in the first weeks of the quarter and letting usfocus on the logic of programming and on problem solving. The online web-based simulator alsowas a pleasure to use during lectures, supporting code stepping, displaying variable updates, anddepicting flowchart views of code. The students indicated they enjoyed using the simulator aswell, and we had no reports of students having trouble accessing or using the simulator.However, we believe we got a few things wrong in the initial design of the Coral-to-C++approach. Based on the experience, we plan to make several changes in our next offering inSpring 2020 (ongoing at the time of this paper's writing): ● We taught Coral for 5 weeks, covering input/output, assignments, branches, loops
issues encountered asproblems and issues to be resolved and often lowers the frustration and dissatisfactionencountered in technical leadership roles.Servant leaders focus on the needs, development and well-being of others and share power orcontrol [20,21]. Difficulties in applying this leadership style are typically due to our trainingwhere we are taught to be independent and defend our views to avoid ‘losing’ or being provedwrong. We can often engage others readily by showing sincere interest in their point of view,ensuring that clear communication of similarities and differences in viewpoint has taken place,and by involving them in planning and implementation of new initiatives or changes in direction.This interdependence culture develops
has been official Technical Teacher at Ministry of Education in Iran from 2007 to 2018, and received many certificate in education such as Educational Planning, Developing Research Report, and Understanding School Culture. Mr. Beigpourian currently works in the CATME project, which is NSF funding project, on optimizing teamwork skills and assessing the quality of Peer Evaluations.Dr. Matthew W. Ohland, Purdue University-Main Campus, West Lafayette (College of Engineering) Matthew W. Ohland is Associate Head and Professor of Engineering Education at Purdue University. He has degrees from Swarthmore College, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and the University of Florida. His research on the longitudinal study of
investigates: What is therelationship, if any, between team dynamics and innovation effectiveness? Can a team achievehigh innovation effectiveness if it has low team dynamics?Literature reviewTeamwork is recognized as a critical engineering skill. ABET devotes a student outcome toteamwork skill: “an ability to function effectively on a team whose members together provideleadership, create a collaborative and inclusive environment, establish goals, plan tasks, and meetobjectives” [4]. Transforming Undergraduate Education in Engineering suggested that“Teamwork should be embedded everywhere – as part of authentic design experiences, ifpossible – and needs to become a meta-skill for every student.” [5, p.21]. Teamwork is valued atthe workplace because it
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metacognitive skills may help engineeringprograms improve instruction in this area which, in turn, could help students transition moreeffectively into professional practice. 1 D. J. Hacker, Metacognition: Definitions and empirical foundations, in D. J. Hacker, J. Dunlosky and A. C. Graesser (eds), Metacognition in Educational Theory and Practice, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, New Jersey, pp. 1-23, 1998. 2 A. L. Brown and J. S. DeLoache, Skills, plans, and self-regulation, in R. S. Siegel (ed), Children’s thinking: What develops? Erlbaum, Hillsdale, N.J., pp. 3-35, 1987. 3 J. H. Flavell, Metacognition and cognitive monitoring: A new area of cognitive- developmental inquiry, American Psychologist, 34, pp
China's engineering standards and improvingthe internal system of engineering standardsInternationalizing China’s standards is important for shaping its national image, enhancing itsglobal discourse power, and enhancing China’s international prestige. Breaking the long-termmonopoly of the engineering standards market by European countries and the United Statesrequires the Chinese government to publicize China's engineering standards and engineeringculture at the national level. Although China has issued the Action Plan on Belt and RoadStandard Connectivity (2018-2020) twice, up to now the “going out” of Chinese standardshas been hampered by insufficient domestic preparation and international acclimatization.Therefore, the government needs to
theconcept maps at UE, but without the concept maps at IUPUC. In the passive-approach course,only one student preferred the course be taught without concept maps. Student plans for usingconcept maps in the future also differed across institutions. (a) (b) Figure 7: Student preference of learning with concept mapsStudents were also asked to estimate the frequency of their use of concept maps in the passive-approach course. The responses provided in Table 1 indicate that about half of the studentsreferred to the concept map weekly while the remaining students referred to the concept mapevery 4-6 weeks. Table 1: Frequency of use – passive
with professional societies in ME and outreach efforts to two year colleges.5. Continue to develop and refine a sustainability plan for continued expansion of the CW.The current paper will focus on objectives 1 and 2; to achieve these objectives, we have formed ateam from five diverse institutions: a large research public university, a small private university,a two-year college serving a large number of under-represented students, a large non-PhDgranting public university, and a bilingual research university.The Concept WarehouseThe Concept Warehouse (CW) was originally developed for use in the discipline of chemicalengineering (Koretsky et al., 2014). The CW Project has two goals: (i) to provide content thatdecreases instructional barriers
literature, the nature of responses raised someconcerns. Specifically, concerns that respondents were gaming the system to meet thequalification criteria and receive their payment led to elimination of over 20% of responses.Proposed approaches to further alleviate this concern are discussed in plans for future research.Conclusion and Direction for Future ResearchThis study represents the beginning of a multi-year effort to understand and improve EML acrossthe Norm Asbjornson College of Engineering, Jake Jabs College of Business andEntrepreneurship, and the College of Arts and Architecture at Montana State University. While itprovides interesting insight into the similarities and differences between engineering studentsand working entrepreneurs, it
to teach theseconcepts to our students.Based on this work, the authors have the following suggestions for instructors planning toimplement a similar activity in their courses: Create a reporting structure that allows students to experience and quantify risk analysis in their lab course. This process can be especially beneficial for students who have not had prior industrial experience. A sample incident reporting structure can be viewed at this link: https://neu.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0DoaoRIFrbRJcAB Include a calibration activity at the start of the semester to help students identify appropriate consequence levels for various categories of hazards. For example, broken glassware should not be
communicative validation. Ourcurrent preliminary findings include six categories along four dimensions of variation. Recently,we have received additional feedback from an advisory board with expertise in qualitativeresearch, ethics education, and phenomenographic methodology.Objective 2 Overview and ProgressIn parallel to Objective 1, our research team has been identifying critical incidents whichrepresent key experiences that lead to growth of or solidification in ways of experiencingengineering ethics. While our original plan was to utilize a content analytic approach, we slightlyrevised our Phase 2 course of action. Specifically, we applied Critical Incident Technique [46], astrategy that members of our team utilized in two recent studies [47],[48
indicate what areas of consumption they were interested in learningabout (transportation, manufacturing, residential, and commercial). The data suggests students’interest in these topics is high (>70% somewhat or very interested), though no area issubstantially more interesting than others. Students also showed a high level of interest incontemporary global challenges related to energy (>80% somewhat or very interested). Based onthese findings we plan to include substantial renewable energy content as well as informationabout global energy challenges in our new course. First-Year StudentsFigure 1. First-year student responses (n=36) to the question “What sources of energy are youinterested in
framework, ConcepTests are typicallyqualitative and require no or very minimal numerical calculation, although they may requiremental imagination of the development of key equations. Also, some ConcepTests are intendedfor summative assessment and should follow specific guidelines; others may be open-ended andintended to provoke debate and force students to verbalize and justify their assumptions whenanswering questions (Beatty et al. 2006).Since the workshop, the team has had virtual meetings every 1-2 months to discuss conceptquestion development and to review progress. A systematic review process was set up toprovide feedback on all of the different questions, and to plan and manage initial student testingconducted at three different institutions
with someonethey are not familiar with. A more personalized approach such as establishing rapport with theparticipants prior to administering the survey or participant interviews may elicit information thatparticipants may initially be hesitant to share.Future WorkData analysis is ongoing and will consist of a complete analysis of the reasons that influenceBlack women to leave their engineering positions. Trends and relationships between otherfactors and the decision to leave will also be examined. We also asked participants for theiremails and permission to contact them about their survey responses. We plan to conduct more in-depth interviews with these women to better understand their experiences within the workforce.Our hope is that this
had that feature. Other suggestions in that samesemester were to add captions and to have different speakers. After analyzing these responses,we added the ability to change the video’s speed on every video. Second, we decided to providecaptions for all the films once we were confident about a film’s wording. Third, we redid threevideos using student speakers and plan on incorporating more student speakers into the films.Results of Instructor Focus Groups. In October, we held two focus groups for instructors whomentor students on writing in courses, research projects, and professional developmentworkshops. One focus group involved six faculty members who teach or mentor students onwriting technical reports or research papers. Another focus
, Experience, and School: Expanded Edition. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. 5. National Research Council (NRC). (2010). Rising Above the Gathering Storm, Revisited: Rapidly Approaching Category 5. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. 6. National Research Council (NRC), Natalie Nielsen, Rapporteur, Planning Committee on Evidence on Selected Innovations in Undergraduate STEM Education, Board on Science Education. (2011). Promising Practices in Undergraduate Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Education. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. 7. National Research Council (NRC). (2012). Discipline-Based Education Research: Understanding and Improving Learning in
factor and showed high coefficient alpha (.93) with the final grades in the original MSLQdescription [2].Test anxiety The MSLQ includesd test anxiety as a factor of affective component. This componentincludes both an emotionality and cognitive component. Emotionality refers to affective andphysiological aspects, like worries. The cCognitive component of test anxiety includes cognitiveconcern and preoccupation with performance. Test anxiety was negatively correlated toacademic performance (α = .80) [2].Time and study environment Self-regulation of time and study environment (TSE) is important for one’s successfullearning, and this factor also was highly correlated with the final grade (α = .76). It encompassesscheduling, planning
activitiesfacilitated by OSDS.History of Freshmen Student Support ProgramsGoing on 20 years, MAPS and the EFLC are the longest running student support programsdeveloped by OSDS. The MAPS Program exists to increase the retention and academicperformance of all students who are pursuing a COE degree. Although MAPS was originallydeveloped and implemented through National Science Foundation (NSF) funding, it is now fullyfunded by the University as a key component of the Southern Association of Colleges andSchools (SACS) Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP), known as Prospect For Success (PFS). PFSis designed to foster academic engagement through three specific learning outcomes:Commitment to Success, Inquiry, and Cultural Awareness. For more information regarding
understanding. The plan is to continue tooffer the CUE-CMR in subsequent semesters to assess student understanding of electrostaticscontent.Future work will involve attempting to have the course split into two sections, one taught with abaseline guided-inquiry pedagogy, and the other taught with the guided-inquiry pedagogy butwith EML added in order to measure if any knowledge gain occurs due to EML specifically.References[1] Notaroš, Branislav M. "Geometrical approach to vector analysis in electromagneticseducation." IEEE Transactions on Education 56, no. 3 (2012): 336-345.[2] Voltmer, David R., and D. Garner. "A new direction for undergraduate electromagnetics."In FIE'98. 28th Annual Frontiers in Education Conference. Moving from'Teacher
year, an intervention is planned which will include sophomore students and will againutilize the senior students as mentors. In this next iteration, however, the context will be morestructured and related to a project assignment the sophomore students are completing for acourse.AcknowledgementsFunding for this research was provided by the National Science Foundation through grant EEC-1927144.ReferencesAustin A. E. (2002). Preparation of the next generation of faculty; Graduate school as socialization to the academic career. Journal of Higher Education, 73, 94-122.Blimling, G. The Resident Assistant: Applications and Strategies for Working with College Students in Residence Halls. 7th Edition, Kendall Hunt PublishingBurke P.J. and Reitzes
most of the skills listed above are satisfied, either directly or indirectly, through ABETcriteria, some are emphasized more than others. Bloom’s taxonomy of educational objectives(1956) is widely used in curriculum design to plan learning experiences and prepare evaluationtools [6]. The original taxonomy was organized into three domains: Cognitive, Affective, andPsychomotor, although only the cognitive domain was developed initially, followed by work onthe affective domain by [7]. The cognitive domain includes objectives which deal with the recallor recognition of knowledge and the development of intellectual abilities and skills. The affectivedomain includes objectives which describe changes in interest, attitudes, and values, and
% ofthe cause the attrition [3]. Therefore, an ancillary research question is: Can mandatory studygroups formed in an introductory engineering course, help students succeed in other gatewayclasses? The results to the two research questions are reported with links to supporting videos.An Introduction to Human Centered DesignIn order to discuss design thinking and, by extension, IBM Enterprise Design Thinking (EDT) -paraphrased as human-centered design at scale (and speed) - we must first ground ourselves in thedefinition of general human-centered design (HCD) and the root meaning of design. A design isdefined as the purpose, planning, or intention that exists behind an action, fact, or material object.In and of itself, design is neither good nor
and polling questions were also perceived aspositive on average across demographic groups. The slightly lower score may be due to students’resistance to active learning formats [25]. The largely positive responses to the course structuresupport the plan to continue with this overall template. However, some results warrantadjustments: as mentioned JiT quizzes were already replaced. Assigned groups were rated in thebottom three for both female and black students. This could mean that more care is needed increating groups, or additional support is needed for developing group cohesiveness.This paper presented a small subset of the data collected in the study; much more work is left tobe done. Ongoing analysis will look at other student aspects
. The breadth and depth of engineeringmeant any individual branch within engineering, such as chemical engineering, could easily have46 episodes devoted to within that branch, or even within a single engineering course likethermodynamics. The direction to cover all of engineering meant that achieving a balance betweenall branches of engineering, with appropriate breadth and depth to cover key topics within eachfield, would take significant planning and effort before the series could even be filmed. Mappingout the series took ten months of research, which occurred while the series was being initiallywritten, filmed, animated, produced, and released. The series effectively broke down into several components. The first six episodes
people, equipment, and materials that are housed in our labs, facultymembers’ labs, research labs as well as within other companies. The members share what isneeded and house supplies in whatever location is logical for each project at the time. As plans,partners, and project needs change, our equipment and supplies change and move.One of the priority ongoing projects is the operation of a makerspace laboratory that providesadditive manufacturing services to students, faculty, and external customers. A business graduatestudent oversees the laboratory and other students who staff the facility (Figure 1). The lab isopen to all our university students, and printing is free (up to 500g). Trained student staffmembers operate software and assist
instead of hand cutting the pieces. To cut out the folding mechanism, a press or waterjetcould be used to create the general shape. The pedaling mechanism would have to be pressedtogether with the sprocket and axle parts. Roller chain would be best put on by a human. Theremaining pieces could be purchased from a vendor similarly to how it was done to complete thescooter now. After the rest of the parts are purchased, they could all be attached to the boardeither by a human or a robot.Testing and Refinement Scootie gang planned to test the prototype in the following areas: Plywood deflection,Steering range of motion, maximum height of obstacle, maximum user speed, security of lockingmechanism, protection from the elements. To test each of
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second pyramid layer. Another viewpoint would be “understanding starts at the secondlayer” without a pyramid construct. A 2014 PNAS report classified prospective cognition intofour columns of simulation, prediction, intention, and planning, with two orthogonal rows ofepisodic and semantic processes [17]. Therefore, the prediction deliverable should be includedin an assessment rubric. Furthermore, the ASEE Assessment-White-Paper stated that “programimprovement is the objective of assessment and program modifications over relatively shortintervals are likely to make assessment ineffective” [18]. The assessment rubric designs duringasynchronous delivery should be blended into face-to-face instruction upon society reopen. Anassessment rubric example
the software has been successful forhomework, there were still several challenges during the transition to utilize it fully forsynchronous online labs. The main challenge was management of student expectations. Studentsinitially demonstrated disappointment that they would not be able to directly apply skill sets tophysical equipment. The students soon saw; however, that the simulation software presentedmore of an opportunity to practice and grasp the key aspects of automation. The availability ofthe simulation software on the student’s PC provided more opportunities for them to practicetheir skill sets (e.g. EDS planning and implementation) as opposed to the hard-wired physicalunits, which have limited access even under normal (pre-pandemic