attend this event which occursin the spring coinciding with the time that high school seniors are making their choices aboutcollege. The focus of the night is to introduce prospective students and their parents to conceptsrelating to bringing ideas to reality through engineering design and invention. The night beginswith a guest lecturer who presents information on their research and development and strives toinspire students to think outside of the box. The speaker is followed by breakout sessions thatinclude hands-on activities where students work on a small-scale design project, test their design,and make modifications as needed. This gives students exposure to prototyping. Anotherbreakout session option is to attend a panel discussion that
components of the engineering curriculum—in engineering sciences, engineering design, and humanities and social science courses; that work resulted in Engineering Justice: Transforming Engineering Education and Practice (Wiley-IEEE Press, 2018). His current research grant project explores how to foster and assess sociotechnical thinking in engineering science and design courses.Dr. Ann D. Christy P.E., The Ohio State University Ann D. Christy, PE, is a professor of Food, Agricultural, and Biological Engineering and a professor of Engineering Education at the Ohio State University (OSU). She earned both her B.S. in agricultural engineering and M.S. in biomedical engineering at OSU, and her Ph.D. in environmental
earned distinction as Dr. Bruce D. Nesbitt Campus-Community Collaborator Awardee in 2016. Rick is also a co-founder of St. Elmo Brady STEM Academy (SEBA). SEBA is an educational intervention aimed at exposing underrepresented 4th and 5th-grade boys to hands-on, inquiry-based STEM activities. SEBA accomplishes its goals through an innovative educational curriculum and by engaging students’ fathers and/or male mentors who learn STEM alongside them. This project has been recognized and funded by local organizations, the University of Illinois and most recently, the National Science Foundation. Currently, Rick is the Program Manager for St. Elmo Brady STEM Academy in the Cullen College of Engineering at the University of
debatesmotivated by movies [44].Science, Technology, and Society (STS) disciplines entered most Brazilian engineering curriculaafter the homologation of the 2002 National Guidelines on Engineering Education [22]. It maychange after the latest version of these Guidelines (2019), which, as stated earlier, do notmention such content, let alone make it mandatory. For most Brazilian engineering courses,critical thinking and social responsibility tend to be mostly addressed in these disciplines. Insome institutions, teachers managed to conceive very interesting implementations of suchclasses. It is the case, for instance, of the Aeronautics Technological Institute, whichincorporated a community engagement project to its STS discipline [45]. “Computer andSociety
. First, the project focuses on faculty community, rather thanexternal communities such as companies or local residential communities. The definition ofcommunity we adopted is not just in a physical location, but in an organizational location, in “thecooperation in labor, order and management,” (Tönnies, 2000, p. 43). This is important in ourconsideration of community of engagement, as we go beyond physical boundaries, such as thosebetween university and its wider locale, to cognitive boundaries, such as those within and amonguniversity colleges and departments. It is with this in mind that we define engagement andengaged communities. Second, it expands the definitions and model of community engagementby highlighting how engineering faculty
EMS3.0 survey conducted post-graduation. A list of the 71 variables from EMS 1.0 included in thisstudy is shown in Appendix A.1.The measurement of interest in societal impact was included as part of the Innovation Interestconstruct question (see Appendix A.2.c). Inspired by previous research comparing engineeringstudents’ interest in work that pursues societal impact to work that pursues financial potential(Lintl et al., 2016), two items were appended to the innovation interests question:How much interest do you have in: 1. Working on products, projects, or services that address societal challenges 2. Working on products, projects, or services that have significant financial potentialRespondents selected a response from a five point (0-4
[Tamilnadu, India], her MS in Industrial Engineering from Auburn University, her MA in Management Science and MS in Applied Statistics from The University of Alabama. She has experi- ence working with many industries such as automotive, chemical distribution etc. on transportation and operations management projects. She works extensively with food banks and food pantries on supply chain management and logistics focused initiatives. Her graduate and undergraduate students are integral part of her service-learning based logistics classes. She teaches courses in strategic relationships among industrial distributors and distribution logistics. Her recent research focuses on engineering education and learning sciences with a
community, (iii) to promote STEM to under-served communities close to SCU. In additionto the ELSJ learning objectives, this course was designed with the hope that students would also:• Develop educational materials and hands-on STEM activities as a service to the community• Develop project/time management, organizational, and leadership skills.• Develop effective listening/collaboration skills while working with community partners.• Recognize and understand ethical responsibilities of engineers.In the lecture component of the class, students are introduced to concepts that can help themwhen performing their outreach. Specifically, there is a nine-lecture sequence where thefollowing material is discussed:Lecture 1: Introductions, Course
concernthemselves with how content can and should be delivered, building meaningfulpartnerships, financial sustainability, and developing meaningful research projects to helpus learn how to improve and make contributions to other, similar programs. Conclusion The UMD STS robotics service-learning program is an important part of the onand off-campus UMD STEM education community. Since 2011, the program, has offeredrobotics education programming for K-12 public schools and community centers. Overtime, the program has gone through four overlapping phases. Through each phase,program administrators identified several tensions related to the recruitment of UMDstudents and K-12 service sites, curriculum and materials
] and some images are from [4-5].Toy Project at the University of North Florida areworking to engage students and community members by teaching toy adaptation adapting anddonating accessible toys. Toy adaptation involves modifying electronic toys to make them moreaccessible to children with diverse abilities. This includes deconstructing a toy and soldering auniversal activation port within the toy’s circuitry, such that a variety of alternative switches canbe used for toy activation (Fig. 1).Previous studies from other groups have found that toy adaptation is effective in enhancing first-year engineering students’ understanding of the field of engineering, and the connection betweenengineering and society [6-8]. Additionally, our previous work
with the hope that students would also: Develop educational materials and hands-on STEM activities as a service to the community Develop project/time management, organizational, and leadership skills. Develop effective listening/collaboration skills while working with community partners. Recognize and understand ethical responsibilities of engineers.Course History:This course was created in 2014 and was, initially, a two-unit course that served as a vehicle forthe outreach, discussions with partner liaisons, and assignments. Soon after, one to two “lunch andlearns” were included each quarter to provide a more convenient avenue for guest speakers anddiscussions. In 2015, the course took on its current three-unit format with a lecture and a
mathematicsdisciplines (STEM). The number is even smaller for women of color who enter into STEMfields. Based on current projections, it is estimated that by the year 2044, underrepresentedminorities (Black, Hispanic, LatinX and American Indian) will comprise over 50% of the overallpopulation in the U.S. However, underrepresented minority (URM) youth lag significantlybehind their white and Asian American counterparts in their interest in STEM. Lowerrepresentation of URMs in STEM can be attributed to a variety of factors including, a lack ofinstitutional commitment, a lack of representation throughout students’ upbringing, ineffectivecultural recruitment/outreach efforts, educational discrepancies throughout PK-12, and socialexpectations, among others. A large
reliability on the attitude dimension was0.95 and the reliability on the persistence dimension was 0.89. Two items (item 19, I like tocome prepared to my mathematics and science classes, and item 29, I am not discouraged bycriticism while working on science or mathematics projects) were found to have some degree ofmisfit as determined by the p-value of signed chi-squared test statistic (S_X2) (p < 0.05). 14Post-secondary sample:The APT-STEM instrument items (language) were updated to suit post-secondary students. Also,6 items (5 five negatively worded items and one positively worded item) deleted after the firstvalidation were added back with all
had completed theirundergraduate degrees. Of these former mentors, 25 served as Head Mentors as of spring 2015.These Head Mentors oversee the program at each school, develop design projects, organize anddirect the other mentors, suggest and implement new initiatives in the program, and carry outresearch on the outcomes and effectiveness of the program. The Head Mentors volunteer aparticularly large amount of time over their commitment of at least 3 semesters. An adaptationof Clary and Snyder’s Volunteer Functions Inventory (VFI) provides a quantitative indication ofmotivations indicating that volunteer Head Mentors are overwhelmingly motivated by the Valuesfunction, related to altruistic and humanitarian concern for others. Qualitative
studentseven asked for and received the $10000 scholarship, as promised by the dean of the college.For some students, participating MATHCOUNTS was actually the very first time they set theirfeet in a university campus. For those 6th, 7th, and 8th graders, the first good impression would goa long way in shaping their mind. To accomplish this, we opened our labs for tour during thecompetition for coaches, parents, and siblings, and at the end of competition for the competingstudents. These labs included many of the research labs in the College of Engineering. Duringthe tour, people saw projects the college students involved, such as the SAE racing car, the 3Dprinting lab, the talking and moving robots, the solar photovoltaic and thermal lab, a
-welfare related, human-centred designing frameworks.Dr. Frederic Boy, Swansea University Frederic Boy is an Associate Professor in Digital Analytics and Cognitive Neuroscience at Swansea Uni- versity’s School of Management and an honorary Senior Lecturer in Engineering at University College, London. Previously, he did his PhD in Grenoble University and trained in Cardiff University, where he held a Wellcome Trust VIP fellowship. His research interests include brain science, cognitive psychology, artificial intelligence and biomedical engineering. He is working on a range of multidisciplinary projects at the intersection of neuroscience and engineering, digital humanities and, more recently economics, with a new focus