J. Kerr, University of Tulsa Alison Kerr is a graduate student at The University of Tulsa. She is pursuing a doctoral degree in Industrial-Organizational Psychology. Her research interests include training development and evaluation as explored across a variety of academic disciplines and organizational settings. She is currently assist- ing on a number of training projects aimed at developing engineering students on relevant non-technical professional skills including ethical practice and presentation.Dr. Bradley J. Brummel, University of Tulsa Dr. Brummel is an Associate Professor of Industrial/Organizational Psychology at The University of Tulsa. He received his PhD from the University of Illinois at
Hydro Kinetic Energy Devices would fit the call in the graduatedivision and it is consistent with the division objectives. Furthermore, the study is relevant to theASEE division’s mission and the scope is interdisciplinary including design, development andresearch. The research paper was a term project for a public works engineering and managementclass that is offered each fall semester. This makes it relevant to the theme of the ASEE GraduateStudies Division.How Tidal Energy Works Tidal Energy uses the earth’s gravitational interactions with the sun and moon to converthydraulic energy into usable electric power for various uses. The orbital and rotational effects ofthe sun and moon create tidal patterns which may be reasonably predicted
.(2011, para. 3) concisely argue: technical writing is usually not the same as scholarly writing, and scholarly writing is required in most research-based writing projects, such as theses and directed projects. As opposed to being concise, to the point, or having the data speak for themselves, scholarly writing relies on analysis, synthesis, and logical construction of a proposition with appropriate support. Technical writing is generally designed primarily to transmit specific information, while scholarly writing is designed to underpin the creation of new knowledge.Thus, the way in which technical communication programs approach teaching writing—along with debates on whether or not technical writing
Page 24.1087.6 process in science and engineering research. While the Independent Research module focuses on scientific preparedness, the Best Practices in Teaching and Learning module offers the trainees a window into how they, and others, learn, and how research can guide the design of teaching and learning environments. This module provides trainees scaffolding for the annual redesign and assessment of the IGERT curriculum. Trainees read and discuss relevant literature, guided by an engineering education professor and trainees under her mentorship. The application of educational frameworks such as Backwards Design33 and How People Learn5 are used to help guide trainees consideration of
mapping of identified universities (table 3)with identified best practices. Figures 3-5 show specific best practices adopted by USuniversities that offer master program in logistics & transportation related programs. Table 3: University mapping best practices List of best practices for graduate education Number of universities practicing best practices A, Best Practices Related to Program Content 1. Clearly stated program requirement 22 2. Well-rounded curriculum 19 3. Up-to-date and effective course content 27 4. Well integrated research 25 5. Continuous
require.Mentored Teaching Internship:The mentored teaching experience was designed based on the contract in Figure 2. My researchadvisor agreed to be my teaching mentor. The individualized mentored teaching experienceincluded teaching undergraduate and graduate classes, giving talks at research seminars, andmentoring students including beginning graduate students, undergraduate students for seniorprojects, one REU (Research Experience for Undergraduates) student, and a high school studentfor the summer internship in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering (ECE) atUC. Various methods for active learning, motivating students, problem-based active laboratorylearning, and peer tutoring were applied to mentor undergraduate students.Two upper
a Ph.D. candidate in Engineering Education at Virginia Tech. Mayra is currently a research assistant for the NSF funded program the Dissertation Institute where she studies the motivation of underrepresented minorities in doctoral engineering programs. As part of her long-term goals, Mayra desires to continue researching graduate education practices in student support. Her current research focuses on understanding the advisor selection processes practiced in STEM and the role of department and faculty in facilitating doctoral student success. Mayra also conducts research on underrepresented populations in doctoral engineering programs for which she was recognized and inducted to the Edward Bouchet Graduate Honor
in the field of mechanobiology, she is also interested in research in engineer- ing education. Specifically, she explores increasing graduate student retention rates, mentoring graduate students and supporting underrepresented populations in STEM.Dr. Madalyn D. Kern, University of Colorado Boulder Dr. Madalyn D.Kern received her B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering through the University of Colorado at Boulder. Her doctoral thesis focused on characterizing adhesion between a micro-patterned surface and a soft substrate for the application of optimizing the mobility of a surgical robot capable of navigating portions of the gastrointestinal tract. She is a recipient of a NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
: Design characteristics of a graduate synchronous online program. Journal of Education for Library Science, 54(2), 147-161.[7] Park, J. H. & Choi, H. J. (2009). Factors influencing adult learners’ decision to drop out or persist in online learning. Educational Technology and Society, 12, 207–217.[8] Steinman, D. (2007). Educational Experiences and the Online Student. TechTrends, 51, 46–52.[9] Willging, P.A., & Johnson, S. D. (2004). Factors that influence students’ decision to drop out of online courses. Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks, 13, 115–127.[10] Smith, K. A. (2011, October). Cooperative learning: Lessons and insights from thirty years of championing a research-based innovative practice. In Frontiers in
Women’s Pursuit of Academic Careers through Knowledge and NetworkingAbstractThe under-representation of women and U.S. ethnic minorities in science, technology,mathematics, and engineering (STEM) is a well established fact. There are numerous studiesthat disclose reasons for this under-representation at all steps along the academic process. Inresponse to this research and in the interest of bridging the Ph.D. and postdoctoral scholar stepsinto an academic career, the Cockrell School of Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin,the George R. Brown School of Engineering at Rice University, and the Wiess School of NaturalSciences at Rice University in Houston, Texas have designed and hosted workshops sinceOctober 2004 entitled
mentoring, and our research questions are as follows: 1. How does the formalized and on-the-job training benefit the EGSMs during their tenure as a mentor and beyond? 2. What learning outcomes are enhanced or developed for the mentors through the EGSM program? 3. How does the EGSM program impact the teaching practices, mentoring, and career direction of participants?The survey was adapted from Meizlish and Wright20 and included (a) questions about careerchoices, with respondents in academia providing information about their institutional context andpostsecondary teaching experiences and graduate students sharing their potential career choices;(b) items associated with the value of the GSM training and what they learned
supported by the National Science Foundation include interdisciplinary pedagogy for pervasive computing design; writing across the curriculum in Statics courses; as well as a National Science Foun- dation CAREER award to explore the use of e-portfolios for graduate students to promote professional identity and reflective practice. Her teaching emphasizes the roles of engineers as communicators and educators, the foundations and evolution of the engineering education discipline, assessment methods, and evaluating communication in engineering. Page 23.647.1 c American Society for
prepare the TAs for thesetasks.This paper describes an informal, experiential TA training seminar that provides new TAs withinstruction from a knowledgeable faculty member paired with an experienced TA. The first partof the paper discusses how the session is designed to equip TA’s with skills and confidence inteaching, working with students in office hours, grading and dealing with a variety of otherchallenges they are likely to face. The second part outlines how to make the training sessionactive, informal and effective. Pairing a faculty member with a TA is a critical component of theworkshop design. Participant evaluations and informal feedback suggest that new TAs are moreinclined to ask questions of someone close to their developmental level
AC 2012-5183: EASING INTO ENGINEERING EDUCATION: AN ORIEN-TATION PROGRAM FOR GRADUATE STUDENTSStephanie Cutler, Virginia TechWalter Curtis Lee Jr., Virginia Tech Walter Lee is a Graduate Assistant and doctoral student in engineering education at Virginia Tech. His pri- mary research interests focus on diversity and student retention. He earned a B.S. in industrial engineering from Clemson University.Dr. Lisa D. McNair, Virginia Tech Lisa McNair is an Associate Professor in the Department of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech. Her research includes interdisciplinary collaboration, communication studies, identity theory, and reflective practice. Projects supported by the National Science Foundation include
directly addressed needs she had identified in her industry experience and her plansfollowing her PhD directly related to the outcomes of her research work2. For those returnerswho decide to return to a position outside of academia in industry or government aftercompleting their PhD, their past experience likely enables them to advance in their careers morerapidly to higher positions with greater impact than their direct-pathway peers are able to do. Inaddition to returners’ rich work experience, they represent a largely untapped source of potentialengineering graduate students. The National Science Foundation has called for additionalpathways to and through advanced engineering programs5. Engineers with advanced training arecrucial for success in
AC 2012-3517: IN SEARCH OF MEANING AND IDENTITY: AN AUTOETHNOG-RAPHY OF A GRADUATE STUDENT NAVIGATING THE FIELD OF EN-GINEERING EDUCATIONRichard J. Aleong, Queen’s University Richard Aleong is a master’s of applied science candidate in the Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering at Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada. His research interests are in engineering design, qualitative research methodology, and teaching and learning in higher education. Page 25.756.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 In Search of Meaning and Identity: An Autoethnography of a
. Academicadministrators must therefore understand a complex network of dynamic factors that relate tostudents. Time, health, past and present experiences, future goals, life or work circumstances,and expectations for success are all factors that influence student learning [7]. Many of thefactors influencing dropout at master's degree are factors beyond student control, such asunforeseeable personal, health, or financial problems [8]. However, these factors do not explainall cases. Some of these factors are individual and personal, while others are institutional [9].Focused research is necessary to understand the factors that influence low early graduation rates.A literature review shows that there are practically no studies that analyze late graduation
in preparing future scholars.The blended experience was carefully designed for the graduate students to aid theirdevelopment as engineering education scholars. The graduate students had the opportunity tolearn about research activities through online workshops and then immediately implement theseideas. First, the graduate students practiced interviewing and using the protocol by practicingwith another graduate student. Next they transcribed and analyzed the interview with theirpioneer, and finally, the graduate students authored a profile about their pioneer. Literature on Page 26.1783.3informal science education suggests that informal
; and quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods. His teaching focuses on sociology of education, inequalities in education, educational evaluation and policy analysis, research methods and designs, and statistics and evaluation.Uriel Lomel´ı-Carrillo, The University of Texas at San Antonio Uriel Lomel´ı-Carrillo is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Demography at The University of Texas at San Antonio. Prior to his doctoral program, Lomel´ı-Carrillo worked as a statistician and research assistant for the Survey of Migration at the Northern Border of Mexico. Lomel´ı-Carrillo’s research interests include demographic methods, mortality, spatial demography, and the Mexican War on Drugs. He has presented his
master's programs asdocumented by the National Academy's Science Professionals: Master's Education for aCompetitive World[2]. From this it is clear that industry is clamoring for advanced graduateswith a constructive mix of leadership, research, and technological capability. Additionally,increased calls for internationalization are noted by Marginson & van der Wende inGlobalisation and Higher Education[3],Bhandari's KeyResearch in U.S. Study Abroad: Findingsfrom the Institute of International Education’s Study Abroad Capacity Series[4], and withrespect to China by Zhang's Response of Chinese Higher Education and SJTU toGlobalization[5].Much of the good practice generally pertaining to international exchange and dual degrees can befound in the
past performance atthe designated graduate institutional site of retaining, graduating, and placing significantnumbers of LSAMP graduates into doctoral-degree programs. A plan for formally connecting asignificant number of newly matriculated LSAMP students, including master's degree graduates,to doctoral degree programs is expected.Successful projects must demonstrate substantive and formal connection to other NSF-fundedprograms, such as CREST, NSF research centers, Integrative Graduate Education and ResearchTraining Program (IGERT), Graduate Teaching Fellows in K-12 Education Program (GK-12),and AGEP. Successful BD projects must ensure that a substantive number of first year BD
AC 2011-1633: THE CHALLENGE OF RETURNING: TRANSITIONINGFROM AN ENGINEERING CAREER TO GRADUATE SCHOOLDiane L Peters, University of Michigan Diane L. Peters is a postdoctoral research fellow in mechanical engineering at the University of Michigan. She received her doctorate from the University of Michigan in 2010. Prior to beginning her doctoral work, she was employed as a design engineer in industry, working with equipment for the assembly automation and printing industries.Shanna R. Daly, University of Michigan Shanna Daly is an Assistant Research Scientist in the College of Engineering and the Design Science Pro- gram. Her research focuses on teaching and learning design and innovation strategies in
faculty more time to conduct research, and secondarily to provide funding andteaching experience for graduate students 4. At many institutions the employment of GTAs hasbeen justified for cost saving reasons 5. GTAs often are new to the university, have littletraining, and can have conflicting identities as teachers and students 6. Therefore, the graduateteaching experience can be difficult for graduate students as they seek to find their place in Page 22.757.2academia.GTA experiences can also significantly impact students‟ experiences especially in terms ofclassroom climate. For example, a large, quantitative study exploring retention and
continuous quality improvement inorganizational environments.Proposed Interdisciplinary Graduate ProgramA tentative curricula for the Masters in Technology (M.T.) degree includes the following courses:1. 12 hours in College core and leadership/management classes, including research methods.2. 12 hours of courses comprising a concentration in one of the CoT disciplines.3. 0-6 hours of practicum/internship courses.4. 6 hours of Thesis or Project.Figure 1 depicts the proposed multidisciplinary graduate program for the CoT. College Core:Tech Management and Research Design Concentration 1: Concentration 2
of graduate studies impacting practicing professionals, project management issues,and job search issues.1. IntroductionIt can be said that, from many aspects, the best time for an engineering student to obtaintheir Ph.D. is after a period of working in industry. By the time one completes five toseven years of higher education, students can be “burned out” and otherwise not ready forthe rigor of a Doctoral Degree. By breaking at this point and working in industry for afew years, students can obtain a better understanding of the practice of engineering thancan be obtained from the classroom and co-operative (co-op) or internship experience.Furthermore, they can better understand exactly what area of engineering they wish topursue in their
Paper ID #11841Using Systematic Literature Reviews to Enhance Student LearningProf. Branimir Pejcinovic, Portland State University Branimir Pejcinovic received his Ph.D. degree from University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He is a Pro- fessor and former Associate Chair for Undergraduate Education at Portland State University, Electrical and Computer Engineering department. In this role he has led department-wide changes in curriculum with emphasis on project- and lab-based instruction and learning. His research interests are in the areas of engineering education, semiconductor device characterization, design and simulation
Kinesthetic Mode = 5 Tactical- 3% Concrete Boylan, H. R. (2002). What Works: Research-Based Best Practices in Developmental Education. Boone, NC: National Center for Developmental Education. Sometimes, in engineering disciplines “Kinesthetic” and “Visual” may slightly overlap. In a laboratory setting, the students can actually “see and observe” certain operations when they “perform” experiments. See and observe may be interpreted as visual. Perform may be interpreted as Kinesthetic. Therefore, a
presentations and were expected to prepare students for theircapstone project thoroughly.Objective of the paperThis paper describes a relatively new and growing program (PMT) at KSP and uses a multi-disciplinaryteam-taught course (COT 706) as a case study to reflect on the outcomes from implementing industryadvisory board's recommendations. While low student enrollments characterize the program/course, theexperience and process involved in the design of COT 706 provide valuable insights on pedagogy, team-teaching, and best practices for student learning.The purpose of this pedagogical research study is to assess using COT 706 course whether a team-taught8-week hybrid format accomplishes the objectives of providing the flexibility in format and skill
recently entered a tenth edition. The author hastaken several ideas from Aiken’s textbooks and has adapted them to help the studentsdevelop intellectual curiosity while they learn the engineering subject matter (Aiken,1997, 2000). Hunter R. Boylan is the Chairperson for American Council of DevelopmentalEducation Associations. In his book, What Works: Research-Based Best Practices inDevelopmental Education, Dr. Boylan gives tips for accommodating diversity throughinstruction. His tips are to train faculty in alternative forms of instruction if they areexpected to use diverse instructional methods. One must administer a learning stylesinventory to the students as a regular assessment process, and then share the learningstyles information with
Paper ID #34637Visualizing Arguments to Scaffold Graduate Writing in EngineeringEducationDr. Kristen Moore, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York Kristen R. Moore is an Associate Professor in the Department of Engineering Education at University at Buffalo. Her research focuses primarily on technical communication and issues of equity, inclusion, and social justice. She is the author of Technical Communication After the Social Justice Turn: Building Coalitions for Action (2019), in addition to a range of articles. She has received a number of awards for her research, including the Joenk Award for the best