. He teaches undergraduate design, thermo- dynamics, and engineering experimentation and is the faculty adviser to both the Formula SAE Team (Cooper Motorsports) and Pi Tau Sigma Honor Society.Mr. Estuardo Rodas, Cooper Union Estuardo Rodas is Adjunct Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the Cooper Union for the Advance- ment of Science & Art where he is also Project Coordinator of the Mechanical Engineering Lab. He is adviser for Cooper’s Formula SAE team and a Lead Instructor for the summer STEM program for high school students. Among his other projects, Prof. Rodas designed the Ike Heller Center for Integrated Manufacturing and Robotics at Brooklyn Tech, collaborated in construction and design of the
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Build/Prototyping Brainstorming Prioritize/Select Items Fig.1. Cyclic Design Model Based on this typical design process model, we want to explore how technology students caneffectively learn from and collaborate with design students. Mattessich and Monsey’s survey incollaboration literature [25] has drawn a clear distinction among cooperation, coordination, andcollaboration. Cooperation is the informal relationship without a clearly defined commonmission, structure, or effort. Coordination shares the understanding of compatible missions, butauthority still rests within the
Institute of Technology 7 /Western Carolina University 8 AbstractThis is the fourth paper in the special panel session of the National Collaborative Task Force onEngineering Graduate Education Reform to ensure a strong U.S. engineering workforce forcompetitiveness. Whereas research cultures have been built into the nation’s schools of engineering toenhance the educational experience of research-oriented graduate students, it is now evident that acomplementary but different culture is needed also to make professionally oriented engineering graduateeducation more relevant to the needs of industry and to further the advanced professional education of themajority of the nation’s engineers who are pursuing
teamwork, communication, data analysis and problem solving [16].Additionally, a recent review of international literature identifying skills needed by graduate andfuture engineers found teamwork and communication skills to be among the top five mostemphasized skills [17]. Despite the body of evidence that should inspire engineering and other STEM faculty toincorporate collaborative activities in their courses, lasting changes in teaching practice havebeen slow to take place [2], [18]. Fairweather [2] noted that faculty perceive curricular changewill take valuable time away from research activities critical to promotion and tenure. This is notnecessarily the case, as barriers to change for STEM faculty have been researched and
practices that might result in specific undergraduate student learningoutcomes. The search was not limited to engineering student outcomes. Our search revealed acombination of anecdotal evidence, reports on the results of “trial and error”, multiple calls forchange, and a little research evidence. In particular, six published sources 50-55of effectiveteaching and learning practices were uncovered that explored alternative methods for education;only one 51 of these was specific to engineering education. We consider these reports Page 9.873.3foundational because they present practical recommendations; other findings of the
hard data from their own students. Therefore, the goals of the workshop design were to guide North Carolina A&T faculty in gaining: 1) an understanding of three findings from a large-scale study of the engineering student experience; 2) an awareness of the types of decisions explicitly and implicitly made in teaching; and 3) an appreciation of the implications of research findings for their own teaching. In an effort to promote faculty buy-in for the workshop, several months before the scheduled event the entire faculty was introduced to the agenda of the planned workshop which consisted of a presentation of findings, followed by general discussion and small group work to explore
2014 Jacobs Excellence in Education Award, 2002 Jacobs Innovation Grant, 2003 Distinguished Teacher Award, and 2012 Inaugural Distin- guished Award for Excellence in the category Inspiration through Leadership. Moreover, he is a recipient of 2014-2015 University Distinguished Teaching Award at NYU. His scholarly activities have included 3 edited books, 8 chapters in edited books, 1 book review, 59 journal articles, and 133 conference pa- pers. He has mentored 1 B.S., 21 M.S., and 4 Ph.D. thesis students; 38 undergraduate research students and 11 undergraduate senior design project teams; over 400 K-12 teachers and 100 high school student researchers; and 18 undergraduate GK-12 Fellows and 59 graduate GK-12 Fellows
of New Mexico. Her research interests focus on computer-supported collaborative learning, learning sciences, online learning, and educational equity for multicultural/multiethnic education.Dr. Pil Kang, University of New Mexico Sung ”Pil” Kang is an assistant professor at the University of New Mexico. His academic interests include change management, change model validation, and mindset evolution. He may be reached at pilkang@unm.eduKristen Ferris, University of New Mexico Kristen Ferris is a doctoral student at the University of New Mexico’s Organization, Information, and Learning Sciences program. Her research interests include change management and organizational citi- zenship behavior. She also is staff at
, G. (2005, June). A Qualitative Investigation Of A First Year Engineering Service Learning Program. In 2005 Annual Conference (pp. 10-77). 12. Main, J. B., Johnson, B. N., Ramirez, N. M., Ebrahiminejad, H., Ohland, M. W., & Groll, E. A. (2020). A case for disaggregating engineering majors in engineering education research: The relationship between co- op participation and student academic outcomes. International Journal of Engineering Education, 36(1), 170-185. 13. Raelin, J. A., Bailey, M., Hamann, J., Pendleton, L., Raelin, J., Reisberg, R., & Whitman, D. (2011). The effect of cooperative education on change in self-efficacy among undergraduate students: Introducing work self-efficacy
research on adultlearners suggests that increased learning gains can be achieved when instruction is designed withstudents’ learning styles in mind [1]-[6]. In addition, several practitioners within the domain ofphysics, as well as engineering education, have noted the importance of teaching with learningstyles in mind [7]-[14]. Furthermore, attention to learning styles and learner diversity has beenshown to increase student interest and motivation to learn. The particular population of students that encompasses the focus of this paper is non-sciencemajors taking introductory physics at American University. Most students take this introductorycourse to satisfy the university’s General Education requirements for graduation. Because thebackgrounds
serious about their learning andcareer goals but who, for some reason, chose to opt out of engineering).Tobias assertsthat many traditional science courses suffer from lack of community( both betweenthe instructor and the students and among the students themselves) and that manystudents desire this relationship and become more successful learners when itprevails in the classroom. She further states that many students would respond betterto science if interactive and cooperative modes of learning replace the competitiveenvironment that is sometimes present in science and engineering classes. (29)VII. Build Trust with Students: Underlying all significant learning is the element oftrust. Trust between teachers and their students is the affective
Paper ID #18746Engineering Leadership in a Chinese Industrial Context: An Exploration us-ing the Four Capabilities ModelDr. Jiabin Zhu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University Jiabin Zhu is an Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Education at Shanghai Jiao Tong Uni- versity. Her primary research interests relate to the assessment of teaching and learning in engineering, cognitive development of graduate and undergraduate students, and global engineering. She received her Ph.D. from the School of Engineering Education, Purdue University in 2013.Miss Hu Yu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University Yu Hu is a graduate student at the
seminarseries for the fall 2021 semester, which will be offered under liberal arts, engineering, andagricultural/consumer sciences rubrics to bring together graduate students around weekly topicsof interest to the Working Group faculty members. Working through the Illinois Global Institute,a home department was identified to coordinate concurrent sections of the seminar in each ofthree colleges of the university, and Working Group members obtained course approvals tocreate concurrently meeting sections of the seminar. Using this process, no one college or schoolis the seminar host, eliminating a sense of primacy among student registrants. Working Groupfaculty will take turns lining up topics and presenters in a mini-roundtable fashion for theseminar
Assistant Professor in Mathematics at Navajo Technical University (NTU) as well as the Program Advisor for the Mathematics Program at NTU. His current research focuses on technology-enhanced active learning in college mathematics for tribal students. He works developing lessons and curriculum to promote students’ interests in learning mathematics. He teaches both graduate and undergraduate courses about mathematics. He received his doctoral degree in the Science, Technol- ogy, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Strand of Teaching Learning and Culture Program at The University of Texas at El Paso in 2014 under the mentoring of Dr. Judith Munter.Alice Carron, Blue Marble Institute of Space Science Alice Carron is a Science
engineering and develop a passion for the engineering profession. Therefore, ethics,along with communication and other “non-technical” skills, are integrated into these introductory 2classes. It is natural for instructors to assess how students perceive ethics before and after ethicsmodules. Second, an increasingly number of engineering education researchers take a moreholistic approach to understanding how engineering students develop their moral identity andmoral reasoning skills across their four-year learning experience. Their longitudinal studies oftenneed to start with surveying first-year students and collecting baseline data.Freyne, Abulencia
Paper ID #216602018 CoNECD - The Collaborative Network for Engineering and ComputingDiversity Conference: Crystal City, Virginia Apr 29”What the problem really was. . . ”: A preliminary exploration of youth prob-lem definition in everyday contexts.Jacqueline Handley, University of Michigan Jacqueline Handley is a graduate student at the University of Michigan, in Science Education. Her back- ground is in Material Science and Engineering, with an emphasis on Biomaterials Design. She is inter- ested in, broadly, how best bridge engineering practice and education. More specifically, she is interested in engineering access and
Paper ID #18238Making the Invisible Visible: Exploring Cultural Differences of Faculty Work-ing on a Multicultural TeamMs. Sevinj Iskandarova, James Madison University Sevinj Iskandarova is a Ph.D. student at James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA, USA. She re- ceived her MS.Ed. in Adult Education/Human Resource Development from James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA, USA in May 2016. Her main research interests include Human-Computer Interface, Information Technology, International Education, Leadership, Learner-centered Education and Multicul- tural Education. In 2016, she was awarded a prize for Outstanding Thesis
faculty and graduate students involved in these activities. Today, only a very smallpercentage of engineers and scientists who are involved in research are exposed to technologycommercialization training or activity. At many research universities, the primary role for facultyis very oriented towards scientific production, more than either teaching or entrepreneurialengagement. Many individual and institutional factors are believed to influence academicresearchers’ decisions regarding whether to engage in academic entrepreneurship, and whether tocontinue to stay involved. Therefore, increasing participation requires a comprehensiveunderstanding of academic researcher motivations.Motivation for EntrepreneurshipMotivation is defined as “a set of
Paper ID #12565Problematizing Best Practices for Pairing in K-12 Student Design TeamsMs. Gina M Quan, University of Maryland, College Park Gina Quan is a doctoral candidate in Physics Education Research at the University of Maryland, Col- lege Park. She graduated in 2012 with a B.A. in Physics from the University of California, Berkeley. Her research interests include understanding community and identity formation, unpacking students’ re- lationships to design, and cultivating institutional change. Ms. Quan is also a founding member of the Access Network, a research-practice community dedicated to fostering supportive
, intensivepractice, and skill mastery.Short-form (1-2 hour) workshops are often the most universal offering for training. They are theeasiest to book rooms for (or offer online as webinars), find instructors for, and create materialfor. For the participant, one hour is a reasonable amount of time to find in their day and there arerarely any follow-up requirements. Thus, there is very little risk of making a bad time investmentfor the learner, and the instructional team has a lot of flexibility in repeating the training andexperimenting with content. From research methods to retirement plans, this format is anexceptional platform for learners to explore new tools and services. Even though hands-onpractice can be quite limited in this format, this discovery
workplace adjustment for engineers and the corresponding influence on job satisfaction and intentions to persist. Rohini’s other interests include faculty development and engineering pathways of graduating engineers.Dr. Samantha Ruth Brunhaver, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus Samantha Brunhaver is an Assistant Professor of Engineering in the Fulton Schools of Engineering Poly- technic School. Dr. Brunhaver recently joined Arizona State after completing her M.S. and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University. She also has a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Northeastern University. Dr. Brunhaver’s research examines the career decision-making and professional identity formation of engineering
GHAHARI3,4* 1 Center for Education Integrating Science, Mathematics, and Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, 30332; 2 Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, 47906; 3 Department of Engineering Education, Purdue University, West Lafayette, 47906; *4 Lyles School of Civil Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, 47906ABSTRACTEngineering graduate programs in the United States are usually diverse. Students with differentnationalities, races, ethnicities, genders, and religions work and collaborate with each other inclasses, labs, and research projects. Graduate education often is called a transformative experience,in which students
Nussbaum et al. show that note starters could encouragestudents to disagree and explore alternative perspectives in comparison to the collaborativelearning without this interface design 21.Weinberger conducted experimental research on effects of both social and epistemic (cognitive)cooperation scripts on cyber-enabled collaborative learning through web-based discussionboard24. Subjects in this research are colleague students of Educational Science. The socialcooperation script adopted in this research specified two roles for each of three students in thecollaborative learning team: (a) analyst, who is responsible for the preliminary and concludinganalysis of one learning case and responding to criticism from the learning partners (Weinberger
Is Flat, refers "to a twenty-first centuryworld that will be very different from the one in which we were educated. To survive in a new,globally competitive world, today's children will need creativity, problem-solving abilities, apassion for learning, a dedicated work ethic and lifelong learning opportunities. Students candevelop these abilities through instruction based on Best Practice teaching strategies." [2].Best practice in graduate instruction focuses on dependable collaborations between graduateunderstudies and workforce, underpinned by staff [3]. Best practices are not always the bestdepending on timing and locations. According to DiBella (2001), "a practice that is valued in onesetting will be valued differently in another setting
the challenges of a single facultymember managing over twenty students. Through the use of Agile, more lateral communication occurredbetween students making such a large group more manageable. However, while there is documentation ofCI being used for class-based projects [9] we could not find documentation of research labs using it toovercome the challenges of large-team collaboration as faced by the Delta Lab, which is a very similarcircumstance faced by our lab.Historically, a large amount of self-learning has been necessary for students to acquire these practicalcomputing skills. Recently, the Department of Computer Science at Virginia Tech has begun to includemore foundational skills such as Git and shell scripting into our First Year
researches structures that contribute to underrepresentation in STEM majors and is currently a Graduate Assistant for the UBelong Collaborative.Dr. Allison Godwin, Cornell University Allison Godwin, Ph.D. is an associate professor in the Robert Frederick Smith School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Cornell University. Her research focuses on how identity, among other affective factors, influences diverse students to choose engineering and persist in engineering. She also studies how different experiences within the practice and culture of engineering foster or hinder belonging and identity development. Dr. Godwin graduated from Clemson University with a B.S. in Chemical Engineering and Ph.D. in Engineering and
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skills. Close collaborations between the industry,communities and the universities in design/make activities can help students to understand thetheoretical aspect of the subjects at the university when applying them to real-world applications.Students who are trained to carry out research, particularly in emerging and cutting-edgetechnologies, are desirable in the industry. Therefore, a solution to prepare a large group of studentswith the skills required for the 21st century challenges may be found by a research-informedapproach which is further enriched through industry, and community service driven goals, for bothundergraduate and graduate levels. The applied aspect of the research activity due to the servicecomponent can guarantee positive