Full Paper: Student Reflections on Team Experiences in a First-Year Engineering Course

Jenahvive K. Morgan

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Conference: 2022 First-Year Engineering Experience
Location: East Lansing, Michigan
Publication Date: July 31, 2022
Start Date: July 31, 2022
End Date: August 2, 2022
Conference Session: Technical Session T1B
Tagged Topic: Full Papers
Page Count: 7
DOI: 10.18260/1-2--42229
Permanent URL: https://strategy.asee.org/42229
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Jenahvive K. Morgan Michigan State University

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Dr. Jenahvive Morgan is the instructor for EGR 100 - Introduction to Engineering Design and Academic Director of the First-Year Engineering CoRe Experience at Michigan State University. She is also currently the Director of Positions for the ASEE Women in Engineering Division, as well as an ASCE ExCEED Fellow. Dr. Morgan has a PhD and MS in Environmental Engineering from the University of Michigan, and a BS in Chemical Engineering from Michigan State University. Her interests include innovative laboratory experiments for undergraduate instruction, engineering design for first-year students, and encouraging women to study engineering. For the three years prior to teaching at Michigan State University, she taught freshman and sophomore engineering courses at Rowan University. While at Rowan University she was Co-Director of RILED (Rowan Instructional Leadership and Educational Development), the advisor for the student chapter of the Society of Women Engineers (SWE), and given the ASEE Campus Representative Outstanding Achievement Award. Her teaching experience also includes work as a graduate student facilitator and engineering teaching consultant at the University of Michigan.

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Abstract

The team experiences of students in a first-year engineering course were examined. Lecture material discussing emotional intelligence was presented to the students as part of the course materials used to assist them through their team experiences, and students completed design projects in inter-disciplinary teams as part of the laboratory portion of this course. This introduction to engineering design course focuses on teaching students the fundamentals of solving open-ended design problems in teams, while learning more about the engineering profession and report writing, in both a lecture and a lab. The design projects are completed in an in-person laboratory environment that allowed teams to work on their project of choice based on multiple project options ranging from designing a miniature solar car to creating a cell phone application. Student team experiences were evaluated using a series of questions and a collection of student comments. Nine questions received responses from 432 students in the course.

The discussion of emotional intelligence was based on students examining their ability to evaluate their emotions, and the emotions of others, while working in these project-based teams. Students reflected on the lecture discussion of emotional intelligence and how it may have assisted in reflecting on their own emotional intelligence, and the emotional intelligence of others, and whether it improved their team interactions. In addition, students also reflected on their passion for the engineering field, and provided suggestions for improving the team experiences in the course. Overall, students found the emotional intelligence discussion to assist them in their team experiences in this first-year engineering course.

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Morgan, J. K. (2022, July), Full Paper: Student Reflections on Team Experiences in a First-Year Engineering Course Paper presented at 2022 First-Year Engineering Experience, East Lansing, Michigan. 10.18260/1-2--42229