AC 2008-2738: CHARACTERIZING COMPUTATIONAL ADAPTIVE EXPERTISEAnn McKenna, Northwestern University Ann McKenna is the Director of Education Improvement in the Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science at Northwestern University. She holds a joint appointment as Assistant Professor in the School of Education and Social Policy and Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. She also serves as Co-Director of the Northwestern Center for Engineering Education Research (NCEER). Dr. McKenna’s research focuses on the role of adaptive expertise in engineering education, design teaching and learning, and teaching approaches of engineering faculty. Dr. McKenna
’ [materials] contribute to solutions every bitas much as ‘minds’ [social] do; information and meaning is coded into configurations of objects,material constraints, and possible environmental options, as well as in verbal routines andformulas or ‘mental operations. […] Our ‘cognition’ is always bound up with, co-dependentwith, the participation and activity of Others, be they persons, tools, symbols, processes, orthings” [14]. This emphasis of social and material context as being an intrinsic part of cognitionis one of the main points of situated cognition [7]. Therefore, it is worthwhile to explore the social and material contexts of the designactivities performed by practicing engineers and engineering students. Understanding how
therefore have more of aneed for resources (i.e., counseling, mental health services). Although this need is there, areduction in the stigma surrounding mental health is still required so that engineering studentsare more open to the idea of using the resources offered at their respective universities.Research DesignIn this study, we use the lens of social identity theory to conduct an exploratory quantitativeanalysis of existing data. Data was collected by institutions of higher education using validatedinstruments organized by the Healthy Minds Network [20]. Data was accessed upon request tothe Healthy Minds Network in an anonymized format. As such, our procedures for data accesswere except an Institutional Review Board. Taking advantage of the
encountered by students as they move through these institutionalized trajectories. He is co-editor of a 2010 National Society for the Study of Education Yearbook, Learning Research as a Human Science. Other work has appeared in Linguistics and Education; Mind, Culture, and Activity; Anthropology & Education Quarterly, the Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science; the Journal of Engineering Education; and the Cambridge Handbook of Engineering Education Research. His teaching interests include develop- mental psychology; sociocultural theories of communication, learning, and identity; qualitative methods; and discourse analysis.Frederick A. Peck, University of Colorado Frederick Peck is a PhD Candidate in the School of
Paper ID #29685Work in Progress: Intersection of Race and Gender on Experiences ofUndergraduate Engineering Students of Color in Positional LeadershipRolesProf. Carmen M. Lilley, University of Illinois at Chicago Dr. Lilley’s research interests in engineering education focus on professional development of engineering students at the undergraduate and graduate level. In particular, she is interested in the nuances of how the intersection of race/ethnicity with gender affects professional development in the area of leadership and the long term career trajectory of an individual. Her other research interests are focused on
Paper ID #33727Exploring Self-directed Learning Among Engineering Undergraduates in theExtensive Online Instruction Environment During the COVID-19 PandemicDr. Qin Liu, University of Toronto Dr. Qin Liu is Senior Research Associate with the Institute for Studies in Transdisciplinary Engineering Education and Practice, Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering, University of Toronto, Canada. Her research interests include engineering students’ competency development, learning assessment and career trajectories, and equity, diversity and inclusion issues in engineering education.Ms. Juliette Sweeney, University of Toronto
PerformanceAbstract This research paper explores the role of non-cognitive and affective (NCA) factors ininfluencing student achievement and thriving. We have developed and deployed a survey withevidence of validity and reliability to measure 28 NCA factors from n=2339 undergraduates at17 U.S. institutions. The factors examined include personality, grit, meaning and purpose,engineering identity, mindset, motivation, test anxiety, test and study environment, perceptionsof faculty caring, self-control, stress, gratitude, mindfulness, and sense of belonging. The resultsfrom a previous cluster analysis identified four distinct clusters of students’ NCA profiles,accounting for 69.0% of the sample. A second analysis indicated that membership within any ofthe
have toldme in the past that it is hard for them to listen to a woman because ... ‘it’s like ... in my mind it’sstill set that I know what I’m doing because I’m the guy ...’” [10, p. 281]. While she successfullygraduated with a mechanical engineering degree, Sandra reflected, “I can understand where theyare coming from ‘cause maybe that’s the culture in his family and where he’s from” [10, p. 281].Put simply, Sandra’s friend had deeply held beliefs that women were less knowledgeable thanmen; nevertheless, her male friend’s beliefs were his issues alone and not a reflection of her orwomen as engineers. The idea that to belong in engineering is to be male is embedded in the fielddue to the historical traditions of being a masculine-oriented
for decades to come.ENGINEERING FOR ONE PLANET FRAMEWORKThe Lemelson Foundation and VentureWell have led the development of the Engineering forOne Planet (EOP) framework. This framework was created with the input of hundreds ofstakeholders involved in engineering education, practice, and policy [2]. The EOP initiativeseeks to create systemic change by establishing environmentally sustainable engineering as acore tenet of engineering curricula. The framework represents fundamental learningoutcomes and is designed for flexible adoption within higher education institutions,programs, and courses, such that “[a]ll engineers will be equipped to design, build, code andinvent with the planet in mind.” It suggests the role engineers will play in
AC 2007-2721: SPONTANEOUS GROUPS VERSUS LONG-TERM TEAMS: ANINVESTIGATION USING COMPLEX PROBLEM SOLVING IN A FIRST-YEARENGINEERING COURSETamara Moore, University Of Minnesota Tamara Moore is a Assistant Professor of Mathematics Education in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Minnesota. She received her Ph.D. in Engineering Education, her M.S.Ed. in Mathematics Education and her B.S. in Mathematics from Purdue University. Tamara taught high school mathematics for seven years prior to pursuing her doctorate. Her research interests include curriculum development, the learning of complex problem-solving in mathematics and engineering, teamwork, and integration of
thesolution. The active dimension of design is more relevant to modern engineering, as innovativeprojects mean nothing if they cannot be successfully implemented and sustained. The Engineerof 2020 [4] will however, need to have some traits of the adaptive expert.McKenna [16] characterizes the adaptive expert with engineering design in mind, and Figure 2below shows how she defines the dimensions of design thinking in relation to these experts, andthe characteristics of design processes used by experts of those dimensions. Figure 2: Adaptive expertise as a balance between two dimensions for learning and assessment: Efficiency and innovation. [16]Within this optimal adaptability corridor, or adaptive dimension, innovation and
depended on which experts they had in mind. They wanted toevaluate the experts first, and then make the judgement of the validity of the expert’s answers.As mentioned above, the student who put neutral for the item of Certainty of Knowledge made acomparison between two different fields (civil engineering vs. biomedical engineering) and wasaware that her beliefs would vary according to the different fields. Contrary to theory, thesestudents’ choices of neutral points might reflect a more sophisticated thinking than other studentswho stick to the ratings of the scales.6. Conclusion The measurement validity issues with the self-report instruments of domain-specificepistemic beliefs may be due to any of the reasons we described in section “2.2
AC 2011-925: UTILIZATION OF A THINK-ALOUD PROTOCOL TO COG-NITIVELY VALIDATE A SURVEY INSTRUMENT IDENTIFYING SOCIALCAPITAL RESOURCES OF ENGINEERING UNDERGRADUATESJulie Martin Trenor, Clemson University Julie Martin Trenor, Ph.D. is an assistant professor of Engineering and Science Education with a joint appointment in the School of Materials Science and Engineering. Her research interests focus on social factors affecting the recruitment, retention, and career development of under-represented students in engi- neering. Dr. Trenor is a recent NSF CAREER award winner for her research entitled, ”Influence of Social Capital on Under-Represented Engineering Students Academic and Career Decisions.”Matthew K. Miller, Clemson
AC 2010-444: ON IMPLEMENTATION OF PROBLEM-BASED (PBL) PEDAGOGYAPPROACHES TO ENGINEERING EDUCATION: MULTI–VARIANT MODELSAND EPISTEMOLOGICAL ISSUESWaddah Akili, Iowa State University Page 15.919.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 On Implementation of Problem-Based (PBL) Pedagogy Approaches to Engineering Education: Multi–variant Models and Epistemological IssuesAbstract: This paper focuses on the implementation of problem–based learning (PBL) in anengineering program, and argues that implementation of problem-based learning needs to beplaced in a context and must be developed with careful consideration of the social
on their work. The year-long Capstone experience will give students the opportunity to receive a wide spectrum offeedback, enhance their technical communication skills, and develop their professional networks.AssessmentThe PDT is designed as an integral experience and the development of professional skills willoccur in a progressive manner as the student makes progress through the different courses. Theprogram learning outcomes (PLOs) of the PDT were developed with the ABET list of professionalskills in mind and they give educators the opportunity to assess the level of competence in eachskills in a comprehensive manner. By the time a student completes the PDT, they will be able to: 1. Identify an engineering problem and formulate it in
Paper ID #25919Board 50: WIP: Evidence-based analysis of the design of collaborative problem-solving engineering tasksMiss Taylor Tucker, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Taylor Tucker graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a Bachelor’s degree in engineering mechanics. She is now pursuing a master’s degree at UIUC and will begin in the Digital En- vironments for Learning, Teaching, and Agency program in the department of Curriculum and Instruction in the fall of 2019. She is interested in design thinking as it applies to engineering settings and lends her technical background to her
Paper ID #15394Academic Help-seeking as a Stand-alone, Metacognitive Action: An Empiri-cal Study of Experiences and Behaviors in Undergraduate Engineering Stu-dentsMr. Christopher Herring, University of Georgia Chris is currently a PhD student in the College of Engineering at the University of Georgia. Chris’ dissertation work is in the area of engineering education specifically investigating academic help-seeking behavior in undergraduate engineering students. Chris is also interested in energy transformation systems and is investigating acoustic to electrical conversion. After completing his PhD, Chris plans to teach in an
institutionalized trajectories. He is co-editor of a 2010 National Society for the Study of Education Yearbook, Learning Research as a Human Science. Other work has appeared in Linguistics and Education; Mind, Culture, and Activity; Anthropology & Education Quarterly, the Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science; the Journal of Engineering Education; and the Cambridge Handbook of Engineering Education Research. His teaching interests include develop- mental psychology; sociocultural theories of communication, learning, and identity; qualitative methods; and discourse analysis. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Maintaining the Individual within a Climate of Indifference
Paper ID #25175Transformations in Elementary Teachers’ Pedagogical Reasoning: StudyingTeacher Learning in an Online Graduate Program in Engineering EducationDr. Jessica Watkins, Vanderbilt University Jessica Watkins is Assistant Professor of Science Education at Vanderbilt University.Dr. Merredith D. Portsmore, Tufts University Dr. Merredith Portsmore is the Director for Tufts Center for Engineering Education and Outreach as well as a Research Assistant Professor at the Center. Merredith received all four of her degrees from Tufts (B.A. English, B.S. Mechanical Engineering, M.A. Education, PhD in Engineering Education) and has
, like I said, I've had experience doing just about all of it so I feel comfortable saying that I can, at least from the classes I've taken and the work, that I can probably do, I won't say any of it, but to have at least some knowledge for everything.In this quote Jake describes his transition from not having much confidence and beingnervous about whether he was qualified to do the job to being confident and comfortablethat he can do whatever engineering job he puts his mind to. His professional identitybegins to develop as he tells stories from his co-op experience. Towards the end of hisco-op experience he became the only person that was familiar with some of theprocesses. He began teaching the full-time replacement because
, Stanford UniversityBeth Rieken, Stanford University Beth Rieken is a sixth year graduate student at Stanford University. She is currently working on her PhD in Mechanical Engineering with a focus on the relevance of mindfulness to engineers. Beth completed a BS in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Virginia in 2010 and a MS in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford in 2012.Dr. Sheri Sheppard, Stanford University Sheri D. Sheppard, Ph.D., P.E., is professor of Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University. Besides teaching both undergraduate and graduate design and education related classes at Stanford University, she conducts research on engineering education and work-practices, and applied finite element
not been mentored by engineers. For example, astudent might have participated in Odyssey of the Mind, a national, project-based competitionwhere students apply math and science to build various projects according to specific criteria.While such an activity is “engineering-like,” when it was not specifically mentored by anengineer, we did not consider it engineering exposure. Similarly if a student had extensiveexperience programming or building computers but was self-taught, without the benefit ofhaving received any formal, discipline-based computer science, we considered this lowengineering exposure.Grace entered Coleman with low exposure to engineering. She enjoyed her math andphysics classes in high school, and during her senior year, she
AC 2011-735: THE NATURE OF TEACHER KNOWLEDGE OF AND SELF-EFFICACY IN TEACHING ENGINEERING DESIGN IN A STOMP CLASS-ROOMElsa Head, Tufts UniversityDr. Morgan M Hynes, Tufts University Page 22.1483.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 The Nature of Teacher Knowledge of and Self-Efficacy in Teaching Engineering Design in a STOMP ClassroomCurriculum standards increasingly feature engineering as a requirement for K-12 students. Thisis a content area in which most K-12 teachers have little to no background; therefore, providingsupport is critical for successful implementation. In an effort to provide
: Ability to keep in mind parameters of the project while creating a solution.UnderstandingConstraintsEngineering: Generate an idea for testing based on knowledge of what might work (from math orCreating physics, for example, or even other things that exist - a bridge in your neighborhood,Hypotheses something found in nature or even experience).Engineering: Figure out what must be done at certain time points in order to meet a deadline.ProjectManagementEngineering: Use Use of computer aided tools for creating and modeling the project.of Software forDesign Page 22.1318.8
AC 2009-577: LEARNING OUTCOMES ASSESSMENT OF A PROJECT-ABROADPROGRAM IN SOUTH AFRICA: TOWARD "A BETTER ENGINEER IN THEREAL WORLD"Laura Hahn, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Dr. Laura Hahn is a specialist in education at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She consults with faculty in the College of Engineering on curriculum, instruction, teaching assistant development, and learning outcomes assessment. She has helped develop two project-abroad programs for students in the Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering.Alan Hansen, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Alan Hansen received his PhD from the University of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa, where he joined
Paper ID #23200Application of Brain-based Learning Principles to Engineering MechanicsEducation: Implementation and Preliminary Analysis of Connections Be-tween Employed Strategies and Improved Student EngagementDr. Firas Akasheh, Tuskegee University Dr. Akasheh has been with the Mechanical Engineering Department at Tuskegee University since 2008. His primary interest is in the area of solid mechanics and manufacturing as well as the integration of best practices in engineering education.Dr. John T. Solomon, Tuskegee University John T Solomon is an assistant professor in the mechanical engineering department of Tuskegee
learning elements. Unfortunately, a pre-test was not administered in this study, whichwould have provided an interesting examination of change in perceptions after completion of thecourse. Additional research is necessary to discover techniques that an instructor can use whenfaced with resistance to active learning. Page 13.196.10Bibliography 1. Prince, M. (2004). Does Active Learning Work? A Review of the Research. Journal of Engineering Education. 93(3), 223-231. 2. National Research Council (2000). How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School. National Academy Press: Washington, D.C. 3. Gossman, P., Stewart
withhis mother and sister who stand in stark contrast with reality (see 3 in Table 2): “One of the things that comes into my mind is that I grew up in a household where my mom had a PhD. She was a professor. […] And so, the momentum thing is one of the things that I point to because, I think there were points in my life [his own higher education in STEM] where I was baffled by the fact that I wasn't seeing more women.”We classified Flynn’s relationship with his family as nonevidence because he cites thephenomenon (i.e., gender inequity in engineering) as evidence for his causal theory (i.e., themoment of the dominant group). His experience demonstrated that gender inequity is unjust, butit was unclear how he connected that
Paper ID #34308Work in Progress: Measuring Stigma of Mental Health Conditions and ItsImpact in Help-seeking Behaviors Among Engineering StudentsMatilde Luz Sanchez-Pena, University at Buffalo Matilde Sanchez-Pena is an Assistant Professor in engineering education at University at Buffalo - SUNY. Her current research areas include (a) advancing institutional diversity, (b) cultures of health in engineer- ing education, and (c) data analysis skills of engineers. She aims to promote a more equitable engineering field in which students of all backgrounds can acquire the knowledge and skills to achieve their goals. She
encouraged me to study engineering.RECR4 While I was in high school, engineering programs .65 .10 *** contacted me with information about their college.RECR5 Before starting college, I had a job, internship, or job- .61 .14 *** shadowing experience that positively influenced my choice to study engineering. Answer "not applicable" if you did not have any such job experience, positive or negative, before college.RECR6 Before starting college, I actively participated in extra- .37 .11 *** curricular math- or science-related activities (e.g., Science Olympiad, Odyssey of the Mind, Lego Competition, FIRST).RECR7 Before starting college, I