, primarily-undergraduate institution. These changes were made with the goal of improving alignmentbetween in-class assessment practices and ABET assessment requirements. The first majorchange involves reviewing and revising the Performance Indicators for all Student LearningOutcomes. Specifically, the PI’s were rephrased for strong alignment with the revised Bloom’sTaxonomy, with a focus on higher order learning. The second major change is the developmentof descriptive rubrics for several major assessment tools. Two rubrics will be examined asexamples: one for peer assessment of team members’ contributions in the program’s capstonedesign project and the second for a position paper on contemporary issues related tothermodynamics. Initial results from
Proposals and RequirementsSept 23 Technical and Management Proposals DueSept 26 Project Scope/ConOps Presentations (15 min/team)Sept 28 Publish Team Website / Work on RequirementsSept 30 Mass and Volume Estimation Implied costsOct 3 Requirements Briefings (15 minutes / team)Oct 5 Report Writing Fundamentals / Work on DesignOct 7 Trade Study Briefings (15 minutes / team)Oct 10 Peer Review Instructions/ Intro to RID Forms / Work on DesignOct 12 Work on DesignOct 14 Prepare for Midterm Presentations Page 25.97.17Oct 17 Midterm Presentations (25 minutes / team)Oct
had been produced by the students themselves.One of the final classes had the students revising their own reports in a workshop setting withinstructor and peer support. In this setting, common errors could be identified and corrected andshared with the whole class. The relative popularity of this particular activity may be reflective of the students’ motivationto improve their own writing to secure a higher grade. However, the grade weight attached toeach report (3% for the first draft and 2% for the second, for a total of 15% of the whole coursein term 1) is small. In fact, the instructors were somewhat surprised by the degree of dedicationto this revision process, given the low weight attached to each assignment. Anecdotally
research sources from prior classes, but also knew this might be a newerskill for most. Consequently, the teaching team provided students with a brief guide reviewinghow to search library databases and find relevant literature.After first-round submissions had been turned in, students were tasked with writing peer reviewsof the submissions of other teams. Several reasons were given to them for this, including theopportunity to see more examples of bias and a variety of ways of presenting information, aswell as practice with providing helpful feedback to others. Students were given the opportunityto revise and resubmit their conceptual models based on peer feedback.Intervention phase 2: Proposing a new design/research to create valueThe next phase
Students grouped by math placement, Common first-year courses, and access to Peer Mentoring and Academic Coaches Learning Communities Engineering fraternity/STEM sorority Collaborative Assignments and Projects Open-ended, real-world, class-based projects Undergraduate Research Honors Research and Innovation Experience and Symposium Diversity/Global Learning Project-based learning and Drill seminars ePortfolios Honors Research Experience Course Internships Drill seminarsHIPs not in FEP (Capstone, Writing Intensive Courses and Service Learning) have been excluded from Table
curriculum design and pilot efforts of a short module in theintroductory bioengineering course [4-5].Course OverviewThe introductory bioengineering course aims to provide broad exposure to several areas ofresearch in bioengineering such as cancer diagnostics, medical device development, regenerativemedicine, global health, and synthetic biology. The course emphasizes critical reading ofscientific literature and technical writing, and broadly covers the engineering design process,creative problem-solving techniques, engineering ethics, social constraints, and other designprinciples.The first offering of the honors section was a 2-credit add-on to the introductory bioengineeringcourse. The honors section was comprised of 12 students who were
toprovide training and real world, small-scale project experience through the completion ofa full-project lifecycle from conceptualization to prototype. Brief discussion of thoseprojects that resulted in provisional patents, refereed journal publications, and conferencepresentations will be given. Some of the features of the course, such as University andindustry guest speaker series and final project evaluation by the department’s IndustrialAdvisory Board, leading professionals, faculty, technical staff and peers will beexamined. The paper concludes by outlining a set of short term and long term goals forthe future direction of the course.IntroductionEngineering and engineering technology disciplines consider senior project courses animportant and
by including criteria such as“engages in lifelong learning,” “understands the impact that engineering has on society,” and“communicates effectively” in their assessment of engineering programs [3]. Besterfield-Sacre etal. observe that students’ attitudes about engineering and their abilities change throughout theireducation and influence motivation, self-confidence, perception of engineering, performance, andretention [4]. The same group also found that attitudes toward engineering directly related toretention during the freshman year [5]. Seymour and Hewitt [6] examined students who leftengineering programs and found that they were not academically different than their peers whocontinued in the program and that their retention was better
assess certainperformance indicators, leading to results that were not as meaningful as they should have been.Consequently, the course instructors made some relatively simple changes to course assignmentsto ensure that students provide evidence of achievement of each of the desired performanceindicators. This serves both to facilitate assessment and to emphasize to the students what theyare expected to know and be able to do. The following sections describe how this has been donein ELEC 3040/3050.IV. Course assignments and assessmentIn the past few years, Auburn University has emphasized writing across the curriculum. Eachprogram in the university has been required to submit a plan for writing within the majorcourses, with students expected to
lab report is due every week from design teams; these reports are graded quickly usingan electronic form for feedback so that the instructor distills comments to the most importantareas for improvement, rather than noting every detail that is out of place. This rubric is providedas Appendix C. Students are required to individually reflect on their group’s performance in thelab and in their writing by explaining which parts of the instructor’s feedback they consideredmost important and how they would improve for future reports. (8) A peer and self evaluation isdue through CATME (9) after every other lab.A final exam is conducted at the end of the term. This exam is designed to largely emphasizeconcepts from the professionalism and laboratory
AC 2009-1565: TWO WAYS OF USING CASE STUDIES TO TEACH ETHICSJohn Brocato, Mississippi State University John Brocato serves as Coordinator and Instructor in the Shackouls Technical Communication Program in the James Worth Bagley College of Engineering at Mississippi State University. He designed and helps teach GE 3513 Technical Writing and works closely with engineering departments on enhancing the technical communication content in their curricula. He holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in English from MSU and previously taught in the English Department there. He is a member of ASEE and serves as its Campus Representative for MSU
2(16Students) 5 6 Figure 1: Implementation Timeline for the FSSP and S-STEM Programs2.2. Freshman SSTEM Scholars Program (FSSP) StructureGoals of FSSPThe main goals of the program are: enhanced retention of URM students, the development ofstrong URM candidates for admission into the S-STEM program, and to build interest in studentsfor the pursuit of graduate study. Enhanced retention of URM students is critical as 2014 datafrom the National Center for Education statistics 15 describes African American and Hispanicstudents as 23.6% and 12.7% less likely, respectively, to finish college after 5 years as comparedto their white peers. Retention is encouraged
Paper ID #19000Getting Great Recommendation Letters: A Practical GuideDr. Katy Luchini-Colbry, Michigan State University Katy Luchini-Colbry is the Director for Graduate Initiatives at the College of Engineering at Michigan State University, where she completed degrees in political theory and computer science. A recipient of a NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, she earned Ph.D. and M.S.E. in computer science and engi- neering from the University of Michigan. She has published more than two dozen peer-reviewed works related to her interests in educational technology and enhancing undergraduate education through hands- on
) – collaborated to develop a micro-credential on professional ethics for PennState’s College of Engineering. The micro-credential is targeted towards engineering students asearly as their first year of post-secondary study. The draft micro-credential notably includedseveral historical case studies – notably, the Boeing 737 Max crash, the Space Shuttle Challengerexplosion, Apple intellectual property misappropriation, the Volkswagen diesel emissionsscandal, and the Ford Explorer and Firestone tire tread separation incident – with additionalfurther modern cases inspired by recent engineering industry events. In this work, our qualitativeimpressions on the micro-credential development process originated via memo-writing (Saldana,2012), were further
about what has happened and what is possible in order to create a muchricher design experience and understanding; the cost of this is the higher overhead to the team.Providing a range of techniques allowed each student to assess which practices worked best forthat student’s personality and background, as well as for different situations they mightencounter. Different people may learn better through different types of reflective practices.Typical introverts8 may prefer the privacy of a journal to participating in team retrospectives,while extroverts may be more effective the opposite way. Writing and talking use different partsof the brain. Many people think better when they are physically active20.‡ This includes increasing the value all along
diversity.4 The program consists of five classes,unique to the minor, that span across two academic years (4 semesters) and relies on the use ofcohort-based program structure, near-peer mentoring, and project-driven learning. The cohortstructure allows for close relationships to form, combatting the social isolation that historicallymarginalized students may feel in CS classes. Peer mentoring benefits students by offeringfurther academic, social, and professional development support within the program. Project-based learning provides strong ties to students’ major area(s) of study (primarily biology andbiochemistry) and supports students’ future success in fields that are becoming increasingly data-driven.1 Finally, the minor program courses focus
team andassume they are a professional is to overlook the much needed education in basic professionalism.As with any pedagogical method we have identified perpetual problems with problem studentsand specifically address these through project team design. The general categories that weencounter with students at our institution are listed below in relative frequency/importance. Theyhave been developed using personal interactions during, and peer evaluations after studentprojects from a variety of courses and faculty. Each school will have a different list. For example,our list obviously excludes cultural differences. • Working - Students working outside school 20 or more hours per week often have schedules that do not fit with regular full
two phases of the team dynamics cycle.The new set of changes to the course is not as effective as had been hoped. The amount ofbookkeeping is tremendous due to all the reports and presentations. Students are unable to workefficiently on their technical project due to the overload on report writing. Students alsocomplain that one semester is not enough time to produce a professional prototype. The basicfeedback from the Self/Peer-Reviews also indicates that one semester might not be enough togive the students a positive team experience, which would include the last to phases of normingand performing.Intermediate Conclusion:All changes in phase 2 have been introduced in the author’s first semester teaching the seniordesign course. Even though
student teams. Interrogating theinteractions African-American males experience within multiracial teams enhances ourunderstanding of how they experience engineering and what peer interactions reduce spotlightingand disconnection. Page 26.1545.2IntroductionTeam projects in undergraduate engineering programs are critical sites for professional skillsdevelopment. Designed to simulate engineering work, team projects allow students to try onprofessional roles as they interact with peers and faculty. Also, engaging in engineering activitiessuch as a team project can help students establish a sense of identity within their field, which inturn influences
which was in the group that submitted the report. There is a form (a copy of whichis attached) that solicits specific comments about technical and communication attributes of thereport. Evaluators are instructed not to write simple “yes” or “no” entries, but to givemeaningful comments. These evaluations are submitted anonymously, except to the instructor,and are graded by the instructor and returned to the group that originally submitted the report.The advantages of this procedure are these: 1. it assists the instructor in reading and evaluating the reports, because he has the peer evaluations when grading the reports 2. it gives the submitting group feedback from more than just the instructor 3
, University of Maryland, College Park Paige Smith has served as the Director of the Women in Engineering (WIE) Program in the A. James Clark School of Engineering at the University of Maryland since September 2001. WIE provides a com- prehensive set of academic year and summer outreach programs for students in grades 4-12. Retention programs include a living and learning community, peer mentoring and fellowships in research and teach- ing. Paige is also the Director of the Mid-Atlantic Girls Collaborative (MAGiC), a regional collaborative of the NSF funded National Girls Collaborative Project. MAGiC connects girl-serving and supporting in- dividuals and organizations in Maryland, Virginia and Washington, DC that are
expand their current knowledge base and practices.The Compendium offers direct faculty access to the latest STEM and advanced technologicaleducation connections. With the Compendium, faculty leader colleagues can: 1) Expand theirown knowledge base; 2) Inform and improve their teaching profession practice and scholarship;and 3) Use the research and content from the Compendium to develop and write competitivegrants. Use of the Compendium can help faculty leaders develop themselves professionallythrough hands-on research and practices, and via dissemination to peers and/or peer reviews.Searches within the Compendium can be tailored to specific program and/or course needs for up-to-date and pertinent models, examples, and implementation practices
collaborative writing. 2. Provide opportunities to practice oral communication prior to Senior Design; provide opportunities for students to present to peers while studying for exams, and utilize study groups and introduce more teamwork experience before Senior Design. 3. Develop a skeleton for reports for different audiences (reflecting what is important to report); and distribute templates for organizing and communicating written and oral information. Page 7.1111.4 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for
incidentresulted from an awareness of past offenses and potential future offenses related to diversity. Page 12.558.5When JI102 attempted to write her first draft of the diversity statement she did not know what tosay. She emphasized that she did not think it was very good. When she brought her diversitystatement to the peer review and discussion session it was not a priority for her to have the groupread it and comment. JI102 stated that these feelings of inadequacy about her diversity statementstemmed from her previous experience. She was unaware of how much the incident that occurredduring the previous diversity workshop had negatively impacted her
prior experience in design and the UCD process. In suchinstances, working with an ideation tool to generate blue sky ideas and build upon some or ruleout others [43] augmented the learning experience and paved the way for them to come up withthe design ideas they would initially use. For students who might not have had much experiencewith the UCD process prior to C1, ChatGPT served as a tool for providing them equitable accesssuch that they could keep up with their more experienced peers and not fall behind the class. Additionally, ChatGPT was used as a writing assistant by students, especially in C2, whopossibly were struggling with the heavy writing load that the course provided. Such a writingload is uncommon within the courses in our
Paper ID #18296Stepping out of the Comfort Zone - and the Country: Facilitating In-DepthStudent Learning through Nontraditional Communication AssignmentsMr. David Bowles, Louisiana State University David ”Boz” Bowles is a technical communication instructor and Engineering Communication Studio coordinator in the Chevron Center for Engineering Education at Louisiana State University. He earned a baccalaureate degree in English and a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from Virginia Common- wealth University.Ms. Paige Davis, Louisiana State University Paige Davis has 22 years of experience in the College of Engineering at
feedback provided by the instructor after reviewing their third draft. • Peer evaluations: Students complete three peer evaluations throughout the semester, using the CATME software [7].Individual learning assignments (ILAs)The different ILAs that were submitted throughout the semester are below. ILA1 and ILA2 arebased on assignments since before the author took over this course; the remaining ILAs weredeveloped by the author. With the exception of ILA5, which was expected to be a 300-500 wordsubmission, all ILAs are expected to be 600-1000 words. • ILA1: Students write about a WP of their choice, explain the characteristics of the problem that make it a WP, provide two examples of stakeholders for this problem, and
develop the relationships and trust that are required for effective cooperative learning. 5) Solutions to the team assignments are discussed in the same class period they are given, thus providing students with nearly simultaneous reinforcement or correction. 6) Exams and quizzes are composed of an individual portion as well as a team portion that they complete together. 7) Peer evaluations are used to distribute the credit of team activities. Evaluations are typically based on attendance, contribution and preparedness. Team activities represent a significant portion of each individual’s overall grade (30% - 50%)Proceedings of the 2005 Midwest Section Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education
Agree Disagree I plan to expand my GEMS experience, by telling my 20% 80% 0% 0% high school peers about my camp experience. Because of my teammates and GEMS experience, my 30% 70% 0% 0% skills in writing, documentation, oral presentations have improved. My GEMS experiences did not provide more 10% 10% 50% 30% information that will help me in my career choice. Table 3 – A sample of Students’ responses to the open ended questions on GEMS 1. What did you like the best about GEMS? • The projects • Engineering camp day • I liked that it was hands on • That GEMS
projects; completing Clifton Strengths testand individual career assessment before attending the class. For weekly classes, studentsparticipate in small and large group discussions to gain an understanding of course topics.Following the 50 min lecture, students participated in the post-lecture activities such as smallgroup peer reviews for reflective writing, discussion of the application of PM skills, and Q&Awith guest lecturers (see Table 1).Table 1. Course Content Week Course Topic Learning Activity 1 Introduction Icebreaker game 2 Project Charter Building project charter for thesis/ research