studentleaders on how to deal with management issues within their team, and to introduce team timecards in conjunction with an instructor evaluation and peer feedback to increase individualaccountability. Our goals were to improve the capstone design experience for the aerospaceengineering students, and to better understand the evolution of students as individuals and intheir team relationships.Changes to the Aerospace Capstone Design Course during the 2016-2017 Program.Increased Student Choice in Topic Selection.Marin et.al. identified student ownership as one part of designing an optimal experience forcapstone design [1], and we hypothesized that if students were allowed a chance to researchpossible topic areas, propose projects to their peers, and
best medium option tocommunicate with the target audience. Contemporary engineers are also required tocommunicate globally, since interactions with peers and other audiences located in differentparts of the world are very common in most industrial segments.The communication challenges of engineers in industry include difficulties with public speakingand miscommunication in writing. Expertise in these two communication aspects need to bemore appropriately developed among engineering students in order to prepare them to theindustry demands. Cross-generational communication challenges or difficulties related tocommunication between older and younger generations of engineers were also one of thecommunication challenges revealed in this study
[18]. The report assignment counts for 20 percent of the final grade and is holisticallygraded with guidance from a 27-item grading checklist divided into four categories: content,organization, design, and style/grammar/punctuation (see Appendix A for this checklist). Thischecklist guides students while writing their reports, teams during peer reviews, and instructorsduring grading. For grading, instructors lean on the checklist and give about 25% of the gradingweight to each of the four categories. Students, teaching assistants, and instructors haveappreciated the detailed guidance provided by the checklist—assignments that meet all itemsreceive a 100% grade. Across and within the categories, individual instructors may weight whatthey deem
in engineering, and engineering careers.Young MakersYoung Makers at flagship Maker Faires demonstrate engineering thinking and doing inabundance. Children as young as 10 are designing, programming, and manufacturing suchartifacts as smart watches for their peers. The engagement and excitement is remarkable for theirage. A common theme amongst these Young Makers is that they have no formal education in, orknowledge of what is they are actually doing, from their K-12 schooling. And this is what makesit so fascinating. The Maker Mindset has much in common with ABET's student learningoutcomes for engineering students 8, 9 but is not rooted in similar standards and expectations atthe K-12 level. The Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) itself
people, to use technology to enhancecommunication, and to understand the complexities that are associated with the social,environmental, and technical aspects of their work.Through the communications approach, the RCS seeks to enhance students’ cognitivedevelopment. Herbert Simon points out that the basic principle of the enterprise of cognitivestudies is that “learning takes place inside the learner and only inside the learner”.12 However,Simon also recognizes that “whether from books or people, at least 90% of what we have in ourheads . . . is acquired by social processes, including watching others, listening to them, andreading their writings”. The RCS takes into account this socially distributed nature of learningby building an optimal
advises the Society of Women Engineers student chapter and leads the students in developing and implementing yearly outreach events for the K-8 female community. She is author of many peer-reviewed conference proceeding for the ASEE Annual Meetings and the FIE meetings Page 24.940.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 NSF TUES: Transforming Undergraduate Environmental Engineering Laboratories for Sustainable Engineering using the Case Studies in the Sciences Instructional MethodAbstractMany college laboratories follow a “cookbook” approach to
: 1) Mid-term presentation to the project manager and other faculty members associated with the project 2) Final presentation to the faculty members in the department and to the sponsorsIn addition, clinic students with or without the assistance of graduate students may writequarterly reports, visit the sponsor and make presentations, and write peer reviewed conferenceproceedings and journal papers. The overall objectives of the clinic and the grading guidelinesare shown below. These objectives and the grading guidelines were developed by a committeeof faculty members and are applicable to all engineering clinics. The author has adopted theseobjectives and grading guidelines. In addition to the overall clinic objectives, project
changed through actively assimilating knowledge—self-explaining, writing, interacting with others and with other ideas. The implications forteaching practices are enormous. In constructivist learning, students interact with each other andconnect what they are learning to their own experiences and knowledge, thus making theirlearning conceptually coherent and personally meaningful. The key teaching practices requireopportunities to reformulate and articulate newly found meanings. This activity is critical tosuccessful learning.Associated with the constructivist approach is a focus on helping students become aware of theirlearning and learning processes. This entails helping students develop a sense of how they knowwhat they know as well as what
Paper ID #32955Exploration Elective: Students from all Disciplines Explore Engineeringand SciencesDr. Esmeralda Campos, Tecnologico de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico Dr. Esmeralda Campos is a postdoc researcher at Writing Lab at Tecnologico de Monterrey, and she has taught undergraduate physics courses at the School of Engineering and Sciences. She obtained her bach- elor degree in Engineering Physics at Tecnologico de Monterrey in Mexico. She studied a Master degree in Education, with a specialization in Science teaching and learning, and moved forward to the PhD in Educational Innovation, both at Tecnologico de Monterrey
communication skills training and analyzing students’improvement. Box plots with line plots were used to graphically represent the changes indescriptive statistics of pre and post-peer evaluation ratings for specific presentationevaluation criteria. Finally, to understand the influence of students’ socio-demographicprofiles, an ordered probit regression was conducted. Female and first-generation studentsexpressed a deficiency of communication skills and may benefit greatly from innovativecommunication skills activities that can successfully foster students’ growth. The results ofthis research emphasize the significance of developing minority students’ presentation skills.The findings of this study also provide insights into a sustainable implementation
boosts morale and increases community among theUGTAs. Additionally, distinctive polo shirts help to give authority to UGTAs in the classroom,while advertising the program to their peers. The recognition event at the end of each semesterserves as an opportunity for engineering administrators to recognize the efforts of our facultymembers who engage in active and collaborative teaching methods, express appreciation for thededication of the UGTAs throughout the semester, and enables faculty and students to interactoutside of the classroom.Program evaluationData were collected by surveying students enrolled in classes with UGTAs, surveying facultyteaching courses with UGTAs, asking UGTAs to write a reflection paper of their experiences,and examining
AC 2008-277: CUSTOMER BASED COURSE DEVELOPMENT – CREATING AFIRST YEAR PROGRAMMING COURSE FOR ENGINEERS AND SCIENTISTSPatrick Jarvis, University of St. Thomas Patrick L. Jarvis received his J.D. in Law and Ph.D. in Computer Science both at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. He has broad industry and consulting experience in the design and development of procedural and object-oriented systems, relational database systems, peer-to-peer and client-server systems, as well as the management of high technology employees. His law practice focuses on arbitration and mediation of high technology disputes. He joined the Computer and Information Sciences faculty of the University of St
Engineering, Industrial and Systems Engineering, and a PhD in Engineering Education from Virginia Tech. She is an Assistant Research Professor and the As- sessment and Instructional Support Specialist in the Leonhard Center for the Enhancement of Engineering Education at Penn State as well as a co-founder of Zappe and Cutler Educational Consulting, LLC. Her primary research interest include faculty development, the peer review process, the doctoral experience, and the adoption of evidence-based teaching strategies. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2022 From Remote to Flipped: Increasing Student Engagement through the Classroom FlipOne of the most
policies (e.g. tenure clock extensions) and developingresources for faculty and evaluators (e.g. guidance on writing COVID impact statements). Wenext discuss emergent challenges as well as implementation strategies, including working withcampus stakeholders, promoting awareness of policies, and adapting existing programmingtargeting recruiting, retaining, and promoting faculty from underrepresented groups. Weconclude by offering guidance for how institutions can remain attentive to COVID-19 impactson faculty careers in the coming years, with a focus on ongoing evaluation of new policies andprogramming, and institutional research to monitor equity
was usuallybecause that student knew a lot about the topic and cared deeply about passing that knowledge on to others. Iincreasingly became aware that a key problem with poorly-written papers was the lack of “ownership” by theirauthors, many of whom were uneasily just “killing ink” on an unfmiliar topic in order to get a grade. This can hold true with engineering repom as well, as many of us have experienced. If even seniorstudents in a capstone laboratory course don’t understand the audience for their report, the objectives of theirexperiment, what data they ‘re supposed to end up with and what it means when they do get it, they tend toproduce poorly written reports--vague, unsure of claims, disorganized. They ‘re uncomforrdble writing
SIUC and completing the baccalaureate degree. To ensure scholars advance academicallyand professionally, they are integrated into a mentoring and support network of staff, peers, facultyand professionals. Together they engage in a diverse set of professional development activities.Goal 2: Improve the education of future scientists, engineers, and technicians, with a focus onacademically talented low-income students (Quality Educational experiences in EnergyScience/engineering) Energy Scholars join a learning community through a common curriculum and facultymentored hands-on learning experiences. Individual assistance is provided for scholars to secureinternships and research opportunities that focus on collaborative interdisciplinary
to consider when solving a design challenge? Planning Groups sketch and discuss initial ideas, begin fabricating initial design, but do not test. Day 8: How do we know if our design works? How can we use failures to improve our designs? Building & Groups build and test their designs. Nearly all the initial designs fail the test; groups testing iterate and continue testing, trying to improve their designs. Day 9: How can we improve our designs by generating and receiving peer feedback? Peer Groups self-evaluate their own design and design process, then pair up with other groups review to offer feedback, help troubleshoot, and brainstorm solutions to common issues. Day 10: What can
skills, such as writing and working with journalists. He’s alwayspassionate about his work and puts his client first. I also know him in his former life as a reporter and hewas outstanding at chasing down stories. And probably most importantly, if you think you need x, he’s notafraid to tell you that y is probably better and here’s how he can help you achieve it.”Karen Frankola, Internal Communications and Creative Services Director, Deloitte Verma- ODU –ETLI- 2019 External Evaluator David Reider, Education Design, Boston, MA David Reider has been very active both in developing, promoting, designing and
Paper ID #7573Enhancing Student Learning and Engagement in Construction Course usingService LearningDr. Chung-Suk Cho, University of North Carolina, Charlotte Assistant Professor Engineering Technology and Construction Management University of North Carolina CharlotteMs. Candace Mazze, Univeristy of North Carolina at Charlotte Ms. Mazze is a doctoral candidate in the Educational Leadership department at University of North Carolina at Charlotte. She has served as a graduate research assistant for Construction Management in College of Engineering. She has researched, gathered and analyzed data, and assisted in writing and
Session 1213 STUDENTS PLUS! HANDLING LARGE CLASSES EXTENDED ABSTRACT Dianne Dorland, Donald R. Woods University of Minnesota Duluth/McMaster UniversityWhat might you do when you encounter a class that is much larger than you are used too? Whatdo you do to cope? How do you promote discussion when you have too many students? How doyou manage writing projects? You might search for suggestions of how to handle the mechanicsof the larger class: how to monitor what is happening in the classroom (red cards, ombudspeople,one minute message), how to mark the larger
requiring a video term-paper project to address thedesired educational goals of increasing student ownership of learning, learning course-relatedconcepts, and providing evidence of communication skills and media literacy skills. Studyparticipants came from convenience samples drawn from a computer networking course andfrom a general education writing course offered on a small branch campus of a large researchuniversity. The participants were college students having varying levels of familiarity with theskills examined.The study design used mixed methodologies, including a quasi-experimental, two-groupcontrol/intervention, student surveys, and qualitative interviews. The quasi-experiment consistedof pre- and post-test measurements of media literacy
• Enhanced educational and mentoring experience for graduate studentsThe faculty mentor plays a key role in the process. New faculty especially need to make sure that the effort theyput into mentoring a student in this worthwhile program has a return on its investment. In other words, theparticipant’s project should lead to at least a presentation or poster at a professional meeting, but more ideally, itshould provide a substantial contribution to a paper prepared for peer-review. ENABLING MEANINGFUL RESEARCH EXPERIENCESThe primary goal of a summer research experience is to offer an informative, positive immersion in research so thatparticipants can make an informed decision as to whether they would like to pursue an
EngineerThroughout the Introduction to Engineering I course, students explore the field of engineeringand consider their reasons for pursuing an engineering major. The One-Minute Engineer is athree-part assignment where students first write a 300-400 word essay about why they arestudying engineer, conduct a peer-edit to reduce the word count to approximately 150 words, andfinally, present their One-Minute Engineer orally in front of their classmates. This assignmenthelps students articulate why they want to be an engineer while honing their technical writingand presentation skills. In their written drafts and presentations, students were required to reflecton at least one of their top-five Strengths.Results and DiscussionTeam formationIn general, the four
writing blog posts for students; the act ofreading peer blogs provides benefits in and of itself. Reading without interacting, or“lurking,” can be seen as passive or vicarious participation; however, this behavior canstill help to increase understanding and may provide a sense of belonging or communitywithin the group [13].The public nature of blogs has resulted in some interesting findings as well. Typically,blogs are openly posted on the World Wide Web, ostensibly accessible to anyone with anInternet connection and a web browser. Public blog post writing has been found to bemore concise and focused, due in part to students' desires to appear competent andarticulate to a public audience [14]. This effect is thought to be related to
activities include in-class exercises, weekly status,approval meetings, team meetings, technical documents, program reviews, web sites, changecontrol, prototyping, and final presentations. Assessment data from the students, faculty advisors,and industry representatives indicate that the course structure improves writing, presentation,interpersonal, professional, and higher-level thinking skills.IntroductionStudent-centered learning paradigms and, specifically, cooperative learning activities haveproven to be very effective teaching methods. This paper reports on applying cooperativelearning techniques to a yearlong capstone design sequence. Using these methods, instructorswho teach or whom are planning to teach a capstone design sequence, will
numerous benefits received from enrollment in a LC. Most notably,they report the following 5: 1. Making connections with other students, peer mentors, faculty, and advisors, 2. Academic advising (e.g., knowledgeable, available when needed assistance), 3. Experiencing environment that promotes and respects diversity, 4. Becoming familiar with campus and academic support resources, 5. Deciding on a major or future career, 6. Adjusting to college. The Summer Bridge (SB) program is a specific type of LC intended to bridge the gapbetween high school and college. The intensive 2 week SB program, developed as an additionalsupport for incoming, first year students, provides a high-impact, high-touch experience tostudents in a major
) system, and3) The existing core engineering courses are used for advertising and encouraging students to register.The course is structured such that the whole class meets once a month, with the remainder of the time spent in theARG research teams in weekly meetings for research and reporting. Four graduate students provide research supportfor the ARG research team faculty mentors and are peer mentors to the students enrolled in the course. The coursemodules include conducting hands-on experiments, developing solutions for real-life problems, writing algorithms,presenting their results in a group, classroom, and school, reporting experimental results, developing team workingskills, communication skills, networking, etc.2.2. Course objectives and
are multiple factors thataffect the experience of graduate students as they transition from their previous identities to therole of researcher and scholar. Our review of the literature paired with our personal experiencessuggest that there are several factors that affect these three aspects of graduate student identitydevelopment. First, students are more likely to develop a stronger graduate student identity when theyfeel more competent in their disciplinary and writing skills (Burt, 2014). In a study thatinvestigated the impact writing had on graduate student identity, graduate students shared thatthey often feel ashamed of their work and compare themselves to their peers (Del Toro, 2017).Students were afraid to share their work in
ourinstitutions. This shift has changed the mindset in both students and faculty, greatly expanding the rangeof problems that students can explore at the sophomore level. Computing projects offer the ability tointroduce more open-ended problems in the mechanics courses where students can think about certainconcepts more deeply. It also provides the opportunity to introduce important ideas of numerical analysisin a way that makes those techniques immediately relevant. The projects also encourage students to getmore creative, in courses often viewed as skill development, by seeking means to verify their codes andthen use those codes to explore the target problem without the encumbrance of tedious hand calculations.Requiring that each student write a full
andwriting in multiple mediums and interacting around physical tools and artifacts23, 24, 25 in serviceof design goals.Thus, our model distinguishes communicating with others about your work, communicatingabout other’s work (such as offering), and reading the research literature. Engineers mustcommunicate about their own work and its value accurately, clearly, and succinctly to multipleaudiences26 . Not only must engineering apprentices learn to “speak like engineers” in the lab22,they must also learn to write like scientists outside of the lab, communicating discipline-specificideas to knowledgeable industry members, customers, community stakeholders, and engineersfrom a diverse range of disciplines, translating across a wide set of semiotic