Page 24.1087.6 process in science and engineering research. While the Independent Research module focuses on scientific preparedness, the Best Practices in Teaching and Learning module offers the trainees a window into how they, and others, learn, and how research can guide the design of teaching and learning environments. This module provides trainees scaffolding for the annual redesign and assessment of the IGERT curriculum. Trainees read and discuss relevant literature, guided by an engineering education professor and trainees under her mentorship. The application of educational frameworks such as Backwards Design33 and How People Learn5 are used to help guide trainees consideration of
from Engineering Criteria 2000 and NSF-initiated Engineering Education Coalitionsprograms are having an impact on curricula and faculty development 10, 36, 37. There is also agrowing understanding that the societal attitudes about engineering need to change as well. Atthe 2001 Deans’ Summit on Education for a Technological World in Baltimore, MD, much ofthe discussion concentrated on fostering collaborations and community outreach that wouldexcite the public about engineering, and on issues of improving the teaching of it by usingeducation methods and research developed in education schools38. Positive examples of system-wide changes and innovative programs also exist in Australia39 and the U.K.28, 40, 41.However, similar efforts in Canada are
simulated classroom environments can be used to help inservice and preservice elementary teachers learn to lead argumentation discussions in science and engineering.Dr. Jamie Mikeska, Educational Testing Service Jamie Mikeska is a Research Scientist in the Student and Teacher Research Center at Educational Testing Service (ETS). Jamie completed her Ph.D. in the Curriculum, Teaching, and Educational Policy graduate program at Michigan State University in 2010. Her current research focuses on three key areas: (1) de- signing, developing, and conducting validation studies on assessments of content knowledge for teaching (CKT) science; (2) examining and understanding validity issues associated with measures designed to
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University of New Hampshire wasestablished in 1973 as a centralized research facility within the Office of the Senior Vice-Provostfor Research. The UIC, located at the main campus of the University in Durham, NewHampshire, houses much of the shared, high end scientific, analytical instrumentation for theuniversity. The main campus is approximately 1 hour from the Manchester campus where theET Program resides.The mission of the University Instrumentation Center (UIC) is to support the research, teaching,and engagement missions of UNH by providing access to the best analytical instruments,scientists, and engineers. In support of the university’s engagement mission and as a broaderimpact requirement for many federal grant programs, the UIC partners
research manager in the Center for SMART Health, where she focused on wireless health monitoring for stroke and pediatric asthma. Her current research is on engineering education and women's health, specializing in pedagogy strategies to promote learning and innovation in design-build-test courses, including senior design, computer programming, and computer-aided-design courses, as well as pre-partum and partum medical devices.Dalton SalvoJasmine WangSriram Suresh Rao Currently a third-year medical student at the University of California, Irvine. Alumna of University of California, Los Angeles Bioengineering.Rahul SreedasyamAbhishek Sudhir KulkarniShaan BraichIshaan Sharma © American Society
startup performance. [17]Integrating multi-disciplinary entrepreneurship into engineering activities succeeds throughinterdisciplinary collaboration and student fellowship programs. Programs at Caltech [18] andMichigan [19] have shown that developing a culture of innovation in getting students from STEMbackgrounds to “think like an entrepreneur” is possible by combining extensive mentorship,educational resources, and experiential project work. While these efforts were undertaken for post-graduate STEM students looking to commercialize research innovations, the same ideas andstructures apply to undergraduate engineers in a co-curricular setting.This paper describes and assesses the impact of an entrepreneurial fellows program organized bythe Dyer
sought to develop a viable research agenda that canframe how diverse institutions can effectively impact engineering education in addressingquestions such as: How to scale, adapt, and transfer best practices? What are the roles ofdiffering types of institutions in engineering education research and innovation? How canengineering education research at all institutions be enhanced? This work builds on previousexamples of the cross-fertilization that can occur, such as that demonstrated in the work of Dr.Richard Layton at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology who based practices for managinggrowing enrollments in Mechanical Engineering at Rose-Hulman on approaches used at PurdueUniversity to implement student-centered pedagogies in large-enrollment
supervisors, this might be a limiting factor in otheruniversity climates.RecommendationsThe following sections will discuss recommendations for future courses or programssimilar to the practicum experience, as well as a model for how this experience could beimplemented for other graduate teaching experiences.General RecommendationsThe effectiveness of this engineering education practicum course indicates that it haspotential as a useful approach to GTA training and future engineering faculty training.Ground the course in relevant literature establishes the importance of constructingteaching strategies around established research and proven practices. This sentiment isechoed by the Innovations with Impact report published by ASEE as an important
identify a graduate student mentor and design a project to meet the academic interests, background knowledge and course training of the individual community college students. ii. Pre-program - Before each class of the TTE REU Site begins, faculty and graduate student mentors participate in a mentor training to: 1) discuss mentor and participant expectations; 2) learn more about the community college cohort, including background, experience, and interests; 3) discuss best practices in mentoring for community college students, underrepresented minorities, women, and first-generation college students; and 4) receive guidance on the creation of a 2-page project summary. Prior to the students’ arrival
matter with cultural exploration and has supportedcommunity-based workshop participation to address racism and all forms of oppression. Thecultural competence team has also established a shared portal site for posting and sharing ideasand resources. The Access and Equity team researches and applies best practices to recruitdiverse student and faculty populations and to ensure equitable opportunities and outcomes.Based on exhaustive data analysis and study of best practice in engineering education, this teamhas prioritized pipelines and bridge programs to build community and foster student success.Finally, the Strategic Partnerships team seizes opportunities to build relationships that drivemission readiness and innovation. This action team is
and environmental impacts. Finally, the ubiquitous donkey cartsare simple to a fault in terms of safety. Several low cost simple improvements to their basicdesign could greatly increase safety. Again appropriate technology must be foremost; it does nogood to inflate the cost of the existing design beyond what can be practically afforded – it willnot be adopted. It also needs to be accepted culturally.“Progress toward what?” an essential question to ask that will likely have a different answerfrom the context of the communities we are working with, than our American “technocratic ideaof progress [as] a belief in the sufficiency of scientific and technological innovation as the basisfor general progress.” 30 Audience member at a seminar on the
of graduate studies impacting practicing professionals, project management issues,and job search issues.1. IntroductionIt can be said that, from many aspects, the best time for an engineering student to obtaintheir Ph.D. is after a period of working in industry. By the time one completes five toseven years of higher education, students can be “burned out” and otherwise not ready forthe rigor of a Doctoral Degree. By breaking at this point and working in industry for afew years, students can obtain a better understanding of the practice of engineering thancan be obtained from the classroom and co-operative (co-op) or internship experience.Furthermore, they can better understand exactly what area of engineering they wish topursue in their
integrated engineering disciplines and concepts were developed by a team ofexperienced curriculum developers; field tested at over 40 events in California, Connecticut,Georgia, Michigan, Mississippi, Puerto Rico, Utah, and Wisconsin, to determine theirsuitability for a wide range of settings and audiences; and reviewed by professional educatorsand engineers. Formative evaluation guided development of the program and, once completed,summative evaluation conducted by an independent evaluation team measured impact andefficacy of the program’s design, resource materials, and event formats. Findings indicate thatFamily Engineering activities and events are fun and engaging, result in families having anincreased appreciation and understanding of
) whatmotivates students to study engineering; and (3) how students conceive of their engineeringfuture. While the findings from the APPLES research have been disseminated through suchtraditional venues such as conferences and journal publications, an innovative institution-specificworkshop model was designed and piloted in spring 2009. This paper describes this new formatfor disseminating national research findings which is specifically aimed at engaging faculty inconversations that directly lead to changes in local educational practices and policies. Feedbackfrom the faculty participants and the impact of the workshop on teaching and learning practicesin subsequent months are presented. The broader implications of a national-local workshopmodel for the
faculty since 2009.Hamid Mahmoodi, San Francisco State University Hamid Mahmoodi received his Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from Purdue Univer- sity, West Lafayette, IN, in 2005. He is currently a professor of electrical and computer engineering in the School of Engineering at San Francisco State University. His research interests include low-power, reliable, and high-performance circuit design for nano-electronic technologies. He has published more than one hundred technical papers in journals and conferences and holds five U.S. patents. He was a co-recipient of the 2008 SRC Inventor Recognition Award, the 2006 IEEE Circuits and Systems Society VLSI Transactions Best Paper Award, 2005 SRC
-independency that is expected from graduate students when it comesto research. Some of the students anticipated more guidance and/or daily contact with the facultyhost and felt a little lost at the beginning. Better preparing the students for that environment willallow them to engage in the research project and adjust to the lab environment more quickly.The program was designed to provide intensive language training in the morning. For that, thecollaboration of Texas A&M University’s English Language Institute was crucial. The EnglishLanguage Institute integrated the 50 students into their regular summer session while creating atailored TOEFL preparation class for the group and designating conversation partners that wouldaddress each student’s
his master’s degree (M.S.) in Industrial Engineering and Management at Oklahoma State University since 2019. He completed his under-graduation (B.E.) in Mechanical Engineering from Savitribai Phule Pune University, India. He is currently working with the Industrial Assessment Center (OSU IAC) as a Graduate Research Assistant under Dr. Hitesh Vora. His areas of interest lie in process improvement, energy management, and supply chain logistics.Anusha Sunil Saraf, Oklahoma State University c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Paper ID #30206 Anusha Saraf is an undergraduate student
AC 2011-321: DESIGNING AND IMPLEMENTING TEACHER PROFES-SIONAL DEVELOPMENT IN NANOSCALE SCIENCE AND ENGINEER-ING: WHAT MAKES FOR A SUCCESSFUL PROGRAM.Nancy Healy, Georgia Institute of Technology Nancy Healy is the Education and Outreach Coordinator for the National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network (NNIN). NNIN is an NSF-funded user support network of 14 universities which also provides nano-education outreach activities and programs. NNIN provides informal and formal activities to a K-gray age span. Her office is located at Georgia Institute of Technology, Nanotechnology Research Center. Prior to joining the NNIN in 2004, she was a program manager at the S.C. Commission on Higher Education. At SCCHE she was
are formalagreements with overseas universities to facilitate the successful transfer of students withoutduplication of course work, which can provide another source of students coming to the UnitedStates [10].International Graduate Students Recruiting Strategy – A Partnership ProgramAs shown in the literature review above, best practices in recruiting international studentsaccording to Özturgut (2013) are: 1. Providing academic support and utilizing campus resources;2. Attending and participating in international education fairs and recruitment events; 3.Partnering with other organizations (colleges and universities, non-profit and governmentalinstitutions, high schools, for-profit organizations); 4. Passive Marketing such as Webadvertising
Volume based method of payment for waste (with little local municipality involvement) services Curbside recycling offered Support regional landfills with neighboring (using drop-off centers if applicable) counties and high-technology practices like bioreactor landfills Drop-off centers available for outer regions Support initial pickup schedule to begin a and bulk waste (and promote usage in areas transition towards one pickup per week where no other pickup service is available)When doing a cost-benefit analysis on the impact of the model, one will see that the increasedcosts of transition to the program may in fact be offset by the long
collaborated with the director of CarnegieMellon’s Eberly Center for Teaching Excellence and Educational Innovation.3. MethodsBecause many students are funded with the expectation that the research experience constitutesfull- or near full-time work, the program was both designed and scheduled to dovetail withinthese students’ scheduling needs. Initially, we had discussed what might be accomplished byhaving a single weekend experience (of the sort that other units on our campus are able toaccomplish through intensive weekend experiences and “micro” courses); however, we quicklydetermined that the kinds of learning outcomes and associated practice activities we wanted forstudents would need to unfold in a more systematically scaffolded way that
and with so much to offer. I have gained a new appreciation for the world of academia.” “This project was one of the best learning experiences that I have encountered in my academic career. My previous research experience has been in the field of mathematics. I was dealing with formulas, equations, and theorems. This is the first time that I have worked with human subject and qualitative data. I realized how hard it is to work with human subjects.” “This project has impacted my life in a variety of positive ways. All of the outcomes from the last ten weeks have reinforced my want to attend graduate school in some type of educational field. Learning so much about SRL has also made me want
presentation requirement. Each student was required to give a final project presentation to the entire research committee, which was comprised of the PI, co-PIs, and senior personnel on the grant. In addition, three students presented a research poster at an institutional showcase for undergraduate research, as shown in Figure 4. • an online, electronic portfolio of their summer experience, using Google Sites, which the students could use as a steppingstone towards fulfilling the GLD E-Portfolio requirement.5.3 Sample E-PortfolioThe impacts of the research program are expressed best from one of the participants. One of thefive students from the first cohort, and co-author of this paper, earned Graduation withLeadership
, students need tosee themselves represented in success stories and in role models in specific fields. Withoutseeing themselves in these success stories, their confidence to succeed academically and withcareer aspirations will be impacted. Identity-conscious advising (1) understands intersectionality,(2) recognizes systemic barriers, (3) promotes inclusive excellence, and (4) supports “wholestudent” identity and development. Best practices for identity-conscious advising requiresadvisor development across areas of cultural competency, identity awareness, bias recognition,and intersectionality, as well as recruitment of diverse advisors for showcasing broadrepresentation of success to the student body. Identity-conscious advising also requires
internships’ impact on engineering self-efficacy and commitmentto an engineering career, academic goals and interest in research, career goals, and engagementwith professionals from academia and industry. Best practices and lessons learned are shared,along with recommendations for colleges looking to replicate the program.1. Overview of ASPIRES Program at Cañada CollegeCañada College, located in the San Francisco Bay Area, is a Hispanic-serving communitycollege, and is one of three colleges in the San Mateo Community College District. During the2015-16 academic year, Cañada College enrolled 10,075 unique students. The student body isgenuinely multi-cultural with Hispanic students as the largest single group at 45.2%; whitestudents comprise 26.8
Paper ID #25927Pedagogical Ninjas: Using an Additive Innovation Cycle for Faculty Devel-opment of Teaching-focused FacultyHadi Ali, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus Hadi Ali is a doctoral student in Engineering Education Systems and Design at Arizona State University.Dr. Jennifer M. Bekki, Arizona State University Jennifer M. Bekki is an Associate Professor in The Polytechnic School within the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University. Her research interests include topics related to engineering stu- dent persistence, STEM graduate students (particularly women), online learning, educational
of UND’s Center for Engineering Education Research. Her research explores strategies for broadening access and participation in STEM, focusing on culturally relevant pedagogy in science and engineering. She also investigates strategies for increasing access and participation in STEM through teacher professional learning opportunities and by exploring the impact of group gender composition on girls’ motivation and engagement. Dr. Robinson is a PI and Co-PI on several NSF sponsored grant projects which focus on teacher professional learning and self-efficacy with implementing culturally relevant engineering education, connecting to place and community, and centering culture and Indigeneity within STEM education
chemistry classes. He is currently conducting research on an NSF faculty development program based on evidence-based teaching practices. The overall goal is to develop dis- ciplinary communities of practice across the college of engineering. The approach is being promoted through semester-long faculty workshops and then through a semester of supported implementation of faculty classroom innovations. Changes in faculty beliefs and classroom practice should positively im- pact student performance and retention. He was a coauthor for the best paper award at the FIE convention in 2009 and the best paper award in the Journal of Engineering Education in 2013.Dr. Casey Jane Ankeny, Arizona State University Casey J. Ankeny, Ph.D
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