Document Type
Article
Publication Date
6-2024
Publication Source
2024 Annual Conference and Exposition of the American Society for Engineering Education
Abstract
Micromoments targeted toward indoor air quality were introduced to students in an Air Quality Engineering course to enhance their entrepreneurial mindset. Three micromoment activities, i.e., “Question Frenzy”, “Make It Relevant”, and “How Do We Make It Better?” that are linked, respectively, to the curiosity, connections, and creating value elements of EM were deployed in the class in the context of the use of a Corsi Rosenthal cube (a do-it-yourself structure that has recently become popular as an inexpensive way to reduce indoor particle pollution). Students generated concept maps pre-and post- micromoment intervention using the freely available CMap Tools software. The digital concept maps were scored using the traditional scoring approach, and the scores were used to provide a quantitative assessment of whether EM-oriented micromoments enhanced students’ entrepreneurial mindset. The concept map scoring (16 maps were scored for 8 students) indicated a significant increase in average concept map scores from the baseline average score of 30 to the after-intervention maps average score of 99 was noticed, with much of the scoring increase attributed to an increase in the number of concepts, i.e., the parameter that correlates to the breadth of understanding. Overall, this study shows the value of using micromoments in an air quality engineering class and provides a quantitative framework that may be broadly applied across different engineering fields for enhancing and assessing students’ understanding of EM.
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Publisher
American Society for Engineering Education
eCommons Citation
Andino, Jean M.; Vasquez-Guardado, Erick Salvador; Gonzalez, Ricardo Gomez; Yuan, Xiaojing; and Aples, Nilza D., "Using Micromoments and Concept Maps to Enhance Entrepreneurially Minded Learning of Indoor Air Pollution Control" (2024). Chemical and Materials Engineering Faculty Publications. 240.
https://ecommons.udayton.edu/cme_fac_pub/240
Comments
Presented at the 2024 annual conference and exposition of the American Society for Engineering Education, held June 23-26, 2024, in Portland, Oregon. The theme was "The Future of Engineering Education." This presentation was paper No. 42588.
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