4. Getting along with people who are different 3.50 5. Oral communication skills 3.55 6. Using technology and computer programs 3.58 7. Locating past research on a topic 3.57 8. Evaluating past research on a topic 3.63 9. Research design 3.70 10. Thinking creatively 3.73 11. Understanding the ethics of research 3.79 12. Data analysis 3.82 13. Data interpretation 3.86 14. Data entry 3.88 15. Formulating a hypothesis 3.91 16. Thinking like a scientist 4.07 17. Critical thinking 4.16As can be seen, there are a wide variety of student skills that can be improved throughparticipation in
’ pedagogical beliefs, beliefs aboutthemselves, and beliefs about technology in integrating technology into the K-12 curriculum[25], [26]. According to Margot & Kettler [27], while PreK-12 teachers valued STEM education,they reported challenges on the structural and institutional level, pedagogy, assessment, andconcerns over students. Yet such challenges can be overcome. Research has shown that preservice teachersbenefit from improved STEM engagement, especially emotional engagement, after participatingin the robotics unit in a teacher preparation course [28]. Practice integrating technology-relevantactivities using robots boosted participants’ confidence and knowledge (of teaching practice,safety, and ethical issues) and their likelihood
discussion ineducation, gaining strong arguments both for and against its inclusion in curriculum. Thoseopposed to extra credit cite ethical concerns related to grade inflation and question the utility ofproviding students with extra work that is not distributed as a traditional assignment. However,prior work has suggested that EC, when carefully designed, can have affordance such asmotivating additional learning. This paper seeks to extend the previous, quantitative findingsrelating to these parallel computing EC modules by investigating students’ motivations forcompleting or not completing the modules, as well as impacts on anxiety, effort, and learning. Indoing so we seek to understand the affordances and drawbacks of extra credit in an effort
aspects such as budgeting and scheduling. As part of the senior design sequence, students are introduced to various project management and engineering design tools, frameworks for engineering ethics, and technical standards and regulations. Teams are given frequent opportunities to hone their oral and written communication skills through team presentations and deliverables such as a project proposal, technical report, and final project report. Projects Day, the culminating event for senior design, is held at the end of the academic year. Teams showcase their projects through PowerPoint presentations, participate in a poster session, and demonstrate the prototypes of their solutions. Student
Outcome Learning Objective 1 Engineers work ethically and collaboratively Create solutions to complex real-world in diverse teams to solve different types of ill- problems using evidence-based decision defined problems using evidence-based making while working in inclusive and decision making effective teams 2 Engineers communicate effectively with Communicate effectively with technical and technical and non-technical audiences from non-technical audiences from diverse diverse backgrounds backgrounds 3 Successful students use a variety of strategies Create an
Engineering of interest.However, as this author has transitioned roles to a different institution, she considers that her roleis in transition to that of an outsider [24]. Throughout the analysis, she was mindful of thisposition and sought support through external perspectives as well as personal memoing toprovide ethical analysis. A hermeneutic approach [25] was also used to allow an awareness andbalance of interpreting without bias and in conjunction with her personal experiences. Thesecond author has extensive experience in mentorship, teaching, and research to support thisanalysis. The third author is an undergraduate engineering student in his junior year who isinterested in and understands the personal importance of mentorship. He is growing
Professor at George Mason University’s Department of Information Sciences and Technology. He earned his doctorate in Information Technology in 2003 from George Mason Univer- sity’s Volgenau School of Engineering (Fairfax, VA), and has since taught graduate courses there in big data analytics and ethics, operating systems, computer architecture and security, cloud computing, and electronic commerce. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Metacognition in Graduate Engineering Courses Larisa Olesova1, Duoduo Liao2, Ioulia Rytikova2, Mihai Boicu2, Harry Foxwell2 1
Science foundation ITIP (Integrative Themes in Physiology) project, thefollowing lessons could be drawn: Lesson 1: Many faculty are interested in improving their teaching Lesson 2: Lack of instructor time was a formidable obstacle to translating interest to action Lesson 3: Providing readily usable course materials did not facilitate instructional reform because the materials did not integrate easily into the existing courses Lesson 4: Departmental and institutional obstacles played a significant role in the failure of the site test phase of the ITIP project Lesson 5: Technological limitations and the cost of supplies can be obstacles to instructional innovation Lesson 6: Ethical requirements for conducting the ITIP project were
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, economic, and political—affect and are affected by the local identities and ethical choices of individuals and institutions. (2 items)For the learning outcomes measures, at the end of the course, we ask the students a set of 20questions with these instructions: Each college course you take may help you improve your abilities in a variety of areas. For example, some courses may improve your critical thinking skills; some may improve your communication skills; and some courses may not improve your abilities in any area at all. Please indicate how much your abilities have improved in the following areas AS A RESULT OF your enrollment in [Course Name]. We are interested only in the
, M. Hellstén and J. Malone, "Moving from interdisciplinary research to transdisciplinary educational ethics: Bridging epistemological differences in researching higher education internationalization(s)," European Educational Research Journal, vol. 18, no. 2, pp. 181- 199, 2018.[5] Association of American Colleges and Universities, "College Learning for the New Global Century: A report from the National Leadership Council for Liberal Education and America's Promise," Association of American Colleges and Universities, Washington, DC, 2007.[6] K. Tantawi, "Integration of End-of-Study Projects in Community College Mechatronics Education," in 2019 High Impact Practices in the States, Bowling Green, Kentucky, 2019.[7] S. Xefteris
acknowledgement of the importance of performance skillsthrough ABET requirements and the ASCE’s Code of Ethics. See Chowdhury and Murzi’s (2019)literature review for a more thorough account of the historical calls and strategies to incorporateperformance skills education into the engineering curriculum. Engineering educators and industry employers agree that graduates need communicationand interpersonal skills, collaborative and conflict management skills, and a cultural understanding(Seat et al., 2001) to function effectively as an engineer. What has also been agreed upon is thatsimply having a leadership program and/or incorporating teamwork into classes is not enough tosufficiently teach and develop these skills. Vik (2001) addressed this
and race the structure of U.S. engineering education,” J. Eng. Educ., vol. 108, no. 1, pp. 13–31, Jan. 2019, doi: 10.1002/jee.20247.[18] K. J. Cross, K. B. H. Clancy, R. Mendenhall, P. Imoukhuede, and J. R. Amos, “The double bind of race and gender: A look into the experiences of women of color in engineering,” ASEE Annu. Conf. Expo. Conf. Proc., vol. 2017-June, 2017, doi: 10.18260/1-2--28960.[19] C. G. P. Berdanier, X. Tang, and M. F. Cox, “Ethics and Sustainability in Global Contexts: Studying Engineering Student Perspectives Through Photoelicitation,” J. Eng. Educ., vol. 107, no. 2, pp. 238–262, 2018, doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/jee.20198.[20] K. Moore, W. R. Hargrove, N. R. Johnson, and F
College Community CollegeFigure 2: NYC LSAMP Scholars at the Senior College 36% 17% 9% 10% 2% 4% 4% 5% 5% 6% 1%NYC LSAMP MentorsNYC LSAMP Scholars work closely on research projects with their faculty mentors who arespecialists in their field of research. Nearly 54% of the scholars selected their mentors because ofthe impression left of the work done by the faculty mentors. Whereas, 17% selected their mentorbecause of the work ethics demonstrated by the mentor during research, 16% had taken somecourse in which the professor taught and decided to work
selection and design, equipment costs, operating costs, and profitabilityanalysis. It also includes considerations on public health, safety, and welfare, as well as global,cultural, social, environmental, and economic factors, making informed judgements andrecognizing ethical and professional responsibilities in engineering situations, as required byABET Student Outcomes 2 and 4 [14]. Students make final presentations of their projects to apanel of judges from industry and academia. Data on students’ characteristics for the diversityindex were collected from the instructors of the two parallel sections for the spring 2022 courseon 82 students and 14 projects, and for the summer 2022 course with 16 students and 3 projects.Judges used the rubric
research topics to aid in strategic decision making, andimpact services and reputational management.In its 2020 report, ACRL Research Planning and Review Committee summarized that majortrends include: learning analytics, the influence of machine learning and artificial intelligence ontechnology, the impact of big deals cancellations on open access and transformative publisheragreements, research data maturation and the ethical need to incorporate the GO FAIR Initiative,social justice roles including critical librarianship and critical pedagogy, incorporating increaseduse and licensing of streaming media, and finally, library space as a place for supporting studentwell-being [1]. Earlier in a 2017 environmental scan by the same team, the concept of
Instructional Mode (2020)In Fall 2020, with the university continuing to operate in a fully virtual environment due toCOVID-19, the flipped classroom of 2019 was modified to an online flipped classroom.Changes to the grading breakdown (Table 1) created a more uniform distribution across gradedcomponents, reducing the weight of the two midterms and the final exam, while increasing theweight of the homework, journal entries, and iClicker questions. This approach was encouragedby Johns Hopkins’ Center for Educational Resources as it was thought to reduce student stressand curb academic ethics violations in the online environment.The structure of the class remained largely unchanged from 2019 to 2020, with the exception ofthe small groups, which met in
stay focused.” A comment highlightingstudents’ responsibility in an online class is “The main issue with online classes for moststudents comes down to work ethic and being responsible for oneself because once you fallbehind it is near impossible to catch up.”5 ConclusionOverall, the students in all three universities in this study indicated an average positiveexperience with online, hybrid and face-to-face learning. However, the mean score for positiveexperience in face-to-face classes was higher indicating that students, including those in theonline program had more positive experience in face-to-face settings. The results show that thestudents that were already enrolled in an online program prior to the pandemic had morefavorable attitudes
to replicate the pattern of shame for themselves and, likely, others [9].When students experienced shame in ways that were healthy, the phenomenon was marked by apursuit of finding social connection amid the vulnerable experience [8, 9]. Further, ourethnographic analysis of student focus groups demonstrated that the emotional experience, andthe cultural scripts for expressing or regulating the emotion, were connected to the identity-relevant expectations that pervaded engineering programs. Students collectively defined being anengineer as connected intellectual performance and work ethic, and when they inevitably failedto meet such expectations, they were often unable to express the emotional experience in thecontext of their engineering
students, engineering plus students has been chosen to participate given thesimilarities in courses compared to mechanical engineering students. ME 287 and ENGR 180teach practicing engineers about ethics and designs concepts, these courses are ideal forintroducing sustainability concepts.Sustainability was not the primary focus of these engineering introduction courses. However,given the limited time allotted for this concept, sustainability was introduced with ALMs thatfocused on in-class videos followed up with in-person discussion, alumni guest speakers, andwalking tours. Table 1 describes the different methods utilized in the introductory engineeringcourses. The data found in this study indicates student engagement based on the ALM that
collectiveunderstanding of reality [47]. A qualitative approach was followed to gain a detailedunderstanding of students' most valued experiences within their communities. Studentsparticipated in the focus group by signing up voluntarily through an end-of-semester invitationemail from the principal investigator.Focus group questions were designed to elicit elaborative narratives to facilitate qualitativeanalysis. The focus groups were conducted online using the conferencing tool Zoom, and theconversation was transcribed verbatim. Facilitators maintained field notes during the focus groupas a way to encourage self-reflexivity throughout the process [48]. The necessary research ethicsapproval and permission for the study were obtained by the ethics board of the
computational tools andscripts. That cohort was able to process and analyze real data that had been collected from priorcohorts. During summer 2020, students engaged in a set of activities designed to help themdevelop needed technical and conceptual skills, mainly with programming in Python and R.Most virtual activities were limited to Fridays, and the rest of the week students worked on dataanalysis. In addition, they participated in online workshops on general research topics, includingresearch and ethics, preparing effective presentations, and graduate school applications.The summer program in 2021 was also virtual due to COVID-19 concerns with on-campusresearch. This program improved upon lessons learned from summer 2020. First, advisors
ability to communicate effectively with a range of audiences. (mean = 4.5, median = 4.5) 4. This course improved my ability to recognize ethical and professional responsibilities in engineering situations and make informed judgements. (mean = 4.3, median = 4) 5. This course improved my ability to function effectively on a team. (mean = 4.6, median = 5) 6. This course improved my ability to analyze and interpret data and use engineering judgement to draw conclusions. (mean = 4.3, median = 4) 7. This course improved my ability to acquire and apply new knowledge as needed, using appropriate learning strategies. (mean = 4.5, median = 4.5) [17]Setting ExpectationsFor educators looking to implement new pedagogies
Paper ID #36561A Collaborative Autoethnography: Examining ProfessionalFormation and Workplace Sustainability in Discipline-basedEngineering Education ResearchMadeline Polmear (Dr.) Madeline Polmear is a Marie Sklodowska-Curie, EUTOPIA Science & Innovation Cofund Fellow in the Law, Science, Technology & Society research group at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel in Belgium. Her primary research interests relate to engineering ethics education and the development of societal responsibility and professional competence inside and outside the classroom. She also works in the areas of informal learning and diversity
structure of the internet, as well as basic programming concepts. The course alsoinvolves reading comprehension and writing, thereby supporting students’ language artsdevelopment. Part of the curriculum examines the societal impact and ethical considerations oftechnology. This aspect of the course provides the opportunity to connect to issues facing thestudents’ communities, while the project-based nature of the course allows students to envisionapplications that could help their communities. Typically, this course would qualify for electivecredit, but would not replace the first programming course required in computer science andengineering degree programs. The curriculum from Code.org2 is free and web-based, such thatthe students don’t need
, and Process Design [12]. A co-requisite one-credit hands-on laboratory course integrateswith each of the first five courses, while a Safety and Ethics course accompanies the ProcessDesign class. Approximately one third of the students alternate the last three class-semesters withco-op rotations. These last two years (which include summer terms) offer the best potential forstudents get involved in outreach. At this point, they have developed significant knowledge andvaluable industry/research experience to document the narrative on the scope of the career and thecollege experience.The Reactive Process Engineering (RPE) and Process Design (PD) courses are offered everyspring and summer terms. The Process Control (PC) is offered only during the
, andinterpreting data, applying critical thinking skills to articulate how ethical principles apply toengineering, and practicing effective communication.Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, in Fall 2020 the entirety of the preceding course in thesequence was offered online for the first time, and several changes to teaching and learningstrategies were introduced. In Spring 2021, the Foundations of Engineering II followed suitdrawing from some of the lessons learned previously, with the additional challenge of being aPjBL course. During this semester, students were required to attend class, check-in with theinstructor, and work with their teams via online platforms (e.g., Zoom), although most of themwere living on-campus. Other strategies used for OPjBL, and
demonstrateattainment of the following ABET EAC Criterion 3: Student Outcomes: 1. an ability to identify, formulate, and solve complex engineering problems by applying principles of engineering, science, and mathematics 3. an ability to communicate effectively with a range of audiences 4. an ability to recognize ethical and professional responsibilities in engineering situations and make informed judgments, which must consider the impact of engineering solutions in global, economic, environmental, and societal contexts 5. an ability to function effectively on a team whose members together provide leadership, create a collaborative and inclusive environment, establish goals, plan tasks, and meet objectives 7. an ability to
. Entrepreneurshipsimply required a good idea and grit; while there is no guarantee of success, there is nothing stopping youfrom trying.My venture, tentatively named Elemeat, will develop bioprocessing techniques and technologies for thealternative protein industry. The alternative protein industry encompasses all products that intend toreplace animal-derived goods on the market, which consumers may move away from for ethical,environmental, and health reasons. While the industry is relatively new, it is growing rapidly. One of thegreatest challenges that the start-up companies in this space are facing is scaling their product; there is aneed for improved and flexible processes and tools optimized for the industry.Our first project is a novel technology that
comfortable with these and curious. InAcceptance, however, an individual may find they experience an ethical paralysis whenattempting to bridge between cultures, whereas an individual in Adaptation can authenticallybridge between cultures. These definitions are important to note as we move to review the resultsof this group. The numerical differences between post- and pre-program assessment for all thestudents who participated in the program are shown in Fig. 1.The mean score for the different IDI indicators pre-program placed the group in Acceptance asPerceived Orientation (PO) 118.77 and Minimization for Developmental Orientation, DO 87.45.The orientation gap showed a mean value of 31.32. This is a fairly typical pre-test assessment.As a group, the