alone.Kayla’s NarrativeOne of the reasons that I was drawn to the company was because the recruiters were explicitabout how important it was to have women working in engineering firms. A lot of companiesprobably say that, but I really felt like they genuinely meant it because they did have a lot offemale engineers working for them. My company took pride in hiring lots of female engineeringstaff. I had one supervisor, whose name is Amy and then her supervisor who I was also incontact with, Jane. They were the two primary people that I talked to.I was working on one project, primarily, and I would just do kind of the odds and ends on otherprojects. I worked on things that were not busy work, but also did not need critical engineeringskills, obviously
furtheruse their perspectives for more informed intervention design.In this work in progress paper, the findings that are presented are a part of an ongoing NSFfunded project to understand how to get more Black male engineers to pursue advanced degreesin engineering and go into the engineering professoriate. Of the research questions that are a partof the ongoing work: 1) What factors influenced Black males to pursue graduate degrees inengineering? 2) What assets/strengths do Black males possess who persist or plan to continue inengineering beyond undergraduate studies? Only research question 1 will be explored in thispaper. This manuscript provides a brief review of the literature and overview of the study’smethodology. Findings are then presented
(Mack et al., 2019).MethodThis participatory case study used iterative analytic practices. Author 1 has fourteen years ofexperience with the case at hand through multiple project evaluations and social science researchefforts, including 5 years evaluating the RED grant. Author 2 is a faculty member at Universityof Texas at El Paso in a social science department and led social science efforts with a team ofgraduate students locally, including course observations, interviews and focus groups withstudents, and participant observation in RED grant meetings. We employed Merriam andTisdell’s practice of intertwining data collection and analysis (Meriam and Tisdel 2015),utilizing constant comparative methods of meaning-making (Charmaz, 2006). First
was selected over HACK due to the connotations of the term, particularly in its exclusionof craftsman and artistic elements [8]. A 2020 analysis of co-words provides continual supportfor this hypothesis. The name is neither controlled nor regulated by MAKE, unlike many othercategories."FabLab" had its origin in the MIT Center for Bits and Atoms, as a project to introducefabrication tools to students and wider communities [9]. The Fab Foundation, founded in 2009 asa nonprofit, [10] now maintains a user-submitted directory of "FabLabs" [11]. The termmakerspace is used as a generic signifier, with FabLab used as a specific member organization.Similar to FabLab, TechShop was a for-profit enterprise started in 2006 intended to provideaccess to
. Students participated in one of the following design projects in their firstsemester at the university: (1) designing a recycling sorting process for hand towels in a localbasketball arena; (2) designing a modality to improve safety of campus infrastructure; (3)designing toys for differently abled children in collaboration with a local partner; or (4)participating in a separate community-engaged experience. Thus, most students did notparticipate in a course explicitly focused on service-learning, but all students participated in acommunity-oriented design project. Table 1 includes participant pseudonyms.Table 1. Participant overview Student Interview Mode Amelia In-person Ethan In-person Grace In-person
motivation on the exam performance.Ahn et al. [3] investigated one component of the hybrid course format for the Mechanics ofMaterials course. The student’s interaction with online videos in terms of their video-viewingbehaviors was examined.Kazeruni et al. [4] focused on the comparing two different pedagogical approaches betweentraditional engineering and business school courses to develop complementary skills amongststudents by combining both approaches in a single course of Introduction to Nanobiotechnologyand Nanobioscience. The study lacked in showing the design of the instructional coursestructure, which could have proven beneficial for the faculty.A project-based approach was introduced for an aerospace engineering course that used thedesign
manages the day-to-day administrative and program functions of the graduate traineeship in rural resource resiliency for food, energy and water systems.Prof. Matthew R. Sanderson, Kansas State University Matthew R. Sanderson is the Randall C. Hill Distinguished Professor of Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work and Professor of Geography and Geospatial Sciences at Kansas State University. Currently, he is working on several projects that examine co-evolving relations between humans and ecosystems.Dr. Rebecca Cors, Wisconsin Center for Education Research Rebecca Cors is a researcher and evaluator with the Wisconsin Center for Education Research, UW- Madison, who focuses on science and nature learning, which often happens
-Car Competition Conference and Liberal Arts International Conference (LAIC). Her current research focuses on Designing Novel Electro-catalysts To- wards Selective and Robust Saline Water Oxidation and Reduction. She aspires to work as a chemical engineer in the oil and gas industry in Qatar.Rand Yehia Alagha, Texas A&M University at Qatar Rand Alagha is a Petroleum Engineering undergraduate at Texas A&M University at Qatar. She does research in different areas related to petroleum engineering all as part of the Undergraduate Research Experience Program (UREP). In addition, she has done research projects that are interested in improving the students’ learning experience as part of the Transformative
Engineering, all first-year students follow a commoncurriculum, as part of a “Cornerstone to Capstone” curriculum design adopted in 2015. TheCornerstone course is taken in the students’ first year, and uses projects to emphasize the ways inwhich engineering can develop practical problem-solving applications. The course was carefullydesigned to help first-year students achieve success in the program regardless of the specificengineering major they select in their second year. The program has been continually reevaluatedand redesigned over the past several years, and the addition of the information literacy workshophas been one step in Cornerstone’s evolution. Prior to the workshops, instructors noted limiteduse of citations and academic references in
, we strongly encouragethem to apply for many scholarships. We believe once they apply for one, they will not stopseeking new scholarship opportunities. They just needed that little push to encourage newexperiences.! Topic: Career Center Services Presentation and CAPSPurpose: Staff from these professional centers came to our class and introduced all their servicesand their importance. Job mine, Internships, Peer Career Advisors, Mocking Interviews, andfinally help with Resumes. For CAPS, the counseling center's stress workshops and theimportance of balancing outside school life for mental health.! Topic: Research Projects 1 and 2Purpose: As with all of our lectures, each of our projects has a unique purpose. The first projectwe asked for was a
conditions. This work explores the relationshipbetween stigma of mental illness and help-seeking attitudes of engineering students usingresponses from an online survey from 79 students at two institutions. Results show a negativecorrelation that suggest that higher general stigma levels are associated with lower help-seekingattitudes. In addition, the relationship between students’ engineering department diversityorientation and help-seeking attitudes differed between those who had experiences with MHCand those who did not, suggesting that the perceptions of diversity orientation might also differamong the two groups. This is part of an ongoing research project aiming to characterize thedynamics of engineering culture and wellbeing through multiple
of IntersectionalityKristen R. Moore, University at BuffaloWalter Hargrove, University at BuffaloNathan R. Johnson, University of South FloridaFernando Sánchez, University of St. ThomasAbstractUsing a citation network analysis, this project analyzes the 209 instances of the term“intersectionality” in the ASEE PEER repository to locate the central authors and texts thatinform the field’s use of the term. In this citational analysis, we suggest that the limited citationof Black women should be interrogated and redressed as a form of inequity. Framing this projectwithin the politics of citation and the current campaign to #CiteBlackWomen, we work toexplore how the term “intersectional” has been embraced, whose theories have been adopted,ignored
, she recently, in December 2020, graduated with a Master of Science in Project Management from The Citadel.Dr. Nandan Hara Shetty, The Citadel Dr. Nandan Hara Shetty is an assistant professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering at The Citadel, located in Charleston, South Carolina. He received his BE from Dartmouth College and his MS/PhD from Columbia University, researching the performance of rain gardens and roof gardens. He also worked for 11 years as an environmental engineer on construction and research of green infrastructure for the New York City Parks Department. Nandan is highly interested in engaging students, while pursuing dialogue with cities on urban climate and water research.Dr. William J. Davis
funded clusters of projects inengineering education research and practice that seek to define this emerging pattern. In addition,a series of academic articles, authored by influential policy thinkers, including universitypresidents and officials at the MoE, help elaborate the background, objectives, and implicationsof the 3E policy [16-19]. The official 3E policy documents are quite succinct in stating the goalsand strategies of engineering education reforms. To provide more context about the policydiscourse, we also examine four academic articles that aim to interpret the policy, authored byscholars who participated in the conversations that led to the formulation of the official 3E policydocuments.The following three sections present a close
classroom and laboratory curricula including online course platforms, and integrated technologies. She has been involved in both private and government grants as author and project director, and is currently PI of an NSF ATE grant, ”Increasing the Number of Engineering Technicians in Southeastern Pennsylvania.” A major goal of this collaborative effort with Drexel University is to connect for-credit, occupational technician education to workforce development certification programs. She was the faculty advisor to two student teams that made the final round of the NSF AACC Community College Innovation Challenge (CCIC) in 2016 and 2017. She and her students have been involved in STEM related outreach to local community
; Tamblyn, 1980; Boud & Feletti, 1997). The method requires carefully defined sets of problems that engage students in a structured process to develop a higher level of learning (Dahlgren, 2003). Class time can be dedicated for mini lectures to help scaffolding the problem, class discussions or students reporting (Norman & Schmidt, 1992; Weiss, 2003). Students learning in problem-based learning is self- directed, with the instructor playing the role of a facilitator (a coach, or a “guide on the side”) (Duch, Groh & Allen, 2001; Tan, 2003) 10 • Project-based learning: Project
be reduced solely to the question of how much development, butrather the more challenging question of how much of what kind of development could beoccurring.Impetus for developing the assessment instrumentThis paper describes the process by which we developed an assessment instrument to measurestudents’ interpretive understanding of engineering design concepts as nascent indication ofdeveloping expertise in the middle school engineering education context. We had multipleinterrelated goals for this project. In part, we realized the need to create a new alternativeassessment as one of several means by which we might evaluate student learning outcomesrelated to a narratively-based engineering curriculum aligned to the Next Generation
Paper ID #34925Engineering Graduate Education: An Overwhelming Journey ofFirst-Generation ImmigrantsDr. Hoda Ehsan, Georgia Institute of Technology Hoda is a postdoctoral fellow at Center for Education Integrating Science, Mathematics & Computing at Georgia Institute of Technology. She received her Ph.D. from the School of Engineering Education, Purdue. She received her B.S. in mechanical engineering in Iran, and obtained her M.S. in Childhood Education and New York teaching certification from City College of New York (CUNY-CCNY). She is now a graduate research assistant on STEM+C project. Her research interests
the survey were invited to an interview conducted near the endof the Winter semester or during the summer.Following the interview findings regarding team project experience (2016), we posed newquestions about peer relations in 2017. Findings from the 2017 interviews revealed topics relatedto equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI). New questions were included in 2018 interviews toexplore EDI-related experiences and discourses. This paper focuses on the data from studentswho were interviewed in 2018. In summer 2018, the [first author] met with 4 male and 3 femalestudents, to examine issues linked with inclusion and exclusion. This led to a greaterunderstanding of the issues linked with gender, socioeconomic status, and race, as well as
Education through NAU’s Center for Science Teaching and Learning. Her areas of interest include broadening participation in STEM, math curriculum development, and out-of-school time STEM experiences.Dr. Nena E. Bloom, Northern Arizona University Dr. Nena Bloom is an evaluator and education researcher at the Center for Science Teaching and Learning at Northern Arizona University. The primary area of her work is evaluating STEM education projects that focus on opportunities for, and retention of, K-20 students in STEM areas, majors and fields. She also conducts education research focusing on questions about professional development for educators and how educators support student learning in STEM
because it teaches you to obtainknowledge on your own and gives you a better understanding of the world that you live in. It also teaches you tothink critically and evaluate the information that you are receiving very quicklyI felt that I could show my creativity and what my mind can do which in college I do not believe there is enoughfreedom to express oneself in the classroom.TeamworkIt also displayed not just out thermodynamics abilities, but our skills to be leaders and work in a team, which areessential to be a great engineer. I think out project came out very well and I’m proud of how much we accomplishedand learned in just 3 hoursAlso, the group setting allows for a variety of ideas and backgrounds to come together in a unique way. The
French in 2020 from the University of Rhode Island. Besides her academic duties, she also works as a Learning and Talent Coordinator and consultant in Providence, RI where she works on various projects on teacher’s loans forgiveness programs, curriculum improvement and case management. Dira’s current research interests align with diversity, equity, and inclusion, specifically for Women of color, as well as community building and involvement American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Thinking as Argument: A Theoretical Framework for Studying How Faculty Arrive at Their Deeply-held Beliefs about Inequity in
has experience with outreach projects focused on STEM education and mentoring.Dr. Alexandra Coso Strong, Florida International University As an assistant professor of engineering education at Florida International University, Dr. Alexandra Coso Strong works and teaches at the intersection of engineering education, faculty development, and complex systems design. Alexandra completed her doctorate in aerospace engineering at Georgia Tech. Prior to attending Georgia Tech, Alexandra received a bachelor’s degree in aerospace engineering from MIT and a master’s degree in systems engineering from the University of Virginia. Alexandra comes to FIU af- ter completing a postdoctoral fellowship at Georgia Tech’s Center for
training of mathematics teachers that is at the core of this problem. Since enrollment at UIC, Janet had dedicated her studies and research efforts on Mathematics Socialization and identity amongst pre-service elementary teachers, an effort at understanding the reasons for lack of interest in the subject with a view to proffer solution and engender/motivate interest amongst this group that will eventually reflect in their classroom practices. She is currently a Graduate Assistant with UIC Engage, a commu- nity focused project that provides help for less-privileged students from K-8 in mathematics, reading and writing. She continues to work as a substitute teacher occasionally to keep abreast with current practices
of the first 6 modules has one or more pre-lab homeworkassignments, lectures that include in-class activities, and an associated lab experiment performedin groups. The Mechanical Measurements module has an optional lab activity that the studentsperform as individuals for extra credit. The final module provides information on best practicesfor oral and written presentations as well as a guest speaker describing how measurements areused in their academic research. In addition, there is a required term project performed with thelab group. For the term project the teams are required to propose, design, execute, and report ona measurement experiment of their choosing. Student teams can borrow lab equipment or usefixed equipment on campus for
. In order to representthe second factor, “drawing to communicate ideas”, three items were designed including drawingto communicate ideas, drawing to explain or teach a concept to others, and drawing to generatecreative ideas for a project. In order to measure the third factor, “drawing to solve problems”,two items were developed that included drawing to think through a truss problem, and drawingunder pressure to come up with an idea. In order to measure the fourth factor, “drawing to create”,two items were developed that included drawing to express myself and drawing from imagination.Fabrigar also recommends that a factor is represented by three to five items while designing studiesfor performing EFA [29]. The hypothesized third and fourth
courses that explored technical and societal integration,and more design courses and projects that included themes of human-centered design andsystems thinking (Wisnioski, 2012). Paul B. Daitch at Rochester Polytechnic Instituteemphasized design as "the major vehicle which relates technique and society" (Daitch, 1970, p.21).PurposeFirst-Year Engineering (FYE) courses have received attention from practitioners and scholarsalike in the past couple of decades (Pendergrass et al., 2001; Kilgore et al., 2007). The First-Year Programs division of ASEE had 28 papers associated with it in the 2020 Annualconference alone. There is some agreement on the content that is taught in these courses,which comprises concepts such as design, mathematical modeling
Paper ID #32717Exploring Student Responses to Utility-value Interventions inEngineering StaticsMr. Lorenzo Laxamana Ruiz, California Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo Lorenzo L. Ruiz is a 4th year Industrial Engineering student at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. Throughout his undergraduate career, he has completed internships in various fields being exposed to manufacturing operations, business systems, and continuous improvement environments. He is currently working to- wards a career in technical project management. He has served three years on the board of the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers which
—rather than investigating systemic or “watershed”-type hazards [13]-[15]. Someapproaches that aim toward broadening faculty teaching strategies rather than protecting studentsfrom them include integrating relevant applications of STEM content; emphasizing the societalcontext and social justice implications of engineering work [16]; and using project-basedlearning to engage students in real-world applications and collaborative work [17].Moreover, engineering’s tendency to cling to an idea of itself as “apolitical” and “neutral,” ratherthan acknowledging its social construction and baked-in centering of white masculinity, has beenshown to be correlated with the marginalization of under-represented participants in engineeringculture [18],[19]. The
to be delivered in a distance learning format.At the University of Cincinnati, a large, urban, midwestern university, a common first-yearengineering design course sequence is taught, which focuses on developing students’ design,algorithmic, mathematical, and spatial thinking skills along with other professional skills such aswritten and oral communication, teamwork, and professional ethics. The course meets twice aweek for two hours each and relies heavily on team-based, hands-on activities and projects tohelp students learn the course material. Additionally, the course uses a flipped classroomapproach, where students watch assigned videos or read selected chapters from the textbookprior to attending class and spend most of class time