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This paper describes our initial effort to develop a first year seminar for electrical engineering students at Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Iran. This course was recently added to the curriculum and taught, for the first time, during the spring 2014 semester. The main goal is to motivate electrical engineering freshmen students by exposing them to an academic experience that combines fundamental...
We present a method to identity and analyze the expectations of the current job market in electrical and computer engineering for transversal competencies, also referred as soft skills, with a focus on innovation. We have used job ads extracted from the IEEE Job Sites, identified and quantified the transversal competencies demanded by the market. The key identified skills are communication, teamwork,...
The primary goal of this mini-workshop is to assist participants in creating Inquiry Based Learning Activities (IBLAs) that promote better conceptual understanding for their students. This is part of more general goal of transforming engineering classrooms into more interactive formats that promote student engagement and lead to improved student outcomes. Specifically the workshop will introduce participants...
Understanding student motivation is an essential aspect of effective course design. Since motivations are related to learning outcomes ranging from critical thinking to creativity to lifelong learning, helping students develop positive motivations toward learning is critical for the engagement and success of tomorrow's STEM graduates. In this workshop, we explore the specific roles that instructors...
An upper division undergraduate project-based learning (PBL) engineering program in the U.S. engineering educational system was started beginning January 2010. Students transfer into the program after completion of lower division coursework at community colleges and other universities. They do not take classes; instead learning activities are organized and indexed in industry projects where they are...
Although the number of doctoral degrees awarded to women in engineering has increased substantially over the last half of the 20th century, women are still substantially underrepresented among engineering faculty. Operating from the premise that a "cultural mass" of an identity group might change organizational behavior, we explore the potential influence of gender composition on faculty's...
In this study, we report on the student experience at Olin College, a small undergraduate university in the United States with an explicit mission to transform engineering education. We employ a highly narrative approach to situate students' individual experiences within their larger learning trajectories and use them as a lens through which we view the accounts of their time at college. We highlight...
This paper presents findings from an evaluation study of engineering alumni who experienced a project-based undergraduate curriculum, examining differences in reported learning gains between alumni who completed projects on campus and those who completed projects in off-campus locations, both domestic and international. Survey respondents who had completed at least one project away from campus reported...
This workshop is meant for all lecturers and researchers of the conference, to experience the benefits of improvisation for themselves or for their students. In educating the inventors of our future, it is important to address creativity as a condition for innovation in Engineering courses of study. Part of the creative potential lies in the ability of divergent thinking. This looking for not yet...
Nowadays, university students are facing a large number of highly diverse media, including conventional books as well as online-based mobile applications — all used to support learning. Especially the internet with its connected social media services or e-learning possibilities induced significant changes in society and in the landscape of higher education during the last years and still do so. The...
Community Engagement or Service-learning is a rapidly growing pedagogy in higher education and has come under increased visibility within engineering and computing education. It has been cited as a potential tool for increasing student engagement as well as diversity among our engineering, technology and computing student bodies. It also has opportunities to prepare the next generation of professionals,...
Significant efforts have been made to increase the number and diversity of students in pathways to engineering careers. This paper describes an effort to address these goals by adapting EPICS, a nationally recognized project-based, service-learning university program, to the high school and middle school environments. Preliminary data from 60 high schools in 11 states with over 2,200 students indicate...
Developing engineers for a changing world presents a greater need for students to understand simulations. Understanding mathematical models and simulations are skills that all engineers need for industry and research, but many engineering students lack a conceptual understanding of how to develop them. This workshop facilitates conversations about the future of engineering education with an emphasis...
"Stereotype threat" is a term used by social scientists to describe the anxiety one feels when one fears that he or she will confirm a negative stereotype about his or her own group. This anxiety impairs performance and reduces motivation by introducing a self-evaluative threat. More than 300 studies have verified that people underperform when put in situations that cause stereotype threat...
This workshop is set against the context of a growing methodological diversity in the field of engineering education research with a range of qualitative or ‘interpretive’ methods currently being adopted by the research community. This mini-workshop will introduce participants to a theoretical framework for ensuring quality in interpretive engineering education research that was recently published...
Evaluability assessment (EA) is used to determine the readiness of a program for outcome evaluation. For engineering educators, obtaining meaningful outcome evaluation findings can be illusive. Determining whether a program is ready for such an evaluation, has critical importance, particularly as expectations for engineering education programs to have real impact, continue to increase. EA use is on...
Understanding individual classroom culture is essential for constructing effective learning and teaching contexts. Largely underutilized in STEM classrooms to date, discourse analysis can serve as a tool to uncover, understand, and shape unique classroom culture. Used as a reflective tool, discourse analysis can enhance pedagogical understanding of quality and quantity of student participation and...
Engineering and Computer Science (E&CS) Education is an emerging discipline with a brief history and the unfortunate particularity that many folks outside our discipline are confused as to our purpose. In this special session, we will use two case studies to frame the larger questions around E&CS Education goals and help draw the conversation from practice to philosophy while creating a safe...
The primary goals of this special session are to assist participants with developing strategies for incorporating an engineering design environment into regular pre-college (K-12 in the US) classroom routines, and to develop an engineering design approach to structuring learning activities. Our core philosophy is that the practice of engineering design reinforces and provides a method for integrating...
For the past 3 years, engineering students from Ohio Northern University have spent a full day running STEM activities with 4th–6th graders at a public middle school, which has been called a STEM Academy by the organizers and participants. The academy begins with a guest speaker who gives a presentation on a topic under the STEM umbrella, then students participate in multiple activities that typically...
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