engineering design (e.g., designthinking, engineering epistemology, teamwork and equity). Our peer educators move betweenthese two activity systems: one is the field site for their teaching responsibilities within one of~15 sections of a first-year engineering design course (UMD ENES100), and the second is anengineering-design focused pedagogy seminar (UMD EDCI488E). The co-occurence of theseexperiences in the same semester allows our peer educators to have firsthand experiencesworking with students while trying to make sense of key ideas from education theory andresearch. Details of the design of the pedagogy seminar and the design course context areprovided in Quan et al. (2017), and the design of ENES100 course is presented in Calabro,Gupta, &
is definitely women doing the most work though, at least trying to hold it to ahigher standard. And, I’m not saying, I have worked with guys in my group that do want tohold it to a higher standard, but this might just be because there’s been more men in my groupthan women. But as much as the men are like being lazy or won’t show up to groups or thingslike that, but the women are always, there always trying to do the best work, always takingover the other sections that people forget about.”In interpreting peer microaggressions some Black students noted that for many students in theCollege, they served as their one “Black friend.” One student stated: “… a lot of our peers haven’t been exposed to black people throughout their
-institutional study of students’ transitions fromtheir capstone (senior) design experiences into engineering work [21-24]. The sections belowdescribe the sites, participants, data collection, and data analysis.Site DescriptionsThe research study involves four different universities: two large public comprehensiveuniversities (one in the mountain west and one in the mid-Atlantic), one small public technicaluniversity in the southeast, and one small private college in the northeast. Three have a year-longcapstone design program and one has a four-semester design sequence that spans the junior andsenior years. All focus heavily on industry-sponsored projects; three also include faculty-sponsored and national-competition projects. All emphasize
TechnologyDr. Eric J. AlmDr. Alison F Takemura, US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute Alison loves wading into a good science story. Her first was her MIT doctoral thesis project, unlocking the gastronomical genome of a Vibrio bacterium. For some of the Vibrio’s meals, she collected seaweed from the rocky, Atlantic coastline at low tide. (Occasionally, its waves swept her off her feet.) During grad school, Alison was also a fellow in MIT’s Biological Engineering Communication Lab. Helping students share their science with their instructors and peers, she began to crave the ability to tell the stories of other scientists, and the marvels they discover, to a broader audience. So after graduating in 2015 with a