Using Multi-Disciplinary Design Challenges to Enhance Self-Efficacy within a Summer STEM Outreach Program

Research regarding STEM programs has shown that participating in these programs leads to increased knowledge and retention of technological concepts [1]. Additionally, participating in STEM programs leads to increased self-confidence, satisfaction, and interest in engineering [2]. Current research focuses on whether participating in STEM programs increases self-efficacy [3]. However, several factors can influence the effectiveness of these programs. For example, motivation influences the degree to which participants are engaged with activities as does their background knowledge [4]. Additionally, program effectiveness is impacted by the limitations of the learning context itself such that participants will be unable to complete designs if expectations for the design exceed the constraints of their environment [4]. The program is designed to introduce and educate the participants in the various engineering disciplines offered at the collegiate level and culminates in a multi-disciplinary design challenge designed as a “collaborative-benefit” competition [5]. The program is meant to drive students toward collaboration and achievement of a shared goal. The purpose of this study is to examine the effectiveness of an intensive, two-week project-based engineering program for high school students on self-efficacy and engineering identity in the participants. Results from this year’s survey suggest that participating in the program increased high school students’ perceived and actual knowledge of the engineering discipline. Completing the program also led to improvements in self-efficacy and increased interest in the field of engineering. This paper will discuss the process for developing design challenges for assessment of self-efficacy, assessment tools, and outcomes from the program delivery.Cockrell School of Engineerin

Cómo interactúan las emociones en el mercado laboral

This paper focuses on emotions and their aspects and how they can help or not to be selected for a new job. Today, the job expectations have changed and besides technical skills,the new paradigm requieres teamwork skills and empaty with coworker

Marian \u27Spiritual Attitude\u27 and Marian Piety

As Marialis Cultus would seem to assert, ideally Marian spirituality and Marian devotion are united, yet they are distinct. Pope Paul VI wrote of a Marian “spiritual attitude” that Mary is “a most excellent exemplar of the Church in the order of faith, charity and perfect union with Christ, that is, of that interior disposition with which the Church, the beloved spouse, closely associated with her Lord, invokes Christ and through Him worships the eternal Father.” Humble handmaid of the Lord (Lk. 1:38), she is “a teacher of the spiritual life for individual Christians.” Of “exercises of piety,” constituting “different forms of devotion to the Blessed Virgin,” he wrote that “love for the Church will become love for Mary, and vice versa, since the one cannot exist without the other.” She is the woman whom “the faithful honor [as] the Mother of the Lord” in whose fiat, in Christ through the power of the Holy Spirit, “mankind begins its return to God,” recognizing “in the glory of the all-holy Virgin the goal towards which it is journeying.

A PARADIGM SHIFT IN THE DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT OF POLYCYSTIC OVARIAN SYNDROME: A PRACTICE CHANGE IN PRIMARY CARE

An Abstract of the Scholarly Project by Patricia Lynn Sullivan The purpose of this Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) Scholarly Project was to determine whether participants’ knowledge of the updated guidelines on the diagnosis and treatment of the obese patient with polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS) is increased following a continuing education presentation. The increase in the knowledge of PCOS guidelines for an obese patient is documented using a pretest/ posttest method following the continuing education program which utilizes a PowerPoint presentation. PCOS is the most common endocrine disorder in women. This DNP capstone project was designed to provide a literature review and best practice guidelines delivered through the use of an educational PowerPoint presentation for the purpose of educating nurse practitioners and nurse practitioner students on the inflammatory complexity of a PCOS diagnosis. A portion of the presentation discussed the role of FDA approved liraglutide in the treatment of obese women with a co-morbidity of PCOS. A quasi-experimental one-group pretest/posttest design instrument in the form of an index was created for this study. The index included four dimensions with four questions each. The dimensions involved the four research questions for this project. The sample of convenience included 16 nurse practitioners and 2 nurse practitioner students. The results did provide data that a learning curve exists by analyzing the pretest and posttest scores for the PowerPoint presentation. This study did reflect the need for increased education in nurse practitioners to more appropriately diagnose and treat the obese PCOS patient

Lethal aid and human security: The effects of US security assistance on civilian harm in low- and middle-income countries

Since 2001, there has been a dramatic increase in the amount of US military aid flowing to foreign governments. What is the impact of this aid on human security? Drawing on recent research on the principal–agent relationship between state leaders and security sector actors, I develop a theory of the impact of security assistance on the use of deadly force against civilians. Using methods to account for the endogeneity of aid allocations, I find that the impact of security assistance on state violence varies based on the type of assistance provided and the institutional environment in the recipient state