Military Academy, engage middle schoolstudents in three different U.S. cities. The cadets developed a STEM module to inspire under-represented middle school students toward a possible career in the STEM professions. Themodule was designed to encourage creativity and enforce fundamental engineering principleswhile creating a fun atmosphere with healthy competition. Further, the development of themodule reinforced the cadets’ fundamental understanding of first principles. The cadetsdeveloped lesson objectives for the module and prepared a series of questions to ask the middleschool students following the outreach event to gauge the effectiveness of the module. Theoutreach events inspired 40 middle school students in Atlanta, GA, 40 middle school
. After implementing the experiment in the course, all the chemical engineering studentswill be exposed to a hands-on experience in membrane separation. This new experience will bebeneficial to students who continue into careers in industry as well as those that pursue graduateschool. In addition, the video demonstration of the experiment will increase the accessibility ofthe laboratory experience. Also, the video demonstration can be used in multiple ChemicalEngineering courses to illustrate the fundamental concepts of membrane separation. Lastly, thevideo demonstration will be disseminated widely to reach other students worldwide. Table 7shows the comments of the students that participated in the project about their experience.Table 7: Student
similarlyas they did on the general scale, except with only 2 factors, which we labeled 1) Technology andData and 2) Project Management and Communication. These two factors included all of the sameitems that had loaded on each factor as in the general scale with two exceptions. The final twoitems (Being successful in an online course and Making decisions about future career pathways)loaded onto the first factor with the Technology and Data items, rather than as a separate factor. 8 Figure 4: Scree plot for AMDS Mindset - Personal ScaleDiscussion and Next StepsThis study represents our first steps in the development of instruments to measure learners’ self-efficacy and mindset relating
University. The workdiscusses the role industry partnerships played in the Continuity category in helping studentscomplete their degrees [24]. The partnerships particularly aim to help students feel prepared fortheir careers through mock interviews and support. In these three articles, we see that relevantpartnerships benefit faculty and students on the path to increasing interest/retention rates.Beyond introducing the problems they are trying to solve, the research regarding departmentalprojects does not take a focus related to the cultural frameworks discussed. These interventionsare more extensive, which could contribute to a difference in how the work is examined. Thequestion then becomes can cultural frameworks inform large-scale departmental
4(as defined as one of the Big Five personality traits) or self-control (Muenks et al., 2017; Cross,2013), grit entails “working strenuously toward challenges, maintaining effort and interest overyears despite failure, adversity, and plateaus in progress” (A Duckworth et al., 2007). Recentstudies on grit have found that grit is a better predictor for success outcomes than IQ (ADuckworth et al., 2007). Grittier individuals are found to progress further in their education,make fewer career changes (A. L. Duckworth & Quinn, 2009) and are less-likely to drop out oftheir life commitments (Eskreis-Winkler, Shulman, Beal, & Duckworth, 2014), achieve highermath grades for grade 4 to 8 students (Rojas & Usher, 2012), have higher grade
influence their writing practice. It isimportant to understand how graduate students’ learn academic writing because the ability towrite well can connotate expertise, affect the development of one’s academic and disciplinaryidentity, and influence post-graduation career trajectories [1].In this paper, I argue that learning academic writing involves learning the disciplinaryconventions of writing in one’s field and learning how to negotiate these expectations in one’sown writing. Students’ writing practices are shaped by their epistemological beliefs aboutresearch and what counts as legitimate contributions to knowledge within their field. Thefindings from this study illuminate some of the disciplinary expectations that graduate studentsin
forms of care, we believethat these practices and “what counts” should be expanded and affirmed in scholarly roles suchas service, advising, and different forms of “personable teaching.” Care does not only includefaculty caring for students, but it is more comprehensive. We hope to take advantage of thetheoretical move of those that hope to move from “empathetic design” to “empatheticengineering” [22] to include more systemic forms of care, which includes caring for and beingcared for by non-human actors.We want to collectively recognize how these “personable” features of our work are taken forgranted. Socialized gender roles, stereotypes related to our identities, and career status are largecontributing factors of who can and does care, and
able to applyknowledge, skills, and behaviors to their lives and careers in a global context. There are threethrust areas: (i) Professional and Disciplinary Contexts, (ii) Ethics and Social Responsibility, and(iii) Communications, Connectivity, and Global Diversity.Like most schools, Clemson students can access international experiences in many ways,including through student exchange programs. On the average, the university’s internationalstudent mobility via exchange programs has been relatively constant with a slow downwardtrend, with some cyclic ups and downs following world events and the economy. And like mostinstitutions, took a dramatic tumble with the COVID-19 pandemic. The trends since 2017 areshown in the bar chart in Figure 4.One
- 9world problems. Obviously, the students want more interactive class sessions rather than readingor watching visual presentations in the classroom. While designing the course, the instructorshould be careful to have curricula components like individual projects, group assignments/min-project, several short lab sessions. The instructor also should update the lecture material after acertain period of time and include the latest contents and concepts in the respective field of study.Thus, we can improve the course curricula and meet the students’ satisfaction in shaping theirfuture academic or career goals.6 CONCLUSIONIn this work, we tried to understand students’ perceptions of existing engineering courses and usedthe quality function
Paper ID #38208Hands-on Project Based Learning Design Project toAccommodate Social Distancing and On-line LearnersTaryn Melkus Bayles (Professor) Taryn Melkus Bayles is a Professor, Teaching Track, in the Chemical & Petroleum Engineering Department at the University of Pittsburgh, and serves as the Vice Chair of Undergraduate Education. She has spent part of her career working in industry with Exxon, Westinghouse, Phillips Petroleum and Pittsburgh Energy Technology Center (now NETL). Her industrial experience has included process engineering, computer modeling and control, process design and testing, and
Engineering from Howard University.Marie C. Paretti (Professor) Marie C. Paretti is a Professor of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech, where she is Associate Director of the Virginia Tech Center for Coastal Studies and Education Director of the interdisciplinary Disaster Resilience and Risk Management graduate program. She received a B.S. in chemical engineering and an M.A. in English from Virginia Tech, and a Ph.D. in English from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her research focuses on communication and collaboration, design education, and identity (including race, gender, class, and other demographic identities) in engineering. She was awarded a CAREER grant from the National Science Foundation to study expert
Paper ID #38350Building a Community of Mentors in Engineering EducationResearch Through Peer Review TrainingKarin Jensen (Prof.) Karin Jensen, Ph.D. is a Teaching Associate Professor in bioengineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Her research interests include student mental health and wellness, engineering student career pathways, and engagement of engineering faculty in engineering education research. She was awarded a CAREER award from the National Science Foundation for her research on undergraduate mental health in engineering programs. Before joining UIUC she completed a post-doctoral
inclusion. Her passion lies in mentoring through meaningful career discussions and helping students gain confidence as well as succeed in their chosen degree fields.Ryan Scott HasslerMark William JohnsonMichael Kagan Associate Professor of Physics, Pennsylvania State University, Abington CollegeAmy L. Freeman (Director, Millennium Scholars Program) (PennsylvaniaState University) Amy Freeman holds a Ph.D. in Workforce Education a Master of Science degree in Architectural Engineering, both from The Pennsylvania State University. Her doctoral dissertation focused on factors that increase graduation rates for underrepresented students in engineering. Dr. Freeman’s research area is the examination of processes, pedagogy and human
program and work successfully towards graduation. One ofthe engaged students is part time enrolled (PTE) in the program, so the data on that participant isnot included in the survey results, and all others are full time (FTE) students. Five of the studentparticipants were first time enrolled with weak preparation in math (i.e., not ready for Calculus Iin their first year), which put them on the five year graduation roadmap. By the end of 2021 – 2022academic year, five of them have graduated; the other three are on track to graduation in 2022 –2023 academic year. Table below summarize the undergraduate student participant graduationschedule and post career employment.Table 2. Undergraduate participant retention and graduation summary
Paper ID #36925Insights and Outcomes from a Revolution in a ChemicalEngineering DepartmentVanessa Svihla Dr. Vanessa Svihla is an associate professor at the University of New Mexico (UNM) with appointments in learning sciences and engineering. Her research, funded by an NSF CAREER award, focuses on how people learn as they frame problems and how these activities relate to identity, agency and creativity.Madalyn Wilson-fetrow (Graduate Student Researcher) (University of NewMexico) I am a graduate student at the University of New Mexico in learning sciences with a background in materials engineering and in
engaging them in the project. The simplicity of dealing with this transparent materialprovides students with straightforward assembly and enables them to compile the parts readily.Furthermore, many components are easily manufactured, avoiding the issue of distributors runningout of stock for niche education parts. Figure 1. Transparent hydraulic demonstrator arm [15]In addition to the hydraulic excavator developed in [15], in [16], Purdue Researchers designed aportable excavator demonstrator to introduce K-12 students to engineering fluid power conceptsbefore college, thus promoting students’ interest in STEM careers. The developed excavatordemonstrator, shown in Figure 2, was integrated into K-12 in-class modules and employed
barriers to entry forintroductory students to pursue a career in nanotechnology. Haptics and interactive visualizationafford students the opportunity to gain intuition through active learning and engaging differentsenses; however, commercial haptics setups are often prohibitively expensive for the average lab.We explore the feasibility of teaching non-intuitive nanotechnology concepts by designing,developing, implementing, and assessing a low-cost haptics and visualization activity for theteaching of the force-distance curve concept and its connection to the Atomic Force Microscope(AFM). Forces and length scales relevant to AFM measurements are well below what weexperience in our everyday lives, making the study and understanding of this topic
Sociological Review, vol. 83, no. 6, pp. 1171–1214, November 2018.[2] M. Estrada, P. R. Hernandez, and P. W. Schultz. (2018). “A longitudinal study of how quality mentorship and research experience integrate underrepresented minorities into STEM careers,” CBE Life Sciences Education, vol. 17, no. 1, March 2018. [Online]. Available: https://www.lifescied.org/doi/full/10.1187/cbe.17-04-0066. [Accessed: February 6, 2022].[3] National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics, “Field of degree: Minorities,” Women, minorities, and persons with disabilities in science and engineering, April 2021. [Online]. Available: https://ncses.nsf.gov/pubs/nsf21321/report/field-of-degree- minorities. [Accessed
helping them, I became a greatdeal more confident and able to focus all of my energy on helping students, instead of gettingcaught up in nervousness. Furthermore, since I would like to have some sort of teachingcomponent in my future career, I have learned the larger importance of confidence. Beingnervous or insecure in one’s ability to teach something they are obviously qualified to teach(otherwise they would not be chosen for the role) can only hurt their performance. Thus, in reallyanything I do, I have learned to recognize that I am doing it for a reason and deserve to be there –and this recognition really helps me be more confident. The discussion we had in class regardingconfidence really helped me employ this mindset.Comment 3:During our
. You can also do it at just a regular desktop every day. Like how we work at our desk with a Chromebook. I also learned that engineering isn't just construction work, which was what I always thought it was. There's more to engineering than just working on a building or designing a new type of car”Another student told us in the interview session that what “I learned is that engineering can be areally fun job to do because there's all these different types of engineering tasks to do.”Theme 3: Changes in students’ conceptions towards engineeringStudents discussed that before participating in the project, they had an incorrect impression aboutengineering. They used to think that engineering is a boring career, and it is just
programs introduced, the teaching methods used in the CM 260 course, andhow that aligned with the background, knowledge, and skills students needed for the upcomingtechnology classes within the CM department. The data collected from the survey would addresswhich teaching methods have been useful and allow for discussions on where improvements canbe made. The learning assessment was accomplished through a student survey that asks theparticipants to rate how the CM 260 course prepared them for subsequent technology-focusedcoursework and careers in the CM industry. We conducted the survey during a lab section andreceived 51 complete survey responses. By distinguishing between fundamental knowledge andpractical skills introduced, the online
structure worked well for PurdueEngineering, each university will need to adapt and be receptive to feedback from their graduatestudent mentors for maximum effectiveness at their particular institution.Overall, the goal of the GradTrack Scholars Program is to build a cross-institutional network ofunderrepresented minority (URM) students in engineering with dual-impacts. The first impact isthat URM undergraduate students receive mentoring, active structures, and insider knowledge tocomplete an application to, and prepare themselves for, either undergraduate summer research ora graduate program. The second impact is on selected graduate student mentors, who receivetraining and structured experience to assist their career development. Many of these
studies, or even open-ended design projects that are constrained bycompartmentalization of knowledge in academic disciplines, and as such integrate aspects of thereal work environment that most students will join after completing their graduation requirements.Overall campus experiences of the students are enhanced by involving them in such effortsalthough at times non-academic aspects of the fieldwork may appear to be of little educationalrelevance. For the particular project outlined here, the graduate student who is considering anacademic career as one of his career options has indicated the experience provided him withvaluable insight through self-reflection on how to effectively work with undergraduates.In keeping with the Federal Aviation
equitable and sustainable infrastructure include promoting environmentaljustice and social equity principles within project processes and decision making, supportingcommunities to achieve carbon neutrality, facilitating improved stakeholder engagement andinteragency collaboration, increasing the resiliency, preparedness, and long-term viability of civilinfrastructure [22]. Although previous literature has discussed incorporating various Envisioncase studies in the curriculum [7], [23]–[26], studies have yet to introduce the AEC students toENV SP credential and its prospect in their future career. This study takes the pilot initiative anddiscusses the required processes to obtain such credentials as a student. The Envision™ ratingsystem consists of
profession.Historically, cases used in the ethics literature, or philosophy more generally, have primarilyused male characters—e.g., “Smith and Jones” [12, 14]. This is problematic as there are manypeople who aren’t male who are pursuing a future career in engineering. The dominance of usingmale characters in these cases has fortunately changed. For example, one can see this changewhen one examines cases involving engineering professionals offered on the website for theMarkkula Center for Applied Ethics [15].Looking at the cases on the site of the Markkula Center under the categories Bioengineering,Civil Engineering, Computer/Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, and MechanicalEngineering, the representation between male and female characters is equal
, and increases student collaboration [11],[12], [13], [23], [24], [25], [26]. Pascarella et al. further concluded that the social and academicfabric of institutions are necessary for students to experience academic success [18], [21], [22].Research efforts suggest that retention rates, opportunities to support academic programs, andstudent recruitment are benefits of campus facilities and outdoor recreation programs in highereducation [1], [3]. As such, institutions have further allocated resources to assist disadvantagedstudents overcome academic preparedness and cultural capital [2], [21]. Several initiatives includepeer tutoring services, stress management centers, time management workshops, academicadvising, and personal and career
Scholar, a Graduate Academy for Teaching Excellence Fellow, a Global Perspectives Fellow, a Diversity Scholar, a Fulbright Scholar, an inductee into the Bouchet Honor Society, and received the prestigious NSF CAREER award. Homero serves as the VT Engineering Education Chair for Equity and Inclusion, and the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Incoming Chair for the Commission on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (CDEI). He holds degrees in Industrial Engineering (BS, MS) from the National Experimental University of Táchira, Master of Business Administration (MBA) from Temple University, and Engineering Education (PhD) from Virginia Tech.Tahsin Chowdhury Tahsin Chowdhury is an Engineering Education Doctoral
successAbstractWriting, regardless of stage in one’s academic career, can be a challenge. For many graduatestudents, the writing of the dissertation may be the most difficult part of the academic journey.The collection of thoughts, the ability to ground research in appropriate literature, and expressingthe topic and research activities so that others reading the work can understand may includeabilities and skills a graduate student needs to develop. Writing a dissertation can be a lonelyproposition as the graduate student may only receive feedback and support from their advisor. Toassist students in reaching their writing goals, the Graduate School at Michigan TechnologicalUniversity piloted WRITE-D: Writing in the Discipline with graduate students in the Civil
. Figure 1: Student responses in 2019 & 2020 for (Q1).ties for community engagement and connections. We found no statistically significant differencebetween white students and BIPOC students in this question.3.3. (Q3) Do you feel like a typical computer scientist? This question provides insight into a student’s feelings of a science identity, or asso-ciating their identity with their career choice. Again, as documented in Rainey et al. [9], scienceidentity provides perspective on a sense of belonging. As seen in Figure 4, in 2019, 67.8% ofstudents did not feel like typical computer scientists. In 2020, 57.9% of our students did not feeltypical. In 2020, we found a statistically significant difference between men and women
model-based cognition in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) can be better supported by means of expert tools and disciplinary practices such as data science computation, modeling, and simulation. In 2015 Dr. Magana received the National Science Foundation’s Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award to investigate modeling and simulation practices in undergraduate engineering education. In 2016 she was conferred the status of Purdue Faculty Scholar for being on an accelerated path toward academic distinction. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.com A Reflection on Action Approach