cyberinfrastructure (CI) environment. 2. Scientists require increased knowledge and proficiency in team science to conduct transdisciplinary research within a CI environment. 3. There is a decrease in the number of students entering the STEM disciplines. 4. Curricula for existing students require new courses that are built on the principles of team science and methodology for conducting transdisciplinary research within a CI environment. 5. Learning environments must increasingly engage students in STEM disciplines, build awareness of team science and transdisciplinary research within a CI environment, and inspire students to further investigate or pursue a career in these areas. 6. To
11expressed that he and fellow autistic friends are “are incredible at what they do, and then, they’rejust not very particularly good at talking to people,” so something should be done to supportneurodivergent engineers through navigating science communication, career fairs, interviews andother interactions. If the support is provided by someone neurotypical, it doesn’t work for him,so he would like to see neurodivergent engineers creating resources using their own strategies,and “as collateral for helping neurodivergent [students] with that, neurotypicals benefit too. So,there stands to be a reason to do it and not lump it in with just disability accommodationservices” (Participant 11). Lab instructions are often presented at the opening of
by talking to more studentsfrom different universities. We also want to explore how these support systems change asstudents move through their academic careers and into the workforce. Next, we seeopportunities to talk to students’ family members who are both chosen and traditional tounderstand how they support the student. We expect to identify the processes in whichstudents are mentored and supported. Another goal is to look at how cultural, gender andsocioeconomic factors shape students' experiences and support systems. By doing this, weaim to create better guidelines that colleges and teachers can use to support engineeringstudents in different settings. Finally, we could examine
Jewish students from their classrooms, leaving thousands of children to fendfor themselves; and engineers would not have designed the mechanisms and infrastructure thatallowed the Holocaust to occur.Having students discuss the nature of professionalism is a useful exercise. Looking at the ―why‖aspect is especially important, and an instructor can start by asking students to examine why theychose engineering as a career and how they might react as a professional in a country that, overthe course of a decade, experiences incremental shifts in political ideology. What my studentsdiscovered is unsettling: that the Holocaust simply could not have happened without thecomplicity of the engineering community. This exercise requires that student reflect
Paper ID #37404The Engineering Design Process Portfolio Scoring Rubric(EDPPSR) – Initial Validity and Reliability (Fundamental)Stacy S Klein-Gardner (Adjunct Professor) Stacy Klein-Gardner's career in P-12 STEM education focuses on increasing interest in and participation by females and URMs and teacher professional development. She is an Adjunct Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Vanderbilt University where she serves as the co-PI and co-Director of the NSF-funded Engineering For US All (e4usa) project. She also serves as the co-PI, Lead Engineer, and Director of Partnerships for Youth Engineering Solutions
-12 Science Coordinator for an inner ring public school district near St. Louis, Mo. A satellite engineer for McDonnell Douglas (now Boeing) for 10 years prior to her career in STEM education, McMahon was the Director and a Co-principal In- vestigator for one of the 88 National Science Foundation (NSF) Local Systemic Change Initiative grants awarded nationwide for science and math education reform. For 15 years, she taught physics and as- tronomy in Washington University’s graduate course series for in-service K-8 teachers. McMahon was the Founding Director of MySci, an innovative and award-winning mobile science outreach program for K-2 students. In that role, she led a collaborative partnership of scientists and science
to exercise considerable restraint in order to secure measures that actually represent the criterion – often very difficult to collect – instead of more easily accessed but potentially invalid proxy measures. For Page 15.1008.5 example, salary data of alumni would be a more easily secured proxy measure for alumni success than more direct measures of the latter. Clearly salary data, unless carefully conditioned, would reflect the large inequities and differential pay scales of varying careers. Data collection refers to the process and source of the actual numbers and descriptors being used in any assessment. Here it is
gapbetween the professional skills of recent engineering graduates and the expectations ofemployers [8, 9]. These studies suggest that more traditional coursework and individualassignments do not adequately address some of the most important skills for practicingengineers. These project assignments are designed to offer additional opportunities for studentsto develop teamwork skills, positioning them for success both in their capstone design coursesand in their professional careers after graduation.Methods: Curriculum-Wide Chemical Process ProjectThe Haber-Bosch process for ammonia synthesis was implemented in the courses indicated inbold in Table 1. Table 1: The 14 required upper division chemical engineering courses (excluding electives
Science from the University of Kansas in 1987. She is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and recipient of the Okawa Foundation Award, NSF Career Award, the MIT TR100 Innovation Award, the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Early Career Award, the USC Viterbi School of Engineering Service Award and Junior Research Award, the Provost's Center for Interdisciplinary Research Fellowship, and is featured in the documentary movie "Me & Isaac Newton." She is an associate editor of three major journals and has published extensively in various areas of robotics. Prof. Mataric' is actively involved in K-12 outreach, having received federal and corporate grants for
right.The instructors explained that the“Accomplishments” slide is not abragging opportunity, but intendedto simply communicate what thesub team has done, for the othersub teams’ benefit; “Setbacks” areexpected, and “Recoveries” arewhat you are doing to remedy thesetbacks.In summary, the students designedand installed the exhibit over aperiod of three semesters using aset of processes that not onlyprovided structure andorganization, but also exposedthem to skills that are directly Figure 6. An example of the Subsystem Block Diagramtransferable to successful careers in slide.industry.KT 4: Effective electronic communications and record keepingPrior to the beginning of the project, the VIP instructors queried several members of the Schoolof
. This lab plays asignificant role in preparing students for such upper-level courses with more practicalprojects such as courses on “Embedded Systems”, “Testing of Digital Circuits”, but mostimportantly, students take a great deal of experience from the lab and apply it to their seniorcapstone projects, as well as, in their future careers.3.1 Course Content and Outcomes The following lists some of the educational goals and the students’ acquired knowledge and skills upon completion of our digital logic laboratory course: o Design and implementation of logic circuits: theory, simulation, physical circuit o Introduction to TTL Gates o Design with small-scale integration (SSI) and medium-scale integration (MSI
and even regenerative.Integral to this work is fundamentally and systemically changing who will want to become anengineer, graduate as a trained engineer, and pursue a career as a professional engineer; Black,Hispanic, American Indian/Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander students are stillmarkedly underrepresented within engineering education at the undergraduate and graduatelevels.9 Additionally, it is imperative that the marginalized communities —who bear much of theburden and harm due to human-caused impacts on the planet— are able to and encouraged toshare their perspectives, knowledge, and lived experiences.10,11 Their leadership andcontributions must be sought, respected, and integrated into future technological and
focuses on developingand supporting an inclusive academic environment for faculty and students across a spectrum ofidentities. Her primary research projects have included qualitative studies on the experiences ofnon-majority members of academia (students and faculty).Author 3 (she/her/hers) is a faculty member at University of Colorado Boulder. She has limitedbackground in dis/ability studies or UDL. In her 25-year teaching career she has had numerousstudents in undergraduate and graduate courses who have university-assigned accommodations.While her primary experience in engineering education research has focused on undergraduatestudents and quantitative studies, she also has experience conducting qualitative studies that haveincluded
Powered by www.slayte.com Sensitivity Preservation and Precision of Plagiarism Detection Engines for Modified Short ProgramsAbstractSource code plagiarism presents a continual threat to the integrity and effectiveness ofengineering education, as habitual cheating often has devastating impacts on students’ academicand professional careers. As programming becomes an increasingly central component offirst-year engineering curricula, it is essential that instructors are able to uphold academicintegrity by identifying students who engage in misconduct, either through direct plagiarism orexcessive peer collaboration. Instructors have an arsenal of plagiarism detection tools at theirdisposal, and students are keenly
energy on an“exciting” class that aligns well with their career goals, while deciding to “just get by” in arequired course. (It can be argued that this is typical of all people, who put the most time andenergy into actions that are most rewarding for them.) In specs grading, the overall grade isoften linked to the number of learning outcomes that are mastered. This means that for a studentwhose goal is a “C,” they might opt not to take a reassessment, or to meet a lower bar for a termproject. Alternatively, it can inspire students to master one or two more learning outcomes inorder to move up to the desired grade level. The key is that it is the student’s decision, and it is amore clear-eyed decision in the specs grading environment. It should
uponreturning.Finally, several respondents lamented the exodus of seasoned lecturers from Nigerian Universitiesto ‘greener pastures’ which they said could either mean engineering companies within the countryor academic and professional engineering positions outside the country due to the prolongedstrikes. Two exceptional educators reached out during the research to say that they were no longerin the country, having just begun their academic and professional careers abroad. These starkrealities were further expounded by the deans and provosts of the College of engineering whodiscussed how difficult it was to fill the entry-level positions of faculty in their engineeringprograms, most of whom, they claimed had decided to resign and continue their
the course in an online setting. The in-person version of CPSS 100 meetsonce a week for approximately 90 minutes and is designed to build community among students,acclimate students to campus life, build relationships between students and program faculty,foster career development, and introduce the STS Postures (described below). The first thirtyminutes of class time are typically spent as a whole group with the faculty instructors coveringthe main themes of the day through a mix of lecture and group activities. In the last hour,former-STS-student TAs lead activities that reinforce the STS Postures and topics covered in thefirst 30 minutes. To adapt to online instruction, the instructors recorded a “lecture” for studentsto watch and respond
article concluded by suggesting that the 3-months compulsoryteaching practice sponsored by the government be extended to 12 months. Besides, the articlecalled into question, the role of professional bodies like the Science Teachers Association ofNigeria and Mathematics Association of Nigeria in providing career mentorship opportunitiesfor preservice STEM educators. A similar recommendation was proffered for programs to besustained long-term if desired pedagogic change is to occur [41].Early bilingual education. In addition to open-ended instruction, some authors suggestedbilingual education as the most important curricular policy reform that sub-Saharan countriescan introduce to improve teaching and learning [51]. Their article accentuated the
immediatelycontribute to a laboratory setting and prepare them for further research opportunities later in theiracademic career. As one student noted, “The labs were a good way to build basic lab skills andexposure for students who were previously unable to work in a college lab”. By the end of thecourse, 87% agreed or strongly agreed with the survey comment, “Gaining hands-on lab skills isan important part of this course. I believe it should be continued, possibly with more labs, infuture years.”Figure 2: Comparison of students’ confidence in their lab skills before and after completing each of thethree labs. While most students (63%) felt confident with their pipetting skills prior to Lab 1, almost all thestudents (90%) felt confident post-lab. The increase