cover (2008). She is an active mentor of undergraduate researchers and served as co-PI on an NSF REU site. Research within her Medical micro-Device Engineering Research Laboratory (M.D. – ERL) also inspires the development of Desktop Experiment Modules (DEMos) for use in chemical engineering classrooms or as outreach activi- ties in area schools (see www.mderl.org). Adrienne has been an active member of ASEE’s WIED, ChED, and NEE leadership teams since 2003 and during this time has contributed to numerous ASEE conference proceedings articles and educational journal publications. Page 23.1061.1
students and online international higher education19, 34. It is also appropriate becauseit has been used to highlight how geographical and psychological distance among students inonline higher education settings can be bridged through learner autonomy, dialogue, andcourse structure in many disciplines. For instance, in a study regarding the use of virtuallaboratories in a STEM-focused biology class, researchers used the transactional distancetheory to illustrate how virtual laboratories may have positive impacts on the relationshipsbetween the learner and the content as well as the learner and the interface17. That same studyalso used the transactional distance theory to illustrate how virtual laboratories may havenegative impacts on the
Geotechnical Engineering Concepts Most civil engineering programs require an introductory geotechnical engineering coursethat has a required laboratory component. Geotechnical Engineering involves fundamentalconcepts associated with soil mechanics, which are difficult for undergraduates to grasp usingconventional lecture methods. While engineering students are capable of ‘utilizing’ equations tosolve geotechnical problems, they have a difficult time ‘comprehending’ the equations,fundamental concepts, and the engineering application. The ability to reach higher levels ofcomprehension is contingent on mastery of the foundation material. It is important that facultyuse diverse teaching methods and encourage students to elevate their level of
research fellow at the same institution. During this time, he combined research in computational material sciences with teaching duties in undergraduate laboratories. He then served as an assistant lecturer at the Dundalk Institute of Technology in Dundalk, Ireland, before joining the Institute of Technology Sligo (now ATU Sligo). Akinlolu is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA), a recognition of his expertise in teaching and learning in higher education. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Teaching basic concepts in machine learning to engineering students: A hands-on approachDavid O. Obada1,2,10,11*, Simeon A. Abolade2, Shittu B
/her knowledge on the topic). In order to make these meetings more dynamicand participative, the remote instructor uses CIT resources such as Menti – an interactive platform thatfacilitates the interaction of the students with the remote instructor using students' cellular phones. Inremote locations, the internet bandwidth is limited. Using only ONE computer to implement thesynchronous meeting (instead of each student connected to the videoconference) improvescommunication with the class, and the students' interactions via cell phones have no impact on thebandwidth. The remote instructor has access to the minimum CIT resources at the location where theinstructor lives (cameras, microphones, tablet, board, laboratory equipment, and others) to
% Lab 20%In our mastery-based course, a student earned a C- (the grade required for pre-requisite courseslike ours) after mastering all the Fundamental skills (Table 2). Beyond this, any Important skillthat a student passes increased their grade by 1/3 of a letter, a pattern that continued with masteryof the Additional skills. Even though students who only passed the Fundamental skills may notget as much practice with the Important and Additional skills, they were still exposed to theseskills during in-class instruction and through homework and laboratory exercises. By achievingmastery on the Fundamental skills, students will have a full understanding of these topics thatthey can apply to future engineering
we used the first and second strategies, we narrowed down the articles/papers by using a listof ideas and keywords we wanted to be present in their text. For example, we wanted thesearticles/papers to include concepts such as “mentor,” “graduate student,” “undergraduate,”“triad,” and others as seen in the following section, Selection.In the case of the first and second strategies, the topic of mentoring relationships in STEMdisciplines is a universal educational research topic that has publications in disciplines other thanEngineering describing the relationships seen in their laboratories, educational articles discussingthe educational outcomes of mentoring relationships, or even behavioral science fields discussingthe mentoring
not-knowing in reasoning about a novel problem,” Chemistry Education Research and Practice, vol. 24, no. 3, pp. 956– 970, 2023, doi: 10.1039/D3RP00018D.[31] D. A. Kolb, Experiential Learning: Experience as the Source of Learning and Development. New Jersey: Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1984.[32] A. Kolb and D. Kolb, “Eight important things to know about the experiential learning cycle,” Australian Educational Leader, vol. 40, no. 3, pp. 8–14, Aug. 2020, doi: 10.3316/informit.192540196827567.[33] A. Konak, T. K. Clark, and M. Nasereddin, “Using Kolb’s Experiential Learning Cycle to improve student learning in virtual computer laboratories,” Computers & Education, vol. 72, pp. 11–22, Mar. 2014, doi: 10.1016
wind energy, particularly in the characterization of fatigue and ultimate loads for floating offshore wind turbine concepts.Dr. Maija A. Benitz, Roger Williams University Dr. Maija Benitz is an Associate Professor of Engineering at Roger Williams University, where she has taught since 2017. Prior to joining RWU, she taught at the Evergreen State College in Olympia, WA, after completing her doctoral work jointly in the Multiphase Flow Laboratory and the Wind Energy Center at UMass Amherst.Dr. Lillian Clark Jeznach, Roger Williams University Dr. Lillian Jeznach is an Associate Professor of Engineering at Roger Williams University. She teaches the first year curriculum as well as upper-level courses related to
, research laboratories, or societies [3]. Anational survey conducted in 2005 revealed that engineering programs are emphasizing theimportance of teamwork in capstone projects, and therefore are shifting away from projects thatare completed by an individual student towards team-based projects [3]. This study also revealedthat typically a capstone team is comprised of four to six team members completing the projectas a one or two semester capstone course [3]. One challenge with a design-build project is that itcan be difficult to develop a project that a small team can complete in a short time frame of oneyear or less [4]. Additionally, it is important that the project selected is viewed as worthwhile byboth the students and the faculty for it to be
biological problems. Our approach relies on well-defined interdependent roles for biology (BIO) and computer science (CS) students in a project-based laboratory. We recognize distinct learning objectives for each major and implement them in two separatecourses taught side-by-side: Bioinformatics Applications for BIO majors and BioinformaticsAlgorithms for CS majors. We rely on separate lectures for each group of students, but inlaboratory we form joint interdisciplinary teams to work on building software for solving specificbiological problems. The teams rely on the biological expertise of BIO students and the softwaredevelopment skills of CS students to produce the software and to use it to obtain requestedresults. For each assignment, BIO
Tests and Assessments, Fifth Edition, Allyn and Bacon, Needham Heights, MA, 1993, pp. 36-60.11. Haladyna, T.M., Developing and Validating Multiple Choice Test Items, Third Edition, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Mahwah, NJ, 2004, pp. 14, 67-126, 187, 217-229.12. Hambleton, R.K., and Eignor, D.R., A Practitioner’s Guide to Criterion-referenced Test Development, Validation, and Test Score Usage, Laboratory of Psychometric and Evaluative Research Report No. 70, School of Education, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, 1978, pp. 61-66. Proceedings of the 2010 Midwest Section Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education
reported liking the concept maps, but 28% did not like them. The authorswent on to use concept maps extensively as a student assessment tool in a first-year veterinarymedical school course on physiology. The course consisted of two exams, seven quizzes, and 11concept-mapping assignment in addition to five laboratory reports. The concept mappingexercises constituted 17.5% of the total grade in the course. Students were surveyed about theirlikes and dislikes of the concept maps and only 21 % reported liking concept maps, but 81 % feltthat concept maps helped them understand material and 68 % thought it helped them organizeinformation. So, while students don't like them, they self assess themselves to benefit from them,indicating there may be some
A language-infused approach to introduce Dominican high school students to the logical process of designing experiments to construct knowledge K-12 Education (Curriculum Integration) SClaudina Vargas Complex Systems Optimization Laboratory, Northampton, MA 01060 E-mail: scvargas@cosola.org1Abstract: This work reports on the results of a discovery project designed to introduce Dominican highschool students to research concepts. The curriculum uses the ubiquitous water rocket to submersestudents into the logical process of formulating hypotheses and designing experiments to constructknowledge. The curriculum is
drop assay. A through XRD (X-Ray Diffraction) elemental analysis.hanging drop assay is a laboratory technique to determine the Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) can show themotility of the cells, where a specialized glass slide having a morphology of the surface of the bacterial cell. The sampleconcave cavity is used and a drop of cell suspension is placed preparation for the SEM has six steps in general, which areon a cover-slip, over which the glass slide is placed and the chemical fixation, wash, dehydration, mounting, coating andentire assembly inverted so that the drop containing cells imaging. Glutaraldehyde is used for chemical fixation. Aboutremains hanging between the cover-slip and the glass
Cooper is Professor and Associate Head for Graduate Programs in the Department of Physics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He received his B.S. in Physics from the University of Virginia in 1982, his Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Illinois in 1988, and he was a postdoctoral research associate at AT&T Bell Laboratories from 1988-1990. His research interests include optical spectroscopic studies of novel magnetic and superconducting materials at high pressures, high magnetic fields, and low temperatures. Since 2013, he has co-taught (with Celia Elliott) a graduate-level technical writing course each spring to physics and engineering graduate students.Dr. Lynford Goddard, University of Illinois
Department Head of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Prairie View A&M University. He is also the Associate Director of SECURE Cybersecurity Research American c Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Paper ID #35792Center. He has over 25 years of research/teaching experience in wireless communications and RF engi-neering at Motorola, University of Victoria, Air Force Research Laboratory, Virginia Tech and PVAMUand have co-authored over 250 peer-reviewed publications and 6 book chapters. He has also directed 15Ph.D. dissertations and 25 M.S.E.E. theses to completion as Chair at
beyond the control of the instructor and it is the institutional factors that often makethe course “hard” for students. References1. Manteufel, R., 1999, "A Spiral Approach for Mechanical Engineering Thermodynamics," Proceedings of the ASME International Mechanical Engineering Conference, Nashville, TN, Nov 14-19.2. Manteufel, R., 1999, "Student Learning and Retention Initiative at UTSA in Thermodynamics," Proceedings of the ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference, Le Tourneau University, March 7 -93. Manteufel, R.D., 2000. "Hands-On Laboratory Experience in Introductory Thermodynamics," 61C3, Proceedings of the ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference, Las Cruces, NM, April 5
– Advantages and Challenges," in ASEE Annual Conferenace & Exposition, Atlanta, GA, 2013. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 2023 ASEE Illinois-Indiana Section Conference Proceedings[39] J.-M. I. Maarek and B. Kay, "Assessment of performance and student feedback in the flipped classroom," in ASEE Annual Conference and Exhibition, Seattle, WA, 2015.[40] S. Luster-Teasley, S. C. Hargrove-Leak and C. Waters, "Transforming undergraduate environmental engineering laboratories for sustainable engineering using the case studies in the sciences instructional method," in Proceedings of the 121st ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Indianapolis, IN, 2014.[41] S. C. Chetcuti, J. T. Hans
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HyFlexmodality.6. ConclusionThe HyFlex modality allows students to participate in courses face to face, synchronously, orasynchronously. These three upper division engineering courses showed little difference instudent performance across modalities. The technology in the classroom allowed learning tomeet the needs of students who struggle with other demands. While the modality needs to becontinually refined, it was a way to offer flexibility to students in lecture style classes, furtherresearch into lower division and laboratory classes is needed to entirely refine the modality.HyFlex is best when the technology is strong, instructors are well trained and supported by theuniversity, and the instruction and course structure is well planned. A complete
, open educational resources,and reference materials”. OER encompass textbooks, instructional materials, videos (Lecture,Laboratory demonstrations), Activity sheets, simulations, quizzes and other assessment tools.OER is mainly released under Creative Commons or a similar license that supports open ornearly open use of the content. Overall, the OER movement in India is gaining momentum,and with the support of the government and educational institutions, it has the potential tomake a significant impact on improving access to quality education for all. There are manyOpen Educational Resources (OER) providers in India. Here are some of the popular ones arelisted below:(a) Study Webs of Active-Learning for Young Aspiring Minds- SWAYAM (http
the Impact of a Teaching Methods Course for International Teaching Assistants in an Inquiry-Based General Chemistry Laboratory,” J. Chem. Educ., vol. 96, no. 11, pp. 2393–2402, Nov. 2019, doi: 10.1021/acs.jchemed.9b00239.[9] C. J. Fong, J. Gilmore, T. Pinder-Grover, and M. Hatcher, “Examining the impact of four teaching development programmes for engineering teaching assistants,” J. Furth. High. Educ., vol. 43, no. 3, pp. 363–380, Mar. 2019, doi: 10.1080/0309877X.2017.1361517.[10] C. Neill, S. Cotner, M. Driessen, and C. J. Ballen, “Structured learning environments are required to promote equitable participation,” Chem. Educ. Res. Pract., vol. 20, no. 1, pp. 197–203, Jan. 2019, doi: 10.1039/C8RP00169C.[11] S. C
laboratory withcomputers, during the Adaptation and Integration of Newcomers class, after an explanation ofthe research objectives, confidentiality of results, and clarification of voluntary participation.Procedure for analyzing the results The aim was to characterize the sample, describe the self-efficacy results obtained andrelate the variables age, self-efficacy (and its dimensions), and school performance, as well asthe period attended (daytime and nighttime), gender (female and male), and enrollment status(enrolled and dropouts until the end of the school year). The data were analyzed usingdescriptive statistics, multiple comparisons tests, Spearman correlation, and linear regressionmodels.ResultsSelf-efficacy in higher education
whether that class is a laboratory, alecture or a design class. Unfortunately, the form is usually directed toward classroomperformance in lecture classes with questions like: • Did instructor presented material clearly and effectively? • Did the instructor encouraged interaction with the class? • Was the teaching assistance available and helpful? • Did the facilities adequately met course needs?These questions hardly seem appropriate for a course with no lectures, with no teachingassistants and for studio courses that must be held in a lecture room because no otherfacilities are provided. Finally, instructor/student interaction is desirable for the studentwhen the student has the choice. When students are forced to participate
=digitalcommons.uri.edu%2Fji ee%2Fvol4%2Fiss1%2F4&utm_medium=PDF&utm_campaign=PDFCoverPages.[6] Q. Zhu, M. Martin, and R. Schinzinger, Ethics in Engineering, 5th ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2022.[7] I. Van de Poel, Society as a laboratory to experiment with new technologies. Pan Stanford Publishing, 2017.[8] I. Van de Poel, “An Ethical Framework for Evaluating Experimental Technology,” Sci. Eng. Ethics, vol. 22, no. 3, pp. 667–686, 2016, doi: 10.1007/s11948-015-9724-3.[9] C. E. Harris, “The good engineer: Giving virtue its due in engineering ethics,” Sci. Eng. Ethics, vol. 14, no. 2, pp. 153–164, 2008, doi: 10.1007/s11948-008-9068-3.[10] G. Moriarty, “Three kinds of ethics for three kinds of engineering,” IEEE