Identifying Student Team Leaders and Social Loafers in a First-Year Engineering Cornerstone Robotics Design Project

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Phillips ◽  
Krista M. Kecskemety ◽  
Rachel L. Kajfez
Keyword(s):  
First Year ◽  
Team Leaders ◽  
Design Project ◽  
Robotics Design ◽  
Student Team

scholarly journals Developing and Improving a Multi-Element First-Year Engineering Cornerstone Autonomous Robotics Design Project

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Frank ◽  
Kelly Kolotka ◽  
Andrew Phillips ◽  
Michael Schulz ◽  
Clare Rigney ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
First Year ◽  
Autonomous Robotics ◽  
Design Project ◽  
Robotics Design

scholarly journals Design of a Full-Featured Robot Controller for Use in a First-Year Robotics Design Project

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Vernier ◽  
Patrick Wensing ◽  
Craig Morin ◽  
Andrew Phillips ◽  
Brian Rice ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
First Year ◽  
Design Project ◽  
Robot Controller ◽  
Robotics Design

Tackling student drinking within the drinking subculture of a university sports competition: a culture change approach

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Robyn Ramsden ◽  
Delwyn Hewitt ◽  
Joanne Williams ◽  
Lee Emberton ◽  
Catherine Bennett
Keyword(s):  
Culture Change ◽  
Success Factors ◽  
Student Leaders ◽  
Sporting Events ◽  
Team Leaders ◽  
Higher Alcohol ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The University ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Student Team

PurposeThis paper explores the impact of a suite of alcohol culture change interventions implemented by Deakin University in Melbourne, Australia. The interventions were designed to change the alcohol culture at a bi-annual nation-wide university multi-sport competition known as Uni Nationals. This study aims to understand the critical success factors of the alcohol culture change initiatives that were developed by the university and implemented as part of a broader set of institutional practices.Design/methodology/approachA qualitative research design utilised in-depth, semi-structured interviews with nine Uni Nationals student team leaders. In total, two group interviews and four individual interviews were conducted with student team leaders who participated in the Uni Nationals. The interview transcripts were coded and themed. The themes were further refined and interpreted into a narrative. A total of two transcripts were independently coded by the first two authors. Discordant coding was flagged and discussed until a consensus was achieved. The remaining interviews were coded by the first author and discussed with the second author to ensure consistency. A socio-ecological framework was used to understand perceived changes to alcohol culture.FindingsStudent leaders were aware of and felt supported by the university-wide approach to changing the culture of Uni Nationals. Overall, the qualitative study indicated that students were positive about the alcohol culture change interventions. The leadership training that engaged team leaders in interactive activities had the greatest impact. Student leaders found the targeted messages, mocktail events and Chef de Mission (CdM) less effective cultural change strategies. However, they helped to establish expectations of students in this setting where a heightened focus on sport was associated with higher alcohol consumption.Originality/valueWhile there has been growing academic interest in exploring “drinking cultures”, there has been relatively little focus on alcohol culture of university students at sporting events. The paper contributes to addressing this gap by shedding light on the impact of a group of interventions on the drinking culture of the Uni Nationals subculture.

Uplifting Leadership to Support Strategic Plan Implementation

2020 ◽  
pp. 24-37
Author(s):  
Sharon Wilbur ◽  
Sharon Dean ◽  
Stephanie Hyder ◽  
Brandy Peters ◽  
Christiana Horn
Keyword(s):  
Strategic Plan ◽  
District Leadership ◽  
Board Members ◽  
First Year ◽  
Successful Implementation ◽  
Team Leaders ◽  
School Board Members ◽  
Plan Implementation ◽  
Rural School District

This case study examines how uplifting leadership by the superintendent of one rural school district utilized various structures and processes to successfully implement the first year of their district strategic plan. The study is framed around the literature on change theory and the literature on uplifting leadership. Interviews with goal area team leaders, building principals, district leadership, and school board members yielded various leadership characteristics, structures, and processes that resulted in successful implementation of year one of the district's strategic plan. The interdependence of uplifting leadership with supportive structures and processes were examined as pivotal to the district's successful implementation.

scholarly journals PROMOTING INTERCULTURAL EXCHANGE THROUGH A CORNERSTONE ENGINEERING DESIGN PROJECT

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian Dick ◽  
Thai Son Nguyen
Keyword(s):  
Engineering Students ◽  
Design Stage ◽  
First Year ◽  
Academic Experience ◽  
Design Project ◽  
Intercultural Competencies ◽  
Student Teams ◽  
Intercultural Exchange ◽  
Stakeholder Input ◽  
Design Proposal

Abstract – First-year engineering students at Vancouver Island University in Canada and second-year engineering students at Tra Vinh University in Vietnam have been brought together to work on a cooperative cornerstone design project as a means to introduce intercultural competencies early in the students' academic experience.  Student teams at each institution were partnered, whereby a design proposal developed by a team at one institution was constructed by their partner team at the other institution. Each team provided stakeholder input early in the design stage, and team pairs established a change management structure to respond to challenges occurring during the construction phase of the project. We explore the challenges and successes of the students experience as they navigated the linguistic, cultural, technical, and geographic barriers towards successfully completing this major design project.  

scholarly journals A Low-Cost Robot Positioning System for a First-Year Engineering Cornerstone Design Project

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Frank ◽  
Kevin Witt ◽  
Chris Hartle ◽  
Jacob Enders ◽  
Veronica Beiring ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Low Cost ◽  
First Year ◽  
Positioning System ◽  
Design Project ◽  
Robot Positioning

Designing a Service-Learning Design Project for a First-Year Engineering Course

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher B. Williams ◽  
Janis P. Terpenny ◽  
Richard M. Goff
Keyword(s):  
Service Learning ◽  
Resource Constraints ◽  
Learning Objectives ◽  
First Year ◽  
First Year Students ◽  
Design Project ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Structured Design ◽  
Detail Design ◽  
Conceptual Design Phase

The creation of an appropriate, meaningful design experience for a first-year engineering design course is challenging as the instructor must balance resource constraints with broad learning objectives and a diverse, and often very large, enrollment. In this paper, the authors present the task of developing a design project for a first-year engineering course as a problem of design. Following a structured design process, the authors articulate the requirements for a successful first-year design project including: learning objectives that are appropriate for a multi-disciplinary group of first-year students and common budgetary and time constraints. Several project alternatives are generated and evaluated in a conceptual design phase. In their description of the embodiment and detail design phases, the authors present the implementation of the selected project concept: ROXIE (“Real Outreach eXperiences In Engineering”). The ROXIE project, a service-learning themed project, tasks first-year students with serving as design consultants to not-for-profit community partners. Through this partnership, students are able to practice principles and tools of design methodology and project management. Preliminary survey data and excerpts of student reflection essays are provided as a means of supporting the instructors’ project selection.

scholarly journals INFLUENCE OF LEARNING PREFERENCE ON SELF-EFFICACY AND PERFORMANCE IN MIXED-MODALITY FIRST-YEAR ENGINEERING DESIGN

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jon-Michael J. Booth ◽  
Thomas E. Doyle ◽  
David M. Musson
Keyword(s):  
Engineering Design ◽  
Student Performance ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Learning Preferences ◽  
First Year ◽  
Final Examination ◽  
Design Project ◽  
Learning Preference ◽  
Simulation Based ◽  
And Performance

All students have preferences for the way they receive and distribute information when the objective is learning. These preferences can be shown to have an effect on self-efficacy and on performance. The relationships between learning preference, self-efficacy and performance were studied using survey and grade data obtained from a first-year Engineering Design and Graphics course. The students were placed in one of three groups according to the modality (type) of design project they were given; a Simulation-Based project (SIM) using a software simulation tool, a Prototyping project (PRT) using a 3D printer, or a Simulation and Prototyping project (SAP) where they had to complete a design using both tools. Participants were given a custom survey that assessed self-efficacy and the VARK learning styles inventory which assesses learners on Visual, Aural, Read / Write and Kinesthetic learning preferences. 97 students were surveyed representing a response rate of 22.6%. Student performance was assessed by examining scores on a subset of questions related to design visualization on the final examination for the course. Data analysis involved examining the correlation between learning style and self-efficacy, and scores on final examination for each of the three course modality groups. Findings from this study include higher performance for Kinesthetic learners assigned a simulation-based project and low performance for Read/Write learners with a prototyping project. This study supports the hypothesis that student performance may depend on learning preferences coupled with design project modality.

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