this longer-term workis to determine whether students who learn Python as their first programming language are betterprepared to adapt to new languages and programming platforms.IntroductionProgramming is an important professional skill for most engineers. An introductoryprogramming course is part of the first or second-year curricula in most engineering programs.However, it comes with many difficult challenges for both students and faculty [1,2,3,4]. Therole played by the instructor in the development of these skills cannot be totally ignored but isfound to be minimal [5]. Students usually learn by trial and error using tutorials, homework,textbook examples, peer learning, and web-based demonstrations [6]. Many studies [7,8] haveindicated
customcontrol panel connected to the PLC, which controls the conveyor and robot actions. The resultsshow the feasibility of the presented multi robot automation line controlled by a PLC that allowshuman machine interaction to enable manual quality inspection during production. This paperdetails a student project developed in the advanced programmable logic controllers class. It ispart of the master program in mechatronics. Students work in groups in a creative setting, wherethey learn to integrate various automation technologies and learn to write scientific publications.Keywords: Multi-robot; Industrial robots; Programmable Logic Controller (PLC);Communication, Quality Inspection, human ma- chine interface (HMI)IntroductionIn industrial automation
Asian American populations.Problems solving is an essential tenet of engineering education. McNeill et al. (2016) note thatengineering students have different beliefs about problem solving and draw a sharp distinctionbetween problems presented in the classroom and problems found in the workplace. This beliefsystem affects the ways students approach problems and once again underscores that not allstudents learn alike. In addition, students have different attitudes about collaborative learning.Stump et al. (2011) note that students perform better when working with peers on assignmentsand in discussing course material. However, they also reported that female students were morelikely to collaborate than their male counterparts. Lin and Tsai (2009
EngineeringTechnology. These programs are ABET accredited. Cybersecurity is included as an electivecourse component during the junior/senior year.III. FLIPPED CLASSROOM APPROACHThe so-called flipped classroom is a pedagogical model in which the typical lecture andhomework elements of a course are reversed9,10. There is no single model for the flippedclassroom. The term is widely used to describe almost any class structure that provides studentswith resources (such as reading assignments) which are to be studied prior to regular classmeetings. The value of this approach lies in re-purposing class time into a workshop wherestudents can ask questions about the class resources and interact with their peers in hands-onactivities. Instructors function as coaches or
didn’t want or need to learn programming, (SUNY), and Marist College (home of the New York Statewhich was more appropriate for traditional computer science Center for Cloud Computing and Analytics), in addition to andegree programs. With the introduction of SDN/NFV, this ecosystem of active corporate sponsors and research affiliates.approach to network administration education needs tochange. For example, to provide high availability the network II. SDN CONCEPTS AND SKILLSadministrator no longer needs to manually provision two ormore redundant physical switches. Instead, using APIs in an A. Educational GoalsSDN network, it is possible to write a script instructing the New York
that anindividual can draw on these skills when they are needed. In the context of basketball this meansreviewing basics such as shooting and dribbling, developing new skills such as defensive movement orrebounding, developing plays which focus on team interactions, and preparing for a particular opponentor situations. In preparing for a project, students must do similar activities. They have to repeat basicskills like report writing or preparing charts and diagrams, they must acquire new skills like the designof an assembly line. They also need to work together as a team where individuals develop designs forcomponents that must fit together into the final product. They must also look outside their own team toprepare for the client
professor access to students of anymajor on campus and the students can stay with the VIP team for multiple semesters. VIP teamstypically have 10 to 20 students. The Electronic ARTrium VIP team is co-instructed by Prof.Weitnauer and Dr. Thomas Martin, Chief Scientist of the Electro-optics Systems Laboratory atthe Georgia Tech Research Institute. Enrollments in the Electronic ARTrium team since itsinception to the time of this writing have been 22, 15, 21, and 24, for Fall 2021, Spring 2022,Fall 2022, and Spring 2023. Many if not all the computer science (CS) students on the VIP teamwere using VIP to satisfy their junior capstone design requirement, but this is transparent to theVIP instructors. Engineering students also have the option to use VIP
engineers capable of solving the grand challenges this new century brings.Reviewing the LiteratureStudent engagement theory pioneer Alexander Astin hypothesized that the more involved astudent is socially and academically in college, the more he or she will learn due to increases inmotivation and interaction with faculty, fellow students, and other campus activities. 4,5,6Unfortunately Astin found that choosing an engineering major had “negative effects on a varietyof satisfaction outcomes: faculty, quality of instruction, Student Life, opportunities to takeinterdisciplinary courses, … the overall college experience, … writing skills, listening skills,[and] Cultural Awareness.”6 He did find that engineering majors reported the highest growth
. Experimental testing of the mathematical model is anessential component of the learning process, and allows the students to collect data and perform astatistical analysis of their model. At first, the process of making assumptions, writing equations,developing an experimental protocol to test the model, and analyzing the results is daunting. Bythe final independent project, 88% of students felt exploring their own topic was an “excellent”or “good” learning experience and valued presenting their results at a final poster session. Notonly do the freshmen benefit from the course, but the upperclassmen lab managers believe theyhave gained valuable leadership and professional skills, such as providing constructive feedbackand public
capstonedesign course is a single-semester course offered to seniors who have taken courses on design [1]and other required engineering courses that involve background and preparation for writing andpresenting technical content to technical audiences. The students at this stage have not receivedstandardized formal training on effective communication strategies for persuading the public orpeople with non-engineering backgrounds. Engineers communicate in numerous genres, formats, and modes to convey vital information to diverse types of
further evidence of competency. For example, Lauren, a senior studentwho is active in the engineering makerspaces, stated, “Probably one of my greatestachievements, I organized that entire bike lab.” She then goes on to note, “and actually [myprofessor] said, not to me but to my parents, he’s like, ‘yeah, I’ve never seen that bike lab soorganized in my entire time doing this project.’ So that was cool,” In this instance, Lauren is notonly experiencing pride in the quality of her work, but the recognition she received from herprofessor affirmed her understanding of herself as competent.Students compare themselves to peers when ascertaining their competency. Students alsoexpressed that opportunities to demonstrate capabilities to others was an
, professional development, and both peer and facultymentoring [3, 6, 10, 14, 20, 21]. A typical summer bridge is four to six weeks long and takesplace in the summer after high school and preceding the students first fall semester. Students areselected at a certain math SAT range, enter the program as a cohort, and live in a residentialcommunity on campus. Days are filled with math-intensive course work and team orientedprojects. Bridge programs are typically offered at a deeply discounted cost (or none at all) to thestudent’s family. A pseudo college environment is created to prepare the student for the skillsneeded to be successful as a first-year student in engineering or other STEM fields. Uponcompletion of this program, students continue their
widespread uptake of this intervention effort with faculty to promoteinstitutional transformation.Despite decades of explicit effort by institutions and faculty to provide Black, Latinx, andIndigenous (BLI) students in STEM with equitable access to educational opportunities andsuccess, considerable gaps in achievement remain [2], [3]. Black and Latinx students have beenshown to have higher interest than their White peers in STEM majors, including in engineering[4]–[6], yet despite this strong interest, they are less likely than their White peers to enroll or persistin the degree path. One factor that has been shown to help lessen this gap in student representationis positive interaction with faculty [7]–[10]. Positive faculty interaction promotes
Invention Bootcamp at Portland State University. Invention Bootcamp is a four-week summer camp designed to expose high school students to the invention process and thereby stimulate their interest in attending college to prepare for a career in STEM and entrepreneurship. The camp serves 25 students that are recruited with help from Oregon MESA, and actively seeks participants from populations traditionally underrepresented in STEM. Eight undergraduate engineering and computer science students are near-peer mentors and technical problem-solvers for the camp participants. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.com
and extracurricular activities wereattributes of the learning community [12]. The instructor role had evolved fromlecturer/evaluator to learning facilitator, professional development leader, career/life advisor, andpartner in life as extracurricular activities grew in diversity to spring break vacations, basketballleagues, and summer picnicking/camping. These deep relationships emerged between peers aslifelong friendships as relationships developed. What started as physical access to campus spacebecame a vibrant community whose members shared the goal of becoming practicing engineers.As can be seen in Figure 2., persistence to a degree was quite high. Through participation in thiscommunity, students learned the importance of inclusion and
engineering education written for a graduate-level NDM class that was taught by thesecond author (Tyler) in Spring of 2020. From a review of 22 peer-reviewed journal articles andconference papers, the student suggests that there is evidence that: 1) practitioners need to teachabout a broader range of NDM, 2) universities need to clearly identify and articulate their role indeveloping NDM theorists versus technicians, 3) universities need to facilitate partnerships inindustry that provide both entities the resources they need to proceed with high-level NDMeducation and methodological-execution, 4) researchers need to find meaningful ways to educateadministrators and faculty about NDM and its benefits in order to support growing NDMprograms, and 5
them as individual assignments, and the last one as acomprehensive group project. Individual projects accounted for 30% of the total course grade,and the group project accounted for 10%. Like labs, projects were submitted online throughWebCAT. 50% of the project grade was based on passing WebCAT testcases, and writing cleancode observing styling standards. The other 50% of the grade was assigned manually by the TAsfor the implementation approach including the degree the approach was flexible, maintainable,and well-documented.After the transition, the group project was changed to be merely a design assignment with nocoding. Students were required to submit a UML (Unified Modeling Language) class diagram ofa COVID-19 real-time data visualization
Professor of Women’sand Gender Studies and Africana Studies at Rutgers University and co-founder of the popularCrunk Feminist Collective. Also planned are a President’s Panel, workshops by the NationalCenter for Faculty Development & Diversity, a Multicultural Career and Graduate School Expo,and a post-conference writing retreat offered by Inkwell Academic Writing Retreats. Weanticipate having up to 500 women enroll in the 2018 event.The FWCA conference has proven to be both professionally useful, as well as personallyenriching insofar as it created a space for women of color to share their common concerns andfind support from one another. Evidence of the remarkable impact of the conference on thewomen attending is apparent in these testimonial
audittrail available in the tools used for these activities—Github/git, Trello, and Slack, respectively. Inaddition to peer evaluations that are done mid-project and end-of-project, the instructor uses thisevidence to make individual positive or negative adjustments to team grades based on anindividual student's contribution. The mid-project peer evaluations are mostly consideredformative and do not affect the student's grade immediately. The instructor provides feedback toeach student individually at that point. After the end-of-project peer evaluation, the instructorwill compute the individual adjustment factor for each student, if needed, and apply it to theentire project grade for the student. Our experience is that after the first peer
of therequired criteria for accreditation of engineering colleges [2]. Micheaelsen et al. [3] argued thatteam-based learning transforms the classroom experience into one that is enjoyable for bothinstructors and students.At the core of this pedagogy is the creation of effective teams to exploit the benefits of peer-to-peer interaction and instruction. Team formation is a complex task that has been extensivelystudied in psychology [4], management [5], and related fields [6]. In these studies, severalcharacteristics including prior knowledge, student’s skills, motivation, competence, homophily[4], diversity, familiarity with other students, personality, and scheduling, have been suggested tosignificantly influence the effectiveness of the team
class students etc faculty 100% 89% 67% 11% students 100% 70% 70% 0% Fig. 2 Expected deliverables.As one faculty member points out, the deliverable should depend on the students, namely, theirparticular projects in certain courses. Depending on the nature of the course and the project, wecan adjust our expectations and requirements. Also, if one has never tried any of the proposeddeliverables, it would be fun to try. For instance, if a faculty member has never asked the HonorsCollege student to present to his/her peers in the class, then s/he may
use of coins was adopted since the weights are fairly standardizedand documented). It was also important to allow for feedback from peers to be given on thedrawings so this was also incorporated into the online version of the activity. Table 2. Implementation and Transformation of a Team Hands-on Activity from On-site Version to Online Version On-site Version Online Version Design Goal Design the lightest bridge that Design the lightest bridge that span a 24’’ gap using materials span a 24’’ gap using materials listed that can support the largest listed that can support the
students you know don’t seem to get it at first so. It’s brand new so that how most learning experiences are. I think it’s a decent method.Some TA’s also have difficulty understating the intention for some parts of the activity, thusmade it difficult to help students. Peter mentioned: I think [students] are in the same position as a lot of peer teachers (UTAs), they don’t understand why they are doing, like they are given a problem this person wants them to do this... but their immediate reaction is well why.. what am I gaining from this.. I mean yeah they know how to write a memo now and they can make a procedure and they can give user feedback, but I don’t think they understand the purpose behind it like
Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering EducationIn summary, the Cohort methodology is nothing more than a focused effort to give the studentsin a graduate program the sense of community and trust that is necessary for them to form anatural work group. If this work group mentality is properly formed and nurtured, then eachstudent’s individual academic success will naturally improve. The techniques they learn andapply through the cohort activities gives them the interpersonal and organization skills valued inthe technology workplace.Impact of the Cohort methodologyOne direct measure of the Cohort methodology is its acceptance under peer review by educatorsin the engineering and science communities. The Cohort methodology formed the
important [16]. Evidently as Davies (8 p 94) deducedheadmasters believed universities promoted some kind of social intercourse that was notpresent in the CATs.Whatever else it is, a liberal education is not a specialization. Technology is aspecialization so whatever differentiates a university student of technology from atechnological student in a technical college it is something other than the study oftechnology. Whatever it is, it contributes to the student‟s development as a gentlemanirrespective of what he studies. “It seeks” as Davies writes, “to confer on its recipients afreedom of mind which those who do not possess this advantage will not exhibit.” Thusthe technical college student is in a certain kind of bondage because his studies do
lieu of a final exam. Common interview questionsinclude formative assessment and professional development questions such as: What are you going to do to continue your own learning about teaching and learning? In retrospect, if you needed to miss a session which one would it have been? Topics of the course have varied modestly between offerings. However, they link closely toskills sets faculty are recognized to need for teaching25,26. Most of the following topics havebeen consistently included: Historic Perspectives in Teaching Engineering and University Teaching Learning Styles* Course and Syllabus Design Defining and Creating Learning Objectives Teaching Design and Laboratories Effective Lecturing* Writing in
: Study science and engineering phenomenon at the Arizona Science Center. Demonstrate knowledge gained throughout this year-round program by engaging younger peers and their families visiting the center through small-scale hands-on workshops on specific project-based challenges. 2. Industry-Internship: Study alternative energy sources (wind, solar, hydro, and hydrogen fuel-cells) and build renewable energy models at the Salt River Project, a local water and energy service provider. 3. Technology Workshop: Study basic TI-84 plus graphing calculator functions (graphing, creating tables, performing calculations, etc.) and its connection to basic programming, data collection probes (temperature
(CUREs), NSF-funded research experiences forundergraduates (REUs), and extracurricular/personal research experiences. However, amidstvariable circumstances, one of the true defining characteristics of these experiences is theavailability of not only the faculty but of other mentor types as well. For example, anundergraduate researcher in a mentoring triad experience may go to the graduate student mentorinstead of the faculty with questions or as their primary mentor. This could be due to the facultynot having enough time outside of a mandated meeting or the undergraduate researcher may feela perceived power difference and would rather opt for a more peer-to-peer interaction. From astudy by Sobieraj and Kajfez utilizing qualitative techniques to
able to make the most impact. 5DATA CONSTRUCTION & COLLECTIONWe studied our experiences across one semester as faculty apprentices. At the beginning of thesemester, we decided to write individual weekly reflections and meet monthly via videoconference to co-write joint reflections. In addition, we co-created a list of guiding writingprompts focused on our learning experience and metacognitive reflections.In our monthly meetings, we discussed and reflected on our experiences. These meetingsallowed us to have the unique perspective of a peer who was in the same space. We recordedthese Zoom meetings, which served as a primary data source for our
education, listening,not self-aggrandizing male efforts, and practicing what you preach. Ng, et al. [2] also providesguidance for allies; they note that allies should show empathy, understand their own identity andprivilege, and also highlight listening. It is also important for allies to recognize intersectionality[5]. Anicha, et al. [10] also discuss the importance of acknowledging privilege and power. Theseacknowledgements are especially important for male faculty allies who are more senior or whohave more secure employment positions (e.g., tenured faculty).Success in the academic environment requires balancing multiple demands (teaching, research,and service) and is dependent on peer review. Allies can help ensure that members of an out-group