AC 2009-993: PRELIMINARY FINDINGS ON FRESHMEN ENGINEERINGSTUDENTS’ PROFESSIONAL IDENTITY: IMPLICATIONS FOR RECRUITMENTAND RETENTIONTK Beam, James Madison University TK Beam is a first year graduate student in the School Psychology program at James Madison University. Prior to her graduate education, she graduated from the University of Virginia with a B.S. in biology and a B.A. in psychology. She currently serves as a graduate assistant to Dr. Olga Pierrakos working on an NSF funded BRIGE project investigating engineering identity.Olga Pierrakos, James Madison University OLGA PIERRAKOS is an assistant professor in the School of Engineering at James Madison University. Dr. Pierrakos holds a B.S. in
studies in Canada and the United States as well as large-scale national projects. She has presented at national conferences and published in journals in the area of health psychology. Jodi has been involved in STEM evaluation for the National Center for Engineering and Technology Education since May 2007. Page 14.668.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 High School Teachers Engineering Design Lesson Planning through Professional DevelopmentKey words: Professional Development, High School Teachers, Engineering Design “The vast majority of Americans will
Gerald Holton): Who Succeeds in Science? The Gender Dimension and Gender Differences in Science Careers: The Project Access Study. Page 14.306.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 Career Motivations of Freshman Engineering and Non- Engineering Students: A Gender StudyKeywords: career motivation, outcome expectations, gender differencesAbstractA social cognitive career theory framework and Vroom’s valence model are used to examine theimportance that female freshman engineering students (n=87) place on various career-relatedoutcomes, compared with other female freshmen (n=2236) and
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engineering Ph.D. studentsrequires relevancy to the research field of students. Among other inferences, we see that giventhe time-strapped situation of most Ph.D. engineering students, instruction that relates closely toin-progress work is meaningful and thus, an anchor to attention and improvement. To improvefluency and flow, in writing and speaking, a topical focus on ethical issues has served to linkspecialized technical information to broader social communication that ultimately helps connectsstudents to greater communication opportunities.IntroductionPh.D. engineering students and faculty alike understand the critical need to communicateeffectively in order to lead research projects, teach, mentor, write papers and proposals, and togenerally
struggle to make theconcomitant adjustments to their curricular culture. For example, an instructor might adoptclickers but ask superficial questions (e.g., where answers reflect varying numerical calculationsrather than underlying conceptual models) and find that student outcomes do not improve as theyhad hoped. Schein’s depiction of organizational culture differentiates surface-level features fromdeeper values and assumptions [3]. In the example above, the clicker was a surface-level artifactthat the instructor tried to duplicate, but the underlying curricular culture was missing.Thus, major changes to curriculum, such as the adoption of project-based learning or movingfrom lecture to studio formats, often involve cultural shifts. Faculty
, students, and instructors, and documentation of workplace andacademic artifacts—such as drawings, calculations, and notes—to access practitioners’,students’, and instructors’ conceptual representations. These ethnographic methods areconducted at a private engineering firm and in 300 and 400 level structural engineering courses. Preliminary results indicate that instructors’ conceptual representations in the classroomaim to enhance students’ broader understanding of these concepts; whereas students’ conceptualrepresentations are focused towards utility in solving homework and exam problems.Practitioners’ conceptual representations are more flexible and adapt to project and workplaceconstraints. These results seem to indicate that even when
only sourceof data collection. It is the intention of the authors to interview the corresponding instructors toattain a well-balanced perspective on potential instructional issues that hinder academicdevelopment.While Phase 2 of this long-term project is in process, it is the intention of the authors to presentthe benefits of implementing the ECNQ model to the Mechanical Engineering faculty such that itsimplementation is considered in their respective courses. The authors are planning to develop aseminar series that illuminate practical examples and explore pragmatic processes that strengthenstudent learning and engagement by incorporating effective communication strategies duringlecture sessions. Resultantly, Phase 3 of the project
, we examine howengineering schools are helping students develop four key communication competencies:writing, creating and delivering presentations, developing and employing visual literacy skills,and participating in teams. The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development’s(OECD) Definition and Selection of Competencies (DeSeCo) Project describes “competency” as: …more than just knowledge and skills. It involves the ability to meet complex demands, by drawing on and mobilizing psychosocial resources (including skills and attitudes) in a particular context. For example, the ability to communicate effectively is a competency that may draw on an individual’s knowledge of language, practical IT skills and
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
Education at University of Nevada, Reno. His re- search focuses on the interactions between engineering cultures, student motivation, and their learning experiences. His projects involve the study of student perceptions, beliefs and attitudes towards becoming engineers, their problem solving processes, and cultural fit. His education includes a B.S. in Biomedical Engineering from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, a M.S. in Bioengineering and Ph.D. in Engineer- ing and Science Education from Clemson University.Courtney June Faber, Clemson University Courtney Faber is a graduate student in the Department of Engineering and Science Education at Clemson University and a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow
study hours, lighting, seating,technology, staff, and services. Door prizes and snacks were also included as part of the event.The room, named CenterPOINT (Center for Projects, Opportunities, Instruction, Networking,and Teamwork), was remodeled over the summer of 2013 incorporating the feedback received atthe forum. Upon its opening, CenterPOINT included such features as: a full-time academicadvisor/center manager; a front desk staffed by student assistants; free drop-in peer tutoringhours; tables on wheels that could be easily moved into different configurations; five computerstations; items available for checkout such as phone chargers, headphones, and calculators; akitchenette space with refrigerator, microwave, and sink; wall-mounted and
Paper ID #15044Making Learning Whole: Toward the Development of an Instrument Opera-tionalizing Perkins’ ModelDr. Jeremi S London, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus Dr. Jeremi London is an Assistant Professor of Engineering at Arizona State University. She holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in Industrial Engineering and a Ph.D. in Engineering Education, all from Purdue Univer- sity. She employs mixed methods research designs and computational tools to address complex problems relevant to her research interests. She leads projects related to her research interest in primary research interests, which are focused on the
research scientist for the Center for Research on Education in Science, Mathematics, Engineering and Technology (CRESMET), and an evaluator for several NSF projects. His first research strand concentrates on the relationship between educational policy and STEM education. His second research strand focuses on studying STEM classroom interactions and subsequent effects on student understanding. He is a co- developer of the Reformed Teaching Observation Protocol (RTOP) and his work has been cited more than 2200 times and he has been published in multiple peer-reviewed journals such as Science Education and the Journal of Research in Science Teaching.Prof. Stephen J Krause, Arizona State University Stephen Krause is
research at Stevens in systems engineering and intelligent / adaptive online learning systems. As the primary author of this paper, please address all related communications to her at: asquires@stevens.edu. Early in her career Alice focused on engineering hardware design and related software development, followed by technical management and operations management, with a more recent focus on systems engineering and online education and training. She has over twenty years of experience in engineering project management and technical management primarily in the defense sector. She has worked directly for several large defense companies including General Dynamics
, faculty time, and support staff labor. With tuition costs risingfaster than inflation, the trends have undesirable results for both universities and students.This paper reviews the relevant literature in order to begin developing a study design to modelstudent progression through engineering degree acquisition as a complex system. Elements areexpected to include transition probabilities, identifying critical factors, predicting time tograduation, estimating costs and benefits of potential interventions, and projected throughput ofengineers earning bachelors’ degrees. The main goal of the research is to achieve an actionable,applicable, and accurate decision modeling method for a student’s progress to an engineeringdegree and a university’s
create a foundation for more efficient implementation ofcritical thinking in the future. To answer these questions and help students learn moreeffectively, gaining student input and understanding student perspectives is necessary.Thus, in this paper we seek to provide an initial exploration of what critical thinking is in theengineering classroom. This research paper examines the meaning and enactment of criticalthinking for engineering undergraduate students. We address the following research question:How do undergraduate engineering students perceive and enact critical thinking?MethodologyThis study is the pilot phase of a larger project aiming to understand critical thinking for studentsand faculty in humanities and engineering. Since this is
underpinning of pseudo peer diagrams, as well as the use of Classroom Presenter 3 in our futureresearch.AcknowledgementsThis research was made possible with a grant from the National Science Foundation (AwardNumber – DUE-0817486)Bibliography[1] Black, P., & Wiliam, D. (1998a). Assessment and classroom learning. Assessment in Education: PrinciplesPolicy and Practice, 5(1), 7–73.[2] Black, P., & Wiliam, D. (1998b). Inside the black box: Raising standards through classroom assessment. PhiDelta Kappan, 80(2), 139-147.[3] Heritage, M. (2010). Formative assessment and next-generation assessment systems: Are we losing anopportunity? A project of Margaret Heritage and the Council of Chief State School Officers (Paper prepared for theCouncil of Chief
Page 15.227.9(see Trevelyan, 2007, for further detail on this skill2). We saw the technical coordination themeas encompassing project and process management, and improving organizational systems asdone through Lean manufacturing or Six Sigma. Thirty percent of individuals in the surveytalked about these skills of “project planning and monitoring” and “process improvement.”Interviewees also discussed the importance of this skill. As one interviewee described, “We hadthis product that we were struggling making outside due to issues with the supplier, beingconsistent with delivery, quality, and cost. Much of the problem was our problem of having poorprocesses in managing that supplier.” He then described how he helped manage the team which
Department at the University of California, Riverside. Page 25.478.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 Does Neatness Count? What the Organization of Student Work Says About UnderstandingAbstractStudents have long been taught that neatness counts. But does it? In this project, we seek tounderstand how the organization of a student’s solution to a problem relates to the correctness ofthe work. Understanding this relationship will enable us to create software to provide earlywarnings to students who may be struggling in a course. In this study, students in
SystemAbstractWe have previously created and beta tested a workforce-relevant, research-based scoring systemfor use with engineering student presentations across multiple contexts. Since then, we havesystematically validated, refined, and tested the rubric in a five-step process described in somedetail for this paper. First, we tested the face validity and usability of the instrument via thecollection of additional feedback during focus groups and interviews with: faculty possessingexpertise in scoring system design, faculty with experience in engineering design projects thatinvolve student presentations, and additional faculty from a variety of backgrounds. Second, weused this feedback to reduce overlap and complexity in the scoring system items. Third
meetings: student leadership meetings, sub-team meetings, and the independent studymeeting. In addition to the observations, some archival data from both research sites wascollected to further supplement the interview data. Specifically, information packets, brochures,DVDs, and summary reports regarding the lab were collected. This information was used tobetter familiarize and contextualize the type of environment that the lab creates for students.The learning site was investigated through two phases of analysis. The first phase of dataanalysis employed an open-coding procedure on interview transcriptions to allow emergingthemes to take precedence. After discovering student autonomy (e.g. project ownership,intentional self-education, self
Paper ID #7562Studying Factors that Influence Scholar Retention in Engineering EducationResearchHanjun Xian, Purdue University, West Lafayette Hanjun Xian is a PhD candidate in the School of Engineering Education at Purdue University. He holds master’s and bachelor’s degrees in Computer Science and started to pursue his doctoral degree in engi- neering education in 2009. He is currently working as the student team leader with Dr. Madhavan on the Deep Insights Anytime, Anywhere (DIA2) project, where he develops data mining algorithms and visual- izations to allow interactive navigation of large-scale bibliographic data in
changingthe values of individual variables by one unit will allow educators to determine the resultingvalue in intervention efforts. The most valuable variables for developing intervention programswill be those that are directly controllable and have the greatest impact on increasing theestimated probability of a STEM outcome.Bibliography[1] National Science Foundation, Division of Science Resources Statistics, Graduate Students and Postdoctorates inScience and Engineering: Fall 2002, NSF 05-310, Project Officers: Julia D. Oliver and Emilda B. Rivers (Arlington,VA 2004). (available from NSF website http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/nsf04318/ )[2] Commission on Professionals in Science and Technology (CPST), data derived from the American Associationof
based on their FAFSAsubmission. The students attend six 50-minute workshops each semester on topics such asresumes, internships, research, portfolios, and graduate school. In addition, engineers withgraduate degrees who are working in industry are brought in as special speakers. Theseengineers describe how having a technical Master’s or a Ph.D. degree allows them to be involvedin more interesting projects. The students are encouraged to discuss research with professors andto write a research proposal with a professor to obtain School of Engineering funding to supportresearch. The students enter these programs as juniors or seniors. A third program, a NACME(National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering) Academic Scholarship Program
? Who else was involved in the design experience? What was your specific role in the experience? What were your responsibilities? How did you approach the task from beginning to where it is now? Can you walk me through the way you went about doing it? What did you do? What led to that? Why did you do that? ≠ Did your approach change over the course of the project? o If so, how and why? ≠ Did you learn anything about designing from your experience?Comparing Experiences (If time permits and depth has not been reached) ≠ Can you describe another practical experience you have had
-16, 28-30, 48 (1967).7. Keller, F. S., personal conversation, 1973.8. Eric V. Thompson, “A Brief History of Major Oil Companies in the Gulf Region,” Petroleum Archives Project, Arabian Peninsula and Gulf Studies Program (APAG), University of Virginia (no date). Available at http://www.virginia.edu/lgpr/APAG/apagoilhistory.html.9. Robert V. Droz, “Standard Oil: 1961,” July 12, 2001. Available at http://www.us- highways.com/sohist1961/htm Page 14.96.5
2006-161: STRATEGIES FOR ASSESSING COURSE-SPECIFIC OUTCOMESDavid Meyer, Purdue University David G. Meyer has been very active in curriculum development, learning outcome assessment, design education, and use of instructional technology. He is currently responsible for creating, maintaining, and teaching the core ECE digital systems course sequence: ECE 270 (Introduction to Digital System Design), ECE 362 (Microprocessor System Design and Interfacing), and ECE 477 (Digital Systems Senior Design Project). He has written numerous papers on innovative uses of technology in education; more recent research contributions include papers on learning outcome assessment in both lower-division “content
(2008, 2014), UIC Teaching Recognitions Award (2011), and the COE Best Advisor Award (2009, 2010, 2013). Dr. Darabi has been the Technical Chair for the UIC Annual Engineering Expo for the past 5 years. The Annual Engineering Expo is a COE’s flagship event where all senior students showcase their Design projects and products. More than 600 participants from public, industry and academia attend this event annually. Dr. Darabi is an ABET IDEAL Scholar and has led the MIE Department ABET team in two successful ac- creditations (2008 and 2014) of Mechanical Engineering and Industrial Engineering programs. Dr. Darabi has been the lead developer of several educational software systems as well as the author of multiple ed
Engineering Education from Virginia Tech. Dr. Carrico is a certified project management professional (PMP) and licensed professional engineer (P.E.).Dr. Holly M. Matusovich, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Dr. Matusovich is an Assistant Professor and Assistant Department Head for Graduate Programs in Vir- ginia Tech’s Department of Engineering Education. She has her doctorate in Engineering Education and her strengths include qualitative and mixed methods research study design and implementation. She is/was PI/Co-PI on 8 funded research projects including a CAREER grant. She has won several Virginia Tech awards including a Dean’s Award for Outstanding New Faculty. Her research expertise includes using