, Engineering Connect aims to impact the persistence offirst-year engineering students by providing instructors with a framework to deliver academicsupport within the cornerstone engineering courses. Moreover, Engineering Connect strives toincrease the dissemination of academic support information to students; to increase the exposureto and utilization of existing services and programs available to students at the university; and tocultivate a culture of belonging and a culture of equitable support for all. 2. Methods The Engineering Connect program was piloted in a Cornerstone Engineering Designcourse in the fall 2022 semester. As a first-year engineering course, Cornerstone EngineeringDesign provides students with a foundation for
wellness course housed in the chemical engineering department at theUniversity of California Davis (UC Davis). By offering a course where participants allocate timewith their engineering peers and faculty to discuss and practice self-care activities, we aimed thatparticipants would experience a decrease in their stress level and gain training in how to care abouttheir overall wellness. The objective of this work is to describe the development, structure, andactivities of the new engineering wellness course at UC Davis, which was piloted during the 2022-2023 academic year. The main goal of the class was to guide students to develop and practice goodself-care habits. Each class/activity focused on a self-care domain (cognitive, emotional
theUniversidad San Francisco de Quito USFQ who are focused on Water Resources studies weresurveyed. They were asked to use AI programs as a tool to be prepared and have backgroundinformation before class, and data was collected to identify whether their performance hadimproved after using these programs.INTRODUCTIONToday the use of artificial intelligence is becoming more common both for tasks related toelectronics or telecommunications and for new areas such as education [1,2]. Tools likeChatGPT have gone from being niche to having broader use [3,4]. It is becoming increasinglycommon to interact with products that appear "intelligent", although the label "artificialintelligence" may have been replaced by other euphemisms [5,6]. Since November 2022
to encourage class attendance, yet this oftenmakes enemies of a few students who believe the instructor is being lazy. Currently the strategy is tomake the problems available at the beginning of the semester since class attendance is voluntary andthis tends to minimize student complaints.During the 2022-23 academic year, some classes had mandatory attendance using the “University’s“Instructor Initiated Drop policy”. This policy allowed the instructor to drop any student whoexceeded either the absence (4 times) or missed assignment (3 sets) limits, stated in the course Proceedings of the 2024 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference West Texas A&M University, Canyon, TX
.” However, he also reportsthat “while the US Bureau of Labor Statistics predicts STEM jobs will grow twice as fast asother occupations by 2029, research continues to show high school students have declininginterest in STEM fields” [9]. According to the National Science Foundation (NSF)’s NationalScience Board (NSB)’s “The State of U.S. Science and Engineering 2022” report, the USA leadson the world stage for research and development [10] and also awards the most science andengineering doctorates of any nation. Furthermore, STEM careers represent 23% of the total USlabor force. However, the NSB reports that “disparities in K-12 STEM education and studentperformance across demographic and socioeconomic categories and geographic regions arechallenges
is a past President of WEPAN. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 GRADS (GRaduate & Advance Degree Students) Mentoring Groups: Building a supportive community for Hispanic graduate students in STEMBackground/MotivationResearch shows the importance of mentoring for student success, and this is particularlyimportant for graduate students in engineering [1]. However, most graduate students do not havea mentorship relationship outside of their faculty advisor and many times this relationship mightnot go beyond academics [2]. Results from a recent Needs Assessment conducted by Society ofHispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE) during 2021-2022 shows that approximately 25% ofpredominantly Hispanic
diversity in STEM by developing a five-year BS+MS program. Dr. Luchini-Colbry also volunteers as the Director of the Engineering Futures Program of Tau Beta Pi, the Engineering Honor Society, which provides interactive professional development seminars for thousands of engineering students and professionals each year. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.com Training the Trainers: Preparing Facilitators to Provide Professional Development for Engineers and ScientistsAbstractThis paper describes the development of a facilitator training program that prepares volunteers tooffer interactive workshops to build
is worthwhile to assess whether these methods still offersubstantial benefits to students moving forward.Purpose/Hypothesis: This pilot study assesses student perceptions of a HyFlex course model,with a focus on whether the HyFlex format allowed them to better handle academic and non-academic responsibilities.Design/Method: A course perception survey was given to students in two introductory-levelengineering courses and one junior-level technology course that all used a HyFlex course modelin the Spring 2022 semester. Students were asked how frequently they attended class in-person,via Zoom, and via video. They were asked to what extent they agreed that the HyFlex formathelped them meet course, other academic, family, work, and health
. Five cohorts were taught in an in-personmodality (2016-2019, 2022). The 2020 cohort received about half of a semester in person andhalf as a synchronous online course. The 2021 cohort was taught online synchronously. Theenrollments include only those students completing the course, i.e., not withdrawing during thesemester (Table 1). The fraction of female and male students is also provided. These datarepresent gender at birth. Applying a lens of other gender-related terms [37] is possible but isoutside the scope of the current study and may be considered a limitation.The learning analytics described in the results leverage several data types related to theinteractive textbook (Table 1). First, reading participation quantifies the clicks when
) on Fall 2021 Late (>=5 years) 30(21.1)Survey Deployment and Data Collection. The data presented in this paper represents datacollected from the first full year of data collection, from Jan 17, 2022, to Jan 13, 2023. Participantstake surveys via SMS text messages sent to their smartphones three times per week (Monday,Wednesday, and Friday), with additional questions asked on Fridays (weekly survey), at the endof each month (monthly survey), and at the end of each semester (Spring, Summer, Fall). We havepresented the development of this scale and the decisions to choose questions and timing in priorwork [32].On Mondays, Wednesday, and Fridays, students were asked two main questions
innovation and are vitalto the nation's infrastructure and innovation capacity, as highlighted by the National Academyof Engineering. While traditional engineering programs emphasize theoretical and conceptualtraining, ET education is distinctively practical and hands-on. 1.1 Engineering Technology Education: Current Challenges and NeedsThe rapid advancement of technology and other industry developments necessitate graduateswith skills matching the evolving occupational requirements. Accreditation Board forEngineering and Technology’s (ABET) student learning outcomes for 2022-2023 highlight thenecessity of applied knowledge, solution design, diverse communication skills, experimentalanalysis, and teamwork in technical contexts (ABET 2022
hours a week, however, behind closed doors, theyecho the academic rigor and dedication that has been perpetuated in academic circles for decades[38].Most recently, Nature released the results of their 2022 global survey of graduate students,among their results are self-reported working hours from both master’s and doctoral students.Around 70% of the students reported working more than 40 hours per week [39]. Around 40%reported working over 50 hours per week, and around 18% reported working over 60 hours perweek [39]. These figures are troubling. Combined with 47% of the students surveyed reportingthat a work-life balance is extremely difficult for them, it paints an image of graduate studentsfeeling overworked.During my time at ABC university
offering. The course covers the fundamental stepsinvolved in process development and manufacturing of biopharmaceuticals including cellculture, purification, and formulation as well as drug product manufacturing and analyticalcharacterization, with a focus on production of monoclonal antibody therapeutics. The course isdivided into five main modules: Development & Characterization of Protein Therapeutics,Upstream Process Development, Downstream Process Development, Formulation & DrugProduct Development and Biopharmaceutical Process Development in Practice. In 2022, theauthor obtained a $20,000 grant from the University of Maryland to add experiential learningelements to the course. Experiential learning was implemented in two ways: 1
design techniques enhances engineers understanding of users’ needs. 2. Bairaktarova, D. (2022). Caring for the future: Empathy in engineering education to empower learning. 3. Bernárdez, B., Durán, A., Parejo, J. A., Juristo, N., & Ruiz–Cortés, A. (2022). Effects of Mindfulness on Conceptual Modeling Performance: A Series of Experiments. 4. Carbonetto, T., & Grodziak, E. M. (2019, July 28). Mindfulness in Engineering v2. 5. Estrada, T., & Dalton, E. (2019). Impact of Student Mindfulness Facets on Engineering Education Outcomes: An Initial Exploration. 6. Hess, J. L., Beever, J., Strobel, J., & Brightman, A. O. (2017). Empathic Perspective- Taking and Ethical Decision-Making in
U.S. is affecting U.S. higher education campuses as more students arrive on campus withdiagnosed disabilities and mental health conditions and request accommodations (Greenburg, 2022),making research on mental health and disabilities salient. Specifically, within engineering education, 2Dignity and well-being: Narratives of modifying the culture of engineering education to improve mental health among underrepresented STEM studentsprevious quantitative research indicates that engineering students have “high rates of mental healthstruggles” (Danowitz and Beddoes, 2018, 2020, 2022a; Jensen and Cross, 2021; quoted in
Jin is an Assistant Professor in the School of Applied Engineering and Technology at the New Jersey Institute of Technology with two joint appointments in the Department of Chemistry and Environmental Science and the Department of Data Science. Her research focuses on spatiotemporal analysis and modeling of environmental changes at local to regional and global scales, taking advantage of airborne and satellite data, state-of-the-art data fusion and machine learning techniques, and big data analytics. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.com Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI): A Conceptual Framework
. 2IntroductionThe demand for energy consumption in the world is growing at an annual rate of close to 2% peryear ( Welker, A., et al., 2022) ) and that translates to about 3,598 Twh in 2022. In the UnitedStates (US), the energy consumption growth rate is 2.6% which translates to about 106 Gwh in2022 (EIA, US Electricity Overview, 2023). The US energy generation sources in 2022 (USPrimary Energy Source, 2022) are shown in Figure 1. Figure 1 US Energy Source Distribution (Source EIA)Fossil fuels (Petroleum, Natural Gas, and coal) make up 78.8% of the total energy source in theUS. Petroleum is the largest source and solar is the lowest. Renewable sources add up to 13.1%(Solar at 1.9%). It has been a fact that these non-renewable sources
, retention is improved. Additionally, when knowledge can be linked toprofessional development like passing professional certifications, it is beneficial [22].Despite years of encouragement, student participation in the INCOSE Associate SystemsEngineering Professional (ASEP) exam had been limited, typically one student per semester.Prior to summer 2022, students had to individually register via Prometric. Since there wastypically a three-month backlog, students were unable take the certification during the coursesemester. Without being able to schedule within the course semester, the extra credit incentivefor students was eliminated.Beginning in Fall 2021, the instructor became full-time faculty at the institution. This statuschange granted time to
program was conducted with a larger group of students inthe summer of 2022. Thus far, our results indicate that this program will be beneficial to studentswell after regular programming resumes at full capacity. GREaT GradS was designed to servegroups of graduate students who are typically marginalized within science with an eye towardretention through support and mentorship. The overall goals were to provide (1) ResourceRecognition by introducing students to the various academic and personal resources available oncampus, (2) Personal Preparation through programming on subjects such as personal finance andmental health, (3) Career Preparation through writing workshops and curriculum vitae editing,and (4) Network Building by connecting students
., 2022).In this interrogation, we draw from Bell, Daggett and Labuski, who posit that there is a need to“name the injustices inherent in the life cycles of all types of energy production – not just fossilfuels” (2020, p. 7). They note that, while solar adoption is critical for the transition away fromfossil fuels, it has its own set of issues around the hazardous materials used in the manufacture ofsolar cells (Bell, Daggett, and Labuski, 2020). While the authors acknowledge the wariness ofefforts to challenge any aspect of the long-awaited energy transition, particularly “given the highstakes of the climate crisis” (ibid, 4) they maintain that integrating thinking and action aroundsystemic change alongside the energy transition is necessary to
for Control and Coordination of Tasks among Mobile Robot and Robotic Arm.”Dr. Khalid H. Tantawi, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Dr. Khalid Tantawi is an Assistant Professor of Mechatronics at the University of Tennessee at Chat- tanooga . He holds a PhD and MSc. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Alabama in Huntsville, and a double MSc. in Aerospace Engineering from the Institut Superieur de l’Aeronautique et de l’Espace and University of Pisa. He served as a Program Evaluator for ABET- ETAC commission, as a trainer for Siemens Technik Akademy, and was the elected chair of the Engineering section of the Tennessee Academy of Science in 2022 and 2017. His research interests include MEMS, Lipid
educational pipeline.To advance the school's equity goals [17], a policy change in 2022 was made to integrate the two groupsof students in the same cohort of first-year engineering students. With the intended engineering majorsnow combined with the accepted cohort, the challenge was to develop a distinct type of engineeringseminar that would consider the merged student population. There were strengths and weaknesses fromboth previous versions of the course, which had to be considered to develop a unified revamped versionthat would best serve both groups of students equitably. In Spring 2022, a committee established by theAssociate Dean for Undergraduate Education began working towards the first edition of this new course,launched in Fall 2022.The
) © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.com Shifting to a Virtual Summer STEM Program for High School Students (Evaluation) Alison Haugh Nowariak, Annika Gehl, Gillian RoehrigAbstractThe number of STEM jobs is growing so rapidly that there are projected shortages of up to 3.5million STEM workers in the United States in the next five years. Additionally, STEM fields,particularly engineering, lack diversity with female students and students of colorunderrepresented in STEM majors and STEM careers. For example, while 25% of the U.S.population are people of color, this group only constitutes 11% of STEM professionals.Similarly, people of color represent 27
) Kelly Durkin Ruth is the Engineering Librarian at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. Her research interests include diversity, equity and inclusion practices in STEM librarianship. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.comLook Who's Talking: Exploring the DEI STEM Librarianship ConversationAbstractLibrarian research on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in its various iterations dates back over a decade; however, in the context of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) librarianship this work still seems very limited. We collect and analyze papers published in STEM library and information science
Paper ID #39074Utilizing Online & Open-Source Machine Learning Toolkits to Leverage theFuture of Sustainable EngineeringDr. Andrew Schulz, Georgia Institute of Technology Andrew Schulz is a postdoctoral researcher at Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Stuttgart, Germany. Andrew received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Georgia Tech in August of 2022, studying the bio-inspired design of elephant trunks and conservation technology. Andrew is a member of the Engineering for One Planet (EOP) Network and is working to educate the next generation of conservation technology practitioners.Suzanne
Paper ID #42335A Synthesis of Discoveries Spanning Ten Semesters of HyFlexDr. Lakshmy Mohandas, Purdue University Lakshmy Mohandas works as an Associate Instructional Developer Researcher at the Center for Instructional Excellence at Purdue University. She completed her Ph.D. in 2022 in Technology from Purdue. Her research interests lie in the interaction between technology and education to help provide equitable teaching and learning experiences. HyFlex learning model, AI in education, equitable learning using different modes of participation, student motivation, and achievement goals are some of her current contributing
2 1 2 1 1 3 2 3 2022 18 2nd 3 4 1st 4 1 3rd 2 9 nd st rd 2023 33 2 1 1 1 1 10 3 1 2Across all cohorts, academic questions appearing as a minimum value multiple times acrosscohorts are as follows: Q3 (2020, 2022) Be accepted into one of your top 3 choices of graduateschool. Acceptance into top graduate programs is a continuing academic achievement dependenton academic self-efficacy. What contributes to the lack of self-efficacy in this regard isunknown, but S2D programming contributes
school are analyzed. The survey also provides suggestions on methods tohelp create a safer and a more supportive environment within the department for genderminority groups to continue with their research careers.MethodsAn institutional review board–approved survey (IRB #23267) was conducted in theDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of IllinoisUrbana-Champaign in 2022. The survey includes questions on the plans for graduateschool, research experiences, and the accessibility of relevant information within thedepartment for undergraduate students. The results of the survey were analyzed tocompare different gender groups, including cisgender men, cisgender women, nonbinary ortransgender persons, and those who
after the World War II (Kolmos & de Graaff, 2014). These learning concepts come underthe umbrella of learner-centered learning models. There is a wide variety of implementation ofproblem-based learning and project-based learning (both known as PBL) in engineering education(Beddoes, Jesiek, & Borrego, 2010). POGIL (Process Oriented Guided Inquiry Learning) embodies active learning and PBL (Figure4) (Process Oriented Guided Inquiry Learning, 2022) (Elliot & Chiu, 2013). POGIL uses guidedinquiry to not only improve student learning outcomes but also help with the development ofimportant student skills in information processing, critical thinking, problem solving, teamwork,and communication. To improve student self-regulation, POGIL
the renovation of the Main and Weaver Libraries and construction of a newStudent Success District (SSD). This was a seven-year, $81 million project that connected MainLibrary, the Weaver Science-Engineering Library, Bear Down Gym and the new BartlettAcademic Success Center. The Dean of University of Arizona Libraries Shan Sutton said of theDistrict, which officially opened in April 2022: “The idea is, you’ve got cutting-edge innovativelibrary renovations connected to student services that were previously scattered all over campusbrought into one central location to make them easy to find and easy to use.” This paperdiscusses CATalyst Studios, considered one of the real gems of the SSD, but will begin with areview of developments in the realm