with the University of Kentucky, Lexington, in a similar position from 1996 to 1999. Her research interests in engineering education focus on the role of belonging, self-efficacy, and other non-cognitive factors on success and persistence. She is also managing director of Coming Alongside, a non-profit environmental health services organization.Ms. Mee Joo Kim, University of Washington-Seattle Mee Joo Kim is a doctoral student at University of Washington-Seattle. Her research interests focus on global citizenship development of undergraduate STEM student populations.Prof. Rebecca A Bates, Minnesota State University, Mankato Rebecca A. Bates received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of
around race, are facilitated and received. These all shed light on bothstudent and faculty perspectives regarding racial discourse in the classroom. We first reviewhow student learning is influenced by an inclusive classroom. We then discuss commonperspectives around having these difficult conversations. Finally we present ways that studentdevelopment, identity, and stereotypes can impact these faculty-facilitated discussions.Role of Inclusivity in Student Learning. Inclusivity plays a major role in student learning [1].Two representative examples from [1] demonstrate the effects of inclusivity in such studentlearning scenarios: 1. Professor discusses an article talking about the cost of illegal immigrants to the US Economy. Student 1
into studentobservations is necessary. We recommend a careful consideration for both definingcourse content for student observations and for compiling student observations. Whileoffering an intriguing first attempt, the current analysis is limited in its approach andopportunity to detail student insights. We close with a graduate student response on theanalysis of how the driver is acting and the assertion of engagement: “Or maybe this isthe sweet spot, the difference between semi autonomous and full autonomous. Aninflection point, if you will -- semi-autonomous grants us trust in these new, semi-autonomous ‘superpowers’ that enable us to extend our abilities
Paper ID #47193Engineering student mental health status across gender identities: Analysisof data from the Healthy Minds StudyEmma Vick, University of Kentucky Emma has a Bachelor’s of Science in Chemical Engineering from the University of Kentucky.Dr. Sarah A Wilson, University of Kentucky Sarah Wilson is an assistant professor in the Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering at the University of Kentucky. She completed her bachelor’s degree at Rowan University in New Jersey before attending graduate school for her PhD at the University of Massachusetts.Dr. Joseph H Hammer Associate Professor of Counseling
participated in the same program before the facilitator role wasdeveloped. The paper finishes with lessons learned and recommendations for implementingsimilar practices, regardless of program type.BackgroundWithin academia, as shifts happen from traditional educational models to more innovativemodels, there is a need to revisit student needs when it comes to their support. While professorshave traditionally been thought of as the main support for students throughout the navigation oftheir undergraduate education, mentorship and advising roles do not traditionally translate wellto expected job duties, especially within traditional tenure and promotion pathways [1].Professors just do not have the capacity to balance full student support; life coaching
looking at religion and sexuality, evaluating how religious identities and morals influence self-concept in the areas of sexuality, sexual expression, self-esteem, and sexual agency.Dr. Ashley K Randall, Arizona State UniversityRoxanna Francies, Arizona State UniversityChinwendu Elyse Okwu, University of Pittsburgh c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Examining the Effects of STEM Climate on the Mental Health of Graduate Women from Diverse Racial/Ethnic Backgrounds The current state of mental health needs among graduate students is a growing crisisworldwide (Evans, Bira, Gastelum, Weiss, & Vanderford, 2018; Hyun, Quinn, Madon, &Lustig, 2006). A recent study of 2,279
embodiment could provide a moreholistic situation and might be useful for better engaging students with physicalreality. Secondly, increasing laboratory work might also be useful. Unfortunately,there seems to be a lower value placed on teaching laboratory courses as evidencedby these courses being frequently assigned to graduate assistants. Havingexperienced both analytical and experimental work, there is no doubt in the author’smind that analytical and deductive engineering courses take less time to teach andare easier to assess than their iterative and inductive counterparts. Those who haveworked in engineering laboratories know well how difficult it can be to get stubbornobservations to cooperate and agree reasonably well with our
advisor works to adapt his or her style to meet the needs ofindividual students. Several other positive characteristics that students identified somewhatfrequently include their advisors’ understanding of the importance of a work/life balance, theirprofessional connectedness and assistance networking, acting as a mentor or role model, beingeasily accessible to students, and providing helpful advice. Several students even cited theiradvisors as being a primary factor in their decision to pursue a PhD in instances where thestudent knew his or her advisor in another capacity prior to enrolling. Additional positivecharacteristics of advisors mentioned by several students include that their advisors wereknowledgeable, adept at securing funding and
often consider the needsof graduate students. This group of women represents a diverse set of employment, promotion,and professional development requirements and needs: ● Careers in academia typically require an advanced degree (Ph.D.) ● Promotion in academia does not take into account 2/3 of typical job responsibilities, thus individuals are unaware of other ways to advance in academia ● Professional development and networking needs of women in academia vary from others in industry ● Academia is an environment that differs greatly from industry and the challenges of a typical work week may be significantly different from industry ● Female faculty are often caught between their own needs and the needs of their students
Paper ID #45172The role of undergraduate engineering students’ different support networksin promoting emotional well-being: A narrative studySowmya Panuganti, Purdue Engineering Education Sowmya Panuganti is a graduate student at Purdue University in the Engineering Education department. She is passionate about understanding engineering culture and the effects it has on engineers’ mental health and well-being.Narjes Khorsandi Koujel, Rowan University Narjes is a Ph.D. student in Engineering Education at Rowan University. She earned a bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering in Iran and subsequently worked as an industrial
the studies and out to employmentupon PhD graduation: (i) Grounding yourselfWe organised induction sessions at the start of the program (i.e. first week upon enrolment)as well as refreshers (called ‘orientation’ days) throughout the program. The content coveredin those sessions had the intention of assisting their ‘transition in’ and aiding their ‘transitionout’ into employment after graduation. With these events we intended to foster a sense of‘togetherness’ to face the uncertainty of the early months ahead.Since identity can be one of the strongest motivators in one’s (professional) life, we devoted asignificant amount of time to delving into the students’ perceptions of themselves asgraduates, as professionals (particularly relevant to
specifically LGBTQ+-inclusive spaces thatuniversities, colleges, and students may spearhead – all with the intent of building a space andcommunity of LGBTQ+ people to feel safer on campus and share common experiences witheach other. Other studies have highlighted how inclusive spaces can also create tensions within boththe campus and LGBTQ+ community (Marine & Nicolazzo, 2014; Davis, 2018). For example, intheir study of nineteen LGBTQ+-inclusive spaces, Marine and Nicolazzo (2014) noted that on-campus LGBTQ+ centers can create tensions between the LGBTQ+ and trans* community.Through center naming, programming, staffing, and activism efforts, Marine and Nicolazzoillustrate how trans* identities can often be erased under the broader umbrella
otherfactors, they are more likely to be divorced, widowed, or never married [1] and to be singleparents [18], [19]. In addition, women veterans must often be strategic in the way theydemonstrate their feminine identity in order to be accepted and respected; as noted by Iverson etal., “women…must walk a precarious line between masculinity (being tough enough) andfemininity (being a real woman)” [19, p. 159]. Further, women service members often operateunder an intense microscope of their capabilities, and often have little support or mentorshipfrom senior female leaders [19], [20]. Nonetheless, women veterans are noted for their resilienceand even found to have a heighted commitment to goal achievement, including academicpersistence. Women student
thesestudents, Chinese students rank top in the number of doctorate recipients in science andengineering fields with a total of 32,973 students graduated with science or engineering doctoratedegrees from U.S. institutions between 1999 and 20091. Despite the prominent representation ofinternational students, including Chinese students, among the science and engineering doctoralstudents in U.S. institutions, however, these scientists and engineers are understudied comparedto their U.S.-born peers2.Among current qualitative and quantitative research findings on foreign-born talents includingChinese students and scholars in U.S. institutions, most efforts focused on their academicperformance, or adjustment issues, such as language barriers, the sense of
Paper ID #37488Student curiosity in engineering courses and research experiences: ”I’mkind of torn between being a decent student and a decent engineer.”Dr. Natalie Evans, University of Virginia Natalie Evans, Ph.D. is a postdoctoral research associate in the UVA school of Education and Human Development. Her research examines how educational experiences influence the development of curiosity and creativity in students from preschool through college.Jessica Scoville, University of VirginiaJamie J. Jirout, University of VirginiaDr. Caitlin Donahue Wylie, University of Virginia Caitlin D. Wylie is an associate professor of Science
Paper ID #37733Board 191: Are female faculty role models to female students in highereducation? A study of teachers’ perceptions of their roles andresponsibilities in computer science and engineeringDr. Qian Wang, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (XJTLU) Dr. Qian ”Sarah” Wang is a Research Director, Ph.D. supervisor, and former Program Director of the MA in Global Education at the Academy of Future Education, XJTLU. Dr. Sarah graduated from Teachers College, Columbia University in New York (MA in Social-organizational Psychology; Ed.D in Education Leadership). Her research focuses on technology-enhanced education
Programs In a review of the development and characteristics of future faculty preparationprograms2, it is pointed out that they can provide a smooth transition between graduate schooland faculty positions. These programs evolved from TA training programs that proliferatedbetween 1960 and 1990. Establishment of the Preparing Future Faculty (PFF) program in 1993formed a base for a sustained national initiative to transform doctoral education. The PFFprogram has three core features3 of 1) addressing the full scope of faculty roles andresponsibilities, 2) students have multiple mentors and receive reflective feedback and 3) bothare addressed in the context of a cluster of institutions typically involving a doctoral degree-granting institution
successful individuals whocome from similar backgrounds and who have navigated their pathways previously [21]. Othershave argued that this form of identity role-modeling is critical for underrepresented students inSTEM in terms of promoting belonging and success [22]. Additionally, these faculty members understand and reciprocate the importance ofmentoring, especially when there is some form of cultural relevance between the mentor and thementee. Alejandra describes the importance of these mentoring relationships, particularly whenentering her (predominantly white) graduate institution as an international student, stating: There was nobody who was Latinx in my whole entire program. But I did know about a professor who was in
spirituality. Multidisciplinary teams of undergraduate students and facultyexplore, and wrestle with, the connections between science/engineering and spirituality asthey endeavor to become whole persons. Engineering, science, and theology studentsteam up to investigate and assess evidence of purpose from findings in science andengineering. They apply reverse engineering techniques to natural systems in an effort toassess the potential for design recovery. Psychology students help to provide a betterunderstanding of the human condition and the role of perceived affordances inestablishing purpose. Anecdotal and survey evidence suggests that undergraduatestudents find such interdisciplinary studies to be interesting, motivating and beneficial
mechanisms through a disciplinarylens. As such, this study seeks to answer the following research question: What are engineeringgraduate students’ coping landscapes when dealing with particular graduate school stressors?THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK Coping is, in itself, a theoretical framework to understand how people manage their stress,although the term has been applied in colloquial language in ways not fully consistent with thetheoretical bases for the theory. In their seminal works, Lazarus [40] and Folkman [41]established the transactional theory of stress and coping. These works set the foundation forcoping as a psychological theory. In this theory, a person’s behavior is marked by the continuousrelationship between the person and their
the similaritiesand differences between the two documents. One of the main findings was that the AIAdocument is more prescriptive compare with the DBIA document, which is more flexible. Thiscomparison contributes to the body of knowledge by allowing owners to make educateddecisions regarding which document to use for their Design-Build projects. In addition, facultyand students will benefit by increasing their understanding about the content of both contract Page 24.294.2documents. Upon graduation, engineering and construction management students will enter theindustry where they will most likely work on this type of projects.Keywords
purposefully breaks the traditional three-credit coursework intomodular, stackable single-credit classes, building from fast-paced reviews of fundamentals over traditionalgraduate-level core content to graduate-level specialized content. This change provides a flexible andpersonalized learning experience, allowing students to customize their education to align with theirinterests.To create the modularized curriculum, we leveraged the collective expertise of our chemical engineeringfaculty and external subject matter experts (SMEs) from industry, government, academia, and start-ups.Starting with our existing course-specific learning objectives, we employed group concept mapping to (1)brainstorm additional graduate-level learning objectives, (2) group
activities during the retreat combineelements of creativity training, team building, awareness expansion, etc. The camp is required ofall program students, both the entering Cohort members and the returning Cohorts.Activities are chosen that require both small and large group cooperation, and some activities aredesigned to foster a good-natured competitiveness between the Cohorts while growing the sinceof identity with the graduate program as a whole. The camp resembles at times a toy factory inan interior classroom environment, and then transforms itself into a ropes course-type outdooractivity with students being manhandled through a spider-web like rope maze.The group identity is strong at the end of the summer camp, but would be subject to rapid
US (Lecture 2b) and on the development of computer engineering in 20thcentury Silicon Valley (Lecture 3). Adding the third and fourth lecture developed theprofessional identity component of the module and provided a more rounded historicalperspective on engineering practice. Lectures 2b and 3 continued the focus on the roots ofinnovation, but asked students to reflect on the continuing evolution of the role of engineers insociety and their own ambitions as engineers. Lectures 1, 2b, and 3 used case studies focused onindividual engineers, and in this iteration we used the case studies to reflect on a variety ofcharacter traits demonstrated in the careers and personalities of the featured engineers. Forinstance, Lecture 2b emphasized the
financial) to persist to degree completion. 5) Balancing Act: The pace and intensity of graduate study frequently catches LIATFG students off guard. Particularly in the first and second year of graduate study, students are challenged by issues of time and balancing not only of their academic pursuits, but also their family relationships and responsibilities.Program OverviewThe PEGS21 program eases the transition for a cohort of about 15 first-year graduate students eachyear through a variety of interventions designed to foster supportive relationships, enhanceprofessional skills, and reduce financial barriers to help students address the challenges describedabove (Table 1). Table 1: Components of
Psychology and Sociology from Case Western Reserve University. Before pursuing a PhD, Erika had a dual appointment in UM’s College of Engineering working in student affairs and as a research associate. While grounded in the field of higher education, her research interests include engineering education, particularly as related to innovation, professional identity development, and supporting the recruitment and persistence of underrepresented students within engineering.Dr. Diane L. Peters, Kettering University Dr. Peters is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Kettering University. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Practitioner Experience Meets Graduate
the Navy. She has graduated from California State University, Fresno with a B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Investigating the Role of Faculty Gender in Mentoring Female Engineering Students for SuccessAbstract: While many previously male-dominated collegiate programs have experienceddemographic shifts over the past half century to become gender-balanced, engineering haspersisted as a male-dominated discipline. Trends between national gender proportions of facultyand degree recipients in engineering over a span of fifty years and their implications on same-gender mentoring relationship for female engineering students are
. heavy course load, particular ways of assessment andinstruction, projects that depend on teamwork, different starting levels in programming) that addlevels of stress. Learning to learn inevitably involves transformational change in the learner.Adults have a role to play in enhancing students’ resilience through failures and disappointments.In order to make engineering education an available option for a high school graduate, similaradult support and knowledgeability may reasonably be expected. John explains why an earlyplanning is essential: […] if you want to go into engineering, you had to think of this like years in advance, you had to start taking the courses, the right level courses, so if you want to go to college or
consist of 33% majoritygroup team members (e.g., white students) and 67% underrepresented group team members (e.g.,students of color) or vice versa. During the early part of the semester, students completed a sur-vey with questions about their race or ethnicity, gender identity, age, year in school, availability,commitment level, and preferred leadership role using the Comprehensive Assessment of TeamMember Effectiveness (CATME) SMARTER Teamwork system.30 Student responses were usedto facilitate the selection of diverse teams based on their responses to the race or ethnicity andgender identity questions. Each team’s composition reached a medium level of racial diversity,where 60% of the group consisted of students of color and 40% of the group
graduate students for the future of engineering that will require team-based science between engineering, neuroscientists, computer scientists, psycologist and clinicians, please follow us on LinkedIn. She is also the founder and co-director of WINE: Women In Neural Engineering (womeninneuralengineering@gmail.com), please join us. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2025 NeuralStorm: Training Graduate Students to Take Neuroengineering by StormAbstract“NeuralStorm: Taking Neuroengineering by Storm” is a neuroengineering-focused researchtraineeship program funded by the National Science Foundation. Since the program’s inceptionin 2022, the NeuralStorm program