this group there was not an obviousdifference between males and females. Research has shown that females prefer careers whichfocus on communal values, benefiting others [6]. The career paths of this group have alreadybegun as they are all engineering majors in their senior year. The author wanted to see if addingthe UN Sustainable Development Goals would increase the motivation for the proposed designsto have an added communal component. As can be seen in figure 3 there was no specificpreference to any particular goal based on gender. Contrary to the research which states thatfemales prefer disciplines with communal goals of collaboration and the ability to help others [7]the males in the class selected a wider range of goals than the females
Undergraduate Engineering Outreach 1MotivationWhen undergraduate engineering students participate in various forms of community outreachthrough an ambassador-style group, the mission is often to promote engineering and engineering-related careers to K-12 students and their families, and increase interest in engineering amonghistorically underserved populations. Yet, the preparation and delivery of outreach activities mayalso impact the undergraduate students. In this Work in Progress paper we present the earlyfindings of a project seeking to identify common practices among university-based, ambassadorprograms, with a view to informing communities of researchers and practitioners. We exploredthree questions [1]: (1) What similarities and differences are
Paper ID #26719Work in Progress - The GPA Trajectories of Engineering StudentsMr. Hassan Ali Al Yagoub, Purdue University-Main Campus, West Lafayette (College of Engineering) Hassan Al Yagoub is a Ph.D. student in Engineering Education at Purdue University. His research in- terests include diversity & inclusion, students’ persistence, advising and mentoring, engineering career pathways, and school-to-work transition of new engineers. He holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and a M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology. Prior to beginning his doctoral
across-the-board gains in everyaspect of ability, but most so in “Learn new things,” “Empathize,” “Communicate,” and“Document technical matters.” Each of these had more than double the effect size of the nextmost affected task – “Identify a need.” This is especially interesting because needs identificationis not only a primary goal of our program, but also a goal of NIBIB R25 programs in general[11].To broaden impactThe inaugural year of our program showed where there is room for improvement with secondcohort. The first of these improvements, already enacted, is to urge students to apply who do notconsider themselves to be pre-med. This did indeed change the spectrum of career intentions inour next cohort. We are also requiring Scholars to
math, offering Statway and Quantway as alternative developmentalcourse sequences that progress students “to and through” their college mathematicssequence. Statway and Quantway utilize a non-traditional intuitive problem-based andcollaborative learning pedagogy. Statway and Quantway Pathways engage students inthe statistical and quantitative reasoning concepts increasingly seen as more relevant tomany students’ educational and career goals than those in the traditional algebraicsequence (Huang 2018). Although there is nothing completely new under the sun, thisteaching and learning methodology puts several components together in a homogenousclassroom operation. Essentially it's answering that collective student question, “am Iever going to use
do not receive detailedfeedback on style and form. While surveys of recent graduates and engineering department heads support thecontention that these approaches are preparing engineers to write, another survey of industrymanagers refutes that contention. In 2012, an ASME survey of 590 early career engineers foundthat 75 percent assessed their own preparation of engineering writing as sufficient or strong [6].In that same ASME study, a survey of 42 heads of mechanical engineering departments acrossthe United States found that 65 percent viewed their communication programs as strong orsuccessful at preparing engineering students to communicate. In contrast, that same ASME studyconducted a survey of 647 industry supervisors and found
Paper ID #25584Work in Progress: Exploring the Attributes of a Prototypical Leader AsViewed by Undergraduate Engineering StudentsProf. Carmen Maria Lilley, University of Illinois, Chicago Dr. Lilley’s research interests in engineering education focus on professional development of engineering students at the undergraduate and graduate level. In particular, she is interested in the nuances of how the intersection of race/ethnicity with gender affects professional development in the area of leadership and the long term career trajectory of an individual. Her other research interests are focused on syntheses of low
one two-hour laboratory session eachweek. Following training, students are given access to the department maker space, whichfeatures 3-D printers, circuit fabrication stations, and hand and power tools. Approximately 50%of the lecture topics in the course provide a survey of biomedical engineering careers paths andour curriculum, and the remaining lecture topics relate to the design project. These includepresentations covering computer-aided drawing, electric circuits, cardiovascular physiology, andengineering standards. Laboratory activities provide practice in developing skills in usingSolidWorks (Dassault Systemes), making electrical measurements, fabricating circuits, and using3-D printers. Students work in pairs on the term design
the undergrads to be creative and to share their experienceswith K-12 students. All of our undergrads are great role models, and this is a chance to introduce K-12 students to technical areas and careers that they might have not considered. It is also an exercisein problem-based learning. Undergrads must decide what they need to learn, then figure out how tolearn it and then how to teach the material. Our undergraduate students also have the opportunity topractice communication skills with people who possess little technical knowledge. In addition, theyalso have to work in a group setting, towards a common goal and they have to critically assess theirown performance, as well as the performance of others.The project has the following
and Educational Materials and he has been formally engaged in K-12 engineering education for nearly ten years.Dr. Scott A. Sell, Saint Louis University, Parks College of Eng.Dr. Michelle B. Sabick, Saint Louis University, Parks College of Eng. Dr. Michelle Sabick assumed the role of Dean of Parks College of Engineering, Aviation and Technology at Saint Louis University in July of 2016. Prior to that she was Chair of the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Saint Louis University. Dr. Sabick began her academic career at Boise State University in Boise, Idaho where she co-founded the Center for Orthopaedic and Biomechanics Research and served as Chair of the Department of Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering for
sets the stage forbeginning their professional careers. Although service learning is relatively common ineducation, few examples were specifically noted in a review of ABET ETAC accreditedconstruction programs. This paper begins with a review of relevant literature to service learningin construction education programs, followed by a description of the two-semester educationalprogram and outcomes we expect students to achieve in the capstone process. At the time ofpublication, four semesters of students have responded to a reflective survey, asking aboutdevelopment of teamwork skills, awareness of the complexity of construction, communityservice, the construction profession, interpersonal skills, construction operations management,and open
Paper ID #24867Mississippi Coding Academies: A Nontraditional Approach to ComputingEducationDr. Sarah B. Lee, Mississippi State University Sarah Lee joined the faculty at Mississippi State University (MSU) after a 19 year information tech- nology career at FedEx Corporation. As an associate clinical professor and assistant department head in the Computer Science and Engineering Department, she is co-founder and co-director of the Bull- dog Bytes program at MSU that engages K-12 students with computing and provides trans-disciplinary professional development to K-12 teachers in computer science and cybersecurity. She is
Paper ID #26601Project-based Learning: An Integration of Real World Project in a 3D DesignClassMr. Kruse Michael Ranly, Ohio Northern University I am a 4th year student at the Ohio Northern University majoring in Manufacturing Technologies. I have been the Teacher’s Assistant for the TECH 2311: Product Design class for the fall 2018-2019 semester. After school I wish to pursue a career in the manufacturing field preferably designing factory layouts to implement robotic lines.Dr. Feng Jao, Ohio Northern University Feng Jao, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Technology at Ohio Northern University. She has been teaching
on input from industrial constituents will be conducted.It is expected that the development of these six modules will address the limited exposure tofluid power that current students of engineering and engineering technology programs have, thusallowing them to consider careers in the hydraulic fluid power industry. The initialimplementation of the proposed development will take place in the Fall semester of 2019.IntroductionFluid power industry has wide applications in the manufacturing segment across the globe, it is a$100 billion industry. This is an important component for the U.S. economy (i.e., roughly 25%of market share), with a ten-fold downstream economic impact for the top ten industries utilizingfluid power [1]. Its range of
their professional careers. Fives,Hamman, and Olivarez [11] further summarized that research indicating that factors associatedwith role ambiguity, lack of decision making power, and perceived lack of control contribute toburnout among these pre-service student-teachers.Contemporarily, higher education news highlights the burnout of graduate students. Wedemeyer-Strombel [12] discussed the personal sacrifice of graduate school in terms of lost relationshipsciting the immersive, exhaustive, and unyielding demands of graduate student responsibilities.The immersive, demanding, and sacrifice-oriented acculturation of graduate students becomesnormalized in higher education because advisors and faculty control much graduate students’professional
college students (FGCS) face considerable obstacles to college success,including a lack of role models in the family, a lack of familial mentoring and support, a lack offamiliarity with the college climate, and, generally, lower socioeconomic status [1-6]. They tendto be less academically prepared for college, and English is not their native language for a higherproportion than of continuing-generation college students (CGCS) [3]. However, in many ways,recent research suggests that FGCS are very similar to CGCS. They respond to the same factorsencouraging college persistence and success [7-8], and often demonstrate considerable “grit” inpursuing their undergraduate careers (9), a factor instrumental in undergraduate achievement.Indeed, Boone and
first-generationcollege students [9, 10].The CAMP-YES program design is based on the attributes described above, which are known topromote academic success, especially for under-represented groups. CAMP-YES is a S-STEMprogram funded by the National Science Foundation with a goal of preparing academicallyjjjjtalented, financially needy students to successfully transition to the workforce, graduate school,or create/work at a startup company. This diverse, cohort-based program has 124 junior andsenior STEM students (48% First Generation, 28% Women, 39% Hispanic, and 11% AfricanAmerican). CAMP-YES students choose from three career preparation pathways (Internship,Research, or Entrepreneurship Path) to explore their professional interests and make
intently to business leadersand understand the trajectory of change they are bearing witness to [12].” If business andeducation can work together, “schools will have greater placement opportunities for graduates,and students will have far more employment and career options [12].”The CTC’s BILT – which includes IT experts from national companies based in regions acrossthe US – convenes quarterly to discuss emerging industry trends and provide program guidanceto faculty attendees. The CTC has found that only through frequent regular meetings can astrong relationship develop between business and educators. Each spring, the CTC’s BILT usesa unique voting system to rank and update a list of IT knowledge areas that entry-level ITworkers need to know in
their division. The list above is the list ofconfirmed divisions that sent out the announcement. Participants completed a screening surveythat asked about their experiences submitting and publishing with JEE. Seventy-three potentialparticipants responded to the initial survey; 62 volunteered to be interviewed. Two additionaltargeted surveys were distributed to recruit a representative sample of experiences. The firsttargeted survey was distributed to authors who had published in JEE in the past five years. Thesecond targeted survey was distributed to early-career faculty holding positions in engineeringeducation departments across the United States. Survey respondents were a mix of Assistant,Associate, and Full professors as well as non-tenure
students about the modules or suggesting topics todiscuss in their advice, it was very interesting to see that so many of the points discussed in themodules were the focus of the advice that was given by the students that had completed theengineering program (see Figure 2). This highlights the fact that these are important skills andthat successful students may be able to identify and develop them on their own, however, givingall students these insights upfront can help them develop these skills earlier. Establishing theseskills early in their college careers can prevent some initial poor performance, which can lead todiscouragement and attrition. “The amount of time needed to do engineering homework is so much more than in high school. Make sure
funded by the National Science Foundation (Awards #1826354 (RFE) and #1713547 (AISL)); one of these projects is developing a STEM summer camp that supports career pathways for Latinx students.Dr. Alberto Esquinca, San Diego State University Alberto Esquinca is an Associate Professor in the Department of Dual Language and English Learner Education at San Diego State University.Danielle Gadbois c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Asset-Based Practices in Engineering Design (APRENDE): Development of a Funds of Knowledge Approach for the Formation of EngineersAbstractAlthough different scholars have offered several reasons behind why Latinx
progress paper discusses the Academy of Engineering Success (AcES), an NSF S-STEMsupported program, which employs known best practices to support and retain underrepresentedstudents in engineering through graduation. The goal is to graduate more students fromunderrepresented populations in an effort to ultimately diversify the engineering workforce.This paper describes this program’s unique implementation of a specific subset of retention bestpractices, such as facilitating (1) the development of both a feeling of institutional inclusion andengineering identity by providing opportunities for faculty-student and student-student interaction aswell as major and career exploration, (2) academic support, including support for the development ofbroader
effects caused by the lack of parental participation in university education,prior educational disadvantages, among other risk factors (Cabrera, 2001). To overcome thesechallenges, many initiatives with both private and public funding have been deployed. Amongthese, engineering schools in the US have developed educational programs to instill engineeringabilities while students are still in high school. These programs have been called pre-engineeringprograms.Academic studies have showcased the benefits of pre-engineering education. For example, thesetype of programs in K-12 are linked to higher self-efficacy in engineering (Fantz, Siller &DeMiranda, 2011), increases in pursuing STEM careers due to the early exposure to math andsciences (Raines
three factors to remaincompetitive: “advanced knowledge,” “advanced processes,” and “advanced business models.”This study is both timely and important because in a dynamic field such as AM, educators andindustry leaders must work together to meet workforce needs. Clear understanding of AM caninform competency models, bodies of knowledge, and empirical research that documents school-to-career pathways. Both our findings and our methods may shed light on the nature of relatedtechnical fields and offer industry and education strategies to ensure their alignment.OverviewHaving a strong domestic manufacturing base is vital to the United States innovation leadership.Technology-rich advanced manufacturing (AM) provides an important foundation for
hassupported close to 350 students over the past 5 years. Fall 2014 was the first time teaching afreshmen class for the FIR, and they had to adjust their teaching style to motivate 18-year-oldstudents. As someone who typically teaches upper-division Mechanical Engineering courses, theFIR had to change their classroom approach in order to work with first-year college students.The class contained several homework assignments which culminated into a final report. Theclass also had several seminars where faculty members came to the class as guest speakers, andthe FIR worked with the career center to host workshops. The EIRC’s class was more structuredduring the first semester.The second semester was more unstructured, meaning teams were allowed work on
, understanding majors and careers,academic requirements, student responsibilities, and financial management, it was notcompletely tooled to handle some issues pertinent to engineering disciplines.In 2016, the authors received an S-STEM Grant from NSF (Undergraduate Scholarships forExcellent Education in Environmental Engineering and Water Resources Management(USE4WRM)) to address the challenges being faced by first-generation minority students inengineering programs and to improve recruitment and retention of financially deprived studentswith high academic credentials who would pursue their undergraduate degrees in EnvironmentalEngineering or Water Resources Management. Since Fall 2016, the authors have taught a sessionof FYS 1101 for these majors as a
; 3:Likely; 4: Extremely likely Q4: To what extent do you 3 3 4 2.67 3 2 anticipate using what you’ve learnt in your future career?* We included the mean even though it’s not recommended by statisticians for Likert data because itseemed to add to the interpretability of the median and mode which alone would give the impression thatthe results were too similar across the board Post-activity Survey Responses 120 100 80 60 40 20 0 Fall 2017 Fall 2018 Fall 2017 Fall 2018 Fall 2017 Fall 2018 Fall 2017 Fall 2018 Q1 Q2 Q3
of Engineering(NAE) Grand Challenges of Engineering. To determine if students’ career paths generally led tosolutions for these problems, they were given statistics that showed the companies that are themajor employers for Rowan University graduates. This encouraged students to reflect on theirfuture career paths and to consider whether the companies they may work for are providingsolutions for either the problems students identified or the NAE Grand Challenges ofEngineering. The technical discussion focused on developing the chassis for the drone. Severalstudent groups also gave technical presentations on the topic of FAA regulations for smalldrones.During weeks four and five, we had students explore many issues related to
Paper ID #25320Leaders as CoachesDr. Meg Handley, Pennsylvania State University, University Park Meg Handley is currently the Associate Director for Engineering Leadership Outreach at Penn State University. Previously, Meg served as the Director of the Career & Corporate Connection’s office at the Smeal College of Business at Penn State University. Meg completed her PhD in Workforce Education at Penn State, where she focused on interpersonal behaviors and their impact on engineering leadership potential. Meg is a board certified coach with experience in developing students’ leadership and professional com
many career choices available to them. The engineering profession isalso about dedication to problem-solving and making the world sustainable.To prepare students in navigating the rigors of engineering programs and succeed in theengineering profession requires mastery of quantitative skills. These skills prepare students tohandle data and use numerical methods for systematic analysis and design of engineering systems.The students also follow engineering design processes to identify and solve complex problems.Engineering design is purposeful and requires formulation of an explicit goal. Engineers mustchoose the best possible option within the constraints of time, cost, tools, and materials. It is alsoa systematic and iterative process that