engineering design studentsAbstractThis evidence-based practice paper describes the use of creativity practice exercises intended toenhance student creativity in a capstone design program. Engineering programs, in general, andcapstone design programs, in particular, that seek innovative conceptual solutions to complexproblems would benefit from techniques to develop and assess student creativity. Therefore, astudy was performed to evaluate two such techniques. Over the first two years of the study,capstone design students in the United States Air Force Academy’s Department of EngineeringMechanics were each assigned to one of 14 teams which received various learning experiences(treatments) intended to enhance individual creativity and design project
Society.Desen Sevi Ozkan, Virginia Tech Desen is a Ph.D. student in Engineering Education at Virginia Tech and holds a B.S. in Chemical Engi- neering from Tufts University.Hannah Claire Strom, Virginia Tech I am currently a Sophomore Undergraduate in Chemical Engineering with an intended Spanish minor at Virginia Tech. I am participating in Undergraduate Research with the Engineering Education department and intend to study Engineering Education in graduate school. I have previously worked as a grader for the Foundations of Engineering Class and assisted teaching Matlab once a week. I also work as a peer mentor for incoming freshman through the Center for Enhancement of Engineering Diversity. I wish to explore more about
Innovative Intervention to Infuse Diversity and Inclusion in a Statics CourseAbstractEngineering educators strive to prepare their students for success in the engineering workforce.Increasingly, many career paths will require engineering graduates to work in multidisciplinaryteams with individuals possessing a diversity of skill sets, backgrounds, and identities. Therefore,it is important not only for future engineers to have the opportunity to work in teams as students,but also to have specific instruction that teaches them about teamwork skills and the valuediversity and inclusion bring to engineering practice. Furthermore, it is important that thisinstruction occurs throughout their engineering coursework, giving
the language is only a meansto social gains with very little interest in the culture or the community of people who speak thelanguage. On the contrary, the integrative orientation implies a personal involvement or desireto connect with the community that speaks the language, get access to its culture or evenbecome a member of the group. The former distinction is not supposed to be taken as amutually exclusive dichotomy since there is an element of instrumentality in the integrativeorientation [21] [22]. The remaining sections of this paper will present a study on language attitudes amongundergraduate students enrolled in an engineering public university. Before moving on to thenext section, a brief synthesis of the discussion up to this
of the six the stages of problem solving: missing, inadequate, acceptable,and accurate. Any identification regarding group identity was removed prior to scoring andreplaced with a project-assigned ID number to maintain privacy and to mask group membershipfrom raters.A complete rating plan was proposed where four raters would use the PROCESS tool to score allsolutions submitted by all students from both cohorts. The four raters consisted of one chemicalengineering faculty member, one high school science teacher, and one graduate and oneundergraduate student in chemical engineering. All students completed ten traditional textbookproblems during the respective courses.AnalysesInitial inter-rater reliability was assessed in line with best
Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Paper ID #21908Measuring Student Learning of Crystal Structures Using Computer-basedVisualizationsDr. Susan P. Gentry, University of California, Davis Dr. Susan P. Gentry is a Lecturer with Potential Security of Employment in the Materials Science and Engineering department at the University of California, Davis. In her current position at UC Davis, she is integrating computational modules into the undergraduate and graduate materials curriculum. She is specifically interested in students’ computational literacy and life-long learning of computational materi- als science tools.Dr. Tanya
, along with a battery of social cognitive factors related to interest– including experience with engineering, knowledge and understanding of engineering as acareer field, and identity as an engineer. The study is part of an overarching program of researchat Arizona State University’s Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering, aimed at testing the efficacyof an out-of-school engineering program, Young Engineers Shape the World embedded in anNSF sponsored project. This project, Engineers from Day One, aims to facilitate the engineeringidentities of female, first-generation, and underrepresented minority students, with the goal ofincreasing these students’ entry and retention in engineering majors. The project is funded by aNational Science Foundation
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how team dynamics affect undergraduate women’s confidence levels in engineering.Dr. Malinda S. Zarske, University of Colorado, Boulder Malinda Zarske is a faculty member with the Engineering Plus program at the University of Colorado Boulder. She teaches undergraduate product design and core courses through Engineering Plus as well as STEM education courses for pre-service teachers through the CU Teach Engineering program. Her primary research interests include the impacts of project-based service-learning on student identity - es- pecially women and nontraditional demographic groups in engineering - as well as pathways and retention to and through K-12 and undergraduate engineering, teacher education, and
from a UK professor ii) ENGAGE: Everyday Examples in Engineering - NSF funded resourceMotivation is necessary but not sufficient for engagement [3]. Engagement, or a student’sactive involvement in a task or activity, is important because (among other things) it is linked toretention and graduation rates [4]. Luckily for us, of the 11 engagement indicators used by theNSSE study [4], many of them can be addressed but supporting the 3 antecedents of motivationabove. Others, including effective teaching practices (e.g. clearly explaining learning objectives,using examples to explain difficult points) are addressed in other guides in this series.Cited References[1] R. M. Ryan and E. L. Deci, “Intrinsic and Extrinsic
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 Ph.D. in Engineering and Science Education. Her research earned her a National Science Foundation CAREER Award focused on characterizing latent diversity, which includes diverse attitudes, mindsets, and approaches to learning, to understand engineering stu- dents’ identity development. She has won several awards for her research
joining ASU he was a graduate student research assistant at the Tufts’ Center for Engineering Ed- ucation and Outreach. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Work in Progress: Exploring ‘Ways of Thinking’ of Interdisciplinary CollaboratorsAbstractCalls have been made for novel ways of thinking about engineering education research. Buildingon an earlier qualitative inquiry, this work in progress study examined the number and nature offactors underlying the constructs of futures, values, systems, and strategic thinking within thecontext of interdisciplinary engineering education research. Exploratory factor analysis of surveydata (n =111) supported a correlated
Group since 2010, working on a longitudinal study of over 200 graduate students in the life sciences.Her major research project, the National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded ”FIRSTS (Foundation for Increasing and Retaining STEM Students) Program: A Bridge Program to Study the Development of Science Identities,” examines mentoring relationships, identity development, and the role of outside-of-college commitments in persistence among students coming to STEM majors with limited financial support.Dr. Christopher Wagner, The College of New Jersey Dr. Wagner is currently Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering (BME) at The College of New Jersey (TCNJ), where he has taught students at all levels of the curriculum
® students are learning in this three-year program entail skills that engineering studentsare exposed to in college; however, the Femineer® students are able to learn the curriculum throughhands-on experience and become confident in these skills before entering college. A pilot quantitative study was completed with the Creative Robotics curriculum with eightschools, 173 participants, in the 2016-2017 academic year. Some of the findings from this studyshowed that 92% of participants agreed or strongly agreed that they “enjoyed participating in theFemineer® Program” and 81% of participants agreed or strongly agreed that they “learned to solveengineering problems in the Femineer® Program.” With the Creative Robotics curriculum, 78% ofrespondents
flipped design in engineering to the broader educational models cited in literature.Data SourcesThe primary data source for this study came from the gradebooks for each class. Though theclasses were taught in different manners, they were identical in terms of assignments, quizzes,and exams. The classes shared a common Gradescope online grade database, in whichhomework sets, quizzes, and exams were uploaded and graded using a common set of metrics.Homework sets and quizzes were graded by student graders, whereas the exams were graded byinstructors. Each homework, quiz, or exam problem was graded by the same person across allclass sections, e.g. the first midterm exam was graded by only two instructors, who each gradedone of the two exam questions
threads are cross-departmental pathways of classes and projects inareas that address the “new machines and systems” of the future and that are likely to play a major partin impacting the world when the students graduate. By participating in the pilot, students will earn an SBdegree from the department they are majoring in and a NEET Certificate naming the thread, within theusual four-year duration. NEET has launched two additional pilot threads in Fall 2018: AdvancedMaterials Machines (covering materials science and engineering and mechanical engineering) and CleanEnergy Systems (covering nuclear science and engineering, civil and environmental engineering andmechanical engineering).The NEET approach and curriculum developed over more than nine
, Salt LakeCity, Utah. Jun. 2018.[3] Yoritomo, J. Y., Turnipseed, N., Cooper, S. L., Elliott, C. M., Gallagher, J. R., Popovics, J.S., Prior, P., and Zilles, J. L. “Examining engineering writing instruction at a large researchuniversity through the lens of writing studies,” in Proceedings of the 2018 ASEE AnnualConference, Salt Lake City, Utah. Jun. 2018.[4] Hanson, A. J., Lindahl, P., Strasser, S. D., Takemura, A. F., Englund, D. R., and Goldstein, J.“Technical communication instruction for graduate students: The Communication Lab vs. acourse,” in Proceedings of the 2017 ASEE Annual Conference, Columbus, Ohio. Jun. 2017.[5] R. Day Babcock and T. Thonus, “A sample research question: What is a successful tutorial?”in Researching the Writing
. and M.S. degrees in Civil Engineering from Ohio State and earned her Ph.D. in Engineering Education from Virginia Tech. Her research interests focus on the intersection between motivation and identity of undergraduate and graduate students, first-year engineering programs, mixed methods research, and innovative approaches to teaching.Dr. Deborah M. Grzybowski, Ohio State University Dr. Deborah Grzybowski is a Professor of Practice in the Department of Engineering Education and the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at The Ohio State University. She received her Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering and her B.S. and M.S. in Chemical Engineering from The Ohio State University. Her research focuses on
different groups on the map, shown inFigure 3. This will include recruiting students from different parts of the maps in order to conductlongitudinal interviews about engineering pathways and the negotiation of identities as engineers.This corresponding qualitative work will build upon this study’s existing quantitative results andwill inform additional studies with the insights recorded.ConclusionThis paper described the key model parameters that researchers must consider in using a newstatistical method, Topological Data Analysis (TDA). We also presented how TDA can be usefulto characterize students’ latent diversity from a survey study of 3,711 first-year engineeringstudents’ incoming attitudes, beliefs, and mindsets at 32 ABET-accredited
the last 60 years, engineering graduation rates have been around 50% [4]; similarly, inMexico, engineering graduation rates barely achieve 40%. A review of the literature conductedby Geisinger and Raman [4] identified a set of factors that contribute to the attrition of students.These factors include classroom and academic environment including teaching and advising,grades and conceptual understanding, self-efficacy and self-confidence determined by highschool preparation in math and science among others. Engineering educators have argued thatpersonal and socio-economic factors can contribute to the attrition of students; however, there isa proportion of engineering students that leave because of the educational system. Studies haveshown that
graduates prepared to engage in entrepreneurial and intrapreneurialactivities?The research team is pursuing these questions through a multi-method approach, includingqualitative and quantitative methods. The work meets the requirements of Design andDevelopment Research, as specified by the Common Guidelines for Educational Research in thatit contains: 1) Development of a solution based on a well-specified theory of action appropriateto a well-defined end user; 2) Creation of measures to assess the implementation of thesolution(s); 3) Collection of data on the feasibility of implementing the solution(s) in typicaldelivery settings by intended users; and 4) Conducting a pilot study to examine the promise ofgenerating the intended outcomes [22].Theory
iteratively improveand expand, year-to-year, we have been able to focus on retaining what worked, addressing whatdid not work, and adding a new variable each time that can then be iteratively improved uponthe next time followed by expansion, if desired and needed.Assessing Progress for the Pilot Programs. The CoE and WCOB are currently usingqualitative data analyses through entry, mid-way, and exit surveys. Our intention is to researchand apply appropriate quantitative data analyses to further evaluate and iteratively improve theprogram with the overall objective of attracting, retaining, and graduating students who arecapable of innovating in a realistic, commercializing environment and to better prepare them forentering the workforce and to
itself to “topic-chaining” instruction which has been found to be particularly effective for URMs [21] -[25].Topic chaining pertains to the need to build towards complex topics by relating previous learningexperiences to future ones while also introducing relevant context. MethodsThe current case study is part of a larger National Science Foundation (NSF) grant funded(1734878) study concerning engineering identity development among middle school youth andpostsecondary engineering students in a summer intervention program. The study alsoinvestigates how early-career math and science teachers draw upon content learned in theprogram to adopt culturally responsive STEM pedagogy for application in their
characterize STEM careers as unworthy of literate andcreative individuals [2]. Does she have a good point? During the last two decades substantial efforthas been expended towards reconciling developing students with what can be broadly defined asSTEM identities. Considerable recent research broadly on STEM identities [e.g. 3-21], includingseparate considerations of science, engineering and math identities, has focused on the identitiesof groups and intersectionalities underrepresented in STEM disciplines and careers. But, someresearch also suggests that merely inserting a STEM label, e.g. science or scientist, into adiscussion unleashes implicit biases of gender, race and ethnicity in middle school children [14].Surveys to assess self-efficacy and
for Teaching and Learning in Engineering at the University of Louisville. Her research includes studying changes in science and engineering teacher practice, best practices in teacher professional learning experiences, teacher and student learning in mathematical and computational think- ing, and the use of undergraduate learning assistants in introductory STEM coursework. Address: Depart- ment of Middle and Secondary Education, Porter Building, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky 40292 Phone: 502.852.3948 Email: sbphil02@louisville.eduDr. Jason Immekus, University of Louisville c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 What can we learn from a
-employment experience hason students can help engineering education researchers (EER) understand the role that diverseteams, particularly in the capstone environment, can have for engineering students in thedevelopment of their collaborative abilities.In the long term, this study seeks to better understand how the social norms that are present ininterdisciplinary teams influence the development of effective collaborative behaviors. Thesebehaviors can be considered as belonging to a larger grouping of skills, sometimes called “meta-competencies,” that have become an increasingly important part of what employers look for fromengineering graduates [11]. However, this paper will focus directly on the curriculum design ofan interdisciplinary capstone
that included engagement analytics. She holds a US Patent # 7904323, Multi-Team Immersive Integrated Collaboration Workspace awarded 3/8/2011. She also has twenty-seven peer-reviewed publications.Ms. Elaine L. Craft, Florence-Darlington Technical College Elaine L. Craft (Florence-Darlington Technical College, Florence, SC-retired) holds a baccalaureate de- gree in chemical engineering from the University of Mississippi and a MBA from the University of South Carolina with additional graduate studies in mathematics. Her experience includes working as an engineer in industry as well as teaching and administration at community college and state levels. She served as Director of the South Carolina Advanced Technological (SC
Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Sustaining Change: Embedding Research Outcomes into School Practices, Policies and NormsWith an NSF Revolutionizing Engineering and Computer Science Departments (RED) grant, theSchool of Chemical, Biological and Environmental Engineering seeks to create (1) a culturewhere everyone in the CBEE community feels valued and that they belong, and (2) to create alearning environment that prompts students and faculty to meaningfully connect curricular andco-curricular activities and experiences to each other and to professional practice. We aim tohave students connect what they learn to the context of their lives, identities, and emergingcareers. We want CBEE graduates to be