Fostering Diversity and Educational Learning among Minority Engineering Students through Group-Study: A Case Study

Abstract

Peer tutoring is established as one of the most efficient methods in learning. The same approach blended with diversity is used in this study through in-class-study-group formation. The effectiveness of group study in enhancing student performance is investigated in this paper. The study is done in fundamental engineering classes in two US regional universities over the last two years. One institution is a traditional mainstream university and other is a Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI) with a diverse student population. In general, engineering has very few students from underrepresented minority backgrounds. Low performance rate of minority students becoming a challenge for engineering programs in HSIs since minority students are the majority of the student body. Success of the entire engineering program will largely depend on the success rate of the minority students.

Enhanced 3-D Printing for Energy Harvesting Project Implementation into Green Energy Manufacturing Laboratory

“…Students were asked to design with 3-D printing technology based on renewable energy type, operating environment, etc. and verify by hands-on experimental study [15][16][17][18][19] . For grading, a rubric was provided with an expected design content and steps to be followed.…”