. The presentation is somewhat generic, i.e., it covers issues that studentsshould address if they are considering to continue their education beyond the AAS degree.Major issues addressed in the presentation, adapted as necessary to the particular audience,include: • The presenter’s background – begins the student bond to the +2 BS-EET program • Transfer agreement concept, process, and admission requirements • The transfer process: application, transcripts, transfer evaluation, academic plan • Financial aid process (especially important for private colleges) and transfer scholarships • Overview of the +2 BS-EET curriculum, including a few samples of topics with which the AAS-EET student can relate • Scheduling
that some of these themes would have increased in stability if another survey round had been completed as part of the planned survey protocol, a total of eight items in the final list is a reasonable length.NATURE OF ENGINEERING FOR K-12 EDUCATION 15 Group Differences In order to understand differences between group ratings, the results of the finallist of themes were analyzed by type of participant category (K-12 engineering teacher,K-12 science teacher, university engineering education professor, and university scienceeducation professor). Because the participants were purposively sampled from experts inthe field and were not intended to be a representative sample of their subgroup
to the present,they argue that “militarism and cultures of warfare” have shaped the relationships betweenindustry (directly connected to war and not) and engineering education.10 At one levelengineering labor is designed to fit into existing power structures and organizational logics.David Noble explores the history of this fit in the U.S., tracing the curriculum and structure ofengineering education to military and commercial interests.11 While much has changed sincethen, the legacy of “command-and-control problem solving”—a system of military planning thatrestricts inquiry to strict causation—persists in engineering education today as the demarcationsbetween the social and the technical.12At another level, engineering epistemologies assume
the teaching duties UTFs would encounter inENES100.Episode ContextThe context of our design review role-play episodes began during the seminar’s second class ofthe fall semester, with the theme of “Facilitating Classroom Discourse and Constructive DesignReviews”.6 Drawing from the course instructors’ collaborative weekly lesson plans, the learninggoals of this seminar period were: ● Facilitating the connection between concepts in assigned reading to UTFs’ design reviews experiences in ENES100. ● Acknowledging multiple UTF instructional goals as legitimate. ● Facilitating UTFs’ classroom discourse to articulate multiple possible goals/purposes. ● Building more experiences for the UTFs to notice student ideas in classroom
economics, even though I'm taking the class.... It would be easier for me if I had someone else right now from economics.” - Xena “I am definitely, I feel pretty behind in terms of planning out my academic [career].... I have my transfer credits, they haven't all been aligned or something like that. The other negative is that I'm going to have to take the qualifying exam here…. Different teachers, different textbooks, different emphasis. I'm pretty worried about that….I usually rely on students to tell me about [opportunities], and I don't know too many people here…. I haven't done much preparing, honestly. I don't have a very clear plan.” - XenaThe number of hurdles she faced were intimidating
amongthese: “I had good rapport with my professors to start with … One of my professors, he’s friendswith [manager’s name], who is really high up in [company’s name]. He actually recommended meto [company’s name] for the interview to start with … That’s kind of how I got an interview with[company’s name]. I didn’t actually apply online.” The social capital of her professor and her accessto it helped her to obtain employment at a prestigious consulting company.During her undergraduate studies, Martha interned each summer at a different engineering company.These opportunities honed her educational and career plans, strengthened her technical knowledgeand skills, and introduced her to workplace conventions. When Martha was wavering between civiland
commoncauses and such a state as the natural state. The common cause variability considerationspreclude the possibility of zero defects ad infinitum. This inherent, unavoidable variationin the outcomes of processes is worsened by measurement errors and by other causes thatare identifiable. Discovering and then fixing these causes returns the process outcome toits natural state. Engineers have taken this to be the state of true minimum variance, ashad the author until several years ago. These ideas are explained in Figure 1. (a) Perfection not in the plan
a conversation in theengineering education community. The purpose of this paper was to lay the groundwork forthinking about and researching underlying or latent aspects of diversity in engineering students.This paper also makes the argument that separate research across domains of students’ attitudes,beliefs, and mindsets need to be understood together rather than separately to see a morecomprehensive picture of the types of students entering and exiting engineering education. Thetheories and research included in this paper provide a starting point for future work inunderstanding how latent diversity is present in engineering students and how it influences diversestudents’ pathways into and out of engineering. In future work, I plan to
University and M.Tech in Embedded Systems from KG Reddy College of Engineering and Technology. He is currently serving as the President of Student Platform for Engineering Education Development (SPEED) and has conducted more than 30 workshops across Asia, Europe, and Latin America which were focused on engi- neering education development and action planning. He was the founder of Indian Student Forum (ISF) and has been awarded the IGIP SPEED Young Scientist Award for the year 2014 for his efforts. He has been instrumental in setting up Indo Universal collaboration for Engineering Education (IUCEE) stu- dents Chapters across 47 colleges across India impacting more than 5000 students since 2013 and has been awarded
, students inan S&E career planning course who report higher self-efficacy beliefs earn higher grades and areretained longer than their peers in S&E disciplines who have low confidence.23ResilienceJust as scholars have indicated that high academic self-efficacy is a positive predictor ofacademic achievement, motivation, and retention, considerable educational literature has alsoindicated that academic resilience plays an important role in students’ success. Resilience isdefined as students’ ability to succeed despite challenges, temporary or long-term setbacks, andnegative experiences.25-26 That is, resilient students are able to recover from academic and socialsetbacks, which may include, but are not limited to, poor academic performance on
engineering company to help undertake today’s global challenges.Mr. Fletcher Ray Hendrickson, Tennessee State University Fletcher Hendrickson is a Mechanical Engineering Student enrolled at Tennessee State University. He aspires to perform engineering design under research and development to develop the latest technologies, specifically in the aeronautical field. In addition, he plans to earn his private pilot’s license while at Tennessee State University.Fatemeh Hadi, Tennessee State University Dr. Fatemeh Hadi is an assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engi- neering at Tennessee State University. She received her PhD in mechanical engineering at Northeastern University, working on
influence in predicting a career in engineering industry, while having a high physics identitynegatively predicts FGCS’ pursuit of a career in engineering industry. Taken together with theresults from the other regression analyses conducted for non-engineering, STEM-related careers(Table 6) and educational career pathways (Table 7), our results indicate the FGCS with higherphysics identities are more likely to choose engineering as a stepping stone to other careerpathways.These results have implications for how engineering courses are taught, especially for FGCS. Ouranalysis suggests that FGCS may have alternative career plans or long-term goals and motivationas non-FGCS for studying engineering. Providing opportunities to engage in other
RubricsAt the end of the week, students were asked to give a short, five minute presentation on theirweek-long project along with a functioning prototype of their project idea. These presentationswere evaluated with a rubric by several people with expertise in the education field. Table 3shows the mean scores (graded on a 4 point Likert scale) from those experts on the rubriccategories. The categories are defined as follows: Design - Does the student show evidence of planning the project thoughtfully? Knowledge - Does the student demonstrate the understanding of ideas? Application - Does the student use a variety of skills to apply knowledge to the project? Presentation - Does the student effectively communicate the central ideas of the
their lab partner improve and to develop a plan for their own leadershipdevelopment.As part of a funded leadership grant, the instructor kept an online journal of each day’s activitiesand the opportunities students had to engage in leadership through each of these activities. Onelab session was also videoed to formalize the observation of student leadership. This video wasreviewed and coded to assess the types of interactions the students had with their lab partners,other peers, and the instructor. Various leadership qualities were noted including askingquestions when having difficulty, seeking help from other students, seeking help from theinstructor, and collaboration in teams.IntroductionThe development of engineering students into
engineering affects or shifts the way educatorsthink about science and the ways it should be taught in K-12 schools.While there has been much progress in K-12 science education over the past decade, researchcontinues to show that many science teachers do not hold adequate views of Nature of Science(NOS) and struggle to teach in more inquiry or project-based ways.5,6,7 Specifically, Anderson5found that many teachers have limited experience with scientific inquiry and hold naıveconceptions of the process by which scientific knowledge is generated. This lack of knowledgeand experience likely puts limitations on teachers’ abilities to plan and implement moreprogressive lessons that will help their students develop an image of science that goes beyond
anddeleting is much easier than reshooting a 20-minute video. Third, the physical facilities,software and hardware demands are greater for the video production. Finally, the skills requiredfor good videos are not always available to the faculty; often a production team is required,which increases cost. Naturally, the animations and audio are synchronized, giving the impression of a well-planned lecture presentation. Animations enable material to be introduced sequentially and toshow temporal relationships, as in the following examples. • Model derivation: A mathematical model can be presented in stages, with each stage explained via audio and students given time to think how they would perform the next step. Key variables can be
importantcontributor to their team’s success. We did not attempt to pursue or resolve this paradox in thisstudy, but it continues to present an opportunity for future research.External events – transitions in university or college leadership or new strategic plans – do seemto have had at least some impact on the teams. High-performing teams, in particular, report thatthese changes were positive developments. We did not explore the extent to which this wasdisproportionately a matter of perception for high-performing teams.AreasforcontinuingandadditionalresearchThere is much yet to learn about the dynamics of making change in engineering education. Whilethe data presented here shed some light on some of the factors that may have an impact onwhether a change
over 10 years in the spaceindustry as a practicing engineer before joining academia, is illustrative: As the development of a satellite was ending, we (team members) started to talk to each other about what was coming next for us. One of my colleagues said that he was planning to write the continuation of Harry Potter. Intrigued by the idea, we asked him why. His answer was enlightening: “I have had to write so much science fiction in this project, that I feel totally capable to do it!”Engineering work affects society. Consequently, engineers have an inherent responsibility as partof their engineering practice for public safety and environmental sustainability, which requiresengineers to practice engineering
toconcepts in the prerequisite physics course (e.g. vector analysis, particle equilibrium, and free-body diagrams). It could be interesting to compare these pre-course survey responses withstudent grades in physics. Perhaps the survey could replace other pre-course assessment toolsused to plan review topics to emphasize during class sessions and/or identify students foracademic support services such as tutoring.Knowledge Surveys to Support Learner Skill DevelopmentAs discussed above, one of the goals of developing the knowledge survey was for students to usethe tool to improve their academic skill and confidence. Several of the survey items underoutcome 1 specifically ask students to reflect on their confidence regarding tasks associated
]. None of the intervieweesmentioned intentional reflections following their international experiences.Global Interests After CollegeThere were a number of different students who discussed their global interests after college inrelation to their social responsibility.Tim described ideas for living and working abroad as an engineer during his interview at the endof his first year of college, in response to a question on his thoughts about what is socialresponsibility. He discussed that his brother was in medical school and planning to do DoctorsWithout Borders and: …engineers have the same thing, Engineers Without Borders. So that's why I'm taking Spanish. I’d just like to at some point go to a third world country, build a well there, build
cultural transformations in many engineering programs. We posit thatthese three issues that are wicked problems. Wicked problems are ambiguous, interrelated andrequire complex problem-scoping and solutions that are not amenable with traditional and linearstrategic planning and problem-solving orientations [2].As design thinking provides an approach to solve complex problems that occur in organizationalcultures [3], we argue that these wicked problems of engineering education cultures might bebest understood and resolved through design thinking. As Elsbach and Stigliani contend, “theeffective use of design thinking tools in organizations had a profound effect on organizationalculture” [3, p. 2279].However, not all organizational cultures support
. 2Mentorship Program StructureThe academic year-long program itself could be segmented into three terms: (1) Program Preparation (2)Fall Mentorship and (3) Spring Mentorship as shown in Table 1.Table 1: The year-long arc of the Industry Scholars Mentorship Program. Spring-Summer 2018 Fall 2018 Spring 2019 (1) Program Preparation (2) Fall Mentorship (3) Spring Mentorship Formation of committee, Program Continued Mid-Program Continued End-of-Program recruitment of mentors, etc. Kick-off Mentorship Check-in Mentorship CelebrationThe (1) Program Preparation term began with initial planning between industry advisory board
about the wide range ofinterpretations of existing promotion criteria.Around the same time, the annual cycle of promotion announcements had been made. Whilethree men and two women with traditional scholarship had been promoted, word spread thatthree women in STEM disciplines, with a broad range of contributions, had been deniedpromotion from Associate to Full. Although there were no references to these cases in officialdocuments, negative reaction to these decisions seemed to galvanize efforts to put brakes on thePC’s proposals. In its April minutes, the GC reported receiving a letter from several facultyasking for broader input and community discussion about promotion criteria. Whereas the PChad planned to bring its motions to the faculty for
gather. Comparing student outcomes for A competency-based degree United competency-based and CRAAP/OpenFosmire et al. plan with information 2015 States of 23 traditional classroom Badge System[36] literacy embedded in the America approaches to Framework
collegial and included room for dialogue and questioning.The decision to make the course mandatory was made largely based on data from the Y1 pilot,assuming that similar outcomes would result from a scaled-up version of the course. Littleattention was given to anticipating how changing the course from optional to mandatory wouldaffect student attitudes, beliefs, or motivations in Y2, in part due to the necessity of makingcourse planning and scheduling decisions for Y2 just a few weeks after the conclusion of the Y1pilot. The unfortunate reality of making an educational pilot fit within the ongoing academiccalendar and scheduling demands of a large public institution necessitates that logistical coursedecisions regarding classroom reservations
student who is able to think sociotechnically is that they will acknowledge, accountfor, and plan for the complex interplays between social and technical dimensions of engineeringacross problem defining and solving phases. In this section, we describe literature relevant tosuch behavior.One of the ways we conceptualize sociotechnical thinking is within the engineering habits ofmind, which are defined as the values, attitudes, and skills held by engineers [9]. Prior researchin engineering education has endeavored to identify engineering habits of mind and methods forteaching them. However, there does not seem to be a clear consensus about the most promisingways to address them in the classroom. This is especially true for habits of mind related
. However, due totechnical issues, the system is now in Hilo for “tweaking” [84]. If it works as planned, the systemwill remove 50% of the GPGP within five years. Interested observers can follow the project onFacebook, Twitter, or on the project’s website: https://www.theoceancleanup.com/system001/.One of the more fanciful solutions received an honorable mention in the annual EvoloSkyscraper Competition. In 2011, Serbian designers Milorad Vidojević, Jelena Pucarević, andMilica Pihler envisioned a series of underwater skyscrapers, “floating islands that will be used toremove and recycle the garbage patch. These are self-sustained structures organized by functionhierarchy with four communication cores that connect three main programs—collectors at
planning course goalsmight continue to consider the value of adding new course competencies for technologyinnovators [48] like ‘communicate effectively about career dreams’ and ‘develop abilities toanalyze and enjoy emotional experience.” Do modern students equate a high need to performwith innovative endeavors?Revealing stories indicate gender alliance: Participants show gender alliance in the way theyanswer the prompt, each gender projects themselves onto their storytelling counterpart withimages of motivation. Interestingly, writing a story through the perspective of the gender thatyou identify with increases the amount of affiliation themes.Affiliation responses in general suggest respondents need to be relatable and care about