professional engineer and motivate me to continue my studies of green issues and master them for professional use from entrepreneurship mindset.4.3 EntrepreneurshipThe entrepreneurship theme addressed how the students could think about their constructionproject from an entrepreneurial mindset.Spotting New Opportunities: The students were able to spot opportunities necessary to thesuccess of their project. The examples of quotes are presented below: • We are able to use the prompt and identify what the client needs and what the buyer will want from this project and that's what we use to deliver our house production line. • Based on the market analysis, I tried to discover opportunities for our clients in several profitable and
Student Award and the United States Department of Defense SMART Scholarship.Dr. Bryan Watson, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Bryan Watson, PE earned his Ph.D. at the Georgia Institute of Technology and his B.S. in Systems Engineering at the United States Naval Academy in 2009. After graduating, Bryan joined the nuclear Navy, serving as a submarine officer onboard the U.S.S Louisville and at the Naval Prototype Training Unit from 2009-2017. Significant milestones include earning the Master Training Specialist Certification (the military’s highest instructor accreditation), Nuclear Professional Engineer Certification, two Naval Achievement Medals, the Military Outstanding Volunteer Service Medal, and a Naval
interconnectedness ofwork, community, families, and cultural context in individual development [37], [38].Hansen's extensive observations revealed six critical life tasks that interconnect importantconcepts: • Finding Purposeful Work: Identifying work aligned with personal values in a changing global landscape. • Weaving Meaning into Work: Integrating values into work for purpose and satisfaction. • Connecting Family and Work: Balancing roles and relationships within families while pursuing career aspirations. • Embracing Diversity: Valuing cultural differences for inclusivity and growth. • Mastering Change: Adapting to personal transitions and organizational transformations effectively. • Seeking Spirituality and Meaning
study is [Redacted], a lecturer from the Department of Mechanical Engineering. You are eligible to participate since you enrolled in this course. Completing the survey should take no more than 15 minutes. There will be no audio or video recordings at any stage of this study.”The survey employed a Likert scale ranging from 1 to 7, where 1 indicates strong disagreementwith the statements and 7 indicates strong agreement. The survey asked the students, “To whatextent do you agree or disagree with the following assertions?”, for ten questions: 1. I am interested in pursuing a career in a Science, Technology, Engineering, and/or Math (STEM) field. 2. I am interested in pursuing a Masters-level graduate degree (e.g., M.S. or M.Eng). 3. I
Paper ID #41886Engineering ’STEAMs’ Up Elementary Education: Impacts of the COVID-19Pandemic (Fundamental)Dr. Jennifer Ocif Love, Northeastern University Dr. Jennifer Love is a full-time faculty member of Northeastern University’s College of Engineering, most recently in the First Year Engineering program. She is currently the Associate Director for the Michael B. Silevitch and Claire J. Duggan Center for STEM Education. She has a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (1993), a Master of Science in Biomedical Engineering from The University of Iowa (1997) and a Doctorate in
holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in computer science from FIU and B.S. and M.S. degrees in neuroscience from the University of Miami. In addition, she served as a postdoctoral fellow in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology, with a focus on engineering education. Her research interests span the fields of computing and engineering education, human-computer interaction, data science, and machine learning.Edward Dillon, Morgan State University Dr. Dillon received his B.A. in Computer and Informational Science from the University of Mississippi in 2007. He would go on to obtain his Masters and Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Alabama in 2009 and
people’s experiences in educational domains are shaped by their subjective understandings of themselves and their social environment. She is also passionate about social justice and service work, both in her research and in her professional roles.Liwei Chen, University of PittsburghCarlie Laton Cooper, University of Georgia Carlie is a doctoral student in the Louise McBee Institute of Higher Education at the University of Georgia (UGA). She earned a bachelor’s degree in Psychology from UGA (2017) and a Master of Education in Higher Education Administration from Georgia Southern University (2021). She has higher education experience in business affairs and academic advising. She researches structures that contribute to
seen to decrease with increasedexposure to and familiarity with the test format. This is consistent with Hounsell et al. whosuggest that students’ anxiety is likely not inherent to the oral format itself, but may be a result ofthe novelty of this form of assessment [18]. Thus, student anxiety may be significantly mitigatedby interventions designed to familiarize them with the oral exam format, such as practiceopportunities or “dry-runs” [16]. Alternatively, Joughin suggests that some students may feelanxiety before an oral exam because they are aware that they have not deeply mastered thecourse material, and argues that in this case anxiety is productive in that it encourages students tomodify their learning strategies to achieve deeper
of the abovementioned factors correlates with respondents' choices regarding engineering graduate degrees. We also tested for the intersectional correlations of multiple demographic factors, such as gender and citizenship status, gender and family education, and gender and year of study. Appendix A shows the results of all cross-tabulations. Table 1: Definition of variables used in the paper Independent Variables DefinitionLevel of study Undergraduate, Research-based master’s (MASc), Course-based master, Ph.D.Program of study Chemical, Civil, Computer, Electrical, Industrial, Material, Mechanical, Mineral
., everyone can master a subject), and centering humanity and nature inthe STEM curricula. We find kinship with efforts to create curriculum driven by an ethic of care[6], and also, with the idea of “recasting agreements” [19]. We also acknowledge that engineersin training and in the workforce often encounter situations where they must make decisions orperform tasks that conflict with their personal values [20-21]. This inevitability is one we shouldprepare our students to navigate.STS Postures and Student AgencyThe STS Postures curriculum has been described in previous studies [6-8, 22-23], so we onlybriefly contextualize it here. The first two authors of this paper developed the STS Postures as away to integrate insights from many pedagogical
Having completed a Master of Science in Engineering degree in 2019, Michael is continuing in his pursuit of a Ph.D. in Engineering Education. His drive toward this field of study is to cultivate skills and knowledge that will better prepare him for a career focused on combating human-trafficking. Michael is seeking to find a way to integrate technical engineering principles, scientific research practices, and a broad network of motivated leaders to end human trafficking. Michael believes this integrated team, coupled with a holistic approach, will inhibit future trafficking crimes, while improving the well-being of current survivors. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024
both undergraduate and graduateeducation should reflect that change [1], [2], [3]. This commitment to a shift in the educationalapproach within MSE departments is highlighted in the strategic plan of the National Scienceand Technology Council’s Materials Genome Initiative, which posits that the next generation ofthe MSE workforce will need to master three competencies: experimentation, data management,and computation [4].MSE educators have worked to construct educational offerings that develop competencies in theareas identified by the Materials Genome Initiative. Several departments have developedcomputational courses or add-on computational modules for existing courses [5], [6], [7], [8],[9], [10]. However, while inroads have been made in
technical concepts students are mastering in theirsociopolitical context. Thus, discussion and debate around equitable infrastructure topics shouldbe expected and encouraged. Learning assessment could include individual reflection, groupreflection, and/or concept mapping.The courses at Lafayette College and Gonzaga University both covered the construction of theinterstate highway system beginning in the 1950 as an equity issue. This case study has both astrong historical lens as well as contemporary framing since the Federal InfrastructureInvestment and Jobs Act has a funding program called Reconnecting Communities andNeighborhoods, which is targeting investment in areas that were negatively impacted by pastprojects like the interstate highway
engineer-in-progress is respected in different contexts How the participants experienced being seen as engineers-in-progress concerning respectvaried if the faculty were their engineering course instructors or if they were mentor figures inthe cohort program. The participants believed recognition from instructional faculty was orientedaround knowledge of engineering and that there was "a lot of focus on being a master of yourcraft (Darryl)." While participants felt recognized by instructional faculty as engineers inprogress, their respect for students fluctuated depending on how the faculty member interpretedstudent progress toward acquiring this knowledge. A shared sentiment was that faculty saw themas potential engineers "until you make a
Paper ID #42973Understanding Federal STEM Education InitiativesDr. Jessica Centers, The MITRE Corporation Jessica Centers is a communications engineer at the MITRE Corporation. She joined MITRE in 2023 after completing her Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering with a focus on signal and information processing at Duke University. Upon beginning her role at MITRE, she also completed her Master of Arts in Technology Ethics and Science Policy. Prior to graduate school, she received her B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Milwaukee School of Engineering in 2018. She currently splits her time between STEM workforce and
, leadership, teamwork, innovation, and civic andpublic engagement. The survey aimed to understand students’ “attitudes towards professionalskills is to predict their intention to master those skills during college and enact them aftergraduation” [13, p. 1430]. This recent work is focused on helping universities develop curriculathat incorporate professional skill development within technical courses and seems particularlyuseful for engineering educators. Another option might be using the Miville-GuzmanUniversality-Diversity Scale—Short form (MGUDS-S) to determine their openness to andappreciation of cultural diversity [14].Students should be taught creativity theories and methodologies in engineering design courses toincrease creativity in
at West Virginia University. David believes that being a Christian and a civil engineer is an exciting pairing, as civil engineers get an opportunity to participate in God’s redemptive work on the earth and serve people by helping provide them with safe solutions to their most fundamental needs.Mackenzie Booth, Cedarville University Mackenzie Booth is an assistant professor of civil engineering at Cedarville University, where she has served since 2020. Prior to joining the faculty at Cedarville, Mackenzie completed a Master of Science degree in Environmental Engineering at Purdue University. She completed her undergraduate studies at LeTourneau University. Mackenzie believes environmental engineers are tasked with
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
as a software engineer at Sina for one year after I graduated as a master from China Agriculture University in 2009. He received the Best Paper Award from IEEE Edge in 2019.Jin Lu, University of Georgia Jin Lu received his Ph.D. degree in computer science and engineering from the University of Connecticut, USA in 2019. He worked as an assistant professor at the University of Michigan - Dearborn from 2019 to 2023. He is currently an assistant professor at the School of Computing at the University of Georgia. My major research interests include machine learning, data mining, and optimization. I am particularly interested in transparent machine learning models, distributed learning algorithms, optimization and so
Paper ID #41561Insights and Lessons Learned from Engineering OER AuthorsDr. Jacob Preston Moore, Pennsylvania State University, Mont Alto Jacob Moore is an Associate Professor of Engineering at Penn State Mont Alto. He has a PhD in Engineering Education from Virginia Tech and a Bachelors and Masters in Mechanical Engineering. His research interests include open educational resources, concept mapping, and student assessment techniquesDr. Daniel W Baker PhD P.E., Colorado State University Daniel Baker, Ph.D. PE is a Teaching Associate Professor and is the primary instructor for the on-campus and online sections of CIVE 260
presented research about out-of-school learning, science and nature education, and about collaborations to promote natural resources management. In addition, Rebecca is a Wisconsin Master Naturalist, and enjoys hiking, reading, connecting with others, and learning languages.Dr. Ryan Robert Hansen, Kansas State University Dr. Hansen is an associate professor in the Tim Taylor Department of Chemical Engineering at Kansas State University.Nathan P. Hendricks, Kansas State UniversityGaea A. HockDr. Stacy L. Hutchinson, Kansas State UniversityPrathap Parameswaran, Kansas State University Prathap Parameswaran is currently an Associate Professor and the Fornelli Engineering professorship holder at the Civil Engineering department
forest models; entropy;computer adaptive testing; artificial intelligenceIntroduction Effective and impactful education is reliant on accurate and equitable assessment oflearning and proficiency. Large-scale and local assessments are used for determining admissioninto programs, for course placement, for determining which students have mastered courselearning outcomes, for reinforcing learning and providing feedback, for informing pedagogy andinterventions, and for developing self-regulated learning skills [1], [2], [3], [4]. Cognitive fatigue (CF) is a well-documented phenomenon characterized by diminishedperformance throughout the day, over the course of prolonged cognitive tasks, and even within thefirst few questions on single