collective experiences made with others. Through the increasedunderstanding of mentorship, one can gain the experiences and understanding of how to guideand support others around them. Across different models of mentorship is the focus on self-reflection, identification of personal goals, and creation of pathways to provide bothpsychological support and role modeling [2, 5].2.1 Characteristics of Mentorship ProgramsMentorship programs are built and supported by individuals based on the direction ofcommunication, degree of exchange, and intention. These three characteristics define anddetermine how models of mentorship are different, as they emphasize and promote the levels oflearning for both individuals in what they hope to take away from the
program from most to leastimportant. The survey also contains open-ended items so that the scholar may explain theirrankings in their own words.ResultsData collected from 20 Scholars in the first two cohorts across 4 surveys indicates that thefaculty and peer mentoring are the most valued and important components of the HEATScholarship program. Specifically, by the end of the Spring 2021 semester, 95% of HEATScholars reported that either faculty mentoring (60%), or peer mentoring (35%) are the mostvaluable aspects of the HEAT Program while none of the Scholars indicated that the financialsupport or academic experiences are the most valuable aspects of HEAT.A representative selection of HEAT Scholar’s reflections are shown in Tables 1 and 2
agreed thatthey did while 36.4% agreed. Teachers also responded positively when asked if they feltprepared to teach their maker club session; 45.5% of respondents strongly agreed that they feltprepared, 48.1% of respondents agreed that they felt prepared, and 5.2% of respondents feltneutral when reflecting on their level of preparedness When asked if their students made social connections during maker club, 44.2 % ofteachers strongly agreed and 37.7% of teachers agreed that social connections were made.Overall, 9.1% of teachers felt neutral about whether their students made social connections, 6.5%disagreed, and 2.6% strongly disagreed. When asked if they felt their students improved theirunderstanding of the EDP after participating in a
York University TandonSchool of Engineering is a one-semester design course. Approximately 100 UGTAs support theprogram through content delivery, grading, curriculum development, and administrative tasks.Typically, UGTAs are hired as second-years and are retained until their graduation.We are currently piloting the following schedule for training (Table 1). In the fall semester oftheir first year, UGTAs learn foundational concepts related to GIDBEA; in the second year,power and privilege; and in the third year, strategies for engaging GIDBEA in their futurecareers. The spring semesters offer time for concept reinforcement and reflection on the fallsemester. By scaffolding the training over the UGTAs’ three-year tenure in the program, we seek
includecase studies, cooperative groups, jigsaw teams, discussion forums, and rich media contentcreation and sharing [4],[5],[6]. These approaches are more reflective of what students wouldencounter in real-life scenarios and workplaces, where problems are not always fully defined,choices are not totally clear, and effective team communication and collaboration are essential [7],[8].Table 1: Learning Objective 1: Demonstrate ability to transmit, receive, and collect health data withinstruments, devices, and software tools.Key active learning interventions: case study, brainstorming, cooperative groupsTask: Teams of three to four students have three weeks to design a health informatics system toaddress a challenging global health scenario of relevance
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by their ability to provide greatertechnology innovation management and leadership.In essence, the more education one acquires, the greater the likelihood for continued gainfulemployment and the greater the financial rewards. As is the case with any entrepreneuriallyoriented individual, the acquisition of a doctoral level education is highly sought after. Currentwait lists reflect this backed-up demand.Job Role Differentiation and Rewards –In business/industry titles and roles map to product life cycle phases. As a project evolves fromConcept Exploration to Operations and Support, different skill sets are required. In the earlyphases of the product life cycle, research and systems thinking/engineering are dominant. As theproduct life cycle
to be 190µm.Three printed microwave components were characterized over the X-band of 8.2-12.4 GHz. The straightwaveguide section and the coax to waveguide adapter were examined for S11 (reflection coefficient) andS21 (insertion loss). Both are important performance characteristics. S11 is a measure of impedancematching, which is necessary to minimize reflections. S21 is a measure of ohmic losses that reduce signalintensity. The waveguide horn antenna was characterized for 3D radiation pattern and for gain in dBi.These data are presented in figures 4 through 10.Figure 4: Comparison of measured reflection coefficient S11 on commercial straight waveguide sectionvs. 3D printed and silver painted straight waveguide section. Horizontal axis is
Integrating Metacognitive Practices and Research toEnsure Student Success (IMPRESS) summer program, which is a two-week program formatriculating Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) students who are first generation studentsand/or deaf/hard of hearing students (DHH) [8].This program is designed to serve as a bridge program forstudents to learn how to reflect on, evaluate, and changetheir own thinking through intensive laboratoryexperiments, reflective practices, and discussion both insmall groups (3-4 students) and with the whole class (20students).The main objectives of the IMPRESS program are toengage students in authentic science practice, to facilitatethe development of a supportive community, and to helpthe students reflect on science and
learning management system, Tinkercadand Nearpod) were used to deliver content and engage students. Conceptual topics wereintroduced followed by hands-on activities from Make: Electronics 2nd edition. Each student wasalso given a kit of electronic components, wire, a breadboard and a multimeter. Studentscompleted and submitted assignments in a variety of digital formats, such as video reports.This paper details the Hyflex modifications made to Mechatronics. It also includes studentfeedback and instructor reflections. Although the Hyflex format required significant new planningand experimentation it provided a means of accommodating a mix of face-to-face and onlinestudents and also provided an opportunity to increase the long term effectiveness of
specific place where students are personallyattached and live within the context [8], [14]. Many underrepresented students encounterdisconnects between formal instruction and their home experiences as the content often used inclassrooms does not reflect their community-based experiences. PBE addresses this challenge asit seeks to overcome this dissonance by leveraging learning from local surroundings [14]. InPBE, students are provided opportunities to explore local environments, phenomena, history, andeconomy in place. Teachers in rural school settings can use these place-based elements to createa meaningful STEM learning context for underserved populations [9], [10], [8]. The impact ofimplementing PBE in STEM activities can be powerful. Unique
development, grant proposal reviewIntroductionIt can be both thrilling and scary to receive an invitation to review on a National ScienceFoundation (NSF) panel. Conventional wisdom is that it is good for us; we know we will learnabout the differences between good and bad proposals, and developing a relationship with aprogram officer or two can’t be a bad thing. And then what? Logging into Fastlane and figuringout the process for submitting a proposal review is one part, and tutorials can help with that.Constructing a review that shows our understanding of the field, reflects an understanding of theproposed work, and provides useful feedback to both the principal investigator (PI) and theprogram officer is another part. If this were a journal article
changes to the product backlog to reflect the refinements to theapplication functionality identified by the research team. A sprint retrospective conducted onlyby the development team typically followed, where the team discussed the lessons learned duringthat sprint.Throughout the project, we used a number of technologies and tools to support the cohort’sprogress. Slack was used for all aspects of team communication. Trello was used for high-levelproject planning and interacting with the product owner, while GitHub Projects was used fortracking software development progress.The last meeting of this class concluded each semester with a project retrospective, during whichthe cohort reflected on what went well, what didn’t, and how students can
. Theprojects and the deep collaboration with the entrepreneurs make the experience authentic. Thestudents also see the relevance of their input towards their professional formation and the growthof the entrepreneurs and their startup companies. Another principle of experiential learning is thestudent’s ability to connect their experience to their professional formation through reflection [5,6].The students submit weekly reflection papers about what they have learned about innovation andentrepreneurship. They do this by reflecting on their interactions with industrial speakers andtheir experiences from their projects, as well as the book they read. The projects also makelearning active. This principle of experiential learning helps to “fully engage” [5
around the globe, economically,culturally, socially, and ethically. In the present project, we have launched and have begundevelopment of a web platform open to the world that focuses on economic, ethical, andcommunity issues in global oil production. Development of the web platform, titled PetroleumEngineer, is modeled on the highly successful web platform for students’ reactions toengineering ethics, the Ethical Engineer: https://EthicalEngineer.ttu.edu. The PetroleumEngineer website is being developed through a required undergraduate course in the PE major.The primary materials for the Petroleum Engineer website are petroleum engineering casestudies, approximately 1000 words in length. Students read and reflect on a case study, post acomment
and about STEM.We identified that empowering and establishing rapport with teachers was important for creatingopportunities for teachers to reflect on their teaching practices. The teachers sought to createSTEM learning opportunities that explicitly drew on students’ funds of knowledge, specificallytheir home language practices (including translanguaging) and border-crossing experiences. Theproject also allowed teachers to create materials that could result in a sustained and equitablechange in the educational experiences of working-class Latino/a/x in STEM learning. Finally,students constantly created ways to represent their identities and ways of being through theengineering activities, and reflected on the impacts of engineering design in
and thus effective teamwork?InterventionWe have adopted several modules of the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Tools for Teamwork:Asset Mapping and Team Processing Handbook [11] to introduce students to important teamconcepts. Prior to forming groups and as part of the Handbook, students are asked to reflect ontheir identities, strengths, communication and conflict styles. As part of this, they complete aseries of self-assessments [12] and generate an asset map where they give thought to how theirlife experiences, not only educational experiences, will benefit a team. For an example of whatan asset map looks like, see examples in [4], [13]. Further, students read several articleshighlighting diversity and engineering and write a short
incorporated in the training of new chemical engineers: • Communication: This is an interpersonal behavior. It means speaking up and promoting discussions that incorporate multiple perspectives and heighten individual knowledge. • Collaboration: This requires cooperation, mutual respect, effective feedback, and common goals within the team. • Experimentation: This aspect is related to the independence created by uncertainty; it required teams that assess and learn from their actions. • Reflection: Teams need to be critical of their results and they need to be ready to implement the changes necessary for their improvement.We propose this model fits best the current needs of chemical engineering students as theconcept and
,foliage), and navigation processes (i.e. changing user viewpoint and maneuvering around site);and bringing all of these elements together into a working system prototype. The students wereprovided with mentorship from two faculty members of the San Francisco State University, onefrom Computer Science department and the other one from Civil/Structural Engineeringdepartment), along with feedback from the SEAONC DES committee to advance their work.This support system provided them the necessary technical support while providing expertise inthe context of the application.3. ResultsNote: The following reflects the experience of the student participants reported as co-authors tothis paper.Pre-Assessment: Reflecting on the computer science curriculum
reported their confidence in each answer both pre- and post-comicon a 1-4 Likert scale. In all cases, average student confidence increased with the second time they answeredthe ConcepTest questions as presented in Table 6, which would again reflect the general self-reportedimprovement in confidence as measured in the additional survey questions. The greatest confidence bothpre- and post-comic were expressed by students who answered correctly pre-comic and then stayed withtheir same correct answer. The lowest confidence were expressed by students who were incorrect pre-comic and changed their answer to another incorrect option.Table 6. Average student reported confidence in their ConcepTest answers from pre-comic to post-comic,for each combination
1understanding (or the lack thereof) of a science concept, using a rubric to identify strengths andweaknesses in one's persuasive essay, writing reflective journal entries, and so on” .So, what is self-assessment? Two key definitions of self-assessment that guided this study werethose of Brown and Harris [5] and Panadero et. al [6]. Brown and Harris [5] defined self-assessment as a “descriptive and evaluative act carried out by the student concerning his or herown work and academic abilities”. Panadero et. al [6] went a step further to include themechanisms and techniques involved in performing the self-assessment work. They defined self-assessment as a “wide variety of mechanisms and techniques through which students describe(i.e., assess) and possibly
currentchapter.While several studies reported the effectiveness of the concept map as a cognitive learning tool,the effective interpretation of the concept map is one of the key factors. Because of the big sizeof the concept map in general, interpretation of each of the components and their interconnectionby learners is not always very smooth and reduces the efficacy of using the map. This issue isreported in literature and the term “map-shock” is used to portray its harshness [19, 20]. Map-shock is the reflection of a student’s reaction to the gigantic and complex nature of a conceptmap, especially if the map is an entire course-wide presentation. To avoid this complexity, and tomake the concept map easily recognizable, this study used the shape of a tree to
engineering and art designpractices. Others have reported and discussed the challenges inherent with teachinginterdisciplinary design.5,6 Though instructors who primarily teach in general education coursesmay be familiar with these challenges, the inclusion of co-teaching with an instructor out ofone’s discipline makes this a unique course design to provide general background to non-engineering and art students while continuing to emphasize the art and engineering designintersection.The general education capstone course is a culminating course, which requires students to workin an interdisciplinary theme on a project. Reflection, writing, and presentations are requiredlearning objective areas in the general education capstone course, though each
4 knowledge task Relevance Applying theoretical knowledge 4 Self-control and self- Encouraging students to reflect on their learning 4 reflection and behavior Epistemological Teaching students to identify complexity and 3 understanding uncertainty related to domain-specific knowledge Teaching for understanding Helping students develop interconnected 7 knowledge and apply to tasks Supporting learning for Understanding what concepts and information is 4 understanding needed to solve
thesetechnologies. The two columns of data reflect participant group preferences. Thus, the first row(under Autonomous Robots) in Table 2, “Programming”, was among the top five selections for34% of the manufacturers and 52% of the college faculty.The plan for the data analysis was to address the five questions summarized in Table 3. The orderof the questions in the table does reflect the analysis progression through the aggregated data.Thus, the first order of events was to determine the popular skill selections for manufacturers andeducators. Once those selection percentages were reviewed, the degree of popularity by groupwas explored. After reviewing aggregated responses, the fourteen skills were grouped based ondifferences between the manufacturers’ and
multimodal approach. Each student first answeredthe questionnaire questions. These questions were targeted to get students' individual opinionsabout challenges they experience in their STEM courses, strategies to stay focused in theircourses, and steps students take to mitigate these challenges. Later, we divided these studentsinto seven focus groups comprising five groups of four students and two groups of five students.In the focus groups, students collectively reflected on their learning challenges and strategies thatworked for them. Also, students suggested the factors that influenced their decision on theirfuture in a STEM career. The students' focus group discussion were video recorded. Further, theresearchers wrote the reflection memos to
Work-in-Progress: Engaging First-Year Students in Programming 1 During COVID-19AbstractDuring the Fall 2020 semester, it became even more important than before to engage students inthe “classroom” whether that be in-person, online, or a hybrid model. This paper will introducevarious entrepreneurial mindset (EM) techniques to engage students that could be adapted to anyengineering course. All the techniques have suggestions for adapting to a fully online course aswell as working for an in-person or hybrid class. The first activity presented will be name signswith badges that will promote (1) setting, evaluating, and achieving goals, (2) self-reflection, (3)considering a problem from multiple viewpoints, and (4
rankhigher on the spectrum then they did originally. By the end of the semester both the first-yearME 110 and senior ME 465 students also increased the number of steps they had in their processand the maps went into more detail of steps using that common language previously mentioned.ConclusionsFrom the research and the data collected during that time a few conclusions can be drawn. Thefirst is that students entering the mechanical engineering department as a freshman compared towhen they prepare to leave the school after graduation their knowledge of the design process hasgrown to reflect what they have learned over their education. Another conclusion is that it isimportant to teach the steps to the design process to the students as first year
most usefulgains connected to their careers.Assessment and Evaluation Student outcomes were evaluated by analyzing results of the Undergraduate ResearchStudent Self-Assessment (URSSA) survey. As part of this program, we administered the URSSAsurvey at the end of the first semester (UIUC IRB #21284) [9]. This scale developed byUniversity of Colorado Boulder evaluates skills-based student outcomes of undergraduateresearch experiences to identify students' perceptions of gains from engaging in research. Whilethe survey response was positive, due to the small size of the current cohort (n=6 students), wechose to use the survey as a reflection tool for program organizers (faculty and staff). See belowfor reflections on the pilot program
Iowa State University. Her research interests include learning and teaching an- alytics, dashboards, online learning, self-regulation, student engagement, and reflective practices. Her current work aims to examine how instructors’ teaching strategies and methodologies may be informed and improved by interpreting data visualizations (i.e., dashboards) in both in-class and online environ- ments.Dr. Evrim Baran, Iowa State University Evrim Baran is an associate professor of educational technology in the School of Education and Human Computer Interaction at Iowa State University. She conducts research at the intersection of technology in teacher education, human-computer interaction, and learning sciences. Her research