forinternational graduate students, but with support and understanding, these students can adaptand achieve despite these difficulties [25].The success of international graduate students is greatly influenced by the social and academicrelationships they build. Research indicates that peer and graduate student support cansignificantly contribute to international students' success [22], [27]. Developing academic-centered relationships with professors and peers is critical for sharing knowledge andexperiences, which can help international students overcome academic and social challenges.Although some international students report being too busy to engage in social activities,studies have shown that having a friend who understands their situation can be
for Engineering Education”example, the mentor is the most suitable individual to record satisfactory participation duringteam meetings, faculty gauge the technical merits of the final reports as well as the writtenmemos, and peer evaluations assess overall teaming performance. Details for the grading strategyare shown in the appendix and discussed below.In any grading scheme, the free-rider problem is perhaps the dominant issue for academic teams(Felder, 2001; Joyce, 1999). In our VITDP, students earn 30% of their score from individualcontributions and 70% of their score from team efforts. The individual score is based onparticipation at and preparedness for meetings as well as submission of work logs and journals.The team score is based on
instrument was adapted from “AssessingGeneral Education: A Questionnaire to Initiate Campus Conversation” by Jack Meacham anddistributed by the American Association of Colleges and Universities. The last question in thesurvey asked faculty to rank the quality of the general education program on a scale from 1 to 5,where 1 was associated with the statement, “Our general education program satisfies the minimalaccreditation requirements.” The score of 5 was associated with the statement, “Our generaleducation program surpasses in quality those of our peer institutions.” With 40 % of the facultyresponding (and 61% of the respondents from the college of arts and sciences), the meanresponse to this question of quality was 2.9, the median was 3.0 and the
classmate) where the resulting learning or cognitiveengagement was not possible without another person's presence or input [1, 2]. Examples includeworking with peers to construct a deeper understanding of course material through group activityor interacting with the instructor in a way that augments understanding [1, 2].Constructive - Activities in which the cognitive load of students is heightened, and asks them to"produce outputs that contain ideas that go beyond the presented information" [1, p. 77]. Examplesinclude creating diagrams to organize course content, rephrasing the instructors lecture into thestudent’s own words, etc. [1, 2]Active - Activities in which students are only cognitively engaged at a basic level, such as note
are alreadyunderrepresented in STEM careers. Since engineering in North Carolina schools has appearedonly in a career-linked capacity, thinking of engineering, not as a discipline but as an integratorand bringer of relevance to any class, represents a true paradigm shift.This paper describes a recent effort to write educational standards for the state of North Carolinathat define engineering in the K-12 space. The intent is for engineering to be integratedthroughout K-12 education, not as stand-alone classes, but as a part of any class. The effort todevelop a description of what all students should know and be able to do with respect toengineering began with the various standards in use in other states and incorporated informationfrom NAE
the statics book, as well as writing content that could not be found in othersources, such as the reaction forces. She wrote a few examples for the book, but most of the workwas editorial by organizing the content into chapters. When she was first asked to help compileand write this OER book, she was extremely excited. Once she began working on it, she began tofeel overwhelmed and found it quite daunting at the beginning. Although aspects of thedevelopment of the OER took numerous hours and became monotonous, she thoroughly enjoyedwriting her own sections and examples. The process was more time consuming than she expected,but once she finished compiling and writing all the chapters, she had a great sense of pride andaccomplishment.Overall
peer questions help eliminate holes in the work and foster understanding [15].The final three assessment categories include building a technical paper (section by section). Forexample, the student submits a draft of the Introduction section; during the next submission, theysubmit revisions of the Introduction and a draft of the Methods. Each iteration is weighted moreas they are further in the process of developing these writing skills. At the end of the year,students are required to present a poster, which they created, at the Science and EngineeringSymposium at the end of the academic year (NGSS RST.11-12.7, RST.11-12.8, and RST.11-12.9).Advanced Research: Engineering and Thesis Research: Engineering Courses (1 year / each)Upper-level
curriculum changes to several courses in the department. Dr. Natarajarathinam’s research focuses on engineering education including service-learning and workforce skills development. She has received over $3.6 million in external research funding from several companies, governmental agencies, and National Science Foundation. Dr. Natarajarathinam has written 22 peer-reviewed journal articles, a business case with a teaching note, 63 peer-reviewed conference proceedings, and was the keynote speaker at the food banks Conference. She works with the Texas Education Agency (TEA) in developing innovative Career and Technical Education (CTE) courses in logistics and distribution. Dr. Natarajarathinam has chaired 91 graduate capstone
RUBRIC and one minor error: stopped instead of triggered, AC (15 pts) Implement a logic circuit in VHDL and simulate all possibilities. 8 instead of DC biased Ind. Pts. Description Shows the full waveform in analog triggered with 0 Nothing provided E 10 correct values for period and voltage 2 Can write VHDL by hand U 3 Can open a program to write VHDL TABLE III 4 Can open
this interactivecourse, which introduces students to fundamental engineering skills – including teamwork,design, project management, technical writing, critical thinking, programming, communication(including written, oral, and graphical), and an introduction to engineering research. The courseincludes extensive introductory design pedagogy coupled with project management; includingtwo individual design challenges during the semester, and culminating in a team-basedCornerstone project that all students present at the end of the semester. For conveying keyinstructional topics to the students, a few select classes are held in the EG classroom(s), whileadditional instruction is delivered online via supplementary, instructor-created videos
was no sense of cataloguing 2. Determining quality and relevance was time-consuming and a likely barrier to use 3. There was a preference for peer reviewed resources 4. Many respondents felt that they would refer the resources on to students or make them available as additional materials for students 5. Nobody indicated that they would replace their existing resources with any of these, opting instead to integrate or add to existing resources 6. Several academics commented that they develop their own resources and personalise the delivery of their courses. For this reason, they need online resources to be readily adaptable or easily modified.A couple of respondents identified the need to include involvement of
; and practiced technical writing and communicationexercises. In a class project, students worked in teams of three to four to apply Leadership inEnergy and Environmental Design for Neighborhood Development (LEED-ND) principles forevaluation of proposed Community Development Plans or Redevelopment Projects. The projectassignment required teams to: a. Develop a proposal, b. Perform analysis, interpret findings, and provide recommendations, and c. Summarize study and results in a final report and PowerPoint presentation.Each team conducted an assessment of the principles and resulting LEED-ND scores that wouldbe achieved for the community area plan assigned to them. The selected sites included: CahabaHeights Community Plan, Calara
solving the open-endedproblem wrote: “After some guess and check with various resistors that I failed to write down, Ifound that the best combination, or a possible combination was to use the 40 ohm resistor and the70 ohm resistor in parallel” (emphasis added). Additionally, strategies such as use of a textbookor peers for help would not be discerned through study of student written work. Even ifprofessors do not have access to software that allows recording and annotating of students’ work,or do not have the time themselves to review audio data, the think-aloud process itself could helpstudents develop metacognitive and problem solving strategies that will improve their taskperformance27. The results from this research suggest recommending
: Brain Dump/Free write 1% T: Cooperative cases 2% R: Concept maps 2% K: Self/ peer formative assessment 2% C: Think/Pair/Share 2% J: Computer based interaction… 3% I: Formative quizzes / surveys 3% S: Cases 7% A: Student orally respond to a… 7% P: Debates 8% L: Small group presentations /… 8% M: Role playing/simulations… 13% V: Cooperative learning/problem… 15% G: Application activity
arrangement of entries such that the latest entry appears at the top of the web page 3. Easy upload and editing of entries and artifacts through a web browser 4. Outside commenting on entries from peers, coaches, teaching team, and others at a distance 5. Informal environment with easy and low barriers to posting due to student familiarity with social blogs such as the commercial Xanga, LiveJournal, and Blogger communitiesWikis 1. A group of interlinked pages, each with a unique name 2. Can support both individual and team work 3. Each page editable by a number of people, often a team or the whole community, 4. Use of a simple set of markup punctuation and other non-alphabet character patterns that can be translated
1 extra-curricularSophomore 2.3 Seminar series; Two project teams; 2 extra- Twice a semester. ResumeHrs.30-60 curricular; peer-leader of freshmen writing; interviewing.Junior 2.4 Two project teams including one research/ Once per semester.Hrs. 60-90 design competition; 3 extra-curricular; Peer Interviewing skills; grad leader school/ career surveysSenior 2.6 Two project teams incl. one research; 4 Once per semester. GradHrs 90-136 extra-curricular. Peer leader school applications; letters; scholarshipsEvolution and ImpactAs the program moves through
, students are subject to widely held human psychologicalneeds: the desire for esteem and recognition in the eyes of their instructor and peers, and the evenstronger influence of their fears of negative evaluation. Grades provide a standardized andstructural means of providing this recognition or judgment. All too often, instructors use gradesas one of the sole means to give students feedback, without attention to coaching and other formsof feedback not tied to the “carrot” or the “stick” of a specific grade.As grades represent a point of continuous and structurally endorsed feedback for students, themessaging sent by the grade that students receive can overwrite their own self-concept, i.e.whether they are good at the subject matter or have the
students performinvolve such topics as standing waves on strings, determination of the speed of sound,electrostatics, electric circuit design, motor building, and a variety of activities related to lightand color.In lieu of a final exam, students experience all aspects of writing a professional conferencepaper. This includes submission of an abstract, a first draft for instructor review, a second draftfor peer review, and a final camera-ready paper. On the last day of class, students present theirpapers at an in-class conference. Developed by one of the authors, this course has become ananchor for students pursuing an applied physics minor. Because the course has no prerequisitesother than a Q1 math prerequisite, for most of the students, this
on by Baillie10 in 1998, collated from a survey of over 100 institutions in12 countries, could be viewed as the “combined wisdom about best practice” at that time.She identified six major categories in approaches to first-year engineering programs. These Page 14.736.3were: creating a short introductory course, additional help with one aspect of the course,developing a new or overhauled subject, introducing an entire curriculum change,mentoring/tutoring by staff and peer tutoring. At that time, Baillie identified that the mostcommon way institutions were addressing first-year issues was by the introduction or changeof an existing subject with an
competencies in fundamentals of engineering in a highly interactive format. Topics includeprofessional skills such as technical communication (both verbal and writing), guidelines for professionalengineering practice, ethics and selected topics from Electrical, Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering.This design-focused course teaches an engineering approach to problem-solving with special emphasis onteamwork, oral and written communication, creativity, ingenuity, and computer-aided design tools. Theinstructional approach used in this course involves first-year engineering students as active participants inthe learning process. Four sections of the Fundamentals of Engineering course participated in this studyand were taught by four School of Engineering
youthink of when you think of the word knowledge?” Class discussion began with eliciting studentconcept associations with power, and student concept associations with knowledge. The resultsare shown in Table 1. Some students took notes on the brainstorming exercise in class and wrotedown some of their peers’ associations, driving up the counts for some concepts; it is interestingto note that no two forms were alike, because students chose to write down some terms and notothers. Perhaps this is a reflection on note-taking styles, or perhaps some students wrote downterms that particularly resonated with them. When asked to relate the two concepts, some relatedBacon’s statement that “Knowledge is Power” to their choice to pursue an engineering
: study skills, writing, information literacy, time management, learning styles, etc. to promote students’ learning and skill developmentStudent • Work with the ES program to • Develop and provide training, courses orAffairs provide credit courses for programs for peer mentoring, leadership mentor training and leadership development, character development, and development programs. mentoring programs. • Help the ES program develop, • Provide leadership and assistance in organizing
populated by their peers and taught by lecturers from within the faculty. Theadministration and content of the course straddles the Humanities and engineering, and as suchprovides a unique space in which to study the intersection of science and the arts and theperceived positive impact of a liberal arts education for engineers, including increased culturalawareness, greater flexibility in inter and cross-disciplinary collaboration, improvedcommunication skills, and comfort with learning outside the discipline [1-6]. To extend thisfurther, the comparatively homogenous engineering population of Representing Science on Stageand the immersion of its students in a liberal arts classroom that by necessity demands theiractive participation, affords
network with respect to theorganization than tenured faculty. For evaluating the availability of resources, the faculty werealso asked to rate their level of satisfaction with resources available for nine distinct aspects oftheir academic career. Among all respondents, the lowest areas of satisfaction were with industryrelations and research equipment. Tenure-track faculty reported significantly higher satisfactionthan tenured faculty in five of the nine categories: teaching training, grant writing, professionalnetworking, professional development, and overcoming bias. Gender differences between tenure-track faculty satisfaction were shown to be insignificant, with the exception that women weresignificantly more satisfied with resources for
engineering students. In addition, the dual degree students average moreoffers during their first full-time job search. Once employed, the EDDP respondents werepromoted at a faster rate than their peers in the traditional engineering program.The final research problem asked if there is a need for engineers to have a well-roundededucation. Since it has been shown that the EDDP students are more successful during their firstfull time job search, one would think that the need does exist. In addition, all the responses ratedit is, at least, somewhat important to have five of the seven non-technical components(communication and writing skills, the ability to work in a team, cultural exposure, and languagecourses) while searching for jobs. The EDDP
as they navigate the complexities ofSTEM education and careers. Through this literature review, we aim to identify gaps in currentmentoring approaches for minority graduate and undergraduate students in STEM fields anddevelop a new mentoring strategy that addresses their specific needs and challenges. Historically, academic mentorship has concentrated on learning rather than careerdevelopment or psychosocial needs (Ensher, 1997; Stromei, 1998). According to research,undergraduate students who are mentored had higher GPAs, greater retention rates, and moreunits finished each semester than their unmentored peers (Campbell and Campbell 1997).Mentoring addresses key aspects of student identification and social integration into
to request more lectures and less labtime. Student attitudes towards working with their partner and peer-to-peer learning werepositive across cohorts and semesters. In light of this the authors describe methods of scaffoldedopportunities for independent as well as peer-to-peer learning. While student preferences varied, data is also presented on student behavior and achievement.Class attendance remained over 90% throughout all three semesters (including the COVIDSpring 2020 semester). Student feedback has indicated a sense of obligation to their lab partnersand perceived value of the in-class activities to be the primary motivators of attendance. Further,data on student achievement of summative assessments across topics has been summarized
(2012) writes of ‘invisiblebarriers,’ related to sociological/psychological constraints. The author argues that local publicpolicy platforms are needed so as to ensure that women engineers have a space to put theirSTEM skills into action within the workplace (Qayyum, 2012).Gulf ContextWithin the Arab Gulf region alone, women comprise 60% of engineering students in universities,double the percentage of female engineering students in the U.S. and Europe (Durrani, 2015).Unfortunately, this does not translate to the same percentages in the workforce after graduation.For example, in Qatar, women make up less than 12% of the workforce (Yahia, 2012).Participation of women in the workforce, and particularly related to STEM fields, havenevertheless been
, meaning that the greater number of ideas, the greater the likelihood ofsuccessful ideas, and (d) combination and improvement are sought, meaning thatindividuals are encouraged to suggest how ideas from other peers can be turned intobetter ones. The third step is also referred to as the idea finding stage in the Osborn andParnes model. The fourth step involves evaluating ideas. Evaluating ideas generallyoccurs based on several factors such as cost; time required, usefulness, practicality, socialacceptance, and other considerations (Torrance and Safter, 1999). Osborn (1963) referredto the fourth step as the solution finding stage. The last step in Osborn and Parnescreative problem solving process is translating ideas into problem solutions
7. Select exemplar text for each theme to include in write-up of analysisFigure 1. High-Level Depiction of Research Method. The steps in the blue boxes primarilyinvolve quantitative analysis, and the ones in green primarily involve qualitative analysis. 8 Although the method we developed mixes quantitative and qualitative researchmethods, the descriptions below separate its quantitative and qualitative aspects to makethe underlying logic clearer.3.1 Quantitative Methods: Frequency Analysis and Topic Modeling3.1.1 Extended Frequency Analysis Using the Search Functions of PEER The purpose of the