in graduateschool [15]– [4], very few scholars in engineering education research have characterizedstudents' expectations of graduate school and how these expectations do not align with their livedexperiences. Previous work has neglected the impact of misalignments between expectations andexperiences on students' ability to persist, except for Zerbe and Sallai's paper [17]. They foundmisalignments in students' expectations on the psychological level, such as feelings of malaise,the anticipation of being overworked, and the expectation of not having a work-life balance.However, less attention was paid to sociological or policy expectations or misalignments.The present work builds on our group's ongoing exploration of graduate attrition. In
developand conduct appropriate experimentation, analyze, and interpret data, and useengineering/scientific judgement to draw conclusions [1]) without conducting physical hands-onlaboratory exercises as many STEM disciplines are switching to virtual laboratories. Accordingto Deboer et al [2], despite the potential for at-home lab kits to serve as a blended learningsupplement in online environment, the literature on best practices for adoption in STEM onlineenvironment is very scanty. Subsequently, to bridge the gap in the current hands-off virtuallaboratory simulations, as well as provide more insight into best practices for adoption of home-based hands-on activities in STEM, this research seeks to develop, implement, and assess thehome based, hands
machine references. Our proposal is to replace dated terminologywith more current references. For example, replace the term “adding machine” with “calculator.”Through our analysis of the responses, our team sought more information about our participants.The participant information collected was designed for a semi-direct comparison with theoriginal study’s results. Our current questionnaire allows us to directly compare results acrossgender and occupation, which we have reinterpreted as education (i.e. engineering students vs.non-engineering students/professionals). Through our research of the subject of engineeringdesign education and the impact of cultural and societal influences, we are looking to collectadditional information of our
Engineering from Alfred Univer- sity, and received his M.S. and Ph.D., both from Tufts University, in Chemistry and Engineering Education respectively. His research investigates the development of new classroom innovations, assessment tech- niques, and identifying new ways to empirically understand how engineering students and educators learn. He currently serves as the Graduate Program Chair for the Engineering Education Systems and Design Ph.D. program. He is also the immediate past chair of the Research in Engineering Education Network (REEN) and an associate editor for the Journal of Engineering Education (JEE). Prior to joining ASU he was a graduate student research assistant at the Tufts’ Center for
engineering school at a large R1 universityencompassing nine PhD programs.Rubric Design and ImplementationFirst Rubric IterationThe Holistic PhD Admissions Rubric was designed using best practices in holistic graduateadmissions gathered from relevant literature [30-34]. The first iteration of this rubric contained13 criteria, each with a 1-4 scoring system with qualifiers for each score rating (Figure 1).Criteria were listed in order of best predictor of graduate success (letters of evaluation, evidenceof motivation, and prior research experience) to poorest (GPA and GRE), as reflected in bestpractices. Here, letters of evaluations are letters of recommendations, and each recommenderalso assigns a rating score for each applicant. Qualifiers for each
Paper ID #34067The Politics of Citation Practices in Engineering Education: A CitationAnalysis of IntersectionalityDr. Kristen Moore, University at Buffalo Kristen R. Moore is an Associate Professor in the Department of Engineering Education at University at Buffalo. Her research focuses primarily on technical communication and issues of equity, inclusion, and social justice. She is the author of Technical Communication After the Social Justice Turn: Building Coalitions for Action (2019), in addition to a range of articles. She has received a number of awards for her research, including the Joenk Award for the best article
Programalso focused on the graduate education and preparing students to be leaders in science and engineeringdisciplines (Newswander & Borrego, 2021). Like the NRT, it emphasized collaborative research thattranscended traditional disciplinary boundaries and was founded on the belief that diversity amongparticipants contributed to their ability to solve “large and complex problems of significant scientific andsocietal importance at the national and international level” (NSF http://www.igert.org/public/about.html).From its inception in 1998, the IGERT program made 278 awards and funded approximately 6500graduate students. The last call for proposals for the IGERT took place in 2013.Assessment and evaluation activities, designed to measure impacts
Paper ID #34074Asset-based Approaches to Engineering Design Education: A Scoping Re-viewof Theory and PracticeDr. Hannah D. Budinoff, The University of Arizona Hannah Budinoff is an Assistant Professor of Systems and Industrial Engineering at the University of Arizona. Her research interests include additive manufacturing, geometric manufacturability analysis, design for manufacturing, and engineering education. She completed her PhD in 2019 in mechanical engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, where she was awarded an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.Dr. Vignesh Subbian, The University of Arizona
author their identities as engineers and negotiate their multiple identities in the current culture of engineering. Dina has won several awards including the 2018 ASEE/IEEE Fron- tiers in Education Conference Best Diversity Paper Award, 2019 College of Engineering Outstanding Graduate Student Research Award and the Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP) Distinguished Scholar Award. Dina’s dissertation proposal was selected as part of the top 3 in the 2018 American Educational Research Association (AERA) Division D In-Progress Research Gala.Dr. Jessica Mary Smith, Colorado School of Mines Jessica M. Smith is Associate Professor in the Engineering, Design & Society Division at the Colorado
puts students into situations where they need to make rapid decisions aboutdata selection, use and analysis [35]. No online, asychronous alternative was available for thatactivity, so the instructor focused on the case study in EGR 193 instead. In future work, it mightbe interesting to consider how to extend the discussion of data ethics with the data collection andmanipulation tasks that many undergraduates find themselves engaging in as early researchassignments.AcknowledgementsWe are grateful for the students and faculty who participate in undergraduate research and makethis high-impact experiential education opportunity available at Michigan State University(MSU). This course design and evaluation process was supported in part by a Faculty
career-development activities to bolster their readiness for post- graduation. 3. Be exposed to a wide variety of career options in STEM. 4. Learn details about graduate school. 5. Broaden their scientific network through multiple means. 6. Demonstrate scientific communication. 7. Acquire and demonstrate scientific knowledge in materials science. 8. Demonstrate competency in scientific ethics. 9. Develop and plan for participation in an outreach/broader impact activity. 10. Develop a sense of belonging in their role as a citizen in the scientific community.Program Structure and BackgroundPenn State University has a long-standing summer research program for undergraduates inmaterials research that has been supported by a
Chemistry and Engineering Education respectively. His research investigates the development of new classroom innovations, assessment tech- niques, and identifying new ways to empirically understand how engineering students and educators learn. He currently serves as the Graduate Program Chair for the Engineering Education Systems and Design Ph.D. program. He is also the immediate past chair of the Research in Engineering Education Network (REEN) and an associate editor for the Journal of Engineering Education (JEE). Prior to joining ASU he was a graduate student research assistant at the Tufts’ Center for Engineering Education and Outreach.Dr. Medha Dalal, Arizona State University Medha Dalal is a postdoctoral scholar in
will focus on theselection of photos to be used, and the best practices for choosing them. This would allow futurefacilitators to adapt to any field of study and level.The design of these modules requires close collaboration of people from different divisions,departments, and backgrounds. This combination of expertise has been a driving force for thesuccess of this module, and future work will include codifying what worked well for this teamand recommendations for interdisciplinary work.AcknowledgementsThis research is supported by an Externally Collaborative, Project-based, InterdisciplinaryCulture (EPIC) grant from Wentworth Institute of Technology. The authors would like to thankTes Zakrzewski for lending two sets of iVisual Explorer cards
. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 The impact of department diversity on student persistence and success in engineeringAbstract Engineering education continues to see lower representation and graduation rates fromtraditionally minoritized student populations. Research on minoritized student successemphasizes the importance of developing a sense of belonging; however, this can be difficult forunderrepresented and minoritized students who do not see many others like them in their classes.Under these circumstances, students from underrepresented populations can feel like they do notbelong in engineering, particularly at U.S. institutions with predominantly
Paper ID #33173The Rapid Model: Initial Results From Testing a Model to Set Up aCourse-Sharing Consortia for STEM Programs at the Graduate LevelDr. Thomas L. Acker, Northern Arizona University Dr. Tom Acker is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Northern Arizona University, where he has been since 1996. He holds a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Colorado State University. His duties include teaching and performing research related to energy systems, power system modeling, renewable energy, thermodynamics, and fluid mechanics. His research in wind energy relates to and wind flow modeling for distributed wind
focus on how to engage students better to prepare their minds for the future. Her other research interests include empirical studies to assess impact of good supply chain practices such as coordinated decision making in stochastic supply chains, handling supply chains during times of crisis and optimizing global supply chains on the financial health of a company. She has published her research in Journal of Business Logistics, International Jour- nal of Physical Distribution and Logistics Management and peer-reviewed proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education.Dr. Sarah N. Gatson, Texas A&M University American c Society for
Paper ID #33888Examining the Impact of Interpersonal Interactions on Course-levelPersistence Intentions Among Online Undergraduate Engineering StudentsJaveed Kittur, Arizona State University Javeed Kittur is currently a doctoral student (Engineering Education Systems and Design) at Arizona State University, USA. He received a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering and a Master’s degree in Power Systems from India in 2011 and 2014 respectively. He has worked with Tata Consultancy Services as Assistant Systems Engineer from 2011-2012, India. He has worked as an Assistant Professor (2014 to 2018) in the
Paper ID #33834Using Data Science to Create an Impact on a City Life and to EncourageStudents from Underserved Communities to Get into STEMProf. Elena Filatova, City University of New York Assistant Professor at CUNY, New York City College of Technology, Department of Computer Systems Technology. Director of the Bachelor of Science in Data Science program.Dr. Deborah Hecht, Center for Advanced Study in Education As Director of the Center for Advanced Study in Education, at the CUNY Graduate Center I am involved in a wide range of educational evaluations of funded and local projects. I also mentor graduate students interested
Engineering focused on Mechatronics, Robotics and Automation. She went through engineer- ing pathways herself, completing master electrician degree when completing Technical School in Uzice, Serbia, focusing on pre-engineering program on high power voltage systems and maintenance of electro- mechanical systems. Her research is focuses on engineering pathways, career and technical education, digital thread, cyber physical systems, mechatronics, digital manufacturing, broadening participation, and engineering education. She is a Director of Mechatronics and Digital Manufacturing Lab at ODU and a lead of Area of Specialization Mechatronics Systems Design. She worked as a Visiting Researcher at Commonwealth Center for Advanced
[5, 7]. Engineering graduates pursue careers in theoreticaldesign, and research and development [1]. Meanwhile, engineering technology graduates oftenenter construction, product design, manufacturing, or testing [7]. Figure 1. Hands-on Continuum for Engineering Technology [8].Despite the curriculum differences, graduates of ABET-accredited four-year engineeringtechnology programs in several states are qualified to become licensed professional engineerswith verifiable proof of competency [7, 9]. One earns licensure upon passing the Fundamentalsof Engineering (FE) exam and the Principles of Practice of Engineering (PE) exam through theNational Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying (NCESS) alongside providingproof of
Ohio State University in Multicultural and Equity Studies in Education where she also earned an MA in Quantitative Research, Evaluation and Measurement. Dr. Patterson’s work in the educational field began as an elementary level inclusive special educator. She is committed to preparing educators who take up a critical lens to working with children and best serving their needs while seeking ways to deconstruct inequities woven into the US’s existing public school system and structure. To this end, Dr. Patterson serves as a co-coordinator for the newly (2020) established Social Justice in Education minor available to students across the University. Broadly, Dr. Patterson’s research interests consider intersections
case and the practices of these institutions in supportingprospective Black students as they explore and apply to graduate school. Furthermore, it isimportant to highlight not just how HBCUs have made their impact and strides in educationalsuccess, but also the underlying mechanisms that detail why HBCUs are able to produce suchcases of excellence in STEM. Therefore, this paper details the development of a surveyinstrument designed to uncover success metrics of Black students that majored in engineeringand computer science programs at HBCUs and have successfully transitioned into, or completed,graduate school. Survey development was built around the aims to 1) advance the contemporarytelling of the HBCU undergraduate experience as a pillar for
practice to enhance learning. This is appropriate as action research isconsistent with engineering design. As with design, action research is a nonlinear,systematic process that requires reflection [20]. Involving students as participants and byengaging in transparent communication with them regarding the process and goals willserve to enhance student learning. By undertaking this work through action researchinvestigators and participants engage in opportunities for discernment and discoverythrough a shared set of experiences and goals [19]. Since action research is undertaken inan atheoretical framework, making sense of results may require subsequent work andquestion-specific theoretical frames. This process, when appropriately approached
ofmentorship as well. Ultimately, the two sets of collected data will allow us to create a holisticinterpretation of mentorship at our institution, allowing us to reform our mentorship programswhere necessary to improve the experiences of both students and faculty. More so, the finalstudy will ideally serve as a model for other institutions conducting research and reforming theirmentorship programs so that all students across all institutions will have the best mentoringexperiences possible.AcknowledgementsThe authors would like to thank the participants for taking the time to share their experienceswith and perceptions of mentoring. The authors would also like to thank the members of theResearch on Engineering, Design, and Education Systems (ReDes
, implementation of a revised general education program, and institutional accreditation. He also oversees the Graduate Interdisciplinary Specialization in University Teaching and chairs the Student Evaluation of Instruction Oversight Committee. Previously, he directed the University Center for the Advancement of Teaching at Ohio State for 18 years, as well as founding the Center for Teaching and Learning at California State University, Sacramento, and servicing as associate director of Teaching Resources Center, Indiana University, Bloomington, where he earned his Ph.D. in English. His research includes transitions from graduate school to faculty life, teaching and learning in higher ed- ucation, and course and
. 1, no. 2, 2021.[12] Morgan, D. L. (2020). Pragmatism as the basis for grounded theory. The Qualitative Report, 25 (1), 64-73.[13] J. M. Corbin and A. Strauss, “Grounded theory research: Procedures, canons, and evaluative criteria,” Qual. Sociol., vol. 13, no. 1, pp. 3–21, 1990.[14] J. W. Creswell, Qualitative inquiry and research design. SAGE Publications, 2013.[15] “Best Engineering Schools Ranked in 2022 - US News Rankings.” https://www.usnews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-engineering-schools/eng-rankings (accessed Apr. 19, 2021).[16] E. R. Babbie, The basics of social research, International Student Edition. USA: Thomas Wadworth, 2008.[17] S. Bhaduri and T. Roy, “A word-space visualization approach to study college of
projectsQ22 Would you be interested in any of the following resources if they were to be developed byCIT-E? Yes No Maybe A model graduate level Infrastructure course A model undergraduate course on Infrastructure and Social Impacts dealing with intersections of infrastructure and inequality An asynchronous online Introduction to Infrastructure course that students could take for credit or a certificate Micro-credentials (i.e. ‘badges’) Embedded indicators for ABET assessment purposesQ23 Which of the following best describes you?o Femaleo Maleo Non-Binaryo Prefer not to answer
leverages valuable information towards career opportunities.Open-ended ResponsesThe survey distributed in the study included a short answer section for students to share thoughtsand reflections about their experiences collaborating with the faculty advisor. Based on the resultsgathered from the data, the authors highlight a total of four student responses - from both currentand former students - that offers a unique insight at the impact of the mentorship model enactedby the faculty advisor.The following statements are from current students who are participating in research efforts: “I have received some guidance during my time researching. Although I will not be pursuing graduate school, Dr. Z provided helpful information on the prospects and
practice/experience with the mentor as a guide since the manuscripts are so diverse. Don't feel had enough experience with varied methodologies, writing style, examining fidelity between research questions and methods or data presented.This indicates a need for the program to be more flexible in terms of the number of manuscriptseach triad completes. In future rounds of the program, we plan to emphasize to participants thatthey can continue in their mentoring relationship beyond three manuscripts. The triad structure, where two mentees work with one mentor, was a noted benefit fromprogram participants. For example, one participant shared: The single best aspect of doing the programme has been working in a team of three. It
, Atlanta, GA, USA in 1997. He is an Associate Professor in the Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Department at the University of New Haven. Previously, he was an Associate Professor at the State University of New York, Maritime College. He has practiced engineering in the petroleum, aerospace, integrated circuit fabrication and fiber-optics industries. Dr. Levert is a member of STLE, and ASME, and was awarded the best paper award by the ASME Tribology Division in October 2000 (as co-author) for ”Interfacial Fluid Mechanics and Pressure Prediction in Chemical Mechanical Polishing”.Dr. Junhui Zhao, University of New Haven American c Society for Engineering