refined by Shulman into “scholarship of teaching andlearning” and “scholarly teaching”[3]. The former is essentially the scholarship of discoverywithin the domain of education[4]. Our focus here is on the latter, “scholarly teaching” which isdistinguished from “teaching” by its focus on teaching practice and learning outcomes, groundedin disciplinary content and pedagogic knowledge, reflective critique, commitment tocommunication to peers and openness to peer evaluation([2], pp. 87-88). Scholarly teaching holds thepromise of enhanced student learning through rigorous faculty attention to learning. Becausetenure and promotion depend upon evaluations of scholarship and because compared toevaluation of the scholarships of discovery and synthesis
Engineering)The quotations above reflect a common experience for engineering students: norm-referencedgrading (or grading on a curve). Norm-referenced grading has often been linked to problems ofretention in engineering and other STEM fields. In their widely cited study on whyundergraduates leave the sciences, Seymour and Hewitt attribute norm-referenced grading tocreating a competitive atmosphere where students are pitted against one another—an atmospherethat alienates many otherwise capable students[1]. Individual engineering faculty have likewisespoken out against the practice for fostering a competitive atmosphere that discourages studentsfrom developing the collaboration competencies ABET now requires [2, 3]. The popular pressalso links norm
techniques applicable inhome institutions [11]. This paper reports on the third and final workshop with the same groupof untenured women faculty in engineering - plus four senior women engineering facultymembers who acted as role models, in which we explored the use of fine arts to initiate adiscussion of career and life struggles and successes for untenured women faculty participants.We based this workshop on the work of Williams, who demonstrated that using art as a commonlanguage enhanced personal reflection and sharing of emotions, in part because it is a medium inwhich there are no right or wrong answers [12]. Indeed, Reynolds and Nabors report that arttherapy has been found to be effective in increasing self-esteem and self-concept
only in our classrooms, but also across the profession and insociety. Liberative pedagogies hold a great deal of promise for changing not only engineeringeducation, but also the nature of the profession as a whole. We must support this fundamentalvalues shift if we are to be advocates for full participation of traditionally underrepresentedgroups.What are pedagogies of liberation? Liberative pedagogies are radically student-centered approaches to learning, whichdevelop in students the capacity for critical thinking and reflective action (praxis). The ultimategoal of these pedagogies is liberation, of the students first through ending oppressive educationsystems, but ultimately society through the reflective action of students. I use the
other states,mostly in the Midwest, were represented. Two of the students had not declared a specific majorin the College of Engineering. The others came from five departments in the College, includingsix students from the Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering. All butone of the students continued in the program for the sophomore seminar.Freshman seminarThe fifteen-week freshman seminar consisted of three weeks devoted to each of the four pillarsand three weeks for a course introduction, team building, and reflection. The class met for onehour each week, and the first offering was in the spring semester of 2010. The module for eachpillar followed a KSA approach: knowledge in week one, skills in week two, and abilities
another to promote development of their own deep conceptual of content and aframework for understanding, recalling, and using that knowledge. One tool for this is clickerquestions, for which 104 multiple-choice questions were created that cover the nine coursetopics. Another tool to promote conceptual development is a set of Homework Preview ProblemConcept Map Quizzes where students must fill in blanks on diagrams of conceptual connectionsof materials structure and properties. Also, to engage students in content from mini-lectures,engagement activities were created for every class. Finally, the third principle is for instructors tofoster student metacognition. This was done with an end-of-class Reflection Points question setthat requests students
increase the hands-on time with the workshop activities and tools. 7. Creating new Seminars on “Introduction to Active Learning” and “Creating a Civil Classroom” (i.e., to integrate DEI in the ETW curriculum) to make both of these inferred topics more transparent during the workshop. 8. Creating new Reflection-based activities in order to encourage participants to envision how their learnings could be adapted and applied in their classroom in the near-term future.CFD established an implementation plan whereby CFD committee members would proceed withthe creation of new “Base Slides” for the forthcoming Summer 2023 ETW. In anticipation ofthese workshop changes, CFD organized in December 2022 a “Town Hall Meeting
conducted in2023 [8] offers a granular perspective on the implementation of these platforms in a traditionally non-digital sector.This work is seminal in discussing the operational efficiencies and innovative prospects afforded by low-codeplatforms, as well as addressing the potential drawbacks that may arise from an over-dependence on said platforms. At the same time, another work [9] that takes a multidisciplinary approach provides a retrospective view of theevolution of low-code platforms, elucidating their strategic integration with ERP systems. It reflects on thehistorical progression from model-driven development to the current state where low-code platforms are essentialin enhancing business processes, fostering agility, and enabling
moistureresistance. However, considering the materials and proportions used, the cracking resistancedecreased with the addition of GBWP. Additionally, the educational impact of undergraduateresearch experiences, emphasizing the importance of mentorship, particularly from female rolemodels, in engaging and retaining students in engineering. Reflections from a participant in theUniversity of Nebraska-Lincoln's Undergraduate Creative Activities & Research ExperiencesProgram (UCARE) and leading author of this study demonstrate how hands-on research andstrong role models enhance practical skills, critical thinking, and confidence. This dual-focusedapproach underscores the benefits of integrating research and education, showing howundergraduate research
six individual skillmodules covering skills such as dependability, responsibility, independence, persistence,integrity, and ethics. The main goal is to create multiple opportunities to teach and reinforcesoft skills within the regular technical curriculum in the high schools. This paper discussesthe integration of the soft skills modules into the technical curriculum developed viaexamples, and outlines its potential uses in this engineering department’s curriculumincluding its manufacturing engineering program. The paper concludes with a discussion ofthe implementation of this project and provides some preliminary feedback from theparticipating high schools and reflections of the authors. It also includes future workopportunities such as
interdisciplinary approach was incorporated in the curriculum that involved studentsidentifying problems in existing products to create new solutions. This involved dissection of anexisting product, carrying out functional decomposition to understand the functional relationshipsbetween component parts, identifying gaps in the design, and bridging gaps in the designs by eitherimproving the design or coming up with a new design. Given that students carried out theseactivities in groups, they developed teamwork skills, improved their communication skills, andenhanced their critical thinking skills. A photovoice reflection survey and a set of open-endedquestions were used to evaluate the outcomes. Results showed that students were more motivatedto learn the
impacted theircollaboration skills, and whether their involvement affected their interest in participating inengineering outreach activities. To determine how their perceived impact of the project on theirprofessional preparation has changed from when they took the class to now when they areworking professionals, we compare their recent responses to the responses in reflections theycompleted while taking the course. The information gathered in the survey also provides a meansto evaluate the effectiveness of the project and identify areas for improvement, which hasimplications for how similar projects might be designed and enacted in the future. Introduction The Accrediting Board for Engineering and Technology, commonly known as ABET
in their programrequirements. The study assessed the impact on student confidence in using these tools beforeand after the course, aiming to better understand their experiences and create course materialsthat more accurately reflect the challenges of aerospace engineering design. A backwards designapproach was employed in the development of the modules, and a thematic analysis wasconducted on student reflections. The analysis underscored the importance of challengingprojects supplemented with supporting modules in gaining insights into engineering design toolsfor aircraft design.IntroductionWith the fast and ever-changing growth in the aerospace industry, it is necessary to meet thedemands of the industry with individuals who are capable of
retention and engagement in the university community?This 1-unit introductory course has been developed around three themes: • Entering the Engineering/Computer Science Profession • Engaging in the University Community • Building Skills for SuccessTo develop students’ professional skills and knowledge of career paths available, the first-yearstudents in this course meet with student leaders, engage in breakout group discussions with theChairperson or a faculty member from their intended major, watch and reflect on brief videosabout each of the majors offered in the School of Engineering and Computer Science, andparticipate in classroom activities focused on professional communication and ethics.Active engagement in the university community is
different groups (such as race or gender) and the resulting psychological re-sponses. ICT identifies key conditions that enable positive contact between members of differentraces and genders in a group. For this exploratory analysis, we included all participants in the larger study who identifiedas African American and female; all were full-time undergraduate students enrolled in an engi-neering course with a team project. The nine participants represent a range of years in school andengineering majors. Data collection followed a three-interview sequence and included questionsabout participants’ background, their team project, and their reflections on the teaming experi-ence, respectively. In this paper, we present our initial exploration of
opportunities for students to practice keyskills common to the CEMS disciplines, including technical communication, teamwork, andproblem-solving. In addition, the course would introduce students to each of the College’s tenacademic programs, campus resources, advising, and provide opportunities for cohort-buildingduring a semester when most general education courses occur in other colleges. In Spring 2020,feedback was gathered via department-led discussions and a multi-disciplinary working groupwas formed to develop the course learning objectives and assessment strategies forimplementation in Fall 2020.Course Structure: Learning outcomes focused on the Design-Thinking process, effective andinclusive teamwork, technical communication, self-reflection
research careers.Background and Related WorkThe persistence of underrepresented undergraduate students in research and graduate pathwaysremains a pressing issue in higher education. The Community Cultural Wealth (CCW)framework, proposed by Yosso [1], provides an assets-based lens to explore how students frommarginalized communities leverage familial, aspirational, social, navigational, linguistic, andresistant capital to overcome systemic barriers. Familial capital reflects the cultural knowledgeand support drawn from family and community networks. Aspirational capital represents theability to maintain hope and envision a brighter future despite challenges. Social capital includesthe networks and relationships that provide access to resources and
, and working on communication skills [24],[25].As research discussed that undergraduate researchers could engage in their lived experiences formore authentic interpretations of data, we engaged our lived experiences, especially bothundergraduate researchers, through the writing of positionality statements. Positionalitystatements have been a growing phenomenon in engineering education research as part of theefforts to uncover researchers’ preconceived notions that can shape how they conduct theirresearch [26]. By reflecting on their positionalities, Alshanti and Thu as undergraduateresearchers engage their lived experiences as engineering students to interpret instructors’ beliefsand behaviors on test usage. This becomes the foundation of this
partners. While the instructors provided input and guidance, this assignment was graded for completeness. After that initial round of feedback, students prepared a video consisting of a 3- minute pitch of their proposed solution. In both Flipgrid discussion boards, the students from both countries successfully demonstrated their ability to communicate the significance of their selected biomedical challenge, contextualize the issue to a local context, and ideate a potential engineering solution to the problem.Table 1. Reflection Prompts Used to Reinforce Student Learning. Pre-Exchange Middle Post-Exchange 1. How do you think your interaction 1. Provide two or more
discontinued development and support. The twoundergraduate student researchers involved in this study assisted in piloting the redesignedECE90 - Principles of Electrical Circuit, with a 3rd-party VR application, i.e., Short Circuit VR,in the fall semester of 2023. Based on their own learning experience with traditional classroomlectures and observations of their peers learning with the Short Circuit VR application, theyidentified gaps in how the 3rd-party application lacked the affordance in facilitating authenticand contextualized learning experience to help lower-division ECE students master importantand foundational circuit knowledge.The two student researchers reflected that the Short Circuit VR application did not address howstudents would
, followed by 14 months ofsubsequent abstract conceptualization, design, building, and testing the solar tracking systems,and reflections. Students led this project as part of a Project-based Learning framework groundedin Kolb’s Experiential Learning Theory. Students gained foundational knowledge aboutprinciples of the solar cell, semiconductors and pn junction in lectures, then learnedcharacterization method of the solar cell efficiency with Arduino, current sensor, potentiometer,and multimeter in a lab session of ESAP Nanotechnology course. After the course, students werefurther motivated to make a prototype solar tracking system for renewable energy technology.Through the iterative process of building, testing, and troubleshooting, the solar
presented by Rotolo, Hicks, and Martin[18] as possessing “radical novelty, fast growth, coherence, prominent impact, and uncertainty andambiguity.” In another framing of emerging technologies such as CRISPR/Cas9 and AI,Veluwenkamp et al. [19] discuss “socially disruptive technologies” that require us to reflect on thenomenclature and significance of novel technologies that can lead to ethical design practices. BothRotolo et al. and Veluwenkamp et al. emphasize the importance of discussing emergingtechnologies at all stages of innovation to prepare for an ethical future of responsible innovation,development, and deployment. In this paper, I will refer to emergent technologies as novel, underexplored, and rapidlyevolving technologies that are
observing simulations without interaction. • Active Engagement: Copying experimental procedures and performing step-by-step tasks. • Constructive Engagement: Generating hypotheses, interpreting data, and reflecting on experimental outcomes. • Interactive Engagement: Engaging in discussions with peers to solve problems and co- construct knowledge. Fig. 4 presents preliminary questions to capture ICAP engagement elements within the virtual environment. Subject matter experts in Nuclear Science and Engineering, as well as Engineering Education, will review these questions to ensure that the survey effectively gathers the necessary data to assess cognitive engagement. 2. Construct Validation
encompasses a mixture of technical skills, reflective practice, interpersonalnetworks, and self-directed learning. [1] The formation of a professional identity is described asan ongoing process that encompasses both person and context, where an individual has agencyto self-determine sub-identities that compose their overall professional identity. [2] At BeAM,the professional identity of a PA or a PS is often defined by how they perceive their ability toembody professional roles and their interactions with other makerspace staff. For example, PAsmust be able to safely operate makerspace equipment, teach makerspace users, perform routinemaintenance, and provide support to other makerspace staff. As staff become more confident inthese roles, they
that improve the educational experience. Data were collected through quantitativesurveys (n=59) and qualitative, semi-structured interviews (n=4) to investigate students'experiences, strategies, and obstacles to time management in online learning environments. Thestudy identified six factors that significantly affect online students' time management skills: (1)lack of sufficient time management training, (2) challenges in balancing school, work, andpersonal life, (3) limited knowledge of effective time management strategies, (4) inadequateplanning, (5) insufficient self-assessment or self-reflection, and (6) a tendency towardprocrastination. Results reveal significant variations in time management practices acrossdemographic groups of students
engineering and that engineering can only be done by specific peoplethat subscribe to masculinity. Therefore, making presents opportunities for them to challenge thedominant perspectives in engineering that are marginalizing. Making affords learnersopportunities to relate to and see themselves in engineering work.In this work in progress, we present the case of Sarah, an undergraduate student in mechanicalengineering, whose relationship with engineering was once impacted by the marginalizingnarratives. Yet, she (re)negotiated those relationships through a university course that providedher a space to reflect on her experiences in making and how those experiences contribute to herlearning in engineering. Through this case study, we hope to provide
workshop ended with a reflection and an energy andappreciation exercise. The workshop primarily employed negative brainstorming techniquesillustrated in The Idea Agent [10] and therefore the session was titled ‘How to make engineeringprograms worse for female engineering students.”The researcher developed an agenda and workshop documents that included an event flyer, theworkshop process, the workshop rules, a positive focus area worksheet, a four-field matrix, anenrichment tool, and instructions for the ten-thousand rose finale. These documents will bediscussed in detail, but are also included in Appendix A.The agenda for the 2-hour workshop is presented below: • Introduction (Workshop Rules) (10 minutes) • Positive Focus Area
these areas, creating a challenging environment particularly forunderrepresented engineering students. To combat this issue, a video and activities weredeveloped to emphasize teamwork and inclusion. The video was created by two students whohad taken the course in the previous year. It presented background information, mindful teachingabout inclusion, some discussion of the students’ personal experiences in the course, and anintroduction to the activities. The three activities that were developed were (1) a communicationgame, which allowed students to practice clear and respectful communication, (2) a teamworkand collaboration game, which aimed to show that each member of a team had somethingvaluable to contribute, and (3) a reflection and
knowledge gained from reading publications from professional journalssuch as the International Society of Automation (ISA) - InTech Journal, in implementingIndustry 4.0 in the ET curriculum. (2) Present the results along with a reflective analysis of theimplementation in the pilot Summer III 2022, Control Systems course. (3) Present the process forintegration of additional professional journals such as IEEE, Journal of Engineering Technology(ASEE), and Journal of Manufacturing Processes (SME), in the concentration-specific courses inthe ET Program. (4) Deliberate the importance of integration of professional journals as ateaching strategy to augment the classroom learning experience in the department’s ETAC(Engineering Technology Accreditation
between first-year and fourth-year studentsthroughout an open-ended, real-world engineering project, a handful of intervention strategiesand tools have been devised. The critical objectives of the intervention techniques are to providea framework to facilitate mentor-mentee interaction and to encourage meaningful interactivitybetween the involved parties. Providing some structure aims to motivate active involvement,learning, and leading among students, as opposed to passive observation. To understand andappreciate the students' perceptions of peer mentorship for engineering education, surveyinstruments will prompt student responses and reflections. These survey tools are curated withquestions and prompt to guide mentors and mentees for an