Paper ID #23735Adding Diversity and Culture to the Engineer’s Toolkit: Evaluating a UniqueCourse Option for Engineering StudentsMs. Chelsea Nneka Onyeador, Stanford University I am a 4th year Mechanical Engineering B.S. student at Stanford University, planning to pursue graduate work in Aeronautics and Astronautics at MIT next year. I am a Nigerian-American from central Texas, and I am a devoted advocate for diversity in engineering.Dr. Shannon Katherine Gilmartin, Stanford University Shannon K. Gilmartin, Ph.D., is a Senior Research Scholar at the Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research and Adjunct Professor in
the lens through which we analyzed identity in thecourse detailed.BackgroundSeeing is thinking. We live in a very visual-centric society. Visual thinking is not housed only inthe ‘artist’s mind’ but in the engineer’s as well [7]. When we see, imagine, and draw things, weare thinking visually. These three types of visual thinking cannot exist in silos, for with increasedflexibility, they interact, which denotes an expert designer [7]. Expert engineers almost alwayssketch in their work, even with the adoption of computer software [8]. A study on expertengineers shows that sketching on paper is used by 90% of interviewed German engineers beforeand during their CAD work [8]. Engineering design is highly dependent on collaborations amongteams for
Paper ID #22914Investigating the Fit Between Students’ Personal Interests and Their Percep-tions of Engineering in a National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE) Pre-college Summer Workshop (Fundamental Research)Dr. Morgan M. Hynes, Purdue University, West Lafayette Dr. Morgan Hynes is an Assistant Professor in the School of Engineering Education at Purdue Univer- sity and Director of the FACE Lab research group at Purdue. In his research, Hynes explores the use of engineering to integrate academic subjects in K-12 classrooms. Specific research interests include design metacognition among learners of all ages; the knowledge
-of- wind-turbine-blade-Sorensen-et-al-2004 (accessed on 2 Feb 2018)[18] A.L. Gerhart, Combining Discipline-specific Introduction to Engineering Courses into a Sin-gle Multi-discipline Course to Foster the Entrepreneurial Mindset with En- trepreneurially Minded Learning, age, 24 (2014) 1.[19] A. Gerhart, D. Carpenter, Creative Problem Solving Course–Student Perceptions of Creativity and Comparisons of Creative Problem Solving Methodologies, Proceedings of the 2008 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition, 2008.[20] A. Gerhart, M. Grunow, Leadership Models and Practices Course C Student Perceptions and Development of Leadership Skills and Incorporation of a New Leadership Course, American
on the representativeness heuristic14 when weestimate the likelihood of an event by comparing it to an existing prototype in our minds,allowing us make decisions quickly. This heuristic could create a bias towards generalizing theseevents and create false stereotypes, such as judging a book by its cover. However, heuristics existbecause people find them as an easy guide to decisions that are often “good enough” or “reliableenough”15. Many disciplines have identified domain-specific heuristics based on expertise,including mathematical problem-solving16, artificial intelligence17, user interface design18,engineering design19–21, and decision research22.Previous research on engineering design has successfully utilized the theoretical framework
Paper ID #22169Providing Sustainable Scientific Writing Support for Graduate EngineeringStudents by Creating a Local Scientific Learning Community ´Mr. Prasun Lala, Ecole de Technologie Sup´erieure Prasun Lala is a member of SARA’s team at the Ecole ´ ´ de technologie sup´erieure (ETS), in Montr´eal, where he focuses on helping engineering graduate students learn skills related to scientific communica- tion, through group activities involving writing and reviewing their own scientific work. He holds a M.Sc. in
. Student teams generate as many concepts aspossible through methods such as brainstorming, mind mapping [27], or C-Sketch [28]. In theexample EDT, students are given a handout that presents relevant background about heat,temperature, and heat transfer. In groups of four, they use brainstorming methods to generatesketches of at least three possible storage devices that fit the parameters of the design challenge. Once several concepts are generated, the best one is selected based on evaluation criteria.During stage three, teams use engineering techniques to select the best concept from the previousstage and construct an argument for their best design. The methods used during this stageencourage students to move from “tinkering” to authentic
Paper ID #22983First-year Engineering Teaching Assistant Training: Examining DifferentTraining Models and Teaching Assistant EmpowermentAndrew Phillips, Ohio State University Andrew H. Phillips graduated summa cum laude from The Ohio State University in May 2016 with a B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering and with Honors Research Distinction. He is currently fin- ishing his M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, and then he will pursue a Ph.D. in Engineering Education. His engineering education interests include first-year engineering, active learning, learning theory, and teaching design, programming, and
Paper ID #22574Cultivating the Next Generation: Outcomes from a Learning Assistant Pro-gram in EngineeringDr. Ying Cao, Oregon State University Postdoctoral Scholar in STEM education.Dr. Christina Smith, Brown University Christina Smith is the Assistant Director for Undergraduate Instructional Development at the Sheridan Center for Teaching and Learning at Brown University. She received her PhD from Oregon State Uni- versity in chemical engineering. Her research focused on how the beliefs of graduate students around teaching and learning interact with and influence the environments in which they are asked to teach. She
met Laura, my mentor, and she helped me get involved in Xipiter. Xipiter has helped me fall in love with Aerospace Engineering and I have no doubt in my mind now that this is my major to be in. Thank you for all that you do!Another student praised the ASPIRE student co-registration and peer-mentoring components ofthe program for helping them achieve success: To me being able to talk to other students that were in my classes and then talk to the mentors contained the most value. I was able to see how my fellow students were doing in class and get much needed help when I was having trouble in a hard class. The mentors also gave pointers as in which teachers to take/avoid which I think is an important aspect to
to grow upand go to college and do the same things they are interested in now.”“One kid in particular who sticks out in my mind… asked many questions about the robot andabout [university] engineering and college life in general... It was a good feeling to be able tooffer him advice about college, and the path of engineering. This experience, truly made me feellike a mentor.”“For me, if just one [high school] student is inspired to pursue college and some sort of STEMdegree, it would be amazing. Getting to see their excitement in competing has been the mostrewarding experience I have had as a mentor so far.”Improved youth robotics team competition performance demonstrates effectiveness of theuniversity mentors. The team did not qualify for
of Technology Dr. Julia M. Williams is Interim Dean of Cross-Cutting Programs and Emerging Opportunities and Pro- fessor of English at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. Her research areas include technical commu- nication, assessment, accreditation, and the development of change management strategies for faculty and staff. Her articles have appeared in the Journal of Engineering Education, International Journal of En- gineering Education, IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication, and Technical Communication Quarterly, among others.Dr. Elizabeth Litzler, University of Washington Elizabeth Litzler, Ph.D., is the Director of the University of Washington Center for Evaluation & Research for STEM
solutions that arecloser to the social and environmental context in Colombia. This program was inspired by severalengineering programs around the world that had developed initiatives related with engineersmaking social and environmental impacts, a new type of engineers, sensitive to social contexts,committed and qualified to serve communities by contributing to the solution of complex problemsat a regional and national context, as the Humanitarian Engineering program from the ColoradoSchool of Mines [6]. With this purpose in mind, the program is created as a professional line inhumanitarian engineering which is defined as a package that any student can choose to takebetween one or two years before his graduation. Therefore, Industrial Engineering
fullinteraction and full material use in mind, the combination of some online interaction with peers,visualization tools, and quizzes along with constant online access to course material and progressgenerally worked well for specific courses under study [7].Thus, although VLEs are relatively new, there are advantages to using them to increase studentinteraction and learning with mathematics.DiscussionAll three forms of technology discussed above, the graphing calculator, programming software,and VLEs have been shown to have both advantages and disadvantages for teachingundergraduate engineering mathematics. In studies from the referenced journal articles, studentsseem to identify similar positive uses of the technology. These include the ability to graph
Paper ID #21136Using the Internet of Things (IoT) to Motivate Engineering Technology andManagement (ETM) StudentsDr. Curtis Cohenour P.E., Ohio University Dr. Cohenour is an Assistant Professor in the Ohio University Engineering Technology and Management Department, in Athens, Ohio. He received a Bachelor of Science degree from West Virginia Institute of Technology in 1980, a Master of Science degree from Ohio University in 1988, and a Ph. D. in Electrical Engineering from Ohio University in 2009. He is a registered professional engineer in West Virginia, and Ohio. Dr. Cohenour has worked in Industry as an electrical
devaluation of the self in response to the failure to meet feltexpectations.1,2 A sociological perspective on shame is oriented to examine sociocultural context thatmight create the environment for individuals to experience shame in ways that are maladaptive to thesocial context.3,4 Thus, while the present case study is decisively oriented to unpack a single individual’sexperience of shame, we also recognize that the phenomenon occurs in a broader social frame.With this in mind, we have chosen to examine Rebecca’s case of experiencing shame in the context ofbeing a mechanical engineering student. Rebecca, who identifies as a White woman, was a junior-levelmechanical engineering student at the time of our interview with her. She discussed in the
through the things I do not separate properly” and “design withpurpose so it doesn't harm the environment now or in the future. Take long term cost intoaccount. Not just immediate cost.”Some students specifically mentioned ethical access of materials (8%) and mindful managementof how much material would be used (2%) intertwined with previously presented codes like “lifecycle” and “environmental impact”: “Whether they can be reused and whether you can get thematerial in an ethical way.” and “Cost, amount of material, access to certain materials,environmental-friendly ratings” and “Which field of engineering I'm in and what my choicesare.” These student responses suggest a broader range of understood consequences associatedwith management of
specific genres is considering audience [25];often, students think only of the teacher or instructor as the audience because they have not beenasked to write for an authentic audience in schools settings. This is especially true for technicalreport writing in engineering laboratory assignments, where students tend to not perceivesituations in which an audience might exist [26]. Instead, they tend to write as a means to justifythat they followed their laboratory and technical processes accurately, with an audience (i.e., aninstructor) in mind who has sufficient expertise to judge this.Although a common place to focus on writing in engineering has been short and long reports inlaboratory courses [20, 23, 26-30], others argue for a broader
greatestsense of community for respondents, 93% of students stated that this course contributed to theirsense of community, as small groups and like-minded classmates aided in their transition fromhigh school to college. The definition of self-efficacy was given to students, and they weresubsequently asked if this course contributed to their sense of engineering self-efficacy. Onehundred percent of students said that the course contributed positively to their self-efficacy as itincreased their confidence in their engineering abilities, they gained key technical skills that theycan apply to future coursework, and it provided the real-world engineering experience that theyhoped to gain. Students were asked to list the three most important things they
with evening midterm exams.DiscussionStudents surveys consistently show that the Peer Advisers are the strength of the first-yearseminar. The average score when students are asked to agree with the statement “Your peeradviser provided support to you in your transition to the University and School of Engineering”are greater than 4.2/5 in every quarter (Table 3). With this in mind, much of the effort of theengineering academic advising team has focused on increasing Peer Adviser satisfaction. Theposition of the PA Coordinator was created to help coordinate communication between NewStudents and Family Programs, engineering academic advising, and PAs. The PA Coordinator isan additional resource for PAs looking for help with content, students of
Paper ID #23894Building Engineering Professional and Teamwork Skills: A Workshop onGiving and Receiving FeedbackMs. Erin Jobidon, University of Waterloo Academic Development SpecialistMs. Maria Barichello, University of Waterloo Maria Barichello is an Academic Development Specialist in the Student Success Office at the University of Waterloo.Dr. Rania Al-Hammoud P.Eng., University of Waterloo Dr. Al-Hammoud is a Faculty lecturer (Graduate Attributes) in the department of civil and environmental engineering at the University of Waterloo. Dr. Al-Hammoud has a passion for teaching where she con- tinuously seeks new
prison: Vintage, 2012.[25] P. C. Gorski. (n.d., February 04). Circles of my multicultural self. Available: http://www.edchange.org/multicultural/activities/circlesofself.html[26] J.A. Mejia, I. Villanueva, and R. A. Revelo, Using literacy to identify hidden factors that compromise equitable and effective engineering education, In Proceedings of the 2018 American Educational Research Association Annual Conference, New York, 2018.[27] K. Boykin. (2007, September 05). Have the folks at intel lost their minds? Available: http://thenewblackmagazine.com/view.aspx?index=939[28] G. Ladson-Billings and W. F. Tate, "Toward a critical race theory of education," Teachers College Record, vol. 97, pp. 47-68, 1995.[29] E
Paper ID #22636Instructional Strategies in K-12 Informal Engineering Education - Deep CaseStudy Approaches to Educational ResearchDr. Sarah Hug, Colorado Evaluation & Research Consulting Dr. Sarah Hug is Research Associate at the Alliance for Technology, Learning, and Society (ATLAS) Institute, University of Colorado at Boulder and director of Colorado Evaluation & Research Consulting. Dr. Hug earned her PhD in Educational Psychology at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Her research and evaluation efforts focus on learning science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, with a special interest in communities
any cohort of students, there are strengths and opportunities for growth. Weintended to build upon the ability of millennials to interact with information from a wide range ofsources that is available digitally and introduce them to the professional dogma of both the Armyand environmental engineering. The intent of our course is to leverage their strengths to furtherdevelop cadets’ “higher-order” thinking through the correct application of “mind models”, withinthe engineering process [9]. This higher level thinking is both doctrinal [12] and pedagogical [9]in nature. Using the doctrinal framework as a critical thinking tool combined with creativethinking and engineering design principles, we teach students to apply “practical thinking
Paper ID #21963Integrating Veteran Experiences into Engineering Design: Veteran-led Stu-dent Development of High-power Rocket Competition TeamThomas L. Davis, Kent State University Thomas Davis is a graduate student in the Master of Technology program at Kent State University. He holds a bachelors degree in aeronautical systems engineering technology from Kent State University. Prior to joining the Kent State student body, Mr. Davis held operator and technical service request specialist positions at Forest City Technologies, Inc. for a total of 16 years. He is currently a staff sergeant in the Ohio Army National Guard
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Paper ID #23827Work in Progress: A Case Study Exploring Teaching Strategies Employed ina Cornerstone Engineering Design CourseMr. Kevin Calabro, University of Maryland, College Park Kevin Calabro is Keystone Instructor and Associate Director in the Clark School of Engineering at the University of Maryland. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 WIP: A Case Study Exploring Teaching Strategies Employed in a Cornerstone Engineering Design Course This work in progress (WIP) paper presents findings from the early stages of a case study that explores the teaching
solutionto a problem or meet a stated need, she can apply the tools and mindset of design thinkingto her work. In the design studio, engineering students are challenged to both learn and apply thecomponents of design thinking as they work to design and build. Scholars have argued thatpreparing engineering majors to develop a design thinking mindset is a promising approach toaddress better preparation of engineering students for their future professions and call for allengineering faculty to “incorporate those habits of mind and the tools of design thinking into allparts of the engineering curriculum” [1]. Razzouk claimed that “helping students to think likedesigners may better prepare them to deal with difficult situations and to solve
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Lafayette Wesley is a PhD student in Engineering Education at Purdue University. His primary research interests surround assessment technologies, the psychology of student learning of STEM concepts, and interna- tional community development.Dr. Maurina Loren Aranda, Purdue University, West Lafayette Dr. Maurina Aranda recently obtained a PhD in the Biological Sciences at Purdue University, and through this background in science, her interests in education span a variety of fields. Mainly, Dr. Aranda’s re- search interests include cellular biology education and STEM education. With these interests in mind, her work focuses on how students conceptualize cellular biology, their discourse practices as they enact science