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
implemented in colleges of engineering that disrupt the status quo regarding who gets to participate in engineering education as students and faculty members; and (3) increased participation and comfort among Black and Brown K– 12 students in pre-college engineering activities that signal to parents and young learners that an engineering career is an option for anyone. These outcomes map to three strategic pillars of the Year of Impact on Racial Equity.”Volunteers for the Year of Impact on Racial Equity were divided into three taskforces, eachfocusing on a distinct pillar: (1) student organizations at Colleges of Engineering and EngineeringTechnology, (2) faculty and administrators in Colleges of Engineering, and (3
navigate the curricular choices available [7], (2) students would need to explore the broaderfields of real-world electrical and computer engineering to building an understanding of theirrelevant career options [7], and (3) student feedback revealed a need and desire for professionalcommunication instruction earlier than the existing junior-level communication requirement [4].The resulting course is a unique fusion of career development, academic planning, professionalcommunications, extended campus orientation, and engineering design [7].ECE Discovery Studio was piloted during 2020-2021 academic year, a year ahead of the officialthreaded curriculum launch. Amid the backdrop of the global pandemic, the course pilot wasrestricted to an online
task or career will be positive; in the context of a career, it might bedescribed as whether an individual can meet goals or values in choosing a particular path. Third,interests - subject-matter relevant or otherwise - impact career choice and persistence. Finally,personal goals drive people to pursue certain paths. These can be categorized as performancegoals, learning goals or competency-based goals. In addition, there are institutional orenvironmental variables, including social support, expectations from others, and economicopportunities that influence career decisions [22]. Various reinforcing relationships exist betweenthese variables in the SCCT model, and variables can have an impact whether they are real orperceived.Within
instructional practices in their engineering courses. Amy’s research interests meet at the intersection of sustainable and resilient infrastructure, emotions in engineering, and engineering identity formation.Dr. James L. Huff, Harding University Dr. James Huff is an Associate Professor of Engineering Education and Honors College Faculty Fellow at Harding University. He conducts transdisciplinary research on identity that lies at the nexus of applied psychology and engineering education. A recipient of the NSF CAREER grant (No. 2045392) and the director of the Beyond Professional Identity (BPI) lab, Dr. Huff has mentored numerous undergraduate students, doctoral students, and academic professionals from more than 10 academic
, emotional, andbehavioral dimensions. In addition, it seeks to guarantee students an education under theSustainable Development Goal (SDG) #4 (Quality Education), with the necessary skills andknowledge to promote sustainable development, including peace, non-violence, genderequality, and cultural appreciation [2]. However, these competencies are often not easilymodeled in a conventional classroom with specific or limited problem situations. One strategyfor meeting these high demands is Collaborative International Online Learning (COIL),particularly the Global Shared Learning Classroom (GSLC) approach. GSLC is acollaboration between two or more faculty members from different geographic locations orcountries through technology to teach similar or
member in the Department of Computer Science. Her professional experience also includes Winthrop University, The Aerospace Corporation, and IBM. She is a graduate of Johnson C. Smith University (B.S., ’00) and North Carolina State University (M.S., ’02; Ph.D., ’05), becoming the first Black woman to earn a Ph.D. in computer science at the university and 2019 Computer Science Hall of Fame Inductee.Shaundra Bryant Daily, Duke University Shaundra B. Daily is a professor of practice in Electrical and Computer Engineering & Computer Sci- ence at Duke University and Levitan Faculty Fellow, Special Assistant to the Vice Provosts. Prior to joining Duke, she was an associate professor with tenure at the University of Florida
to consider what dispositions I brought to this research as both a graduatestudent and an instructor. My experience as a graduate student increased my ability to noticewhen language was affected by the desire to express competence and reflect a certain identity,two important elements in our study of empathetic disposition. Through my teacher lens, I wasable to discern shifts in speech that indicated a change of attitude or perspective at both historicaland personal levels. As someone who values human-centered research and empathetic pedagogy,I worked to maintain impartiality in my analysis through reflexivity and collaboration with theother analysts on our team to help ensure my interpretations of the data remained close to thestudents
-changing digital landscape are needed. Workforce development and shortages are significantwith needs for talent at all levels. For engineers in particular, workers need to be able utilize andadvance technology, excel in the interdisciplinary nature of complex engineering problems,within interconnected digital spaces, make decisions, and be versed in ‘soft skills’ required forcollaboration and communication.Traditionally, undergraduate and graduate engineering education has been siloed according todisciplinary departments. Students navigate their education through a series of courses intendedto prepare them via methods and tools that define the discipline. This approach is based largelyon 20th-century needs. While team-based and project-based
Higher Edu- cation, University of Nebraska, and the Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation to implement an ecology of validation model at a large scale to promote student success. At UNL, Deepak mentors the AgFutures first-year living-learning community in leadership, service, and civic engagement. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Community building through technology in a biological systems engineering courseConference: American Society for Engineering EducationDivision: Biological and Agricultural Engineering Division (BAE)Tags: Community-building, student-centered strategies, technologyPaper interests: Undergraduates, Graduate, Faculty
experiences for participating scholars to fulfill theirGCSP talent competency. The talent competency encourages engineering students who are partof the GCSP to engage in undergraduate research in an approved team, individual research, ordesign project with a university faculty member, focusing the research on one of the fourteenNAE grand challenges by completing an appropriately approved independent study projectfocusing on one of the four grand challenges’ themes (sustainability, security, health, and joy ofliving). This summer experience consisted of 15 students conducting research in labs for 25hours per week over a 10-week period with additional workshops and weekly hangout meetingswith the director of the GCSP and participating scholars. The
exist.Figure 2 provides a graphic of how thisidea of convergence learning can exist, Figure 2. Promoting Transdisciplinary Learning through Topicsalong with disciplinary and convergence of Convergence while Preserving Academic Disciplines.research of an institution. As studentsenter academic institutions, they typically enter in a major within a disciplinary home which eventuallyresults in them graduating with a degree. Within these disciplinary homes, faculty also refine expertiseand generate new knowledge within their disciplines. But, if there are strategic opportunities for thesedisciplines to converge to provide transdisciplinary learning experiences for students, the university canpromote additional academic outputs such as innovations spurred
bestsuited where a need for a change in vision, process, or culture is necessary [9].Teamwork and productivityUnderstanding and maximizing the skillsets of team members will ensure that resources areused effectively. To have a productive team, team members must work in synergy andcomplement each other.Tools that Aid Effective Personnel ManagementPersonality testsThe personality test is an assessment tool designed to understand the make-up of a person interms of traits, likes, dislikes, areas of strengths, weaknesses, and patterns of thoughts. It isthe consistent differences existing between two people that can either be inherent or learned.This set of tests seeks to unravel the unique set of drives, attitudes, emotional patterns,opinions, etc
students of all genders and race/ethnic/socioeconomicbackgrounds. It is designed to give students an early start in their engineering majors and helpbuild a community of students, faculty, and staff across different engineering disciplines. Forhigh school students this is an opportunity to further explore their interest in engineering whilebuilding networks with students and mentors in the university.Workshops, programs, and other initiatives to bring awareness to issues related to diversity,equity, and inclusion (DEI) in an organization (a workplace or an academic institution) havebeen around since the 1960s [3], [4], with questionable outcomes [5], [6]. However, during thesummer of 2020, amidst the global pandemic, certain events such as the
made them think deeply about their goals and how to achieve them.Undergraduate research opportunities: Undergraduate research funded by the CREATE programhas been very well received by both scholars and their faculty research mentors. A total of sixteenscholars were placed in laboratories of engineering professors who indicated interest in givingthem a research experience. An evaluation was conducted on scholars’ performance and allresearch mentors deemed that their scholars had participated satisfactorily. Some scholars havedecided to pursue graduate school based on these experiences.Career and graduate school guidance: CREATE may have given information on careers andgraduate school a bit too early in the program to the second cohort and
sociotechnical integration,including service courses for the core curriculum, service courses serving other engineeringprograms, an interdepartmental graduate program, and departmental minors and anundergraduate major. In this paper, we focus attention on program development considerationssurrounding our undergraduate BS in Design Engineering program. This program is built upon a“general engineering” framework with two significant exceptions. First, the programsystematically situates “design” expertise at the program’s core, both in terms of students’ expertidentity and in terms of the curricular structure. Second, the program offers wide-ranging “focusareas” as an alternative to disciplinary depth. The curricular logic is that students developdomain
experiences for veterans to motivate them tocontinue to graduate school or pursue a career in Naval STEM research. A mentor program wasimplemented to provide research faculty mentors, Navy engineering mentors and an expandedmentor network to support the student veterans. The program is well received at bothuniversities and has demonstrated a positive impact on the undergraduate student veterans.Several program challenges are presented along with methods used to overcome those challengesto provide a better experience for both the veteran students and faculty mentors.IntroductionThis paper discusses the development and execution of a multi-year veteran research exchangeprogram between the University of Tennessee and the University of North Carolina at
majors than peers who identify as men [6], [16]. This sectionhighlights three barriers to sense of belonging: negative faculty interactions, negative peerinteractions, and stereotype threat. Though it has clearly been established that sense of belonging is an important factor inretaining women undergraduate engineering students, there are some potential barriers that havebeen documented to prevent students from experiencing belongingness. Blair et al. found thatfaculty have the ability to positively or negatively impact women STEM majors’ success [17].Upon studying faculty in a variety of STEM programs, researchers identified three-primarypositions related to how faculty members approach the idea of gender equity: gender blindness,gender
5State’s Learning Resource Network (LRN) and is free to University faculty, staff, and students.Through videos and interactive vignettes that address a broad array of identity characteristics(e.g. age, disability, nationality, language, race, gender, religion, and sexual orientation), itprovides a clear set of 6 techniques that individuals can use to halt verbalized instances of bias atthe micro- and macro- levels in non-confrontational but effective ways. The training materialsalso include a workbook that allows students to practice the techniques learned and that is used,in part, as an assessment mechanism for the homework grade.Armed with the techniques presented in both the DEI Overview lecture and the “Ouch! ThatStereotype Hurts” bystander
are noteworthy: the group whose members strove to drive globalimpact had the greatest positional authority and were all white men; the group whose proudmoments involved mobilizing and empowering others included an over-representation ofwomen; and the two groups whose proud moments involved limited structural interdependence,were more racially minoritized and internationally trained than the full sample. The first twotrends reflect gendered patterns of privilege while the first and third reflect the normative powerof white privilege and domestic graduate advantage in engineering organizations and Canadiansociety.DiscussionWhat did senior engineers learn from these proud moments in the context of their careers? First,they gained socio-technical
decisions as wellas inclusion of the person or communities that will potentially be impacted by their work.To introduce the concepts of Design Justice in their courses, faculty members can start by readingthe Design Justice book [4], which contains many examples throughout the text. A case studycould be a good starting point, especially one that students can easily relate to. For example, thecase about the Spirometer, a device used to measure lung capacity. This was invented at a timewhen it was believed that race determined lung capacity, so the device was built with a racecorrection factor. When employers were sued for asbestos related lung-diseases caused due tolong exposure, Black employees would have to demonstrate worse lung function than
currently a graduate student in the Lyles School of Civil Engineering at Purdue University pursuing a PhD in Architectural Engineer- ing with a focus in indoor air quality. She has had several opportunities to engage in education with undergraduates and community members, and has recently been honored to be able to practice advising undergraduate service-learning teams. She was formerly a co-instructor for this weeklong Civil Engi- neering summer course for high school students, where she enjoyed creating interactive activities to build student’s intuition of the indoors and built environments.Joshua Carpenter, Purdue University Joshua Carpenter received his B.S. degree in Surveying and Mapping from the University of
(PASE) student organization at the University of Florida.Mrs. Amy G. Buhler, University of Florida Amy Buhler is an engineering librarian at University of Florida’s Marston Science Library. As the liaison librarian for Agricultural & Biological Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Engineering Education, and Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, Amy provides collection management, library instruction, litera- ture search assistance, and research consultations for the faculty, students and staff of these departments. Her research relates to assessment of information seeking behaviors, library instruction, and the creation and marketing of library services. She has been a member of the UF faculty since 2001 and holds
opportunities, internships, and undergraduateresearch. The submission options also align with tenets of Universal Design for Learning [46],allowing students to demonstrate their knowledge in preferred ways. The three options were ashort self-recorded video, such as from a phone; meet in-person or over zoom to discuss withinstructor; or a standard write-up. Giving options to the traditional assignment that requiressubmitting a written response may be helpful for students who struggle with grammar, whichsometimes includes international students, for example.In this educational intervention, FWV was added as an option on two assignments. It was ofinterest if students would elect to explore FWV or select the other alternatives. The choices thatstudents
highlight this. Rarely, however, are there spaces andplaces for women in engineering to discuss these tensions. We wanted to create space so thosecoming after us can do the real work to move toward sisterhood.Race affects cross-racial mentoring relationships at all levels of higher education includingsenior faculty to junior faculty, faculty to postdocs, and faculty to graduate students [1]–[3]. Forexample, common factors that shape cross-racial mentoring of Faculty of Color include “anawareness of the mentee’s cultural experience” by the mentor, “open-mindedness”, and “trust,comfort, and common ground” [3]. Davis and Linder [4] further call to action the necessity toacknowledge and candidly discuss whiteness in cross-racial relationships between
Curitiba, Brazil; native communities in the Amazon in Villavicencio, Colombia; and underserved communities in Piura, Per´u. Dr. Santiago is passionate about providing experiential learning opportunities to both undergraduate and graduate students with a focus on Hispanic and female students. She is currently Co-PI of UTEP’s NSF-AGEP program focusing on foster- ing Hispanic doctoral students for academic careers; the Department of Education’s (DoE) STEMGROW Program to encourage students Latino(a) students and students with disabilities to pursue STEM careers; and DoE’s Program YES SHE CAN that provides support and mentoring to female pre-college students. She is also a member of two advisory committees to the UTEP’s
in educational systems, will help with student retentionin engineering classrooms. Hence, diversifying the workforce results in a career path that is notrooted in the current patriarchal norms [3].In a post-secondary engineering faculty, that would mean the diversification of both faculty andthe student body to include more women and people of color. Creating a more inclusiveenvironment that stems from gender, race and ethnic diversity allows for new experiences andknowledge to be introduced [3]. Nielsen et al. highlight how gender diversity contributes to teamdynamics by enhancing creativity, decision making, and problem solving when compared to all-men research teams. This is largely due to the ability of women to recognize their
intervention is to focus on foundational engineering design “tools,”defined broadly as sites for mutual understanding and collaboration. These “boundary objects”[22] can serve as an opportunity for learning by both STS- and engineering-trained educatorswith the goal of achieving robust sociotechnical integration. This integration is to be achievedvia a sequence of three activities: First, an engineering-trained faculty member will demonstrateto our mixed faculty how they teach the tool to their students, including its conceptualfoundations (if relevant), application, and possible limitations or constraints to application.Second, an STS-trained faculty member will demonstrate to the group how that sameengineering design tool might be deconstructed and
color, queers, nonbinary and trans people with disabilities.” For more information, visithttps://www.sinsinvalid.org/.Ableism is very much present in higher education settings. In his book, Academic Ableism,Timothy Dolmage [2017] provides an in-depth exploration of the history of ableism in academia,where disabled people have long been treated as inferior or faulty specimens to be studied, ratherthan as vibrant, valuable, contributing members of the scholarly community [40]. Althoughdisabled students and scholars gained a certain degree of legal protection in educational settingsunder the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) in 1990, this protection did little to change thefact that post-secondary environments are designed for non-disabled
methodologies they used. In both studies, the faculty team members metat least weekly with the student team members during all study stages to offer advice andprovide accountability for progress. The first, second, and fourth authors have collaboratedon previous reviews of methods within their own research experiences, driving them toconsider comparisons between approaches to research methods [16]. The first and secondauthors made mid-career transitions to partake in EER scholarship at an institution withoutmany formal EER resources. Thus, this research, and any work which provides resourcesfor new or learning EER scholars, is of particular value to them. The authors acknowledgethat their various stages of learning influenced their comparisons of