callEngineering Design Days, has been implemented in slightly different ways to engage the variouscohorts of students and to investigate best practices.Each instance is two days with no traditional classes, labs, or tutorials, where the students workin teams to design and build solutions to open-ended problems. These problems are designed tointegrate knowledge from across multiple courses. Students solve design problems by makingphysical systems using off-the-shelf components. The solutions are presented and tested in frontof their peers at the end of the second day.Students and course instructors from each implementation provided feedback through surveys,focus groups, and interviews. The feedback has been overwhelmingly positive and indicates anincrease
accelerometer functions. Measure the mass of the car by using a weighing scale. Apply a force to push the car and measure the distance it travels. (CCC: Cause and effect) Investigate the relationship between the force applied and the distance travelled. (Unspecified SEP: Analyzing and interpreting data) Explain Write Newton’s second law and Hooke’s law. Analyze the effect of acceleration on the displacements of the spring and car. (DCI: Force and motion) Provide formal definitions for relevant terms such as spring constant, force, acceleration, mass, vector, etc., and their relevance in this experiment
engineering education researchers’ exploration of ways POD could aid them in disseminating their research, and to 12scaffold them through communicating those thoughts to the POD community . At POD, we intended to challenge the faculty development experts to “think like an engineer” and to have 13them brainstorm responses to the messages from the FIE participants . In particular, at FIE, engineering education researchers were asked to consider their dissemination needs based on their individual research pursuits and those of their peers (see Table 1). Participants created affinity diagram of
as well as in academic writing, and a critical inquiry class taught by theHSA faculty. The critical inquiry class has multiple sessions taught by different instructors. Eachsession focuses on a topic that is related to the instructor’s specialty, yet all the sessions have acommon component: for the first few weeks, students and instructors engage in a discussion ofthe meaning of liberal arts education and its implications for HMC. In addition to completing theCommon Core, every student at HMC is required to take at least ten courses in HSA, with atleast four courses in an area of concentration. The engineering curriculum at HMC consists ofthree stems: design, engineering sciences, and system. The design stem includes three
)estimate that there were only 45 MOOC-related peer-reviewed articles from 2008 (the year theterm “MOOC” was coined) to 2012, with most of the articles published in 2012.7 They note that“peer-reviewed research literature on [MOOCs] is growing but still limited.” More recently,Hollands and Tirthali (2014) interviewed 83 administrators, faculty members, researchers, andother people from 62 different institutions who are engaged in MOOCs or online learning.1 Theyreport the “actual impact on educational outcomes [on MOOC participants] has not beendocumented in any rigorous fashion” and it is difficult to isolate and measure the impact ofMOOCs on the university brand. Hollands and Tirthali estimate the total cost of developing anddelivering a typical
exactly sometimes but similar. [...] make a model of your exercise trail for Perri and then explain to her how to use it. And the way we explain it is by writing an algorithm. [...] We need to know how to write and give directions. In this year two example, Miriam is seen not only introducing students to a definition foralgorithm but also helping students to see why this is important for the students to know and howthat word applies to the bigger engineering design challenge. In addition to explicitly using theCT vocabulary in their classrooms, the teachers in year two were also seen more intentionallymaking connections to bigger CT ideas like sequencing, efficiency
question beliefs about which we feel strongly. It includes questioning the beliefs of our enterprise culture and any sub-culture to which we belong, and a willingness to express our views even when they are unpopular (with management, peers, subordinates or customers).• Intellectual empathy is awareness of the need to actively entertain views that differ from our own, especially those with which we strongly disagree. It entails accurately reconstructing others’ viewpoints and to self-consciously reason from premises, assumptions, and ideas other than our own.• Intellectual integrity consists in holding ourselves to the same intellectual standards you expect others to honor (no double standards
, demonstrations, laboratory exercises, individual andgroup projects, and field experiences to: 1) enable high school students to directlyexperience authentic learning practices that require them to use higher-order thinkingskills; 2) encourage creative problem-solving skills that require collaborative learning,teamwork, writing, and presentation; 3) cultivate an interest in service learning, in whichstudents are active participants, achieve outcomes that show a perceptible impact, andengage in evaluative reflection; and 4) better motivate and prepare secondary schoolstudents for advanced education. The Fellows have been and continue to be trained tocreate and implement these activities.Through the course of each year, the Fellows complete a specially
Engineering Lab II ASE 1023 Intro to Flight Mechanics ASE 4413 Aerospace Propulsion ASE 2013 Astro, Propulsion, Structures ASE 4623 Aircraft Structures III ASE 3333 Aerothermodynamics ASE 4513 Aerospace Vehicle Design I Page 11.1118.4 ASE 3123 Static Stability and Control ASE 4523 Aerospace Vehicle Design II ASE 3213 Aircraft Structures I 3 hours Technical Electives*General Topics (6 hours) GE 3513 Technical Writing CO 1003 Fundamentals of Public Speaking Total
-based reflectivejournals as assessment tools of undergraduate chemical engineer students’ learning in avertically integrated team design project (VITDP) is the focus of this exploratory study.Participants from a large midwestern university were required to submit a reflectivejournal each week over a five-week period. The reflective journals of 23 participants wereanalyzed to unearth the conceptual descriptions of teamwork held by the participants, todescribe the role of metacognition in reflective journal writing, and to determine howreflective journals facilitate construction of knowledge. Thus, reflective journals weremeaningful as assessment tools because they communicated how VITDP participants learnand supplied valuable information to make
audience he co-authored a book on security literacy and has given numerous talks on security. His current funded research is targeted at developing robust countermeasures for network-based security exploits and large scale attack simulation environ- ments and is the director of the Internet-Scale Event and Attack Generation Environment (ISEAGE) test bed project. He has given over 75 presentations in the area of computer security and has testified in front of the U.S. Senate committee of the Judiciary on security issues associated with peer-to-peer networking. He has served as an ABET program evaluator representing IEEE for five years. He is a Fellow of IEEE and received the IEEE Educational Activities Board Major
Excelling Ph.D. Students. He has published his work in various peer-reviewed journals in science and engineering education, including IEEE Transactions on Education, Studies in Educational Evalua- tion, and Journal of Research in Science Teaching. Dr. Lavi is the inventor of the SNAP Method® for structured creative problem-solving (US & UK trademarks).Cong Cong, Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyDr. Yuan Lai, The Pennsylvania State University Yuan Lai, PhD, is a lecturer in urban science and planning at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His research interests include urban science, urban informatics, and future connections between computer science and cities to address urban socio-technicMr. Justin A. Lavallee
a keyaspect of professionalism in STEM. However, our findings also show that dominant figures havethe ability to drastically change LGBTQ+ students’ perspective of professionalism. We alsoexplore how LGBTQ+ students face a culture of silence in STEM environments, unable orunwilling to give voice to their discomfort. LGBTQ+ students experience a lack of solidarityfrom their peers, contributing to a silent, chilly experience in STEM classrooms and labenvironments. Our third theme, identity concealment, investigates how students conceal theirLGBTQ+ identities as a mechanism for survival in STEM. A lack of LGBTQ+ dominant figuresin STEM, a culture of silence, and reinforcement that straightness is a professional requirementin STEM has
engineering principles to Civil Engineering practice analyze and solve real-world engineering 2. Communicate and collaborate effectively with challenges industry professionals, decision-makers and 2. Communicate effectively, both orally and in community members writing, and collaborate successfully in teams 3. Work in an ethical and professional manner to 3. Address the ethical, societal, and global issues positively impact society and the environment encountered in environmental engineering in a regional, national and global context 4. Think independently
research paper emphasizes the importance of students’ engagement from twoperspectives. These perspectives vary based on students’ interaction with learning activities orcontent and their interaction with the educational applications introduced in the class. This paperexamines the relationship between these two engagement perspectives, i.e., students’ engineeringcourse engagement (Course_Eng) and students’ application engagement (App_Eng) in a mobiletechnology-mediated learning environment. A CourseMIRROR mobile application wasintroduced in the first-year engineering (FYE) course, which prompted students to write theirreflection on lectures’ confusing or interesting points after each class. To collect the data onstudents’ course engagement, we
Form of Ethics Learning Objectives [22] Course Level Intervention · Identify set of personal values Graphical Instruction and · Compare and identify Information Systems assignment differences of their values with Freshmen peers’ values · Interpret role of their values in Instruction and Engineering Statics interactions with peers assignment · Explain purpose and paraphrase Dynamics
assignments. While the individual assignments aim to explore student progress (andchallenges) within the teamwork setting, the team assignments reflect project progress, includingall ABET specific elements of the culminating design experience [1]. These deliverables includeteam presentations, major reports for each phase, as well as CAD packages, websites, and alsorequire a continuous peer assessment process to allocate merit within each team [11]. Instructormeetings typically happen weekly, with ongoing communication throughout. Over the winterbreak, the instructor team compiles the materials list for the builds, with purchasing beingexecuted by departmental staff. The capstone experience relies on departmental funding,however externally funded
development is integrated across the curriculum.Students take academic courses about leadership, practice leading their peers in a variety ofsettings and contexts and receive feedback about how well they lead. A similar idea can exist fordeveloping creativity in engineering programs.Engineering students must be taught the fundamental concepts of creative application ofknowledge along with the skills to employ creativity. Importantly, they must be provided with avariety of opportunities throughout the curriculum to apply in creative ways the technicalknowledge they are building and be provided with focused and specific feedback. They mustalso be provided with safe spaces in which risk and the potential for failure are not equivalent toa failing grade
for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.com Abstract ASEE 2022 Conference- International Track Developing Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) projects in Engineering EducationBackground: With increasing awareness of the importance of undergraduate students having aglobal experience, institutions and educators have teamed up to provide opportunities forstudents to collaborate with their peers around the globe. Collaborative Online InternationalLearning (COIL) is not new, but it has recently gained traction because of the pandemic, as apromising pedagogical method to deepen the global engagement of students without requiringtravel abroad
hear their in-person peers speak during the class and vice versa.In addition to the classroom audio-visual technology, the real-time chat functionality of thevirtual room was used to interact with the distance learning students in a more efficient way [9].An experienced graduate teaching assistant (GTA) moderated the chat throughout the class andanswered most of the questions from the DL students. If any question or issue raised in thechatbox needed the instructor’s attention, the GTA would inform the instructor immediately sothat the issue or the question could be addressed in real time before the class moved to the nexttopic.In addition to the Hybrid delivery mode used for the lectures, several other technological toolswere used in order to
universities.RedShirt programs are one example of this type of asset-based student support program aimed atbroadening participation in engineering for students from minoritized racial or ethnic backgrounds orfrom under-resourced high schools and geographic regions (Myers et al., 2018). RedShirt programsprovide an alternative admissions pathway for students who do not meet traditional admissions criteriafor highly selective engineering colleges, but still have the desire and potential to be an engineer.RedShirt programs focus on building strong peer networks and communities to support academicsuccess, communities that are initiated through required summer bridge experiences and reinforcedthrough “high-touch” advising, study sessions, and targeted coursework
, fromall-or-nothing language to degree of certainty. Both Analytic and Cognition were selected basedon their relationship to the mind. Meanwhile, Clout “refers to the relative social status,confidence, or leadership that people display through their writing or talking,” [32, para. 15] andTone pertains to the degree of positive or negative emotional associations. Clout and Tone werechosen for the social elements that may shape the development of HoM. Analysis for the fourdimensions were processed for every HoM such that the dimensional scores can be comparedacross HoM. Upon reviewing the results, Analytic and Clout emerged as the two mostmeaningful dimensions.Moreover, LIWC has a Word Count (WC) function that orders individual words from highest
development of critical thinking and problem-solving skills[11], the opportunity to work with like-minded peers and mentors [8], and the chance to learnabout careers in STEM fields [10]. In this article, the authors review the literature on high schoolSTEM hands-on summer camps and discuss their potential impact on student learning and careerdevelopment. Also, the paper outlines the hands-on activities of the summer camp hosted oncampus in the summer of 2022 and their impact on participant students.BackgroundAccording to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, as of 2021, there were approximately 10 millionworkers in STEM fields. This number is expected to increase by 11% by 2031—a growth rate thatis more than twice as fast as all other occupations
this study. Thecriteria used were the following. (1) The main focus of the paper must be on engineering, science, or STEM students more broadly. While there is important work to be done with students in other fields, our focus was on the STEM classroom. (2) The paper must have been published in the last twenty years. Given how much high- achieving and honors programs have changed through the years, we thought only getting the research from the last two decades would yield the most useful results. (3) The paper must be from a peer-reviewed journal or academic conference. We wanted only high-quality studies to be part of the systematic review and felt this criterion would better ensure quality. (4) The
with visibleidentities is simpler, marginalized people with invisible identities also seek community [1] [2] [3][4]. One such group of invisible marginalized people in STEM are LGBTQ+ engineers, whonavigate a chilly, heteronormative climate in higher education [5] [6]. Additionally, prior studieshighlight how students with multiple-marginalized identities face more barriers than those withone or fewer marginalized identities [7] [8]. Students resist this chilly climate and can overcomethese barriers by forming communities of support, gaining power within the department, andinteracting with peers to create a more inclusive culture [2]. Resistance to this environment canbe influenced by the visibility of students’ marginalized identities [1
provide a personalized “real-world” experience of policy/diplomacy, thestudents are invited to participate in an optional fellowship application process.Individually students propose a list of three potential fellowships to their classmates.From the comprehensive brainstormed list, each student selects a single topic andpresents a Pechu Kucha describing “why” they are qualified for this opportunity andshould be selected for a fellowship. Then students begin the process of completing a draftversion of an application. The draft paper is graded by a peer, and returned to the studentto use as part of the final submission for a fellowship. Because some fellowshipopportunities fall outside of the cycle of the class meeting, the instructor allows some
that students areoften required to show in their solutions is minimal. For full credit, high school students areaccustomed to simply writing their answers down in a list. In college-level math, science, andengineering courses, they quickly learn that showing their work is not just encouraged, it isrequired! Some students have never had to show any work, and they really don’t know how. Inpractice, just knowing how to find the answer is not enough. Presenting and defending a solutionrequires that the solution be supported with dialogue explaining what was done and why it wasdone. Students cannot create that dialogue without looking beyond the equations. They have tounderstand the model and the mathematics in order to explain it, and without an
the scenario and writing an essaywould have been as effective as actually doing the role-play (Figure 6). I BELIEVE I WOULD HAVE LEARNED THE SAME IF I HAD JUST READ THE BOEING SCENARIO AND WRITTEN A REFLECTIVE ESSAY ON IT: Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree 47% 39% 12% 2% 12Figure 6: Student responses to the prompt, "I believe I would have learned the same if I had just
environments [35], [37], [38] to peer interactions and working onteams [28], [39], [40]. For example, belongingness has been linked to extroversion on teams,suggesting that speaking up and trying to fully participate on a team can increase sense ofbelonging [28]. Yet this can be challenging if the team is not a psychologically safe one,suggesting that psychological safety may be an antecedent for sense of belonging on teams.2.3 Psychological safety and engineering teamsPsychological safety is an emergent characteristic of teams that is of interest when discussingsense of belonging in engineering education. Edmondson defines psychological safety as a“shared belief that the team is safe for interpersonal risk-taking” [5, p. 354]. An individualworking on