M. Matusovich, Virginia Tech Dr. Matusovich is an Associate Professor in Virginia Tech’s Department of Engineering Education. She has her doctorate in Engineering Education and her strengths include qualitative and mixed methods research study design and implementation. She is/was PI/Co-PI on 10 funded research projects including a CAREER grant. She has won several Virginia Tech awards including a Dean’s Award for Outstanding New Faculty. Her research expertise includes using motivation and related frameworks to study student engagement in learning, recruitment and retention in engineering programs and careers, faculty teaching practices and intersections of motivation and learning strategies.Ms. Mayra S. Artiles
United States Military Academy at West Point. He received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the United States Military Academy and his M.S.E. and PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin. His research and teaching interests are in mechatronics, regenerative power, and multidisciplinary engineering.Ally Kindel Martin, The Citadel Ally Kindel Martin is the Director of Student Success in the School of Engineering. In her position, she has worked with the Supplemental Instruction program, launched STEM Freshmen Outreach initiatives, created an Engineering Mentor Connection program, and revitalized the Engineering Career & Network- ing Expo. She holds a M.Ed. in Higher Education and
ability to consciously and deliberately monitor and regulate one’s knowledge, processes,and cognitive and affective states” [1]. Metacognition is key to developing self-directed learningskills that are foundational to ABET’s required “ability to be a life-long learner.” Self-directedlearning is also necessary for an effective work career, yet it is rarely integrated into engineeringeducation [2].In our IUSE NSF project, we are studying the development of metacognitive and self-directedlearning skills of students and graduates of the Iron Range Engineering program (IRE). IRE is aninnovative, problem-based-learning (PBL) engineering program in Virginia, Minnesota, wherestudents explicitly engage in activities to become aware of and develop
Instruction for K-12 Engineering (Work in Progress)IntroductionEfforts to diversify the engineering workforce are informed by the fact that engineeringcontinues to remain a White, male-dominated profession [1]. Underrepresented students leavescience, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) programs in middle school, highschool, and in undergraduate programs [2]-[4] at a disproportionate rate compared to their Whitemale colleagues.In order to broaden participation and provide equitable engineering education forunderrepresented students, better approaches are necessary to support these students’ pathwaystoward STEM careers. One approach for encouraging diverse participation in engineering isthrough disciplinary literacy instruction (DLI
undergraduateresearch is one of the most effective ways to attract and retain talented undergraduate students, tomotivate them towards pursuing careers and advanced degrees in engineering and science, tohelp them feel more connected to their educational experience and to provide them with a greatersense of empowerment as learners [4-11].Since its inception in 2006, a total of 92 students from 64 different universities have taken part inthe Automotive and Energy Research and Industrial Mentorship (AERIM) REU program. Whileadvertised and open to students of all genders and ethnic backgrounds, this program has beensuccessful at recruiting a diverse pool of undergraduate students, with underrepresented groupsin engineering (women in particular) representing 70% of
elective for allengineering students. The course successfully implements reflection practices to measureattainment of civic learning outcomes, which are essential to true service-learning courses. Arubric measures student achievement of course technical outcomes. Improved team performancedemonstrates effectiveness of the university mentors. The mentoring has a demonstrable effecton youth attitudes toward STEM education and careers. The course and mentoring resulted in85% retention of existing youth team members, plus addition of new youth from 3 additionalhigh schools, expanding the reach of the robotics team in the community. The course has alsoresulted in the university hosting a district competition, increasing STEM visibility to the
the Section President of Chico State, and the Region A Collegiate Senator. She has been involved with Society of Women Engineers for almost 4 years, accounting for her entire Undergraduate Collegiate Career. Some of Shelby’s passions include host- ing Outreach Events, such as Imagineer Day, giving back to her community through various volunteering activities, and teaching middle school girls in her A Local Outreach Program alongside Hadil Mustafa. She has won various awards, including the Region A Future Collegiate Leader Award (2017), Region A Outstanding Collegiate Leader Award (2018), and the Chico State Mac Martin Excellence in Leadership Award (2018). She has career aspirations to be in the Automotive/Racing
Research Assistant for the Chico STEM Connections Collaborative. He is majoring in Computer Information Sys- tems with a minor in Computer Science. William’s interests include Software Engineering and pursuing a career in academia.Dr. Colleen Robb, California State University, Chico Dr. Robb is an Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship at California State University, Chico. She also serves as the Director for the Center for Entrepreneurship.David Rahn, California State University, Chico Mr. Rahn is a Lecturer for Strategy and Entrepreneurship and is the Director of the e-Incubator within the Center for entrepreneurship at California State University, Chico. Mr. Rahn has extensive industry back- ground with software
to provide students with ahigh quality and practical advanced manufacturing education that enable them to excel both intheir professional careers and in their continued education. The educational mission of theprogram can thus be summarized as follows: Provide students with a strong foundation in Computer-Aided Design and Computer- Aided Manufacturing. Provide students with a strong foundation in composite manufacturing, inspection, and repair. Provide student with a strong foundation in understanding UAS design process, capabilities and its application for a wide range of uses (business, scientific, and security). Provide students with knowledge and experience in analytical
lure of high salaries from the expansive local industry pulls most of our students away fromgraduate school. The average starting salary for the most recent graduates with a B.S. in chemicalengineering from LSU was ~$76,000 per year. We believe this is one reason less than 3% of ourstudents enroll in graduate programs. This (low level) graduate school enrollment trend is similarfor other regional institutions. In the last decade we have had only moderate success at recruitingengineering, physics, and chemistry undergraduates from these regional schools to enroll in aSTEM Ph.D. program. This REU program exposes students to exciting graduate research andincreases interest in career paths made possible through graduate degrees. This is a benefit
. Does providing spatial skills training improve the retention of low-spatial-ability students, including students traditionally underrepresented in technician programs?Faculty and administrators at four community college partners implemented SKIITS from fall2014 through fall 2017.II. Prior ResearchA. Spatial Visualization Related to STEM FieldsThe ability to visualize objects and situations in one’s mind and to manipulate those images is acognitive skill vital to many career fields, especially those that require work with graphicalimages. Nearly fifty years ago, Smith17 concluded that spatial skills play an important role in 84different careers. A long history of research has highlighted the importance of spatial skills intechnical
Paper ID #21108What Activities and Practices Sustain the Engagement of Highly Diverse Com-munities of Young Engineering Students in an Out-of-School Fellowship Pro-gram?Priya Mohabir, New York Hall of Science Priya Mohabir has been with New York Hall of Science for 18 years, starting as an Explainer - a floor facilitator - and working her to up to lead NYSCI’s youth development initiatives. Priya’s experience as an Explainer shaped her outlook on the countless possibilities of making STEM education exciting for children as she was climbing NYSCI’s Science Career Ladder With this experience as a foundation, Priya has
, Dearborn c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 S-STEM Scholarship Program in Manufacturing: First Three Years’ Experience at the University of Michigan-DearbornIntroductionThe NSF-awarded STEM scholarship program in the College of Engineering and ComputerScience at the University of Michigan-Dearborn was started in September 2015, and now it is inits third year of its existence. The title of our NSF proposal is “S-STEM Program inManufacturing Engineering Leadership Development”. The key objectives of this program areto provide tuition scholarship, academic support, mentoring and career guidance to academicallytalented, financially needy undergraduate students who will join the university as
the main function was asteep learning curve in a very short amount of time. This may account for the drop inaverage from 4.3 in 2016 to 3.1 in 2017.One of the outcomes that the new school of engineering hopes to achieve is to helpstudents identify as an engineer. This course appears to be helping with this goal with anaverage of 4.2 in 2017. Unfortunately this question was not asked of the 2016 group andtherefore there is no comparison.In Part III of the survey, students responded to the following questions using a LikertScale of 1-5: 1 = Strongly Disagree, 2 = Disagree, 3 = Neutral, 4 = Agree, 5 = StronglyAgree. The average for each question is shown in Table 4. 1. I have spent considerable time researching to decide on my career of
Specialist in Education at the Center for Innovation in Teaching & Learning (CITL) at the University of Illinois. He organizes the central campus teacher training program for the more than 800 new Teaching Assistants (TAs) Illinois welcomes each year. He continues to work with TAs throughout their graduate career by observing their classes, helping them collect and interpret feedback from their students, and shepherding them through CITL’s teaching certificate program. He offers a variety of workshops every year to faculty, staff, TAs, and undergraduates, on topics including course design, running effective discussions, and using humor in the classroom.Dr. Blake Everett Johnson, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
of educational efficacy, the molecular basis of cell movement, and the mitigation of infectious diseases. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Learner Satisfaction and Quality of Student-Faculty Interactions in Traditional vs. Blended ClassroomsThe effectiveness of active learning methods to improve learning in STEM higher education hasbecome an area of national interest, in part because of a perceived need to increase retention ofstudents in STEM careers and support their career development in a global economy [1]. Supportfor designing courses with a variety of activities to increase student engagement is based onevidence of increased test scores and reduced failure
, and into communities to identify issues and develop solutionsthat increase both resilience and sustainability. The need to make 21st century graduate educationtraining requires educators to develop innovative approaches that provide critical professionalskills that transcend discipline and prepare students for a broad range of career choices. In thisstudy, a novel approach was developed for STEM graduate education that aligns professional skilltraining with experiential learning pedagogy adopted from training models in the healthprofessions. The training model designed for a cohort of newly admitted PhD students consists oftwo components, an immersive summer program (Leadership Academy), followed by a fallChallenge Course. The goals of the
received his Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, MA. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Undergraduate Research and Curricular Redesign of IPLS Laboratory CoursesIntroductionThe University of Detroit Mercy is a recent recipient of a National Institutes of Health (NIH)BUILD (BUilding Infrastructure Leading to Diversity) grant aimed at creating a career pipelinewith the goal of increasing the participation of under-represented minorities (URM) inbiomedical sciences research. Steep declines in the presence of these populations1,2 within thebiomedical research sector have caused sufficient alarm that the NIH has tasked granteeinstitutions “to
that emphasizes student discovery. Scholars are selectedannually based on academic ability and financial need. Faculty mentoring, tutoring, peer studygroups, college survival skills training, career development, and undergraduate researchexperiences are all tools to help the scholars. Some MEP Scholars are actively participating inthe following research projects: 1) Design and Development of an e-Health System, 2) Designand Development of an Electronic Health Records program, 3) Study of the Field Effect onCharge Transport through Conductive Polymers Injected in Vascular Channels of AngiospermLeaves, and 4) A 3D-printed desk organizer. In this paper, MEP Scholars briefly present theirprojects and share their thoughts and reflections about the
-curricular and experiential learning, and the equity and accessibility of education.Prof. Paul R. Chiarot, State University of New York at Binghamton Dr. Chiarot received the BASc, MASc, and PhD degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Toronto and was a post doctoral research associate at the University of Rochester. He has published over twenty papers in peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings and has one issued US patent. Dr. Chiarot joined the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the State University of New York at Binghamton in 2011 where he directs the Microfluidics and Multiphase Flow Laboratory. Dr. Chiarot was the recipient of the NSF CAREER Award in 2016
liberal arts colleges and large, research-intensiveinstitutions would be productive in moving a particular research area forward.Collaboration also with large research institutions not just ERCs.AcknowledgmentsThis material is based upon work primarily supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF)under NSF Award Number CMMI–1632963 and NSF Award Number ERC-1449501. Anyopinions, findings and conclusion, or recommendations expressed in this material are those ofthe authors, and do not necessarily reflect those of the NSF.References[1] D. Lopatto, “Undergraduate Research Experiences Support Science Career Decisions and Active Learning,” CBE—Life Sciences Education, vol. 6, pp. 297-306, winter 2007[2] S.H. Russell, M.P. Hancock, and
implanted in the REU site. Pre and post surveys and follow-up phone interviews wereconducted to collect REU participants’ feedbacks, while different surveys were also conducted tocollect feedback from faculty and graduate assistants. Table 2 shows selected REU students postsurvey results in all three years. After attending the IR-SEED REU site, • About 91% REU participants rated their overall experience excellent or very good, which matches with the follow-up phone interview results. • About 62% REU participants had increased interests in going to graduate school. • Close to 70% REU participants had increased interests in pursuing research career. • About 42% REU participants decided to pursue a higher degree
Engineer- ing at Mississippi State University. She completed her doctoral work at Virginia Tech in the Department of Engineering Education. Her research examines the role of university-industry partnerships in shaping student career expectations and pathways, the student to workforce continuum, and broadening partici- pation in engineering. Dr. Young has worked as an Employer Relations Assistant for the VT Career and Professional Development office and has a B.S. degree in Industrial Engineering from Mississippi State University and Master of Industrial and Systems Engineering from Auburn University. She is a Gates Millennium Scholar. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018
Department of Environmental, Occupational and Agricultural Health at the University of Nebraska Medical Center. She has published over 95 peer-reviewed journal papers and book chapters, was awarded an NSF CAREER award in 2012, and in 2015 was a member of a team receiving the Grand Prize for University Research from the American Academy of Environmental Engineers and Scientists. Dr. Bartelt-Hunt teaches an introductory course in environmental engineering as well as environmental engineering chemistry and solid waste management and has received university and national awards recognizing her teaching. She served as graduate chair in the Department of Civil Engineering from 2013-2016 and in 2014, was named a R. Vernon McBroom
underrepresentedstudents early in their educational careers, and provides positive messaging about the importanceof approaching engineering ethics through the lens of diversity and inclusion of all people.Although upper-division bioethics or medical anthropology courses may address similar content,our curriculum on the intersection of ethics and diversity is unique because it engages earlyengineering students in the context of a required introductory course. This is important becauseupper-division courses are not accessible to first-year bioengineering students.Implementing this curriculum in a required introductory bioengineering course allows us to reacha greater number and diversity of early engineering students, who may not be familiar with oralready
andengineering practices.IntroductionYoung people who live in high-risk neighborhoods and from low-income families often spendmost of their time out of school by themselves without adult supervision [1]. There is an urgentneed to study this group of youth and develop after school programs that support their needs andbuild on their interests [1]. Additionally, youth from low-income and diverse backgrounds arevastly underrepresented in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) studiesand careers, and educational policy makers stress the need to develop approaches that promoteyouths’ interests and involvement in STEM [2], [3]. To address these concerns, researchers andscience organizations are developing and studying out-of-school time (OST
University Delivering significant results in pivotal roles such as Sr. Consultant to high-profile clients, Sr. Project Manager directing teams, and Executive Leader of initiatives and programs that boost organizational effectiveness and optimize operations have been hallmarks of Dr. Wickliff’s career spanning more than 24 years with leaders in the oil & gas and semiconductor industries. As an expert in the areas of Executive Leadership and Team Development, Strategy Design & Execution, Supply Chain Optimization, Change Management, System Integration and LEAN Process Improvement (technical and business), Dr. Wickliff is passionate about Organizational Wellness and the Holistic Well- ness of individuals. She is
Paper ID #22147Building Your Change-agent Toolkit: The Power of StoryDr. Jennifer Karlin, Minnesota State University, Mankato Jennifer Karlin spent the first half of her career at the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, where she was a professor of industrial engineering and held the Pietz professorship for entrepreneurship and economic development. She is now a research professor of integrated engineering at Minnesota State University, Mankato, and the managing partner of Kaizen Academic.Prof. Rebecca A. Bates, Minnesota State University, Mankato Rebecca A. Bates received the Ph.D. degree in electrical
Technol- ogy and Infrastructure for the NSF Center for e-Design at the University of Central Florida. Dr. Yousef developed a strategic plan for information technology for the center. Dr. Yousef authored several refereed publications including book chapters, journal papers, and conference papers. He was also either the PI or the Co-PI in many research projects related to Cost Engineering, Cost and Quality Effectiveness, Cost Modeling, System of Systems Interoperability, Supply Chain Management, Decision Support Systems, Knowledgebase Systems, and Database Management. During his career Dr. Yousef earned the award of Excellent Service from the department of Industrial En- gineering and Management Systems in 2006, and
of faculty personnel: military and civilian. Thecivilian faculty tend to be traditional tenure-track and typically remain at the institution for muchor most of their careers. The military faculty, however, are assigned to faculty positions foranywhere from three to six years, depending on their career field and the needs of the Air Force.Two categories of faculty at AFIT mean that there is a significant influx of new military facultyannually. The new faculty orientation program must be structured to accommodate a cohort ofnew faculty that are predominantly military members. The orientation program must be flexiblein meeting the needs of a diverse cohort of new faculty that enter their positions with variedbackgrounds and, in many cases