environmental impacts of electronics as a context for science helps enhance general societalknowledge and awareness. The inputs to the program include high school science teachers fromIndiana and Alabama, faculty and engineering graduate students at Purdue University andTuskegee University who served as research mentors, and an industrial advisory board,comprised of representatives from electronics companies. Recruiting participants for the RET began in the early winter, with admissions andmatching to research projects finalized by spring. During the spring, teacher participants woulddiscuss the research project with faculty mentors, and make tentative plants for the summer.Because the program included two universities, the kick-off and
Paper ID #29069Preparing Advanced Manufacturing Technicians for the Workplace:Perspectives from Rural EmployersDr. Faye R. Jones, Florida State University Faye R. Jones is a Senior Research Associate at Florida State University’s College of Communication and Information. Her research interests include STEM student outcomes and the exploration of student pathways through institutional research.Dr. Marcia A. Mardis, Florida A&M University - Florida State University Marcia A. Mardis is a Professor and Associate Dean at Florida State University’s College of Communica- tion & Information and Associate Director of the
lecture.IntroductionThis research paper explores the ways in which engineering postdoctoral scholars describe theappeal of pursuing a career in the professoriate. Scholarship concerning engineering careertrajectories presently lack the depth necessary to understand the arc of the career from student topostdoctoral scholar to professor (Jaeger et al., 2017; St. Clair et al., 2017; Su, 2013). Aninvestigation of this trajectory is critical for those invested in increasing the number ofunderrepresented minorities (URMs; African American, Latinx, and Native American) andwomen entering the professoriate and earning tenure. Researchers have found postdoctoraltraining is crucial for a scholar’s productivity and ability to compete for professorships (Andalibet al., 2018
instead exhibited non-cooperative behavior.The author asserted that these individuals thought that collaborative behavior indicatedweakness. As these convictions revealed themselves on projects, expectations were diminished,and distrust then ensued. Consequently, this distrust among project participants eventually led topoor communication, unfruitful conflict, and reduced performance. Many members of theconstruction industry understand this dilemma and attribute the problem to an unwillingness onthe part of the project participants to behave in a collaborative manner and this gives a startingpoint for research regarding how to promote more collaborative attitudes among constructionparticipants within the construction industry.25BackgroundIn 1607
Abroad Program Vs. Short Term Abroad ExperiencesSource: IIE, Open Doors: Report on Duration of Study Abroad 2007/08-2017/18Benefits of International Collaboration for StudentsInternational collaborations and experiences, whether short or long durations, provideopportunities for graduating engineering students making them internationally competent,improving their world-mindedness, and increasing their self-confidence. Research shows highergraduation rates and employability with students who pursue study abroad programs [20].International collaboration experiences positively impact the students’ technical skillset,improves career opportunities, and has a long term effect on their personal career promotion andprogression [21].There is a significant
higher education in Liberia for approximately 11 years. He currently serves as a Graduate Research Assistant in the Department of Engineering Education at VT. His research interests are: Immi- grants in STEM, migration and immigration issues in education, and Quality Assurance.Mr. Abram Diaz-Strandberg, Virginia Tech Department of Engineering Education American c Society for Engineering Education, 2020Understanding Students’ perceptions of Dimensions of Engineering Culture in EcuadorAbstractThe purpose of this study is to explore how engineering students perceive different dimensionsassociated with culture. We are using Hofstede’s theory of
Paper ID #28751Two Student Workshops on Identifying and Resolving Teamwork ConflictDr. Rania Al-Hammoud P.Eng., University of Waterloo Dr. Al-Hammoud is a Faculty lecturer (Graduate Attributes) in the department of civil and environmental engineering at the University of Waterloo. Dr. Al-Hammoud has a passion for teaching where she con- tinuously seeks new technologies to involve students in their learning process. She is actively involved in the Ideas Clinic, a major experiential learning initiative at the University of Waterloo. She is also re- sponsible for developing a process and assessing graduate attributes at the
. Following the first industrial revolution, research began onunderstanding people and collaboration as an important aspect for productivity in engineering.During the Taylorism era of the early 19th century, relationship between supervisors and workerswere established and cooperation was ensured to ensure efficiency in production [2]. However,the decision-making process were carried out by supervisors only. As the world shifted to thesecond industrial revolution, teams were formed with leaders and team members coordinatingtasks together and helping each other to reach team goals [2]. Leaders had the authority to directorders to team members ensuring proper coordination and control of tasks. By the beginning ofthe third industrial revolution
engineering team. The focus of this team is on providing a consistent, comprehensive, and constructive educational experience that endorses the student-centered, professional and practice- oriented mission of Northeastern University. She teaches the Cornerstone of Engineering courses to first- year students as well as courses within the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department. She is a recent recipient of the Outstanding Teacher of First-Year Students Award and is interested in research that compliments and informs her teaching. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Evaluating Student Success in a Pre-College General Engineering Program
onlineinstruction is video and/or reading based with little or no interaction among the students andinstructors. This has potential negative effects on: collaborative learning, instructor facilitation,and a student’s ability to seek and receive help in the moment [43]. Further, opportunities foractive learning and interactive experiences are limited due to lack of access to labs, equipment,and learning environments specifically designed for interactive learning [44]. There are alsominimal opportunities to explore the ‘hidden curriculum’ [45] and support students’development in areas other than technical content, such as participating in mentoring and thedevelopment of social capital, one of the keys to recruiting and retaining low-income, racial orethnic
Paper ID #30769Transforming an Engineering Design Course into an Engaging LearningExperience using ePortfoliosMiss 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 and is now pursuing a master’s in Curriculum and Instruction through the Digital Environments for Learning, Teaching, and Agency (DELTA) program. She is interested in engineering design and lends her technical background to her research with the Collaborative Learning Lab, exploring how to improve ill-structured tasks for
-Main Campus, West Lafayette (College of Engineering) Julianna Ge is a Ph.D. student in the School of Engineering Education at Purdue University. At Purdue, she created and taught a novel course for undergraduate engineering students to explore the intersec- tions of thriving, leadership, diversity and inclusion. As an NSF Graduate Research Fellow, her research interests intersect the fields of engineering education, positive psychology, and human development to understand diversity, inclusion, and success for undergraduate engineering students. Prior to Purdue, she received dual bachelor’s degrees in Industrial Engineering and Human Development and Family Stud- ies from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Team building & common purpose 5.80 5.74 NA 5.89 5.57H https://www.hofstede-insights.com/country-comparison/G https://globeproject.com/study_2004_2007?page_id=data#dataNA = Saudi Arabia not among the 24 countries surveyed in the GLOBE projectThese global cultural frameworks provide insights regarding teamwork and caution againstsingular analysis of “international students”. Previous research on teamwork has been groundedin global cultural dimensions [e.g. 28-30]. Based on this research, one can posit potentialscenarios. For example, the uncertainty avoidance characteristic of Hofstede may indicate thatMiddle Eastern students will be less comfortable engaging in an open-ended design project oroverly rely on objective
interdisciplinary team that focuses on helping STEM instructors integrate writing into their courses, and that helps departments integrate writing across under- graduate curricula.Megan Mericle, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Megan Mericle is a PhD student in Writing Studies. She is a member of a research team focused on writing in STEM, where she works with faculty to develop and implement learning objectives for writing in undergraduate science and engineering courses. In her own work, she focuses on disciplinary identity as well as communication practices in citizen science.Nicole Turnipseed, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign Nicole Turnipseed is a PhD candidate in the Department of English and the Center
the sciences.Dr. Jean S Larson, Arizona State University Jean Larson, Ph.D., is the Educational Director for the NSF-funded Engineering Research Center for Bio- mediated and Bio-inspired Geotechnics (CBBG), and Assistant Research Professor in both the School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment and the Division of Educational Leadership and Innovation at Arizona State University. She has a Ph.D. in Educational Technology, postgraduate training in Computer Systems Engineering, and many years of experience teaching and developing curriculum in various learning environments. She has taught technology integration and teacher training to undergrad- uate and graduate students at Arizona State University
, as well as different age groups or ethnicities.Summer Engineering ProgramThis paper discusses a Department of Education-funded , GEAR UP project aimed at increasinginterest in STEM for middle and high school students and to prepare them for college. Thesummer program targets 6 to 12th grade students with a focus on students from underrepresentedminorities to participate in the project.The focus is on the evaluation of the pilot year of a summer engineering program wheresecondary students performed engineering activities in collaboration with engineering researchfaculty, as well as graduate and undergraduate students in various engineering fields. Studentsattending the camp had just completed 7th grade. Because of the intense nature of the
changethe market dynamics of CAD design through revitalization of the design curriculum. Thoughuniversities currently exhibit full design cycles across a variety of courses spread out in differentsemesters, it could be of major benefit for universities to integrate student extracurricular designteams as a part of the engineering curriculum. The ingrained collaboration required in designteams, as well as the cross-disciplinary interaction of students, academic mentors/advisors andindustry sponsors, is the most realistic analogue to the full end-to-end design cycle currentlypresent in an academic setting. In addition, since the competitive aspect of design competitionsto create superior designs push students to explore new/creative design avenues
Paper ID #30777Fostering inclusion and teaching equity in a Modern Physics forEngineers courseDr. Jessica R Hoehn, University of Colorado Boulder Dr. Jessica R. Hoehn is a postdoctoral researcher at University of Colorado Boulder. She received her PhD in Physics Education Research from CU, studying ontological, epistemological, and social aspects of student reasoning in quantum mechanics. Dr. Hoehn’s current research interests include connections between epistemology and group work in learning physics, the role of writing in lab classes, and students’ epistemological views about experimental physics. Generally, Dr. Hoehn
hasstrengthened the integration of government, universities, research institutes, and industryenterprises. The joint participation of many stakeholders has brought a large-scale,multi-layered and comprehensive educational reform. The Outstanding Engineers Plan has avery important role as a model and guidance for higher education in cultivating talents tomeet social needs, adjusting the structure of talent cultivation, improving the quality oftalents cultivation, promoting educational reform, and enhancing graduates’ employability.One important feature of the Outstanding Engineers Plan is “in-depth participation ofindustries and companies in the whole educating and training process”. The OutstandingEngineers Plan regards school-enterprise cooperation as
Paper ID #29351The Relationship between Teamwork and Innovation Outcomes in anEngineering Thermal Science Course: An Entrepreneurial MindsetSimulationMs. Thien Ngoc Y Ta, Arizona state university Thien Ta is a doctoral student of Engineering Education Systems and Design at Arizona State University. She obtained her B.S., and M.S. in Mechanical Engineering. She has taught for Cao Thang technical college for seven years in Vietnam. She is currently a graduate research associate for the Entrepreneurial Mindset initiative at the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University. Her doctoral research focuses on
University as a research assistant. His research interests include designing specialized hardware to accelerate applications on advanced FPGA platforms, developing network and communication algorithms on modern USRP/SDR platforms and prototyping ultra-low power nodes for IoT applications. Currently his main focus is on power consumption and performance optimizations for mmWave and THz communications. As part of the ’COSMOS educational team’, he designs exciting and interactive problem-based STEM learning experiences for K–12 students and teachers. The team organized a teacher professional development program, using wireless communications and NGSS to create hands-on engineering lessons and promote STEM. He was part of one
students. Participants from the students’ homecommunities indicated that there were few opportunities for students to learn more aboutengineering careers and provided suggestions for how colleges and universities could be moreinvolved with students from their community. Phase 3, scheduled for Spring 2020, will bring thefindings from Phases 1 and 2 back to rural communities via two participatory design workshops.These workshops, designed to share our findings and foster collaborative dialogue among theparticipants, will enable us to explore factors that support or hinder transfer of findings and toidentify policies and strategies that would enhance each community’s ability to supportengineering as a potential career choice.Project OverviewDespite
experience working on collaborative teams, particularly with students of other disciplines.Educators might incorporate industry collaborative organizational structures, but while there aresome aspects of collaboration used in industry that faculty can incorporate, often those modelsare complicated by the need to achieve academic goals. The potential benefits ofinterdisciplinary teamwork include development of communication skills and the incorporationof and exploration of a multi-layered, more creative solution from different viewpoints, whichneed to be balanced with students’ acquiring and incorporating new material and carving time forassignments that demonstrate student outcomes for accreditation. As the College of Engineering,Architecture, and
non-technical skills, the dataalso shows a slight change from ‘extremely important’ reasons and ‘somewhat important’reasons in two categories related to workplace learning, specifically: (1) gainingtechnical/engineering skills and (2) learning how to be a leader in the dynamic workplace. Thissuggests that by participating in the bootcamp and working together with cross-cultural teammembers in assigned projects, some students recognized that success of the projects depends notonly on the technical skills but also on how well they communicate their ideas to othercolleagues and how cooperative they are in accepting other opinions as well.Learning and ExpectationsFigure 6 shows that among the expectations that were ‘extremely important’ for
design solution. During the first semester, the students present their research to one another with potential solutions to problems. Faculty act as moderators attempting to keep the students on track, and within some reasonable budget. The big question for this project was whether to use an equatorial3 or altitude azimuth4 design for the telescope’s rotation. The equatorial is a far simpler design for tracking the stars as it only needs to rotate about one axis once it is set up. However, the mechanical issues were far more difficult, and an altitude azimuth arrangement was chosen. Fortunately for this project, the students continued to work on the design issues through the fall semester while they were doing their last
collaborationwith elementary school professionals measure the success of these goals. Collaborators includestudents and faculty from a college level civil and environmental engineering class and student,faculty, and administrators from two different elementary schools. Research is conducted withelementary school students and teachers and college faculty and students enrolled in specifiedcommunity-based learning and research courses at Lafayette College. These courses are part ofLandis Center for Community Engagement-sponsored program, Connected Classrooms.Connected Classrooms partnerships pair college classrooms with elementary school classrooms.College faculty and elementary school faculty collaboratively determine where the academiccontent of their
building up the next-generation engineers.Takuma Odaka, Kogakuin University I am a graduate student of the mechanical engineering program at Kogakuin university. My research interest; Educational Engineering, Physiological Psychology, Team Working, Team Education, Behavior Analysis. I specialize in creating measurement systems and analyzing data using languages such as Python and MATLAB. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Toward Interdisciplinary Teamwork in Japan: Developing Team-based Learning Experience and Its AssessmentAbstractOver the last ten years, the Japan Accreditation Board for Engineering Education (JABEE) hasincreasingly emphasized the importance of
Character Development for Rhodes Scholars. He is currently working with the Wake Forest Department of Engineering to integrate character into the undergraduate curriculum and leading a university-wide program to educate ethical leaders.Alana Demaske, Wake Forest University Alana Demaske is a second year graduate student at the Wake Forest University Department of Psy- chology. Her research focuses on personality factors related to well-being, including character, personal growth initiative, and psychological needs satisfaction.Mr. Carlos Santos, Wake Forest University American c Society for Engineering Education, 2020
againstoverreaching generalizations.The insights we have learned through our questionnaire-based data acquisition are presented inthe remainder of this paper.C. Type of Universities and Degree ProgramsThe authors work in universities of varying sizes ranging from small universities with 1500students and 100 faculty members to very large universities with 100,000 students and over5000 faculty members. There is also diversity in the focus of the authors’ universities, with mostuniversities being hybrid (focus on both research and teaching) while some universities focuson only research or teaching.The programs managed by the authors range from those expecting OBE accreditation to thosethat have been accredited for more than 20 years. The OBE accreditation
includedwithin a class or the types of activities, as described in the concepts associated with the “how”branch, that could be incorporated into the classroom environment to encourage students’building an EM.Another potential application relevant to EM research would be to use the EM master conceptmap as a starting point for understanding the differences that exist between differentpopulations that are in the process of developing an EM or have been identified as having anEM. Examples include making the comparison between concept maps from expert EM facultyand practicing entrepreneurs/intrapreneurs or perhaps comparing the differences in the EMconcept maps generated by first-year students with those that are about to graduate from theirundergraduate