to identify and adopt the individual, college anduniversity level practices most likely to support minority engineering persistence.Context & BackgroundNational leadership and STEM outreach to produce talent for the knowledge economy areat the highest levels, with the President of the United States championing STEMeducation in eight consecutive “State of the Union” addresses (2008-2016). The resulthas been an important resurgence in awareness of STEM careers, particularly inengineering, as reflected in the quadrupling of size of a large public university’s Collegeof Engineering the past 10 years.However in spite of the growth, the college’s struggle to graduate more engineers mirrorslongstanding challenges to reduce attrition, retain and
academic levels, reflecting the different‘constituencies’ the engineering students may see in the workplace.The Western New England University football team consists of 125 players, including a largenumber of first-year students who need to be acclimated to the team and its culture. The team isstructured around eight position groups, representing skill-area specialists-- quarterbacks,receivers, running backs, offensive line, defensive line, linebackers, cornerbacks, and safeties.For each of the sub-groups, there is a designated captain, an experienced, upper-class player whohelps guide the development and performance of that segment of the squad. Last fall, three of thecaptains were upper-class engineers: captains of the offensive line, defensive
is contrasted with traditionalclassroom techniques. The assessment methodology and results are presented alongwith student reflection evidence.Program Goals The primary goals of the 3DS program are to teach students skills in the area ofentrepreneurship and to foster an innovative and entrepreneurial mindset on theuniversity campus. A number of outcomes are possible through the program both from astudent and a faculty/staff perspective (Figure 1). Figure 1: Potential outcomes from a 3DS event for both students and faculty/staff.Program Structure The program centered on a three day experiential learning activity starting on a Fridayat 4PM and continuing until Sunday night at around 8PM (Figure 2). The bulk of
MapsConcept maps have been widely applied as a heuristic tool in engineering education to promotemeaningful knowledge structures for students. A concept map allows a student to organize acollection of concepts and to identify/present the relationships between each other using a graph3- 4 . Studies suggest that concept mapping be a valid tool to categorize and to reflect changes instudents’ structures of knowledge in STEM disciplines 3, 5. However, concept maps emphasizethe macro relationships among concepts and may not reflect students’ understandings of anindividual concept.Concept inventories referred to here comprise of a series of instruments for the assessment ofstudents’ conceptual understanding of STEM disciplines. The questions were
Paper ID #12492Exploring Ethical Validation as a Key Consideration in Interpretive ResearchQualityDr. Joachim Walther, University of Georgia Dr. Walther is an assistant professor of engineering education research at the University of Georgia (UGA). He is a director of the Collaborative Lounge for Understanding Society and Technology through Educational Research (CLUSTER), an interdisciplinary research group with members from engineering, art, educational psychology and social work. His research interests range from the role of empathy in engineering students’ professional formation, the role of reflection in
only one idea; and enact design as a sequence of steps in their searchfor a solution. Our review of the literature indicates a wide range in students’ abilities toengage in engineering: in some instances, students demonstrate an “uncannycompetence” to resolve ambiguities and “exploit the open-ended situations in aproductive way,” (Roth, 1995, p. 378), while at others, they “can be unaware or unwaryof the potential for cascading complexity” (Crismond & Adams, 2012, p. 747).Our research on the Novel Engineering project reflects similar contrasts in studentengagement11, 23. For example, we have found that some students may consider multipledimensions of the design situation and develop optimal solutions for their clients17, whileothers
, and Shake Table Survival. Engineering Design Process This process is used to guide students through the STEM EDA curriculum Build a prototype for the design chosen in Step 4 while encouraging teamwork, critical thinking, and creativity. and utilize the iterative nature of design. Test the prototype on the shake table and evaluate its performance. Reflect on the performance of the prototype and suggest improvements and redesigns of the
other 21 Century Skills. • It meets common core and next generation science standards.More information and resources for implementation can be found at novelengineering.org. Page 26.1097.2 This project is funded by the National Science Foundation DRK-12 program, grant # DRL-1020243. Any opinion, findings,conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.
applied within themodern engineering education framework. While this may be a novel treatment, it does not gofar enough in addressing Heidegger’s critics and contemporaries – something we will attemptthrough using a lens borrowed from Jaspers’ work – that of his interpretation of existence andmeaning. In order to further ground this philosophical treatment, we will bring into play keyarguments of Husserl’s metaphysics, which contain constructs still relevant to a modernengineering philosophy. Finally, we hope to integrate the three in a manner relevant colleagueswithin engineering education and beyond. Whereas recently I reflected upon the developments in engineering philosophy broughtabout by a few colleagues with reference to core
of the reflection when theengineering students and the beginning teachers reflected on the engineering design process theyimplemented during the activity. They compared this to the mathematical practice standards theyare expected to implement throughout their classrooms. What occurred during this discussionwere many connections among the different aspects of these two descriptions. They sawconnections between the mathematical expectations to make sense of the problem and theengineering process of identifying the needs and constraints. They linked the mathematicalstandards of reasoning abstractly and constructing viable arguments to the engineering processesof developing possible solutions and selecting promising solutions. With the
held up as an exemplar demonstrating the difficulties inherent in assessingthe graduate attributes, particularly the ones that reflect the professional or workplace skills ofengineers. Some consider lifelong learning an outcome best measured a priori: in other words, itis cogitated as an aptitude that students will best epitomize once they are graduated and workingas professional engineers. However, the knowledge, skills, behaviours, attitudes and values thatengender lifelong learning are indeed present in our students, and one of the most effective waysto activate and observe this attribute is to engage students in discussions regarding theirexperiences and perceptions of their learning. This paper presents the findings from a
Things (IoT) Central Enabler Smart Factory HiFi representation of Entrepreneurship products & production systems Additive Manufacturing Simulates Physical and Internet of Things Programmed behaviors Drives Physical Things New Manufacturing Methods Digests Parameters from Physical World to Demand Based production reflect actual stage
reflect thecurrent state of the profession’s identity. BOKs are dynamic, and must be systematically distilledand monitored as collection of activities and outcomes representing a profession’s most currentvalues, constructs, models, principles and instantiations. This monitoring entails continuousdiscovery and validation work by members of the profession with a goal of self-reflection andreproduction of the profession [6]. BOKs, then, are competency taxonomies that are specific butinclusive; updated and refined, i.e., “curated,” as profession changes; and guide, but not dictate,professional education, professional learning, and assessment. Professionals are not meant tomaster the breadth of the competencies in a BOK, but focus on the depth of
. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Storytelling And Utopia AsResistance To Marginalization Of African American Engineers At A PWI Chanel Beebe April 2019 WATCH AND REFLECT https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RD2o6soOe1I How did that make you feel? What stuck with you? What did you see? Key pointsEducation should prioritize active learning and embodied knowledgeEducational opportunities are different for different groups of people Marginalization exists AGENDA• My Story• Background of Project• Phase 1 and Phase 2• Phase 3• Summary of Findings• Recommendations• TakeawaysPROJECT BACKGROUND: MY
understanding was further underscored in an ASEE Distinguished Lecturesession that I organized with Matt King, Facebook’s lead accessibility engineer. As he told meabout his transition into his blindness, he rhetorically asked me, “What do you do with thesighted blind kid?” His simple question validated my own feelings and experiences of trying tomake sense of my new identity. I often feel compelled to tell my story when asked about my research because of theirintertwined and reciprocal nature. As part of a community that is simultaneously sighted andblind (as reflected in the group’s emerging use of the hashtag: #itscomplicated), I recognize thatthe seemingly simple labels of blind or disabled are highly nuanced and context-dependent
other words, the experience of relationality and ethical concern are ontologically priorto defining engineering’s role in a given moment. Returning to one of our recent publications [1],I would argue that we first feel and experience what is going on before we can reflectively thinkabout such experience. We feel and experience relationships with all that we encounter in a givenevent, and we are affected by those encounters. Responsibilities, obligations, and valuations arisetherefrom. In being affected by the multiplicity within an encounter, there is significant potentialfor conflict and difficulties associated with assigning/identifying value(s). Once the experienceoccurs, we objectify it, mine it for information, and seek to address it
engineering degree attainment, even controllingfor undergraduate cumulative GPA [12].Expectancy-Value FrameworkBoth individual characteristics and social factors influence STEM trajectories [13]. Using theexpectancy-value achievement model by Eccles and Wigfield [14], we frame thesecharacteristics as part of a cohesive framework designed to reflect the myriad factors thatcontribute to students’ ultimate academic choices. In the expectancy-value framework, threeoverarching factors contribute to educational and career choices: 1) psychological factors, 2)biological factors, and 3) socialization factors. These three components jointly predictachievement behavior and choices (e.g. selection of a major). For the purposes of this paper, wefocus primarily
lower empathetic designtendency scores? This study was conducted in a junior-level design course of 76 BME students.We collected and analyzed three data sources: students’ self-reflection reports about theirreframing processes, empathic design tendency scores, and interviews with selected teams andinstructors. The results demonstrated that more than half of the students perceived the connectionbetween empathy and their reframing decisions and that they usually had one reframing momentin the stages of problem definition and concept identification. Also, the findings suggested thetriggers for their reframing moments, information sources guiding their reframing processes,changes made through reframing, and influences of reframing decisions on team
categories of change:dissemination, reflective, policy and shared vision [12]. The implementation of Scrum intodepartmental operations, encourages engineering department to engage in each of these changestrategies (Table 1) Table 1. Elements of Scrum associated with change strategies (adapted from Henderson, Beach, & Finkelstein, [11]) I. Dissemination Tactic: II. Reflective Tactic: • Scrum training • Daily Scrum • Instructional training • Sprint planning • Internal dissemination of knowledge • Sprint review • Scrum artifacts data share • Sprint retrospective III. Policy Tactic: IV. Shared Vision
training: 1. Process-based: case studies and group problem solving 2. Awareness-raising and reflection 3. A confidential and brave forum to share the collective experience of mentors across a range of experiences 4. Distribute and adapt resources to improve mentoringStandard Competencies• Aligning expectations• Maintaining effective communication• Addressing equity and inclusion• Assessing understanding• Fostering independence• Cultivating ethical behavior• Promoting professional development• Promoting self-efficacy• Fostering wellbeing (beta)Adaptations for Career Stage
phenomena related to the hypothesis. __________Experimental TestingThese students designed the data collection, and visited the Gait Analysis and InnovativeTechnologies Lab to collect the biomechanical data. The students observed clinicians attachingsix reflective devices to the experimental subject. In one data protocol, the subject lifted a tenpound weight with both right and left arms ten times. For this experimental protocol, the subjecthad 6 reflective markers attached and one to the weight being lifted. The subject then performedten pushups. The students noticed no visual change in the form or velocity of the pushups. Thesubject repeated this process again with the same result. The students modified the protocol toincrease the number of
mid 1990s with emphasis being placed onoutcomes assessment using externally-normed tests such as FE/EIT, Missouri Western alsoadopted externally-normed tests such as AIC (American Institute of Constructors), NICET(National Institute for Certification in Engineering Technologies), and SME (Society ofManufacturing Engineering) for its programs in construction, electronics, and manufacturingrespectively. Students’ performance in these nationally-normed tests did not match thecompetence levels reflected in the grades of the students. Soon it was discovered that the contentof these external tests, especially in AIC and SME tests, was not aligned with MissouriWestern’s curriculum in certain areas. A decision was made to revert back to the in
Civil Engineers(ASCE), the BOK makes recommendations on “what should be taught to and learned by futurecivil engineering students.” These recommendations are delineated in 15 outcomes. The first 11outcomes reflect verbatim those currently used by the Accreditation Board for Engineering andTechnology (ABET) 4. Four new outcomes (Outcomes 12-15), “address technical specialization,project management, construction, asset management, business and public policy andadministration, and leadership.” Commentaries and descriptions of competencies explain eachoutcome. Outcome 12 “reflects the additional technical specialization4“and Outcomes 13-15“reflect the additional professional and practice knowledge, skills, and attitudes” embodied inASCE Policy
somenegative results for over simplification of the problem, model convergence, validation andboundary condition/material property assignment raises concerns. At this time it is difficult toassess the root cause of these deficiencies. The deficiencies are possibly a reflection of ourpractices in second year, a reflection of other supporting courses, a reflection of the quality of theparticular teams and/or a reflection of the capstone design advising that was provided. Furtherassessment of previous and future capstone projects will be conducted to help in the assessmentof the second year initiative. The next evolution in our use of CAD/CAE will be developed inlight of these initial observations of the capstone design projects. The exercise has proven
was to explore the impact that service-learning might have on students’ learning, including their level of engagement and motivation, ina required first year course.One method for assessing student learning is an anonymous instructor evaluation questionnaire;at the University of Michigan, such a questionnaire is required for all courses at the end of thesemester The Likert-scale questions are divided into two categories. The first four questionsaddress students’ perceptions of the quality of the course and instructor, the extent to which they“learned” in the course, and their desire to enroll in the course. The second set of questions isdirected at the specific teaching outcomes for the course. These reflect outcomes centered ontechnical
PhilosophyThe overall assessment philosophy of EPICS is guided by two core values of EPICS. First,EPICS seeks to provide an educational experience that will prepare students for professional Page 23.151.3practice. Second, we seek to meet compelling human, environmental and community needs.The assessment processes are integrated into the curriculum and designed to create artifacts thatcan be assessed. A key concept in PBSL assessment is to utilize authentic project artifacts(papers, reports, notebooks, blogs, reflections, etc.) that can be assessed and used to demonstratestudent learning. Whenever possible, the assessments are integrated into processes
Observation Accommodators Divergers Reflective Active Processing Info Convergers Assimilators Receiving Info Type 3 Type 2 (How
) in Massachusetts, who have recycling programs, and were tasked with developinga Material Reuse Information Guide for community residents.The projects were successful in a number of areas. Since they were real problems, they carriedmore meaning and encouraged greater student learning, enriching the students’ educationalexperience. Additionally, the projects not only benefited the students, but also the affectedcommunities, providing additional information that could be delivered to their residents. Thispaper will also discuss the student’s reflections of what they learned about recycling by doing theproject.IntroductionWhy recycle? This question was posed to students in a course entitled “Waste Not, Want Not”,an introductory engineering
instructor stated that the reflective processabout the students’ own professional identity was one of the most essential tasks in theirprofessional development. It directly addresses the “tell me about yourself” or “why should I hireyou” type of questions. In this activity, the students take 3-5 minutes to reflect on three to five ormore points that they would like their audiences to remember about them after their interaction.The audiences can be interviewers, potential employers at a career fair, or professionals withwhom they network in venues like conferences. After the reflection, the students paired withanother student and shared their skills, then came together for a large group discussion. Studentsshared among the class skills or abilities
Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching has prepared a series ofstudies including a focus on educating engineers 19. Sheppard’s research identified reflectivejudgment as an appropriate framework for understanding the cognitive development of designthinking. “As individuals develop mature reflective judgment, their epistemological assumptionsand their ability to evaluate knowledge claims and evidence and to justify their claims andbeliefs change” 19.King and Kitchener have identified seven stages of reflective thinking organized into threeclusters: pre- reflective thinking, quasi- reflective thinking, and reflective thinking 20. Results ofa ten-year longitudinal study of reflective judgment suggested that juniors in high school have acognitive