American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) emphasizes ethical practice of theirmembers by stating in the AIChE Code of Ethics that members shall “hold paramount the safety,health, and welfare of the public and protect the environment in performance of their professionalduties” [1]. This is similar to other professional engineering societies including the NationalSociety of Professional Engineers. Aligned with such codes of ethics of various professionalsocieties and broader societal needs, ABET has included “an ability to recognize ethical andprofessional responsibilities in engineering situations and make informed judgments” [2] as arequired student outcome for engineering programs. However, while there have been continuingendeavors to
Rehabilitation, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY. Registered Professional Engineer (Ohio). Robinson’s ethics teaching style comes from an amalgam of academic, industrial (Bell Labs), governmen- tal (VA) and clinical experiences, plus an interest in ethics from his undergraduate days.Ms. Loretta Driskel, Clarkson University Since the late 1990’s Loretta’s passion has been to create engaging, diverse teaching and learning ex- periences for students and faculty. As the senior instructional designer at Clarkson University, she has presented at conferences such as the Online Learning Consortium and over the past two decades, she has also presented at a wide variety of other venues including ADEIL; Sloan-C
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strategize this way. Pre-tenure faculty or graduate students would not be wise to contact some track coordinatorsbecause, depending on the conference, this can get early-career scholars blackballed or labeled as“difficult,” especially white women and scholars of color. Similarly, early-career scholars cannotalways risk withdrawing a paper that has been accepted for publication simply because thereviewer doesn’t accept their methodological or linguistic choices.Second, the power of the reject in most cases (as in this one) is that it is a coalitional move—thepurpose of a reveal is to seek out others who might be willing to work with you to replace unjustbehaviors, procedures, etc. In this case, the lead author was able to reveal directly to
in a variety of industry sectors and the ‘lessons learned’ andtakeaways from the course and reported over time. This longitudinal approach to course alumnisurveys can be adapted for and implemented in other courses and environments for purposes ofcurriculum refinement and quality improvement in order to accommodate the needs of keystakeholders including the faculty and teaching team, alumni, and current and future students. 1. BACKGROUND/LITERATURE REVIEWIt is well recognized that the engineering degree prepares graduates to work and thrive in adiverse array of fields within and beyond engineering [1-3]. These decisions about what joboptions to pursue often occur again and again throughout one’s professional trajectory, from thefirst job
case studies that outlines or highlights key features and ideas that relevantand should be considered when designing an engineering curriculum to meet the 21st century. Inthe case study by Garvey & Foley [30], it is emphasized that a curriculum should be more inclusive,not exclusive, because every person in this world deserves a chance to participate in developingand sustaining the future of humanity. Problems cannot be solved from one scenario or angle. Wewill always need other eyes to explore other ways of solving challenges. The most importantqualities of having an inclusive curriculum are to consider flexibility and clarity when designing ordeveloping the curriculum.Another article [31] talks about a case study of redesigning the
careers. For graduate students and postdoctoral associates who are alsolearning to be effective researchers and professionals, the importance of proper mentoring is vitalto their success and long-term career choices.Studies of the impact of mentorship have shown that students who receive strong mentoring duringresearch experiences have enhanced self-efficacy toward their research experiences [3-7]; greaterpersistence while engaged in research [8-10], increased research productivity [11-12], overallhigher career satisfaction [13-14], and enhanced recruitment of underrepresented students [15].However, as noted above, faculty members are often not well prepared to provide effectivementoring. Often first year faculty are mentoring for the first time
. Homero Murzi is an engineering educator with 15 years of experience interacting withundergraduate engineering students. He has worked most of his academic career to improve theway students learn engineering concepts by making sure they are engaged and their personalexperiences are valued in the classroom. He is originally from Venezuela where he worked for11 years as a faculty member at a public technical university. Here in the U.S., he has alsoworked at a predominantly white institution and interacted as well as experienced how studentsfrom traditionally marginalized populations have barriers to become engineers. He hasintentionally tried to be aware of how to develop more inclusive experiences in both his researchand teaching practices, while
Coordinator for the Engineering Competencies, Learning, and Inclusive Practices for Success (ECLIPS) Lab in the De- partment of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech. Johnny is also a Graduate/Teaching Assistant to the Grad School Certificate Program - Preparing the Future Professoriate. He has a Master in Educational Foundations and Management and a Bachelor in Sociology. His research interests include STEM edu- cation (policy and foreign-born students and workforce), migration and immigration issues in education; international higher education/international students; and quality assurance in higher education.Dr. Homero Murzi, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Homero Murzi is an Assistant Professor in
education research community in the U.S. has specified the nature of instructionalstrategies in retaining students in STEM-related courses, with a focus on an integrated STEMcurriculum designed to improve non-cognitive factors, such as interest, while developingpositive attitudes towards STEM [5][6][7]. Interests and attitudes in science develop early in astudent’s life, and it is important to develop these attitudes as they are motivators towardspursuing STEM fields and careers [8] [9]. More recently, the National Academies of Sciences,Engineering and Medicine (NASEM) 2017 report on supporting student’s college success hashighlighted the importance of intrapersonal and interpersonal competencies and the evolvingneed for labor market recruits to
Tech, her MS degree in Biomedical Engineering from the joint program between Virginia Tech and Wake Forest University, and her PhD in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Surrey.Dr. Lauren Lowman, Wake Forest University Lauren Lowman is a Founding Faculty member and an Assistant Professor in the Engineering Depart- ment at Wake Forest University and has served in this role since 2018. In this role, she has developed new interdisciplinary curriculum that bridges engineering fields and reflects the Wake Forest University motto of Pro Humanitate (”For Humanity”). Lauren received a Ph.D. and M.S. in Civil and Environ- mental Engineering with a focus in Hydrology and Fluid Dynamics from Duke University, and a B.A
structured class. Findings from thestudy illustrated how students were able to develop core competencies such as in CAD-CAMwhile characterizing the kinds of mistakes that students make in developing said competencies.We conclude on the illustration of a future iteration of an M3 curriculum, one where thechallenges students typically face in CAD-CAM are purposefully woven into the assignmentsthemselves, serving as a way to provoke awareness and improvement in skill development.Introduction‘Making through Micro-Manufacturing’ (M3 ) [1, 2] provides a model of how to couple theflexibility of ‘Making’ with the concerns of production engineering. Such an approach inproduction emphasizes customizability and personalization in product design. Because of
about resolving women’sunderrepresentation in male-dominated STEM fields [6]. This paper describes how alumnae ofMiami University in Oxford, OH, worked with their alma mater to form an external Women’sAdvisory Committee to the College of Engineering and Computing. The group chartered amission to “provide leadership in a collaborative environment with faculty, staff, students,alumni and others to improve recruitment, retention and graduation support for women inengineering and computing…”. Members of the Committee engage with the College regularlyand give both guidance and action to efforts related to student success for women students andfaculty.Recently, the Committee embarked on the development of a strategic plan to maximize theimpact of the
]. Although the need to re-build the curriculum was identified based ondeficiencies, the desire to produce graduates equipped to impact society, or change agents,became the vision” [2].This qualitative study shares multiple teaching assistant and instructor perspectives regarding theimpact of the wholesale curriculum redesign, detail components of the newly created curriculum,and concludes with an exploration of a framework for addressing and managing the need tomaintain an evolving curriculum going forward. Due to the many impacting factors over the pastthree years, such as layered deployment of student success courses and the challenges of thepandemic, limited time will be spent exploring the previous curriculum or performance metriccomparisons
development of faculty in developing and evaluating various engineering curriculum and courses at UPRM, applying the outcome-based educational framework. She has also incorporated theories on social cognitive career choices and student attrition mitigation to investigate the effectiveness of institutional interventions in increasing the retention and academic success of talented engineering students from economically disadvantaged families. She’s also involved in a project that explores the relationship between the institutional policies at UPRM and faculty and graduate students’ motivation to create good relationships between advisors and advisees. American c
. Engineering students who had completed the WGS 250course in Spring 2018 or 2019 but had not yet graduated (N = 7) were invited to one of two focusgroup sessions held in February, 2020. The invitation included a description of the study and anassurance of confidentiality.Informed consent was obtained from the study participants in writing before any questions wereposed. Discussions were facilitated by one author and a faculty colleague, neither of whom hadserved as an instructor for any WGS class. Focus group facilitators provided copies of the WGS250 reading list as a way of reminding participants of past course content and providingreference points for specific reading and authors. In keeping with best practices for focus groupinteractions
work with minority students. She currently works as a graduate assistant and interdis- ciplinary researcher in the Computer Systems Technology department. Her primary research interests include childhood and racial trauma, parents of children with disabilities, and multicultural issues affect- ing underserved and underrepresented populations.Dr. Evelyn Sowells-Boone, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University Dr. Evelyn R. Sowells is an assistant professor in the Computer Systems Technology department at North Carolina A&T State University’s College of Science and Technology. Prior to joining the School of Technology faculty, she held position at U.S. Department of Energy, N.C. A&T’s Division of
ofmentoring were the program coordinator’s alone, without interference from the imposedperceptions of the authors.The authors also recognize that their positionality affected the research. Schill is a white womanwho had favorable experiences in K-12 STEM outreach as a graduate student; survey questionswritten by Schill may have unintentionally been presented in such a way that attractedcoordinators of programs similar to Schill’s experience. Bielefeldt is a white woman who hasparticipated in K-12 outreach activities as a faculty member, but not to a significant degree.Additional limitations stem from the COVID-19 pandemic. The large distractions of initialshutdowns and moves to remote learning alongside email overload in March-May 2020 duringthe
positionality in terms of how I relate to my participants and the research topicsI choose to pursue.Who am I?I am a twenty-nine-year-old, cisgender Black woman who grew up in a blended middle-classChristian family in a rural community in North Carolina. I graduated from the number one publicHistorically Black College/ University with two degrees in Industrial and Systems Engineering.However, since I had the privilege of attending a Historically Black Institution, theunderrepresentation of Black engineers (at large) did not resonate with me until I began my firstinternship as an undergraduate engineering student. Even more so, I never felt undermined bymale peers or faculty. Instead, I felt recognized as a competent engineer. As a Black woman whohas two
). Dr. Akcay Ozkan’s research interests include Online Teaching of Mathematics. She has completed several workshops on online teaching since 2016. She mentors fac- ulty members as they develop their online or partially online courses and assesses their courses with the Quality Matters Rubric. She has served in the eLearning Committee of the college in chair and secretary positions. She is a member of the Math Department’s Best Practices in Teaching and Learning Committee since 2017, and served in chair and secretary positions.Dr. Dona Boccio, City University of New York, Queensborough Community College Dr. Dona Boccio has a Ph.D. in Mathematics from the City University of New York Graduate Center, and an M.S. in
-evaluative outcomes. Bandura hypothesizes that outcome expectations are determined by self-efficacy beliefs, as people will expect positive outcomes for activities that they possess strongself-efficacy. Sheu and colleagues’ meta-analysis of 104 STEM studies found that the foursources explained 42% of the variance in outcome expectations [5].Engineering Career Success and Social CognitionsPrior studies confirm the relationship between self-efficacy beliefs and decisions aroundpursuing or persisting in careers such as in engineering [14,15]. The importance of self-efficacyis reinforced for success in engineering. Thus, attending to the development of students’ self-efficacy and outcome expectations may support engineering student’s persistence in the
power but elected not to do so. This decision resulted in an incredibly harmful outcome forMathiae, who expressed a great deal of concern for incoming mathematics students who mightshare a similar identity to zir. Ze also mentioned that the decision to leave mathematics had anadverse effect on zirs relationship with zirs family, who strongly desired for Mathiae to pursue aSTEM degree. The culmination of trauma that ensued from this incident exacerbated by theineffective “allyship” displayed by the administration weighed so heavily on Mathiae that zebecame observably upset during our interview.Coping StrategiesNavigating power structures within the STEM institution had an adverse effect on theparticipants’ mental health. In order to cope with
mentors(e.g., faculty, alumni, industry members), with whom they could connect. Guided by prompts,students then wrote short stories around specific, salient moments in those formativeexperiences. Through iterative exercises within small groups and with mentors, studentsreflected on their stories and identified themes, which they used to create a set of values andguiding principles. Students then applied those values and guiding principles to createprofessional documents (e.g., resumes, personal statements, LinkedIn biographies) or supporttheir early-career decisions (e.g., selecting a job offer).Following the completion of the course, students who completed ENGR 490 during fall 2020were invited via email to participate in either a focus group or
lab studying solar energy.Learner-centered altruism sometimes means helping students with problems outside the course,such as finding an internship and preparing application materials. One faculty member took apoll of seniors and discovering their concern about the future (both entering graduate school andindustry) chose to implement a series of workshops in their course rather than overburdeningstudents with content. This faculty member implemented workshops designed to bring outsidespeakers with advice and knowledge the students felt as though they lacked (determined throughthe survey). Workshops allowed students to ask questions and gain advice from experts in areassuch as graduate admissions, industry hiring practices, and startup
timemanagement are also emphasized [3]. Further, these capstone projects are also expected to serveas a conduit that connects theoretical learning in classrooms with applied problem-solving in theindustry and prepare the graduating seniors to take on professional responsibilities immediatelyafter graduation [4] [5]. In line with other engineering disciplines in the country, capstone design in biological andagricultural engineering programs is also a two-semester course. The design projects aretypically conceived by the faculty sponsors and sometimes advised by the members of thedepartmental industrial advisory board. In the first semester, the students actively form groupsand select projects that are aligned with their interests (e.g
the University of Washington in Seattle in 1985. He has worked at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md. (1986-1989) and in the Department of Neurosurgery at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, Mass. (1989-1991). Chudler is currently a research associate professor in the Department of Bioengineering and the executive director of the Center for Neurotechnol- ogy. He is also a faculty member in the Department of Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine and the Graduate Program in Neuroscience at the University of Washington. In addition to performing basic neuroscience research, he works with other neuroscientists and classroom teachers to develop educational materials to help K-12 students learn about
Tokyo, Japan.Dr. Elizabeth Litzler, University of Washington Elizabeth Litzler, Ph.D., is the director of the University of Washington Center for Evaluation and Re- search for STEM Equity (UW CERSE) and an affiliate assistant professor of sociology. She has been at UW working on STEM Equity issues for more than 17 years. Dr. Litzler is a member of ASEE, 2020-2021 chair of the ASEE Commission on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, and a former board member of the Women in Engineering ProActive Network (WEPAN). Her research interests include the educational cli- mate for students, faculty, and staff in science and engineering, assets based approaches to STEM equity, and gender and race stratification in education and the
attitudestoward their diagnosis and requests for support can have a direct impact on their academicsuccess [14], [21]. In other words, when students perceive that faculty are more supportive andopen to discussing their learning needs, these students are more likely to succeed academically.To address this need, I-Course instructors provide an inclusion statement that directly addressesneurodiversity, acknowledges strengths and challenges, and invites students to communicatewith the instructor about these strengths and challenges. The statement may be provided orally,in writing as part of the syllabus, or in both formats. Rather than simply provide a standardstatement, faculty are encouraged to personalize this statement. Model inclusion statements
engineering and science education from Clemson University.Dr. Idalis Villanueva, University of Florida Dr. Idalis Villanueva is an Associate Professor in the Department of Engineering Education at the Univer- sity of Florida. Her work spans multi- and mixed-methods research and tools to explore the complex and intertwined cognitive, motivational, and affective mechanisms affecting underrepresented groups in sci- ence and engineering. In 2017, she received a prestigious National Science Foundation CAREER award to explore the topic of hidden curriculum (intended or unintended messaging in learning and working environments) in engineering. In 2019, she received the Presidential Award for Scientists and Engineers
the University of Portland in Portland, Ore- gon. She received her Ph.D. in Educational Psychology with an emphasis in Measurement, Statistics, and Research Design from the University of Washington. An elementary school teacher at heart, she now teaches educational research and STEM methods to undergraduate and graduate students. Her research fo- cus involves bringing active learning strategies to STEM, best practices of research-practice partnerships, and applied research in partnership. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Connecting Entrepreneurial Mindset to Software DevelopmentAbstractThe purpose of this research was to develop