resources and information aboutassessment centered frameworks in learning, failed to connect with formative assessment as avalid teaching technique and ultimately increased the amount of summative assessments thatthey favored to administer. While these findings indicate that while most SMEs are intrigued bypossibilities of pedagogical promise and, in fact, discuss their plans to affect change byincorporating inductive instructional strategies into their classroom events, we are anxious toknow if, in phase II and Phase III of this study, they will be willing to abandon ‘tried and tested’methods that they are familiar with because of having themselves experienced them in school.Future directions are suggested that elaborate on methods and practices
municipal wharf, the re-design of the shipping crates used totransport all-electric Zero Motorcycles (http://www.zeromotorcycles.com/) overseas, the designand installation of a linked rainwater catchment and smart irrigation system that uses a data- driven sensor network to deliver water on demand and most recently, a net energy analysis of arecently commissioned plastic-to-fuel conversion machine. Interdisciplinary teams of undergraduates lead the projects while working closely withlocal experts including university researchers, elected municipal officials and staff, industry andnon-profit professionals, activists, entrepreneurs, and philanthropists to define project topics anddevelop detailed project plans. As undergraduate teams move
methods.This paper is a follow up to a previous one, by the author, on viable strategies to improve theclassroom environment of engineering colleges in general, and those of the Region inparticular.(4) It compliments the previous paper by focusing on common forms of active learningbelieved to be effective and, with proper planning, could be implemented in the Region.Reforming engineering education presents a formidable challenge to the various“stakeholders“(administrators, faculty members, students, graduates, industry, and governmentleaders) in the future of engineering education. Despite conflicting views and interests ofstakeholders, plus academe’s bias toward preservation of the status quo; the author believes thatdebating the issues and allowing
engineering, a synchronicview will allow professional development programs to make tactical planning aimed at helpingindividual elementary teachers make progress in adopting and implementing engineering teaching.Such a diachronic and a synchronic view would be made available through the EEE adoption andexpertise development model constructed in this study.Reviewing previous literature, the researchers of this study found Rogers’s innovation diffusiontheory, the CBAM, and the Dreyfus skill acquisition model relevant and enlightening for theconstruction of the EEE adoption and expertise development model. Therefore, these models arenow discussed.Diffusion of Innovation Models (Rogers’s and CBAM)Rogers’s diffusion of innovations model. Rogers’s
planning and evaluating student successstrategies. The potential of curricular analytics lies in directly linking interventions to studentsuccess outcomes, acknowledging the importance of understanding the larger educational con-text to maximize the effectiveness of interventions. We view the university as a complex systemcomprising interacting subcomponents that collectively influence the success of improvementefforts 5,6 . Each university’s system properties vary, necessitating tailored models to predict im-provements from specific reforms. In this paper, we compile recent developments in curricularanalytics, organizing them to support practical applications and further theoretical advances inthis field
students’ reasoningvisible to their teacher as well as their fellow classmates. The tool allows teachers to create alesson plan on InterLACE’s Web site consisting of questions and challenges, which they canthen present to their students on a centrally located screen in the classroom as well as through thedesktop, laptop, or tablet devices the students use to answer those questions and challenges. Thetool then aggregates the students’ posts, which the teacher and students can view andsubsequently discuss. The first version of the tool was barebones and allowed text-only posts thatcould be rearranged onscreen so that the teacher and the students could group responses bypatterns such as similarity (for examples of this, see “Kraig’s Use of the
necessary to develop impactful, innovative, and successfulengineering solutions [9]–[11].In addition to preparing engineering students to successfully address modern engineeringproblems, the inclusion of comprehensive engineering skills in the curriculum has implicationsfor students’ engagement and persistence in the field. Students’ engagement in their field as wellas their plans to pursue an engineering career or engineering graduate education is determined inpart by an alignment between their personal and professional interests and values in engineeringand curricular messages about what engineering practice includes. For some students, thepotential to leverage engineering for social good is a key motivation for pursuing work in thefield [12
active sites create project concepts, which are completed byDecember. Prospective participants are given pre-projects to work on at the beginning of theyear, and graduate mentors and faculty advisers at the location conduct training and researchactivities before the start of the summer program.REU participants select one of the three active host institutions during the hiring process basedon the research activities offered, faculty engagement, and the site's location. Participants in the6-week RET program, drawn from nearby high schools, do not remain on campus. Participantswork on their research for 32 hours per week during the summer, with team-building exercisesand the creation of lesson plans (for RET participants) and weekly reports (for
can also beapplied to other disciplines to identify the demand of the evolving job markets to produce job-ready graduates in the relevant areas.1 Introduction The Australian Government has committed to an ambitious new target of reducinggreenhouse gas emissions to 43% below the 2005 level by 2030 and achieving net zero by 2050[1]. Decarbonizing the electricity sector has become one of the most important and mostefficient pathways to facilitate the Australian economy’s transition to net zero [2]. AustralianEnergy Market Operator (AEMO) has planned a rapid transformation for the NationalElectricity Market (NEM), where the energy generation and consumption profile would changeprofoundly given the expanding renewable energy integration [3
be systematically assessed and evaluated, withdocumented reflection and CI action items for implementation during the 3-years (2021-24). In asix-year period between ABET site visits, the plan is to have two iterations of the CI process tobe completed. Appendix (A-F) includes sample data for the assessment, evaluation, and CIefforts for the BS Electrical ET program.Strategy 2: Documented evidence of implemented action items (I a, I b) demonstrating that theresults of student outcome assessment and evaluation are systematically utilized as input for theprogram’s CI actions. This includes the assessment, evaluation, and CI efforts of the program forthe period, fall 2019 to summer 2022. The four constituents – faculty, students, IAB and
or loosely defined [14] - [16]. Finally, research indicates that uncertaintysurrounding the standards by which one is being evaluated can lead to professionaldissatisfaction and can (perhaps unnecessarily) complicate one’s ability to plan and present acompelling case for promotion [17].There is debate about whether it would help to make written criteria and guidelines morecomprehensive [18]. Alternatively (or in addition), departments can rely on various types ofmentoring mechanisms as a means of clarifying the process. One such mechanism, which hasreceived relatively little discussion in the literature, can be found in pre-tenure peer reviews.Many universities have a process by which faculty are reviewed on their teaching, research
through an onlineteam evaluation tool called CATME, and a diary study where students documented theirreflections on their marginalization by teammates. While data collection and analysis did not, ofcourse, go as the research team had planned, it yielded insights into how frequently minoritizedteammates experience marginalization, instructors’ sense of their responsibility and skill foraddressing such, marginalization, and students’ sense of defeat in hoping for more equitable andsupportive learning environments. The paper describes our data collection processes, analysis,and some choice insights drawn from this multi-year study at a large, research-extensive whiteuniversity.IntroductionTeaching engineering students how to work in teams is
trackingacross all aspects of their pathway, including coursework, job search, design experience, and lifetransitions, such as switching co-ops or moving.Data were collected during the COVID-19 pandemic. Students were taking classes remotelyfrom their co-op or project locations, as a planned part of the program. Although the pandemicdid not have a significant effect on the instructional methods for these students, the ongoingpandemic contributed to students’ wellbeing and coping strategies and is discussed in this paper.Positionality Statement. In addition to the programmatic context for this study, we providefurther context through a positionality statement for the authors of this paper. The first fourauthors on this paper are instructors at IRE Bell
admission decisions were finalized by the program coordinators,the lead author sent an email to all of the admitted students to request that they participate in aninterview study that explored their future career plans and initial perceptions of the threepathways offered by Flit-GAP. Participants were offered a $25 Amazon giftcard as an incentiveto participate in the interview study, and all 16 students agreed to participate. Table 1 lists eachparticipant’s pseudonym, gender identity, race/ethnicity, and major, as well as information aboutwhether they are a first-generation college student (FGCS) or continuing-generation collegestudent (CGCS).Table 1: Participant Background Information
Paper ID #38110Challenges and Benefits of Industrial Sponsored EngineeringSenior Projects in the Time of COVIDDerek Yip-Hoi Dr. Yip-Hoi received his Ph.D. from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Michigan in 1997. His dissertation research focused on developing Computer-Aided Process Planning methods and software tools to support the automation of machining on Mill/Turn machining centers. Following his Ph.D., he worked for several years with the NSF Engineering Research Center for Reconfigurable Machining Systems at the University of Michigan. His work focused on developing new
program [4]. The assignment in this paper is categorized in Prince and Felder’sdefinition of Project-Based Learning (PBL). The students work in pairs to formulate a plan basedon prior knowledge from other courses and new learning. The product is the primary outcomethat is judged, more so than the process. PBL should lead to an increase in conceptualunderstanding, metacognitive skills, and positive feelings about learning the material [2]. Sincethe project is done in pairs, students will also have the chance to advance their communicationand teamwork skills. With all types of inductive learning, there is more self-directed learning andopen-endedness than with deductive lectures [1].PBL in ECE is often used in capstone projects, although examples
interdisciplinary settings.Jette Holgaard Dr. Jette Egelund Holgaard is Associate Professor within the field of Sustainability, Technology and Organizational learning at the Department of Planning; Aalborg University. She has a M.Sc. in Environmental Planning and a Ph.D. in Environmental Communication. Both degrees are from Aalborg University. Dr. Holgaard is affiliated to the Aalborg Centre for Problem based Learning (PBL) in Engineering Science and Sustainability under the auspices of UNESCO, where she makes use of PBL frameworks to enhance engineering education with a specific focus on employability and sustainability. She has more than 130 publications related to these fields.Anette Kolmos Anette Kolmos is Professor in
high school students[9]. While we expect camp participantsto be serious about their intentions, we do not exclude participants based on their high schoolGPA. Participants are selected from their responses to an on-line application form, two rounds oftelephone interviews, and a written commitment that if selected for the camp the student willparticipate for all four weeks. The application includes questions about prior experience withhigh school engineering courses, in-school and after-school STEM experiences, and planning forcollege. The application and interviews ask students to explain why they are interested in thecamp and to describe a situation where they overcame an obstacle to reach a goal. The camp is free to participants
% to 10%. Engineering curriculum roadmaps for degree or certificate completion are designed to see a student complete required courses within two years when beginning the curriculum at Math 5A (Calculus 1). When beginning in an earlier math, students are guided using a three-year plan to complete courses at FCC before transferring.The FCC Institutional Research, Assessment, and Planning Office tracks institutional data for eachobjective. The ESP initiated in fall 2019. As such we do not yet have data on completion rateimpact (Table 1). However, despite the impact of the pandemic, in the remaining years of theproject we expect to see an increase in both 2- and 3-year completion rates. The increase in degreeand certificate
Development: leadership, teamwork, communication, career planning • Transition Support: transfer portal, academic advisors, peer networking, supplemental resources, community engagement • Active Engagement: ambassadors, peer mentors, student organization liaisonTuition and stipend support can be up to $10,000 each, depending on student circumstances.Most of the various types of student support involve direct student engagement so students areboth receiving and providing support.The IEC is a nonprofit organization founded in 2019 to enable its core Electrical and ComputerEngineering (ECE) programs at Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs) to work togethercollectively to address opportunities and problems that they find difficult or
on the developmentof the ability to identify the relevant problem parameters and evaluate the optimal order quantity,the associated average annual total cost, and perhaps the optimal inventory cycle length byapplying the associated formulas for the economic order quantity model. In contrast, conceptuallearning in this context focuses on the development of an understanding of the (i) meaning,implications, and limitations of the basic modeling assumptions of the economic order quantitymodel [e.g., known and constant continuous demand rate, infinite planning horizon, and knownand constant cost parameters] in a real-life problem context. While the former can be developedby problem-solving, the latter can be achieved by inviting the student to
students and an introductory course for a minor in Innovation andEntrepreneurship at Shanghai Tech University [42]. The aim of this course is to allowstudents to utilize scientific methods and critical thinking skills to collaborate with teammatesof different disciplines and solve real-world issues [42]. In higher education, researchers havefocused more on enhancing learners' competencies.Additionally, children from six institutions in Shaanxi Province have taken part in virtualworkshops focused on design thinking and STEM education [43]. Plan International has alsoreached a broad audience in implementing design thinking in STEM. Doing so has aided inreducing gender stereotypes about STEM education and has made students more comfortableexploring
in an online learning environmentinclude requiring synchronous online meetings [2], having weekly online discussion sessions thatpromote a sense of community [2, 12, 9, 33, 18, 31, 34, 25], dividing teaching content intosmaller modules to help students focus [12, 9, 14, 18, 19], having a back-up plan for unexpectedissues, slowing down speech during lectures to allow students to capture key points,utilizing teaching assistants to share the extra requirements, using various methods to modifyhomework and reading to strengthen students’ active learning outside of class, providingtimely feedback to student assignments [9, 19, 31], making compelling lecturevideos, establishing a presence with a welcome message, frequent notices and feedback [12
students plan and visualize processes, more specifically the algorithmic logic behind a programming code. It also helped students to connect how electronic components of prototype interacted with each other. Students practiced independently creating flow charts in assignments during the term to create a functional Arduino device of their own creation. Flow charts were further used on the final team design project to collaboratively plan the code and functions of their team prototypes. Figure 1: Sample of student created flowchart for design prototype. 2. A Decision Matrix was used to guide student teams to pragmatically choose between two preliminary HCD designs for their groups and select a final
examining howhistorical and current patterns of land ownership and governance impact the development ofaffordable housing initiatives in remote and predominantly Alaska Native villages2. Guided bytheoretical lenses that emphasize the critical need for actors to identify and understand the toolsthey use for organized action (Callon 2002; Latour 2005; Vinck 2003), we track how differentmodes of complexity come into contact with and affect the planning and implementation ofengineering and building projects in remote Alaska Native communities.BackgroundIn carrying out this research, stories and ruminations have emerged that describe a diverse set ofinterconnected yet epistemologically distinct issues that those working on building projects inAlaska
the incoming students [1]. Following the success of the first AEDesign Days event, the same project model was implemented in 2019, with minormodifications to improve the event logistics and student experience. This paper discussesthe planning and implementation of the most recent edition of the event held in 2020 and thedramatic overhaul required as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and the transition toonline/remote learning. With new constraints and potential opportunities associated with theonline learning platform, the event saw its overall intent and structure shift to prime thestudents for working online in an AE context, and to provide a vessel to introduce students tothe program and build new relationships, since these efforts are
critical thinking capacities alongside those of students, we propose here somemodular lesson plans. These plans are designed from the perspective of engineering educators atliberal arts institutions where there may be more precedent for dialogues at the intersection ofengineering, social science, and humanities compared to other institution types. These could beintroduced in the context of “traditional” engineering science plans before or simultaneously withthe deeper work of dismantling and reconceiving knowledge production in engineering andengineering education.Lesson Plan I: Understanding Engineering as PoliticalIn this lesson, students will explore the concept of futurism, think about select historical examplesof technologies that were
activity about the ethics of product testing. Then, students design testing plans for their project that are both effective and consider related ethical questions.4. Game of Life Cycle. Students engage in a Life Cycle carnival game in which teams rotate through five stations of activities. These stations have been designed to teach and to encourage thoughtful discussions about the ethical and environmental implications of the materials that students used in their design solution.Achievement of these goals was measured using an IRB-approved pre/post study, whichrecognized that each student would enter the course at a different point of ethical awareness.The assessment questionnaire was based on a combination of the Moral
. The stories shared in the classroom are impactful. Depending on the narrative, aparticular story could convey a message that people of color do not belong in the engineeringfield. In addition, such narratives may create stereotypes that educators continue to perpetuate.WOCSEC provided a safe place for female engineers of color to act as storytellers as they sharedtheir experiences while in college and in their careers. Their stories were impactful and provideda space for counter-narratives that were rich with authentic discussions regarding the realities ofmatriculating as a female of color in engineering.University InitiativeIn 2018, the University of Cincinnati adopted a strategic plan with three major platforms:academic excellence, urban
within the company.This approach enables leaders to construct a customized development plan to enhance andincrease their leadership attributes and capabilities as they take responsibility for their ownleadership development. Opportunities exist at Micron to strengthen senior leader sponsorshipand involvement in the establishment of a sustainable leadership development culture.Literature ReviewLeadership development is defined as expanding the collective capacity of organizational leadersand team members to more effectively engage in leadership roles and processes [1]. Theseleadership roles include those that come with and without formal authority within anorganization. Leadership processes are those that enable groups to work together in a