include the role of motivation in learning engineering, construction of engineering identities, and faculty development.Dr. Marie C. Paretti, Virginia Tech Marie C. Paretti is an Associate Professor of engineering education at Virginia Tech, where she co-directs the Virginia Tech Engineering Communications Center (VTECC). Her research focuses on communica- tion in engineering design, interdisciplinary communication and collaboration, and design education. She was awarded a CAREER grant from NSF to study expert teaching practices in capstone design courses nationwide, and is Co-PI on several NSF grants to explore identity and interdisciplinary collaboration in engineering design.Dr. Brett D. Jones, Virginia Tech
andis only open to students pursuing degrees in science or engineering majors. The mission of theSEC is “to assist students in their transition to college and prepare them for their future academicand professional career by promoting: academic preparedness, professional development,interpersonal development, and community engagement”5. This year, approximately 400students at this institution were admitted to the SEC. Students participating in the SEC enroll inSEC specific sections of courses required for their major when available. This year SEC sectionswere available for two classes which also have honors sections and regular sections. SECsections of a class have the same academic requirements of regular sections, but all students inthe class
Feminist Research in Engineering Education (FREE, formerly RIFE, group), whose diverse projects and group members are described at feministengineering.org. She received a CAREER award in 2010 and a PECASE award in 2012 for her project researching the stories of undergraduate engineering women and men of color and white women. She received ASEE-ERM’s best paper award for her CAREER research, and the Denice Denton Emerging Leader award from the Anita Borg Institute, both in 2013. She helped found, fund, and grow the PEER Collaborative, a peer mentoring group of early career and re- cently tenured faculty and research staff primarily evaluated based on their engineering education research productivity. She can be contacted
the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning (CETL) and three years as a faculty member at Olin College of Engineering in Massachusetts. Alexandra’s research aims to amplify the voices and work of students, educators, and Minority-Serving Institutions (MSIs) overall and support continued educational innovation within engineering at these in- stitutions. Specifically, she focuses on (1) educational and professional development of graduate students and faculty, (2) critical transitions in education and career pathways, and (3) design as central to educa- tional and global change.Dr. Jay Phillip Jefferson, Florida International University I am currently a Postdoc within SUCCEED at Florida International University. My
and alumniperceptions might differ. Although we will also be using student surveys and focus groups in thisproject, we decided to start with program alumni as we feel they are uniquely well-positioned todiscuss their learning experience in the program with a juxtaposition to their career and graduateschool experience, and speak to the relevance of the program’s teaching and learning approachesbeyond the program itself. Comparing faculty perceptions with alumni perceptions is key indistinguishing between the intended and the enacted curriculum [19], [20].To engage in this research, we sought previous research on comparing instructor and alumniperspectives. Interestingly, despite an extensive literature review, the majority of studies focuson
Paper ID #11925The Four-Phase Interest Development in Engineering SurveyJoseph E Michaelis, University of Wisconsin - Madison Joseph E Michaelis is a Ph.D. student in Educational Psychology in the Learning Sciences area at the University of Wisconsin - Madison. His research involves studying interest in STEM education, focusing on the impact of learning environments, feedback, and influence of social constructs and identities. This research includes developing inclusive learning environments that promote interest in pursuing STEM fields as a career to a broad range of students.Prof. Mitchell Nathan, University of Wisconsin
engineering careers aftergraduation [15]. Independent of early classification, the literature suggests that the "leak"in the engineering pipeline for women is due to lower levels of self-efficacy, fear of failure,conflict with the male-dominated field, and lack of self-identification and being identifiedby others as engineers [11, 16]. Regardless of gender, the literature also suggests thatpositive engineering experiences in the engineering programs can influence students’decisions not only to persevere but also develop an engineering identity [13]. Theseexperiences have shown to have a stronger influence in women, particularly with regardto satisfaction in an engineering major and interest in engineering as a career [17]. Forexample, Amelink and
leveland beyond. STEM lacks the gender and racial diversity that mirrors the American populationand there is an increasing need to fill engineering positions in the industry [1]. There have beenmany efforts to encourage K-12 students to pursue careers in STEM, creating a nationalmovement that includes summer camps, classes, and after school programs [2]. Higher educationis starting to look at the institutional level change needed to support D&I efforts in order toattend to the diversity of their student population [3]. While there is a focus in engineeringeducation research on best practices and a focus on change, there is limited scholarship focusedon understanding the “on-the-ground” work of engineering educators working to address D
of Wisconsin, Madison. She is Co-PI and Research Director of Purdue University’s ADVANCE program, and PI on the Assessing Sustainability Knowledge project. She runs the Research in Femi- nist Engineering (RIFE) group, whose diverse projects and group members are described at the web- site http://feministengineering.org/. She is interested in creating new models for thinking about gender and race in the context of engineering education. She was awarded a CAREER grant in 2010 for the project, ”Learning from Small Numbers: Using personal narratives by underrepresented undergraduate students to promote institutional change in engineering education.” She received a Presidential Early Ca- reer Award for Scientists and
Society for Engineering Education, 2011 EARLY ACADEMIC EXPERIENCES OF NON-PERSISTING ENGINEERING UNDERGRADUATESAbstractEngineering programs nationwide lose almost half of their undergraduate students during thecourse of their undergraduate careers. Increasing our understanding of the students who leaveengineering (“non-persisters”) is crucial to determine ways to better support engineeringundergraduates and increase retention. This study utilizes academic transcripts and interviewscollected from the Academic Pathways Study (APS) to understand persisting and non-persistingstudents from a Suburban Private University (SPri). Data from the APS allow forcharacterization of the coursework the students take and exploration
1 20%No 1 7% No 4 80%Total 15 100% Total 5 100%2. Do you think this was an effective way for you to receive this information?Yes 13 93% Yes 3 60%No 1 7% No 2 40%Total 14 100% Total 5 100%3. Do you agree that faculty-student interaction can have a positive impact onstudent motivation, learning, performance, and careers?Strongly Agree 14 93% Strongly Agree 3 60%Agree 1
research and teaching awards, including the National Science Foundation’s Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award; the Purdue University School of Mechanical Engineering’s Harry L. Solberg Best Teacher Award (twice), Robert W. Fox Outstanding Instructor Award, and B.F.S. Schaefer Outstanding Young Faculty Scholar Award; the ASEE Mechanics Division’s Ferdinand P. Beer and E. Russell Johnston, Jr. Outstanding New Mechanics Educator Award; and the ASME C. D. Mote Jr., Early Career Award. In 2014 Dr. Rhoads was included in ASEE Prism Magazine’s 20 Under 40.Dr. Edward J. Berger, Purdue University at West Lafayette Edward Berger is an Associate Professor of Engineering Education and Mechanical Engineering at Purdue
teaching experience has been acquired throughout my academic and professional career. During the last two years, I have been teaching Algorithms and Programming, Material Mechanics I, and Engineering Graphics courses as an Assistant professor at the Department of Engineering Sciences and Materials at the UPRM. I was an instructor for five years and taught Mathe- matic Methods for Engineers in the UPRM Civil Engineering and Surveying Department. I was also an assistant professor at Caribbean University (CU) at Ponce, PR, where I taught Statics, Dynamics, Fluid Mechanics, and Structural Analysis courses. In the University of Quind´ıo, I taught Statics and Physics I courses. My academic life has given me the
important predictorof later STEM career pursuit1,2. One way of providing such experiences is by integratingengineering into science through project-based learning activities. This research is part of alarger three-year study3 testing the impact of an intervention integrating engineering into theforces and motion eighth-grade curriculum using a project-based approach. The intervention isaimed at increasing teachers’ skills in applying inquiry-based teaching methods, as well asstudents’ understanding of engineering design and interest in STEM. This work-in-progresspaper reports on the process of the modification and reliability and validity testing of theEngineering Concept Assessment (ECA)4 for eighth grade, here after referred to as the ECA-M8.The
, andconcluded that “employment during college enhances the development of career-related skills.”While most of these studies were based on student self-reports of the benefits of these workexperiences, data from employers suggests that they agree with students’ self-assessments.Casella and Brougham9 found that a majority of employers they surveyed reported that studentswith work or internship experience “produced higher-quality work, accepted supervision anddirection more willingly, demonstrated better time management skills, and were better able tointeract with coworkers on team projects.” Similar to internships, the influence of coops might beexpected to be even stronger because these experiences are typically longer in duration and moreintegrated
AC 2008-1086: JOURNAL CLUBS AS PEDAGOGY FOR INTERDISCIPLINARYGRADUATE EDUCATIONMaura Borrego, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University MAURA BORREGO is an assistant professor of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech. Dr. Borrego holds an M.S. and Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from Stanford University. Her current research interests center around interdisciplinary collaboration in engineering and engineering education, including studies of the collaborative relationships between engineers and education researchers. Investigations of interdisciplinary graduate programs nationwide are funded through her NSF CAREER award.Lynita Newswander, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and
Michigan State University. He earned his M.S. degree in pavement engineering in 1988 from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and his Ph.D. in pavement and materials engineering from Texas A&M University, College Station, in 1995. Dr. Buch began his academic career at Michigan State University in 1996. Dr. Buch teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in concrete materials and pavement engineering. He is also involved in teaching short courses on pavement design and rehabilitation and pavement materials for practicing engineers in Michigan. He is a co-PI on two National Science Foundation grants in the areas of integration of computation in engineering curricula and in the area of
Page 11.3.2taken to implement the change, typically curricular or pedagogical innovation, the current statusof the change, and the lessons that we learned in the process. At the close of the article, wediscuss the major challenge facing all of engineering education at this time, which is how tobetter prepare our students to succeed in a marketplace being transformed by globalization.The Beginning: ECSELA 15 year period of sustained effort to renew and enhance undergraduate engineering educationat Penn State began with the creation of the team that eventually became the ECSEL Coalition.The team was formed by the Deans of the seven coalition partners, many of whom had workedtogether over the course of their careers, including John Brighton of
En- gineering at Arizona State University. He teaches context-centered electrical engineering and embedded systems design courses, and studies the use of context in both K-12 and undergraduate engineering design education. He received his Ph.D. in Engineering Education (2010) and M.S./B.S. in Electrical and Com- puter Engineering from Purdue University. Dr. Jordan is PI on several NSF-funded projects related to design, including an NSF Early CAREER Award entitled ”CAREER: Engineering Design Across Navajo Culture, Community, and Society” and ”Might Young Makers be the Engineers of the Future?,” and is a Co-PI on the NSF Revolutionizing Engineering Departments grant ”Additive Innovation: An Educational Ecosystem
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 foster 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. She is the recipient of a 2014 American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Educational Research and Methods Di- vision Apprentice Faculty Grant. She has also been recognized for the synergy of research and teaching as an invited participant of the 2016 National Academy of Engineering
Paper ID #27399Engineering Graduate Students’ Salient Identities as Predictors of PerceivedTask DifficultyMr. Derrick James Satterfield, University of Nevada, Reno Derrick Satterfield is a Ph.D. student in Engineering Education and Chemical Engineering at the Uni- versity of Nevada, Reno. He graduated from the University of Nevada, Reno in May 2017, and plans to pursue a career in academia in the future. His research interests are in graduate student attrition rates within academia, engineering identity development and the factors that influence decision making on persistence.Ms. Marissa A. Tsugawa, University of Nevada
Paper ID #15847Blended Faculty Training: Modeling Learner-centered Pedagogy in a NewFaculty Teaching SeminarDr. John Tingerthal, Northern Arizona University John Tingerthal joined the Construction Management faculty at Northern Arizona University in 2007 and was appointed as a Distinguished Teaching Fellow in 2015. His engineering career spans a variety of design and forensic engineering experiences. He spent the first eight years of his career performing structural consulting engineering in Chicago. He earned his Doctorate in Education and is currently the Associate Chair of the Civil Engineering, Construction
” programs and “first yearseminars”, international first year experience conferences (see, for example, the EuropeanFirst Year Experience 2015, www.uib.no/en/efye_2015), centers such as the NationalResource Center for First Year Experience and Students in Transition (www.sc.edu/fye), andan international journal on the first year experience (https://fyhejournal.com/index ). In SouthAfrica about a third of students drop out or fail their first year of university study4 .Some of the things first year students typically struggle with are: choosing a career direction,managing their time, mastering academic skills such as effective study methods and academicreading and writing, assessing their own understanding of their work, coping with the fastpace and
affecting the recruitment, retention, and career development of underrepresented students in engineering. Dr. Martin is a 2009 NSF CAREER awardee for her research entitled, ”Influence of Social Capital on Under-Represented Engineering Students Academic and Career Decisions.” She held an American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Science and Technology Policy Fellowship in 2013-2014, with a placement at the National Science Foundation.Dr. George T. MacDonald, University of South Florida Dr. George MacDonald is the interim Director for the Center for Research, Evaluation, Assessment, and Measurement (CREAM) in the College of Education at the University of South Florida(USF). He is the Co-Principal
formative assessment, and Mixed-Methods design.Dr. Senay Purzer, Purdue University, West Lafayette enay Purzer is an Assistant Professor in the School of Engineering Education. She is the recipient of a 2012 NSF CAREER award, which examines how engineering students approach innovation. She serves on the editorial boards of Science Education and the Journal of Pre-College Engineering Educa- tion (JPEER). She received a B.S.E with distinction in Engineering in 2009 and a B.S. degree in Physics Education in 1999. Her M.A. and Ph.D. degrees are in Science Education from Arizona State University earned in 2002 and 2008, respectively
the Ira A. Fulton Schools of En- gineering at Arizona State University. He teaches context-centered electrical engineering and embedded systems design courses, and studies the use of context in both K-12 and undergraduate engineering design education. He received his Ph.D. in Engineering Education (2010) and M.S./B.S. in Electrical and Com- puter Engineering from Purdue University. Dr. Jordan is PI on several NSF-funded projects related to design, including an NSF Early CAREER Award entitled ”CAREER: Engineering Design Across Navajo Culture, Community, and Society” and ”Might Young Makers be the Engineers of the Future?” He has also been part of the teaching team for NSF’s Innovation Corps for Learning, and
control. Prof. West is the recipient of the NSF CAREER award and is a University of Illinois Distinguished Teacher-Scholar and College of Engineering Education Innovation Fellow.Dr. Mariana Silva, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Mariana Silva is an Adjunct Assistant Professor and Curriculum Development Coordinator in the Me- chanical Science and Engineering Department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She received her BSME and MSME from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and earned her Ph.D. in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2009. Besides her teaching activities, Mariana serves as an academic advisor in the Mechanical
finish youreducation, to what extent would you enjoy a profession or career that usually requires each of thefollowing?” For each of the 34 items, students responded using a scale from "1" (not at all) to“5” (very much). These items loaded onto six factors: 1) framing and solving problems, 2)design, 3) tinker, 4) project management, 5) collaboration, and 6) analysis. The internalconsistency for both the professional and academic factors was based on Cronbach’s Alphavalues gathered from a dedicated research study involving these scales and range from 0.74 to0.88 [13]. Demographic information was also collected on participants’ self-reported gender,race/ethnicity, and first-generation status.Research DesignParticipants were asked to complete the
acquisition of knowledge and habits of mind; opportunitiesto put these into practice; a developing sense of competence and progress; motivation to be in, asense of belonging to, or self-identification with the field; and information about stages,requirements, and opportunities. This study aims to improve the active learning and engagementof the students in their STEM gateway course by integrating the evidence-based teachingpedagogies, thereby pave the pathway for students to move toward their success in their futurestudies and careers. The rest of the paper is structured as follows: Section 2 provides a briefintroduction to the evidence-based teaching pedagogical methodologies that have been adoptedin this study. Section 3 describes the