instruction due to ongoing public health concerns related to COVID-19 and abroader need to provide alternative modes of graduate instruction.1 IntroductionInternational graduate students remain an important recruitment target for many universities. How-ever, recent geopolitical trends and the COVID-19 pandemic have created substantial challengesfor students who wish to matriculate outside of their native countries [1, 2]. Although asyn-chronous course offerings can be an effective alternative, these programs often lack the interactionwith faculty and peers that many students desire. As a result, these programs are often marked bylow persistence [3, 4].Previous work has described an instructional approach that provides high-quality distance edu
engineering educators and administrators who seek to improve the field’s retention ofminoritized and women students. Whereas efforts have been made to recruit minoritized studentsinto engineering, our study points to a clear and crucial role for faculty to play: they can supportminoritized students by fostering a sense of belonging in engineering classrooms. I. IntroductionStudents’ sense of belonging has been a recent focus of some engineering education research dueto the significant role it plays for student experience and success [1,2,3]. A student’s ability todevelop a sense of belonging within the higher education institution has been demonstrated to bea critical factor determining student retention [1]. A sense of belonging can also affect a
involve significant hands-on and/or problem-solving components. In this regard,engineering education has been profoundly impacted by the challenges associated withdelivering laboratory content and design experiences remotely. In a qualitative survey conductedby the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) to help assess the impact of thepandemic on the engineering education community [1], respondents overwhelmingly consideredthe loss of lab-based, hands-on instruction to be the leading problem faced by engineeringeducators. Approximately 120 out of 207 responses included the terms “hands-on,” “lab” or“laboratories,” or both, and another 20 mentioned “team,” referring to activities and projects. Incomparison, although lecture courses have
range of learner groups across different disciplines in engineering education. On the otherhand, there is a growing interest in using immersive technologies such as virtual reality (VR) inengineering education. While there are many literature review articles on each of these subjectsseparately, there is a lack of review articles on the application of combined PBL-VR learningenvironments in engineering education. This paper provides an assessment of the applicationsand potential of implementing immersive technologies in a PBL setting to utilize the advantagesof both paradigms. More specifically, this paper aims to provide insights related to two mainquestions: (1) where (in what disciplines/subjects) PBL and VR have been used together
-listed with the MDID studio. This is an ongoingevolutionary exercise.3.0 Course Learning Goals and Objectives Our Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC) Industry calls for the best-educated,creative graduates to lead integrative teams to solve technically challenging building projects. Whenrestructuring the Colab Studio, two primary goals set the tone for the new pilot: 1) have projects that aremission-driven towards a client’s needs and 2) develop integrated design solutions to meet the client andcode requirements that follows a professional design environment. The duality of technical expertise andskillful leadership in integrative design demands an innovative form of learning. The MDID studio took theoverarching goals and
reform needed thatconnects creativity to engineering in an atmosphere that welcomes diversity. Introduction Engineering is a creative and diverse profession integral to the sustainability of a rapidlyevolving economy, and a field where the diversity and perspectives of women engineers isessential [1], [2], [3]. This study examined the creative self-efficacy (CSE) of undergraduatewomen engineering majors, their beliefs about creativity, how they describe themselves ascreative, and their lived experiences that influenced them to choose engineering as a career path.ABET [4] highlighted the significant connection of creativity in engineering curriculum to theengineering profession. The creative
significant impact and endeavored to purchase adequatequantities of personal protective equipment (PPE) and other medical supplies during thepandemic. Increased demand soared and manufacturers worked diligently to meet demand. Thisdisease caused a severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus‐2 (SARS‐CoV‐2), that hasinfected more that 4.2 million people and killed over 550,000 worldwide since mid-April 2020.Experts from the John Hopkins Coronavirus Research Center (CRC) state this harmful virus isconsidered as one of the most lethal pandemics since the Spanish flu of 1918.[1],[2]COVID‐19 may preferentially infect individuals with cardiovascular conditions and isconsidered more severe to subjects than those involved in serious auto crashes which is
include a positive impact on the concerns about computer science betweenpre-test, post-test, and secondary post-test scores. Additionally, there is a relationship betweenspecific micro-credential materials and teacher’s self-confidence at integrating cybersecurityconcepts within their own K-12 classroom. The limitations are included. The study showcasesinnovative and practical tools for teaching cybersecurity, and has implications for teachereducators, technology educators, and those that work in local, state, national educator spaces, andthose creating and implementing professional development. 1. IntroductionToday, not only is cybersecurity one of the fast-growing and most in-demand fields in the UnitedStates, but basic cyber-hygiene is
decision to invest in a master's degree [1] [2]. However, this effort issquandered by dropout rates in a master's program hover around 50% [3] [4], ultimately affectinggraduation times.Dropout, and consequently delayed graduation, is a problem in higher education worldwide [5][6]. Students' perceptions and experiences of expectations and professional development,performance standards, and often abrupt change in academia are factors that negatively impactstudent graduation and dropout [1].This situation must be collected and analyzed by those in charge of directing a master's programsince they are responsible for, from day one, ensuring, through control and monitoringmechanisms, successful and timely graduation, mitigating desertion concerns
collegecourses by enrolling in Calculus 1 and the Introduction to Engineering design course, earning sixcredits towards their degree. They are also introduced to industry professionals and throughweekly meetings begin to learn about technical, communication, and management skills andthose attributes that lead to leadership roles. Research skills are introduced through engineeringdesign projects, wherein students learn to solve problems as a team. A more detailed descriptionof RAMP has been presented by Tripathy et al. [1], [2]. A goal of this summer bridge program is for students to better understand the culture,curriculum, educational practices, and norms of engineering programs and workplaces and learnto navigate and overcome some of the
Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) is a Carnegie Level-1 research university locatedin University Park, PA. The College of Engineering, officially founded in 1894, offersbachelors', masters’, and doctoral degrees in ten departments. The college's average annualenrollment includes approximately 8000 undergraduates and 1600 graduate students. Enrollmentfigures for graduate students do not specify whether they are masters' or Ph.D. hopefuls.[1][2]The Library system at Penn State is one of the largest in North America, with several millionvolumes of books and materials along with several thousand journal subscriptions. TheEngineering Library works as a partner with the College to provide learning services and supportto students, faculty, and
conjecture at this point. Introduction and Background In 2005, the Journal for Engineering Education (JEE) fielded a special issue focused on The art and science of engineering education research which was drawn largely from a report by the National Academies (The Engineer of 2020). The bottom line of the NAE report [1], and the JEE special edition [2] was that change is hard, but that undergraduate engineering programs must have the ability to change to meet societal needs. It is now 2021, sixteen years after The Engineer of 2020 concept introduction. Our professional disciplines have come through a pandemic, and we all have changed in the face of strong, and sometimes mandated
and setting. In that customization, three factors were identified for consideration whenadapting the collaboration framework: the existence of a course structure to support suchcollaboration, the ratio between the students in the two courses, and the ability to schedule regularinteractions between these students.1 IntroductionSoftware project management (SPM) is a key knowledge area in the Software Engineering Bodyof Knowledge [1] and for project managers, in general, in the Software Extension to the ProjectManagement Body of Knowledge [2]. However, teaching key SPM skills such as projectinitiation, scope definition, planning, estimation, measurement, and control is challengingbecause practicing them requires management of non-trivial
Women in EngineeringAbstract: More women than men in the US graduate college, but women constitute only16% of the engineering workforce [1]. Women frequently attribute their lack of persistence inengineering to a chilly academic climate [2]. Researchers have suggested that developing arobust engineering identity could moderate a climate effect and support improved retentionand graduation of female engineers [2]. However, there is little empirical data oninterrelationships among gender, perceived academic climate in engineering programs,engineering identity, and belonging to an engineering community.We drew on social identity theory and extant literature to develop four research questions: 1)Are there any differences between men and women
its adoption to PM.Artificial Intelligence – Basics and Its Applicability to Project Management“AI is typically defined as the ability of a machine to perform cognitive functions we associatewith human minds, such as perceiving, reasoning, learning, and problem-solving. Examples oftechnologies that enable AI to solve business problems are robotics and autonomous vehicles,computer vision, language, virtual agents, and machine learning” [1]. Further, historical data on alarge set of similar projects is the foundation for AI and machine learning [2] AI technology andits associated data analysis can learn from past historical data by recognizing patterns and it canadjust to new inputs for a better output prediction. AI technology’s self-learning
effective and appealing tostudents; however, sustaining student engagement is a challenge.IntroductionMentorship is critical to professional development [1]. The impact of engineering mentorshipprograms on students, such as related to their perceptions and self-efficacy, is nebulous [2];impacts are undoubtedly influenced by confounding factors, including the participants involved,contexts, techniques, and mentoring procedures applied. Educators have implemented a plethoraof engineering student mentorship program structures, ranging from formal to semi-formal andapplying various techniques, such as experiential based workshops [3] and one-on-one mentoring[4]. These diverse mentorship approaches are being applied to and studied for the full age
and supporting both formative and summativeassessments. The fundamental strategy was to migrate previously developed learning materials 8to the OLI platform while developing supporting assessments. The OLI module has two “units”:unit one covers a conventional introduction to the product development process, whereas unit twofocuses on fundamental definitions in systems engineering along with the importance of applyinga systems thinking mindset. Figure 1 shows the student view of the unit that deals with theproduct development process, and Figure 2 shows the unit on systems thinking and systemsengineering. As can be seen in the figures, the learning objectives are displayed along with allmodules associated with each unit. It is important to
a more comprehensive and larger-scale survey research investigating more students.Background and MotivationIn recent years, more liberal arts colleges established and extended their engineering programofferings through a wide variety of engineering majors. Although engineering courses arepractice-and detailed-oriented which is different from the traditional liberal arts curriculum [1],liberal arts colleges believe that integrating the liberal arts education experiences intoengineering education would position future engineers to be more successful at anticipating,defining, and solving problems [2]. First, liberal arts engineering education provides a moresupportive environment through a small class size. Students have the opportunities of
mathematics and science in California and Oklahoma. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 A Framework for Examining Engineering Doctoral Student Role IdentityAbstract This paper presents the Role Identities of Doctoral Engineering Doctoral Students(RIDES) framework for the examination of engineering doctoral students’ role identities.Identity of engineering students at the undergraduate level has been widely explored, butcomparably few studies have explored identity at the doctoral level [1]. Identity development isfundamental to becoming part of the community of practice of graduate school and academia(e.g., [2]); thus
and Flexible Model for Structural Engineering Courses: Lessons Learned During the Covid19 Global PandemicAbstractThis work presents the latest results on how to successfully apply a hybrid and flexible model forteaching Engineering Courses, particularly Structural Mechanics courses to students fromArchitecture and Civil Engineering programs during emergency conditions such as those due tothe Covid19 Pandemic. This model has been used for the last few years with tremendous successin the performance of the students and their overall satisfaction as it has been shown in [1]. Forthe pandemic conditions, the synchronous sessions were changed from the classroom on campusto the online classroom with videoconferencing. Some new types of
specifiedcontext of use [1]. The field of usability is known under names like Computer-HumanInteraction (CHI) or Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) [2], and User Experience. Usability isalso an area of knowledge that is interconnected with other concepts like Human FactorsEngineering, Ergonomics, and Design Thinking. While some references use terms like HumanFactors Engineering, Ergonomics, Usability Engineering (UE), or Human-Computer Interactioninterchangeably [3], each of these concepts can be defined independently. Human FactorsEngineering is a discipline that is not only useful for reducing errors and injuries but also aims toenhance and provide evidence-based practice for usability [4]. Design thinking begins with skillsdesigners have learned over
(STEM) at all levels, including the state colleges level, to maintain a broadpipeline of future engineers and computer scientists to ensure a highly advanced technologicalsociety. Computer Science's focus is particularly noteworthy given its dramatic impact on allsegments of society, all industries, the economy, our national security, and the educationalcommunity. The growth in Information Technology (IT) and related computer industry is expectedto increase exponentially over the next decade. Given the fact that the medical and health careindustries will require innovative software packages to manage health care, the exponential growthof 25.6 % in the IT sector is expected from 2018 to 2028[1], [2]-[5]. As a further indicator, theU.S. News and
such as ABET andprofessional societies find capstone and similar end-of-program projects that encourage synthesisof student knowledge to be beneficial. However, research on the varying formats of these end-of-program projects or even intermediary techniques and the effects of that variance on the ultimatebenefit conferred by the project is lacking. As summarized in Table 1, there are several gaps inthe three critical areas focused on in this literature review paper. Future research would benefitfrom a deeper comprehension of what a student gains through group work, as well asunderstanding those students that express frustration with such learning environments.Furthermore, as college programs are undergoing modifications to their curricular
returned to his boyhood home and is teaching at Northern Michigan University. He is a member of HKN and IEEE, a Registered Professional Engineer in California, and is a past chair of the Energy Conversion and Conservation Division of ASEE. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Teaching Substation Battery Testing to UndergraduatesAbstractMost educational electrical power laboratories do not have access to a full-scale 120 V stationbattery bank. Station battery banks are crucial for the proper operation of an electrical powersubstation. When station service power is lost, the battery bank must power 1) the tripping andclosing of circuit breakers, 2
discuss the tutorial’s key design principles and affirm their efficacy based on theobserved learning experiences. The obtained insights can inform curricular interventions that in-troduce introductory students to code quality and its disciplined improvement practices.1 IntroductionThe CS Education research literature has established the importance of teaching software qualityas part of the CS curriculum 1,2,3,4 . However, it remains subject to considerable debate whether thetopic of software quality is appropriate for introductory learners. Some computing educators arguethat promoting disciplined programming practices is incongruent with the guiding principles ofConstructivism, the educational philosophy centered around unconstrained
. The Post 9/11 GI Bill has provided $73million in higher education benefits to student veterans and other military-connected students[1]. Slightly more than 1 million military personnel had taken advantage of these educationalbenefits in 2016, a 151% increase since 2000 [2]. In 2018, 708,069 beneficiaries received Post9/11 GI Bill benefits, equivalent to more than $10.8 million [3]. Research suggests theseinvestments have resulted in positive outcomes. For example, Cate and colleagues [4] found thatnearly 54 percent of student veterans who initiated their college studies in Fall 2009 graduatedwithin six years, a slightly higher rate than for students overall.Much of the research on military-connected students focuses on former members of the
inter- ests include biologically inspired robotics, human-robot collaboration, embodied cognition, and swarm intelligence. Dr. Kaipa is a member of ASME and IEEE. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2020 The first Year of an Undergraduate Service Learning Partnership to Enhance Engineering Education and Elementary Pre-Service Teacher EducationAbstractThis IUSE project was designed to address three major challenges faced by undergraduateengineering students (UES) and pre-service teachers (PSTs): 1) retention for UESs after the firstyear, and continued engagement when they reach more difficult concepts, 2) to prepare PSTs
the use of validation rules to support instruction (both stand-alonemodeling exercises and a larger, collaborative modeling project). Validation rules have provento be effective in reducing modeler errors when added incrementally in parallel with conceptsintroduced in class. The rules simplify grading (since the instructor can focus on value-addedcontent instead of semantic correctness). In addition, the rules conform to the Seven Keys toEffective Feedback proposed by Grant Wiggins: 1. Goal-Referenced (Error reduction/style conformance) 2. Tangible and Transparent (Rules clearly explain what is wrong) 3. Actionable (Error messages direct the modeler how to fix the issue) 4. User-Friendly (Private feedback that marks elements
partially due to its timeworn pedagogical means and ineffective use oftechnology. S.M. platforms are convenient and effective informal educational means thatencourage engagement and interactions between peers. Nowadays, construction programs areshifting to online education, and this research is geared to understand the interactions betweenstudent bodies within different instructional modalities. This study focuses on the successes ofthe second-year implementation of integrating S.M. in a Construction Management (CM)program in a minority serving institution. The implementation consisted of periodicallycollecting student feedback to (1) evaluate students' interactional competency skills andconfidence in collaborative skills and; (2) describe how S.M
that connect to the programming and research happening at the tribal and communitycolleges.The citizens of rural communities and tribal reservations have a great wealth of local funds ofknowledge (FoK). Children internalize these family and community FoK and resources in orderto make meaning and define themselves, creating funds of identity (FoI) that “act as a lensthrough which we view and absorb new information and new identities” [1]. To create impactfulengineering-focused interventions, we will position children’s FoI at the center of our work. Thisproject will explore the connections between FoI and engineering identity development and themediating factors that inform this relationship. We will expand upon Moll andcolleagues’ FoK work [2