alsoincludes a push-button to manually open and close the mandibles. The transmitter includes fourother momentary push-button switches that are used for various functions: • Yellow - alternating among operational modes (auto, manual walk, and manual head), and acknowledging messages the robot sends to the LCD • Green – sends a command to the robot to perform a dance • Blue – sends a command to the robot to go into pre-attack mode by crouching down and opening mandibles as a warning to the intruder of a potential attack • Red – sends a command to the robot to go into full attack mode by leaping forward towards the intruder to bite (body changes red to reflect
\* ARABIC 5- Exterior view with facades modifications. Figure 3- Cross bracing option. From [8]‘ Figure 4- Interior view of retrofitted building. From [8] Figure 5- Exterior view with facades modifications. From [8].The final activity consisted of preparing a final report and presenting the case study for thescrutiny of other students and mentors. The students answered questions, reflected on the lessonslearned including how this course contributed to their academic preparation. Figure 6- “Map” search screen of the case study repository.Current state of development of the case study cloud-based repositoryThe cloud-based case study repository has been
internal consistency was determined for eachquestionnaire (Cronbach's alpha = 0.77–0.85) and reflected good validity; therefore, nofurther changes were made before the questionnaires' broader distribution.2.3 Statistical analysis After collecting data from the returned responses, the Statistical Package for theSocial Sciences (SPSS) (version 23) was used for analysis. The results are presented aspercentages, means, standard deviations, and frequencies.2.4 Results The following sections show the study results of the courses' importance as evaluatedfrom the academic and non-academic perspective. Participants in the questionnaires ratedwater courses in terms of importance on a 5-point Likert scale (5 is important, 1 is
student leaders through the process we hope willhelp prepare them for future challenges when they are in leadership positions on larger scales.References[1] Coyle, Edward J., Jamieson, Leah H., Oakes, William C, “EPICS: Engineering Projects in CommunityService”, International Journal of Engineering Education Vol. 21, No. 1, Feb. 2005, pp. 139-150.[2] Zoltowski, C. B., and Oakes, W.C., “Learning by Doing: Reflections of the EPICS Program”, Special Issue:University Engineering Programs That Impact Communities: Critical Analyses and Reflection, InternationalJournal for Service-Learning in Engineering, 2014, pp. 1-32.[3] Oakes, William, Andrew Pierce, Nusaybah Abu-Mulaweh, “Engagement in Practice: ScalingCommunity-based Design Experiences
believe that situating the explorationof engineering ethical challenges and reasoning in a game-based context is a novel way ofinfluencing how students perceive and react to ethical dilemmas. Giving students the opportunityduring their education to recognize the wider social and ethical impacts of the profession - throughmultimedia simulation, role-playing games, case-based learning, and review of other, fictionalizedcases - can give them opportunities to reflect on the need to identify complex situations in futuresettings, as well as a safe environment in which to explore, make mistakes, and discuss theramifications of various decisions in authentic contexts. Ultimately the goal is to better prepareyoung engineers to tackle current and future
. 1Literature reviewIn recent years, academic libraries have reported a major shift in focus towardsscholarly communications and research management services [1]. Craft and Harlow [2]observed increased requests from graduate students for scholarly communicationstraining in a variety of topics, with the top choices being “publishing tips” and“post-dissertation publishing” [3]. This demand for training reflects the need amongstudents for guidance in navigating the publication process. Many doctoral programs,especially in the sciences and engineering, require students to publish in order tograduate. As relative novices in the complicated, often opaque arena of academicpublishing, many of these students struggle with the task and would benefit fromguidance
indicatedthat the proposed observational instrument resulted in seven distinctive main domains. Thesedomains included (1) unit-specific content knowledge, (2) engineering design process (EDP), (3)productive failure and success, (4) interdisciplinary applications, (5) questioning, (6) teamwork,and finally (7) discussion, feedback, and reflection. This study has both theoretical and practicalimplications. Theoretically, the study will contribute to the engineering education literature byextending the concept of PCK (Shulman, 1986) to the engineering education field and itstheoretical viability in the elementary school setting. Practically, it is paramount thatadministrators, professional developers, curriculum specialists, and teachers come to
. 2. Provide documentation of their design decisions in the form of written reflection, sketches, and evidence from data. 3. Build a prototype as part of their solution (a simulation, drawing or a physical object) 4. Present their solution to others.The Committee then recruited a broad range of experts including those in education, engineering,health care, and counseling services to help define the parameters of the challenge and the formatby which it was delivered. The problem needed to be narrow enough for students to grasp andaddress in a short period of time but broad enough to foster creativity. The resulting challengefocused on physical locations and the nature of human interactions in those
survey of engineering deans4 This research was supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation (grant 1539140; PI: StephanieFarrell; Co-PIs: Rocio Chavela Guerra, Erin Cech, Tom Waidzunas, and Adrienne Minerick). Any opinions,findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do notnecessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.and program directors in fall 2015 produced a list of eight deans willing to allow the survey to beadministered in their programs (see [25] for details). To protect confidentiality, I do not providethe names of the schools included in the study. Given that an institution’s participation in thestudy was determined by deans who were supportive of
the challenging time of the pandemic and/or the program being held entirelyvirtually, or whether we would have experienced the same faltering engagement if this programwere running in a typical in-person, non-pandemic academic setting.An additional challenge we are facing is a lack of diversity in our mentorship pool, across gender(just two of the mentors in the ISMP TEAM group are women) and engineering discipline, as wellas an underrepresentation of black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) program participants.This lack of diversity is similarly reflected in the SMSE advisory board and alumni pools fromwhich the program mentors were selected, and is a critical challenge that the SMSE is working toaddress. That said, the students
and results.One way in which to help streamline hands-on laboratory education in terms of objectives,equipment, and products is to make the lab activities as relevant as possible to their interests,goals and future careers. This involves giving the students ownership of their lab experience.The concept of student ownership has many facets, including letting students plan educationalobjectives and activities, select educational materials, teach other students, and reflect criticallyon their expectations and experiences (Fletcher 2008). One of the objectives of the civil and environmental curriculum at The University ofIowa is to produce graduates who have a strong foundation of scientific and technical knowledgeand are equipped with
for encouraging their children to studyscience and math in school and consider possible careers in these fields. These twoprograms have been particularly successful at reaching out to families traditionallyunderserved in science and math, including families from inner urban, rural, andminority communities. Both programs offer publications and program delivery in bothEnglish and Spanish to assist in reaching diverse audiences.In its report Changing the Conversation7, the National Academy of Engineering concludedthe public image of engineering needed to reflect the optimism and aspirations of studentsand needed to be inclusive. Some of the misconceptions included 1) engineering work is asedentary desk job, 2) engineering is strongly linked to
testing were discussed inthe class. Topics covered several products drawn from different industries including surgicaltools, surgical simulators, chair controls, display monitors, using virtual reality in usabilitytesting, and more.The weekly paper (self-reflection) was a weekly assignment in which students discussed themain key takeaways from the lecture and the in-class research review discussions. They alsolisted the main concepts that they will include in their usability portfolio.Usability Portfolio was the last assignment that students completed by the end of the semester.Students were asked to build an e-portfolio to use as a resource when conducting future usabilitystudies. In completing this assignment, students used information from
Botswana towards sustainable economicgrowth, global competitiveness, and improved quality of life (Atkinson & Mayo, 2010). On October 1st, 2016 Botswana formed the Ministry of Tertiary Education, Research,Science and Technology with the explicitly stated goal of transforming Botswana from aresource-based to a knowledge-based economy. The impetus for such an initiative was set forthin Botswana’s Vision 2036. Set forth in 2016, this new “vision” for Botswana was predicated onthe mapping of a transformative agenda that reflected the aspirations and goals of the nation. Forthis vision to come to fruition it was imperative that Botswana create a strategic plan to help withredefining their resource-based economy to that of a knowledge-based
program,curriculum, and course content alterations to assure the creation of technicians that will meet thedemands of this new work environment in the advanced technologies.Skilled technician preparation in the United States today is a broadband system that creates aworkforce with the expected characteristics specific to the technology to be serviced.Classically, these technicians are characterized by overarching labels (hydraulics, pneumatics,electronics, mechanics, computer technology) that reflect previous waves of new technologyflooding the workplace. These skill sets are still required of tomorrow’s technician with theaddition insertion of the “digital” age contributions (data knowledge and analysis, advanceddigital literacy, and to some
real-time polling software Poll Everywhere (2019) asked one quantitativeand one qualitative question regarding the qualifications reflected in the resume before them.FindingsA total of 36 students participated in this exercise. Students who received Candidate 1’s resume(first name on resume: “Julie”) were asked “You are the recruiter at a defense contractor seekingto fill an entry level structural engineering position. How likely are you to offer Candidate 1 aninterview?” Students were provided response options on a 5-point Likert-type scale, which wasdisplayed as a bar chart in real time for the class. As shown in Figure 1, no students indicated a“Very high likelihood” of offering Candidate 1 an interview and one student indicated a “Verylow
need for further analysis of the time frame that students spent during theacademic year and how much of their daily, weekly, and monthly is allocated for using sharedspaces. This information can be used for many different purposes, including the seminar or eventadvertisement, as well as providing additional supporting sources for educational purposes. 3Figure 1. The usage of the co-curricular spaces in campus climate among the underrepresentedgroupsFigure 2 is a detailed analysis of the co-curricular spaces within a time frame of daily, weekly, andmonthly uses. All the responses reflect the behavior of minority students towards using theavailable co-curricular areas. A comparison with the users
experiences in the department. Q1_7 My mentor provides me with guidance 3.2593 0.9842 0.6959 on attainable academic objectives. Q1_8 I have discussed the importance of 3.1111 0.9740 0.4739 developing a realistic view of my academic career with my mentor. Q1_9 My mentor asks me probing questions 2.6667 0.9608 0.5784 so that I can reflect on my academic career PROGRESS Q1_10 My mentor provides me with practical 3.4074 0.9711 0.5484 suggestions for improving my career performance. Q1_11 My meetings with my mentor are 2.9630 1.0554
the semester when there is more time and TAs are still stressing theimportance of collaboration. However, there were discussions that this is a more expert skill,because TAs who are new may not have the time or capacity to keep track of who is doing welland also reflect on it at the end of class.Figure 4: Guidelines of what to say and how to interact during whole class interventions.Figure 5: Guidelines of how to structure the end of class wrap up to emphasize collaboration. During both workshops there were many discussions about how these guidelines shouldbe shared with other TAs. Both TAs are graduating and will no longer be teaching these courses.A final decision was made to provide new TAs with a cheat sheet of guidelines for
the teacher. Teachers must shift from an evaluative to interpretiveperspective as they move away from guiding students to correct answers and towardemphasizing student exploration and engagement [15]. The teachers’ focus should targetencouragement of students’ reflections on their reasoning and interpretations of problemsituations [7]. Contrary to current practices of warning students when they take a wrong step intheir solution efforts, teachers need to encourage students to focus on their interpretation specificideas and their connections to the problem at hand [13].National standards documents have made clear that mathematics is an essential tool for scientificinquiry, and science is a critical context for developing mathematics competence
springboardfor student interest [4] and reflection. Research suggests that a well-designed field trip experiencemay in fact be remembered by students well after the experience took place [5]. In engineeringeducation, established research on the standards for preparation and professional development forteachers of engineering recommend that teachers improve their pedagogical content knowledge byengaging in STEM field trip partner programs with engineering mentors at local companies anduniversities [6].Program DetailsNortheastern University’s Center for STEM Education offers STEM Field Trip experiences for4th to 8th grade students throughout the collegiate academic year. The program launched over 10years ago in collaboration with a National Science
summer BEST program was in all senses a success. Teachers reportedvery positive feedback. In addition, bioengineering faculty reported strong support for theprogram to continue. This year we have begun preparing two manuscripts to describe and reportour progress in the BEST program. In addition, we have been reflecting on ways to deepen ourunderstanding of the program impact on teachers as well as their classrooms. As we consider arenewal application, we are defining ways to strengthen and analyze the program morerigorously.CONCLUSION Reflecting on the progress made through the end of year 4 of this grant support, we areconfident that the BEST program is having a positive impact on its participants. We continue torecognize the importance
acknowledged that he didn’tknow but a professional athlete may be an option.As Joseph engaged with different team members in 5 different engineering design challengesover the 10-day period his perceptions and self-efficacy began shifting. As seen in Figure 1,Joseph’s perceptions of engineering decreased in the traits initially identified. Joseph explainedthat his decreased perception was a result of a change in his perceived level of difficulty. DueJoseph becoming more confident in his abilities to engage in the skills of an engineer, by the endof camp, Joseph states “I can [become an engineer], but I just don’t want to waste time.” Thisstatement is a direct reflection of the mismatch in Joseph’s personal interests with his pre- andpost- perceptions
strictly representative of all students in a given degreepath (i.e. mechanical engineering). However, because enrollment in differential equations is anearly universal requirement for those in engineering paths, and because the sample capturedstudents enrolled in differential equations at a cross-section of time-points in their degreetrajectories, the results are felt to be a fair reflection of the level of software exposure for 8multiple degree paths as they enter differential equations specifically, and upper-division mathcourses more generally.It is not possible to characterize the prior and current software exposure of students who did
, can reflect their self-efficacy and may correlate to performance/competence with respect to their engineering identity.Attribution theory describes student perception of the cause of an outcome [4]. Attributions inacademia may include effort, knowledge, or ability and are strongly connected to emotions [4].Emotions generally influence daily choices. The way an individual reacts to the outcome of thesechoices may influence future behaviors. However, it is the student’s perception of attributionswhich emotionally influence motivation. Two students may attribute an outcome to the samecause, but view the characteristics of the cause very differently. We are particularly interested inhow these attributions may vary with strength of engineering
differences. Forexample, the understanding of mixed representation and usage of engineering standards foundwith the Next Generation Science Standards[7] was essential to validate, as well as, each teacher'spercentage of minority students in their classrooms. Each team grappled with identifyingspecificity level of criteria, ensuring that criteria reflected diversity and inclusion needs, ensuringindicators monitor learning actions and context, ensuring that indicators reflect learning that ismeaningful and engaged, creating objectives that any subject matter teacher can use, and creatingobjectives beyond the steps of the engineering design process. The different perspectivescontinue throughout the creation of the grade-level criteria, indicators
tool exposes students to the five steps of the designprocess: empathize, define, iterate, prototype, validate. In design-thinking based project courses,students participate in activities where they have the opportunity to 1) empathize with others, 2)try multiple ideas, 3) work with others, 4) receive constructive feedback, 5) reflect on what theyhave learned and 6) revise their solutions in order to improve their problem-solving approach.Each of these elements prioritizes adaptive skills over factual knowledge, and 2, 4, 5, and 6 inparticular relate to aspects of resilience.By learning a process that prioritizes listening, research, and learning through failure, students ofdesign thinking build leadership capacity by collecting proven tools
betweenunderrepresented minority (URM) and non-URM students with respect to engineering identity.Understanding these differences is important in developing programs that target a particulargroup. For example, one key programming component for URM students may be providing themwith opportunities to join organizations that reflect their cultural and ethnic identities. Toillustrate, Revelo interviewed 20 LatinX engineering students who attended the Society forHispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE) conference [11]. The interviews indicated that studentsfelt they developed professional and leadership skills through their membership in SHPE, withworkshops and the conference itself playing a significant role in that development. Additionally,a key component for these
college. There was no statistically significantdifference in the responses by groups of female (40/74), male (29/74) or transgender/non-identified (5/74) student groups. This paper describes the design elements of the course andmodules and a data set that illustrates the design supports students’ use of multiple learningresources.IntroductionA course on electronic circuits is common in engineering programs. It is often a challenging onefor novices because it relies on the abstract ideas of electron motion, charge build-up reflected involtage, and time-dependent responses. While sensing, instrumentation, and measurement arecommon activities in engineering, introductory circuits courses often focus on concepts andanalytical approaches to circuit
engineering majors –Bioengineering, Computer Science, and Electrical Engineering. These three majors were selectedbased on the gender balance in each major – high (Bioengineering; 51.4% female), medium(Computer science; 27.5% female) and low (Electrical Engineering; 14.2% female) at the focalinstitution.Qualitative Interview DesignThe interview protocol included three main sections. In the first section, students were askedabout their major selection and influences on deciding on that major. For example, “In thinkingabout how you selected your major, who, if anyone, contributed to your choice? What courses, ifany, prepared you for your major?” Participants were also asked to reflect on factors orcharacteristics that are required for success in the