iterations of a newengineering design course offered to senior undergraduates and graduate students, a journeymapping assignment has required students to reflect on their own experiences traversing throughengineering culture. These journey maps are also shared in small group discussions during classto uncover similarities and differences in student pathways, highlighting areas of overlap,commonalities, and disparate experiences. Informal student reflections on the assignment suggestthat viewing others’ journeys through engineering normalizes individual struggles, as nojourneys are direct, all feature ups and downs, and most involve deeply questioning ifengineering is the desired outcome. This work in progress paper describes the background andprior
activity exploring environmental justice andhow it intersects with energy policy. Lastly we developed some large-scale examples spanningmultiple classes. Our campus has a small renewable energy generating station (EnergiPlant) thatwe spent several weeks analyzing to explore concepts of both solar and wind energy. We alsointroduced The Seven Generations principle, a conception of sustainability from theHaudenosaunee (Iroquois) Confederacy, and used it as a framing for multiple conversationsthroughout the semester [4].Reflecting on this experience we are keenly aware how much effort was required to identify theexamples and incorporate them into our class. Four faculty collaborated on the development ofthis course over four years, a substantial
camera and lens combination are device dependent. Forinstance, in reflected-UV imaging, UV illumination reflects of an object and is recorded by aUV-sensitive camera. UV fluorescence imaging is based on the UV illumination that stimulatesfluorescence at a longer wavelength than UV excitation source. The resulting fluorescence andimage are typically in the visible band and can be captured by a color camera. These opticalsensing system specific results require high-definition cameras with multispectral sensitivities.Thus, it is critical to provide an integrated and efficient approach to address the variability of UVbased optical sensing systems.The objective of the research is to develop a new adaptive UV image processing algorithm totransform our
concerns. Simply asking ”What can Ido to help you learn better? What can you do to learn better?” helped students reflect on theirlearning behaviors, and in many cases, improved their experience throughout the course. Thisstrategy provided an opportunity for students to take more responsibility for their learning andvoice their feedback about the course. The assessments also helped the faculty member improvethe course in real time. With this approach, the instructor also identified a number of learningbottlenecks, where a significant number of students were having problems. This very simpleformative assessment strategy proved to be a powerful tool for creating a student-centeredcourse. Findings from this study included providing the instructors
to gather it, and substantial reflection on bothexpected and unexpected results. These problem-solving decisions are similar to the overarchingthemes identified by Polya: understanding the problem, devising a plan, carrying out the plan andlooking back [8]. The results also agree with work on design problem solving by Jonassen,which emphasizes the importance of determining design requirements and creating constraints[9]. A detailed analysis of the interviews with unified terminology across the fields for the expertproblem-solving decisions is currently being developed and will be published elsewhere.The rest of this work described here focuses on the specific optics black box assessment, whichwas created based on common problem-solving
program value to indicate the exceptional learningopportunities SA programs offer.11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16A review of literature provides an array of assessment tools that may be used as a stand-alone orin concert with other tools (See Table 1). Each of these tools provides information that enablesresearchers and SA faculty to better determine how programs enhance student learning.The tools are designed to indicate competency development in students in areas such asincreased cultural understanding, improved communication skills, strengthened language ability,flexibility, and open-mindedness.2, 3, 4, 9, 10, 12, 15, 16, 17, 18 In addition, this skill development oftenresults in personal reflection and growth that changes students in terms of their
ABET ASSESSMENT USING CALIBRATED PEER REVIEWIntroductionMost engineering programs have some type of capstone design experience. At Rose-HulmanInstitute of Technology (Rose) the Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Department alsohas a similar set of courses. Therefore, the ECE Department decided to use senior design toassess EC3(g) (ABET Engineering Criterion 3-g): “ability to communicate effectively”.However, we needed/wanted a tool to help us develop our assessment process for EC3(g).The ECE Department was introduced to the Calibrated Peer Review (CPR) [1]. CPR is anonline-tool with four structured workspaces that perform in tandem to create a series of activitiesthat reflect modern pedagogical strategies for using writing
educators need to consider at thetime of developing their teaching philosophies, summarized below: a) Their objectives in teaching. b) Tools and methods used to achieve those objectives c) Tools and methods used to measure the achievement of objectives d) The self-reflection on why teaching is important for themThe goal of this paper is to analyze each one of these critical points, guiding faculty members towardsbuilding a document consistent with their interests and institutional mission. Page 9.405.1 “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition
one important optical property of materials. For liquid materials, it alsoprovides information to analyze liquids or mixed solutions, such as chemicals, foodstuffs, drinks,and pharmaceuticals. In general, the instruments to characterize the index of liquids weredeveloped according to the fundamental optical properties such as total internal reflection (Abberefractrometer)1, diffraction (grating)2, interference3, or deflection4,5, etc.Minimum deviation method (MDM) is one well-known and well-developed index measurementmethod since 1930.6-9 In this method, the index was deduced by the “minimum deviation angle”of the probe beam when it passed through the material under test. Such a material can be solid orliquid, but it has to be shaped as a
program has allowed for a more in depth cohesion of engineering content,pedagogy, and reflection. The PD program was split up into three distinct sections. In themornings, the teachers were team taught the heart lung curriculum by experienced engineeringfaculty and inquiry-based pedagogical facilitators. In the afternoons, the teachers applied whatthey learned as they taught students that were enrolled in the Upward Bound program. Whileteaching, the teachers were videotaped and observed by the INSPIRES team. After each lesson,the teachers and the INSPIRES team reviewed the recordings and collectively providedconstructive criticism to improve content understanding, teaching pedagogy and curriculumdelivery. Although this new PD program
teams; e) identify, formulate andsolve engineering problems; g) communicate effectively; h) understand theimpact of engineering solutions in their daily lives; and i) engage in life-longlearning. Each participated in pre- and post-surveys and reflections. Together,with our formal evaluation through tests and projects, they provide a baseline for Page 22.520.2other engineering courses regarding, knowledge, skills and dispositions necessaryfor future competent, confident and comfortable elementary school teachers ofengineering.It’s all over the news: Kindergartners doing engineering before they can evenspell the word. As school districts and state departments of
Session 3260 RESHAPING ENGINEERING EDUCATION TOWARDS THE PRACTICING PROFESSIONAL Josef Rojter Department of Mechanical Engineering Victoria University of Technology, P.O. BOX 14428 MCMC Melbourne Victoria 8001. Australia. Consider the turtle. It makes progress when it sticks its neck out. The evolution of knowledge based economies coupled with the accompanying socialchanges is placing new demands on engineering education in meeting societal needs. Thepoor image of the profession reflects the lack of strong links between engineering andcommunal development. Restructuring of
‟ instruction in engineeringlabs. Semi-structured interviews were conducted among five GTAs who were selectedpurposefully from an engineering lab, enrolling approximately 1800 students, to elicit GTAs‟self-reflections regarding their teaching philosophies, practices, and experiences in instruction.Content analysis was conducted to examine how GTAs engaged with the four elements of theHPL framework (i.e., knowledge-, learner-, assessment- and community-centeredness) withintheir engineering laboratories. Findings from our analysis offer an overall view of GTAs‟instructional practices in engineering labs and provide a general profile of GTAs‟ teachingrelated to the HPL framework. This profile may be used for the future training and evaluation ofGTAs to
justification of their decisions1. Further investigation is required in order todetermine how engineering students justify their decisions and whether the resulting decisionsand justifications reflect best practices in engineering design.The purpose of this paper is to develop a framework to investigate and assess the quality ofengineering students’ formal justifications of their engineering decisions. Using this framework,we identify aspects of decision justification with which students struggle with an end goal of Page 23.1227.2identifying need areas for instruction. Further, we present a rubric for evaluating engineeringdesign decision justifications
articulation of the problem or query before promptingthe LLM. Exploratory skills are essential to navigate and become proficient with majorLLM tools like ChatGPT, Bing AI, and Google Bard. Hands-on experimentation allowsfor direct interaction, fostering a deeper understanding of LLM capabilities. Willingnessto reflect is paramount, as it encourages critical evaluation of AI-generated content andpersonal beliefs. An illustrative diagram emphasizes the interplay between promptingLLMs and receiving responses, underscoring the iterative nature of refining promptsfor optimal outcomes.Ethical Considerations and Academic Integrity. The integration of LLMs in educationbrings forth ethical considerations, particularly in maintaining academic integrity.Concerns
in general – whichsome students described as illustrative of the potential worth and impact of a single engineer.The breadth of approaches, observations, and principles relating to beauty and eleganceillustrated by this limited sample is desirable, as the point of the class is not to converge on adefinition of beauty but rather for each student to find examples, methods, and possibly widerprinciples that are meaningful to them. An individual student’s findings could potentially informor expand their appreciation for what engineering can be and accomplish, offer them places tointegrate engineering with their existing identities or interests, or influence career planning.After class, students are assigned to write reflections based on prompts
/users. Student groupscollaborated and communicated to the whole group about their motivations and perspectives fortheir design choices. The students then reflected on the possible value of their designs. Studentsthen wrote reflections that described the societal benefits of creating inclusive designs. Theirreflection pieces included thoughts on unconscious bias, challenging/disrupting beliefs, norms,habits and expectations that highlights problems behind oppressive worldviews, and socialinsight/imagination of what life is like for others considering social circumstances such as culturalidentity, privilege, and positionality. A self-reflection rubric is used to assess student self-reflectionsubmissions.Overall, this module enables educators to
andEffectiveness) as tools for assessment of instruction.Key words: Assessment of instructor performanceIntroductionHistorically student performance was judged through an evaluation process that was pretty muchthe prerogative of the instructor. The evaluation was reflected for the most part in a final grade.Upon graduation, observations and comments in reference letters by faculty either for graduateschool or employment would add additional insight to the academic performance of the student.In recent years grading (evaluation) has developed into a more objective process referred to asassessment. The terms evaluation and assessment are often used synonymously. But there is adistinct difference; evaluation is quantitative judgment of performance, whereas
CSEdResearch.org 1 adrienne@buffalo.edu, 2 monica@csedresearch.orgAbstractWe recently hosted a workshop that brought together 12 K-8 teachers who teach computer science(CS) and/or computational thinking and 12 CS education researchers. Since there is a known gapbetween practices that researchers study and practices that teachers implement in a learningenvironment, the purpose of our full-day workshop was to create a meaningful space for teachersand researchers to meet and explore each others’ perspectives. The dialogue was framed aroundteachers’ classroom experiences with researchers reflecting on how they could improve theirresearch practice. The workshop, held during the 2022 CS Teachers Association (CSTA)conference
abilities to inform career decisions [10]. Strong evidence suggests the importance ofidentity formation through experiential education; however, there are many questions that stillremain unanswered about how engineering programs can help create pathways for students tomeaningfully participate and develop professional identity, especially at scale.While experiential learning and engineering identity formation are important to the collegeexperience, challenges remain for creating robust structures for students to reflect, conceptualize,and apply their learning. Kolb [13] recognized that the experiences themselves are not enough.His model describes a cyclical process that begins with a concrete experience, followed byreflection on that experience
introduction. RQ (2) reflects the reality of the state ofaffairs: the study was conducted during the COVID-19 pandemic, which would inescapablyaffect these perceptions.This study surveyed MSE students at the University of California, Davis (UC Davis). Thesestudents utilized computational tools in several required classes, including a lower-divisionmathematics lab and a required computational methods course. In students’ third year, upper-division MSE courses integrated these tools, such as MATLAB and other simulation tools (e.g.,ThermoCalc), to supplement course material and expand on core MSE concepts. Studentscompleted many of the programming assignments in MATLAB, although other languages suchas Python were also permitted. Students could utilize
, and todevelop relationships with professionals. While internships have been studied invarious disciplines, few studies have tried to understand how civil engineeringstudents demonstrate their learning behaviors during an internship. Previousstudies used Kolb’s experiential learning model as a theoretical framework toexplore students’ learning styles as part of an internship experience. This studyextends the use of Kolb’s model as a theoretical framework by focusing on civilengineering students to examine their internship experiences and apparentpatterns of learning styles. Kolb’s experiential learning theory involves fourlearning modes: concrete experience, reflective observation, abstractconceptualization, active experimentation; and four
entrepreneurshippractices into the educational change process. The Entrepreneurial Mindset for InnovativeTeaching (EMIT) Academy is based on the tenet that the practices and mindset associated withquality teaching mirror practices of entrepreneurship and the entrepreneurial mindset. As part ofthe EMIT Academy, faculty engage in a series of workshops and activities intended to have themcritically reflect upon a course that they teach. One of the key elements of the Academy is thatfaculty engage in “customer” discovery process in which they collect feedback from keystakeholders of their course, usually students. This paper describes the Academy, discussespreliminary assessment data, and provides information on future directions.IntroductionThis work-in-progress
-longcalculus course.Entangled Learning [2] provides the pedagogical framework for the learning strategies course.The pedagogy is an action-based metacognitive framework for individual and collective self-directed learning. The active processes of Entangled Learning, “design,” “learn,” “apply,” and“know,” are informed by cycles of documenting, self-regulating, critically reflecting, integrating,and collaborating. Course activities and assignments scaffold learning through these actions.Most of the assignments are learning journal activities for which students identify adevelopmental behavior. Students identify a resource that will inform their decisions onchanging their behavior or conceptual understanding, engage with and document their activity
Concept Presentation 10 6 Final Design Presentation 15 10 Final Design Report 15 11 Individual Design Debate 5 0 Reflective Essay No.1 10 5 Reflective Essay No. 2 10 11Data Collection MethodsDEFT is a web-based system that facilitates frequent student reporting of their
reflection component on personal development, social impact, academic enhancement,university mission, and ethics. A mixed-methods approach was used to examine differencesbetween first-year engineering students who participated in service-learning projects during thefall semester of 2014 and those who did not. Students participating in service-learning projectsshowed significantly higher gains in confidence in both technical and professional engineeringskills. Female students in particular showed the most dramatic gains, with an average increase of81.6% in technical engineering confidence as a result of their service-learning course. The highergains in confidence can be attributed to the students learning more about how to identify andunderstand
Implementation in GEE Collaboration with underserved community Regular Skype calls with Community partners Understanding the complexity of the Readings from multiple fields includingproblem space gender studies, philosophy, economics, sociology Equality of engagement by students and Articulation of what I care about andfield partners employing a discourse on care Active reflection Journaling and reflection papers on class readings Table 1: Summary of the
down the watershed. Data collected from their sample was then gathered into alarger data set representing data from all three lab sections and the three lake sites. Students werethen given the task of analyzing and reporting the data throughout the semester. To examine therelationship between field work and student attitudes and perception on field studies, students inan environmental engineering laboratory course were assigned a reflection paper before and afterperforming the field work exercise. Further reflection was given by the instructor of the labcourse on student’s performance, attitudes, and the instructor’s perception of the field study.Final results revealed a positive response by both students and instructors in regard to
Contribute to Transformative Learning in an Electrical and Computer Engineering Undergraduate Capstone Design Project and Selecting Action Research Methods to Frame a Study Rachael Cate and Donald Heer, Oregon State UniversityAcknowledgement: The authors are grateful for support provided by the National ScienceFoundation grant DUE 1347817. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendationsexpressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of theNational Science Foundation.Abstract: Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) design capstone instructors and coursedevelopers at Oregon State University are conducting a study to investigate the efficacy ofEvidence
. They include thecorrelation between the selection of the evidence and the achievement of a specific learningoutcome, the students’ reflection on their learning experiences, and the subjectivity andconsistency in the assessment of student portfolio.In this paper, we give an overview of the Zayed University OBE model with a focus on the Page 8.860.2ZULOs component. We provide an overview of the learning outcomes assessment courses used Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education