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While STEM integration and engineering education have become increasingly important, most integration units use physical or earth science topics. Thus, the purpose of this research was to explore students' discussions during two life science-focused, engineering design-based STEM integration units to determine what types of connections within STEM students were making and whether these aligned with...
An investigation into the initially high attrition rates in our new Engineering programme uncovered a number of non-academic factors that led to poor rates of student engagement. Dealing with today's “millennials” has required us to focus on meeting student expectations to a greater extent than we ever expected. Indeed, once we began to understand the modern, technically motivated student, we overhauled...
Integrating engineering into K-12 classrooms is gaining considerable attention. With new standards, such as the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), that require the incorporation of engineering through design into the K-12 curriculum, it is essential that opportunities be provided to those teaching in K-12 to aid in appropriate integration. Translating Engineering Research to K-8 (TEK8) addresses...
Engineering design is a complex experience for students to undertake and for instructors to assess. Conducting tests is a critical design practice, yet the research on K-12 students' conceptions on conducting experiments is limited. Such research is essential as we attempt to understand how students become informed designers and ways in which we can support their transformation. By analyzing students'...
Communication skills are an integral part of the development of undergraduate students as emerging professionals in rapidly changing, multi-disciplinary engineering fields. However, many engineering educators and industry employers continue to express concerns about the quality of these skills in engineering graduates. Many universities and institutions have enhanced engineering education curriculum,...
This work-in-progress studies empathy in middle-school engineering design pedagogy. A model of empathy in engineering as a core skill, as a practice orientation and a professional way of being that can be taught in university programs has been proposed [1]. Does an emotional intelligence model of empathy need to be taught earlier than at the university level? The engineering design process has been...
We are currently engaged in a redesign of the method we use to distribute Engineering Teaching Kits (ETKs) via the Internet. This work in progress reports the results of the user-centered conceptual design phase of the project. ETKs are self-contained STEM education standards-based units that promote integrative learning about STEM via engineering design challenges. The current distribution method,...
This paper combines two bodies of engineering education work aimed at improving the undergraduate engineering classroom experience for industrial and mechanical engineering students. The integration of these two bodies of work has led researchers to propose a framework for maximizing undergraduate engineering student motivation, satisfaction, and performance. The “Interact, Cultivate, Deliver” or...
Data literacy education provides an opportunity for libraries and departments to collaborate to meet the rapidly changing needs of students, faculty, and researcher. Expertise is required and expected in so many areas that navigating the changing climate can be overwhelming. However, a large midwestern university has developed a library-facilitated initiative that delivers instructional content to...
Over the past several years increasing emphasis has been placed on the development of data information literacy (DIL) skills for engineering researchers to comply with funding requirements and to facilitate data sharing, reuse, and preservation. These efforts have been largely aimed at faculty members and graduate students, and to some extent undergraduate students in preparation for their roles as...
What gap exists between the kind of engineer an engineering program seeks to educate and the ways in which engineering students want their engineering education to engage them? This paper explores such a gap at Colorado School of Mines. Analysis of campus values and student passions through two surveys given in spring 2016 reveal incongruence in campus culture. The students and faculty currently value...
Engineering higher education increasingly produces data in the volume, variety, velocity, and need for veracity such that the output of the research is considered “Big Data”. While engineering faculty members do conceive of and direct the research producing this data, there may be gaps in faculty members' knowledge in training graduate and undergraduate research assistants in the management of Big...
Mathematics courses are a major source of engineering student attrition. Many engineering students drop out before even taking an engineering course. While the mismatch between mathematics content and following engineering coursework is already a concern, it is often studied heuristically by talking to engineering faculty. Few rigorous studies empirically document when students actually need to use...
Engineering work involves constant deliberation, yet little effort is invested in most programs to provide a well-structured framework for engineering deliberation. The following paper presents how engineering students learn the virtue of professional and moral deliberation through various educational activities in the course Ethics in Engineering at the University of Puerto Rico in Mayaguez. In addition,...
Most senior project based design courses focus on demonstrating that students have shown an ability to design a system, component, or process that meets desired needs within realistic constraints as described in ABET Criterion 3(c). This paper describes an approach that has been used for the past four years in a senior project based design course which embeds these criteria within an entrepreneurial...
In this study we provide our methodology and implementation strategy of Sketchnoting in Freshman Engineering and Technological Literacy classes. The objective is to improve students' learning, visualization, and communication proficiencies, as well as to foster advancement in knowledge retention, and critical thinking. This study provides the motivation, supporting research background, design, and...
Software Quality Assurance is a sub-process that ensures that developed software meets and complies with defined or standardized quality specifications. Focusing on source code, there are characteristics that can be used to evaluate the quality. Introductory courses must encourage freshmen students to improve internal quality of their source code, but only as sophomore they have contact with Software...
This paper compares three methods for examining the relationship of multiple factors related pertaining to student motivation on the degree outcome (persistence in an engineering major). A study was conducted in which all first year engineering students at one institution were invited to complete a survey designed to measure students' motivations and attitudes towards engineering. The survey was based...
In academic institutions it is normal practice that at the end of each term, students are required to complete a questionnaire that is designed to gather students' perceptions of the instructor and their learning experience in the course. This questionnaire comprises of Likert-scale questions and qualitative questions. One of the important goals of this exercise is to enable the instructor and the...
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