Paper ID #25835Teaching Undergraduate Engineering Students Gratitude, Meaning, and Mind-fulnessMs. Julianna S. Ge, Purdue University, West Lafayette Julianna Ge is a Ph.D. student in the School of Engineering Education at Purdue University. At Purdue, she created and currently teaches a novel course for undergraduate engineering students to explore the intersections of wellbeing, leadership, diversity and inclusion. As an NSF Graduate Research Fellow, her research interests intersect the fields of engineering education, positive psychology, and human de- velopment to understand diversity, inclusion, and success for
Paper ID #23691WIP: Unpacking the Black Box: How does a Cultural Engineering StudentOrganization Support the Persistence of Students of Color?Tasha Zephirin, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering) Tasha Zephirin is a Ph.D. Candidate in the School of Engineering Education at Purdue University. She is an Executive Assistant for the National Association of Multicultural Program Advocates (NAMEPA) Inc. and has served as the Graduate Student Representative on the Purdue Engineering Advisory Council. Her research interests include exploring the role of noncurricular engineering education initiatives in the
Paper ID #19569Cargo Cults and Cognitive Apprenticeships: Two Frameworks for AdoptingUnfamiliar Curricular CulturesMel Chua, Olin College of Engineering Mel is an engineering education researcher who works with postmodern qualitative methodologies, cur- ricular cultures within and inspired by hacker/maker communities, and engineering faculty formation. She is also an electrical and computer engineer and auditory low-pass filter who occasionally draws research cartoonProf. Lynn Andrea Stein, Olin College of Engineering Lynn Andrea Stein is Professor of Computer and Cognitive Science at Olin College of Engineering in
farm operation harvest crops sustainably.Throughout the curriculum experiences students document plans, observations and test results,and sketches of their work. These design notebooks also enable a final demonstration of theirgripper and “training” on their gripper design in a class presentation. The lesson aligns withStandards for Technological Literacy 8 – 11 26 and Next Generation Science Standards HS-ETS1-1 – HS-ETS1-4 27, related to engineering design, modeling, and troubleshooting.In addition to alignment with national standards, we feel that the design experience aligns withthe psychosocial factors just described. First, for societal relevance, the design experience isintended to be human-centered, with an end user in mind
Paper ID #15867Engineering Survivors: Students Who Persist in Engineering Through anAcademic SetbackDong San Choi, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Dong San Choi is a PhD student in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; choi88@illinois.edu. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Engineering Survivors: Students Who Persist in Engineering through an Academic SetbackAbstractThis work in progress is a qualitative study that explores the academic experience ofundergraduate engineering students who
engineer.” Femalestudents, however, often had a different experience, as this response illustrates: Funny story there… the guy driving the shuttle found out I was in engineering. He goes, "Wait, you're an engineer?" And the implication was you're a woman studying engineering, and I was very, very surprised that that happened…when I got off, I was walking by [a student] who's my friend, and they were hanging out there to wait for the [campus] shuttle. And I was like, "The guy was absolutely shocked that I was a female engineer. He couldn't handle it." I mean, because he repeated that a few times. He's like, "You're a woman studying engineering." I mean, it's just mind-blowing for him, and it was mind
peers.Five FG engineering students with high quantitative belongingness were selected for aninterview. A semi-structured interview protocol based in interpretive phenomenological analysiswas used to elucidate the students’ experiences that fostered belongingness. Separate themesfrom each student were created from coding and then overarching themes unified a sharedexperience.The following overarching themes were prevalent among the participants: similarity toclassmates, recognition as an engineer by peers, limited questioning of belongingness, andbelongingness is a state of mind. The results depict that elements of engineering identity play apart in making students feel they belong (e.g., recognition), but in some cases, belongingness isdistinct from
Paper ID #23133Design Thinking in Engineering Course DesignDr. Nicholas D. Fila, Iowa State University Nicholas D. Fila is a postdoctoral research associate in Electrical and Computer Engineering and Industrial Design at Iowa State University. He earned a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and a M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a Ph.D. in Engineering Education from Purdue University. His current research interests include innovation, empathy, design thinking, instructional design heuristics.Dr. Seda McKIlligan, Iowa State University Dr. McKilligan’s
inengineering.In this work-in-progress paper, we describe a design-based research project that explores howstudents adopt positive learning behaviors and dispositions through a course, because positivelearning behaviors and dispositions have been shown to increase persistence through challengesand setbacks4.We have designed a course titled Engineering the Mind as an eight-week, second-half semestercourse that is offered for one semester-hour of credit. We plan to pilot this course in Spring 2017to prepare for the Fall 2017 offering.BackgroundDesign-Based ResearchDesign-based research (DBR) is a research paradigm that attempts to bridge laboratory studieswith complex, instructional intervention studies5. DBR is described as “theoretically-framed,empirical
analysis for a pilotof the SUCCESS survey (Studying Underlying Characteristics for Computing and EngineeringStudent Success). This survey was developed to measure underlying factors that may influencestudent success including personality, community, grit, thriving, identity, mindset, motivation,perceptions of faculty caring, stress, gratitude, self-control, mindfulness, and belongingness. Wemeasure these underlying factors because each engineering and computing student admitted to auniversity has clear potential for academic and personal success in their undergraduatecurriculum from admissions criteria, however, while some thrive academically, others flounder.In this project, we ask, “Why is it that highly credentialed and previously successful
Paper ID #12468Sharing the Full Range of Leadership in Student Teams: Developing an In-strumentLt. Col. Brian J. Novoselich, Virginia Tech Brian Novoselich is an active duty Lieutenant Colonel in the United States Army and currently a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech. His is a former assistant profes- sor at the United States Military Academy. His research interests include capstone design teaching and assessment, undergraduate engineering student leadership development, and social network analysis.Dr. David B Knight, Virginia Tech Department of Engineering Education David Knight
Paper ID #24665Smartness in Engineering Culture: An Interdisciplinary DialogueDr. Emily Dringenberg, Ohio State University Dr. Dringenberg is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Engineering Education at Ohio State Uni- versity. She holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering (Kansas State ’08), a M.S. in Industrial Engineering (Purdue ’14) and a Ph.D. in Engineering Education (Purdue ’15). Her team, Beliefs in Engineering Re- search Group (BERG) utilizes qualitative methods to explore beliefs in engineering. Her research has an overarching goal of leveraging engineering education research to shift the culture of
earn secondary degrees.3 In other words,deficit thinking leads to the erroneous conclusion that individual students need to be fixed andinstitutional systems like academia may remain unchanged. Our goal in this research is similarto the goal of the NSF ADVANCE program, which is to “fix the system” not “fix the women.”6 Our study contributes to understandings of navigational capital by illuminating how Pell-eligible students glean non-traditional resources from their lives and use them to navigateinstitutions of higher education in successful pursuit of engineering degrees.III. Methods With change agency in mind, our research was designed and conducted as “actionresearch,” aimed at making the lives of the dispossessed visible as well
Paper ID #30606Solution Diversity in Engineering Computing Final ProjectsMs. Sara Willner-Giwerc , Tufts University Sara Willner-Giwerc is a Ph.D. candidate in mechanical engineering at Tufts University. She graduated from Tufts University with a B.S. in mechanical engineering and a double minor in engineering education and engineering management in 2018. She is a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow, which supports her research at the Tufts Center for Engineering Education and Outreach (CEEO) on technological tools, learning experiences, and environments for teaching engineering in classrooms pre-k
Paper ID #34949Identifying Signature Pedagogies in a Multidisciplinary EngineeringProgramDr. Kimia Moozeh, University of Toronto Kimia Moozeh has a PhD in Engineering Education from University of Toronto. She received her Hon. B.Sc. in 2013, and her Master’s degree in Chemistry in 2014. Her dissertation explored improving the learning outcomes of undergraduate engineering laboratories by bridging the learning from a larger context to the underlying fundamentals, using digital learning objects.Lisa Romkey, University of Toronto Lisa Romkey serves as Associate Professor, Teaching Stream and Associate Chair, Curriculum
Paper ID #29336A Review of Agentic Frameworks in Engineering EducationMs. Brianna Shani Benedict, Purdue University Brianna Benedict is a Graduate Research Assistant in the School of Engineering Education at Purdue University. She completed her Bachelor’s and Master’s of Science in Industrial and Systems Engineering at North Carolina Agricultural & Technical State University. Her research interest focuses on interdisci- plinary students’ identity development, belongingness in engineering, and agency.Mrs. Kayla R. Maxey, Purdue University-Main Campus, West Lafayette (College of Engineering) Kayla is a doctoral
Paper ID #17980Work In Progress: Methodological Considerations for Constructing Nontra-ditional Student Personas with Scenarios from Online Forum Usage Data inCalculusDr. Angela Minichiello P.E., Utah State University Angela Minichiello is an assistant professor the Department of Engineering Education at Utah State Uni- versity (USU) and a registered professional mechanical engineer. Angela earned a BSME degree from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, a MSME degree from the Georgia Institute of Technology, and a PhD in Engineering Education from USU. Her research examines issues of access, diversity, and
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of criticalthinking (Chinn et al. 2014). Both the broad term of critical thinking and the more niche term ofsystems thinking share similar meanings of thoughtful analysis or analytical reasoning, and callto mind King & Kitchener’s Reflective Judgement Model (King & Kitchener, 1994, 2001, 2004),a stepping stone between the cognitive development research started in the 1970s and morerecent epistemological research. This researcher argues that discovering the epistemic beliefs offaculty and the ideas being disseminated to students in their chemical engineering classroomswill prove useful in the field of chemical engineering education as well as related academicfields concerned with systems and critical thinking.TheoryResearch preceding
with measuring how cultural programs andexperiences contribute to positive changes in students’ abilities to work and thrive in diverseenvironments. Global competency can be defined broadly as “having an open mind whileactively seeking to understand cultural norms and expectations of others, leveraging this gainedknowledge to interact, communicate and work effectively outside one’s environment”1.Measuring global competency levels before and after participation in cultural programs maytherefore be a potentially effective method for measuring changes in students’ ability to work ina global environment. Currently, studies on engineering students’ baseline global competencylevels are few at the undergraduate level. This research fills this gap
color on their perceptions of engineering climate and their professional identity formation?Conceptual FrameworkRobust engineering identities, like other STEM identities, are associated with persistence viamultiple pathways, including self-efficacy and motivation [17, 18]. These identities mustbalance individual affiliation with three aspects of a field: doing (hands on practices), being(habits of mind), and becoming (professional aspirations) [19]. Individuals construct theseidentities over time via interaction with material and social contexts [20, 21]. As individuals gainexperience over time, particularly in real-world vs. classroom settings, these aspects maydevelop at different rates. Thus, to understand the professional formation of
replacements in the mostly White STEMprofessoriate and workforce. They critique the common claim that underrepresented minoritiesare an untapped resource to improve capitalism as it ignores other reasons such as personal andprofessional efficacy. Building on their past research, they provide the following example toillustrate the experience of a Black engineering student in the United States:RUNNING HEAD: Manufacturing pathways “…as a student, if you have a bad experience and you don’t feel like your presence is even wanted, never mind improving the situation, you want out of the environment, because it’s toxic. So take a person like me – I could do a lot of good around here. I don’t want to be here. Not because I don’t want to
state of mind and belief ingraduating in their study program. Persistence is one of the main contributing factors to completingan engineering degree. Persistence in E/CS can be defined as a students’ choice to stay in anengineering major or complete an engineering degree [15]. Enough motivation and self-efficacyare needed to overcome several adversities faced during their engineering programs [16]. To thiseffect, researchers have spent a considerable about of resources to know the completion rates ofengineering majors and the cause of attrition from engineering /computer science degrees [17, 18].There are several factors that affects a student’s persistence in their respective degrees includingstudent identity [19], interest, recognition, and
-solving abilities—acritical skill in engineering science courses.School Life BalanceAdditionally, students communicated the value they assigned to having stability and order in theirlives as engineers, family members, athletes, hobbyists, etc. We defined School-Life Balance asresponses related to drawing boundaries between academic and personal life and working to findharmony between them. Here, it was important for students to make space for things they value sothat they could achieve personal fulfillment and satisfaction in their personal and academic lives.Students express that a healthy stability among multiple areas in their lives, they are able to enterthe academic space with a clear mind, improving their quality of learning. In the excerpt
yourself.ExplanationWe are doing a study to determine how to get more engineering professors involved in inclusivepractices. We are exploring the idea of professors using inclusive teaching methods to helpstudents succeed in ECE classes. We are defining inclusive teaching methods as initiatinginteractions with students in class or office hours intended to improve their capacity, interest, orbelongingness in engineering (as defined on the tip sheet). In other words, inclusive teachinginvolves bringing typical mentoring strategies into the classroom on a smaller scale. The tipsheet gives many examples of these strategies. • So that we can get your understanding of the definition, what are some examples that come to mind when you think of inclusive
Paper ID #29757Work-in-Progress: Novel Ethnographic Approaches for InvestigatingEngineering PracticeProf. Brent K Jesiek, Purdue University-Main Campus, West Lafayette (College of Engineering) Dr. Brent K. Jesiek is an Associate Professor in the Schools of Engineering Education and Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University. He also leads the Global Engineering Education Collabo- ratory (GEEC) research group, and received an NSF CAREER award to study boundary-spanning roles and competencies among early career engineers. He holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Michi- gan Tech and M.S. and Ph.D
Paper ID #15028A Review of the Literature Relevant to Engineering IdentityAnita D. Patrick, University of Texas, Austin Anita Patrick is a STEM Education doctoral student and Graduate Research Assistant in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and College of Liberal Arts at UT Austin’s Population Research Center. She received her BS in Bioengineering from Clemson University where she tutored undergraduate mathemat- ics and science courses, and mentored undergraduate engineering majors. Prior to coming to UT, she independently tutored K12 and undergraduate mathematics and science. Her research interests include
inducesadditional stress partly because it seems to create an interminable process of identifying andaccomplishing a collection of goals, without even a clear idea of success. Profoundly, sheimplies that a primary objective might be to simply demonstrate an ability to handle variouskinds of stresses (“I have to be like a well-rounded person who can handle these kinds ofstresses”), because in her mind that constitutes well-roundedness as an engineering student. Thisbelief that experiencing high amounts of stress correlates to one’s legitimacy as an engineeringstudent emerges throughout the data, as does the frustration (“I just need more hours in the day”)which accompanies an inability to effectively and consistently satisfy the system of
Paper ID #14626Sources of Anxiety among Engineering Students: Assessment and MitigationDr. Paul M. Yanik, Western Carolina University Dr. Paul Yanik is an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology at Western Carolina University. His areas of research include human-robot interactions, assistive devices, pattern recognition, machine learning, and engineering education.Dr. Yanjun Yan, Western Carolina University Yanjun Yan received her B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Harbin Institute of Tech- nology (China), and the M.S. degree in Applied Statistics and the Ph.D. degree in
Paper ID #11547Design of an extended engineering curriculum to increase retention and eq-uityProf. Diane Grayson, University of Pretoria Diane Grayson is Extraordinary Professor of Physics at the University of Pretoria and Director: Institu- tional Audits at the Council on Higher Education, which is responsible for quality assurance in higher education in South Africa. She designed the ENGAGE program when she was academic development manager in the Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment and Information Technology at the University of Pretoria. ¨Dr. Erika Muller, University of Pretoria, RSA Dr Erika M¨uller