model instructor Table 1: Timetable of reform development, implementation, and planned future work for the three courses Introductory Dynamics, Introductory Solid Mechanics, and Introductory Statics. Work in 2014 is planned, while work prior to 2014 is completed at the time of writing. See Table 2 for a list of specific reforms.pedagogies as faculty teach different content, do not collect data, or resist the implications of datathat they did not collect. By creating joint course ownership, faculty are able to participate in animplement-evaluate development cycle. This cycle begins by identifying areas for improvement.Then faculty implement targeted reforms and evaluate whether these reforms produce
analysis leaving a total of109 responses. The majority of participants, 71, selected yes as the response. Three participantsselected no as their response. It would depend on was selected by 35 participants with themajority of the follow up write in responses listing experience as the condition that wouldinfluence the salary. This is in alignment with the responses to the earlier question which notedexperience considerably favored over education.A third question asked participants if new employee hires with industry experience would beoffered a higher starting salary than someone without industry experience. This question offeredthree response choices: yes, no, it would depend on (please specify). All 110 participantsresponded to this question. One
major.Approximately half of students will decide to leave the major before the start of their sophomoreyear [2]. The decision to leave the engineering major can be based on many factors including: ifa student is failing courses in their major, motivation to do well in school, external influences(peers/parents) and change in attitude about the major. There are some students who view themajor as a means to make a competitive salary upon graduation and others who have a truepassion for the study of how engineering connects the world. Page 24.1346.2Supplemental Instruction (SI) was created to assist students in high risk courses by offeringsessions throughout the
CREATE Renewable Energy Network; • Collaborate and write section of paper for inclusion in a peer-reviewed paper; • Participate in at least two online virtual learning community meetings; and • Provide feedback and formal evaluation information to CREATE on the impact of the Renewable Energy Network on teaching and learning (including student assessment and demographic information). Name: ____________________________________________________________________ Signature: _____________________________________ Date: _______________________Chancellor/President’s Certification: I have reviewed [insert name ________________________'s] application to the CREATE US- Australia Renewable Energy Learning Exchange and Network and fully support
responses, this written reflection was a required assignment, thus, it collected additionalqualitative data to gauge students’ learning outcomes at this point of time. This exercise providesopportunities for internalizing individual personal and professional growth and paves the way forbetter actions moving forward. Quotes from students’ written reflections are categorized into thearea of development as listed below.Project Management“I secured my project within my company by communicating with peers, mentors, leaders, andmy extended network about daily sore spots and any concerns for the future.”2023 ASEE Engineering Management Division (EMD)“Throughout this program, I learned the importance of buy-in and cooperation from all parties toachieve
course has an introductory Physics class in Mechanics and a Writing course asprerequisites. Participants consist of students enrolled in the course (1,2). Enrolled students aretypically in their first or second year and often select this class to explore engineering as theirmajor. Students learn engineering design and manufacturing techniques, utilizing their learningto solve ill-defined problems on teams. Projects require both conceptual design and tangible,mechanical solutions for an external client. In addition to engineering design, students learnteamwork through activities centered in giving and receiving feedback, resolving conflict, andleadership. Teams create contracts, meeting agendas, and project management documents as theywork
sentiment analysis Its value comes fromanalyzing large amounts of text data [2]. For example, its applications have been used to analyzesocial media posts to track public opinion and identify trends (e.g., O’Connor [8]). In the field ofeducation, it has been applied to the analysis of student essays to provide feedback, teamworkreview analysis, and students’ feedback loop [1], [3], [9]. Another application is in the generationof natural language text (e.g., machine translation systems use NLP to translate text from onelanguage to another) [10]. In addition, it has been used to generate feedback on student writing [11] and to createpersonalized study materials [12]. It also can facilitate more personalized and effectiveinstruction [13]. By
faculty to develop linked engineering and writing classes; they emphasizedanalyzing data and tailoring communications to a particular audience [12]. Another schoolintegrated chemistry, mathematics, engineering, and physics [13]. They maintained a cohort ofstudents throughout all four courses, students worked in the same teams of four in all of theirclasses, they quickly became friends and formed study groups, and retention was improvedcompared to traditional (non-cohort, randomized) students.Several engineering programs have incorporated service learning into their courses, to emphasizethat the engineer’s role in society is to solve problems in the service of humanity [14, 15]. Somecolleges have partnered with local non-profit organizations [16
?” It was a multiple-answer question.Answers are categorized into six areas that reflect how AI tools are used in an academic setting.Students were asked to choose which of these options applied to them. Responses areas areillustrated in Figure 4.Figure 4. Representation of how students utilize AI.The data highlights the varying degrees to which AI tools are utilized across differenteducational aspects. The most common use is for understanding complex concepts, chosen by 14students, followed by 13 students using AI for research and information gathering. This suggestsa trend towards utilizing AI as a learning and discovery tool, like a search engine. While severalstudents also reported using AI to enhance writing quality and generate project
’ Honors Program to teach students howto work better on multidisciplinary teams in a multicultural context. The vehicle isan honors course, titled “Bringing a New Product to Market from Concept to Launch”[Jackson and Reichert, 2010]. In this course students design, organize write, presentand defend a launch plan for a virtual product. The virtual product is selected by theprofessor. Students are required to give brief project updates, maintain a journal,present their contribution and write a final report. These and peer evaluations countabout 65 percent of their grade. Students learn the basic body of knowledge of thedisciplines used in new product design and development. Quizzes and homeworkassignments on this material count about 35 percent of
: "Collaborative group discussion," item 12: "Present my work to everyone duringclass," and item 14: "Discuss my work with my teacher during class." These items indicate anincrease in the frequency of engagement in collaborative activities, such as group discussions andpresenting work to peers and teachers. This positive change suggests that students mayparticipate more actively in classroom interactions, share their ideas, and work with others.On the other hand, the rest of the items had a negative change. That is, they decreased in theirresponses about the frequency of the item. The items included item 10: "Interact with my teacherin synchronous sessions," item 11: "Interact with my classmates in each group activity," item 13:"Discuss my work with
study groups. 3. Active learning methods engage students in the learning process by encouraging them to discover, process, and apply information. Empirical support for the positive impact of active learning on student achievement is extensive. Examples:The instructor... • Challenges or engages student assumptions • Demonstrates active listening • Models thinking and problem-solving; works through problems, scenarios, arguments with students • Assigns student activities that involve one or more of the following1: o active use of writing, speaking, and other forms of self-expression o opportunity for information gathering, synthesis, and analysis in solving problems
grew up in racially isolated neighborhoods can benefit socially from participating in racially integrated classrooms. Multicultural education is most beneficial for students of color. (R) Large numbers of students of color are improperly placed in remedial courses (e.g., mathematics) by university personnel. In order to be effective with all students, faculty should have experience working with students from diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds. Multicultural education is less important than English, writing, mathematics, and computer science. (R) All students should be encouraged to become fluent in a second language. Historically, STEM education has been monocultural, reflecting only one reality and has been biased toward the dominant
themselves as more competentthan their white peers for several of the generic skills, most of which are often considered to besoft skills. These findings have implications on research and practice in the engineeringeducation of minorities in order to grow and build a stronger more diverse engineeringworkforce.Introduction Assessment and continuous improvement of student outcomes in contemporaryengineering higher education programs are focal points in program-specific accreditation. ABET,one of the largest accreditors of engineering programs, has an accreditation model that includesthree elements: student outcomes, self-assessment, and continuous improvement. According toDuff [3], outcomes assessment becomes most successful when everyone
sandwich (cooperative) principle of integrated periods of study and trainingin industry. The most popular was six months in industry followed by six months in collegein each of four successive years [4].A requirement of the NCTA was that all students for their diplomas should have participatedin programs of liberal study. This was reinforced in 1957 by a government edict that extendedthe idea of compulsory liberal studies to all levels of technical education even though muchof it was part time study [5]. By 1962 it was seen that the development of literacy, that is theability to read and write, was essential for the general education of all students. Thus, it wasthat in those colleges the term Liberal Studies came to be substituted by General
lectureseries by STEM faculty and researchers across all partner institutions and collaborating industrypartners. At the end of the summer, students write a project report while teachers complete theirlesson plans and associated activities. The REU/RET teams present their work at a virtual researchsymposium coordinated by the lead institution. They also create a video ‘elevator pitch’ on theirexperience that is made available on the program website. All students are encouraged to continuetheir research at their home institution. The top 9 students across the whole program are selectedto receive stipends during the academic year specifically for this purpose.High school teachers are often tasked with providing quality education with very few resources
training for the graders, primarily to go over the provided instructionaldocument and to answer any questions they had about the process.Environmental BenefitAs was previously mentioned, approximately 1,400 students submitted their homeworkassignments electronically, instead of in a paper format, each weekfor 14 weeks.Assignmentsvaried in length ranging from a single-page submission up to about ten pages. The number ofpages used is dependent on many factors including the size of each student’s writing and theirverbosity, but it is estimated that on average students submitted about 5 pages for eachhomework assignment. By simple multiplication it can be determined that the paper savings by
twenty years. The goal for ESP is to prepare high school students for collegestudy in the field of engineering and science, and to attract these students to the UW-Madison.The program targets students from traditionally underrepresented backgrounds including AfricanAmerican, Latino, Native American, Cambodian, Laotian, Hmong or Vietnamese. We alsoselect female students who would be first generation college students.The students are exposed to basic foundational courses that are fundamental to the engineeringdiscipline: pre-calculus or calculus depending on the background of the student, physics,chemistry, computer science, and technical writing. Students are exposed to various engineeringfields through short discipline specific laboratories and
werefound in the frequency that some ethical topics were taught among individuals in differentdisciplines, as summarized in Table 4. Overall, civil engineering capstone design instructorsreported a higher number of ethics topics as compared to peers in electrical or mechanicalengineering. This may indicate a greater overall focus on ethics in civil engineering capstonedesign courses.Table 4. Percentage of senior capstone design instructors who teach different ethics topics Ethics-Related Topic Civil Mechanical Electrical Chi test p value Sustainability 78 43 35 <0.0001 Ethical failures/disaster 73 51 41 0.01
under the any of the EAC program areas, so that program only had to meet the generalEAC curricular requirements.The general and program-specific EAC requirements set minimums for the size of the math andscience foundation and specified the inclusion of a small set of topics or courses, which still leftus quite a bit of flexibility for determining the content of each program, especially at the upperdivision. To make sure that we were not going far afield, we took the time to research otherprograms. Because EE is a very large field, we started with a list of 93 programs at similar uni-versities and then eventually narrowed that list to a set of six programs that we considered to beaspirational peers. MFGE, however, is a relatively small field
• Monitoring Progress Towards Goals • Team Building Exercise • Systems Monitoring • Team Charter Interpersonal Processes • Team Plan • Conflict Management • Peer Evaluation • Motivation & Confidence Building • Affect Management Figure 2: Conceptual Relationship between Scaffolds and Team ProcessesMethodWe used an inductive inquiry approach to gain insight into how the tools supported teamprocesses by using a loose type of qualitative research method following the guidelines set byMiles, Huberman & Saldaña
activities.The course videos were created using Camtasia Studio30 and a Tablet PC. The videos includedaudio of the instructor explaining the material and a live screen capture of the instructor writingon the tablet. The videos were posted on YouTube (YouTube channel MEGR438) and accessibleto students. To cover the course content there were 45 videos in the 2011 IC offering and 50videos (5 additional) in 2012 IC offering, each between 3 and 12 minutes long. To achieve thislength, videos were edited and shortened to approximately half their original length by removingpauses from the presentation that occurred while writing or when explaining the material. Thisresulted in six hours of video content posted online. Specific videos were not initially
boards or course newsletters can be used tocelebrate school athletic victories, student achievement and other times to cheer collectively as aclass. The instructor of a flipped classroom needs to respond to student questions bycommunicating clearly and respectfully with them. Community building is further enhancedwhen instructors actively participate in student discussions and regularly reach out to those whoneed additional support, guidance, and encouragement.Instructors should also develop group activities that foster an online community and allowstudents to engage their peers. Setting up small groups of three to five students early in thesemester allows them to assume responsibility for supportive mentoring and for summarizingkey points of a
environment) approach. She has also conducted research on teacher education, the first year university experience, peer teaching, gender issues in science and engineering, and graduate attribute assessment. Page 25.594.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 Evolving a Rubric for Use in Assessing Engineering Graduate Attributes in a Student Senior Research ThesisAbstract: This paper describes the process of developing and utilizing a rubric for graduateattributes assessment in a large senior research thesis course in a multidisciplinary engineeringprogram. Each
form the framework for the ultimate purpose of this paper: to provide aresource for new graduate student instructors. Derived from my experiences, I focus on what Ihave learned based on four main themes: preparation, motivation, expectation, and reflection.Lessons on PreparationAs a graduate student teaching for the first time, it seems there is little time to prepare forteaching a course. However, it is important to make the most of what time you have to preparein between your own courses, research, and writing reports. Without proper preparation, youmake yourself vulnerable to late nights, coffee addictions, and possible embarrassment in theclassroom. In particular, if you are teaching a course as the primary instructor, it is essential
encouraged to pick a product that interests them insome way (e.g., refer to Fig. 2). Whether it be a device that they use regularly but neverperforms to their satisfaction, or simply a device they have always been intrigued with but hadnever had the opportunity or time to investigate, the important thing is that they want to reverseengineer the product. This investigation of an interesting product is the focus of the first projectand is captured by the sub-title above: “Something you’ve always wanted to do but never had thetime...” The students should be encouraged to find a product that they truly want to analyze andunderstand. After all, the team will be writing their first and third reports on the device theychoose; it is not a decision to be
name afew.By their very nature, fundamental engineering courses do not easily lend themselves to anintegrated design or open-ended element that meaningfully enhances student learning. This isespecially true in the case of Statics, where the primary learning objectives of drawing correctfree-body diagrams and applying them to equilibrium equations to solve for unknowns are usuallyassessed through well-posed problems with unique solutions. An in-depth review of papers inASEE’s PEER repository reveals that the most common open-ended project utilized byinstructors in their Statics courses involves designing, analyzing, constructing, and testing scaledmodel truss bridges using elements made from spaghetti 5 , wooden popsicle sticks 6 , straws 7
their education [5],but students are typically unaware that advisor and mentor are often not synonymous despite theoverlap in responsibilities. An advisor is an integral part of the doctoral student’s academicexperience and career path as advisors will write recommendation letters, provide a network,assist in publishing, provide funding, and can increase long-term job satisfaction [3], [6]. But inaddition to these responsibilities, doctoral students require customized mentorship from theiradvisors based on individual characteristics and progress toward their degree [7].A high-quality, effective mentor will provide both career-related and psychosocial support,offering guidance and resources for the mentee’s professional development, self
a fellow engineering Terp. She has been accepted to Johns Hopkins University to begin her studies towards a PhD in Civil Engineering this fall.Dr. Sharon Fries-Britt, University of Maryland, College Park Sharon Fries-Britt is a Professor of Higher Education at the University of Maryland, College Park in the Department of Counseling, Higher Education and Special Education (CHSE). Her research examines the experiences of high achieving Blacks in higher education and underrepresented minorities (URMs) in STEM fields. Dr. Fries-Britt has published widely within peer-reviewed journals and she has served on c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019
Engineering in collaboration with the University of Oxford and Isis Enterprise. She has authored many peer-reviewed publications and has taught different courses in advanced robotics, mechatronics, signal analysis, computer environment, embedded systems, digital and electric circuits, and control systems. B. Lorena Villarreal’s research interests include both mobile robotics and artificial intelligence systems. Because technology is constantly changing, she always advocates for research in the use of new technolo- gies. She believes that professors should be able to evolve as well, providing students with up-to-date theoretical background, experience, and practical knowledge, all of which will help them to develop an