paper draws on a qualitative dataset of student responses to biweekly “reflection questions”integrated into routine course activity in a pilot implementation of a Wright State-likeEngineering Mathematics course. Alongside auto-ethnographic data from the course instructorand coordinator, this dataset illustrates the transformations involved in the scale-making process,and enables tracing the consequences of these transformations for the identities of people andsocial collectives involved in the course.IntroductionThis paper reports on the results of a study of an implementation of the Wright State Model forEngineering Mathematics at one university. Consistent with the LEES call for proposals, weadopt a human science theoretical approach to the
research team to acquire hands-on models that professional studentorganizations could use as a tool to increase engagement. This factor was also studied toascertain any insights into how the models enhanced the experiences of the event. Collegestudents wrote reflections after their interactions. This paper shares how community-engagedactivities not only change attitudes and outreach self-efficacy in all students but also might becritical in self-efficacy and motivation for minority women engineering students.I. IntroductionKennesaw State University (KSU) is thriving with nearly 43,000 students on two metro Atlanta,Georgia campuses. The adoption of strategies like providing incentives, such as scholarships andfinancial aid, for minority
theprocess of listening, learning and reflecting to develop knowledge, skills, attitudes andcommitments to engage across diverse groups in open, effective and socially responsible ways.Accordingly, this project adopts the three student learning outcomes for the UD International andIntercultural Leadership Certificate which identify that students will be able to 1. Explain how issues of social justice, power and privilege are shaped in a variety of contexts. 2. Use language and knowledge of other cultures effectively and appropriately to communicate, connect and build relationships with people in other cultural communities. 3. Express respect and thoughtful engagement with people across cultures.These outcomes focus on the
were morecapable of quality work than the engineering students in the comparison group. Moreover,preliminary results showed a significant drop in scores for expecting quality and having relevantKSA during the peak of COVID during online instruction and performance of both projects,followed by a rise in mean scores during the return to in-person classes. Reflections fromavailable qualitative data were paired to help understand the quantitative data results further.IntroductionThe increasingly interdisciplinary nature of the modern work environment requires engineeringprofessionals to have the ability to communicate and collaborate with others within and outsidedisciplinary boundaries [1],[2]. Further, the Accreditation Board for Engineering and
andtransdisciplinary course focused on engineering health equity. Using equity pedagogy, theinstructors aim to create a learning environment and learning objectives that will support studentsto become reflective and critical citizens that can help build a just society (McGee Banks andBanks, 1995). Moreover, a transdisciplinary framework with student-centered strategies toaddress social and structural determinants that influence health structures, systems, andtechnologies at an undergraduate level offers a holistic opportunity to explore complex globalproblems (Velez et al., 2022).Related WorkHealth equity courses have been implemented at the graduate level at the University of TexasAustin (Lanier et al., 2022), senior undergraduates and early graduate
and effective approach. Theircharacter education model is broken into five components: teaching about character; displayingcharacter; demanding character; apprenticeship; and reflecting on character [18]. This modelsupports a pedagogical approach which provides a foundation of understanding througheducation, provides mentorship and setting of conduct standards and adds reflection as animportant component which allows the student to assess their behavior and potentially adjust.As pragmatic as this approach might be, there are very few postsecondary institutions that try toreach this level of character education. To the contrary, most look to the ‘participation’ approachas noted above [18].a pedagogical approach to engineering virtue
andencourages students to use their initiative and reflect on their failures and successes [7]. Oneof the concerns in using PBL is that students themselves often find it difficult to assimilateold knowledge with new, which limits their ability to develop engineering judgement, eventhough as educators we recognise the importance of this assimilation. The concept ofapplying old knowledge and understanding to new situations and thereby creating newknowledge and understanding can also serve as the defining aspect of PBL, so long asstudents are given adequate instruction and scope to experiment with their ideas [8]. Studentswould require confidence in tackling a problem in addition to having acquired a broadconceptual understanding of the problem. In PBL
questioning and research topic was developed by thementor. The initial stages of the project and starting reference materials were likely also plannedout by the mentor. The mentees presented their work at the end of the summer, but they may nothave seen it through the arduous process of article writing, peer review, and publication. Thementees also did not see the follow-up stage of reflection on the remaining open questions in theproject and seeking inspiration for the next research topic.This research is not without limitations. For one, social desirability bias may have shapedstudents’ responses to the periodic assessments because they were aware that their mentorswould see their responses. Thus, students may have artificially inflated their
not only get to apply relevant technicalknowledge and leadership skills to real-world problem-solving processes, but also have theopportunity to demonstrate their ability to lead and execute fruitful changes in theirorganizations. It is a perfect testament to impactful academic-industry collaboration. Bothqualitative and quantitative data will be collected, including course and program evaluationsurveys, student reflections, to gauge the perception of learning outcomes and course2023 ASEE Engineering Management Division (EMD)effectiveness. Other institutions could use this course as a design template when offering similarproject-based courses.Keywords: Project-based learning, academic-industry collaboration, Capstone project, coursedesign
team members’ needs and perspectives maylead to conflict.Second, some approaches rely heavily on games, role-playing, and experiential exercise [e.g., 12,27, 34]. Students learn most from the experiential exercises [11]. In some cases, games aim atdeveloping and understanding trust rather than addressing conflict directly. In other cases, exercisesbuild skills in interviewing and giving feedback.Third, some approaches rely greatly on reflection, particularly written reflection [e.g., 27, 32, 34].As Powers and Kirkpatrick [27, p. 65] concluded: While oral debriefing is necessary, it is not sufficient for effective learning. Writing forces the student to organize the material in terms of personal experience, allows private
,” Commun. Teach., vol. 22, no. 4, pp. 116–129, Oct. 2008, doi: 10.1080/17404620802382680.[10] J. Gilmore, M. A. Maher, D. F. Feldon, and B. Timmerman, “Exploration of factors related to the development of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics graduate teaching assistants’ teaching orientations,” Stud. High. Educ., vol. 39, no. 10, pp. 1910–1928, Nov. 2014, doi: 10.1080/03075079.2013.806459.[11] M. Di Benedetti, S. Plumb, and S. B. M. Beck, “Effective use of peer teaching and self-reflection for the pedagogical training of graduate teaching assistants in engineering,” Eur. J. Eng. Educ., pp. 1–16, Apr. 2022, doi: 10.1080/03043797.2022.2054313.[12] J. Agarwal, G. Bucks, and T. J. Murphy, “A Literature
own.Groups of 4-5 students worked with a facilitator over 5-6 weeks. The course has anasynchronous and synchronous component to accommodate different time zones and schedules.A series of 5 video lectures guided students’ learning along the design path. The students weredirected to download a set of notes with blanks and encouraged to actively listen by filling in thenotes while watching the lecture. The length of the video lectures ranges from 8 - 32 minutes. Aset of 5 individual assignments (in the form of on-line quizzes) were created to support theasynchronous activities. After watching the video lecture, students are directed to complete aquiz. Responses to short-answer questions covered in the lecture and reflective exercises arecollected
issues which are not related to a team’s task [4]. Relationship conflict isusually expressed through tension, animosity, and annoyance between group members [5]. It cancause team members to spend more time focusing on off-task issues and make team membersless cooperative and receptive to others’ ideas [4]. While there is conflicting research regardingthe impact of other conflict types on performance, there is a broad consensus that relationshipconflict has an adverse effect [6]–[8]. Relationship conflict is considered to negatively affectperformance regardless of when it occurs in a team’s lifecycle [9]. Task conflict is the result of differences in opinion regarding the content of a group’swork [4]. This type of conflict reflects
developcategories of students for further inquiry. Students (n = 22) completed a systems engineeringdesign task, The Solar Urban Design, in which they worked to optimize solar gains of high-risebuildings in both winter and summer months within Energy3D as a part of their engineeringscience classroom. Energy3D is a Computer-Aided Design (CAD) rich design tool withconstruction and analysis capabilities. As students design in Energy3D, a log of all of theirdesign actions and results from analyses are logged. In addition, students took reflective noteswithin Energy3D during and after designing. We computed percentile ranks for the students’design performance for each of the required design elements (i.e. high rise 1 and high rise 2) foreach of the required
Our intent is to explore student reflection and outcomes of service-learning throughqualitative methodology. We utilized narrative inquiry through large descriptive data sets(Denzin & Lincoln, 2018). Qualitative methods allowed us to review student narratives andunderstand reflective processes (Chase, 2018). The goal of this study was to examine studentexperiences and their reflection of material to better communicate outcomes and benefits ofenrolling in a service-learning course.A WiSE approach: Examining how service-learning impacts first-year women in STEM 7 We instituted purposeful random sampling (Light, Singer, & Willett, 1990) to recruitcollege women in STEM, enrolled in a service-learning leadership
new modules we plan to develop shown in Figure 1. Therefore, it emerged as the mostappropriate model to use and became our primary framework.Multicultural awareness focuses on an individual’s understanding of their own social identities incomparison with the identities of members from other groups (Pope, Reynolds, & Mueller,2004). The competency of awareness encourages students to engage in critical reflection abouttheir own underlying assumptions to ensure that individuals with differing cultural perspectivesare not invalidated. Multicultural knowledge focuses on the pursuit of cultural knowledge andthe comprehension of new and or existing theories regarding race, class, and gender (Pope,Reynolds, & Mueller, 2004). This competency
courses. Followingthe first round of exams, students select the course in which they wish to improve theirperformance most significantly and then complete both an exam wrapper survey and learningstrategies survey to evaluate their preparatory behaviors, conceptual understanding, andperformance on the exam. Each student develops an action plan for improvement based on theirresults and begins implementation immediately. Following the second exam, students completean exam wrapper survey followed by a learning journal, in which students evaluate and reflect ontheir adherence to and effectiveness of their action plan and performance on the second exam.We propose that engagement with this exam wrapper activity in the context of the EntangledLearning
applied, transformative, purposive knowledge and growth.51, 52Because professionalization is also an important goal in engineering education, our listculminates with several goals that build from affective, ethical, and cognitive foundations to themore specific abilities we expect of graduating engineering students. Each student and program instructor will be able to 1. recognize in context, discuss, and demonstrate attitudes, behaviors and personal reflection about their rights and responsibilities to themselves, others, society, and the natural world 2. recognize in context, discuss, and demonstrate attitudes, behaviors and personal reflection about their habits and growth, as well as others’, and the implications of
depending on external, “teacher-centered” authority to a more self-assured ability to reconcile multiple perspectives, to tolerate ambiguity, and to reflect on the process itself (meta-cognition). Page 12.156.2 • Encourage students to develop the social skills needed to work with a team through the sharing of ideas, the ability to provide meaningful, constructive feedback, and the ability to accept peer critiques.Unfortunately, integrating effective peer-review sessions into a course requires much effort onthe part of the instructor. Karen Spear [13] enumerates several of the pitfalls associated withpeer-review of
that it should be contextualized for strongestretention of the cognitive skills17. One related study by Renaud and Murray26 found thatstudents performed better in a critical thinking assessment when they had the opportunityto practice critical thinking in a subject-specific context. Debate on this questioncontinues as exemplified by Ennis9 in his comprehensive review on contextualized vs.non-contextualized approaches.Critical thinking experts have proposed several definitions of critical thinking that aresimilar to the Delphi report, but reflect these differences in cognitive skills & disposition,and context-based vs. context free. Giancarlo and Facione13 emphasize that criticalthinkers use a core set of cognitive skills in a given context
. The team shares knowledge as it designs,builds, and tests the robot and as the team participates in the robot competition. Collectivecompetence acquired by the team in the project is demonstrated through the robot’s performanceat the competition. Collective efficacy reflects the shared beliefs of the students in their team’scapabilities to mobilize the motivation, cognitive resources, and practical activities needed tocope with challenging robotics assignments.The concept of collective efficacy was developed in studies of group performance in workorganizations4,5 as generalization of the concept of self-efficacy that reflects perceived (i.e. basedon real experience) beliefs of the individual in his/her own capabilities to perform the given
going to motivate students towant to learn about and engage in sociotechnical thinking in their engineering classes, then wemust frame it around issues that students already care about and/or questions they have. We mustpresent students with interesting problems and ask them to engage with the topics in a personalway–asking their own questions about the implications of technologies and applying theideas/questions to their life. Finally, “we have to give the students opportunities to respond inauthentic ways” such as in discussions, and reflections rather than exams. [2]Much of the curriculum for engineering education is singularly focused on technical fundamentalsand the design of systems. While these methods of study are undoubtedly useful to
findings suggested that recruiters first wanted to hearabout engineering students’ experiences within student organizations, engineering projects, andinternships or co-ops. However, it was not enough to name involvement in these experiences.Students who effectively demonstrate engineering leadership communicate what they learnedabout their leadership through their experiences, connect their experiences, interests, and skills tothe company, and confidently interact with the recruiter. Communication centered on self-awareness, where a student reflected on their personal leadership development based on variousexperiences. Recruiters wanted to see that students showed an understanding of leadership asbeing more than just a position as identified in
academic and social needs.2.2. Engagement-based learning2.2.1. Experiential learning. Experiential learning allows students to apply specific conceptslearned in the formal environment to the informal environment through opportunities such asinternships, apprenticeships, competitions, clubs, practica, and cooperative education [9].According to Kolb and Fry [10], experiential learning theory is a four-part cycle. 1. The learner has concrete experience with the content being taught. 2. The learner reflects on the experience by comparing it to prior experiences. 3. Based on experience and reflection, the learner develops new ideas about the content being taught. 4. The learner acts on the new ideas by experimenting in an
) are related to mathematics and equations; two items (Nos. 31 and 30) are related toabstract vs. concrete thinking; one item (No. 9) is about problem solving in different contexts;and one item (No. 20) deals with reflection and self-regulated learning. These research findingsas well as their implications and significance are discussed.IntroductionEngineering Dynamics is a foundational, sophomore-year, required course in manyundergraduate engineering programs, such as mechanical, aerospace, civil, and environmentalengineering. Built directly upon college-level physics mechanics and engineering staticscourses, Engineering Dynamics involves numerous fundamental physics mechanics concepts, forexample, Newton’s second law, the principle of work and
De-stressor/ Check-in 8 Finals Preparation, Tackling Academic Reflection on Challenges: Fixed Personal Health vs. Growth Mindset 9 Introduction to Mental Health/ Tackling Major Selection Stress Management Academic Challenges: Fixed vs. Growth
settings, the workshop provides studentswith an opportunity to learn about and practice giving and receiving feedback on peers’ projectplans, and chosen design methods and artifacts.In the remaining sections of this paper, we describe the contents of the workshop in detail andsummarize student feedback on each implementation. Further, we reflect on how the workshopcan be further developed to better meet its intended learning outcomes and suggest ways inwhich instructors can alter it to suit different student disciplines, academic levels and courseobjectives.Importance of FeedbackFeedback is reaction or opinion regarding a product, the performance of a task, etc., that is usedto support improvement or confirm success. The education literature
research: To what extent did the teacher’s NOEviews improve after exposure to a NGSS-aligned engineering design challenge course? Howsuccessful was the teacher in executing the engineering design process as taught through anengineering design challenge? We provide here a single case analysis for one teacher as a pilotstudy for future research. The paper provides a brief overview of our case study research inregards to data, methods, and preliminary results. Our data sources include pre/post NOEassessment, in-service teacher written reflections, and assignments.Curriculum design Learning goals and overview: The three-credit master’s level course was for in-servicescience teachers and focused on the EDP through an engineering design challenge
has been designed as an autoethnography, specifically a collaborativeautoethnography is defined as “engineering in the study of self, collectively” [9]. The intent ofcollaborative autoethnography is to engage in a process that reflects on the experiences of acollaborative effort, it is “a process because as the researcher studies and analyzes their ownexperiences, meaning is made influencing future experiences and reflections” [10]. Thecollaborative autoethnography approach merges together three distinct research methods andapproaches: (1) the reflexive study of self through autobiography, (2) a lens from the study ofculture through ethnography, and (3) the multiple perspectives from a group throughcollaboration [11]. This method was chosen
from one of the state colleges in our state. In order to create a shared understanding of the assetsthat transfer students bring to our institution, two faculty worked closely with two undergraduate studentsand one adviser. Data collection involved guided reflection writing by the two students and adviser ontopics as informed by the theoretical framework. These reflections bring to light some psychological,social, cognitive, and environmental resources that students in transition can draw on to maximizesuccess and minimize the transfer shock phenomenon.IntroductionTransfer students and their transitions to four-year institutions from two-year/community collegeshas been the focus of many investigations and programs. Research has shown that