clear thatincorporating futures thinking is a good approach to motivate first-year civil engineeringstudents into thinking for the future, thinking for the present, and raising awareness aboutpeople and society. It provides a good stepping-stone for civil engineering students todevelop their capacities to design for the future. Additional efforts to further and deepenstudents’ learning, however, will continue to be pursued. Bibliography1. Aktas, C. B. (2015). Reflections on interdisciplinary sustainability research with undergraduate students. Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 16(3), 354-366.2. ASCE: American Society of Civil Engineers. (2008). Civil engineering body of knowledge for the 21st century: Preparing the
guest lecturer issue.(3) Design the lightweight and more detailed version for each course module so that itwill take less lecture time and leave some work for student to do after class.AcknowledgementsThis material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation underAwards DUE-1140567, DUE-1141112, and DUE-1141200. Any opinions, findings, andconclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors anddo not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation. The authors alsothank the anonymous reviewers for their feedback.Reference:1. G. Bieber, L. Architect, and I. Ci. Introduction to service-oriented programming. In Openwings, 2001.http://www.openwings.org.2. P. Brusilovsky. Webex
and Exposition,Seattle, Washington. 10.18260/p.246415 Riley, Donna. Engineering and social justice. Chapter 2 “Mindsets in Engineering” Synthesis Lectures onEngineers, Technology, and Society 3.1 (2008): 33-45.6 Bandura, Albert. (1977). “Self-efficacy: Toward a unifying theory of behavioral change.” Psychological Review,Vol 84(2), Mar 1977, 191-215.Acknowledgment: This material is based upon work supported, in part, by the National ScienceFoundation, under grant 1256529. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendationsexpressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views ofthe National Science Foundation.For more on content of the course, see Riley, D., Grunert, J., Jalali, Y., Adams, S.G
suggests that much of thisknowledge is not taught explicitly, nor are students usually taught how to perform this complexintegration. Recent research in knowledge transfer also suggests that making explicit therelationship between a discipline’s ways of knowing and its central genres can help studentsrecognize when they can connect knowledge learned in one context to a new context, or adapt itfor a new purpose.8 Making key concepts visible and helping students to reflect on theapplication of those concepts in multiple contexts has also been shown to aid knowledge transferamong college students writing in different disciplines.9The implications of making disciplinary concepts and relationships explicit, either through theintroduction of “threshold
, stipends, when coming, more touch base with mentors ahead of time… • Use the companion course as a big stick… (Extrinsic motivation) for kids to perform while they are up there. Written explanations, experience, etc.According to the weekly journals and summative reflections from the Canvas course, theparticipating Native American students, said:Student 1: “I was apprehensive and had shaky confidence in my skill set to participate in thisprogram.” “Within these four short weeks I feel that I have grown much more than the person Iwas when we first started the program.”Student 4: “I do feel that I gained more confidence to compete in a global economy.” “The factthat they (mentors & facilitators) have confidence that we can make it
nature of work requires cooperation for organizational and career success. Civility can be instrumental in promoting the collaboration necessary for positive synergy. • Workforce composition: the American workforce has experienced a significant increase in diversity.21 Employment today reflects large numbers of women, minorities, persons with disabilities, immigrants, and people from different generations and with different education levels. Diversity and inclusion require civility in order for people to get along with each other and have equal career opportunities. Being treated in a respectful manner is a fundamental expectation of all employees.4. Laws and Policies Against Inappropriate
proctoring period.Furthermore, problems with variants can be used both for practice and for assessment.QuizPack, an automated assessment system for C programming was found to encourage practiceand enhancement accomplishment in programming when used in such circumstances5.We believe that the immediate feedback of Cody is most beneficial when the student is close tobeing able to complete a solution unaided -- the desired goal state of the learning. Using Cody’sfeedback to infer how to fix fundamental defects in algorithmic is not likely to be veryproductive use of time for the student. Stopping when Cody accepts a solution as correct alsodoes not encourage further reflection on code improvement that might be sorely needed if thesolution was obtained
one design situation togenerating more innovative or radical ideas in another design situation is an indication of theircapability for being flexible in their design approaches.In idea generation, a measure of flexibility can be thought of as the ability to apply a range ofapproaches, choosing the approach that best aligns with particular situational characteristics (asopposed to applying the same approach regardless of alignment with particular situationalcharacteristics). In our prior work, we utilized individual’s reflections on their ideation process toqualitatively characterize their approach and how that approach changed from on situation to thenext.7 We build on that work by focusing this study on developing a quantitative measure
learning skills. We will continue to iterate the designefforts. We will re-evaluate and re-design the project activities in order to help our studentsimprove their life-long learning skills and engineering attitudes in the upcoming semesters.Acknowledgement This material is supported by the National Science Foundation under HRD Grant No.1435073. Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations presented are those of theauthors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.References1. David, R., Frischknecht, A., Jensen, C. G., Blotter, J., and Maynes, D., 2006, “Contextual Learning of CAx Tools within a Fundamental Mechanical Engineering Curricula,” PACE Forum, Provo, UT, July.2. Palaigeorgiou, G. and
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students how to composeand deliver various modes of presentations effectively even as they worked on a fast-paceddesign project. These outcomes were reflected in the pre/post survey questions and guidedby the CDIO standards (CDIO, 2014). CDIO is an international engineering educationframework developed at MIT and adopted by Skoltech that focuses not only on the technicalknowledge an engineer must have but also on the professional, communication, andinterpersonal skills so essential to an engineer’s success.RATIONALE and PEDAGOGY:Oral presentation is often taught as if it is a single genre and as if one lecture canencompass all the complexities of that genre. In fact, oral presentation is a range of smallergenres with some striking and also subtle
thesame side and removes the adversarial nature of a traditional construction project. Therefore,these skills align with research on what BIM should look like. The final skill, writtencommunication, is important because of the nature of construction, being able to communicateintent and requirements efficiently through writing. This has been and will continue to be anecessity in the industry.DiscussionImplications for Construction Management EducationCurriculum developers and instructional designers should find this research particularly useful.In reflecting on the findings it is worthy to note that BIM education is not as simple as atechnical skill or learning a piece of software. On the contrary, true BIM education withinconstruction management
a comprehensive list of Case Studies, Class Exercises, and Video CaseStudies.3.1.1.1 Development MethodologyAn iterative development methodology depicted in Focus groups Decide on Active LearningFigure 1 was used to ensure the modules reflected both Contents and Formats (case study, class exercise, or case studyacademic research and industry best practices. The video)content development process began with a meeting of PI & Co-PI refine Contents Listthe focus groups at the author’s institution. The
reliability of each survey tool. To establish content validity,the NSSE relies on a panel of experts and uses student self-report data.31 In terms of reliability,NSSE has a reported value of 0.70 or higher for deep learning which includes higher-order,integrative, and reflective learning items.32 Reliability values close to or above 0.70 are generallyconsidered acceptable in statistical analysis.33 In terms of response process validity, NSSE usedcognitive interviews and focus groups to determine that the survey was valid for students ofdifferent races/ethnicities.34 ECAR has not published information on the validity or reliability ofits questionnaires.Since the present study relied on a newly constructed assessment tool, a panel of experts wasused to
was supported by the College of Engineering at the University of Illinois atUrbana-Champaign. This work was also supported by the National Science Foundation undergrants DUE-1347722 and CMMI-1150490. The opinions, findings, and conclusions presented inthis paper do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation or the authors’institution.Bibliography [1] M. M. Lombardi. Making the grade: The role of assessment in authentic learning. EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative, 2008. [2] J. Reeve. Why teachers adopt a controlling motivating style toward students and how they can become more autonomy supportive. Educational Psychologist, 44:159–175, 2009. [3] F. Marton and S. Booth. Learning and Awareness. New York: Lawrence
% 30.80% Table 5. Shows the results of answers for question 5In addition to results shown in Table 5 reflecting what other commitments students have everyweek, an average of Work/Family/Other commitments was calculated with results showing anaverage of 52.1 hours committed to activities per student. Table 6 shown below displays thestudents’ preference by grouping the answers from question one into two groups. These twogroups being prefer and not prefer. Advising System Type System Type at least Preferred not preferred no answer Face 2 Face 87.90% 12.10% 0.00% Mobile 70.10
number offemale students enrolled in engineering. As a new program, we had to demonstrate (1) suchtraining would be beneficial in the retention of our engineering students and (2) could be beoffered with minimal use of resources. Over 14 semesters TCC investigated several methods andformats to structure such a program (see Figure 1).The variety of methods reflects attempts to balance the two objectives above, with the politicaladministrative landscape at TCC toward adopting spatial visualization into curriculumrequirements. If the benefits could be shown, would spatial visualization become a required skillassessment tool, like existing math placement tests? Or would spatial visualization fit better arequired 1-credit course? Despite impressive
address the complex problems faced by civilization today. It requires looking atthe world’s problems in a more holistic way and being able to interact with a wide range oftechnical and non-technical stakeholders from various disciplines and walks-of-life, rather thanremaining in traditional silos of technical expertise and schools of thought. This newepistemology of engineering education also promotes reflective and adaptive practice, systemthinking, engagement, and fieldwork. Finally, it promotes a humanization of the engineeringprofession and emphasizes that engineering is above all - and has always been - about people.Analyzing the integrated nature of the SDGsIntegrating the SDGs in engineering education requires developing a curriculum with
costly,and eventually were stopped or replaced with traditional lectures. Nonetheless, these studies andattempts had a significant contribution in underlying the importance of practical approaches inconveying knowledge to students in heat transfer and thermodynamics courses, which traditionallyare dry-lecture based. Moreover, the contribution of thermal-fluids energy systems performancein global sustainable development is substantial but was not emphasized until recently. Thereforeit may not be reflected in the already developed learning modules for these traditional courses.Our team re-developed our thermal-fluid related courses in Engineering Technology curricula byincluding several modules involving industry-like scenarios as laboratory
get a better indication of student opinion about theeffectiveness of these activities, a survey was administered at about the mid-point of the course.Students agreed (4.2 / 5.0, n = 95) that the hands-on learning activities completed to that pointwere contributing to their learning. As shown in Figure 9, student opinion increased slightly (4.3/ 5.0, n = 227) by the end of the term when the same question was asked again on the course-end-feedback survey. Figure 9 Student feedback on value of hands-on learning activities (1-strongly disagree, 2-agree, 3-neither agree nor disagree, 4-agree, 5-strongly agree)Many of the student comments on the mid-term feedback survey reflected a positive opinion ofthe hands-on activities. A few
personalcomputer in the 1980s and the obvious possibility of using the computer as an automated form oftutor, or as an “intelligent tutoring system” (ITS). [42] An ITS is “any computer system thatperforms teaching or tutoring functions (e.g., selecting assignments, asking questions, givinghints, evaluating responses, providing feedback, prompting reflection, providing comments thatboost student interest) and adapts or personalizes those functions by modeling students’cognitive, motivational or emotional states.” [31] As might be expected, STEM topics – andcomputer science in particular – proved well-suited to these modeling efforts. Not only werecomputer scientists the ones designing the computers in the first place, but they were alsooperating in a
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name. As indicated byLeydens, 20% to 40% of the work hours are spent in writing for engineers in the first few yearsin their career, which increases to 50% to 70% when they are promoted to middle managementpositions and over 70% and even to 95% when in senior management positions. This reflects thefact that technical writing is a skill set providing a life-long career benefit7. Thus, technicalwriting should be included in the curriculum throughout the whole higher education system. Onthe other hand, numbers of Chinese students are growing to study abroad, especially going toEnglish speaking countries such as US and UK. According to the news8, the number ofinternational students in US reached over one million in 2016. Among all international
activities to develop students’ reasoning skills and therefore, increase engineeringstudents’ physics learning.IntroductionScientific reasoning refers to “cognitive abilities such as critical thinking and reasoning” (Bao etal, 2009, p. 586) or “skills involved in inquiry, experimentation, evidence evaluation, andinference that are done in the service of conceptual change or scientific understanding”(Zimmerman, 2007). It is needed in problem solving situations and requires methods of scientificinquiry such as the cycle of analysis, testing, reflection and revision, in order to construct adeeper understanding of the situation. Scientific thinking is “purposeful thinking that has theobjective of enhancing the seeker’s knowledge” (Kuhn, 2010, p. 2).To
classrooms with the intention of helping students use technology in a meaningful way.The student ‘swriting above reflects an approach to teaching engineering undergraduatestudents, which integrates social and ethical considerations into their understanding ofengineering. Applying the lenses and language of ANT to the teaching of engineeringethics, elucidates for students the complexity of inter-relationships inherent in allengineering practice.V. ConclusionIn introducing and including ANT as a tool of analysis in the STS 2500 course, studentscame to appreciate the relational dynamics of ethics among and between human and non-human “actants” within the larger socio-technical network of assisted reproductivetechnology. Through the lens of ANT
previously incomplete. Chepén’s officials stated that the studentscarried out a conscientious work and had a positive valuation of the information collectedfrom local actors. Interviewee 2 stated that all the students’ work had been very fruitful interms of reflecting what the residents said, which had not been addressed in a comprehensivemanner previously due to lack of specialists.The students’ projects were feasible, consistent and applicable to the actual city context,which was highly appreciated by the city officials. During the workshop’s closure, the Mayorsaid that the municipality’s contingency plans were being drawn up using the course projectsas reference.In interviews, the former students of the course stated that they have substantially
student will receive an email from the app askingher to log into the system and answer the question by a deadline, typically 24-36 hours awayfrom the time the homework is posted, with the deadline also being listed in the email. Theapp will require the student to make a specific choice –such as “domain” or “problem” or “so-lution”, and to include a brief justification as part of her answer. We will refer to this as thestudent’s initial submission. Note, these initial submissions are made by individual students andeach reflects the particular student’s (initial/current) conception of the problem. Also, a studentcan log back in any time before the deadline and modify her answer if she wants to. Figure 2shows the initial submission made by one of
. Interdisciplinary courses instructions and learning are closely tied to each other.Constructive feedback from engineering educators in different expertise areas are gratefullyappreciated and sincerely thanked by the authors. The voice, opinions and remarks conveyed inthe paper does not reflect any organization’s endorsement but purely the authors’ ownobservations and comments.REFERENCES1. Akili W. (2006) CASE STUDIES IN GEOTECHNICAL/FOUNDATION ENGINEERING: ENGAGING STUDENTS AND BRINGING THE PRACTICE INTO THE CLASSROOM, 2006-7842. Castro, G. (1975), “Liquefaction and Cyclic Mobility of Saturated Sands”. Journal of the Geotechnical Engineering Division, ASCE, Vol 101, No. GT6, pp 551-569.3. Castro, G. and Poulos, S. J. (1977). “Factors Affecting
featured on site can be viewed in Appendix D. Upon completion of the Interactive Safety Training Tool, the user’s earned points aretotaled and can be viewed by the user at the top left corner of the screen throughout the training.A score of greater than, or equal to70% results in a passing score reflecting the pass requirementfor the OSHA 10-Hour/OSHA 30-Hour tests. The total score is based on a calculation of 30 totalpoints, from 15 questions, with a maximum of two points earned from each. As shown in Figures13 and 14, text will appear letting the user know whether they passed and what percentage wasearned. At this time, the user can try again, as mentioned earlier, or end the training. Tryingagain will reset the training for the user