TA support which evolve over timeand that such preferences are not uniform across student demographics. This dynamic landscapeof what students expect from their TAs suggests that techniques for exploring studentexpectations at the start of a course can make a valuable addition to TA professionaldevelopment programs. Understanding this dynamic landscape can also enable TAs to targettheir teaching efforts for maximum and equitable effectiveness across both underrepresented andmajority student populations.IntroductionIn terms of gender, race, and ethnicity, engineering has a diversity problem that has persisted fora very long time. In 2022, women accounted for less than a quarter (24.2%) of engineeringbachelor’s degrees in the U.S., marking a
early2025 on the Georgia Tech campus. The team working on the project includes two faculty, aprofessional composer, art and science teachers from an elementary school, and students in ranksranging from elementary school to master’s, with the large majority being undergraduates. Thestudents involved participate in several courses and programs, including Vertically IntegratedProjects (VIP), ENGAGES (Engaging New Generations at Georgia Tech through Engineering &Science), and interdisciplinary senior capstone design. BMG follows the first exhibit by theElectronic ARTrium lab, Raise Your Hand, which was shown for two weeks in November 2022,in the Ferst Center for the Arts, and was described in a paper last year in this conference [1].Raise Your Hand
ways they are seen as deficient, to focusing ourattention on the perpetuation of white supremacy through actors such as institutions and systemsthat continue to produce the same identities in STEM and engineering: “pale and male” [62, p.9].References 1. K. V. Hardy, The Enduring, Invisible, and Ubiquitous Centrality of Whiteness. W. W. Norton & Company, 2022. 2. National Center for Educational Statistics. “Race/Ethnicity of College Faculty.” Institute of Education Sciences. (accessed Dec. 1, 2023). https://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=61 3. American Society for Engineering Education. (2020). Engineering and Engineering Technology by the Numbers 2019. Washington, DC. 4. R. Fry, B. Kennedy, and C. Funk
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, collaborative, and challenging engineering tasks.A pilot initiative was formulated based on prior experience in two separate ASU ResearchExperience for Teachers (RET) programs in 2022 and 2023. The pilot program began oncampus, designing and testing initial kits and exchange procedures (Fig.1). The primary resultwas a naturally rigorous standard of communication and reporting between students. The firstiteration of project reports were rudimentary and poorly reported, as students hadn't traded Fig. 2; First student report on an ASU sourced project. Note the limited reporting and lack of detail. This is Fig. 3; First stage of ASU-sourced Coral before students began exchanging information for project. collaborative development cycles
global leader in innovation is of utmost importance especially during a time weresolving the world’s most pressing and complex issues, including the recent pandemic, climate,environmental challenges, and a sustainable economy require innovative solutions. This need isreflected in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) occupation growthwhich has increased 79% since 1990 and is projected to grow by 10.8% by 2031 (U.S. Bureau ofLabor Statistics, 2022). The demographics of the United States are undergoing a profoundtransformation, marked by the significant and growing presence of Hispanic and Latinoindividuals within the population. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, as of 2020, Hispanicsand Latinos constituted approximately 18.7
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and help-seeking attitudes among engineering studentsAbstractEngineering students face significant barriers to seek support for mental health needs. Stigmaaround mental health acts as a major barrier for help seeking behavior. This study examineschanges in mental health condition (MHC) stigma, help-seeking attitudes, and identity amongengineering students at a U.S. East Coast institution over the course of a year (2022–2023).Using established survey instruments, we analyzed responses from 91 students through paired t-tests. Results indicate a decline in college-specific prejudice over time and a moderate decreasein engineering-specific social distance in online contexts. However, engineering identity andbelonging also
, structuralinequities continue to be perpetuated within the engineering profession [1,2]. In Canada, this EDIwork has historically been decentralized, with individual institutions developing their ownagendas [4]. More recently, the Canadian government has indicated an interest in this issue,through the establishment of national funding program changes aiming to uplift under-represented groups within STEM fields [5]. This indicates a national understanding for the needto increase representation and retention within the field. However, despite these efforts, data onpracticing engineers within Canada indicate continued inequities. In 2022, for example, whilewomen made up 25.2% of undergraduate engineering students, women accounted for only14.4% of Canadian
Study represented by (a) undergraduate and (b) graduate student participantsStudents were matched based on their academic and professional goals as well as their interest inadvanced degrees. Ideally, we paired undergraduates with graduate students in the same field ordiscipline (e.g., mechanical engineering undergraduates with mechanical engineering graduatestudents) or with graduate students who had relevant experiences (e.g., internships, research) thatthe undergraduates found interesting. In cases where there was minimal overlap in interests, wepaired undergraduates with graduate students who could mentor on a general level, focusing onproviding guidance and information about graduate school.This study focuses on our second cohort for 2022
and academics from diverse cultural and linguisticbackgrounds [2]. In the United States, international students are especially concentrated in fieldslike mathematics, computer science, engineering, and business, which, alongside health sciences,accounted for 47% of all known graduate applications in 2022 [3]. According to the 2021 reportby the National Foundation for American Policy [4], international students account for 82% ofgraduate students in petroleum engineering, 74% in electrical engineering, 71% in industrial andmanufacturing engineering, 61% in civil engineering, 58% in mechanical engineering, 54% inchemical engineering, and 53% in metallurgical/materials engineering. These statistics positiongraduate school as a dynamic
the University of South Florida until 2025. I have taught fluid mechanics, thermodynamics, and engineering mathematics-related courses 40+ times to 3000+ B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. students for the last 17 years. My engineering education interests lie in open courseware for courses, metacognitive activities, and flipped learning. Dr. Guldiken has been recognized with multiple awards and honors, including the 2022 ASME Fellow, 2022 USF Faculty Outstanding Research Achievement Award, 2022 USF Academic Excellence Award, 2019 and 2012 USF University-Wide Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Awards, 2018 USF Outstanding Graduate Faculty Mentor Honorable Mention and 2014 Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) Ralph Teetor
interactions.Derek Carpenter, Purdue University Derek Carpenter is a PhD student researcher at Purdue University. His main research interests are systems engineering, hypersonics, and applications to MBSE. Derek received his Bachelor of Science in Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering from Purdue in 2021, followed by his Master of Science in Aeronautics and Astronautics from Purdue in 2022.Dr. Jitesh H Panchal, Purdue University at West Lafayette (PWL) (COE) Dr. Jitesh H. Panchal is a Professor and Associate Head of Mechanical Engineering at Purdue University. He received his BTech (2000) from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Guwahati, and MS (2003) and PhD (2005) in Mechanical Engineering from Georgia Institute of
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their first visit to a college campus, so this novel experience in a modern facility couldserve to amplify the students’ interest in pursuing a STEM career. Students generally increased their awareness of the field of environmental engineering,and they improved their knowledge of biomedical engineering, as only 11% thought thatengineers discover how cells talk to each other in the body before participating in this event. Theauthors plan to examine data from the two post-COVID years (2022 and 2023) where the eventreturned to an in-person format to compare with prior in-person offerings and with this virtualevent.Lessons Learned Other engineering programs that transitioned to a virtual format reported successesduring the COVID-19
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final grade) at the beginning of a CS1 course? • Which factors affect students’ self-reported learning self-efficacy at the beginning of a CS1 course based on gender, prior programming experience, and GPA?4 Course ContextThe data used in this study comes from a two-credit introductory programming course for engi-neering students that was taught in MATLAB. This class was taught using the flipped classroommodel at an R1 research university in the US over four semesters: Spring 2021, Fall 2021, Spring2022, and Fall 2022. This course has multiple and varying sections, all offering an in-person classsubsection (except the Spring 2021 semester, in which the majority of students attended online dueto the pandemic). Generally, each of the
bring in their history in person?MethodsThis study presents a case where Sarah, a second-year female mechanical engineering student,(re)explores and (re)negotiates her relationships with mechanical engineering through a coursecalled “Making to Learn”.Course of focus: Making to LearnMaking to Learn is a course offered at a medium-sized private university in New England. Inspring 2022 when Sarah attended the course, the second author of this paper was the courseinstructor. The first author participated in the course as a “researcher-in-residence” - she attendedall the sessions as a student, sometimes a TA that offered students technical help while collectingdata at the same time. In the course, participants (students, the instructor, and
School of Engineeringrecognizes that there may yet be additional new opportunities, such as music and engineering.While it is too soon to determine whether this could constitute a fifth specialization, our existingIndividualized Specialization offers the mechanism to bridge these fields without having tocreate a new specialization.Innovations in Teaching Formats.The Center for Teaching and Learning at our university funded six faculty members to attend aSummer 2022 program hosted by Worcester Polytechnic Institute’s Center for Project BasedLearning (PBL), which involved the departments of Mechanical Engineering, BiomedicalEngineering, Material Science and Engineering, Civil and Environmental Engineering, and theDepartment of Art and Art History
course How to Use Instructions on how to use this reward in the course Cost How much virtual money it costs Total Counts How many items are offered to the entire class4. Case StudiesThree gamification case studies were conducted at University of Wisconsin-Platteville during thefall semester of 2022. These case studies all followed the proposed gamification framework.However, they were customized for different STEM courses with slightly different objectives.4.1 A Software Engineering Course Case StudyA dragon slayer game was implemented in a junior level software engineering course (SE3730Software Quality). The course consisted of two sections with a total of 52
environmental engineering course described above (CEE 190). Courseinstructors strategically planned the mentoring groups to coordinate with project milestones andteaching assistants helped moderate the mentoring group activities in each mentorship session.“Targeted” Mentoring FrameworkIn the “targeted” mentoring framework, groups of first-year students are strategically paired withgroups of upper-level teams. Instructors or teaching assistants pair the two groups together basedon similar interests. In the case of the Fall 2022 pilot program, groups of first-year students werepaired with upper-level students researching material related to the first-year students’ projecttopic.The two groups met three times throughout the semester. Dates are
together to create aPCB board for an odometer designed and fabricated by the students in the course. In addition tolearning electronic prototyping skills such as soldering and circuit design, students created aseries of solid models using Siemens NX with established interfaces that were maintained via acustom Product Data Management (PDM) program.Due to the breadth of the project, there are many niche activities that students can participate in.For example, in the Autumn of 2022, students worked together to create an odometer to measurevehicle motion. One group of students was assigned to design and create the sensor-board,soldering integrated circuits (IC) onto a prototyping circuit board (PCB), while another groupworked on designing and
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