Paper ID #38228Board 350: NSF S-STEM Academy of Engineering Success: Reflections on aSeven-Year JourneyDr. Robin A.M. Hensel, West Virginia University Robin A. M. Hensel, Ed.D., is a Teaching Professor in the Benjamin M. Statler College of Engineer- ing and Mineral Resources at West Virginia University and an ASEE Fellow member. Throughout her career, she has supported engineering teams as a mathematician and provided complete life-cycle manage- ment of Information Systems as a Computer Systems Analyst for the U.S. Department of Energy; taught mathematics, statistics, computer science, and fundamental engineering courses
students assisted usin the adaptation of our protocol, practiced interviewing each other with the adapted protocol,transcribed those practice interviews, and conducted a preliminary analysis of this practice datafor their research experience. From practice interview sessions and discussions with the students,we were able to obtain feedback from the students and further refine the protocol to its presentstate. Amongst refinement, students developed potential analytical codes (Table 2), adding to thoseoriginally developed by Kirn and Benson [5] (refer to Table 1).Table 1. Preliminary codebook adapted from Kirn and Benson [5]. Codename Description Future Career describes
in characterizing graduate-level attrition, persistence, and career trajectories; engineering writing and communication; and methodological development. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Work in Progress: Toward a Holistic Understanding of Engineering Student Success in Mechanical Engineering across Educational StagesAbstract: This WIP paper will present our results to date in conducting a multimethod single casestudy, which is appropriate for deeply understanding multiple stakeholder perspectives within abounded environment, in our case, the Department of Mechanical Engineering at PennsylvaniaState University. The in-progress goal of our team in Mechanical Engineering at
challenge; however, students involved in this program have achievedsuccess.Program Design and Approach Against the backdrop of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technologyreport calling for one million new STEM graduates,1 the University of Idaho developed andimplemented Career Launch, a five-year NSF S-STEM funded program, in 2015. The hypothesisof the program was that reducing the hours students needed to work outside of school throughscholarship support would allow them to spend more time participating in activities that wouldenhance persistence by enriching their academic experience while progressing toward their futurecareer goals.2-4 The target pool for scholarship recipients had high financial need and were enrolledin
Urbana-Champaign I am an undergraduate student at the Grainger College of Engineering studying electrical engineering interested in soft robotics.Mr. Javi Cardenas, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign I am currently a junior in electrical engineering, graduating in May 2023. I hold a paid research position for the Grainger College of Engineering working with professor Dr. Golecki. I am interested in pursuing a career in health technology and I see myself working with medical devices in the future.Sara Xochilt Lamer, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Sara Lamer (she/her) is a junior studying Mechanical Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign. She is an ARISE scholar in the
the UnitedStates that focus on promoting the development of youths' engineering identity and interest inSTEM-related career paths. In this paper, we present work in progress, focusing our discussion onrising 7th and 8th grade youth drawings and accompanying explanations of “an engineer in action,”as part of a summertime STEM summer outreach program for underrepresented minority middleschool youth. Our work is an adaptation of Draw an Engineer Test (DAET) [1] which focuses on thestereotypical understandings and (mis)conceptions adolescents have of scientists and engineers intraditional PK- 12 classroom settings. The context of this study, however, is an informal STEMlearning environment, entitled Bulls-Engineering Youth Experience for
leave the university). Of those that declare anengineering major, it is found that some number of students go on to declare a major differentfrom the one they initially indicated.This paper will present detailed data of the intended major given in the first week of class, thestrength of their intention, and their final major declaration. An in-depth description of themethods used to introduce the engineering majors will also be provided. Finally, the authors willprovide their insight into the reasons for any changes in intended major from the first week tofinal week of the semester.IntroductionChoosing a future career can be a daunting task, whether this is as a young adult or later in life.Everyone chooses which career to pursue for their own
year’s camp, a similaractivity was sought. Not only did the previous year’s students demonstrate high levels ofengagement, additionally the skills provided by offering such support the following NationalAssociation of Colleges and Employers’ Career Readiness guidelines: Critical Thinking /Problem Solving, Oral / Written Communications, Teamwork / Collaborations, DigitalTechnologies, and Global / Intercultural Fluency [11] Additionally, the learning outcomes alignwith Common Core ELA Literacy RST Standards 1 and 2 for grades 9 - 12; 6, 7 and 9 for grades11 - 12; and ELA Literacy SL 1-5 for grades 9 - 10. [12]The camp moved from teaching coding to working on critical thinking skills vital to computerscience in general and more specifically
Paper ID #18735Which ”Me” am I Today? The Many Disciplines and Skill Sets of Engineer-ing EducatorsDr. Jennifer Karlin, University of Southern Maine Jennifer Karlin spent the first half of her career at the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, where she was a professor of industrial engineering and held the Pietz professorship for entrepreneurship and economic development. She is now at the University of Southern Maine where she is a research professor of engineering and the curriculum specialist for the Maine Regulatory Training and Ethics Center.Dr. Donna M. Riley, Virginia Tech Donna Riley is Professor and
InstitutionAbstractThe BA in Liberal Arts and Engineering Studies provides an educational vehicle for the personwho seeks a career within which a knowledge of engineering and an ability to interact withengineers is critical, but who does not want a traditional engineering career. This degree willproduce more technologically literate students who understand the principles of engineering andwho will apply them to the profession they choose to pursue as citizens of a deeply technologicalsociety, but will not produce more practicing engineers immediately or directly. Thesignificance of engineering lies mainly in its relation to other societal sectors. Clearly engineersmust be more aware of this interrelationship, and the leaders of other sectors must become
Ronald E. McNairPost-baccalaureate Achievement Program. During each of the last three years, New JerseyInstitute of Technology has hosted two separate REUs as well as a McNair Program. Dataacross all three years have been combined to further examine changes in students’ attitudestoward graduate studies after participating in one of the programs and to begin investigatingpossible differences between the students who attended the REU programs and the students whoattended the McNair program. Students in the Ronald E. McNair PostbaccalaureateAchievement Program showed significantly higher attitudes toward graduate studies, were morepositive about research and appeared more likely to pursue careers in academia.IntroductionFactors that influence
Page 14.1279.2spent in the classroom. One study indicates that almost “one-third of all new teachers in the UnitedStates leave the teaching field within their first 3 years of teaching and almost 50% may leave withinthe first 5 years of their teaching career”3. In the near future, both retirement and low retention couldcontribute to the predicted teacher shortages across the United States.Potentially, teacher shortages could affect schools across the entire United States. However, more thanlikely, schools that will suffer most by teacher shortages are ones located in high need urban and ruralareas. Schools in these locations already have difficulty in hiring and retaining qualified and effectiveteachers. Both urban and rural schools continue
the engineering In the Fall of 1995, two sections of TCC 101 werecurriculum successfully--and even more, create a paired with two sections of a core engineeringsense of enthusiasm for careers in engineering? course ENGR 164, which focused on engineering problem solving. Among the objectives of thisIn addition, engineering graduates are finding them- pairing was to support the teaching of professionalselves in a markedly different workplace, in which development through instructor coordination, so thatcross-functional team communication, experience the same themes would be repeated by bothworking in small groups, and thoughtful approaches
. identify potential future students and to guide and mentor them in exploring their career options and opportunities, b. elevate the educational gaps between the high school and the first year university for a potential candidate by introducing intermediate topics that can bridge the gaps, and c. provide a campus environment in which the middle school students and high school students can experience their independence and learn responsible decision making as growing adultsThe recruitment avenues include summer or weekend camps for the targeted students and areascience fairs, and feeder school visits (Barger et. al, 2104). Among them, summer camps withspecific themes for the middle and high school students are one of the
Education and Environmental Science and in 2014 she graduated from UNCA as a certified History and Science teacher. She feels extremely fortunate to have found a career that connects the organization she believes in with a field she is passionate about. Address: 3650 Ashford Dunwoody RD Atlanta, GA 30319 Phone: 478.414.6306 Email: Ahughes@gsgatl.org c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Engagement in Practice: A Process for Creating a New “Council’s Own” Junior Girl Scout Badge in Mechanical EngineeringAbstractOver the past two years, a team of female faculty and industry innovators have collaborated todevelop a new Junior (4th and 5th
factors such as potentialfor societal contribution, personal academic interests, perceived job prospects, and their decisionbefore they entered the engineering program. However, Myers (2016) found that students felt afirst-year engineering course which included lectures and/or activities designed to exposestudents to engineering majors did influence their plans for a future engineering discipline. Astudy by Chamberlain, Benson, and Crockett (2008) found that core passions, the appeal of non-engineering courses and professions, a General Engineering course exposing students toengineering majors, and career interest surveys were significant factors in first-year studentsleaving engineering.Description of the StudyMichigan Technological University
– Veteran PerceptionsFollowing the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, 1.9 million veterans have returned stateside andbegun the process of reorientation with civilian life [1]. Excluding cases of trauma and injury,research has identified five perceptions held by veterans that correlate with an unsatisfactorytransition to civilian life: 1) feeling like they do not belong; 2) missing the military culture andstructured lifestyle; 3) retaining negative views of the civilian lifestyle; 4) feeling left behindcompared to civilian career opportunities; 5) having difficulty finding meaning in the civilianworld [2]. In a longitudinal study comparing veteran and civilian post-secondary outcomes, 71%of civilians enrolled in a 4-year institution within one year of
indicates that 20.1% ofbachelor’s degrees in engineering are earned by women, who go on to hold only 14.5% ofindustry engineering positions (National Science Board, 2018). This increase in the alreadydisproportionate representation throughout engineering pathways offers a strong motivation tostudy women’s experiences and factors that influence their career decisions. Several studieshave examined the reasons that students leave engineering and have identified a strong sense ofself-efficacy as a key indicator of both retention and persistence. While self-efficacy can bedeveloped in variety of ways, research has shown that mastery experiences can be veryinfluential developers of self-efficacy in both men and women (Mamaril & Royal, 2008
Usefulness, & Professionaltoward ComputerScience12Freshman Undergraduate Communication Skills, Knowledge 5-point LikertEngineering Integration, Life-Long Learning, Team 7Attitude Survey Expectations, & Technical SkillsHigh School High School Confidence, Career, Self-Efficacy, 6-point LikertStudents’ Attitude Academic History, Knowledge, &to Engineering DemographicScale11Information High School, Confidence, Interest, Gender, 4-point LikertTechnology Undergraduate Usefulness, & ProfessionalAttitude Survey4Middle School Middle
Engineering Concepts to Harness Future Innovators and Technologists) project. Professor Harriger’s current interests include application development, outreach to K-12 to interest more students to pursue computing careers, applying IT skills to innovating fitness tools, and wearable computing.Prof. Bradley C. Harriger, Purdue University, West Lafayette Brad Harriger has over 30 years of experience teaching automated manufacturing and has authored/co- authored several related articles. Professor Harriger has served in several leadership roles with Society of Manufacturing Engineers and the American Society for Engineering Education, and is a founding mem- ber of an international Aerospace Automation Consortium, serving on
Engineering career with structural design. However, Structural design is only one of manycomponents of the Civil Engineering discipline. Students are also unaware of the manyinterdisciplinary relationships that Civil Engineers address in order to accomplish their work. Our campus has an aggressive local recruitment process, which results in a large number ofstudents most of whom are first generation college bound students from local urban areas. Thesestudents grew up in neighborhoods surrounded by high-rise buildings. So naturally, these structuresbecome a symbol of success, and many of them perceive the Civil Engineering field aspredominately related to designing and building structures. Thus, one of the important objectives ofthe Freshmen
in employment,where approximately 25% of computing jobs are held by women 2. Within Brigham YoungUniversity’s Information Technology program, we have struggled to achieve 10% femaleenrollment. This is unfortunate, as it is the universal opinion of our own faculty, supported byboth internal and external research data that gender balance enables peak productivity. It is thusextremely unfortunate that elements of society are still struggling with mistaken genderstereotypes, and that this, coupled with occasional misogyny can dissuade young women frompursuing a career in computing. While this may not be the only cause, it is unacceptable.We have found (in line with other research) that strong faculty mentorship is an important factorin
engineering graduates have the skills to be successful in the workplace (e.g., [1]-[2]).These courses act as a foundation on which build the rest of a student’ educational experienceand seek to, as recommended by the National Academy of Science, “introduce the “essence” ofengineering early in their undergraduate careers” [1, p. 2]. One widely adopted practice fromthese proposed changes is that of First-Year Engineering (FYE) courses, with nearly 60% ofengineering programs adopting a FYE course by 2013 [3]. Due to each institution’s uniquehistory, structures and needs, FYE programs across the country vary with regards to theircontent[4] and structure[3]. Additionally, there is some variation in timing of FYE courses, astransfer students are often
in Industrial Engineering focused on Mechatronics, Robotics and Automation. She went through engineer- ing pathways herself, completing master electrician degree when completing Technical School in Uzice, Serbia, focusing on pre-engineering program on high power voltage systems and maintenance of electro- mechanical systems. Her research is focuses on engineering pathways, career and technical education, digital thread, cyber physical systems, mechatronics, digital manufacturing, broadening participation, and engineering education. She is a Director of Mechatronics and Digital Manufacturing Lab at ODU and a lead of Area of Specialization Mechatronics Systems Design. She worked as a Visiting Researcher at
Paper ID #28837”I’m not good at math,” she saidProf. Astrid K Northrup P.E., Northwest College, Powell WY Astrid Northrup earned her B.S. degree in petroleum engineering from the Montana College of Mineral Science and Technology (Montana Tech) in 1984 and her M.S degree in petroleum engineering from Mon- tana Tech in 1986. She also earned a Certificate in Land Surveying from the University of Wyoming in 2005. She is a registered Professional Engineer in Colorado and Wyoming. She worked in the petroleum industry as a reservoir engineer and as a private consultant before moving into a teaching career at North- west
will be sending my application to Tech within the next couple of days. I am very interested in becoming a Civil Engineer. -Seth Bond, Airline High School Senior (TechSTEP pilot participant 2005-06)LaTechSTEP targets students who have shown an aptitude for math and science but needadditional encouragement to consider a STEM discipline as a career choice. Participatingteachers select these students based on their personal experiences with them. “Allowing the high school teachers to select a few students from their classes gives us the ability to identify the students best suited for this program, the ones
Needs → Engineering → Technology ↑↓ Directed Scientific Research to gain a better understanding of phenomena when neededIt is important to note here that need drives the engineering activity which results in new technologies,products, and processes. The National Collaborative Task Force has chosen to craft its program ofadvanced studies for professional engineers with a focus on this understanding of engineering practice.3. How Professional Engineers GrowReceipt of the baccalaureate in engineering represents the starting point of a career in industry orgovernment practice for
sciencesreport doing so due to poor instruction [4]. Accordingly, this line of research has sparked aninterest in improving the quality of education engineering students receive by improvinginstruction through increased understanding of student learning and motivation [3]. From a motivation perspective, some of the most important steps students taketoward a career in science and engineering (S & E) are in choosing the right coursework,experiences, and mentors to get them there. Over the past few years, researchers haveamassed a substantial body of knowledge regarding how students think about their personalfutures. They argue if we want to understand why students choose one career path overanother, and why they choose to persevere or abandon
) and weaknesses Administer Felder’s Learning Style Tool Explore career and personal goals Ongoing through workshops, journaling, concept Page 12.221.3 mapping Develop leadership skills Administer Skills Leadership Inventory (pre- and post-) Maintain balance between academic Utilize calendar tools to plan time; compare and personal life actual schedule with plan to adjust as necessary Increase the percentage of freshman
provide fundamental understanding of basic concepts in logistics transportation andrelating classroom theories with real time examples. Educating the K12 educators program wasdesigned to educate them with career opportunities, future perspectives of logistics transportationprofessionals, and resource availability. This paper will discuss the need of STEM education inlogistics transportation, sample curriculum design, implementation issues, and lessons learnedregarding the project. Page 23.381.2IntroductionLogistics transportation has become one of the last frontiers that still remain to be conquered bymost businesses in the twenty first century. Yet this cannot be