Table 1). 246 and 69 responses wereexcluded based on three criteria about technical work experience and research experience,respectively. NVivo was used to analyze open-ended responses to the PDS [48]. In vivo codingand descriptive coding were used to code the data related to all content topics (i.e., internships,co-ops, research projects, etc.) in our first coding cycle [49]. The first author coded the dataalone. The first author and the second author had regular meetings to review the codes anddiscuss data analysis. The codes were refined by consensus with the second author to ensurereliability.Table 1. Participant demographics. Co-curricular Gender College level Engineering discipline Total exp. Technical
designed to address this training gap and transcendcommunication barriers between disciplines while promoting team science through creation ofan integrated inter-disciplinary educational model that reflects rapid advances in microbiomeresearch and the need for both interdisciplinary research and professional skills to address thesechallenges [6]. This paper reports on the evaluation of this project over five years with a focuson challenges identified in training graduate students with different entry level skills and acrossdisciplines. Strategies and training elements implemented to successfully address thesechallenges were made possible through close collaboration between the evaluation team andproject leadership who were highly responsive to
background in infrastructure design and management, and project management. Her con- sulting experience spanned eight years and included extensive work with the US military in Japan, Korea, and Hawaii. In 2008 Elizabeth shifted the focus of her career to education and academia, later receiving her Ph.D. in Civil Engineering with a focus in Water Resources. Her work highlights a commitment to undergraduate engineering education and its improvement through best teaching practices. Her research efforts target ways to support and encourage diversity among students and how to create an inclusive learning environment. Professional interests include undergraduate research opportunities, service learn- ing, STEM outreach, team
affiliations were also counted,but most (65%) did not identify with a research center. Information about gender identity wasalso collected with 61% identifying as men, 31% identifying as women and 8% preferred not toanswer. No participants selected non-binary person. While not the focus of this study, rank andgender as seen in Tables 3 and 4 [Appendix A] may reflect the shifting demographics inengineering.Research Data ManagementIn the survey’s Research Data section participants were asked questions about how they workwith data, document them, and store them. Research data was found to be predominantlynumerical in nature (84%) followed by text (76%) and software data (64%). For the averageresearch project, UBC engineering researchers work with
).Dr. Ibrahim H. Yeter, Nanyang Technological University Ibrahim H. Yeter, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor at the National Institute of Education (NIE) at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore. He is an affiliated faculty member of the NTU Centre for Research and Development in Learning (CRADLE) and the NTU Institute for Science and Technology for Humanity (NISTH). Additionally, he is the Director of the World MOON Project, the Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Education, and the upcoming Program Chair-Elect of the PCEE Division at ASEE. His current research interests include STEM+C education, specifically artificial intelligence literacy, computational thinking, and engineering.Shamita
was a member of the 2016 Frontier of En-gineering Education of the NAE and was elected as member of the Connecticut Academy of Science andEngineering in 2020. He has partnered with over 100 industry professionals and executives in generatingand managing funding for UConn that exceeds $40M leading to joint R&D, technology, patents, and pro-fessional training programs. He manages a portfolio of over $7M in research projects, while his Institutemanages active research funding that totals over $30M. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Applying a Competency-Based Education Approach for Designing a Unique Interdisciplinary Graduate Program: A Case Study for a Systems
Paper ID #39336Work in Progress: Impact on Students Dropout rates of Introducing aFirst-Year Hands-on Civil Engineering CourseALEJANDRA ESTEFANIA CERVANTESDr. Miguel Andres Andres Guerra, Universidad San Francisco de Quito USFQ MiguelAndr´es is an Assistant Professor in the Polytechnic College of Science and Engineering at Uni- versidad San Francisco de Quito USFQ. He holds a BS in Civil Engineering from USFQ, an M.Sc. in Construction Engineering and Project Management from Iowa State University as a Fulbright Scholar, a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from Virginia Tech, and two Graduate Certificates from Virginia Tech in Engi
Airbus in the retrofit of aircraft cabins with experience in project management, automation, airworthiness, and additive manufacturing. Her research interests leverage her experiences from industry and are centered on culture, team dynamics, and conflict management, as well as global engineering and art & creativity in engineering.Dr. Mark Vincent Huerta, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Mark Huerta is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech. He earned his PhD in Engineering Education Systems and Design at Arizona State University and has a BS/MS in Biomedical Engineering. Dr. Huerta’s research interests include exploring approaches to cul- tivating
consistently shapes their persistence and success is their advisingrelationship. The way students perceive the support they receive from this relationship caninfluence their self-efficacy concerning the competences needed to finish their dissertation, thesisor applied project report. Understanding the relationship between the student’s self-efficacytowards their culminating tasks and their perception of their advisor’s support is essential, asfrom a motivational standpoint, it can serve as a closer proxy for degree completion.This research paper presents the development and validation of the Advisor Support and Self-efficacy for Thesis completion (ASSET) survey, which measures two constructs: Thesis Self-efficacy and Advisor Support. The former
computational methods in STEM education and in Engineering Entrepreneurship.Dr. Stacy S Klein-Gardner, Vanderbilt University Dr. Stacy Klein-Gardner serves as an Adjunct Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Vanderbilt Univer- sity. She is the co-PI and co-Director of the NSF-funded Engineering For Us All (e4usa) project. She is also the co-PI and co-Director of the Youth Engineering Solutions (YES) Middle School project focusing on engineering and computational thinking. Dr. Klein-Gardner is a Fellow of ASEE.Dr. Bruk T Berhane, Florida International University Dr. Bruk T. Berhane received his bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the University of Mary- land in 2003. He holds an M.S. in engineering management from
, experience and imagine. Their decisions havean impact beyond the end users of their creations, which gives their work broader socialimplications. The breath of one’s knowledge, stemming from individual or group experiences,encompass a multitude of factors such as ability, socioeconomic status, gender and race – isoften overlooked in the decision-making process. If there is failure to consider the experiences ofall stakeholders when considering the design, implementation, and execution of projects, thereare lasting negative effects. A good example of this phenomenon was the construction of theCross Bronx Expressway [6] which was built between 1948 and 1972. When Robert Mosesenvisioned it, he had no regard for the fact that the proposed location of
family members(children, siblings, parents, etc.).Courses Included Students from three courses at the University of Southern Indiana were eligible to takethe survey. These courses were selected because the same HyFlex course format was used for theentire Spring 2022 semester and all courses were taught by the principal investigator. A fourthcourse taught by the PI, Systems Engineering and Freshman Design (ENGR:108), was notincluded in the analysis because the second half of the course was a project build and could notbe taught using HyFlex format. The first class included in the study was Fundamentals of Engineering (ENGR:107). Thisclass is a 3-credit-hour introductory engineering course typically taken during freshman year.The
, this community can continue to grow and self-sustain.The CoP described in this paper is in its infancy and is aligned with the concept of a knowledge-building community. The “CoP meeting” described here was a first meeting of a group of looselyknit participants in an NSF-funded project to study engineering laboratory report writing with awriting transfer lens. Participants at the meeting had engaged directly with at least one of thethree institutional principal investigators (PIs) to supply student writing samples from theirlaboratory-based courses. The five participating instructors, representing the mechanical,electrical, and civil engineering disciplines, had used a series of instructional modules preparedby the PIs to improve their
developed and implemented culturally informed library services, expanded its personnel four-fold, and re-established its physical locations as culturally safe spaces for Indigenous library users. Alex co-authored ASU Li- brary’s first land acknowledgement statement, is the recipient of the Society of American Archivists 2022 Archival Innovator Award, and recently was awarded a $1 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for ”Firekeepers: Building Archival Data Sovereignty through Indigenous Memory Keeping,” a three-year project to preserve Indigenous knowledge through community-based participatory archival partnerships with Arizona’s Tribal communities. Alex’s journey to librarianship comes after years of
population in the U.S. butremain under-represented in computer science. The Remezcla project was developed to tackleissues of broadening participation of Latinx students in CS through an informal learningprogram. The current paper describes the program components and provides evaluation resultsfrom the pilot summer program implementation, held virtually in Atlanta and Puerto Ricoduring the COVID pandemic. Preliminary evaluation results suggest these one-week summercamps were effective in impacting pre-post students’ sense of belonging, self-efficacy, andintention to persist in computer science. Results reveal gender differences across severalconstructs with important implications for future studies.Background and rationaleThe word “remezcla”- the
transportation systems is driving a significantly increasing demand forminerals critical to the construction of lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) like lithium and cobalt. As thepredominant electrochemical energy storage technology for EVs, the demand for LIBs has tripled from2015 to 2020, and it is expected to grow to “2.2 million tons by 2030” [10]. One means of projecting andlegitimizing the notion that transitioning to electrified transportation systems improves quality of life andis sustainable is through the use of life-cycle assessment (LCA). Yet there are a plethora of crucial factorsLCA either has not or cannot consider [11, 12]. In this paper, we leverage an interwoven framework ofabolition, degrowth, and environmental justice to elucidate nominally
intentionally stratified sample ofdoctoral students four times during the course of an academic year. We present an overview ofour research process and the top 10 most reported stressors from analysis of our interview data.Further, we report on the most frequent coping strategies used by students in our sample,contributing additional coping strategies used by engineering doctoral students. Understandingthe most common factors which contribute to the stresses experienced by doctoral students andthese students effective coping strategies can support students, advisors, and departments todevelop proactive interventions and strategies that support well-being and retention.Research QuestionsThis project is part of a larger, mixed methods project with the
important in programsthat place importance on technical, design, and professional learning. The ABET accredited IREprogram is a work-based engineering program where students not only take technical courses,but also courses in design and professionalism. Design and professionalism courses are co-taughtby multiple faculty and staff members.The IRE program is an upper division engineering program where students complete two years ata community college before transferring into the program. They spend their first semester ofupper division taking technical coursework while completing a design project and participatingin professional development. This combination of activities prepares them for their next twoyears, which they spend in full-time internship
location—specifically, moving closer to senior leaders or farther away from them—are related to getting apromotion and/or getting assigned to a new manager (i.e., getting “re-org’ed”). We ask whetherthese relationships differ by gender and race, and consider how these relationships havesignificant consequence for gender and racial equality at this and similar companies. Ourfindings suggest that in our focal early-career cohort, White men have a reporting advantagerelative to all other race/gender groups over just a three-year span, especially in supportengineering and project management positions.As we consider our findings in context of sociological understandings of organizationalinequality, we look ahead to conversation with engineering faculty
inequities in student success; and (c) cultivate more ethical future scientists and engineers by blending social, political and technological spheres. She prioritizes working on projects that seek to share power with students and orient to stu- dents as partners in educational transformation. She pursues projects that aim to advance social justice in undergraduate STEM programs and she makes these struggles for change a direct focus of her research.Dr. David Tomblin, University of Maryland, College Park David is the director of the Science, Technology and Society program at the University of Maryland, Col- lege Park. He works with STEM majors on the ethical and social dimensions of science and technology. David also does
which focuses on telecommunication challenges for national defense. While at LTS, his research focus was in the area of cognitive radio with a particular emphasis on statistical learning techniques. His current research interests include geolocation, position location networks, iterative receiver design, dynamic spectrum sharing, cognitive radio, communication theory, Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) communications, intelligent antenna techniques, Ultra Wideband, spread spectrum, interference avoid- ance, and propagation modeling. His work has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Office of Naval Research, and several industrial sponsors. Dr. Buehrer
., DataRetrieval and cder). Real-world data sets were used inthe examples and assignments: students analyzed data related to air pollution, climate, reservoirstorage, water quality, and river flow. Students worked on importing data sets, data cleaning andwrangling, visualization, geospatial analyses, and modelling. Best practices integrated into thecourse included good and bad examples of data management, pair programming, live coding,worked examples with labeled subtasks, use of templates for assignments, and project-basedlearning. Student attitudes and experiences were monitored using surveys at the beginning andend of the term. Polls were conducted to assess specific teaching and learning strategies. Thecourse structure provided a good opportunity for
improvement and medicine is rarelyavailable to implement changes where they are needed. As previously stated, the existing qualityteams were already overwhelmed with other projects even prior to the pandemic, making itASEE 2023Industrial Engineering Divisionimpossible to deploy resources to the Emergency Department to assist at the time of greatestneed.Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, healthcare faced numerous problems in operationalmanagement, including factors associated with cost of care, staffing shortages and high demandsfor quality service [6]. Several principles and practices, originally associated with leanmanufacturing and Six Sigma, have been found to be helpful in healthcare operations, including:elimination of waste, Ishikawa diagrams
learning pedagogies ofproblem-based and project-based learning (PPBL). Using PPBL as a teaching and learning strategyfacilitates cooperative learning, critical thinking, systemic reasoning, creative approach, andsocietal awareness, which are the core values of sustainability. However, translating this into aworking curriculum is quite complex, and raises implementation issues such as physicalarrangements for an active learning environment, changes in the assessment and grading system,providing both teachers and students with at least rudimentary knowledge of PPBL methods,achieving institutional support, etc. Another issue is the program-level decision of having a fulldedicated course on sustainable engineering, or introducing modules on
review.IntroductionThis project began in 2019. While it is still a work in progress, the authors wanted to focus onthe methodology chosen to undertake this study, as well as the current status of the researchbeing conducted. The topic itself arose from several conversations at the 2019 ASEE conferencein Tampa where the authors were curious about the landscape of engineering librarianshippublications, focusing on what research methods were typically being used by engineeringlibrarians in their research and how appropriate and well were these approaches being explained.Explorations of the types of studies typically conducted by librarians has been discussed, studiedand editorialized from many years [1]–[4] but the focus in most of the papers examined seemedto be
that semester-long courses (16 weeks) are the most effective preparationformats for preparing GTAs to teach in engineering; however, the content that constitutes such acourse and the impact of the course on the GTAs’ TPACK domains still require further exploration.The purpose of this study is to assess the impact of a semester-long preparation course on theTPACK domains of GTAs in Engineering.In Spring 2022, 165 GTAs took a semester-long teaching and leadership preparation course forengineering graduate students. The course was composed of fourteen 50-minute weekly sessions,seven bi-weekly written assignments, and one optional service learning project. Forty-sevenstudents participated in the study. They completed a validated and reliable pre
- tion of human-centered considerations in engineering systems and/or the design process. Her research program has received funding from the National Science Foundation, Procter & Gamble, the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, and many others. Her projects that involved the intersection of diversity and mechanical engineering have been featured in media sources including National Geographic, NBC’s Today Show, Essence Magazine, Reuters, National Public Radio and many others. A highly sought out role model for the younger generation, Dr. Reid Smith’s story about her double dutch jump rope in- vention is featured in two children’s books and was on the 2017 New York State English and Language Arts Common Core
complete and reflect upon the results of two implicit association testsperformed on their own through Project Implicit [25]. An additional third assignment requiredthe students to catalogue and reflect on instances of bias or discrimination that they observedthroughout the remaining half of the semester. At the end of the semester, SES led a finalsummary and in-class discussion of the content and reflections related to our educational module.Additionally, the importance of moving beyond individual bias and addressing systemic biaswithin institutional policies was communicated [20], [26] followed by an in-class brainstormingactivity asking students to identify academic policies at PSU that they believe maybe contributeto lack of diversity, equity
University of Virginia Social and Behavioral Sciences IRB,protocol number 3236.This study was conducted in concert with a second-year course in design for biomedicalengineering students. The course itself was focused on the development of software, hardware,and fabrication skills of particular use to biomedical engineers [3]. These included CAD,microcontrollers, basic circuits, 3D printing, subtractive approaches to prototyping (dependingon semester), and digital image analysis. The course culminated in a closed-ended team-baseddesign project with a physical prototype due at the end.Students would have taken 0 to 3 courses prior to the design course in question. This is becausestudents at our institution enter their major after their first year, and
and second-order systems through heat transfer and beam vibration problems. Overall, theexperiments conducted were a success in allowing the students to achieve the ABET outcomesduring the process of the experiments. The students were able to research the engineeringtheories, and applied the theories through multiple variations of the experiment to find thedesired answers for the course.Assessment and Impact: Several aspects of what they have done in this course are reflected intheir Capstone Sr. design projects as well as projects in other courses that involve experimentalset-ups and using LabVIEW code, modeling and so on. Numerous groups use data acquisitionset-ups to capture signals to analyze their data. This course also helps them