, Faculty Understanding, Belongingness, Thriving,Mindfulness, and Motivation. T-tests and ANOVA models are employed to analyze variations inresponses among students based on a host of demographic identifiers. Pilot results from the firstadministration of the survey include, for example, statistically significant lower reported levelsof thriving and mindfulness for students who identify as LGBTQIA+ than those who do not, aswell as far lower levels of ecosystem health overall for students who do not have access to stablehousing. Additional statistically significant results are identified on the bases of students’ gender,race/ethnicity, disability status, veteran status, undergraduate versus graduate student status,college of study, employment
were the self-efficacy surveys and qualitativequestions that asked students to list and rank factors they felt influenced these beliefs. Alimitation of this approach is that it lacked the methodological depth to clarify why studentsfelt these factors influenced their beliefs.How to study engineering self-efficacy qualitatively?Qualitative studies investigating self-efficacy show that an alternative is adapting qualitativeinterview questions from quantitative surveys and questionnaires. Zeldin & Pajares [22] usedthis procedure to gather data to conduct a case study of STEM women. Interview questionswere framed based on questions from questionnaires that were made into open-endedquestions in a semi-structured interview protocol. We adopt
as a professor oradvisor, doing activities and projects were influential in helping engineering students in majorselection [14]. Furthermore, professional development programs, such as internships, have beenshown as an effective approach to promote students’ awareness and intentions towards futurecareers [15]. Several of the elements of the internship – mentoring, research, and community-based projects – have shown to be predictors of continuing in STEM after graduation [16].MethodologyResearchers at the UNIVERSITY pilot site began with collection protocols from the originalpilot [10, 17, 18]; they modified them as needed in collaboration with UNIVERSITIES. Using adigital platform (Qualtrics), researchers at UNIVERSITY also coordinated and
Paper ID #38410Illuminating Contexts that Influence Test Usage Beliefs and Behaviorsamong Instructors of Fundamental Engineering CoursesKai Jun Chew, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical UniversityDr. Holly M. Matusovich, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University 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 Education where she has also served in key leadership positions. Dr. Matusovich is recognized for her research and leadership related to graduate student mentoring and faculty development. She won
department at Seattle University to study how the department culture changes can foster students’ engineering identity with the long-term goal of increasing the representation of women and minority in the field of engineering.Dr. Jennifer A Turns, University of Washington Dr. Jennifer Turns is a full professor in the Human Centered Design & Engineering Department in the College of Engineering at the University of Washington. Engineering education is her primary area of scholarship, and has been throughout her career. In her work, she currently focuses on the role of reflection in engineering student learning and the relationship of research and practice in engineering education. In recent years, she has been the co
and students of color.Ms. Sarah Jane (SJ) Bork, University of Michigan Sarah Jane (SJ) received her B.S. and M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Ohio State University in 2017, and her M.S. in Engineering Education Research from the University of Michigan in 2020. As a doctoral candidate in Engineering Education Research at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Sarah is studying the mental health experiences of engineering graduate students.Kayleigh Merz, University of Michigan Kayleigh Merz (she/her) is a recent master’s graduate in Higher Education from the University of Michi- gan. She earned a B.S. in Cognitive Science from the University of Michigan, and associate degrees in Mathematics
of Engineering. This paperpresents the first-year development, implementation, and outcomes of the program with plans forfuture program improvement.First-Year Implementation of the S-SMART Summer Research Internship ProgramIn 2022, the S-SMART Summer Research Internship Program was piloted with a cohort of tenstudents participating in four research projects across three engineering disciplines - civilengineering, computer engineering, and mechanical engineering. Each project team wassupervised by at least one faculty advisor and one SFSU student peer mentor.Recruitment and Selection of Program ParticipantsThe S-SMART interns were selected through an online application process. The applicationform, created on Qualtrics, asked for information
review. For example, Asimakopoulos et al. (2019) examined engineering students’ESE using a quantitative method. However, it was not clear whether the ESE instrument adoptedin their study measured individuals’ self-concept or self-efficacy, and the items were not createdto reflect the content of general entrepreneurship education programs. Therefore, based on priorresearch, a theoretically and empirically grounded ESE instrument for engineering students istimely needed. Based on the refined ESE instrument by McGee et al. (2009), we adapted andcreated items that assessed engineering students’ ESE. Phase 2: Item piloting In Phase 2, we aimed to pilot the items that were consistent with the entrepreneurshipeducation course content from
the Context of Prompts and PerceptionsAbstractStorytelling can be valuable for developing empathy and enhancing communication, allowingindividuals to make connections with themselves and others. In this work, we sought tounderstand the potential of story-driven learning, the process of developing stories to connectdefining moments of the past and consider future goals, within the context of engineering. Wedescribe a required, non-traditional undergraduate course that employs this pedagogical approachfor biomedical engineering students to encourage them to integrate, reframe, and make meaningof their diverse experiences. We then detail our study, where we sought to explore: 1) how uniquestory prompts may elicit different aspects of empathy, in
in the Public Policy Center, and director of the Center for Research on Undergraduate Education at the University of Iowa. His research uses a social psychological lens to explore key issues in higher education, including student success, diversity and equity, admissions, rankings, and quantitative research methodology. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Systems Engineering Initiative for Student Success (SEISS) Framework for Transforming Organizational Designs Arunkumar Pennathur1*, Priyadarshini Pennathur1, Emily Blosser2, Nicholas Bowman3 1 Department of Industrial, Manufacturing and Systems Engineering, University of Texas at El Paso
of Doctoral Studies, 8(2103), 151-172. http://ijds.org/Volume8/IJDSv8p151-172Lundy- Wagner0381.pdfMayat, N., & Amosun, S. L. (2011). Perceptions of academic staff towards accommodating students with disabilities in a civil engineering undergraduate program in a university in South Africa. Journal of Postsecondary Education and Disability, 24(1), 53-59.McCall, C., Shew, A., Simmons, D. R., Paretti, M. C., & McNair, L. D. (2020b). Exploring student disability and professional identity: Navigating sociocultural expectations in U.S. undergraduate civil engineering programs. Australasian Journal of Engineering Education, 25(1), 79-89. https://doi.org/10.1080/22054952.2020.1720434McLoughlin, L. A. (2005
college inEthiopia. In those capacities, and their experiences as instructors, researchers, and departmentheads, they had an opportunity to learn about some challenges women in Ethiopia face inuniversities, especially in engineering.The two Black men research team members also have a sister who studied engineering(bachelor’s degree) and is pursuing a master’s degree in engineering. As siblings, who have closecontact with their sister to support her in her academic pursuit, they learned some of the struggleswomen in Ethiopia might face in higher education, especially in engineering departments.Further, both men know they haven't experienced the many challenges women students gothrough in engineering in Ethiopia. While some of their identities
Paper ID #37272An Analysis of Low-Scoring Blind and Low-Vision Individuals’ SelectedAnswers on a Tactile Spatial Ability InstrumentDaniel Kane, Utah State University Daniel Kane is a graduate student at Utah State University pursuing a PhD in Engineering Education with a concurrent master’s degree in Civil Engineering. His research interests focus around the study of spatial ability with an emphasis on identifying patterns of spatial strategies and measuring spatial ability in blind and low vision populations.Dr. Natalie L. Shaheen Dr. Natalie L. Shaheen is an assistant professor of blind education at Illinois State
-view.Methods:Participants. Male engineering students (4 students grouped into 2 dyads) who previously passedor who were concurrently enrolled a Mechanics of Materials course from various disciplines,grade levels, and coursework experiences were convenience sampled from a small summersession of a Mechanics of Materials lab to participate in the pilot study. The study took place at apredominately white Midwest university. Enrollment during the summer session for this coursewas eight students, four of which were either not able to attend the study or data was excludedbased on no gesture or speech during reasoning. In general, the Mechanics of Materials lab offersa hands-on environment to observe and physically experience the concept of torsion, as well asthe formal
., 2021b). Figure 1 summarizes ourresearch approach.Figure 1. Study data collection and analysis overview. Recruitment of participants after a 2-part pilot interview yielded 5 student participants. We conducted two semi- structured interviews with each student designed to investigate students responses to the ideas “What is good technical writing?” (Interview 1) and “How are engineering judgments and processes expressed in writing?” (Interview 2). Our interview
, “Putting diversity in perspective: A critical cultural historical context for representation in engineering,” Jun. 2017. doi: 10.18260/1-2--28776.[3] M. Newsome, “Colleges now produce fewer Black graduates in math and engineering,” The Hechinger Report, Apr. 12, 2021. http://hechingerreport.org/even-as-colleges-pledge-to- improve-share-of-engineering-graduates-who-are-black-declines/ (accessed Feb. 15, 2023).[4] S. A. Elkins, J. M. Braxton, and G. W. James, “Tinto’s separation stage and its influence on first-semester college student persistence,” Res. High. Educ., vol. 41, no. 2, pp. 251–68, 2000.[5] K. M. Whitcomb and C. Singh, “Underrepresented minority students receive lower grades and have higher rates of attrition
selecting one classification over another, and the impact that decision can haveon their research and the populations being researched. They highlight the importance of askingparticipants to choose how they prefer to identify. Hence, we considered that this study cancontinue this conversation by providing an overview of how engineering students identify andreflect on the use of the different terminology.MethodsAs the purpose of this work is to explore the perspectives of engineering students that identify ashaving Latin American origin, regarding the ways in which they identify themselves and howothers seek to label them, this pilot study analyzed both quantitative and qualitative data toimplement the beginnings of a case study. A pilot study
Paper ID #37161Student perspectives on engineering design, decision-making,adaptability, and support in capstone designMs. Shruti Misra, University of Washington I am a graduate student in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Washington, Seattle. My research interest is broadly focused on studying innovation in university-industry partnerships. I am interesting in various ways that universitiesDr. Denise Wilson, University of Washington Denise Wilson is a professor of electrical engineering at the University of Washington, Seattle. Her research interests in engineering education focus on the role of self
be either quantitative (e.g., experimental, quasi-experimental), qualitative, or mixed methods in nature. • The article should target post-secondary students (i.e., undergraduate students and graduate students) in higher education contexts (e.g., college, university). • The article should be conducted in students’ primary or home language (L1). • The article can cover all disciplines (i.e., STEM, non-STEM, general education). • The article should be published in a peer-reviewed academic journal or conference proceedings. Studies published in peer-reviewed journals are believed to have high quality as well as demonstrate full study results, beyond pilot-test results or
questions: 1) Do engineering students who self-characterize as neurodiverse have different: innovation self-efficacy, innovation interests, or innovative work? 2) Do these innovation attitudes differ at the end of the semester among students who participated in an open-ended activity that may impact innovation attitudes?MethodsThe study was conducted under a protocol approved by the local Institutional Review Board(IRB) for Human Subjects Research (Protocol #21-0473). This pilot study was conducted withina single engineering Water Chemistry course taught at the University of Colorado Boulder in theFall of 2022. The course is required for students majoring in environmental engineering and istypically taken in the junior year
Education, vol. 110, no. 1, pp. 19–43, 2021, doi: 10.1002/jee.20377.[28] K. Moore, N. R. Johnson, F. Sánchez, and W. R. Hargrove, “The Politics of Citation Practices in Engineering Education: A Citation Analysis of Intersectionality,” presented at the 2021 American Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, 2021.Appendix A Rubric Item Notes What population(s), institutions, or organizations are analyzed through the article? What identity markers are explored? Are the above identity markers privileged? Historically oppressed? How and who is credited when describing intersectionality? How is the history of the concept studied? Is intersectionality given a cursory
impacts of thenew soft robotics curriculum for K12 classrooms, this paper presents pilot analysis toward a machinelearning algorithm to analyze children’s drawings. When combined with other measurements, includinginterviews or observations, the Draw a Robot Task, enhanced with objective analysis tools presented here,can aid researchers in understanding the earliest perceptions and stereotypes of robots held by youngchildren.IntroductionRecruitment of new students to engineering majors relies on developing their interest and identities inengineering from an early age [1], [2]. With countless activities developed for young, elementary-agedchildren to experiment with STEM concepts, it is essential that we have a tool to understand changes intheir
table.There are some differences between the learning outcomes of the ME and ECE capstone courses,which have the potential to create minor challenges for an exhibit-driven project such asElectronic ARTrium. Because real-world mechanical engineering often involves very physicallylarge and expensive creations, such as centrifuges for pilot training, ME students at Georgia Techare not required to build prototypes for their capstone projects and are generally discouragedfrom doing so, but rather a “proof-of-concept design” is considered sufficient, as indicated inOutcome 4. On the other hand, EE and CmpE capstone students are expected to build prototypes,since a wide range of real-world ECE creations are practical to build as prototypes in the contextof
Affecting the Future Career Pathway Decisions of Lower-income Computing Students1. IntroductionWithin research on broadening participation in computing, the experience and perspectives ofundergraduate students have been important elements of exploration. As undergraduate studentsare experts of their own experience, conducting research that focuses on understanding theirperspective can help those who organize programmatic efforts to respond to student needs andconcerns. This paper emerges from the context of a specific National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (S-STEM) program.As with all S-STEM programs, Florida Information Technology Graduation
between authentic engineering learning and student engagement [35],professional identity or learning interest [36] , student-perceived learning outcomes [37], reasonableassumptions and problem-solving abilities [32], engineering learning self-efficacy [38] and so on.RESEARCH PURPOSEThe current study was situated in the engineering learning in communities of practice. Communities ofpractice were seen as an effectively collaborative learning situations with a group of learners sharingprofessional knowledge and common career enthusiasm. In our previous study, we found community ofpractice is an important engineering learning context and engineering learning happening in communitiesof practice usually focused on solving the authentic engineering
Paper ID #40032Measuring the Impact of Extra-/Co-Curricular Participation onProfessional Formation of EngineersDr. Aimee Monique Cloutier, Rose-Hulman Institute of TechnologyDr. 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 Education where she has also served in 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
Paper ID #38906Research Data Sharing in Engineering: A Report on Faculty Practices andPreferences Prior to the Tri-Agency PolicyMs. Sarah Parker, University of British Columbia, Vancouver Sarah Parker is an engineering librarian at the University of British Columbia where she also received her MLIS in 2014. She regularly promotes and contributes to open scholarship activities at UBC and incorporates her interest in open science and using open resources into her teaching. In addition to her liaison role, she aids in graduate student programming for UBC’s Research Commons and co-teaches the Science and Technology Information
student from another institution, working under thesupervision of his doctoral advisor, joined this project as additional researcher. This student’sdissertation will study American Indian populations in an engineering education context,therefore this project serves as a pilot analysis that will inform his dissertation design. Anotherresearcher, who is a member of Diné community and graduated with her Bachelor’s degree inMay 2022—also joined this project. Both are working in conjunction with the first researcher,who provided them with the dataset from the original study after de-identifying it. This projectoffers significant guidelines for conducting SDA with marginalized populations, and engagesdeeply with emerging ethical questions, such as
STEM fields individually, relying onperformance-competency as an indicator for identity along with recognition and interest. Theirresearch acknowledged that recognition and interest can be difficult to define depending on astudent’s understanding of what is involved in STEM fields and students are not yet in careerpositions for professional recognition. As a result, performance-competency can capture bothability and perception of efficacy, and it is a predictor for better performance [11]. Additionally,greater STEM self-efficacy has been shown to predict improved STEM performance [1]. While some studies have separated engineering from other STEM fields for more specificunderstanding of the profession [45], [46], this paper also
Paper ID #38434Performance-Based Learning: An Innovative Approach toTeaching Engineering Thermodynamics in a Hybrid Learning EnvironmentOladayo John AkinpeluMr. Oludayo Samuel Alamu, Morgan State University Mr. Alamu is a Graduate Research/Teaching Assistant at the Department of Industrial and Systems Engi- neering, Morgan State University where he conducts qualitative and quantitative research works leading to development. He has participated and led severalDr. Oludare Adegbola Owolabi P.E., Morgan State University Dr. Oludare Owolabi, a professional engineer in Maryland, joined the Morgan State University faculty in