investment in this area is essential. Without this investmentthe academy’s stated commitment to broadening participation in engineering rings hollow.Funding AcknowledgementThis research is sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Alliances for GraduateEducation and the Professoriate (AGEP; award numbers: 1821298, 1821019, 1821052, and1821008). Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations are those of only theauthors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the NSF.ReferencesChakraverty, D. (2020). The imposter phenomenon among black doctoral and postdoctoral scholars in STEM. International Journal of Doctoral Studies, 15, 433-460. https://doi.org/10.28945/4613Griffin, K. A. (2019). Redoubling our efforts: How
citationpractices belie a more complex system of relationships. Historically, they have established powerrelationships among authors, ideas, and larger sociotechnical systems within the university[26].Our citations reflect our reading practices while establishing field boundaries and contours andultimately funneling into the larger economy of the university. They undergird this universityeconomy in a number of ways: (a) we form communities of practice/discourse communities inhow we cite, excluding and including particular ways of knowing; (b) we give particular ideaspower and visibility in how we cite; (c) we decide whose work matters, who should be tenuredand promoted, who belongs; and (d) we teach ethics and intellectual property through citations.These
the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect theviews of the National Science Foundation.References[1] I. A. Toldson, I, “Why historically black colleges and universities are successful with graduating black baccalaureate students who subsequently earn doctorates in STEM (editor’s commentary),” J. Negro Educ., vol. 87, no. 2, pp. 95–98, 2018.[2] R. Winkle-Wagner and D. L. McCoy, “Feeling like an “Alien” or “Family”? Comparing students and faculty experiences of diversity in STEM disciplines at a PWI and an HBCU,” Race Ethn. Educ., vol. 21, no. 5, pp. 593-606, 2018.[3] R. T. Palmer, R. J. Davis, and T. Thompson, “Theory meets practice: HBCU initiatives that promote academic success among African Americans
researchers.AcknowledgementsThis material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No.2016753. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this materialare those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National ScienceFoundation. The authors would also like to thank the participants for their insights and theadvisory board members Cynthia Finelli and James Pembridge for mentorship in guiding thisstudy.References[1] E.A. Walker, J.M. Pettit, and G.A. Hawkins, Goals of Engineering Educaiton: Final Report of the Goals Committee, in Engineering Education 1968. p. 367-446.[2] E. de Graaff, “Ten years in engineering education research: looking back ahead,” Taylor & Francis
. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Identifying Signature Pedagogies in a Multi-Disciplinary Engineering ProgramAbstractThis work-in-progress is part of a larger research and evaluation project designed to realignprogram goals with teaching and learning practices in a large, multi-disciplinary engineeringscience program at a research-oriented Canadian university. The ultimate goal of this work is todefine and develop a set of key teaching and learning practices that reflect program goals andfuture directions. Drawing from Shulman’s work on signature pedagogies, which are defined asthe modes of teaching and learning that are unique to a particular discipline or
manner, andencouraging faculty to use the document. The intent of the workshop was not to dictate to facultywhat exactly to do in their respective classrooms but rather to spur discussion and encourageself-reflection on class structure, logistics, and teaching philosophy.After introducing the concept of inclusive teaching through an interactive dialogue, the benefitsof an inclusive classroom were discussed. Following this, demographic information comparingthe percentage of women and URMs in the department to the COE as a whole was included.Whether or not the specific department had higher or lower than average female/URM studentenrollment, the importance of creating a welcoming climate in the department, and the role itplays in attracting and
counterparts are controlled for socioeconomic status, education, and access [2],[3]. In the U.S., the federal Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities Initiative documented HD in the following areas: infant mortality, cancer screening and management, diabetes, HIV/AIDS, and adult and child vaccinations [4]. Using vision health as an example, this is reflected in U.S. Latinx populations (Mexican-Americans) who have a prevalence of diabetic retinopathy that is 2to 2.5 times greater than other U.S. population groups (Caucasian population), despitediabetic retinopathy arising as a complication of diabetes that can be managed anddelayed with timely intervention [5], [6]. Furthermore, age is a known risk factor forprimary open angle glaucoma
discipline. These scores were generated from theclose-ended questions requiring students to choose from a scale of 1 to 5. A snapshot of somesummaries of the quantitative assessments using the 5-point rating is presented in Table 1.Table 1: SET assessment on a 5-point scale Parameter Average Standard Score Deviation Found ways to help students answer their questions 2.38 0.99 Helped students to interpret subject matter from diverse perspectives 2.00 0.94 (e.g., different cultures, religions, genders, political views) Encouraged students to reflect on and evaluate what they
the concluding session rank the students andthe student groups are presented with cash awards reflective of their ranking.Graduation, Awards, and Final Remarks Session The NSTI program ends with a graduation ceremony and closing remarks meeting. In this meeting,Dr. Yusuf Mehta, CREATES’ Director, concludes the program by providing the students and ceremonyattendees with final remarks on the program’s success and lessons learned. It is also an opportunity forstudents to discuss their experience with the program administrators and their parents.LONG-TERM IMPACT ON CAREER CHOICES OF COHORTSOutreach Findings To evaluate the extent to which the goals of the program were achieved, parents of NSTI programgraduates were contacted by
conditions and more restrictedmobility than their white, male, Canadian educated counterparts.23, 24 Her study providesimportant evidence to support the claim that engineers’ career mobility and workingconditions reflect existing socio-political disparities in the province.Our literature review highlights three critical dimensions of engineering career pathresearch. First, administrative decisions do not reflect the full range of human experience.In more concrete terms, we cannot assume that engineers’ lived realities will conform tothe dual track model proposed by human resource managers. Second, not all career pathsare made equal. It behooves us, as critical engineering education researchers, to examinethe full range of mobility patterns, working
(UndergraduateResearch Experience and Creative Activity) program to work on an extension to the summerresearch project during the academic year. Four participants from summer 2020 received a teamURECA grant ($4000) to continue working on an extension of their summer project for the2020-2021 academic year. While these post-summer activities were encouraging, they wereperformed by non-scholars and therefore may not be reflective of the potential positive impact ofthe summer research program on S-STEM scholars.4.3 Conference AttendanceSending college students, especially underrepresented students, to attend a professionalconference like the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing and the Richard TapiaCelebration of Diversity in Computing has become more and
student body is 44% Hispanic/Latinx, 19% Asian, 17% African-American, 11%Caucasian, and 6% Two or more races. The college’s student body is 60% female and 39%male. 48% of students received Pell grants. In this project, we explore the effects of providinglow-income, underrepresented, and female students with hands-on research experience in STEM.In doing so, we hope to encourage them to continue their studies of science and technical fieldsand to give them practical context for applying what they learn in their classes. In this paper, weexamine the role of project-based learning on student retention in the technical fields. Theultimate goal is to have scientists and engineers with ethnic backgrounds better reflecting thepopulation in the
a specific project, thereby enablingthe acquired knowledge application [15-30]. PjBL goes beyond the relationships betweenknowledge and thinking, helping students to know and to do. In fact, it is focuses on doingsomething and learning on the way. PjBL main features from the student learning viewpoint are:1. In PjBL or PBL the focus is on the student competencies to design and to reach the solution,around students’ concerns and skills, the end product being a reflection of them.2. In PjBL the students solve problems, through self-management, project management, andcritical knowledge are enhanced, as they manage the work, offering frequent feedback, self-assessment and consistent opportunities for students to learn from experience.3. PjBL
performance criterion considered, often withanchored details at each level [16]. For subjective or summative artifacts, like reflective essays ordesign reports that may not have specific required components, a holistic rubric may align betterwith the desired outcomes. Often, a holistic rubric has performance criteria defined within asingle rating system for the entire work and doesn’t provide much performance feedback as partof the rubric itself [16]. For either type of rubric, performance criteria must be developed. Forthis project, students would not be gaining any feedback and would be scored based on theirapplication, placing it in a summative category rather than formative. Student essays would nothave specific required components and instead
. Theauthor will not remain onsite during the entire 10-week program, so the initial on-site meetingswill be replaced with one-on-one video conference mentorship meetings that occur weekly forthe remainder of the summer. Prior to each of these meetings, the student will send an emaildetailing their accomplishments for that week and experimental plans for the upcoming week.Additionally, the student will be asked to share a personal reflection about their time abroad inthis weekly email update.Additional personalized training It is recognized that even with this training program, some students may still strugglewith aspects of their research projects. As such, additional one-on-one training will take place onan individual basis as needed. This
or likelyfuture jobs within the firm (due to a lifetime employment culture, Lorriman, 1986), whereas self-marketability was observed to be more common amongst American engineers.3. Cultural values underlying problem-solving and creativityShifting lenses to the specific educational goal of fostering creative design capability, there is arise of creativity research in engineering design education, as reflected in growing research incurriculum design (Zhou, 2012), creativity-facilitating intervention (Hawthorne, et al., 2014) andcreative behavior and cognition (Toh & Miller, 2014). However, we lack a deep understandingabout different, and possibly conflicting, cultural beliefs and practices around creative problemsolving amongst students
recommendations for how to make HIEP more accessible to all E/CS students. 4. Recommendations will be provided on which HIEP are most effective, how much participation should be encouraged, and interventions for removing potential barriers to participation.Acknowledgments This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation underGrant No. 1927218. Any opinion, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed inthis material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the NationalScience Foundation.References[1] G.D. Kuh, “High-impact educational practices: What they are, who has access to them, and why they matter,” Washington, DC: Association of American
Capstone course sequence was created to meet the increasing student demand for projectswith a humanitarian engineering context and to develop the global competencies required for studentsto successfully complete these projects. The demand was created due to the number of OSU studentspursing a Humanitarian Engineering Minor and/or the Global Option distinction. Students in theseprograms are required to participate in a capstone design experience that involves a global orhumanitarian focus.This paper will: 1. outline the Global Capstone course sequence development process, 2. describe the structure and learning outcomes of the Global Capstone course, 3. reflect on the challenges associated with managing a program focused on complex real
activities; and (4) opportunities for reflective learning regarding their leadershipexperiences. As seen in the graphic of Fig. 1 that depicts the central elements of RAMP, thisprogram supports the first two of these conditions through students interacting with professionalsfrom industry, building a community of peers who look like them, and creating social networkswith faculty, staff, and administrators in the new environment they are transitioning into. The facilitation of FGs by women (including both women of color and White women)and their reflections on this activity as discussed in this study are among the co-curricularprograms being designed to promote leadership roles and the formation of engineering identities.It is also of interest
important that engineers are prepared to face ethical dilemmas in their work before theygraduate from college. However, ethics instruction is a challenging task given the myriadsituations that may be encountered and variability in the extent that students are motivated tolearn about engineering ethics. One challenge in student motivation is the perception that ethicaldilemmas are uncommon and unlikely in most engineering work. Thus, student perceptions ofthe quality of the ethics instruction that they received may be skewed by their lack of foresightinto the future importance of these topics. A retrospective reflection of working engineers ontheir college ethics education can overcome this limitation and may provide perspectives that aredifferent
discussed thenegative health impacts to the locals cited by LYG (38%). Few students discussed the more‘emotional’ side of LYG in relation to the situation.Overall, requiring the students to tie the code of ethics to the situation described by LYG on theTampa highway system seemed to work moderately well. If the instructor had time to read thestudent reflections in the homework prior to class, a richer discussion could have been facilitated.It was interesting to see what elements students picked up on. For example, some misinterpretedor seemed to minimize the situation.The ethics assignment was followed by a lecture and homework assignment on JEDI. JEDI wasintegrated into the course as a required CU101 topic for all first-year students. The
]. Previous studies suggest thatstudent self-reflection on their contribution to project activities [2] and required reporting bystudents about other team members’ contributions [11, 17, 18] can increase overall teamaccountability.Strategic formation of student teams is a critical step in establishing effective conditions forteam-based learning. Ensuring a fair distribution of students from different backgrounds in termsof technical skills, prior educational experiences, and demographic characteristics helps to ensureteam members bring different perspectives to the project [19]. Prior studies of team-basedlearning report the use of screening surveys, established personality or disposition inventories(e.g., Kolb Learning Style Inventory, Myers-Briggs
, no. 1 (2009): 4-10.[4] P. Li, "Virtual lab approaches for information and computer technology education," In OnlineLearning for STEM Subjects: International Examples of Technologies and Pedagogies in Use,M. Childs and R. Soetanto, Ed. Routledge, 2017, pp. 112-126.[5] K. M. Ala-Mutka, “A survey of automated assessment approaches for programmingassignments,” Computer Science Education, 15(2), pp. 83-102, 2005.[6] D. Kumar, "REFLECTIONS Tools from the education industry," ACM Inroads 9, no. 3, pp.22-24, 2018.[7] P. Li and L. Toderick, ”An Automatic Grading and Feedback System for E-Learning inInformation Technology Education,” Proceedings of 2015 ASEE Annual Conference &Exposition, Seattle, Washington. 10.18260/p.23518.[8] E. F. Gehringer
wherein students engaged in a group of three to four members in anill-structured design project. We address one research question in this study: (1) “In what waysdoes empathy manifest with/for team members in a junior-level biomedical engineering designcourse based on post-course interview reflections?” We hope that this investigation will facilitatefuture work that can help instructors promote empathy in teams, help researchers identify how to“see” empathy’s manifestation in teaming contexts through qualitative data, and to help theengineering education community better understand the design outcomes that empathic teamstend to produce.Literature ReviewIn this literature review section, we address the question, “What is empathy?” We approach
deeply in graduate education,interdisciplinary learning has not been highly reflected or cultivated in engineering educationcurricula [1]. This lack of acknowledgment may be attributed to the historical exclusion ofinterdisciplinary ways of being and thinking across the disciplines, which also limits how studentssee themselves as engineers. Historical perspectives within engineering education include thosethat “institutionalize cultural and epistemic injustice” by excluding views that deviate from thedominant ways of thinking in engineering [2, p. 4]. Riley and Lambrinidou [2] expressed how thisapproach to educating engineers may result in engineers who do not feel they fit into the mold ofa stereotypical engineer, which emphasizes technical
vectors and graphed parameters. Further work will include analyzing studentsurvey data to explain student perceptions and to determine how student comprehension andlearning compares between remote instruction vs. in-person.AcknowledgementsWe acknowledge the support from National Science Foundation (NSF) through grants DUE1821439 and 1821638. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressedare those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the NSF.References[1] J. D. Bransford and A. L. Brown, How People Learn: Body, Mind, Experience and School. Washington, D.C.: Commission on Behavioral and Social Science and Education, National Research Council, 2000.[2] J. Engelbrecht, C. Bergsten, and O. Kågesten
Average # of Semesters (excluding summer) Award Year # of Awards Mean Median 2012-13 1 12.0 12.0 2014-15 2 13.0 13.0 2015-16 2 4.5 4.5 2016-17 1 8.0 8.0 2018-19 1 10.0 10.0 2019-20 17 10.9 8.0 Overall 24 10.4 8.0Raw averages shown in the “Mean” column do not reflect the change that we are hoping to see;the overall average for the last eight
; interactions with city construction-in-progress teams(engineers, managers) and city leaders (councilman) and staff.Friday: Field trip to university’s aviation and flight control center adjacent to the suburbanairport. Final presentations and check out.Each day, students had classroom time to work in small teams and individually. The aim of theseclassroom sessions was to help participants reflect on their transportation related experiences andinteractions with experts to further develop and articulate their understanding of localtransportation and construction industry and related careers (West, 2018). All meals, breakfast,lunch, and dinner, and snacks were provided.Data Collection and MethodsA pre-post survey was developed (NAE, 2008, 2013) to elicit
misunderstanding and misinterpretation that is detrimental to the learning process. It is difficult for any person to unlearn old information once viewed as accurate, impacting their learning ability within that concept [12].The knowledge types of students possess often reflected in their goal orientation and motivationwithin a classroom space. Svinicki [13] talked about how students' goal orientation andmotivation influence their learning, either positive or negative. Svinicki speaks of two types ofstudents, Performance Oriented and Mastery Oriented. Performance-Oriented is focused ongrade achievement and course requirements over true content competency and understanding.These students are often less willing to take on challenges to
them. Insome instances, the lack of engagement might be because students are not aware of the HIEP theycan participate in during their program. Acknowledgments This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation underGrant No. 1927218. Any opinion, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed inthis material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the NationalScience Foundation.REFERENCES[1] Bandura, A. (1977). Self-efficacy: Toward a unifying theory of behavioral change. Psychological Review, 84(2), 191–215.[2] French, B. F., Immekus, J. C., & Oakes, W. C. (2005). An Examination of Indicators of Engineering