extent to which students freely chose their academic path and the extent to which thechoice was influenced by other people or external forces. In the quotation above (27:8), recallingher decision to pursue an engineering education, this student‟s account took the tone of a fable inwhich, according to her parents, a prescient neighbor foresaw her predestined professional future.McLean and Fournier refer to these connections between past events and present identity inpersonal narratives as „self-defining memories.‟ 13 Nevertheless, this student ultimately attributedthe decision to her own strengths and preferences as well as a sense of economic practicality.Coffey and Atkinson19 observe that qualitative analysis has the potential to “complicate
support the teaching-learning process and students as culturally competent future engineers, (2) build mentorshipcapacity by connecting faculty with experts in various DEI spaces, (3) embed inclusive andequity in teaching using the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) framework, (4) increaseaccess to DEI-related resources and provide course redesign supports, (5) create organizationalchange across the College of Engineering to prioritize uncommon voices and create a learningenvironment where all students feel respected, and (6) foster a cross-disciplinary community offaculty across the College of Engineering acting as change agents for DEI in engineeringeducation.Conducted in a cohort-based, community of practice [25] model, each cohort of faculty
students’ tests determined that this methodwas sufficient for their proof of concept prototype. This design decision proved an interestingexample of a compromise between the technique taught to the students and the practicalconstraints of a real design project.The miner location tracking team also had to build a VLC transmitter circuit that could drive aminer’s headlamp using similar techniques. The system communicated with a software programthat displayed the miner’s identity and location on a user interface shown in Figure 2a. The doorsecurity team had to build additional circuitry to control a door-locking mechanism shown inFigure 2b. They also wrote their own Android app that used the phone camera’s LED flash totransmit the VLC signal. The
post-secondary institutions do not recognizeveteran-specific competencies and abilities within higher education [4]. The military experienceincludes mentoring and consistent, specific feedback; many veterans report the absence ofmentoring or guidance regarding next steps to be one persistent challenge as they transition [11].Student veterans report a variety of transitional difficulties, including adapting or re-adapting acivilian/veteran identity; the role of higher education; and a lack of services for student veterans[12]. The Veterans Administration reports student veterans have mixed perceptions of theirpreparation and readiness for traditional schoolwork and meeting academic standards. Militarytraining and courses can be very duty
within the Division of Science, and its clients range between undergraduates and faculty(Table 1 and Figures 2 and 3). This structure encourages interdisciplinary collaboration andnetworking, since peer tutors regularly run coaching sessions or workshops with students outsidetheir specific disciplines. Brandeis also has a strong commitment to social justice. In Comm Labsessions with students, graduate student and postdoctoral tutors intentionally normalizeexpectations around how much effort goes into communicating science to cultivate a sense ofbelonging for all clients—a strategy that has been shown to help broaden the participation ofunderrepresented groups in science and engineering [8]. Additionally, the Comm Lab hasdeveloped strategic
Department Head of Graduate Education and co-Director of the VT Engineering Communication Center (VTECC). She received her PhD in Linguistics from the University of Chicago and an M.A. and B.A. in English from the University of Georgia. Her research interests include interdis- ciplinary collaboration, design education, communication studies, identity theory and reflective practice. Projects supported by the National Science Foundation include interdisciplinary pedagogy for pervasive computing design; writing across the curriculum in Statics courses; as well as a National Science Foun- dation CAREER award to explore the use of e-portfolios for graduate students to promote professional identity and reflective practice. Her
the other hand, NASA explicitly stated that it reviewed compensation packages to verifycompliance.In response to a specific issue raised during interviews at one institution, Energy did look atqualifying exam pass rate differences between male and female graduate students. But althoughthe data showed that, for a five-year period, 10 of 74 men and 10 of 39 women failed the exam,Energy’s report simply says that “[t]he data reviewed does [sic] not indicate a disparity in the pass Page 14.629.7rate between male and female students.” It is difficult to understand this conclusion on the basisof the data presented, and implies that Energy perhaps
programs to encourage girls to pursue their interests in computing and engineering and some of the pre-professional programs to help students prepare for their careers. Her previous experience includes work in student leadership development, campus programming, student organization manage- ment, and alumni relations. Greenwood holds a master’s degree in Higher Education Administration from Washington State University, a B.A. in Advertising/Public Relations from Grand Valley State University, and is currently pursuing a graduate certificate in Community Leadership at UMBC.Ms. Erica L D’Eramo, University of Maryland, Baltimore County: CWIT Erica D’Eramo is the Assistant Director of the Center for Women in Technology (CWIT) at
require a paradigm shift in re-conceptualizing their role as a teacher. Due to this difficulty, tapping both individual andcollective capacity are best within the context of professional learning communities (PLCs),which are characterized by shared norms and values, reflective dialogue, de-privatization ofpractice, collective focus on student learning, and collaboration. These PLCs set the foundation,so teachers can begin inquiry into their practice in a new way for increased student learning.The integration of Professional Learning Communities and Project-Based Learning serve toaddress the issues discussed above. Currently, the North Texas STEM (Science, Technology,Engineering and Math) Center is collaborating with the Waco Independent School
, test, and optimize a vehiclemade using only a piece of paper and tape that can carry a metal washer and, when dropped, fallas slowly as possible. In the post-field trip classroom activity, students reconstruct a classmate’sfield trip vehicle from a drawing and compare how the vehicle behaves in the classroom drop testto how it acted in the MOXI rising air column exhibit. Through this comparison they begin todevelop an understanding of balanced and unbalanced forces.Engineering Exploration 2: Greenhouse on the Moon. In the first classroom activity, studentsexplore how light travels through different colored filters and create a chart that comparesdifferent colors as seen through blue and red filters. In the second classroom activity, they
University Statewide Kokomo campus. She is also a Ph.D candidate in engineering technology depart- ment, Purdue University, West Lafayette. She got her bachelor and master degree from Eastern Michigan University. Her recent research interests include grain refinement of aluminum alloys, metal casting de- sign, and innovation in engineering technology education. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Educational Innovations in an Introductory Materials CourseAbstractAs students’ pre-college experiences and approaches to learning change, finding effective newways to deliver their instruction plays an increasingly important role in engineering technologyeducation. The core question of how
by other people and institutional practices. This is importantfor our work in understanding how mentorship relations between new and more seniorengineers—as well as larger workplace culture—molds engineers’ identities throughout theirearly careers.The final process involved in the becoming an engineer model is navigating through engineeringeducation. This is defined most simply as how students traverse the various pathways androadblocks that make up a particular learning environment, in order to become recognized as anengineer. Of course, we adapt this notion to argue that new engineers are presented withprofessional environments—that can still be thought of as places of learning—in which theymust develop not only skills and knowledge about
that building construction projects include active and continuouscollaboration of all of these parties, learning multi-disciplinary strategies is a necessary acumenwith which students must graduate in preparation for professional practice. New technologiesand project development approaches such as building information modeling are necessitatingearly and extensive collaboration among the professions. Integrated project delivery methods aremaximizing this need for interdisciplinary team production. Feedback from industryrepresentatives and practicing professionals unanimously supports the concept of integration.This paper describes an effort to establish a multi-disciplinary first-year curriculum for designand construction freshman that includes
: 1) What are the coreattributes that illustrate the unique entrepreneurial leader? 2) How does the entrepreneurialleader balance the effective role of entrepreneur and leader?2. Theory and AssertionsSubtle but dramatic forms of distinction exist between the definitions of leadership,entrepreneurship, and entrepreneurial leadership. What form does entrepreneurial leadershiptake? On the basis of a review of the literature indicating both the importance and lack of clarityon defining entrepreneurial leadership and extending the revival of a personality andcharacteristic approach, the author reviewed both “lab study” and “field study” researchapproaches 35, 36, 37 and selected traits and concepts for study that emerged from intuitions
Dean of the Tagliatela College of Engineering at the University of New Haven. She previously specialized in service learning while teaching at the Arizona State University in the Engineering Projects in Community Service (EPICS) program. Her current teaching and research interests are in developing study skills and identity in first-year engineering students and improving retention rates. She acts as a faculty liaison for the University of New Haven Makerspace and facilitates student and faculty training. She received her Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, and her B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Miami. © American
also been utilized in explaining how faculty knowledge and innovation transferand flow throughout departments. Social, informal connections instill trust between colleagues,which can create buy-in to an otherwise unwanted institutional change. Interactions amongfaculty are a valuable but often overlooked commodity of higher education [28].In examining interdisciplinary student learning, Rienties and Heliot found that the social tiesformed among graduate students in the first four weeks of a course were indicative of social tieslater on in the course [29]. Over the course of the 11-week module, students primarily discussedwith and learned from students of the same discipline, even when instructors balanced the teamswith interdisciplinary
Paper ID #33454Organizational Citizenship Behavior and Care in Chemical EngineeringMrs. Kristen Ferris, University of New Mexico Kristen Ferris is a student in the Organization, Information, and Learning Sciences program at the Uni- versity of New Mexico. Her research interests include faculty mindset change, change management, and organizational citizenship behavior. Much of her research is part of a National Science Foundation grant at UNM where the chemical and biological engineering department is redesigning curriculum to support diverse student retention and graduation. She intends to further her knowledge in the
’ reasons for starting at another institution and variation across subpopulations,” J. Hisp. High. Educ., vol. 19, no. 1, pp. 69–83, 2020.[10] A. Godwin and A. Kirn, “Identity-based motivation: Connections between first-year students’ engineering role identities and future-time perspectives,” J. Eng. Educ., vol. 109, no. 3, pp. 362–383, 2020.[11] S. Liu, J.-L. Gaudiot, and H. Kasahara, “Engineering education in the age of autonomous machines,” ArXiv Prepr. ArXiv210207900, 2021.[12] J. R. Blair, L. Jones, P. Leidig, S. Murray, R. K. Raj, and C. J. Romanowski, “Establishing ABET accreditation criteria for data science,” in Proceedings of the 52nd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, 2021, pp. 535–540.[13] S. Ivey
include installation and configuration of network softwareand hardware and a full range of network administration duties. Lecture material is supplementedwith a variety of lab and research assignments. A+ certification test topics relevant to this courseare covered. Page 5.4.3The PC Systems Troubleshooting course introduces the student to the important role oftroubleshooting PC hardware, software and networks. Topics include assessment of problemsymptoms, use of popular troubleshooting tools, location of vendor product information,elements of customer interfacing and satisfaction, and warranty issues. Again, A+ certificationtest topics relevant
. Thus, I have found a new name and entity to the problems we might face in the futurewith [our project]” (Student 4, Free Write 7). By the end of the semester, they acted on their newunderstanding gained through monitoring their own progress in relation to their peers’ andpotential users’ perspectives by changing their presentation approach: “The Lerman techniquehelped to even get to this functional stage, and now that we understand how the audience seesour solution, we could adapt our presenting style accordingly for the final presentation” (Student4, End Semester).Summary of Team 1. These reflections reveal a metacognition cycle between Knowledge andRegulation of cognition. Team members became aware of design processes through their ownwork
) on a different class (related to environmentalmanagement), and under these circumstances civilizations followed a very different path to theinformation age and the utopian conditions reached were materials for intense discussions forthose other students.3. The class (graduate level Manufacturing Strategy)This paper refers to the experience of using a videogame in a Manufacturing Strategy course.This class is a mandatory subject in the graduate Specialist degree in ManufacturingManagement. We will explain briefly the structure of the course and the use of the game as aneducational tool.3.1. Course StructureThe Manufacturing Strategy is a 24 hour course, presented in six four-hour sessions. It aims toconvey the importance of strategy in any
was given a rank from -3 to 3 basedupon how frequently they expressed the leadership roles. The 0 mark acted as an averageexpression mark.Results: Profiled MakersFor this study the 40 Makers were profiled on a leadership spectrum using the CVF. TheseMakers came from four flagship Maker Faires. From the collected data the frequency ofresponses was mapped across the CVF spectrum. The CVF utilizes scores between -3 and 3. Anaverage of representation of the trait among Makers was taken in order to determine the 0—oraverage representation—mark. A minimum value (-3) shows that the Maker did not represent theleadership trait. A maximum value (3) shows that the Maker represented the highest frequency oftrait representation. These minimum and maximum
discipline specific empathy scales thatallow for pre-career assessment and practitioner reflection. Empathy, like other discipline norms,has unique characteristics and roles within a specific discipline. For example, a classroomteacher may empathize with their many students by considering each students’ strengths andvarying assignments to meet student needs. A therapist’s empathy, however, looks very differentfrom that of a classroom teacher; a therapist’s empathy allows them to act as a mirror to theclient, helping the client see their own feelings and meanings more clearly. An engineer may attimes need to empathize with a single user, as may be the case in prostatic development, or anentire community group and the environment, as may be the case
words with double meanings – I didn’t find it a problem …unless they turned round and apologised… TrishCivil engineering students, both male and female, were always strongly represented in theEngineering Students’ Society, and often took leadership roles. There seemed to be acontradiction between the image or stereotype of a Civil Engineer and the day-to-day realityas evidenced in Rebecca and Samuel’s comments: I think the key thing was that people expected it to be – so like you get a lot of pressure – you guys are Civil you’ re going to be like this – the individuals probably didn’t fit the stereotypes but when they got together there was a
Page 23.733.7 Figure 4 – Security warningAs shown in Figure 5, the student’s view of the virtualized WaterGEMS program window isidentical to the program windows available when the software is installed locally. All of thesame program functionality is available, including all program menus and buttons, the option tosave program files onto the students’ local machine, and the ability to print to locally-connectedprinters. Thus the student experience when using virtualized WaterGEMS is nearly identical tousing a locally-installed version of the program, and in fact users are able to switch back andforth between the two.For purposes of this pilot test, the server hosting the WaterGEMS software was a cloud
partnership between a four-year institution and a community college. I. IntroductionFor decades, engineering has been taught in an all too familiar method: Theory is imparted in aclassroom and reinforced in a laboratory where either a faculty member or a graduate studentassists students with their experiments. Student cohorts consists of a generally uniform group ofstudents who have just finished high-school, live in dormitories or apartments close to lecturehalls and have yet to have a taste of being part of the labor force. The few students not fittingthat description are denominated “non-traditional,” as they rarely amount to significantpercentage of the student population. Many of these non-traditional students never even make itto a
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 De- sign 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 and retention.Dr. Vanessa Svihla, University of New Mexico Dr. Vanessa Svihla is a learning scientist and assistant professor at the University of New Mexico in the Organization, Information & Learning Sciences program
professional standards are less important than theability of the student or graduate to benefit as far as possible. Teaching is favoured overresearch and a Newmanite philosophy is preferred.The entrepreneurial view, suggests Trowler, is that vocationalism is favoured over theNewmanite ideal, skills over content and teaching over research. For the enterpriseacademic a binary divide between research universities and teaching institutes oftechnology is appropriate and protects against academic
NSF AGEP FCPAM will provide a framework forinstitutional change at private, highly selective research institutions that will enable all faculty tobe members of a collaborative community. Improving the experience of these faculty can lead toincreased diversity in the engineering faculty and ultimately result in graduating moreengineering students from diverse populations and increasing diversity in the engineeringworkforce. The Alliance interventions will focus on three major areas, 1) equity-focused institutionalchange designed to make structural changes that support the advancement of AGEP faculty, 2)identity-affirming mentorship that acknowledges and provides professional support to AGEPfaculty holistically, recognizing all parts of
Paper ID #33236CAREER: Ready for Change: Fostering Adaptability along the EngineeringPathwayDr. Samantha Ruth Brunhaver, Arizona State University, Polytechnic School 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