Paper ID #40907Preparing for ChatGPT: Comparing Student Attitudes on Generative AI inContrasting Class InstructionMr. John Aaron Louis Grimes, Mississippi State University John Aaron Grimes is an instructor in the Shackouls Technical Communication Program at Mississippi State University. He holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in English from Mississippi State University, where he has taught various writing and communication-based courses since 2014.Ms. Amy K Barton, Mississippi State University Amy Barton is the coordinator of the Shackouls Technical Communication Program in the Bagley College of Engineering at
. He has taught courses focused on first-year engineering students, materials science and engineering, en- gineering design, systems thinking and engineering leadership. He has a PhD in Polymer, Fiber Science from Clemson University. His research background is in the synthesis of polymer nanocomposites and engineering education. He was trained as a Manufacturing Process Specialist within the textile industry, which was part of an eleven-year career that spanned textile manufacturing to product development. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Convergent Approaches for Developing Engineering Leadership in UndergraduatesAbstractHere we describe a shared approach to engineering
chemical engineering. Thissurprised the ChE instructor, particularly the fact that many students did not realize they could simplylook up the integrated solution online or in a textbook. We believe the solution to this is to do moreclass examples and homework on simple transient balances (like tank filling or solute mixing) prior tointroducing the project.Final Reports. Review of the 25 team reports showed them to all be very good to excellent. This was apleasant surprise to the ChE instructor who has been doing course projects for many years in this andsimilar classes. Typically there are teams whose dysfunction results in a poor report or who are simplyunmotivated and do not demonstrate the effort needed to produce good quality work. This was
andreminders to all or selected students. Grades were posted online and the students checked theirgrades at their convenience either at home or on campus. Video files of the egg drop contestconducted previously for the Dynamics (ET 3840) students and at other events were uploaded tothe WebCT site for the benefit of the ET 1840 students. There was no disk space limitation andwe could upload MPEG video files larger than 200 MB without any difficulty. PowerPoint slideshows and useful links about solar cars including races and contests, and alternative energysources were provided on the course site. Students could obtain necessary information for theirdesign project which is discussed in the next section. They could also get additional informationrelated
summative assessment scheme, in which some of the work could be subject tointerpretation of the ethical theory when applied to case studies, rather than assessment ofempirical facts and procedures which may be constrained to a teacher‟s implicit development,interpretation and assessment of the syllabus content.The assessment procedure was redesigned in 2008 for classes of 150 plus, comprising aformative assessment and feedback through essays, a formative feedback by the in-class case-studies and summative assessment by examining the major case studies and theirunderstanding of the course material in a final examination.IntroductionTo receive accreditation of undergraduate engineering degrees the Institute of ProfessionalEngineers of New Zealand
engineeringtopics and skills. Bucciarelli, Drew, and colleagues have developed example modules of thistype. One explores the historical development of the engineering of cantilever beam failure, alesson that brings together the history and philosophy of science with static mechanics. Eachmodule is problem-based and benefits from collaborative instruction. The LSE model has alsobeen suggested as a “transformative solution” to the persistent problem of low enrollment ofwomen in STEM majors and careers [10]. Although some courses and online modules in theLSE mold exist, the broader curriculum remains, according to the authors, a “sociotechnicalimaginary” useful for demonstrating to conventional engineering educators that real integrationwith the humanities is
sociotechnical thinking is integrated into the syllabus or course deliverables. Rubricscarefully designed to assess sociotechnical learning objectives can help address this issue; weoffer one example related to the Interview Assignment at our project website [19]. Anotherapproach is to offer credit for completion of sociotechnical elements or to do a quick assessmentof depth and thoughtfulness, for example assigning 50% credit for the content of submissionsand 50% for clarity and depth of explanations.Finally, we emphasize the importance of finding a community of like-minded researchers andteachers. Especially for the many of us who were taught in more traditional engineeringprograms, it is easy to suffer from the imposter syndrome when trying to
modeling and graphical representation of thesystem behaviors are taught, students can relate this to the qualitative framework they havealready formed [1]. This paper proposes that these simple activities presented early in the termwill improve retention and understanding, and also improve utilization of course concepts inpost-course design work.Experiential learning techniques can be time consuming and thus challenging to incorporate intocollegiate courses with a packed syllabus. Lab equipment can be expensive to purchase andmaintain. Further, instructors may presume that students have already formed simple mentalmodels of system behaviors from earlier coursework or life experiences. To minimize thesepossible implementation barriers, the criteria
includes a robust assessment package, isongoing and results will be reported in a future publication.Experimental Setup:Instructional Method:Students are provided a syllabus, a text book, and a study guide complete with detailed lessonobjectives, assigned readings, and practice problems. Lecture videos are posted on Blackboardby lesson objective which most lessons consisting of three to five lesson objectives per lesson.As opposed to complete lectures. This method is similar to the concept of “teaching nuggets”proposed by Wallace and Weiner [4]. By making videos by lesson objectives, a course canrestructured without having to recreate entire lesson videos. Additionally, students can selectobjectives to watch or review without having to watch or
traffic engineering courses using purposeful209 sampling, the most common sampling strategy employed in textbook reviews (Chu 2017).210 Syllabi primarily came from an open-source compendium called Open Syllabus . Open Syllabus211 is a non-profit research organization that started at Columbia University. They scrape the internet212 for syllabi from higher education institutions and conduct content analysis for education213 researchers. The site has over 18 million unique syllabi in its database. A search for “traffic214 engineering” textbooks yielded 88 results. From this list, five textbooks appeared on more than215 100 syllabi 2, and were retained for analysis. Two additional titles came from the collected syllabi216 of the
enrolled in the course earned a grade of ‘A. To assess studentsatisfaction with the course, anonymous surveys were made available to each student viaan online tool as administered by the campus-wide Committee on Effective Teaching(CET). The results of student satisfaction for the courses examined in this case study areprovided in Table 1. Overall, the graduate students were more satisfied with the courseas compared to the undergraduate students. To better understand any concerns of thestudents, anonymous, open-ended free-response questions are also included in theelectronic survey. Table 2 provides representative results to the question of what arestrengths, weakness, or opportunities for improvement for the instructor or for the course.Table 1
over five years as a Medical Librarian before her present position as a Science and Engineering Librarian at New York University Abu Dhabi. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 “Patenting” a New Engineering Librarian at an American University in the UAEAbstractAs an engineering librarian, my first instruction session consisted of teaching students aboutpatents and how to search the patent literature. I learned a great deal about patents and whatcan and cannot be patented. Of course, a person cannot be patented, let alone a profession.The question still remains as to what if it was a possibility and what would that patent looklike? As a librarian who liaised with the
-dicate that the content of the Safe Zone Workshops has been appropriately tailored to an audi-ence of engineering educators, and that there is a clear call to expand the workshops and nurturethe conversation about LGBTQ inclusion in engineering. Online technology is being used tocreate a scalable and sustainable model for sharing knowledge, tools and resources to promoteLGBTQ inclusion in environments that are traditionally difficult to penetrate. Using a two-tiered, train-the-trainer structure, two experts trained a cohort of twenty leaders to facilitateonline and face-to-face Safe Zone Workshops and lead a Virtual Community of Practice for en-gineering faculty. The workshops and VCP are being launched in early 2016.This project uses a
theirexperiences as part of project teams and the learning community.Extensive field notes were recorded during all observations, and portions of some observationsessions were recorded using a digital voice recorder. Entries included portions of instructorlectures, student and teacher dialogue, dialogue among project team members, descriptions ofclassroom and lab activities, and verbal and non-verbal interactions among students, theinstructor, and the TA.DocumentsThe evaluator was granted access to the student portion of the interactive class website. Throughthe website, she was able to access the same information that was available to the students,including: the course syllabus; project team meeting minutes, photos, and project deliverables;pre-lab
Education a year later. Her re- search interests include exploration of marginalized engineering students’ experience, hidden identity, student mental health and wellbeing, and student support in engineering and computing education.Dr. Stephen Secules, Florida International University Stephen is an Assistant Professor Engineering and Computing Education at Florida International Univer- sity. He has a prior academic and professional background in engineering, having worked professionally as an acoustical engineer. He has taught a number of courses on engineering and education, including courses on engineering design, systems in society, and learning theories. Stephen’s research interests include equity, culture, and the
projects • Materials addressing issues arising from the team’s review of the Self-Study Report or online instructional materials • Documentation of actions taken by the program after submission of the Self-Study Report as being available for review, and • Materials necessary for the program to demonstrate compliance with the criteria and policiesThe programs should confer with PEV to ensure that display materials will provide adequate evidenceof meeting the accreditation criteria.About two months prior to the on-site virtual visit, the program reviewed in fall 2020 provided thePEV access to an on-line OneDrive folder that contained the following electronic binders. 1. Course Binder: this binder contained some or all of the
educational gaps in geotechnicalengineering education through the development and implementation of a transferable andscalable Mixed Reality and Mobile (MR&M) Educational Game, “GeoExplorer.” A game-basedcourse module was implemented in existing geotechnical engineering courses at RensselaerPolytechnic Institute (RPI). The newly developed game has the potential to transform the waygeotechnical engineering is taught by addressing the current critical gap of lack of exposure tofield testing and practical experience. Ultimately, the use of MR&M games should result in abetter-trained and globally minded workforce. The game will be available for free for educatorsand its implementation does not require additional resources. The game-based module
exercise 13 § Project Presentation § Engineering Ethics Preparation 14 § Project Presentations § Project Presentations § Post-Assessment § Post-AassessmentsWebsite:The course content for this introductory course has been delivered online for about seven years, afeature that has gotten much positive feedback from students and faculty; however, the contenthas been under severe scrutiny. Therefore, we developed a new website to be used by the foursections following the alternate format. Both web sites contain modules focusing on the majoraspects of the course: problem solving, teambuilding, Excel, Matlab, networks, HTML and ethics.(The
the broader engineering education community. Asample course syllabus is attached to provide an example of how we were able to successfullyintegrate field experiences, which are required of our pre-service teachers, with classes and afterschool activities at a public middle school. Although ours is just one example of how such apartnership might take shape, it is intended to serve as a springboard for the development ofadditional models involving a wider range of grade levels and a broader scope of science,technology, engineering and math (STEM) topics, both at our university and elsewhere.References1. National Science Board. Science and Engineering Indicators 2008. NSB 08-01. Arlington, VA: National Science Foundation, 2008.2. Bureau
course. Tobegin the course redesign process, the Center for Innovation in Education developed an e-learning course to introduce department heads and professors to the PBL methodology. Thecourse contents centered on answering questions such as: What is project-based learning? Howcan I apply project-based learning in my class? How have other universities and faculty used thismethodology? Throughout the course, professors’ views on ideas that arose for their classes,constraints, and restrictions perceived to apply the methodology as well as perceived benefits ofthis methodology for their class were explored through forums.After the introductory online course, the physics course redesign process began with threeparticipating professors (two of them
freshman students15 9, sophomores7, to seniors.8 9 Studies in these papers provide abroad coverage of the context in which portfolios were used. New engineering educators orresearchers could refer to similar cases in their design of portfolio curriculum.In most of the papers that we reviewed, the portfolios were created for a specific course (elevenout of fifteen studies). The portfolio construction could take place at the different stages of thecourse, such as in the mid-semester9, in the midterm and at the end of the course7, only on thefinal stage15, or throughout the semester8 or the quarter.9 The portfolios could also be used toreplace other assignments11 The life cycle of the portfolio creation could exceed the boundary ofthe classroom. For
and Andrew Elmes, SEED Publications, University of Plymouth, pp. 39-44, 199812. MacPhereson, P.A., “A Technique for Student Program Submission on UNIX Systems.” ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, Volume 29, Issue 4, New York, NY, ACM Press, 1997, pp 54-5613. Mason, D.V. and Woit, D.M., “Providing Mark-Up and Feedback to Students with Online Marking”, Proceedings of the Thirtieth Annual SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, New Orleans, LA, ACM Press, 1999, pp. 3-614. PMD home page, website last accessed on June 30th 2004, http://pmd.sourceforge.net/15. Popyack, J.L, Herrmann, N., Char B., Zoski, P., Cera C., Lass R., “Pen-Based Electronic Grading of Online Student Submissions”, Drexel University, Presented at the Syllabus
success. However, the difference between eachgroup was only 3 students given the small sample size, In addition, the groups were taughtduring two consecutive offerings of the course, rather than in a simultaneous offering. Thepresence or absence of the case study was the only change in syllabus between offerings. Theoutcome of this pilot evaluation is hopeful. A more robust and reliable assessment seems calledfor in the future. To continue this work, the case study could be used in a larger class withmultiple sections with collection of evidence more directly assessing prior and postdemonstration of student comprehension of the learning objectives. A suitable civil engineeringcourse for continuing evaluation of the efficacy of using this case
instructional content in the form of a course text, the syllabus and day to day reading and schedule.• Interactive audio or video conferencing can provide real time face-to-face or voice-to-voice interaction. This is also an excellent way to provide guest speakers and other expertise.• Computer conferencing or electronic mail can be used to send assignments, messages and other targeted communications to the students. It can also help to increase interaction among students.• Pre-recorded video tapes can be used to present class lectures and visually oriented content of the instruction.• Fax can be used to distribute assignments to and from the student, last minute announcements and provide timely feedback.IX. Educator TaskThe
project-basedlearning (PBL) and hands-on exploration have on student learning across a variety of disciplinesincluding engineering. Recently, the Mechanical Engineering Department at The University ofIowa introduced undergraduate and graduate certificate programs in artificial intelligence,modeling, and simulations (AIMS) that aim to teach students: (1) the importance of uncertaintyquantification, (2) the various types of combinations (e.g., modeling and simulation-assistedmachine learning) and hybrid approaches, and (3) using hybrid models toward the design ofintelligent complex machines. This work-in-progress seeks to understand how extra/co-curricularactivities, as an extension of semester course content, can benefit student learning outcomes
course survey was very positive. Over 78% of thestudents in the course agreed or strongly agreed that the API was a means for learning conceptson the syllabus, 71% felt it provided a source of motivation or increased their interest level in theclass, and, for 71%, the API provided a sense of personal engagement on the assignments. TheAPI was also introduced into the introductory CEEN 1030 course taught by Roger Sash. In thiscourse, all CEEN students build a CEENBoT™ and take it with them for applications in follow-on courses. The CEENBoT™ API exposed these students to embedded system concepts andbasic C programming as students in this class had never taken a programming course, or wereconcurrently taking their first programming course in Java
and wellbeing [9]. Giving studentsanonymity to act without fear of reprisal from classmates thus avoiding social sanctions mayabate this. In a lecture format, if online, questions can be privately mailed to the instructor (in ablind to the class or double-blind manner) such that there is a freedom of self-expression; inessence enabling this authenticity inventory needs to be mated with provisions from theclassroom environment that prevent this conflict. Expressing differing opinions withoutundermining alternative views is essential. Building strategies for maintaining such social orderrely on clear instruction during course syllabus breakdown to explicitly admonish personalattacks in class discussion. Support from educators to reinforce
Page 23.250.4other course. Dr. Westphal is also presenting the pilot module at the January midyear meeting tofaculty from the other BEST colleges, who will engage in the module’s engineering activities aslearners, ask questions about her development process and the efficacy of implementation, andprovide feedback. Depending on the topics covered in each professor’s syllabus, this newmodule may be implemented in multiple colleges in future semesters.Dr. Westphal’s modules may be her students’ first exposure to technology and engineering at thecollege-level. If her students then move on to NSCC’s 4-year transfer partner, Salem StateUniversity (SSU) they will have more chances to experience engineering content in their courses.Patricia Bade, a
education, with a particular focus on theexperiences and needs of groups historically limited in participation in engineering and otherscientific disciplines.Data collection and sourcesWe collected both primary and secondary data. Primary data included the responses to a designtask, complemented with information about the course by compiling ENG-DIV course materials(e.g., syllabus, fieldnotes) about the experiences of students. Although these materials and thecourse are not the main focus of this work, they allowed us to contextualize and capture a partialpicture of participants’ experiences during the quarter, including the nature and level ofinvolvement in the course activities and the plausible learning environments where the activitiesof the
information from. This section has student respond using another four-point Likert scale,which is labeled with “N/A”, “Learned a Little”, “Learned a Bit but Not a Lot”, and “Learned ALot”, for each of these six sources: introduction to engineering course, faculty (either in class orfrom syllabus), institution’s website, student handbook, other students, or other (with a prompt toelaborate). Once this section is completed, the survey closes.Method: Survey Instrument: Modified Part Two, Faculty SurveyWhen a respondent enters that they are a faculty member the instrument directs the respondent tothis single portion of the survey. It is the faculty version of Part Two, and the instrument presentsthe same 20 scenarios to be ranked. The one difference is