Paper ID #38606Preparing Engineering Students to Find the Best Job Fit: Starting Earlywith the Career Development ProcessDr. Cheryl Carrico, P.E., E4S, LLC Cheryl Carrico is owner of E4S, LLC. E4S, LLC conducts external evaluations, engineering education research, and industry consulting. Her current research focus relates to STEM career pathways and con- ceptual understanding of core engineering principles.Dr. Holly M. Matusovich, Virginia Tech Dr. Holly Matusovich is the Associate Dean for Graduate and Professional Studies in the College of Engineering at Virginia Tech and a Professor in the Department of Engineering
opportunities ofengineering students are also constantly evolving [3]. Nowadays, engineering students arepursuing careers in more diversified areas that possess fluid work structures, and that requireengineers that are quick to adapt to change and effective at facilitating multidisciplinarycollaborations [3], [5], [10]. In this context, communication and teamwork are critical to thesuccess of early career engineers; these capabilities are a fundamental aspect of career growthand an integral trait of leadership [4], [10]–[12]. The ability to communicate effectively, todemonstrate teaming skills, and to work in dynamic teams is increasingly important, and must beconsidered a priority in engineering programs as they try to better prepare students for
first-year students. Esohe has been recognized for their commitment to teaching by receiving the Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award from the Department of Chemical Engineering and the Graduate Student Teaching Award from the College of Engineering at UC Davis. Outside of work and academics, Esohe enjoys volunteering with ESTEME, an after school STEM program for underrepresented middle school students, and crossword puzzles.Glaucia Prado, University of California, Davis Glaucia Prado is an Assistant Professor of Teaching in Chemical Engineering at University of Califor- nia Davis. She began her career in food engineering from the University of Campinas (Brazil) before earning a PhD in chemical engineering from the
flipped model I had been using forthese lessons.So, what was I to do with the class time? Another idea that I had gleaned from conversationswith students was that they didn’t remember much from their computer science Introduction toComputing courses because it seemed impractical. “Hello, world” and other programs they hadbeen asked to write were not related to what they saw as their future career. My goal, therefore,was to demonstrate relevance to my students. Thus, each problem they were asked to solveneeded to relate to chemical engineering. This was made more challenging by the fact that thestudents had very limited knowledge of what chemical engineering was at the time they weretaking this course. My plan was to demonstrate a variety of
campus, were important in the major selection process.To focus exclusively on which factors affect students’ aspirations to study chemical engineeringneglects the bulk of the process that produces chemical engineering graduates. For example, thereare many points in their academic careers that women may choose to enter or exit a chemicalengineering program. The problem of attrition in science, technology, engineering andmathematics (STEM) more broadly has been widely studied. The most famous study is theethnographic study conducted by Seymour and colleagues that investigated reasons why studentschoose to leave STEM. One of the most cited reasons for leaving STEM in the original study waspoor teaching in STEM courses; this remained true in the
Chem- ical Engineering and Ph.D. in Engineering and Science Education. Her research earned her a National Science Foundation CAREER Award focused on characterizing latent diversity, which includes diverse attitudes, mindsets, and approaches to learning to understand engineering students’ identity development. She has won several awards for her research including the 2021 Journal of Civil Engineering Education Best Technical Paper, the 2021 Chemical Engineering Education William H. Corcoran Award, and the 2022 American Educational Research Association Education in the Professions (Division I) 2021-2022 Outstanding Research Publication Award.Dr. Vanessa Svihla, University of Texas, Austin Dr. Vanessa Svihla is a
of their findings and describe how their conclusions may be applied to real-world engineering challenges with bioadhesives. Team-based discussions were included in theactivity as an equitable and inclusive way to promote student learning [37,38]. After thesesummaries, instructors prompted the entire group with questions relating directly to the results oftheir activity (e.g., Which adhesive was stronger? Why?) and more open-ended questions thatchallenged students to think about real-world applications of bioadhesives. After the guideddiscussion, students were encouraged to ask any questions they had about the activity,bioadhesives, and careers in STEM. To conclude the module, students were given a post-test andpost-survey to assess learning
engineering problems and relate to what ourengineering students will be seeing in the future. These types of problems and experiences arevital to helping prepare students for future careers, however especially in first- and second-yearengineering courses, more emphasis needs to be placed on relating engineering concepts andproblems to our students’ culture and community.Connecting to students' culture and community in the college classroomWhile engineering often feels devoid of culture and community, all engineering solutions existwithin and for specific communities and cultures. How we bring students’ backgrounds into theclassroom will vary depending on student demographics and the location of the college oruniversity. Simple methods to engage
/ ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023Preliminary Reflections and Assessment of the 2022Chemical Engineering Summer SchoolAbstractThe ASEE/AIChE Chemical Engineering Summer School (ChESS) is a week-long, roughlyquinquennial over the past nearly 100 years, faculty development event bringing togetherearly-career and seasoned faculty for workshops and community building [1]. The most recentChESS took place July 25-29, 2022 at the Colorado School of Mines in Golden, CO, witharound 160 participants and 80 presenters. The two core outcomes for the Summer School are1) to build the Chemical Engineering education community and 2) to provide useful knowledgeand tools for teaching, scholarship, and service for those early in their careers.A typical
as “other” such as biology, chemistry, business, computer science, safety, andcommunication, among others, has led to the evolving definition of chemical engineers. Theboundaries of this discipline have become grayer and allow for more interdisciplinarycollaborations and broader research interests, leading to impactful discoveries. The need for periodic review of processes is needed in all fields of endeavor, andchemical engineering education is no different. Curricula must change and evolve as the worldchanges and evolves to match the variety of applications and jobs/careers the students willundertake after completing their degree. These changes to the scope of chemical engineering canbe seen in the undergraduate education curriculum
Division Early Career Award.Dr. C. Stewart Slater, Rowan University C. Stewart Slater is a professor of chemical engineering and founding chair of the Chemical Engineering Department at Rowan University. He has an extensive research and teaching background in separation process technology with a particular focus on membraSean CurtisMichael FracchiollaDavid Anthony Theuma ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Hands-On Experience in Solving Real-World Problems via a Unique Student-Faculty-Industry Collaboration Program1. IntroductionModern engineering education should have an inclusive teaching curriculum that combinestraditional lecture-based learning with new methods that can
introduced to the tool of a “team Contract” and presented with asimplified template recommended to be used in team projects later in the career. A secondlecture addresses the topic of “Social Loafing”. With some cases presented in class fordiscussion. In the spring semester they are introduced to the topic of “Conflict resolution” andrevisits the alignment of team contract with high performance teams. For these sections and theother activities in these introductory courses, students are placed in teams of 2-3 by CATME,and they get trained in the use of the resources it provides. Later in the career, some professorstake the initiative of introducing or reinforcing teamwork skills with some lectures or exercises,mainly to deal with conflict resolution
. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023Work-in-Progress: Developing a Research Plan for a Retrospective Analysis of the Effect of Bridging Courses on Student Success in Graduate Studies1. IntroductionNorth Carolina State University’s Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (CBE)regularly accepts accomplished students to its graduate program with backgrounds such aschemistry, physics, or biology. However, these students may lack the prerequisite knowledge ofkey chemical engineering topics, such as transport phenomena and thermodynamics. Otherstudents may have an undergraduate background in chemical engineering but enter graduatestudy after an industrial career and would like a refresher on complicated topics
Paper ID #39263Chemical Engineers’ Creating Concept Maps: A Prewriting ActivityDr. Elif Miskioglu, Bucknell University Dr. Elif Miskioglu is an early-career engineering education scholar and educator. She holds a B.S. in Chemical Engineering (with Genetics minor) from Iowa State University, and an M.S. and Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Ohio State University. Her early Ph.D. work focused on the development of bacterial biosensors capable of screening pesticides for specifically targeting the malaria vector mosquito, Anopheles gambiae. As a result, her diverse background also includes experience in infectious disease
students for their self-evaluationon how the EOP project facilitated their learning in chemical process control and how much theymastered the EOP mindset. Table 4 shows the average scores for each question shown in Table 1.As for “Q1 - The term project helps you understand the concepts in process control”, an averagescore of 2.74 was obtained. An average score of 3.18 was obtained for “Q2 - The term projectallows you to implement process control in real-life scenarios”. Students evaluated their projectswith higher scores for “Q3 - The term project makes you aware of your responsibility inengineering for one planet” (an average score of 3.59), “Q4 - You will keep EOP mindsets in yourfuture careers” (an average score of 3.69), and “Q5 - Your future
,retaining, and pursuing a career in engineering, with underrepresented groups like womenexperiencing identity conflicts and gender roles that affect their retention in the field [27-29].The Current StudyThe study aims to update classroom content by introducing contemporary industry-relevantproblems designed by industry professionals. The research uses design-based research withmultiple implementation cycles to answer the question of how effective this approach is inpromoting professional identity formation and industry-relevant competencies. The study alsoaddresses questions about students' understanding and interest in these applications, therelationship between students' identity and course performance, and the impact of the approachon
10, with an average number of 3 codes per excerpt.Across all student responses (among both cohorts) the most frequently occurring code wascommunication, followed by technical analysis/claims, and self-actualization.Table 1: Description of codes Code Description communication writing, delivering, formatting an oral and/or written report connection connection of topics from other courses with the laboratory, connection of laboratory course to the CHE discipline, one’s future career, or professional competencies equipment elements having to do with exposure to laboratory equipment (specific or general), including
then submitte. Not surprisingly, sixteen students in summer 2022 and 48students in Spring 2023 successfully completed this module. This accomplishment played asmall part (1/10th) of an assessment associated with Student Outcome 7, where studers wererequired to complete 9 of 10 assigned Level One and Level Two SAChE modules tosatisfactorily demonstrate their ability to acquire and apply new knowledge.After attend two 2-hour lectures on professional ethics given by a guest lecturer, who had a 40+year chemical engineering career with several companies, most notabliy Lubrizol, the studentstook a 40 or 67 questions exam focused soley on professional ethics. The standard for thisABET direct assessment of Outcome 4 was 80%. In summer 2022, the grades
third of the number of students thatanswered that survey question, did not have a clear understanding of EDI and either stronglydisagreed, disagreed or nether agreed nor disagreed with the statement that they understoodand applied EDI provisions (18 from 57 which accounts for 31.6%). This in itself isproblematic, especially as earlier research suggests that students in higher education settingdo not believe that EDI matters to their future career prospects [14]. Furthermore, A sizeablenumber of students were unaware of how to report incidents of inappropriate behaviour witha total of 26 from 42 respondents (62%) uncertain as to how to do this. An initial assessmentof this data suggests that the awareness of what EDI is and the protection
on the undergraduate coaches themselves(Appendix B). This survey included a series of questions, also used a five-point Likert scale, thatasked how being a coach helped the student to prepare for their future career and to developtechnical and soft skills. Both surveys are still collecting data that will be presented during thepresentation at the annual meeting.Prior to implementing the formal assessment instrument in the spring 2023 semester, theeffectiveness of the coaches was assessed informally during mid-semester evaluations and finalcourse evaluations. The questions related to the coaches were more qualitative, asking forgeneral feedback. The most common responses from the students were (i) they were able toanswer questions, (ii) easy
postdoc at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology before starting her academic career at Oklahoma State University (OSU), where she was an assistant professor 2014-2020 and then a tenured associate professor until January 2021 before moving to UB. Dr. Ford Versypt leads the Systems Biomedicine and Pharmaceutics Laboratory. She was the 2020-2021 Chair for the ASEE Chemical Engineering Division (CHED). Dr. Ford Versypt has been recognized with the NSF CAREER Award, ASEE CHED Ray W. Fahien Award and Joseph J. Martin Award, and AIChE CAST Division David Himmelblau Award for Innovations in Computer-Based Chemical Engineering Education. She is an Academic Trustee of Computer Aids for Chemical Engineering Corporation
mathematical involvement, in contrast toother courses in the career, and for the restricted applicability to industrial jobs. This criticismgenerally negatively affects the motivation of students. However, the combination with hands-onexperiments has proved to enrich the learning and motivation of students, but most colleges facesevere restrictions on the investment, maintenance, and operation of process control labs and theaddition of new requirements in the curriculum. Some alternatives have been exploring the useof simple modules for classroom demonstrations, theoretical simulations of equipment in unitoperations lab, and virtual-lab simulations.This paper describes the scope of technical training based on process model and synthesis of
male in his late 20s who served as a TA for the studied course. He is participating inthis research effort as part of a university program geared toward preparing promising Ph.D.students for careers in academia. Exposure to the qualitative social science research methodsused in this study, performing coding of student responses, etc. served to broaden theirunderstanding of engineering education scholarship.2.6. LimitationsThe first author of this study was the instructor of the studied course, so it is possible thatunconscious bias due to the author’s feelings regarding the course and its students impact theirinterpretation of collected qualitative data. Similarly, since the author was the course instructor,they are privy to information not
Paper ID #39773Board 34: Work in Progress: Simple, Scalable Interventions to AddressAcademic and Mental-Health Barriers in Engineering UndergraduatesProf. Maureen Tang, Drexel University Maureen Tang joined the faculty of Chemical and Biological Engineering at Drexel University in 2014 and obtained tenure in April 2020. She completed BS, PhD, and postdoctoral work at Carnegie Mellon, UC Berkeley, and Stanford University, respectively, all in Chemical Engineering. She is the recipient of a NSF CAREER award and placed as a Finalist in the 2012 AAAS Dance Your PhD competition. Her research at Drexel studies materials and
topics built off of one another. Also, the projects enabled me to connect the concepts to real-life scenarios as well as become more comfortable working with and analyzing large data which will be very beneficial for my future engineering career.”This question also received a single negative comment in Spring 2022, which corresponded withthe singular outlying strong disagreement to the question asking about tests and assignments. • “In this class, we had lecture and projects. I learned a great amount from both of these opportunities. However, lecture and projects were completely unrelated and I found that very frustrating.”When asked about the course as a whole, however, every student in both the Fall 2020 andSpring
, Optimize Test Most test, and Assess and solutions and unexpected Test ideas chemical assess safety in conduct characterize performance and support engineering product processing pilot scale requirements in innovations research performance plants processes of design work manufacturingFigure 1. Areas in which laboratory experiments at the undergraduate level play a critical role inthe future careers of the students.Despite increasing calls for modernizing
his contribution to science and engineering, Pelumi has taught as a teaching assistant both at Morgan State University and Obafemi Awolowo University. With a passion to communicate research findings gleaned from experts in the field as he advances his career, Olaitan has attended several in-person and virtual conferences and workshops, and at some of them, made presentations on findings on air pollution, wastewater reuse, and heavy metal contamination.Dr. Oludare Adegbola Owolabi, P.E., Morgan State University Dr. Oludare Owolabi, a professional engineer in Maryland, joined the Morgan State University faculty in 2010. He is the director of the Sustainable Infrastructure Development, Smart Innovation and Resilient
Rennane, Stephanie, Hannah Acheson-Field, Kathryn A. Edwards, Grace Gahlon, and Melanie A.Zaber. "Leak or link? the overrepresentation of women in non-tenure-track academic positions inSTEM." PloS one 17, no. 6 (2022): e0267561. 157 Doty, Heather, Shawna Vican, and Robin Andreasen. "How to Promote Faculty Advancement forNontenure-track Faculty." In 2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access. 2021.8 Fitzmorris, Cliff, Deborah A. Trytten, and Randa L. Shehab. "The career pathways of non-tenure-track full-time engineering faculty." In 2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition. 2018.9 Culver, K. C. "Six strategies to support non-tenure-track
undergraduate students (ChE). Students implement the knowledge gained inmultiple undergraduate courses into studies utilizing a range of unit operations equipmentavailable in the laboratory. This laboratory course is typically the first time many chemicalengineering students have the opportunity to work with pilot-scale equipment, facilitating aunique laboratory practice and experiential learning experience during their undergraduate career[1]. Additional professional skills are developed by students working in the laboratory, including 1teamwork, experimental designs, technical written and oral communication, and critical thinking[2]–[4]. The combination
, accountability, honesty, respect, and integrity The company has several programs to educate farmers on safe and efficient uses of their products The company has recently announced a commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion by establishing programs for career development of women, Indigenous people, military veterans, and other historically under-represented minorities The company is advancing a program for diversifying partnership with entrepreneurs who are women, Black or indigenous The company has committed to institutionalize the promotion of diversity with specific guidelines in the Code of Conduct and two flagship training programs for employees “Inclusive Workplace Commitment” and “Respect in the Workplace Policy” The company has established