side of the vehicle (right). Figure 1: Innovative design – Iraq 2010Experiences such as these provide the problem-solving basis for pursuing and excelling at highlytechnical degrees. This innovative problem-solving fits nicely into Mumford’s[9] model ofLeader Characteristics on Leader Performance (Figure 2). Mumford’s model provides the linkbetween one’s environmental influences, career experiences, and personal and socialcharacteristics in determining their problem-solving ability and performance. Figure 2: Mumford, et. al.’s Influence of Characteristics on Performance[9]Applying this model to the veteran, we assert that the complex military environment as well asthe sometimes near-life-and-death
first-quarter seminars, which all incoming CS/M Scholars are re-quired to take, and a first course in computer programming taken togetherby most CS/M Scholars in their second quarter, a entire cohort is not likelyto take a class together again. To preserve connections among the cohort,we arrange a get-together each month of the academic year. These eventsrange from purely social gatherings to panel discussions with a career focus.We list some examples of our monthly get-togethers below. • A welcoming potluck exclusively for CS/M Scholars. This is where the continuing CS/M Scholars meet the new cohort. To encourage partic- ipation of the first year students, it is the faculty, staff and continuing scholars who volunteer to make
theemployers and clients, the Professional Engineers shall act in professional manners as faithfulagents or trustees for each employer or client. However, in this practice, the engineers areexpected to exhibit the highest standards of honesty, integrity, fairness and impartiality inprotecting the public health and safety in delivering professional services. To that end, engineersmust perform their professional duties in compliance with the highest principles of ethicalconduct. The Civil Engineering graduates, through their careers, will be involved in working inteams or managing projects where decision making will often be an inevitable part of theirresponsibilities. Therefore, there is an emerging need within the engineering education curriculaacross
leaders duringtheir undergraduate and/or graduate education experience. To do so, we apply a theoreticalmodel, Organized Innovation, to the design of engineering education. This model is based on ourdecade-long study of the National Science Foundation-funded (NSF) Engineering ResearchCenter (ERC) Program, which has witnessed great success in graduating science and engineeringleaders over the past three decades. In the pages that follow, we first briefly illuminate the impetus for engineers to learnleadership skills, and why this is particularly valuable early in one’s career. Then, we outline thesuccess the ERC Program has enjoyed in developing science and engineering leaders. Third, wedescribe our research methods that led to our
. Entrepreneurial experience (Creed, Suuberg, & Crawford, 2002), leadership skills(Nerad et al., 2009), the ability to adapt to and manage shifting goals (McCook, 2011), andexperience collaborating with individuals outside their disciplines could enhance contributions ofnewly graduated scientists and engineers (Etzkowitz et al., 2000; Gilbert, Balatti, Turner, &Whitehouse, 2004; Gilbert, Balatti, Turner, & Whitehouse, 2004; Taylor, 2011). Focus groupsconducted with PhD students in STEM fields found that there is wide variability in perceptionsof career preparedness and this is highly dependent on their PhD advisor, and/or the culture andnorms of their labs or academic departments (Wheadon & Duval-Couetil, 2014).To achieve their
students to engineering, theyare not always equally effective for all populations at inspiring these students to considerengineering as a possible career path.38 Outreach activities that promote negative stereotypesregarding engineers or the profession can be counterproductive to encouraging females to pursueengineering.43-47 A 2008 report published by the National Academy of Engineering summarizesa two-year project that used market research in an effort to improve the public image of theengineering profession. Results of this project showed that messages emphasizing the connectionbetween engineering, creativity, ideas and human welfare and that show engineering as apersonally rewarding career are more effective in attracting students
defining STEM integration and investigating its power for student learning. Tamara Moore received an NSF Early CAREER award in 2010 and a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) in 2012. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Students’ Use of Evidence-Based Reasoning in K-12 Engineering: A Case Study (Fundamental)It is well known that the United States is concerned about the low numbers of students preparedfor careers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), which is necessary toremain internationally competitive1,2. As a result, improving STEM education in precollegesettings has become a focal point because not only
women’s and LGBTQ+ individuals’opportunities for co-constructing positive gender and engineering identities. 11Such marginalizing influences of the technical/social dualism brought Faulkner to posit that theheterosexist ideology underpinning the dualism must be destabilized in order to broadenopportunities in engineering for women and gender-nonconforming populations includingmembers of the LGBTQ+ community. 11 Despite this call for challenging such heterosexism,much research drawing on Faulkner’s 2000 article minimally disrupts the mapping fromtechnical/social to heteronormative masculinity/femininity in exploring engineering as agendered discipline and career. 11,12 Only a small subset of this research examines gender issuesin relation to
Paper ID #14976Transforming the Culture of Internship Experiences through Social LearningCommunitiesDr. Lisa Massi, University of Central Florida Dr. Lisa Massi is the Director of Operations Analysis for Accreditation, Assessment, & Data Adminis- tration in the College of Engineering & Computer Science at the University of Central Florida. She is Co-PI of two NSF-funded S-STEM grants and program evaluator for two NSF-funded REU programs. Her research interests include factors that impact student persistence and career development in the STEM fields.Ms. Jenna Christie-Tabron, University of Central Florida Ms
Engineering Mentoring from the White House; the 2008 Hewlett-Packard/Harriett B. Rigas Award from the IEEE Education Society; the 2013 Distinguished Educator Award from the ASEE Electrical and Computer Engineering Division; and was named an IEEE Fellow in 2014. Dr. Schrader earned her B.S. in electrical engineering from Valparaiso University, and her M.S. and Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of Notre Dame. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Listening and NegotiationAbstractNegotiation is an important skill for faculty at all stages of their career, but one that researchsuggests is often uncomfortable for women faculty to employ. This paper
universitylevel.The number of students who complete the required courses in high school, pursue STEMdegrees, and graduate with STEM degrees, demonstrate that ANSEP is successful at encouragingAlaska Native students to consider STEM degrees, pursue STEM degrees, persist in STEMdegrees, and pursue STEM careers upon graduation11–14. Because of this success, ANSEPPrecollege component participants were the focus of this study. ANSEP is a longitudinal STEMeducation and academic enrichment model that works with Alaskan students starting in middleschool through doctoral degrees and subsequent professional endeavors11–14. ANSEP targets therecruitment of Alaska Native students, but it does not discriminate, so all students are welcometo apply to attend ANSEP
extracurricular activities as an opportunity to gain further hands onexperience and knowledge about subjects that relate more to the real world. For example, Jimmysuggested he was eventually interested in joining the Engineering Car Racing team because hewas simply interested in learning more about how cars work and function. Beyond learning,Jimmy did not see too much value in extracurricular activities. Because he expected thatengineering companies would be more intently focused on his grades when considering him forinternships or future careers, Jimmy designated that he intends to prioritize his studies rather thaninvolving himself in extracurricular activities. This decision seems to align well with Jimmy’searlier assertion that responsibility and
increase confidence thatthese students can study and enter STEM fields.In addition to the course specific lectures and laboratory work, the Summer STEM Program includedseveral seminars and workshops for all sections to teach students about patent law, technical writing andpresentation skills, college admissions, and careers in engineering and STEM. There was also a generalmid-way assembly featuring a panel on Women in STEM and inclusion.Literature ReviewTeaching the engineering design process with a project based course can be a good introductionto engineering concepts for high school students. From the Next Generation Science Standards(NGSS) on engineering design, “students are expected to be able to define problems – situationsthat people wish
Clemson University. Her research interests focus on social factors affecting the recruitment, retention, and career development of underrepresented students in engineering. Dr. Martin is a 2009 NSF CAREER awardee for her research entitled, ”Influence of Social Capital on Under-Represented Engineering Students Academic and Career Decisions.” She held an American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Science and Technology Policy Fellowship in 2012-2013, with a placement at the National Science Foundation. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Cross-Disciplinary Teamwork During an Undergraduate Student Project: Results To DateAbstractThis
doso, creating a gap in the supply and demand. The Hazardous Materials Management program andEmergency Management Technology program at Jackson State University have introduced aunique opportunity to bring students into the nuclear profession.This project is a cooperative effort of Jackson State University, Alcorn State University, andMississippi Valley State University. We have developed three new courses, one lab module, anda virtual reality training program, and revised four existing courses. These efforts can promoteand encourage students to pursue careers in the nuclear field as well as ensure that they canbetter understand the problems of dealing with nuclear safety and problems related tonuclear/radiation emergency preparedness and
and Trends for the Development”. She also received additional minor degrees in Management (1998) and Psychology (1999) in Kazan State Technological University. Julia joined the team of Kazan State Technological University as an instructor at the Department of For- eign Languages and the School of Foreign Languages ”Lingua” in 1999 and was rapidly promoted to the position of Associate Professor at the Department of Foreign Languages in 2003. Her teaching career was perfectly balanced by the experience of a translator and an interpreter. She is a well-known person at Kazan international conferences and other events for her high quality consecutive and simultaneous interpreting, such as interpreting for the
underrepresentation of women (in particular, women of lowsocio-economic status) in engineering careers by studying the impact of an arts-infusedengineering intervention in the middle grades. Engineering, like the other STEM (Science,Technology, Engineering and Math) fields, has traditionally been perceived as a male domain,whereas the arts and humanities have traditionally been viewed as more “feminine” fields. 1These stereotypes have been increasingly challenged, including by studies that show girls earnhigher grades than boys in all subject areas, at all stages of their K-12 schooling. 2 Yet, in thepost-secondary realm, males continue to dominate the STEM fields in terms of educationaldegrees earned and career paths. This phenomenon has been attributed to
Paper ID #15511”Patenting” a New Engineering Librarian at an American University in theUAEMrs. Amani Magid, New York University Abu Dhabi Amani Magid has a degree in Integrative Biology and a minor in Arabic from University of California, Berkeley. In her career as a scientist, she has worked as a researcher in Pharmaceutical Chemistry and managed biology lab classes at a community college. She soon realized her passion was in finding and locating science information and earned her Masters in Library and Information Science at University of Pittsburgh while interning at Bayer Material Science Library. She worked in Qatar for
CommunityChange is hard, a truism that can be highlighted in engineering education in many ways. Themomentum of engineering education in traditional forms, and even the experiences of people inprofessional careers, is hard to shift, but many have tried.1 One can argue that the shift toABET’s EC2000 outcomes-based assessment was meant to serve as a change agent, but after adecade of implementation, engineering education looked pretty much the same. Small changesin programs sometimes stuck, and sometimes programs faded back to the way they were beforeany interventions were attempted. With the idea that maybe things could be different, thatmaybe change could last, a group of engineering educators got together to imagine what anengineering program could look
directly observable neurological foundations inthe human brain [14], [15], may serve as a more ubiquitous approach to engaging prospectivestudents in computing than other domains. For example, recent research has suggested that forAfrican-Americans, music is such an activity [16], [17]. A recent study of the occupationalinterests of 22,000 teenagers, for instance, found that African-American males were about half aslikely to be interested in computer programming careers than white males but a third more likelyto be interested in musical careers than white males. The same trend was found in otherunderrepresented groups as well; girls, for instance, were more than 40% more interested inmusical careers than in computer programming [18].To change the
often than their non-PLTW female counterparts (17%)11. Overall, studies have shown thatexposure to PLTW has a positive influence on student math and science achievement, careerinterest, motivation, and future career choice12.Though these studies show impact, females are not enrolling in PLTW programs at high rates.Therefore, efforts are needed to remove environmental factors that inhibit women’s participationin PLTW and traditionally male-dominated areas.All-Female CohortsRecently, several all-female cohorts have popped up in Ohio, Georgia, Florida, Alaska andTexas13,14,15. Though not widely known, these efforts have been enlisted to significantly increasethe number of women entering IED and Electronics courses through PLTW. In 2011
the focus on instructors’ behaviors, interviews with the instructorsmay have been helpful to understand the intention of instructors’ behaviors.Example 3 – Re-analysis of Interviews for a New Research PurposeIn our third example, we present how another graduate student identified the interview data fromthe PBL data set as useful for his research needs and utilized it as a central component of hisdissertation research. The researcher was investigating the career goals that undergraduatestudents have, and how those students use their career goals to make choices in the present[16]. Inchoosing a data set for this research question, the researcher had to consider whether aperspective data set contained students discussing their post-graduation
Paper ID #14520Informal Learning in EngineeringDr. Aditya Johri, George Mason University Aditya Johri is Associate Professor in the Department of Information Sciences and Technology at George Mason University. Dr. Johri studies the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) for learning and knowledge sharing, with a focus on cognition in informal environments. He also examine the role of ICT in supporting distributed work among globally dispersed workers and in furthering social development in emerging economies. He received the U.S. National Science Foundation’s Early Career Award in 2009. He is co-editor
Currently a professor of Mathematics at Brigham Young University, where he has served on the faculty since 2005. He received his Ph.D. > in Mathematics from Indiana University in 2002 and was an Arnold Ross Assistant Professor at The Ohio State University from 2002-2005. Since then, he has won several grants from the National Science Foundation, including a CAREER award in 2009. His current research interests are in nonlinear and stochastic dynamical systems, numerical analysis and scientific computing, healthcare analytics, actuarial science, and network science. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Modeling across the Curriculum: A SIAM-NSF initiative
Paper ID #16109Using Mentors as Live Case Studies for Teaching Topics in Supply ChainManagementAimee T. Ulstad, Ohio State University Aimee Ulstad, P.E is an Associate Professor of Practice in the Integrated Systems Engineering Department at The Ohio State University. Prior to joining the faculty at Ohio State, Aimee was an industry professional in various field in engineering for over 30 years. Aimee received her degrees in Mechanical Engineering and Masters in Business Administration from Ohio State. She began her career as a packaging equipment engineer at Procter and Gamble, then moved to Anheuser-Busch where she
amentor. The advantage to assigning all new students a mentor is that students who do not feelcomfortable asking for help, or who do not initially perceive a need for mentoring, have readyaccess to a mentor when a need arises.Mentor Recruitment and BenefitsPeer mentors are recruited on a volunteer-only basis and are unpaid, which is different fromsome other programs that may provide a salary, stipend, or other financial compensation. Thepeer mentor program uses forms of non-monetary compensation and benefits, such as mentor-specific training and access to exclusive events and activities. For example, the mentorsbenefited from a private resume workshop presented by Career Services in the week leading upto the College of Engineering Career Fair
. In addition, she is currently assisting the faculty in the School of Chemical Engineering with the metabolic engineering and flux analysis of photosynthetic organisms.Miss Melissa Loren Ullmer, Purdue University, West Lafayette Melissa Ullmer is a fourth year student at Purdue University pursuing an bachelors of science in Biomedi- cal Engineering. She grew up in Kokomo, IN. Currently she serves as the ”Diversity Chair” of the Purdue Women in Engineering Leadership Team to aid international students during their college careers. Her other activities include serving on the Leadership Team of the Innovation to Reality team which teaches middle school students about engineering, serving as a member of Timmy Global
Paper ID #17216Can a Five-Minute, Three-Question Survey Foretell First-Year EngineeringStudent Performance and Retention?Stephanie M. Gratiano, Roger Williams University Stephanie Gratiano is a Junior Undergraduate Mechanical Engineering student at Roger Williams Uni- versity. She is an officer of both the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) and Engineers Without Borders (EWB) Chapters at the university. Her future career interests include Product Design or Mechanical Design, and she wishes to further her education in Industrial Design after graduating.Dr. William John Palm IV P.E., Roger Williams University
recognized there was a ‘common thread’ between skills required for anengineering career in industry and those exhibited in the athletic experience. We utilized twoassessment tools, the Klein Group Instrument for Effective Leadership and Participation inTeams (KGI)® and the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)®, to guide our leadership trainingmodel.Our objective was to execute a pilot program at our university to gain insight to the followingquestions. Can our model inspire significant leadership development for the engineering students, using the KGI and MBTI instruments, in this extracurricular environment? Do the students see relevant connections between their leadership actions on the football team and in their engineering program
Mexico, Drake State Technical College, and Chandler-Gilbert Community Col- lege. The award focused on expanding outreach activities to increase the awareness of potential college students about career opportunities in electronics technologies. Dr. Alaraje is a member of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), a member of the ASEE Electrical and Computer Engineer- ing Division, a member of the ASEE Engineering Technology Division, a senior member of the Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers (IEEE), and a member of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology Department Heads Association (ECETDHA).Prof. Scott A Kuhl, Michigan Technological University Scott Kuhl is an Associate Professor