an online platform overnight, placing an additional workload on facultyacclimating to new methodologies and technology associated with online delivery. Manycolleges and universities were also faced with financial concerns, a consequence of diminishedenrollment, having to reduce overall budgets impacting the availability of resources. Now thatthe immediate danger has subsided, colleges, universities, and their faculty members are left withthe residual effects of the pandemic and are seeking to understand the new norm and better waysto serve faculty, staff, and students moving forward.PurposeThe purpose of this study was to understand the motivational factors important to engineeringand technology faculty in an urban campus setting and to
faculty members atLehigh recognized that the existing doctoral training was not aligned with the expectations oflikely employers. Earlier, the senior author of this article was sensitized by a remark from theExecutive Vice President of a major company that ‘you have very smart kids coming out of Lehighbut they don’t think like us’. Feedback like this motivated us to think of a solution to this systemicproblem of STEM doctoral education. Our various experiences led us to redesign the STEM PhDmodel to one that would be student-centric and based on use-inspired research. The basic modelwas then proposed for support from NSF’s Innovation in Graduate Education Program fordeveloping it further and testing in practice. The details of the model, now
Paper ID #38333Creation of an Engineering Technology ProgramDr. Robin A.M. Hensel, West Virginia University Robin A. M. Hensel, Ed.D., is a Teaching Professor in the Benjamin M. Statler College of Engineer- ing and Mineral Resources at West Virginia University and an ASEE Fellow member. Throughout her career, she has supported engineering teams as a mathematician and provided complete life-cycle manage- ment of Information Systems as a Computer Systems Analyst for the U.S. Department of Energy; taught mathematics, statistics, computer science, and fundamental engineering courses and served in several ad- ministrative
; between2000 and 2019, an average of 19.7% of first year students across the [faculty] were internationalstudents. Table 2: Demographic Characteristics of Survey Respondents Characteristic Sample [Program 1] Population n % n % Gender: man 167 63% 3228 78% Person of colour: no 138 55% unknown Sexual orientation: heterosexual 225 89% unknown Person with a disability: no 230 91% unknownDemographic questions were framed in terms of participants’ current identities andcharacteristics at the
are equallyimportant in creating an inclusive environment where womxn’s careers can flourish as much astheir male counterparts.R4: I ground my goals for gender equity in engineering for the next 130 years in my undergraduateand graduate mentorship experiences with faculty members as a Latina woman in STEM. As acollege student, I found support and encouragement to attend graduate school from male andfemale faculty mentors alike. I did not perceive any type of discrimination from the faculty,regardless of gender. It is well-established in the literature that female faculty in STEM supportwomen more than their male faculty [13]. Still, I must confess my most salient mentorshipexperiences and support came from male faculty. I found additional
with a seamless trade-off for both visibility ofthe company and transparency of types of career paths offered within the company for similarprojects. Additionally, this allows the faculty member to explore and test a new process andpedagogy for knowledge transfer and course development in real-time, where the coursebecomes a pilot for potential concentrations/specializations or core-curriculum courseworkwithin the program once refined.The future work and extension of this research would be on analyzing the student learningoutcomes of the students enrolled in the course. In addition, 8 of the students have an A grade, 5have a B grade, and 1 has a C on this course. The author would offer the course again withupgraded materials and collect data
Faculty En- dowed Award and is consistently motivated by the distinction of her University of the West Indies Most All-Round Social Policy Student award. Dr Benjamin is a previous New York City Teaching Fellow and an inaugural member of the American Society for Engineering Education Post-Doctoral E-Fellowship. Through her scholarship, she explores matters related to minoritized student experiences, doctoral educa- tion, and engineering education with an educational philosophy that equates quality with equity. Dr Ben- jamin is committed to transforming educational systems into more inclusive, equitable and just spaces that adequately support learners – particularly those who have been historically and intentionally
girls’ STEMengagement [15]. Several researchers have found that same-sex role models positivelyinfluence women’s decisions to work in traditionally male-dominated fields [15] [16] [17].Female faculties have been proposed to function as same-sex role models, which mayinoculate female students against the harmful impact of stereotypes impugning their ability incomputer science and engineering [15]. Female faculties’ identity as an educator impact onnext-generational gender equality development [15]. Scholars suggest that more studiesshould provide insights into hidden barriers to female faculty career development in computerscience and engineering [15][18].Identity Negotiation: A Position Theory LensIdentity recognition and acceptance support
University (ASU). She is a qualitative researcher who primarily uses narrative research methods and is interested more broadly in inDr. Samantha Ruth Brunhaver, Arizona State University Samantha Brunhaver, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor within The Polytechnic School of the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University. Her primary areas of research include engineering ca- reer pathways and decision-making, undergraduate student persistence, professional engineering practice, and faculty mentorship. Brunhaver graduated with her B.S. in mechanical engineering from Northeastern University and her M.S. and Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from Stanford University. ©American Society
the team find three to four different ideas that they liked and then come together and choose one of those as a team.4.3 Art as a Communication Tool:Using the STEAM photovoice prompt, this theme is deducted. Art has many different benefitsincluding introspection and contemplation to consider different perspectives and ideas. In thisstudy, many students expressed the main benefit of art as a tool to enhance communication; inother words, art was used to better explain the product features and design. • I think virtual models are a very good way to explain an idea to an audience that may not know much about the topic or product. In the classroom setting I am personally primarily a kinesthetic learner but I also appreciate
ranging from academics, NSF PIs, in- dustry leaders, entrepreneurs, and professionals to students or high-schoolers starting out with Computer Sciences, helping them strategize and broaden participation, as well as explore, understand, and apply emerging technologies. Sreyoshi is committed to broadening participation among underrepresented mi- norities in engineering and serves as a Senator at the Society of Women Engineers. She is also part of the Advisory Board at the College of Engineering at Virginia Tech and serves as an Advisor to the leadership at Sisters in STEM. Sreyoshi frequently collaborates on several National Science Foundation projects in the engineering education realm, researching engineering career
Does Hidden Curriculum in Engineering Look Like and How Can It Be Explored?” Paper presented at 2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition.[5] Tarnai-Lokhorst, K.V. (2015). “Where Are the Women? Perceived Barriers to Engineering Education: Exploring the Feminist Influences on Curriculum in British Columbia and on the Career Choices of Women with High School Physics Credit.” Paper presented at 2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition.[6] Nieusma, D., & Cieminski, M. (2018). “Ethics Education as Enculturation: Student Learning of Personal, Social, and Professional Responsibility.” Paper presented at 2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Salt Lake City, Utah. 10.18260/1-2--30443.[7] Shean, M. & Mander
academic andindustry background and was focused on engineering education for graduate and systemsengineering programs, to lead the expansion of the academic programs and develop new courses.The PIR faculty member developed and taught the first new course, Introduction to SystemsEngineering that teaches Systems Engineering principles, practices, and methods according toISO 15288 [3] and the INCOSE Systems Engineering Handbook [4]. The faculty member thendeveloped and taught a second new course in model-based systems engineering (MBSE), whichintroduced students to systems modeling using descriptive modeling languages like the systemsmodeling language (SysML) and MBSE methods like the object-oriented systems engineeringmethod (OOSEM), and advanced
been described in a previous contribution[1]. A follow-up manuscript has described the first three interventions within the NRT, namely,an onboarding and orientation event, a career exploration symposium, and a multidisciplinaryintroductory course, along with the assessment and outcomes of each of these interventions [2].A third manuscript has presented three additional NRT components, i.e., a transferable skillscourse, an interdisciplinary research proposal and project, and a multidisciplinary researchsymposium, as well as their assessment and outcomes [3]. In a similar vein, this contributiondescribes several additional interventions within this NRT – a graduate certificate, field trips, aswell as internships and international experiences
and inclusion by measuring latent support for exclusionary practices, and designing interventions targeted at improving gaps in graduate student success and support, and faculty hiring, tenure, and promotion. Additionally, his research attempts to understand the impacts of online platforms and their algorithms on political contention in the United States.Lizandra C. Godwin, University of New Mexico Dr. Lizandra C. Godwin is a faculty member in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of New Mexico. Dr. Godwin earned her M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of Florida, and her B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Florida A&M University. Her
persist in theprogram.The second hypothesis takes into consideration the factors in the student’s experience. Theliterature shows that the sense of belonging is an important factor in URM students because ithas an impact on productivity and motivation [6]. The hypothesis drawn in this case is that thereare factors in the academic system that increase the sense of belonging in URM students whichcan create a positive loop that led to persistence.Finally, we use the factors in the category of faculty-student interaction. The literature shows thatmentorship increases success in graduate students, especially if the mentor is from the sameethnicity as the URM student. Interaction with faculty members increases the students’ exposureto information, and
could benefit from research training from an EM perspective to helpthem see and prepare for a career in creative, entrepreneurial activities.Allowing students to not only learn about but also to practice EM-focused activities in the contextof their current, ongoing research, can encourage students to demonstrate the unmet need andopportunities they are addressing through their research. Supporting students and faculty in UGRexperiences through an EM lens has the potential to unleash the innovation and agency of next-level undergraduate students, who may become graduate students, and who may become our nextleaders in engineering.Future work:Our one-year follow-up survey will be distributed to this baseline cohort in the fall of 2023, whichwill
University of Michigan in 1985 and her M.S. in 1988 and Ph.D. in 1991 in chemical engineering both from Pennsylvania State University. Dr. Karen’s educational research emphasis includes faculty development and mentoring, graduate student development, critical thinking and communication skills, enhancing mathematical student success in Calculus (including Impact of COVID-19), and promoting women in STEM. Her technical research focuses on sustainable chemical process design, computer aided design, and multicriteria decision making. She also has extensive experience in K-12 STEM education and program evaluation and assessment. She has held a variety of administrative positions: 1) Director of STEM Faculty Development
officialpolicy or position of William Beaumont Army Medical Center, Department of the Army,Defense Health Agency, or the US Government.Introduction This project will advance middle school student math and sciences progress through itsinnovative use of non-invasive personal and familial data collection and analysis. Usingaccessible technologies such as: non-contact infrared thermometers with memory function, pulseoximeters with Bluetooth that painlessly clip on to your finger, electronic digital calipers, andhousehold tools including tape measures, students will learn to collect and analyze their personaland familial health-data. Using laptops and tablets with MS Excel software, students will uploadtheir data and explore it with simulation and
skills. The firstcase considers both skills within a higher range of decision-making, where teamwork, togetherwith one's own awareness as influencer within the organization, are closely linked. The secondcase considers technical skills which are present at a lower or operational rank within theorganization, and they are therefore not faced with definitive decision-making, probablyadopting a more consultative leadership style, which lists among its characteristics that of notmaking decisions without first consulting thers.Conclusions, future directionsThe present work was geared to study leadership styles in senior students of the IndustrialEngineering program of an Engineering Faculty of an important Chilean university. Theobjective was to
. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023Character Development in the Engineering Classroom: An Exploratory, Mixed-Methods Investigation of Student PerspectivesI. IntroductionEthics education is an undisputedly essential part of engineering education. Society, industry,universities, and accreditation demand that engineering students be better educated to handle themany ethical situations that professional practice will require of our graduates. Whileengineering educators continue to explore how to most effectively prepare students for complexand nuanced ethical decision-making in their professional careers [1] – [8], traditionalapproaches to engineering ethics education have been largely limited to ethical reasoning guidedby
first year. Despite those constructs increasing,students generated questions pertaining to Information Seeking and Stress Tolerance constructsmost frequently in the direct pre and post assessment, with approximately 60% and 25% ofquestions coded into those categories, respectively. The frequency of codes was not differentbetween the pre and post assessments. These findings suggest that further work is needed tounderstand discrepancies between how students perceive their curiosity personality and how theyexercise that curiosity in an academic context. This paper explores the direct and indirectassessment data sets and discusses implications for our findings on pedagogical approaches tofostering curiosity in first-year
-college)-level with a goal of pursuing an engineering major never make it to that200-level. In contrast to the 200-level experience, students earlier in their academic path aremore diffuse in 100-level math, physics, and chemistry courses that also serve other STEMmajors and include no direct instruction on how course content is relevant to their career goals.Opportunities to build community around engineering are up to individual students to seek out inextra-curricular opportunities such as student clubs. This challenge is amplified for most WCCengineering students who must complete 10-20 credits of prerequisite math and physicscoursework before credits apply toward their eventual Bachelor of Science degree.Table 1 illustrates the differential
student and faculty affairs. They additionally initiated a pilot faculty launch programin 2017 to provide support and guidance to junior faculty launching their career at JHU, withdepartments prioritizing the hiring of URM or women faculty members. Finally, in 2019, the Tandon School of Engineering at New York University (NYU)formed an Inclusion @ Tandon committee that created the college’s first strategic plan forInclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Belonging (IDBE). This committee includes a facultyrepresentative from each department to lead the departmental IDBE plans. In 2020, Tandonlaunched its Office of Inclusive Excellence (OIE) and hired four Inclusion Officers to coordinateDEI efforts in the Tandon School, which includes one officer
curriculum expert and a learning sciences researcher investigating learning, cognition and knowing in authentic practices. She is currently an Associate Professor in the area of Curriculum Studies at the Faculty of Education in Western University in Canada.Jingyi Liu, Nanyang Technological University Jingyi Liu is a master’s student at the National Institute of Education (NIE) at Nanyang Technological University (NTU). She is presently working on STEM+C educational-focused projects in Dr. Yeter’s Research Team at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. With a background in educational studies, Jingyi Liu brings a unique perspective to the role of technology in education, leveraging her expertise to explore
outcome-based educational framework. She has also incorporated theories on social cognitive career choices and student attrition mitigation to investigate the effectiveness of institutional interventions in increasing the retention and academic success of talented engineering students from economically disadvantaged families. She’s also involved in a project that explores the relationship between the institutional policies at UPRM and faculty and graduate students’ motivation to create good relationships between advisors and advisees.Prof. Oscar Marcelo Suarez, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Professor Oscar Marcelo Suarez joined the University of Puerto Rico - Mayaguez in 2000. He holds a BS in Aeronautical &
Paper ID #37742Addressing the Needs of Hispanic/Latino(a) Students with the FlippedClassroom ModelDr. Alberto Cureg Cruz, California State University, Bakersfield Dr. Cruz is an Associate Professor of Computer Science, Principal Investigator of the Computer Per- ception Laboratory (COMPLAB), and board member of the Center for Environmental Studies (CES) at the California State University, Bakersfield (CSUB). He received a few grants from the National Science foundation and local agencies to support work in applied machine learning and engineering education.Dr. Amin Malek, California State University, Bakersfield Professor
Program Assistant for the National Institute of Health’s Maximizing Access to Research Careers Undergraduate Student Training in Academic Research program in the Department of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering at the University of South Florida.Dr. Ellen Puccia, Beta Research Associates Ellen Puccia, Ph.D., is an applied anthropologist with expertise in mixed methods data collection and analysis. In addition to her work in healthcare access, she also focuses on diversity, equity, and inclu- sion in STEM education. Specifically, she looks at the influence of social capital on the persistence of underrepresented groups in STEM. Currently, she is the owner and Executive Director of Beta Research Associates, Inc.Dr
otherapplications in prosthetics. “With this project I feel like it'll launch whatever career path I end up taking into motion and give me a lot more opportunities to do what I want to do in the future.” -RU student engineer, design team member “If you can really within the realm of what this product is intended to do and establish a process of doing that, the right concept to design, to optimization, to the manufacturing optimization step. If you can establish that as a biomedical, biomechanical medical device, this can transform itself into other applications in prosthetics too, that can use additive manufacturing as a as an optimal tool.” -TCU Faculty member, mentor to design teamQ10 - What do you wish to
forindividual engineers to prepare for their professional careers. The approachable writing style andreflective nature of the content make this text ideal for any level of engineering student, but it isparticularly salient for first- or second-year students.Giving Voice to Values (GVV)The GVV curriculum was pioneered by Mary Gentile, former professor with the University ofVirginia School of Business, for application in business. GVV takes an “action-orientedapproach” to values-driven leadership.11 We selected GVV for the Engineering Ethics coursebecause many graduating engineering students will one day step into leadership roles in businessorganizations. A significant body of GVV content is delivered by Gentile as pre-recordedmodules, developed for a