12.775.9Calculus I and II, Differential Equations, Physics I and II, Chemistry I and II, Earth andEnvironmental Systems, Engineering Design, Statics, Thermodynamics, technical writing, andbegin early-level disciplinary courses in the second semester of the sophomore year.Among their challenges: adapting to the intensity of a pre-engineering curriculum and learning toadjust their expectations of themselves in relation to their peers. Because they have previouslyidentified themselves by their high grade point averages and high class standings among highschool peers, a common adjustment MT students must make is recognizing that not everyone canremain at the top of this new environment. Because all students on this campus are high-achieving, sometimes
junioryear, students apply the engineering design process to explore a problem of their interest. Overthis semester, each team crafts a problem statement, conducts market research, creates detailedspecifications, performs a feasibility study, evaluates alternative approaches, and pitches theiridea to a panel of peers and faculty advisors. The teams also write a series of project reports, anda panel of faculty advisors evaluates and provides detailed feedback on these reports. Thecapstone sequence is inspired by an entrepreneurial funding model, so student teams areguaranteed a set minimum amount of funds and compete for shares of a finite pool of additionalfunds.Occasionally, teams determine that their proposal is not feasible within the constraints
distribute one week to teach a simpleintroduction. The detailed topics about GVS usually are taught for math majors in a secondor an advanced version of a linear algebra course. Considering our audience are engineeringstudents, it is evident that numerical applications are preferred. The discoveries from thementioned peer institutes also validated such revision. Secondly, we add numerical compo-nents, which are not included in PTC . There are four parts for the newly added numericalcomponent: MATLAB live script for instructors to teach, MATLAB practice problems ingroup worksheet during each class meeting, coding basic concepts in MATLAB Grader, andMATLAB application projects in MATLAB Grader. By writing MATLAB programs, stu-dents have to imagine the
undergraduate research, the students as the newcomers workunder the direction of faculty mentors and graduate students as the old-timers. The old-timersprovide expertise and resources to enable the student newcomer to engage in the practice ofresearch. Peer undergraduate researchers being a part of the research laboratory community alsoplay a key role in fostering a successful experience. Figure 1 illustrates the data collected duringthis effort in the context of the CoP theoretical framework. The two main tools utilized were theNational Engineering Students’ Learning Outcomes Survey (NESLOS) and weekly self-reflective journal entries. The figure illustrates that pre-NESLOS was administered at thebeginning of the REU experience (during the first day
published and presented work on a variety of topics, including assessment instruments and methodologies, using technology in the classroom, faculty development in instructional design, teaching diversity, and peer coaching. Utschig completed his Ph.D. in nuclear engineering at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, where he worked on safety issues for fusion reactor designs.Dr. Judith Shaul Norback, Georgia Institute of Technology Judith Shaul Norback received her B.A. from Cornell magna cum laude and her master’s and Ph.D. from Princeton. She has worked in the area of workplace communication skills for 25 years, starting at Edu- cational Testing Service in 1987, then founding and directing the Center for Skills Enhancement
to do better in their coursework than their younger, moretraditionally-aged peers. While it may be enticing to attribute such observationsto the older students merely being more mature, experienced, and focused, couldthere also be other drivers contributing to these trends?Background Many researchers have studied brain development in humans. Untilrecently, the physiology of brain development was not known. It was thoughtthat beyond the prenatal stage, there were no large-scale changes and thatdevelopment continued along a straight-line trajectory. (C., 2009). It turns out,however, that this is not the case. Certain brain regions are now known todevelop faster than others. The emotional capacity of the brain develops anddominates when
objects.Dr. Scott T. Huxtable, Virginia TechMr. Sathyanarayanan Subramanian, Virginia Tech I am a Graduate Mechanical Engineer at Virginia Tech, specializing in Thermal-Fluid Sciences.Prof. Zahed Siddique, University of Oklahoma Zahed Siddique is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the School of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering of University of Oklahoma. His research interest include product family design, advanced material and engineering education. He is interested in motivation of engineering students, peer-to-peer learning, flat learning environments, technology assisted engineering education and experiential learning. He is the coordinator of the industry sponsored capstone from at his school and is the advisor
underrepresented students develop the skills and writing habits to complete doctorate degrees in engineering. Across all of her research avenues, Dr. Matusovich has been a PI/Co-PI on 12 funded research projects including the NSF CAREER Award with her share of funding be ingnearly $2.3 million. She has co-authored 2 book chapters, 21 journal publications and more than 70 conference papers. She has won several Virginia Tech awards including a Dean’s Award for Outstanding New Faculty, an Outstanding Teacher Award and a Faculty Fellow Award. She holds a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Cornell University, an M.S. in Materials Science from the University of Connecticut and a Ph.D. in Engineering Education from Purdue
skills, with light coverage of actual problem solving anddesign strategies or heuristics. As the first truly comprehensive chemical engineering course, thecurrent content is a blend of a review of principles and some concepts of integration of skills. Itis still delivered in a lecture-driven, teacher-centered format, and the communications componentis heavily reliant on rather lengthy written reports. Our student teams do benefit from beingmentored by program alumni working in industry, which provides an element of exposure to thereal world, but overall the course may be summarized as a bit of creative effort followed by agreat deal of computation and technical writing. Therefore, we revitalized the course with thegoal to ● focus more
and communication with technical and non-technical peers. Students worked in teamsof three and four to solve ill-defined problems presented by the instructor. Topics coveredConstruction Waste, Energy Efficiency in Buildings, Recycling Education, PublicTransportation, and Campus Transit. Deliverables, including a technical report, an oralpresentation, and an analytical reflection, were used as data for this project. Students weresurveyed to assess their perceptions of problem-based learning. There were seventy-twoparticipants over three semesters. One preliminary result from both the survey and qualitativedata is that students felt confident about working with others from different disciplines. Studentsmostly commented positively about their
other support services havefemales received to make the decision to study in the STEM discipline? All necessary procedurefor investigation/survey of human subject will be followed throughout the study. Before startingassessment and evaluation studies approval from internal Human Subject Review Boards atXXX University will be obtained. All necessary written consents will be obtained.Confidentiality throughout the study will be maintained.Study will be conducted in three phases- phase I will be pilot survey for further study. Phase IIwill be interviewing participant from the phase I and conducting workshops and field trip. PhaseIII will be post-survey and using the finding from study to recruit more graduate students inSTEM discipline. Also write
the average level of studentratings in the IDEA national database. Also, classroom attendance and passing rates were higherin the experimental classes than the rates in the traditional classes.IntroductionEducational research in the late 20th century has seen the evolution of unconventional teachingmethods like co-operative learning, peer instruction, critical thinking exercises, and classroom Page 10.1075.1assessment.1-8 Patricia Cross,9 a leading educator, indicated in her American Association ofHigher Education’s (AAHE’s) 1998 National Conference keynote address that, “We have moreProceedings of the 2005 American Society for
, and peer evaluations.Logical ReasoningWe teach logical reasoning and thinking methods to solve problems related to engineeringprinciples. The textbook written by Wales and Stager3 gives the examples, step by step, to showhow engineering problems are solved logically. Students are able to complete a series ofequations with correct calculations and engineering units. We also introduce the logical thinkingmethod into students’ report writing and engineering graphics processes.Filed TripsWe arranged several field trips to industrial companies around this area and met with theengineers there. Students found out what daily jobs there are for engineers and what future careerthey could have.Students commented, that "You never stop learning in this
lost in differentlecture styles or written material. The college students being the coaches of each video comparesto peer-teaching which can enrich the learning experience by offering an additional layer ofsupport and engagement alongside the expertise of professors. These videos were intended not as replacements for the lecture materials but ascomplementary resources to reinforce newly acquired knowledge for a deeper understanding.Further, they would serve as valuable review tools not only for students currently enrolled butalso for upperclassmen seeking to refresh their programming skills. This enhances conceptretention and increases student engagement, potentially leading to improved attendance,participation, and grades in computer
the same time, knowing whatactions and individual characteristics lead to acceptance in a graduate program and an eventualacademic career assists students in navigating their engineering careers towards academia. Inother words, a program participant who begins to be viewed by professors and peers as aresearcher, as ―graduate school bound;‖ who talks about what she will do as a professor; whogoes to academic conferences and studies for the GRE could be seen as accepting the pathwaytowards the professoriate.Individuals‘ learning pathways in a community arise from multiple factors related to thecommunity‘s routine practices and the individual‘s historically-developed dispositions andambitions.18 The local community, or the specific group of
usefulpromoting the knowledge and concepts of machine learning and skills.AI among my high school peers. I made sure the club waswelcoming for beginners but still challenging for students whoalready had experience. II. STRATEGIES FOR GROWTHThese efforts didn’t just grow the club’s size; they also made it a To attract more members, I implemented a multifacetedgreat place to learn and connect with others who are passionate marketing strategy [2]. I created eye-catching posters andabout technology. This experience shows how students can start posted them around the school, highlighting the benefits ofand grow a successful club by being
andwith their faculty mentor, as this has been shown by prior works to be a good way to improvepersistence and success [7], [12], [16]. Faculty mentors also selected an upper-divisionundergraduate student to serve as a teaching assistant and peer mentor during the activity. Thefaculty mentor, peer mentor, and participants received a stipend for participating in the program.The last half-day of the program was a career skills workshop organized by CSUB’s careereducation center. Students learned skills related to resume writing, job searching, and interviewsfrom career counselors. Students were also introduced to CSUB’s job portal.Assessment ToolsAcademic progress of all participants was monitored through CSUB’s enrollment managementsystem. Grant
. When a member of your team asks about the resolution to the design concerns, the P.E. tells your colleague that if they raise the concern again the P.E. will have them fired. [Question 1. Likert scale, responses choices: very unethical, somewhat unethical, neither ethical or unethical, somewhat ethical, very ethical] Please select the response that best describes how you interpret the ethics of this scenario. • [Q01.1] How ethical do you think it is for the P.E. to act this way? • [Q01.2] How ethical would your peers think it is for the P.E. to act this way? • [Q01.3] How ethical would current engineering professionals think it is for the P.E. to act this way?Scenario 2: Code SharingHaving been edited since the
-ended questions about the Guild usingthematic analysis. The findings demonstrated that the participants perceived the workshop asvaluable and enabled them to see how computing can be a medium to solve problems of humaninterest as well as a tool of self-expression. In particular, participants reported that the empatheticassistance given by the peer mentors made the learning process smoother, thus making itinspiring, engaging, and less intimidating. Going forward, more experiments and fine-tuning areneeded to continue to scale and improve the Guild. However, we hope the description of ourworkshop and findings from our investigation encourage other researchers and educators toconsider similar approaches to engage women and non-binary students in
College Writing Program which provides a student Writing Associate toprovide additional guidance to students, and by the College Library which assigns a researchlibrarian to work with each section to develop research skills.The FYS was a promising context for our foundational interdisciplinary project-basedlearning experience for the same reasons such seminars are effective pedagogically and“high-impact” [14]. They engage students with faculty and with their peers in formal andinformal conversations “about substantive matters, typically over an extended period of time”[15].To our College’s standard FYS learning outcomes related to writing and information literacy,we added three additional learning outcomes: that after completing this class
Américas Puebla (UDLAP).Problems vary in different ways, so different kinds of problems call on different conceptions andskills 2-4. Based on those differences among problems, different kinds of food engineeringproblems were developed such as decision-making, troubleshooting/diagnosis, and designproblems. For seven PSLEs' assignments an Argumentation Rubric (adapted from Jonassen2),was utilized to assess students' (n=81) argumentation skills, particularly adequacy of premises,credibility of premises, organization of arguments, quality of conclusions (claims), and writing(content/ideas). Four evaluators assessed student papers and videos. Furthermore, the mostcommon method for assessing argumentation, protocol analysis of student essays or
earlier in their college career – ideally their first year.In response to this feedback, with the support of the Pieper Foundation(srpieperfamilyfoundation.com), and under the leadership of an endowed professorship forServant Leadership, we created and launched a pilot course in Fall 2011 for 25 incomingfirst year students. One course enrollment slot was open during each summer orientationsession until the course filled. Quickly we had a waiting list of additional students wantingto enroll, so in Spring and Fall 2012, the enrollment cap expanded to 35. Each time thecourse filled to capacity. As we write this paper, we are considering feasible models to
first workshop by Lindsay Marshall was focused onhelping PhD students overcome barriers to writing their dissertation, which is a source of anxietyfor PhD students and was a topic requested by members of the program. Students learned aboutmethods to organize their writing and overcome writing blocks. Resources for PhD graduatestudents to support their thesis writing were also shared with the group. The second workshopwas on time management for the busy student offered by the UIC Wellness Center. Finally, therewas a seminar on leadership by Dr. Jarrad Hampton-Marcell on science and being competitive inSTEM. We had a seminar on how to prepare for the postdoctoral search and maximizing theexperience as part of supporting their professional
consider, which was the ArchivalPublication Authors, a National Science Foundation sponsored workshop hosted by theAmerican Association for Engineering Education. 2“The aim of the APA1 is to facilitate growth in manuscript writing skills and anunderstanding of the review process, leading to the development and refinement of newmanuscripts that are intended to be submitted for publication in a peer-reviewed journal.The APA will include instructor-led sessions and panels and interactive breakout sessionswith writing teams and mentors. Specifically, the workshop was designed to:1.Use ASEE journal solicitations to contextualize content;2.Challenge teams to draft
% Lack of infrastructure 15% Concerns about the review process 13% Difficulty finding collaborators 5% Percentage of total responses Other factors 8% Figure 1. Factors preventing MSI faculty securing NSF CISE funding (n=104).When respondents spoke about time issues, their concerns centered around time needed to (a)cover their heavy teaching loads, (b) pursue research funding opportunities, (c) write proposals,and (d) conduct the research. A couple of responses alluded to poor timing of submissiondeadlines. Lack of time due to heavy teaching loads was the most frequently mentioned
, andis working to eliminate barriers to participation, create a space that respects diverse traditions,heritages, and experiences, as well as promote diversity in all staff, volunteers, and audiences (C4DISC,n.d.). How do we increase diversity on editorial boards and pools of peer reviewers for EER journals?Other important considerations include how we refer to gender, disability, race and ethnicity, amongother characteristics, in our publications. The American Psychological Association (APA) has provided anonline guide based on their updated 7th Edition Handbook about bias-free language and urges authors to“to use language that is free of bias and avoid perpetuating prejudicial beliefs or demeaning attitudes intheir writing” (APA, n.d.). But
learning, expressed in the student reflections (LS), can instructors assess from individual assignments? Question 3: Do students whose reflections on doing are assessed to be more insightful focus on different “doings” than their peers? What can we infer by text mining the data about the ways that ‘insightful’ students write their LS? We anticipate certain patterns to emerge, given our intentional effort to tie eachassignment to successive POED over the course of the design process; see Figure 1. We are alsointerested in the degree to which the evolving focus in the course design is reflected in thestudent learning. Based on our prior work, we expect both team formation, concept
toothbrush. Students will beexpected to write a report with detailed description of all steps taken during the development ofthe prosthetic limb.Once we perfect the prosthetic arm, the same process can be applied to development of otherlimbs such as arms or legs. This project will benefit patients with disabilities and improve theirday-to-day lives at a fraction of the cost of current solutions.MotivationThe purpose of this project is to help low-income families’ children who have a disabled handand to expand students’ awareness of societal needs. With this project, students demonstrate thelearning and knowledge gained from the different sources, such as using Arduino board to designa myoelectric prosthetic arm. It is therefore important to show the
traditionalhomework in engineering education occurred [1-4], but the overwhelming majority ofengineering faculty members believe that homework is an indispensable component in thecourses they teach. As an analogy, students majoring in English need to write many essays forpractice, and they cannot master the skill of writing just by learning various writing skills andreading novels. In the same way, engineering students cannot grasp the necessary knowledge andskills without the struggling process in solving homework problems [5].Almost all the publishers of the textbooks provide the solution manuals to the instructors, andunfortunately, these materials are leaked to students through the internet. Some websites eveninvite students to provide quiz and exam
substituted by a professional portfolio including reports and drawings that weresubmitted to the company - 25% of the final grade), final Power Point Presentation (PPT to bemade to the peers from the same section of ENGR 490x - 10% of the final grade), journal andlog (25% of the final grade). Supervisor feedback (35% of the final grade) is critical. Eachstudent is required to have a supervisor, direct or indirect supervisor, who is aware of student’sperformance. Supervisors are determined by the companies at which students are employed. Forthe internal research projects, supervisors are determined by the students as they choose theirproject and the owner of it. The supervisor is approached (most likely through phone contact ande-mail) for both