Powered by www.slayte.comBringing it down from the ivory tower: Translating Engineering- for-Community-Development (ECD) graduate student researchinto community engagement and undergraduate student learningAbstractThe goal of this paper is to show how graduate engineering students working on Engineering-for-Community-Development (ECD) projects and theses 1) acquire socio-technical educationthat prepares them to critically engage with community development (formation); 2) propose totranslate their academic scholarship into formats and language that lead to effective engagementand appropriation by the communities they want to serve (translation); and, from this translation,3) extend their scholarship into curricular opportunities for undergraduate
, and scholarship of teaching and learning. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.com Undergraduate Students' Motivation to Learn, Attitudes, and Perceptions of Assessments in a Cybersecurity CourseAbstractThe theoretical framework of self-determination theory (SDT) [1], [2] suggests that providing alearning environment which supports students' autonomy, competence, and relatedness promotesstudents' autonomous motivation and desirable learning outcomes. To promote choice andautonomy in a cyber forensic course at a large research university, students were given a varietyof assessment options in place of their regular high-stakes
and the projectionsfor a scaled porting of the model to a campus-wide level.I. IntroductionEducational research has widely documented the achievement gap between students fromdifferent socioeconomic statuses (SES). The seminal work by Coleman et al. in 1966 sparked amyriad of studies and initiatives addressing this phenomenon with different views regardingrelation, incident factors, or effects [1][2][3][4]. Despite more than fifty years of documentedefforts, the prevalence of the gap, studied at national and global levels, continues to highlight theneed for renovated approaches [5][6]. At the college level, this gap manifests among studentsfrom lower SES with a higher attrition level, longer times to graduate, and significantly
as “the art of analyzing and evaluating thinking with a view to improving it.”Peter Facione, the spearhead of the APA Delphi study, describes CT as “judging in a reflectiveway what to do or what to believe” [12]. According to McPeck, a philosopher and CT researcher,CT is “the propensity and skill to engage in an activity with reflective skepticism” [13]. The mosthighly cited definition is the one by Robert Ennis, who is of the opinion that CT is “reflective andreasonable thinking that is focused on deciding what to believe or do” [14]. Ennis' definitioncaptures the commonly noted dual nature of the critical thinking, consisting of 1) the use of rationalcriteria to judge the thoughts and ideas of others, and 2) the subjection of one's own
can’t solveproblems. To address such an issue, we decided to spend the last week of class time on solvingreal world problems. To do so, we select some programming projects among old ACMprogramming contest problems from the website ICPC.org [1] and student practice on them. Thisis done in our Data Structures and Algorithms classes.Teamwork Projects as Class AssignmentsThere is a high probability that when the graduates get hired for a new job, they are going towork as a team member on reasonably large size projects. Everything is new to them, workingenvironment, supervisor, team members, projects, etc. It is very crucial for the newly hiredemployees to know how to get along with other team members and colleagues and tolerate thedifferences among
brought about by our redesign, and wouldencourage our colleagues to consider how to center community building within the design ofengineering courses as we have shown in this case.IntroductionPrior to the broad shift to online teaching in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, students whoselected to be online learners were quite different than students who chose in-person courses.Online learners tended to be older [1], [2]–seeking convenience of asynchronous learningenvironments [1] while they balanced work with their education [2]–as compared to residentialstudents who were more traditional aged and sought face-to-face connection with their peers andinstructors [3]. Since 2019, the group of students who are online learners has become larger andmore
of the evaporative cooler.Finally, we outline worksheet and conceptual assessment questions to accompany classroomactivities and present conceptual assessment results from a spring 2022 pilot classroomimplementation of the evaporative cooler LCDLM in a Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfercourse. Significant student learning gains were observed after implementation, suggesting apositive influence of the LCDLM on understanding.IntroductionIt is now well-accepted that the use of active learning strategies, which encourage students toengage with materials rather than passively receive information, promote better academicperformance and improve student attitudes compared to traditional lecture-based strategies [1, 2].Further, interactive learning
, machine learning with natural language processing, visualization, and presentation.Subsequently, participants were engaged in Computer Science research analyzing a real-worlddata set gathered from Twitter™ 1 between January and June 2020. Participants were organizedinto teams to investigate subtopics within the broader subject of misinformation: 1) detectingsocial media bot accounts, 2) identifying propaganda with computational methods, and 3)studying the discourse surrounding science preprints (i.e., papers that have been posted to theInternet but have not been peer reviewed). The program culminated in an exposition where eachteam presented research results to program officers, senior faculty, deans, government officials,and industry experts
challenged by increasing numbers of studentsthat do not purchase the recommended textbook but rely solely on posted lecture slides andrelevant material, in-class notes, class recordings (lately), freely available internet videos, andpossibly illegal electronic textbook copies. After obtaining some experience with PressBooksand H5P from a pandemic-induced online-lab project, and aided by an institutional OER fund,the authors decided to convert their class notes on energy and mass balances into an OER usingthose two tools. The aim is to provide students with a free centralized repository for coursecontent and practice that will (1) enhance student understanding through non-text additions(quizzes, videos, and interactive activities) that meet multiple
policies), improve effectiveness,and/or inform decisions about future program development,” [1] the author did not seek an IRBapproval.BackgroundMechanics of Materials course has been offered in flipped modality since 2013 at the Universityof Connecticut to enhance the quality of the course, share uniformed resources to all students andprovide alternative learning resources for diverse learners. There are pre-lecture videos availablethat students watch before attending the class. The class activity includes a short lecture by theinstructor about the topics of the day followed by problem solving by students. Pictures from reallife examples are shared with students during lecture and think-pair-share method is used tofacilitate peer interactions
possession.Truly filled with hope and outward expression.I came in thinking “oh, life would be grand”For a Black womxn who was of high demand.But I speak my truth and my peers despise,I do my work, but my advisor deniesI live my life, but I can’t seem to advanceAnd they wonder why I am sick of this song and dance. - Fantasi Nicole, The Holistic Soul Scholar Black womxn continue to be caught in the matrix of oppression regarding theirintersectional identity within an engineering doctoral context. We, as in Black womxn, are bothhypervisible and invisible, overvalued and undervalued, respected yet demeaned, and admiredyet shamed [1]–[5]. With the desire to make a difference in the world and in our
full survey instrument is shown elsewhere[23], with chemical engineering self-efficacy rated on a 6-point Likert scale [1 = completelyuncertain, 6 = completely certain] and coping self-efficacy, social and academic integration, andintent to persist all rated on a 7-point Likert scale [1 = strongly disagree/not at all, 7 = stronglyagree/very true].A total of 22 students attended the camp in Fall 2019 and Fall 2020, compared to 43 non-camperstudents taking the MEB course for the first time. The coronavirus pandemic reduced the usabledata in two ways. First, since classes were meeting online during Spring 2020, the effortrequired for students to complete the post-soph survey was more than usual (students mustchoose to click a link on their own
of work has also been used to measure the impact of the flipped, blended, and adaptive settings on how well engineering students learn content, develop group-work skills and perceive their learning environment. He has written more than 150 refereed technical papers, and his opinion editorials have appeared in the Tampa Bay Times, the Tampa Tribune, and the Chronicle Vitae.Rasim Guldiken (Faculty Member) © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.com Do Metacognitive Instruction and Repeated Reflection Improve Outcomes?1. IntroductionReflection - defined as thought about what one is doing - is essential to
Program-level ResponsesThe Curriculum Survey Committee of the Education Division (EdDiv) of AIChE surveysinstitutions in the United States and Canada each fall on different aspects of the undergraduatecurriculum. For Fall 2021, the topic was material and energy balances (MEB). The topic wasdefined in the survey as “a material and energy balances course covers the conservation of massand energy in a chemical process context”. The survey was directed at faculty of courses inwhich this was the main topic, not a simple introduction, and not at faculty of thermodynamicscourses unless they covered balances in a chemical process context. The Committee surveyedthis topic in 1972, 1990, 1999, and 2011 [1].A link to the survey was sent to the EdDiv
correlated for the low SVS group in one cohort and moderately correlated in the other.Persistence in the training was also measured and yielded an interesting result in that the studentswith the lowest persistence in Cohort B had the highest average initial test score, yet came outwith the lowest post-training pass rate, perhaps indicating persistence is a critical factor in SVSimprovement.Future work will seek to better define measured variables such as persistence and amount oftraining with additional data, as well as to examine the effect of confounding factors such astaking a design course itself on improvement of spatial ability.IntroductionThe importance of spatial visualization skills (SVS) in engineering is well established [1], [2].The
the 2008 Bradley Staughton Award from ASM International and the 2016 ASEE Pacific Northwest Section Outstanding Teaching Award. Her current research is related to (1) how teaching experiences help graduate students develop their professional identities and (2) how to evaluate teaching effectiveness.Donna C. Llewellyn (Executive Director)Paul SimmondsJulianne A. Wenner (Associate Professor) © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.com Supporting Engineering Graduate Students in Professional Identity Cultivation through Disciplinary StewardshipIntroduction and Problem Historically, graduate education’s
efforts. At EWB,California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo (Cal Poly, SLO), we have intentionallyencouraged this process, with a desire to allow people to confront the difficult questionsregarding global development. This paper will outline the salient theories, frameworks, andcriticisms regarding sustainable development work and its connection to voluntourism,capitalism, and neocolonialism. Recognizing that these attempts to help others are in realitystudent-centered [1] and tend to fail the partner communities [2], we desire to investigate how tobetter center partner communities in our work [3], and describe several attempted interventionsinto our chapter that seek to center these concerns and more critically examine our efforts
the amount of electric current the system needs. This is concerning since itposes the risk of having the payload system shut down mid-flight. Additionally, this requires acontinuous supply of batteries, without any further use once the flight is done, increasing theamount of battery waste despite being initially a low-cost energy source. Furthermore, mostbatteries used for the microcontrollers in stratospheric flights are 9V, which tend to be loweredwith a voltage regulator to 5V to reduce the probability of overpowering a microcontroller such asa Teensy 3.5. Taking to consideration these conditions, four 6-volt, 2-watt “medium-sized” solar panelmodels were purchased [1], along with their respective 1.1 mm to 2.1 mm adapters. To have
Structures Education via Virtual LabsAbstractWe implemented virtual labs enabling the opportunity for visualizing 1) deformation and 2)stress in an undergraduate aerospace structures course to enhance students’ understanding of themechanic concepts. For 1) deformation, the virtual labs provide the visualization of the overallview of an aircraft, followed by the deformation of specific aircraft components (e.g., wingcomponents) under particular types of loading (e.g., bending moment, torsion, and transverseshear). We used the deformation visualization before the user-interactive portion of the virtuallabs to provide students an in-depth understanding of the virtual and hands-on lab activities fromthe viewpoint of component deformation. For 2) stress
Sensors,and Strain Gauges. To accomplish this, the current project is working towards developing thedata acquisition system required to collect this data. Due to the success of other Universities’ Data Acquisition Systems (1), it was decidedthat LabVIEW will be used. LabVIEW is advantageous for this application as it is relativelysimple to learn, therefore after the current researchers may graduate the university and futureusers to learn how it works. In addition, LabVIEW can integrate into many different systems,therefore, if multiple different DAQs must be used in order to either get more I/O ports orinterface better with different sensors, LabVIEW can handle such a task.Description of Rocket Engine Subsystems Rocket Engines are
satisfaction as evidenced by end of course surveyswas higher for the hybrid delivery section, with similar response rates. Enrollment in the hybridsection was higher when both formats were offered concurrently. Future work will considerlongitudinal analysis of learning outcomes as well as student preferences in non-pandemicconditions. Lessons learned from hybrid delivery will also be considered for use in classroom-based environments.Introduction and Instructional ContextMarch 2020 brought widespread emergency transition to many academic classrooms with a shiftto online learning that was a first for many in engineering, but for many in engineeringmanagement, the shift was less emergency transition to online [1] and more an opportunity toconsider best
arevisual learners [1, 2], it is widely accepted among engineering educators that physicaldemonstration (or hands-on experimental learning) enhances a student’s learning and results inlong term retention of the subject material. At Saint Louis University, every aerospace engineering student will take an aircraftcontrols course during their undergraduate study. During this course, the student will learn thecoordinate systems of an aircraft, derive the equations of motion, and develop controllers capableof achieving a desired dynamic response of the vehicle. Almost always, the first thing learned insuch a course are the coordinate systems of an airplane and how those coordinate systems relateto each other. This is a difficult concept to both
population, and the national engineering undergrad population. They did not find anystatistically significant effect of household income on student outcomes. Working-class studentswere more likely to graduate than wealthier students, and working-class students also took longerto graduate and had a lower GPA at graduation. But, once again, these results were notstatistically significant.Bir & Ahn (2019) also included SES as an independent variable in their analysis of aerospacestudent outcomes, along with gender, ethnicity, first-generation status, in-state residency,measures of skills and abilities such as ACT score, and high school coursework. Theycategorized students’ financial means on a scale of 1-7, and did not find this variable to have
Paper ID #38081Outreach Projects to Broaden STEM Participation: Designedby Undergraduate Students at an Aerospace EngineeringREU SiteBenjamin Ahn (Associate Professor) Benjamin Ahn is an associate professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering at Iowa State University. His research interests include (1) engineering workforce development, (2) student mentoring and diversity, and (3) teaching and learning mechanisms. Benjamin received a Ph.D. in Engineering Education from Purdue University, an M.S. in Aeronautics and Astronautics from Purdue University, and a B.E. in Aerospace Engineering with first class honors
at their new institution. As such, colleges and universities offer manytransition-support programs for the purpose of boosting retention rates across and beyond these firstsemesters. Common transition initiatives include orientation programs, peer mentoring programs,common reading programs, living-learning communities, and first-year seminars [1]. Two of the mostcommon types of first-year seminars are extended orientation seminars that center transition to collegelife (e.g., time management) and introduction to the major seminars [2]. The Georgia Tech (GT) DanielGuggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering (AE) first-year course is an introduction to the major stylecourse.The first assignment in the GT Intro to AE course is a major-focused
[1]. In 2010, ICAO adopted two goals: “tocontinuously improve CO2 efficiency by an average of 1.5 per cent per annum from 2009 until2020, to achieve carbon neutral growth from 2020 and to reduce its carbon emissions by 50 percent by 2050 compared to 2005 level” [2], [3]. To fulfill the ICAO projection, there are fourmain strategies: aircraft technological developments, optimization of aircraft operation plan,adopting sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), and market-based measures to promote aviationsustainability growth [2].Fuel consumption is directly related to carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e) impact on theenvironment in terms of Global Warming Factor. Transport category aircraft are currentlydependent on jet fuels such as Jet A and Jet A-1
incorporatesengineering standards and constraints and is based on the knowledge and skills acquired fromprevious courses [1]. For aerospace engineering programs, the “major design experience,”commonly referred to as Senior Design or a Senior Capstone project, must include topicsrelevant to the program. Senior design serves as a “training ground” or “sandbox” for students toovercome the challenges they might encounter in their career but with guidance from instructors.The skills and knowledge applied in Senior Design require a comprehensive understanding ofsubject material from multiple courses over previous years. Senior Design can simulate real-lifeexperience and can provide helpful skills for students to take to their work environment afterthey graduate. From
-naires related to team conflict,33 team cohesiveness,3435 psychological safety,36 and culturalmindset.37 The CATME peer evaluation tool had students evaluate each team member on theircontributions to the team’s work, interacting with teammates, keeping the team on track, expect-ing quality, and having relevant KSAs (knowledge, skills, and abilities) on a rubric that rangedfrom 1–5. The other team and cultural constructs were rated on Likert-scales from 1–7. Both sec-tions of the course were taught by the same instructor, but one section had the diversity interven-tion described previously, and the other section did not. The mean ratings for each dimensionand construct are shown in Figure 1.Independent samples t-tests were used to test the
be operating smaller and lighter aircraft compared to those operated by the airlines.For an immediate radio PIREP to occur, the pertinent weather condition encountered is: 1)recognized by the pilot, 2) communicated via radio, 3) written by receivers, 4) encoded intoPIREP codes, and 5) disseminated.There are potential errors that may result in PIREPs that are untimely, misleading, erroneous, ornever get disseminated. Assuming that the weather information submitted by the pilot wascomplete and error-free, this study aims to identify the types of coding errors, frequency byPIREP text element indicators (TEIs. e.g., /SK, /TP, /IC), and their proportions. Statistical andgraphical analyses were used.In this study, PIREPs obtained from the Iowa
stages of the manufacturing process. One ofthe fundamental skills is to make good decisions at early stages that facilitate, not impede, themanufacturing process down the road. Traditional curricula designs tend to focus on a specificdiscipline, creating a silo effect rather than viewing manufacturing as a connected, systemicprocess needing decisions made with respect to the entire product development life cycle. Thisstudy investigates this belief by 1) examining if students understand product manufacturing as aconnected, systemic process, 2) exploring in which manufacturing knowledge area, if any, studentsare deficient, and 3) analyzing if these knowledge gaps exist for both engineering and businessstudents. To study these possible gaps, this