-edge technical topics; and (3) highlighting theneed to increase participation of industry in professional training of graduate students.Introduction and background:Workforce development for graduate students is a subject of considerable research, yet preparinggraduate engineering students for workplace success remains a challenge for universities.According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 188,000 openings for architecture andengineering occupations and 377,500 openings for computer and information technologyoccupations are projected from 2022 to 2032, with little information as to whether these positionswill be filled by then [1][2]. In order to contribute to students’ individual career success andbroader societal advancement, workforce
and exit survey filled out by thestudent users of the Hub has been collected. The Hub’s activities also have included ancillaryactivities such as the Three Minute Thesis, (3MT).® competition, fall and spring Writing Retreats, and quiet writing time where students can showup and take a small private room to work in and make a plan for themselves.We acknowledge the need for more systematic study and evaluation of outcomes, but thus far,students who have visited the Hub are appreciative and rate the value of learning and help ontheir projects very high. Likewise, evaluations of the writing and oral communications coursesare highly rated with enrollment sustained primarily through word-of-mouth recommendations.Future work includes definition and
Society, and Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award by the National Science Foundation.Prof. Andrea Paola Arguelles, Pennsylvania State University ˜ Dr. Andrea P. ArgA¼elles is an Assistant Professor in Engineering Science and Mechanics at the Pennsylvania State University. She was born and raised in Venezuela, where she lived until 2007 when she moved to south Texas to pursue higher education. She ob ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Assessing a seminar series designed to help prepare doctoral engineering graduates for the academic job marketAbstractThe goal of this project was to obtain an assessment of the effectiveness of a
as a psychometrician, program evaluator, and data analyst, with research interests in spatial ability, creativity, engineering-integrated STEM education, and meta-analysis. As a psychometrician, she has revised, developed, and validated more than 10 instruments beneficial for STEM education practice and research. She has authored/co- authored more than 70 peer-reviewed journal articles and conference proceedings and served as a journal reviewer in engineering education, STEM education, and educational psychology. She has also served as a co-PI, an external evaluator, or an advisory board member on several NSF-funded projects. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023
Paper ID #38583Attributes of Research Mindset for Early Career Engineering ResearchersMr. Sanjeev M Kavale, Arizona State University Sanjeev Kavale is currently a Ph.D. student in Engineering Education Systems and Design (EESD) at Arizona State University (ASU). His research interests are mindsets and their applicability in engineering, outcomes-based education, and problem / project-based learning. He is having a teaching experience of 11 years and an industry experience of 2 years prior to joining PhD.Dr. Adam R. Carberry, Arizona State University Dr. Adam Carberry is an associate professor at Arizona State University
Award in 2018, and was inducted into the Virginia Tech Academy of Faculty Leadership in 2020. Dr. Matusovich has been a PI/Co-PI on 19 funded research projects including the NSF CAREER Award, with her share of funding being nearly $3 million. She has co-authored 2 book chapters, 34 journal publications, and more than 80 conference papers. She is recognized for her research and teaching, including Dean’s Awards for Outstanding New Faculty, Outstanding Teacher Award, and a Faculty Fellow. Dr. Matusovich has served the Educational Research and Methods (ERM) division of ASEE in many capacities over the past 10+ years including serving as Chair from 2017-2019. Dr. Matusovich is currently the Editor-in-Chief of the
physical and material characteristics”[55](p. 227). In graduate school, the different settings students operate within as they develop contain microsystems that can include interactions with advisors and peers, departments, as well as activities like coursework, research projects, and extracurricular projects related or unrelated to their field of study; they can also include students’ relationships with family members within their home, as well as with coworkers and a supervisor within a place of employment[50], [53], [56], [57]. These different interacting settings (andtheir microsystems) contain various patterns of or expected, appropriate kinds of activities, roles, and
marginalized groups continue to pursue graduate education. In Golde’s work on socialization in graduate school, the first year of doctoral education isbroken into four tasks of transition. The first is intellectual mastery, in which a student completescoursework in their field. The second task is learning how graduate school operates and whatthey should expect from their life in graduate school as a student. Similarly, the third task isdescribed as learning how their projected profession works and determining how they feel aboutmoving in this direction post-graduation. Finally, the fourth task is integrating themselves intothe department and their cohort [1]. The program described in this work is designed to primarilyassist students with this
students themselves, that impact their interdisciplinary journey anddemotivate their interdisciplinary scholarship. For example, one of the main priorities graduatestudents discussed as in conflict to their interdisciplinary scholar identity development is theexpectation to have publications in certain disciplinary-acclaimed journals and to specifically bethe first author on those publications. In 2020, Student A said, So I was thinking about the IR program, and I think it is a little bit hard to be motivated, because PhD students need to be the first author of their dissertation. And everyone is PhD student so … their priority cannot be that interdisciplinary project. And I get also faculty have similar feeling, because
letters fromprofessors at their undergraduate university due to the groups’ differing proximity to theseindividuals. The third significantly different action was the “other” category. Approximately16.25% of returners marked “other” compared to approximately 2.75% of direct pathwaystudents. Project portfolios, letters of recommendation from sources not included in the questionoptions, and resumes were among the other strategies listed. The responses obtained from thisquestion are shown in both Table 9 and Figure 1.Table 9: Strategies to Gain Graduate Program Acceptance Returner Direct Pathway Number of Percent Number of Percent Dependent on
the Summer Academy ensure ongoing guidance and feedback.Certification: • Upon completing the program, fellows receive a certificate from a nationally recognized organization, affirming their participation and achievement in this innovative educational initiative.This structured approach to implementing the project ensures a blend of rigor and engagingcontent aimed at fostering interest in STEM fields among younger students. Throughprofessional development activities and expert-led workshops, graduate students are equipped todeliver high-quality educational experiences, contributing to the broader goal of promotingSTEM education.2.4. Sample Program Descriptions developed and created by graduate students.The initial Cohort in
to transition into a new field [9]. Therefore,rather than switching undergraduate majors from chemistry to chemical engineering, a morenatural choice would be pursuing a graduate degree in engineering to maximize earning potentialand employment opportunities.According to the National Association of Colleges and Employers [10], a master’s degree canlead to a 20% increase in earnings compared to a bachelor’s degree. The national median salary,national projected growth rate, and state mean annual salary estimates for mechanical, electrical,biomedical, and computer engineering are given in Table 1 below. All engineering majors have aprojected growth rate higher than the national average of 3%, indicating a healthy demand fordegreed engineers
project that primarilyfocused on two specific groups of students within graduate engineering education. One group isdenoted as Returners, who are defined within this study as those students who have completedtheir undergraduate degrees five or more years before returning to obtain a master’s inengineering. They may have completed other training or another master’s but have waited thislength of time before enrolling in a graduate engineering program. Direct Pathway students arethose who have elected to enroll in graduate school for a master’s in engineering or who havecompleted a joint bachelor/master program concurrent to or less than five years from when theycompleted their undergraduate degree.Research QuestionsThe focus of the overarching
Engineering at the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET). After graduating she worked for two years in a construction management company in Dhaka, Bangladesh. She was involved in various residential and infrastructure projects. Rubaya now is a Ph.D. student at Department of Civil and Environ- mental Engineering and Teaching/Research Assistant at Moss School of Construction, Sustainability and Infrastructure, Florida International University. Her research interest includes Sustainable and resilient infrastructure, Engineering Education, and Sustainable transportation system.Mr. Mohamed Elzomor P.E., Florida International University Dr. Mohamed ElZomor is an Assistant Professor at Florida International
, particularly for international students. He aims to help students improve intercultural competency and teamwork competency by interventions, counseling, pedagogy, and tool selection to promote DEI. In addition, he also works on many research-to-practice projects to enhance educational technology usage in engineering classrooms and educational research. Siqing also works as the technical development and support manager at the CATME research group. He served as the ASEE Purdue Student Chapter President from 2022-2023, the Program Chair of ASEE Student Division, and Purdue ENE Graduate Committee Junior Chair.Dr. Moses Olayemi, University of Oklahoma Moses Olayemi is an Assistant Professor of Engineering Pathways at the
a multi-year, mixed-methods research project funded by the National ScienceFoundation (NSF) to understand factors contributing to the attrition and retention of studentsfrom racially minoritized and marginalized groups in engineering doctoral programs, wedeveloped a survey to assess engineering doctoral students’ experience of department-levelorganizational climate. We aimed to survey engineering doctoral students using a valid andreliable instrument that focuses on the climate constructs that contribute to the retention orattrition of students from historically excluded or underrepresented groups. Here, climateconstructs, in general, refer to the theoretical concepts or dimensions as organization members’shared perceptions of climates
approach that embraces diversity and fosters globalunderstanding [13].Chen and Shaurette [14] explore the learning experiences of international graduate students inconstruction programs to focus on the use of job-shadowing as a learning method and found thatlanguage barriers, cultural differences, and lack of contextual knowledge made it difficult for thestudents to understand and participate in professional discussions and daily conversations fully.However, according to Chen and Shaurette's [14] study, the students who had longer job-shadowing experiences had more time to learn and understand the project and build relationshipswith team members, highlighting the importance of acculturation and relationship building in thelearning process. Chen
Paper ID #43552Harnessing the Strengths of Neurodiverse Students in Graduate STEM Fields:The Central Role of Advisor-Advisee CommunicationMs. Connie Syharat, University of Connecticut Connie Syharat is a Ph.D. student and Research Assistant at the University of Connecticut as a part of two neurodiversity-centered NSF-funded projects, Revolutionizing Engineering Departments (NSF:RED) ”Beyond Accommodation: Leveraging Neurodiversity for Engineering Innovation” and Innovations in Graduate Education (NSF:IGE) ”Encouraging the Participation of Neurodiverse Students in STEM Graduate Programs to Radically Enhance the Creativity
continuing research project focused on engineering graduate student stressand coping mechanisms. The first part of this research project [27] investigated the interactionsbetween various stressors and coping mechanisms from a quantitative perspective. This workbuilds on the previous by utilizing responses to open-ended questions posed in the initial survey,constructed through Qualtrics, which gathered data regarding perceived stress levels, stressors,and coping mechanisms used by engineering graduate students. The survey was distributed to allengineering graduate students at a mid-sized Mid-Atlantic University.The survey collected basic demographic information (engineering discipline, degree program,age, race, ethnicity, gender identity, disability
investigate this as theexperiment was to observe if the critical reading of the paper resulted in students suspecting this.In this section, we will describe the fake paper experience in both 2018 and 2021.2018 - Fake Paper ClassIn 2018, we used the work by SCIgen project(https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/archive/scigen/) to create a fake paper purelywith the tool. The paper is titled ”Exploring Routing Using Optimal Architectures”, and theauthor was Moshe Krieger (a tribute to my undergraduate advisor). The citations in this paper areall made up using researchers’ names in the FPGA research space. Additionally, there are notables or figures in this generated publication. The fake publication can be viewed athttp://drpeterjamieson.com/html_papers
Paper ID #38851Literature Exploration of Graduate Student Well-Being as Related toAdvisingDr. Liesl Klein, Villanova University Liesl Krause-Klein is a assistant teaching professor at Villanova University in their electrical and computer engineering department. She graduated from Purdue University’s Polytechnic institute in 2022. Her research focused on student well-being. She is currently in charge of curriculum for capstone projects within her department.Dr. Greg J. Strimel, Purdue University at West Lafayette (PPI) Greg J. Strimel, Ph.D., is an associate professor of Technology Leadership and Innovation and program
Paper ID #38901Student-led program to improve equity in Ph.D. oral qualifying examsMeredith Leigh Hooper, California Institute of Technology This author was an equal first author contributor to this work. Meredith Hooper is an Aeronautics PhD student studying under Professor Mory Gharib in the Graduate Aerospace Laboratories of the California Institute of Technology (GALCIT). Meredith is a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow, leader within the GALCIT Graduate Student Council, and Co-Director of the Caltech Project for Effective Teaching (CPET). Her PhD research uses a combination of machine learning and
, collaboration, time management, ethics andresearch integrity, analytics (e.g., data science/statistics), project management, and criticalthinking — faculty members were asked to rate from 'very important' to 'not important at all.'The results showed that 'very important' is the largest proportion for all qualities or skills.Additionally, faculty members mentioned various skills that they also consider important,including writing, marketing, hands-on experiences, entrepreneurial skills, networking, self-assessment, and independent research skills.When asked if they would like to encourage collaborative research between their PhD studentsand non-academic partners (e.g., an industrial lab), 78% of the participants provided a positiveanswer (see Fig. 8
they had withtheir primary advisor, many students did not know about existing resources on campus. Inaddition, no data had been collected about faculty perspectives on mentoring their graduatestudents. As a result, the fellows identified three projects to tackle during the 2022 calendar year:creating an engineering-specific individual development plan, surveying faculty members aboutmentorship, and educating students about healthy and toxic mentorship.Literature ReviewThe most influential factor on a graduate student’s doctoral experience is their primary researchadvisor [1] – [4], yet most institutions lack formal guidelines for the structure of this relationship.Identifying a mentor should be a major priority for graduate students early in
for reflection, with reflection opportunities at multiple scales. In the secondinstance, the reflection logic shifts to event-based, and the footprint of the assigned reflection issignificantly reduced. The daily and weekly forms of reflection drop off, and two instances ofevent-based reflection (in the form of end of project reflection) show up as the primary form. Inthe third instance, the event-based (post-project) reflection is replaced by a temporal weeklylogic. This logic makes it easier for students to reflect on any thread of the class. Finally, in the“pivot” instance (instance 4), perhaps based on a sense that weekly reflection was too
Assistant Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department at Louisiana Tech University. She is also the Co-Director of the Office for Women in Science and Engineering at Louisiana Tech.Mr. Casey Kidd, Louisiana Tech University Casey Kidd is a graduate student in the College of Engineering at Louisiana Tech University. His focus is on project-based learning. He earned his bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from Louisiana Tech University in Spring of 2004.Mrs. Lindsay K. Gouedy, Louisiana Tech University Lindsay Gouedy is pursuing her Ph.D. in Engineering Education, serving as a National Security Fellow at Air Force Global Strike Command, specializing in virtual reality (VR) training methodologies. Concurrently
to get patents done, and people are always really excited about trying to get this to commercialization.Students continue to pursue publications of their work, though the primary focus is on the patentas their capstone experience. As the feedback from one completer (above) suggests, studentsmay be involved in more than one research project with more than one leading to patentproposals.Additionally, candidates have specific opportunities to develop entrepreneurial skills such asenrollment in courses offered by the College of Business with a focus on entrepreneurship andinnovation including Entrepreneurial Decisions, Entrepreneurial Strategy, Innovation Analytics,Evaluating Entrepreneurial Opportunities, Entrepreneurial
research articles, the tutoring orients fittingly to participants’need to publish in refereed journals during their doctoral studies.In this respect, participants in this tutoring were appreciative of using authentic and relevantexamples from Mechanical Engineering research articles and able to detect some rules ofappropriate subordination. Vando summarized in his reflective presentation the number ofdifferent subtypes of clauses used across subsections of a journal article (e.g., Introduction,Literature Review). The predominant use of complement clauses in Introduction alone maynot mean much to a disciplinary writer, but complement clauses are most effective inconstructing an authorial stance to project personal viewpoint and attitude towards
the instructor and the students. Kahoot is an onlinetool to create and host interactive quizzes [16]. Students enter a username (their real name or anickname) and answer questions from their mobile device or laptop. Each question has a timelimit, and when the time is up, the correct answer is displayed, and the instructor reviews thequestion with the class. Pear Deck is a slide-based interactive learning tool that allows instructorsto create and integrate interactive activities on each slide during a lecture [17]. For example,students could be asked to draw a specific crystal structure on a certain slide. The instructor canthen anonymously project all the drawings to discuss the correct answer. Across both GSRSs, theinstructor facilitated a
challenges, this study amplifies the clarioncall for fostering participation and inclusivity in engineering doctoral programs.IntroductionPromoting diversity within the engineering workforce is a critical national priority, underscoringthe need for broader participation and the cultivation of inclusivity [1]. The infusion of diversityinto the field of civil engineering in the United States yields numerous advantages, including amultifaceted project perspective, heightened project value, the enrichment of knowledge, talent,and ideas, access to expansive networks, and the production of superior final products necessaryfor global competitiveness in infrastructure [2]. Consequently, achieving this imperative requiresa comprehensive examination of the