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Does "Women Friendliness" Matter in STEM Education?: Differential Effects of High-Impact Practices on Career Aspiration of STEM College Students by Gender

  • Jin, Seonmi;Rhee, Byung Shik;Jeon, Seokjean
    • Journal of Engineering Education Research
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    • v.23 no.4
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    • pp.37-51
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    • 2020
  • This study examined the differential effects of High-Impact Practices(HIPs) on the career aspiration of STEM college students by gender. Through the theoretical lens of Social Cognitive Career Theory(SCCT), a two-level model analysis was conducted. A sample of 2,101 third- and fourth-year undergraduate students majoring in STEM at 38 universities, which had been collected from the National Survey on College Student Experiences and Learning Outcomes funded by the Korea Research Foundation, was used. This study found that the three HIP domains(learning with peers, faculty support, content relevancy) had different influences depending on gender. These findings suggest that HIPs can benefit the development of female students' career aspiration and have gender-differential effects on students in STEM majors. Based on those findings, this study also deduced implications about the roles of faculty members and higher-education institutions that might foster the retention of women in STEM.

A Study on the Generation of Solid Waste and Collection System in Kangwon National University (강원대학교 쓰레기 배출 및 수집 시스템에 관한 조사연구)

  • Lee, Chan-Ki;Lee, Hae-Seung;Ryu, Don-Sik;Nam, Kwang-Myoung
    • Journal of Industrial Technology
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    • v.17
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    • pp.161-168
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    • 1997
  • This investigation was carried out to study generation of solid waste and collection system in the College of Engineering and College of Social Science, library, dormitory and student center of Kangwon National University. It is to supply basic data for solid waste management. Each result of investigation considers effect getting generation property, unit waste generation rate and reusing.

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A Case Study on Applying Reflective Journal to The Engineering Classes in College (전문대학 공학계열 수업에서의 성찰저널 적용 사례연구)

  • Hong, Yu-Na;Maeng, Min-Jae;Chung, Ae-Kyung;Yi, Sang-Hoi;Kim, Neung-Yeun
    • 전자공학회논문지 IE
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    • v.47 no.1
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    • pp.22-33
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    • 2010
  • The main purpose of this study was to develope a reflective journal and examine its effects on student's academic achievement and self-regulated learning strategies. For this study, 'a structured reflective journal' was designed through the steps of systems approach with the purpose of enhancing student's academic achievement and self-regulated learning strategies, especially meta-cognition and critical thinking. The reflective journal used in this study contained the constructive elements of (1) self-evaluation with 5 likert scale, (2) learning essay, (3) dialogue with peers, and (4) dialogue with professor. A total of 94 freshmen enrolled in one of two sections of the engineering courses(theory-based class and experiment and practice-based class) participated in the study for 8 weeks. A pre-test-post-test design was used to examine the effects of the application of reflective journal on student's achievement and self-regulated learning strategies. For the result, analysis of covariance was conducted to determine whether there were any academic achievement differences and self-regulated learning strategy differences. The results suggested that students were taking advantages of the reflective journal, and there were statistically significant differences in academic achievement in the experiment and practice-based class and self-regulated learning strategies in both classes.

Multi channel far field speaker verification using teacher student deep neural networks (교사 학생 심층신경망을 활용한 다채널 원거리 화자 인증)

  • Jung, Jee-weon;Heo, Hee-Soo;Shim, Hye-jin;Yu, Ha-Jin
    • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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    • v.37 no.6
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    • pp.483-488
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    • 2018
  • Far field input utterance is one of the major causes of performance degradation of speaker verification systems. In this study, we used teacher student learning framework to compensate for the performance degradation caused by far field utterances. Teacher student learning refers to training the student deep neural network in possible performance degradation condition using the teacher deep neural network trained without such condition. In this study, we use the teacher network trained with near distance utterances to train the student network with far distance utterances. However, through experiments, it was found that performance of near distance utterances were deteriorated. To avoid such phenomenon, we proposed techniques that use trained teacher network as initialization of student network and training the student network using both near and far field utterances. Experiments were conducted using deep neural networks that input raw waveforms of 4-channel utterances recorded in both near and far distance. Results show the equal error rate of near and far-field utterances respectively, 2.55 % / 2.8 % without teacher student learning, 9.75 % / 1.8 % for conventional teacher student learning, and 2.5 % / 2.7 % with proposed techniques.

An Improvement Method of Engineering Education Quality using Kano's Dualistic Quality Model and Timko's Satisfaction Coefficient (Kano의 이원적 품질모형과 Timko의 만족계수를 활용한 공학교육의 질 향상 방안 탐색)

  • Hur, Young-Ju;Ye, Cheol-Hae
    • Journal of Engineering Education Research
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    • v.21 no.3
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    • pp.31-37
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    • 2018
  • The purpose of this study is to develop a method to improve the quality of engineering education by using Kano's dualistic quality model and Timko's customer satisfaction coefficient. The results of the study are as follows. Firstly, the top priority for major education is improve 'smooth support of class medium' as an attractive and one-dimensional quality element, and 'use of various examples' and 'specialty improvement of major curriculum' as an one-dimensional quality element. Secondly, the top priority for general education is improve 'liberal education curriculum' as an attractive quality element 'use of various examples' as an one-dimensional quality element. Thirdly, the top priority for extra-curriculum is develop and provide 'study support program of student' and 'voluntary service'. Fourthly, the top priority for administrative service and facilities is improve 'increase of scholarship' and expand 'service of welfare facilities as dormitory and refectory' as an one-dimensional quality element.

Design of Effective Teaching-Learning Method in Algorithm theory Subject using Flipped Learning (플립러닝을 적용한 알고리즘 이론교과목의 효과적인 교수학습방법 설계)

  • Jang, Sung-jin
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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    • v.21 no.5
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    • pp.1042-1048
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    • 2017
  • Recently rapid changes in the industrial environment require new talents in companies. Flipped learning is drawing attention as an effective teaching-learning method. The existing traditional lecture teaching-learning method have various problems that the dropout rates of the student is high and the creative problem solving ability is hindered. In the case of the IT engineering college, most of the major theoretical courses require prior learning of the prerequisite coursework subjects. Therefore, effective teaching-learning methods must be developed to improve student participation and academic achievement. This paper proposes the flipped learning model consisting of five sets that combine the flipped learning and practice to improve student motivation and self - directed learning. Also, this paper analyzes the learning effect by applying it to the algorithm lecture of computer engineering and presents problem and utilization plan according to the result.

Design and Implementation of a Mobile Web Services for Supporting Dormitory Works (기숙사 업무 지원을 위한 모바일 웹 서비스 설계 및 구현)

  • Kim, Sung Wan;Son, Byeong-Oh;Cho, Yang-Hyun
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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    • v.17 no.6
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    • pp.1389-1398
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    • 2013
  • With the rapid increase in supplying and applying of mobile devices major student services in colleges are provided in mobile device-based ones. In this paper we describe a design and implementation of a dormitory works supporting service system based on mobile web to efficiently assist dormitory business and provide student convenient services especially for dormitory type public schools and colleges requiring a strict student management. The proposed system, first, improves the effectiveness of work processing, such as roll call, sleep out handling, in the aspect of business management. Second students satisfaction level is increased as giving them access under Web by providing mobile web environment. We operated the proposed system over a college dormitory living around 250 students for a semester and evaluated its usefulness by conducting a questionnaire survey.

A Python-based educational software tool for visualizing bioinformatics alignment algorithms

  • Elis Khatizah;Hee-Jo Nam;Hyun-Seok Park
    • Genomics & Informatics
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    • v.21 no.1
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    • pp.15.1-15.4
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    • 2023
  • Bioinformatics education can be defined as the teaching and learning of how to use software tools, along with mathematical and statistical analysis, to solve biological problems. Although many resources are available, most students still struggle to understand even the simplest sequence alignment algorithms. Applying visualizations to these topics benefits both lecturers and students. Unfortunately, educational software for visualizing step-by-step processes in the user experience of sequence alignment algorithms is rare. In this article, an educational visualization tool for biological sequence alignment is presented, and the source code is released in order to encourage the collaborative power of open-source software, with the expectation of further contributions from the community in the future. Two different modules are integrated to enable a student to investigate the characteristics of alignment algorithms.

An Efficient E-learning and Internet Service Provision for Rural Areas Using High-Altitude Platforms during COVID-19 Pan-Demic

  • Sameer Alsharif;Rashid A. Saeed;Yasser Albagory
    • International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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    • v.24 no.3
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    • pp.71-82
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    • 2024
  • This paper proposes a new communication system for e-learning applications to mitigate the negative impacts of COVID-19 where the online massive demands impact the current commu-nications systems infrastructures and capabilities. The proposed system utilizes high-altitude platforms (HAPs) for fast and efficient connectivity provision to bridge the communication in-frastructure gap in the current pandemic. The system model is investigated, and its performance is analyzed using adaptive antenna arrays to achieve high quality and high transmission data rates at the student premises. In addition, the single beam and multibeam HAP radio coverage scenarios are examined using tapered uniform concentric circular arrays to achieve feasible communication link requirements.

A Case Study on the Improvement of Learning Performance by Increasing the Number of Tests in Engineering Education (공학교육에서 평가 횟수 증가와 학업 성취도 향상의 상관관계에 관한 사례연구)

  • Baek, Hyun-Deok;Park, Jin-Won
    • Journal of Engineering Education Research
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    • v.19 no.6
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    • pp.57-62
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    • 2016
  • In this work, we present a case study of using the assessments for the enhancement of students' learning motivation in engineering education. The assessments, given in between summative assessments such as midterms and finals, may have a component of formative evaluation, which are reported as very effective tools as the sources of feedback to improve teaching and learning. We studied how the students' performance is improved by additional tests in engineering education. Also, we examined the factors of successful results of the cooperative learning model, Student Teams-Achievement Division, which is based on imposing a number of tests, achieved in our previous work.