digital pulse-width modulation signals sent to the robot and calculate the responsetime of the motors. Evaluation measures include a pre/post survey that measure student excitement in thecourse, intent to major in electrical and computer engineering, and understanding of the field.Additionally, an exit survey upon graduation evaluates student intent to pursue a career inrobotics. Lastly, registration data observes pre/post number of students in the major. Resultsshow significant increases in interest in the field of electrical and computer engineering, numberof majors, and student learning.Introduction Over the past ten years there has been a steady negative trend in the number of electricaland computer engineering (ECE) majors
(5) year contracts with option to renew. Conditions forrenewal are included in the agreement.2.2. The ImplementationThe implementation of the HPAT model requires a combined effort of both partners at all stagesof a student’s career. This requires an early and active participation of the 4-year partner from thetime of admission, until the student completes the bachelor’s or master’s degree. Additionally, itimplies a continuous participation of the 2-year partner through mentoring, and longitudinalprogram assessment for continuous improvement. Various curricular, co-curricular, andextracurricular activities are encouraged to be developed in each of the partner institutions withsome overlap whenever possible. This will support student
highereducation institutions focusing on sustainability often ground the curricula for those topics incommunity work using three pillars of engagement: social, environmental, and economic [8].Community engagement, as a form of service-based learning, has proven to be a viablemethod for grounding sustainability factors in technical education, so that such concepts arenot so easily dismissed by students driven by pragmatic, purely technical conceptions ofengineering.There are still knowledge gaps in how engineers could apply higher levels of sustainabilityexpertise in their careers [9]. This could perpetuate a notion that sustainability programsproduce effete engineers unable to apply their conceptual understanding of sustainability inpractice [9]. A
Education Organization and Leadership from the University of Illinois. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 The Early Research Scholars ProgramBackgroundResearch experiences for undergraduates has shown to increase retention in scientific fields [1],and the NSF Summer REU program provides great support for such experiences. Most REUs aredesigned for advanced students with strong foundations in Computer Science. The EarlyResearch Scholars Program (ERSP) was designed to provide a structured research experience forstudents early in their CS career (pre-data structures when they apply). The goal is to increaseretention of women and under-represented
at Purdue University. She was co-PI of Purdue’s ADVANCE program from 2008-2014, focusing on the underrepresentation of women in STEM faculty positions. She runs the Feminist Research in Engineering Education Group, whose diverse projects and group members are described at pawleyresearch.org. She was a National Academy of Engineering CASEE Fellow in 2007, received a CAREER award in 2010 and a PECASE award in 2012 for her project researching the stories of undergraduate engineering women and men of color and white women, and received the Denice Denton Emerging Leader award from the Anita Borg Institute in 2013. She has been author or co-author on papers receiving ASEE-ERM’s best paper award, the AAEE Best Paper
abilities.Authors such as Pascarella & Terenzini, Tinto, and Thomas have argued that student success willtranspire in higher education if all learners are integrated into the social and academic fabric of therespective institution [35], [38], [39]. Research suggest that having additional resources on campussuch as peer tutoring, academic advising, personal and career counselling, and disability servicesmay be compensatory in various ways [36]. For example, it can assist disadvantaged studentsovercome potential lack of academic information, cultural capital, or academic preparedness [25],[38]. In a study conducted by Bauman et al. in 2004, the likelihood of students using campusservices was analyzed [26]. Results indicate that three quarters of the
students in STEM, integrative training for graduate teaching assistants, and curriculum innovation for introductory computing courses.Mr. Lucas Anderson, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign Lucas Anderson is a Specialist in Education at the Center for Innovation in Teaching & Learning (CITL) at the University of Illinois. He organizes the central campus teacher training program for the more than 800 new Teaching Assistants (TAs) Illinois welcomes each year. He continues to work with TAs throughout their graduate career by observing their classes, helping them collect and interpret feedback from their students, and shepherding them through CITL’s teaching certificate program. He offers a variety of workshops
engineering course with activities relevant to the identifiedmajor may develop stronger beliefs regarding their career choice and expectancy-related beliefs,improving engineering identity5. For this reason, the Civil and Environmental EngineeringDepartment elected to move a previously offered second-year course titled Civil EngineeringFundamentals to the second semester of the first-year. This paper presents a before and aftercomparison of faculty-assessed student proficiency, as well as students’ self-assessedproficiency, in select civil engineering technologies taught in the course to better understand howthe transition from second-to-first year affected both learning of and comfort with thesetechnologies.Course DescriptionThe Civil Engineering
interest is in civil engineering curriculum development that enhances student engagement and inclusion. One of the first to develop and teach an introductory course on Geomatics in 1993 at Georgia Tech. A similar course is now required in numerous CE curriculums including Clemson’s.Mr. Matthew Ryan Stanley, Clemson University Hello! My name is Matthew Stanley and I am a graduate student in the Clemson University Glenn Department of Civil Engineering. I am pursuing a master’s degree in transportation systems, and plan to pursue a career in surveying engineering or roadway design. I am a graduate teacher’s assistant for the Geomatics course offered at Clemson University. American
Godwin, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of Engineering Education and Chemical Engineering at Purdue University. Her research focuses what factors influence diverse students to choose engineering and stay in engineering through their careers and how different experiences within the practice and culture of engineering foster or hinder belongingness and identity development. Dr. Godwin graduated from Clem- son University with a B.S. in Chemical Engineering and Ph.D. in Engineering and Science Education. Her research earned her a National Science Foundation CAREER Award focused on characterizing latent di- versity, which includes diverse attitudes, mindsets, and approaches to learning, to understand engineering
. ‘Non-persisting’ students are those leaving engineering because of the academic climate, grades, self-efficacy, high school preparation, career goals, and gender or race [20]. Moreover, students leave STEM because of a lack of belonging [3], [24], “chilly” climate [25], microaggressions [26], conflicting identities [26]–[28], and not identifying with the field [29]–[31]. This literature on student perceptions highlights how their decisions are influenced by how they see themselves as being capable. This suggests how students’ perceptions affect their decisions which can be influenced by several cognitive and non-cognitive factors. Therefore, students’ observations in school inform the actions they take, and what they see as
get students to fall in love with the practice of engineering. Designingmeaningful and engaging assignments and projects is key. The Expectancy-Value Theoryconnects students’ course perceptions to their engagement and performance [1]. The Valueportion of the theory includes utility value, or how well the assignments and projects align withthe students’ future goals. Including activities with a high utility value greatly influences astudent’s choice of major and their career interests [2]. The Expectancy part of the theory isdescribed as the students’ perception of how well they will perform on tasks within a domain.The more capable a student feels in doing the work of a particular course or curriculum, the moreacademic satisfaction they feel
Disagree (2) 8. I feel really close to team members Strongly disagree (1) 9. I am satisfied with my performance at this task 10. I was pretty skilled at this activity 11. This was a lab that I couldn't do very well 12. I enjoyed doing this lab very much Qualitative questions for hybrid lab 2 1. What are the main benefits of working in a hybrid lab? 2. What are the main challenges of working in a hybrid lab? 3. What are the important skills needed in industry as organizations move to remote work? 4. What skillsets have you learned from the labs that could be transferable to the future in your careers
, Rutgers University Bryce Troncone is an undergraduate at Rutgers University, majoring in Applied Sciences Engineering and Planetary Science. His future endeavors include working on spacecraft technology for his career path.Miss Bianca R. Evangelista, Rutgers University Bianca Evangelista is an undergraduate student pursuing her degree in Chemical Engineering and a Pack- aging Certificate at Rutgers University New Brunswick, originally from Long Island, New York. In addi- tion, she is a former Learning Assistant and current Part-Time Lecturer for an introductory physics course for engineering majors. She has an interest in the future of education and believes in the improvement of society through values such as equity
. is an Associate Professor of engineering in the Ira A. Fulton Schools of En- gineering at Arizona State University. He teaches context-centered electrical engineering and embedded systems design courses, and studies the use of context and storytelling in both K-12 and undergraduate engineering design education. He received his Ph.D. in Engineering Education (2010) and M.S./B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Purdue University. Dr. Jordan is PI on several NSF-funded projects related to design, including an NSF Early CAREER Award entitled ”CAREER: Engineering De- sign Across Navajo Culture, Community, and Society” and ”Might Young Makers be the Engineers of the Future?,” and is a Co-PI on the NSF
the department of Information Sciences & Technology. Dr. Johri studies the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) for learning and knowledge sharing, with a focus on cognition in informal environments. He also examine the role of ICT in supporting distributed work among globally dispersed workers and in furthering social development in emerging economies. He received the U.S. National Science Foundation’s Early Career Award in 2009. He is co-editor of the Cambridge Handbook of Engineering Education Research (CHEER) published by Cambridge University Press, New York, NY. Dr. Johri earned his Ph.D. in Learning Sciences and Technology Design at Stanford University and a B.Eng. in Mechanical
also are reviewing our courseinterventions to determine if better methods can be employed such as including more active learningprojects to improve student engagement with each identity. Finally, we will follow up with the students asthey progress through their academic careers to see if any of them continue projects through toprototyping and testing stages or present ideas at entrepreneurial competitions or conferences.Acknowledgements: Research supported by VentureWell Foundation Grant #20071-19References:[1] Byers, T., Seelig, T., Sheppard, S., & Weilerstein, P. (2013). Its role in engineering education. TheBridge, 43(2), 35-40.[2] Cardon, M. S., Gregoire, D. A., Stevens, C. E., & Patel, P. C. (2013). Measuring
Education and Chemical Engineering at Purdue University. Her research focuses what factors influence diverse students to choose engineering and stay in engineering through their careers and how different experiences within the practice and culture of engineering foster or hinder belongingness and identity development. Dr. Godwin graduated from Clem- son University with a B.S. in Chemical Engineering and Ph.D. in Engineering and Science Education. Her research earned her a National Science Foundation CAREER Award focused on characterizing latent di- versity, which includes diverse attitudes, mindsets, and approaches to learning, to understand engineering students’ identity development. She has won several awards for her
experiential learning opportunities to both undergraduate and graduate students locally, regionally and internationally with a focus on Hispanic and female students. She is currently Co-PI of UTEP’s NSF-AGEP program focusing on fostering Hispanic doctoral students for academic careers; the Department of Education’s (DoE) STEMGROW Program and DoE’s Program YES SHE CAN. With support from the Center for Faculty Leadership and Development, she leads a Learning Community for Diversity and Inclusion for Innovation at UTEP. She is also a member of two advisory committees to UTEP’s President: The Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion committee and is chair of the Women’s Advisory Council. She is a member at large of the UTEP Council of
students who answered individual questions correctly on pre/post-test assessments.Survey questions were written to understand how the students' attitudes towards math, science,and careers in STEM may have changed as a result of completing the at-home experiment. Thecomplete list of questions can be found in Table 2. Survey question 1 (SQ1) and SQ2ascertained whether students felt they used science and math in their everyday lives,respectively. At baseline, approximately 45% of students felt they used science always or often,and approximately 75% of students felt they used math always or often (Figure 3). There waslittle change in these percentages in the post-survey. SQ3 assessed whether students wouldcontinue
than 15 years [2-12].Due to the COVID-19 pandemic and related shutdowns and restrictions, many faculty concerns,particularly those associated with online instruction were exacerbated, as faculty had to quicklychange their teaching approaches to remote, online, and other hybrid formats. In response tothese concerns, the AIChE Education Division developed a series of Virtual Communities ofPractice open to all chemical engineering faculty members regardless of career phase, title,tenure status, or other classifications. This paper will highlight the genesis of the AIChEEducation Division’s VCP program and describe its impact on faculty members’ professionaldevelopment during the COVID-19 pandemic.Materials and MethodsCreating a virtual community
the workshop and challenging circumstances for all,achieving parity with last year’s outcomes indicates that in its new format, the workshop is stillproviding first year students with the foundational research skills they’ll need to be successful intheir academic and professional careers as engineers.IntroductionOver the last two years, Research & Instruction librarians at Northeastern University havecollaborated with the First Year Engineering program to develop and refine an interactiveworkshop series designed to introduce new engineering students to key research resources andskills at the start of their degree programs, thus establishing a foundation in university-levelengineering research [1].At Northeastern University College of
. Tak-Sing Wong, The Pennsylvania State University Dr. Tak-Sing Wong is currently an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering and the holder of Wormley Family Early Career Professorship at Penn State. His current research focuses on bio-inspired materials design with applications in water, energy, medicine, and environmental sustainability. For his research contributions, Dr. Wong was named one of the world’s top 35 innovators under the age of 35 by the MIT Technology Review, and honored by the White House for the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.Prof. Brian M. Foley, The Pennsylvania State University American c Society for
Institute of Technology. His research interests are engineering students beliefs about knowledge and education and how those beliefs interact with the engineering education experience.Prof. Richard Mangum, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Prescott Richard T. Mangum is an assistant professor at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Prescott Campus. He graduated from Texas Tech University with a PhD in Technical Communication and Rhetoric. He is interested in helping engineering students discover the relevancy of technical communication in their academic pursuits and future career paths. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021
and inform them Illinois about the available resources. Project Makerspace Berwyn, Illinois (Chicago Introduce students to Makerspace and Suburb) engineering career. Development of Engineering N. Lawndale (Chicago West Develop engineering components of a Curriculum for local K-8 side) curriculum for primary school students. STEAM School Adopt Our Classroom Chicago Public Schools Implement a Web-based app to facilitate the connection between public school teachers and
that we have a plausiblesolution to the problem and can make evidence-based changes to our curriculum for futureofferings of this course sequence.BackgroundThe Engineering Technologies, Safety, and Construction (ETSC) department at CentralWashington University offers three bachelor’s degree paths for undergraduate students:Electronics Engineering Technology (EET), Industrial Engineering Technology (IET), andMechanical Engineering Technology (MET). These specialized programs provide students witha combination of engineering theory and application-based instruction to prepare graduates forcareers in industry [1]. The department also offers a variety of minors from which students maychoose to enhance their academic careers. After years of
sections with 30 to 35 students. Usually, in thiscourse the labs this large are not a big problem as the class is taught using project based learningwhere the students worked on teams to produce a underwater autonomous vehicle. However,three times during the semester the labs met in the computer lab. Below is a mostly true story Iwrote about an event that occurred during one of the computer lab activities. Moises is respectful of authority. He listens and tries to disappear into the crowd. This has worked for him his entire academic career. He is smart and resourceful. He does his work quickly which helps so much. Of course, the speed causes errors, but in general he has achieved high marks. The lab today is in the computer
, typically taken in the second half oftheir junior year or the first half of their senior year. Students in the course wrote an essay, as arequired assignment, in which they reflected on the links between their co-op work and thecourse, and were asked for permission to use those essays in the professor’s research on thistopic. Analysis of the essays shows that students typically did see connections; in many cases,these were connected to the course content. However, in other cases, students noted that they hadlearned problem-solving skills, time management, or other skills that were not directly connectedto the class content, which were also useful in their co-op assignments and future careers. Theresults of this work can be used to motivate students
-Riddle Aeronautical University - Daytona BeachDr. Erin Elizabeth Bowen, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University - Prescott Currently appointed as the A. Dale Thompson Professor of Leadership at the University of Texas at Arlington, Dr. Erin Bowen is a scientist-practitioner with an interdisciplinary focus on the intersection of I/O Psychology and Aviation. With a research and practice career focused on applying psychological science to the aviation industry, Dr. Bowen’s expertise is relied on by research and industry partners as well as numerous national and international news outlets. Recent media appearances include ”Good Morning America”, live in-studio on NBC’s ”Meet the Press”, CNN’s ”The Lead” with Jake Tapper
the pandemic on their educationand career. While SWE continues to study the impact on gender equity in engineering andtechnology, this paper focuses on the responses received from women engineering students andacademic professionals from the summer survey.MethodologyData for this study was collected using an online Qualtrics survey. The survey link was emailed toengineers over the age of 18 who were members of the professional association conducting thestudy. Data collection took place between June 3, 2020 and June 15, 2020. Responses werereceived from students in engineering programs and those working in a variety of industries,including academia. The majority of respondents were from the United States, with 5% basedoutside of the U.S. Over