exploring Systems Performance using Modeling and Simulation – Project-based Study and TeachingAbstractModeling and Simulation (M&S) provides a risk-free environment allowing the users toexperiment in a computer-generated virtual platform and analyze the what-if scenarios foreffective decision support systems. Due to its pervasive usefulness, the concept of M&S is widelyused across many sectors, including manufacturing, warehouse operations, supply chain, logistics,transportation, mining, and many more. The field of M&S requires computer-intensive andsoftware-based training, which is very different from teaching in a regular classroom setting.Hence, we develop a three-stage (mimic-guide-scaffold
Concepts and Selection (Individual Work) Week 12 - Risk and Critical Thinking (Individual Work) Weeks 13-15 Project Work (Group Work)Students were introduced to the Python language with an online tutorial guide supported by asimulator [16]. Given that the objective was not to teach a programming language, but to havethem deploy design functionality, they were allowed to access other resources and even usesource code from websites. They were given assignments for a number guess game to providethe concepts of loops and if statements. A following assignment had them write a program toflash the S-O-S pattern in Morse code on an LED. Surprisingly, many of the students providedunique and functional solutions, even though they were allowed to
Paper ID #37240WIP: ASEE Year of Impact on Racial Equity: 90 Day EquityChallengeJeremi S London (Assistant Professor) Associate Professor of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech Chair of ASEE's CDEI during the Year of Impact on Racial EquityYareni P Lara-rodriguez (Ms.) Yareni holds a manufacturing engineer degree from the Autonomous University of Nuevo Leon (UANL), Mexico. She has worked in the Applied Optimization Group at the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez (UPRM) as part of her research internship in the Department of Industrial Engineering. Afterwards, she earned a master’s degree from the
Foundation, National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics.“Women, Minorities, and Persons with Disabilities in Science and Engineering: 2021,” 2021.[Online]. Available: www.nsf.gov/statistics/wmpd/[2] J. M. Krogstad and L. Noe-Bustamante, “Key facts about U.S. Latinos for National HispanicHeritage Month,” Pew Research Center, Sep. 09, 2021. https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/09/09/key-facts-about-u-s-latinos-for-national-hispanic-heritage-month/.[3] Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities, “2021 Hispanic higher education andHSIs Facts.” hacu.net. https://www.hacu.net/hacu/HSI_Fact_Sheet.asp (accessed January 18,2022).[4] Excelencia in Education, “25 Years of Hispanic-Serving Institutions: A Glance on Progress,”2020
before I ever started the program. There are only a few Fairly supportive Accessibility to the academic required courses advisor is critical. (S)He should make time to tend to advisee needs, academically, professionally, and personally. Very structured. Courses Somewhat supportive He's ok, by big research build on a set, specific university standards. He sequence for any
]. There are two components of the framework, instructional complexityand structural complexity [2]. Instructional complexity refers to the latent characteristics of thecurriculum, such as the quality of instruction. Currently, the instructional complexity is proxiedby pass/fail rates; little work has been done to expand this metric, with some exceptions likeHilliger et al.’s [12] mixed methods grounded theory study on what makes engineering coursesdemanding. Still, pass/fail rates appear sufficient for simulation studies [2,8].Next, structural complexity involves representing a plan of study as a network, where eachvertex is a course and the edges connecting them are the pre- and corequisites. Each course isassigned a delay factor, the longest
on this course redesign. Anecdotally,the changes which have been piloted in flipping the order of introduction of content and activelearning activities during instructor-led class sessions have thus far been very well received. Thework is being embraced and enthusiastically incorporated into the AY22-23’s version of thecourse. As shown in figure 1 the control portion of the study will run during the Spring ’22 term.The impact of the redesign will be measured when comparing these results to those gatheredduring AY22-23 across the five above-mentioned methods. The findings will be analyzed andincluded into a larger body of work focusing on the importance of teaching decision making inproblem-solving in STEM courses.The hope for this study is
methods in STEM education assessment topromote inclusivity, engage learners, and empower underrepresented and marginalizedcommunities. Such research can then inform future pedagogical practices, curriculum design,evaluation plans, and resource allocation to contribute to a more inclusive and diverse STEMlearning environment and resultantly, the future STEM workforce.ReferencesBattel, K., Foster, N., Barroso, L. V., Bhaduri, S., Mandala, K., & Erickson, L. (2021, October).“We Make the Village”-Inspiring STEM Among Young Girls and the Power of CreativeEngineering Education in Action. In 2021 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE) (pp. 1-7). IEEE.Bevan, B. B., Barton, A. C., & Garibay, C. (2018). Why broaden perspectives on
learning with projectmanagement modules [4]. This research investigates the use of VR as an educational accessorywith the use of a VR headset (the Oculus Rift S), added with conventional classroom guidancefrom an educator. It also introduces undergraduate Construction Management (CM) students at alarge four-year university in Midwestern USA to the world of simulated VR and simultaneouslyassesses both their attitude to this hybrid learning and their academic performance and knowledgeperception regarding MEP (mechanical, electrical and plumbing) systems in the course material.The tentative findings focus on whether the students are positively impacted by this new hybridmethod of knowledge transfer, which has realms of possibilities in this new era
the critical to quality (CTQ) characteristics inprocesses and aims at reducing cost by reducing variability and achieving consistencyin performance (2). Any organization applying Six Sigma to reduce variation from itsbusiness processes will, after a certain period of time, realize that the benefits begin tofall. Similarly, any organization applying Lean will notice a gradual decline in thereturns after a certain period of time. Reducing waste alone cannot improve theprocess entirely and similarly reducing variation still leaves behind waste in businessprocesses (3).Lean theory proposes that work processes should be designed as a single, continuousflow containing all of the steps which incrementally add value in the eyes of thecustomer(s) and
]. Table 1: PDSA Details Phase Description Plan a change or test aimed at improvement Plan (P) by stating objective, questions, and predictions Carry out the change or run the experiment Do (D) and document problems and issues Analyze data graphically and statistically. Use earlier analysis to build a temporal Study (S) picture. Compare to prediction (expectations
various learning styles by individual learners can be catered to by drifting awayfrom typical scholastic activities: lecture – reading – theory-reinforcing calculation exercises –examination. The 21 learning activities listed in Table 2 can address most of the eight MI.Course evaluations will be undoubtedly more favorable if every student finds his/her favoriteniche activities during the course.QFD for Defining Course ActivitiesQuality Function Deployment (QFD) technique parallels engineering procedures used forexamining specifications and performances of products and processes 10, 11. Developed in the1970’s in Japan and used in Kobe Shipyard of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, QFD methodologystemmed from quality improvement tables and was originally
teacher assigned ID andpassword (Fig. 5). After that s/he can select any module s/he likes to work on (Fig. 6), in thisstep, the program will tell the student how many time s/he has already tried. If the maximumtrial time is met, the system will not allow her/him to continue on this particular module. Page 14.643.7 Figure 4: Programming logic for accessing the database. Figure 5: GIVE model log in system Figure 6: Module selectionFigure 7(a) gives the overall picture of the course module. In Fig. 7(b) a movie clipcorresponding to the question is playing. In the movie clip, important aspects are highlighted