more junior faculty member, and Deepthi, a graduate student. Thetripartite mentoring relationship between us formed as part of a National Science FoundationResearch Initiation in Engineering Formation (NSF RIEF) project. We grounded our work in thecognitive apprenticeship model of mentoring and theory of social capital, asking the question:How do mentors and mentees perceive shared experiences? Over the course of 16 months, wecollected data in the form of reflective journal entries and transcripts from individual and jointinterviews, combining these with other documentation such as emails and text messages. Weanalyzed these data by identifying three critical incidents over the course of the relationship todate and comparing each of our
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School of Mines24 has added anePortfolio component to their freshman program (~370 students) and University of TexasAustin25 has developed an ePortfolio system presently in use by more that 600 engineeringstudents.In this paper, we present an extensive study involving approximately 1250 engineering studentsengaged in the use of ePortfolios.Use of the ePortfolio at Virginia TechIn fall 2003, Virginia Tech began a university-wide pilot of an electronic portfolio system inresponse to a recognized need to support student reflection and the purposeful collection ofacademic work over time. Using software available through the Open Source PortfolioInitiative, a group of faculty, with the support of the university’s Educational Technologydivision, began
engineering and Russian language. She is also a registered Professional Engineer in Colorado.Dr. Michelle Soledad, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Michelle Soledad, Ph.D. is a Collegiate Assistant Professor in the Department of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech. Her research and service interests include teaching and learning experiences in fun- damental engineering courses, faculty development and support initiatives – including programs for the future engineering professoriate, and leveraging institutional data to support reflective teaching practices. She has degrees in Electrical Engineering (B.S., M.Eng.) from the Ateneo de Davao University in Davao City, Philippines, where she previously held
Paper ID #39980Board 76: Work-in-Progress: Threshold Concepts in Capstone DesginElizabeth A. Debartolo, Rochester Institute of Technology (COE) Elizabeth A. DeBartolo, PhD, is the Director of the Multidisciplinary Senior Design Program at the Rochester Institute of Technology, where students from Biomedical, Computer, Electrical, Industrial, and Mechanical Engineering work together on multidisciplinary capstone projects.James Lucas Daly ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Work-In-Progress: Written Reflection for Threshold Concepts in Capstone
biomedical engineering education in the future. Page 23.916.2 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Muddiest Point Formative Feedback in Core Materials Classes with YouTube, Blackboard, Class Warm-ups, and Word CloudsAbstractCritical class reflections on “Muddiest Points”, i.e. the content students struggle to grasp most,provide formative feedback to an instructor who can strategize to adjust his/her teaching andpedagogy to address issues specific to a given class. In a Muddiest Point Reflection, an instructorsolicits from students a brief, anonymous written comment about
) cycle. Similarly, the process of improving faculty teaching competences can be explainedby following a PDCA cycle. The outcome-based program accreditation ABET led to theconsolidation of this improvement process in the School of Engineering and at the departmentallevel. Two academic departments participated in this consolidation effort, the Information andTelecommunication Technologies Department (ICT) and the Industrial Engineering Department(IND), which consists of 13 and 12 full-time faculty members, respectively.The faculty member reflection is as important as the students’ reflection that extends over timeafter the courses have ended [2]. This reflection process is critical to course assessment andimprovement in the quality of engineering
framework to guide and help students reflect on their thinking. InFall 2014, faculty sought to enhance and expand critical thinking instruction in the course byproviding students with more meaningful opportunities to apply the framework. Several writtenassignments for this course were crafted around the Grand Challenges. The purpose of theseassignments was two-fold. First, students would have meaningful opportunities to develop theircritical thinking skills by analyzing current engineering issues. Second, it was hoped thatstudents would gain an awareness of engineers’ roles in the global community by exposure to theGrand Challenges.Student written assignments were assessed for their demonstration of critical thinking ability andintegration of the
Session 2625 Design of an Inexpensive Optics Demonstration/Experimentation Kit for Middle School Edmund Tsang and Andrew Kline College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Western Michigan UniversityAbstractAn inexpensive and user-friendly optics kit has been designed and a working prototype built formiddle-school teachers for demonstration and for middle-school students for experimentation inlight reflection, refraction, absorption, and transmission. The end product integrates thedisciplines of industrial design, engineering, engineering technology, and business, and
work on prior to the next meeting.Materials and MethodsOver the course of a semester, the WRITE-D participants are asked to complete four reflections:a week 1 reflection, a week 2/3 reflection, a mid-term reflection, and a final reflection. Thequestions from each of these reflections are included in the Appendix. The week 1 reflectionseeks to obtain a base level understanding of what each participant would like to learn or achievefrom their participation in the WRITE-D program. The week 1 reflections articulate thechallenges the participant faces as a writer, their personal writing goals and writing projects forthe semester, the help they need with their writing, and suggestions for speaker topics. The week1 reflection also obtains demographic
during an event designed to disrupt the educational enterprise [11]. TheCOVID-19 pandemic thus provides an opportunity to investigate dimensions of engineeringculture during a crisis, which can open new avenues for conversations about equity andaccessibility in engineering by identifying which aspects of culture are most and least amenableto change. In other words, disasters can help uncover ‘what really matters’ and potentially offer anew avenue for cultural change.This paper and its larger research project aim to capture student experiences and reflections, intheir own words, in order to understand how dimensions of engineering culture interacted withpractices in engineering education during COVID-19. This research project will then allow
another's work either synchronously or asynchronously.Using a qualitative thematic analysis of preservice teachers’ anonymous exit slips and coursereflections, we generated three overarching themes as our key findings. These themeshighlighted the growth and development of preservice teachers' technological, pedagogical, andcontent knowledge (TPACK), reflective practices as future K-12 STEM teachers, and thepromotion of access and equity of educational technology in STEM education. We suggest thatmore longitudinal case studies with quantitative and qualitative analyses are needed to furtherexplore what aspects of STEM preservice teachers’ subsequent teaching practicum might beenhanced by the use of collaborative technologies during the micro
students to reflect on their team’s operationalbehavior and their team’s design habits so that they could better understand what was needed forsuccess in this course and beyond. To address these needs, the team of instructors for ENES100developed and implemented a “Team Performance Rubric”.Although there are many tools and software that are available for assessing the performance of ateam and gathering peer evaluations [1], a novel aspect of the rubric is a reflective andresponsive approach for assessing design practices within the team. A rubric was developed forrating a team’s engineering design process habits, such as"effective use of modeling techniques”and “design iteration,” as well as the team’s effectiveness, such as “productive discourse
phenomenon, we developed a community of practice where we shared our experiences and informed our practice through written reflections and weekly meetings. Using the Q3 qualitative research framework as a guide for establishing procedures, we combined elements from collaborative autoethnography and collaborative inquiry to narrate our experiences. We analyzed a subset of our first semester reflections to understand the challenges we faced in our new positions and support we received from our weekly meetings. We found the time management of teaching, research, and service to be overarching challenges. Additionally, the support from our weekly meetings
education within the U.S.As evidenced by these programs, sociotechnical thinking is gradually emerging as an importanttheme within engineering education. More faculty are seeking to implement these concepts intheir classrooms. In this paper, we therefore seek to share insight from our team’s experienceswith sociotechnical integrations and our perceptions of the impacts of these integrations on ourstudents, including how we can use our experiences for formative classroom purposes.This paper presents the results of a qualitative analysis of faculty reflection logs written by twoinstructors who implemented sociotechnical thinking in their classrooms. As has been argued byBrent and Felder, writing and thinking, as is required for these logs, provokes
; Inclusion. He is investigating university-community engagement as empow- erment settings and working to further the research agenda of the global community of practice within Diversity and Inclusion in Engineering Education. His research laboratory aims to support an inclu- sive, global pipeline of STEM talent and to unify the needs of the engineering education stakeholders in order for engineering education to more accurately reflect societal needs. Diversity and inclusion, univer- sity/community engagement, informal learning, action research, and student led initiatives fall within the scope of his academic endeavors. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 A pilot study
optical systems as well as their applicability for the detection offlow patterns. Experimental SystemA measurement system was developed and built for the measuring of flow patterns using opticalsystems (both hydraulic and electronic). The hydraulic system—shown in Figure 1—consists of avertical test tube, two optical measurement systems (reflective and passing), air pressure and flowmeters, and an air compressor. The electronic system consists of a computer-aided data acquisitionsystem (CADAS) and a prototyping board with a Wheatstone bridge, which is interfaced to NIELVIS using a digital oscilloscope. Experimental research was conducted using two differentoptical measurement systems (translucent and
Session 2625 Service-Learning in Capstone Design Projects: Emphasizing Reflection Patricia Brackin, J. Darrell Gibson Department of Mechanical Engineering Rose-Hulman Institute of TechnologyAbstractService-learning offers opportunities for students to help their community whiledemonstrating ABET EC 2000 criteria. This paper gives a brief introduction to servicelearning concepts and then focuses on methods to increase student reflectionIntroductionService learning projects are typically sponsored by a community partner and givestudents the opportunity to interact with
Paper ID #45056Design Signatures in the Wild: Making the Invisible Visible (in First YearEngineering) WORKSHOPDr. Nicole Alexandra Batrouny, Northeastern Univeristy Nicole Batrouny is an Assistant Teaching Professor of First Year Engineering at Northeastern University. Her engineering education research interests include novice engineering education (K12- first year), reflective engineering design process, metacognition, collaboration in engineering, and decision making.Dr. Daria A Kotys-Schwartz, University of Colorado Boulder Daria Kotys-Schwartz is the Director of the Idea Forge—a flexible, cross-disciplinary design space
Paper ID #37749Low and High Performing First-Year Engineering Students’Learning and Metacognitive StrategiesKayla Ney Kayla Ney is a Master's student in Biological Systems Engineering at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. While pursuing her degree in BSE conducting research in the Orthopedic and Neural Engineering (ONE) Lab, Kayla has been analyzing data and evaluating engineering student reflections and metacognitive abilities. Her interests include engineering design curricula, engineering education in the biomedical engineering space, and strategies to better equip engineering graduates with skills that
context in engineering design, and the use of reflection to support learning.Soraya Grace BararDr. Jennifer A Turns, University of Washington Dr. Jennifer Turns is a full professor in the Human Centered Design & Engineering Department in the College of Engineering at the University of Washington. Engineering education is her primary area of scholarship, and has been throughout her career. In her work, she currently focuses on the role of reflection in engineering student learning and the relationship of research and practice in engineering education. In recent years, she has been the co-director of the Consortium to Promote Reflection in Engineering Education (CPREE, funded by the Helmsley Charitable Trust), a member
innovation by analogy and reflection in their career pathways project. The objective isfor students to learn about the engineering design process and to apply it to their academicchallenges by analogy. This prepares students with meta skills to help solve future problems intheir academic path, and at each iteration, the students transform themselves, hence the use of theterm self-transformation (also referred as “self-innovation”). Data collected from pre and postsurveys will be presented to measure self-efficacy in engineering design, grit, motivation tolearn, and STEM identity. Participant interviews provide a qualitative insight into theintervention. This project is funded by NSF award 2225247.IntroductionIn recent years, the transition of
,unguided reflections on their performance, level of knowledge, skill, and understanding toimprove the effectiveness and quality of their learning. However, little is known about howstudents' reflections, motivation and self-directed learning are related within engineering context.In this study, data from the students' responses to surveys were analyzed to determine theassociation among the variables of interest. The calculated Pearson correlation coefficient fromthe data shows that self-assessment components of self-reflection, positive perception of self-assessment, and intrinsic motivation have strong significant correlations. Both motivationvariables of task value and control belief have a medium to high correlation with the self-assessment
retail stores andmanufacturing environment, where fluorescent lights are commonly used. Fluorescent lights areenergized with AC power at certain frequencies depending on their design and go through twocycles of ionization/de-ionization during each power cycle which makes them time varying RFreflectors. There is a possibility that the time varying component of the RFID signal reflected bythe fluorescent light may share the same spectrum as similar components originating from theRFID tags, when they are operating in backscatter mode. This dynamic reflection of RF signalsmay interfere with the operation of the reverse link of the RFID systemA research project was conducted within the Bloomsburg University electronics engineeringtechnology (EET
Speaker) Concept Sketches Engineering Project Management: Analysis 5 of Alternatives Engineering Project Management: Failure Report – Preliminary concept 6 Mode and Effect Analysis (FMEA) selection Engineering Ethics (case studies and guest Report – Final concept design and 7 speaker) project schedule 8 Mid-term Project Presentation Presentation – proof-of-concept 9 Professional Behavior (Guest Speaker) Reflection on ethical behavior 10 Professional
happensthrough reflection on experience. 1 Reflection is a meaning-making process, which moves the learner into a deeperunderstanding of experiences and links between the connections. The role of reflection is tomake meaning, linking experience with knowledge. In other words, for Dewey, learning happens Page 9.861.1 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineeringwhen students reflect on an activity. Educators should promote both the activity and thereflection process. Positive reflection is a community
, reflection coefficient response, which reduces reflections to negligible levels. Itextends Dolph-Chebyshev antenna theory to transmission line transformers. The earlier methodwas W.W. Hansen’s Binomial Coefficient design for several transformer sections. Over abandwidth ratio of f2/f1 = 2.0, the Chebyshev Polynomial method has a VSWR of 1.02 to thebinomial coefficient design with a VSWR of 1.13, for a line with five sections. Chebyshevpolynomials are tedious to calculate, but an unwritten method, developed by Ross E. Graves atStanford University, makes the calculations as simple as those in Pascal’s Triangle for BinomialCoefficients. My thesis advisors, Donald Reynolds and Myron Swarm at Stanford, were studentsunder Professor Graves, and enjoyed my
presentation demonstratesreflective activities that support the natural connection between the brain structure and thelearning cycle.2 Activities such as reviewing ideas in journaling exercises for a mathematicallyrigorous engineering course will be addressed. These techniques are often limited to design-courses that develop “soft-skills” in engineers. Conventional courses, however, subscribe totraditional teaching methods with fewer opportunities for student reflection. Examples ofunconventional reflective journaling activities employed in an engineering course that addressedmodern physics concepts and semiconductor material topics will be highlighted in this paper.The teaching and learning model for this course was based on the established theory of
Paper ID #8451Take Ownership of Learning Outside Classroom:Dr. Wenli Guo, Queensborough Community College Dr. Wenli Guo is a professor of physics and her experiences include spectroscopy, pedagogy, etc. Page 24.1152.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 Take Ownership of Learning Outside Classroom: Reflection through Journal Writing in a Conceptual Physics Course
doctoral research focused on 1) how engineering stu- dents develop empathy during community-based learning (e.g., service-learning) and 2) how engineering educators can integrate empathy into their teaching. Before studying in the U.S., Linjue (Jade) earned her B.E. in Building Environment and Energy Engineering from the School of Architecture at Tsinghua University in China. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Lessons Learned: Designing an empathy workshop for engineering faculty to promote equity-focused teachingAbstract:This paper shares lessons learned from designing and reflecting on an empathy workshop for engineeringfaculty. The workshop