INCLUDES-funded Women of Color in Engineering Collaborative, whose mission is to work cooperatively with other organizations to provide resources to create a supportive, encouraging, and inclusive environment in the engineering workplace. Her SWE research centers on equity issues in STEM education and the workplace, with studies on gender bias, the development of an engineering identity, and the community college transfer pathway. Prior to joining SWE, she worked in higher education policy research and on programs focused on faculty productivity and student success. She received her B.S. in Civil Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin, MBA and M.S. in Information Management from Arizona State University, and
Paper ID #44078Engineering Learning among Black and Latinx/e/a/o Students: ConsideringLanguage and Culture to Reengineer Learning EnvironmentsDr. Greses Perez, Tufts University Greses P´ rez is the McDonnell Family Assistant Professor in Engineering Education in the Civil and e Environmental Engineering Department at Tufts University with secondary appointments in Mechanical Engineering and Education. She received her Ph.D. in Learning Sciences and Technology Design with a focus on Engineering Education from Stanford University. As an Afro-Latina engineer and learning scientist, she has dedicated her career
undergraduate students perceive industrial partnershipsin engineering capstone courses?MethodologyContext of studyThe study was conducted on students enrolled in a third-year capstone engineering coursefocusing on industrial design at a university. At the start of the course, the students wererandomly grouped into teams of 6 – 7 and tasked to solve a problem provided by a company. Theproblem statements were randomly assigned. Each team was guided by an industry mentor and afaculty member for the duration of 13 weeks as they tackled the problem statement. The teamsmet both faculty and industry mentors weekly to gather feedback on their projects. At the end ofthe course, the teams were assessed by both supervisors.Participants and Data CollectionWe used
often place undue emphasis on the categorization ofknowledge and skills, while not sufficiently addressing the process through which studentsnavigate and act on ethical dilemmas. This, we posit, is an area that needs redefining, given thatethical decision-making is rarely a linear process with single objective “right” answers and ofteninvolves iterative reasoning and interactive engagement with the problem. As such, we havedeveloped a suite of ethics-driven classroom games that have been implemented and evaluatedacross three universities, engaging over 400 first-year engineering students over the past 3 years.Now in the grant’s final year, we are finishing the design of two of the game-based ethicsinterventions to (1) more accurately align with
task is encapsulated by ABET Criterion 5 which states that an effective team includes“members [who] together provide leadership, create a collaborative and inclusive environment,establish goals, plan tasks, and meet objectives” (2023). For the most part, this education inpractice consists of combining students into groups and letting them explore teamwork dynamicsthrough self-determination (i.e., figuring it out as they go). This sort of situational, experientialeducation mimics to some extent what happens in the engineering workplace, where individualswith unique skill sets are tasked with working together to achieve a common goal. However, theoutcomes of this educational approach can be highly variable, resulting in students who have
, conference attendance in the early years of undergraduate education may assist studentretention in computing majors.However, conference attendance requires additional pre-conference and during-conference supportby faculty members. [25] found that supplementing student attendance with a course designedspecifically to students attending the Grace Hopper Celebration for Women in Computing (GHC)or the CMD-IT/ACM Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing Conference(https://tapiaconference.cmd-it.org) was helpful for students and faculty alike. This courseprepared students for the experience, engaged students in diversity, equity, and inclusion relatedconversations, and empowered self-exploration among the students participating
collaborative research projects focused on broadening participation in STEM academia. Dr. Mendez’s research centers on the creation of optimal higher education policies and practices that advance faculty careers and student success, as well as the schooling experiences of Mexican-descent youth in the mid-20th century.Jennifer Tygret ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Improving University Postdoctoral Affairs Offices: Viewpoints from Engineering Postdoctoral Scholars of ColorAbstractAn instrumental case study (Stake, 1995) explores the perceptions and opinions of engineeringpostdoctoral scholars of color about ways to improve university postdoctoral affairs offices tobetter
), American Society ofMechanical Engineers (ASME)), EnvE activities are dispersed across an array of professionalsocieties. Key professional societies that EnvE faculty engage with often have a narrower focuson their particular research interests. A number of these groups are partners in the SPACESeffort (see Table 1). The Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors(AEESP) is comprised primarily of academics including faculty and graduate students. AmongAEESP members, 89% engage in research on water/wastewater, 26% on soil and sediment, 21%on energy, and 14% on air (on average, each respondent identified 1.7 topics among optionsprovided in a recent survey) [3].Table 1. Examples of EnvE Related Professional Organizations
. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024Development and Impact of Research Efficacy in an Undergraduate Teaching Assistant Certification Class1. IntroductionResearch experiences and opportunities are growing in availability and significance forundergraduate students. Furthermore, undergraduate students can offer a distinct perspective anda unique form of assistance compared to graduate students and faculty. This also applies to theclassroom. Participation in research in the undergraduate years, shows to provide all engineeringstudent populations (including marginalized groups) to consider a job in the academic andresearch fields.At a mid-size minority serving institution, undergraduate students are highly encouraged
factors that negatively affected it and consider how your motivation may have changed over time. 5. How did teaching an online lesson rather than an in-person lesson change the way this project affected you? For example, do you think you learned more or less as a result? Did you learn different knowledge or skills than you would have learned by preparing for and teaching a face-to-face lesson? Please explain your response. 6. What did you learn from working with the education students? Please explain. 7. How did this project affect your vision of teaching careers? 8. How has your understanding of fluid mechanics changed as a result of this project? As explained in detail in a previous publication [18], when analyzing
between early program students and professors from their major,helping to foster a sense of student ownership and belonging in the department, which can bebeneficial for student retention [7]. The discipline specific approach was chosen to allow contentand projects to directly align with each area of specialization, to facilitate as much considerationof this material as possible including the project-based element, and to initiate relationshipsbetween faculty from each specialization and the incoming students.Integrating Design ExperiencesA project-based design experience was added to the course for the following reasons. Designexperiences are already an important part of engineering curricula at many universities. In manydegree programs senior
lesson development by providing ideasfor creating assignments (for both before and after class), discussion points, activities, and otherlesson materials to teach undergraduate and graduate students about the effects of infrastructureinequities and how to mitigate negative effects. The framework will provide a solid foundationfor faculty to take a case study or historical example and create lesson objectives, design studentexercises to be used before, during, or after a class session, and create materials to supportstudent learning. The CIT-E community of practice is also applying this framework to createseveral lessons using case studies that are currently under development and will be available foruse by any faculty member in the
projects aligned with active research areas ofPurdue faculty members and national, international, and industry-sponsored design challenges.VIP teams are multi-disciplinary and vertically-integrated (first-year through seniors) withfaculty and graduate student mentors and extend over multiple semesters or years. Because theprojects and teams within this program span a wide variety of contexts and require very diverseknowledge and skill development, the project work is supplemented with ProfessionalDevelopment (PD) workshops. The PD workshops are short modules ranging over a variety ofprofessional topics that complement traditional curriculum and are intended to provideopportunities for students to learn skills needed for their projects and their
International Engineering Educator. He was awarded the ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Paper ID #42511 ’Ing.Paed.IGIP’ title at ICTIEE, 2018. He is serving as an Associate Editor of the Journal of Engineering Education Transformations (JEET). He is interested in conducting engineering education research, and his interests include student retention in online and in-person engineering courses/programs, data mining and learning analytics in engineering education, broadening student participation in engineering, faculty preparedness in cognitive, affective, and psychomotor domains of
research activities outside the classroom, such as participatingin summer research internships, fellowships, programs, and guided research projects.Undergraduate research experience serves as a valuable platform for fostering students' interestin research, attracting more individuals to pursue advanced degrees in Science, Technology,Engineering, and mathematics (STEM)-related fields, and cultivating a well-trained and diverseworkforce in STEM careers. The impacts and benefits of the REU program have been confirmedby several large-scale surveys [1-6].Recognizing the importance of involving undergraduate students in meaningful research andscholarly activity alongside faculty members [6], numerous REU sites have garnered supportfrom various agencies
impossible to truly learn without the learner being active in someway [2]. Active learning helps students to ascend above the initial cognition levels of rememberand understand from the revised Bloom’s taxonomy [3], requiring learners at the least to applyand analyze. Project-based learning is an important active learning technique, which allowsstudents to build upon what they already know from previous courses [1] and further deepentheir knowledge as they evaluate and create. In addition to deepening their knowledge of specifictechnical competencies from the engineering curriculum, project-based learning allows studentsto acquire skills that will be vital to them throughout their careers, including problem solving,communication, teamwork as well as
built environment.Prof. Gordon D Hoople, University of San Diego Dr. Gordon D. Hoople is an assistant professor and one of the founding faculty members of integrated engineering at the University of San Diego. He is passionate about creating engaging experiences for his students. His work is primarily focused on two ar ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Whiteness in STEM/Engineering: The Problematic Nature of Meritocracy and Colorblindness Abstract Research in engineering education has taken a deficit-oriented perspective by focusing onthe dearth of People of Color (POC) in engineering as a supply issue, also more commonlyreferred to as a
engineering,and environmental engineers. This article includes details of the module. In particular, studentsare invited to answer an open ended questions, “how much would you pay to watch a perfectsunset?”, and the results of student responses are used as part of teaching. The results of studentresponse before and after a lecture module show a clear trend away from extreme answers of“everything” (i.e., a sunset is priceless) and “nothing” (i.e., a sunset is free), and towards a betterunderstanding of public value and an answer that reflects “some dollar amount,” which is createdfrom the sum of the values expressed by each individual. A subsequent lecture module introducesstudents to the concept of full-cost accounting as a way to integrate
Paper ID #41210Data-Science Perceptions: A Textual Analysis of Reddit Posts from Non-ComputingEngineersMr. Nicolas Leger, Florida International University Nicolas L´eger is currently an engineering and computing education Ph.D. student in the School of Universal Computing, Construction, and Engineering Education (SUCCEED) at Florida International University. He earned a B.S. in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering from the University of Maryland at College Park in May 2021 and began his Ph.D. studies the following fall semester. His research interests center on numerical and computational methods in STEM education and in
career mentoring is the key to setting students up for a smoothtransfer experience. The APEX faculty in the School of Engineering have implemented aproactive faculty mentoring initiative aimed at supporting students who may transfer from anumber of our local 2-year colleges. APEX Faculty members visit classes at nearby communitycolleges to connect directly with students. Over the past two years - these visits have taken theform of both on-campus as well as virtual visits via Zoom/Teams. The APEX faculty mentorsprovide an overview of the undergraduate engineering programs, the various student focusedsupport structures, the transfer process, financial aid and scholarships. More importantly, facultyhighlight the benefits of expressing an interest
StructureUpon completion of this course, students will be able to: ● Explain the role of engineering in society, articulating the importance of a mindset that values diverse perspectives and experiences, and ensures equitable access and participation in all aspects of engineering education, design and practice. ● Apply design thinking principles and decision-making skills to evaluate personal, academic, and professional interests; make decisions; and create a planned academic path in the College of Engineering. ● Describe different career opportunities associated with a variety of the engineering disciplines offered within the College of Engineering. ● Begin to develop an engineering identity by identifying personal
, but certain aspects have been built and implemented. Allengineering students are automatically added to the platform; whether they actively participate ornot is up to the individual. Students who choose to participate log in with their universitycredentials and answer a survey that helps personalize tips, email messages, etc. They are thenprovided with the list of competencies and asked to list their top three to these three questions: ● What areas are most exciting to you personally? ● What areas might be most important for your career? ● What are your most important areas for growth?After those questions, students select up to three competencies to focus on (they can changethese at any time if they wish). By selecting three
theincreased financial stability allowed students to explore their academic and career interests, studymore individually and in study-groups, and devote themselves to their engineering education byregularly meeting with faculty and staff outside the classroom.Scholarships offset rising gas prices for commuters and allow other students to live close tocampus. Students worked fewer hours (often 10 to 20 hours a week) compared to working full-time in community college. Students spent this additional time on campus and pursuedinternships and career opportunities in their field of study. In effect, S-STEM scholarshipsenabled students to treat their engineering education as a job, rather than having to work outsideof school to pay for their education.Our
a betterunderstanding of engineering research (Figure 3).Figure 3. FCC Scholar Ratings of the Personal/Academic Outcomes of Faculty Mentoring (n = 6)As part of the ESP, scholars had the opportunity to mentor students in subsequent cohorts. CohortA served as peer mentors for Cohort B in year 2, while Cohort B students provided peer mentorsupport to Cohort C in year 3, and during the fourth year students in Cohort C provided mentoringto students in Cohort D. An Engineering Scholar faculty team member provided peer mentors withtraining, during which they learned about effective mentoring, received guidelines on their role,and received resources to support them as peer mentors. The faculty team supported mentorsthroughout the academic year
) review.Data CollectionData collection went through three key phases. First, 26 copies of FYS instructor syllabi werecollected and coded for basic information and key components (see details in Instruments sectionbelow); at the same time, orienting conversations were carried out with both COE FYS facultyand faculty undergraduate program coordinators. Second, integrating insights of the preliminaryresults from these data and previous survey results, an updated survey was developed anddistributed to faculty, students, and administrative policymakers. Third, further follow-up focusgroups and individual interviews were conducted to explore participants’ feelings, both about thepresent FYS model and potential alternative FYS models that the COE at Penn
on global experiences for undergraduate students has increased.Institutions and educators have worked to create more opportunities for international collaborationfor students. One is Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL), a pedagogical methodthat allows for a deepened global engagement for students without international travel. The COILmethod connects students and faculty from different countries to explore a subject, theme, issue,or idea through a project-based learning (PBL) experience. COIL presents many opportunities forvirtual engagement to solve the lack of student mobility, as emphasized throughout the pandemic.Our university has expanded on COIL by offering full-semester COIL courses with an optionalpost-course short
linearproblems. “So, what we have here is a two-dimensional integer program, [it is] two dimensional because we have X one and X two, two decision variables, and an integer because of this constraint that we have here…in fact, we also have that they are positive integers. And so, what we did here is we said, “Ok, so it’s a maximization problem, so we’re going to try and solve it using the techniques that we know how to use, and the problems that we know how to solve are linear problems.” (Optimization and Data Analytics subfield, IE faculty)A final example of how “Foundational Technical Knowledge” appeared across all required IEcourses was observed in a course taken by IE students nearing graduation. In this
students to iden7fy and pursue individualized design learning, structured via an itera7ve prototyping and tes7ng process; an IDS serving DE students only. 4. Design for a Globalized World: A systems thinking and design course exploring global interdependencies surrounding social and environmental systems as they intersect with engineered solu7ons; an IDS serving DE students only. 5. Design and Modeling of Integrated Systems: A systems modeling course that enables students to characterize and formalize component rela7onships to inform design in response to complex sociotechnical systems; an IDS serving DE students only. 6. Design Engineering Applica7ons: A career-focused dis7lla7on of DE-student
Paper ID #43909Methodologies for Evaluating the Impact of STEM Outreach on HistoricallyMarginalized Groups in Engineering: a Systematic Literature Review (Other,Diversity)Jessica Nhu Tran, University of British Columbia Jessica Tran is an oncoming graduate student pursing a master’s degree in engineering education at the University of British Columbia (UBC). They are interested in exploring justice-oriented pedagogies and praxis, decolonization, and EDI (equity, diversity, and inclusion) within engineering education spaces, particularly within K-12 STEM outreach.Jessica Wolf, University of British Columbia Jessica Wolf is a
. In order to break down thefaculty/staff/student barrier, each student finds professors and staff members whose interests alignwith their passions. Experienced entrepreneurs, serving as “Entrepreneurs or Innovators InResidence” to the college play a key role, enabling fellows to see the links between their academicpursuits and their entrepreneurial passions. This personal coaching has been extremely effectiveover the first three years of the fellowship program, kick-starting students into high levels ofengagement and ownership in charting their path. Students also meet with entrepreneurial peerleaders (typically junior or senior level undergraduate fellows) regularly to help navigate collegelife.During the winter interim, fellows start an