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. HEAT aims to examine the impact of this combined mentoring model on theoutcome of its scholars. We report positive impacts of this model on student academicperformance as assessed by rates of retention and 4-year college matriculation in engineeringdisciplines: 90% of the scholars remain in the program, have graduated with an A.S. inEngineering, and/or working in engineering. Here, we examine the HEAT Scholars’ perceptionabout the program. HEAT Scholars have reported that the combined mentoring model is themost valuable aspect of the program. Altogether, HEAT serves as a model for improvingengineering / STEM education outcomes and enhancing socio-economic mobility amongunderserved communities for adoption by other community colleges and 4-year
describe the course content with little attention paid to the process ofdeveloping such courses. While these are no doubt helpful for others trying to develop similarcourses, what we report here comes from systematically collected data that included informationabout how a faculty member incorporated advice about developing courses, selected labs for thecourse, and got those labs ready for student use, a research approach we hope to see more often.Course development funding arrived in early 2007. Because this left too little time to workthrough bureaucratic approvals for an undergraduate course before fall, a special-topics,graduate-level course could be offered in the spring-summer session (lasting seven weeks fromroughly early May through late
Professor Engineering and Computing Education at Florida International Univer- sity. He has a prior academic and professional background in engineering, having worked professionally as an acoustical engineer. He has taught several courses on design, sociotechnical contexts, and engineer- ing education. He runs the Equity Research Group which incorporates qualitative, ethnographic, partic- ipatory, and action-oriented research methods to examine and improve equity in engineering education contexts.Angela Estacion, WestEd Angela Estacion is a Senior Research Associate and Evaluation Lead for WestEd’s newly launched Center for Economic Mobility. Estacion brings over 15 years of experience in research and evaluation settings
education institutions, and the potentialimpacts of considering OR theories for engineering education.Introduction Resilience is a complex concept analyzed by the literature and can be defined as the“ability to recover from or adjust easily to misfortune or change”2. Since the COVID-19pandemic shocked the world, various research has been developed to understand and reflect onthis phenomenon. One scope of this research analyzes the educational context, and how highereducation institutions responded in their practices while learning about external shocks. Whilesome universities suffered from this unexpected disastrous scenario, some were sufficientlyprepared to smoothly pivot to the obligated online modality to learn and teach. This
. Example 2: An instrument question designed to test social impact understandingThe ethics of engineering and its impact on society are an important part of cognitivedevelopment and enculturation. While the distractors in Example 2 have degrees of correctness,the best answer is the life-saving advantage of automated technology to society.Implementation of Position-of-Stress SurveysThe second major research result from year two is the implementation of a quantitative three-question survey administered to students as they complete activities that are judged to bepositions of academic stress. The goal was identification of student cohorts that were gaining,losing, or remaining the same in confidence about major choice as they study
Paper ID #25962Board 12: CAREER: Characterizing Latent Diversity Among a NationalSample of First-Year Engineering StudentsDr. Allison Godwin, Purdue University-Main Campus, West Lafayette (College of Engineering) Allison Godwin, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of Engineering Education at Purdue University. Her research focuses what factors influence diverse students to choose engineering and stay in engineering through their careers and how different experiences within the practice and culture of engineering fos- ter or hinder belongingness and identity development. Dr. Godwin graduated from Clemson University with a B.S
success or failure for graduates when they enter theworkforce. As an example, project management skills are often neglected in an engineering orscience curriculum, requiring additional training for those engineers who end up in managementpositions. Skills such as the ability to lead and work effectively as a member of a team arefrequently identified as critical to the success of an engineer, but typically are lacking in newengineering graduates. 1 This article presents some information on impact of the NSF S-STEMon development of students’ professional skills.IntroductionSoft skills are important components of both industry and organizations. While soft skills aremajor components of industry core requirements, the students attending higher
disagreedthat it helped to improve problem solving, teamwork, and communication skills, with significantdifferences observed between pre- and post-survey responses (p < 0.05).Recommendations for future study are to assess improvement objectively by incorporating DSTs intostudent assessments, and to observe the impact of the DST on improving student professional skillsover a longer period.Keywords: virtual work integrated learning, professional development, virtual field trips, desktop sitetoursIntroductionIn recognition of the importance of interpersonal and professional skills, Engineers Australia(EA) have made it an accreditation requirement for all tertiary engineering students to gainexposure to industrial practice prior to graduation [1
programs for KUSU graduates at Syracuse University, and professionaldevelopment workshops for teachers in Kenya. The interventions were based on quantitativeresearch studies conducted to determine where they would be most appropriate. The KUSUpartnership was structured on design-based research (DBR) methods framework. Figure 4describes the design-based research process. 12 Analysis of Development of Iterative practical solutions Reflection to cycles of problems by informed by
Paper ID #41920Board 432: Work in Progress: Immersive, Hands-On, and Interactive QuantumInformation Science and Technology: Empowering Undergraduate Studentsin Quantum ComputingMr. Syed Hassan Tanvir, University of Florida Syed Hassan Tanvir is a doctoral candidate in Engineering Education at the University of Florida. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and a Master’s in Software Engineering. His research is focused on investigating the factors that influence engineering undergraduate enrollment, retention, graduation, and dropout. For his Ph.D., he plans to incorporate stealth assessment techniques to foster
well-rounded team.6 They are: leader, team player,researcher, expert, planner, creative, and communicator. Our students need to become aware oftheir team member type and how this impacts the team in order to be more productive to apotential employer. At Baylor University, neither team types nor team member types are coveredanywhere in the curriculum.Why Work on Teams?There are distinct advantages to working in and on teams. West lists a number of advantages, afew of which are listed below:7 1. Teams are the best way to enact organizational strategies. 2. Teams enable organizations to develop and deliver products and services quickly and cost effectively. 3. Teams enable organizations to learn more effectively. 4
than 31 other jurisdictions in math 4, and rank lower than 36 otherjurisdictions in science 5. Per the Maui District DOE Standardized Test Scores for School Year2002-2003, 35% of Maui’s Native Hawaiian 8th graders scored below average on their MathSAT and 44% below the HCPS-II Math standards 6.A best practices review was made of model programs nationwide designed to encourage middleschool girls of under-represented race/ethnic ancestry in STEM. The existing research suggeststhat girls experience a precipitous decline in interest in math and science beginning with themiddle school years, the main barriers being the perception of these subjects as boring, adisconnect with the relevance of these fields, and a sudden decline in confidence in
Native or Indigenous person h. *A Latinx person i. *A person with a disability j. *A person without a disabilityConstruct 5: DEI Policies and Practices in Computing1. *The Supreme Court is considering if college admissions policies that consider race should be allowed. Some people support these policies, while others are against them. Do you support or oppose considering race in the college admissions process?2. *Many university computing departments and companies have programs designed for Black, Native, and Latinx students and graduates (e.g., mentoring, pre-college programs, and affinity groups). Some people think these create more diversity. Do you agree?3. *Many universities created institutional anti-racism programs and
learn which best practices could be applied to CUBE Consulting.At the end of their first semester, CUBE’s consultants elected Bakies as the new President,recognizing her leadership skills and international experiences were a perfect fit for the role.Over the next year, CUBE Consulting expanded both their student body and internationalconnections. They established three new, technically demanding consulting projects to supportthe local community. In the fall of 2013, student consultants worked with a local sustainabletechnology start-up, research professors making an “agri-pulp” paper product, and website andcontent development for an iFoundry project. These projects exposed students to an array ofpractical challenges they had not previously
, problem-solving,design, project execution and management skills to real-life civil and environmental engineeringproblems. The capstone experience has morphed over the past 20 years from a single projectcompleted by the entire graduating class in small teams to multiple projects with separatestakeholders for each capstone team. The current structure is a two-course sequence thatincorporates several pedagogical approaches to help students apply and hone their professionalskills. Standardized or common grading rubrics, guidance, and assessment tools have beendeveloped and used uniformly by all capstone groups under the direction of faculty advisors and acourse coordinator. These guidelines include mandatory weekly progress meetings with
compound. For example, funded research is needed so undergraduateshave a reason to be on campus during the summer to take a class. The reverse perspective is thata relevant class is needed to make the research more appealing. Another example is there needsto be enough undergraduates interested in an area to support graduate student research (enoughgraduates are also needed to guide undergraduates). Any of these areas decreasing below acritical mass could, in turn, negatively impact other areas and upset the program’s balance.Obstacle 2-The “Real World”: A concern for some students is what they are doing in collegedoesn’t apply to the “real world”. This idea is often supported by friends, family, and those witha job in the “real world
and Y. Amannejad, “Evidence-based Best Practices for First-year Blended Learning Implementation,” in Proceedings of 2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Salt Lake City, Utah, June 24-27, 2018.[9] H. Chang, F. W. Ngunjiri, and K. C. Hernandez. 2016. Collaborative Autoethnography. NY, NY: Routledge.[10] R. McCord, C. Hixson, E. L. Ingram, and L. D. McNair. 2014. Graduate student and faculty member: An exploration of career and personal decisions. In Proceedings of the 121st ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition. Indianapolis, IN.[11] J. S. Cicek, P. K. Sheridan, L. A. Kuley, and R. Paul. (2017). Through ‘Collaborative Autoethnography’ Researchers Explore Their Role as Participants in Characterizing the Identities of
the STEP and IAC programs have not providedsignificant input to this program other than sources for ideas and best-practices. Page 13.1022.8 Input Activities Output Outcomes Impact RW-E Vision Design Instructional Short Term: Energy and ES NSF Funds Instructional Materials • Expanded and Emphasis: materials • UPT and GTA enhanced • Attracts under University staff Training freshman Apply Innovative
ownership of a research project, all in a matter of ten weeks.While those of us who run the program felt that the absence of some of the program componentsreduced the quality of the experience for the students, their overall assessment of the programand of the impact on their skills was very good as can be seen in Table 1 which, for conciseness,shows a subset of the exit survey responses on a scale of 1 to 5. The comment below summarizesthe student experience. I am so thankful and grateful towards all the time and effort the OU staff took in order to make sure that we students had the best time in the program we could. The schedule planning of all the various events we [sic] really nice along with asking our opinions if more
useof various technologies and contemporary assessment methods. Via student self-reported data, itwas also shown that the general competency areas of design, problem-solving, communication,and group/teamwork were improved. A second cohort of students will take the same gateway experience in the Fall of 2024 whichwill provide a larger and more powerful sample for analysis. Additionally, the authors arerequesting historical data concerning assessments (e.g., CLOs), documentation (syllabi,schedules, etc.), grades (e.g., DFWI), and retention rates from the four precedingENGT18000/181000 courses in an attempt to better justify and understand the impacts of thetransformation. All conclusions will be further explored in follow-up research along
,and employing predictive analytics. Major goals of the project included developing expertise inusing a student dashboard and integrating student data, with the potential broad impact ofinforming the STEM community of best practices for timely interventions, improving retentionand graduation rates, and facilitating career development. The Navigate platform is used for predictive analytics and to track and document ECS Scholarprogress toward achieving benchmark goals in the areas of retention, graduation rates,internships, undergraduate research experiences, and job placement. The use of predictiveanalytics has significant potential for helping students arrive at successful outcomes. However, itis an assumption of this project that the
-9830.2006.tb00885.x[5] M. Prince, “Does active learning work? A review of the research,” Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 93, no. 3, pp. 223-231, 2004. doi.org/10.1002/j.2168-9830.2004.tb00809.x[6] L. D. Feisel, and A. J. Rosa, “The role of the laboratory in undergraduate engineering education,” Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 94, no. 1, pp. 121-130, 2005. doi.org/10.1002/j.2168-9830.2005.tb00833.x[7] A. Cheville, “Designing Successful Design Projects,” presented at ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Louisville, Kentucky, 2010.[8] A. Shekar, “Project-based Learning in Engineering Design Education: Sharing Best Practices,” presented at ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Indianapolis
narratives shared by the four practitioners may provide insight on best practices to delivereffective, inclusive, and equitable educational content when virtual implementation is used as themethod of delivery in STEM programming for the historically excluded.LimitationsThe practices and methods discussed in this paper are subject to some limitations. The virtualprograms hosted by the practitioners were specifically designed for women students, faculty, andstaff, as well as racially and ethnically diverse middle school, high school and entering first yearcollege students. The paper reflects the experiences of four practitioners employed at the samehistorically White, tier 1 research institution in the Midwest during a single program year.Moreover
approach to problem-solving, innovation, and value creation” [4]. The KEENframework emphasizes three primary components of the entrepreneurial mindset: curiosity,connections, and creating value. Project-based learning in which students are given a specificaudience to understand and design for is one way in which students learn to create value withtheir technical skills. Projects with simulated or real-world applications also provide students theopportunity to practice situational curiosity [5].Effective science communication is particularly necessary in the process of commercializingtechnology. When engineers create goods and services that are to have a societal impact oraddress a need, it is crucial for their success that the value of these
Frances Britt, Eileen Britt is a Clinical Psychologist and member of the Motivational Interviewing (MI) Network of Trainers, an international collective of MI trainers and researchers who promote excellence in the practice and training of MI. Eileen teaches MI at the University of Canterbury on the Postgraduate Diploma in Clinical Psychology programme, as well two postgraduate papers on MI within Health Sciences, and has experience in providing MI training to a range of health practitioners. She has been involved in a recent project training MI to staff from the College of Engineering at the University of Canterbury. American c Society for Engineering
CT in K-12 and higher education. From this effort, over 20different definitions and frameworks for CT have emerged. Although the availability of literatureon CT has been increasing over the last decade, there is limited research synthesis available onassessing CT better. Besides, it is known that in higher education designing assessments for CT ischallenging and one of the primary reasons is that the precise meaning of CT is still unknown.This research paper, therefore, presents a systematized literature review on CT frameworks andassessment practice. We search three different databases and review 19 journal articles that addressCT assessment in higher education to answer the following two research questions: 1) What doesthe literature
practice in engineering education at the national level in Canada, before beginning a faculty appointment in 2022 with a teaching focus. Mattucci’s favourite courses to teach are engineering design, mechanics (solids), dynamics, and anything related to leadership and professional / transferable skills. His favourite things to do are backcountry camping, and going on adventures with his family.Makary Nasser, University of Guelph Nasser is a Biomedical Engineering Graduate student at the University of Guelph. His exploration in educational leadership initiated as he began working as a Graduate Teaching Assistant under Mattucci’s guidance. This introduced him to Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) providing fresh
development representsjust the beginning of a journey that requires careful attention toward human resource planningand course marketing. Without careful ongoing attention to the customers, including their needs,schedules, and availability, the best designed course will remain unexercised and fall short of itsidealized potential.ConclusionIn this paper, an innovative graduate level engineering education course was outlined. Thecourse, Harnessing Engineering Expertise in Industry, focused on exploring relevant literatureand methodological approaches for research tied to the central topics of expertise, knowledgecapture/loss, and organizational learning. The course’s development was discussed and exploredthrough the novel lens of Six Sigma’s six