virtual teams during the rapid transition online due to COVID-19 Alexis Walsha, Sarah Norrisb, Nathaniel Blalockc, Daniel Mountainc and Courtney Faberd a) Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering; b) Department of Mechanical Aerospace Biomedical Engineering; c) Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering; d) Cook Grand Challenge Honors Program University of Tennessee KnoxvilleIntroductionTeam projects are common in undergraduate engineering courses and have been shown toimprove self-efficacy, communication, and teamwork skills through group discussions andpresentations, preparing students for professional engineering practice [1], [2
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course overfour non-consecutive years, focusing mainly on the class project. During this period, differentapproaches were used to implement the project activities. These approaches are (a) testing differentcapstone projects that are sponsored by local companies, (b) all student teams testing a singleproject that is being developed at the same time, and (c) testing a single project that has beenpreviously developed. Each approach presented several advantages and challenges for both thestudents and the instructor, as described in the paper. Based on the experience after teaching thecourse with different types of group projects, we present lessons learned and recommendations forfuture editions of the course. These recommendations include offering
Paper ID #33255Investigating Students’ Expectations of Instruction in EngineeringLaboratory Courses During the COVID-19 PandemicMr. Keven Alkhoury, New Jersey Institute of Technology I am a Ph.D. student in mechanical engineering at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. The focus of my research is on the continuum-level coupled multiphysics behavior of polymeric materials. During the last year, I was also interested in investigating the impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the quality of education, which resulted in this publication.Mr. Ahmed Z. Edrees, University of Jeddah & New Jersey Institute of Technology Ahmed
often described theirusers in general terms, but following the intervention, they decreased their use of the generic‘you,’ indicating more specificity about who their users are and who their users are not. Somestudents also demonstrated deeper consideration of their users’ contexts in their sketchesincluding representations of people. Overall, prompting students to consider how to representpeople in their sketches may be a simple strategy for encouraging designers to think more deeplyabout the specific people who will use their designs.AcknowledgmentsThe study was reviewed by the University of Michigan IRB and found exempt, HUM00169175.References[1] C. B. Zoltowski, W. C. Oakes, and M. E. Cardella, “Students’ ways of experiencing human
goals in creating this cogen were very similar to those of a typical cogenpractice, however. Namely, our goals were to (a) embody anti-racist, feminist pedagogy in anengineering course (b) democratize class control and increase student agency over their learning(c) center the experiences of students who experience racial injustice, (d) empower students to leadclassroom conversations and direct course development. Additionally, it was important for us to(e) call attention to an important 21st-century social justice issue, (f) enable students to “plug in”to ongoing environmental movements at the university and nearby local communities, and (g)engage students in intimate, personal discussions during the era of online instruction, modeling an
Paper ID #35235Extended ANSAC Assessment Requirements for Some Soft Skills forConstruction Management ProgramsDr. Amitabha (Amit) Bandyopadhyay P.E., State University of New York, College of Technology at Farm-ingdale Dr Bandyopadhyay is a SUNY Distinguished Service Professor and was Chair of Architecture and Con- struction Management Department at Farmingdale State College for twenty four years. He is also the Director of Green Building Institute at the college. He was the Chair of Engineering Technology Accred- itation Commission of ABET (2012-13). Currently he is a commissioner of ANSAC of ABET
-Madison, rubymaser@yahoo.com)AbstractEfforts to broaden participation in science and engineering (STEM) are of national importance.This paper describes the development and implementation of teaching strategies for theWisconsin Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (WiscAMP) Excel program. Theprogram involves: 1) selecting underrepresented minority (URM) students majoring in scienceand engineering whose first year academic performance indicates they are at risk for leavingSTEM; and 2) providing an intensive 8-week immersion experience in STEM scholarship,research, academic and career exploration and advising. Collectively program faculty membershave identified a shared programmatic strategy with respect to supporting students
often presented in a linear, cyclical fashion, but theimplementation of this problem solving process can be messy. Designers commonly repeat steps,skip steps, or take the steps in a different order [6]. The key with design thinking is that there aremultiple iterations, and each iteration incorporates user feedback to solve the defined problem.Working with users adds more time to the process, so iterations should be executed quickly.When designers “fail fast,” they learn more about their users in a short period of time, and thisknowledge helps designers rapidly prototype a solution that users love [7].B. PivotingWhile a commonly used term across industries, “pivoting” has little objective definition orknown factors that would cause a business or
support the evaluation of RQ1, an independent samples t-test was first used to compare twogroups: (a) students enrolled in remote learning classes and (b) students enrolled in traditionalclasses. Additional independent samples t-tests were used as needed to account for course bycourse variation. Homogeneity of variance was not assumed, and Bonferroni’s correction wasused in all analyses of means to account for multiple hypothesis testing and to reduce Type 1error. Though non-parametric Mann Whitney tests are typically used for ordinal, Likert-scaledata, a recent study [33] demonstrates t-tests and non-parametric Mann Whitney tests yield nearidentical Type 1 error rates without major compromise to statistical power. Thus, independentsamples t
is “InSite-trial” and it can be different from theproject name.2.1 Importing Images from Google MapsImporting images into WI is explained here. The process is broken in to two major steps. Step Ais the procedure that needs to be done prior to importing images into WI and Step B are a fewbasic steps that should be done in the WI after the image is imported.A. Preparation Step a) Go to https://maps.google.com/ (Your computer needs to be connected to the Internet) 257b) Search the desired location for e.g. “Walmart near Grand Forks, ND” and select the satellite view for better observation.c) Check for “Legend” that is generally on the left-bottom side of the website. For example legend might
Paper ID #34390Responding to Microaggressions in the Classroom: Perspectives FromIntroductory Mathematics InstructorsRebecca Machen, University of Colorado Boulder Rebecca Machen is currently a Ph.D. student in Curriculum and Instruction with a focus in STEM at the University of Colorado at Boulder. She is also a full-time staff member in the Student Academic Success Center, a comprehensive academic and social program that serves traditionally underrepresented students in higher education. Her research interests include multicultural communities of practice, the use of predictive analytics for admission and placement into
from, and make challenging decisions about students’ personal and professional futures. 3. Design a set of guiding principles and values for their personal and professional futures, and use their guiding principles and values to: a. Describe what being an engineer means for them and their responsibility in serving the common good. b. Support personal and professional decisions using their guiding principles and values. c. Inform the creation of professional documents (e.g., resumes, personal statements).Students began the course by briefly describing formative experiences during theirundergraduate years (e.g., courses, student organizations, internships) and identifying
techniques have been developed and in use now by many standard tools.One important method used in scheduling is the PERT technique (Program Evaluation andReview Technique) which uses probabilistic activity time estimates of all tasks in a project.PERT uses the flexible beta distribution technique (as opposed to a normal distribution) for thethree levels of estimation for each task which is generally asymmetrical. The three levels ofestimation for each task are noted as follows: optimistic time estimate (‘a’), pessimistic timeestimate (‘b’), and the most likely time estimate or mode (‘m’). The project is addressing tominimize the risk associated with each task completion with three estimates and estimates thebest possible completion time using beta
students. This example illustrates the role thatwe as educators play in how smartness is constructed within classrooms. Therefore, we all haveagency to engage with students in ways that disrupt some of the normative beliefs about what itmeans to be smart.5.1.b. Students’ Beliefs about Smartness are Related to their Epistemic Beliefs (nature ofknowledge)As the participants described their smartest peer through their interpretation of social indicators,they also tended to discuss smartness in ways that was related at a meta level to their epistemicbeliefs. Epistemic beliefs are beliefs about the nature of knowledge. These beliefs consist of ourperceptions of knowledge such as its source, certainty, and construction [39]. In this study
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specific impact of theactivities in promoting wellness, as well the use of wellness techniques and campus resourceslongitudinally after participating in the course.AcknowledgmentsThis project was supported by the University of Illinois Faculty Retreat Grant and theDepartment of Bioengineering. The authors thank the students for sharing their perspectives. References [1] X. Wang, S. Hegde, C. Son, B. Keller, A. Smith, and F. Sasangohar, “Investigating Mental Health of US College Students During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Cross-Sectional Survey Study,” J. Med. Internet Res., vol. 22, no. 9, p. e22817, Sep. 2020, doi: 10.2196/22817. [2] A. Kecojevic, C. H. Basch, M. Sullivan, and N. K. Davi, “The impact of the COVID-19 epidemic on mental
the approximation of internal energy for Water at a temperature of 200 ˚C. Forexample the specific internal energy at 200 0C and 10 MPa is 844.31 kJ/kg, with an existingapproximation, u(T, p) ≈ uf(T), 850.47 kJ/kg. Using the proposed approximation, u(s, p) = uf(s)= uf(T- ∆T), specific internal energy is 844.27 kJ/kg. Results show that estimating internalenergy with the new method gives much more accurate as compared with result the existingapproximation of internal energy, u(p, T) = uf(T). Equation 2.33 can be expressed generally T’ = ap + b (48)Where p is pressure, a and b are constants. The constants in equation (48) are given in Table 5 Proceedings of
education. We encourage researchers and educators to further investigate along theline of this research. It is essential to learn and improve engineering students’ technology preferences tosolve calculus questions. 8. ReferencesFelder R. and L. Silverman. "Learning and Teaching Styles in Engineering Education, ASEE journal ofEngineering Education, 78(7), 674-681, 1988.Rosati, P. "The Learning Preferences of Engineering Students From Two Perspectives," Proceedings ofthe 1998 ASEE, Frontiers in Engineering (FlE) conference, November 1998.Tokgöz, E., Tekalp E. N., Tekalp S. B., Tekalp H. A., Undergraduate STEM Students’ Role in MakingTechnology Decisions for Solving Calculus Questions and the Impact of These Decisions on LearningCalculus, 127th Annual
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, and motivation.Prof. Michael Wolf, Rice University Michael Wolf is Milton B. Porter Professor in Mathematics at Rice University as well as Faculty Director of the Rice Emerging Scholars Program, an initiative he co-founded in 2012. The Rice Emerging Scholars program is a comprehensive 2-4 year program that begins the summer before matriculation for a group of matriculating Rice students whose preparation for STEM is weaker than those of their peers. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021Differential Effects of Bridge Program Participation on Perceived Belongingand Peer Support for STEM Degree Seekers During The COVID-19PandemicAbstractThis NSF S-STEM
Paper ID #32840”I Wish I Would Have Known. . . ”: Characterizing Engineering Students’Reflections on Their Graduate ExperiencesMr. Kanembe Shanachilubwa, Pennsylvania State University I am a second-year doctoral candidate at Pennsylvania State University in the mechanical engineering department. Member of the Engineering Cognitive Research Laboratory (ECRL). Current research topics include graduate school attrition and student well-being.Miss Megan ElleryGabriella M. Sallai, Pennsylvania State University Gaby Sallai is currently a graduate student in the mechanical engineering department at Penn State. She is working under
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