factor as “effort”, counts twice, and is more impactful on student achievement andsuccess. To this point, a systematic review on grit and academic achievement report “effort” havingthe largest effect size on academic achievement in grades K-12 [11]. In sum, gritty individualshave high grit scores which predict the individual’s retention to graduate with their degree. Graduating with a degree will be defined as a successful student outcome. This definitionwas adopted from a systematic review of student success for LatinX engineering students [13].Another construct associated with degree obtainment and retention is engineering identity.Engineering identity:Godwin [14] states that engineering identity consists of three constructs, 1
would truly serve as the basis of aPDE. Because FLEET largely fits the PDE model, it was expected that FLEET would helpstudents see themselves as future engineers. These authentic tools were designed to ensure thatstudents felt like they were actually acting as naval engineers in an attempt that they could seethemselves becoming an engineer, perhaps even a naval engineer, in the future.FLEET Helps Students see Themselves as EngineersThe FLEET program introduces naval engineering as a possible career path in addition toteaching STEM concepts, A person’s identity is how that person sees themselves and their role inthe world [5], [6]. Sometimes identities are empowering; for example, when a student ismotivated to help those in need or when a
ethnographers from the United States to do ethnographic research in the People’s Republic of China. He has taught at five Chinese universities, and directed the Chinese Studies program at Clark Atlanta University. His graduate degrees are from UCLA (Anthropology, 1983) and the University of Chicago (Social Science-Psychology, 1974). He is currently an Acting Instructor in the Department of Educational Psychology at the University of Washington.Andrew Jocuns, University of Washington Andrew Jocuns holds a PhD in Linguistics from Georgetown University. His research interests in include: classroom discourse and interaction; narrative analysis; mediated discourse; and pragmatics. He is currently
. Graduate students are often faced with a wide variety of academic,professional, and personal challenges across their academic journeys that can impact theirpersistence in their graduate programs. These challenges are often exacerbated when racializedaspects of identity are introduced/considered/threatened. Black graduate students in engineeringdeal with additional scrutiny, such as microaggressions, racism, and other racialized experiencesthroughout their journey. This results in a wide variety of psychological and behavioralresponses unique to this group, such as feelings of powerlessness, invisibility, loss of integrity,pressure to represent one’s group [1], anger, escapism, withdrawal frustration and avoidance [2].In their study of graduate
between choices and beliefs,” Developmental Psychology, vol. 42, no. 1: pp. 70-83, January 2006.[26] M. Bottia, E. Stearns, R. A Michelson and S. Moller, “Boosting the numbers of STEM majors? The role of high schools with a STEM program,” Science Education Policy, vol. 102, no. 1, November 2017. [Online]. Available: https://doi.org/10.1002/sce.21318. [Accessed January 14, 2022].[27] C. Woods-Giscombe, P. Rowsey, S. Kneipp, C. Lackey, and L. Bravo, “Student perspectives on recruiting underrepresented ethnic minority students to nursing: Enhancing outreach, engaging family, and correcting misconceptions
Engineering from Manipal University in India. During her time at Virginia Tech, Sreyoshi was recognized as a Graduate Academy for Teaching Excellence (VTGrATE) Fellow, a Global Perspectives Program (GPP) Fellow, a Diversity scholar, and was inducted in the Bouchet Honor Society at Yale in 2017. Sreyoshi is passionate about improving belonging among women in Engineering. She serves as Senator at SWE (Society of Women Engineers) - the world’s largest advocate and catalyst for change for women in engineering and technology with over 42,000 global members. She also champions and serves as advisor at Sisters in STEM - a not-for-profit led by school students, aimed at increasing interest, engagement, and allyship in STEM. Views
innovative. 73% 11% 15% 87% 9% 4%15. Women professionals have to be more concerned about how they dress and act than men do. 82% 13% 5% 65% 9% 26%16. Technology occupations are respected by 79% 7% 14% 83% 9% 9% other people.17. A technology degree will guarantee me a job when I graduate. 24% 55% 20% 39% 52% 9%18. I feel that male students in my classes know more about computer software than I do. 67% 17% 15% 65% 22% 13%19. Technology plays an important role in solving society's problems
-sheet of paperNote: Directions at the bottom of the handout state: Draw a creative sketch that helps you remember a key pointfrom today’s lesson; no copying my in-class examples! Minimal words & equations in the sketch; the writtendescription should explain the sketch (to help me interpret your creativity)This study was conducted at the U.S. Military Academy, a small, public, undergraduate-onlyfour-year college in the northeast United States. The department in which it took place offers twoABET-accredited engineering programs and graduates around 130 students between the twoprograms each year.A between-subjects quasi-experimental setup was used, meaning students were not randomlyassigned, and each student only completed the napkin sketch
between students’ self-rating and their GPA (r= .8, n = 152, p < .0001) suggesting that their self-report scores are fairly reliable. Thecorrelation between students’ academic performance, their past migration within engineering,and their intention to graduate with an engineering degree was also tested and was found to besignificant (Table 2).Previous migration outside engineering was found to have a strong negative correlation with Page 22.689.5entering college as an engineering major suggesting that while some students enter engineeringafter starting in a major other than engineering, but it is rare for a student to start in engineering
“Black” has been a symbol of inferiority in engineering intellectualcontexts historically11. During the focus group discussion, one participant shared that, “As anAfrican American male in engineering at [this institution], I see it as an opportunity to put to restthe statement that Black males are not intelligent or they are dumb.” Although deficit beliefsabout the relationship between being Black and academic prowess exist in society, the studentsin this sample view Black students succeeding as a part of their identity as engineering students,not an anomaly2. For instance, Sean, a freshman chemical engineering student shares howengineering majors are unique from other majors on campus and require “more time”. He states,“Friday and Saturday
research assistant. She works on the ADVANCE-grant exploring engineering in the contexts of gender, work-family balance, and career trajectories. Prior to this, she taught Introductory Sociology at Purdue University. She was also a research assistant in Purdue’s Sociology Department where she worked on a longitudinal study of mothers who returned to college as non-traditional students. Through her dissertation research, Jordana hopes to understand the role of motherhood on the career paths of women engineers with doctoral degrees. She is interested in the ways women negotiate their identities as engineers and mothers when making career decisions. Her research interests
. This work examines three aspects of experiential learning activities in two distinctEngineering Technology courses: 1) the relationship between student learning style and thetiming of experiential learning activities related to a given topic; and 2) the role of course andtopic type on the relationship between student learning style and the timing of experientiallearning activities. The next section details the background research in these areas, this isfollowed by the methods, results, and conclusions of the work.BackgroundExperiential Learning Experiential learning attempts to rectify what Kolb characterized as the “rejection” of the“real-world” by the educational establishment 1. The key to experiential learning is the creationof
influencingindividuals in their values hierarchy (Leaper et al18). Males may place a higher valuepriority on achieving career success and achievement of higher income. Females mayseek more balance between career and family.The study also draws on Tobin et al3 Gender Self Socialization Model (GSSM) as anauxiliary framework to help explain gender role in the development of women’s valuebased hierarchy. The GSSM model links childhood gender cognition theories into atripartite classification of three constructs: (a) gender identity: children develop a self-identity as a boy or a girl at a young age; (b) gender stereotype: children’s beliefs aboutwhat boys and girls are expected to do are influenced by their desire to conform to thecollective gender stereotype; (c
selected to represent different disciplines, time to add names to class picture set. cultures, and gender identities. 7 Industry Guest Guest speakers preferably represent different Success in Math Students develop a list of success strategies in Speaker disciplines. A third invited guest speaker from a math course and reflect on why they may not industry, preferably a graduate of the college be implementing known successful strategies. lectures. 8 Broadening Your Provide an overview of different ways to get Building Activity: Introduce and help
, "Influence of social cognitive and ethnic variables on academic goals of underrepresented students in science and engineering: A multiple-groups analysis," Journal of Counseling Psychology, vol. 57, pp. 205-218, 2010.[7] M. M. Chemers, E. L. Zurbriggen, M. Syed, B. K. Goza, and S. Bearman, "The Role of Efficacy and Identity in Science Career Commitment Among Underrepresented Minority Students," Journal of Social Issues, vol. 67, pp. 469-491, 2011.[8] R. W. Lent, H.-B. Sheu, C. S. Gloster, and G. Wilkins, "Longitudinal test of the social cognitive model of choice in engineering students at historically Black universities," Journal of Vocational Behavior, vol. 76, pp. 387-394, 2010/06/01/ 2010.[9] A. Bandura, "Self-efficacy: Toward a
approaches were used. Each year, a cohortof students learned engineering skills by identifying a problem, then designing and building asolution. The teaching team consisting of an instructor and 3 to 4 teaching assistants (TAs) whowere undergraduate college students also varied between each year and adapted the curriculumto include new technology and materials. Students typically learned to use rapid prototypingmachines such as laser engravers, 3D printers, and shop tools. Students also used tools such asComputer Aided Design (CAD) software, microcontrollers, and computer programminglanguages. In addition to engineering skills, program-wide activities included: college and careerplanning seminars, technical writing and presentation workshops, field
Paper ID #22357Uncovering Latent Diversity: Steps Towards Understanding ’What Counts’and ’Who Belongs’ in Engineering CultureMs. Brianna Shani Benedict, Purdue University, West Lafayette Brianna Benedict is a Graduate Research Assistant in the School of Engineering Education at Purdue University. She completed her Bachelor’s and Master’s of Science in Industrial and Systems Engineering at North Carolina Agricultural & Technical State University. Her research interest focuses on interdisci- plinary students’ identity development, belongingness in engineering, and recognition.Dina Verd´ın, Purdue University, West Lafayette
University of Washington. Engineering education is her primary area of scholarship, and has been throughout her career. In her work, she currently focuses on the role of reflection in engineering student learning and the relationship of research and practice in engineering education. In recent years, she has been the co-director of the Consortium to Promote Reflection in Engineering Education (CPREE, funded by the Helmsley Charitable Trust), a member of the governing board for the International Research in Engineering Education Network, and an Associate Editor for the Journal of Engineering Education. Dr. Turns has published over 175 journal and conference papers on topics related to engineering education
oninnovation and deep learning included a variety of experimental activities and field trips,Imaginative Education and knowledge building.An example of balancing innovation and efficiency is how students learned about AtterbergLimits (the moisture contents of fine-grained soils that indicate the boundaries between differenttypes of engineering behavior). As in most introductory geotechnical courses, studentsperformed the standard ASTM laboratory procedures to determine the liquid limit and the plasticlimit of a soil. Through this efficiency activity students learned the procedural knowledgeassociated with the topic. However, innovation was also integrated into the experiment to helpstudents develop a deeper understanding of the concepts by requiring
and academic success of engineering students is a critical issuethat will generate a profound impact upon the nation‟s economy and prosperity.1 According tothe American Society of Engineering Education, enrollment in baccalaureate programs increased14% between 2000 and 2005, but the number of engineering graduates remained relativelyunchanged since 2005.2 The demand for qualified engineering graduates will grow 11% between2008 and 2018 based on the most recent U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics projections.3 Therefore,preparing a qualified engineering workforce is a national issue particularly since the scientificand technological leadership of the U.S. has “experienced a gradual erosion”4 of its position.Considering the critical role played by
inthe summer and included both face-to-face and online components. Topic coverage fell into oneof three main categories: 1) university employment expectations, 2) course logistics andexpectations, and 3) effective interactions between Mentor TAs and students enrolled in thecourse. Workshop effectiveness was evaluated through a mixed method approach including theuse of pre and post workshop surveys and end of the semester focus group discussions withstudents serving as Mentor TAs as well as post course surveys of course-enrolled students. Acomplete discussion of the developed workshop and the future direction of the program is alsoincluded.Introduction and BackgroundOver the past three years, faculty at Florida Gulf Coast University (FGCU) have
careercounseling and career advising within both centralized and decentralized structures and withshort-term and long-term developmental strategies. Strength-based coaching models also exist toidentify and leverage students’ strengths, passions, and career goals. Advisors vs coachestypically take on different roles within these varying models of career advising. As an example,models exist where advisors take a proactive approach to career advising reaching out tostudents, while other models position coaches to be available to students when they are ready tooffer general support. Sometimes upperclassmen or recent graduates can be the advisors orcoaches. The more integrated and innovative models of career advising build connectionsbetween academic and
, recent engineering graduates enteringthe workplace are still reported to be deficient in written and oral communication skills.This work investigates student perception of written and oral communication skills after theirparticipation in game-based activities as a means to determine whether game-based pedagogycould serve as a potential tool to enhance these skills in engineering undergraduates. Game-basedlearning incorporates game design elements in non-game contexts, balancing subject matter andgame play to help players engage in the information being presented, while allowing them tolearn how to apply it in real world contexts, such as communication in industry.Game-based communication activities were incorporated into one section of
7likely to attend community college than a public 4year college. Working full time and going to school part time are both factors that have been independently linked to lower rates of 8,9 persistence and degree attainment. Professional Engineering Identity Developing an identity as an engineer has been linked to persistence in an engineering program. The acquisition of this role is gradual and progresses during the first few years of study; 3upperclassmen are significantly more likely to identify as engineers than first year students. For students, development of engineering identity is
turncomplicates our ability to assess engineering judgement as a learning outcome or designeffective pedagogies to help students learn it. To address this gap, we present a review ofrelevant research to develop a working definition and identify links between engineeringjudgment, situated cognition, and identity production as a step toward informing engineeringpedagogy. We argue that the exploration of engineering judgment should be grounded at theintersection of decision making, cognition, and identity because, as the literature suggests,engineering judgment is reflected in the decisions engineers make throughout their work,depends on cognitive processes of both individuals and groups, and is embodied in authoritativeprofessional communication tasks
identifications, then acculturation is not a singular process that occurs at asingle pace. A singular process that identifies an individual as “acculturated” or not, is likely anoversimplification of a very complex phenomenon.22 This model therefore considers studentveterans’ desire to retain cultural aspects of their military identity in college, while alsoconnecting with the culture of higher education in different aspects. 15 The expandedconceptualization of acculturation carries important implications for student veterans’reintegration into higher education and recognizes the significant role that higher educationinstitutions play in this process.21, 22 Figure 2. Multidimensionality of AcculturationHigher Education as a Pathway to Reintegration
students a better context for analyzing the similarities, differences,linkages, and interactions between ethnic, cultural, gender/sexual, age-based, class, regional,national, transnational, and global identities. I will take the readings that I have already used andsupplement them with individual and group activities so that the students can better understandthe complexities of these issues. Also, I plan on giving the students more backgroundinformation about the topics in this class so that they can better meet the learning objective.Figure 5. Assessment results for Technology VS Women by semester for each GE andMUSE objective. Fall Fall Fall *Fall Total percent
Student describes an experience Encountering legal issues, difficulty experience in which they encountered a balancing entrepreneurial project with challenge or problem while school, project development stagnates, working on their entrepreneurial etc. project Failure Student describes an experience Failure in the design or solution, experience in which they failed unsuccessful attempt to obtain funding, entrepreneurial project discontinues, etc. Class- Student describes the general Entrepreneurship classes and project
focus on their hidden identity, mental health, and wellbeing. Her work aims to enhance inclusivity and diversity in engineering education, contributing to the larger body of research in the field.Gabriel Van Dyke, Utah State University Gabriel Van Dyke is a Graduate Student and Research Assistant in the Engineering Education Department at Utah State University. His current research interests are engineering culture and applying cognitive load theory in the engineering classroom. He is currently working on an NSF project attempting to improve dissemination of student narratives using innovative audio approaches. Gabe has a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Utah State University (USU).Dr. Stephen Secules
identify as cisgender. These students may have a deeper understanding of diverse genderidentities and may act as allies in an engineering context. A better understanding of thesestudents provides insight into the types of students entering engineering that can help support andpromote diversity. We used quantitative methods to analyze survey data from first-yearengineering students relating to constructs of attitudes, personality, and engineering identity. Theinvestigation revealed significant differences between students who identified themselves ascisgender and students who are presumed to be cisgender but do not explicitly identifythemselves as such. Cis-identifying students were found to have stronger STEM-relatedidentities and possess