deliberately build good working relationships based onthe personal interests and needs of others. A common objective of working with others was theneed to learn something. Additionally, one expressed that, “if you’ve got good relationships withyour techs and your site managers and your boss and your peers it’s a lot easier to get stuff doneand I think a lot more enjoyable to get stuff done” (Newcomer-06-experienced hire).There were also comments indicating that having empathy for others was important to theirwork. The comment of ‘being in another’s shoes’ or ‘knowing what it is like on their side’expressed the idea that a deeper understanding of another person’s situation was an importantrequirement for work. One participant described that, “each site
] writes, “In the Nazi regimethe technology served both the purposes of the state and the ethical values of the technologicalprofessionals.” This brings Katz to the question, “how does an engineer know that the values[they] embod[y] through [their] technological products are good values that will lead to a betterworld?”The contemporary use of technologies such as facial recognition and predictive algorithms in thecontext of law enforcement and incarceration make Katz’s question both relevant and urgent.Software such as the predictive policing tool PredPol reinforces biases within U.S. lawenforcement [5]; as one study noted, “PredPol is a tool for that aids law enforcement as itcurrently exists, and around the country, law enforcement targets
: Figure 5 shows that students who received an A used resubmissionless often than their peers (averaged 0.89 resubmissions per assignment), with those receiving a Chaving the largest number of resubmissions (averaging 1.27 resubmissions). The students whoreceived Fs had very few resubmissions, but they also had very few initial submissions. Thesample size is not high enough to gain deeper statistical insight; however, from the facultyobservation, resubmissions for those students who received an A were typically simple fixeswhile the resubmissions for the students who received a C were often much more involved,requiring more work on both the part of the instructor and student. This feedback-resubmissioncycle often resulted in feedback being
sciences and engineering at VT during 2007-19. This site has 100+ alumni to date. He also led an NSF/Research Experiences for Teachers (RET) site on interdisciplinary water research during 2016-19 with 30+ alumni. He also led an NSF-funded cybersecurity education project and served as a co-PI on two International Research Experiences for Students (IRES) projects funded by the NSF. He has published over 90 papers in peer-reviewed journals and conferences.Dr. Landon Todd Marston, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State UniversityDr. Christopher P. Vanags, Vanderbilt UniversityDr. Kang Xia, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Kang Xia received her Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (1997), M.S
areplacement for professors and peers when they needed help. Nearly all students (96%) providedfavorable ratings about the trustworthiness of the video library and most students trusted the MEOnline videos more than other videos available online. They were particularly happy whenfinding videos by their favorite instructors who were clear, engaging, and knowledgeable. Moststudents plan on using ME Online as alumni for both professional and personal reasons – 88% ofthe students reported they expect to use ME Online to study for licensing exams, graduate schoolwork, professional work, and/or just to learn new things.The study also explores the potential for video libraries like ME Online to help addressachievement gaps among historically disadvantaged
.” Kelsey further noted that her decision to utilize counselingservices was bolstered by her fear that discussing these feelings with her administrators, boss,or peers would cause her to appear incompetent. For April (CTD), she recalled that thethought of seeking counseling services initially caused her to feel hesitant and “ashamed.”Yet, when her experiences in her doctoral program “got bad enough,” she felt that counselingwas the only option that would grant her emotional resolve. She reported, It was that whole imposter syndrome situation where I was just like I slipped through the cracks. I don't really belong here, or I look good on paper, but that doesn't mean anything now that I'm being put to the test. Initially, no, it
students’ shirking and toimprove the accuracy of summative assessment is an ongoing challenge. For instance, Marin-Garcia and Lloret introduced a teacher-driven observation tool and reported overall improvements[53]. Similarly, self and peer assessment tools have been found to improve student engagementand satisfaction [54]–[56]. But these methods still require assessment of student contribution byothers (teacher or other students). Further, student participation in team projects is a complex topicthat includes motivation. We see the integration of a professional competency focused reflectionas an approach that can be part of an assessment
engineering identities“must negotiate the roles they play within the community of engineering as a discipline, ingroups with their peers, and within the classroom.” Tonso [25] describes identity development as“a complicated process through which campus engineer identities (cultural knowledge learned oncampus) provided a lens of meaning through which to “recognize” (or not) performances ofengineer selves as engineers.” Particularly for women and students of color, engineering identitycan be very malleable and susceptible to change, with persistence and career plans able to be“strongly swayed” by even small interactions or experiences as undergraduates [29].Institutions themselves foster engineering identity development through displays of solidarity
and professional development along with academic development, theseparticular HIP became a focus of our study. Collaborative Assignments & Projects Writing- Common Intensive Intellectual Courses experiences Senior First Year Culminating
engineering design through all Voices of our Studentsfour undergraduate years. Highly selective colleges implementing flexible engineering programsinclude Olin College of Engineering, Dartmouth College, and Harvey Mudd College. Theseprograms are in the top 5 schools with the highest percentage of their bachelor’s degreesawarded to women [8]. BSU’s approach is informed by the efforts of our institutional peers,adapted to meet the unique culture and resources for our campus, and has been introducedpreviously [9].We are guided by the literature as we create a curriculum and employ instructional practicescorrelated with increasing diversity and inclusion. Thus we have made
stoplight,” therebyusing his personal interest in public health to broaden his coworkers’ thinking and potentially theimpact of their research. Likewise, undergraduate Gretchen’s interest in mechanical engineeringinspired Kate to think more broadly about her research. Kate told Gretchen about a grantproposal she was writing about alloys. She detailed, in technical terms, the experiments shewanted to include, then added, “I’m trying to make it relevant to the navy” to improve theproposal’s chances of being funded. Gretchen asked whether the navy could use these alloys tobuild engine turbines. Kate answered thoughtfully, “Yes. Oh, maybe I’ll put a picture of a shipturbine blade in there.” While the PI was thinking about lab-based specifics, the
College of Basic Sciences both provide a residentialeducational program for high school students. The minority engineering program within theCollege of Engineering has offered an induction program, Recruit into Engineering of HighAbility Minority Students (REHAMS), for approximately 8 years. Each summer approximately35 to 40 high school students reside on the university campus for 3 weeks for an intensiveacademic “boot camp” to prepare students for the challenges of university life. Students arerequired to take a math course, either calculus or college algebra, physics and chemistry.Students are also introduced to resume and portfolio writing, study skills, and the academicentrance policies. Participants tour several engineering labs and
. The first presentation had each student focus on a specific scientist of significance that hasmade one or more significant contributions to topics of interest for the course. The second and thirdpresentations required each student to read a contemporary research article related to astronomy,or space exploration. Science was often used as an appropriate source since it’s articles are writtento be understandable to a wide readership. Students were asked to present the topic of the researcharticle, the significance of the research and findings in the article and the background informationnecessary to clarify the significance of the research results.Student presentations were rated by other students using peer review sheets. The review sheet al
education is equally sought by engineering educators: “Only connect.”3And yet our institutional environments discourage this “combinatory play” of disciplines,methods, and ways of thinking. The traditional means of integrating engineering and thehumanities is through general education requirements, which students tend to take during theirfirst two years, in lower-level survey courses. Here they learn a bit about history, writing, orphilosophy, with the hope that they will remember and draw on this work once they dig into theirmajor coursework and projects. But most of these lower-level general education courses focus ondelivering content, often in large lectures.4 The methodology of the discipline, and opportunitiesfor students to understand how a
] club, if you waste a day,maybe you’ll pick it up some other day. At work, you have to get things done and there are peopledepending on you. I think it really gets you ready for the working world that you're going to be in. Itgives you those professional skills: how to act around your supervisors or mentors and how to gethelp from them.” She reported learning how to be part of a team, to communicate with people fromother disciplines, to send clear and concise emails, to write reports, and to organize data.When it came to the job search, Martha drew heavily on her internship experience: “I think thosesummer experiences really helped me. The good marks at university helped. [Company’s name], forexample, puts a lot of weight on your transcript
changes to the document to indicate the newer version of a tool now being used. I had no clue who he was, but he was completely self-sufficient.The original developer of this artifact intended it to be a static personal archive, yet it supportedsocial engagement between engineers and eventually produced a powerful tool for his peers. Itwas adopted by many software engineers at the company, and it is now common practice forpeople to create their own similar documents when starting a project.Workflow Management Software. Cizus uses a workflow management software package,Athena, to assign work to individuals, track the progress of projects, and store processdocumentation. Athena is used by employees at every level of the startup as a crux
developing a problem statement prior to beginning work on anydesigned solution. This included a statement that described the problem their team soughtto address and provided an explanation and data demonstrating a) what the problem is(i.e., how do we know it exists in the place you are studying?) What peer-reviewedsources and credible news accounts give evidence of this problem); b) the impacts of theproblem; c) the cause or causes of the problem. In each case, we challenged students toprovide not only a claim, but also data (peer-reviewed sources and credible newsaccounts giving evidence that the claim is true), followed by a warrant or explanationthat logically connected the data to the claim.When students arrived at the design phase (in the
Center for STEAM in the Katy Independent School District (KISD). She was responsible for implementing STEAM curriculum, instruction, and projects appropriate for K-12 students. Additionally, Mariam has taught both on-level and AP Physics I (formerly known as Pre-AP Physics) and played an integral role in writing the district physics curriculum consisting of rigorous labs, activities, and projects. Mariam fills the role of Alumni Representative on the UTeach STEM Educators Association (USEA) Board and was also elected Secretary-Treasurer. She is also currently pursuing a Ph.D. in STEM education at Texas Tech University.Dr. Sara Jolly Jones, University of HoustonMs. Victoria Doan, University of Houston
accomplishments of high quality in both teaching and scholarship/creativity and should have demonstrated leadership in one of those areas. The leadership must be recognized by peers within MU and by knowledgeable people outside MU. In addition, all candidates for promotion should have participated to some appropriate degree in activities of service to MU. While these criteria serve as general guidelines, outstanding candidates should not be deprived of promotion because of the uniqueness of their contribution.At face value, these criteria embody strategic ambiguity: they seem flexible in that they allow fortwo paths to promotion (leadership in teaching or scholarship), and they also leave open thepossibility that unique contributions could be
regarding theinstructional process. One girl appreciated the neat and detailed power point lecture notes, whileanother girl wished that hand outs had been given out. This would have been beneficial as the girlscould write notes for further reflection. It would have been a great addition to the lecture notes thatthe girls already had online access through the HBCU’s Blackboard Education Suite.Mixing of Cement Pastes: Four themes emerged from data analysis.Doing: Sixty-two percent (62%) of the girls made ‘doing’ statements to include calculating,measuring, timing, mixing, and ramming. One girl noted that ‘…mixing and ramming the cementpaste was really fun, and exciting but also pretty messy at the same time…’Comprehending: Fifty-two percent (52%) of
thetraditions from which researchers have framed their studies. We identified twelve studies usingsearch terms such as “agency” and “engineering education” in available databases (EducationResources Information Center, Education, and Education Full Text) and ASEE PEER documentrepository. Most studies discussed are in the context of the United States; however, two studiesare within a South African context, and one is in a Norwegian context. Studies focused on K-12engineering education, and early career engineers were excluded based on the scope of this paperto synthesize the literature for undergraduate engineering education. We also found that thesestudies used both qualitative and quantitative research methods. Once we identified studies thatused
than a retrospective analysis in terms of absolutes.This is the same in our case, where students are introduced to professional ethics in readings andassignments in a course required in their first or second year of undergraduate engineeringeducation. This course is an application overview that uses case studies that uses what could beconsidered obvious cases of professional misconduct and breach of due-diligence expectations.Students review one or more of the cases (often one of those listed above) and write a brief essaydescribing the professional ethical breaches demonstrated in that case. One faculty memberdescribed that this exercise “...is really pretty easy… the case study gives a long view that makesthe overall problems apparent even
. Thispaper resulted from the Fourth Future of Mechatronics and Robotics Education (FoMRE)Workshop held September 27-28, 2019 at Lawrence Technological University in Southfield,Michigan. This workshop was the final in a series of National Science Foundation (NSF)-supported academic and industrial workshops in a project that aims to define and promote theconcept of MRE as a distinct engineering discipline, build a community of MRE educators, andpromote diversity and inclusivity within the MRE community [2]. The project leaders write: “Our vision is that MRE will become one of the most impactful disciplines of engineering; attracting diverse and innovative students, graduating professional engineers who will design, develop, and
driven by the following research questions: 1. How does extant literature in management characterize intuition? 2. How does extant literature in management portray the value of intuition?Method & CodingTo answer our research questions, we conducted a systematic review utilizing recommendationsfrom PRISMA (2018) to guide our methodological decisions. The method and exclusion criteriawe used are summarized in Figure 1. To establish a reasonable scope for this project, we limitedour database searching to ERIC and PsycINFO. ERIC is a widely-used database for full-texteducation literature and resources, which is well aligned with our research in engineeringeducation. PsycINFO was also searched because of its vast coverage of peer
to create credible undergraduateengineering programs that maximizes access while also expanding the national STEM workforcehave struggled to balance professional skill sets with fundamental training in engineering in amanner that gives a distinct profile to each program. Our initial data indicate that U.S.universities continue to struggle to define themselves at this nexus.It is also evident that the various “structural” features that we reference in our study designfunction in complex, interdependent, and generally non-deterministic ways that approach thecomplexities of an ecosystem. For example, while much of the focus on professional skill sets—especially teamwork, communication (writing and presentation), and design—have occurredwithin
. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Evidence for design of mechanical engineering curriculumAbstractNumerous sources of evidence can be used in design of mechanical engineering curriculum, fromreports from large organizations, such as ASME’s Vision 2030, NAE’s Engineer of 2020, ABETCriteria, and NCEES’s exam specifications, to peer-reviewed journal articles, textbooks,handbooks, job advertisements, and contact with working engineers. Each source has differentbenefits and limitations. For example, reports from organizations are too broad to specify whichtextbook sections can be skipped without consequences. Therefore, a synthesis of numeroussources is necessary for design of an engineering curriculum. There is broad
hole. Mom: OK. So this is down the hole. [Mom is writing the proposition given by Rose on the card]. Rose: [Rose is sorting the cards to find the next proposition on the right card]. Out [of] the hole. Mom: Hmmm… [Mom corrected Rose by stating “Out of the hole”] ...Rose continues to look for other cards to find the right propositions. Rose: In the trees… Over the water [Rose was not sure about the right proposition and wanted to confirm it with Mom. However, Mom was not sure either. Therefore, Mom needed to confirm the right proposition by looking at the story sequencing in the book] Mom: Let’s see…Let’s go back in the story…Let’s see what happened. [Mom found the correct
notnecessarily the same cohort as the lecture sections so some students might have had Instructor Afor lecture and Instructor B for laboratory. The topics and the order in which they are covered arein the syllabus in appendix A.Winter 2011 – Traditional LectureIn the MC/MSD course taught by instructor B during winter quarter 2011, the course topics andlab structure were very similar to those in the spring 2015 course. However, what happened inlecture was very different. Most of each lecture period was spent in the traditional lecture mode,with the instructor presenting new material on the chalkboard and students taking notes. Eachclass period began by writing two to three key learning objectives for the day. Examples wereworked in class by the
scaf-fold on prior learning and experiences, addressing a continuum of lower level to higher levelthinking and deep learning as appropriate for the curriculum. Reflection essays, class discussion,individual and group projects/products, peer review and feedback, or other types of activities willbe used to measure learner progress on the learning objectives, and to provide timely and rele-vant feedback to both the instructor and learner. This information will be used by both the in-structor and learner(s) to guide decision making and engagement in bio-inspired design. Rubricsor grading guidelines will be created for each formative assessment to ensure they align with theproject goals and learning objectives. Summative assessment will occur at
driven by a variety ofdifferent factors. Some individuals were simply the only individual working in a particularfunction and felt the lack of like others to collaborate with. Maureen expressed this feeling fromthe first day she walked into her job: “I was the only in-house developer. I didn’t know what I was doing and I had no one to help me. The first day, I walked in and they told me they promised five iPad apps in three months…” (Maureen, Women’s)In Maureen's case, feelings of isolation produced doubt regarding her ability to meet heremployer's expectations. Her isolation amplifies her job stress. In other cases, peers with similarjob descriptions were present in the work environment but the age gap between the early