). Furthermore, the curricula of59 the CEM Capstone (CEM 425) did not reflect the skill sets and knowledge that the current60 industry professionals think the students should gain upon graduation to apply to current61 industry practices (Bernold, 2005; Hegazy et al., 2013; Schexnayder & Anderson, 2011).62 Hence, there was a need to review and transform the CEM 425 course to better reflect63 the students' and industry professionals' demands. This research aimed to propose and64 demonstrate a new CEM Capstone course(s) curriculum that can deliver topical content65 to incubate industry-ready professionals. To achieve the objective, this study (1)66 conducted a literature review about curricula priority and assessment, (2) mapped67
research;and developing leadership, communication, and professional competencies. After two years ofdevelopment and implementation, we are also able to discuss lessons learned and strategies forscaling the model. We present findings from students in the program and a reflective interview ofthe project leadership team. In order to adopt this innovative education model, students, faculty,and universities need understanding of career pathways and opportunities beyond traditionalacademic pursuits.IntroductionWe formed the Pathways to Entrepreneurship (PAtENT) graduate education model to addressthe need to develop and train advanced engineering students in the art of entrepreneurship.Workforce estimates show that only 10% of doctoral graduates in STEM
on active learning in smallgroups solving similar types of problems. 0.2The high percentage of students scoring inthe advanced and proficient ranges of all 0elements within the Engineering Habits of 1 2 Score 3 4Mind may also be contributed to the Figure 3. Breakdown of student scores from BEN 401involvement of metacognition reflection habits aspart of the course curriculum following a class-wide poor performance on a low-stakes quiz earlierin the semester. After the poor performance, the instructor streamed the Skillful Learning,“Reflecting on Our Thinking” YouTube video [5
is shown in Table 4. Table 4: Grading for Project 1 Evaluation % Written Memo 40% Presentation (Instructor Score) 30% Presentation (Rocket Feedback) 10% Reflection 20%Project 2: Router Cutting with CAMThe purpose of this project was to introduce the built-in CAM plugin for SolidWorks. Before thisproject was assigned, the students completed all 18 video tutorials in the CAM learning path onthe MySolidWorks training site [8]. These videos described the steps for setting the cuttingparameters
instruction leads to student autonomy, constructive investigation, goal-settingcollaboration, and enhanced communication skills. Projects like this also address a wider set oflearning styles, promote critical and proactive thinking, and reflection. Mills et. al. [2, 8] argue thatthe current engineering programs do not provide sufficient design experience to students. Becauseof this, graduates often lack communication skills and teamwork experience. Engineeringprograms need to develop more awareness among students of the social, environmental, economic,and legal issues. These issues are better addressed in a project-based learning environment than inany other classroom setting. Mills et. al suggest that they are part of the reality of
state of the literature in aspecific area without using formal quality examination in the inclusion or exclusion criteria [6].An ScR may also indicate whether conducting a systematic review would be appropriate [7].2.1 The Scoping Review Protocol. During the initial phase of the ScR, the research team must becritically reflective of the process, re-visiting prior stages to ensure that the final review meetsthe project's desired scope and research questions. The research team currently consists of anengineering librarian, two literature reviewers, and one content expert. Arksey and O'Malley'smethodology informed thedevelopment of the scoping review ScR S age Ob ec e O c
resultsseem to suggest there might be a favorable bias in the sections taught by the faculty in the videos(502 and 503).End of Semester SurveyA survey was created and administered near the end of the course that asked students to reflect onthe course. The questions aimed to assess if the students were enthusiastic about the course, if thecourse helped in solving real-world problems, and if the students were interested in pursuing amaster’s or doctoral degree in the subject area. For comparative purposes, this survey was firstadministered as a baseline survey in a section of the course that did not implement the videos inFall 2021, when significantly fewer students took this course (off-schedule group). The results areshown in Figure 2. Students
with my cousin's death, my community being affected, my mental health, and just well being in general. To make a long story short, no matter how much I tried to explain it to this Professor, he did not care. [J7-1F1-3S]7. Reflective “Reflective” was defined by participants who shared three instances in which the events ofthe dual pandemic gave pause to “normal” life and enabled people to think more about the realitiesof others; realities that they may have never given much consideration to otherwise. An exampleof this is seen by one participant who shared “I believe with the cancellation of most major sportingevents or anything with a gathering of large crowds, we are forced to look at these things a bitmore.” [G3-2F3
influence transgender and gender nonconforming (TGNC) students’interests in and intentions to pursue engineering? This paper aims to provide preliminary insightsinto TGNC students participating in this course by exploring their unique perspectives. Anunderstanding of TGNC student experiences in the e4usa course will help to improve the course,while also exposing the policies and practices in the field of engineering that continue tomarginalize these students.Limitations We acknowledge our small sample size as a major limitation of this quantitativeexploration of TGNC student experiences in a pre-college engineering course. Our sample size issmall, but it is also unfortunately reflective of the overall TGNC representation in engineering.The
hierarchy, which in turn is responsible for supervising and coordinating the work of subordinates. Employment in a bureaucratic organization is expected to be full time and long term, with opportunities for advancement—in short, a career. (p. 3)In many organizations today, such bureaucratic arrangement has morphed into more flexible and“flat” structures (see [3])—but even within those structures, with smaller manager ranks andfewer hierarchical levels, people report to people, i.e., accountability and decision-makingauthority rolls up from contributor to leader.Overall, these relationships reflect an organization’s reporting structure. A reporting structurecaptures three key features of work: chain of command, span of control, and
biomedical engineering curricula in universities across the UnitedStates [5]. For example, programs like Johns Hopkins University’s two week long clinicalobservation program for undergraduates [6] and the authors’ institution’s unique two semesterlong Engineering in Surgery and Intervention Course for graduate students [7] attempt toincorporate a clinically immersive aspect to the traditional biomedical engineering corecurriculum. Through the use of grades, survey data, reflections and other measures, theseprograms show promising improvements to students’ abilities to understand and identify clinicaland surgical needs as biomedical engineers. However, few testable instruments exist that can beused across different programs to assess their efficacy
get full creditfor submitting a correct numerical answer or no credit if the submitted numerical answer wasincorrect. Sometimes, students understood the concept and made a calculation error. They weretreated the same as the students who never understood the concept.Offering partial credit for an exam is an interesting topic by itself among the educationalcommunity. Some faculty members do not give it, while many others do. The methods fordetermining partial credit include reviewing exam papers manually [12], asking and reviewingpost-exam reflections from the students [13], and conducting in-person interviews [14]. Somefaculty members went in the other direction of eliminating partial credit and supplementing itwith extra credit problems [15
interviewed. The feedback from the students and reflections from the faculty wouldprovide guidance about the integration of the undergraduate research experiences into the coursesto broaden the impacts of undergraduate research on learning and teaching. In the future, at leastanother two cohorts of students. especially from underrepresented groups, will be recruited. Wewill have a longitudinal study to explore the impacts of undergraduate research experiences onlearning and teaching using a mixed qualitative and quantitative method.KeywordsResearch Experience for Undergraduate, Drone Swarms, Artificial Intelligence. 1. Introduction Studies showed that interdisciplinary undergraduate research activity efficiently improvesstudents’ learning and
everything before writing a first draft, is an incrediblyimportant piece of the process of writing that forces the writer to begin organization and synthesisprior to drafting [2-5]. The motivation for this work comes from a decade of experience teachingtechnical and professional communication to engineering graduate and undergraduate students andthe observed resistance to engaging in prewriting. The majority of students encountered prefer tojump straight into writing, seeing prewriting as a cumbersome task that takes up time withoutseemingly obvious benefit. Reflecting on student resistance to pre-writing activities, such as thepopular outlining, raised the question of what other, perhaps less traditional, approaches might beoffered to students as
. Building on previous work, we use a dataset that includes engineering identity questionsmeasured when students were in the fall of their first year of college (collected prior to thepandemic) and re-administered to the same group of students during the fall of their second yearof study (collected during the pandemic). The survey included only those students who wereenrolled in the College of Engineering as engineering pre-majors. We hypothesize that, for acohort of college students, engineering identity will decrease after the onset of the pandemic,because such identity development is influenced by day-to-day interactions within students’engineering community and their reflections about these experiences (Carrino & Gerace, 2016).We also
, 16701AbstractCapstone design projects serve as the final opportunity for the senior students to apply theknowledge and skills they have learned in their college programs, and practice team spirit,communication skills, and project management skills to provide practical solutions to engineeringchallenges. It’s the best reflection of how well the current university curricula match industrialneeds. The present paper focuses on discussing the most common gaps between modernundergraduate curricula and the actual requirements of the industry and explores the reasonsbehind those gaps. The discussions are inspiring for curriculum design and development in thefuture to match the fast-shifting industrial needs in the real world.KeywordsCapstone projects, Curricula
effect of in-class problem-solving activities. Negative to flat correlations were observed among the perception scenarios(tests reflected with materials covered as well as course content and course outline) and weightedaverage GPA, whereas a positive correlation was observed between in-class problem-solving andweighted average GPA. Although statistical differences were not significant, students’ perceptionsand attitudes were positive and indicated the effectiveness of in-class problem-solving activitiesin improving the overall performance.Keywords: Perception, attitude, in-class problem-solving, performance improvement,engineering educationIntroductionIn-class problem-solving, other way it can be designated as active learning is one
disciplines, including undergraduate freshmen all the way to seniorstudents. They are taught the research methods and processes and apply those techniques on areal-world project. Senior students also serve as mentors to junior students.Literature Review & MethodologyResearch shows that students actively working on hands-on engineering projects learn above andbeyond the traditional classroom instruction. Kokotsaki et. al. [1] indicate that active student-centered form of instruction leads to student autonomy, constructive investigation, goal-settingcollaboration, and enhanced communication skills. Projects like this also address a wider set oflearning styles, promotes critical and proactive thinking, and reflection. Mills et. al. [2, 8] arguethat
DiscussionThere were 136 responses collected. The participants broadly reflect the demographics of thesampled population in terms of age (M = 21.2, SD = 5.3), race (78.7% White or Caucasian, 8.8%Black or African American, 12.5% other), and gender identity (58.1% male, 38.2% female, 3.7%nonbinary). With regards to classification, 35.3% of respondents were underclassmen (freshmenor sophomores) and 64.7% of students were upperclassmen (juniors, seniors, and 5+ year seniors).A breakdown of degree program representation overall and by gender is presented in Table 1. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 2023 ASEE Southeastern Section ConferenceTable 1: Degree program breakdown
. However qualitative studentexperience showed a different clear favorite: the in-person Arduino-robot. As the students usedthe Arduino-robots, there was a clear joy that was absent or reduced during the peg-board andvirtual lab. During the semester with hybrid learning, 23 out of 35 (66%) student reflections saidthe in-person labs were a highlight of the course. These findings replicated findings from otherimplementations of the course where students indicated a preference for hands-on labs [6]. Several of the students specifically pointed to the robot lab, captured with this reflection:“With online lectures and labs, it can all get a bit boring, however, when I am actually applyingwhat I learned in lecture to something I can touch with my
grade to start college strongly.Many courses that these Catalyst Scholars have taken before or will take in their college careerare lecture-based – watching someone else perform mathematics and problem solving for them,describing each step, variable and reflective process. This does not allow them to createnecessary connections to their personal experiences [5] or work with each other to help createsatisfying moments [6] – both contributors to successful learning [7]. Therefore, Math Catalyst issteeped in group work on solving engineering applications of mathematics they have seen beforeor are currently seeing in their mathematics course. Each class unit begins with a newengineering or science context, definitions, or reminders of mathematical
TikTok videos for the labs.This idea proved very beneficial and motivated students to learn the lab material effectively. Thismethodology was most effective in motivating the students and capturing student attention.Figure 1. Improved course structure initially designed and employed at Texas A&MUniversity for engineering courses [1], now extended to other STEM courses in Chemistryat University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV)2.4 Data AnalysisAutoethnography [12] is a tool used as a self-reflection for recognition and documentation ofpersonal experiences. The above study utilized an autoethnographic approach to understand theresults obtained. The following questions were used to understand the results and answer thecomplexity of an
first-year gateway courses beforereaching technical proficiency in biomedical engineering. Another strategy toincorporate ethics into the curriculum focuses on senior capstone courses with anemphasis on designing for clients and diverse stakeholders, but this approach lacksthe appropriate scaffolding of ethical principles applied to engineering problemsthat mirrors scaffolded technical content. Accepting the broad nature of abiomedical engineering degree, we aim to engage undergraduate students ingaining proficiency and efficacy in incorporating ethical inquiry into technicalknowledge that improves student engagement with course content and allowscritical reflection on technical challenges for their future careers. We believe thatan iterative
expansion of the CW.In the past year, we have focused on (a) analyzing extensive interviews with faculty members toinvestigate aspects of the educational systems that influence the propagation of the CW in fivediverse institutional settings, (b) a multi-institutional “Common Questions Study” expandedfrom last year, (c) student metacognitive responses to complex concept questions, (d) machinelearning of constructed responses, (d) continued development and review of concept questions,and (e) development of adaptive instructional tools.Ecosystems Metaphor for PropagationIn this project, we use an ecosystem metaphor to understand the propagation of an instructionaltool, the Concept Warehouse [9]. This metaphor reflects a socio-cultural perspective that
settings [7]. This work-in-progresspaper will outline our strategies for transforming the MCTE track at Duke University, includingthe needs identification, initial findings of student and curricular success, infrastructure changesto support our enhanced tract, and future directions to iterate on our courses. We also present thefirst iteration of our improved MCTE track courses, learning objectives for lecture and student-centered laboratories, and feedback on further improving these core courses to reflect the dynamicchange in the biomedical engineering space.From traditional engineering courses to an enhanced MCTE track Our BME curriculum requires students to take Bio201L: Molecular Biology as aprerequisite for their initial required BME
questions by having students grade them using the samerubric as the instructors. They observed that students matched the instructor-determined gradesless than 50% of the time. However, the rubric required students to discern between a “minorerror,” a “minor logic error” and a “significant conceptual error,” such that poor performance onthe calibration task may have been reflective of students’ inability to discern between these typesof mistakes.In this study we will examine preliminary data collected in an engineering statics course toobserve whether our students follow trends observed with postdiction calibration in other fields.Specifically, we are interested in determining if: 1) High-performing students are better calibrated than low
identity draws on three constructs reflected in similarresearch in physics, math, and science broadly: subjective interest in the subject, external feelings ofrecognition, and competency beliefs. That these concepts overlap with related frameworks forunderstanding students’ motivation to succeed and perform in STEM education is perhaps unsurprising,but results in a complicated picture of how EI forms and what role it might play in students’ trajectories.To disentangle expectancy value constructs of motivation and EI measures of competency beliefs, wouldrequire a simultaneous consideration of both- an approach absent in the current literature[8]. While a gooddeal of this work focuses on the factors that inform matriculation into engineering
from the larger community of thesurrounding town. Many of the students who attend St. Teresa’s live on this side of town, wherethere is quite a bit of poverty. Most students receive government-funded scholarships to attendthe private school, which is owned and run by a Black woman native to the local community.The school serves students pre-K through eighth grade. Roper Developmental Research Schoolis a public school affiliated with a University. The student population is selected by lottery andrequired to reflect the demographics and socioeconomics of the school-age population of theState. Participants were recruited and consented through a convenience sampling, by word ofmouth through researchers’ contacts in the schools and
limit their professional effectiveness since our study of engineering judgment in student writing clearly indicates that technical work is clearly mediated through communication practice. This finding is also reflected in Wilde and Guile’s (2021) use of the concepts of situated judgment and immaterial activity. They note that material production includes interprofessional teams’ idea generation and digitalFigure 2. High-level themes and sub- exchanges of ideas, suggestions, and recollections that
from over 75 interns from across the JHU/APL,16 day-of volunteers/mentors, and 8 judges (a total of approximately 25 JHU/APL staff members).There was a diverse representation of race and ethnicity, with the majority of students identifyingas Asian and Black or African American. This reflected the high participation of students from theCIRCUIT and ATLAS internship programs. Survey responding students identified as 56% male,40% female, and 4% other/prefer not to say. Academic disciplines represented by students werediverse, unlike traditional hackathons which often see participation primarily from software-oriented majors. Table 1: Represented Academic Majors at Net-Hack 2022 Academic Majors Represented Aerospace Engineering