course incorporates content fromthe previous courses in the sequence as well as from a fundamental statistics course in thecontext of experimental design and measurement. We anticipate that SBG will allow forfrequent, formative feedback throughout a single course as well as inform the instruction offaculty teaching subsequent courses building on these standards, including courses beyond thissequence such as Capstone. Our long-term goal will be to identify, align, and assess LO withinand across these courses in the curriculum using SBG. We will also review and assessimplementation of SBG in this context.This preliminary work focuses on implementation of SBG in the culminating course. Wehypothesize that Canvas-mediated SBG will 1) allow for
identification of students likely to complete a graduate degree, we sought tochange our process and the way we evaluate students for admission. For this, we changed theapplication and review process to include an assessment of applicants’ non-cognitive variablesbased on Sedlacek’s work and the Fisk-Vanderbilt MS-PhD Bridge Program admissions model[1-3]. In 2016, our Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) Department piloted theincorporation of these changes. Consequently, MSE increased the enrollment of women andunderrepresented minority students by 19% and 57%, respectively and we will be evaluating theimpact of the changes on performance metrics and completion rates over time. Ahead of thisapplication cycle, we have made changes to the applications of
between the extroverts and introverts. In addition, it givesevery student a purpose and provides accountability to their group to be in attendance.Every phase of the problem-solving path, from initially understanding what the problemis to the termination of the task by presenting its solution to the rest of the class involvesutilizing writing and oral skills to make it a well-rounded educational endeavor.Stepping back from the details of implementation to compare the Carnegie pathway tothe traditional way, consider figure 1 and figure 2 below: Figure 1To clarify the red entries in figure 1; Introductory Algebra would be the actual name ofthe Elementary Algebra directly above it while Pre-Algebra is the initial course and is aterm by itself
recipient of School of Engineering Education Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching and the 2018 College of Engineering Exceptional Early Career Teaching Award. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 WIP: An Intersectional Conceptual Framework for Understanding How to Measure Socioeconomic Inequality in Engineering EducationIntroductionSince the late 2000s, there has been a surge of research that focuses on the effect of socioeconomicdisadvantage in the American engineering education context [1]–[8]. Through these studies,authors have continued to uncover more about the experiences of socioeconomicallydisadvantaged students in engineering education
classroom, mostfollow this simple formula: events that traditionally take place in the classroom such as lecturingand note taking are done outside of the class and are replaced with more practice exercises andindividual and group-based problem solving [1]. Active learning, where students are engaged inthe learning process through activities such as group-based problem solving or hands-onactivities, has been recognized as an effective means to educating students in comparison totraditional lectures with many independent studies showing improvement in student learninggoals [2]. By shifting the dissemination of class notes to a period outside of the designated classtime, the flipped classroom allows for students to have more meaningful interactions
identifying the kinds of informal reasoning they used. Asnoted in [15], all three of these approaches may coexist in any individual’s reasoning process,and thus the specific questions below are asked in the Think Aloud protocol to aid inidentification of each approach to informal reasoning: 1. Explain the decision you arrived at for the provided scenario. How would you convince a friend of your position? 2. Can you think of an argument that could be made against your decision? How would someone support that argument? 3. If someone confronted you with that argument, how would you respond? How would you defend your position? 4. Did you immediately feel that your decision was right? Did you know your decision before
classrooms and labs of dozens of New York City public schools. He received NYU Tandon’s 2002, 2008, 2011, and 2014 Jacobs Excellence in Education Award, 2002 Jacobs Innovation Grant, 2003 Distinguished Teacher Award, and 2012 Inaugural Distin- guished Award for Excellence in the category Inspiration through Leadership. Moreover, he is a recipient of 2014-2015 University Distinguished Teaching Award at NYU. His scholarly activities have included 3 edited books, 9 chapters in edited books, 1 book review, 62 journal articles, and 154 conference pa- pers. He has mentored 1 B.S., 35 M.S., and 5 Ph.D. thesis students; 58 undergraduate research students and 11 undergraduate senior design project teams; over 500 K-12 teachers and
can be used by CareerServices professionals when coaching students (NACE, 2017).The career readiness competencies identified by NACE include critical thinking/problemsolving, oral/written communication, teamwork/collaboration, digital technology, leadership,professionalism/work ethic, and career management (NACE, 2017). In January 2017, an eighthcompetency – global/intercultural fluency – was added (NACE, 2017). They are described inTable 1 on the next page.Table 1: NACE Career Readiness Competencies Defined.Competency Definition Employer Rating Employer Rating of Student Self- Recent Graduate Rating
relationship betweenchanges in perceived and demonstrated creativity between first-year and seniorengineering students’ solutions to an open-ended problem. Previous work by Davis et al.has shown that engineering student’s perception of their creativity increases as they reachgraduation [1], whereas work by Kazerounian and Foley shows that students feel that theylack the element of creativity in the classroom [2]. We ultimately seek to understand howcreativity and the self-perception of creativity may change between the beginning and endof engineering students’ college careers.In this work, we present engineering students at the beginning and end of their universitycareer, first-year and seniors, with an open-ended design challenge. The students
who teach engineering design in project-basedlearning courses in an undergraduate general engineering program were interviewed, listed inTable 1. The instructors were selected both because of their expertise teaching design coursesacross mechanical, electrical, and robotics engineering concentrations and at one or more level inthe curriculum. This enables the capture of these educators’ perspective observing the students’progress through the curriculum. This pilot study builds on related work done by the authors thatpreviously investigated undergraduate engineering students’ conceptions of prototyping activitiesand process (REF). With educators participants, an interview protocol (see Table 2) wasfollowed through semi-structured qualitative
learning experiences within a capstone engineering courseIntroductionComputational modeling and simulation is a skillset that both academics and industryprofessionals desire to see in graduating engineers [1]. Additionally, there have been nationalcalls to increase computation within STEM education at all levels [2]. However, currently thereare multiple barriers for entry to getting computational modeling experiences into engineeringeducation such as lack of time within courses and a bloated engineering curriculum [3]. In thefall of 2018, a designed modeling-based learning experience, intended to be inserted into alreadyexisting curriculum, was piloted in a senior level process design engineering course. This studylooks at how
systems analysis techniques to manipulate microbial biological systems for generating biofuels from wastewater and for combating biofilm-associated pathogens. His BESEL group developed the first model for microbial desalination cells and the first metabolic modeling approach for quantifying the biofilm formation of pathogens. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 2019 ASEE Annual ConferenceWork in Progress: Development of MATLAB Instructional Modules for EngineeringStudents Sergey Nersesov1, Dr. Zuyi (Jacky) Huang2* 1. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Villanova University, Villanova, PA, USA 2. Department of Chemical
time-efficient manner(sparing roughly seven hours of in-class time over the entire semester). While the initial timeinvestment is significant (ca. 2-3 hours for every hour lecture, presented in 10-15 min), the samevideos may be re-used as-is, or with minor modifications, in future years. This affords theinstructor more flexibility to introduce (potentially time-consuming) active learning techniquesduring class time, and to experiment with other didactic interventions.IntroductionThe concept of the Flipped Classroom has become increasingly popular within the context ofapproaches to Active Learning, and its use in early or introductory Thermodynamics courses inundergraduate education is documented in the literature [1]–[3]. While this term is
both the classrooms of U.S. schools and the general workforce is needed tounderstand why this is occurring and what pedagogies can be added, removed, or enhanced toslow the rapid decline of underrepresented students in engineering. The object of this research isto discover pathways of engineering undergraduate students in their first two years in order tobetter understand their engineering identity and the relationship to graduation. Assessment of theengineering identity and mindset during the sophomore year will be done to both understand thegrowing diverse student body and to suggest changes in student and faculty engagement andinstructional activities. In this project, the authors will: (1) identify biases formed by studentswhen they choose
island.Constitution of the ASEE-UPRM:The ASEE-UPRM is a student organization that has served, since its establishment in 2016, as thepremier multidisciplinary society for individuals and organizations committed to advancingexcellence in all aspects of Engineering and Technology education (vision).1 Our mission is toadvance innovation, excellence, and access at all levels of education for the engineeringprofession.1 When initially founded, our chapter only had 15 members from all engineeringdisciplines. By 2017, the chapter increased its membership to 72 students and for the year, 2018,we already have reached 116 members, all of them are undergraduate engineering students. Thisrepresents an increase of 131% and 47%, respectively. Out of those 116 members, 60
University.Joseph C. Tise, Pennsylvania State University, University Park Joseph Tise is a doctoral candidate in the Educational Psychology program at Penn State University. His research interests include self-regulated learning, measurement, and connecting educational research to practice. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Work-in-Progress: Embedding a Large Writing Course within Engineering Design—A New Model for Teaching Technical WritingSummary and Introduction A survey of more than 1000 professional engineers reveals that communication is one ofthe top two skills needed in the profession [1]. Not surprising, many engineering colleges haveresponded to such surveys with
Cybermanufacturing EducationAbstractIn the era of Industry 4.0, cybermanufacturing is an emerging technology based on digitalmanufacturing, Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), data analytics, and high performancecomputing to drive the manufacturing industry optimizing productivity, product quality, andbusiness feedback. However, the cybermanufacturing education is not addressed in the currentmanufacturing education knowledge model. This work-in-progress (WIP) explores how to enabledigital thread and digital twin cyberlearning environment for cybermanufacturing education atVirginia State University (VSU).1 IntroductionIn the era of Industry 4.0, cybermanufacturing based on digital manufacturing, Industrial Internetof Things (IIoT), data analytics, and high
continuous improvement processesWIP: Engaging engineering teaching staff in continuous improvement processes1. Introduction To demonstrate that future engineers have the skills to succeed in the workplace,many schools have implemented centralized assessment frameworks to collect evidence ofoutcome attainment [1]. However, it is still unknown whether or not the collection ofevidence facilitates the improvement of teaching and learning [2]. Although researchersagree that both outcome assessment tasks and curriculum discussions are key practices ofcontinuous improvement [3], institutions fail at integrating them as part of teachingpractices [3], [5]. This Work-In-Progress (WIP) paper presents a methodological
promoted by policy actions associated with potential outcomes forparticipants [1-2]. There consequently is an emerging body of literature that has examined theimpact of the REU program on students’ early engagement in science, technology, engineering,and mathematics (STEM), persistence and retention in a STEM major, and integration into STEMculture [3]. Yet, little is known about how the program supports students and how students learnthrough their research experiences. The extent to which the design of the REU programs haverelied upon existing studies has also been questioned by National Academies of Science,Engineering, and Medicine [2]. A joint report emphasized the need to investigate the mechanismsfor how the REU program works, why they work
the NSF website (https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch). The database search waslimited to two specific programs within the Division of Engineering Education and Centers thatstated a required collaboration with a social scientist. Listservs created within these programswere also used to reach other researchers who may not be listed on the NSF site.A total population of 310 researchers resulted from these processes. Possible participants wereremoved due to a lack of available email information (n=12). Five participants were alsocommon across both programs. The final potential sample of 293 researchers were contactedwith 130 responses received (44.4% response rate). Multiple responses (n=19) were removedfollowing data collection because: 1) role on
engineering undergraduate studentsdevelop the knowledge, skills, and attitudes necessary to work across cultural boundaries and toeffectively adapt, integrate, and communicate in new environments. With this comes the need foreducators to begin to develop educational systems and practices that help students cross theseboundaries [1, 2]. There is a growing recognition of the importance to implement and engage students in highereducation in purposeful environments (i.e. study abroad, service experiences, domestic activities)that would allow them to develop global perspectives and cross-cultural skills to help themeffectively adapt to the diverse world market [3, 4, 5, 6, 7]. There exist various instruments andscales that aim to measure global
Undergraduate EngineeringEducation.” In particular, Phase I of this project included a multiday workshop heavily reliant onindustry input of the Knowledge, Skills and Abilities traits (KSAs) of engineering students to beready for the workforce in 2023.[1] In particular, the desired educational outcome is “a T-shapedengineering graduate who brings broad knowledge across domains and the ability to collaboratewithin a diverse workforce as well as deep expertise within a single domain [1], pg. 2.” Inparticular, it was found that, “Students also fail in meeting expectations in several skills accordedgrowing importance. These include leadership, decision-making, communication, and the abilityto synthesize engineering, business, and societal priorities [1
the lack of a perfect correlation between the two. To investigate the factors first-yearstudents consider during their engineering disciplines major selection process, this Work inProgress paper will illustrate our approach to identify the factors using Social Cognitive CareerTheory. A survey has been compiled from two existing instruments with some additional itemswritten for this study.IntroductionAccording to data from the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics, engineering jobs areexpected to grow at an overall rate of 4% from 2014 to 2024, with some disciplines growingmuch faster than average [1]. Despite a growing demand for engineering graduates, a recentstudy has shown that only 28.1% of junior and senior engineering majors are
: JosseyBass Higher and Adult Education. CookSather, A., Matthews, K. E., Ntem, A., & Leathwick, S. (2018). What we talk about when we talk about Students as Partners. International Journal for Students As Partners , 2 (2), 19. https://doi.org/10.15173/ijsap.v2i2.3790 Healey, M., Flint, A., & Harrington, K. (2014, July). Engagement Through Partnership: Students as Partners in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education. The Higher Education Academy . MercerMapstone, L., Dvorakova, S., Matthews, K., Abbot, S., Cheng, B., Felton, P., & Knorr, K. (2017, May). A Systematic Literature Review of Students as Partners in Higher Education. International Journal for Students as Partners , 1 (1). (n.d.). In
focused on high assurance field devices using microkernel architectures. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 WIP: Finding the Right Questions: Using Data Science to Close the Loop with Classroom Response SystemsIntroductionThis work in progress paper explores the use of data science to analyze classroom responsesystem (CRS) data. A CRS is an educational technology tools that when paired with anappropriate pedagogy, such as team-based learning, provide increased classroom engagement insupport of improved teaching and learning [1]-[4]. They do this by leveraging technology toallow every student to respond to instructor posed questions. Many of these systems, such asLearning
, innovation,discourse, and collaboration can take place. Adding to FYECS struggles is the fact that many donot have a mentor in their related field and are unable to start building their professionalrepertoire, network, technical skills, or their content knowledge related to engineering. Simplyput, many FYECS do not identify with a community. The EIRC can be described as aCommunity of Practice (CoP) where a group of individuals have a shared vision, mutualengagement, shared repertoire, and joint enterprise. The Value Creation Framework, constructedby Wenger, Trayner, and de Laat [1] focuses on assigning value which can be produced throughsocial learning. This theoretical framework can be used as an analytical tool to evaluate the valuecreated within
minority institution like a Historically Black College and University (HBCU)are still the first generation college students in their families [1, 2]. Hence, the challenges theyhave to overcome as a first-year engineering student are greater than their peers. Students are notprepared to enroll into the right set of pre-engineering courses and persist due to their lack ofprior preparedness in high school math, physics, chemistry, and English [3,4,5,6]. Gatewaycourses have been recognized as one of the major barriers to earning a STEM degree [7]. Thenumber of times pre-requisite courses can be offered particularly every semester and in summeris also limited in small schools. Our own research on HBCUs with a student enrollment of 3000or less has shown
lectures [1, 2], little is known about student differential levels ofcognitive engagement that underlie such improved learning. As part of a large program offederally-funded research, our research team has developed light-weight, portable, ultra-Low-CostDesktop Learning Modules (LC-DLMs) that enable students to employ systems experientially toillustrate the physics that underlie transfer processes and provide students with visual cues to helpdevelop robust understanding of the fundamentals of momentum, heat and mass transfer. Sixty-seven (67) participants used LC-DLMs to learn venturi concepts in an engineering course. Overall,preliminary results show that the majority of the participants reported that LC-DLMs helped fosteractive, constructive
curriculum change in achemical engineering degree course (WIP)IntroductionA curriculum review can be an intricate and arduous process, made more complex due to amyriad of interwoven threads that inform the curriculum. This is often the case in chemicalengineering due in part to the accommodation of employer expectations, requirements fromaccreditation bodies and the multidisciplinary, integrative nature of an engineering degreewhich depends on students acquiring a wide range of attributes, and which focuses onapplication and relevancy [1], [2]. In this paper, we present our efforts to review the chemicalengineering curricula at a research-intensive higher education institution (HEI) in the UK.This review is being orchestrated by institutional
chilly climate in engineering education not just from thedominant masculine culture but also from peer interaction.IntroductionDescriptions of engineering culture have often noted the divide between social and technicalcontent as a force in cultivating a chilly and uninviting climate [1]. The emergence andperpetuation of engineering’s uninviting culture can have a negative influence on the actions ofindividual members of engineering teams, and be a strong indicator of overall team performance[2]. Research has shown that the areas in which cultural pressures of engineering can influenceteaming include but are not limited to the development of team roles, project task distribution, andthe clarity of which goals and objectives are defined and met