byCongress on October 14, 1998. It created recommendations on how to improve the incorporationof women, minorities, and people with disabilities into the workforce and to keep minorities,disabled students, and women in the "pipeline." Another large study was the Women inEngineering Programs & Advocates Network (WEPAN) Pilot Climate Survey9 that assessed theperceptions of 8000 male and female undergraduate engineering students from 29 institutionsabout the educational climate in the United States. Factors of persistence in this study wererelated to student self-confidence and self-esteem. The fourth large study was completed for theDepartment of Education using National Center for Education Statistics data10 and identifiedparental education and
during the review. In this way, students learn project management by example. b. Team process skills are taught. Too frequently, instructors simply throw students in teams, expecting that they will figure out how to work together. Since teamwork is required for a good product, time needs to be taken to instruct students how to divide tasks, communicate progress, and manage versions.3. Projects are mindfully designed with particular objectives in mind. Project requirements and evaluations should assess the appropriate parallels. Remember that they can also develop desired behaviors. a. Projects must require certain core knowledge. For example, for projects to get a C, they must
. It seems like, the more hands-on you get, the more practical it seems, the more it seems like there is less women, and that there’s less openness to having deviations from the standard, normal male-dominated field. (Lisa)There is reason to believe that this tolerance ranking is quite accurate: respondents inbioengineering and chemical engineering reported qualitatively different experiences, both inspecific examples they offered and the overall assessment of the climate they face, than thestudents in aerospace, mechanical, and structural engineering.xThe “Irrelevance” of the Topic of Sexual Orientation within EngineeringThe technical/social dualism largely relegates issues of communication, justice, politics
employer.The regulations require that skills-assessment and counseling materials do not direct asubstantially disproportionate number of members of one gender toward or away from aparticular program, course of study or classification.19 A disproportionately high enrollment ofmale students in an honors math program does not, by itself, violate Title IX. But if the highpercentage of male students results because counselors routinely steer female students away fromsuch courses, or because admission to those courses is determined solely on the basis ofpotentially biased SAT math scores, those practices probably do violate Title IX. One recentarticle highlighted a computer-science program that held regular advising sessions at a local bar,where the men
application of remote sensing in agriculture, rangeland, and wetlands. He uses evapo-transpiration estimations from satellite images to predict sugar beet yield and quality, develops remote sensing algorithms to assess rangeland productivity, and writes Geographical Information Systems (GIS) models to map water dynamics in the Missouri Cateau wetlands. Page 11.1103.1George Seielstad, University of North Dakota Dr. George A. Seielstad is Associate Dean for Research and Innovative Projects at the John D. Odegard School of Aerospace Sciences of the University of North Dakota. In this position, he
, which involved re-coding the first three documents and coding the rest of the 11documents using our codebook, we added a few more codes to our list that we developedinductively from the new documents we reviewed. 3 Our final codebook consisted of a total of 99codes (Appendix), falling under six broad themes given in Table 2.In the second phase all documents were coded independently by two reviewers. Inter-raterreliability for each code within each document was assessed using Cohen kappa values. A kappavalue higher than 0.6 was considered to indicate acceptable agreement. 23 Codes with a lowerkappa value were examined further by two of the reviewers. These reviewers went back andexamined all the segments to which the code was assigned. When a
), their own experience. Led to insights about what Chris (3), Dylan innovation is and how it occurs. (1), Jerry (1), Snow (2), Tony (1) Responding to External Work was judged by an expert or authority to be Elon (1), Esteban Evaluation innovative. Refined definition of innovation in (1) alignment the authority's assessment (e.g., a broadened
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their respective career paths.Together, our delineation of the engineering leadership learning literature, followed by a moreextensive review of the engineering career path literature reveals a clear gap with respect toengineers’ situated leadership learning opportunities. Engineering leadership developmentresearchers tend to assess participants’ short-term, formal learning outcomes in terms of skills,traits and competencies, while paying little attention to their longer-term organizationallycontextualized professional pathways. In contrast, human resource management researchers andorganizational sociologists tend to examine the characteristics and mobility patterns associatedwith different career paths while remaining silent on what study
Paper ID #25262Curating Tweets: A Framework for Using Twitter for Workplace LearningHieu-Trung Le, George Mason University Hieu-Trung Le is pursuing his PhD in Information Technology at George Mason University. He is cur- rently a cybersecurity architect at a large organization, with expertise in leading IT and security engi- neering implementation, risk management, vulnerability assessment, and ethical hacking. He provides consulting services for both the federal and commercial sectors and served as the subject matter expert for information security domains. His research focuses on engineering education, using social
discussion. In one, we show how peer educators construct some teammates as inert and burdensome based on technocratic assessments of their contributions. In another, we show how having the opportunity to interact deeply with a student team in the design course allows some peer educators to take up stances that challenge technocracy. Listening to engineering peer educators talk about pedagogy within particular classroom moments offers unique opportunities for seeing how they sometimes reproduce and sometimes challenge meritocratic and technocratic narratives in reasoning about engineering education and professional practice. The pedagogy seminar is not a “neutral” context
active in SPEE throughout his career, serving as president in 1906-07 and in numerous other roles well into the 1940s. He was the fourth recipient of SPEE’sLamme Award in 1931 and was honored with many other awards during his long career.20Jackson was also a strong supporter of libraries, believing that they were integral to theinstructional and research programs of engineering schools.21In his paper, Burgess expressed a concern that public libraries were failing to provide appropriatebooks for young people, artisans and industrial workers who had an interest in science andengineering. The main reason for this, he argued, was that few, if any, librarians had thetechnical knowledge and experience that would allow them to assess the quality of
historically and intellectually rooted in the utilitarian ethics ofvalue free social sciences8. This epistemology presumes the possibility of objective, rationalchoices with respect to research ethics by: (i) safeguarding the rights and freedom of autonomousindividuals, and (ii) balancing the risks of research with external benefits5. These principles areembodied in IRB procedures through stipulations around informed consent, privacy andconfidentiality, and an assessment of risk to participants that is balanced against the benefits ofthe research. This view of the role of ethics in social research where “ethical ends [are] externalto scientific means”8 is at heart a research quality consideration in the positivist paradigm. Forexample, Christians8
to give many keynote addresses, including a Distinguished Lecture at the American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE) 2014 Annual Conference. Dr. Atman joined the UW in 1998 after seven years on the faculty at the University of Pittsburgh. Her research focuses on engineering education pedagogy, engineering design learning, assessing the consid- eration of context in engineering design, and understanding undergraduate engineering student pathways. She is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and the ASEE. She was the recipient of the 2002 ASEE Chester F. Carlson Award for Innovation in Engineering Education and the 2009 UW David B. Thorud Leadership Award. Dr. Atman holds a
, and Australasian Journals of EngineeringEducation, Advances in Engineering Education, and the proceedings for the annual nationalconferences of the American Society for Engineering Education and Frontiers in Education. Weused the search terms “critical race theory,” “colorblind,” “color-blind,” “funds of knowledge,”“community cultural wealth,” “race discrimination,” and “racism,” based on an assessment ofcontrolled search terms offered by Academic Service Premier and our expertise working in thefield. We included the specific theories of funds of knowledge and community cultural wealthbecause of how they derived from asset-based approaches to education through a CRT lens[20,38,40]. We decided to exclude the term “intersectionality” even
(i.e. voltmeter, caliper, 7 1 2 3 4 5 oscilloscope, etc.) during high school Chemistry, Biology or Physics laboratoryPage 13.1289.11Tinkering involvement self-reports provided the students with an opportunity to self assess theirtinkering involvement and their team interaction during each design project. Each respondentindicated what they personally accomplished with respect to tinkering tasks and how frequentlythey got involved with tinkering related tasks. This provided some insight into the teaminteraction of each project with respect to Bandura’s sources of self-efficacy. It also showed theimpact of
professional work – e.g., research decision-making, publication and representing findings to diverse audiences, collaboration and networking activities, strategies for linking research and practice, interdisciplinary practices with bridging communities or translating across disciplines, and epistemological and ontological assumptions embodied in these activities.Finally, course assessments were integrated into the reflective practice activities, inparticular the end-of-term reflective story. In the following section we describe studentlearning outcomes, using the communities of practice framework in Table 1 to organizeevidence of course impact.Evidence of course outcomes and opportunities for improvement
is that it is entirely self-assessed. That is, how is the determination of broad terms such as “intellectual contribution” and“prepared to defend” made and how could these terms be challenged? A type of flip responsewould be, “It all depends on the meaning of ‘intellectual contribution”. A more modern definition about an author was developed by the American Chemical Societyis that: “co-authors of a paper should be all those persons who have made significant scientificcontributions to the work reported and who share responsibility and accountability for theresults. Other contributions should be indicated in a footnote or an acknowledgement section. Anadministrative relationship to the investigation does not of itself qualify a person for