Paper ID #33983Teacher-led Reflection ActivityMrs. Tawni Paradise, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Tawni is a third year Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech. She holds a B.S. and a B.A. in Industrial & Systems Engineering from The University of San Diego in San Diego, CA. Drawing on previous experiences as a mathematics and engineering teacher, her current re- search interests include studying the disconnect between home and school, with a specific emphasis on prekindergarten students. She continues to pursue these research interests with the support of the
Paper ID #33949S-STEM Student Reflections and IDP ProcessDr. Laura Kasson Fiss, Michigan Technological University Laura Kasson Fiss is a Research Assistant Professor in the Pavlis Honors College at Michigan Techno- logical University. She holds a PhD from Indiana University in English (2013). Her work has appeared in ASEE, FYEE, the NCHC Monograph Series, and elsewhere. Research areas include reflection, commu- nication, curriculum design, and Victorian humor.Dr. John L. Irwin, Michigan Technological University As Professor for Mechanical Engineering Technology at Michigan Technological University, Dr. Irwin teaches
Paper ID #33805 funded programs, including NSF ITEST, NSF AISL, Department of Education Math Science Partnership, and NSF ATE programs. She participates in the STELAR PI and Evaluator summits sponsored by NSF and recently presented a novel approach for culturally relevant evaluation methods. She is an active member of the American Evaluation Association and specifically of the STEM Education and Training topical interest group. She provides university faculty with evaluation plans and support for privately and federally funded STEM grant proposals.Connor J. Hill, University of Idaho American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Reflections on
Paper ID #32643Reimagining Energy Year 3: Reflections on a Course OfferingProf. Gordon D. Hoople, University of San Diego Dr. Gordon D. Hoople is an assistant professor and one of the founding faculty members of integrated engineering at the University of San Diego. He is passionate about creating engaging experiences for his students. His work is primarily focused on two areas: engineering education and design. Professor Hoople’s engineering education research examines the ways in which novel approaches can lead to better student outcomes. He is the principal investigator on the National Science Foundation Grant
Paper ID #33691Self Reflection of Engineering Majors in General Chemistry IIDr. Patricia Muisener, Stevens Institute of Technology Dr. Patricia Muisener is an Associate Teaching Professor and Associate Chair of Graduate and Undergrad- uate Education in the Chemistry and Chemical Biology Department at Stevens Institute of Technology. She teaches and coordinates the General Chemistry I and II course sequence. She was previously at the University of South Florida as a faculty member and Assistant Chair in the Chemistry Department. She holds a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from University of Massachusetts at Amherst and a M.S
Paper ID #32338Students’ Teamwork Assessment based on Reflection, Peer Evaluations andPsychological SafetyDr. Seema C. Shah-Fairbank, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona Seema C. Shah-Fairbank is an associate professor in water resources at California State Polytechnic Uni- versity in Pomona. She teaches service courses, in addition to hydrology, hydraulics and environmental engineering. Seema is currently serving as the student section advisor for the American Societies of Civil Engineers (ASCE) and the President for ASCE LA Section. She obtained her BS in Environmental Engineering from California Polytechnic
, 2021 Reflecting on 10 years of centralized engineering student diversity initiatives (Experience)0. AbstractThe IDEA Engineering Student Center at the University of California San Diego’s Jacobs Schoolof Engineering was established in 2010 to focus on engineering student diversity and inclusioninitiatives following a series of racially charged incidents affecting our campus’ Black students.From its inception, the IDEA Center aimed to focus on 1) outreach, 2) recruitment and yield, 3)academic success and enrichment, and 4) retention and graduation for underrepresented minority(URM) students. Through the lens of nonprofit organizational lifecycles, the IDEA Centertransitioned from Idea to Start-up to Growth
received his M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Florida in 2016 and a B. Tech. in Computer Science & Engineering from Jaypee University of Engineering and Technology, India in 2015. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Reflection and Transformational Learning in a Data Structures and Algorithms ClassAbstractReflective practice is the process of using one’s beliefs and prior experiences to analyze a problem;it is making meaning from experience. The process starts with noticing and naming the problem,continues to analyzing the problem, and finishes with forming new beliefs in order to solve theproblem. Reflective
Paper ID #32920Alumni Reflect on Their Education About Ethical and Societal IssuesDr. Angela R. Bielefeldt, University of Colorado Boulder Angela Bielefeldt is a professor at the University of Colorado Boulder in the Department of Civil, Envi- ronmental, and Architectural Engineering (CEAE) and Director for the Engineering Plus program. She has served as the Associate Chair for Undergraduate Education in the CEAE Department, as well as the ABET assessment coordinator. Professor Bielefeldt was also the faculty director of the Sustainable By Design Residential Academic Program, a living-learning community where students
Paper ID #33303Assessing the Effectiveness of Individual Reflections on Video FeedbackDr. Walter W. Schilling Jr., Milwaukee School of Engineering Walter Schilling is a Professor in the Software Engineering program at the Milwaukee School of Engi- neering in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He received his B.S.E.E. from Ohio Northern University and M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Toledo. He worked for Ford Motor Company and Visteon as an Embedded Software Engineer for several years prior to returning for doctoral work. He has spent time at NASA Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio, and consulted for multiple embedded
, we seek to apply and validate an assessment strategy to categorizestudents’ ways of experiencing human-centered design. We directly build on Zoltowski et al.’s[2] findings which suggest that engineering students experience human-centered design in sevencategorically discrete ways. Guided by this prior study, we seek to address the research question,“To what extent can we use post-course open-ended written reflection data to identifyengineering students’ ways of experiencing human-centered design?” The use of reflection datato categorize students’ ways of experiencing human-centered design is unique from othermethods that have extended Zoltowski et al.’s work but may offer a more accessible assessmentmodality for design instructors. Thus, we
Problem-Based Learning in Engineering Education: Reflections, Practices, and Challenges Waddah Akili, Ph.D., P.E. Professor of Civil Engineering (Retired) Principal, Geotechnical Engineering, Ames, IA, Email:w.akili@isunet.netAbstractThis paper focuses on the utilization of problem–based learning (PBL) in an engineeringprogram, and argues that implementation of problem-based learning needs to be placed in acontext and must be developed with careful consideration of the social, economic, and ethnicdiversity of the student population and the university academic culture and prevailing norms. Thepaper includes a brief history, selected PBL
, 2021 2021 ASEE Illinois-Indiana Section Conference Proceedings | Paper ID 351621.0 IntroductionLike many Research Experience for Undergraduates programs around the country, in response to theCOVID-19 pandemic, the REUs at this historically Black college in the Southeast transitioned its programsto a virtual format in the summer of 2020. This paper reviews and reflects upon data we collected from theREU undergraduate participants, and participants in a broader summer research program, the SummerResearch Institute (SURI).Our STEM faculty have been hosting undergraduate research about 10 years. Since the summer of 2017,we have been working to adopt critical pedagogy into our undergraduate student research experiencesthrough carefully
Paper ID #33163Responding to the COVID Pandemic: Results and Reflections on Round-TableDiscussions at ASEE 2020Dr. John Tingerthal P.E., Northern Arizona University John Tingerthal joined the Construction Management faculty at Northern Arizona University in 2007 and was appointed as a Distinguished Teaching Fellow in 2015. His engineering career spans a variety of design and forensic engineering experiences. He spent the first eight years of his career performing structural consulting engineering in Chicago. He earned his Doctorate in Education and is currently the Associate Chair of the Civil Engineering, Construction
Paper ID #32896Teachers Navigating Educational Systems: Reflections on the Value ofFunds of Knowledge (Fundamental)Dr. Joel Alejandro Mejia, University of San Diego Dr. Joel Alejandro (Alex) Mejia is an assistant professor in the Department of Integrated Engineering at the University of San Diego. His research has contributed to the integration of critical theoretical frame- works and Chicano Cultural Studies to investigate and analyze existing deficit models in engineering education. Dr. Mejia’s work also examines how asset-based models impact the validation and recognition of students and communities of color as holders
Paper ID #34030Going Virtual: Reflections from Research and School Educators onNavigating Professional Development and STEM Club OpportunitiesMr. Amari Simpson, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign Amari T. Simpson is a third-year Ph.D. student at the College of Education at the University of Illinois. He has worked as a STEM educator in Boston for two years, and his research interest centers on STEM pre-college program effects on students. He currently serves as a Research Assistant in the College of Engineering. He received a Bachelor’s degree in psychology from Middlebury College and a Master’s degree in
Paper ID #34586Learning Through Doing: Preservice Elementary Teacher Reflections on theEngineering Design Process (Fundamental)Dr. Matthew Perkins Coppola, Purdue University Fort Wayne Dr. Perkins Coppola is an Assistant Professor of Science Education in the School of Education at Purdue University Fort Wayne. His research agenda centers on elementary and secondary preservice teacher preparation. While a lecturer at Towson University in 2014, he was inspired to research engineering design pedagogy in elementary schools after attending a talk by Dr. Pamela Lottero-Perdue. He began his career as a high school physics teacher
Paper ID #34670Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS) for Promoting Reflection in EngineeringEducation: Graduate Student PerceptionsDr. Ryan C. Campbell, Texas Tech University Having completed his Ph.D. through the University of Washington’s interdisciplinary Individual Ph.D. Program (see bit.ly/uwiphd), Dr. Campbell is now a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Texas Tech Uni- versity. He currently facilitates an interdisciplinary project entitled ”Developing Reflective Engineers through Artful Methods.” His scholarly interests include both teaching and research in engineering educa- tion, art in engineering, social justice
Paper ID #33666WIP: Effectiveness of Different Reflection Approaches for ImprovingMastery in an Engineering Laboratory CourseMs. Amy N. Adkins, Northwestern University Amy N. Adkins is a PhD candidate in Biomedical Engineering at Northwestern University. She received her M.S. in Biomedical Engineering from Northwestern and her B.S. in Engineering Science from St. Mary’s University in San Antonio. Her technical graduate research is focused on utilizing novel imaging techniques to quantifying adaptation of muscle architecture in humans. She also desires to implement innovative teaching, mentoring, and hands-on problem
Paper ID #34693Work in Progress: Assessment of Reflective Thinking in GraduateEngineering Students: Human and Machine MethodsDr. Roman Taraban, Texas Tech University Roman Taraban is Professor in the Department of Psychological Sciences at Texas Tech University. He received his Ph.D. in cognitive psychology from Carnegie Mellon University. His interests are in how undergraduate students learn, and especially, in critical thinking and how students draw meaningful con- nections in traditional college content materials.Dr. Micah Iserman, Texas Tech University Interested in language use, mental representation, and social
education, including how to support engineering students in reflecting on experience, how to help engineering educators make effective teach- ing decisions, and the application of ideas from complexity science to the challenges of engineering education. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Creating capacity to explore what students learn from reflection activities: Validating the knowledge gain surveyAbstractThis paper reports on the methodological process of validating a survey instrument to measurestudent learning from reflection activities. Reflection is thought to be a helpful teaching andlearning tool. In engineering education
in reflective learning and personal self reflection in engineering classes in addition to her passion for engineering ethics and conceptual learning.Nozomi Nishimura, Cornell UniversityProf. Isaac Smith, Brigham Young UniversityDr. David M. Small, Cornell University American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Enhancing the teaching of research ethics through encounters with patients and reflectionIntroductionResponsible conduct of research is a major element of all engineering disciplines but is especiallyimportant in biomedical engineering. Recently, there has been a movement toward more stringentresearch ethics practices due to
learning, and engineering communi- cation. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 I Wish I Would Have Known Engineering Student's Reflections on Challenges and Support Experienced in Graduate ProgramsAbstractThe purpose of this research paper is to characterize the experiences of engineering doctoralstudents as they reflect upon what they wish they had known before beginning their program.Engineering graduate enrollment rates have been declining over the past few years, while studentwell-being issues are rising. This work is part of an overarching investigation examining thephenomenon of
Paper ID #28461A Reflective Evaluation of a Pre-College Engineering Curriculum toPromote Inclusion in Informal Learning EnvironmentsMrs. Kayla R. Maxey, Purdue University-Main Campus, West Lafayette (College of Engineering) Kayla is a doctoral student in the School of Engineering Education at Purdue University. Her research interest includes the influence of informal engineering learning experiences on diverse students’ attitudes, beliefs, and perceptions of engineering, and the relationship between students’ interests and the practices and cultures of engineering. Her current work at the FACE lab is on teaching strategies
2021 ASEE Midwest Section Conference Managing Students’ Learning through Reflection on Doing through a Self-Tutoring System Yifan Zhou, Yanwei Sun, Zachary Ball, Zhenjun Ming, Janet K. Allen, Farrokh Mistree School of Computer Science and Technology, Beijing Institute of technology, China/School of Mechanical Engineering, Beijing Institute of technology, China/Mechanical Engineering Department, Carnegie Mellon University, USA/School of Mechanical Engineering, Beijing Institute of technology, China/Systems Realization
Paper ID #35477First-Year Engineering Students’ Reflections: Plans in Response toPerceived Performance on Course Learning ObjectivesKayla Ney, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Department of Biological Systems Engineering Kayla is a Master’s student in Biological Systems Engineering at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln with a focus in engineering education. She received her B.S. in Biological Systems Engineering at UNL and is currently pursuing an M.S. in BSE. Her current research is investigating antioxidant microparticles for the mitigation of low back pain. As an undergraduate, Kayla conducted data analysis under Dr. Diefes
critical to engineering, reflected in an emphasis onethics in educational accreditation guidelines, as well as funding for research than addressesethics in engineering [1]–[3]. Curricula have tended to take an applied and case-based approach,where professional engineering codes and/or philosophical ethical theories are introduced, whichare then used to resolve questions that arise in cases concerning engineering and technology [4],[5]. In recent years, however, there has been a proliferation of novel approaches, as well asdisagreement concerning the form engineering ethics education should take, and criteria fordetermining what would count as success [1], [5]–[7]. In part, this confusion stems fromdisagreements about the goals of ethics
the results should not be overly generalized due to thesmall number of teachers interviewed, the results indicate that many entering college studentsmay already be somewhat familiar with the importance of EESI in engineering. In addition, thefindings dovetail with recent attention on the preparation of K-12 teachers to educate students onengineering [21], indicating that teachers should be aware of the important role of ethics inengineering.AcknowledgmentsThis study was funded by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 1540348. Anyopinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those ofthe author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.References[1] National
, such as learning to work in a team,to be organized, to be more reflective and critical, and to self-manage ” [3], in addition torecommending the use of Scrum for the development of projects in the university classroom.Yazyi carried out an investigation whose object of study was a workshop-type educationalexperience in a virtual environment, where it was proposed to develop the promotional brochureof a fictitious company, using the Scrum methodology. The members of each team weregeographically distributed, so they used information and communication technologies to carryout the tasks, such as Google Docs, Skype, e-mail, Moodle forums, and Google Wave. As part ofits conclusions, Yazyi mentions that “through the experience presented in this work