biomedical engineering and engineering edu- cation research at the University of Michigan. Her research interests include student mental health and wellness, engineering student career pathways, and engagement of engineering faculty in engineering education research. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Pilot Study of the Impacts of a Robotics Curriculum on Student’s Subject- related Identities and Understanding of EngineeringAbstractParticipation in educational robotics, tinkering, and making are common precursors to enrollment inengineering majors. Negative perceptions of robotics can inhibit some students from participating andlater, pursuing engineering studies. Additionally
design. Awareness of one’s own mental models and theissues that face the end systems user, particular when it may be a diverse population, will allowfor more universal design that does not continue to privilege the same populations andexacerbate the inequities of others [23]. Handley and Marnewick [24] augment an existingcompetency model that incorporates elements of global competencies to now include DEIprinciples. They apply it to a systems engineering graduate program and suggest modifyingmaterial content, student interactions (classroom activities) and the teaching environment(methods, practice and atmosphere) simultaneously. In this pilot study, a senior design project inIndustrial and Systems Engineering and a course in Systems Thinking
Research Center. Her research focuses on how identity, among other affective factors, influences diverse students to choose engineering and persist in engineering. She also studies how different experiences within the practice and culture of engineering foster or hinder be- longing and identity development. Dr. Godwin graduated from Clemson University with a B.S. in 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. ©American Society for
M. Orgill, “Applications of Systems Thinking in STEM Education,” Journal of Chemical Education, vol. 96, no. 12, pp. 2742–2751, May 2019, doi: 10.1021/acs.jchemed.9b00261.[5] E. K. Talley and R. B. Hull, “Systems thinking for systems leadership: promoting competency development for graduate students in sustainability studies,” International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, Jan. 2023, doi: 10.1108/ijshe-11-2021-0489.[6] P. M. Senge, The fifth discipline: the art and practice of the learning organization. New York: Doubleday/Currency, 1990.[7] C. L. Dym, A. M. Agogino, O. Eris, D. D. Frey, and L. J. Leifer, “Engineering Design Thinking, Teaching, and Learning,” Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 94, no. 1
University Alexandra Jackson is a second year PhD student at Rowan University seeking a specialization in Engi- neering Education. She began her research in Rowan’s Experiential Engineering Education Department in the Fall of 2019, and has developed interests in entrepreneurial mindset and student development. In particular, she is interested in assessment of entrepreneurial mindset through both quantitative and quali- tative methods, and is currently working in both survey and concept map assessment. She was awarded an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship in April, 2022, and hopes to continue her research in entrepreneurial mindset assessment using narrative inquiry.Dr. Cheryl A. Bodnar, Rowan University Dr. Bodnar is an
& Education, vol. 21, no. 2, pp. 181–200, 2022, doi: 10.1080/15348431.2019.1648269.[13] N. Choe, M. Borrego, L. Martins, A. Patrick, and C. C. Seepersad, “A Quantitative Pilot Study of Engineering Graduate Student Identity,” in 2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition Proceedings, Columbus, Ohio: ASEE Conferences, Jun. 2017, p. 27502. doi: 10.18260/1-2--27502.[14] C. J. Faber, R. L. Kajfez, D. M. Lee, L. C. Benson, M. S. Kennedy, and E. G. Creamer, “A grounded theory model of the dynamics of undergraduate engineering students’ researcher identity and epistemic thinking,” J Res Sci Teach, vol. 59, no. 4, pp. 529–560, Apr. 2022, doi: 10.1002/tea.21736.[15] L. Fleming, K. Smith, D. Williams, and L. Bliss, “Engineering
.1742-1241.2011.02659.x.[8] S. M. Van Anders, “Why the academic pipeline leaks: Fewer men than women perceive barriers to becoming professors,” Sex Roles, vol. 51, no. 9–10, pp. 511–521, Nov. 2004, doi: 10.1007/S11199-004-5461-9/METRICS.[9] R. Ysseldyk et al., “A leak in the academic pipeline: Identity and health among postdoctoral women,” Front. Psychol., vol. 10, no. JUN, p. 1297, Jun. 2019, doi: 10.3389/FPSYG.2019.01297/BIBTEX.[10] N. D. Jackson, K. I. Tyler, Y. Li, W. T. Chen, C. Liu, and R. Bhargava, “Keeping current: An update on the structure and evaluation of a program for graduate women interested in engineering Academia,” in ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings
of growth mindsets than their White peers,yet they also reported lower levels of fixed mindsets [13]. Said differently, Ge et al.’s [13] cross-sectional study showed that White engineering students demonstrate a higher predispositiontowards a growth mindset and a higher predisposition towards endorsing a fixed view of theirabilities. An exploratory study aimed at understanding the relationship between students’engineering identity and mindsets longitudinally found that both a fixed and a growth mindsetwere positive predictors of identity [14]. However, the authors did acknowledge that there may bemoderating effects not considered in the model, such as course difficulty, that may also helpexplain the positive relationships [14]. The studies
Lab became ourprimary field site. The participant-observations in the AP Lab are ongoing.The AP Lab is a material science and engineering lab whose research agenda revolves around thedevelopment of new polymers and the fabrication of microelectronic implantable devices. At thebeginning of the data collection, the AP Lab included approximately 17 lab members includingthe PI, lab director (a postdoc researcher, marked with PDM in subsequent analysis), twopostdoctoral researchers, and graduated students (some of them interns at local companies). Outof this group, eleven lab members—a lab director and ten graduate students—consented toparticipate in our study. These members were regularly attending online lab meetings during theCOVID-19 pandemic
multilingual writers inengineering and the potential of corpus-based writing instruction, the current study creates alanguage module in a form of tutoring intervention and assesses its effectiveness on fourmultilingual graduate students in Mechanical Engineering. Using a genre- and discipline-specific corpus consisting of 150 published empirical articles and 32 graduate students’manuscripts in Mechanical Engineering, the tutoring presents authentic and meaningful textsas linguistic reference. In so doing, the instructor can be saved from make discipline-inappropriate choices such as choosing an expression common in general academic Englishbut infrequent in Mechanical Engineering. By comparing sentence-level features betweenexpert and student writing
undergraduate research programming was thoroughly disrupted due to the COVID-19pandemic, it became evident that incoming graduate students may not have had the opportunityto fully prepare for the changes experienced in the first semester of graduate school. To ease thistransition, the Center for Nanoscale Science, a National Science Foundation Materials ResearchScience and Engineering Center (NSF-MRSEC) at Penn State University, developed theGraduate Research Experience and Transitioning to Grad School (GREaT GradS) programinitially for the summer of 2021 as a 6-week, graduate school summer foundational program forincoming students in disciplines spanning engineering, materials science, chemistry, and physics.After a successful pilot in 2021, the
has emerged as a core skill for thesuccess of new graduates and career growth. While the leadership studies field enjoys a broadliterature base, there is concern that many leadership development efforts have not demonstratedquantitatively substantive impacts on their students [9]. Some suggest this may be due to thecomplex, individual, and dynamic nature of leader development [10].IdentityOne approach that has emerged to meet the challenges of leader formation is identity (how onesees oneself, and is seen by others, in society). This approach has seen growth in the leadershipstudies field (e.g.,[3]) but is yet to be widely applied within an engineering context [11]. Thatsaid, some scholars interested in engineering leadership development have
stream at Queen’s University. Proceedings of the Canadian EngineeringEducation Association. DOI: 10.24908/pceea.v0i0.3943Tonso, K. (2006a) Teams that work: campus culture, engineer identity, and social interactions.Journal of Engineering Education 95(1): 25-37.Tonso, K. (2006b) Student engineers and engineering identity: Campus engineer identities asfigured world. Cultural Studies of Science Education 1(2): 1-35.Valverde, K.L.C and Dariotis, W.M. (2019) Fight the Tower: Asian American Women Scholars’Resistance and Renewal in the Academy. Rutgers University Press. New Brunswick, New Jersey.Wang Y., Zhang, X., Khalkhal, F., Claussen S., and Biviano A. (2023) A quantitative analysis onteamwork behavior, disagreement, and their linkages to Students
beliefs about math, English, science, and social studies. Other research interests of hers include the formation of career aspirations, the school- to-work transition, and the differential participation in science, technology, engineering, and math fields based on social identity groups such as gender and Racial/Ethnic identity.Dr. Nathalie Duval-Couetil, Purdue University at West Lafayette Nathalie Duval-Couetil is the Director of the Certificate in Entrepreneurship and Innovation Program, Associate Director of the Burton D. Morgan Center, and a Professor in the Department of Technology Leadership and Innovation at Purdue University. She is ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023
Paper ID #38182Board 207: ACCESS in STEM: An S-STEM Project Supporting Economi-callyDisadvantaged STEM-Interested Students in Their First Two YearsErica ClineMenaka AbrahamSarah AlaeiDr. Heather Dillon, University of Washington, Tacoma Dr. Heather Dillon is Professor and Chair of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Washington Tacoma. Her research team is working on energy efficiency, renewable energy, fundamental heat transfer, and engineering education. Before joining academia, she worked for the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) as a senior research engineer working on both energy efficiency and renewable
. After each lesson and after thelesson series, students completed a written reflection on what they had learned, totaling to fivereflections over the semester. Their responses will be explored with a thematic qualitativeanalysis to answer the research questions above. The lessons continue to be adapted to thiscontext and are being taught to all sections of the course this semester. A rollout to all incomingfirst-year engineering students is planned for the Fall of 2023, so this analysis is ongoing, and allconclusions drawn so far are from Fall of 2022 and are denoted as a WIP.Definition of EmpathyDuring a pilot study in the Fall of 2022, 59 first-year students in the honors sections of“Introduction to Engineering” at a large R1 university
Formation (PFE: RIEF) program under Award#2024960. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in thismaterial are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the NationalScience Foundation.References[1] Patrick, Anita D., and A. N. Prybutok. "Predicting persistence in engineering through anengineering identity scale." International journal of engineering education 34, no. 2a (2018).[2] Marra, Rose M., and Barbara Bogue. "Women engineering students' self efficacy--alongitudinal multi-institution study." Women in Engineering ProActive Network (2006). Surveyavailable at http://aweonline.org/efficacy.html[3] Bilgin, Betul, James W. Pellegrino, and Vikas Berry. "Work-in-Progress: The Design of Up-to-Date
Paper ID #37179Fostering Community at the Graduate Level: One University’s Student-ledApproachHaroula M. Tzamaras, Pennsylvania State University Haroula is a 3rd year PhD candidate studying human factors at Penn State and is the current president of GradWIE.Sierra HicksGabriella M. Sallai, Pennsylvania State University Gaby Sallai is currently a graduate student in the Mechanical Engineering department at Penn State. She is working under Dr. Catherine Berdanier in the Engineering Cognitive Research Laboratory (ECRL) studying the experiences of engineering graduate students. She received her Bachelor’s degree from
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theirinternational graduate students to ensure they thrive at their institutions. Previous studies haveinvestigated the historical, cultural, and social factors that have impacted the construction ofGES's academic identities. However, broader efforts are needed to understand the population ofengineering graduate students with a strong engineering focus at universities. This Work inProgress study presents the results of a pilot survey developed that seeks to understand thefactors that impact the well-being of international and domestic graduate engineering students.For this, we selected a survey that evaluates this population's social resources. The socialresources component assesses social and institutional support, their relationships with advisors
skills without thetraditional barriers of calculus and physics that gate the engineering major at the university level.Our course targets students from the arts, humanities, computer sciences, and businessdisciplines, working to improve their technical literacy and help them develop their technicalabilities. Engineering students in non-electrical disciplines have also been attracted to the courseto build their electronics skills for lab work. These skills should better prepare students tomeaningfully engage with technology in their lives and careers after graduation. The pilot studyran during the Fall 2022 semester with 9 enrolled students and an extension and replication iscurrently underway. To recruit more students for future studies, we have
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.[15] C. Poor and S. Brown, “Increasing retention of women in engineering at WSU: A model for a women’s mentoring program,” Coll. Stud. J., vol. 47, no. 3, pp. 421-428, Sept. 2013[16] P. R. Hernandez, B. Bloodhart, R. T. Barnes, A. S. Adams, S. M. Clinton, I. Pollack, E. Godfrey, M. Burt, and E. V. Fischer, “Promoting professional identity, motivation, and persistence: Benefits of an informal mentoring program for female undergraduate students,” PLoS ONE, vol. 12, no. 11, Nov. 2017, Art. no. E0187531, doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0187531.[17] O. Pierrakos, T. K. Beam, J. Constantz, A. Johri, and R. Anderson, “On the development of a professional identity: Engineering persisters vs engineering switchers
.[14] Kang, N. H. (2008). Learning to teach science: Personal epistemologies, teaching goals, and practices of teaching. Teaching and Teacher Education, 24(2), 478-498.[15] Montfort, D., Brown, S., & Shinew, D. (2014). The personal epistemologies of civil engineering faculty. Journal of Engineering Education, 103(3), 388-416.[16] Carberry, A., Ohland, M., & Swan, C. (2010, June). A pilot validation study of the epistemological beliefs assessment for engineering (EBAE): First year engineering student beliefs. In 2010 Annual Conference & Exposition (pp. 15-71).[17] Corlett, S., & Mavin, S. (2018). Reflexivity and researcher positionality. The SAGE handbook of qualitative business and management research methods
Paper ID #37989Board 94: Developing Support for Critical Citation Requirements forCivil and Environmental Engineering Graduate ResearchSarah Weiss, University of Maryland- College Park Sarah Weiss is a STEM and Open Science librarian at the University of Maryland - College Park. Her work includes liasonship to the Computer Science and Atmospheric and Oceanic Studies departments as well as departments in the College of Engineering. In addition she is involved the promotion of open science practices on campus. She has a MLIS as well as a bachelors of science in education from the University of Wisconsin - Madison
on social capital theory, belongingness, and engineeringrole identity. These theories shaped our data collection and analysis procedures.Social capital describes the resources that are cultivated or made available through socialnetworks. Following other scholarship in engineering education research on social capital [15]we focus on social capital at the individual level [16]. Each student brings with them a socialnetwork to their undergraduate studies, although the extent to which that network is equipped tosupport them through their engineering studies might be variable [17]. Lin distinguishes betweenthe availability, accessibility, and activation of resources in a social network [17]. The goal of theECE Discovery Studio peer leadership
. Her research interests center on interdisciplinary learning and teaching, technology-integrated STEM teaching practices, and assessment development and validation in STEM education.Dr. Daniel S. Puperi, The University of Texas at Austin Daniel is an assistant professor of instruction in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the Uni- versity of Texas at Austin. Dan received a BS in aerospace engineering from Purdue University and then worked at NASA Johnson Space Center for 15 years before pursuing a PhD in Bioengineering from Rice University. In 2016, Dan graduated from Rice and began teaching four design/laboratory courses required for all undergraduate BME students at UT Austin.Thomas E. Lindsay, The University
collaboration isneeded. Research Questions 1) How does applying CoP principles in graduate engineering courses impact student perceptions of class effectiveness and preparation for professional engineering work? 2) How do members of traditional engineering groups perceive the contributions of members of underrepresented groups in their CoPs, and (how) do they think about and act to build psychological safety in their CoPs? 3) How do academic CoPs function? What are some best practices, heuristics, and guidelines for effective academic CoPs? MethodsThis study was conducted in a large public research university in the Southeastern United Statesand
education that contribute to student’s worseningmental health: the ubiquity of stress, professors not being sympathetic, certain exam formats, 5-year degreeprograms sold as 4-year programs, ties to the military and government, a culture of silence, and anenvironment dominated by men.Our own quantitative exploration of the relationship between engineering culture and help-seeking attitudesstarted with a pilot study of engineering undergraduates at two institutions (n=79) which helped frame thestudy discussed in this paper [42]. We found evidence of a negative correlation between student stigmaabout MHCs and help-seeking attitudes [42]. Elements of self-stigma did not correlate significantly withhelp-seeking attitudes, confirming that social-stigma
ResearchersAbstractThis pilot study explores engineering students' views on social responsibility in undergraduateresearch experiences. Participants displayed high concern for human welfare and safety butneeded more education and training to understand the importance of being socially responsiblescientists and engineers. To address this, the authors recommend incorporating a formalcurriculum to facilitate students' understanding and articulation of their views on socialresponsibility in science and engineering research. The authors provide suggested case studiesfor engineering educators to incorporate social responsibility topics into their curriculum,enabling students to learn and debate the ethical and social implications of their research,promoting critical