scholarly journals Collaborative Parsons Problems in a Remote-learning First-year Engineering Classroom

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brooke Morin ◽  
Krista Kecskemety
Keyword(s):  
First Year ◽  
Remote Learning ◽  
Engineering Classroom

scholarly journals Biomedical graduate student experiences during the COVID-19 university closure

PLoS ONE ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (9) ◽  
pp. e0256687
Author(s):  
Janani Varadarajan ◽  
Abigail M. Brown ◽  
Roger Chalkley
Keyword(s):  
Psychological Health ◽  
Time Management ◽  
Well Being ◽  
First Year ◽  
Biomedical Sciences ◽  
Spring Semester ◽  
Ongoing Research ◽  
The University ◽  
Senior Students ◽  
Remote Learning

COVID-19-associated university closures moved classes online and interrupted ongoing research in universities throughout the US. In Vanderbilt University, first year biomedical sciences PhD students were in the middle of their spring semester coursework and in the process of identifying a thesis research lab, while senior students who had already completed the first year were at various stages of their graduate training and were working on their thesis research projects. To learn how the university closure and resulting interruptions impacted our students’ learning and well-being, we administered two surveys, one to the first year students and the other to the senior students. Our main findings show that the university closure negatively impacted the overall psychological health of about one-third of the survey respondents, time management was the aspect of remote learning that caused the highest stress for close to 50% of the students, and interaction with their peers and in-person discussions were the aspects of on-campus learning that students missed the most during the remote learning period. Additionally, survey responses also show that students experienced positive outcomes as a result of remote learning that included spending increased time on additional learning interests, with family, on self-care, and for dissertation or manuscript writing. Though a variety of supportive resources are already available to students in our institution, results from our survey suggest enhancing these measures and identifying new ones targeted to addressing the academic and emotional needs of PhD students would be beneficial. Such support measures may be appropriate for students in other institutions as well.

scholarly journals LEARNING ELECTRONICS THROUGH STORYTELLING

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Libby Osgood ◽  
Nadja Bressan
Keyword(s):  
Engineering Design ◽  
First Year ◽  
Traditional Lecture ◽  
Activity Assessment ◽  
Science Technology ◽  
Technical Content ◽  
Engineering Classroom

STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) initiatives have expanded to include ‘art’ withthe moniker: STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math). This acknowledges the importance of creativity in the technical fields and poses the question: How do we incorporate art into the engineering classroom? This paper presents one attempt to incorporate the artof storytelling in a first-year engineering design course in January 2021. It was found that compared with students who received a traditional lecture to learn basic electronicconcepts, the students who used an illustrated storybook to learn the same concepts took significantly less time to replicate a sample circuit (p < .001), and performed better in a post-activity assessment (p > .05). These results indicate that the use of storytelling can be an effective wayto transmit technical content in an engineering classroom, and further studies should be pursued.

scholarly journals FIRST-YEAR STUDENT PERSPECTIVES ON DIVERSITY IN THE ENGINEERING DESIGN CLASSROOM

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chirag Variawa
Keyword(s):  
Engineering Education ◽  
Engineering Design ◽  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Student Perspectives ◽  
First Year ◽  
Engineering Student ◽  
The World ◽  
Student Instructor ◽  
Engineering Classroom ◽  
First Year Student

This paper investigates first-year engineering student assumptions about diversity in the classroom. Based on two qualitative surveys, administered at the start and end of term, a team of professors at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts ask questions that elicit responses about what students assume their first year engineering classroom is like. The data from this study is categorized into student/student and student/instructor interfaces, with a more general set of findings that are applicable holistically to engineering education. This study suggests that students are moving from a “what engineering looks like” perception to a more “what engineering qualities and characteristics help the world” perception. The results of this exploratory study can help instructors get a better understanding of their students, to help enhance diversity in the classroom

scholarly journals Connections Before Curriculum: The Role of Social Presence During COVID-19 Emergency Remote Learning for Students

2021 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Suzanne Ensmann ◽  
Aimee Whiteside ◽  
Lina Gomez-Vasquez ◽  
Ronda Sturgill
Keyword(s):  
Social Presence ◽  
Critical Time ◽  
Student Experience ◽  
First Year ◽  
First Year College ◽  
Online Readiness ◽  
First Year College Students ◽  
Financial Burdens ◽  
Physical Spaces ◽  
Remote Learning

This study examined the student experience (n=507) during emergency remote learning at a medium-sized private southeastern university during the COVID-19 pandemic, leveraging the Social Presence Model (SPM) as a guiding framework. Tensions were high at this critical time as students were stressed with financial burdens, supply shortages, overlapping work and educational schedules, and shared technological resources and physical spaces. Therefore, this study helps educators better understand students’ emotional needs and experiences during the March 2020 lockdown transition to remote learning. Specifically, examining the student experience in a time of crisis offers critical lessons about the importance of connectedness, online readiness, cultivating relationships, adaptability during transitions, and class interaction. The data revealed the depth of anxiety felt by students and suggests the need for increased empathy, communication, interaction, and flexibility from their instructor and course community to proceed with academic coursework, particularly for first-year college students. The findings elevate the importance of social presence as a literacy for learning in any modality, underscore the need to support the mental health of our students, and stress the urgency for online and remote learning readiness for current and future public emergencies.

scholarly journals REMOTE LEARNING IMPACTS ON STUDENT WELLBEING

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter M. Ostafichuk ◽  
Mimi Tse ◽  
Jacob Power ◽  
Carol P. Jaeger ◽  
Jonathan Nakane
Keyword(s):  
International Students ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Female Students ◽  
Large Cohort ◽  
Male Students ◽  
Mental Wellbeing ◽  
First Year ◽  
Student Wellbeing ◽  
Academic Year ◽  
Remote Learning

This study tracks wellbeing of a large cohort of first-year engineering students at a large Canadian university over a remotely-delivered academic year. This continues a similar tracking study completed with inperson instruction the previous year. Data were collected through short, weekly surveys rotating through the student cohort. Overall, the results show relatively consistent stressors across the year, driven primarily by academics, and very similar to data from the previous year delivered in person. Wellbeing scores (measured through the Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Wellbeing Scale) declined slightly through the year, and were overall lower than the previous academic year delivered in-person. Considering factors of EDI, female students showed slightly lower wellbeing scores than male students, while international students showed slightly higher scores than Canadian students.

scholarly journals Work in Progress: Parsons Problems as a Tool in the First-Year Engineering Classroom

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brooke Morin ◽  
Krista Kecskemety ◽  
Kathleen Harper ◽  
Paul Clingan
Keyword(s):  
First Year ◽  
Work In Progress ◽  
Engineering Classroom
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