in social conflict test as compared to those focusing on thesuccess that their peers achieve (success-based learning). How many of the observed shynessindividuals are using success-based learning would be an interesting future pedagogy project.The Voice Pattern project did open the students’ horizon but most engineering students are notinterested in humanitarian application of physics. Financial engineering students are aware ofthe econophysics applications but they are at the 5% level among all engineering majors in ourcommunity college.Service Learning could overlap with Group Learning 38, Wiki learning 39, Experiential Learningin Humanities & Sciences 40. Our rubric as shown in Figure 1 was developed with reference tothe Peace Corps
institutions, previously only manually controlled in the USA. This led tosignificant growth into the integration of automated systems.Richard K. Price – DTA 2006, BS EET 1975. In 2006, Dick was the Director of BusinessContinuance and Emergency Management and Middle East Operations for Verizon. Aftergraduation, he joined MCI (Microwave Communications Incorporated). Dick has been with MCI(now Verizon Business) for over 30 years. He was responsible for planning, writing, coordinating,implementing, and overseeing the business continuance plans for the worldwide operations,engineering, and implementation organization. He was also charged with managing the NationalEmergency Coordinating Center (NECC) as well as the tactical response to all incidents
, we seek to identify and value differencesamong our cadets and to leverage those differences to enhance understanding for the group. We also seekto help cadets to value the differences among their peers, subordinates and leaders. The need to produceleaders of character is a direct complement to the academic requirements. USMA’s educational process focuses on the development of the whole person. The academic, military,physical, and moral/ethical development of each cadet is accomplished through an immersive 47 monthexperience. The stated goal of the academic program [3] is to enable graduates to anticipate and respondeffectively to the uncertainties of a changing technological, social, political, and economic world. As aresult, the curriculum
structure, with anassociated lesson plan will be presented. A review was conducted of peer institutions withsimilar technical sales engineering programs included the University of Florida, and Penn StateErie - The Behrend College.Keywords: technical sales, sales engineering, industry collaborationDescription of the InnovationThe Iowa State University College of Engineering (COE) received a corporate gift from Tranecorp. to establish an engineering sales program within the college. The original gift proposalinitiated a review of sales and marketing positions for engineers, sales engineering programs atother universities, and a literature and industry review of sales engineering curriculum. Theseactivities were performed by a committee established
and practices individually, the authorschose to present participant quotes in a tabular form. The authors may have preferred integratingthe quotes into the text, but chose to include them in tabular form “for brevity” (p. 203). In thisarticle, the authors discussed a concern about their subjectivities. They discussed that they “keptour analysis grounded in the data and used external coders, peer debriefing, and other strategiesto help bracket our biases'' (p. 203). Although the relationship between authors anddata/participants is separate–indicating potential positivist inclinations–these authors do notdiscuss striving for generalizability. What follows is that this “separated” relationship thatresearchers can have with their data may be due
’ mentalhealth as they tried to focus amid distracting environments. With a lack of preparedness for the pivot and the complex effects it had on course delivery,critical student comments on negative experiences were expected. Furthermore, certain studentpreferences may have arisen as they adjusted to unfamiliar and/or ill-planned learningenvironments [5]. Documented impacts on students observed both by the authors and in publishedpapers to date have included [6-9]: • Academic stress factors such as reduced face-to-face social interactions • Limited networking presence with college personnel (faculty, staff) as well as peers • Longer response time for communication via e-mail or other online platforms • Extra assignments to make
management skills, effective learning strategies, and positive habits of mind.Dr. Jon Harcum, Clemson UniversityLaurel Whisler, Bristol Community College Laurel Whisler is Associate Dean of Library Learning Commons at Bristol Community College in Fall River, MA. In this role, Whisler provides strategic leadership for developing learning capabilities through the services and resources of the library and the tutoring/writing center. Previously, Whisler had served nearly ten years at Clemson University as Coordinator of Supplemental Instruction and then as Assis- tant Director and Coordinator of Course Support Programs in the Westmoreland Academic Success Pro- gram. In that capacity, she provided vision and direction for the
and oversees studio activities, twograduate teaching assistants (GTA) from the COE lead each session. During previous in-personofferings of the course, the studio sections were held in a specially-designed classroom spacethat was equipped with smartboards, projectors, moveable workbenches and extensive wall spaceand partitions for students to write on with erasable markers. The innovative room designprovided the opportunity for a highly collaborative hands-on learning environment for thecommunication and technology activities.Open studio sessions along with instructor office hours were held several times a week forstudents to drop-in, as needed. During in-person studio sessions, students had access to a varietyof open-source technologies used
right to live in a healthy environment… the issues addressed center onequity, fairness, and the struggle for social justice by black communities.” [11] Justice drawsattention to “equity, recognition, and participation” [8]. Participation and interactions that valuedifferent perspectives and avoid a deficit model are key conditions for social justice [13].The term ‘environmental justice’ appeared in 80 conference papers associated with the AmericanSociety for Engineering Education (ASEE), based on a search in the ASEE PEER system [14].The majority of the EJ conference papers were associated with the Liberal Education /Engineering and Society (LEES) division (11), Engineering Ethics division (11), andEnvironmental Engineering division (7
student devotes to the academicexperience, the more that student will learn. Astin argued that involvement, or the investment ofphysical and psychological energy towards an experience, occurs on a continuum and has bothquantitative (e.g. time on task) and qualitative (e.g. useful study strategies) features [15]. Astinand Pace’s work is the basis for the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) whichcollects five categories of information about students: participation in educationally purposefulactivities (e.g. interacting with faculty or peers), what institutions require of them (e.g. amount ofreading or writing), perceptions of features of the environment related to academic success,demographic information (e.g. gender, race, socioeconomic
Student Design Essay Award”.Dr. Zhenjun Ming, University of Oklahoma Zhenjun Ming is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the School of Aerospace and Mechanical Engi- neering of University of Oklahoma. He is working with Professor Farrokh Mistree and Professor Janet K. Allen at the Systems Realization Laboratory @ OU. His research interest is to create knowledge-based decision support methods and tools to facilitate designers in the design of engineered systems. Zhenjun has published more than ten peer-reviewed research papers and will publish a Springer Monograph in 2021. His education focus is to create an environment for students to learn by reflecting on doing.Prof. Zahed Siddique, University of Oklahoma Zahed
, and has participated in research and curriculum development projects with $6.4 million funding from external sources. He has been directing/co-directing an NSF/Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Site on interdisciplinary water sciences and engineering at VT since 2007. This site has 85 alumni to date. He also leads an NSF/Research Experiences for Teachers (RET) site on interdisciplinary water research. He has published over 85 papers in peer-reviewed journals and conferences. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Benefits for undergraduates from engagement in an interdisciplinary environmental monitoring research and
elicit responses that reflect aspects of their engineeringknowledge and skills, and second to reveal how they apply this learning to engineering-designpractice. In their first and third years, students were given ten minutes to write their answers tothe question, “Over the summer the Midwest experienced massive flooding of the MississippiRiver. What factors would you take into account in designing a retaining wall system for theMississippi?” The purpose of this performance task was to analyze the breadth to which studentsframed an engineering problem. This is important, because defining the problem is as importantas solving it14 and framing is among the most difficult aspects of engineering design to assessand teach.3During the first year of the
apprenticeship highlights the cognitive tool for accumulation and utilizationof knowledge in authentic domain activity.25 Coaching is a central concept of cognitiveapprenticeship. While learners can use their prior knowledge when faced with various kinds ofsituations and opportunities, they cannot obtain such knowledge without proper coaching fromtheir teachers. In particular, teachers help identify the kinds of information learners should absorband offer increasingly complex opportunities to allow learners to apply and practice theirknowledge set.25 Collaboration, especially in a classroom setting, is a beneficial component of theframework of Ref. 25 that exposes learners to perspectives from their teacher and peers alike invaried ways to tackle a
Paper ID #24898The Pencil-Top Fidget: Reinventing Shop (Metal Drilling and Tapping) inHigh School Science ClassroomsDr. Matthew J. Traum, Engineer Inc. Dr. Matthew J. Traum is founding CEO at Engineer Inc., a Florida-based STEM education social enter- prise start-up. Traum invented @HOLMTM lab kits to enable students in on-line courses to build and run engineering experiments remotely at home. Before founding Engineer Inc., Dr. Traum was a well-known higher education administrator, fund raiser, educator, and researcher with co-authorship of 12 peer-reviewed research journal articles, 18 refereed research conference
unlikely to be fundamentally more socialbeings than men with significantly greater needs for relatedness [32].A more realistic possibility is that women enter into academic positions already at adisadvantage, which makes meeting relatedness needs a greater hurdle. Studies of social identitythreat have shown that women experience a lower sense of belonging and show more cognitiveand physiological vigilance when presented with the prospect of participating in male-dominatedevents compared to more gender-balanced events [33]. Women also report a lower sense ofbelonging than their male peers throughout the undergraduate [34], [35], [36] and graduate years[37], to the detriment of their studies and well-being. As Skewes et al. [17] write in regards
particular task and their beliefs about the relative cost and value of that task [15]– [17]. Individuals’ competence beliefs and the costs and values they associate with a particularchoice are informed by their past experiences, personal identity beliefs, the societal/culturalcontext, and individuals’ interactions with these cultural norms or expectations [16], [17]. Ourfindings suggested that returners perceived higher levels of costs in a number of areas comparedto their direct-pathway peers. These costs included academic costs, which relate to individuals’feelings about their academic performance, relationships with peers, and adjusting to a new typeof work and environment; balance costs, which include challenges with family and
initially to establish the reality of remote laboratories or the accuracy of simulations for later study. Finally, it is clear that students learn not only from equipment, but from interactions with peers and teachers [7].”This observation highlights the developmental aspect of becoming an effective investigator. Italso recognizes the social dimension of learning.There is a whole body of pedagogical literature that recognizes this developmental dimensionand the need for appropriate scaffolding and support from peers and teachers. Laboratoryexperiences can be characterized in terms of the degree of autonomy afforded to the students; thedegree to which they can exercise agency in what is investigated, how this is done and
played animportant role in these efforts. Negatively experienced innovation efforts, in contrast, wererelated to a lack in implementation, solutions and resources. Top and bottom moments werestrongly tied to the social dimension of work: top moments were typically related tocamaraderie with peers or recognition coming from managers, and bottom experiences withan absence of social connections in addition to falling short of one’s own expectations.The results suggest that managers should be cognizant of the importance of social connectionsand feedback cycles with their young engineers who are looking for guidance and validationof their efforts. For educators, the results highlight the importance of equipping our graduateswith skills suited to
interpretingdata, conducting experiments, and locating and learning from literature. A study by Berdanier etal. examined the knowledge, skills, and attributes graduate students intending to pursue work inacademia and industry identified as important.5 Both groups of students emphasized problemsolving, meeting deadlines, communicating with a particular audience (both orally and inwriting), strong analytical ability, managing multiple projects, working in teams, and meetingdeadlines. Skills and knowledge emphasized exclusively by students intending to pursue industrycareers tended to industry-specific, like writing technical reports and learning new technologies.Those graduate engineers entering academia also emphasized skills that related to their
teachers may appear to permitlaziness and irresponsibility. Yet it is challenging to evaluate the level of knowledge or skillsstudents have attained during a group project, placing a burden on teachers.24 Of the commonlyutilized assessment strategies in group-based settings, all possess drawbacks. These include self-assessments (over-inflated grades), peer assessments (heavily influenced by social relationshipswith classmates), situational judgment tests (questions about various scenarios; objectivity isdifficult), behaviorally-anchored teacher-rating scales (difficult to observe all students), and teaminterviews (prohibitively time intensive).24,25,26To model professional work, project-based methods often utilize authentic assessments
that straddle border between categories or don't quite fit Cases (note how) Describe •Use core cases to highlight central themes of category •Use border cases to highlight variation within category categories •Explore boundaries between categories Describe •Use border cases and common elements to suggest relationships •Dimensions of variation can guide relationships •Present summaries of outcome space to various parties (committee Collaborative members, peers, undergraduates, connections at conferences) •Feedback on
all first-time graduate student instructors. Thistraining consists of two parts: a 7-hour orientation and an ongoing professional developmentduring the term. The orientation begins with a session on inclusive teaching to align with theCoE strategic plan to improve diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). It also contains a variety ofpedagogical workshops and an opportunity to practice delivering a lesson to a small group oftheir peers. The ongoing professional development allows students to choose from workshops,active-learning practice or a midterm student feedback consultation, along with reflectiveexercises. The structure of this training approach is in-between short programs (i.e., one-dayevents) and long programs (i.e., 20+ hours) carried
organizes, coordinates Electrical and Electronic Lab courses for the college.Dr. QINANG HU, Oklahoma State University Dr. Hu is an assistant professor of practice at Oklahoma State University. He is responsible for instructing hands-on lab courses in material sciences and solid mechanics. His areas of interest include concrete durability, X-ray microanalysis, and cement hydration mechanism. He has published peer-review articles in Concrete and Cement Research, Construction and Building Material, Fuel, Acta Materia, ACI structural Journal and etc. He is a member of American Concrete Institute and American Ceramic Society. He also serves as a reviewer in Construction and Building Material.Dr. Toni Ivey, Oklahoma State
Society for Engineering Education, 2020 “Adversary or Ally”: Undergraduate Engineering Students’ Perceptions of FacultyAbstractThis research paper examines students’ perceptions of faculty and how it influences their identitytrajectory. First-year students enter undergraduate engineering education with rich stories of howthey came to choose engineering as a career pathway. Over time, the culture of engineering andnetwork of peers, faculty members, and professionals shape students' stories and identitytrajectories. How students “cast” faculty members in their story, often as helpful or hurtful actors,have implications for their identity trajectory, success, and, ultimately, retention in engineering. Inthis
institution main campus.The remaining two attended international high schools in an urban setting. Eventually, all AsianAmerican TT students attended one or both of the primary sending institutions.Six of the seven Hispanic TT students attended high schools in urban/suburban designatedcommunities. The lone Hispanic female came from a small town and had only 4 TT credit hourscompared to an average of 60 per student for her urban ethnic peers. As with the ASAMstudents, four of the seven HISP students, at one time or another, attended one of the primarysending institutions for our TT population. Two of the three AFAM students graduated fromurban/suburban high schools. The lone female also attended high school in a small town. Likeher HISP counterpart
c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 FACTORS INFLUENCING STUDENTS’ CHOICE OF ENGINEERING MAJOR, CASE STUDY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAVENAbstractThis research focuses upon evaluating decisions made by engineering students to choose orchange their field of engineering study in order to determine influences and mechanisms thatdrive their choice of engineering major at the University of New Haven (UNH). Socializers(parents, peers, and faculty), self-identified competence, and media sources were studied for theirlevel of influence and effect upon the selection of an engineering field. This research alsoinvestigates students’ perceptions of different engineering majors at the
.” Our operational definition of quality in problem solving is founded on knowledge of howexperts solve problems. Wankat and Oreovicz22 present an excellent review—they providemany details and summarize the finding with a side-by-side comparison of novice and expertperformances. Resnik9 (paraphrasing Larkin et al.6) presents a lucid summary of expertperformance “Recent research in science problem solving, for example, shows that experts donot respond to problems as they are presented—writing equations for every relationshipdescribed and then using routine procedures for manipulating equations. Instead, theyreinterpret the problems, recasting them in terms of general scientific principles until thesolutions become almost self-evident.” Experts
academic achievement (e.g. 17) and to career choice (e.g. 21).Literature about the experiences of women in engineering frequently addresses self-efficacy andits related constructs (e.g. confidence, self-esteem). In terms of self-appraisal, a general patternof loss emerges throughout the engineering education. Women enter engineering reporting highlevels of self-confidence and self-esteem 22. Their self-confidence declines precipitously duringthe first year and, although it does begin to elevate, it will never again reach the same heights 10.During this time, women compare themselves unfavorably to their male peers and judgethemselves more harshly than the men judge themselves 23. Women are aware of this andidentify low self-confidence as a major
Engineer (PE) PUBLICATIONS 51 Peer-reviewed journal publications 74 Conference presentations 9 Short papers 10 PatentsDr. John A Merrill, Ohio State University Dr.Merrill is Associate Director of the Engineering Education Innovation Center at Ohio State University.Dr. Howard L. Greene, Ohio State University Page 24.188.1 Howard Greene is a Senior Project Manager and Research Specialist at the Ohio State University (OSU) who directs K-12 Education Outreach for the College of Engineering. Dr. Greene has built capacity in several aspects of Humanitarian Engineering (HE) through the Engineering Education