Assessment of Program-wide Curricular Change

Miletic, Marina; Svihla, Vanessa; Gomez, Jamie; Han, Sang Mee; Y., Eva; Hubka, Catherine Anne; Yan, Chen; Kang, Sung “Pil”; Datye, Abhaya K.

doi:10.18260/1-2--32128

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“…The study was conducted at a Hispanic‐serving research university in the Southwest United States as part of a multiyear project aimed at faculty and curricular change. In particular, the faculty sought ways to improve professional identity formation and retention of minoritized students (Kang et al, 2020; Miletic et al, 2019); given the relatively high percentage of these students who work and have care responsibilities, the faculty specifically focused on changes to core courses.…”

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A funds of knowledge approach to developing engineering students' design problem framing skills

Svihla

Chen

Kang

2022

J of Engineering Edu

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Background: Engineering programs have increasingly incorporated design challenges into courses. These design challenges vary in the degree to which they present complex, ill-structured, and relevant problems, and therefore may vary in the degree to which they support students to learn to frame design problems.Purpose/Hypothesis: We characterized how first-year engineering students with little formal design training approach problem framing. We developed design challenges informed by funds of knowledge. We compared the development of problem framing skills in first-year students who completed these challenges to students who completed more traditional challenges and to students in capstone design.Design/Method: Students completed a pre/post performance-based assessment of problem framing skills. We analyzed student responses in terms of design requirements, design practices, and design styles. We used descriptive statistics and correlations to characterize how students initially approached problem framing and repeated-measures ANOVA to compare groups of students. Results: First-year students approached framing a design problem in one of four primary ways. Compared to students in the original course, they showed growth in attending to an underlying need, considering contexts of use, and depicting design function. Compared to capstone students, they also showed growth in considering stakeholder roles and planning the next steps. Conclusions: Funds of knowledge can provide a means to evaluate possible design challenges as authentic yet accessible for first-year students, in turn, providing opportunities to support the development of the design problem framing ability.

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A funds of knowledge approach to developing engineering students' design problem framing skills

Svihla

Chen

Kang

2022

J of Engineering Edu

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“…This discussion will start with an analysis of demographics and then explore correlations between grades in key courses and student retention. Our demographics analysis was featured in greater detail in previous work [12]. Some aspects are reviewed here to highlight the diverse background of our students and describe retention patterns.…”

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Student Retention Barriers in a Chemical Engineering Program

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Svihla³

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access Proceedings

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Abhaya Datye has been on the faculty at the University of New Mexico after receiving his PhD in Chemical Engineering at the University of Michigan in 1984. He is presently Chair of the department and Distinguished Regents Professor of Chemical & Biological Engineering. From 1994-2014 he served as Director of the Center for Microengineered Materials, a strategic research center at UNM that reports to the Vice President for Research. He is also the founding director of the graduate interdisciplinary program in Nanoscience and Microsystems, the first program at UNM to span three schools and colleges and the Anderson Business School. He served as director of this program from 2007 -2014. His research interests are in heterogeneous catalysis, materials characterization and nanomaterials synthesis. His research group has pioneered the development of electron microscopy tools for the study of catalysts.

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Assessment of Program-wide Curricular Change

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A funds of knowledge approach to developing engineering students' design problem framing skills

A funds of knowledge approach to developing engineering students' design problem framing skills

Student Retention Barriers in a Chemical Engineering Program

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