with thesematerials. It is primarily a call to consider how students engage in their college experience,and to search for proper tools that can be deployed to stimulate learning.In moving forward, there are numerous tools available to select from, including the modelspredicated on cooperation; i.e., working together to accomplish shared goals. Withincooperative activities, individuals seek outcomes that are beneficial to them and also benefitall other group members. (2, 3) Cooperative learning researchers and practitioners have shownthat positive peer relations are essential to success in college. The positive interpersonalrelationships promoted through cooperative learning are regarded by most as crucial totoday’s learning communities. They
Page 26.1066.5importance of reflection in courses is demonstrated in Wong et al. who suggested that studentwriting can be used as evidence of reflective thinking and learning.14As previously stated, there are several ways to engage in critical reflection. Kavanagh listed endof course meta-learning, portfolio reflections, peer assisted learning sessions in their engineeringcourse,2 and as seen in O’Moore and Baldock,19 they discussed online reflections, and teamreflections. Each technique has strengths and weaknesses, but they provide a different approachto understanding of learning outcomes and experiences. Journal writing has also been seen in theliterature,13, 14, 17 and in these instances, reflection can occur in the journal entries and
-time research or scholarship[,]… [and it] is viewed as preparatory fora full-time academic and/or research career,” among others. Although this is what is typicallythought of regarding postdocs, a consistent definition of what a postdoc position actually is, isstill lacking, which makes studying the postdoc experience a challenge2.Possibly due to the lack of a consistent definition of what a postdoc appointment is, there can bemany different responsibilities that characterize postdoc positions. Akerlind3 writes that there is“substantial variation within postdoc roles and responsibilities, even within the same disciplinaryarea.” These responsibilities, as listed by Akerlind3 include: being completely in charge of aresearch project and all it
, National Association of Counties, and the United States Economic Development Administration. She is the author of Dealing with Deindus- trialization: Adaptive Resilience in American Midwestern Regions (Routledge 2014) and has published numerous peer-reviewed articles focused on economic resilience, economic restructuring, and economic development.Dr. Jennifer L. Irish, Virginia Tech Dr. Jennifer Irish, professor of coastal engineering at Virginia Tech, is an expert in storm surge dynamics, coastal hazard assessment, and nature-based infrastructure for coastal hazard mitigation. Since entering academia in 2006, as lead Principal Investigator (PI) or co-PI, Irish received research grants from agen- cies
Time management 4.50 Presentation Importance of Skills to Career Path Writing Teamwork Leadership 4.00 Research Teaching 3.50 3.00 2.50 2.00 2.00 2.50 3.00
interested in transferring to a bachelor’s program in engineering.The purpose of the course is to introduce potential Grove students to the practice of engineering Page 23.249.4research in the engineering disciplines the school offers. The course consists of a group researchassignment, lab and library visits, guest lectures on engineering ethics and statistics, groupreports and presentations, math tutoring, and writing exercises analyzing a research article andexploring a research problem. A program description is provided in appendix 2. The studentswere recruited by Grove’s office of student programs using its contacts in many communitycolleges and
) Time of Day D) Mobility A) Motivation B) Persistence 5. Psychological/Cognitive Processing C) Conformity/Responsibility A) Global D) Need for Structure Provided by Source B) Analytic C) Right or Left Hemisphericity 3. Sociological Work or Learning Choices D) Impulsive-Reflective A) Alone/Self B) With One Other Individual C) With Peers D) With an Adult E) Varied, Responds to Situation or Environment
5 FS BME 674 Medical Imaging 3 S CIS 200 Programming Fundamentals 4 FS ECE 512 Linear Systems 3 FS ECE 540 Applied Scientific Computing for Engineers 3 FS ECE 772/3 Theory & Techniques of Bioinstrumentation Lecture/Lab 3 F Sub‐Total Credit Hours 36 COMMUNICATION CORE Credits Semester ENGL 100 Expository Writing 1
, ethnicity, ornationality, or from more narrowly focused occupational, peer-to-peer, and family roles [28]. Anengaging social climate that fosters positive interactions among peers and faculty can help [29].Students’ sense of belonging, in turn, influences their motivation and achievement in STEM[30]. Individuals who develop a strong sense of belonging in a particular group have awarenessof implicit and explicit expectations or cultural-historical “repertoires of practice” that influencesocial interactions, social roles and social norms within that group [31]. Making connectionswithin social networks and accruing different forms of “social capital” [32] valued by groupmembers is accomplished through positive social interactions with existing group
to stay in college if they connected both academically and socially tothe institution2. Alexander Astin’s research found that the quality and the quantity of studentsinteractions with peers and faculty were important factors in developing student engagement inthe life of the institution3.Lenning and Ebbers4 (1999) wrote that Alexander Astin and Vincent Tinto models showed theimportance of “community” learning and involvement among students and faculty. The “involvement” model (Astin) and the “student departure” model (Tinto) provide theoretical and conceptual reasons why student learning communities should impact college students positively, and much research supports both models. The models suggest that learning
co-lead designer of Hands- on Standards STEM in ActionTM —a set of learning modules for preK-5th grades - in use in 35 countries and selected as finalist for two international awards. Dr. Strobel received the 2018 Science Educator of the Year Award from the Academy of Science - St. Louis and the 2018 STEM Excellence Award from the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE), and served as an Invited Member on the National Academy of Engineering Committee for Implementing Engineering in K-12. Dr. Strobel founded the Journal of Pre-College Engineering Education Research (J-PEER), has served on the board of IEEE Transactions in Education, and currently serves as Associate Editor for the Australasian
this type of mentorship (Leydens 2014, Nieusma 2011). One such initiative, theAccess Network, aims to do just that. The Access Network is a collection of programs (sites) thatare situated in U.S. universities that work towards a more equitable, diverse, inclusive, andaccessible version of the STEM community (Quan 2019). Access prioritizes student leaders, bothat the network-level and in their local sites, by empowering them to take the lead on actions andby providing support for this work. Access sites engage in activities that build inclusive learningcommunities, provide guidance through peer mentorship, and support growth in students’leadership around social justice.One major function of the Access Network is to connect students across these
two thirds or more of the instances ofeach feature in the teacher’s discussion transcript, they also associated non-examples with eachfeature (i.e., “over-coding” for the feature). Most especially, participants over-coded instancesfor Feature 1, linking many quotes to this feature even though the quotes did not encouragestudents to engage other teams about their designs; this finding was also evident in thesynchronous discussion. In the Identifying Strategies assignment, PSTs collectively identified atotal of 15 strategies that the teachers used with respect to the three features. The most frequentlymentioned strategies for each feature were: having students call on a peer for critique orfeedback (Feature 1), posing questions about whether
. However, whenstudents did reflect on out-of-major courses, they tended to recount a wider variety of enactedphilosophies, including more learner-centered ones (progressivism, social reconstructionism, andexistentialism). Qualitative analysis of students’ descriptions of their most impactful classesrevealed five major factors that contribute to the success of a course: course components, theinstructor, the student experience, the subject matter, and other stakeholders (e.g., peers andteaching assistants). Exploring these impactful classroom experiences highlights connectionsbetween the literature and student experiences as well as supports new faculty who areconsidering the type of instructional environments they will strive to create in their own
Tech. She has done work as a transformational change postdoctoral research associate with the University of Colorado at Boulder. Her research and practice spans student intervention programs, faculty agency, evaluation, grant-writing, and facilitation of change initiatives. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024Stewardship of the Stories: Learning from Black Engineering Students’ Lived ExperiencesAbstractIn 2019 - 2021, during a research study involving 24 Black engineering student participants whowere currently or formerly enrolled at a predominantly White university in the United States,some participants answered interview questions, based on their lived experiences, in astorytelling manner
amelioration; engineering writing and communication; and methodological development for nontraditional data. Her NSF CAREER award studies master’s-level departure from the engineering doctorate as a mechanism of attrition. Catherine earned her B.S. in Chemistry from The University of South Dakota, her M.S. in Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering from Purdue University, and Ph.D. in Engineering Education from Purdue University.Monique S. Ross (Assistant Professor) Assistant Professor, Knight Foundation School of Computing and Information Sciences and STEM Transformation Institute at Florida International University, research interests include broadening participation in computing through the exploration of: 1) race, gender
using a computer andcommunication infrastructure. Remote labs offer students a convenient opportunity to accessequipment 24 hours a day, seven days a week without geographic proximity restrictions. Thisapproach also promotes collaborations among peers and offers improved accessibility to studentswith disabilities [7]. Unlimited access to resources in the remote laboratory context could havefar reaching consequences for education and can present a paradigm that promotes student-centric environments and autonomy that contributes to motivation [8]. The benefit of remote 2experimentation is not limited to higher education but can extend to industry
complete selected writing prompts to aid the program directors with RET program assessment.The SDSM&T RET program is situated in Rapid City, the second largest city in South Dakota –a state with a total population just below 800,000. Due to the rural nature of the host state andinstitution, the RET program faced unique challenges. For example, the small size of SDSM&Tallowed for a RET program that spanned a variety of departments throughout campus, with noone department having a research agenda robust enough to serve all ten teachers. Distance wasanother factor. Traditionally about half of the teachers involved in the program had residencesbeyond a commutable distance; therefore housing accommodations were secured on
), Mississippi State, MS. He worked for the US Army Corp of Engineers Engineering Research and Development Center on the development, design, and implementation of groundwater treatment technologies. His research interests are the development of technologies for the remediation of contaminated media and the development of non-traditional feedstocks for producing biofuels. Dr. Hernandez has over 80 technical presentations at state and national conferences and over 15 peer reviewed publications. He is the principal investigator on projects funded by the Department of Energy, the Environmental Protection Agency, and private industries.Hossein Toghiani, Mississippi State University Dr. Hossein
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STEM-based games; (C)A weekly seminar meeting with outside presentations of general interest, such as job-hunting,resume-writing, information about scholarships and fellowships, and the process to apply tograduate school; and (D) A Poster Session so that students present the engineering experiencesthey have gained. These four components are designed to provide students with the opportunityto develop and exhibit strong analytical skills, communication, high ethical standards, andprofessionalism through written and oral presentations and discussions with fellow students,industry experts, and faculty.In 2013, SOCHE again implemented an assessment tool in an effort to better understand theneeds of the 43 participating students. Of these students
. Demonstration type labs seem to haveevolved primarily to deal with increasing enrollment, which has gone up dramatically in recentyears. Unfortunately, it has been difficult for the infrastructure to keep up with the increase.Since a broken piece of equipment in the first of six lab sections makes it impossible to teach theremaining sections, the emphasis had shifted in many cases to protecting the equipment above allelse. In the Measurements and Analysis class, for example, the pressure experiment was by andlarge performed by the TA, with the students watching and writing down data. In anotherexample, the strain lab required several inconvenient work-arounds to allow students to adjustthe zero setting on a Wheatstone bridge. In real life this would be
projects including aFIRST robot design/built with high school students, systems for remote villages, and anassistive technology device. In total 366 student-course projects were completed, rangingfrom extra credit to 100% of the course.Assessment tools included several college-wide surveys and interviews of faculty,students, and community partners and student reports and presentations. The MEundergraduate student surveys from spring 2006 totaled 89 and do not include first yearstudents because of the common courses. The average number of S-L courses taken was2.4. To statements that S-L helped increase interest in learning, increase commitment tothe community, improved writing and speaking skills, leadership ability, personal abilityto “make a
system (i.e., whereeveryone receives the same grade). For more details on the division of tasks as defined by thegrading rubrics, see Appendix A.Emphasis on Communication SkillsPreviously, students were required to complete short prelab assignments for each lab activitycontaining basic conceptual questions on the unit operation in question. Following the labactivity, students filled in a worksheet with the relevant data. For the demonstration-styleactivities, the students were given previously obtained data and required to write a reportanalyzing the data and the unit operation. All assessments were graded by graduate student TAs,but feedback was generally neither timely nor detailed. Writing skills were not assessed in anyformal or consistent
offers more opportunities for innovative impact. Each increase in Innovative Impact requires more extensive research, design, and review in the innovative outcome. In IBL, students are encouraged to develop their learning and innovative solutions so they contain high levels of knowledge development (DoK-3 and DoK-4) and high levels of impact (Academia and Society levels).Tokenized Learning SystemThe tokenized system allows students to log, track, and provide evidence of their individual self-defined learning goals easily and efficiently to all course instructors involved. The token flowprocess also incorporates anonymous peer/instructor review as well, giving studentsresponsibility and experience in providing/receiving
supported by the findings of the study whereby persisters reported fewerrestraining forces while switchers reported fewer driving forces. The two driving forces that arecommon among persisters and switchers are formal support programs and peer supportprograms. Strengthening these two programs would increase the driving forces for all students.These findings will assist faculty, advisers, and program planners to better meet the needs ofwomen in engineering programs and likely help to reduce the attrition rates of women inengineering.Keywords: women engineering persistence environment motivation force-fieldWhile there is a general shortage of engineers, the need is acute in the under-represented areassuch as women and minorities. According to the
’ perspective, hence there isa moral obligation concerning how they write. Reporting is the process where the authors hope tobring people together. Following Kvale's [39] guidelines, when the authors reported the analysisresult in the next section, they contextualized and interpreted the quotes while making themrelevant to the general writing. The authors rendered the conversations into a readable, writtentext format, and the maximum length of the interview quotes is no more than half a page. Onlythe most essential quotes are presented. ‘How to dialogically engage in reading and writing andmake the piece reader-ly?’ was a concern while they were writing up the piece. The goal is neverto generalize the stories. Everything we look at here is not
strive to be an advocate for gender equity.Dr. Lisa Borello, University of Dayton Dr. Lisa J. Borello serves as the Executive Director of the Women’s Center at the University of Dayton. In this role, Dr. Borello advances gender equity on campus via educational programming, research, and policy development; the Women’s Center, established in 2003, serves all faculty, staff and students. She also serves as Research Professor of Applied Sociology in the Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Social Work at UD. Dr. Borello has spent more than 20 years working in higher education in diverse roles ranging from strategic communications to grant writing to managing a research lab. She conducts research on women’s
hardware implementations. For example, instead ofwriting code for the communication protocol for RGB LEDs, students could write the code as“leds.turn on(ind=3, color=color.red)”, which is much easier to understand.We recognize that teaching students how to learn is more important than teaching content, so wealso wrote a technical document for all the modules we developed and instructed them on how touse them to find the information they may need. We posted the documents for the modules on awebsite, so students are able to access these documents during and after the class. Experiment planningThere are a great variety of experiments that can be done with the proposed setting. However,due to the limited time and the level of students, we chose