careers; greater focus on hands on experiences; and opportunities forstudent reflection [30]. For example, they suggested one-on-one mentoring opportunities andstudent evaluation of experiences as potential areas for growth.STEM Academy parents. The following themes emerged as most important from the parent-perspective for supporting student sense of belonging, safety, and conception of self (listed inorder of importance based on the list of validated strategies presented in Table 1 above): • Strategy 5: Present and recruit positive role models from diverse groups o Expose students to successful role models from their groups who refute negative stereotype. • Strategy 2: Create a critical mass o Increase the
collected data byasking students to reflect on their study strategies that they used for the preparation of courseexams. This course had three exams for student evaluation over the semester. We used theseexam scores as a measure of their academic performance, which were graded by the instructionalteam. From this data, we addressed two research questions: 1) To what degree do students’selection of study strategies vary while preparing for exams? 2) How do students’ studystrategies relate to their academic performance in exams? To answer the first question, weconducted one-way ANOVA to test the variability in the students' selection of study strategiesover the exams. And for the second question, we performed a bivariate linear regression toanalyze
Oppression (2018)2 have discussed thephenomenon.There are many reasons why an algorithm may be considered “biased.” Incomplete or faulty datais one reason. For example, in a study published in Nature Communication3 researchersconfirmed for the first time that two of the top genomic databases, which are in wide use todayby clinical geneticists, reflect a measurable bias toward genetic data based on European ancestryover that of African ancestry. This deficit in African ancestry genomic data was identified duringan 18-month long study conducted via the Consortium on Asthma among African-AncestryPopulations in the Americas (CAAPA). When compared with current clinical genomicdatabases, researchers found a clearer preference in those databases for
industrial setting.Progress of the Ongoing TasksExecution of a Service Learning Project Course (ENGR 294). In Fall 2019, Cohort I Scholarsattended a Service Learning Project (SLP) course which was implemented for the first time at theUniversity. This course creates an opportunity for students to engage with their local communityand provides students with a sense of pride and belonging through their efforts. Following theservice learning model, the course also has a reflection component to allow Scholars to deeplyconnect with themselves and the community. During the last session of the course, Scholarspresented a summary of their service learning project proposals to their fellow Scholars, peers, andfaculty. Cohort I Scholars will continue to work on
foundation for additionalqualitative exploration.Data Collection, Analysis, and AdaptationsAll survey data was collected through a digital instrument using Qualtrics software. Survey datawas primarily information on attitudinal shifts using quantitative Likert-type scaling. The surveyalso included some open-ended questions identifying new areas for exploration; additionalqualitative data was collected through regular reflections during the internship and semi-structured interviews at the end of the internship. Researchers used SPSS software forquantitative data analysis of the survey information. Qualitative data was coded both manuallyand using NVivo software. Protocols for research were approved by the Institutional ReviewBoard (IRB) at the
andautomation areas. These statistics clearly show there is a skill gap between industry needs andwhat current curriculum offers at community college levels and other levels. To fill these skillgap there is a need for industry driven curriculum development and this project reflected thoseissues. Driven by the program objectives, the Old Dominion University (ODU) and CCAMteam developed an approach to formulate the curriculum and courses. Since the mechatronicsprograms are mature, the approach for this project was to piggy-back on these programs tointroduce robotics technology programs into the current offerings. Mechatronics is aninterdisciplinary area of engineering that combines mechanical and electrical engineering and
development inyouth is the degree to which one has explored and committed to a vocation we posit thatachieving an engineering identity includes: crisis—i.e., a time when one’s values and choices arebeing examined and reevaluated, and commitment—when the outcome of a crisis leads to acommitment made to becoming an engineer. This time, of crisis and commitment occurs foryouth during their middle and high school years. Engineering Identity scores reflect the extent towhich a student self-identifies as an engineer. Students provided responses to 15 items, using a5-point Likert-type scale ranging from strongly agree to strongly disagree; lower scores indicatehigher engineering identities. Doing Engineering scores showcase a student’s prior experiencewith
primarily executing theplans of the initiative; each day following through with the schedule created during the planning stage.Because things do not always go exactly as planned, the acting stage required flexibility due tounplanned occurrences and quick responsiveness to unforeseen issues. During the third stage,observation, the detailed written observances and mental reflections of the Program Coordinator inconjunction with those of the mentors was taken into account. The program coordinator noted students’interaction among the mentors and their receptivity to daily scheduled activities. The mentors observedthe personal behind the scenes responses of students and their interactions among each other. Assessingthe observed actions from the planning
, briefly practice leading the rest of the group through the activity they each learned. Metric source: observation 2) Lead: museum educators/facilitators lead activities with group of children on the public floor of a museum for 1-2 hours. Metric source: observation 3) Reflect: museum educators/facilitators discuss their experience learning and leading activitiesImproving the Engineering Pipeline Through University & Community-Developed Museum-Based Educational Kits Metric: capturing report out/discussionThe full protocol was implemented in Ontario, Portland, Los Angeles, and Fort Lauderdale atthree large museums that serve youth and families. An abridged protocol (which skipped steptwo) was also implemented in
Paper ID #30450Engagement in Practice: Exploring Boundary Spanning in aSchool-University PartnershipDr. Julee Farley, Montgomery County Public Schools and Virginia TechDr. Lisa D. McNair, Virginia Tech Lisa D. McNair is a Professor of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech, where she also serves as Director of the Center for Educational Networks and Impacts at the Institute for Creativity, Arts, and Technology (ICAT). Her research interests include interdisciplinary collaboration, design education, communication studies, identity theory and reflective practice. Projects supported by the National Science Foundation include
in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University. She has been involved in several major engineering education initia- tives including the NSF-funded Center for the Advancement of Engineering Education, National Center for Engineering Pathways to Innovation (Epicenter), as well as the Consortium to Promote Reflection in Engineering Education. Helen holds an undergraduate degree in communication from UCLA and a PhD in communication with a minor in psychology from Stanford University. Her current research and scholarship focus on engineering and entrepreneurship education; the pedagogy of portfolios and reflec- tive practice in higher education; and redesigning how learning is recorded and
-Dick [2]point out that feedback, when used properly as a teaching and learning tool, can lead to morethan just a dialog regarding content and learning; it can also help students begin to develop theirown techniques for reflecting on and self-assessing their own learning and increase their self-esteem and positivity regarding learning. This source also points out that instructors benefit fromtaking time to provide quality feedback to learners, as they can use that as an opportunity toidentify common gaps or misconceptions that may impact how they address topics and content infuture lessons [2]. Affecting deep, impactful change in students from feedback provided is notcommon to all forms of feedback. Best practices regarding feedback, such as
time they were willing to dedicate to advising a capstone team. All facultyinterviewed agreed that the project topic was important to the success of a capstone project, butnot for the reasons assessed in the survey. They indicated that student passion and engagementfor the topic were of primary importance to a project’s success. Furthermore, one interviewedfaculty member reflected on their own experiences as a student being engaged by interactionswith passionate faculty in their prior engineering education.Table 1: Survey responses related to faculty incentives for advising capstone projects. Responses are reported aspercentages of the total number of responses. Strongly
; Pictures of Final Prototype; Flowchart; CommentedCode; Design Limitations; and Appendix. The required sections and structure of the final designproject deliverables aim to facilitate students in reporting and reflecting on the integrative,iterative nature of the design project in this course. Figure 2: Module 01: Course Introduction and Makerspace Safety Figure 3: Module 02: Human-Centered Engineering DesignFigure 4: Module 03: Teamwork, Memos, Ethics & Environment Figure 5: Module 04: Solid Modeling & 3D VisualizationFigure 6: Module 05: Additive Manufacturing & 3D PrintingFigure 7: Module 06: Sensors, Microcontroller, & Actuators Figure 8: Module 07: Programming & Flow DiagramsFigure 9: Module 08: Final
this work, in the earlyeighties, Jackson [2] in his book, “Towards a Systems of Systems Methodologies,” divides the typesof complex social systems into six different categories and reflects on the engineering tools that canbe used in each.This article presents a developing methodology that through the application of pluralistic multi-methods from critical systemic thinking, seeks to reduce the complexity of Social Complex Systems(SCS) from both qualitative and quantitative perspectives. This new methodology can help decisionmakers to identify what knowledge or information should be considered when implementing anintervention, then they can decide who should participate and how this participation should takeplace. This new methodology and its
be an impediment during the design process.In psychology, sketching and drawing has long been thought to reflect how individuals think.Children’s sketches of human figures (the Draw-A-Person Test) have been considered to reflecttheir developing intelligence [45], [46]. Cognitive milestones have been tied to featuresreflecting the complexity of spontaneous drawings, with older children including articulatedparts such as fingers [47]. Research has also identified drawing as a cognitive aid, showing it ishelpful in organizing and remembering information [48]. Because sketches reveal designers’thinking [49], we reason that designers’ mindset about HCD may be similarly evident in theirsketches.MethodResearch GoalThe goal of our research was to
solutionswere required. Students identified and adopted useful vocabulary and grammar structures, usingthese to design and deliver a group presentation which addressed an international engineeringconcern. • Foundations of leadership and leadership theory. • Leadership strengths assessment and explored how strengths uniquely empower the students a leader. • Exploration of students’ native culture using Hofstede's Cultural Dimensions [5] and compared against other cultures. o Included oral presentation regarding similarities and differences between cultures, expected business etiquette, potential team dynamics. • Reflection of individual values as a person and robustly engaged in discussions
program added a training session focusing on various aspects of intersectionality as it relates to individual’s social identities, and how mentors can use these knowledge to better interact with mentees. The Fall 19 training session began with a warm-up activity where participants were asked to map out their social identities (e.g. race, age, gender, language, etc.) and reflect on how their most salient social identities may influence how their students/mentees may perceive them, and how they may present themselves. This warm-up activity included asking the participants (mentors), to reflect about their own experiences in interacting with their mentors while they were navigating their higher education experience, and to
the design, delivery,reflection, and subsequent redesign of the program to meet the needs of middle school students.Major observations from the middle school program will be presented, along with key programcomponents. It was found that: students with ADHD benefit from a personalized learningenvironment that is centered around student interests and features flexibility and choice; thatinteractions with role models and mentors with ADHD in the context of engineering canencourage students to consider engineering as a career path; and that roundtable discussionshelped to build relationships between participants. A comparison of the middle and high schoolprograms indicates that the age in which the students were introduced to a strength
, our primary research question was: is the Comm Lab succeeding inimproving clients’ work according to our own metrics of success? I.e., do sessions bring clientscloser to our standards for a given communication task, which are informed by both rhetoricalprinciples and real-world field standards? To do so, we designed a quantitative, rubric-based,pre-post evaluation of authentic writing products: drafts for graduate school and graduatefellowship applications, assessed by authentic evaluators -- a team of our own peer coaches. Inorder to build a broader picture of the client’s analytical and reflective experience, wecomplemented the quantitative core of the study by collecting qualitative reflections about thecontent of the coaching session
in Fig 1), ECD projectshave been motivated by faculty and students desire to help, personal and career goals, desires tostudy and work abroad, and desires to solve problems and to gain hands on experience onimpactful work [1][2]. Since then, some scholars have called our attention to how the focus ofwell-intentioned ECD projects on technological fixes and deliverables tend to leave out criticalreflections of engineers’ motivations to be in these projects, and of the processes required tobuild trust and determine communities’ priorities and desires [3][4]. Unfortunately, these calls tocritical reflection in the ECD space are often overshadowed by the continued emergence ofmilestones and challenges (e.g., UN Sustainable Development Goals, NAE
’ views of success included commonmeasures of academic success in engineering; they also reflected participants’ longer-term careergoals and financial plans. Findings have implications for the development of robust engineeringpathways at both 2- and 4- year institutions. Departures from the “norm”: How nontraditional undergraduates experienced success in an alternative engineering transfer programThe idea/ideal of the traditional college undergraduate as “one who earns a high school diploma,enrolls full time immediately after finishing high school, depends on parents for financial support,and either does not work during the school year or works part time” is giving way in 21st centuryAmerica [1]. As early as 2002, researchers noted
rectangles are desks on which computers are placed. (b) is a design ofa panopticon conceptualized by Jeremy Bentham [20].Liberative [1], [16] or engaged [21] pedagogies seek shifting of power in and outside theclassroom. The student is trusted as an equal partner in the process of learning and teaching. Thestudent experiences are valued. The responsibility of education is shared between the studentsand the instructor. The instructor facilitates learning of (individual) and among (peer) students.The shared goal is that of liberation in the sense of equity and social justice. Liberation is soughtthrough “praxis” [1] (reflective action that affects constructive changes in the world). In thisway, education becomes “practice of freedom” [21]. Practicing
provide this framework. 4. Mode of Assessment: Standardized tests or general exams are useless. Student assessment should be based on their individual reflection of their own learning progress and their contributions to the collective learning process. 5. Source of Knowledge and Information: Our students have numerous information sources (books, articles, search engines, blogs, MOOCS etc...). We cannot act as subject matter experts any more. But we will need to play the role of integrator/mentor/coach so all the information can be optimally used. 6. Setting for Learning: Learning is a social activity. We have to open our campuses and invite students in to use this space as a place for meetings and encounters, for discussion
often focused on hiring students in those strongresearch-based R1 programs.The future of any educational institution depends on the quality of its educational programs andclear pathways to future professional careers for its students. In the past decade, the engineeringdisciplines in general, and ECE in particular, have been experiencing huge transformations withfast-emerging new disciplinary areas. New technology areas range from quantum computing tomachine learning, cyber-physical systems, internet of things (IOT), industrial internet of things(IIOT), etc. It is becoming a challenge for small educational institutions such as some IECmembers to reflect new technology areas in their educational offerings, as well as take advantageof new trends
(Davishahl et al., 2019).In addition to ConcepTests and CIs, more extensive Instructional Tools are available to helpstudents develop conceptual understanding. These include reflection activities (Koretsky, et al.,2016a) as well as activities pedagogically tailored to conceptual understanding such asInteractive Virtual Laboratories (Bowen et al., 2014) and Inquiry Based Activities (Prince et al.,2015; Self et al., 2016). Figure 2 shows an example of a simulation developed during this projectthat forms the basis of part an Inquiry Based Activity in dynamics.Figure 1. Screenshot of the Student Interface of a ConcepTest for Engineering Dynamics. Theinstructor has the option to request written explanations and confidence when assigning
], [2]. Conversely, theeffectiveness of hands-on learning can be reduced if there are inadequate levels of studentengagement and reflection [3], [4]. There are different learning settings in which a student canengage such as a laboratory, online classes, and through daily activities [5], [6], [7]. This studyshows how traditional labs can be transformed into hands-on labs by integrating USB-basedpersonal instrumentation used in electrical engineering. This approach is based on experimentalcentric pedagogy which integrates problem-based activities and constructivist-based instructionusing personal instrumentation that is designed to replace larger laboratory equipment [8]. Forthis project, the electrical engineering team supported each experiment
memory andway to achieve desired understanding from our participants academic curriculum and aims at training andlearning outcomes [2]. engaging in creative and analytical activities.Participating, contributing,and reflection on research is particular powerful in building on basic knowledge acquired duringcourse work. This hold true in general but requires particular consideration and rethinking in termsof distance learning environments. The primary goal of our undergraduate student researchprogram was to engage students in active research and to provide a mentored experience forindependent research work. Due to a comprehensive COVID-related campus closure starting inMarch 2020, including a majority of the research labs, we
. Larry Himes, Jr. is currently seeking a full time university faculty position. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020A Low Cost Kiosk for Student Learning of Human Machine Interface (HMI) Dr. Larry Himes, Jr. (KG9KV)AbstractThe use of touch sensing devices is common in this day and age. Capacitive touch sensing is themost widely used, but there are resistive and reflective means as well. Low cost, simple circuitry,easy to implement and simple to program were the four factors considered for classroom use. Ameans of implementing the touch sensing in an application was another factor. The result was akiosk to be assembled and programmed by Electrical Engineering Technology
receive a $1,000 research stipend.MethodsData collectionAn online survey was administered to all TTE REU mentors during the final week of thementoring experience. The questions were open-ended prompts, designed to allow mentors toshare their experiences from their own perspective rather than responding to pre-developedstatements in scaled items. The mentors were asked to reflect on how serving as a mentorencouraged their professional development in a variety of areas including how it impacted theircommunication skills, project management skills, and supervisory skills. An item also asked howthe experience serving as a mentor impacted their career goals. Mentors were given one week torespond to the survey and were encouraged to be candid in their