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Annie Kelly; Chris Cooper; Vladimir Miskovic – New Directions for Student Services, 2023
Appreciative Advising is applied in the creation and delivery of an "Appreciative Mentorship" course for University of Cincinnati undergraduate peer mentors. The article explores course content, learning activities, and assignments. A former peer mentor shares examples of applying the phases when mentoring pre-professional engineering…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Mentors, Peer Relationship, Engineering Education
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Xuting Tang; Hui Guo – ECNU Review of Education, 2024
Purpose: This study investigates the role of the engineering education environment created by the implementation of the "Plan for Educating and Training Outstanding Engineers" (PETOE) on the professional capability development of engineering students from the perspective of students' experience. Design/Approach/Methods: This study uses…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, College Students, Program Effectiveness, Learning Activities
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Kari Kleine; Elena Pessot – Higher Education Research and Development, 2024
The use of virtual labs in higher education is gaining growing interest, with different debates in the literature about their role in addressing learning outcomes and balancing hands-on activities. This study seeks to understand how labs can be virtualised and thus structured to contribute to engineering education, by adopting an innovative…
Descriptors: Virtual Classrooms, Laboratories, Engineering Education, Outcomes of Education
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Wanju Huang; Kerrie Douglas; Tiantian Li; Audeen Fentiman – International Journal of Designs for Learning, 2023
This paper discusses the instructional design experiences and processes shared by a multi-disciplinary group--including more than a dozen faculty, staff, and students--while developing a series of online courses on Model-based Systems Engineering (MBSE) for professional engineers, a project sponsored by the National Science Foundation. The team…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Engineering Education, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Interdisciplinary Approach
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Moreno, Andreu; Bartolomé, Elena – Education Sciences, 2021
Many active, inquiry-based learning activities nowadays rely upon the students' capacity to perform efficient information research on the Internet. Study and Research Paths (SRPs) have been proposed to model inquiry learning, and successfully used as teaching formats in different areas. In an SRP the search for an answer to a generating question…
Descriptors: Web Based Instruction, Inquiry, Active Learning, Engineering Education
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Holenko Dlab, Martina; Candrlic, Sanja; Pavlic, Mile – Journal of Information Technology Education: Innovations in Practice, 2021
Aim/Purpose: During the education of future engineers and experts in the field of computer science and information communication technology, the achievement of learning outcomes related to different levels of cognitive ability and knowledge dimensions can be a challenge. Background: Teachers need to design an appropriate set of activities for…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Computer Science Education, Engineering Education, Formative Evaluation
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Solomon, John T.; Hamilton, Eric; Viswanathan, Vimal; Nayak, Chitra R. – Journal of STEM Education: Innovations and Research, 2020
A personalized and media-rich learning framework called "Knowledge and Curriculum Integration Ecosystem" (KACIE) has been developed and implemented in a junior-level fluid mechanics course in Fall 2016, Spring 2017, Fall 2017, and Spring 2018, in a prominent HBCU. This model shares characteristics of blended instruction as well as a…
Descriptors: Blended Learning, Neurosciences, Flipped Classroom, Comparative Analysis
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Rengel, R.; Martin, M. J.; Vasallo, B. G. – IEEE Transactions on Education, 2012
This paper presents a series of activities and educational strategies related to the teaching of digital electronics in computer engineering. The main objective of these methodologies was to develop a final tutored coursework to be carried out by the students in small teams. This coursework was conceived as consisting of advanced problems or small…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Motivation, Electronics, Learning Activities
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Harrison, Matthew – Design and Technology Education, 2011
Engineering, the "E" in STEM, is seldom taught as a distinct curriculum subject in English and Welsh schools to pupils under the age of 14 years. This contrasts with design and technology (D&T), taken in this paper to represent the largest contributor to the "T" in STEM (the remainder being taken to be the computing and…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Engineering Education, Technology Education, Needs Assessment