the role of menteecould promote relational identity development as the mentee creates a bond with their mentor,and later on the role of mentor might promote communal identity development as the mentorshifts focus to giving back to the community. The researchers plan to further explore thesepossible relationships as they relate to RQ3, particularly relating to the complexity of developingrelationships and community against the backdrop of the global pandemic. In an effort to supportmentors and mentees in their academic careers both as they participate within and beyond thecontainer of the Program, future research will begin the consideration of a systemic frameworkthat is capable of registering the relationships between more discrete
a graduation senior Industrial Engineering student at Pennsylvania State University. She has been an active mentor within the Women in Engineering Program and in the organization Undergraduate Teaching and Research Experiences in Engineering. During the Spring 2021 semester, she has helped to market the writing reports online tutorial to more Penn State engineering faculty and students. Kaitlyn is looking forward to starting her career in business operations consulting after graduation.Dr. Stephanie Cutler, Pennsylvania State University Dr. Stephanie Cutler has degrees in Mechanical Engineering, Industrial and Systems Engineering, and a PhD in Engineering Education from Virginia Tech. She is an Assistant Research
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functional organizations. Provides a good interface with the outside customer. Promotes effective interdisciplinary task integration. Promotes an efficient use of production resources. Promotes effective project control, as programmatic concerns are assigned to a single individual. Promotes career continuity and professional growth, as each functional individual has a home after project completion. Perpetuates technology. By this, functional resources gain the benefit of a functional strength, which can be transferred to the program of the day. Functional knowledge is available for all projects on an equal basis.Disadvantages of this type of organizational structure include: Dual accountability of
challenges encourage students to think for themselves and come up with theirown ideas in the absence of the step-by-step instructions often provided in classroom settings.Above all else, the literature indicates that robotics competitions provide students with exposureto STEM fields and help increase their likelihood of pursuing a career in STEM [5,6].The widespread success of many in-person educational robotics competitions combined with theincreasing capabilities of the digital world has led to the existence of several asynchronousonline robotics competitions [7]. These competitions provide a challenge prompt, deadlines, andcriteria by which each submission will be judged. Participants work on the challenge in teams oras individuals and then
American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Ashmun Express - A Mobile-Based Study Application for STEM StudentsAbstractThere has been an increase in the usage of technology in classrooms nationwide, fromsmartboards to study applications. The dearth of the latter as a part of the curriculum for STEMstudents in higher education and particularly at a historically black university prompted twoprofessors in biology and computer science to develop a mobile application that focuses on mathapplications in a variety of biological fields.The prime objective of the mobile app - codenamed Ashmun Express - is to serve as a tool forearly career STEM majors, almost all of whom have
focused on the organometallic chemistry and electrocatalytic reduction of CO2. During his postdoctoral work at Indiana University he continued to focus on small molecule activation using molecular modeling methods under supervision of professors, Baik, Caulton and Mindiola. Jos´e started his teaching career at Lamar University in 2012 and has been part of the teaching faculty at the University of Illinois since 2014. At Illinois, Jos´e has a deep interest in interdisciplinary projects, including study abroad courses and more recently with the Illinois Global Institute.Dr. Olivia C. Coiado, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Dr. Olivia C Coiado Teaching Assistant Professor, Medical Education Facilitator Course
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VLSI memories.Dr. Christopher V. Hollot, University of Massachusetts Amherst C.V. Hollot received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Rochester in 1984 after which he joined the ECE Department at the University of Massachusetts Amherst where he is presently Department Head. His research interests are in the theory and application of feedback control.Mr. George Bryan Polivka, Shorelight Education Bryan Polivka is currently the Senior Director for Shorelight Education, focused on instructional design and learning architecture for Field Degrees. Over the course of his career he has helped schools, universi- ties, corporations, and non- profits by providing both strategy and strategically positioned
development, earthquake engineering, diversity and inclusion in engineering programs.Dr. Shane A. Brown P.E., Oregon State University Shane Brown is an associate professor and Associate School Head in the School of Civil and Environmen- tal Engineering at Oregon State University. His research interests include conceptual change and situated cognition. He received the NSF CAREER award in 2010 and is working on a study to characterize prac- ticing engineers’ understandings of core engineering concepts. He is a Senior Associate Editor for the Journal of Engineering Education.Dr. Matthew Stephen Barner, Mackenzie Structural Engineer at Mackenzie Research interests include: engineering education, diffusions of innovation
with university faculty to promote and extend K20 STEM outreach in Ohio, Oregon, Texas, and Wyoming. He has authored peer-reviewed articles and papers, presented at national and international conferences, and taught under- graduate/graduate courses in Computer Security, Data Mining, VLSI and pedagogy in STEM.Dr. Andrea Carneal Burrows, University of Wyoming Dr. Andrea C. Burrows is a Professor and Associate Dean for Undergraduate Programs at the University of Wyoming (UW) in the College of Education (CoEd).She received her doctorate degree from the Uni- versity of Cincinnati in 2011.She was awarded the UW CoEd Early Career Fellowship (2013), UW CoEd Faculty Award for Outstanding Research and Scholarship (2015), UW
: Throughout the project, I have learned plenty of skills. Some skills that I strengthened during this project were problem solving, designing of new parts, and integrating creative ideas to simulate something in the real world. Problem solving skills are essential to everyday life and especially in the field of engineering. These skills within this project showed through the process of designing the modular pieces to become something truly relevant in the real world and it proved to be difficult at some times. Throughout my high school and college career, I’ve loved designing new parts by using applications such as SolidWorks and Autodesk Inventor. By designing the new parts such as spur gears, rack
Paper ID #32290Development, Implementation, and Evaluation of an Asynchronous OnlineElectric Circuits LaboratoryProf. Wesley G. Lawson, University of Maryland College Park Prof. Lawson has earned five degrees from the University of Maryland, including a Ph,D, in Electrical Engineering in 1985. In his professional career at College Park, where he has been a full professor since 1997, he has worked on high-power microwave devices, medical devices, and engineering education. He is an author or coauthor on 5 books and 72 refereed journal articles and over 200 conference presentations and publications.Dr. Jennifer L. Kouo
2020 terms. The survey consisted of twelve questions to determine the impact thatthe remote environment had on the course outcomes, the students' overall learning experience,and student preferences (see Table 2). Responses were collected using Likert scales, multiple-choice, and free-text formats. Table 2. Survey questions. Question Response Type Course Outcomes and Curriculum Q1. How relevant was this course in preparing you for a career as an Industrial Likert Scale Engineer? Q2. Which three Industrial Engineering
are satisfiedwith the design of the Engineering and Science Modeling course. The results suggest thatstudents achieve the course's objectives and get real-life experience working with the challengesin each avenue. The introductory course raises students' awareness of the different engineeringareas that might not interest them; however, they value the importance of those areas. Raisingstudents' awareness of the different engineering areas aligns with institutional efforts to helpstudents enter a globalized world and improve their interdisciplinary job market competencies.Another important conclusion is that the course helps students reflect on their career choices.After taking the course, some decided to change their degree in the School of
as a learning tool,” while another wrote, “problem solving takes going back and retrying,refitting, over and over again to get it right, or what you want it to be. Along the way you learnregardless.” Teachers especially liked the portion of the lessons where students wereconstructing, testing, and revising their designs, as this both engaged students and helped themlearn through trial and error, like engineers do. Interactive science centers are in a uniqueposition to provide opportunities for engineering education through K-12 field trip programs.Early experiences in engineering and science have been shown to be important for developing aninterest in STEM and motivation for pursuing STEM careers. The Engineering Explorationscurriculum
investigate the impact of an emotional experience coupled with a targeted ethical intervention,we used a sophomore level Experiential Learning Seminar (ExpLS) over the course of two years,Spring 2017 and Spring 2019, for a total of 50 students with 35 participating in the survey. Thesestudents had declared or were planning to declare their major in biomedical engineering. Thecourse met once a week for 50 minutes and was focused on building professional skills in areflective environment including team-building, communication, and leadership. Each year thecourse was run, there was a slightly different line up of topics ranging from the biodesign process,personal values, listening and empathy, future career plans, and ethics based on the faculty
Paper ID #33727Exploring Self-directed Learning Among Engineering Undergraduates in theExtensive Online Instruction Environment During the COVID-19 PandemicDr. Qin Liu, University of Toronto Dr. Qin Liu is Senior Research Associate with the Institute for Studies in Transdisciplinary Engineering Education and Practice, Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering, University of Toronto, Canada. Her research interests include engineering students’ competency development, learning assessment and career trajectories, and equity, diversity and inclusion issues in engineering education.Ms. Juliette Sweeney, University of Toronto
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
thecurriculum to better prepare students for their future careers. His three courses though were allon-campus and viewed from one instructor's perspective. The challenges he faced were budget,logistics, and course workload issues and he plans to address them in his future work.Team formation is always a challenging task in a group design project. It is always a dilemmawhere the students will select their team members or the instructor will assign the team members.However, it is found that the success of a team doesn't depend on the team formation procedure[18]. In a second-year client-centered design course at the University of Ottawa, the teams wereformed in two ways by dividing the students into two groups. One group could pick their teammembers as
viewed asemployees. In this view, students develop the engineering knowledge and skills they need fortheir career, akin to employees producing products to a specification. As with an assembledproduct, the quality of the value-added process at each stage of a manufacturing process directlyimpacts downstream components, especially if there is a direct reliance for a particularrequirement. For example, calculus is required in nearly all engineering courses, and competencyin calculus can be analogous to quality of an input stage early in the manufacturing processinitiated by the employee.Finally, we present a learner-centered course redesign of a statics course to show theapplicability of modern manufacturing principles towards improving engineering
University (2014-2017). Throughout his career, his primary responsibility as a faculty member has been teaching students, for which he aspires to provide them with a quality and enjoyable experience. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 AMechanics Race: An Exam Review ActivityAbstractReviewing for exams can sometimes be tedious and overwhelming for students. While it isimperative the students know the content for the exams, reviewing concepts only or usinginstructor-solved examples may not help prepare the students as well as if the students practicedproblems.Welcome to AMechanics Race! In this engaging activity, teams of students race around
Paper ID #34756A Model for Conducting K-12 STEM Summer Outreach Programs DuringtheCOVID-19 PandemicDr. William A. Kitch, Angelo State University Dr. Kitch is Professor and Chair of the David L. Hirschfeld Department of Engineering at Angelo State University. Before starting his academic career he spent 24 years as a practicing engineer in both the public and private sector. He is a registered professional engineer in Colorado, California and TexasMs. Andrea L. Robledo, Angelo State University Dr. Andrea Robledo received her PhD in Higher Education and Student Affairs from Indiana University. Dr. Robledo currently serves as
mightthey be feeling? What might they be seeing? What might they be hearing? Can you see yourselfin the subjects or do you see someone distinctly different from you? Can you hear your ownvoice narrating or the voice of someone you know? Can you feel what they are feeling or are youchallenged by the unfamiliarity of the narratives?The Circle DanceOn a round stage, circling the point of engineering identity, I fix my eyes on the identity I aspire to.Circling and circling my eyes stay fixed on the goal. All of me committed to an idea, my education, my career, my thoughts, my values, my sense of worth, my ego, my paradigm… me. I am going to be an engineer.Standing, tightly circling in place, on the point of
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Testing lab at Missouri S&T, teaches mechanics of materials and develops digital educational resources for the engineering students. He had the opportunity of leading several scientific and industrial research projects and mentoring graduate and undergraduate students. Over the span of his career, Dr. Libre authored and co-authored 3 chapter books, 17 peer-reviewed journal articles and over 60 conference papers. He has advised and co-advised 8 gradu- ate students and mentored over 30 undergraduate students. He has collaborated with scholars from several countries, including Iran, China, Slovenia, Canada, and the US. He also served as a reviewer for 6 journals and a committee member of 5 conferences. He is the
Course and Lab Projects Development Director at Stanford, where he brings his 25-year industry experience to the role. He is responsible for the ongoing strategy, design, curriculum plan and instruction plans for capstone courses in the Mechanical Engineering Department, as part of a broad effort to redesign the curriculum requirements for the undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering. Jeff has over twenty years’ product development and manufacturing experience bringing medical and consumer products to market, through the course of my career journey with Apple, SGI, Nektar, Boston Scientific and Amazon/Lab126. In addition to working with and training engineers in industry, his 9+ years coaching and teaching
? o What approaches or activities do you provide that are valuable to students? In what ways are these valuable for their pathway towards a future career? o Do your instructional approaches provide more value than what they can get from competing resources (such as reading a book or online materials)?• Key Activities: The key activities are your instructional approaches that you use in the course. These include 1) instructional strategies to teach (i.e., lecture, active learning), activities students do (i.e., group work, projects), and assessment strategies (tests, homework, etc.). When considering your key activities, consider the following: o When considering your value propositions
. This means that subjective improvements demonstrated in survey knowledgeratings were also accompanied by objective improvements according to the course assessmentmechanisms, which presents a strong case that the modules are effective in educating participantsfor what is assessed and that they align with the learning goals set forth for this project.5.3 Anecdotal feedback from students and STEM professionalsA mid-career professional who used the materials as a graduate student, commented, “Iparticularly appreciated...using the teaching tools you and your students have developed. Quitehonestly, I wish they were around when I was in undergrad - I would have understood the materialso much more easily!” Two personnel from the Naval
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