-based educational strategies across the engineering curriculum. As part of a"Sounding Board" of potential adopters, faculty will provide guidance, review componentsof redesigned courses, and participate in a series of workshops highlighting a variety ofproblem- and project-based instructional strategies1, 2.A “Test Bed” will act as a venue for the visible redesign of existing courses in ways thatemploy authentic learning and assessment activities--where students do real-worldengineering in the classroom. The redesigned courses will also help students inbound intotheir community of professional practice 3, 4. Project mentors drawn from a localprofessional engineering organization will help students to complete projects, and onlinewebinars/live
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 foster 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 students’ identity devel- opment. She is the recipient of a 2014 American Society for Engineering
feeling underrepresented or undervalued inengineering. Majority and minoritized group participants employed this strategy similarly (7% vs10%). Women noted that they did not want to perpetuate the norm of being undervalued to otherwomen engineers and that they preferred to be a representative of women in courses and jobswhere they knew they were underrepresented. These women joined together in affinity groups inorder to help other women. Women engineers also sought representation of other women insuccessful roles, such asbeing given awards at professional engineering conferences. Forexample, a White, environmental engineering graduate student noted that “…it is rare to seepracticing women engineers as examples either as guest lecturers or
Paper ID #38393Case study on engineering design intervention in physicslaboratoriesJason Morphew (Visiting Assistant Professor)Kevin Jay Kaufman-Ortiz (Graduate Student) Kevin Jay Kaufman-Ortiz is from Hormigueros, Puerto Rico. He is an identical triplet, was raised with his brothers in the small town of Hormigueros. He picked up on interests in origami, music, engineering, and education throughout his life. With a bachelor's degree in industrial engineering and a certification to teach high school mathematics in Puerto Rico, Kevin has shaped his path to empower others in his learning process. He is currently a Ph.D
this data serves as an effective reminder that there is still much work to be done inincreasing the participation of Blacks in STEM, it fails to distinguish between native and non-native Blacks. The failure to differentiate between these two populations of Blacks in the datacomplicates the ability to ascertain the degree to which diversity goals in STEM fields havealready been addressed, as well as the amount of work that will be required in the future to meetthese goals. If indeed one population of Black undergraduates are persisting and graduating inSTEM fields at rates disproportionately higher than the other population, then a concerted andwell-directed effort is necessary to ensure a comparable level of success among the latterpopulation
computer industry was understandable. Even with expanded computer use in ElectricalTechnology, at times the students in one or both options dropped low enough to make fillingupper division classes, especially electives, difficult. This resulted in electives being offered lessfrequently to assure the classes had enough students to be offered.On the positive side, about half of the ELT majors were working in the electrical or the controlsystem field while pursuing their baccalaureate degree. This group of students normally alreadyhad an associate degree. While this resulted in a need for major classes to be offered as eveningclasses, the working students acted as very positive role models for the rest of the class. Theworking student also provided a
reporting that 81% of its graduates achieve full-time employment within sixmonths of graduation, illustrating the effectiveness of its program in bridging the gap betweeneducation and employment [23]. Mentorship plays an essential role in women's successtransitioning into software engineering careers. Programs like Girls Who Code and TechnovationGirls pair participants with mentors who act as role models, provide guidance, and developresilience [29]. Peer support creates a safe space for encouragement and shared experiences toalleviate women's isolation in male-dominated industries.7.2 Barriers to Effective ImplementationSimultaneously, non-traditional education programs often face skepticism from employers.Many hiring managers continue to
suggested for low female graduation rates include,lack of female engineering role models, misconceptions of what it is like to be an engineer, andhaving fewer technical problem-solving opportunities through K-12 compared to males. Lack ofconfidence is another critical issue that results in female engineering students switching majors.Therefore, designing and developing policies to tap into the potential of women and theircontribution in this vital sector, requires understanding of how gender is related to participation,and success.Historically, in the development field, societies were viewed from a deficit perspective, as opposedto strength. Societies were classified as developed, under-developed, and least developed; or firstworld, second world
, nanoparticle diffusion, and engineering and physics education.Lily Skau, Austin Peay State University Lily Skau is an undergraduate student at Austin Peay State University pursuing a bachelor’s degree in Engineering Physics and a minor in Mathematics and Sociology. She plans to graduate with her degree and minors in May of 2026 and enter the industry as a Mechanical Engineer. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2025 Where Empathy is Needed in Engineering Formation Abstract Engineers are called upon to solve the complex problems plaguing society. These problems are intellectually rigorous and steeped in societal, ethical, and geographic
task affords students practice in managingtheir literacy skills and negotiating between reading, writing, and speaking. Becausethese activities occur within real world constraints, comprehension is better understoodby students as a fundamental anchor for production. Students focus on language learningas collaborative praxis. Misidentifications (i.e. morder used to translate “to bite” whenreferencing mosquitoes) were clarified as a group when individual results werecompared in class, where speculation on a probable translation became an exercise incultural nuance. Page 12.1155.12As they moved from acts of synthesis and interpretation to translation
graduate studies, Sherri taught civics to middle school students in Somerville, MA. She earned her B.S. from Cornell University in Industrial and Labor Relations, and her M.Ed. from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.Dr. Ethan E Danahy, Tufts University Ethan Danahy is a Research Assistant Professor in the Department Computer Science at Tufts Univer- sity outside of Boston MA, having received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in Computer Science in 2000 and 2002, respectively, and a Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering in 2007, all from Tufts. Additionally, he acts as the Engineering Research Program Director at the Center for Engineering Education and Outreach (CEEO), where he manages educational technology
as exploring students’ conceptions of diversity and its importance within engineering fields.Dr. Marie C Paretti, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Marie C. Paretti is a Professor of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech, where she co-directs the Vir- ginia Tech Engineering Communications Center (VTECC). Her research focuses on communication in engineering design, interdisciplinary communication and collaboration, design education, and gender in engineering. She was awarded a CAREER grant from the National Science Foundation to study expert teaching in capstone design courses, and is co-PI on numerous NSF grants exploring communication, design, and identity in engineering. Drawing on theories of
the responsibilities that come with that role. One way to address this apparent shortcoming is to continue to refine the design of the stand-alone course, finding a better balance between the design task and the ethical considerations thatweave through it. We noted above that we placed a great deal of trust in the structure of the workin the course, and in the scaffolding we provided, to prompt students to connect design decisionswith ethical values. The self-reported data suggest this trust was not altogether misplaced, but thatwe may need to do more to foster an understanding of role responsibility and its importance in ourstudents’ future careers. It is also possible that the mixed results reflect a more general problem with stand
staff,student staff, and/or peer mentors, who will all likely have different roles and responsibilitieswithin the course. To quickly introduce your staff to course objectives, staff duties, and staffexpectations, we strongly encourage the adoption of a course "field guide.” In such a guide, youmay want to begin with a brief welcome and overview of the course goals. A course motto (forexample, “Always challenged. Never frustrated.”) can set the tone. Information regarding theoperational hierarchy of the course staff can then be provided. This is especially important for astaff that may include multiple instructors and teaching assistants at both the graduate andundergraduate levels. Everyone should know and feel comfortable with the process of
do they influence students’ development as future professionals? • How are assessment criteria used to understand and improve student success? • How are institutional priorities, requirements from the state and the regulatory bodies, and instructors’ idiosyncrasies balanced as disciplinary knowledge is delivered through a course offering? • How does student autonomy related to course selection, sequencing, pacing, and assessment criteria influence student engagement and/or student success? What role do students’ backgrounds play in shaping these aspects of their academic experiences?This paper analyzed a single engineering technology curriculum at a single university while alsohighlighting the
: REvolutionizing engineering and computer science Departments (IUSE PFE\RED) - Formation of Accomplished Chemical Engineers for Transform- ing Society. She is a member of the CBE department’s ABET and Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, as well as faculty advisor for several student societies. She is the instructor of several courses in the CBE curriculum including the Material and Energy Balances, junior laboratories and Capstone Design courses. She is associated with several professional organizations including the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) and American Society of Chemical Engineering Education (ASEE) where she adopts and contributes to innovative pedagogical methods aimed at improving student learning
loafing and theinterplay between individual competence and group action has been studied for almost a century,it is unclear how the expressed desire for collaboration, and students’ preparation for bothcollaborative skill and individual disciplinary knowledge, might be effectively fostered.Bucciarelli19 has previously argued for the inherently social nature of engineering andengineering practice, so it is important to understand how social dimensions of learningenvironments may contribute to the professional identity formation of students (e.g., 20).Project-Based Learning and Ill-Structured ProblemsProject-based learning (PBL) is an instructional and pedagogical paradigm based on a socialconstructivist understanding of learning, wherein a student
, which is our area. And the thing that is very obvious is that it's kind of a male-dominated area. And because my class out of 22, I just had 4 female students. And even though there is a lot of interest nowadays because of the CHIPS and Science Act, the area is growing but, I mean, it's still male-dominated. (Jacob)After the training, participants continued to recognize the need to create an inclusive classroomenvironment and have now identified specific strategies for doing so. Faculty are seeing theimportance of their role in not only teaching technical skills to engineers, but also empoweringtheir students to take ownership of their learning, showing the context and application of theskills they are learning, and
,supplementary learning, over reliance concerns, ethical concerns, detachment from traditionallearning, and lack of critical thinking development. The evolution from GPT from version 3.0, to3.5, to 4.0, which involves a significant improvement in language processing capabilities andscope of knowledge resulting in more nuanced context-awareness, including text and imageprompts, will also be considered in this study. By drawing from student assignment samples,class discussions, and user feedback, a comprehensive overview of the challenges, benefits, andthe pedagogical implications of ChatGPT in this first-year course will also be discussed. As theChatGPT technology evolves, a balanced approach that harnesses the potential of this technologywhile
between acts that are cheating and actsthat are unethical but not cheating14. Minichiello et al. suggest that greater ethical training ofstudents starting their freshman year may help to align students convictions regardingmisconduct11 and hits on ABET General Criterion 3 Student Outcomes (f) which is “anunderstanding of professional and ethical responsibility22.” This may have the added benefit ofpromoting not just an individual’s understanding of the issue, but also creating a culture in thecommunity which looks down on cheating.Simply expecting students to do the ethical thing appears to not be working and thus faculty andinstitutional involvement is needed. Amongst engineering students, results have shown that only21.6% agree that it is their
“cheating” admitted to engaging in that behavior at least once. On the otherhand, 67% of those who defined it as “unethical but not cheating” and 78% of those who definedthe behavior as “neither” admitted to doing it at least once. This trend is similar for otherbehaviors, and it suggests that students who have a more permissive attitude towards a behaviorare, not surprisingly, more willing to engage in that behavior. This is consistent with work ofAjzen1, 2 who proposes a model of the decision-making process in which “attitude towardbehavior” plays an integral role in explaining the relationship between intention and action. Page
Period, Replacement, Sensitivity Depreciation Individual and Corporation Income Taxes Minimum Cost of an Asset Public Projects, Investment, and Decision making Inflation and Global Economies Page 25.287.3 Accounting Reports (Balance Sheet, Income Statement, Cash Flow)2.3 Student AssessmentStudent assessment was based on the following tasks: Seven assignments at 100 points each = 700 points (58% ) Seven case studies at 50 points each = 350 points (29%) Final comprehensive exam = 150 points (13%)for a total of 1200 points (100%) assessment.3. Course DeliveryThe course delivery consisted of various
flaws in our own balancing act, often defaulting to morecontextualization in an effort to render content more acceptable to students and engineeringcolleagues, or to avoid charges of bias. Ultimately, we argue for a balance of contextualizationand normativity. We support alternative approaches to contextualizing engineering thatemphasize engineers’ civic responsibilities and, crucially, the integration of their intersectionalroles as citizens and professionals. These modes of contextualization embrace the idea ofsociotechnical thinking, but also encourage engineers to work towards public welfare as engagedcitizens.Introduction“Engineers are just cogs in a machine.” As the instructor of a required course for undergraduateengineering students on
process influence decisions and projects. Ultimately, these proposed threads failed to adequately capture the breadth of outcomes we desired for our program and the relationships we discovered between them. Faculty determined that the EOP framework provided a more appropriate model and adopted systems thinking, professionalism, and sustainability as the three knowledge threads that link all the outcomes in the program (Figure 2). The professionalism thread encompasses the skills and behaviors desired of a graduate that will allow them to progress in their careers and advance as technical experts and leaders. In addition to serving to connect content across knowledge areas, the professionalism
previously been viewed bystudents as merely another requirement for graduation. Linking with the technical writing coursealso allowed us to place sophomores in a class that is normally available only to seniors, past thetime when technical writing skills would be useful in most undergraduate classes, labs,internships and co-ops.We specifically choose to work with a communication course because of the vital andfoundational role that it plays in important student outcomes. A linked technical communicationcourse, with two sections exclusive to students from the Agricultural and BiosystemsEngineering department, allowed us to wrap up many different competencies in various lessons,and it also allowed us to simulate the type of work environment that our
to be a useful tool for thinking through both teacher-studentrelationships [23] and student-“client” relationships [24]. These scientizing efforts both draw insocial scientists interested in human centered design and make for leery post-positivists.While short site visits and stakeholder interactions are often included in these scientizedapproaches to empathy development, the act of “having been there” does not directly correlate tocaring. This finding has been demonstrated in social psychology research that shows how peoplethat observe others going through similar traumatic events do not often care more, but think thatthe person should be more able to navigate the hardship than someone who has not experiencedthis trauma [25]. Similarly
beach.Ms. Connie Syharat, University of Connecticut Constance M. Syharat is a Ph.D. student and Research Assistant at the University of Connecticut as a part of two neurodiversity-centered NSF-funded projects, Revolutionizing Engineering Departments (NSF:RED) ”Beyond Accommodation: Leveraging Neurodiversity for Engineering Innovation” and In- novations in Graduate Education (NSF:IGE) Encouraging the Participation of Neurodiverse Students in STEM Graduate Programs to Radically Enhance the Creativity of the Professional Workforce”. In her time at the University of Connecticut she has also has served as Program Assistant for an summer pro- gram in engineering for middle school students with ADHD. Previously, she spent
:“Participants set forth their ideas and negotiate a fit between personal ideas and ideas of others,using contrasts to spark and sustain knowledge advancement rather than depending on others tochart that course for them. They deal with problems of goals, motivation, evaluation, and long-range planning that are normally left to teachers or managers.” We found that although such adescription clearly indicates a reduced and different type of role for the instructor, there were stillnumerous opportunities for the instructor to scaffold, share, redirect, and otherwise influencestudent collaborative discourse.KB TalkWith the problem of understanding formulated and initial theories developed, students began aten-week period of knowledge building that took
Paper ID #38130Mapping Engineering Leadership Research through an AI-enabled Systematic Literature ReviewMeagan R. Kendall (Associate Professor) Dr. Meagan R. Kendall is an Associate Professor in the Department of Engineering Education and Leadership at the University of Texas at El Paso. As an NSF Graduate Research Fellow, she received her M.S. and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, with a concentration in Biomechanics, from The University of Texas at Austin. An engineering education researcher, her work focuses on enhancing engineering students' motivation, exploring engineering identity formation, engineering
animportant aspect of the engineering profession. Accreditation boards across North America havecalled for engineering educators to equip engineering graduates with leadership capabilities toallow engineers to take on a more prominent role in technological, societal and businessadvancement [1], [2]. As a result, there has been increased focus and research aroundengineering leadership, both in terms of defining what it is (for example, [3], [4]), as well asidentifying the associated skills and effective pedagogical practices for teaching it [5]–[7].Engineering educators are working on closing the gap between the leadership needs of industryand the capability of engineering graduates. However, for particular sectors such as engineeringconsulting, given