: results will be shared in the LLL-III course 4. Share presentations and writings with peers, seeking feedback and demonstration of newly developed competencies 5. Deepen her/his understanding of the global environment on technology strategy, and 6. Develop competencies with social and ethical responsibilities.LLL III (ETLS 850) 1. Identify leadership intentions for his/her future, based on a broad understanding of leadership style, competencies and character 2. Share her/his portfolio of learning with the class, demonstrating how this will be used in his/her workplace
theconcepts and each new lab assignment. We also presented strategies for approaching the labassignment and writing the report. Unfortunately, this approach does not scale well with theincreasing class size. Hence, we wanted to find a strategy for student success that scales wellwith the growing number of students, without compromising on instruction and that helps free upthe lab time that may be used to provide one-on-one time with students.1.1 Discovery of the Issues in Fall ’18 and Spring ‘19The motivation for using the flipped class delivery method for the lab instructions is based on theobservation of student performance and outcomes in Fall 2018 and Spring 2019. We analyzedthe lab assignment submission rate and earned lab grades. Figure 1 shows
“guides” or “consultants.” A guide is afaculty member who is the primary mentor for the project. He or she is the most intimatelyinvolved with the entire process, and remain with the team for both quarters of MSD. The guideis also ideally an expert in the field of the project’s subject matter. He or she meets with theirteam weekly, helps resolve technical issues, provides advice on resolving personnel conflicts,and grades the team on its deliverables. The final individual student grade is also adjusted up ordown by the guide. After reviewing the logbooks, peer evaluations, and looking at the overallparticipation, the grade can be modified to reflect the student’s overall contribution.The guide most often acts as the administrative point of
Page 13.286.16health information to adults for a small fee. This increases the health consciousness of the peopleand provides a revenue stream to make the project economically sustainable. A team of businessstudents is working on a detailed business commercialization plan. Mashavu employs anetworked healthcare system that also can be extremely valuable during emergencies anddisaster situations. Mashavu means “chubby cheeked” in Swahili, the national language ofTanzania.Student EvaluationThe grading categories for the course are given in Table 2. All the Adventures and Quests havepoints specifically allocated for creativity and innovation. Venture-related deliverables are co-graded by peers (50%) and referees (50%). Success and failure are both
recognized agencies, and• Using the proposed multi-tier model to facilitate assessment of the maturity of the processes of the engineering program, and locating peer institutions at same level.To this end, LACCEI proposed at the 2005 Engineering for the Americas Symposium a fivelevel model, called Engineering Education Capability Maturity Model3, which can be used by anengineering program preparing for accreditation. This model is an extension of the CapabilityMaturity Model (CMM) developed at Carnegie Mellon University, shown in Figure 1. The goalof the CMM is to increase the process capability, i.e., the inherent ability of a process to produceplanned results. Figure 2 shows the structure of Levels 2-5.LACCEI’s Engineering Education Capability
-known higher education administrator, fund raiser, educator, and researcher with co-authorship of 11 peer-reviewed research journal articles, 15 refereed research conference articles, and 17 refereed pedagogical conference articles. As a PI or Co-PI, Traum has attracted over $800 K in funding for research, education, and entrepreneurial ventures from multi- ple sources including NSF, NASA, ASHRAE, the Texas State Energy Conservation Office, and several industry sponsors. Most recently as Associate Professor and Director of Engineering Programs at Philadelphia University, Dr. Traum led the Mechanical Engineering Program through a successful ABET interim visit resulting in no deficiencies, weaknesses, or concerns
seeing an increased number ofstudents coming in with college credit, either Advanced Placement (AP) or other. In 2014 whenthe original cornerstone pilot was completed, over 50% of entering students had some AP creditin Calculus, 20% had Chemistry credit, 35% have College Writing credit and 35% have Physicscredit. These students as well as current students with advanced credit face a limited courseselection to complete their academic schedules in these early semesters since it is difficult to findcourses that they can take in the first year that do not have prerequisites. This created the need torevise the curriculum to offer students the opportunity to accelerate their exploration of anengineering major. In order to accomplish this, students
, incorporating design work, self-assessmentand reflection, prototyping and creation, all with supervision and support. Another corecomponent is empowered peer-to-peer mentoring: PRL course assistants (CAs) are graduatestudents who have themselves been burnished in the cauldron of the PRL. They understand theelation of success and the opportunity within failure – and know how to turn both into learningmoments for students. The PRL CAs are guided by four faculty, and these groups collectivelyform a community of practice with mixed levels of experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities.Students learn from faculty, CAs, and peers; CAs learn from faculty, students, and other CAs;and faculty learn from students, CAs, and each other. This forms a rich fabric
textbooks used in networkingcourses, the ''contents of these textbooks vary substantially even though these textbooks are usedfor courses having similar descriptions." They noted that subnetting was not covered in enoughdetail for student to understand their basics.Students need to be able to work through practical networking scenarios relying on their grasp ofnetwork fundamentals, perform suitable calculations and device configurations referring to textand online resources along with communicate their ideas to peers in an effective way. Often theextensive calculations required for setting up sub networks and advanced topics such as variablelength subnet masking, super networks, or the use of client-server configurations, can be difficultto
suggests that incorporating experiential learningactivities into MOOCs may provide another way to promote commitment and retention, but inpractice, the job is not an easy one. MOOCs are generally described as being one of two types:cMOOCs or xMOOCs17. In general, cMOOCs adopt a connectivist learning approach and focuson knowledge co-creation by leveraging social media and peer interaction, while xMOOCs takea behaviorist learning approach and focus on more traditional interaction with fixed content,centralized discussion forums, and automated or peer-graded evaluation. The MOOC studiedhere was designed as a combined cMOOC/xMOOC with both connectivist and behavioristcharacteristics. Translating experiential learning activities to fit either type of
general and engineering in particular almostexclusively focus on students of color. In effect, this research studies socioeconomic class bystudying race and ethnicity. While many low-income and first-generation students are also racialand ethnic minorities, not all students of color experience socioeconomic inequality. Moreover,this analytic frame misses many poor white students who do not have access to the samenetworks and support groups as do their peers who are students of color (e.g. MinorityEngineering Programs, Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers, National Society of BlackEngineers, etc.).In fact, socioeconomic inequalities, as distinct from racial and ethnic inequalities, rarely appearin definitions of diversity in STEM education
systems that interact with humans and the world Shute and her colleaguesrefer to CT as the conceptual foundation for solving problems efficiently and effectively. Whensolving complex problems, CT helps with understanding complex phenomenon throughcombining the critical thinking skills and the fundamental concepts of computer science likeabstraction, decomposition and algorithm [7], [9], [11]. Therefore, engaging students in CTthrough the context of engineering education can promote problem-solving skills, and may helpstudents find innovative solutions and make good decisions [7].Wing [11] argues that CT is a core ability for reading, writing and math and should be added toanalytical ability of children. Some have studied computational thinking in
instructors will collaborate with others to ensure student success. Strongteachers will work together providing summative peer assessment of each other’s teachingeffectiveness. These peer assessments will be used for merit, promotion, and tenure decisions.Formative peer observation assists in the improvement of teaching. Class auditing andcontinuous improvement training should be provided for reviewers to ensure that the results areconsistent and beneficial to improving instructional delivery (Canale & Herdklotz, 2012). P-20 Impact on Researchers The P-20 researcher will work to research methods that address issues while addressingdisparities in education. The role of research in P-20 is to identify the
cybersecurity education including the participation of women. She is an author or co-author of over 30 peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings in these areas. She is a member of the IEEE Computer Society, ACM, ACM-W, Women in Cyber Security (WiCys), SWE(Society of Women Engineers), and NCWIT(National Center of Women in Technology).Brandon Earwood, Texas A&M University-San AntonioDr. Young Rae Kim, Texas A&M University-San Antonio Young Rae Kim, youngrae.kim@tamusa.edu, is an assistant professor of mathematics education in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction in the College of Education and Human Development at Texas A&M University-San Antonio. His research interests focus on how students
career.Predominant Engineering Influences for GirlsAnother important factor in ensuring STEM gender diversity is emphasizing positive influencesto take part in engineering. Family, the media, and female role models are all substantially stronginfluences for girls. Similarly, strong social support among peers is important for students to feelaccepted in school environments, and contributes to the level of their achievement choices(Jacobs, 2005; EWEP, 2005). Often, family support is focused only on graduation, not careerplans. However, girls with parents in STEM careers are often more inspired to follow this paththemselves (Kekelis et all, 2005). Women appointed to senior roles in engineering continue tomake headlines because this is still a rare occurrence
design, the modified courses include those in our general educationcore curriculum, such as calculus, history, literature, communication, and the sciences. As such,this course modification process involves more than 50 faculty members from multipledepartments and colleges. The process entails intensive week-long workshops, report-backaccountability sessions, closing-the-loop sessions, support teams of faculty from related contentareas, coordinators, peer-reviewers, and a leadership team of university administrators, facultyand staff.This paper will explain the reason and objectives for the course modifications and will detail theprocess to modify many diverse courses including faculty evaluation of the program. The paperwill discuss the impact
: aProposed Baccalaureate Program and Contextual Base.18 Observing that many undergraduatesrequire more than nine semesters to complete a curriculum designed for eight, they advocate thereduction of degree requirements to 120 credits, or a reduction from 45 to 40 courses. With a“right-sized” curriculum, engineering majors have the same degree requirements as their peers inarts and sciences.As a specific example, in 1991 Carnegie Mellon University reduced the freshman course loadfrom five courses per semester to four, and now requires freshmen to take two introductoryelectives before choosing a major. Students can start the sequence of required courses in aspecific major in sophomore year fall semester and still complete their degree in four years. 19
colleges anduniversities among peers. NW-ETEP up-holds the value of relationships between high schoolsand community colleges, community colleges and universities and between students, facultymembers and support services in community colleges. “I guess it kind strikes me that so much of this is about relationships at all levels, whether department chair or school of engineering chair, it’s just even that function of getting to know each other in the different cc programs and their faculty.” “It’s been a big supporter of our human powered paper vehicle competition which is actually a result of a different NSF grant but NW-ETEP has supported and kind of built upon what started a few years ago. Now the human powered
the university. We use our summer orientation programs to address these items, and also help studentsbecome aware of the changes that are taking place in their lives and begin the transition in thestudent's immediate family structure by introducing professional counselors and advisors duringthe summer registration program [10 – 12]. This expansion of their family is continued in thefall semester, in our seminar course ENGR0081 and introduction to Engineering courseENGR0011, as peer mentors and faculty are added to their family structure. Mentoring is often thought to be a lot like coaching. In fact, many mentors do find that theirrole as mentor takes on the task of coaching the students through the various difficult transitionsfrom
be mapped to the ACRL Information LiteracyStandards for Science and Technology1, specifically meeting Standard Two, PerformanceIndicator 5, Outcome (d), and working towards Standard 4, Performance Indicator 3, Outcome(a). The learning outcomes of this station also map to Standard Three, Performance Indicator 1,Outcome (b).Additional peer-reviewed journals were also on hand so the students could compare thedescriptive journals articles from Structural Engineering International to a peer-reviewed article,and introduce the peer-review process. This helps students to work towards Standard 1,Performance Indicator 1, Outcome (a). A complete explanation of the ACRL Standards,Performance Indicators and Outcomes that are associated with this station
. Additionally, there is evidence of bias in peer reviews, showing that a female postdoctoral applicant had to be significantly more productive than a male applicant, helping to explain the lower success rate of female scientists in achieving high academic rank. While biases do change, the recent research studies show that gender stereotypes are clearly still at play. Recent research on marriage and family responsibilities, show that women are at a disadvantage if they have children17,18. In business and industry both women and men identify family responsibilities as a possible barrier to advancement, but women are affected differently than men by this “family penalty.”19,20 Among women and men with
. Traditional assessments didnot encourage the development of ill-structured problem solving skills. In order to assessproblem solving skills, Woods and his colleagues devised questions that enable students todisplay the processes they use to solve problems.17 They also made evaluations of attitude andskill towards lifelong learning. Rustin assessed his engineering students by allowing theexamination to be taken during a period of several days to condition his students to be dependenton the library.19 Since there is usually no single preferred solution, Rustin evaluated his studentsin detail, including the reasonableness of assumptions and value judgments made. In terms ofdifficulties in writing examination questions, Carter had made significant
year that a chat room was implemented to support the remote setup andconfiguration of student competition networks was for the 2007 CDC. At the writing of thispaper, the authors have five years of chat log files archived which can be examined using contentanalysis. This paper focuses only on the first year in which the authors have data, 2007, and isthe first attempt at using content analysis to evaluate the program. Since content analysis is anovel approach for evaluating inquiry-based learning and chat logs, the authors view this paperas a way to frame the use of content analysis in understanding inquiry-based learning programs.As discussed in the Conclusions/Future Directions section, the authors plan to use what islearned in this analysis
supervisors, peers, subordinates, clients, and others. With support from National ScienceFoundation grant EEC #1158728, the present study used a newly developed online deliverysystem to provide personalized multisource feedback to a sample of 206 undergraduate STEMstudents in a science and technology problem-solving course. PersonalityPad.org is anautomated multisource feedback platform that allows users to generate their own personalizedmultisource feedback. This process incorporates prevalent 360-degree feedback strategies and“best practices” for effective feedback administration. A longitudinal experiment within aninterventional framework evaluated the hypothesis that multisource conscientiousness feedbackwould provoke goal-directedness and
Formulas. This iswhen students believe they should follow the plans that have been laid out for them by externalvoices of authority. They allow others to define who they are, including parents, teachers, socialnorms and expectations, peers, etc. The second phase is Crossroads. This is when studentsrealize that following the plans others have set before them may not necessarily match their owninterests and desires and they become discontented with allowing others to define who they are,and they begin to create their own sense of self that is preferably more authentic. Yet, whilestudents want to become more true to themselves, at this phase, they are exceedingly concernedwith how others will react to their decisions and the effects on their
Paper ID #34313Work in Progress: Using Cost-effective Educational Robotics Kits inEngineering EducationMs. Caroline Grace Sawatzki, Saginaw Valley State University Caroline Sawatzki is a senior in the Electrical & Computer Engineering program at Saginaw Valley State University (SVSU), and has adopted a double minor in Mathematics and Japanese. Caroline expresses her love for helping her peers succeed academically through her employment at the SVSU Writing Center, where she assists students in the development of their professional and research writing skills. During her undergraduate education, Caroline has visited
Page 15.469.8them as they worked together throughout the rest of the semester. The 8th grade studentsbrainstormed about project ideas with their peers, as well as, their ASU student mentors. Theteachers created student teams and the projects were chosen based on student enthusiasm,societal relevance, attention to problem-solving or product improvement and feasibility. Theywere challenging, yet grade-level appropriate.The K-12 teachers and the Chandler school district coordinator organized themselves into aprofessional learning community (PLC) with the goal of being in constant communication andcoordination during the project. They met regularly to discuss planning, execution and evaluationof learning activities that blend seamlessly across
mother) woman. I am in the second year of my undergraduate engineering degree with aminor in Biomedical Engineering at a large HSI in the southwestern U.S. along the U.S.-Mexicoborder. Alongside my studies, I am a Research Assistant with an NSF IUSE-HSI grant, I work atthe front desk for our department, I have started a podcast to elevate the voices of my peers andmentors called “[Our Department] Inclusive Podcast”, and I am a barista at my church.As one of the contributing authors, I, Angelica Littles, identify as a cisgender AfricanAmerican/Filipina female. I am currently a second-year engineering student at a large HSI in thesouthwestern U.S. along the U.S.-Mexico border. In addition to my studies, I hold a TeachingAssistant position for a
teaches undergraduate courses in engineering & society, and graduate courses in engineering education. Lisa completed an Undergraduate Degree in Environmental Science at the University of Guelph, and a Master’s Degree in Curriculum Studies at the University of Toronto. Her current doctoral research focuses on teaching and learning in engineering with an emphasis on the teaching of STSE (Science, Technology, Society and the Environment). She has also conducted research on science teacher education, the first year university experience, the assessment of undergraduate research experiences, peer teaching and gender issues in science and engineering
theperception of dishonest peers and positively associated with understanding of academic integritypolicies.10 This research lends support to the idea that students require explicit education aboutacademic integrity.Yet, the ways in which faculty can infuse integrity education into the classroom has not beensystematically studied. Etter and colleagues proposed using the moral obligation andresponsibility that engineers have for the “health, safety, and welfare” of society as a way toencourage ethical reasoning and promote academic integrity in engineering students. Suggestedmethods for institutions include case-based learning, cooperative learning groups, and service-based learning.13 McCabe and Pavela suggested that faculty encourage honesty in their