Paper ID #36562Engineering Students Conceptions of The HiddenCurriculum in Hispanic-Serving Institutions: Learning toInform PracticeIdalis Villanueva (Associate Professor) For the past 10 years, Dr. Idalis Villanueva has worked on several engineering education projects where she derives from her experiences in engineering to improve outcomes for minoritized groups in engineering using mixed-and multi-modal methods approaches. She currently is an Associate Professor in the Engineering Education Department at the University of Florida. In 2019, she received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and
Paper ID #36653Impact of Differently Worded Reflection Prompts onEngineering Students’ Metacognitive StrategiesEmily Stratman Emily Stratman is an undergraduate student at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She is majoring in biological systems engineering, with an emphasis in biomedical engineering. Her research focus is in the influence of reflection on students' metacognitive strategies. This summer she will be participating in an REU program at Utah State University and working on a project that measures students' spatial abilities.Heidi A. Diefes-Dux (Professor) Heidi A. Diefes-Dux is a Professor in
School District located in Olathe, Kansas. With the goal to explore theeffects of engineering content interventions across the high school population, the project wasmade available to all high school science teachers in the district. This was to ensure a wide rangeof subjects and grade levels were exposed to the project content and as so, 12 science teachersagreed to participate and gave rise to this population size. Grade levels ranged from 9th to 12thgrade with course subjects including Advanced Biotechnology: Cellular & Molecular I, Biology,Honors Biology, Chemistry, Honors Chemistry, AP Physics I, Physics, and Physical Science. Ofthese course subjects, 36 students were enrolled in Advanced Biotechnology: Cellular & MolecularI, 86
Paper ID #37511Designing a (Re)Orientation program for Women ComputingStudents at a Commuter College and Measuring ItsEffectivenessIlknur Aydin Ilknur Aydin is an Associate Professor of Computer Systems at Farmingdale State College in Long Island, New York. She received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from University of Delaware in DE, USA and received her BS degree in Computer Engineering from Marmara University in Istanbul, Turkey. She also worked as a software engineer in Turkey on projects about implementation of a GPS (Global Positioning System) based vehicle tracking system. Dr. Aydin's research is in the
, and design projects all vary in scope andcomposition year to year. Due to the security of the exam and the exam administrationprocedures, it has remained largely unchanged for over a decade presenting a uniquely valuablemetric for longitudinal study.While this gives an enormous dataset to analyze and compare the results against, it revealed amajor problem with the initial approach. The inclusion of data from so many semesters increasesthe number of factors at play within the data. To offset some of these confounding factors, ourstudy narrowed the scope of the data. Observing only fall semesters maintains a similar samplesize and composition of majors from year to year. Using the “constituent” majors or those whichfrequently take the course
Geological Engineering. He is a licensed Professional Engineer (PE), a Project Management Professional (PMP), a Certified Professional in Engineering Management (CPEM), and a Certified Planner (AICP). He is a Fulbright Scholar and has worked projects for the Ministry of Education, the Republic of the Marshall Islands and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Kosovo. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.com Virtue and Engineering Ethics – A Pilot StudyAbstractHow to teach a student to be a technical engineer, regardless of discipline, is well known,understood, and vetted; however, the same does not hold true for teaching students
could enable a smootherand more accurate transfer of their knowledge to the authentic task. In future work, theseadvantages may eventually be measured through a hands-on post-assessment to improve learningoutcomes in psychomotor skills and spatial thinking when compared to paper instructions. Futurework in assessment would also entail measuring advantages associated with reducing instructorload and capturing and standardizing instruction. Additional projects in the machine shop spacewill focus on promoting student exploration of machining, which can be addressed with a“machining in the dorm room” app where students can carry out different machining taskswithout being physically present in the machine shop and can make choices that impact
Paper ID #36799Factors identifying commitment to gender equality in aSchool of EngineeringCamila Zapata Master in Marketing and Market Research from the University of Barcelona, Spain. Industrial Civil Engineer from the Universidad del Bío-Bío. She has three diplomas in the areas of coaching, digital marketing and equality and empowerment of women. Her professional experience is linked to higher education as a project engineer and university management in the public and private area. Teacher at different universities in matters of entrepreneurship, business plans and marketing. She currently works as a teacher and
hesitation to pursue the project and potential benefits from eachstakeholders’ perspective [3]. This conceptual process helps the designer create new knowledgeby exploring the space between stakeholders, their needs, and potential risks.Concept mapping is also a useful counter-balance to reductionist ways of thinking that oftenwork to isolate individual components of a system. Concept mapping encourages designers tothink about the interaction between components. For example, Interface Inc., a manufacturingcompany, was able to identify new energy efficiency gains in their mechanical systems bybroadening the scope of their problem. Rather than optimizing an already efficient mechanicalpump they instead recognized more prospective gains in reducing the
confident and have positive attitudes towards diversity, equity, andinclusion (DEI) efforts [10]. Recently, another avenue of research regarding LAs has emerged:the potential for LAs to prompt course redesign and institutional change. Using frameworks suchas students-as-partners, researchers have detailed how instructors’ views on the goals andpurposes of coursework may change throughout the process of incorporating LAs into theircurricula [2, 11]. In sum, instructors, students, and LAs all stand to greatly benefit from robustLA programs [12].Our research on the role of LAs is part of an extensive project addressing high DFW rates at theauthors’s institution in introductory mechanics (PHYS 141), statics (ME 211) and dynamics (ME212). Introductory
studentsreceiving automatic admittance based on that factor while other students are subject to a moreholistic examination before being admitted to a major. Due to inherent inequities that exist inhigher education that stem from the K-12 education system in the United States, not all studentswill experience their first year at TAMU equitably. Historical work at TAMU through the LouisStokes Alliance for Minority Participation (LSAMP) project showed that under-representedminority students in STEM had been positively impacted and retained past their first year bycombating many factors that impact the retention of underrepresented minority students that existin first-year engineering experiences [8]. Similarly, work through the CONNECTS Communitiesproject at
Paper ID #37113Developing Deeper Student Mentoring Relationships: BlackEngineering Faculty Translating their Mentee Experiences toStudents (Research)Sylvia L. Mendez (Professor/Chair) Dr. Sylvia Mendez is a Professor and Chair of the Department of Leadership, Research, and Foundations at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs. She is engaged in several National Science Foundation-sponsored collaborative research projects focused on broadening participation in STEM academia. Dr. Mendez’s research centers on the creation of optimal higher education policies and practices that advance faculty careers and student
collected between October 2020 and May2021. Before starting the interview, the research assistant explained the purpose of the researchstudy and obtained verbal consent for participation in the interview. Audio recordings from theinterviews were first transcribed using the Microsoft Office Suite transcription feature before beingedited by a research assistant on the project. The current study focused on two questions related toperceived stressors in engineering and alternative coping strategies to seeing help from a mentalhealth professional: 1. What are the main sources of stress that engineering undergraduates have experienced in their engineering training? 2. What coping strategies have students developed as an alternative to seeking
. 7]. This approach centers on methodological alignment, whichensures ”...that the research methods we use actually test what we think they are testing” [16, p.203].Here, we first provide an overview of the intervention, then describe our methodology for creatingthe ToI model centered on Capacity.3.1 Intervention OverviewTo address the need for more cybersecurity professionals [17–20], CSforALL recently launched anintervention (JROTC-CS Demonstration Project) in the U.S. to include Computer Science (CS) andCybersecurity (Cyber) as a part of the courses Junior Reserve Officers Training Corps (JROTC)students (or cadets) take in their local high schools. Given the reach of these programs, this in-tervention has the potential to engage over
Professor and former Associate Chair for Undergraduate Education at Portland State University, Electrical and Computer Engineering department. He has led department-wide changes in curriculum with emphasis on project- and lab-based instruction and learning. He was awarded best-paper award by ECE division of ASEE in 2017 for his work on freshman engineering course development. His research interests are in the areas of engineering education, microwave absorber design, ferroelectrics, photovoltaics, THz sensors, signal integrity, and semiconductor device characterization, design and simulation. He is a member of IEEE and ASEE. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022
Junior year because of my interest in water resourceengineering and sustainability, things I was not exposed to in my required coursework until theend of my junior year. On the team we worked together to help design improvements to anirrigation reservoir, which to me was a much more interesting project than the one I have todesign for my capstone course.Nonetheless, not all of my experiences with my peers have been positive. On design teams that Ijoined I sometimes felt as though some of the men on the team never seemed to listen to me.Working on a team where I did not feel valued was extremely frustrating. In classes, I almostnever ask my male friends for help or support if I can avoid it. If I do ask for help, they tend notto understand my
major and in the field [3], [4], [15], [21], [22].Women are known to be major contributors to creativity and innovation in the engineeringprofession [3], [4], [23]. Creative self-efficacy (CSE) within engineering curriculum has beenstudied as a part of student success in engineering education, and with respect to the retention ofwomen engineering students in the major [15], [24], [25]. Curricular and extra-curriculareducational experiences that involve project based learning (PBL) and spatial reasoning are anintegral part of engineering-centered curricula [26], [27], [20]. These experiences cultivate thecreative aspect of the industry and have been shown to increase spatial abilities. They have beenstudied with respect to encouraging students
exploration of the in/authentic experiences of Black engineering interns (Work in Progress)AbstractIn this paper, we discuss the preliminary results of a project that explored the effect of internshipexperiences on racial and engineering identity development for nine Black engineering students,four women and five men. Specifically, within this paper we highlight the narratives of threeparticipants and outline how their internship cultures affected the extent in which they couldauthentically be themselves in the workplace. This was done through an extension of Faulkner’sconcept of in/authenticity as a theoretical framework [1], [2]. To understand the experiences ofthe engineering students, our methodology followed steps
la Primera Generación (The x Florida First-Gen Family Guide)Literature ReviewHispanic ProgramsAs explained in the Methodology section, the literature focused on three different areas. First, welooked for any published Hispanic programs focusing on giving parents tools to support their children inschool and/or college. In this search, we found the Futures and Families program which was the parentcomponent of a small, experimental college access program and study known as the Futures Project inpartnership with UCLA (Auerbach, 2004). It was a bilingual outreach program that made informationabout college accessible to Latino parents with
Paper ID #37167Work in Progress: Faculty choice and reflection on teachingstrategies to improve engineering self-efficacySarah Lynn Orton (Dr.) Dr. Orton is an associate professor in Civil Engineering and is an active member of the American Concrete Institute and the American Society of Civil Engineers. Dr. Orton also serves as the Director of Undergraduate Studies for the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at the University of Missouri. She has participated in several programs aimed at improving undergraduate education. Her research projects have involved the use of carbon fiber reinforced polymers to
: 10.1002/j.2168-9830.2004.tb00817.x.[5] M. R. Liu and J. Zhu, “Personal epistemology: The impact of project-based learning,” ASEE Annu. Conf. Expo. Conf. Proc., vol. 2018-June, 2018, doi: 10.18260/1-2--30873.[6] A. Aparicio and A. Ruiz-Teran, “Tradition and Innovation in Teaching Structural Design in Civil Engineering,” J. Prof. Issues Eng. Educ. Pract., vol. 133, no. 4, pp. 340–349, 2007, doi: 10.1061/(ASCE)1052-3928(2007)133.[7] M. Belenky, B. Clinchy, N. Goldberger, and J. Tarule, Women’s Ways of Knowing: The Development of Self, Voice, and Mind. 1986.[8] B. K. Hofer and P. R. Pintrich, “The development of epistemological theories: Beliefs about knowledge and knowing and their relation to learning,” Rev. Educ
Virginia and a M.S.E. in Biomedical Engineeirng from the University of Texas at Austin.Lindsey McGowen Dr. Lindsey McGowen is a Senior Research Scientist, Applied Social and Community Psychology Program, Department of Psychology, North Carolina State University where she leads the Innovation Studies Lab. Dr. McGowen’s research focuses on program evaluation for cooperative science and technology programs, particularly the outcomes and impacts of cooperative research centers. With over a decade of experience, Dr. McGowen has pioneered work on program sustainability for cooperative research centers. She has served as the Director of the NSF-sponsored Industry-University Cooperative Research Centers (IUCRC) Evaluation Project and as
Paper ID #36946The accuracy of self-assessment in engineering mechanicsAmie Baisley (Faculty) I have a Ph.D. in engineering education from Utah State University and a M.S. in structural engineering from Arizona State University. My teaching and research interests are centered around the second year mechanics courses and how changes in those courses can impact student learning and persistence.Keith D. Hjelmstad (Chair) Keith D. Hjelmstad is President's Professor of Engineering at Arizona State University and chair of the civil engineering program. He is founder and architect of The Mechanics Project, an effort
Paper ID #37495Sacrifice: Messages STEM Postdoctoral Scholar WomenReceive about Career and FamilySylvia L. Mendez (Professor/Chair) Dr. Sylvia Mendez is a Professor and Chair of the Department of Leadership, Research, and Foundations at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs. She is engaged in several National Science Foundation-sponsored collaborative research projects focused on broadening participation in STEM academia. Dr. Mendez’s research centers on the creation of optimal higher education policies and practices that advance faculty careers and student success, as well as the schooling experiences of
Paper ID #37716Half-fulfilled Promises: Creating a Veteran-friendly Space inEngineering Graduate ProgramsJae Hoon Lim (Professor) Dr. Jae Hoon Lim’ is a Professor of Educational Research at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Her research explores the dialogical process of identity construction among students of color and examines the impact of sociocultural factors on their academic experiences. She has served as a co-PI for multiple federal grant projects, including a 1.6 million grant from the National Science Foundation. Her research has been published in several premier journals, including the
in his department since 2008, and he also acts as the Project Director for the NSF Bridge Program in his department. In the past he served as the Graduate Director and as the Undergraduate Director in his department, and he directed the NSF-LSAMP program on his campus during 2009-2014 and also directed the NSF-LSAMP Bridge-to- Doctorate program on his campus during 2010-2013.Yolanda ParkerJianzhong Su (Professor and Chair) © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.com THREE MENTORING PROGRAMS IN MATHEMATICS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON AND THEIR LOCAL AND BROADER
of her time at APL she worked on a wide variety of cybersecurity projects. Ms. Resch has a BS and MS in Mechanical Engineering from University of Maryland and an MS in Computer Science from Johns Hopkins University.Patriel Stapleton (Researcher) I'm of Afro-Caribbean descent and spent most of my life raised on the beautiful islands of St. Kitts and Nevis. I am a double Gator at the University of Florida with a B.S. in Computer Science and am currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Human- Center Computing. I aim to conduct research that examines and produces technologies that support learning. This is incredibly important as the pace of technologies often advances without concern for the experiences of people of color.Benjamin
saw themselves as a ‘special cohort’. • Participating in the program built the graduate student’s communication skills. It helped them hone their skills in explaining and teaching their research to other people with different backgrounds and educational levels. They learned how to give other people enough information for them to work without overloading them. They were also better able to explain the motivation for their dissertation work. • The role of the dissertation advisor was important to the fellow. The dissertation advisor helped them scope the project for their undergraduate research course to be interesting to the undergraduate students from diverse backgrounds, publishable (novel) and was a
constructivistepistemological paradigm and [18] suggests that case studies can be descriptive, exploratory, orexplanatory, exploring a single case or multiple cases. Within and cross case analysis can beconducted within multiple case studies. The larger study from which this report is drawn used amultiple case study design with embedded cases. This report represents one embedded case –STEM doctoral faculty at a HBCU in the Southeastern region of the United States. This NSFAGEP sponsored social science research project explored the dispositions, skills, and knowledgeof eight STEM faculty at a HBCU. Attitudes towards culturally liberative mentoring wereexplored.The target population was faculty in STEM doctoral programs at an HBCU. Conveniencesampling was used as
, Mohamad, & Alavi, 2021), who had students select a process pertainingto dynamic systems analysis and controls, and model it for simulation. ABET criteria were usedto assess student outcomes for the engineering project, where it was found that students wereable to achieve the learning outcomes specified by ABET. Similarly, (Morales-Menendez,Ramirez-Mendoza, & Guevara, 2019) incorporated virtual and remote labs as supplementalmaterials in an industrial automation course and used a KIPPAS (Knowledge and understanding,Inquiry skills, Practical skills, Perception, Analytical skills and Social and scientificcommunication) framework, which affirms criterion 3 in ABET. They concluded that the use ofVLs had several advantages: VLs are cost