projects related to design, including an NSF Early CAREER Award entitled ”CAREER: Engineering Design Across Navajo Culture, Community, and Society” and ”Might Young Makers be the Engineers of the Future?,” and is a Co-PI on the NSF Revolutionizing Engineering Departments grant ”Additive Innovation: An Educational Ecosystem of Making and Risk Taking.” He was named one of ASEE PRISM’s ”20 Faculty Under 40” in 2014, and received a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers from President Obama in 2017. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Engineering Connections in a Native American Community and CultureAbstractThis Research Work in Progress investigates
Colorado, and a Master of Arts in Teaching from Union Graduate College (now Clarkson University) in New York.Dr. Trish Wonch Hill, University of Nebraska, Lincoln Dr. Trish Wonch Hill is an applied sociologist who collaborates with scientists across STEM disciplines to investigate how to spark STEM career interests during childhood and adolescence. She is particularly interested in how to find STEM pathways for youth who belong to historically underrepresented groups (girls, rural youth, race/ethnic minorities). c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 An Evaluation on Engineering Identity of K-12 Youth Using the Engineering Ambassadors Network (Evaluation)Abstract:The
Davis through a series of interventions andwraparound services. This initiative improves preparation and increases participation, resulting ina new generation of promising STEM talent and leadership that can secure our nation’s future inengineering, science and technology. Avenue-E is designed to be a flexible model that can bereplicated.The primary objectives of the Avenue-E Program are to: • Increase the pool of diverse students qualified to transfer into engineering or computer science programs at UC Davis from partner community college districts • Implement targeted programs and services throughout the students’ higher education careers • Evaluate success by developing evidence-based best practices for moving students from
1991.Ms. Marie Anne Aloia, Bayonne High School Marie is an alternate route teacher with an educational background in math, physics, chemical engineering and computer science. As the first girl in her family to go to college, and maybe to prove the point, she earned two bachelor’s degrees, one from Montclair State University by day, and 8 years later, one from New Jersey Institute of Technology, by night, while working full time by day at Exxon Research and Engineering. While a traditional female career, like teaching, was the last thing on her mind, she was drawn to educational outreach because she herself had received so little career advice. She eventually ran the educational outreach program at Exxon. After 25
Logic Array (FPGA) architecture and design methodology, Engineer- ing Technology Education, and hardware description language modeling. Dr. Alaraje is a 2013-2014 Fulbright scholarship recipient at Qatar University, where he taught courses on Embedded Systems. Ad- ditionally, Dr. Alaraje is a recipient of an NSF award for a digital logic design curriculum revision in collaboration with the College of Lake County in Illinois, and a NSF award in collaboration with the University of New Mexico, Drake State Technical College, and Chandler-Gilbert Community College. The award focused on expanding outreach activities to increase the awareness of potential college stu- dents about career opportunities in electronics
science lab as in theboard room, court room, and other professional settings1. All have been developed in concertwith local manufacturing employers and members of PSM-MS advisory board and aredesigned to dovetail into present and future professional career development.Manufacturing Sustainability OverviewThere is a strong consensus among national and global leaders that manufacturingsustainability will be an “increasingly important topic” in global competitiveness. There aremany commonly shared definitions of sustainable manufacturing. The United Nationsdefinition is: “meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of futuregenerations to meet their own needs2”. The Department of Commerce (DOC) definedmanufacturing
including business development, marketing, product development, and operations. Throughout her career, Rachel and her team have provided education solutions for several industries including defense, life science, high-tech, energy, healthcare, manufacturing, and construction. Rachel currently serves on the Board of Directors of INCOSE as the Director of Marketing and Commu- nications. In addition, she is on the Board of Directors for AUVSI New England. Rachel has a B.S. and M.S. in the life sciences, as well as an M.B.A. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Rethinking the Corporate Partnership – A focus on corporate needs vs. traditional institutional
for years 9 through 12 that was primarilyplanned and hosted by female undergraduate students. With 38 attendees, student mentors andfaculty prepared a series of workshops, seminars and activities designed to educate and inspiregirls to consider potential career paths in cybersecurity. Due to the success of this project, weare planning a bigger and more significant event for the summer of 2016 along with asupplemental series of workshops for STEM teachers at middle and high-schools.In this paper we discuss the methods and implementation of our 2015 summer camp. We look atthe perceived strengths and weaknesses of our approach to identify successful aspects andrecommend improvements for the coming year. By including data from entry and exit
Paper ID #16411Support Model for Transfer Students Utilizing the STEM Scholarship Pro-gramMs. Lynn Olson P.E., Boise State University Lynn Olson, P.E, is the Recruitment Coordinator in the College of Engineering at Boise State. She re- ceived a Bachelor of Science Degree in Civil Engineering from Gonzaga University in 1995. She began her engineering consulting career with T-O Engineers (formerly Toothman-Orton Engineering) in Boise in 1997. In fall of 2011 she joined the staff of the College of Engineering at Boise State as an Advisor and Recruitment Coordinator. Since that time she has worked as an adjunct faculty teaching
Council (MTBC). After her time at Baylor University, Martin’s education career began in secondary ed- ucation. Since 2007, she has focused on the critical interface between higher education and secondary education. In 2011, she joined Collin College as the Career and Technical Education Coordinator specif- ically working with technical dual credit students. Recently, after working closely with the department, she joined the Engineering and Technology Department of Collin College assisting students on the high school level, on the college level, and in industry who plan to pursue STEM degrees. Further, through her work with industry on the MTBC STEM Advisory Board, she coordinates key industrial connections for the
to formulate researchquestions as well as how to develop and modify research plans with the guidance of their researchmentors. Students will learn to work independently and to collaborate with other group membersas they conduct research in specific topics in energy research. This will enable them to understandtheir own levels of aptitude and interest in a career in science, technology, engineering, andmathematics (STEM) and give them the tools to prepare for the next stage in their education andcareer development. Students will report and present their research results in multiple settings. Inaddition to the hands-on collaborative research experience, technical and social activities will beincorporated into the program to provide students
of Mines and Technology Assistant Professor at South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Mechanical Engineering Dept.Dr. Mark David Bedillion, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology Dr. Bedillion received the BS degree in 1998, the MS degree in 2001, and the PhD degree in 2005, all from the mechanical engineering department of Carnegie Mellon University. After a seven year career in the hard disk drive industry, Dr. Bedillion joined the faculty of the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology in Spring 2011. Dr. Bedillion’s research interests include distributed manipulation, control applications in data storage, control applications in manufacturing, and STEM education.Dr. Karim Heinz Muci-Kuchler, South
c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Beyond the Industry Advisory Board: Increasing the Role of Industry Engagement to Support Program QualityAbstractDuring the last number of years, States’ support for higher education has declined significantly.Over the next decade, higher education will continue to face the challenges of state revenuefunding constraints, changes in the public perception of higher education, and the effectivenessof higher education in preparing young men and women for a career after graduation.With their natural connection to industry, engineering and construction education programs arepoised to lead the way in a new model for the future of higher education. Constructionmanagement
increasingstudent retention as a part of an NSF IUSE grant, Texas State STEM Rising Stars. One of thesestrategies is to introduce a new first-year course, “Introduction to Engineering & EngineeringTechnology,” that was designed to support student retention through exploration of relevantacademic and career issues, early contact with faculty as mentors, and development of a learningcommunity with peers in the major. A special challenge for developing this new Introduction toEngineering course is that the state legislature implemented a law2 that limits the number ofhours that can be required for a college degree. As a result, a new course cannot simply beadded to the existing curriculum of the university’s engineering and engineering technologydegrees
(1999) in Kazan State Technological University. Julia joined the team of Kazan State Technological University as an instructor at the Department of For- eign Languages and the School of Foreign Languages ”Lingua” in 1999 and was rapidly promoted to the position of Associate Professor at the Department of Foreign Languages in 2003. Her teaching career was perfectly balanced by the experience of a translator and an interpreter. She is a well-known person at Kazan international conferences and other events for her high quality consecutive and simultaneous interpreting, such as interpreting for the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Tatarstan. The new milestone in Julia’s career was the position of the Chair of
and STEM careers as well as the development of instruments and evaluation tools to assess these constructs.Dr. Euisuk Sung, Indiana University Euisuk Sung is a postdoctoral researcher at Indiana University. He earned a Ph.D. degree in Engineering and Technology Teacher Education at Purdue University. He has computer science degree and worked as a computer software developer for three years. then he served as an engineering and technology educator in high school for 9 years in South Korea. Currently he is working in NSF Funded project, titled TRAILS. His research interests are design cognition, maker education, computer science education, and all about STEM education.Dr. Adam V. Maltese, Indiana University
Paper ID #24976unique environment of working in an urban, all-boys school further ignited Anitra’s interest in increasingstudent achievement in STEM and the number of her students pursuing college degrees in science in en-gineering. Her experience at St. Benedict’s Prep led Anitra to pursue a master’s degree in education witha concentration in science teaching, learning, and curriculum at the University of Pennsylvania. Whileattending the University of Pennsylvania, she completed her thesis on the impact of teacher expectationsand norms on student interest in science as a career. In addition, she served as a science education con-sultant for the Drexel University School of Education/Philadelphia Public School System Partnership andhelped create
experiences, career pathway, and advice.Meanwhile, back in the classroom, engineering students typically focus on learning theoreticalconcepts and working on problem sets and receiving guidance from the professor and/or teachingassistants. Both academic and industry experiences help to shape students as they becomeengineers.There has been some research on how male and female engineers and engineering students differin their experiences. Since women remain a largely untapped resource in meeting the demand fora skilled scientific workforce, it is important to understand why they remain underrepresented inboth engineering programs and industry. While considerable attention has been paid in theliterature to the issue of attracting and retaining more
University Indianapolis (IUPUI). However, awardingtalented students is only one element that this collaboration is using to promote the growth of aSTEM identity in their students. The Collaboratory is expected to generate new knowledge inSTEM education by investigating a variety of mechanisms for supporting a diverse set ofstudents in an urban context in their development of a STEM identity--the lack of which is afundamental reason students often select out of STEM majors and careers [1].The funding for this project was awarded on October 1, 2018. Because this was after theacademic year had already begun, the team decided to delay funding of the first cohort ofscholars until 2019-20 so that the program could be implemented with fidelity to the
studying the intersections between gender, race, class, and place in STEM access and success using both national panel data and data on cohorts of Union College students. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Leading Educational and Academic Directions to Enhance Retention in STEM R.B. Bucinell, H.M. Frey, R. Cortez, S. Amanuel, J.D. Kehlbeck, D.A. Cotter, M.E. Hagerman Union College, Schenectady, NY This project aims to develop, refine and implement practices that will advanceunderstanding of the factors affecting retention and career pathways of low-income, at-riskpopulations. The production of academically
skills occupational training, adult basic literacy, and other pre-collegiate pro- gramming including college and career readiness programs for high school and out-of-school students. Susan has been instrumental in managing workforce development programs in collaboration with indus- try and government agencies, including the employer-driven Metalwork Training Program. This highly successful and replicable model provides entry-level, well-trained workers for local manufacturers. In addition to her experience in higher education, Ms. Herring’s experience includes over thirteen years in corporate human resources management working for Fortune 500 companies, and 10 years working with school-based workforce development
introducestudents to research work through rhetorical analysis of scholarly work. These first-timeundergraduate researchers are recruited from various universities and bring with them diverseexperiences based on their backgrounds. The REU program is designed to prepare students forgraduate studies by immersing participants in a authentic research conducted within a tier oneresearch facility alongside graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, research staff, and faculty.The program also provides career development workshops on applying to graduate school,writing personal statements, developing a professional network, working in academia andindustry as well as creating graduate level research products (i.e., posters, presentations, andpapers).The Natural
integrated with the 12th grade science course. The high school program isdivided into two tracks: a.) High School Diploma Track and b) Career Readiness Certificate Track. Thestudents in the Diploma Track are working towards earning a High School Diploma. The CareerReadiness Track consists of students aged 14-21 who are working toward earning a High SchoolCertificate of Program Completion. There are three students enrolled in 12th-grade science. Consideringtheir primary disabilities, two of the students have autism while one student has multiple disabilities.Additional information about the students is presented in Table 1.Table 1. Learners’ Profile Student Age High School Track Profile Ava 18 Diploma Track
at Urbana-Champaign. As a graduate student, he was a NASA Harriet G. Jenkins Graduate Fellow and mentor for the Summer Research Opportunities Program. Dr. Henderson has dedicated his career to increasing the number of students on pathways to pursue STEM careers. He believes that exposing students to STEM early will impact their lives and academic pursuits. He, along with Rick Greer, co-founded the St. Elmo Brady STEM Academy (SEBA). SEBA is an educational intervention that introduces underrepresented and underserved fourth and fifth-grade students and their families to hands-on STEM experiences. Dr. Henderson is the immediate past Director of the Program for Mastery in Engineering Studies (PROMES, pronounced
graduate levelengineering programs, the motivations behind student involvement and success in this field mustbe examined and adapted to accordingly. In this study, an educational comic has been created anddistributed to university students to investigate whether career prospects impact student motivationin pursuit of chemical engineering on an institutional level. This comic was then distributed tostudents beginning their first undergraduate year at Northeastern University and who had not yetdefinitively declared their major. This comic dismantles two key misconceptions that may discourage students from pursuingchemical engineering: limited scope of industrial opportunities and restrictive skill sets relatingexclusively to chemistry and math
Bridge and Internship ProgramsAbstractUndergraduate students need exposure, initiation, motivation, and guidance to develop anorientation toward research that will benefit them not only in their capstone projects but also intheir future careers. Elizabeth City State University (ECSU) made such an opportunity availableto the rising junior and senior students of the Engineering Technology program.Fifteen rising junior students were selected to participate in the summer bridge program, and fourrising junior and senior students were selected to participate in a summer internship program atthe Coast Guard's aircraft facility. The project's scope was to engage students in designing,prototyping, and fabricating Unmanned Aircraft Vehicles (UAVs) and
-boarding activities, researchexperience, mentor experience, program interactions, and reflect on the gains from programparticipation. This study did not include survey data on participants perceptions of the programdue to the limited number of participant responses. Based on the focus groups conducted,participants reported that this experience was highly valued and significantly increased theirmotivation for pursuing future research and careers. Participants also reported that the programallowed them to develop and refine their professional and research skills, enabling them to applyconcepts learned during their undergraduate studies to their research projects. Additionally,participants described faculty mentors as supportive, understanding, and
in research knowledge and skills, deeper relationships with mentors, and clarity andinsight into career paths. This work involves thematic analysis of interviews with GEAR-SRparticipants and highlights student voices, including those traditionally marginalized in STEM.The advantages of undergraduate research experiences (UREs) are widely recognized, leading tohigher student retention, a sense of belonging in their field, improved academic outcomes, and agreater likelihood of pursuing advanced degrees [1, 5, 6]. This positive effect can be even greaterfor traditionally minoritized students [7], including students who are Black/African American,Hispanic/Latino(a), American Indian, and Pacific Islander. However, finding and performingresearch
human-centered engineers through advising,mentoring, and career exploration.Course planning and advising for prospective engineering students is complex at a liberal artsinstitution and often favors those students who are already at ease and comfortable withadvocating for themselves. While each first-year student at our institution is assigned anacademic faculty advisor, meetings with advisors are currently not mandatory. Thus, advising ishighly dependent on the random student-advisor pairings and a student’s initiative to seek outtheir assigned advisor’s help. In order to provide more equitable advising solutions for allstudents, advising will be built directly into our HCE course sequence, making it a mandatory(and thereby more equitable
prototypedevelopment further engage students and prepare them for careers in the medical device field.Drawing on two years of course implementation, this paper discusses the challenges, successes,and key outcomes of this approach, offering practical advice for educators interested in creatingsimilar industry-collaborative courses.IntroductionThe Twin Cities region is a global leader in the medical device industry, home to a thrivingecosystem of established companies, innovative startups, and renowned healthcare institutions.This dynamic environment drives both economic growth and advancements in medicaltechnologies, creating a high demand for engineering graduates who possess not only technicalexpertise but also practical, industry-relevant skills