/19/it%E2%80%99s- compassion-not-capitulation-ask-less-students-amid-disruption-opinion Accessed March 1, 2021.[15] A. Knafo and S. Israel. 2012. “Chapter 9: Empathy, prosocial behavior, and other aspects of kindness,” in Handbook of Temperament, Ed. M. Zentner and R.L. Shiner, Guilford Publications.[16] D.M. Kaplan, M. deBois, V. Dominguez, and M.E. Walsh. 2016. “Studying the teaching of kindness: A conceptual model for evaluating kindness education programs in schools,” Education and Program Planning, vol. 58, pp. 160-170.[17] J-T. Binfet. 2015. “Not-so random acts of kindness: A guide to intentional kindness in the classroom,” Intl J Emotional Education, vol. 7 (2), pp. 49-62.[18] E. Smeets, K. Neff, H. Alberts, and M
students in the same face to facemeeting and used discussion boards to encourage instructor-monitored communication. Allassignments were planned to enhance the technical writing or presentation skills of all students. Inonline asynchronous courses, community is important for students to feel as if they are still a partof the class, as they are no longer working directly with their peers or getting to ask questionsdirectly to the instructor. Asynchronous videos supported the rotating face to face hybrid setupwell, so that the instructor could focus only on the students present for workshops rather thanhaving to integrate excess technology and video conferencing into the classroom experience.This course setup was not popular with the students, as
of thefundamental assumptions and behaviors of these members such as the “plane sections remain plan”assumption in Euler-Bernoulli bending theory. (a) (b)Figure 7. Wireframe model showing the deformation of the longitudinal and transverse sections under a) bending, and b) torsionFigures 8 and 9 present two other examples of models implemented in this work. Figure 8 showsthe bending of a simply-supported beam, which is a very common basic example repeatedlyreferred to in introductory structural mechanics courses. Figure 9 depicts a more complex exampleof a multi-member structure (a multi-girder bridge under vehicular loads). As can be seen in thisfigure
11particle size, students may decrease the material porosity and immediately see how the theoreticalcollection efficiency increases and the emitted particle number decreases. Alternatively, just thematerial thickness can be changed. The plot automatically shows the effect of changes in materialproperties on the number of particles that are effectively emitted from the person. Thus, studentscan begin to explore the best way to achieve the most effective mask. The use of the excel sheetsplaces emphasis more on the exploratory component in order to focus the student on theconnections.Assessment The assessment process for this project was planned in two phases: (1) determining theeffectiveness of how the tools incorporated entrepreneurial mindset
faculty.We learnt from this pilot that planning and preparing for the classes to ensure a high degree ofinteractivity was critical.Our experiences in running this course also suggested that we should continue our interaction andengagement with the students, faculty and the college leadership about how to continue assistingthe colleges and students. One of the teaching faculty has started an entrepreneurship cluster andwill be continuing a monthly one hour zoom meeting to assist the faculty at the colleges to initiateentrepreneurship courses so that the colleges could meet the new AICTE requirements to teachentrepreneurship as part of the engineering curriculum to all engineering students.ConclusionsThe main conclusion of this pilot was that
, commented “I really enjoyed thisclass, and [Calculus] has been my favorite series of classes here at WIU.” This student’scomment illustrates that he/she does not view mathematics as a ‘necessary evil’ dictated by adegree plan; rather, this student recognizes its worth and expresses his/her appreciation for thethree-semester sequence. Students also recognize the value of understanding the ‘why’ behindthe procedures for solving calculus problems. In the Calculus I course evaluations in the fall of2019, one student wrote, “She is always able to provide an explanation of why things in Calculusmust be done a certain way, which really helps to further my understanding.” By encouragingstudents to focus not only on the ‘how’ but also the ‘why’, they begin
stilldeveloping the ability to consider multiple points of view outside of their own [28].ResultsEngineering design practicesBased on our iterative rounds of observation and analysis, we used the following criteria toidentify engineering design practices in girls’ behavior: ● Problem scoping: Identifying multiple aspects of the overall design problem, considering criteria or constraints that the design should meet. ● Ideation: Generating and planning possible solutions to the design problem, including divergent thinking, brainstorming, and considering different forms a design might take. ● Testing: This included both large-scale tests of a design’s function, and small-scale tests of parts of the design. In activities without
American women pursuing careers in science29.In addition to the impacts parental support and encouragement had on women's STEM interests,parent education and experience in STEM-related career fields were also frequently addressed inthe literature. According to Espinosa25, students currently active in STEM were motivated bytheir parents to participate in STEM-related extracurricular events outside of the school. Parentswho motivated their children were also involved and successful in STEM careers themselves.This seemed to be a key element in encouraging students to clarify their ambitions and plans,with parents aiding their children to pursue meaningful career opportunities. Moakler's 30 findingssupported Espinosa's25 argument, as students with
) improve their ability to function effectively on a team whose members togetherprovide leadership, create a collaborative and inclusive environment, establish goals, plan tasks,and meet objectives, and (4) enhance their ability to acquire and apply new knowledge to real-world problems. These benefits were achieved to significantly higher degrees in our PBLcapstones than in traditional coursework during the pandemic and suggest that PBL can besuccessfully implemented in a persistent COVID environment to achieve engineering studentoutcomes through a variety of mediums.KeywordsProject-Based Learning, COVID-19, distance learning, Engineering education, ill-definedproblemsIntroductionThis paper presents an evidence-based study of the benefits of using
included or that they belonged over the semester. Virtual team interactions alone donot seem to be enough to foster community, and a more structured engagement format is neededto bring students together with each other and with their teaching teams.References1. A. Wigfield, J.S. Eccles. “Expectancy-value theory of achievement motivation,” Contemporary Educational Psychology, 25:68-81, 20012. B.D. Jones, M.C. Paretti, S.F. Hein, T.W. Knott, “An analysis of motivation constructs with first-year engineering students: Relationships among expectancies, vales, achievement, and career plans,” Journal of Engineering Education, 99:319-336, 20103. R.W. Lent, M.J. Miller, P.E. Smith et. al., “Social cognitive predictors of adjustment to engineering
, there is the risk of disclosing too muchof an invention or idea publicly, which will invalidate the ability to patent since it is ‘de facto’ inthe public domain. By simply filing a provisional patent application, which is far less expensive,the entrepreneur can adequately preserve their patent filing rights, while fundraising [31]. Oncethis process is reviewed and the freedom to operate is established, then the entrepreneur or start-up can plan the patent process.Figure 4: Freedom to Operate Flow DiagramShould I invest in a patent?For an entrepreneur or start-up organization, the patent question is more granular. Is it worthpatenting my invention or not? What is the return on my investment? What is the risk and/orconsequence if I do not patent
week of thesemester using data collected from a survey that was conducted on the first day of class. Surveyquestions ranged from questions about gender and race/ethnicity, to educational experience incomputer programming and other engineering concepts. The groups were created taking intoaccount the diversity of student prior educational experience. One of the major concerns that instructors have about active teaching, or any instructionalmethod other than the traditional lecture format, is regarding content coverage. Thus, it isextremely important to carefully design classroom activities to ensure the completion of theentire curriculum for this course. Much of the planning work for this project centered on thedesign of the class
lots of siblings and niece and nephew and I am expected to help them as much as they want. Other chores came up too. So I moved back into the dorm... It’s quieter and good to have free time. My brother who is my roommate and the other roommates get me out of my room to dance and do stuff. Staying in my apartment, I can’t use my meal plan (during the pandemic), and I’m not a good cook, so I don’t eat well. My family brings food to me. I don’t have money so I wasn’t eating well.”Similarly, another student noted: “I guess I made my change this quarter because I came back to campus because in the spring – at my house, I don't have a desk, and then at the time, we only had one computer for my
absorption, perceived usefulness,service quality, system quality, information quality, accessibility, and privacy/security. Based onthe findings from focus group discussions, theoretical foundations, and empirical evidence, wewill hypothesize an innovative and integrated technology acceptance model for eLearning.In near future, we will analyze reliability of the models, fitness of the measured models, andconvergent validity by performing confirmatory factor analysis (CFA). We also plan to studyracial bias in E-learning. The framework and outcome of this study provide valuable guidelinesfor ISE departments that allow better understanding of Generation Z students' needs and theiracceptance of e-learning.Introduction and background:The COVID-19
goals, plan tasks, and meet objectives."[44]. The hybrid mode improves remote students' learning 3 outcomes via creating a collaborative and self-learning environment. All these transferable and 4 remote working skillsets help students better prepare for their future academic and career roles 5 (Table 3). Table 3. The potential benefits for acquiring transferable and remote skillsets Skills Capstone project at senior year Future careers Collaborative Students need problem-solving skills for their Collaborative problem solving (CPS) is Problem-solving Capstone projects [45]. critical to generate efficiency
despite challenges.V. Future work Future plans for this work include conducting more interviews with eligible participants.We will also establish interrater reliability for coding interviews using a priori codes andemergent codes. Finally, our goal is to use the experiences shared by the LAs to weave togetherprofiles of the student learning experience during this time of crises.References[1] Otero, V., Pollock, S., McCray, R., & Finkelstein, N. (2006). Who is responsible forpreparing science teachers? Science, 313(5786), 445-446.[2] Otero, V., Pollock, S., & Finkelstein, N. (2010). A physics department’s role in preparingphysics teachers: The Colorado learning assistant model. American Journal of Physics, 78(11),1218-1224.[3
much as by what an individual’s end goals are, their engagement with a wider set ofexperiences, and the way these contribute to the overall process of becoming. The contingentapproach has some similarities with bricolage [39] or process of creating meaning through theresources available at hand. Levi-Strauss contrasted the bricoleur against the engineer whodevelops new tools and organizes resources according to a well thought through plan with adefined end. While the engineer’s work is precise with elements of permanence, the bricoleurcombines elements that already exist in ways they were not intended for.Another way to frame these two approaches is that methods based on necessity are causal whilethose based in contingency are teleological
andtechnologists to plan and conduct heavy maintenance and modifications, freighter conversionsand digital equipment modifications. The production of UAS aircraft is expected to increasesubstantially by 2030 [16]. Deloitte [17] expects defense to grow at 2.8%, space launch servicesto grow 15% or higher year over year, and space exploration and space investments to grow in2021 globally. While this is not a complete estimate of forecasted demand, it does show thatdemand is strong in the aerospace industry.Women and BIPOC in Aerospace. Early in developing higher learning institutions, mostprograms that required an interest in technical fields limited enrollment to men [18]. Womenwere not considered "worthy" of this kind of study as they would become
themselves. Men who are less qualified, both academically andtechnically, are hired, while some intelligent and well-prepared women go unemployedor are forced to work outside their fields of expertise. High academic achievement isviewed by Iranian women as a kind of insurance policy to make discrimination lesslikely, or at least more difficult. However, not all discrimination against women isintentional, as aptly noted by Perez [36], who extensively catalogues the ways in whichwomen are missing from data sets used for planning and decision-making. Defying family and societal norms, which deem women less capable than men,is another motivating factor for Iranian women. Discriminatory employment laws add towomen’s challenges, but even without
years. It aroused in me a tremendous interest in paleontology and, after theevent, I investigated what I could do to study fossils. I contacted a paleontologist and biologistfrom the Austral University of Chile. She motivated and guided me in all my concerns andquestions, opening the doors to the world of paleontology. So I can say that thanks to thismeeting, I managed to connect with something that I love and plan to study after finishing myfirst university degree."Students agreed that all the event activities, such as talks by outstanding researchers, science andtechnology workshops, and poster sessions on salient women in STEM in history, were excitingand tremendously motivating, considering it necessary to have these in future event
work place. In the professional Art and Engineering I'm going to be a field I will apply this setting, especially as an have alot to offer each engineer construction technique while engineer, it is crucial to other, but to wastewater treatment conducting a group think of everything meaningfully facilities and water discussion to collect all you're doing and how it incorporate one into conveyance related aspects or is going to affect not the other, you need to infrastructure when I views about my only you, but everyone work from the get out of college and I planned infrastructure who will be affected by
woman (she/her) Engineering Yes Dr. O Black woman (she/her) Engineering Yes Dr. Wu Black woman (she/her) Natural Science YesData AnalysisThe data was analyzed using a general inductive analytic plan, meaning we analyzed theinterviews in line with the conceptual framework and study’s objectives [63], [64]. The first stepof the data analysis involved reading through the transcripts so the lead researcher couldfamiliarize themselves with the data. Next, the lead researcher identified significant statements ineach of the interviews pertaining to codes reflective of the Collins’ [11] domains of powerframework. The interpersonal domain code was created to describe when a participantmentioned
teamwork and the desire toapply their engineering knowledge to have a positive social impact aligns with recent calls forgreater attention to the social dimensions and impact of engineering work [6], [9].Engineering training often underemphasizes social, contextual aspects of engineering [1], yetstudents in the study demonstrated that these social aspects of engineering were important totheir plans for being engineers. Moveover, the literature suggests that an underemphasis on morecomprehensive skills, like social considerations, may alienate students from continuing to pursueengineering [4], [11]. In particular, women and minority students who are normally moreengaged in social aspects and communal goals of engineering would be put into a
] In the earlystages of course planning we developed clearly defined learning outcomes that allowed usto determine the skills and competencies that students would achieve by the end of thecourse. Crafting specific and measurable learning outcomes ensured that the coursecontent aligned with and supported the learning goals of the students. The next step in the course development process was to determine how we would measurethe students’ progress and performance. The learning outcomes for the course are highly focusedon developing skills and proficiencies in engineering experimentation. We determinedthat authentic assessments would be the most appropriate means to measure students’achievement of the learning outcomes. For each of the 6 course
Paper ID #32775Are you sure about that? Introducing Uncertainty in UndergraduateEngineeringSophia V. Yates, Smith College Sophia V. Yates is a junior studying engineering sciences in the Picker Engineering Program at Smith College. She is interested in structural engineering and engineering education. Yates is planning on pursuing a graduate degree in STEM education after her time at Smith College.Dr. Christopher H. Conley, Smith College Chris Conley is currently a research affiliate with the Picker Engineering Program at Smith College. He has served on the faculties of four institutions over the last three decades. He has
both within and acrossdesign courses. Not only can reflection support students’ meaning-making of a course’s learningobjectives [28], but reflection is a key design skill [34, 36]. This sentiment is akin to Schon’s[34] discussion on reflection-in-action versus reflection-on-action. For example, written studentreflections throughout a course can prompt students to reflect on experiences they occur (i.e., in-action). Thus, instructors should aim to craft opportunities for students to engage in criticalreflection during classroom experiences. While authentic learning opportunities (e.g., ‘real-world’ projects) often elicit reflective practice, they can be time-consuming to plan [37]. Thus,smaller, more frequent reflection exercises, such as the
interactivity between the sub-models of a unit (including their assembling and disassembling of the subparts) is also animportant feature to consider in the future. In addition, UI and development interface can beimproved to make it more user-friendly to both the stakeholders - students and instructors (toimplement their course content). A new version of the app with complete models for a samplecourse is planned to be uploaded to the android play store in the future.5 ConclusionThe work discussed in the paper provided an opportunity to learn how technology can be used toimprove the learning process in education. Unity, Vuforia, C# were used to build an AR mobileapp that can be used in teaching complex 3D models in engineering. The prototype contains a
furtheruse their perspectives for more informed intervention design.In this work in progress paper, the findings that are presented are a part of an ongoing NSFfunded project to understand how to get more Black male engineers to pursue advanced degreesin engineering and go into the engineering professoriate. Of the research questions that are a partof the ongoing work: 1) What factors influenced Black males to pursue graduate degrees inengineering? 2) What assets/strengths do Black males possess who persist or plan to continue inengineering beyond undergraduate studies? Only research question 1 will be explored in thispaper. This manuscript provides a brief review of the literature and overview of the study’smethodology. Findings are then presented
taking the Linear Algebra course or the Introduction to Proofs course present some risk whether they will obtain their bachelor’s degrees and do so in a timely manner. • The S-STEM Program Director collaborates very closely with the UTA Undergraduate Mathematics Advisor to assess each undergraduate mathematics major’s academic progress, mathematical preparation, academic resilience, expected date for obtaining the undergraduate degree, effort spent by the student on academic studies, etc. The UTA Undergraduate Mathematics Advisor knows each of the mathematics majors very well as she is directly involved in the student’s degree plan and she interacts with each student at least several times during
Requirements Certifications Databases - - OS Linux - CompTIA Linux+ Networking Co-req CE CompTIA Network+ Cloud Essentials (CE) - AWS Cloud Practitioner Cloud Infrastructure and AWS Solutions Architect - Associate Pre-req CE Services (CIS) Cloud Computing Capstone Co-req CIS -The course sequence was designed in conjunction with an AWS Educate team. The Educate staffassisted in the design of course sequencing and degree plans to leverage educational experiencein teaching cloud technologies. The core of basics of