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concerns over potential plagiarism. A range oftopic options allowed students autonomy in their choice and ownership over their project, whileat the same time keeping assessment manageable.The project was highly scaffolded by design. This served multiple purposes. First, completingand submitting regular deliverables kept students on track and allowed for regular instructorfeedback on low-stakes assignments. Second, the organization of deliverables served as a modelof expert thinking. The role of undergraduate education is not simply to teach facts, but to trainexperts. One skill experts possess is the ability to plan a task and develop an effective approachto solving a complex problem [1]. A project is simply a series of tasks that are undertaken
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significant role that can lead todifferent outcomes due to member behaviors [6].The most common metric used in research to assess diversity is based on the Blau’sheterogeneity index (Equation 1) [3], [5], where pi is the fraction of members in the ith group (thenumber of individuals in the group divided by the total population) [4] 𝐻𝐼 = 1 − ∑ 𝑝𝑖2 (1)A simple way to assess diversity is to highlight the percentage or fraction of diverse groups. TheCensus Bureau used both for the 2020 Census, with some other parameters like the prevalenceranking and mapping, and the diffusion score [7]. However, they also announced plans “toexplore other diversity measures”, to overcome the limitations from available
, instructor involvement,equipment needed, as well as support needed for making the equipment available to thestudents with appropriate supervision. The summer 3DP program to prepare course contentand teaching props, and develop an understanding of the limitations of the printinginfrastructure, along with the availability of a TA to oversee 3DP were instrumental in thesuccessful execution of the course. Advance planning and resource arrangement are thusimportant for such courses. Also, the capital and operating cost of 3DP, especially for smalleruniversities, has to be considered during course design and to the extent possible, redundancyshould be added.Pedagogical Choices:The selected pedagogical approaches generally worked well during the course
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requirements. Because the aggregate ULtraffic load of most of these IoT applications is typically higher than that of downlink (DL), we focus ouranalysis only on LTE UL performance.To achieve our objective, we present a simple LTE UL scheduling strategy that fully conforms to LTE’ssignaling and QoS standards and builds upon two sequential scheduling algorithms, that is, intra-HNscheduling and inter-HN scheduling. The numerical results of this work can be used as initial guidelines tohelp industry and city officials, who are planning to rollout Smart connected streetlights network, in selectingthe appropriate wireless connectivity technology.The rest of this paper is organized as follows. Section II presents an overview of LTE QoS model andsignaling
online platform (such as Zoom, Google Classroom, and others) dueto the forced closure of campuses as online education. However, some researchers argue that amore accurate term to describe this shift to online platforms during the pandemic is “emergencyremote teaching” [11, 12], due to the inexperience of professors and teaching teams with regardsto online classes. It rapidly became clear that this type of teaching that became the new standardin March 2020 when the majority of the world began lockdowns to help curb the spread of thenovel coronavirus was not sustainable, and proper teaching plans and support for faculty neededto be in place to assist professors and teachers to effectively run their courses and aid students tothe same degree that
Huff as his advisor, his honors thesis is focused on examining academic well- being of Black computer science/engineering students. Kyle Shanachilubwa is a member of the Beyond Professional Identity (BPI) lab where he assists Dr. Huff with his work on professional shame in engineering education. He plans to attend graduate school in 2024Joachim Walther (Professor)Nicola W. Sochacka (Research Professional) © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.com Professional Shame amid Faculty-Student InteractionsAbstractPrior research on faculty-student interactions in engineering education generally conceptualizesthe function of
, responsive teaching, and elementary school engineering teachers.Max Magee Max Magee is an undergraduate research assistant in the Department of Engineering Education at the University at Buffalo. He is majoring in Aerospace Engineering and minoring in Law and Mathematics and set to graduate in May 2023. After graduation, Max plans on seeking employment in the Aerospace field, preferably working with space craft.Aaron W. Johnson (Assistant Professor) Aaron W. Johnson is an Assistant Professor in the Aerospace Engineering Department and a Core Faculty member of the Engineering Education Research Program at the University of Michigan. He believes in a strong connection between engineering education research and practice, and his
contains three main categories of outcomes at two levels,GTA and undergraduate student. These impacts (blue) are linearly (sequentially) related: GTA cognition, GTAteaching practices, and undergraduate student outcomes. GTA cognition pertains to GTAs’ knowledge, skills,attitudes, or beliefs about teaching. GTA teaching practices concerns the GTAs’ approaches to planning, instruction,and assessment. Undergraduate student outcomes centers on the knowledge and skills of GTAs’ students, as well asmore distal student outcomes such as retention and graduation. The framework supposes that effective GTA TPDdirectly promotes changes in GTA cognition, which in turn impacts their instructional behavior (GTA teachingpractices) and subsequent outcomes for
apply a social justice lens to infrastructure planning [34]. Severalauthors describe interventions in Statics courses (e.g. [24], [35]). Chen and Przestrzelski apply adifferent lens in introducing social justice into a statics course through looking at gerrymanderingand centroids; while this isn’t a typical civil engineering context, it does reinforce thesociotechnical nature of problems [27]. Finally, Riley re-imagined and implemented liberativepedagogies in a thermodynamics course as described in her seminal 2003 article, with ideas thatformed the basis for and inspired much subsequent work in transforming technical courses intosociotechnical courses [36].Teaching with a sociotechnical context inherently incorporates ethics and engages
Serving Institutions. Subbian’s educational research is focused on asset-based practices, ethics education, and formation of professional identities.Linda R Shawcolleen lynel halpin © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.com Ethical Decision-Making Frameworks for Engineering Education: A Cross-Disciplinary ReviewIntroduction The work of an engineer involves countless decisions and judgement calls during every stepof the planning, design, implementation, and evaluation phases of any given project. Thesedecisions may impact the public in a myriad of ways, with significant implications for publichealth
of thesemester. One of the primary considerations for hiring a UTF is their ability to connect the STSpostures to course learning outcomes. In advance of the Spring 2022 semester, we implementedthe curriculum and believe that our current 12 UTFs understand their role as both implementingcurriculum and continuously self-reflecting on their own classroom practices. Each week wemeet as a team in a classroom to run through the week’s lesson plan and to do the active stokestogether to ensure the best possible implementation and debrief. We gave the UTFs notebooksand assigned them 10 minutes of reflective writing on Fridays after their session, plus oneobservation of another section during the first three weeks of the semester. Our
the different phases in the iterative process of engineering design; ● Create innovative technological solutions for underserved communities; ● Gain an understanding of their role in the engineering community; ● Learn to consider the consequences of design decisions at both local and global levels; ● Learn how engineering underpins everyday life; ● Learn how to place people at the heart of their designs; and ● Develop skills in engineering, communication, planning and project management, effective distribution of work and collaboration.In Fall of 2021, the project was focused on a real-world scenario in the Cape York Peninsula inAustralia. Students were provided with a Design Brief, which included extensive informationabout
need to learn this so that this won't happen.” -Senior, Mechanical EngineeringAnother form of tacit knowledge for undone ethics is that because ethics involves a personal setof values, it can’t be taught but instead is something each person carries. As each person has theirown set of ethics, engineering ethics is difficult to transfer due to the nuances of each person’sethical values. Thus, ethics is unteachable because you either have it or you don’t: A lot of the ways that ethics get involved in that class aren't really with a traditional way. It's more you realize that it's an ethics sort of thing. There isn't a lesson plan where they're like, ‘Oh, this is an example of ethics’. It's more they explain, like, an
being planned to help studentsbecome more comfortable with sensor and physical computing technologies. The study also providesuseful feedback to refine first-year courses on computational thinking and data analysis in order to makethem more suitable for up-streaming purposes. The findings also indicate that the elimination ofengineering circuits hinders students comfort with sensing technologies. Laboratory courses do provide 16a useful pathway to foster computational thinking and introduce sensing technologies to overcome theelimination of basic engineering electives in modern civil engineering program. The interventionspresented here have low cost overhead and can therefore easily be
assignment during asecond-year rigid body dynamics course. A second survey, distributed after the assignment wascompleted, asked students (both those who submitted problems and those who didn't) toself-evaluate their understanding, and ask whether or not they plan to incorporate problemcreation into their regular studying habits (and why or why not).Then, a third separate survey was sent out to 13 current and previous members of our openeducational resource (OER) mechanics homework problem project (which we will designate as“OER students”). This project is an ongoing 2-year project where students create ~50-100problems each per work term. We wanted to evaluate whether creating their own problemsimproved their understanding of dynamics and/or statics
ortwo of these students on a team, there did not seem to be enough critical mass to effect any majorchanges.T-tests were also used to compare teams that had and had not taken a junior level lab course inMeasurements and Analysis prior to Capstone. This course is writing intensive and emphasizesthe need for scholarly research when planning experiments. There were no significantdifferences found between the groups, with one exception. Groups that had team members whohad not yet taken the lab course fared better than those who had in terms of choosing sources tomeet the information need (P = 0.02). This result currently has no explanation, although projecttopic may be a factor.Capstone design projects can have a wide variety of topics, however
solving anddesign-based assignments, particularly in the first year of an engineering degree [21]-[23]. Theseinterventions are usually experiential entrepreneurship learning activities, which can include“creating a business plan, consulting with practicing entrepreneurs, interviewing potentialcustomers, delivering pitches, applying for grants, and prototyping a minimal viable product(MVP)” [21 pp. 2]. An example of in-class EM interventions might include a prompt that hasstudents designing for a “customer” and encourages them to think entrepreneurially in response[21]-[23]. This type of work also typically involves working in groups [22]. Other faculty mightchoose a different approach to integrating EM into the classroom, such as using film to
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(Table 1) don’texist. Furthermore, they indicated that there is an exaggeration of both racism or lack of diversityin engineering. Is when somebody has their own agenda and encourages things with the purpose to get what he or she wants. [HSI public, Self-Identified Male] When professors incorporate topics of personal interest into their lesson plans even if it does not relate to the course material. [PWI, Self-Identified Male] A preconceived bias towards the field of engineering that may or may not be true regardless of its moral implications; Faking and over exaggerating racism or lack of diversity in engineering in order to make me feel bad that I am a white male engineering student. Sorry, but
be overcome with a larger sample. Afuture direction for the work includes redistributing the survey at other university campuses in theUnited States.While the preceding analysis methods reveal interesting patterns in the data, the exact cause andeffect at play is not clear. Plans to analyze qualitative data collected in the survey will helpresearchers develop a more concrete understanding of how graduate students experience andmanage their stress.ConclusionsGraduate student mental health remains an understudied phenomenon in many ways. While thereis an agreement that graduate students experience more stress than the general population, thedetails of their experiences with stress remain unexamined and uncharacterized. This work aimsto fill
effective in teachingengineering students DfAM concepts in an educational setting. Average and median post designscores increased showing that students incorporated the learned design concept after theintervention workshop. These results support the importance of incorporating an objectiveassessment tool that reinforces DfAM considerations during DfAM lectures. To improve studentDfAM self-efficacy and design outcomes, instructors must plan lectures and activities thatinclude an introduction to AM, restrictive and opportunistic DfAM topics along with designchallenges and activities that address and require the use of each DfAM concept.Kwaczala et al. [27] study on gender difference and 3D printing found that females are morelikely to have lower
CREATE SCADA Platform is an open-source web based database and user interfaceavailable as a cloud hosted service that was conceived and developed by the CREATE team. Theonly computer requirement is a web browser and internet connection. This greatly expands theaccessibility of the platform since outside support staff do not need to install and maintainadditional software. Upgrades and maintenance of server equipment are planned around semesterschedules, allowing users stability during active times of instruction.Figure 4. The software architecture of the CREATE SCADA system can be broadlycategorized into frontend (top) and backend (bottom) systems.The backend of the Open-Source SCADA Platform is responsible for interacting withcommunication
achieve my career goals.Problem Framing Skill Extrinsic Utility ValueWhen I finish school and go to work, it will be useful for me to be able to…31. Identify problems which could be solved through design.32. Identify individuals who are affected by a situation/problem.33. Identify conditions for a design to be successful.Engineering Career Interest34. Someone close to me (e.g. relative, mentor) is encouraging me to pursue an engineering career.35. I feel like I am expected to pursue an engineering career.36. I plan to use engineering skills in my future career.37. (R) I do not think engineering will be the right career for me.38. I would enjoy working in an engineering-related career
requires that students possess “anability to function effectively on a team whose members together provide leadership, create acollaborative and inclusive environment, establish goals, plan tasks, and meet objectives.” Withthis, engineering educators have a starting place to ensure discussion and education of inclusionis occuring, but we still have a long way to go. Fostering a cultural climate that is open to the perspectives of URM students has beencited as influential in the retention of URM students (Morris 2004; Hartman et al. 2019).Historically underrepresented students are often entering into institutional spaces that haveestablished cultural rules that often conform to the dominant social class's cultural knowledgeand cultural
two of the authors. This limitation is noted and assigningcharacteristics by other subject matter experts is a plan for future work. 5Table 3. Animation characterizations and abbreviations. Abbreviation Description of Animation Characterization Content C Conceptual: present conceptual thought or ideas dynamically. D Derivation: present equations or calculations based on first principles in a constructive sequence FP Figures/Plots: construct information previously presented as a static table or chart PW Physical World: animate how a system or process works SS Spreadsheet: demonstrate cell formatting
relevant tothe present study include: • Describe what has influenced your current efforts to educate engineering and computing students about ethical and societal issues. • What challenges, if any, have you encountered in teaching engineering and computing students about ethics and societal impacts? • To what extent do you feel that your efforts to educate engineering and/or computing students about ethics and societal impact issues are integrated within a cohesive curricular plan? • In what ways do you perceive that your priorities for educating engineering and computing students about ethical and societal issues are similar to and differ from colleagues in your department? • How would you
, andsometimes frustrating team environments. Students enjoyed conducting experiments with enginesand model vehicles while meeting the SLOs for this course. A students’ attitude assessment surveywas designed, implemented, and analyzed. Overall, students felt this was an exciting real life-likeworthwhile learning experience that taught them the usefulness and importance of physics andprogramming in engineering projects.This project will be enhanced by one or more the following additions: 1) a longer and elevated 40-foot track as used in Spring 2022, 2) A 48-foot aluminum track is planned for Fall 2022, as theengines may be still too powerful, 3) model rocket parachutes will be used to slow down, 4) thetrack will be inclined, and 5) even heavier buses