three personas have been developed using the 2020 application pool. While thetarget personas used for the rubrics were developed using the process noted above, thesepersonas were developed using the student responses to the applications. For a more in-depthdiscussion of the method used, see our prior work [19].General Applicant Persona: Mark JohnsonMark is from North Carolina. He didn’t attend a community college before coming to thisuniversity. Both of his parents are college graduates. Mark is a second-year student in themechanical engineering concentration. Making the leap from an easy high school career to amuch more difficult undergraduate engineering career and learning how to effectively study isthe biggest academic challenge Mark has
overall identity in the community of practice of graduate school. This work contributesto the limited number of studies on engineering doctoral students’ identity, and may haveimplications for persistence and representation amongst engineering doctoral students.Introduction Doctoral students develop multiple role identities as they enter the community of practiceof academia through their graduate school experience [2]. Identity is the “kind of person” one is,derived from one’s performance in social contexts, rather than from one’s internal state [6]. Arole identity, specifically, is how an individual relates to the characteristics and expectationsassociated with a role or position they are enacting [7]–[9]. For example, how an
readers, and(4) create recommendations on how this information can be used in student advising and inmentoring first-year engineering students.MethodsI. Resume AcquisitionResumes were collected from a subset of each graduating senior biomedical engineering cohortover the course of four years. This collection of resumes (n = 68) was then stored and protectedin accordance with the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) [13]. Resumes weregiven willingly to the primary faculty member overseeing this work and were de-identified uponrequest. The datasets and resume repositories containing identifying information were onlyaccessed by authorized users who have completed FERPA training. Upon further inspection ofthe resumes, three could not be
pages serve are engineering educators andfaculty members, similar to us, the authors of this paper. We are international engineeringeducators in the United States, who are in the early phases of our careers, and identify as womenof color. As universities switched to the online format during the Spring 2020 semester, we, likemany of our colleagues, had to adapt to new and unusual circumstances as well as makesignificant adjustments to our professional and personal lives. At the onset of the pandemic, wecreated a support group to share our experiences as we navigated these unprecedentedcircumstances. Through the course of the months following the sudden shift in learningenvironments, we continued to reflect and record our personal challenges of
emphasis includes faculty development and mentoring, graduate student development, critical thinking and communication skills, enhancing mathematical student success in Calculus (including Impact of COVID-19), and promoting women in STEM. Her technical research focuses on sustainable chemical process design, computer aided design, and multicriteria decision making. She also has extensive experience in K-12 STEM education and program evaluation and assessment. She has held a variety of administrative positions: 1) Director of STEM Faculty Development Initiatives-Clemson, 2) Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies in the College of Engineering, Computing and Applied Sciences-Clemson, 3) Interim Director of Student
campuses. They then complete a poster-size GAPAhandout to explore opportunities for enhancing their students’ intrinsic motivation at theirinstitution. Workshop facilitators also encourage faculty members to hang their completedworksheets on the wall and participate in a modified Gallery walk [34]. After feedback anddiscussion, participants were asked to refine a final GAPA worksheet of their design. Figure 3. Simplified GAPA worksheet adapted from [33]Data AnalysisOur exploratory study applied an inductive and deductive approach to analyze and identifyemerging themes from participants’ responses [35]. Worksheets were collected, and participants’responses were de-identified and scanned. Responses were transcribed, organized
Paper ID #33847CAREER: Learning from Students’ Identity Trajectories to ActualizeLatent DiversityDr. Allison Godwin, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE) Allison 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
this way." Because the laws and the policies about it arechanging frequently’. She is supported by her school’s administration as they understand theimportance of emotional learning in conjunction with conceptual understanding. However,Amber has had interactions with members of the school board, which affected her attitudetowards teaching, being told that “soldiers are essential workers and they did their job. You’re anessential worker, you just need to go do your [job].” These comments and the decision from theschool board to reopen physical school buildings presented another needed adaptation, hybridlearning. Amber’s classroom was not equipped with proper hardware to appropriately teachstudents both in-person and online. All students did
, clearly articulate them and create important change.Traditional student- or institution-supporting service roles are not the only types benefitting fromprevious student government experience. Austin [41] discusses how an ideal graduate schoolexperience prepares students who wish to pursue academic careers by socializing students intothe role of faculty. She highlights how research and teaching assistantships, coupled withadequate reflection opportunities, can help students become aware of the skills they aredeveloping which will be valuable as a faculty member. Unlike the other authors, Canfield didnot serve in the large campus-wide student government, instead working with a number ofinterest focused clubs. Even as a graduate student, she saw
Iowa State University in 1991. His research interests include Mechatron- ics, Modeling and Simulation of Systems, FEA and other CAE applications in Multi-physics Problems and Engineering Education.Dr. Darrell K. Kleinke P.E., University of Detroit Mercy Dr. Kleinke has over 25 years of industry experience in the design and development of electro-mechanical systems. As a tenure-track faculty member and Chair of the University of Detroit Mercy Mechanical Engineering department, he has developed a program of instruction that promotes student-lead design of assistive technology products for people with disabilities. The guiding principle is that student project work is more meaningful and fulfilling when students have
Engineering at NC A&T State University. As a faculty member, he played a significant role in the implementation of a PhD in Industrial & Systems Engineering. Dr. Ram served as the PI for a cross-disciplinary Research Experience for Undergraduates site sponsored by NSF. He is currently the PI for an NSF project on Innovation in Graduate Education. Dr. Ram is an evaluator for the Engineering Accreditation Commission of ABET. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021AbstractThe Graduate Research Identity Development program (GRID) is an initiative in the College ofEngineering at North Carolina A&T State University, sponsored by the National Science
Paper ID #34279How to Promote Faculty Advancement for Nontenure-track FacultyDr. Heather Doty, University of Delaware Heather Doty is an associate professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Delaware (UD). Dr. Doty teaches undergraduate courses in thermodynamics, statics, and dynamics, and conducts research on gender in the academic STEM workforce. She is co-PI on UD’s NSF ADVANCE Institutional Transfor- mation grant, which aims to recruit, retain, and advance women STEM faculty at UD. Dr. Doty is faculty advisor to UD’s Women in Engineering Graduate Student steering committee.Dr. Shawna Vican, University of
past few decades, there has been a push for engineering curriculum to better engagewith the global, ethical, and societal impacts of the field and to prepare students to engage in amulticultural and diverse workspace and world. In an effort to introduce diversity in design andto troubleshoot the concept of the universal user, we adapted the display compatibilityquestionnaire from Smith’s study of display-control stereotype designs, and presented the samedesign questions to 21st century first-year engineering students, non-engineering students, andnon-engineering professionals. This work explores current societal impacts such as gender, age,and occupation on the user expectation of a control’s display and user-interface design.Additionally, the
Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences and an affiliate faculty member in the Department of Engineering, Design & Society and the Robotics Graduate Program at the Colorado School of Mines. Dr. Zhu is Editor for International Perspectives at the Online Ethics Center for Engineering and Science, Associate Editor for Engineering Studies, Program Chair of American Society for Engineering Education’s Division of Engineering Ethics, Executive Committee Member of the Society for Ethics Across the Curriculum, and Treasurer of the Society for Philosophy and Technology. Dr. Zhu’s research interests include the cultural foundations of engineering ethics, global engineering education, and ethics and policy of computing
question: How, if at all, arestudents connecting the Exploring Engineering topics to their learning as current engineeringstudents and future engineering professionals?MethodsTo answer our open-ended research question, an exploratory qualitative approach was taken [5].While the Exploring Engineering assignment series has been utilized in both in-person andonline formats, the current analysis focuses exclusively on outcomes from the virtual format bydrawing on the experience of the Fall 2020 cohort. While overall information about topic choicefor students enrolled in the introductory engineering course in the Fall 2020 semester (n=1085)and descriptive data related to end of semester evaluations for a subset of students (n=586) areoutlined for
Paper ID #34551Conceptualizing Faculty Adaptability in Enacting Curricular ChangeHadi Ali, Arizona State University Hadi studies the influence of the future of work on curricular innovation, with a focus on exploring the relationships between and among adaptability, risk taking and value making. In an effort to characterize engineering education as an (eco)system for creating value, Hadi’s approach integrates analytical methods of data science to address changes in systems and society. More broadly, Hadi is interested in examining how engineering innovations mobilize social and economic change. Hadi has graduate degrees
discussed the pros and cons of various gradingoptions (e.g., credit/no credit versus a regular grading scheme), tools for synchronous andasynchronous learning, and strategies for assessing learning. For example, in a late March facultymeeting, faculty spoke about a decision not to give any midterm exams and grappled with how toshow care for all the hardships and uncertainty students were experiencing, while also trying tofigure out how to monitor student learning. One faculty member said: “In the classroom setting,you can walk around and watch the students do a problem. [Online], how do I determine whetherthe students are actually working on material or not? That's, that's what I don’t have an answerfor.”At meetings from spring 2020 all the way to
important, but so too were several other stakeholders. These includedengineers in industry, engineering faculty, engineering school deans and administrators, scienceand technology faculty, ABET, employers in industry, and society as a whole. At the time, wedid not consider the specific needs of undergraduate versus graduate students, but I amdiscovering that there are meaningful differences among them in terms of curriculum design(same holds for educating professions from engineering and technology). This exercise ofprioritizing stakeholders is a strategic decision and I think considering “who is our customer”will help us strengthen our capacities for generating high quality publications.Three opportunitiesOne of the benefits of being an officer in
havebeen documented to negatively affect the progress of women faculty in engineering and otherSTEM areas. This is presented with an iterative identification of elements through differentstages of the academic career, layered with variables that are measurable, and potentialapproaches for future modeling given existing research and the characteristics of the ADVANCEprogram. The challenges of modeling such a complex system are discussed, together withpotential alternatives as a first modeling approach using existing data from different sources.IntroductionFor the advancement of the engineering discipline in the U.S., it is paramount to ensure fairparticipation of all members of its diverse society [1]; promoting women representation at thefaculty
member shared that the online environment made it more difficult forstudents to engage socially and that they were less willing to take risks.Communicating written math in an online environment was another major challenge, particularlyin a course in which that kind of communication was central to its design. The majority ofstudents did not have the ability to write math symbols easily. One GTA noted that students werediscouraged by the inability to write freely and that their enthusiasm for group work was lost.Students’ struggles with online communication were perceived to have had a significant impacton group work. As one GTA said, “Group work doesn’t work if they don’t talk to each other.”One faculty observed that group leaders didn’t emerge
addressing writing issues of students. In addition, Jenkins (1993) found thatgraduate faculty members would re-write anywhere from 11-25% of their students’ theses. Thus,it appears that advisors tend to take on more an role of copy editor than that of writing mentor.The strategies listed above are not necessarily sustainable for graduate faculty nor supportive tostudents who are learning to create an academic and professional “writing persona” (Becker,1986) as well as taking on a “authorial voice” (Hyland, 2002).Engineering-Based Graduate Writing CentersOne writing support initiative that has been undertaken in Colleges of Engineering has been thedevelopment of college-specific writing centers, with the few institutions that have
worldwide pandemic?”While this paper is not about where faculty members were when this happened, it is about thelessons learned after a university campus made the decision to close its doors to in-personlearning in the Spring of 2020. Specifically, this paper explores broad lessons learned forengineering faculty development as well as staff and departmental supports in a universitymakerspace during the 2020 spring and fall semesters. We refer to the abrupt transition to onlineand hybrid courses because of an international pandemic as the COVID-19 pivot.Context These lessons learned were discovered at a large, public research university in thesouthwestern United States. This university boasts an engineering school with an
be a part of this community and hopes to spark the interest of engineering education research within her peer groups and to return to education after industry experience.Mr. Joseph Francis Mirabelli, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign Joseph Mirabelli is an Educational Psychology graduate student at the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign with a focus in Engineering Education. His interests are centered around mentorship, mental health, and retention in STEM students and faculty. He was awarded the 2019 NAGAP Graduate Educa- tion Gold Research Grant award to study engineering faculty perceptions of graduate student well-being and attrition. Before studying education at UIUC, Joseph earned an MS
, Dr. Lord spent a sabbatical at Southeast University in Nanjing, China teaching and doing research. She is on the USD team implementing ”Developing Changemaking Engineers”, an NSF-sponsored Revolutionizing Engineering Education (RED) project. Dr. Lord is the 2018 recipient of the IEEE Undergraduate Teaching Award.Prof. Gordon D. Hoople, University of San Diego Dr. Gordon D. Hoople is an assistant professor and one of the founding faculty members of integrated engineering at the University of San Diego. He is passionate about creating engaging experiences for his students. His work is primarily focused on two areas: engineering education and design. Professor Hoople’s engineering education research examines the ways
, inductive teaching and learning, and development of students’ professional skills.Dr. Anna Sadovnikova, Monmouth University Anna Sadovnikova is an Assistant Professor of Marketing, Leon Hess Business School. Monmouth Uni- versity. Her research interests are in innovation and new product development, technology commercial- ization and management, engineering education, and developing student professional skills. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Transforming Curriculum to Improve STEM Learning and Advance Career Readiness Abstract The paper describes the second stage of a cross-disciplinary study
.— AthenaDemanding advisors who lacked a robust work-life balance and failed to instill a passion for theirresearch in their graduate assistants presented participants with an undesirable career model inacademia. Participants whose advisors were yet to attain tenure exhibited the most acute disdainfor a future in academia. Students in this situation began to question their desire to becomefaculty, which caused them to reevaluate why they were pursuing a doctorate at all.The relationship participants had with their advisors formed a crucial component of theirexperience. Most participants spoke about their frustrations working with faculty memberswhom they did not perceive as being held accountable for subpar mentorship and, in some cases,exploitation of
Engineers (PECASE), a National Science Foundation CAREER award, and two outstand- ing publication awards from the American Educational Research Association for her journal articles. All of Dr. Borrego’s degrees are in Materials Science and Engineering. Her M.S. and Ph.D. are from Stanford University, and her B.S. is from University of Wisconsin-Madison. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Applying Research on Reducing Student Resistance to Active Learning Through Faculty Development: Project UpdateAbstract This paper provides an update on our research study about active learning in highereducation science, technology, engineering
. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Reclassifying Teaching Methods based on a Comparison of Student and Faculty Perceptions of Corporate Social Responsibility in the ClassroomAbstract Though Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has been identified as an important part ofundergraduate and graduate curriculum for the Mining and Petroleum Departments by both industry andprofessors, there seems to be a difference between student identification of CSR content that could indicatea difference in teaching styles and possible effectiveness. We know very little about engineering professors’experiences of teaching CSR to engineering students. Previous research has investigated how
Business Model Canvas (BMC) (Osterwalder et al., 2010).Rather than creating market value, as in the BMC, the intention is to help a faculty member intentionallynavigate a career of fulfilment and purpose. Just as the BMC implies that there is no one way to start asuccessful business, there is no one way to be a successful faculty member. Several design principles from 1the BMC were used. First, a canvas is a single page, with large blank spaces that invite exploration andflexibility. Simple frameworks reduce cognitive load and can be more easily internalized, such that theycan become a persistent mental image to help make future decisions
, participantswere most interested in faculty positions but that interest decreased over time (M = 3.60 to 3.33). Theirinterest in obtaining an industry research position increased over time (M = 3.40 to 4.33) and it was thehighest among other options (e.g., a faculty position, a research position in a university, start-up) in Year3. From the responses to an open-ended question, it seemed that participants got into the program with asolid career goal, primarily a faculty position, but they changed their mind as they became more aware ofspecific interests they had. “Upon first entering the graduate program, I had complete desire to enter academia and become a professor. However, I am the type of person who likes to try new things, and