Paper ID #38412Promoting Research Quality to Study Mental Models of Ethics andDiversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) in EngineeringDr. Justin L. Hess, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE) Dr. Justin L Hess is an assistant professor in the School of Engineering Education at Purdue University. Dr. Hess’s research focuses on empathic and ethical formation in engineering education. He received his PhD from Purdue University’s School of Engineering Education, as well as a Master of Science and Bachelor of Science from Purdue University’s School of Civil Engineering. He is the editorial board chair for the Online Ethics
) Sara Schley is a Professor in the Masters in Secondary Science Education in NTID at RIT, and director of the Research Center for Teaching and Learning at NTID, where diverse teams of faculty and students conduct research to improve deaf education . She h ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Identifying Misrecognition in Engineering Identity ResearchAnnie Y. PatrickGeorgia Institute of TechnologyJoseph LedouxGeorgia Institute of TechnologySara SchleyGeorgia Institute of Technology Identifying Misrecognition in Engineering Identity Research Introduction Engineering identity and its subcomponent, recognition, is highly
National Science Foundation; U.S. Department of Education Title III and Title V; National Institutes of Health; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, among others. Dr. Eddy also trains professional evaluators from around the world as a faculty member at CGU in the Advanced Certificate in Evaluation Program.Ms. Nancy Hankel, Cobblestone Applied Research & Evaluation, Inc. Ms. Hankel earned a Master of Arts in Psychology with a co-concentration in Organizational Behavior and Evaluation degree from Claremont Graduate University. She also graduated from Hillsdale College with a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology. As a Research Associate at Cobblestone Applied Research & Evaluation, Inc., Nancy manages several studies
students. Nathan has bachelors degrees in Civil Engineering and Applied Mathematics from Seattle University, a masters degree in Civil Engineering from Stanford Uni- versity and a doctoral degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Colorado Boulder. Page 24.1089.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 Social Responsibility Attitudes of First Year Engineering Students and the Impact of CoursesAbstractThe goal of this research was to characterize the social responsibility (SR) attitudes of first yearengineering students, determine if these
– an essential behavior that must be mastered on their journey tobecoming practicing engineers. At the beginning of each quarter, after the peer evaluations fromthe previous quarter had been compiled and distributed, the instructors would discuss them withthe class as a whole. In these open discussions the instructors would solicit reactions from thestudents on the feedback they had received, and offer a faculty perspective of the process anddiscuss ways to interpret and respond to that feedback. These sessions were an attempt todemystify the process of giving professionally relevant feedback to their peers, to have thestudents to reflect on their personal development, and to get them to the point where they canreceive constructive criticism
Roundtable, Ohio’s Great Corridor Association, and the University of Dayton Rivers Institute. Prior to her position at SOCHE, Maggie worked for the Fitz Center for Leadership in Community at the University of Dayton. Maggie has a Master of Business Administration and a Bachelor of Science in Economics and Finance from the University of Dayton.Dr. Sean J Creighton, SOCHE Sean Creighton is the Executive Director of SOCHE, a regional consortium of colleges and universities dedicated to educating, employing, and engaging citizens. In 2012, SOCHE received the Dayton Business Journal Non-Profit Business of the Year Award. Sean is an elected member of the Board of Education for the Yellow Springs Public Schools, and
suitable labcourse. This allows the existing articulation agreements to remain unchanged. Anotherconsideration is that there were few classrooms that had a sufficient number of electrical outletsat the time when the hands-on experiments were adopted into the curriculum, which presentedsignificant complications to the scheduling of courses if the hands-on activities were conductedduring the class session. Lastly, the instructors assigned to teach the lecture courses change everysemester and include adjunct professors, faculty members from other departments, and graduatestudents who have completed their Masters degrees. The effort to continually instruct theinstructors on techniques to incorporate the hands-on learning modules into their lectures
task can be mastered with experience and guidancefrom other faculty and staff experienced in instructional design. This feedback loop concept is Page 23.951.5discussed further in the next section.Simple course website data, student communication tools, homework uploading, and polls arefairly easy for most faculty to understand and implement in most LMS systems, however, furthermaturation along the continuum of course hybridization requires more commitment and time tolearn both the pedagogy and tools. While creating a variety of true-false, multiple choice, andshort answer quizzes do take more effort and skill, they usually yield significant
training at the National Collegiate Inventors and In- novators Alliance (NCIIA). Babs is a serial entrepreneur and active in multiple entrepreneurial activities. She blogs about entrepreneurship on New Venturist. Babs taught entrepreneurship at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) for 15 years, where she maintains an adjunct position. Formerly, Babs was embedded entrepreneur for CMU’s Project Olympus and innovation advisor for CMU’s Institute for Social Innova- tion. For seven years at the University of Pittsburgh, Babs taught the Benchtop to Bedside new technology commercialization course. Babs is President of Carryer Consulting and co-founder of LaunchCyte, which has a portfolio of five companies. Babs has a Masters in
would have no or minimal difficulty. If,however, the same mathematical expressions or equations are hidden in a context, many studentsdo not know how to start solving that problem.This aversion towards word problems and real world applications is not new; students havealways struggled with them. Even high achieving students who have mastered the math skillsthat lay behind a real life application problem would admit their difficulty and even disliketoward word problems. Some would even come to a standstill or simply give up whenencountered a more involving, multi-step problem where the math skill that needed to solve theproblem is not instantly obvious.III.B. Graphing Calculators and Robots in the Math Classrooms: In a peer reviewedresearch done
expected roles and competencies—a key factor in becoming a successfulprofessional.5 Professional identity development can be influenced by interactive, intellectual, Page 23.1058.3and concrete experiences during professional training, and often relies on verification fromrelevant others. 5 Through interactions with faculty, mentors, and peers, both in and out of the classroom, students begin to engage in professional behavior as they start to master technicalknowledge and practical competencies and learn to develop a confident demeanor. 5
systems, I'm going to need to be able to wire things.”Also, students realize that entering a new field and mastering it are different things: “My new understanding of electronics helps me understand what the electrical engineers in my project do, thus making me more capable of communicating my ideas to them.” “Possibly a better knowledge of circuit design, but probably not too easy to actually use it.” “I learned that I will need an electrical engineer on my team in the future because I still don't really understand it...” • Advice to future studentsLast but not least, we asked in the “summary” survey: “Any advice to the students whowill take this course in the future?” Some of the students
consisted of a diverse student bodywith 5,644 undergraduate students, 1,743 masters students, and 1,477 doctoral students. Thelibrary system consists of fifteen different libraries and collections which are located in eightphysical buildings. Our particular library building serves the teaching and research needs of theCollege of Engineering, along with several other departments and colleges on our part of campus.We provide a course reserve service at our physical building, separate from the main library’scourse reserve location. One of the efforts we’ve made toward assisting students with textbookcosts is to provide a physical copy of engineering textbooks on course reserves. Unlike the mainlibrary’s course reserves, we actively gather textbook
relatedskills and topics. Any instance of an identified key indicator in a state science standard documentwas entered into a master spreadsheet along with the standard and grade level, which was thencoded individually by the research team. If more than one indicator was included in the sameinstance, then each of those elements could be coded from that single instance. After completingthe coding of a state individually, members of the research team compared codes in pairs to helpensure consistency in the coding of each state. We measured inter-rater reliability for twodifferent coding schemes, whether or not the standard or benchmark met the criteria for beingengineering context and using the key indicators from the Framework for Quality K-12Engineering
encouraged to look outside of the class for sources of inspiration.The third component of a T-shaped environment is the opportunity for reflection. Asopposed to content-based courses, where the focus is on mastering material, a T-shapedcourse can strengthen connections. In content-based courses, reflection often takes theform of a one-page assignment at the end of the class. What students most often produceis a summary of the content they have learned along with a surface level assessment ofwhere they might use the information in the future.I have been developing tool, called the Reflection Ladder (Figure 1), that is loosely basedupon Bloom’s Taxonomy and is used throughout the semester. It is another instructionatool to encourage the growth mindset
enrollment) for STEM majors. Page 23.1256.4Math Tutoring OutcomesThe first intervention, to improve performance and retention in the foundational math classes forSTEM majors, involves seven of the regional campuses. These seven campuses instituted a 1-credit weekly tutoring class taken in conjunction with Algebra II, Trigonometry, or Calculus I.This math tutoring class differs from drop-in tutoring offered at a campus Learning Centerbecause it is an actual course, for credit, that students are required to attend. Students areactively engaged in weekly 50-minute sessions with master and peer tutors who address theirquestions and guide them to practice
cognitive levels of complexity: knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis,synthesis, and evaluation4. Engineering students beginning their core engineering curriculumstruggle to move between “knowledge” and “comprehension”. Entwistle5 discusses a lesscomplex model that incorporates three levels of learning and can easily be applied to Universitycurriculum. Level 1 “surface learners” have mastered the memorization technique and use theequations without deep thought or evaluation. Level 3 learners adopt an in-depth approach,striving to comprehend the concepts and the application of the new material. Level 2 “strategiclearners” fall between these two levels, commonly utilizing the surface approach, but they usetheir Level 3 skills only when
design and teaches in a Masters of Arts program designed for second career STEM professionals. He also teaches a variety of courses to as- sist classroom teachers with curriculum development, analyzing their instruction and conducting action research. Dr. Marlette was awarded his Ph.D. from Kansas State University in 2002. During his pro- fessional career he has taught both middle and high school science, worked in professional development schools, and provided teacher professional development at all grade levels (K-12). He regularly collabo- rates with STEM faculty on various projects and grants to improve K-12 STEM learning. He currently is serving as a faculty fellow in the SIUE Center for STEM Research, Education
responses from the mentees, manywere positive, but three of the eleven were negative or had negative undertones.One of the most positive responses to the reflective questions was from Becky. She stated: “I do feel loyal to my mentor since he has put in so much of his own time and effort into teaching me. I know he has done his best to support my personal growth and loyalty is only a fraction of what I could possibly pay him for what he's done for me. If I had to choose between a new mentor that was a master on a difficult subject and Josh, I would want to work with Josh even if he didn't know anything about the project. He's a fantastic learner and brings me along every time that he does.”Then in stark contrast
toclass.Engineering students must be able to understand context and project-specific design details whenworking in the industry to ensure the successful implementation of their engineering solutions[15]. These design details provide vital information about the specific requirements andconstraints of a project, enabling engineers to fully comprehend the scope and objectives of theirwork. By understanding the project-specific design details, engineers can effectively analyze theproblem, identify potential challenges, and develop optimized solutions. It helps in minimizingerrors, enhancing the efficiency of the design process, and ensuring the final product meets thedesired specifications. Hence, engineering students who master project-specific design
highlighted how underclassmen have less power when working with graduate students whonot only have more experience than them but also have more ownership of the project, “[As] an undergrad, working in the lab, the PhD and the master student are going to have way more power, I guess, than the undergrad student, and they rightfully should, because it's their project. And they have a lot more experience working in a lab environment.” (S3)Several participants discussed how students who are considered smart or competent can be seenor treated differently.S4 mentioned how she thought that S2 would have more confidence since she was smart enoughto come to university before graduating high school, “I always expect the really
families from traditionally underrepresented populations in engineering are able to develop engineering interest, skills, knowledge, and ways of thinking as a result of engaging in authentic engineering activities within a wide range of learning contexts.Catherine Wagner, University of Notre Dame Catherine Wagner is a research staff member at the Center for STEM Education at the University of Notre Dame. She earned her Master of Education degree from Notre Dame in 2019 while teaching middle school science. She has collaborated with faculty in the Center for STEM on engineering research for several years, most recently leading an undergraduate research lab on early childhood engineering research. In the Center, she also