interleaved.Advantages: 1. Students had more peer support and could problem solve technical issues with other teams. 2. Students had access to software testing tools and resources. 3. Students received an in-depth understanding of the software product because they were im- plementing it.Challenges: 1. Students struggled with programming-related skills. As a result, too much time was spent on implementing the application. 2. Some team members preferred to avoid the technical work and only contributed to the writing of the reports. 3. Students struggled to meet the statement and branch coverage requirements for testing.Approach 2: Capstone Group Project - with the development and testing phases interleaved.Advantages: 1. Students were
assignments.In addition, we encourage students to write brief reflective journal entries to further solidify andreinforce their own understanding, and demonstrate that improved understanding for animproved quiz grade.UDLAP’s Chemical, Civil, Computer, Electrical, Environmental, Food, Industrial, Mechanical,and Mechatronic engineering students have in EI-100 a great opportunity for a multidisciplinarycollaborative experience. EI-100 is a team-taught course that uses active, collaborative andcooperative learning, which has been a major player in UDLAP’s efforts of engineeringeducation reform since 200131. The major goal of the project “High-Quality Environments forTeaching and Learning Engineering Design: Using Tablet PCs and Guidelines from Research
staff who are not theinstructor of the course, allowing students to discuss strengths of the course and suggested courseimprovements with their peers prior to voting individually on their level of agreement anddisagreement with each proposed strength or improvement. Open-ended comments are alsorequested from students as part of the group interview process.The second offering of the pilot just concluded at the time of writing this paper; thus we arelooking mostly at raw data to confirm what the authors saw as emerging themes from thepost-assessments and overall research dataset.Research Limitations. Of the 99 students enrolled in the class at the end of the term, 92 took thepost-survey, 63 of which consented to participate in longitudinal
, curiosity, retention and accessibility ofknowledge, value-creation, and other desired learning outcomes. Much of the recent adoption ofactive and collaborative learning, self-directed learning, problem-based and project-basedlearning (PBL), peer to peer learning, and other similar learning strategies are aimed atdeveloping innovative and entrepreneurial mindset skills, but they have been limited to CapstoneDesign courses. Our aim is to develop the entrepreneurial mindset much earlier in the studentengineers’ undergraduate education.The Iron Range Engineering program is entrepreneurial in nature, based on continuousimprovement, self-directed learning, and reflective practice. Our student engineers learn incontext, by applying technical engineering
writing, this office action is being addressed by thecorresponding student group.E.2. Changes in ESIP ConceptsDescriptive statistics were computed for each survey item. Next, the items were checked forinternal consistency reliability by computing Cronbach’s alpha. The data evidenced acceptable(α > .70) to excellent reliability (α > .80) [12] for nearly every construct, with the exception ofpre-course responses to the Careers in Patent Law construct, which was minimally acceptable (α= .69). Given its proximity to the proposed threshold of .70 for acceptability, and the excellentinternal consistency reliability evidenced from post-course responses (α = .83), the construct wasretained as originally designed.Next, the data were aggregated into
enabled success, circumventing unsupportive advisors,combating isolation using peer networks, consciously demonstrating abilities to counteractdoubt, finding safe spaces for their whole selves, getting out to stay in STEM, remembering their Page 26.1582.2passion for science, and engaging in activism.” Note that navigating the system is also one ofthe three dimensions of becoming an engineer noted by Stevens et al6.While most of Ko et al.’s coping strategies primarily involve taking action, “remembering theirpassion for science” and “demonstrating abilities to counteract doubt” are primarily internalpsychological acts. In this paper, we build on
wereunsure about. In addition to arguing that iteration in both disciplinary contexts was useful fortesting design decisions, they also noted its utility within the report writing process. A number ofstudents indicated that the process of receiving peer feedback at multiple junctures in therehearsal process underscored the value of multiple drafts in an engineering context.Ideation: Observations about ideation typically focused on seminar activities or group decisionmaking during the scene development process. Like their observations on problem analysis in theseminar classes, some students acknowledged that activities requiring them to identify and sharedivergent perspectives about issues in a play highlighted the possibility for
very intentional learning, grades, high Page 12.1460.3structure, limited student control of content, and the outcome of a degree. New philosophiesmove the format from the lecture to more active learning techniques, but the classical lecturecontinues for many. Non-formal interventions are characterized by seminars: much lessstructure, still intentional learning, no grades, limited student control of content, and certificates.Informal interventions are characterized in the mentoring or peer team activities: one-on-onerelationship encounters, minimal to no structure, increased student control, learning by doing,and more intrinsic reward of
Engineering.The philosophy for this course centered on the exploration of the similarities and differences thatdisciplines use when they approach innovation. We wanted to not only mix up the studentbackgrounds, but also increase their awareness of the innovative activities that occur acrosscampus. We intentionally place the students outside of their comfort zone repeatedly throughoutthe semester with the assignments, lectures, and activities. We also wanted to make the courseworkload challenging so that students felt a strong sense of accomplishment when finished. Thisexpectation was enhanced by requiring students to apply for enrollment by writing a brief essayabout why they wanted to enroll. Enrollment was then managed to ensure a broad mix ofstudents
preparation of freshmanengineering students and makes no attempt to define a means for predicting potential for success(i.e. potential or ability to get a bachelors degree in an engineering, mathematics or sciencediscipline); in fact, it is doubtful that any such mechanism exists. What we do find is that under-represented minority populations come to UNM with less academic preparation than White andAsian populations.Other factors that impact minority education and retention are typical of large institutions. In aninformal survey, engineering students cited additional factors for poor retention within the UNMSchool of Engineering: lack of community, inadequate peer support, lack of comfortparticipating in activities associated with the university
to evaluate students’ learning and facilitate their deeper understanding of the coursecontent.ReasoningThe typical technical written exam (in STEM courses) is the most common way to assess astudent’s learning when the class sizes are large, or the professor has multiple sections.However, it may not be the most accurate assessment technique in general and certainly is notreflective of how the students will be expected to perform once they become professionals.Never will a student be expected to create a report of analysis for a well-defined problem withoutexternal resources or help, without peer review, in an hour, only to wait for someone to reviewtheir report without any opportunity to further explain or defend their analyses. Not only
less common [3], and researchers may be reluctant, with a preference to sharedata only when requested [4], [5] or only with peers [6].How well prepared are engineering faculty to deposit data in a repository to fulfill funding orpublication requirements? In 2021, Canada’s federal granting Tri-Agency Council released itsdraft Research Data Management Policy, mandating that by Spring 2023 some fundedresearchers will be expected to complete data management plans (DMP) [7]. All fundedresearchers will be required to deposit their data into a repository with the expectation thatresearchers “provide appropriate access to the data where ethical, cultural, legal and commercialrequirements allow, and in accordance with the FAIR principles and the
of IntersectionalityKristen R. Moore, University at BuffaloWalter Hargrove, University at BuffaloNathan R. Johnson, University of South FloridaFernando Sánchez, University of St. ThomasAbstractUsing a citation network analysis, this project analyzes the 209 instances of the term“intersectionality” in the ASEE PEER repository to locate the central authors and texts thatinform the field’s use of the term. In this citational analysis, we suggest that the limited citationof Black women should be interrogated and redressed as a form of inequity. Framing this projectwithin the politics of citation and the current campaign to #CiteBlackWomen, we work toexplore how the term “intersectional” has been embraced, whose theories have been adopted,ignored
are commonly considered paramount in any engineering field(and it should go without saying that this includes computer science), this manuscript focuses on ourefforts toward achieving the goals associated with ethics, morality, inclusion, diversity and socialjustice. To a large extent, it is a gloss written from the author’s first-person perspective as the socialscientist on the CSP-Hatchery project team, and individual most directly responsible for preparing anddelivering (or ghost-writing) relevant curricula and supporting other faculty in incorporatingprofessional, context-aware and responsive social ethics across the BSU CS curriculum.Background: Not `the way it is,` but `the way we have allowed it to become`The fact that groups other
interests include interdisciplinary collaboration, design education, communication studies, identity theory and reflective practice. Projects supported by the National Science Foundation include exploring disciplines as cultures, interdisciplinary pedagogy for pervasive computing design; writing across the curriculum in Statics courses; as well as a CAREER award to explore the use of e-portfolios to promote professional identity and reflective practice. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Student Persistence Through Uncertainty Toward Successful Creative PracticeAbstract: To increase creative practice among students in engineering and other
determine thereaction rate constant.Homework: After this project’s first lab period, teams write a one-page memo with a designschematic, circuit diagram, and parts list, with all costs. After the following week’s calibrationand data collection, teams write a short memo with an introduction, methods, results andconclusion section. Individual students complete a homework using an online simulation todetermine an unknown reaction’s order and rate constant, as they will with the data theycollected as a team.Process vs. Product Design for a Drug Delivery System (Weeks 5 & 6):Purpose: Students learn the difference between process and product design. They becomefamiliar with fittings, pumps, and piping and instrumentation diagrams (P&ID). They
reflection enhances learning in any learningsetting [20], but within service-learning, it is imperative to connect the different elements of thelearning and engagement experiences and allow students to process their experiences. Traditional modes of reflection include journal writing and group discussions [16-19].Journal writing provides a safe environment for students to express their thoughts and feelingsand group discussions present an opportunity to express one’s views and to learn from otherpoints of view. Students can also reflect on the impact they have by answering reflectionquestions or responding to question prompts. When designing service-learning projects, they canbe set up analogously to traditional design projects but with an
trying to rewire a747…while it is in flight! Attempting to integrate the curriculum as smoothly as possible, thefour pieces of the curriculum (freshman-year component, sophomore-year component, etc.) wereintegrated one year at a time. At the writing of this paper, the freshman and sophomorecomponents are firmly in place, the junior year component had just been integrated, and thesenior year component is being integrated (i.e., piloted). In short, the first two years of thecurriculum introduces the student to the foundations of leadership and allows for some “basic”training with some practice. The final two years of the curriculum are heavily experiential wherethe student will put to practice the skill sets learned during the first two years. In
areable to focus on smaller groups of WiSE-FPP Associates. WiSE Associate cohorts areconsistently diverse; on average 45% of all participants are international students, including (butnot limited to) students from China, Turkey, India and eastern European countries. The diversityembedded in the WiSE program mirrors the increasing diversity of the professional world. Theinterdisciplinary mix provides an additional layer of skill and knowledge necessary for successas associates become more familiar and comfortable with peers from outside their discipline. Page 25.1481.5In the midst of its fifth year, WiSE-FPP is an active and growing program, whose
research grant (e.g., NSF),s/he must comply with already structured research as stated in the grant proposal which rarelyincludes RT as defined and outlined above (NSF’s Broader Impact criterion is not RT). In spiteof these institutional, structural, and procedural constraints, the student co-authors in this paperdeveloped a commitment to RT mainly due to the spaces that their HES graduate programopened to do so and the guidance of faculty committed to RT. Hence, as expected, their RTefforts had to be implemented somewhat haphazardly, often circumventing established academicpractices but without placing themselves in trouble. Other students, while deeply committed toRT, found themselves prioritizing traditional academic writing, valued by academic
transferred to an engineeringprogram in a four-year college or university; and 2) students who began college at a four-yearinstitution. By comparing students enrolled in the community college to those who havesuccessfully transferred to or started in four-year bachelor’s programs, we may better understandthe entering pre-college characteristics of community college students that are likely associatedwith successful transfer to four-year engineering programs.Literature ReviewMany students choose to start their postsecondary educations at community colleges and thentransfer to engineering programs at four-year institutions. Mattis and Sislin14 write, “Thecommunity college transfer function is critical to meeting the national need for a robust
Cooper is Professor and Associate Head for Graduate Programs in the Department of Physics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He received his B.S. in Physics from the University of Virginia in 1982, his Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Illinois in 1988, and he was a postdoctoral research associate at AT&T Bell Laboratories from 1988-1990. His research interests include optical spectroscopic studies of novel magnetic and superconducting materials at high pressures, high magnetic fields, and low temperatures. Since 2013, he has co-taught (with Celia Elliott) a graduate-level technical writing course each spring to physics and engineering graduate students.Dr. Lynford Goddard, University of Illinois
: Your Research Communication ExperienceWe are interested in hearing about your previous research communication experience. Do notworry if you do not have previous experience.4. Describe a prior experience you have had COMMUNICATING research to your peers, your family or your communities. The research you communicated could be yours or that of another researcher. If you have had no such experiences, please write NONE in the box, and skip to the next page.5. In the experience you described, how active or passive was your role in planning/directing the communications and selecting the medium (i.e., essay, podcast, video, poster), where very passive means carrying out instructions given to you by someone else? Leave blank if you have
, designed to supportupper-level students through reflection of their past experiences and creation and application ofskills that will guide their professional futures. In the course, students iteratively reflect on andcommunicate their past experiences and development of competencies through writing stories;drafting values and guiding principles; connecting with mentors; and applying learning to early-career decision-making. At the end of the course, students were able to: 1. Describe their growth in and mastery of competencies in the context of their undergraduate experiences. 2. Define social capital and increase their social capital by identifying one peer and one professional to ask salient questions to, receive meaningful answers
schoolshave implemented integrative courses or course blocks that build important connections amongtechnical and non-technical topics and that develop an understanding of the significance ofcontext on technology,30,31,32,33 but the effects of the content integration are not entirely clear.Some literature reports that students in integrated courses often fail to make connectionsbetween technical and liberal arts topics,34 while other reports cite an increased student interestin broader contexts, an enhanced awareness of humanistic considerations in engineering, andimproved skill development in writing and critical thinking.35,36,37 Despite promising reportsfrom those involved in delivering and assessing integrated technical curricula, carefulmeasures
, we choose to focus more deeply on how these roles in a design teamimpact a student's sense of long-term access to the discipline.Positional Dynamics and AccessWithin this paper, we discuss students’ access to a discipline and access to practices within adiscipline. By access, we mean the students’ sense of whether they can participate in a disciplineor practices within a discipline, either in the moment (for example, if an individual feels shecould write a program as part of an immediate task) or at a future time (for example, if theindividual feels she can “learn” to program or see pursuing a discipline in future as a viable Page
, and research practices in science.Dr. Lisa D. McNair, Virginia Tech Lisa D. McNair is an Associate Professor of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech, where she also serves as Assistant Department Head of Graduate Programs and co-Director of the VT Engineering Com- munication Center (VTECC). She received her PhD in Linguistics from the University of Chicago and a B.A. in English from the University of Georgia. Her research interests include interdisciplinary collabora- tion, design education, communication studies, identity theory and reflective practice. Projects supported by the National Science Foundation include interdisciplinary pedagogy for pervasive computing design; writing across the curriculum in Statics
IEEE and is a member of ASME, SIAM, ASEE and AGU. He is actively involved in CELT activities and regularly participates and presents at the Lilly Conference. He has been the recipient of several Faculty Learning Community awards. He is also very active in assessment activities and has presented more than thirty five papers at various conferences and Assessment Institutes. His posters in the areas of Assessment, Bloom’s Taxonomy and Socratic Inquisition have received widespread acclaim from several scholars in the area of Cognitive Science and Educational Methodologies. He has received the Assessment of Critical Thinking Award twice and is currently working towards incorporating writing
-confidence, and personalinitiative. Finally, it provides opportunities for professional development through networkingwith peers and mentors, and publication of their work [2]. In addition, such research experienceslead to increased retention in STEM fields and a greater likelihood of pursuing a graduatedegree. Noteworthy as well is that undergraduate research experiences are beneficial to studentsat risk of underachieving [4].To ensure a student has an impactful undergraduate research experience, it is important toprovide appropriate projects. Students are highly motivated when they know that they arecontributing to an authentic research question. At the same time the project must be tailored tothe knowledge and capabilities of the student so that
Students are noticeably engaged through note-taking, 4.7 3 questioning, and responding. Students use or demonstrate reading skills by following 4.5 3.1 written instructions or project directions, reviewing print and digital resources, and asking questions about what they have read. Students rely on writing skills to organize lab reports, 4.4 2.7 posters, and presentation materials. Students interpret the verbal and nonverbal communication 4.33 3.1 efforts of others and follow and take directions from teachers or peers. Average Value