support services could impact retentionrates for both male and female students. Self-efficacy, defined as the perceived degree of self-confidence a person feels towards their ability to complete a given task 2, was predicted toexplain why participation in cooperative education improves retention in engineering fields. Theprior study discussed three main measures of self-efficacy for engineering students; academicself-efficacy, work self-efficacy, and career self-efficacy. Academic success was shown toenhance an individual’s self-efficacy in this area while cooperative education was the maininfluence on work self-efficacy for students who participate in these programs and finally, allforms of self-efficacy were enhanced by academic support.3The
pathway through engineering prepares aworkforce of secondary teachers capable of high-level teaching in multiple STEM subjects—either engineering coupled with science (biology, chemistry or physics), or engineering coupledwith mathematics. These engineers are motivated and inspired to pursue two career routesbecause they find value in, and passion for, both professions. The teacher licensure pathwaythrough engineering fosters students that develop engineering mindsets alongside theircommitments to give back through secondary teaching.The research reported in this paper investigates if and how students in the engineering plus (e+)teaching pathway, CU Teach Engineering, identify themselves as both engineering and teachingstudents, and what benefits
Paper ID #15756Becoming Boundary Spanning Engineers: Research Methods and Prelimi-nary FindingsProf. Brent K. Jesiek, Purdue University, West Lafayette Dr. Brent K. Jesiek is Associate Professor in the Schools of Engineering Education and Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University. He is also an Associate Director of Purdue’s Office of Global Engineering Programs, leads the Global Engineering Education Collaboratory (GEEC) research group, and is the recipient of an NSF CAREER award to study boundary-spanning roles and competencies among early career engineers. He holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from
director of the Nonlinear and Autonomous Systems Laboratory (NASLab). She is a recipient of 2015 National Science Foundation CAREER award and 2015 Office of Naval Research YIP award.Dr. Mo Rastgaar, Michigan Technological University Mo Rastgaar received the Ph.D. degree in mechanical engineering from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, USA, in 2008. He is currently an Associate Professor in mechanical engineering and the Director of the Human-Interactive Robotics Lab. His present research focuses on assistive robots by characterizing the agility in the human gait. Dr. Rastgaar is a recipient of 2014 NSF CAREER Award.Saeedeh Ziaeefard, Michigan Technological University Saeedeh
Enrichment Program for incoming engineering freshmen and, in the past, the HEARD (Higher Education Awareness Response in Delaware) Project, a college awareness program, funded by the Department of Education through Philadelphia GEAR UP for College Network. Globally in the College, he manages academic programs and policies that impact the careers of all engineering students at both the undergraduate and graduate level. Dean Vaughan is focused on enhancing the College’s student/faculty interface by fostering c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Paper ID #16743 successful academic and
Paper ID #17396Approaches to Entrepreneurship and Leadership Development at an Engi-neering UniversityMrs. Galina Burylina, Kazan National Research Technological UniversityDr. Phillip Albert Sanger, Purdue University - West Lafayette Dr. Sanger is a professor in the School of Engineering Technology in the College of Technology of Purdue University. His focus and passion is real world, industry based, senior capstone experiences both domes- tically and internationally. He has successfully developed this area at Purdue and at Western Carolina University. Prior to his career in academia, Dr. Sanger had a successful 30 year
would attend college. o Participants were very positive about their chances of excelling in a STEM career. o When it came to speaking positively about the rocket program experience, 45% of the total scored the experience a 100, on a 100-point scale. • In a comparison of program means across all administrations of similar questionnaires, the responses yielded similar high results. High positive ratings in the fall may be an indication that students have high expectations for the program at the start of the year. This may mask actual learning effects. • From the open-ended questions, it appears that participants love the notion of learning from failure. • Additionally, in
safety.Kwaku Frimpong Boakye, University of Tennessee - Knoxville Kwaku Frimpong Boakye is a graduate research assistant at the University of Tennessee pursuing a Ph.D. program in Transportation Engineering. His research area focuses on traffic and highway safety or risk analyses. He also has the passion of working with pre-collegiate students motivating them to consider careers in STEM programs in college. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 An Overview and Preliminary Assessment of a Summer Transportation Engineering Education Program (STEEP) for Ninth GradersAbstractA summer educational and experiential learning program for
confident I can do an excellent job on thetests in my courses for my major.” This indicates that female students are confident in theirability to understand the basic material presented to them; but they lack confidence in theirability to excel on areas of more difficult tasks and tests.Motivational factorsStudents were asked to consider five items of motivational factors and indicate to what level - ona five-point Likert scale - each of those factors played a role in selecting their major (Table 3).Overall the distribution of answers across the five items was fairly even (M=3.45, SD=0.121).Four of the five factors were identified as playing “some” (3) to “quite a bit” (4) of a role inselecting their major. The top three slots were more career
stereotyping predictions [11]. Gottfredson’s Theory ofCircumscription and Compromise 12] notes that career choice is often an effort for an individualto prescribe themselves into a social order; social elements such as gender, affluence, andintelligence often play a key part in career selection. Interestingly Gottfredson’s research alsonoted that at a very young age, youths begin associating prospective career options with genderand furthermore that gender appropriateness for career choice was a significant motivating factorin later years [13]. Additional research by Glick, Wilk, and Perreault [16] further bolsteredGottfredson’s position noting that when asked to define attributes for specified jobs universitystudents commonly listed gender as the
to Engineering with ChristianWorldview. In EGR101, students formed teams and worked on various engineering projects. Inthe beginning of October, about a month into their freshman year, these engineering studentswere already able to present their Nao robot projects to the public at events such as the Scienceand Technology Education Partnership (STEP) conference, and Long Night of Arts andInnovation of Riverside. Thousands of people showed up at these events and our engineeringstudents had the opportunity to share their passion in engineering, encouraged the children towork hard on their math and science, and made them aware that STEM field career can be funusing the example of designing robots and programming them. More importantly, the
on her mentoring of students, especially women and underrepresented minority students, and her research in the areas of recruitment and retention. A SWE Fellow 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
Paper ID #14814The Development of a Measure of Engineering IdentityDr. Allison Godwin, Purdue University, West Lafayette Allison Godwin, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of Engineering Education at Purdue University. Her research focuses what factors influence diverse students to choose engineering and stay in engineering through their careers and how different experiences within the practice and culture of engineering foster or hinder belongingness and identity development. Dr. Godwin graduated from Clemson University with a B.S. in Chemical Engineering and Ph.D. in Engineering and Science Education. She is the recipient of
plans on pursuing a career in the automotive industry or manufacturing industry.Dr. John William Bridge, University of Washington, Bothell Dr. John Bridge, P.E. Dr. Bridge is a former Lt. Colonel and mechanical engineer in the U.S. Air Force with over twenty years of R&D experience with numerous aerospace vehicles to include aircraft and rocket systems. In addition, he has performed advanced materials characterization while in the mil- itary and at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. He has previous teaching experience at several institutions to include Bowdoin College, the U.S. Air Force Academy, and the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. Dr. Bridge is currently working with composite materials used in
Technology (BCET) at ODU. His research has focused mostly on control systems (integration and testing) and the reliability and maintainability of complex systems. He has been selected as both a NASA and an ONR Faculty Fellow. He regularly teaches courses in Ma- rine Engineering and in Maintained Systems. Most recently Dr. Dean was on the Headquarters Staff the American Society of Naval Engineers. He received his Ph.D. from the Department of Engineering Management and Systems Engineering, and a B.S. in Nuclear Engineering Technology, from the Batten College of Engineering and Technology at Old Dominion University. Additionally, Dr. Dean received an MBA from the College of William and Mary. Prior to is academic career Dr
information.5 Finally, sequentiallearners tend to learn as the material is being presented in the classroom, whereas global learnerstend to struggle seeing the larger picture while learning new material. 5,6 Understanding thetypes of learning styles that students can have can help professors better align their classroomswith the students so that the students are successful.Teaching Styles in the ClassroomMaximum retention and understanding of the subject matter can be obtained when the teachingstyles of the professors match the learning styles of the students.7 Often, students are taught thematerial and tested on the material with little to no application to the real-world career paths.8Inductive and deductive teaching styles are the two overarching
engineering at a much higher ratethan men1,2. The Society of Women Engineers (SWE)3 reported that less than half of men leaveengineering, while two thirds of women leave the profession. Fouad, et al. completed alongitudinal study that included surveying 5,562 women who graduated with a bachelor’s degreein engineering1. The women that had obtained engineering degrees were sorted into threecategories: those that did not pursue a career in engineering after graduation (10% of the womensurveyed), those that left the engineering profession (27%), and those that stayed (60%) (doesnot equal 100% because of rounding)1. Although the absolute percentages reported by SWE andFouad, et al. are quite different; the relative percentages of women leaving the
retention is a challenge for all students, it isparticularly apparent for women and minority students whose representation in engineeringdecreases at every education and career milestone.1,2 As a result, women and minorities stillmake up a small fraction of those earning engineering degrees. At our institution, a publicuniversity in the state of Colorado, the undergraduate population is about 20% women and 8%underrepresented minorities (compared to 20% and 11% nationally). Moreover, only about 15%of practicing civil engineers in some subdisciplines, like structural engineering, are women.3 Incontrast, women now make up over 30% of lawyers and physicians, and over 70% ofpsychologists. Since no evidence exists that significant gender or racial
howwomen consider leaving a job and in some cases, exit engineering altogether. A 'chilly' climatehas often been implicated as a primary or contributing reason for these exit decisions and hasbeen classified in the literature under such descriptors as a hostile or macho work culture,mysterious pathways to career advancement, and extreme work pressures. This study expands onthese previous studies by (a) emphasizing the engineering workplace experiences of millennialsin order to understand whether these chilly climate conditions have evolved over time or aretending to persist into the next generation; and (b) studying men as well as women to gain deeperinsight into which negative working conditions tend to occur across gender and which may begender
. 1faculty responses in annual faculty advisor surveys in 2012 (21 faculty advisors; 13 responses),2013 (16 faculty advisors; 9 responses), 2014 (13 faculty advisors; 11 responses), and 2015 (19faculty advisors; 6 responses). Our study is identifying themes in the student responsesregarding their self-identified benefits and outcomes, and themes in the faculty responsesregarding the benefits and outcomes of the students. Our approach is to categorize the benefitsaccording to the rubric2 of Seymour et al. (2003), namely: (i) Personal/professional; (2)Thinking and working like a scientist; (3) Skills; (4) Clarification, confirmation, andrefinement of career/education goals; (5) Enhanced career/graduate school preparation; (6)Changes in attitudes
College and as a Career and Technology Education teacher. Kris earned a B.S. in Management from Clemson University, a Masters of Arts in Teaching in Business Education from the University of South Carolina, and an Ed.D. in Curriculum and Instruction with an emphasis in Educational Technology and online learning from the University of Florida. Her research interests include implementation of digital learning solutions in technical and vocational education, development of career pathways utilizing stackable certificates, educator professional develop- ment in communities of practice, and analysis of economic development and industry factors impacting education and workforce development. She is a licensed South
engineering ethics, researchin an academic setting, and graduate education opportunities and application process. Thefreshman year programs implemented showed success in recruiting students for the S-STEMprogram, and can serve as a model for other undergraduate programs looking to enrich theexperiences of their undergraduates by providing a comprehensive, supportive, and career-relevant environment inside and outside of the classroom.1. IntroductionEngineering education is constantly evolving and changing to meet the current and projectedneeds of the engineering profession. In 2010 1 the National Society of Professional Engineers(NSPE) released a position statement proposing additional undergraduate engineering outcomes:Leadership, Risk and
communities at BRCC initially consisted of students at BRCC who would meet in theSTEM Conference Room, the BRCC library, and off-campus to study together. Currently, formallearning communities have been created for calculus, physics, trigonometry, circuits, statics, andbiology where students can come for homework assistance and ask general questions aboutcourse content. In addition to help with their coursework, students in the STEM Division alsoreported that they needed more information on STEM careers. Therefore, a BRCC STEMmagazine was created via Flipboard where they found articles already written in career journalsand popular magazines and flipped them into our magazine. The link to the magazine wasdistributed via email to students enrolled in
engineering discipline in addition to starting to apply forinternship and co-op opportunities. The camp first introduces students to the department throughfacilities tours and engagement with faculty and upperclassmen. During these facultyengagement sessions the students have an opportunity to meet their courses’ instructors, whooffer tips for success and answer questions before any coursework begins. Upperclassmen serveas student mentors during the camp, offering informal advice and support. The camp also servesas a point of contact between students and local industry representatives recruiting intern and co-op candidates. These local industry representatives offer valuable career-formation advice to thestudents by hosting resume review and mock
electric utilities and producers of goods ranging from semiconductor chips to potato chips. He earned BS, MS and PhD degrees in the School of Engineering at Stanford and is a registered Professional Engineer. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016Title: Advancing Training Pathways for the Renewable Energy WorkforceAbstract: Renewable energy careers are emerging at an unprecedented pace and skill setsassociated with energy technology cut across both traditional and emerging industries. Energyproduction, distribution, infrastructure support, and consumption are significant components ofNorthwest Washington’s economic and workforce development. Given these trends, BellinghamTechnical College (BTC
, engineers, and mathematicians to the southern Utahregion. Since its inception in 2012, S-STEM program participants majoring in science,engineering, and mathematics disciplines have engaged in an interdisciplinary learningcommunity that has included faculty mentorship, peer mentorship, undergraduate researchopportunities, and career and graduate school workshops. Participants have been awarded $5000scholarships per school year, which have allowed many to decrease their extracurricularemployment responsibilities and increase their focus on their studies. These engagement andfinancial benefits have supported a population of students whom the university has traditionallystruggled to retain. The program’s goals are currently being met, and the program
, significantly improved student retention, motivation and satisfaction of theengineering curriculum6.We report on the initial and continuous development of a two-quarter first-year engineeringcourse titled Introduction to Engineering, spanning Fall and Winter quarters, to provide studentsa basic understanding of the engineering design principles and various disciplines. In addition,the concepts of product development, project management, technical communication, teamworkand professional development are integrated into the course simulating “real-world” scenarios tobetter prepare our students for career paths in industry. An additional component focused onentrepreneurship was integrated in the course during the Winter quarter.Course DevelopmentTo
for curriculum, pedagogy, and projects. Middle and high schools have historically facedchallenges introducing engineering into the curriculum in an inclusive and authentic manner.Because these students are still flexible about their career decisions3,4, programs that peakinterest can still influence students’ college and career plans. An inclusive approach could havesignificant impact on the diversity of the engineering workforce.A large public university implemented EPICS (Engineering Projects in Community Service) forundergraduates in 19955,6. The approach has been successful in preparing students professionallyas well as addressing compelling needs locally and globally. The program has also shown that itis an inclusive approach to
Leadership Excellence. Editor of three books and author of over 160 journal articles and chapters, her research centers on the intersections of career, gender communication, leadership, and resilience. Fellow and past president of the International Communication Association, she has received numerous awards for her research, teaching/mentoring, and engagement. She is working on Purdue-ADVANCE initiatives for institutional change, the Transforming Lives Building Global Commu- nities (TLBGC) team in Ghana through EPICS, and individual engineering ethical development and team ethical climate scales as well as everyday negotiations of ethics in design through NSF funding as Co-PI. [Email: buzzanel@purdue.edu
to conduct research with afaculty member. They also attend career workshops, professional seminars, conferences.Students are supported financially throughout the Summer Bridge program. Among the resources provided are summer housing and lodging at no cost, and a tuition waiver for the course from LU. They also receive a $500 stipend from the grant in both summers. LU offers ASCENT Scholars, in addition to financial support, a wealth of academic support, career development, and community building activities that will promote the program’s ability to meet the objectives of the program. Following the selection of recipients, Scholars participate in one orientation session that introduces Scholars to the program, faculty, alumnae, and each other