depended on which experts they had in mind. They wanted toevaluate the experts first, and then make the judgement of the validity of the expert’s answers.As mentioned above, the student who put neutral for the item of Certainty of Knowledge made acomparison between two different fields (civil engineering vs. biomedical engineering) and wasaware that her beliefs would vary according to the different fields. Contrary to theory, thesestudents’ choices of neutral points might reflect a more sophisticated thinking than other studentswho stick to the ratings of the scales.6. Conclusion The measurement validity issues with the self-report instruments of domain-specificepistemic beliefs may be due to any of the reasons we described in section “2.2
obligations to the university as an example of Institutional Identity.Discourse Identity is an identity associated with a personal trait, specific to one’s individuality. It isan identity formed around a trait recognized by other people such as being charismatic, charming,and witty [6]. Affinity Identity is an identity associated with being part of a like-minded (affinity)group. This form of identity is recognized once a person joins an affinity group and by joiningdevelops an identity through shared experiences or commitments to the group. Affinity identityhighlights the interconnection between identity and groups/communities. As engineering studentsdevelop their engineering identity, they also begin navigating social experiences afforded
on their work. The year-long Capstone experience will give students the opportunity to receive a wide spectrum offeedback, enhance their technical communication skills, and develop their professional networks.AssessmentThe PDT is designed as an integral experience and the development of professional skills willoccur in a progressive manner as the student makes progress through the different courses. Theprogram learning outcomes (PLOs) of the PDT were developed with the ABET list of professionalskills in mind and they give educators the opportunity to assess the level of competence in eachskills in a comprehensive manner. By the time a student completes the PDT, they will be able to: 1. Identify an engineering problem and formulate it in
insurance, faculty time, and overhead, the annual cost is in the$100K/year range. Who’s going to pay the tab? Not the students we hoped to enroll.With these goals and constraints in mind, members of our faculty, together with representativesfrom the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory and leaders from local high-techcorporations, set out to create a doctoral program from scratch.Implementation: Employer PartnershipsThe central idea is to instantiate DEng studies and research as a partnership between JHU’sSchool of Engineering and each student’s employer. Specifically, we expect the following fromthe student’s employer: • To provide an onsite co-advisor to be an advocate for the student and a local resource for their work. The co
integrated as a core framework for EFIC. Bekki andcolleagues [19] define EM as “the set of cognitive behaviors that orient an engineer towardopportunity recognition and value creation in any context, not just that of an entrepreneurialventure.” KEEN’s framework for EM, referred to as the “3Cs”, supports developing studentbehavioral and mindset outcomes, including using curiosity to explore the world, and makingconnections between different sources and information in order to create value for others[20].This framework has resonated and been applied by a number of faculty to drive content,assessment, and pedagogical changes in their courses. This has become known asentrepreneurially-minded learning (EML) [21]. The majority of courses in which EM has
particular, activities/tours that were specific toindividual project teams are not listed in this table).Teacher Research ProjectsEight faculty members from the school of engineering volunteered to supervise teacher projectsin the summers of 2016-2018. Each engineering faculty member gave an overview of his/herproject on the second day of the program and gave teachers the opportunity to tour the labfacilities and ask questions before being asked to rank the projects by order of preference on thethird day. Project assignment involved taking the teachers’ preferences in mind, as well as tryingto pair up appropriate skills and backgrounds to each project. Most teachers received their first orsecond choice and were generally pleased with the project
qualitative data during the second cycle of camps in summer 2019. Inaddition, an interesting outcome (theme 2) was that the camps did instill in the campers theconnection of words like “teamwork”, “collaboration” and “communication” to engineering.This has been indicated as a necessity in marketing engineering to the public, including K-12[16]. Finally, an outcome of theme 3 is that we will be giving guidance to the campers on classesthey should be considering to be successful in engineering keeping in mind what has beensuggested in [16]. We will also reinforce the connection of camp activities to fields ofengineering throughout the five days of camp. Future work will focus on understanding whichactivities and approaches serve to positively foster
Paper ID #25919Board 50: WIP: Evidence-based analysis of the design of collaborative problem-solving engineering tasksMiss Taylor Tucker, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Taylor Tucker graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a Bachelor’s degree in engineering mechanics. She is now pursuing a master’s degree at UIUC and will begin in the Digital En- vironments for Learning, Teaching, and Agency program in the department of Curriculum and Instruction in the fall of 2019. She is interested in design thinking as it applies to engineering settings and lends her technical background to her
Paper ID #25175Transformations in Elementary Teachers’ Pedagogical Reasoning: StudyingTeacher Learning in an Online Graduate Program in Engineering EducationDr. Jessica Watkins, Vanderbilt University Jessica Watkins is Assistant Professor of Science Education at Vanderbilt University.Dr. Merredith D. Portsmore, Tufts University Dr. Merredith Portsmore is the Director for Tufts Center for Engineering Education and Outreach as well as a Research Assistant Professor at the Center. Merredith received all four of her degrees from Tufts (B.A. English, B.S. Mechanical Engineering, M.A. Education, PhD in Engineering Education) and has
the Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Work in Progress: First-Year Engineering College Students: Value Created from Participating in a Living Learning CommunityAbstractThis Work in Progress paper examines how to capture the perceived value obtained from first-year engineering college students (FYECS) from participating in the Engineering and InnovationResidential College (EIRC), a living learning community (LLC). People are social by nature andthrive through collaborating and living with others who share similar passions; however,oftentimes FYECS do not have a community of like-minded peers where support
Paper ID #26150How to Approach Learning: Engineering Students’ Perceptions of Project-based and Problem-based Learning at an International Branch Campus inthe Middle EastMiss Alaa Abdalla, Texas A&M University at Qatar Alaa Abdalla is a mechanical engineering student, class of 2019, at Texas A&M University at Qatar. Besides engineering she enjoys learning theoretical Math and Physics concepts. She pursued a minor in mathematics alongside her bachelor’s degree. She is also actively involved in writing and reading initiatives on campus. Currently, she is working on her undergraduate research thesis that looks at the
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, but predominantly believed that engineering matched 13their interests (41%) or that they were either good at or interested in math, science, computerscience, or problem-solving (30%). Eighteen of these 25 students also responded to the question“If your interests have changed, what did you learn about engineering that changed your mind?”Eleven students (61%) indicated that the work was more difficult than expected and seven students(39%) indicated that they discovered engineering is not what they thought it was and is not thecareer for them. Additionally, 14 of the 25 students who indicated having academic difficulty inboth math and chemistry (56
Paper ID #26276I Have a Ph.D.! Now What? A Program to Prepare Engineering Ph.D.’s andPostdoctoral Fellows for Diverse Career OptionsTeresa J. Didiano, University of Toronto Teresa Didiano is the Special Programs Coordinator at the Troost Institute for Leadership Education in Engineering at the University of Toronto. She develops and coordinates leadership programs for under- graduate students, graduate students, and engineering professionals. Teresa has an HBSc and MSc from the University of Toronto, and Life Skills Coaching Certification from George Brown College.Ms. Lydia Wilkinson, University of Toronto Lydia
engineering will be as well. There is both a sense inwhich Nicole’s experience of shame is lived by her and a sense in which her engineeringenvironment establishes the context for her to live in the experience of shame. Our previousresearch [1,6,7] has provided a more extensive review of how shame has been examined in prioreducation research.With this individual-in-environment connection in mind, we chose to examine Nicole’s case ofexperiencing shame within the context of engineering education. Nicole, who identifies as aWhite woman, was a junior-level mechanical engineering student at the time of our interview.She also holds an identity as a student-athlete at the university. These multiple identities arepresent in different social situations in
Paper ID #25362Intercultural Competency Differences between U.S. and Central Asian stu-dents in an Engineering Across Cultures and Nations Graduate CourseDr. Dena Lang, Pennsylvania State University, University Park Dr. Lang is the Associate Director of the Engineering Leadership Research Program at Penn State Uni- versity. She holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from West Virginia University, an MBA from Johns Hopkins University, and a PhD in Kinesiology with a focus on Biomechanics from Penn State University. Dr. Lang’s previous professional experiences and research interests range from mechanical engineering
sector, “there is consensus on primarymechanisms that enable or obstruct systems thinking development in engineers” [12].Experiential learning, such as work and life experiences, is one of the three mechanisms thatenable systems thinking development, and was the top ranked mechanism with 40% or more ofthe interviewees including work or life experiences [12]. The second mechanism was individualcharacteristics and traits, listed as: “thinking broadly, curiosity, questioning, open-minded,communication, tolerance for uncertainty, strong interpersonal skills, and thinking outside thebox”; the third mechanism is a “supportive environment” [12].Critical Systems Thinking CourseCritical Systems Thinking (CST) is a course in the MS Aviation and Aerospace
The University of Alabama. She has experi- ence working with many industries such as automotive, chemical distribution etc. on transportation and operations management projects. She works extensively with food banks and food pantries on supply chain management and logistics focused initiatives. Her graduate and undergraduate students are integral part of her service-learning based logistics classes. She teaches courses in strategic relationships among industrial distributors and distribution logistics. Her recent research focuses on engineering education and learning sciences with a focus on how to engage students better to prepare their minds for the future. Her other research interests include empirical studies
Paper ID #25276Using Topological Data Analysis in Social Science Research: Unpacking De-cisions and Opportunities for a New MethodDr. 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 fos- ter or hinder belongingness and identity development. Dr. Godwin graduated from Clemson University with a B.S. in Chemical Engineering and
Paper ID #27698The Search for the Commercial Space Technologist: A Comparison of Avia-tion and Commercial Space-related Postsecondary ProgramsMs. Tracy L. Yother, Purdue Polytechnic Institute Tracy L. Yother is an instructor in Aeronautical Engineering Technology and a PhD candidate in Career and Technical Education in the College of Education at Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana. Ms. Yother currently teaches the undergraduate Powerplant Systems and Design Supportability courses in the Aeronautical Engineering Technology (AET) program. She possesses a B.S. and M.S. in Aviation Technology. She also holds an
Paper ID #27505An Exploration of Course Design Heuristics Identified from Design Meetings,Design Artifacts, and Educator InterviewsDr. Nicholas D. Fila, Iowa State University Nicholas D. Fila is a postdoctoral research associate in Electrical and Computer Engineering and Indus- trial Design at Iowa State University. He earned a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and a M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a Ph.D. in Engi- neering Education from Purdue University. His current research interests include innovation, empathy, engineering design, instructional design
Paper ID #28113Board 4: Computers in Education Division: Partnering to Develop Educa-tional Software Applications: A Four-year Retrospective StudyMr. David Reeping, Virginia Tech David Reeping is a doctoral candidate in Engineering Education at Virginia Tech and is an NSF Graduate Research Fellow. He received his B.S. in Engineering Education with a Mathematics minor from Ohio Northern University. He was a Choose Ohio First scholar inducted during the 2012-2013 school year as a promising teacher candidate in STEM. David was the recipient of the Remsburg Creativity Award for 2013 and the DeBow Freed Award for outstanding
Paper ID #26899Board 58:Need-Based Scholarship Program: Who is Applying, Who is Suc-cessful, and Who is Not Applying?Dr. Anastasia Marie Rynearson, Campbell University Anastasia Rynearson is an Assistant Professor at Campbell University. She received a PhD from Purdue University in Engineering Education and a B.S. and M.Eng. in Mechanical Engineering at the Rochester Institute of Technology. Her teaching experience includes outreach activities at various age levels as well as a position as Assistant Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department at Kanazawa Technical College and Future Faculty Fellow teaching First
, technology integration, online course design and delivery, program evaluation, and assessment. Dr. Lux’s current research agenda is STEM teaching and learning in K-12 contexts, technology integration in teacher preparation and K-12 contexts, educational gaming design and integration, and new technologies for teaching and learning.Dr. Brock J. LaMeres, Montana State University Dr. Brock J. LaMeres is a Professor in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at Mon- tana State University (MSU) and the Director of the Montana Engineering Education Research Center (MEERC). LaMeres is also the Boeing Professor at MSU where he is responsible for initiatives to im- prove the professional skills of engineering
regards many educators have developed project-based learning exercises in engineering and other courses so that the students will learn by doing.Project-based learning motivates the learners and provides “hands-on” and “minds-on” training.A laboratory-based civil engineering course in Computer Aided Structural Analysis Design andExperimentation is redesigned using Fink’s Taxonomy of significant learning with learning goalsand several dimensions from foundational knowledge, application, integration, human dimension,caring and learning how to learn. In this respect, e-Learning plays a critical role in knowledge andskills development as well as course management. Learning Management System Moodle is usedas an e-Learning tool for communication with
: ● Introduction to Library Resources & Literature Review – Typically condicted at the beginning of the program, this session brings engineering librarian specialists to introduce students to library and online resources available to researchers. Students conduct a literature review with guidance and feedback from mentors. ● Mind Mapping/Systems Thinking – This workshop introduces Mind Mapping [9] as a tool for Systems Thinking. Participants use both software and pen-and-paper methods practice systems level understanding of not just technical, but societal, ethical, and global implications of their topic. They visualize and situate their research in the context of the vision of the Center as well as the broader
Paper ID #25985A Qualitative Investigation of Students’ Problem Solving Strategies in a Spa-tial Visualization CourseMrs. Adetoun Yeaman, Virginia Tech Adetoun Yeaman is a PhD candidate in Engineering Education at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech). She received her MS degree in 2013 in Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering and her BS degree in Biomedical Engineering in 2011, both from Virginia Commonwealth University. She is currently a Graduate Teaching Assistant. Her research interests include empathy, design education, spatial visualization and multimedia learning. Address: Virginia
the high degree of connectivity between materials and the processes that create andshape them into the products we used in every-day life. This grounding in real world applicationscan be used to show the value of materials science to those experiencing it for the first time,assisting educators in increasing the field’s interest. The records and associated properties werechosen with a high school audience in mind; all are common in everyday life so personalconnections can be readily made. This commonality could make this tool useful for a basicintroductory engineering course as well, particularly a broad discipline overview or freshmancornerstone course. Figures 3 and 4 showcase mockup material and product database images,while Table 1
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Paper ID #27291Outcomes-based Design of a New Graduate ProgramDr. Ann D. Christy P.E., Ohio State University Ann D. Christy, PE, is a professor of Food, Agricultural, and Biological Engineering and a professor of Engineering Education at the Ohio State University (OSU). She earned both her B.S. in agricultural engineering and M.S. in biomedical engineering at OSU, and her Ph.D. in environmental engineering at Clemson University. She worked for an engineering consulting firm before entering academia and continues to collaborate with the consulting industry. She has taught courses in bioenergy, biological en