do.Health Systems LabIn Health Systems Lab, undergraduate Zoe was tasked with building an online dashboard toorganize large datasets that the other lab members would later analyze. The datasets were for astudy comparing participants’ activity levels, as measured by wearable sensors, with their healthoutcomes. Zoe worked closely with postdoctoral researcher Darius to design and program thedashboard. Although Darius is no longer a graduate student, he played the same mentoring rolethat graduate students often play for undergraduate researchers. Throughout their year-longlearning/teaching process, Zoe asked Darius numerous questions about the practical aspects ofdashboard-building as well as the epistemic meanings of the data they were working with
. Leydens won the Exemplar in Engineering Ethics Educa- tion Award from the National Academy of Engineering, along with CSM colleagues Juan C. Lucena and Kathryn Johnson, for a cross-disciplinary suite of courses that enact macroethics by making social justice visible in engineering education. In 2017, he and two co-authors won the Best Paper Award in the Mi- norities in Engineering Division at the American Society for Engineering Education annual conference. With co-author Juan C. Lucena, Dr. Leydens’ most recent book is Engineering Justice: Transforming En- gineering Education and Practice (Wiley-IEEE Press, 2018). His current research grant project explores how to foster and assess sociotechnical thinking in
Paper ID #27445Positionality: The Stories of Self that Impact OthersCynthia Hampton, Virginia Tech ynthia Hampton is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech. She also serves as program and student support for the Center for the Enhancement of Engineering Diversity (CEED). While at Virginia Tech, Cynthia has directed summer bridge programs, led peer support initia- tives for underrepresented groups, and served on various commissions, committees, and research groups focused on student support, organizational change, graduate student policy, and culturally responsive evaluation
build community among the DRRM scholars(horizontally across disciplines but also, as the program grows, vertically across cohorts), deepenstudents understanding of one another’s research, promote peer feedback, and foster ongoingcollaborations. The seminar students collaborate to facilitate an annual workshop for theprogram’s advisory board, bring in guest speakers, develop outreach opportunities, and – everyother year – design and host a stakeholder workshop.Because students took the two courses concurrently in the fall, the resulting concept maps reflectthe learning across both courses. The assignment itself was assigned in the 3-hour course, but itwould be impossible to isolate the impact of that course alone because all study participants
focus is on the intersecting factors of gender, socio-economic status [SES],national origin, and language, and its impact on Latinx persistence in engineering. In our study,persistence is defined as both completion of an engineering undergraduate program and stayingin the field for one year following graduation. Few studies examine persistence beyond graduation, and, because almost half ofengineering degree holders do not enter engineering occupations [2], we studied participantsduring a critical juncture in their trajectory — the last year of their studies and the first year oftheir professional lives — to better understand this phenomenon. Thus, the research is expectedto contribute to the extant knowledge base on Latinx’ positionality
) on a project connected tothe faculty member’s work. Participation in REU’s is competitive and generally done through aprocess designed to pair students interested in a particular research area with faculty doing workin that area. REUs are also generally flexible in design with hosting institutions having a greatdeal of control over the organization and content of the program. These factors allow hostinguniversities to create REUs that can maximize local resources to provide unique educationalprograms to best benefit student participants.An interdisciplinary approach to summer REU programs can help address the challenge ofproviding soft-skills training within an engineering education environment (see for example [2],[3], [4]). In so doing
University, West Lafayette Carla B. Zoltowski is an assistant professor of engineering practice in the Schools of Electrical and Com- puter Engineering and (by courtesy) Engineering Education and Director of the Vertically Integrated Projects (VIP) Program at Purdue University. She holds a B.S.E.E., M.S.E.E., and Ph.D. in Engineer- ing Education, all from Purdue. Prior to this she was Co-Director of the EPICS Program at Purdue where she was responsible for developing curriculum and assessment tools and overseeing the research efforts within EPICS. Her research interests include the professional formation of engineers, diversity, inclusion, and equity in engineering, human-centered design, engineering ethics, and
, to pursue interests in the eld of engineering. Janet assists in recruitment and retention efforts locally, nationally, and internationally, hoping to broaden the image of engineering, science, and technology to include new forms of communication and problem solving for emerging grand challenges. A second vein of Janet’s research seeks to identify the social and cultural impacts of technological choices made by engineers in the process of designing and creating new devices and systems. Her work considers the intentional and unintentional consequences of durable struc- tures, products, architectures, and standards in engineering education, to pinpoint areas for transformative change.Alyssa Miranda Boll, Colorado
and practice. A distinctive strength of thesepapers was their description of research approaches that can be used to discover and articulatethe mental models used by engineering students, faculty, and practitioners to locate theirenterprises within larger social contexts. The LEES nominee for PIC 3 Best Paper, “Examiningthe Relationships Between How Students Construct Stakeholders and the Ways StudentConceptualize Harm from Engineering Design” was presented in this session and exemplifies theinvention and integration that were common throughout the LEES program. The authors of thispaper (Alexis Papek, Ayush Gupta, and Chandra Turpen), all faculty at the University ofMaryland, College Park, are integrative individuals. All three completed
Rubric Development Project. Available at https://www.aacu.org/value/rubrics[15] C. Reynolds and J. Patton, Leveraging the ePortfolio for Integrative Learning: A Faculty Guide to Classroom Practices for Transforming Student Learning. Sterling, VA: Stylus, 2014.[16] C.E. Watson, G.D. Kuh, T. Rhodes, T.P. Light, and H.L. Chen, “ePortfolios–The eleventh high impact practice,” International Journal of ePortfolio, vol.6, no. 2, pp. 65-69, 2016.[17] M.V. Svyantek and L.D. McNair, “Tricks of the Trade: Using Digital Portfolios and Reflective Practices to Develop Balanced Graduate Student Professional Identities,” in American Society for Engineering Education, 2015. June 14-17, Seattle, WA. Conference Proceedings. 2015[18
engineering graduates from non-GCSP institutions? What do they bring tothe table that distinguishes them? Unfortunately, to date, there is little research to address thesedifficult questions. Most of the published materials focus on descriptions of institutional GCSPsor how to design them [4,5], delve into questions pertaining to design and implementation ofGCSP-relevant curricula [6], assess impact of incorporating Grand Challenges (GCs) intogeneral engineering courses [7,8], and describe students’ emerging understanding of becoming aGC Scholar at a single institution, including development of their engineering identity [9]. Toour knowledge, there is one multi-institutional study to date that attempts to understand thebreadth of institutional GCSPs
change the physical principles used to design something, themotivation for the design could be entirely different which may result in a significantly differentdesign than someone who is not spiritually aware or practices another religion. The result alsocould be very similar but arrived at with different motivations [47].Any religion could write a similar worldview statement emphasizing the important tenants oftheir faith and how it impacts their lives. Baylor University is a university with a diverse studentpopulation that includes 10 or more Christian denominations, Catholics, Atheists, Buddhists,Hindu, Jehovah’s Witness, Mormons, Moslems and Unitarians. While the predominant religiousaffiliation at Baylor University is Baptist, there is a
, engineering design, and humanities and social science courses; that work resulted in Engineering Justice: Transforming En- gineering Education and Practice (Wiley-IEEE Press, 2018). His current research grant project explores how to foster and assess sociotechnical thinking in engineering science and design courses.Jacquelene D. Walter, Colorado School of Mines Jacquelene Walter is a third year undergraduate student at Colorado School of Mines pursuing a major in Electrical Engineering. She has been a general tutor at Colorado School of Mines for first and second year students and will continue to assist with the research in sociotechnical integration until her graduation in 2020.Dr. Kathryn Johnson, Colorado School of
theories,methods, and promising practices across institutions and disciplines. Harassment, threats, andintimidation cannot be tolerated if we are to engage this call to the best of our abilities. It iscrucial that all our students are able to realize their potential, and that our profession welcomesand cultivates talent to more fully enhance and protect the welfare of people and the planet.Each of us is a potential ally to another STEM diversity researcher. We offer [35] a shortacronym to help scholars remember how to respond in such an attack: RSR, for Report, Support,and Recommit. When a scholar is attacked, they (or a supportive colleague) should Report theattack to multiple bodies: the unit, college, and university levels; to law enforcement
papertherefore presents information about the institution’s development of new degree-levelcoursework on accessibility to be implemented at education institutions nationwide. Theinformation exchange and comparative analysis of approaches to accessibility education in theRussian Federation and the United States help to identify potential avenues for the application ofsuccessful education strategies to promote awareness of accessibility issues and to prepareengineering students for professional practice.IntroductionFreedom of movement is identified as a human right within the Universal Declaration of HumanRights. Public transportation system planning decisions, vehicle and infrastructure design,communication practices, and passenger services all impact
withprocedural approaches to technical writing that serve as incomparable supports when they arelater tasked with larger, more open-ended writing tasks.Using quantitative and qualitative results, this paper provides evidence that experiential learningopportunities in an engineering-focused Technical Writing and Communications course is a bestfit for this demographic’s learning preferences and creates measurable course impacts.Longitudinal data collected from these outcomes allow for a better reading of studentperformance gains, and results will guide future instructional design choices.IntroductionTechnical writing pedagogy, aimed at engineering students, must feature experiential learningand writing-to-learn practices in order to best address the
SJ concerns [3], we work with more technocratically oriented STEM majors. For thisreason, we decided to start our research by inquiring into perceptions that students have aboutcontextualized and decontextualized problems (Con/Decon), and what resources they would useto try to write contexts, in order to understand how we might successfully coach them to come upwith context on their own.Evidence suggests that the invisibility of SJ concerns in engineering curricula factors into a“culture of disengagement” [2], [5], [7]. This scholarship posits that the divide between technicalknowledge and social concerns in engineering curricula impacts undergraduate engineeringmajor retention -- since students who are more driven by social/humanitarian
integrate writing andwriting instruction in their classes and curricula. We see our paper as a theoretical-methodological framework for others interested in designing collaborative professionaldevelopment for writing instruction at their own universities.I. IntroductionWith modest financial support from the College of Engineering at the University of Illinois atUrbana-Champaign, an interdisciplinary team of Engineering and Writing Studies faculty andgraduate students has undertaken a comprehensive, multi-year effort to improve STEMinstruction and student communication skills by studying best practices in writing instruction andadapting them to the needs of large-enrollment (50 to 170 students) science, technology,engineering, and mathematics (STEM
canvary both within and across organizations [7-10]. For some engineers, practice might entailconducting analysis and testing on components of a particular design; for others, it might lookmore like managing the range of tests that are conducted throughout product development [11].Nonetheless, engineering practice can comprise a wide range of activities and accompanyingskills, and these might be different from one organization—or job—to the next.The purpose of this paper is to explore the interaction between engineers’ experiences inauthentic practice and the way their organizations facilitate or hinder the development of skillsand dispositions noted as vital in reports and accreditation criteria. If engineering graduates havethe skills called
of a Communication Lab (Comm Lab), a co-curricularintervention designed to provide peer-to-peer writing and communication support to engineeringand science students. At its core, the Comm Lab is a STEM-specific writing center wherestudents can meet face-to-face with a peer knowledgeable in their discipline to get feedback onSTEM writing and communication genres. On the organizational level, however, the Comm Labis distinguished by its emphasis on adaptation of structure and services to the desired institutionalcontext. Thus, our research asks which features of the Comm Lab can or should be adapted innew institutional contexts and which features must be retained across contexts to make iteffective. By answering this question for our specific
, science, and technology to include new forms of communication and problem solving for emerging grand challenges. A second vein of Janet’s research seeks to identify the social and cultural impacts of technological choices made by engineers in the process of designing and creating new devices and systems. Her work considers the intentional and unintentional consequences of durable struc- tures, products, architectures, and standards in engineering education, to pinpoint areas for transformative change.Dr. Beth A. Myers, University of Colorado Boulder Beth A. Myers is the Director of Analytics, Assessment and Accreditation at the University of Colorado Boulder. She holds a BA in biochemistry, ME in engineering management
through the use of interview data from our research studyof engineering education innovation origin stories. This paper extends the process by furtherusing stories to recognize and take advantage of opportunities for change, highlightingcommonalities based on stories using qualitative research on the origin story of an innovativeengineering program.Why StoriesStories have long held power in human society. Stories are used as a way to construct,understand and communicate meaning around events and experiences [2, 3, and others]. Theact of telling a story is an effective way to disseminate a particular construct of meaning. Theact of responding to a story, or re-telling a version with personal commentary, further developthe communal understanding of
. Lorelle A. Meadows, Michigan Technological University Dr. Lorelle Meadowsjoined Michigan Technological University in 2014 where she is leading the creation of a new honors college uniquely committed to inclusion and equity, and eliminating barriers to high impact educational practices. Prior to joining Michigan Tech, Dr. Meadows was Assistant Dean of Aca- demic Programs in the College of Engineering at the University of Michigan.Her primary responsibility in that role was to assure the delivery of a curriculum that addressed college-wide educational objectives in order to prepare students for the careers of the 21st century. This engagement led to her development as an educational researcher and she now conducts
creating engaging experiences for his students. His work is primarily focused on two areas: engineering education and design. Professor Hoople’s engineering education research examines the ways in which novel approaches can lead to better student outcomes. He is the principal investigator on the National Science Foundation Grant ”Reimagin- ing Energy: Exploring Inclusive Practices for Teaching Energy Concepts to Undergraduate Engineering Majors.” He has also co-developed a unique interdisciplinary course, Drones for Good, where engineer- ing students partner with peace studies students to design a quadcopter that will have a positive impact on society.Dr. Joel Alejandro Mejia, University of San Diego Dr. Joel
impact on knowledge transfer,particularly writing. In fact, one study notes that engineering education has not widely taken upreflection in research, though a large body of scholarly inquiry demonstrates the potential usesand impacts of reflection for engineering education [7], and it emerges as a recommendation or asubject for further investigation in pedagogical settings [13], [15]. However, in the context ofbest practices to support writing development, reflection emerges as a key pedagogical practice.In fact, at Boise State University, one of the outcomes for first-year writing is related to 2reflection [16]; Boise State’s Center for Teaching and
integration o f engineering and liberal arts education. When designing thismulti-institutional collaboration, we recognized that the GCSP - especially if “infused” withsignificant liberal arts content in a meaningful way - provided an opportunity to address this gapin engineering curricula. We also recognized that working together as a community of practice,as opposed to independently, would allow for more effective institutional learning and have agreater impact on curricular transformations at our respective schools as well as contribute newknowledge to the internationally growing GCSP effort. 52.3 Liberal Arts-Infused GCSP as a Vehicle for
Resources at the University of Texas in Austin. Dr. Reible holds a Ph.D. in Chemical Engi- neering from the California Institute of Technology, and is a Board Certified Environmental Engineer, a Professional Engineer (Louisiana), and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2005 for the ”development of widely used approaches for the management of contaminated sediments”. His research is focused on the fate, transport, and management of contaminants in the environment and the sustainable management of water resources.Dr. Chongzheng Na, Texas Tech University Chongzheng Na is an associate professor at Texas Tech University. He graduated from Tsinghua Uni- versity (B.E.), Pennsylvania State University (M.S
more geared towards the manufacturer (i.e. vague, relatively easy to meet) or the patient (i.e. requires rigorous testing, ensures patient safety). In the CompE specialization, our students learn how to design programmable systems for the smart grid, which could relieve our dependence on nonrenewable coal, oil, and gas and could combat climate change. In the EnvE specialization, our students learn engineering design and analysis for the water/wastewater treatment industries. Although environmental regulations constrain design choice, students are exposed to best management practices that prioritize green rather than grey infrastructure. A focus on appropriate technology solutions further requires our students to considering the