Engineering at Virginia Tech, with courtesy appointments in Computer Science and the School of Architecture + Design. He is the co-director of the Virginia Tech E-textiles Lab and the associate director of the Institute for Creativity, Arts, and Technology. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University and his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Cincinnati. His research and teaching interests include wearable computing, electronic textiles, and interdisciplinary design teams for pervasive computing. In 2006 he was selected for the National Science Foundation’s Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) for his research in e-textile
later. Her research interests currently focuses on engineering doctoral students in underserved populations such as women and international students.Dr. Samantha Ruth Brunhaver, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus Samantha Brunhaver is an Assistant Professor of Engineering in the Fulton Schools of Engineering Poly- technic School. Dr. Brunhaver recently joined Arizona State after completing her M.S. and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University. She also has a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Northeastern University. Dr. Brunhaver’s research examines the career decision-making and professional identity formation of engineering students, alumni, and practicing engineers. She also conducts studies
. Due to institutional constraints only two departmentscontributed students to the course. After thoughtful conversations with stake holder’s broadsupport was found for the goals of the course, but not for the mechanism of using aninterdisciplinary course to meet those goals. Currently, we are transitioning from a course-basedapproach to a non-course-based approach for supporting more effective ramps into research.Introduction and Literature ReviewTraining future professionals for science, engineering, and math (STEM) careers is the primaryundergraduate training mission of university STEM departments. Ideally, STEM education wouldprovide effective mentoring for talented students from all backgrounds. However, historicaldisparities persist in
], motivatingstudents to pursue science careers [8] [9], enhancing student learning outcomes [10] [11],promoting STEM career among women [12], and psychological processes relevant to the problem[13] [14] are all examples of targeted interventions.On the other hand, an engaging first-year engineering experience can circumvent the need forinterventions and has been shown to play a critical role in encouraging excitement, retention, andsatisfaction in engineering [15] [16]. This is attributable to the importance of the first year and itsfrequent coincidence with failed classes and dropouts [17]. In addition, completion of the first-year (i.e., first-year retention) is predictive of eventual graduation rates [17]. Therefore, significantefforts have been invested
and machine learning. Specifically, he is interested in smartphone security, and IoT security.Dr. Kristina Rigden, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona Dr. Kristina Rigden is the Director of Outreach Programs and the Women in Engineering Program for the College of Engineering at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona (Cal Poly Pomona). In her position, she provides several different outreach programming events to engage K-12 female students to pursue STEM majors and/or careers. Dr. Rigden holds a B.A. in Liberal Studies from Cal Poly Pomona, a TESOL certificate, a M.A. in Teaching with a multiple-subject credential and an Ed.D. from the University of Southern California.Dr. Thomas Ketseoglou
integratetechnical and professional skills and knowledge in their development as an engineer [1]”. Inaddition, engineering students’ involvement in activities outside of the classroom, such asstudent competition teams, contributes to their achievement of numerous other outcomes;according to Simmons, et al, engagement with these activities enhances students’ “career andprofessional development, communication and leadership development, intellectualdevelopment, personal and social development, academic and social engagement, interculturalcompetence, satisfaction with college experiences, and college belonging and persistence inmajor and college [2]”. Working on a competition team, therefore, contributes to thedevelopment of students’ design and build skills
Paper ID #28782Landscape of Engineering Technology Programs as seen from ASEEAimee T Ulstad P.E., The Ohio State University Aimee Ulstad, P.E is an Associate Professor of Practice in the Integrated Systems Engineering Department at The Ohio State University. Prior to joining the faculty at Ohio State, Aimee was an industry professional in various field in engineering for over 30 years. Aimee received her degrees in Mechanical Engineering and Masters in Business Administration from Ohio State. She began her career as a packaging equipment engineer at Procter and Gamble, then moved to Anheuser-Busch where she worked for
important to ensuring persistence, we utilized empirical datafrom the MIDFIELD dataset [21]. MIDFIELD consists of data collected from over 1.5 millionundergraduate, degree-seeking students from 19 different institutions. It is a longitudinal studentrecord level database, which means it includes everything that appears on students’ transcripts,and that it contains tracking information on each student during their academic career. Itconsiders not only demographic student information (such as sex, ethnicity, and age), but alsoacademic information (such as their major, enrollment status, term and year in which the studentFigure 1: Adapted version of Astin’s I-E-O model applied to computing students to assess persis-tence/graduation rates. Includes pre
Diversity andInclusivityGoal:To strengthen faculty’s connection to industry and aid their ability to facilitate studentconnections, faculty will participate in an industry immersion experience during the summerwhere they work with practicing engineers and learn current industry practices. Additionally,faculty will acquire relevant industrial and teacher trainings. Ultimately, faculty will see theirrole, or identity, as moving students towards becoming practicing engineers who create a “morejust and humane world.” Students, too, will reflect on their identities as engineers and how thoserelate to their education and career paths. To bridge course work and industry practices, anIndustry Advisor with extensive experience in industry and passion for
within the Center for entrepreneurship at California State University, Chico. Mr. Rahn has extensive industry back- ground with software and consulting startups and specialized in new product and market development. Following his successful industry career Mr. Rahn transitioned to teaching strategy and entrepreneurship at Chico State. Over the past 16 years Mr. Rahn has developed the e-Incubator at Chico State, as well as created a course called Web-based entrepreneurship which focuses on helping students launch the on- line portion of their businesses using the Lean Startup approach. In 2016 he published ”e-Business for Entrepreneurs,” an online course for entrepreneurs building e-businesses
are mandated toreflect state career and technology education (CTE) curriculum frameworks, but the frameworksare not designed to measure graduates' abilities to meet AM employers’ current needs. Becausethis technology-reliant industry changes so quickly, faculty are challenged to source, develop,and implement responsive educational experiences. Through consultation with industry leaders,the Department of Labor (DOL) developed an AM competency model to illustrate and promoteworkers’ necessary knowledge, skills, and dispositions. To determine whether the AMcompetency model can function as an exit assessment for AM program graduates, we comparedAM program syllabi from five rural Northwest Florida state colleges to the DOL AMCompetency Model. We
this program that wasoffered between Penn State and UNI last year. The article also reports the motivation behind theprogram revisions, the integration of SDG’s with Drawdown, and the strategy for obtaining theapproval and support of the university faculty. The assessment of newer hands-on projects addedto the program and future activities are presented. The impact of this program on students’professional growth and career development are discussed, as well.1. IntroductionThe concepts of global citizenship [1,2] and sustainability [3] are essential in transformingundergraduate education in the United States in order to handle the challenges of the 21st century.Indeed, Higher Education institutions need to identify, create, and provide
transferred to a non-engineering program at UVA.When considering all freshmen who started UVA in 2011 and earned any bacherlor’s degree, thefour-year graduation rates was 89%. UVA has implemented a system to “total advising” to helpstudents persist in engineering. This approach “integrates academic, career and personalcounseling.”Ohland et al [21] used the MIDFIELD (the Multiple Institution Database for InvestigatingEngineering Longitudinal Development) which included the student records for 75,686engineering freshmen in nine public universities in the southeastern United States. Theresearchers found that eight-semester persistence is a good indicator for six-year graduation inengineering disciplines. This result is consistent with other research on
was carefully designed to help first-year students achieve success in the programregardless of the specific engineering major they select in their second year. Therefore, thecourse includes themes centered on several design-and-build projects with the following programobjectives: 1. Provide students with the opportunity to experience engineering as an evolving, creative, and interdisciplinary career that impacts global society and daily life. 2. Provide students with the opportunity to develop process-driven problem-solving skills that recognize multiple alternatives and apply critical thinking to identify an effective solution. 3. Provide students with the opportunity to integrate math & science in an engineering context. 4
architecture (OSA) and engineering will certainly providethe foundations, skills, knowledge, and design sensibility that architecture students can build uponin their careers. There may be more graduating architects in future working for space agencies oroffices dedicated to outer space designs. But, what exactly should this body of knowledge containand how should it be delivered? This paper discusses how OSA can be offered as a specializationand/or a joint degree in architecture and architectural engineering programs.Key Words: architecture, outer space architecture, architectural engineering, terrestrialarchitecture, extreme conditions, design studio, seminar, deployable structures, inflatablestructures, Moon, lunar, Mars.IntroductionPlanet earth
] as professional identity to be the “relatively stable andenduring constellation of attributes, values, motives, and experiences in terms of which peopledefine themselves in a professional role”. The adaptability and mutability of professional identityearly in one’s career has been alluded to by Ibarra [10]. External validation by other professionalsin the field is an important element of professional identity [12, page 68]. Carlone and Johnson[13] noted competence, performance and recognition as dimensions of professional identity.Professional identity development has been studied in context of various professions such asmedicine [14], health care [15], pharmacy [16], and higher education [8, 9]. There is a reasonablebody of literature that
Professor at Graz University of Technology, Graz, Austria, in Nov. 2014 and Jan. 2016. His areas of interest include power system applications of power electronics and integration of renewable energy resources. Dr. Mehrizi-Sani is an editor of IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery, and IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion. He is the Chair of IEEE Task Force on Dynamic System Equivalents and the Secretary of the CIGRE Working Group C4.34 on Application of PMUs for Monitoring Power System Dynamic Performance. He was the recipient of the 2018 IEEE PES Outstanding Young Engineer Award, 2018 ASEE PNW Outstanding Teaching Award, 2017 IEEE Mac E. Van Valkenburg Early Career Teaching Award
understanding. Her work focuses on defining STEM inte- gration and investigating its power for student learning. Tamara Moore received an NSF Early CAREER award in 2010 and a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) in 2012.Kristina Maruyama Tank, Iowa State University Kristina M. Tank is an Assistant Professor of Science Education in the School of Education at Iowa State University. She currently teaches undergraduate courses in science education for elementary education majors. As a former elementary teacher, her research and teaching interests are centered around improv- ing elementary students’ science and engineering learning and increasing teachers’ use of effective STEM instruction in the
Paper ID #29307WIP: Motivation and Identity: The Impact of Identity on Recovering fromFailureCaroline Bolton, Bucknell UniversityDr. Elif Miskioglu, Bucknell University Dr. Elif Miskio˘glu is an early-career engineering education scholar and educator. She holds a B.S. in Chemical Engineering (with Genetics minor) from Iowa State University, and an M.S. and Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Ohio State University. Her early Ph.D. work focused on the development of bacterial biosensors capable of screening pesticides for specifically targeting the malaria vector mosquito, Anopheles gambiae. As a result, her diverse
beenshown to effectively transfer from the classroom to real-life settings [11], [14], [15]. Thistransfer is crucial, as the types of adaptive competencies (e.g. tolerating ambiguity, handlinguncertainty, and critical decision-making) design thinking helps build will play a large role instudents’ future careers that require new learning to solve non-routine problems [14].Research MethodsThe evidence linking design-thinking approaches to important behavioral outcomes, such asresilience, is promising though limited. Further, much of the research remains focused onclassroom outcomes, rather than on those beyond the classroom. Our study begins to fill thosegaps by implementing a high school camp created around the principles of design
student retention is being measured. In other words, in thisstudy "long-term" is associated with the students’ ability to retain content over the course of a10-week quarter, while in the future study, students’ content retention will be tracked overmultiple terms over a complete sequence of courses. This will provide a more meaningfulindicator of long-term content retention.IntroductionLong-term retention of engineering content is an important requirement for students to besuccessful in an engineering curriculum and to have a successful career after graduating. Coursesin a curriculum often build off each other and a weak foundation in a pre-requisite course canlead to students struggling and experiencing frustration in follow-on courses
survey of the different potential pathways for anengineering career, students increasingly are expected to complete meaningful design projectswithin these programs. This change creates opportunities to introduce first-year engineeringstudents to the complexities of the engineering information landscape via information literacyinstruction.Background on problem being addressedThe engineering education and library science literature suggest several best practices forcreating information literacy instructional (ILI) interventions. ILI interventions are mosteffective when contextualized to the specific needs of learners [1], [2] through integratinginformation literacy into the curriculum [3] and establishing the relevance of information literacyby
Creative team member for her local childrens theater. Her passion for STEAM is shown in her interest in soft skill-developement in engineering students.Dr. Elif Miskioglu, Bucknell University Dr. Elif Miskio˘glu is an early-career engineering education scholar and educator. She holds a B.S. in Chemical Engineering (with Genetics minor) from Iowa State University, and an M.S. and Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Ohio State University. Her early Ph.D. work focused on the development of bacterial biosensors capable of screening pesticides for specifically targeting the malaria vector mosquito, Anopheles gambiae. As a result, her diverse background also includes experience in infectious disease and epidemiology
offices on campus like the Academic Resource Center, Career Services, Advisingand Financial Aid. The RISE scholars also participate in the Guaranteed 4.0 program, consistingof four interactive seminars. According to the founder, Donna O. Johnson Mackey, “The focusof these seminars is not “how to study. Rather, we want students to learn how to learn andultimately achieve a mindset of academic excellence and success.” Using this comprehensiveframework, students learn simple strategies such as repetition for long-term informationretention, as well as more complex strategies focused on critical thinking and metacognition[11].The spring semester presents the scholars with opportunities to discover some of the connectionsbetween their interests and
, andconverted [26], [27]. Through a funds of knowledge perspective, we capture engineering students’lived experiences; understand how their family and community knowledge is produced andtransmitted; and then investigate whether and how this knowledge is transformed into capital thatserves students’ trajectories through their career paths. Recognizing first-generation collegestudents’ funds of knowledge and how this knowledge is transmitted into forms of capital tosupport their engineering career pathway offers a way to position these students experiences asequally valuable knowledge in engineering.Research QuestionsTo understand how first-generation college students’ funds of knowledge support their engineeringcareer trajectory we used structural
the exact number ofbricks that form the structure. To do this the viewer must visualize each brick in its 3-Darrangement and count it only once despite the fact that the same brick may show up in morethan one view. The new method was used for over nine years with demonstrated success forstudents with a wide variety of visualization skills. It is intended as a tool to help Engineering,Architecture, and Art students and faculty who want to increase their 3-D visualization skills andimprove their attention to detail.IntroductionPreparing students for successful STEM careers requires a variety of math, science, andengineering courses. Most of these courses, particularly the engineering ones, consider theability to visualize in a 3-D environment
competing demands that are not, in and of themselves, moral or ethical decisions.Putting students into those situations without the subsequent consequences to their job, career, orpsyche allows them to explore the causes of and alternatives within realistic ethical situations inaddition to the consequences.Role-playing games (RPGs) allow players to assume the role of the character they are playing,their player character (PC), and act in the game world as if they were their PC. Research hasshown that RPGs can be experienced so realistically that players even store memories fromgames in the same region of the brain that they store events that happen in real-life [1]. Theyhave been shown to be effective in phycological therapy [2], in college
skills and decisionmaking in design problems.Students’ achievement was assessed by the project deliverables: status report, oral presentationand final report. Additionally, a survey was conducted on effectiveness of the simulation projectin developing students’ simulation skills and learning mechanical engineering concepts. I. IntroductionWhile use of advanced design tools and software is deemed imperative for engineers in bothresearch and industry settings, acquiring these skills is not typically embedded in theundergraduate curriculum. Some students may choose relevant professional electives; however,for majority, a steep learning curve is required to grasp and master the skills required forengineering career or graduate school [1]. There
Struggling StudentsAbstractThis research was undertaken at the author’s previous institution, which has a special status inAerospace Engineering and shoulders the responsibility of graduating the most AfricanAmericans in Aerospace Engineering at an institution. Due to its established credibility, theuniversity recruit aspirants from across the nation but particularly so from in and around its state.Quite often, the aspirants seeking a career in Aerospace Engineering are under prepared asfreshman and it carries over even when they transition to becoming juniors and seniors. Tomaximize the chances of graduation for these underprepared students, several courses arerepeated in the same year. To facilitate revision of the material presented in class, the
. from Michigan Technological University where he began his teaching career. He then joined Navistar’s thermal-fluids system group as a senior engineer, and later brought his real-world expertise back into the classroom at Purdue University Calumet. He is currently a Clinical Associate Professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago where he enjoys success in teaching and education research. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 An Integrated Program for Recruitment, Retention, and Graduation of Academically Talented Low-Income Engineering StudentsAbstractThis paper provides detailed information for a poster that will be presented in the National ScienceFoundation