ABET and its international trend, the practice of qualityassurance in engineering education within American colleges and universities has gonethrough different stages under the guidance of ABET. Engineering education accreditationpersonnel (ABET managers, staff, accreditors, etc.), engineering education professionals(administrators in engineering departments, engineering faculty, ABET liaison, etc.),engineering students (engineering undergraduates, engineering graduate students, engineeringdoctoral students, etc.) are important stakeholders. Researches based on the StakeholderTheory are mainly reflected in the following aspects, research on stakeholders and their rolein the accreditation process,2 research on evaluation culture in the
, the reflective judgement theory of personal epistemology similarlydescribes epistemic development as an individual’s progression through a series of well-definedstages (King & Kitchener, 1994, 2004). In the reflective judgement model, individuals progressthrough pre-reflective, quasi-reflective, and reflective stages, ultimately viewing knowledge ascontextually-dependent and open to evaluation.Schommer's (1990) beliefs view of personal epistemology purports individuals have a multi-dimensional view of knowledge and that each dimension varies in complexity and sophistication.According to this theory, there are five dimensions that can be used to describe individuals’beliefs about knowledge: “the structure, certainty, and source of
. mention societal impacts of their project as a separate item to consider in design, 2 but they do not provide examples or any further detail. mention societal impacts of their project, perhaps only in passing or in a sentence 1 with all three pillars of sustainability. do not discuss societal impacts of their project. 0ReflectionFinally, we reviewed students’ reflections of how the Community Engagement module impactedtheir understanding of and ability to incorporate preliminary social sustainability principles intheir senior
-engineers. Grunert and Adams(2016) reflect this consensus when they assert that “engineering literacy develops citizensthrough their participation in a culture and society that depends on engineering projects.Engineering literate persons function fully within such a society, participating in engineeringprojects not only insofar as engineering training is required, but also in recognition of the broadersocial impact of those projects.” Their paper highlights an interesting finding from their previousresearch: an “absence of meaningful difference between students in engineering courses of studyand students in non-engineering programs.” Of course, this recognition goes at least as far back as “Improving TechnologicalLiteracy” (2002), in which
saccades instead of reading in a linearfashion. Modern eye tracking system works by reflecting infra-red light on an eye, and recordingthe reflection pattern. Early research [26] in eye tracking showed that, people tend to incorporateregressive fixations and saccades (instead of reading in a linear fashion) when faced withcomprehension difficulty to review their understanding and retention.These eye movement factors represents the amount of cognitive processing involved by anindividual [27]. Cognitive psychologists used eye tracking technology [28], [29] to understandVisual/Verbal and Sequential/Global LS preference of individuals by displaying information ona computer monitor. The results showed that visual learners tend to focus at the pictures
observations and interventions in a system,explaining that ideal observations are not impacted by the observer and won’t be used to promotechange. Since we will reflect on our purposeful observations (interviews), a potential result ofthis process is to promote and implement change, making our data collection process acombination of both observation and intervention (Midgley, 2003). While we hope to fully andaccurately portray the system to analyze it, the observer (interviewer) must be careful not toinfluence the thoughts and expertise of the stakeholder (interviewee). If interviewees areexplaining an ideal system as opposed to the actual system that we want to analyze, theeffectiveness of this systems thinking process significantly decreases
everything that can be learned is transferable, such as psychomotor skills, cognitiveskills, affective attitudes, methods, principles, theories, facts, concepts, relationships, structures,among others[6]. Therefore, universities should prepare integral professionals that articulateglobal knowledge, professional knowledge and work experiences, and recognize the needs andproblems of society to create sustainable and effective solutions. Competencies are the set ofskills, behaviors, and abilities that allow people to reflect on an action and know how to act whensituations are faced, even if the situation occurs in a new context [7]. Since they play a key rolein the process we decided to focus on competencies to better understand transfer of
thedesign cycle [4]. However, few studies have explicitly examined student learning through thelens of the knowledge and practice expectations of a 21st century engineer [14]. Yet, 21st centuryskills have been embraced by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET)and are included in the standards for engineering programs [15]. The 21st century skills includecollaboration and teamwork, creativity, communication, emotional competency, culturalcompetency, ethics, leadership and management, critical thinking, and content knowledge. Afundamental shift in the ABET engineer paradigm with the adoption of the 21st centuryframework reflects a focus on engineers as being at the service to society. The ABET standardssuggest that there is
does provide may be missing essentialcomponents and the feedback it provides may not be properly timed or targeted [16-28]. Thehomework in the traditional-lecture approach is used for assessment; there are no opportunitiesfor students to practice and receive feedback on their solution prior to being assessed. A relatedproblem is found in the timing of feedback to the students: it occurs after their learning has beenassessed. That is, the correct solution to the homework assignment is made available after theassignment has been submitted. If a student makes a mistake on a homework assignment and,through the feedback, learns from that mistake (so that they will not repeat the mistake), thatlearning is not reflected in the assessment of their
engineering vicarious experiences, they can inform their ownteaching practices and practice reflective teaching as they teach lessons. IntroductionWithin the last decade, there has been a push for engineering to be taught in the K-12 schoolsystem. Integrating engineering into the classroom is especially important due to the expressedneed for engineers from organizations such as the National Academy of Engineering and fromreports like PCAST that predicted a need for one million more STEM professionals by 2020 [1],[2]. In addition to this expressed need, research shows that students begin making career choicesas early as, if not before, high school, so it is important they gain an understanding of
, demonstrate, and maintain), reflected a 15% similarityamong the top 20 most frequently mentioned verbs found in the compared documents.Total and Unique Verb Match. There were 438 total verbs in the AM Curriculum Framework to415 in the AM Competency Model, and of those 16.21% (n=71) and 43.13% (n=179) wereunique verbs, respectively. The UM between the AM Framework and AM Competency Model is23.03% (Low), while TM has a DMS of 0.34 (Very low).Categorized Verbs. Verbs were categorized according to the Cognitive Dimension of Bloom’sRevised Taxonomy to identify similarities and differences between AM Framework and the AMCompetency Model. In Table 3, we see the frequency verbs in each of the categories and thecorresponding percentage of verbs in each of
context and works on the smaller componentsof it, we then experience the process of problem-solving. Climbing the mountain requires bothlinear and non-linear approaches that promote higher order thinking and critical skills. Thecomplexity of the problem encourages us to think reflectively and critically. The dynamic learningenvironment poses challenges but also opportunities for interdisciplinary collaboration.Finally, when the mountain has been climbed and we have safely returned to our base camp, weevaluate our mountain climbing experience, analyzing our successes and difficulties, and drawinglessons that can be applied to similar challenges in the future.This is the process we encouraged our research experiences for undergraduates (REU
negative (IntrojectedRegulation, in which avoidance of guilt or other negative feelings serves as a motivator; ExternalRegulation, in which an obligation or demand from work or elsewhere serves as a motivator; andAmotivation, where the individual is unsure of why he/she is doing something, and is unable toarticulate a motivating factor) [15]. As has been the case with several other groups of programteachers, respondents provided high levels of agreement with statements reflecting the two morepositive types of motivation (Intrinsic Motivation, mean = 5.08, and Identified Regulation, mean= 4.41), and provided low levels of agreement with statements reflecting the three more negativetypes of motivation (Introjected Regulation, mean = 2.25; External
. Prior to arriving at Purdue Univer- sity, he earned a master’s degree in the department of mathematics at the University of Cincinnati in the USA. He is currently writing a dissertation on the pre-service teachers’ understanding of geometric re- flections in the USA. His dissertation explores pre-service secondary mathematics teachers’ motion and mapping views and contributes to current research by offering insights into the development of an under- standing of geometric reflection. He is also working as a research assistant in Engineering Education. His work is focused on student learning and interest engineering design to teach engineering, science, and mathematics.Peter Wesley Odom, Purdue University, West
core curriculum, satisfying theobjective for scientific literacy in natural sciences. It is the first general education offering fromengineering faculty.Challenges in the development of this course included attaining the right balance betweenqualitative and quantitative material and tempering faculty’s enthusiasm for rigorousmathematical analysis in deference to a nontechnical audience that largely reflects the region’sdiversity. The overriding goals were to inform students about energy production andconsumption patterns, various technologies and their environmental consequences, and the prosand cons of renewable and nonrenewable energy systems. Other objectives were to provide astraightforward yet sophisticated appreciation of the negative
reflection on the technical, social, and ethical contexts of their work. Weexplain how the Habits of Mind structured our pedagogy from the problem identification phasethrough project completion. We describe the phases of the team’s engagement with stakeholdersat Punta Leona Hotel and Club Beach Resort, including: early problem identification regardingenergy conservation and saving concerns; project development, in which students developed asolution centered around remote, app-based control of large energy consuming devices (e.g., airconditioning units) using Internet of Things (IoT); execution and implementation of the projectover a three week period during a study abroad trip in Costa Rica; and remote follow up withstakeholders after project
verbal;active to reflective; and sequential to global. Notably, the Felder-Soloman Index does notencompass personality traits, e.g. introversion/extroversion. Roy and colleagues [7] assessed best practices in administering Massive Open Online Courses(MOOCs, e.g. Coursera), and endeavored to analyze learner patterns that emerge from the“tremendous amount of data” originating from the amount and quality of participation inMOOCs. The authors assert that data often considered demographic—such as socioeconomicstatus, race, or gender—constitute essential components of building an effective tool forexamining learner patterns. Roy et al. [7] propose the following MOOC learner patterns basedupon clustering, supported by statistically significant T-tests
. Studentsfrom across the globe developed action plans to potentially address problems within theircommunities. Students were encouraged to consider real-life scenarios of their choice that couldbe further refined and potentially implemented upon return to their home countries. The structureof the small group sessions allowed students to be members of international teams, agree upon aproblem to tackle, conduct early research, and propose a concrete path towards addressing one ofthe SDGs. Semi-structured qualitative data collection was used for the project, to uncover trendsthat connect humanitarian engineering activities at international conferences to the GCs and theSDGs. Data collection through crowdsourcing, utilized pre-and post activity reflections
, student andfaculty reflections and data received automatically by the game programs. Preliminary analysis ofstudent feedback and faculty reflections indicates increased learner motivation, enhanced reviewof technical content and an upbeat atmosphere to the classroom. Faculty reflections also notedthat the use of games that allow learners to answer the questions individually helped facultyidentify those students who had successfully mastered the concepts, which allowed the instructorto structure peer-to-peer active learning opportunities during class more effectively. Future workincludes analyzing test scores, and other measures of long-term retention of concepts. Overall,use of these gamification tools was found to be a significant addition to
refer toall those involved in the teaching process for this paper including professors at rank, instructors,and teaching assistants. The operational team aims to develop a quality-oriented teaching culturein the recently launched university. The ISW implemented with recourse to the vision of theprogram and with the support from admin and development of a core team of staff memberstrained leads to better teaching processes evidenced from both qualitative (teacher interviews)and quantitative (survey results) methods.The ISWThe Instructional Skills Workshop (ISW) is designed to encourage reflective practice and toassist participants in developing their teaching and feedback skills. The underlying principles ofthe ISW include: participatory
throughprocesses of community-building, organizing, and education, creating transformativeexperiences in democratic and reflective spaces that directly address root causes. This mayinclude every-day actions such as cooking, gardening, building, establishing space, as well asperformance and creative output.In conversation with Highlander’s practices of creative resistance and agency building, we alsotake from the foundational work of Imarisha Walidah and Adrienne Maree Brown regarding thepractice of emergent strategies for community organizing and enacting change [16]. Brown andWalidah have established the technique of future visioning through the writing of science fictionnarratives that enable social critique as well as creative resistance and playful
teaching plan to incorporate what they learned into their own teaching. Atthe end of the academic year, faculty participants are tasked with completing a final reflection. Inthis paper, we will report the content of the workshops as related to the overarching goals of theISE-2 program, along with how the coffee conversation topics complemented the workshopmaterial. Lastly, we will explore the role of the teaching plans and final reflections in changinginstructional practices.IntroductionImproving Student Experiences to Increase Student Engagement (ISE-2) focuses on a facultydevelopment program designed to reduce implicit bias and increase active learning in order toincrease underrepresented minority (URM), women, and first-generation students
& Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering These numbers provide evidence of a common interest in engineering communication, but theyalso reflect the fragmentation of the scholarly conversation. This paper reports on work inprogress toward the goal of establishing some coherence in the conversation while at the sametime highlighting the diversity of approaches and range of expertise that are relevant toresearching and teaching engineering communication. We have begun a qualitative analysisusing papers presented at the 2015 annual conference as our evidence base. Here we provide aquantitative overview of the papers, identify trends that we have observed in the papers
simplistic or uninformed view that they heldearlier. Integrative refers to how understanding a threshold concept allows students to makepreviously unseen connections between aspects of the course.IVL Overview. The IVLs were constructed based on this active learning pedagogy and directedtowards undergraduate thermodynamics students.1 In the IVLs, students are guided through a setof frames where they are asked to respond to questions that ask them to predict, calculate,manipulate, observe, or reflect on phenomena related to the specific concept.Figure 1 presents an example frame of the Work IVL, one of the six available IVLs. This frameincludes the three main parts of a typical IVL frame, (i) a box containing the molecularsimulation that students are
paperspresented at the ASEE conference.)Students viewed this use as a positive experienceii. Three in four students saw their practice withthe AD Board as relevant, reflecting course content, and reflecting real practice. Similarly, theyapproved of the opportunity to practice their content and noted that the hands-on use reflectedtheir learning needs.Table 1Student Perceptions of the Process of Use Instruction and Supplementary Materials* % Use was relevant to my academic area. 83 The AD board provided opportunities to practice content 80 The use of the AD board reflected course content 79 The use of the
self-developed survey, followed by focus group interviewsof the students to reflect students’ attitudes toward classroom attendance and their learningefficacy under this innovative self-regulated learning. Three rounds of surveys wereconducted to examine students’ changes in attitude and preferences as well as theirperceptions of their learning efficiency. Based on students’ self-reports, the average rate ofphysical classroom attendance was 26%. More than 60% of the students preferred this“soft classroom” learning. In addition, they reported on how efficient this course was inresponse to this new learning environment. The results from the three rounds of surveysand focus group interview provided evidence of the success of the current case
associated pedagogy A detailed list of the modules as well as all lecture notes, exercises, and assignments can 9be found online . The modules consist of 5 separate sections covering: (1) basic professional ethics; (2) the software engineering code of ethics; (3) legal issues and security concerns; (4) local and global impacts; and (5) professional development. The general pattern we use for each module is as follows. 1. Introduce basic ideas, terminology, background 2. Look at and discuss case studies (where appropriate) 3. Reflective exercises (individually and in small groups or pairs) 4. Discussion 5. Application exercises (where students apply ideas) 6. Individual writing assignments (tie
students and utilizing a new approach to teaching design based on blended learningpedagogy, will be introduced. Evaluation of the course and approach from the studentperspective will then be presented. The article concludes with reflections on the course includinglessons learned and challenges faced. i. Teaching in Blended Learning Environments“Neither the purpose, the methods, nor the population for whom education is intended today,bear any resemblance to those on which formal education is historically based”1Over the past decade it has become widely accepted that the context, technology, and students oftoday are different from those of past generations and those differences must be accounted for incurrent teaching practices.2 The learning
looking for students who excel in the ability to present informationorally. Instances that require effective oral communication include working in teams, dealingwith customers, and making presentations at trade shows and conferences2. A study was done bythe Peter D. Hart Research Associates in which hundreds of companies completed a survey. Theemployees at these companies had acquired at least a bachelor’s degree. Employers were askedabout the skills that potential hires should possess, as well as what learning outcomes universitiesshould put more focus on. Results reflected the importance of oral communication skills incurrent society. Approximately 30% of the companies believed that strong oral andcommunication skills were important in new
. These embedded forms are not made up of “individual acts of meanness by members of[the dominant group],” but by institutional history9.In her distinguished lecture, McIntosh addressed White privilege and the surrounding myths thatpeople can unknowingly propagate. She began by speaking of her upbringing in a “normal”family and of her father working as an engineer at Bell Labs. As circumstance in her life gaveher reason to pause and reflect, she realized that as a White woman, she was allowed to considerherself normal, as she was part of what society considers normal. She referred to her seminalwork, White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack, in which she discussed earnedstrengths and unearned powers9. These unearned powers accrue into