partners such as NASA, Michelin, and BMW. His past work experience include working at the BMW Information Technology Research Center (ITRC) as a research associate, and for Robert Bosch Corporation as a manufacturing engineer. Dr. Morkos’ research thrust in- clude: design representations, computational reasoning, systems modeling and engineering, engineering education, collaborative design, and data/knowledge management. Page 23.273.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 CAREER: Student Motivation and Learning in EngineeringAbstractThis project seeks to help
Paper ID #6832Implementing a Student-Suggested Course in Engineering Career Develop-mentDr. Julie E. Sharp, Vanderbilt University Dr. Julie E. Sharp, M.A.T., M.A., Ph.D., is Professor of the Practice of Technical Communications in the Vanderbilt University School of Engineering, where she teaches written and oral communication courses in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and the General Engineering Division. Her teaching and research interests include job search communication, learning styles, and integrating com- munication in engineering courses. In 2012, she won an Apex Award for Excellence in
Paper ID #5769Alternate Pathways to Careers in Computing: Recruiting and Retaining WomenStudentsDr. Shaundra Bryant Daily, Clemson University Shaundra Daily is an Assistant Professor in the School of Computing at Clemson University. She received her doctorate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where her doctoral work involved designing and implementing technology-infused collaborative learning environments. Prior to her doctoral studies, she received a B.S. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University - Florida State University College of Engineering as well as a
engineering design careers and professionalengineering licensure. The debate has been accentuated by a comparison of these graduates tothose from baccalaureate civil engineering programs accredited by ABET’s EngineeringAccreditation Commission (EAC). This comparison has become more intense with theestablishment of the “Body of Knowledge” for civil engineering and the “Raise the Bar”initiative for professional licensure, with the associated BS + 30 requirement for licensureeligibility. ABET itself distinguishes between “technologists” who graduate from ABET/ETACaccredited baccalaureate programs and “engineers” who graduate from ABET/EAC programs.The objective of this study is to look at the preparedness and ability of graduates from one largecivil
impact an academic’s career including thepromotion and tenure process. These points are supported with anecdotal evidence gathered byprofessors with a range of clicker experience from first usage in a course to 25 years of use in avariety of classes.Much of our past work has been in the context of quantitative courses. Clicker use was recentlyexpanded to qualitative courses with very similar results. While some of the details aresomewhat different between the two types of courses, student support remained very strong.Finally, we suggest that one of the best reasons to use clickers is that they can make teaching alot more fun. Instead of focusing on covering a chapter’s worth of material, it is possible to focuson maximizing what students learn
the main focus of this polytechnic institute?The institute that is home to Idol focuses primarily on preparing students for successful careers,and most often hires instructors who bring prior industry experience to their teaching positionsalong with their academic credentials. Industry involvement with instructors, course materials,and collaboration with student projects is common and encouraged, so students get firsthandexperience with workplace standards and practices.For students, assignments and extracurricular activities that have clear links to their futureworking life make their courses more meaningful to them and more practical for the workplace.For instructors, this system demands time in keeping up to date on current industry
. Page 23.544.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Equipping an Army of Ambassadors: A Workshop Model for a STEM Career Speaker's BureauImmersed in a society that is dominated and driven by work, and vulnerable to social influencesof prestige and gender bias, children as young as five years of age begin to postulate what careerthey will one day have[1]. Young people tend to choose professions that are familiar[2], whethertraditions in their family, or professions that have been exposed to them through education andexperience.Most careers in STEM aren't quite as tangible and recognizable as say a teacher, fireman, orprofessional sports player[3, 4], and young women
experience designing water and wastewater treatment facilities in central California. He was the recipient of the NSF CAREER award in 2011. Dr. Brown’s research focuses on theoretical approaches to understanding why some engineering concepts are harder to learn than others, and how the concepts are embedded in contexts. Page 23.272.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 CAREER: Cognitive Models of Conceptual Understanding in Practicing Civil Engineers and Development of Situated Curricular MaterialsIntroduction Developing conceptual
Paper ID #6810Development of an Interview Protocol to Understand Engineering as a Ca-reer Choice for Appalachian YouthMrs. Cheryl Carrico PE, Virginia Tech Cheryl Carrico is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech. She holds a B.S. in Chemical Engineering, an M.E. in Mechanical Engineering, an M.BA, and is a licensed professional engineer. Ms. Carrico has over 20 years of experience in engineering practice and has work as an engineering manager for General Dynamics. In addition to research concerning career choices for Appalachian students, Cheryl supports several K-12 STEM outreach
Paper ID #6048A Robotics Summer Camp for High School Students: Pipelines ActivitiesPromoting Careers in Engineering FieldsDr. Mehmet Ayar, TUBITAK Dr. Mehmet C. Ayar is a scientific programs expert in the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK). He received his PhD. in Curriculum and Instruction with specialization in STEM education at Texas A&M University in 2012. His research is in ethnographic studies of science and engineering practice, curriculum development, design of learning environments and robotics activities. He offers a graduate course in METU on communities of practice. Dr. Ayar
Paper ID #6119Not All the Same: A Look at Early Career Engineers Employed in DifferentSub-OccupationsMs. Samantha Brunhaver, Stanford University Samantha Brunhaver is a fifth year graduate student at Stanford University. She is currently working on her Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering with a focus in engineering education. Samantha completed a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Northeastern University in 2008 and a M.S. in Mechanical Engineering with a focus in Design for Manufacturing from Stanford in 2010.Dr. Shannon Katherine Gilmartin, Stanford UniversityMichelle Marie Grau, Stanford University Michelle Grau is a senior
Paper ID #6290The Development of Critical Engineering Agency, Identity, and the Impacton Engineering Career ChoicesMs. Allison Godwin, Clemson UniversityDr. Geoff Potvin, Clemson UniversityProf. Zahra Hazari Page 23.1184.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 The Development of Critical Engineering Agency, Identity, and the Impact on Engineering Career ChoicesAbstractThe choice of an engineering discipline upon entrance to college is often a partly informeddecision. This paper explores the agency
Paper ID #6549Using Social Networking to Mentor 9th-grade Girls for Academic Successand Engineering Career AwarenessDr. Patricia Carlson, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Dr. Patricia ”Pat” A. Carlson is a transplanted middle westerner, having spent her childhood in Norfolk, Va. She came to Rose-Hulman early in her teaching career and has taught a variety of courses over the past three decades. Dr. Carlson has held a number of American Society for Engineering Education sum- mer fellowships that have taken her to NASA-Goddard, NASA-Langley, the Army Research Laboratory in Aberdeen, Maryland, and NASA’s Classroom of
Paper ID #6216A Lego-based Outreach Module Aimed at Promoting Advanced Manufactur-ing Careers to K-12 Students in the United StatesMr. Christopher Andrew Almodovar, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Christopher Almodovar is a mechanical engineering student of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute’s class of 2013.Mr. Kyle Mattson, Timken Kyle Mattson graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 2011 with a Bachelor’s of Science in Mechanical Engineering and again in 2012 with a Master’s of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering. Both degrees were focused in manufacturing. He started with Timken, a bearing and power
American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Pilot Study: An Exploration of the Experiences that Influence Women’s Interest, Pursuit, and Continued Involvement in STEM CareersAbstractWhile longitudinal studies that examine the effects of personal and environmental factors onwomen’s career motivation have been reported in the literature [1] [2], none have provideddepth or breadth of biographical interviewing over the time span of the last two decades. Manyintersecting variables have been identified by empirical research to account for women’scontinued underrepresentation in STEM careers, yet persistence, especially in computer scienceand engineering, remains an issue. Recent studies [3] [4
survey, conducted in 2011, of 6772 studentsenrolled at 50 colleges and universities in the U.S. By identifying students intending to major ineight different disciplines (bio-, chemical, civil, electrical/computer, environmental,industrial/systems, materials, and mechanical engineering), we show how student goals, valuesand self-perceptions differ. Regression analysis is used to study how the likelihood of enteringone of these eight disciplines is associated to career outcome expectations, students' self-beliefsaround their science, physics, and math identities, and constructs measuring their personal andglobal science agency.Results indicate that students intending to major in engineering show substantial inter-disciplinary distinctions in the
chemistry majors. We comparedresponses of the chemical engineering students with these two disparate groups respectively toidentify differences in high school experiences, attitudes, and backgrounds using t-tests for linearvariables, Wilcoxon rank-sum tests for Likert-type questions, and chi-square tests fordichotomous variables.Chemical engineering students show uniqueness in their career goals when compared to bothengineers as well as chemistry majors. For example, they differ significantly from otherengineers in their prior chemistry experiences, problem solving strategies, and their scienceidentity. Chemical engineers are almost indistinguishable from chemistry students in their highschool science experiences and academic preparedness except
Teaching About Electricity Gabriella J. Ducamp and Crystal J. DeJaegher University of Virginia Page 23.731.2INCORPORATING ENGINEERING IN MIDDLE SCHOOL SCIENCE 2 AbstractThe overarching goals of this study are to introduce engineering concepts to middle schoolstudents through digital fabrication, and increase science competency while stimulating interestin STEM careers. This pilot study incorporates digital fabrication, engineering design, andvisualizations into a comprehensive unit that integrates hardware
cancalculate their speed. They compare this value to what they estimated earlier.Evaluation of the ProgramLiz – here we should add a short discussion of what we did forassessment (and is in appendix)-assessment plan-assessment questions for curriculum leaders – I did take out the results of this, but did leave inthe questions-assessment questions for participants-final assessment reportIn post-weekend surveys given to the attendees, most indicate that the program has given them adeeper understanding of STEM fields. 100% of them agree that people in engineering or physicswork with others to solve problems, and that someone who studies engineering would have manypossible careers. In the physics analysis of the ropes course, students’ work showed that
Paper ID #6061Getting Engineering Students to Stay the CourseMr. Robert Silverstein, University of California, Los Angeles Robert Silverstein is president of management consulting firm The Brentwood Kensington Group, Inc. Mr. Silverstein founded BKG after a long and successful career as an executive leader in defense, aerospace, technology and the U.S. Government. Mr. Silverstein served as the vice president of Ad- vanced Design and Business Development for the highly classified Northrop Grumman B-2 Bomber Pro- gram and later as the vice president and general manager of the corporation’s electronics divisions in
, andsupported a total of 96 GK-12 Fellows. A study was conducted to investigate the long-termimpact of participating in the program on the GK-12 Fellows. In 2011, former Fellows werecontacted and asked to take an online survey about their program experience, and how it affectedtheir career path after graduation. The majority of survey respondents indicated that they felt theGK-12 experience had a large or very large impact on their career path. The time spent activelyteaching in classrooms led to large impacts on teaching, communication, and presentation skills.In addition, other skills such as leadership, teamwork, and time management were also reportedto have been improved. Participants ranked teaching K-12 students – the primary activity in theGK-12
, read books, take children to museums, and interact with their child on adaily basis. Background knowledge of a particular subject, such as science orengineering, has the ability to affect how they interact with their children potentiallyimpacting what main concepts the children will learn1. However, many adults andchildren alike have a minimal understanding of engineering5.Several empirical studies have shown that parents play a significant role in theoccupational aspiration and career goal development of their children6-8 and that a child’sinterest is significantly impacted by the parent’s viewpoint9,10. Magnuson and Starr(2000) asserted that preschoolers’ knowledge about occupations and perceptions aboutthe world of work are shaped by the
Paper ID #5798Impact of Student Tours of Manufacturing FacilitiesDr. Marilyn Barger, National Science Foundation ATE Centers Dr. Marilyn Barger is the principal investigator and executive director of FLATE, the Florida Regional Center of Excellence for Advanced Technological Education. FLATE is funded by the National Sci- ence Foundation and has been housed at Hillsborough Community College in Tampa, Florida since 2004. FLATE serves the state of Florida and is involved in outreach and recruitment of students into techni- cal career pathway; has produced award-winning curriculum design and reform for secondary and post
Paper ID #6565Bending Moments to Business Models: Integrating an Entrepreneurship CaseStudy as Part of Core Mechanical Engineering CurriculumDr. Mark Schar, Stanford University MARK SCHAR works in the Center for Design Research - Designing Education Lab at Stanford Univer- sity. He is also a member of the Symbiotic Project of Affective Neuroscience Lab at Stanford University and a Lecturer in the School of Engineering. Dr. Schar’s area of research is ”pivot thinking” which is the intersection of design thinking and the neuroscience of choice where he has several research projects underway. He has a 30 year career in
formalcooperative education, internships and research experiences for undergraduates, leads toenhanced self-efficacy, augmented learning, and an increased likelihood of retention, particularlyamong minority students who are historically under-represented in engineering. Self-efficacy,defined as the confidence built on one's prior experiences, has been shown to contribute tostudents' success in undergraduate engineering programs. The current study proceeds to furtherexplore the self-efficacy of three racial/ethnic groups of students, (Caucasian, Asian, andBlack/Hispanic) in terms of three domains, (1) the work environment, (2) career development,and (3) academic success. Multiple discriminant analysis was used to study the separation of thethree groups and
Faculty’s Mentoring Networks Abstract Research on mentoring has expanded from examination of traditional mentor-protégédyads to developmental mentoring networks.20,37 In these network approaches, the emphasis ison a constellation of career developmental and personally supportive relationships to designcareer experiences for focal individuals and to respond to the issues that these focal individuals,or mentees, express.1,15 To study engineering women faculty’ career experiences, we examinetheir egocentric mentoring networks,29 that is, the individuals’ self-reported linkages betweenthemselves (i.e., “ego” or hub of the network) and career developmental “nodes”/mentors. Weuse a mixed methodological
innovative STEM educationprograms designed in part to increase student attitudes toward STEM subjects and careers. Thispaper describes how a team of researchers at The Friday Institute for Educational Innovation atNorth Carolina State University developed the Upper Elementary School and Middle/HighSchool Student Attitudes toward STEM (S-STEM) Surveys to measure those attitudes. Thesurveys each consist of four, validated constructs which use Likert-scale items to measurestudent attitudes toward science, mathematics, engineering and technology, 21st century skills.The surveys also contain a comprehensive section measuring student interest in STEM careers.The surveys have been administered to over 10,000 fourth through twelfth grade students inNorth
the areas of recruitment and retention. A SWE and ASEE Fellow, she is a frequent speaker on career opportunities and diversity in engineering.Dr. Armando A. Rodriguez, Arizona State University Prior to joining the ASU Electrical Engineering faculty in 1990, Dr. Armando A. Rodriguez worked at MIT, IBM, AT&T Bell Laboratories and Raytheon Missile Systems. He has also consulted for Eglin Air Force Base, Boeing Defense and Space Systems, Honeywell and NASA. He has published over 200 tech- nical papers in refereed journals and conference proceedings – over 60 with students. He has authored three engineering texts on classical controls, linear systems, and multivariable control. Dr. Rodriguez has given over 70