opening is found, Tumaini staff must write arecommendation letter and the student must submit their CV. After the application is complete, ahiring decision is made by the employer. Along the way, students face many barriers such as highcompetition for the limited available employment opportunities and poor perception of streetyouth.Figure 1 – A flowchart for the typical pathways Tumaini students follow while looking foremploymentThroughout our data analysis, five common outcomes arose. We saw that students wereconsistently ending up in one of the following categories: employed in a job related to theirattachment, employed in a job unrelated to their field of study, unemployed, furthering theireducation, or starting their own business. Each of
innovators who can lead change and effectively create an entrepreneuriallyminded learning environment. While some faculty are clearly more comfortable than others with innovation and change, our onboarding workshops in which faculty hear directly from their peers about the successes (and sometimes challenges) experienced by others has greatly helped faculty in seeing opportunities for themselves and in recognizing that change is something that can be accomplished in small, manageable steps. Another potential barrier to change is a lack of incentives, both for individuals and for programs. Incentives for individual faculty can be provided through compensation and recognition. For programs and departments, we have provided incentives that focus
6. AutoCAD exposureThe laboratory portion of the course continued to provide time each week for students towork on their specific capstone design, but this designated lab time became slightly morestructured. The first month of the semester, the course instructor guided the students tofocus on the planning aspects associated with their project. This phase of the courseconcluded with Planning Presentations and a chance for the students to share theirresearch and project goals with their peers and instructors. The rest of the semester, thestudents spent in the design/build (depending on the project) phase of their capstoneexperience. The semester still concluded with a final presentation where the studentsreported their results and summarized
6. AutoCAD exposureThe laboratory portion of the course continued to provide time each week for students towork on their specific capstone design, but this designated lab time became slightly morestructured. The first month of the semester, the course instructor guided the students tofocus on the planning aspects associated with their project. This phase of the courseconcluded with Planning Presentations and a chance for the students to share theirresearch and project goals with their peers and instructors. The rest of the semester, thestudents spent in the design/build (depending on the project) phase of their capstoneexperience. The semester still concluded with a final presentation where the studentsreported their results and summarized
open-ended questions asked by the observer after the game. If participants were unable to write like the 1st graders, theFig. 4: Minimax decision tree with alpha-beta pruning (shown with red dashedlines). The diagram represents Emma's decision-making process. observer recorded their responses. Older graders wrote their answers directly on the paper. The responses on the post- To make the game a bit easier for the human player, the assessment survey helped to "identify the AI character theydepth of the game tree searched by the algorithm is limited
workstations that are updated on a two to three year cycle. New topics in the classes weretypically introduced every one to two weeks via a traditional lecture in which the instructor walksthe students through the rudimentary steps required to complete a particular task. Each topicconcluded with a lab assignment aimed at providing the students with practice and providinginstructors with a way to assess if students are meeting intended learning outcomes. Class timeduring the balance of the week was allocated to guided work sessions in which the instructor anda peer TA helped students work through the assignments. Thus, the courses followed the time-honored approach of delivering content to student followed by an immediate expectation for themto
include a graduate assistant, an undergraduate mentor, and five The initial thinking was that recruiting for the research undergraduate students. The research process is structuredcourse would be pretty easy as enrollment is up, and word of through a course module focused on conducting hands-onmouth from the current students would be an effective strategy experiments, developing solutions for real-life problems,for attracting other students. Unfortunately, according to the writing algorithms, presenting results in groups, classrooms,project leadership, even though the project was not designed and schools, reporting experimental results
practice interview skills she had been observing and practicing prior to actuallyconducting one for the project.Interview purposeFinally, there are several interview purposes, which are largely informed by qualitative researchmethodologies. Here, we provide some examples of common types of research interviews,though this list is not exhaustive. One common interview type is the cognitive interview which isused to elicit data on participants’ responses and interpretations of specific stimuli or situations[14]. One recent work-in-progress study is using cognitive interviews to assess peer reviewingamong EER mentored groups [35]. Related to the cognitive interview process is the think-aloudinterview (TAI), which can be used to explore how participants
Your Intended Major?Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Industrialand System Engineering, Computer Engineering 10%& Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, ElecEOther Engineering Major NOT Listed Above, or 10%Other Major that is Not Engineering. The last two Bi mEoptions allowed participants to write-in responses. 10% 60% Ma eE ChemEOne participant selected Electrical Engineering 10%(labeled in Figure 3 as ElecE), 1 participant MechEselected Biomedical Engineering (labeled inFigure 3 as BiomE), 1 participant selectedMechanical
arespectful term for “interested parties.” Jennifer Tauli Corpuz, from the Kankana-ey Igorot People of MountainProvince in the Philippines, and Stanley Kimaren ole Riamit, an Indigenous peoples’ leader from the PastoralistsMaasai Community in southern Kenya, write a blog on how they are rights holders of their land, not stakeholdersthat need to negotiate their priorities [12], therefore making “stakeholders” a colonial and violent word forindigenous peoples. This change in language has also been adopted by the Center for Disease Control, IndigenousCorporate Training, and Lake Superior State University [13]–[15].the topic of satellite-mega constellations, which are groups of satellites that operate together tocover a vast span of the planet. We also
recitation periods, lecture periods,and assessment periods. During a recitation period lecture was forbidden, lectures were limited to oneclass period every two weeks, and assessment was done once every two weeks as well. Biweeklyassessments suggested organizing the course in two-week modules, each one emphasizing a certain topic.The lectures and assessments could be held in a large lecture hall while recitations were limited in size toaccommodate the flipped portion of the class. For larger numbers of students, the number of recitationsections increased while lecture and assessment accommodated all students at the same time. Forassessment this practice made common exams possible, minimizing the effort required for writing thoseexams. The course
and continuousimprovement. A paper was presented at the 2021 ASEE Annual Conference that introduced theframework developed for this program; this is the second paper in the sequence that will share theimplementation of the assessment process and assessment results from the first two years of theprogram.The purpose of this paper is threefold: a) to communicate the process of implementation of theframework developed to effectively assess the student learning outcomes using a learningmanagement system for continuous improvement, b) to share the results of the assessment fromthe first two years of the coursework, and c) to share best practices with peer institutions planningto offer a new degree program in Engineering Technology or similar
Materials (3 credits) • Technical Writing (IT1) (3 credits) • Intro to Engineering & Science Co-op (1 credit) • Professional Practice of Engineering (C2, IT3) (2 credits) • Professional World of Work III (or Fundamentals of Engineering Practice) (1 credit) • Engineering Co-op I (2 credits) • Engineering Co-op II (2 credits) • Engineering Co-op III (2 credits)University Core Curriculum CoursesIn addition to the courses required for this program listed above, the Students also must fulfillthe University’s core course requirements.3. S-STEM grant DetailsThe first Student graduated from the RMSE program in 2016. In 2015 we received an NSF S-STEMscholarship grant to support 16
accommodation is to request copies of notes and/or recordings fromlectures. These can come in the form of written notes, slides, and/or recording from 1) theprofessor and/or 2) a notetaker that is another student present in the class.31 The second optioncan and does lead to students being forced to disclose their disabilities to both the professorand their peers to obtain accommodations.31 As was previously mentioned, disclosing disabilitystatus should be a personal decision, and not one predicated on obtaining an accessibleclassroom experience. Additionally, providing notes, slides and/or recordings can assist morethan just the disabled students (Curb-Cut Effect).56 Uploading notes is a small but impactful wayto support students with disabilities.8
context.This work uses this operationalization of interest with the understanding that both interest andidentity are not static, rather participants write and rewrite their personal narrative of who theywere, are, and want to be as they evaluate their changing interests [29], [30], [33], [37]. Weextend the current understanding of interest to move beyond the “strength” of an overallengineering interest to include a more nuanced, disciplinary approach. Primary interest refers tothe initial engineering major that engineering students declared when they started their program.When considering how interests change, this establishes a starting focus for participants.Additional disciplinary interest is used to delineate interests that are beyond students
]. While other participating institutions did the same, including the author of thispublication [1], the authors went on to publish a peer-reviewed article on their findings [18]. Intheir study of business faculty teaching needs, Ireland, Thompson, and Bourke found threethemes: textbooks and course materials, the role of technology and motivation. They also foundthat the concepts of “time as a barrier and the desire to improve” as additional themes that werewoven through the discussions of the other three main themes. This paper was based on findingsfrom the same multi-site study the author of this paper participated in with business faculty atUB. What is worth noting is that the Ireland et al. paper also included Computer Science facultyin their
design competition revealed increasedsatisfaction amongst students, faculty, and industry partners. Following this, the TRUE modelwas adopted as part of the capstone design.In the summer of 2020, only two types of capstone projects were encouraged: (a) TRUEprojects and (b) Student-initiated projects that were reviewed and approved by a facultycommittee through a proposal system. By Spring 2023 (as of the writing of this work-in-progress paper), all capstone design projects in the department of EE have been converted tofit the TRUE project model, which means all capstone projects are real-world projects withindustry/community sponsors/partnerships. While this significant shift has been driven byanecdotal experiences shared by various stakeholders
a mixture of existing and new technical skills that are applied to projectsof varying complexity with some level of correlation to real industry applications. The mostcommon form for capstones in engineering are team based, some of which are single disciplinewhile others are multi-disciplinary. Literature on capstone studies have documented how toformulate teams, team group dynamics, and team peer surveys. Given new technologyadvancements, an area for continued study are strategies for how to have student teamscommunicate, collaborate and manage their designs with technology. This paper presents a seriesof trends over a 10-year span on how multi-disciplinary Architectural Engineering (AE) teamscollaborated, interfaced and communicated
engineering.This career may vary drastically from their peers in terms of industry, specialization, project scope, orexpectations. The purpose of this study is to analyze the breadth of job responsibilities within a wide range ofmechanical engineering positions in order to gain an understanding of the typical activities a mechanicalengineer is expected to complete in the field.This study analyzed 923 job postings collected through the job search and posting site “Indeed.com”, duringa one-week period in the summer of 2020. The jobs represent various industries, geographic locations, andposition titles. Design activities were used as a guiding framework to develop an ontology of engineeringactivities. This study developed an increased understanding of the
CollectionStudents’ Pre and Post SurveysOn the first day of the engineering camp, the students completed a pre-survey that includeddemographic information and the STEM-CIS (Career Interest Survey) based on the work of Kier,Blanchard, Osborne, & Albert [9]. The STEM-CIS consisted of 44 questions that took the formof a 5-point Likert scale from ‘Strongly Agree’ to ‘Strongly Disagree’. The 44 questions weredivided up into four sets of 11 questions based on the four areas of STEM. An example questionwas “I am interested in careers that involve engineering”.Based on the work of Talton and Simpson [10], four more questions were in the pre-survey in theform of a 5-point Likert scale that looked into peer perceptions of science. An example questionwas, “My best
toosmall to be SL. Thus, the use of SL as aneducational tool, especially in higher education,is to both to teach and to serve in equal measure. Figure 1. Conceptual diagram explaining theConsidering a broad sampling of SL in STEM uniqueness of service-learning (SL).education as provided in peer-reviewed literature, SL has shown beneficial outcomes particularly withregard to the types of learning objectives that have generally been more challenging to achieve in traditionalengineering coursework. These objectives include instruction in ethical responsibility, engineeringsolutions in a global context, and contemporary issues5. SL has documented effectiveness for instructionin related ideas including effective learning of sustainability6, broadened
engineering faculty to form a partnership to createdynamic lesson plans that promote inquiry in the classroom. The stigma very often placed on themath and science classroom is that the content is difficult and uninteresting. By providingmultiple professional development sessions, constant communication with the engineeringprofessors, and peer review with other teachers within the program, teachers developed lessonplans that helped not just one, but all teachers interested in bringing engineering to life in theirclassrooms. When presenting math or science content at the middle and high school level, these initialexperiences could potentially be the catalyst to drive students toward a career in these essentialfields. The goal of persuading
contentcategories, particularly those not highlighted in the VPA, but also to trace the logic or structureunderlying the respondent’s answer.A. Participants Page 12.321.4 3The expert data used for this study came from a subset of four responses (n=4) purposefullyselected from a pre-existing pool of responses of 19 experienced engineers. The original 19 areexperienced practicing professional engineers who were identified by their peers at work asexpert designers. All participants initially completed a screening survey, indicating theireducation and employment
Geophysical Research - Atmospheres, and a NASA Adminstrator's Fellow. Dr. Demoz has published more than 50 peer reviewed papers and numerous conference papers and reports. He still serves on student committees and advises graduate and undergraduate students continues to lecture in Cloud Physics, Atmospheric Instrumentation, and Aerosols fr graduate students.Paul Mogan, NASA Paul A. Mogan is a Project Manager at NASA John F. Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Earlier in his career with NASA Mr. Mogan was an instrumentation systems design engineer and managed a lab that developed instrumentation technology. He began his NAFP tenure in 2005 during which he developed and taught a course in Biomedical
experience of one of the GTA’s who was involved inleading 3 of the 45 workshops. The GTA taught the first workshop on the early mornings ofWednesdays (8:00 to 9:50 am), and the second and third on Friday mornings, the second beingearly in the morning (8:00 to 9:50 am), and the third being right after (10:00 to 11:50 am). In the1-day time gap between the workshop taught on Wednesday and workshops taught on Friday,the GTA, if possible, modified the instructional delivery process of the activities, with theobjective of improving the learning outcomes. The modified instructional delivery was based onthe GTA’s reflections, peer suggestions, and students’ feedback. Course modifications are, ingeneral, in accordance with the literature on human/student
, cooperative learning, andrecruitment of under-represented groups in engineering; it also leads to better retention ofstudents, and citizenship (3), as well as helping meet the well-known ABET criteria (a)-(k) (4).Astin et al. (5) found with longitudinal data of 22,000 students that S-L had significant positive Page 14.1055.2effects on 11 outcome measures: academic performance (GPA, writing skills, critical thinkingskills), values (commitment to activism and to promoting racial understanding), self-efficacy,leadership (leadership activities, self-rated leadership ability, interpersonal skills), choice of aservice career, and plans to participate in
school student such as doing chores around the house and yard,cutting into study time.The reality that things are different for a freshman engineering student may first occur for thosein an Honors College. Honors Students may be enrolled in a “Human Events” class and assigned300-500 page books to be read and discussed in rapid order. This interesting, but timeconsuming, exercise soon competes with keeping up in Calculus, Chemistry, or maybe Physics.An English class may also require a lot of reading and writing time. In comparing theiracademic load with other majors in Honors, the student soon learns that there is a disparity. Tolearn the material in their classes takes much more time than most other majors. The courses are
; ≠ Provision of a rich variety of experiences with peers and adults; ≠ Space and time for talking, food and fun; ≠ Field trips; ≠ Allow students some choice of activities; ≠ Flexibility with respect to enrollment and attendance; and ≠ Effective outreach to families about the program. To reach out to the families of potential participants in our bioengineering club, parents wereprovided with information about the new program, including specific details regarding thebioengineering topics we planned to introduce. In addition, the middle school teacher devotedsome time during class to discussion of the club with her students, with particular emphasisplaced on the fun, hands-on nature of the planned activities, as
Arizona State University. Before she became an assistant professor in the fall of 2004, she was a lecturer in the College of Technology and Applied Sciences, an appointment she held for five years. As a tenure-track professor, Dr. Harris has been published in several peer-reviewed journals. Dr. Harris is the 2005 recipient of the Electronic Document Systems Foundation (EDSF) grant, and her paper "The Personalization of Data for Print and e-Commerce" is nationally and internationally published for industry professionals and academics in higher education. Her paper, "The Leap from Teacher to Teacher-Scholar: the Quest for Research in Non-Traditional Fields" (Harris &
. The main purpose of the reflective writing assignments was to understand studentperceptions of the influence of multidisciplinary collaboration on design, as well as to documenttheir experiences using digital prototyping tools.SurveyThe online survey was conducted during the final exam period, after the final designpresentations. Participation in the survey was optional. The survey consisted of eleven questions,seven of which were multiple choice, while the remaining four were descriptive. We asked theparticipants to rate the usefulness of the 3D CAD software, 3D printing and 3D scanning in themultiple-choice questions. The descriptive questions asked the students to describe theirexperiences using the 3D CAD tools, as well as with