Paper ID #26180Board 43: Designing Boosters and Recognition to Promote a Growth Mindsetin Programming ActivitiesProf. Stephen H Edwards, Virginia Tech Stephen H. Edwards is a Professor and the Associate Department Head for Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Computer Science at Virginia Tech, where he has been teaching since 1996. He received his B.S. in electrical engineering from Caltech, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in computer and informa- tion science from The Ohio State University. His research interests include computer science education, software testing, software engineering, and programming languages. He is
Paper ID #26852Board 85: Engineering Prosocial Engagement in Electrical & Computer En-gineeringDr. 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 graduates. LaMeres teaches and conducts research in the area of computer engineering. LaMeres is currently studying the effectiveness of
college: Creating conditions that matter”. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2005.. [3] S. A. Ambrose, M. W. Bridges, M. DiPietro, M. C. Lovett, & M.K. Norman, “How Learning Works: Seven Research-Based Principles for Smart Teaching,” San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2010. [4] National Research Council, “Discipline-Based Education Research: Understanding and Improving Learning in Undergraduate Science and Engineering.” Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 2012. [5] Bransford, J.D., Brown, A.L., & Cocking, R.R. (Eds). “How People Learn. Brain, Mind, Experience and School.” Washington DC: National Academy Press, 2008. [6] N. Kober, “Reaching Students
., & Zajicek, J.M. (2005). Growing minds: The effects of a one-year school garden program on six constructs of life skills of elementary school children. HortTechnology, 15(3), 453-457.[16] Townsend, C.D., & Carter, R.I. (1983). The relationship of participation in FFA activities and leadership, citizenship, and cooperation. Journal of the American Association of Teacher Educators in Agricultural, 24(1), 20-25.[17] Hynes, M., Maxey, K. (2018). Investigating the Fit Between Students? Personal Interests and Their Perceptions of Engineering in a National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE) Pre-college Summer Workshop. Proceedings of the 2018 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and
Computing and Engineering Student Success) to collect data onstudents’ non-cognitive and affective (NCA) factors. This survey, which is the first of its kind tobe launched on a national scale, measures 28 NCA factors that may contribute to student successincluding personality, grit, identity, mindset, motivation, stress, gratitude, mindfulness, andbelongingness. Many engineering and computing students have strong incoming academicrecords and standardized test scores that indicate potential for success in their programs;nonetheless, many struggle when they reach university. Cognitive measures like SAT/ACT areweak predictors of academic success, and NCA measures may form the constellation ofcharacteristics that offer further predictive power. In this
"I enjoy giving back to the Extracurriculars experiences in extracurricular 11.11% community." activitiesWhile many students attributed their experiences with poor mental health to engineering, somestudents described resources and practices they were pursuing to improve their mental health:“Developed an anxiety disorder after starting college, currently taking steps to help (seeing aprofessional, practicing mindfulness/wellbeing).”. Other positive experiences listed by studentsincluded department resources (buildings, budget, etc.), good advising, faith, mindfulness, andmeditation.DiscussionThe overall goal of the project is to
consider to have been ambiguous. Interviews will beanalyzed using phenomenography, leading to outcome spaces that define a hierarchy of waysthat each group experiences ambiguity. These outcome spaces will then be used to develop ataxonomy of ambiguity that can be used in future studies of engineering problem solving.Ultimately, we aim to provide better instructional materials, methods, and tool kits for teachingstudents to solve ambiguous engineering problems.IntroductionHow do engineers handle ambiguous problems? This is a common question pondered by bothacademic and professional engineers. “Maturity of mind is the capacity to endure uncertainty,”said John Huston Finley [1], former President of the College of the City of New York,Commissioner of
Paper ID #26725Board 31: Engineering with Engineers: Revolutionizing a Mechanical Engi-neering Department through Industry Immersion and a Focus on IdentityDr. Yen-Lin Han, Seattle University Yen-Lin Han is an Assistant Professor in the department of Mechanical Engineering at Seattle University. Her research interests include micro-scale molecular gas dynamics, micro fluidics, and heat transfer ap- plications in MEMS and medical devices as well as autonomous vehicles and robotics. She is passionate about Engineering Education and experienced in developing inverted classroom lectures and facilitat- ing students’ learning
. Engineering students at the Westinstitution were interviewed about their beliefs and attitudes on various diversity-related topics;interviews ranged from general conceptualizations of and experiences with diversity (e.g.,experiences with discrimination) to the specifics of their first-year engineering teamingexperiences, mirroring the interviews at the Midwestern institution. Through these personal andoften uncomfortable conversations about diversity, participants revealed that having anopportunity to talk candidly about diversity may be a catalyst to shifting attitudes about diversity[15]. Students indicated that the opportunity to discuss the topic of diversity was “mind-boggling(George)” and made them “think about how [they behave] with other
Paper ID #25160Board 5: Collaborative Research: Experiential Process Safety Training forChemical EngineersDr. Daniel D. Anastasio, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Daniel Anastasio is an assistant professor at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. He received a B.S. and Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Connecticut in 2009 and 2015, respectively. His primary areas of research are game-based learning in engineering courses and membrane separations for desalination and water purification.Brittany Lynn ButlerProf. Daniel D. Burkey, University of Connecticut Daniel Burkey is the Associate Dean of
this paper builds onprior evidence supporting the use of funds of knowledge and engineering design, as a STEMintegrator, as well as empirical research on the structure, content, and outcomes of effectiveprofessional learning to create transformative educational experiences for teachers, andultimately their students [7-10].The APRENDE ProjectThe Asset-based Practices in Engineering Design (APRENDE) project focuses on both middleschool students and their teachers. It offers the opportunity to have an early impact on students’engineering interest while also providing teachers with a broader perspective of how to developstudents’ engineering habits of mind and dispositions using funds of knowledge. The goal of thisthree-year project is (1) to
to the workplace:How students become engineers among other forms of self. (Doctoral dissertation). ProQuestDissertations & Theses (Order No. 3669254), 2014.[23] A. Byars-Winston, Y. Estrada, C. Howard, D. Davis, & J. Zalapa. “Influence of socialcognitive and ethnic variables on academic goals of underrepresented students in science andengineering: a multiple groups analysis”. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 5: 205–218, 2010.[24] L. I. Rendón. “Academics of the heart: Reconnecting the scientific mind with the spirit'sartistry”. The Review of Higher Education, 24(1): 1-13, 2000.[25] Committee on Public Understanding of Engineering Messages. Changing the Conversation:Messages for Improving Public Understanding of Engineering
] R.H. Kluwe, “Cognitive knowledge and executive control: Metacognition”, Animal mind—human mind,pp. 201-224, 1982.[5] P.R. Pintrich, “The role of metacognitive knowledge in learning, teaching, and assessing”, Theory intopractice, vol. 41, no.3, pp. 219-225, 2002.[6] D. H. Schunk and B.J. Zimmerman, “Social origins of self-regulatory competence”, Educationalpsychologist, vol. 32, no.4, pp. 195-208, 1997.[7] R. Longhurst, “Semi-structured interviews and focus groups”, Key methods in geography, pp. 117-132,2003.[8] R.A. Dixon, “Experts and novices: Differences in their use of mental representation and metacognitionin engineering design”, Doctoral dissertation, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2011.[9] V. Braun and V. Clarke, “Using
Paper ID #26927Board 68: Problem-Solving Rationales of Practicing Transportation and Hy-draulic Engineers When Provided Multiple Contextual RepresentationsDr. Masoud Ghodrat Abadi, California State University, Sacramento Masoud Ghodrat Abadi is an assistant professor in Civil Engineering at California State University, Sacra- mento. He received his PhD in 2018 from Oregon State University. He is a member of standing committee on Education and Training in Transportation Research Board (TRB).Mr. Sean Lyle Gestson, Oregon State University Sean Gestson is a recent graduate from the University of Portland where he studied Civil
National Academies Press, 2012. https://doi.org/10.17226/25038.[11] A. Kirn, J.L. Huff, A. Godwin, M. Ross, & C. Cass. “Exploring tensions of using interpretative phenomenological analysis in a domain with conflicting cultural practices.” Qualitative Research in Psychology, 1-20, 2019.[12] A. Kirn, A. Godwin, C. Cass, M.S. Ross, & J.L. Huff. “Mindful Methodology: A transparent dialogue on adapting Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis for engineering education research.” In ASEE 2017: American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, 2017.[13] J. Husman & W. Lens. “The role of the future in student motivation.” Educational Psychologist, vol. 34, no. 2, pp. 113-125
Paper ID #26198Board 112: Contextualizing Learning: Exploring the Complex Cultural Sys-tem of Learning in Engineering MakerspacesDr. Robert L. Nagel, James Madison University Dr. Robert Nagel is an Associate Professor in the Department of Engineering at James Madison Univer- sity. Dr. Nagel joined the James Madison University after completing his Ph.D. in mechanical engineering at Oregon State University. He has a B.S. from Trine University and a M.S. from the Missouri University of Science and Technology, both in mechanical engineering. Since joining James Madison University, Nagel has helped to develop and teach the six
Paper ID #25851NSF S-STEM: Transfer Success Co-Design for Engineering Disciplines (Tran-SCEnD)Dr. Rachel McCord, University of Tennessee, Knoxville Rachel McCord is a a Lecturer and Research Assistant Professor in the Engineering Fundamentals Divi- sion at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. She received her Ph.D. in Engineering Education from Virginia Tech. Her research interests include the impact of metacognitive and self-regulated learning development on engineering student success, particularly in the first year.Dr. David J. Keffer, University of Tennessee, Knoxville David Keffer received his B.S. in Chemical
Paper ID #27430Engagement Patterns across Race, Gender and Family Income in Engineer-ing ClassroomsDr. Denise Wilson, University of Washington Denise Wilson is a professor of electrical engineering at the University of Washington, Seattle. Her research interests in engineering education focus on the role of self-efficacy, belonging, and other non- cognitive aspects of the student experience on engagement, success, and persistence and on effective methods for teaching global issues such as those pertaining to sustainability.Lauren Summers, University of Washington Lauren Summers is a doctoral student in the College of
and technology from Virginia Tech.Marlena McGlothlin Lester, Virginia Tech Marlena McGlothlin Lester is the Director of Advising for the Department of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech. She leads the undergraduate advising team and oversees the advising process for all General Engineering students. She is responsible for the development of a hands-on, minds-on orien- tation model for all first-year engineering students, the creation of a comprehensive engineering major exploration tool, Explore Engineering, and enhancement of the academic planning resources available for first-year engineering students. Marlena strives to transform the advising experience for students and advisors through communication
Adolescence, Contemporary Educational Psychology, c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Paper ID #27418and Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology. She received a Spencer Foundation Grant in 2007to examine academic prospects, interpersonal relationships, and social well-being of students in schooldistricts with a high concentration of students of Arab and Chaldean origins. Recently, she received in-ternal grants from the University of Toledo to conduct mindfulness intervention projects with elementaryschool students and preservice teachers. She is also the recipient of the Fulbright Specialist Fellowship
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 #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
: ● 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 #25639STEM Servingness at Hispanic Serving InstitutionsDr. Vignesh Subbian, The University of Arizona Vignesh Subbian is an Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Systems and Industrial Engineer- ing, member of the BIO5 Institute, and a Distinguished Fellow of the Center for University Education Scholarship at the University of Arizona. His professional areas of interest include medical informatics, healthcare systems engineering, and broadening participation in engineering and computing. Subbian’s educational research is focused on ethical decision-making and formation of identities in engineering.Dr
Paper ID #26595Neurocognitive Evidence on the Impact of Topical Familiarity in CreativeOutcomesDr. Rafal Jonczyk, Department of Psychology, Pennsylvania State University, USA; Faculty of English, AdamMickiewicz University, PolandProf. Janet van Hell, Pennsylvania State University ¨ E. Okudan Kremer, Iowa State UniversityDr. Gul G¨ul E. Kremer received her PhD from the Department of Engineering Management and Systems Engi- neering of Missouri University of Science & Technology. Her research interests include multi-criteria decision analysis methods applied to improvement of products and systems. She is a senior member of
Paper ID #26137Board 53: Program to Integrate Mobile, Hands-on Experiments into the ME,AE, and ECE CurriculumDr. Aldo A. Ferri, Georgia Institute of Technology Al Ferri received his BS degree in Mechanical Engineering from Lehigh University in 1981 and his PhD degree in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from Princeton University in 1985. Since 1985, he has been a faculty member in the School of Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Tech, where he now serves as Professor and Associate Chair for Undergraduate Studies. His research areas are in the fields of dynamics, controls, vibrations, and acoustics. He is also active in
Paper ID #25402Board 4: Leveraging Undergraduate Curriculum Reform to Impact Gradu-ate Education: a Case StudyDr. Jennifer R Amos, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Dr Amos joined the Bioengineering Department at the University of Illinois in 2009 and is currently a Teaching Associate Professor in Bioengineering and an Adjunct Associate Professor in Educational Psychology. She received her B.S. in Chemical Engineering at Texas Tech and Ph.D. in Chemical En- gineering from University of South Carolina. She completed a Fulbright Program at Ecole Centrale de Lille in France to benchmark and help create a new hybrid
Paper ID #25687Board 1: In the Business of Innovation: Development of a Canvas Tool toPromote and Sustain Pedagogical Risk Taking by FacultyRohini N. Abhyankar, Arizona State University Rohini Abhyankar is a third year graduate student at Arizona State University’s Engineering Education Systems and Design doctoral program. Rohini has a Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Syra- cuse University and Master’s and Bachelor’s degrees in Physics from University of Delhi, India. Rohini has over ten years each of industry and teaching experience. Her dissertation focus is on understanding the strategies adopted by early