and action items taken. ii. A weekly prioritized to-do list. iii. A weekly list summarizing goals achieved during the previous two weeks including the time spent (in hours) working (how much of the to do list was completed?) iv. Notes from outside research. v. Notes of how to accomplish a task. vi. Calculations, graphs (handmade and/or computer generated), drawings. vii. Drawings and schematic diagrams, including changes or updated versions, with detailed explanations of what was changed or updated. viii. Test plans, collected data, analyses, and conclusions regarding testing
University of Texas at Austin in Environmental Engineering. Most recently, he graduated with his Ph.D. from the Colorado School of Mines in Civil and Environmental Engineering. He teaches Water Resources and Planning, Environmental Science, and Environmental Engineering Technologies.Dr. Michael A. Butkus P.E., United States Military Academy Michael A. Butkus is a professor of environmental engineering at the U.S. Military Academy. His work has been focused on engineering education and advancements in the field of environmental engineer- ing. His current research interests are in physicochemical treatment processes with recent applications in drinking water disinfection, lead remediation, sustainable environmental engineering
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the lab course or have prior experience in orderto have a better chance of succeeding. Both prior programming experience and lab enrollmentprovide additional practice to students, which in turn increases ability in programming andperformance in the course overall.7. RecommendationsThe student’s ability to choose to take their programming course with or without lab grants thestudent more options when planning their college experience, allowing for a more effectivecourse load. For example, we find that students with prior programming experience who alsoenrolled in the lab did not perform much better than those with experience who did not enroll inlab. Therefore, if a student has prior knowledge in programming, they can be advised that the
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complexitiesaround teaching need to be accounted for and further addressed in planning of and evaluation ofprofessional development programs aimed at shifting pedagogical practices.AcknowledgmentsThe authors gratefully acknowledge support of this work by the National Science Foundationunder Grant No. 1524527. References[1] Trigwell, K., & Prosser, M. (1996). Congruence between intention and strategy in university science teachers’ approaches to teaching. Higher Education, 32(1), 77–87. Retrieved from https://www.jstor.org/stable/3447897[2] Felder, R. M., & Brent. R. (2016). Teaching & learning STEM: A practical guide. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.[3] Felder, R. M., & Brent, R. (1996
https://youtu.be/vQq197MKJE0 2nd Order ODEs https://youtu.be/qK0Qadbo6Ks Higher Order ODEs https://youtu.be/Dv1a6-ECrtU Coupled ODEs https://youtu.be/4zChOlO0yy4 ODE Example https://youtu.be/xdUKI94G-zs Simulink ODEs https://youtu.be/rBISJtVXSYANote that videos labeled as “Mystery Problem” are in depth examples intended to illustrate how anexpert attacks a programming problem, including the planning and debugging process.
, universities can adjust the mix of elements basedon their existing infrastructure and policies. Engineering advantage universities canfocus on adjusting the resource allocation of human capital resources, while acomprehensive university needs to fully guarantee the academic resource, avoid thedependence of a single resource element, and realize "diversified and balanced"resource allocation.4.2 Policy suggestionThis exploratory study analyzes the diversity of factors influencing the performanceof science and technology innovation in China's world-class universities, and putsforward 3 suggestions to university policymakers from the middle level:(1) To reasonably plan the academic resources in the school according to the publicpolicies and institutional
participation andinvolvement of each student in the self-driven learning and self-driven practicing. After five daysof self-learning and practicing, on Day 6, the professor held a question and answer session tosolve the problems students might encounter during the self-learning process. Then, there weretwo more days for the students to finish their PowerPoint slides preparation in a form of anorganization and information flow they prefer. In addition, students needed to prepare ahomework he/she planned to assign to the class, which was used to test the conceptsunderstanding of the rest of students. On Day 8, a name was drawn randomly in the beginning,and that student performed as the instructor during this Flip Classroom session. That one studentgained
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understanding of the procedures and objectives. Inorder to keep students as engaged as possible, the labs are designed to only take ~ 1.5 – 2 hours,with efficiency increased by using prelab assignments to ensure that appropriate planning hasbeen completed prior to attending. In addition, a lab notebook is required to document allexercises with an emphasis on data integrity, and ethics of recording and presentation. Althoughanalysis associated with most lab exercises is done within the lab group, the analysis from fourexercises is done individually. Combined with individual effort from the lecture portion of thecourse, 50% of the grade is individual while 50% is team based. This helps to ensure thatstudents are not simply carried by their teammates.1
sensor with a partner.Learning unfamiliar content or developing a new skill such as coding can make participants feelvulnerable, however, by working with a partner, learning can become more fun and less scary. Wenoticed that when participants programmed the BBC micro:bit with a partner, they tackled challengesmore confidently and celebrated successes together. It is notable that in our trainings, initial codingexperiences did not need to be time intensive to impact participant confidence. Providing a 30-minutecoding session with sufficient facilitator support provided ample time for participants to build confidencein their ability to code using a block-based coding platform.Future DirectionsWe plan to focus our future efforts on enhancing
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% of teachers plan on offering self-directed learning experiences and thatinstructors should focus on engagement tactics to encourage GenZ students to be activeparticipants in learning. Pearson [9] showed that 67% of GenZ students consider college to be animportant stepping stone for future success. The study also showed that 82% of the students useYouTube and that 59% prefer YouTube or apps to printed books for learning. Although GenZstudents are digital natives, 78% consider teachers to be very important to learning anddevelopment, but that 71% were more likely to figure out problems on their own first.Engineering educators are beginning to adapt to learning strategies of GenZ students. Moore, etal. [10] discuss five areas for successfully
, interview prep,resume and cover letter review, goal setting, and being held accountable for those goals thestudents found to be beneficial to their confidence during the job search. Areas for improvementinclude having the learning coaches do more groundwork, like forming relationships with morecompanies to pave the way for interviews, driving students to do more networking, and assistingstudents with goal setting earlier.Future WorkThis is a work-in-progress paper which is in the early stage of data collection. One round of datahas been collected which is represented in this paper. Our future work plan consists of threesteps: 1) increase the survey frequency to three times: the first week, the ninth week, and theeighteenth week and include the
explanations for this imbalance, including female STEM facultymembers’ willingness to dedicate time to planning more extensive student-centered instructionbecause they see it as more valuable than do male faculty members [20], [21]. Further, studentsmay reach out to their female professors more than their male professors for assistance [22]. Insum, female professors typically spend more time on teaching and advising duties than maleprofessors [6], [23].The aforementioned research generally discloses that female STEM faculty members are lessoften found in leadership positions; may not be receiving equivalent resources, networking, orencouragement to complete research; and are typically spending more time teaching and advisingstudents. Less known is the
respect for a person beforeaccepting them as a leader, which implies that acceptance of the group is foundational toleadership. He said: “I gained good leadership experience interfacing with the adults and planning some events for the troop. And in high school I was on my basketball team and I was one of the senior captains. That was also a leadership experience. Even though I wasn’t the best basketball player, you have to really earn respect to be given that title. Respect is critical in the acceptance of a leader.”College ExperiencesWe are also interested in how college experiences affected the development of the student leaders.We asked them about meaningful activities that helped them to develop their skills as a
tolerances were defined individually based on each answer’s precision.Sequential question setIn general, the open-ended mechanics problems are constructed with a narration of givenconditions and values to be determined, then expect test-takers to find suitable solving methodsand appropriate equations following the process of interpretation, planning, and execution (IPE)[10] until they determine the values of the required ultimate parameter. The ordinary open-endedproblems give test-takers freedom in this IPE step and thus develop their own IPE skills.However, considering that students in the low-level courses need to first build a sturdyfoundation before personalizing their own methods, the author has bravely tried to reform thegeneric IPE steps and
greatway for older students to get involved and boost their resumes. Although they were thrilled withconcept of the program, some parents worried about the logistics. They discussed barriers thatwould keep them and their children from participating. Their main concerns were transportation,cost, parent work schedules, and children’s commitment to other extracurricular activities. Thisreinforces the importance of meeting families within their community and offering low costprogramming.Future DirectionThe next steps are to continue conversations with parents in the local community. Beyond thatour plan is to transform the participating churches into EPICC STEMulation Zones, which serveas informal STEM centers where students can continue to their
acceleration. The electrical stuff is coming in now that I'm taking ELEE 2500. I actually plan to go over my notes because what we're doing in class definitely reminded me of things we did in ENGR 1234. Literally, all the math involved in ELEE right now, I can remember having done work like that in 1234. I didn't know anything about circuits then so it was gibberish to me, but now it clicks! Totally recommend keeping the class. I actually saw some homework my friend was working on for statics and it looked something similar to what we did in 1234. I'm definitely holding on to my notes for the next couple of semesters. • When I took ENGR 1234, the class was challenging because a lot of the material was new
revitalized to accommodate current workforce demands, faculty andadministrators of the program commenced further research and analysis of mechanicalengineering education reform with the expectation of creating a revolutionized course of studyfor their students. This process was officially initiated at the department’s 2017 Fall facultyretreat, where attendees began with the discussion of personal principles, then professionalvalues, and concluded with the development of a three-year strategic plan of action. Likeuniversities before them, it was decided early on that the ASME Vision 2030 report would bespecifically used as a blueprint for the new mechanical engineering degree [6] at BSU. Thosedevoted to the POPs Committee designed potential curriculum
Research Group (IRG). In addition to the Ph.D. in Civil Engineering, Dr. Barrella holds a Master of City and Regional Planning (Transportation) from Georgia Institute of Technology and a B.S. in Civil Engineering from Bucknell University. Dr. Barrella has investi- gated best practices in engineering education since 2003 (at Bucknell University) and began collaborating on sustainable engineering design research while at Georgia Tech. Prior to joining the WFU faculty, she led the junior capstone design sequence at James Madison University, was the inaugural director of the NAE Grand Challenges Program at JMU, and developed first-year coursework and interdisciplinary electives.Dr. Mary Katherine Watson, The Citadel Dr
reasons, and this phrase can be an encouraging way of helping them continue their thought process. • Discussion poker. If you have more time to plan, consider giving each student three multi-colored poker chips, a red, green, and blue chip (or other distinguishable tokens of your choice) when they enter the room. When a student answers a question or makes an observation, they cash in the red chip. When a student makes a comment which builds on another student’s comment, they cash in the blue chip. When a student asks a question about something they did not understand, they cash in their green chip. This controls the participation in a concrete way and provides for a range of responses. • Don’t be afraid to
groups depending on the how thegroup interacted.AcknowledgmentThe project team wants to acknowledge Virginia Space Grant Consortium for continuous fundingfor ODU BLAST program.References:[1] E. T. Mather, UVA Team Receives Governor’s Programs that Work Award, University of Virginia School of Engineering and Applied Science, (2016). [Online]. Available: https://engineering.virginia.edu/news/2016/02/bringing-stem-life, [Accessed Jan. 31, 2020].[2] J. M. Trenor, S. L. Yu, C. L. Waight, K. S. Zerda, and T. L. Sha, "The relations of ethnicity to female engineering students' educational experiences and college and career plans in an ethnically diverse learning environment,'' Journal of engineering education, vol. 97, no. 4
participant)were retained in their current majors for the investigated fall semester. Follow up investigationon spring semester is planned as more data become available. Table 3 lists the participantretention rates by cohort for 2018, 2019 and two-year average.Table 3. Participant retention by year of participation and cohort class. Cohort Class 2018 Workshop 2019 Workshop Two-year average Participant Retention Participant Retention retention rate (persist (persist / total) (persist / total) / total) Senior 100% (1/1) NA (0/0) 100% (1/1) Junior 100% (1/1
class very helpful and interesting for giving insights to engineering concepts during my freshmen year. Okay, so I haven't taken statics or dynamics which is why I didn't rank it before. Ive taken calc 1,2 and currently am taking diff eq. where matrices are my life now apparently. I didn't go in not knowing anything about matrices because of this class so it helped a lot and I still have my notes from then so it definitely helps! Also, it helped in physics I when we were learning to plot position, velocity, and acceleration. The electrical stuff is coming in now that I'm taking ELEE 2500. I actually plan to go over my notes because what we're doing in class definitely reminded me of things we did in ENGR 1234
engage in life-long learning need to acquire new knowledge, to choose appropriate learning strategies, and to apply this knowledge. SO (d) an ability to function on SO (7) an ability to function effectively as a multidisciplinary teams member or leader of a team that establishes goals, plans tasks, meets deadlines, and creates a collaborative and inclusive environment. SO (j) a knowledge of contemporary issues
Student Adaptation to the Modular Use of the Flipped Classroom in an Introductory BiomedicalEngineering CourseJohn C. Foo1,2, Iwijn De Vlaminck1, Kimberly Williams21. Department of Biomedical Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY2. Center for Teaching Excellence, Cornell University, Ithaca, NYAbstractThe Flipped Classroom model moves direct instruction outside of the classroom, allowing moretime for student-centered in-class activities. Guides to Flipping the Classroom suggest investingtime at the start of the course to promote the Flipped Classroom model to students. However,this may not be the best use of time if the instructor only plans to use the Flipped Classroommodel to teach a small portion of the class. Reasons for not
Outcome 5 is “an ability to function effectively on a team whose members togetherprovide leadership, create a collaborative and inclusive environment, establish goals, plan tasks,and meet objectives.” Instructors should look for opportunities for group projects so students willbecome more familiar with working on teams. Another important element of industry teams isthat employees rarely get to decide what teams they will work on. Teams are normally selectedby management. At least some student teams should be determined by instructors rather thanletting students always select their friends to be on their school project teams.Newer Graduate PerspectiveAn aspect new engineers will have to accept when they graduate from college is that in