facilitationand teaching, learning basic maintenance, and contributing to the Makerspace community.Program Specialists with domain-specific expertise facilitated the CoP programs with supportfrom full-time supervisors. Before launching the program in Fall 2022, the CoP facilitators and supervisors engagedin comprehensive planning sessions to determine the most critical tools and skills to be taughtduring the community sessions, as well as opportunities to practice these skills. They alsodeveloped facilitator rubrics to evaluate the community members' competencies. These rubrics,given in Appendix A, organized the hard and soft skills of each tool area associated with each ofthe aforementioned outcome goals into 5-point Likert scales. Following the
responsibilities included production planning, forecastingand reservoir maintenance. This production planning and forecasting consisted of history matching andprediction based on selected drilling. The reservoir maintenance included: water/gas injection and gas liftfor selected wells to optimize reservoir production plateau and prolonging well’s economic life.Terra Tek, Inc., Salt Lake City, UT, 1985-1987; Director of Reservoir Engineering; Responsible of con-ducting research for reservoir engineering projects, multiphase flow, well testing, in situ stress measure-ments, SCA, hydraulic fracturing and other assigned research programs. In addition, as a group directorhave been responsible for all management and administrative duties, budgeting, and
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Design Graphics.The Introduction to Engineering course, first taught in the fall of 2015, encompasses a widerange of outcomes. They include understanding the engineering profession and specificdisciplines, developing an academic plan and student success skills as well as an appreciation ofworkplace behavior and teamwork. One of the greatest strengths of the course is the opportunityfor new students to network and develop friendships in their first year of the program. While it isrequired for the NSF scholars, on average 90 students enroll in the course over each academicyear. This is roughly 40% of the first year ECS student population. The emphasis on developingconnections to the engineering profession and fellow students is accomplished with
study were primarily from the environmental engineeringdiscipline, which has a larger proportion of US women graduate students (42% at the MS level;[7]). Some insights can be gained by looking at differences between men and women at thegraduate school application stage. Baker et al. [8] found that while 69% of high achieving (3.5GPA) male engineering seniors planned to apply to graduate school, only 32% of high achievingwomen seniors were planning to apply. Reasons women students cited for not applying tograduate school included the “chilly climate” in male dominated engineering programs, lack of 1knowledge about the process of applying to graduate
ranked values of the program, asreported by students, are learning from industry mentors, making friends in the program, as wellas learning from academic mentors (Fig. 5). During the intense three-week training, the firstbarrier students faced was to collaborate with a team of students with diverse backgrounds,interests, and grade years, both online and in-person. This requires students to quickly learn andmaster team capabilities, to take initiatives and be bold, be able to motivate and inspire others, aswell as to plan ahead and allocate resources and time smartly. The unique mentoring system withacademic, industry, and onsite mentors addressed the challenge commonly faced by PBLmentors, where the three mentors serve as the three pillars to
visual study tools ratherthan traditional reading-writing methods.It is important to consider that through the application of different teaching methods theknowledge can be further approached. In architecture, it is necessary to make relationsbetween theoretical aspects and concepts with much more practical and technicalapplications. Thus, the requirement of having a broad comprehension of topics and therelations between them is fundamental. Through mind maps, graphic relations can be madebetween the several topics covered on a course. Visual tools can help “clarify the relationshipbetween material objects and concepts to understand” [3]. The critical challenges faced byan ArPM (Architect Project Manager) are ‘poor planning,’ ‘unfamiliar
- Adj Server - Noun Autonomous - Adj Optical - Adj Concrete - Noun Intelligence - Noun Analog - Noun Biomechanics - Noun Pollution - Noun Window - Noun Order - Noun5. LimitationsWhile in this work we only used four different departments, we plan to expand our analysis toother departments from other colleges, where we might find even more prominent differences instudent enrollment based on gender. The outcomes of this study will inform and guide futureresearch that is needed within departments.Our filtering might have disproportionally affected the courses remaining in the BMEdepartments, which in general have fewer enrolled students. There are less courses in thatdepartment that
studentsparticipating are performing, at baseline, approximately the same as other students in their age anddemographic range in terms of their quantitative score on instruments such as the EERI and DIT-2.Analysis of surveys completed both before and after the introduction of the game-based ethicaleducational interventions have not shown significant differences: changes in ethical reasoning afterformal engineering ethics instruction (either via games or through more traditional approaches likecase studies) show no significant changes and effect sizes are all small.Since student ethical reasoning as measured by these instruments seems stable over the course ofsingle semester, we planned to collect follow-up data from senior engineering students to see ifthere
concepts are reintroduced or reframed from previous chemical engineering coursesfor the context of the material at hand. Further, this course serves as a cross-disciplinary electiveacross multiple programs, with previous enrollment having included students fromcivil/environmental engineering, mechanical engineering, and integrative engineering.The Spring 2022 instance of Atmospheric Engineering and Science comprised of 3 seniors, 8juniors, 8 sophomores, and one first-year student. With the exception of two junior students,whom were environmentally-focused integrative engineering students, students in this instanceof the course majored in or planned on majoring in chemical engineering. Though first-yearstudents are broadly discouraged from taking
students’ feedback onthe corresponding ACCESS program activities. The evaluation of the impact of ACCESSactivities on students’ success is presented in Section 5, followed by the description of thelessons learned and future plans in Section 6. The concluding remarks are given in Section 7.2. Awarded ACCESS scholarships and contribution towards increasing the annual enrollment of students in the B.S. and AoE in CybersecurityTo be able to achieve the first objective, the ACCESS project team carried out a wide range ofrecruitment activities to reach high school students and current WVU students at differentacademic stages. To increase the diversity of the applicant pools and subsequently among therecipients of the ACCESS scholarship, the
structural behavior by the time they graduate. This necessitates the inclusionof structural analysis and design topics into the curriculum and the subsequent assessment of thestudents’ understanding of the basic concepts of structural behavior in each accreditedConstruction Management program. These programs must therefore develop and implement anassessment plan to measure their students’ attainment of the ACCE SLO’s and devise andimplement corrective actions where needed. Keeping the number of required learning outcomesto a reasonable level that sets minimum standards ensures that assessment serves its intendedpurpose of improving quality without becoming a heavy burden on programs.Table 1. Required ACCE [1] student learning outcomes for bachelor
-based research methods class. They were mentored byan B.S. student (and past URSP participant) who took the day-to-day lead on managing theproject. The URSP freshman, the B.S. student, and their faculty advisor met once per week todiscuss project progress and develop forward-looking activities. Figure 2 shows the Gantt chartdeveloped by the team, which evolved throughout their two semesters of interaction. The Ganttchart included both project-related experimental work as well as a section to plan the authorshipassignments and progression toward completion of this ASEE Conference paper. Action itemswere planned in week-long time intervals with milestones coming due the week a deliverablewas needed to meet an internal or external deadline. One or
RVfpga EdX course and the workshops that we havegiven internationally. We conclude by describing future improvements we plan to implement thisyear and by summarizing the course’s features and what we have accomplished.2. RVfpga Course Goals, Overview, and StructureThe RVfpga course aims to enable users to understand and use a commercial RISC-V core andsystem and then learn how to extend the system for learning, research, and experimentation.Users are expected to have a fundamental understanding of digital design and computerarchitecture in general before beginning the course. Such topics are covered in many textbooks,including Digital Design and Computer Architecture: RISC-V Edition [12]. The RVfpga coursethen builds on and expands those topics
STEM. Craftingmitigation plans aimed at student success should be research based and implemented to welcomeand benefit all students. Researchers have worked to identify predictors of STEM persistence,both before matriculation and after. A student’s level of academic success before matriculation isa strong predictor of STEM persistence. These predictors include standardized test scores andtaking calculus in high school [9], [10].Research has found that, after matriculation, a student’s likelihood to complete an undergraduatedegree was linked to a student’s level of academic and social integration. Tinto [11] definesacademic integration by a student's academic performance and their perception of their ownacademic experience. Therefore, it
%Supported learning MSE concepts 56 % Adapted to MATLAB 11 %Improve Python skills 56 % Would distract from MSE 11 %Already planned to use Python 33 % Too difficult to understand 11 %Improve DS skills 33 % Not helpful for the reports 6% (a) Used the modules, nused = 18. (b) Did not use the modules, nnot = 11.Table S4: Top reasons for (a) using and (b) not using the Python-based online modules.Percentage is given out of the number of students who identified with each group.Multiple selections were allowed and thus percentages may not sum to 100 %. Question Topic
-down>10) Taking into account students’ skills, abilities, and interests in helping them <6-option <6-option choose courses. drop-down> drop-down>11) Knowing the student as an individual. <6-option <6-option drop-down> drop-down>12) Encouraging students to assume responsibility for their education by <6-option <6-option helping them develop planning, problem-solving, and decision-making drop-down> drop-down> skills.Part 2: Please read the following 18
engineering situations and make informed judgments, which must consider the impact of engineering solutions in global, economic, environmental, and societal contexts; 5. an ability to function effectively on a team whose members together provide leadership, create a collaborative and inclusive environment, establish goals, plan tasks, and meet objectives; 6 an ability to develop and conduct appropriate experimentation, analyze and interpret data, and use engineering judgment to draw conclusions; 7. an ability to acquire and apply new knowledge as needed, using appropriate learning strategies.Student Feedback and Lessons LearnedEvery semester, the university administers the Student Perception of Instruction
studentsparticipating are performing, at baseline, approximately the same as other students in their age anddemographic range in terms of their quantitative score on instruments such as the EERI and DIT-2.Analysis of surveys completed both before and after the introduction of the game-based ethicaleducational interventions have not shown significant differences: changes in ethical reasoning afterformal engineering ethics instruction (either via games or through more traditional approaches likecase studies) show no significant changes and effect sizes are all small.Since student ethical reasoning as measured by these instruments seems stable over the course ofsingle semester, we planned to collect follow-up data from senior engineering students to see ifthere
tasks. It “involves solving problems,designing systems, and understanding human behavior” [3], all part of daily routine like trying tofigure out how to dress up or what to do when the water pipe in the bathroom breaks. Theseexamples involve identifying the problem and thinking of the best possible solution, breaking theoriginal problem into smaller tasks, reformulating the problem in a way it reminds us ofsomething we are familiar with, planning, learning, and developing an action plan in the presenceof uncertainty [3].Wing [4] comments that one of the most important aspects of CT is the concept of abstraction todefine patterns previously identified, generalize, and do a parametrization. The capacity toabstract is precisely what will allow
. This study showed apotential for black women to effectively identify with CS. One reason could be due to the natureof CS and the variety of spaces it provides to accommodate one’s interest. Moreover,establishing settings in CS that foster the equity and inclusion of black women may be vital toimprove representation. Aforementioned, support systems and mentorship opportunities couldassist in this effort, which could promote increased representation of black women inadministrative, managerial, and related positions of leadership in CS that could further motivateyounger black women to aspire to pursue careers in this field.To expand upon this study, it is the plan to explore specific problems and hurdles that racial,institutional, educational
networking, wikis, and alternate reality worlds have grown significantly. Some instructorsshare their course materials and teaching ideas broadly, which expands learning and educationequity. Online content such as open educational resources (OERs) have been developed to supporthigher education students. Open educational resources are teaching, learning, and researchmaterials, commonly in the digital medium and public domain; an open educational resource maybe released under an open license [1]. In other words, an OER allows others to access, use, adaptand redistribute the materials at no cost. An OER may include complete courses, individual courseunits or modules, textbooks, lesson plans, syllabi, lectures, assignments, game-based learningprograms
reflective exerciseon their own learning, with biosystems engineering students to identify skills and discoverprofessional ambitions [8], with multidisciplinary undergraduate student teams to address‘wicked’ problems [9], with teaching practitioners for assessment discussions [10], and withstaff in an Education School to identify university’s strategy and planning [11]. The use ofLSP opens the door to the externalization of ideas more explicitly, with a deeper meaning,facilitates internalization of new knowledge and accelerates socialization by structuring theinteractions within the group [9]. It opens the door to ‘play’, facilitates communication bylowering the barrier, putting people at ease which fosters students’ insights and self-awareness
ability to gain the perspective of thetarget audience. By gathering feedback from a broader range of participants, event organizerscan gain more accurate insights into visitor experiences and perceptions, which can inform futureevent planning and development that aligns with the target audience perspective. Thepreliminary results of the meme analysis show that meme creation has great potential as a way toexplore participants thinking, particularly for demographic groups that have a history of non-participation (teenagers and historically marginalized populations).Figure 2: Examples of memes created.In summary, the visual method used in this case study is the creation of memes by participants asa form of data collection and evaluation. The
collectively to gain ameaningful understanding of sociocultural phenomena reflected in their autobiographical data”[32, p. 23-4]. In our case, the autobiographical materials are our past experiences as women inengineering as well as the panel discussion transcript. The sociocultural phenomena we arestudying is the panel topic, the role of women in building diversity, equity, and inclusion inengineering.We plan to follow the iterative process outlined by Chang et al. [32] for conducting acollaborative autoethnography: data collection through both individual writing and reflection andgroup sharing (i.e., our panel discussion and subsequent meetings); and individual data review,coding, group meaning-making and theme search. Specifically, we plan to
-0.07 -0.10 0.00 0.02 0.73 -seem to be? (1.58)Significance and implicationsIncorporating opportunities for consequential agency into more traditional laboratoryexperiments is important and worthwhile, however, it is not well understood how and whatchoices would have the most impact on the student’s perception of agency. Therefore, weconducted exploratory factor analysis to evaluate a survey as a means to measure different facetsof agency. We found strong support for items measuring agency as responsibility, authenticity,agency in the communication domain, agency in the experimental design domain, andopportunity structure. In our ongoing work, we plan
criteria included predetermined end users, electrical/mechanicalcomponents that must be integrated into the escape room design, and floor plans to build.In this work, we assess student performance with the Creating Value Direct Assessment [18] inboth the standard and honors course sequences of our FYEP at the beginning (see Figure 1) ofthe Appendix for the first assessment) and end (see Figure 2 of the Appendix for the secondassessment) of the 2021 spring semester. The deployment of the assessment before contentcoverage supplied students an example scenario to identify points of value creation while thedeployment at the end of the academic year required students to identify a scenario based ontheir semester-long design project. Upon collection of
Engineering department. Coordinator of final year projects in the department and an enthusiast of Innovation.Dr. Justin J. Henriques Justin Henriques is an assistant professor in the Department of Engineering at James Madison Univer- sity. He holds a Ph.D. and M.S. in systems engineering, a masters in urban and environmental planning (M.U.E.P.), a B.S. in applied science, and a B.A. in pJoseph Towles, Swarthmore College Joseph Towles is a Lecturer jointly appointed in the Mechanical Engineering and Bioengineering De- partments at Stanford University. Joe completed his PhD in Mechanical Engineering at Stanford. Joe also completed a research post-doctoral fellowship in the Sensory Motor Performance Program at the
change impacts can bemitigated with urgent action to increase climate resiliency and drastically reduce greenhouse gasemissions. There is great need for sustainable development of our societies, which enables us tomeet our present needs “without compromising the ability of future generations to meet theirown needs” [2]. To achieve this, many industries must make changes to manufacturing andproduction methods in order to prioritize resource efficiency and reduction of emissions andwaste, while meeting demands of an increasing consumption population.In 2015, the United Nations adopted the “2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development”, providingan ambitious plan to address global problems, including climate change, environmental health,poverty, and
laboratory” tool of Open LMS was added to the project in designthinking methodology step. Using this tool, students can submit the initial seminar planning tobe evaluated by teachers and at the same time do peer review of other groups activities [18],[19], [20]. They can ask questions and made reflections about other groups activities sodeveloping critical thinking during this process before submitting the final seminarpresentation.The “evaluation laboratory” tool consists of a peer evaluation mechanism, enabling, in additionto sending open feedback, through suggestions, the elaboration of parameters for workevaluation (structured feedback). This resource can also contribute to issues related tointerpretation skills, critical analysis and the