force.AcknowledgmentsThe authors thank the National Science Foundation for support of this research research (Award1329283: Access to Cooperative Education Programs and the Academic and EmploymentReturns by Race, Gender, and Discipline), as well as Eckhard Groll, Stephen Wanders, TinaAlsup and the SPHERE Lab for their helpful feedback and assistance. The views expressedherein are solely the authors’.References Cited1. Haddara, M., & Skanes, H. (2007). A reflection on cooperative education : from experience to experiential learning. Asia-Pacific Journal of Cooperative Education, 8(1), 67–76.2. Edgar, S., Francis-Coad, J., & Connaughton, J. (2013). Undergraduate reflective journaling in work integrated learning : Is it relevant to
26.840.2The content reflects the commonly held understandings that multiple leading universitiesdocument in their course descriptions. The assessment strategies reflect the varied results thatstudents may generate with higher level thinking. The pedagogy reflects the established trend ofcooperative learning as the “best” form of active, student-centered learning, where the instructorscaffolds the student’s learning process and develops the student’s ability to pursue self-guidedinquiry, which is the highest goal of teaching.It is expected that the institutional setting will be an ABET-accredited engineering college thatoffers aerospace engineering at the bachelors level. For example, the rotorcraft centers ofexcellence are Georgia Tech, University of
motivational goals for learning with respect to course favoritism are reflective of a statedependence rather than a trait the students hold with respect to the way they approach learning.Thus, motivational goals of engineering students are likely to shift, some substantially, based ontheir affinity for a course. The implications for our findings are such that if students favor acourse they are more likely to engage in learning at the mastery level and seek deeperunderstanding and develop more complex knowledge of subjects based on intrinsic factors. Incontrast, if students disfavor a course they are likely to be driven by external factors, like grades,or simply passing and getting through, and are much less likely to develop and retain deep
VCP.Leadership VCP The leadership VCP comprised 6 weekly sessions which prepared five pairs of faculty leadersto facilitate their own VCPs in different subject areas. These sessions, led by Karl Smith andCynthia Finelli, were conducted weekly and lasted approximately 1.5 hours; there were also twofollow-up sessions after the faculty leaders began leading their own VCPs. The six sessions pro-vided an introduction to the VCP and training in research-based practices of active learning, en-hancing motivation, learning objectives and Bloom’s Taxonomy, as well as student teams and Page 26.132.4cooperative learning. Final sessions focused on reflection
fortified through reflection papers, classdiscussion, and student presentations that require students to represent mathematical informationsymbolically, visually, numerically, and verbally. Through in-class studies and assignments,student will be given raw data about a specific problem and asked to effectively use arithmetic,algebraic, geometric, logical, and/or statistical methods to model and solve real-world problems.Since students in the course will come from a variety of majors and will hold different skills inreading course materials, assignments will be kept in a level that is both challenging andachievable for each student.Several case study assignments will be included in the course content to meet this objective. Thecase studies are
employment of another engineer, nor does he indiscriminately criticize another engineer’s work. 13. The Engineer endeavors to extend public knowledge, and to promote understanding of the contributions and achievements of engineering and the alternatives offered by modern technology. 14. The Engineer gives credit for work to those to whom credit is due, and recognizes the proprietary interests of others. 15. The Engineer advertises his work or merit in a dignified manner, and avoids conduct or practice likely to discredit or unfavorably reflect upon the dignity or honor of the profession. 16. The Engineer is guided in all his professional relations by the highest standards of integrity, and acts in professional matters for each
’ professional formation, the role of reflection in engineering learning, and interpretive research methodologies in the emerging field of engineering education research. His teaching focuses on innovative approaches to introducing systems thinking and creativity into the environmental engineering program at the University of Georgia. Page 26.1184.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Narrative Inquiry in Engineering Education Research: Exploring Ways of Constructing Narratives to have Resonance with the Reader and Critical Research
determine if the current ABET CivilEngineering Program Criteria (CEPC) should be changed to reflect one or more of the 24 outcomesof the second edition of the Civil Engineering Body of Knowledge published in 2008. After twoyears of work, a proposed CEPC has been approved by the relevant ASCE committees andforwarded to ABET for approval and incorporation into accreditation criteria. A paper chroniclingthe committee’s efforts through a review of the literature, the committee’s methodology andprocess, and the key issues that emerged was presented at the 2014 ASEE Annual Conference inIndianapolis. This paper updates that effort by presenting the resulting proposed criteria, thechanges generated by constituency feedback, progress on the Commentary, the
students who participatedin the survey did not benefit from the help rendered by the video based coaching problems andtutorials.Figure 2, Q5 received 3.6 out of 5 demonstrating that a good portion of our students benefited byusing Mastering Engineering online tool homework assignments and instant feedback. 4.00 Figure 2 3.50 3.00 2.50 2.00 1.50 1.00 0.50 0.00 q3 q4 q5Figure 3, Q6 reflects the students’ view regarding the important question of this study and surveywhether “the mastering engineering helps you to master the electrical circuit concepts ”. Themajority of the students, about 78%, felt that mastering engineering helps them to learn
experience that promised no restrictions on employment following thecompletion of a degree. It became very apparent that Starbucks is as committed to its partners asASU is to the welfare of our students and how they succeed at the university and beyond.The partnership would be one of mutual shared impact. It needed to work at scale, whichStarbucks provides. Starbucks partners are relatively young, but demographically reflectAmerica. The partners were hit hard by the Great Recession, and they collectively reflect thedegree attainment crisis facing the United States. They offered ASU the opportunity to prove thatits initiatives in partnership and online learning at scale would work in service to a large numberof students that reflect the diversity
and leadership. Students are asked to identify and interview aleader of their choice, analyzing the information gathered from the interview using their personaldefinitions. As a final reflection, students create a self-commitment plan consisting of personaldefinitions of a leader and leadership, personal values, vision statement, and identifiableleadership opportunities while in college. We have implemented this module as a course facilitated by a graduate assistant.Discussions and the self-commitment plan were spread throughout half of the semester in aneight-week course. Students who have completed the module are invited as to serve as a peermentors that facilitate discussion and activities. A more abbreviated module could
structured questioning process actively involves all students in the class.Peer instruction encourages students to reflect on the problem, think through the arguments beingdeveloped, and put them into their own words. Just as important, it provides both student andinstructor with feedback regarding student understanding of the concept.Concept Inventories have emerged in many science and engineering fields.4-16 Similarlynumerous studies in physics, chemistry, and biology classrooms have shown that active learningpedagogies that are based on concept questions (ConcepTests) are more effective for studentlearning than traditional lecture.17-28 This project intends to encourage and shift the focus oflearning in chemical engineering classes by providing a
industry leaders in the region. Participants willexperience a portion of one environmental engineering module developed using this model,“Don’t Go With the Flow.” Participants will reflect on their experience with the moduleand identify ways that the model could be applied to enrich their current STEM educationefforts. Planning documents and a summary of strategies will be provided.Workshop Description. Please provide a detailed description of the proposed workshop that, atminimum, explicitly addresses the following (maximum 4,000 characters): a. Learning objectives b. Hands-on activities and interactive exercises c. Materials that participants can take with them d. Practical application for teachers and outreach
scenario based activity, participants will be able to identify micromessages, including micro-affirmations and micro-inequities, and recommend micro-affirmations to improve equity in the classroom scenarios.Pedagogical Strategies:Over the course of the workshop, the following pedagogical strategies will be used: - Reflective practice - Constructivist listening - Collaborative learning - Guided inquiry - Action planningHands on activities & Interactive Exercises: 1. Participants will work in dyads using constructivist listening, as a reflection tool to develop meaning and understanding around the concept of micromessaging. 2. Participants will work in small groups to identify the types of cues in which
experience guidance/training 3. Impact on students who serve is4. Impact on those served can be documented through reflective, (and is) documented qualitative, and quantitative methods Community Service Learning at West Point• Tasked with building an experiential independent study project for every Civil Engineering Student• Only had 1-2 per year; needed 16-20 per year• Developed projects in 3 areas: – UG Research – Competition – Community Service 4 Service Projects at West Point• FBI Training Facility• Reconfiguration of training facilities for Homeland Security
earlier, an expert may have avoided this pitfall. For a novice to avoid thestoppage, they would have to recognize the stoppage and where it fits into the adaptation ofGick’s 6 problem solving strategy. There student may have known that there must be someanswer to the self-posed question: “Why is there pressure?”. If the solution seeker was able to Page 26.703.10recognize their own stoppage it might have forced a moment of self-reflective metacognition.That self-reflection could lead to the realization that there must be some well-defined schemathat could have been used by an expert to reach the solution, thereby implying that their ownschema is
Rogers identified provide a methodfor understanding how individuals in a system may adopt innovations.This study takes place in the context of a set of long-term faculty development groups. Thegroups follow the SIMPLE model for faculty development: Sustainable, focus on Incrementalchange, include Mentoring, be People-driven, and emphasize interactive LearningEnvironments5–7. Through these groups, engineering faculty meet regularly over the course of anacademic year to learn about evidence-based instructional practices, identify innovations thatserve a need in their classes, implement these innovations, and reflect on their effects. Theinnovations selected by the participating faculty and their reflections on choosing and using theseinnovations
office. According to our records, 288 employees opened the survey and 175 completed it.Please see table one for a summary of our sample characteristics.Our sample is younger and less experienced than engineers in the country with a slight over-representation of chemical and mechanical engineers. The gender split (74% men, 26% women)reflects that of Canadian engineering graduates over the past two decades. We used Cronbach’salpha to test the reliability of survey scales using the full complement of data collected (n=75, 31survey items, 3 scales) and found that all three scales met the social science reliability thresholdof 0.7 [12]. After analyzing data related to the three engineering leadership orientations andanswering our initial set of
thought process, … not give just the final answer,but also the process”- RobinThis type of feedback seemed to have contributed to students’ deep understanding of coreconcepts. It also facilitated students’ reflection and articulation of what they have learned.An emphasis on rigorous reasoningThe SPEIT program encourages a teaching and learning environment that emphasizesanalytical thinking through mathematic reasoning and the like. This focus had allowed forstudents’ development of rigorous thinking progresses:“The French have a rigorous logic process. Say, for some equations, he may start with thesubject and go through from the beginning to the end through critical analysis. After that,they may do it one more time backward. That is to say, they
drills” yields over 16 million results. The followingnon-exhaustive list indicates a few ways authors aim to build higher level writing skills: 1. Faculty must do more than embed writing assignments into their classes.19 2. The writing assignment must offer students time to receive feedback, reflect on their learning, and revise their drafts. 19,20 3. Writing requires an interactive, coaching pedagogy—like that advanced by How People Learn techniques.19 4. Scaffold complex writing tasks over simple mechanics to promote improvement.16 5. Use detailed rubrics so feedback can translate more readily into improved results.20 6. Computer assisted instruction (CAI) to teach English composition gained increased attention
education needs to be assessed as compared to on-ground (in the classroom) education. To continue growth and experience in e-learning,universities are encouraged to develop online graduate and undergraduate courses andspecialized certificate programs. A large comprehensive state university in New England,Central Connecticut State University (CCSU), created a task force to look closely at theuniversity’s online and hybrid courses to ensure that the university delivers high quality onlineand hybrid instruction. Comprised of educators, administrators and technology experts, the taskforce’s objective is to develop recommendations to ensure that 1) online and hybrid coursestaught at this state university reflect the best practices for online course
competitiveness, economic prosperity, and security. Creativity isdefined by some cognitive researchers as the introduction of new variables, significant leaps,or novel connection, and is a process resulting in a novel products1,2. Torrance concludedthree characteristics of creativity: originality, idea fluency, and flexibility, and claimed thatevery person has his or her creativity and that creativity could be cultivated3. Amabileestablished a psychological model of creativity that includes four factors: intrinsicmotivation, domain knowledge, creative skills, and environment4. Metacognition refers to theawareness of and reflection on one’s learning process and is higher-order mental processes5,6.Metacognition includes making plans for learning and
research specifically.9 Page 26.680.2Theoretically grounded work can connect researchers, facilitate generalization across studies,and help the field avoid re-inventing the wheel.10 Moreover, “theoretically engaged empiricalwork allows broader and more complex discussion between scholars – one that extends beyondthe particularities of individual empirical projects”.11 However, much engineering educationscholarship is characterized by a lack of explicit and consistent theoretical engagement,12 andwhen theory is used it is typically only in a limited fashion.13 The lack of engagement withtheory in scholarship on global competencies is thus reflective
create a MATLAB program to calculate the bicepsmuscle force required to hold up an object (apple, backpack, or milk jug etc.) at 90 degrees based on keyinput parameters from data found in literature. Students will set up a full-factorial analysis of the elbowbiomechanics model, with “high” and “low” levels of each parameter based on the mean ±1 standarddeviation. An Excel sample data sheet will be provided that shows the patterns found within thecombinations of the full factorial design. Next, students will perform an ANOVA analysis usingMATLAB to idenify the overall mean to report the biceps muscle force for the most generic answer andthe RMSE to reflect the uncertainty in this generic model. Using the results from ANOVA, they will
Page 26.1056.5integrate the Four Pillars with methods that apply to each learning style, using the Corvette tourfor examples to plan a learning session. Participants then were asked to identify leaders theyhave known and reflect on the traits and leadership qualities of those individuals. Each wrotetheir own definition of leadership and discussed with the group. Prior to Module 4, participants were asked to do an assignment using their characterstrengths identified in the VIA survey. In Module 4, participants shared their stories andcompared VIA results, identifying their own personal signature strengths. This was followed bya presentation and discussion on energy managementxii and the high performance pyramid. In thefinal phase of this
Agent award, the 2006 Hewlett-Packard Harriett B. Rigas Award, and the 2007 University of Washington David B. Thorud Leadership Award. She is a Fellow of the IEEE.Dr. Jim L Borgford-Parnell, University of Washington Dr. Jim Borgford-Parnell is Associate Director and Instructional Consultant at the Center for Engineering Learning & Teaching at the University of Washington. He taught design, education-research methods, and adult and higher education theory and pedagogy courses for over 30 years. He has been involved in instructional development for 18 years, and currently does both research and instructional development in engineering education. Jim has taught courses on the development of reflective teaching practices
followed by thedrilling of a hole and gluing a tower of the University Logo. The university wants to make1000 pieces of this. It wants to contract this job out. You are a group of mechanicalengineering graduates just graduated from UAEU and are in the process of forming aproduct design and manufacturing company. You want to have this contract to launch yourcompany. But the competition is very high. Eighteen companies including yours haverecorded interest in bidding for the contract. Make a bid on the specified format given andmake a presentation to the interviewing board to convince them to choose your bid.The students were told that the product should have the emotional appeal reflecting thecharacteristic character of the region and product
tapping into pools of underrepresented populations such as African-Americans1,2 . To address the call, it is critical to examine the African-American science, technology,engineering, and mathematics (STEM) undergraduate experience and to understand how theexperiences of underrepresented populations influence decisions to go into and persist in STEMmajors 3-5. But what do we really understand about the African-American STEM collegeexperience? What can we learn from the experiences and reflections of African-AmericanSTEM PhD mentors about the African-American college experience and how to navigate it? Inthis paper, we examine the reflections and insights of an African-American STEM mentor usinga narrative analysis method. This research study
resistance to activelearning methods and the ways faculty respond to this challenge. Since trained observers who arenot involved parties in the classroom (i.e., neither students nor instructors) are conducting ourobservations, we have had to continually reflect on the precise detection, perception, recognition,and judgment of certain events to ensure our observations are accurately capturing what isoccurring in the classroom. This experience is much different than training observers to obtaininter-rater agreement, used often by researchers to ensure that observations are reliable acrossmany different observers. Instead, we have examined ways in which we can confirm the eventswe are recording are a valid depiction of classroom behaviors.In this paper
organized. For courses with over 100screencasts, we created separate, course-specific YouTube channels where screencasts areorganized into playlists by topic. Playlists are shorter, making it easier for users to navigate. Wealso added more textbook table of contents and linked screencasts to chapters in the textbooks,and simplified the existing links from textbooks. Because the FE exam form was revised since we created the links to screencasts usefulfor FE exam review, we have updated our website to reflect these changes. An FE exam playlistwas created on YouTube as well as a specific YouTube channel.Active learning materials An active-learning course package for chemical engineering thermodynamic was addedto the instructor resource