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these, and all, fields of study to be in productive dialogue, not only tohelp solve the world’s problems, but also to help answer life’s biggest questions. It may turn outthat these two objectives are very much related.In the mid-1990s, writer John Brockman asserted the ascendency and predominance of scienceby publishing provocative interviews with several big-name scientists in his book, The ThirdCulture: Beyond the Scientific Revolution. These scientists had been successful at popularizingtheir work by writing in a manner that captured the attention and imagination of the public.2 In asense, they represented a new integration of science and the humanities, since they were able toharness the power of compelling literature to promote scientific
Program,” presented at the 2006 Annual Conference & Exposition, Jun. 2006, p. 11.1410.1- 11.1410.13. Accessed: Sep. 27, 2022. [Online]. Available: https://peer.asee.org/using-service-learning-to- integrate-k-12-outreach-into-a-first-year-engineering-program[22] M. Lima, “The LSU Community Playground Project: Reflections on 16 Years of an Engineering Service- Learning Program,” Int. J. Serv. Learn. Eng. Humanit. Eng. Soc. Entrep., pp. 492–508, Dec. 2014, doi: 10.24908/ijsle.v0i0.5565.[23] G. J. Delagrammatikas and E. M. Waters, “Development of a Multi-Tier K12 STEM Outreach Program in New York City,” presented at the 2018 Mid Atlantic Section Fall Meeting, Oct. 2018. Accessed: Nov. 22, 2022. [Online]. Available: https
college in the northeast, and two large publiccomprehensive universities (one in the mountain west and one in the mid-Atlantic). After startingwork, participants were interviewed with a semi-structured protocol that focused on theirresponsibilities, work activities, challenges, and accomplishments at 3, 6, and 12 months ofwork. All subsequent data collection was managed by three researchers (co-author [Author 1] aswell as two additional members of the research team, [Member 1] and [Member 2]). Allworkplace interviews used a common base protocol, followed by tailored prompts to follow upon previous data collection; for example, the six-month interviews followed up on commentsfrom the three-month interviews and so forth. This approach allowed the
experiences of Mexican descent youth in the mid-20th century, higher education student success, and faculty mentoring programs.Dr. Valerie Martin Conley, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs Valerie Martin Conley is dean of the College of Education and professor of Leadership, Research, and Foundations at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs. She previously served as director of the Center for Higher Education, professor, and department chair at Ohio University. She was the PI for the NSF funded research project: Academic Career Success in Science and Engineering-Related Fields for Female Faculty at Public Two-Year Institutions. She is co-author of The Faculty Factor: Reassessing the American Academy in a
)Relationships Beliefs around the right way for people to relate to each other within engineeringRelationship to the Environment How engineering education interacts with broader systems (i.e., university, higher education, engineering profession, national context)MethodsThis paper presents a single pilot case study, where a mechanical engineering department is acase and students are subunits of that case [13]. We draw on hour-long interviews with threemechanical engineering students at a U.S. university in the mid-Atlantic region. This universityshifted all courses online in March 2020 in response to the COVID-19 pandemic
into Why Well-Supported StudentsLeave a First-Year Engineering ProgramAbstractThis complete research paper examines retaining traditionally underrepresented groups (URGs) inSTEM fields. For the purposes of this paper underrepresented groups include women, first-generation students, and underrepresented minorities (URMs). The retention of URM students inSTEM fields is a current area of focus for engineering education research. Following a literaturereview and examination of best practices in retaining the targeted group, a cohort-based,professional development program with a summer bridge component was developed at a large landgrant institution in the Mid-Atlantic region with a programmatic goal to increase retention ofunderrepresented students
Design and Perform an experiment and 4 collect data (test the hypothesis) 6 Idea evaluation 5 Analyze the data 6 Interpret the data and draw conclusions 7 Implementation Planning 7 Publish results 8 Monitoring 8 RetestContext of Study: The CREATE REUThe first year of this NSF funded Biomedical Engineering REU program was held over 10 weeksduring the summer of 2016 at a large Mid-Atlantic
Development of Undergraduate Research Experience,” Proceedings of the 2014 American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference and Exposition, June 2014.[8]. A. Ieta, “Implementation of an Undergraduate Research course,” Proceedings of the 2012 American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference and Exposition, June 2012.[9]. B. Lawton and O. A. Owolabi, “Shaping the Undergraduate Mind through Research,” Proceedings of the 2017 American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Mid Atlantic Section Spring Conference[10]. G. D. Kuh, “High-impact educational practices: what they are, who has access to them, and why they matter,” Association of American Colleges and Universities; 2008. 50 p
discussionmoderators/note-takers; including SDEI student co-chairs) and the committee’s faculty advisor.Each of the five hour-long sessions listed in Table 2 consisted of a brief lecture followed bygroup discussion to inform and uncover truths about the built environment as it contributes to orhinders social justice. This section of the paper details the process of carrying out the workshops.Advertising and Registration: The Unlearning Series was advertised to all students, faculty, staff,and administration across the college through the SDEI Instagram account [5], an emailinvitation from the CAED Associate Dean of Academic Affairs, reminder emails from facultyrepresentatives on the FSDEI committee to their home departments, and word-of-mouth.Advertisements
multidisciplinarity of a team drives communication andargumentation decisions. This study investigated how team multidisciplinary (denoted“disciplinary diversity” of the design team) affects the communication strategies employed bysenior-level engineering design students at a large, public university.MethodsContext and Data Collection. This study was conducted on transcripts of student presentationsgiven for the Fall 2019 Senior Design Showcase at a large R1 university in the Mid-Atlantic UnitedStates. The Senior Design Showcase projects were scoped to solve real-world engineeringproblems experienced by industry sponsors. One of the core components of the Senior Designcurriculum is that teams are multidisciplinary (i.e., the teams include students from
instrument which has already been cross-validated with numerous data fromcollege-students [2], [3]. In this study paired t-tests and repeated measures ANOVA wasimplemented to compare students’ scores at three different points in time: pre-course,post-course and post-trip. Details of the data collection, survey and data analysis are provided inthe following sections.SamplingThe RSAP program in this study is located at a large R1 university in the Mid-Atlantic region.The participants are first year engineering students in their second semester and are part of thegeneral first-year engineering program in the university. The RSAP program includes asemester-long on campus-course followed by a two-week module in different internationaltracks. The
Outstanding Teaching Award,” and the 2012 ASEE Mid-Atlantic Region ”Distinguished Teacher” Award. He teaches courses in both analog and digital electronic circuit design and instrumentation, with a fo- cus on wireless communication. He has more than 15 years experience in the development and delivery of synchronous and asynchronous web-based course supplements for electrical engineering courses. Dr. Astatke played a leading role in the development and implementation of the first completely online un- dergraduate ECE program in the State of Maryland. He has published over 50 papers and presented his research work at regional, national and international conferences. He also runs several exciting summer camps geared towards
of the US involvement.MethodsParticipantsThe students that participated in this study were all interviewed in the second semester of theirfirst year at the aforementioned Mid-Atlantic university. The study institution is a primarilySTEM focused university. The participants were from three disciplines: three from Biochemistryand six each from Chemistry and Chemical Engineering for a total of fifteen students. All self-reported demographic information can be found in Table 1 below, along with the pseudonymsassigned to each participant. Pseudonym Discipline Race Sex Seojun Biochemistry Asian Male Catalina
leadership, the Women in Engineering Pro- gram received the 2008 National Engineers Week Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day Award. She is the principal investigator for a National Science Foundation’s Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Talent Expansion Program (STEP) grant called the Successful Engineering Education and Development Support (SEEDS) Program. SEEDS extends successful women in engineering retention programs to all first-year and new external transfer students in the Clark School. Paige is the co-lead for the Mid-Atlantic Girls Collaborative (MAGiC), a regional collaborative within the NSF-funded National Girls Collaborative Project which brings together girl-serving organizations across
particularly useful prompting question was: “Why?”Research QuestionsWe investigated three research questions for this study: 1. How do kindergartners engaged in an engineering design challenge analyze (i.e., diagnose and/or explain) their design failure experiences? 2. Do kindergartners whose designs fail choose to persist by trying again? 3. How do kindergartners whose designs fail apply testing results and failure analysis when creating their next design attempt?ContextParticipants and SchoolsWe recruited participants from five kindergarten classrooms across three schools within a schoolsystem in the mid-Atlantic region of the United States. Adamsville Elementary is a Title I schoolin an urban area with about 500 students. Blakely
improvement in outcomes for AfricanAmerican women in particular.The setting for this evidence-based practiceThe institution. Our public, mid-Atlantic institution enrolls approximately 16,000 undergraduatestudents and is classified as “highly selective” in undergraduate admission. The university offersa comprehensive set of academic majors for undergraduates, as well as a rich and variedselection of co- and extra-curricular activities. The undergraduate population is about 54%female, 6% African-American, 5.6% Hispanic, and 6% international students. Students aredrawn from all 50 states and over 100 countries. The four-year graduation rate from theinstitution is over 85%, while the six-year graduation rate is over 90%.The institution organizes its
diversity At first, the assessment showed a disproportionate number of projects were located inurban areas and connected to specific school districts and city administrations, see Figure 2.There were only seven projects that focused on rural school districts, while 21 projects wereconnected to urban school districts. The projects grouped as both urban and rural were all state-wide initiatives where the project outcomes affected both large cities and rural regions. Taken atface value, this depicts a higher concentration of projects located in urban areas where internetconnectivity is generally more accessible. The financial geography shows that these projectstarget major US cities with concentrations in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic, as well
domain,ME offers a useful study focus. The sites range in size from a small program graduating 30-50students annually to larger programs with over 350 graduates per year. All include at least a full-year of senior design; one has a four-semester design sequence that begins in students’ junioryear. All include industry-sponsored projects, with some having options that include faculty-sponsored projects, competition teams, and service projects. Finally, all use a course coordinatorcoupled with individual faculty and/or industry mentors for each team. Team sizes are generally4-6 students. The sites are also geographically diverse (northeast, mid-Atlantic, mountain west,and southwest).SamplingBeginning in late spring 2017, we recruited participants
HurricaneKatrina and (3) the student selected research project on an engineered system that negativelyimpacted their local community. For each case, we discuss the learning goals of the givenactivity, how the activity was enacted for the class, and finally draw connections between theactivity and the theories of power it emphasized. After presenting the details of each case weshare our reflections on each of them as instructors. Our reflections explore what went well witheach activity, what challenges it had, and what we might change for future implementations.Study ContextThe three cases reported here all happened in a year-long senior capstone course for a multipledisciplinary engineering degree at a Mid Atlantic University with a large engineering
: Washington Aqueduct,D.C. Water and Sewer Authority, Environmental Protection Agency Mid-Atlantic RegionalOffice, and D.C. Department of Health. The semester-long activities, team exercise centeredaround a book and individual project on a real-world ethical situation with the integration oflistening exercises and ethical theory were among other influential components.The course in fact provided and continues to provide various opportunities for emotionalengagement and imaginative understanding of ethical reasoning even though developingimagination is not one of the major objectives of the course. As one of the students noted in thesurvey, we administered in 2020, “I think moral imagination is the unspoken ultimate objectiveof the class.”Reimagining
Computer Engineering (ECE) department at MSU since August 1994 and currently serves as the Interim Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies in the School of Engineering. Dr. Astatke is the winner of the 2013 American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) ”National Outstanding Teaching Award,” and the 2012 ASEE Mid-Atlantic Region ”Distinguished Teacher” Award. He teaches courses in both analog and digital electronic circuit design and instrumentation, with a fo- cus on wireless communication. He has more than 15 years experience in the development and delivery of synchronous and asynchronous web-based course supplements for electrical engineering courses. Dr. Astatke played a leading role in the development and
courses.While LA programs were initially developed for science and math courses, many LA programssupport LAs in a wide range of disciplines. This paper describes a pilot adaptation of the LAprogram for engineering design courses that we have developed at the University of Maryland,College Park Campus. All LAs assist in 14 separate sections of University of Maryland’sengineering design course for first-year undergraduate students. Our seminar integrates topicsfrom the discipline-general LA pedagogy seminar (cognitive science of learning, facilitation ofclassroom discourse, collaboration, metacognition) with topics especially relevant to engineeringdesign (design reviews, design thinking, expert-novice practices in engineering design,engineering
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engineers are mostly likely tohave this attitude in the results section.MethodsThis section describes our process for classifying engineers according to their acculturationattitudes, as determined by their acculturation preferences, and exploring differences in theseattitudes based on their personal and job characteristics.Participants: Data for this study was collected as part of a larger research project administered inFall 2019 [46]. Nearly twelve thousand alumni who earned engineering degrees from a large,public university in the southwestern U.S. within the past 15 years were invited to participate inan online survey via an initial invitation email and two reminder emails sent over the course of atwo-week period. All participants had the
,” and the 2012 ASEE Mid-Atlantic Region ”Distinguished Teacher” Award. He teaches courses in both analog and digital electronic circuit design and instrumentation, with a fo- cus on wireless communication. He has more than 15 years experience in the development and delivery of synchronous and asynchronous web-based course supplements for electrical engineering courses. Dr. Astatke played a leading role in the development and implementation of the first completely online un- dergraduate ECE program in the State of Maryland. He has published over 50 papers and presented his research work at regional, national and international conferences. He also runs several exciting summer camps geared towards middle school, high
) ”National Outstanding Teaching Award,” and the 2012 ASEE Mid-Atlantic Region ”Distinguished Teacher” Award. He teaches courses in both analog and digital electronic circuit design and instrumentation, with a fo- cus on wireless communication. He has more than 15 years experience in the development and delivery of synchronous and asynchronous web-based course supplements for electrical engineering courses. Dr. Astatke played a leading role in the development and implementation of the first completely online un- dergraduate ECE program in the State of Maryland. He has published over 50 papers and presented his research work at regional, national and international conferences. He also runs several exciting summer camps
approach, the instrument must be adapted to a round-robin formatwhich is discussed below.Data and MethodsSample and Data CollectionData for this study were drawn from a total of 435 mechanical engineering capstone designstudents at a large, mid-Atlantic engineering research institution (n=203) as well as a smallernortheastern military focused engineering college (n=22). These responses represent 56.7% and25.5% of the course enrollments, respectively. The data were collected in a combination of paperwith online follow-up and online only survey formats at the midpoint of their year-long teamingexperience. Questions stemmed from the MLQ Form 5X,12 adapted for round-robin data collectionwhere each team member rated each of their teammates and faculty
system. We conclude the paper with a discussion about the opportunities and challenges ofuniversity-community partnerships, experiential learning and cross-disciplinary collaborativeteaching.Aging Wastewater InfrastructureSyracuse, New York is one of many cities in the United States with aging water infrastructurethat is need of replacement or significant repair. In fact, the American Society of Civil EngineersInfrastructure Report Card assigns a grade of ‘D+’ to the country’s wastewater system [22].Most of Syracuse’s water and sewer infrastructure was built in the early 1900s withmodifications over the years to meet increased demand by Syracuse's mid-century expandingpopulation. Most of these modifications included sewers that are combined
recordedstudent activity; they coded the qualitative data, including detailing how they developed thecoding scheme and how reliable their coders were. For instance, one study found that studentsspent more time engaged in mathematical and graphical modeling than physical modeling, incontrast to previous research findings, but seldom used mathematical modeling to inform theirdesigns, echoing findings in the previous section about the challenges to integrating engineeringand mathematics content successfully [72]. In a study of high school students who hadcompleted engineering courses, student design process was compared to expert design process,finding that the students spent significantly less time gathering information, making decisions,and evaluating the