, we shifted our focus to actively trying to concentrate our outreach efforts in those communities and for those young students. A short summary of our outreach efforts may be found in [4].The research reported in this paper is part of our efforts to quantify the value of this work and to understand how we might scale this project up to have a greater impact than it has so far.Research efforts overviewThe intent of this research project was to document the stories of outreach graduate coordinatorsover the past six years. We hypothesized that by capturing the stories of the graduatecoordinators we might be able to paint a linear picture of the outreach efforts of the program overtime. Yet, after hearing stories and
). She develops integrative education projects that transverse perspectives within and beyond the university. Her currently funded NSF projects include revolutionizing the VT ECE department, identifying practices in intentionally inclusive Maker spaces, and exploring professional identity development in Civil Engineer- ing students with disabilities. Her work in CENI focuses on building networks between the University and multiple community sectors and supporting engagement in science, engineering, arts, and design. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6654-2337Prof. Thomas Martin, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Tom Martin is a Professor in the Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer
Paper ID #30058Developing the ESLS - Engineering Students Learning Strategies instrumentDr. Sreyoshi Bhaduri, McGraw-Hill Sreyoshi Bhaduri leads Global People Analytics at McGraw Hill - where she works on projects leveraging employee data to generate data-driven insights for decisions impacting organizational Culture and Talent. Sreyoshi has an interdisciplinary expertise having earned her Ph.D. in Engineering Education from the College of Engineering at Virginia Tech and Masters degrees in Applied Statistics and Mechanical En- gineering. Her research interests include women in technology and industry, studying the impact
for Educational Services c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Paper ID #28617 Kate Lytton is the Director of Research and Evaluation at the Collaborative for Educational Services, overseeing program evaluation, strategic planning, and quality improvement projects across a variety of preK-12 educational contexts and community systems. Lytton brings experience in social research, including needs assessment, strategic planning, evaluation design, survey research, and mixed methods approaches to studies of educator professional development, teacher preparation, instructional innovation
. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020Complete Research: Investigation of Sense of Belonging to Engineering in an Introductory LevelEngineering ClassAbstractThis paper presents the complete research results of an evidence-based practice investigating students’ senseof belonging in an introduction to engineering class. Studies have shown that student sense of belonging inthe classroom, major, and institution can positively impact performance in future engineering classes andoverall retention rates. Sense of belonging has been identified as particularly important to the retention ofunderrepresented minorities and females. This research project explores the effect of embedding smallinterventions designed to improve engineering pre
Paper ID #30624Leaving Civil Engineering: Examining the Intersections of Gender,Disability, and Professional IdentityDr. Cassandra J. McCall, Virginia Tech Dr. Cassandra McCall is a post-doctoral researcher in the Department of Engineering Education Vir- ginia Tech. Her primary research interests include professional identity formation in undergraduate civil engineering students, grounded theory methods, and theory development. Currently, she is principal in- vestigator on an NSF sponsored project exploring the professional identity formation of civil engineering students who experience disabilities. In particular, she is
University - Engineering Education Kurt Becker is the current director for the Center for Engineering Education Research (CEER) which examines innovative and effective engineering education practices as well as classroom technologies that advance learning and teaching in engineering. He is also working on National Science Foundation (NSF) funded projects exploring engineering design thinking. His areas of research include engineering design thinking, adult learning cognition, engineering education professional development and technical training. He has extensive international experience working on technical training and engineering educaton projects funded by the Asian Development Bank, World Bank, and U.S. Department of
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learning community. This effort began in Fall 2015 and the first four-year graduatesreceived their degrees in 2019. Overall, the percent of engineering students graduating in fouryears has increased from 7.3% for Fall 2013 freshmen to 17.4% for Fall 2015 freshmen, our firstcohort in this project. We surveyed all the engineering students scheduled to graduate either inSpring or Summer 2019 and asked them about their experiences at SJSU. This paper will discussthe results of a survey of the engineering students who graduated in four years and what helpedthem graduate in a timely manner. In addition, we will analyze the differences in four-yearcompletion rates among different groups of students.Review of the LiteratureThere has been extensive
, LLC Gale A. Mentzer, PhD, the owner and director of Acumen Research and Evaluation, LLC, has been a pro- fessional program evaluator since 1998. She holds a PhD in Educational Research and Measurement from The University of Toledo and a Master of Arts in English Literature and Language—a unique combination of specializations that melds quantitative and qualitative methodologies. She and has extensive experience in the evaluation of projects focused on STEM education including evaluations of several multi-million dollar federally funded projects. Previously she taught graduate level courses for the College of Education at The University of Toledo in Statistics, Testing and Grading, Research Design, and Program
this debate include the attractiveness of the career forprospective students, the retention of those students who enter the program, the diversity ofstudents in the program, and then the degree of fit between program outcomes and the needsof the workplace. Within this debate it is generally assumed that the curriculum is the arenain potential need of reform [3]–[5]. Curriculum reform deliberations tend to operate at arelatively high level, with a central tension between “theory” (engineering and basic sciencecontent) and “practice” (professional skills, often in project type context) [6].A relatively recent focus for global curriculum discussions has been the spread of outcomes-based criteria for accreditation through the mechanism of the
by a shared program or curriculum. Thischaracteristic of the model was motivated in part by the fact that STEM instructors often find itchallenging to translate general teaching advice and strategies to discipline-specific contexts. Wehypothesized that grouping instructors by discipline would facilitate “translation.” The model isalso consistent with recommendations for professional learning communities to includeparticipants with common concerns or needs [1], [4].Groups and ParticipantsAs part of the project studied in this paper, SIMPLE teaching development groups were formedin six STEM departments at a single large, research-focused institution. Group members wereinterviewed yearly to learn about the structure and functioning of their
federal agencies, and has numerous publications in refereed journals and edited books. Her research interests include communities of practice, gender, transformative learning, and identity.Dr. Ann C. Gates, University of Texas at El Paso Dr. Ann Quiroz Gates is an AT&T Distinguished Professor and Chair of the Computer Science Depart- ment and past Associate VP of Research and Sponsored Projects at the University of Texas at El Paso. Gates directs the NSF-funded CyberShARE Center of Excellence that has a mission to advance interdis- ciplinary education and research. She served on the Naval Research Advisory Committee (2016-2018) and currently serves on the NSF CISE Advisory Committee on Education and
engineering.This paper describes the progress of an ongoing research project currently carried out at theSchool of Enginering at Pontificia Universidad Cat´olica de Chile (UC Engineering), a large andselective engineering school in Chile, with more than 160 faculty members. This research projectis being conducted by the Engineering Education Unit (EEU) of UC Engineering and it has twomain objectives. The first objective is to identify and describe caring teaching practices andattitudes. Our objective is to clearly describe the practice, so that it is easy implementable by anyengineering teacher.As a second objective, we want to understand what is the influence that caring teaching has on thestudents’ learning experience. Since no progress has been made
Northridge (CSUN). In 2009, he moved to Texas to work at the Science and Engineering Education Center, and Caruth Institute of Engineering Education. He specializes in Engineering, STEM, and Project Based Learning instruction. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Student Dispositions Toward STEM: Exploring an Engineering Summer Camp for Underrepresented Students (Work in Progress)IntroductionEngineering fields continue to evolve and grow rapidly [1], resulting in an increasing demand forskilled workers [2]. However, representation within engineering fields is often inequitable, withwomen, Latinos, and African
syntheses of low dimensions materials and the characterization and modeling of their material properties. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2020Intersection of Race and Gender on Experiences of UndergraduateEngineering Students of Color in Positional Leadership RolesAbstract This work in progress discusses an NSF sponsored project that explores the leadershipbeliefs, experiences, and knowledge/skills of undergraduate engineering students who have self-identified as having leadership experience at a Research I minority serving institution (MSI) forAsian Americans and Native Americans, as well as a Hispanic Serving Institution. Thirty-twoundergraduate engineering
Mexico State University. He completed his bachelor’s degree in 2018 and is set to graduate this summer after completing a thesis project on microaggressions amongst undergraduates in STEM using a focus group methodology. He has worked as a research assistant for the past two years on a grant sponsored by the NSF that explores URM success. He plans to apply to a PhD program for the Fall of 2021.Miquela K Gorham, Miquela Gorham is a graduate student at New Mexico State University in the Sociology Department. She also completed her Bachelor’s of Arts in Sociology at New Mexico State University. Her research interest focuses on sociology of education, social inequality, and race and ethnicity.Miss Lorissa Humble, New
and analysis. Javiera developed a project about STEM education focused on primary school. Her research theme is about gender gap and motivation of students in undergraduate computer science programs. Currently she is researching about student motivation in online lessons due to the influence of COVID-19.Mr. Gonzalo Cort´es, Pontificia Universidad Cat´olica de Chile Gonzalo Cort´es is an undergraduate student at the engineering school in Pontificia Universidad Cat´olica de Chile. His Major is Electrical Engineering and his Minor is Energy. Currently, he is a research assistant of the Engineering Education Division, responsible for supporting research tasks and collaborating in data collection and analysis. Gonzalo
of the ten winning teams in Verizon’s ’5G EdTech Challenge’, contributing in the development of several educational virtual reality applications.Dr. Nikos Makris, University of Thessaly Nikos Makris is a Research Engineer working for University of Thessaly, Greece. He received his B. Eng. in 2011, his M. Sc. degree in Computer Science and Communications in 2013 and his PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2019 from the same department. Since 2011, he has been participating in several collaborative research projects with University of Thessaly. During the summers of 2018 and 2019, he was a visiting scientist in New York University (NYU) working in the outreach activities of the COSMOS project. His
twoin a given year [6]. Topical Modules were conceived as short sets of prompts eliciting feedbackon student engagement in areas such as Civic Engagement, Experiences with Writing, andLearning with Technology to name a few in the original suite.Information literacy as a NSSE componentGeorge Kuh, of the original NSSE design team, and research analyst Robert Gonyea, who joinedthe NSSE project in 1999, conducted a study presented at the ACRL Eleventh NationalConference in 2003, in which they focused specifically on "The Role of the Academic Library inPromoting Student Engagement in Learning” [7]. Kuh and Gonyea describe predecessorassessments to NSSE that included a Library Experiences Scale and an Information LiteracyScale. In 2004 a College
mechanical engineering in WPI.Prof. John M Sullivan Jr, Worcester Polytechnic Institute Professor John Sullivan joined WPI in 1987. He has had continuous external research funding from 1988 thru 2013. He has graduated (and supported) more than 100 MS and PhD graduate students. He has served as the ME Department Head and in 2012 was elected Secretary of the Faculty through 2015. Prof. Sullivan has always maintained a full teaching load. He strongly supports the WPI project-based undergraduate philosophy. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020BYOE: Determining Pressure inside Thin Walled Vessels usingStrain MeasurementsABSTRACTThe objective of this Bring Your Own Experiment session is to
approach can help studentsdevelop their modeling skills across a variety of modeling types, including physical models,mathematical models, logical models, and computational models. Physical models (e.g.,prototypes) are the most common type of models that engineering students identify and discussduring the design process. There is a need to explicitly focus on varying types of models, modelapplication, and model development in the engineering curriculum, especially on mathematicaland computational models.This NSF project proposes two approaches to creating a holistic modeling environment forlearning at two universities. These universities require different levels of revision to the existingfirst-year engineering courses or programs. The proposed
understanding.In this work the research team is seeking to develop ways to safely allow students to make moreauthentic safety decisions. To this end, the team has developed and implemented twoinstruments: (1) an analog or “paper” instrument to assess levels of moral development withrespect to process safety, and (2) a virtual process safety decision making environment [10-13].Project ObjectivesTo assess the effectiveness of these two different interventions on process safety education, theteam asked the following research questions: 1) Is there a change in students’ process safetydecision making skills based on their use of the virtual environment? 2) Does the use of thevirtual environment increase students’ motivation to learn about process safety? 3
Paper ID #28967Countering Threats to Licensure with ASCE’s Engineer Tomorrow InitiativeMr. Bradley Aldrich PE, American Society of Civil Engineers Bradley F. Aldrich, P.E., F.NSPE, F.ASCE is a Senior Associate and former President of Aldrich + Elliott, PC an environmental engineering firm and also serves as vice-chair of the Board of Professional Regula- tion for Engineers in Vermont. He earned his bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from the University of Vermont. Over his thirty-five year career, Mr. Aldrich has held project management and leadership positions with a national general contractor and several
. 2016, Accessed: Mar. 17, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://peer.asee.org/blended-learning-in-a-rigid-body-dynamics-course-using-on-line- lectures-and-hands-on-experiments.[3] D. O’Connor, “Investigations into Engineering Dynamics Theory: A Student-Led Project to Utilize Smartphone Technology,” presented at the 2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Jun. 2017, Accessed: Mar. 17, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://peer.asee.org/investigations-into-engineering-dynamics-theory-a-student-led-project- to-utilize-smartphone-technology.[4] C. D. Facciolo and A. Behrouzi, “Interactive Physical Experiments in an Advanced Undergraduate Structural Dynamics Course,” presented at the 2019 ASEE Annual Conference &
toprovide engineering students with the basic skills needed to succeed in higher level courses andan early introduction to the engineering discipline [2], [3]. Institutions with FYE courses orprograms (i.e., multiple FYE courses in a sequence) create these courses in the way they best seefit to help their students succeed. However, this means that programs vary significantly in bothcontent [4] and in matriculation patterns [1]. These FYE courses are some of the earliestexposures that students have to their engineering disciplines; however, their impact on students’engineering identity and community development is not well understood.This project seeks to answer the question, “How do students who are pursuing engineeringdegrees through pathways that
for FEWS. Figure 1. Project objectives mapped to components of the Traineeship under the Stewardship framework.The key components of theTraineeship are: 1) Dissertation research on a FEWS issue for the generation of new knowledge; 2) A graduate certificate in Data-Driven Food, Energy and Water Decision Making, which consists of 3.5 credits of core courses and 9 credits of electives as described in Table 1 that represents conservation of knowledge; 3) A Graduate Learning Community [3] for transformation of knowledge that includes a two-year series of monthly workshops and weekly small-group activities designed to enhance the trainees’ interdisciplinary
learning to design teaching and learning, program content and structure, student assessment, and continuous course improvement techniques. She managed and was a key contributor to a two-year pilot project to introduce blended learning into the chemical engineering capstone design courses, and is the author of a number of recent journal, book, and conference contribu- tions on engineering education. Her research focusses on how to teach innovation and sustainable design practices to engineers and develop a curriculum reflective of engineering practice requirements. Recently she has taught a short course on how to design and teach process engineering courses to professors in Peru and workshops on Metacognition and
comments and responses on thewebsite, and often adapt substantial aspects of the course based on student feedback. In this way,students have a voice in shaping the class. Additionally, students vote on topics to cover for thelast few weeks of the semester; this community process allows them to further exercise controlover their own learning. Students also have agency over their learning at the end of the coursewhen they can complete an optional final project. The projects typically consist of writing apaper about a topic we did not cover in depth in the course, and can replace part of an examgrade. In addition to having agency over their learning, the final project option also providesopportunity for students to define what is interesting and
Expected Outcome Control Setting Academic Model Academic content Teacher-led Primarily a single Mixed model Product within Teacher – student Single or multiple constraints of collaboration classes, community academic requirements Entrepreneurship Model Product Student led School and CommunityTABLE II shows the features of entrepreneur-oriented education paradigm in comparisonwith other models [13]. POL distinguishes itself from project-based learning with thesefeatures: the