Paper ID #25161Work in Progress: Career Ready... or Not? A Career-Readiness Activity forSenior Chemical Engineering StudentsDr. Daniel D. Anastasio, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Daniel Anastasio is an assistant professor at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. He received a B.S. and Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Connecticut in 2009 and 2015, respectively. His primary areas of research are game-based learning in engineering courses and membrane separations for desalination and water purification.Elizabeth R. Morehouse, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Liz Morehouse is an assistant director in
AC 2011-2605: BIOLOGY ACROSS THE CURRICULUM: PREPARINGSTUDENTS FOR A CAREER IN THE LIFE SCIENCESClaire Komives, San Jose State University Dr. Claire Komives is presently an Associate Professor in the Chemical and Materials Engineering De- partment at San Jose State University (SJSU). She has taught ten different courses, including core chem- ical engineering courses at the graduate and undergraduate levels, Biochemical Engineering lecture and laboratory courses and a bioethics general education course. She has research experience in the areas of biosensors, enzyme kinetics, cell culture, fermentation and bioprocess engineering. Among her profes- sional positions, she has spent one year as a Visiting Scientist at
chemistry majors. We comparedresponses of the chemical engineering students with these two disparate groups respectively toidentify differences in high school experiences, attitudes, and backgrounds using t-tests for linearvariables, Wilcoxon rank-sum tests for Likert-type questions, and chi-square tests fordichotomous variables.Chemical engineering students show uniqueness in their career goals when compared to bothengineers as well as chemistry majors. For example, they differ significantly from otherengineers in their prior chemistry experiences, problem solving strategies, and their scienceidentity. Chemical engineers are almost indistinguishable from chemistry students in their highschool science experiences and academic preparedness except
Paper ID #25383Work in Progress: Design, Implementation, and Evaluation of a 1-creditChemical Engineering First-Year SeminarDr. Deborah S. Goldberg, University of Maryland, College Park Deborah S. Goldberg is a full-time lecturer in the Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Maryland, College Park. She is passionate about teaching and mentoring students to prepare them for diverse careers in chemical engineering and biotechnology.Mr. Jinwang Zou, University of Maryland, College Park Jinwang Zou is a Ph.D. candidate in the Measurement, Statistics, and Evaluation Program at the University
the First Year: A Mixed Methods ApproachAbstractFor any student in the first year of an undergraduate program, there are an overwhelming numberof decisions to make. One of the biggest of these is choosing what to study. This choice isinfluenced by many complex factors and is difficult to predict or fully understand. A betterrecognition of why a student opts into and stays in a major could yield a deeper understandinginto how students choose a major and what they expect from engineering careers. This paperexamines students who chose chemical engineering and completed a set of surveys administeredduring their first year of study. The surveys contained questions that were both quantitative andqualitative in nature. In
rising senior at the Colorado School of Mines. He is studying Chemical Engineering with a focus on Biological Engineering. He is also working towards a secondary education licence through the University of Northern Colorado with the intention to pursue a career in secondary education after graduating in May 2021. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Work-in-Progress: Chemical engineering students’ emotions towards biologyIntroductionEmotions and attitudes towards a subject can play a large part in a student’s decision to takemore courses or pursue a major in that subject area. The theory of planned behavior states that aperson’s intentions to perform a
preparation of engineering doctoral students for careers in academia and industry and the development of engineering education assessment tools. She is a NSF Faculty Early Career (CAREER) award winner and is a recipient of a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE).Angie Andriot, Purdue University Angie Andriot is currently a doctoral student in the Department of Sociology at Purdue University. Her dissertation, entitled “Gender and Engineering Identity Development among Undergraduate Majors,” is partially funded by grants from the National Science Foundation and the Purdue Research Foundation. Angie also works part-time doing research for the College of Engineering
, including interview skills training can be quite helpful to students.This paper discusses a particular strategy, the STAR method, used in a chemical engineeringlaboratory course to prepare students for answering almost any behavioral interview question.The behavioral type of interview question is the type most often used in many engineeringcompanies. The paper describes use of the STAR interview response, in-class activities, practiceusing sample questions, and an interview chart assignment. Finally, students’ assessment of themethod and interview chart is presented through the results of a survey.Some may question why professors from a school with a strong career center should even botherto offer interview instruction. Proponents of providing in
learn engineering well. Self-determination 11 I spend a lot of time learning engineering. 16 I prepare well for engineering tests and labs. 22 I study hard to learn engineering. 7 Learning engineering will help me get a good job. 10 Knowing engineering will give me a career advantage. Career Motivation 13 Understanding engineering will benefit me in my career. 23 My career will involve engineering. 25 I will use engineering problem-solving
working with Dr. Nicholas Peppas to develop carbohydrate-decorated hydrogels for oral protein delivery. She is currently serving a two year term as the National Student President of the Society For Biomaterials. Page 14.685.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 Impact of Integration of Undergraduate Students in an Engineering Research Laboratory: A Case StudyAbstractParticipation in undergraduate research projects in engineering can result in lasting benefits forthe education and careers of both the undergraduate students and their graduate student mentorsand supervising professors. This
AC 2011-2194: SPECIAL SESSION: WHAT WORKS TO RETAIN STU-DENTS IN CHEMICAL ENGINEERING PROGRAMSAdrienne R. Minerick, Michigan Technological University Adrienne Minerick is an Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering at Michigan Tech having moved from Mississippi State University in Jan 2010, where she was a tenured Associate Professor. She received her M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Notre Dame in 2003 and B.S. from Michigan Technological University in 1998. Adrienne’s research interests include electrokinetics and the development of biomedi- cal microdevices. She earned a 2007 NSF CAREER award; her group has published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, Lab on a Chip, and had an AIChE
engineering discipline in addition to starting to apply forinternship and co-op opportunities. The camp first introduces students to the department throughfacilities tours and engagement with faculty and upperclassmen. During these facultyengagement sessions the students have an opportunity to meet their courses’ instructors, whooffer tips for success and answer questions before any coursework begins. Upperclassmen serveas student mentors during the camp, offering informal advice and support. The camp also servesas a point of contact between students and local industry representatives recruiting intern and co-op candidates. These local industry representatives offer valuable career-formation advice to thestudents by hosting resume review and mock
toconstrained schedules and competing time demands. However, frequent contact with individualsover time allows advisors to build student strengths in self-determination while tailoring advicedirectly to changing interests.The talk will highlight advising opportunities from outreach, through retention, continuing tograduation, and post graduate interactions that fit within student progress towards theirindividual careers. Appropriate advising content for a technically rigorous chemical engineeringprogram will be used as examples of how to motivate students towards exploring options andmaking decisions that open new doors to professional development. The issue explored is thatself-determination comes from inside the student and that confidence in
. Itis often seen that potential chemical engineering students who are interested in careers in medicinetake a pre-medical route or make a switch to bioengineering. Chemical engineering as a major,though, teaches students a number of invaluable concepts and fundamentals that can be applied toprojects involving the life sciences and medical field.The lack of understanding of the opportunities for chemical engineers may be a reason for the lowretention rates as a major, especially for female undergraduates, as they are not exposed to theopportunities that interest them, such as biomedical applications, early enough in theirundergraduate careers. Specifically, at Washington State University women represented only15.7% of the total engineering
number of programs have been initiated throughout the country where either highschool teachers are retrained or students are exposed to science and engineering through summeroutreach programs. The College of Engineering, Architecture, and Technology (CEAT) atOklahoma State University (OSU) has also developed a multi-disciplinary weeklong residentsummer academy for high school students called REACH (Reaching Engineering andArchitectural Career Heights interested in engineering, architecture, or technology. Throughmodule-based instruction, students are introduced to various engineering fields. This report describes one of the new modules used in the 2005 academy where studentswere introduced to biomedical and biochemical engineering
Professor at The Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. Her primary focus is the Chemical Engineering Capstone Design course and Chemical Process Safety and Control. She brings her over 20 years of experience in industry to the classroom to help the students connect their learning with real world application. While the focus of her career was in Re- search and Development (including several process patents), it also included assignments in production and capital deployment. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020Collaborative project-based learning approach to the enculturation of senior engineeringstudents into professional engineer practice of teamworkYu Xia, The Pennsylvania State
likely to be assessed as part of a team. Having studied self-efficacy and learning styles in sophomore students for several semesters and noticing trends thatmay be explained by their early stage in career (e.g., lack of confidence in conceptual problems),we began to consider the status of our graduating senior students. Are they entering theworkforce with high self-efficacy and a command of chemical engineering theory and designprinciples?Using a modified version of the Carberry et al. instrument for design self-efficacy, we trackedstudent self-efficacy throughout their senior design experience. Three self-efficacy surveys wereadministered: one early in the term while students were working on an individual project, one inthe mid-semester while
Page 13.598.2solutions.BackgroundMost undergraduate chemical engineering programs face the challenge of continually evolving atraditional curriculum to meet the demands of the 21st Century. This very idea was presented toASEE in 1994 in “Engineering Education for a Changing World,” and it remains as valid todayas fourteen years ago. “Engineering education programs must be relevant, attractive and connected: o Relevant to the lives and careers of students, preparing them for a broad range of careers, as well as for lifelong learning involving both formal programs and hands-on experiences; o Attractive so that the excitement and intellectual content of engineering will attract highly
underrepresented students in research-based experiences, and clarification or refinement ofeducational and career goals, as examples 1, 8.In an evaluation of an REU program, Bielefeldt observed significant gains in several key skillareas, including knowledge of research and graduate student funding, knowledge of researchdesign, and knowledge of research methods 2. Students who had limited experience with researchprior to participation in the REU program evidenced greater gains in skill development in areasrelated to research 2. Similarly, in prior research, Lopatto found evidence of several benefits ofundergraduate research, including improved understanding of the research process, facility withlaboratory and related techniques, and enhancement of
focuses on various aspects of students’ develop- ment from novice to expert, including development of engineering intuition, as well as critical thinking, problem-solving, and communication skills. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Work-in-Progress: “Training Chemical Engineers as Technical Communicators”IntroductionThe ability to communicate effectively is a critical skill for engineers. Strong communicationskills are necessary for high-functioning engineering teams, successful projects, promotiveworkplace interactions, and career advancement. Engineering practitioners, educators, andstudents recognize communication as one of the key skills for
research careers andreporting their work at conferences and in journal publications. The factors investigated includevarious topics such as how candidates are identified, factors considered most important whenselecting an undergraduate, defining a project for an undergraduate and assessing theundergraduate. Forty eight individuals, the majority of whom where professors (88%) atresearch institutions (56%), responded to the survey. Although there were not any statisticallysignificant conclusions, the results suggest that (1) having a formal application procedure, (2)choosing undergraduates based on conceptual understanding and (3) assessing undergraduatesbased largely on critical thinking lead to more undergraduates attending graduate school
education for industry or education for a productive life? If chemical engineering is education for industry, how do we change the education process to ensure more graduates have careers as chemical engineers? Area 2- Learning Mechanisms. How do students acquire, comprehend, and synthesize chemical engineering specific knowledge such as mass and energy balances, chemical reactor design or separations? What barriers impede student understanding of energy balances of reactive mixtures? How do chemical engineering students develop an identity as a chemical engineer? What external activities such as clubs, part-time jobs, or internships will help chemical engineering students learn? What are
. Steven R Little, University of Pittsburgh Page 24.1384.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 Work in Progress: A Vision for the First “Product Innovation Sequence” for Chemical EngineersChemical engineers who enter the marketplace today are facing a vastly different reality thanthose who started their careers even five years ago. Keith Watson, (Senior Director, StrategicMarketing, Dow Chemical Company) noted in 2011, “The attributes needed to compete foremployment in the modern chemical industry have changed
” and reflective of what students expect to see intheir career or find personally meaningful. This study focuses on the students’ perceptions ofcourse elements and the extent to which students’ perception of the presence or absence of theseelements impacts their motivational state in their coursework.IntroductionIntrinsic motivation, defined as the “inclination toward assimilation, mastery, spontaneousinterest, and exploration”(2), is positively correlated with task-persistence and overallsatisfaction with a given task (3). Because intrinsic motivation is a self-generated state, onemight think that if faculty desire this as an outcome, they might have little impact on its presenceor absence in a given student - that’s what intrinsic means
D. Treistman, "Relation of ContextualSupports and Barriers to Choice Behavior in Engineering Majors: Test of Alternative Social Cognitive Models,"Journal of Counseling Psychology, vol. 50, no. 4, 2003, pp. 458-465.3. Schaefers, K. G., D. L. Epperson and M. M. Nauta, "Women's Career Development: Can Theoretically DerivedVariables Predict Persistence in Engineering Majors?," Journal of Counseling Psychology, vol. 44, no. 1997, pp.173-183.4. Brainard, S. G., S. Laurich-McIntyre and L. Carlin, "Retaining Female Undergraduate Students in Engineeringand Science: 1995 Annual Report to the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation," Journal of Women and Minorities in Scienceand Engineering, vol. 2, no. 1995, pp. 255-267.5. Eccles, J. S. and A. Wigfield
with MIDFIELD. Address: 3504 Corin Court, Raleigh, NC, 27612-4100. Telephone: (+1) 919.782.4427. Email: rtecinc@bellsouth.netSusan M. Lord, University of San Diego Susan M. Lord received a B.S. from Cornell University and the M.S. and Ph.D. from Stanford Univer- sity. She is currently Professor and Coordinator of Electrical Engineering at the University of San Diego. Her teaching and research interests include electronics, optoelectronics, materials science, first year engi- neering courses, feminist and liberative pedagogies, and student autonomy. Dr. Lord served as General Co-Chair of the 2006 Frontiers in Education Conference. She has been awarded NSF CAREER and ILI grants. She is currently working on a
overarching assessment methodology.In an extensive review of the literature, Seymour and colleagues reviewed published studies andconference proceedings examining the impact of undergraduate research experiences on studentoutcomes 4. Based on their review, they clustered the most commonly indicated benefits tostudents of such programs. These included: increased interest in specific areas of research andstudy among participating students; increased recruitment of underrepresented groups inresearch-based experiences; gains in research and research-based skills; clarification, refinement,and confirmation of educational- and/or career-related goals; increases in the understanding ofthe research process; and increases in both self-confidence of ability
go to graduate school with only about 4.7% indicating that their UREchanged their plans away from post graduate education. One of his conclusions was that,generally, undergraduate students involved in research showed positive interests in continuing inscience careers and postgraduate education.The National Science Foundation has provided support for undergraduate research through TheResearch Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program which provides funding for involvingundergrads in on-going research programs.v The present study investigates one such REUprogram via the development of an assessment plan and an evaluation of assessment results.REU Program OverviewThe Colorado Center for Biorefining and Biofuel (C2B2)/National Science
Professor of Engineering Education at Purdue University. Her research focuses what factors influence diverse students to choose engineering and stay in engineering through their careers and how different experiences within the practice and culture of engineering fos- ter or hinder belongingness and identity development. Dr. Godwin graduated from Clemson University with a B.S. in Chemical Engineering and Ph.D. in Engineering and Science Education. Her research earned her a National Science Foundation CAREER Award focused on characterizing latent diversity, which includes diverse attitudes, mindsets, and approaches to learning, to understand engineering stu- dents’ identity development. She has won several awards for her
Award (2012), the Presidential Early Career Award for Sci- entists and Engineers (2010), and a National Science Foundation CAREER Award (2009). Her Auburn University awards include the Excellence in Faculty Outreach (2015), an Auburn University Alumni Pro- fessorship (2014), the Auburn Engineering Alumni Council Awards for Senior (2013) and Junior (2009) Faculty Research, the Faculty Women of Distinction Award (2012), and the Mark A. Spencer Creative Mentorship Award (2011). Dr. Davis is the past chair of Auburn’s Women in Science and Engineering Steering Committee (WISE) and the faculty liaison to the College of Engineering’s 100 Women Strong Alumnae organization which is focused on recruiting, retaining and