provides an overview of IM. In thethird section, we describe the professional development program and early results from teacherobservations. We conclude with a summary of planned extension activities.1. From Media Computation to iMPaCT-Math Page 23.1332.2iMPaCT-Math (IM) is an approximate acronym for Media-Propelled Computational Thinkingfor Mathematics Classrooms, which fairly reflects our ambition and our stance – engagementwith graphical programming challenges that focus student attention towards exploringmathematics principles will propel students towards exploration of science, computationalthinking and engineered design.IM consists of
answers." This statement reflects the idea that data science involves more than just numerical analysis; it requires an integration of subject matter expertise to ensure meaningful interpretations. • Another perspective offered was, "Data is in sensors and economics in chemical engineering; data science is interpreting these values and creating a story." This view emphasizes the narrative aspect of data science, where data from diverse sources is synthesized into coherent stories that inform decision-making processes.Unsure What Data/Data Science IsA segment of the participants expressed uncertainty about the precise definitions of data and datascience, reflecting a perception of these concepts as
will detail our methodology, present our findings, and discuss the benefitsand limitations of integrating ChatGPT into qualitative analysis for engineering educationresearch.MethodsTo gather qualitative data, our team devised a semi-structured interview protocol comprisingfour segments: introduction and warm-up, engineering identity, teamwork, and conclusion.When time permitted, we asked the interviewees to reflect upon stories of practicing engineers,which were compiled from publicly accessible accounts of the day-to-day experiences ofpracticing engineers. This interview framework and other relevant aspects of our research designreceived approval from our institution’s Institutional Review Board.Throughout the RIEF project, we conducted a
be attributed to the fact that GradTrack’s main focus and mission is the preparation ofstudents for graduate school, particularly with their applications. This theme also emergedfrequently in student reflections as one of the most helpful aspects of the program. One studentreflecting on this said: “I also found all of the resources, examples, and a timeline of when to accomplish certaingraduate school application tasks to be rewarding and allowed me to prepare my applications as best as I could have.”Another student remarked: “I found completing my application documents and getting them reviewed to be the most valuable part about my GradTrack mentorship experience.”Further, within the
disposition towards command line programming, which wasalso reflected in their initial struggle to adjust to using a command line tool. On the other hand,the OOP students showed a better performance and disposition towards command lineprogramming, but this could have been influenced by acquired experiences both prior andexternal with using such tools.1. IntroductionDeveloping ways to effectively teach early computer science (CS) majors how to program hasbeen an important topic of interest for some time. When addressing student learning in earlyprogramming courses, there have been a variety of elements researched and observed, notableones being: 1) the type of paradigms that are ideal for introducing students to programming [1],[2], [3], [4], 2) the
an accessible and reliable assessmentsystem for assessing conceptual STEM understanding for colleges and universities that aligns withSTEM curriculum and uses Artificial Intelligence (AI) based assessment methods. Table 1: Operational Definition of Terms Term Operational Definition Example(s) Proficiency The proficiency of a person reflects the probability • Percentage correct on of answering test items correctly. The higher the static exams. individual’s proficiency, the higher the probability • Theta estimate on CATs. of a correct response. Different fields refer to proficiency as ability, latent trait, theta. Content
unpack tensions, historicalcontext, and practice of a liberal engineering education. Engineers have long positionedthemselves as “problem-solvers” uniquely situated to use technical knowledge to proposesolutions to complex problems. Recent work has identified the need to better integratenontechnical knowledge into engineering education as a way of reflecting the complex social andpolitical landscapes that structure engineering practice (Reddy, Kleine, Parsons, & Nieusma2023). Here we explore using a framework for “engineering as conflict” as a compelling practiceof sociotechnical integration at the undergraduate level. Here, conflict refers to the practice orprocess of disagreement, difference of opinion, or tensions.From the perspective of
parallel study of this project, we aim to further investigate the findings from thisstudy by examining engineering doctoral students’ perceptions on their preparedness to teach varybased on their demographic characteristics, prior teaching experiences and trainings, etc. [16]. Inanother study, we analyze engineering doctoral students’ expectations, reflections, and concernsregarding their future in academia [17].Theoretical FrameworkThe survey instrument developed is grounded in the self-efficacy and self-perception theory. Theself-efficacy theory provides a framework to act as a predictor of how individuals may perform inthe future based on their confidence in their ability in a certain task or domain [18]. According toBandura [19], [20], a
Tools/Materials: NGSS-aligned quantum- Fundamental concepts Increase in infused science Teachers’ reflective in quantum quantum curriculum. feedback information science understanding are teachable and engaging within formal Participant + Task science learning Structures
patronization, saviorism, and poverty voyeurism.The Ohio State University (OSU) has been offering engineering service-learning courses sincethe early 2000s, that have spanned mostly the international context. These early courses adopteda traditional approach to service-learning which often did not see the community as co-equalpartners and overlooked systemic inequalities. Reflecting on this period, the success of manyimplemented projects (from Honduras to Haiti) remains unclear. To rectify this and transitionengineering service learning to a critical paradigm, with the aim to deconstruct systems of powerand dismantle the inequalities they perpetuate, a collaborative effort among faculty members,also the authors of this paper, teaching local and
fromcomputer science (University of Maryland Baltimore County) participated in the sustainablerobotic agriculture project and worked closely with undergraduates in Agriculture and Engineeringmajors from the home institution to assist with setting up experiments; collecting and analyzingdata. The students were required to submit a short report reflecting on the experience and resultsof the findings. During the entire academic year, there were 5 students (2 as a part of theirundergraduate research experience; and 3 as part of their paid assistantships) participated in thisproject. Out of the six students; two were from general engineering majors; one from agriculturemajor; one from computer science major; and two were from Biology majors.2.2 Farmbots
literature review (ScLR) conducted toelucidate the current landscape, trends, methods, and potential gaps in the literature surroundingequitable design pedagogy in engineering education. The ScLR follows the methodologypresented by Arksey and O’Malley (2005), which breaks the process into five stages: (1)identifying the research questions, (2) identifying the relevant studies, (3) study selection, (4)charting the data, and (5) collating, summarizing, and reporting the results. These stages wereperformed iteratively, which allowed for reflection and study team collaboration along eachstage. The study was grounded in four central inclusion criteria: (1) equitable design, (2)engineering education, (3) engineering course, and (4) secondary education
3outcomes. Moreover, antecedents and interpersonal outcomes may differ across contexts,resulting in different ways empathy might be observed and different facets that might be mostcritical to empathy’s manifestation. Thus, for the next stop on our tour of empathy models, weexplore Smeenk, Sturm, and Eggen’s [16] Empathic Formation Compass.Smeenk, Sturm, and Eggen’s Empathic Formation CompassSmeenk and colleagues [16] developed their empathic formation compass through a focus onproviding a model that addresses empathy as a construct and process, supports reflection ondesign action, and focuses on designers’ roles and design decisions. The empathic formationcompass integrates several empathy and design models to create a more robust sense of
& Viable Business Models, Multicultural, and Social Consciousness. This e-portfolio includes but is not limited to undergraduate research, projects, and high-impact experiences that can be leveraged to pursue future academic and professional careers. ombining e-portfolios with an interdisciplinary approach to education scenarios allows us toCperform the analysis of our cohort's growth in varied ways. Previous cohorts were tasked with the performance of a pre-and post-program survey as well as a traditional reflection essay[2]. Extrapolating on that idea and the engineers' inherent drive for innovation, in this 2023 cohort we elevated the research design by adding concept maps to assess student
-evaluation, andactive involvement in learning processes contribute to student's academic experiences andoutcomes. Each construct has been carefully chosen and defined to capture the multifacetednature of student engagement in first-year engineering courses. Building on the theoreticalframeworks we discussed earlier, it's important to note how each construct within our instrumentis aligned with specific dimensions of student engagement in first-year engineering courses.Constructive EngagementCourse Knowledge, reflecting the dimension of constructive engagement, is grounded in theconstructive aspect of Chi's ICAP theory [10]. Michelene Chi's ICAP framework categorizesstudent cognitive engagement into four distinct levels based on their interaction
mindsets and iteration guided data collection,analysis, and initial interpretation towards the development of three preliminary themes: 1) howstudents redefined failure as an opportunity to learn, and 2) how students reframe difficult tasksas challenging rather than risky, and 3) how the ability to iterate supported student agency. Inaddition, in these interviews, we explored how these preliminary themes related to the supportiveprogrammatic features that define this experimental program, and specifically, hands on, problembased learning and mastery assessment. Our discussion concludes with initial reflections on howexploratory findings in this pilot study can inform future programmatic decisions and directionsfor the larger research
reflection on howour grading practices impact equity mirrors conversations around using standardized testingmechanisms like the SAT, ACT, and GRE for admissions decisions. These high-stakes examsmay hugely impact accessibility of higher education for certain demographics of students[18]–[20]. Mounting criticism of standardized tests have pointed out that performance appearstied to lack of preparation and under-resourced schools, rather than students’ ability to succeed inundergraduate or graduate degree programs [21]–[24]. As underrepresented students are stronglyaffected by using test score thresholds to admit candidates, several movements have proposedthat their use be discontinued.While grades are a deeply ingrained part of higher educational
explanations and understanding of howmajority and underrepresented group members in a College of Engineering felt exclusion andinclusion and what visions they could produce from their collective sensemaking. Qualitativecausal mapping provides DT facilitators with a tool to listen for, plan, and mark passages to drawout explicit and implicit linkages that might not be conscious or intentional. In the case of the DTfacilitator in our study, he displayed strategies to encourage causal expressions such as pullingdata from past sessions and encouraging reflection, digging below the surface meanings of talkto underlying feeling (longing for inclusion, confusion with why people do not act in particularways), and expressions of curiosity). The DT session
of the womenstudents enrolled in a class offered in a civil engineering program. Student information wascollected via two online questionnaires, one given at the beginning and one at the end of the term(IRB-0-218).The Role of Guided Note-TakingFacilitating note-taking can help students perform better, particularly because it helps studentsstay engaged in the learning process [29] - [36]. By taking notes, students can monitor theirunderstanding and reflect on their learning process [37]. This type of understanding andreflection is related to the self-efficacy of learning [38]. When students are listening to theinstructor, the information received in the sensory memory is transferred to the working memory,and the transferring process may exert
helpengineers and their communities meet their needs, and clarifies that engineering does notinherently require technocratic solutions to communal problems and needs.PositionalityThe primary and secondary authors are both engineers, labor organizers with the AmericanFederation of Teachers (AFT) local GEO-3550, and children of union members fromworking-class backgrounds. Both were participants in the 2020 GEO-3550 abolitionist strike fora safe and just campus for all [29]. The first author was also taking graduate coursework inintroducing the concepts of engineering education research during the writing of this paper,which provided a critical reflective space for learning and grappling with theoretical frameworksand their applications. We reached out to
rubricelements as the SCD such as concept of operations and team logo. As the semester progressed,we realized that our meets elements should be closer aligned with including assignment elementsrather than clarity. We also fully admit that some of our criteria were not well written, but the 5criteria was the best we could come up with at the time – a lesson learned from implementingspecifications grading: the need for ongoing reflection and clarification of specifications asfaculty and students learn.Peer evaluations were completed using CATME, and students passed the assignment if theywrote meaningful comments including improvements for team members
Paper ID #11935Using Design Process Timelines to Teach Design: Implementing Research Re-sultsDr. Cynthia J. Atman, University of Washington Cynthia J. Atman is the founding director of the Center for Engineering Learning & Teaching (CELT), a professor in Human Centered Design & Engineering, and the inaugural holder of the Mitchell T. & Lella Blanche Bowie Endowed Chair at the University of Washington. Dr. Atman is co-director of the newly-formed Consortium for Promoting Reflection in Engineering Education (CPREE), funded by a $4.4 million grant from the Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust. She was
w their suupporting leaarning objecttives; see Fiigure14. Theree were lectu ures focused on higher-leevel topics reelated to “leaarning how to t learn” aloongwith conntent-based leectures focusing on briddging fuels annd the wiredd and conneccted world off2030. Leectures on tools to help frame f and annswer the Q44S through dilemma d idenntification annd Page 23.480.4managem ment were allso included.. Finally, stuudents reflected upon theeir semester learning throougha semester learning essay
engineering students’ ability to problem solve andapply theories to practical applications. Statics course is considered one of the core courses and thechallenging courses for students in the fields of Mechanical, Civil, Environmental Engineering.Think-Pair-Share TPS pedagogy was adopted as a teaching tool in this course to enhance students’ability to understand the course contents. TPS is one of the active learning methodologies thatshowed promising outcomes in the field of education. However, its influence on the engineeringfield in general and Statics course in specific is still ambiguous and yet to be explored. Thequantitative method approach was used in collecting and analyzing the data. The study showed thatthis interactive pedagogy reflected
, and a B.S. in Applied Mathematics and Physics. Hammond advised 17 UG theses, 29 MS theses, and 10 Ph.D. dissertations. Hammond is the 2020 recipient of the TEES Faculty Fellows Award and the 2011 recipient of the Charles H. Barclay, Jr. ’45 Faculty Fellow Award. Hammond has been featured on the Discovery Channel and other news sources. Hammond is dedicated to diversity and equity, which is reflected in her publications, research, teaching, service, and mentoring. More at http://srl.tamu.edu and http://ieei.tamu.edu. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2022 1
to”, “I believe this class could beof some value to me” and “I believe doing this class is important”.The Index of Learning Styles [8] is a survey instrument used to assess preferences onfour dimensions (active/reflective, sensing/intuitive, visual/verbal, and sequential/global).The instrument was developed and validated by [8]. Users answer 44 a-b questions with11 questions for each of the four dimensions. After answering the question students get ascore for each of the four dimensions that ranges from 0 to 11. for example, the 11 itemsthat corresponded to the Activist/Reflective spectrum were added with a score of 1 if theresponse corresponded to Activist and a score of 0 if the response corresponded to Reflective.Sense of belonging to
participants a copy of the transcripts to obtain their feedback. Weare committed to exclude any language that the participants deem necessary.ResultsBased on the outcomes of our data analyses, the findings are forthcoming. Our findings will highlight the waysin which CCW influences Black and Hispanic women’s persistence in computing education in response to ourcollective need to better support this population in their attainment and representation in STEM+C disciplines.AcknowledgementThis material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 2046079.Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of theauthor(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National
reflection is the idea that communities ofpractice tend to form more often in a workplace environment than in formal school education [5].Many of the members of our group are faculty with significant teaching loads, who practice amore traditional kind of knowledge transfer within our classes each week. When it is then ourown turn to seek out new knowledge, we instead choose an informal, collaborativecommunication format. While it is outside of the scope of this paper, there is a fair amount tounpack about how, as older adults, we balance companionship as an equally important valuealong with knowledge gain. It is possible that more reflection is needed on the needs of ourstudents, and the potential exists to incorporate more companionship components
. The NSSE indicators include the following: higher-order learning; reflective and integrativelearning; learning strategies; quantitative reasoning; collaborative learning; discussions withdiverse others; student-faculty interaction; effective teaching practices; quality interactions; andsupportive environments. The definition of these predictors is presented in Table 1. Other factorsthat will be included as variables in the study are the pre-college preparedness of the students, suchas the raw ACT and SAT scores of participants, and the socio-economic status of participants uponentering engineering college. The socio-economic status by proxy will be measured by theparticipant parents’ levels of education. Four success workshops will be
(MIT Press, 2017). With Gregg Mitman and Marco Armiero, he edited the collection of critical reflections and works of art, Future Remains: A Cabinet of Curiosities for the Anthropocene (University of Chicago, 2018). His humanities scholarship has appeared in the journals Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, Environmental Humanities, Re- silience and elsewhere orcid.org/0000-0002-4526-6094). From 2013-2015, Dr. Emmett served as Director of Academic Programs at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society in Munich, Germany. He has taught humanities courses in interdisciplinary programs at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and Ludwig-Maximilians- Universit¨at in