’ green mindset development, environmental awareness, andconsideration of using sustainable practices in their future professional career. All of the students said thatnot only they themselves choose to use clean energy whenever possible, but also they would like to promoteusing green energy among their peers and to their clients, or to keep energy efficiency in their mind fortheir future engineering designs.Higher education institutions have a remarkable impact on shaping students’ mindset. According to Bowen[10], the impact of high education in adult life lasts an average of fifty to sixty years after graduation. Itmeans the “green” mindset developed through this junior design class will influence the future engineersfor their entire career
- me about the opportunity To gain practical experience for a 94% future career It sounded interesting 50% Gaining practical experience for a future career and enhancing their resume were rankedfirst and second respectively. Students perceived this opportunity as unique in providing hands-onactivities that could help smooth the transition into the workforce. Linked to this perception wasthe need to make themselves more competitive in their resumes by participating in ROLE. By the end of the first cohort, students took the post-experience survey, which focused ontheir whole experience with ROLE in terms of their involvement
Paper ID #38027Design and Testing of a Quantitative Instrument to Evaluate EngineeringResearch Center ParticipationMr. Marcus Vinicius Melo de Lyra, Arizona State University Marcus is a second-year Ph.D. student in the Engineering Education Systems and Design (EESD) Program at Arizona State University. His research interests include teaching faculty development and early-career faculty experiences. Before joining the EESD program, Marcus earned his BS in Civil Engineering at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte and his MS in Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Federal University of Campina Grande, both
key leadership positions. Dr. Matusovich is recognized for her research and leadership related to graduate student mentoring and faculty development. She won the Hokie Supervisor Spotlight Award in 2014, received the College of Engineering Graduate Student Mentor Award in 2018, and was inducted into the Virginia Tech Academy of Faculty Leadership in 2020. Dr. Matusovich has been a PI/Co-PI on 19 funded research projects including the NSF CAREER Award, with her share of funding being nearly $3 million. She has co-authored 2 book chapters, 34 journal publications, and more than 80 conference papers. She is recognized for her research and teaching, including Dean’s Awards for Outstanding New Faculty, Outstanding
: Educational Innovation, Future Skills Framework, Generation Z, Industry 4.0,Machine Learning, Higher Education.IntroductionWhen we talk about occupation, job, work, or career, we talk about the activities that humanbeings do to obtain an income. In organizational sciences, Oldham and Fried recapitulated theresearch and theory of work from its beginnings (between the 30s and 50s) [1]. The authorsexplained the generation of concepts such as motivation-hygiene theory and jobcharacteristics theory. In addition, they investigated the factors that generated intrinsicmotivation in workers and their outcomes. The authors also mention that new perspectiveshave joined the research topic, such as worker personality, career stage, physical andorganizational
theory, computational imaging enabled by deep learning, and computational optical sensing and imaging applied to multidimensional multimodal light microscopy and hyperspectral imag- ing. She received a CAREER award by the National Science Foundation in 2009, the Herff Outstanding Faculty Research Award in 2010 and 2015, and she was the recipient of the Ralph Faudree Professorship at the University of Memphis 2015-2018. She was named Fellow of the SPIE in 2019 and Fellow of the Optica (OSA) in 2020. She serves as Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Computational Imaging, Topical Editor for Optica’s Applied Optics, and as Executive Editor for Biological Imaging, Cambridge University Press.Dr. Stephanie S Ivey, The
University in Mechanical Engineering Technology, focuses on Digital ManufacturZafer Acar ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Development of a Data Science Curriculum for an Engineering Technology ProgramAbstractData science has gained the attention of various industries, educators, parents, and studentsthinking about their future careers. Statistics departments have traditionally offered data sciencecourses for a long time. The main objective of these courses is to examine the fundamentalconcepts and theories. However, teaching data science courses has also expanded to otherdisciplines due to the vast amount of data being collected by numerous modern applications.Also
that Influence Engineering Freshman to Choose Their Engineering Major, 2013 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, Atlanta, Georgia, 2013[2] Anderson-Rowland, M. R., Rodriguez, A. A., and Grierson, A., Why Some Community College Students Choose Engineering and Some Don't, 2013 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, Atlanta, Georgia, 2013.[3] Ngambeki, I, Dalrymple, O., and Evangelou, D., Decision Making In First Year Engineering: Exploring How Students Decide About Future Studies And Career Pathways, Purdue University, School of Engineering Education Graduate Student Series, 2009.[4] Painter, Jackson Kia, Snyder, Kate E., and
assignedfemale at birth. Commonly this refers to the sex that was assigned to them on their original birthcertificate. This sex may or may not represent their biological sex [13].productivity. Participants were in various stages of their careers and served in various roles attheir institutions as students, employees, educators, and researchers. The participants describedhaving a variety of less apparent or invisible dis/abilities. These included anxiety, attentiondeficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), depression, dyslexia, environmental allergies, hearingloss, Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS), migraines, panic disorder, polycystic ovary syndrome(PCOS)4, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), scent sensitivity, temporary partial vision loss,and traumatic
of Virginia.Dr. Meg Handley, Pennsylvania State University Meg Handley is an Associate Teaching professor and Director Undergraduate Programs for Engineering Leadership. Meg completed her PhD in Workforce Education at Penn State, where she focused on inter- personal behaviors and leadership for early-career engineers. She teaches engineering leadership and an engineering leader coaching course. Her research focuses on coaching skills, inclusive leadership, and career development.Dr. Meagan R. Kendall, University of Texas, El Paso An Associate Professor at The University of Texas at El Paso, Dr. Meagan R. Kendall is a founding member of the Department of Engineering Education and Leadership. With a background in
rate is still low due to factors like lack of confidence, self-efficacy, and their definition of success. Mentoring plays an important role in college successdepending on the mentor’s level of self-efficacy, cultural responsiveness, and the process formatching mentors to mentees (surface or deep-level similarities). An effective mentorshipstructure supports the mentee’s growth and development by using multiple mentors for academic,career, and psychosocial support functions.For the mentees, a buy-in on the mentor’s credibility is necessary to understand the mentor’smotivation for sharing information and experiences. Could similar social and cultural identitiespromote trustworthiness in female engineering students? For mentees from
Materials Science and EngineeringAbstractExperiences and opportunities in computer science allow students to build positive associationswith STEM and STEM careers. There is a need to provide students with opportunities incomputational and design thinking at a young age to increase interest and engagement in thecomputer science field. The Goldberg Gator Engineering Explorers (GGEE) is a donor-fundedsummer program designed to provide no-cost computer science-based experiences tounderrepresented middle school students to support the K-12 pipeline. The 2022 GGEE programwas held in six school districts across Florida and hosted over 110 students in 8 programsessions. The programs were four full-day or eight half-day sessions, depending on the
invited talk. Ishita served as the finance chair of the Graduate Society of Women Engineers (SWE) and was the co-founder and president of the Biomedical Engineering Department Graduate Students’ Organization. Her career objective is to pursue translational biomedical research in academia. Her leadership goal is to inspire and uplift women who lack opportunities for education, self-development, growth, and leadership.Mr. Vitali Maldonado, University of Arkansas Vitali is a recent graduate of the University of Arkansas with a B.S. in Biomedical Engineering.Ms. Megan Wilkerson, University of Arkansas Megan is a recent graduate of the University of Arkansas with a B.S. in Biomedical Engineering.Ms. Amanda Walls
interests include all aspects of STEM education, espeDr. Gamini P. Mendis, Pennsylvania State University, BehrendMatthew RothrockAnnwesa DasguptaJohanna Bodenhamer, IUPUI Graduate Research Assistant ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Improving Undergraduate STEM Writing: A Collaboration Between Instructors and Writing Center Directors to Improve Peer Writing Tutor FeedbackAbstractUndergraduate writing skills in STEM fields, especially engineering, need improvement. Yetstudents in engineering fields often do not value them and underestimate the amount of writingthey will do in their careers. University writing centers can be a helpful resource, but the peerwriting
Paper ID #39687Board 188: Student-centered and led approaches for improving Mental HealthCody Petitt, Ohio UniversityDr. Greg Kremer, Ohio University Robe Professor and Chair of Mechanical Engineering, founding director of the ”Designing to Make A Difference” ME senior capstone design experience, and PI for the Stacking the Deck for Career Success Initiative.Dr. Timothy CydersEmily McCartyRobert F. LindseyRyan Pytosh ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Student-centered and led approaches for improving Mental Health (Work in Progress)Introduction:Engineering
largelyunchanged since 2003 [3]. Findings regarding math and science interest and confidence seem toconvey a similar story; in one study, while science interest remained unchanged throughout astudent’s high school years, significant losses occurred in science confidence and math interestand confidence during these years [4]. These are alarming results, as these high school levelmath and science courses act as gatekeepers to STEM degrees and careers. One step towards overcoming this issue is to develop an understanding of what impacts astudent’s choice to attend college and to major in a STEM field. It is well understood that astudent’s interest in STEM develops through exposure at an early age [5]. While this interest ismaintained through middle
Communication is widely misunderstood, and while this is perhaps especially truein STEM disciplines, STEM is not alone in their misconceptions. Outside of CommunicationStudies, Interpersonal Communication (IPC) tends to be treated as a personality trait (Okoro,Washington, & Thomas, 2017; Pert, 2019), and on popular career websites and in professionalcontexts alike, is most often defined in terms of “people skills,” “personal skills” (Doyle, 2021),or even “friendliness” (Indeed, 2021). IPC is also frequently discussed as a set of traits that areinherent to a person.However, the role of IPC in everyday professional communication is much deeper and morecomplex than cordiality; it is essential to functionality and effectiveness across disciplines
academic success and optimal emotional development of their students. Unfortunately,engineering students often do not have access to such relationships. Were engineering educatorsto better recognize the importance of these relationships and contribute to creating such acommunity, they could help to ensure engineering students were able to thrive academically andemotionally.C. Absence of Harassment and Expression without FearIn the United States, harassment is a growing problem in science, technology, engineering, andmathematics (STEM) fields [14]. Harassment can be verbal, physical, or sexual and include anyunwelcome or unfavorable behavior due to one’s identity (e.g., gender, race, age, religion).Harassment has adverse impacts on career outcomes
Zealand. While in Shanghai, I also began to play badminton a bit more seriously. Although I had played badminton competitively before in Pakistan, the quality of the opponents I faced in China honed my ability to a level I had never experienced before. A rather debilitating knee injury slowed down my semi-professional career, but I recovered enough to still win a number of championships and local tournaments. Its difficult to describe one’s entire life in a handful of words, but I’ve given it my best shot. Onwards and upwards has been my personal mantra throughout my academic and professional career. I now hope to continue my previous research in mechanical design while addressing the biggest problems in Engineering
mechanics and bioprocess engineering. She began her position as Director of Community Programs and Diversity Outreach at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences in 2003. In partnership with faculty, postdoctoral fellows, and graduate students, she develops and implements programs for K-12 students, teachers, un- dergraduates, and families that are designed to increase scientific and engineering literacy, and to inspire people with diverse backgrounds to pursue science and engineering careers. At the undergraduate level, she directs a Research Experiences for Undergraduates program that brings students to Harvard for 10 weeks to work in research laboratories. This program hosts between 45-70
take mathematically intensive engineering courses tounderstand engineering subjects deeply. Without a strong foundation in math concepts and underlyinggoverning equations, engineering students will not understand more complex, higher-level concepts in theirfuture graduate studies and future careers. When teaching mathematically intensive engineering courses,professors usually show detailed derivations of theorems, principles, and governing equations todemonstrate how theorems, principles, and governing equations are obtained.However, during this process, engineering students often feel bored and disengaged because examples ofhow the educational content is applied in their daily lives are lacking [1]. In another words, engineeringstudents are
, faculty are at the very heart of the student experience. We strive to create a collaborative, inclusive, and stimulating learning environment that emphasizes care for the whole person. Faculty and staff in our department offer student support that goes beyond the classroom and extends to career counseling and mentorship. Course outcomes are regularly examined and adjusted to respond to the needs of our constituents. Faculty are committed to practicing continuous improvement through professional development activities and pedagogical research that broaden our spectrum of teaching and learning strategies. Student responses indicate that faculty-student relationships was by far the most
when a mentor and a mentee are atapproximately at the same level of their personal, professional, or academic path [1], [2], [5], [6].Peer mentorship has been shown to introduce a level of reciprocity, mutuality, and interpersonalcomfort that may not be available in traditional mentorships, allowing for trust and credibility tobe built in the two-way relationship [1], [2], [5]–[7]. This is due in part to their developmentalneeds, whether that is in career or academic aspects, unfolding at similar times [6]. Identity,belonging, student experience, and emotional competency have all been shown to haveimprovements when in a positive peer mentorship as well as increased retention, particularly forthose who are underrepresented or in the first year
computerengineering portion. Typical course topics in the materials and mechanical engineering portionof the course included: metals and atoms, hardness testing, microstructures and properties,Hooke’s Law, and the design of trusses. Typical course topics in the electrical and computerengineering portion included Ohm’s Law, the resistor color code, equivalent resistance, power,digital logic, ASCII, and concepts regarding computer programming like basic variables andconditional statements. In addition to these technical topics, professional orientation toengineering was addressed with lectures on career opportunities, resume development, etc.Centered on preliminary topics in computer, electrical, materials, and mechanical engineering,past versions of EG 101
enrollment and retentionrates. To attract the younger generation to machining industry careers, more attention needs to bepaid to incorporating novel training methods that are more appealing and engaging to youngerstudents. Interactive training programs with game-like elements (gamified training programs) arepotentially a viable solution to effectively addressing the shortcomings of traditional trainingmethods.The process of gamification, defined as implementation of game-specific mechanics anddynamics in non-gaming applications [5] has been of interest in machining-related applications,including workforce development. As video games are designed with the goal of providingenjoyment to the user, potential benefits of gamification include enhanced
percentage, many students may choose to transfer toClemson, and the number of students choosing to transfer has been increasing over recent years.The goals of SPECTRA are as follows: (1) to provide scholarship opportunities to low-income students who wish to pursue engineering or computing at Clemson (2) to build cohorts of transfer students to support their transition into Clemson University while also allowing for the ACE fellows program to aid in the training and practice of PhD candidates who wish to pursue careers in academia (3) to assess its progress both internally and externally to assist the transfer students best and improve the programThe ACE Fellows aspect is part of the SPECTRA program. It involves taking
to 2018, the BA/BS degree increased from 735 to 1,529 in 2018. This is anincrease of 108% from the level reached in 2012 [2-4].NYC LSAMP Alliance ActivitiesNYC LSAMP Research Assistantship - The NYC LSAMP Undergraduate Research Programserved as the heart of the NYC Alliance. The program included research experiences on or offCUNY campuses, international research, research enrichment and career development. LSAMPScholars engaged in High Impact activities during their stay in the program. At the end of PhaseV seventy to eighty students participated each semester in the academic year research program.Twenty-five to thirty NYC LSAMP Research Scholars conduct research during the summer atCUNY. On average, twenty NYC LSAMP Research Scholars secure
-focused laboratory report writing.Introduction Engineers need to have strong communication skills to carry out their day-to-day workand to advance in their careers. Engineers spend almost two thirds of their overall work time onsome form of written or oral communication [1]. Of that, half the time is spent on writtencommunication – preparing proposals, reports, memos, feasibility studies, white papers,operating manuals, engineering specifications, business letters and responding to emails. Rhodes[2] summarizes it well in his paper that “Long after most professional engineers have ceased tointegrate a differential equation, they are still required to write technical reports”. Despite the importance and the amount of time engineers
literate and economically competitive national citizenry [6], [9],[10], and even about the formative effect that post-secondary education can have on career pathsand life satisfaction [11], this study focuses specifically on how students choose betweenengineering and the physical sciences. We seek to investigate what factors guide their choice,including their prior knowledge and/or opinions about the differences and similarities betweenengineering and the physical sciences. Eventually, we aim to help to answer the larger question:How can post-secondary education systems (and even K-12 systems) better advise studentsinterested in engineering or the physical sciences to choose the academic and professional pathsthat align well with their values
participants included 8 females, 3 firstgeneration, 6 Pell-eligible, and 1 underrepresented minority.Course descriptionThe PWS offered a one-credit required seminar course per semester for students in years one(2021-2022) and two (2022-2023). The series consisted of lectures and hands-on activities,promoted professional development, and prepared students for real-world projects. (See Tables 1and 2.) Weekly seminars for PWS scholars included speakers from University service offices(such as Financial Aid, tutoring services, Career Resources, etc.) and industrial partners whoaddressed issues, ranging from gender segregation and cultural mismatch of women tonavigating and succeeding in the current engineering culture [21]. Orienting scholars enabledthem