Paper ID #41116Board 343: Outcomes from Metacognition Support in a Fluid MechanicsFlipped ClassroomDr. Renee M Clark, University of Pittsburgh Renee Clark is Associate Professor of Industrial Engineering, Data Engineer for the Swanson School, and Director of Assessment for the Engineering Education Research Center (EERC). She uses data analytics to study techniques and approaches in engineering education, with a focus on active learning techniques and the professional formation of engineers. Current NSF-funded research includes the use of adaptive learning in the flipped classroom and systematic reflection and metacognitive
“surroundings” in an engineeringclassroom. We posed an open-ended reflection question to engineering undergraduates at a largeUS university about their classroom surroundings and its impact on their learning andcomprehension. The reflection prompt defined surroundings as the “conditions and objects thatsurround you.” This reflection question was part of an NSF-funded study on the use of weeklyreflection in a flipped fluid mechanics course to drive metacognitive development and lifelonglearning skills. During class, students were encouraged to collaborate with their peers duringproblem solving to achieve collective understanding and interact with the instructor. Based on aninductive, emergent content analysis of the reflection data with two analysts, we
. He has written more than 115 refereed technical papers, and his opinion editorials have appeared in the Tampa Bay Times, the Tampa Tribune, and the Chronicle Vitae.Dr. Rasim Guldiken, University of South Florida Rasim Guldiken is an Associate Professor of the Mechanical Engineering Department at USF. He also serves as the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs of the USF College of Engineering. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Community as “Surroundings” in a Classroom EcosystemAbstractIn this paper, we preliminarily examine the notion of the “surroundings” in an engineeringclassroom. We posed an open-ended reflection question to engineering undergraduates at a largeUS
of factors, andthe new curriculum launches fall of 2023 [1-3]. All core and elective courses were assessed forgaps, redundancies, and bottlenecks, and the curriculum was redesigned – except one non-lecture-based or lab-based course, namely the high-impact engineering course required byTAMU’s College of Engineering. The learning outcomes are stated as: “Upon successfulcompletion of this course, students will be able to (a) reflect on professional outcomes from theengineering body of knowledge and (b) assess learning experiences.” The intent of high-impactcourses is to ensure that students have the opportunity outside the formal classroom setting todevelop essential and professional skills such as communication, problem-solving, organization
. Thisfull paper explores the impact of self-paced and online Portable intercultural modules (PIMs) onthe intercultural learning goals of the students enrolled in a junior-level system thinking course.The PIM used in the class aims to improve learners’ teamwork and communication skills. ThePIM contains five activities, including watching videos about cultural diversity and empathy,survey, quizzes, and exercise that applies learning towards intercultural collaboration. The studentsin the system thinking course were asked to complete the PIM and a reflection assignment. Theresearch questions that we intend to answer for this study are: RQ1: What domains of interculturalcompetence, as defined by the AAC&U IKC Value rubric, are represented through
development of communities to support well-being.Lesley Baradel, Georgia Institute of Technology ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024Applying Personal Strengths: Building Well-being and Resilience Strategies in an Undergraduate Wellness CourseAbstractSupporting and increasing students’ well-being and resilience will positively impact theiracademic success. In this study, we analyze students’ reflections in a newly designed health andwell-being course to see how they demonstrate embodiment of the course learning objectives,knowledge, and skills.In Summer 2021, the Effective Team Dynamics Initiative, in collaboration with Georgia Instituteof Technology (Georgia Tech) School of
, dimensionality reduction, andnatural language processing. We apply this methodology to publicly available newsgroupdata which is pre-labeled by topic to demonstrate that MDM distribution may be used toextract a visual dichotomy in the text structure belonging to different topics. In otherwords, text data pertaining to a specific topic have similar MDM distributioncharacteristics. In the future we will apply this methodology to labeled reflections authoredby n students in an Engineering mechanics classroom that is infused with activities thatinvolve an Entrepreneurial mindset (EM) to identify if MDM distribution and clusteringindicates the presence of EM.Future work will also include exploring the confluence of MDM and rhetorical moves, sincewe believe
experience. Liberative pedagogies differ fromother learner-centered pedagogies in that personal transformation and social change are at theirheart, with the key outcomes of critical thinking and reflective action. With new goals andoutcomes come new measures of success, which require new assessment tools.A liberative assessment tool has been developed and implemented in an engineeringthermodynamics class. The tool uses weblog (blog) technology to measure student learning aswell as enhance it, encouraging reflection and enabling students to connect classroom contentwith personal experience. In the blog learning structure, each student develops an individualpage of entries over the semester, using guiding questions that require about half an hour
CourseNetworking (or CN), an academic social networking based learning platform that is being used by learners and educators from more than 160 countries. CourseNetworking’s most critical component is a social ePortfolio, which is institutions and educational programs to help their students collect, select, reflect on their learning and network with others who share similar academic interests. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Using ePortfolios to Facilitate Transfer Student SuccessAbstractThis paper describes the use of an ePortolio to facilitate success as students transfer from acommunity college system to baccalaureate engineering technology
of renewable energyconsumption. It is the hope that driving down the cost of renewable energy systems will allowthe technology to become more accessible around the world. In solar cells, the reflected light iswasted energy. By producing silicon nanowires (SiNWs) through Metal Assisted ChemicalEtching, or the MACE process, the reflectivity can be reduced to near zero. Our researchhighlights the process of analyzing silicon nanowire data to optimize the production of SiNWsthrough the MACE process. The primary focus of the research involved analyzing the effect ofetching time and etchant concentration on the refractive index and the reflectivity of the SiNWsamples. This was achieved by collecting Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) images
supplement a pre-existing oralcommunication lecture with peer assessment, self-reflection, and instructor feedback.The first section of this module was structured to be low-stakes, taking the format of an in-classlecture and assignment. In the lecture prior, a prompt was provided for students to design visualsin a four-minute presentation with one minute being dedicated to Q&A. The next day, a brieflecture was given covering the basics, accompanied by a best practice example presentation anda handout with tips. A fifteen-minute revision period allowed students to adjust theirpresentations to accommodate the material covered. Finally, students were divided into smallgroups, where they gave their presentations and received feedback from their
a detailed description of the two-way exchange program and summarize resultsfrom a systematic analysis of five reflective learning prompts that were administered to thestudent participants throughout the program (i.e., 1 pre-program, 3 mid-program, and 1 post-program). As further background for these efforts, we summarize relevant prior literaturediscussing strategies for scaffolding and assessing learning outcomes, both in general andspecifically in the context of global engineering programs. Based on our preliminary results, wealso discuss both benefits and challenges associated with this innovative programmaticimplementation. Furthermore, we propose directions for improvement, with an emphasis onstudent recruitment, faculty involvement
setting. This paper evaluates whether students involved in the designbased immersive learning experiences developed knowledge pertaining to design and entrepreneurship as evidenced through comparative analysis of student reflections and authoritative literature in the subject area. Introduction Since the end of the 19th century, there has been a divide within education between traditionalist and progressive philosophies. In 1938 John Dewey, one of the most important educational voices of our time, presented his philosophy of education as experience (Dewey, 1998). In his work he outlines the importance of establishing a firm base that traditionalist forms of education can nurture. He also calls for the progressive style of tying those facts
education is often described by faculty and graduate students as “a journey”, “alearning process”, and “a transformative experience”. These descriptions speak to theexperiential nature of doctoral education which aims at bringing about some change in studentsto prepare them for their future career. In the research literature, the path and process ofbecoming an engineering education researcher is an emerging field. In this paper, we present theframing of a co-operative inquiry project to explore our personal growth as graduate students.Co-operative inquiry is a research method in which multiple people share and explore a topicfrom their own perspectives through collective dialogue, reflection, interrogation, andtransformation. Our co-operative
experientiallearning settings, such support can be characterized as just-in-time improvisational designcoaching attuned to the specific situation. This work-in-progress paper presents a prototypedesign coach playbook structure for use by instructors in such environments as well as itsapplication through three preliminary scenarios. The playbook structure is designed to serve asan instructor reflective tool to illuminate challenging concepts for students and then to facilitateidentification and implementation of best practices to help students work through the challengesthey face. Information is shared in this paper to prompt feedback as we progress in developingthis framework and pursue opportunities to utilize it with a wider community of engineeringdesign
cycle of activity in four areas that supports individual and collaborativeself-directed learning and metacognitive processing. The model emphasizes reflection,evaluation, and integration while individuals design their learning, engage with resources tosupport individual study or learning in a community of practice [3], develop practices or projectsto integrate conceptual into applied knowledge with an iterative cycle of quality improvement[4], and engage in practices to increase awareness of and synthesize learning. Having completedone course through the cycle, learners synthesize and enhance awareness of their knowledgethrough curating their learning narrative in an ePortfolio [5].After evaluating student and instructor feedback over the past
5 Diversity and Inclusion in CBE Curriculum First‐Year Courses Introduction to Chemical Introduction to MATLAB and Biological for Chemical and Engineering Biological Engineers Implicit Bias Theatre Regular Gender‐Pay Reflection Activity Troupe Surveys Gap Coding Questions on Assignments ResultsWeber and Atadero. 2020 Annual CoNECD Conference
PLP onstudent learning in an introductory microprocessors class. To examine the impact on learning,students were required to write reflections about their learning every week after their labexperience. Reflections were then analyzed from a corpus-based discourse analytic perspective forwhat kind of knowledge the students gained in the PLP experience, procedural or declarative.Additionally, the language in the reflections was analyzed for stance—the students’ perspectiveson what they claimed they had learned. Results showed that students were gaining proceduralknowledge throughout the semester. In this PLP experience, which follows a trajectory of research,implementation and integration, the procedural knowledge was articulated with less
Paper ID #43928Promoting Equity and Cognitive Growth: The Influence of an AuthenticLearning Assignment on Engineering Problem-Solving SkillsDr. Boni Frances Yraguen, Vanderbilt University Boni Yraguen is an Instructional Consultant with the Vanderbilt Center for Teaching. Boni is passionate about engineering education. She has led and participated in various educational studies on the impact of student reflections, authentic learning assignments, the use of technology in the classroom, and graduate education.Elisa Koolman, University of Texas at Austin Elisa is a Ph. D. student at the University of Texas at Austin. They
a challenge tocomputer vision algorithms. While there have been many proposed approaches todetect and segment shadow in natural scenes, these methods fail to do so in real-timewithout requiring a priori information. This paper presents a model that candecompose an image into the product of an illumination component L and a reflectancecomponent R and use the reflectance component to segment the shadow region, all inreal-time. This is done by exploiting the fact that light intensity has less effect on thereflectance of an image and by assuming there is a single point light source. Our methodis highly effective in detecting shadows in an image with a surface material that exhibitsboth specular and diffuse reflectance properties. Keywords
and Supportive – instructor invites students to set and reach their learning goals and supports student success through constructive feedback, mentoring, advising, and listening [10-11] • Structured and Intentional – instructor plans course well, describes course clearly, aligns learning objectives activities and assessments, instructor clearly communicates expectations and what students need to do to meet them [12-13]Multiple measures are needed to provide a clear view of effective and inclusive teaching[14]. For example, student feedback forms may provide insights form the learner but maynot provide a clear view of instructional quality. Similarly, peer feedback and self-reflection may not fully measure effective and
2016, Erie, PA. OBJECTIVESThe purpose of this poster presentation is to provide a R E F L E C T I V I T Y & U N D E R S TA N D I N Gbrief overview of my dissertation work to date on an NSF- Student reflectivity & their
to increase and assess the use of inclusive methods of teaching in STEM classes. She is a PI on a VCU Community Engaged REAL Impact grant to promote community-engaged research in the biomedical engineering classroom and a PI on a VCU First-Generation Student Success research grant that will use participatory action research practices to study first-gen student struggles and successes in the VCU College of Engineering. Dr. Pepperl pedagogical and research interests incorporate the use lateral thinking, Theater of the Oppressed exercises, and reflection in the biomedical engineering curriculum. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by
StudentsAbstractThe Study Cycle is a set of guidelines rich with self-regulated learning (SRL) techniques thatenables students to plan, prepare, and enact their studying by focusing on five comprehensivesteps: previewing before class, engaging in class, reviewing after class, holding study sessions,and seeking help as a supplement. This paper reports on initial findings of a qualitative study inwhich a workshop on the Study Cycle was taught to a class of second-year IndustrialEngineering students as an intervention, aiming to understand effects of the module onengineering students’ SRL strategy use in an engineering course. Students self-reported SRLstrategy use in a one-minute paper pre-workshop and two sets of post-workshop reflections. Thispaper examines
productively withengineering design practices while using a CAD software in a group setting in a classroomenvironment. Existing research has classified students as mostly beginning designers or informeddesigners. The data collected are reflections written by 10 students in an introductory designcourse, one reflection after working individually in a design of an energy efficient house andanother after working as part of a team on the same problem. The data were analyzed using asconceptual framework the informed design teaching and learning matrix developed by Crismondand Adams. Findings suggest the presence of a continuum consisting of four levels and highlightthe shift in students’ design practices towards higher expertise levels after using the
integration of formative feedback during a faculty member's earlycareer stages and tying in with our newly developed and evolving faculty mentoring program. In addition,we are designing a multi-pronged feedback system that will help instructors reflect on their teaching andreceive the support they need in order to improve their teaching continuously. Our new evaluation systemwill consist of three main parts: student impressions, self-reflections, and peer observations.In the summer of 2022, our school was awarded a grant through AAU to participate in their AAU STEMDepartment Project on Teaching Evaluation. A team from Thayer is participating in an AAU LearningCommunity around Teaching Evaluation (AAU, 2022).Goal and ObjectivesThe goal of our project
dissertation at the University of Nebraska Lincoln investigated High Power Impulse Magnetron Sputtering.Dr. Maarij M Syed, Rose-Hulman Institute of Tech Dr. Maarij Syed has been actively involved in the area of magneto-optics. His background is in the magneto-optics of quantum heterostructures and magnetic bulk materials. During his time here at Rose- Hulman he has focused on building a magneto-optics lab and developing various magneto-optics exper- iments for research and for student projects and classes. Dr. Syed has also used other reflection based techniques (e.g. ellipsometry) in his work, especially in the area of polymer film characterization. On the pedagogical side, Dr. Syed has been involved in evaluating the
Engineering Education, 2018 Engagement in Practice: Incorporating Service-Learning in a Mechanical Engineering Measurements Lab – A Case StudyIntroductionThe purpose of service-learning is to provide students with a connection between the classroomand their community with a reflection component involved [1]. However, despite evidencepointing to deeper learning and development of critical thinking skills when enough opportunityfor reflection is included in service-learning [2]-[3], reflection is not widely used in engineering[3]. This study describes the incorporation of service-learning into an existing group project in anundergraduate mechanical engineering measurements lab at the University of Miami in the fallsemester of 2017, and how
Paper ID #25409An Educational Framework to Promote Self-Authorship in Engineering Un-dergraduatesDr. Laura Kasson Fiss, Michigan Technological University Laura Kasson Fiss is a Research Assistant Professor in the Pavlis Honors College at Michigan Techno- logical University. She holds a PhD from Indiana University in English (2013). Her work has appeared in Victorian Periodicals Review, The Lion and the Unicorn, and The Cambridge Companion to Gilbert and Sullivan. In addition to her research on Victorian humor, she conducts higher education research and scholarship on issues of inclusion, reflection, and innovation.Dr
and literacy. In particular how such literacy and competency are reflected in curricular and student activities. His interests also include Design and Engineering, the hu- man side of engineering, new ways of teaching engineering in particular Electromagnetism and other classes that are mathematically driven. His research and activities also include avenues to connect Prod- uct Design and Engineering Education in a synergetic way. In addition, he is active in high-speed systems engineering, and strong magnetic pulses as well as magneto-optical systems for fiber optics applications. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Addressing the differences between intention and retention in