determine that the themes fit within the context as a circularvalidation of the process.Researcher position As a cadet myself years ago during the cold war, and then during two militaryassignments as a faculty member at the Air Force Academy, I have experienced first-hand thearray of engagement opportunities USAFA has to offer. I have been a provider of cadetprofessional and academic development and also a recipient. I also spent a 26-year career in theAir Force, so I have a thorough grounding in the culture of the Air Force and the Air ForceAcademy. Though I have this background, it was important for me not to impose mypreconceived notions on the current generation of cadets. As I observed activities and interviewsubjects, I was careful not
education. On the other side,academia moves more in a direction of research and has a career path based on primarilyresearch criteria and with less recognition of experience from working life 1, 2.The purpose of this paper is to identify faculty approaches to industry connections andworking life issues in engineering education. The research questions are: a) What are facultyattitudes towards working life issues and their integration into the curriculum? and b) Whatactivities related to working life do faculty members introduce to the curriculum?These research questions are based on the assumption that faculty attitudes and curricularactivities related to working life are important factors in engineering education if we want toensure that students
UniversityJennifer J VanAntwerp, Calvin College JENNIFER J. VANANTWERP is an Associate Professor of Engineering at Calvin College. She has an M.S. (1997) and Ph.D. (1999) in Chemical Engineering, from the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign, with research in biotechnology. Her current research interests include retention, diversity, and career pathways among engineering students and professionals.Denise Wilson, University of Washington Denise Wilson is an Associate Professor in Electrical Engineering and holds an adjunct appointment in Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Washington. She received her B.S. degree in mechanical engineering from Stanford University and her M.S. and Ph.D. degrees
AC 2010-839: INSTITUTIONAL ETHNOGRAPHY: A RESEARCH METHOD TOINVESTIGATE THE WORK-LIFE EXPERIENCES OF WOMEN FACULTYMEMBERS IN STEM DISCIPLINESDina Banerjee, Purdue University Dina Banerjee is a post-doctoral researcher in the Research in Feminist Engineering (RIFE) group. Her primary responsibility is the study of the career-related experiences of the women and minority faculty members of the STEM disciplines of Purdue University. She graduated with her PhD from Purdue University in May, 2009. After her admission in Purdue University in 2002, she graduated with her third Masters with sociology major in 2004. Her areas of specialization are gender, work and occupation; development and social change
Paper ID #29307WIP: Motivation and Identity: The Impact of Identity on Recovering fromFailureCaroline Bolton, Bucknell UniversityDr. Elif Miskioglu, Bucknell University Dr. Elif Miskio˘glu is an early-career engineering education scholar and educator. She holds a B.S. in Chemical Engineering (with Genetics minor) from Iowa State University, and an M.S. and Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Ohio State University. Her early Ph.D. work focused on the development of bacterial biosensors capable of screening pesticides for specifically targeting the malaria vector mosquito, Anopheles gambiae. As a result, her diverse
Creative team member for her local childrens theater. Her passion for STEAM is shown in her interest in soft skill-developement in engineering students.Dr. Elif Miskioglu, Bucknell University Dr. Elif Miskio˘glu is an early-career engineering education scholar and educator. She holds a B.S. in Chemical Engineering (with Genetics minor) from Iowa State University, and an M.S. and Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Ohio State University. Her early Ph.D. work focused on the development of bacterial biosensors capable of screening pesticides for specifically targeting the malaria vector mosquito, Anopheles gambiae. As a result, her diverse background also includes experience in infectious disease and epidemiology
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pursuing careers inengineering. The approach used in this study could be employed in other undergraduateinstitutions, especially Historically Black Colleges and Universities, to increase engineeringstudents’ self-efficacy, academic confidence, and GPAs, and retention rates.IntroductionAccording to the National Science Foundation, there has been a significant decline in the numberof U.S. citizens who are training to become scientists and engineers, whereas the number of jobsrequiring science and engineering STEM training continues to grow1. At Virginia StateUniversity (VSU), the retention rate of full-time freshman students in the Department ofEngineering and Technology (E&T) is approximately 40%, the retention rate of full timefreshman in all
opportunities, overall planning for successfulfuture careers, how to find co-ops and internships, and how to plan ahead which courses to takeand when in order to achieve desired objectives such as double majors, minors, etc. Additionaltopics of lesser interest to the majority of the participants were: how to get the most out ofacademic advising, how to deal with stress, technical writing, preparing for and taking tests, andresume writing. Therefore, we prioritized (and rescheduled) the coverage of topics for theremainder of the program based on the student responses.B. Workshop FormatThe first year and a half of our CSEM scholarship program, we held four workshops peracademic year, each workshop scheduled on a Saturday and lasting approximately four
Technology. He has thirty years of experience in teaching and research of psychology. He has developed and conducted interviews for a variety of corporate, government, and education clients. He is a licensed psychologist and has practiced clinical psychology throughout his career. Page 11.97.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 A Procedure for Gathering Experience from Practicing Engineers in order to Teach Experience in the ClassroomAbstractHelping students transition from novice to expert requires imparting some level of experience.In order to teach experience in the undergraduate classroom
, andconverted [26], [27]. Through a funds of knowledge perspective, we capture engineering students’lived experiences; understand how their family and community knowledge is produced andtransmitted; and then investigate whether and how this knowledge is transformed into capital thatserves students’ trajectories through their career paths. Recognizing first-generation collegestudents’ funds of knowledge and how this knowledge is transmitted into forms of capital tosupport their engineering career pathway offers a way to position these students experiences asequally valuable knowledge in engineering.Research QuestionsTo understand how first-generation college students’ funds of knowledge support their engineeringcareer trajectory we used structural
social development in emerging economies. He received the U.S. National Science Foundation’s Early Career Award in 2009. He is co-editor of the Cambridge Handbook of Engineering Education Research (CHEER) published by Cam- bridge University Press, New York, NY. Dr. Johri earned his Ph.D. in Learning Sciences and Technology Design at Stanford University and a B.Eng. in Mechanical Engineering at Delhi College of Engineering. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 The Development of Engineering Students’ Metacognitive Skills in Informal Engineering Learning ActivitiesIntroductionThe ability to analyze and evaluate one’s own thinking and acquisition of knowledge and skills
. (2007). Big Five personality predictors of college academic performance. Personality and Individual Differences, 43(5), 971-990.Cordero, E. D., Porter, S. H., Israel, T., & Brown, M. T. (2010). Math and Science Pursuits: A Self-Efficacy Intervention Comparison Study. Journal of Career Assessment, 18(4), 362-375.De Feyter, T., Caers, R., Vigna, C., & Berings, D. (2012). Unraveling the impact of the Big Five personality traits on academic performance: The moderating and mediating effects of self- efficacy and academic motivation. Learning and Individual Differences, 22(4), 439-448.Gore, P.A. (2006). Predicting the performance and persistence of first-year college students: the role of non-cognitive variables. Proceedings from
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Laboratories, Lucent Technology, Inc. as Member of Technical Staff and Ciena Corp. as Principal Engineer, doing research in photonic networks and optoelectronics. His teaching interest fo- cuses on the project-based learning (PBL) model of engineering education with self-directed learner as enhanced educational outcome. His research area focuses on optoelectronics, semiconductor lasers, and metamaterials.Dr. Robert Scott Pierce P.E., Western Carolina University Robert Scott Pierce is an Associate Professor of physics and engineering at Sweet Briar College in Sweet Briar, Va. He received his Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from Georgia Tech in 1993. Prior to his teaching career, he spent 13 years in industry designing
; sort of assumes we have no communicating are such essential parts of idea how to be an actual person & interact w/ any career and I like reading books about other people.” effective communication & how it is an asset. However, some of what we go over in “Don't make this interpersonal skills material class regarding this topic feels a bit basic or part of the course.” redundant. Considering we are all 18 & 19 y/o, I think we know how to act like we're
Paper ID #30038Analyzing Changes in Student Graph Reasoning and Comprehension Re-gardingGraph Axis PresentationMr. Justin Cory Willis, University Of Maine- Orono Justin Willis is a Graduate Instructor at the University of Maine, for the Mechanical Engineering Tech- nology department. He is also a graduate student in UMaine’s Master of Science in Teaching program, and a volunteer math tutor for students and adults in Old Town, ME. Research interests include statistics education in engineering applications, and career and adult education.Dr. Brett D. Ellis, University of Maine Dr. Brett Ellis, P.E. is an Assistant
engagement’ in the classroom [4]. While others have explored efforts topromote engagement and foster the development of an engineering career identity by providingstudents with experiential and service learning opportunities beyond the classroom [5]. 1Some studies have shown that developing instruction around hands-on activities can promotestudent engagement and meaningful learning in the classroom [6, 7]. As part of an initiative topromote active learning engagement facilitated using hands-on learning modules in engineeringclassrooms, we have been studying the cognitive and affective affordances of Desktop LearningModules (DLMs) for engineering
Validation Development Action Plan Figure 1: Approach Page 26.1022.3ScopeEgoless behavior is a mindset. The earlier this mindset is developed, the better it is. Younger minds aremore malleable and have full careers ahead of them. Carver, et al. argue that before running an empiricalstudy at a software company, it is useful to carry out a pilot study with students in an academic setting17.Therefore, we defined our scope of research to a batch of 86 junior software engineering students of
the need to implement programs in the first year that expose students to real-worldengineering applications and relevance since such programs are designed to promote interest inengineering.References1. Matusovich, H. M., Streveler, R. A., & Miller, R. L. (2010). Why do students choose engineering? A qualitative, longitudinal investigation of students' motivational values. Journal of Engineering Education, 99, 289-303.2. Iskander, E. T., Gore, P. A., Jr., Furse, C., & Bergerson, A. (2013). Gender differences in expressed interests in engineering-related fields ACT 30-year data analysis identified trends and suggested avenues to reverse trends. Journal of Career Assessment, 21, 599-613. doi: 10.1177
reflective and behavioral implications of survey-taking, the currentstudy investigates open-ended comments that students self-reported at the end of a recentengineering education survey. We gathered our data from the Engineering Majors Survey(EMS), a study of engineering students from a nationally representative sample of 27 U.S.engineering schools. The EMS is intended to follow junior and senior engineeringstudents from their undergraduate education into their career. So far the first (“EMS 1.0”)and second (“EMS 2.0”) waves have been administered, one year apart, with additionalfollow-up surveys planned. The EMS asks a variety of questions about engineeringstudents’ past academic and extracurricular experiences, confidence performing variousskills
to solve a real world problem in the field of corrosion. Thematerials were artificially degraded so that the effects of exposure time and service environmentimpacted the corrosion properties of the sample. The PBL project was structured to assistundergraduate students in learning how materials degrade with time, appreciating howenvironment can influence degradation, as well as identifying alternative career paths for thepurpose of employment or pursuit of graduate programs such as in the field of corrosion orfailure analysis. The project setup required the creation of a scenario in which the student wascalled upon by the court system to provide expert testimony in support of a mock case related tothe degradation and in service failure of a
.” In addition,the work “would continue to be sustained into the future, even after the funding had expired.”Overall, futures thinking to the participants meant continuous improvement, a sense of mission,potential broad impact of research, and sustained outcomes beyond funding. Futures thinkingalso represented facilitation of metacognition in student learning and faculty training to developtheir futures thinking. Futures thinking was about imagining what might look different inengineering education and using that imagination to inform current designs and processes as wellas capturing students’ imagination to change their career-paths and lives through education.Values ThinkingValues thinking resonated with participants and seemed pertinent to
ranging fromcoding skills to using computers to solve problems to applying computer information-processing methods toone’s thinking to define and solve complex problems [3]. For the purposes of this presentation, we use thecomputational thinking framework that guided the theory of action for the NSF STEM + C funded project,“Understanding How Integrated Computational Thinking, Engineering Design, and Mathematics Can HelpStudents Solve Scientific and Technical Problems in Career Technical Education (INITIATE) (#1741784).INITIATE used the definition provided by Computational Thinkers (computationalthinkers.com) thatdivides the process into four steps: (1) students take a complex problem and break it down into a series ofsmall, more manageable
’ ability to complete undergraduate engineering degrees, and may play a role ininfluencing students’ decisions to work in the engineering industry or continue in graduateengineering degree programs in the future. Since the most dogged students persevere without ahigh level of satisfaction they are perhaps the most likely to make non-engineering post-baccalaureate career choices even if they are able to complete the undergraduate degree.II. Background LiteratureThere is a paucity of literature that focuses specifically on doggedness. In as much as doggednesscan be viewed in the context of personal motivation, it is largely an extension of persistence. Theliterature mentioned below provides the framework that is used to contextually describe
in ones .6 .7 professional career 3) understands questions from others well .7 .6 4) shows confidence when presenting orally .8 .7 5) delivers a well-organized oral presentation .7 .8 6) uses appropriate presentation techniques (correct eye contact, use of .8 .8 voice, etc.) 7) keeps audience engaged when presenting orally .7 .4 .8 8) is able to interpret results for various audiences .7 .8 9) adjusts presentation to each audience and purpose
well defined body of knowledgeto the enrolled students. Our concern here is rather different. Our aim is to address a broaderand more diffuse set of needs. We address the question of ‘why’ and to a large degree leavethe engineering classes to provide the ‘how.’ “What is the point of taking a particular classand how does it fit into a larger picture?” “Why will I need to know what a coefficient offriction is?” “I really enjoyed my first course in dynamics - so what does that mean in termsof further courses and career paths?” These are the class of inquiries we address. Page 12.515.2These questions are typical of students who already, for one reason
Employer _________________________________ Position Title ___________________ Location (City, State) _________________________________ Annual Salary $_______________________Bonus $______________________ *Did you receive any offers from employers that recruited through the [institutional career center] via listings in [institutional online service], info sessions, career fairs, or on-campus interviews? yes noIf you selected graduate or professional school, full OR part time as your primary activity, which of thefollowing BEST describes your current plans? Admitted, planning to attend ____________________________________________ (institution) Considering admission offer(s) from
“paradigmaticcognition” which he defines as “classifying a particular instance as belonging to a category orconcept” (p. 9); and “narrative cognition [that] configures the diverse elements of a particularaction into a unified whole in which each element is connected to the central purpose of theaction,” (p. 11). These two types of knowledge can be treated as analytic processes, where aparadigmatic analysis “seeks to locate common themes or conceptual manifestations among thestories collected as data” (p. 14; grounded theory is a type of paradigmatic analysis) while anarrative analysis “synthesizes or configures events into an explanation of, for example […] howan individual made a career choice.” (p. 16) So narrative analysis “is the procedure throughwhich the
frugal innovations to address healthcare challenges in resource-limited settings. Prof. Sienko has led efforts at the University of Michigan to incorporate the constraints of global health technologies within engineering design at the undergraduate and graduate levels. She is the recipient of a CAREER Award from the National Sci- ence Foundation, a Teaching Innovation Prize from the UM Provost, and a UM Undergraduate Teaching Award. While at MIT, she was a winner of the MIT $50K Entrepreneurship Competition. Page 24.639.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014