the belief that inequality is a result of hard work alone, “legitimizessocial injustices and undermines the motivation to rectify such inequalities” (p. 67). Engineeringas a profession benefits from the meritocracy ideology in that it is well respected and itspractitioners are typically well-compensated when compared to the average U.S. worker. Riley,in Engineering and Social Justice [1], describes how many engineers work within a systemwithout consideration of the potential for changing or even questioning the social constructs ofthat system, even when social changes offer the potential for a better outcome. Riley furthernotes that, historically, engineering has been a career choice that enables upward socioeconomicmobility; this may
for Engineering Education in the College of En- gineering at Louisiana State University. He earned a B.S. from Louisiana State University and an M.S. from Harvard University. He is a licensed professional engineer whose engineering career spans over 45 years. Prior to joining LSU, Hull was a senior partner with an international engineering firm, managing design and construction projects throughout North and South America. He was also a career U.S. Air Force officer, retiring in the rank of Colonel. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Insights from Focus Groups: A Qualitative Assessment of Students’ Perceptions of Their Communications SkillsIntroductionAt
industrial training [9. p 340]. Theyreported little difference between dip.tech examinations and those set in the universities. Second,both in terms of student expectations and work actually done as graduates the distinction madeby the Percy Committee that universities should be the primary trainers of R & D personnel thatdip.tech students expected to go into R & D or Management. Among the diplomates from whom Page 22.777.11data was obtained 38% were in research suggesting that their courses had not prevented themfrom getting a research post. As for their future careers the diplomats in this sample lookedtoward having increased responsibility
success in engineering practice (ABET, Inc., 2016)1. Metacognitionis key to the development of life-long learning, yet is rarely directly addressed in engineeringeducation. Metacognition, defined as “knowledge and cognition about cognitive phenomena”(Flavell, 1979, p. 906), is a higher-order thinking skill and provides the key to developing life-long learning skills necessary for ABET and for an effective work career. This paper will reporton the authors’ study of the development of metacognition and life-long learning skills ofgraduates of the Iron Range Engineering (IRE) program, an innovative problem-based learningprogram that integrates metacognition instruction with engineering content. The IRE programoffers a unique setting for studying
majors.Background and ObjectivesRetaining students in STEM majors has remained a stubbornly difficulty issue for the collectiveSTEM education community to address. Studies vary, but typically report that only roughly halfof all students who enroll in science and engineering persist to the completion of their degree [1].For underrepresented minority students, the estimates are even lower, ranging from eighteen totwenty-two percent [2]. Addressing this issue begins with the moment that students arrive oncampus, as their first year can lay the foundation for their experiences as they proceed throughtheir undergraduate careers. However, understanding the reasons that students might choose toleave their initial discipline requires an examination of why they
three and half years as the Associate Dean for Academic and Student Affairs of the College of Engineering. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Developing an Integrated Curriculum-wide Teamwork Instructional StrategyAbstractGraduating engineering students need many technical and professional skills to be successful intheir careers, including those in communication and teamwork. The School of Chemical,Biological and Environmental Engineering (CBEE) at Oregon State University administers threeundergraduate degree programs, and the curriculums have many courses, which incorporateteamwork and group activities (often multidisciplinary). However, until recently
gender gap can be found within different engineering disciplines. One of themost commonly-cited reasons for why systems and industrial engineering attracts more womenthan other engineering disciplines is that it is perceived as having more feminine qualities.Brawner et. al [3]surveyed 70,000 students and concluded that feelings of “warmth” and the ideathat systems engineering is more generally applicable to a career led women to choose theconcentration. Blosser [4]made a similar conclusion, presenting evidence that systemsengineering is seen as feminine while mechanical and electrical engineering are seen as moremasculine pursuits. Other research suggests that math confidence, a common explanation usedby researchers to explain why women choose
acrossthe School of Engineering. Rather than teaching a slightly revised version of Circuits orThermodynamics, we envision a complete redesign of the course. Our approach will provide amodern look at energy and emphasize concepts relevant to students regardless of theireventual career path. Our development will be guided by the question “What does the engineerof 2040 need to understand about energy?” Following best pedagogical practices, we will startby identifying learning objectives for the course. Our current draft of learning objectives includesthe following:Students should be able to: 9 1. Solve engineering problems using energy concepts (e.g. heat, work, conservation of energy) 2
transportation organizations, workforce advocates, and educational institutions; the Research Experience for Teachers program at MSU on Innovative Transportation Systems; and the National Transportation Safety Career Pathways Initiative.Prof. Irina Karapetyants, Russian University of Transport Dr. Irina Karapetyants serves as the Director of the Institute of International Transport Communications at the Russian University of Transport (RUT). She additionally leads a special Training Resource Center for Accessible Transportation that was established by the Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation at RUT. Dr. Karapetyants’ research interests include international transport systems, innovations in edu- cation
Paper ID #12127A Nod in the Right Direction? Designing a Study to Assess an Instructor’sAbility to Interpret Student Comprehension from Nonverbal Communica-tionDr. Brock E. Barry PE, U.S. Military Academy Dr. Brock E. Barry, P.E. is an Associate Professor and Mechanics Group Director in the Department of Civil & Mechanical Engineering at the United States Military Academy, West Point, New York. Dr. Barry holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Rochester Institute of Technology, a Master of Science degree from University of Colorado at Boulder, and a PhD from Purdue University. Prior to pursuing a career in academics
amount of ambiguity, necessary collaboration, sociotechnical complexity, andpersuasion needed: Many [of the interviewed engineers] felt frustrated because they did not think that their jobs provided them with enough technical challenges. Others felt frustrated because they thought that a different career choice might have led to a job that would enable them to make more use of the advanced technical subjects they had studied in their university courses. Many of them were actually planning to leave their career in engineering. In our research, we found that more experienced engineers, those who had stuck with it for a decade or more, had mostly realized that the real intellectual challenges in engineering
offerings. For example,Architectural Engineering was taught first by a local architect and then by our campus architect.A course on Building the High-Tech Start-up has been taught by the manager of a localtechnology incubator. And for a number of years, an Internship course was facilitated by a localengineer with a lengthy career in a prominent firm. These adjunct faculty members havebroadened and enriched the courses available not only to Engineering Studies majors but to allstudents on campus.The program is thriving, yet challenges remain. Our campus culture professes to value“integration of engineering and the liberal arts,” but as a campus, we continue to struggle with
value of role models when people like engineering faculty, “Lead by example. Act theway you want other people to act. Think about what you are doing and how it will affect otherpeople. Make good decision that can be passed on. Do you say things that someone mightrepeat? If yes, than make it something good.” 2By the time students reach the junior and senior levels they have become engineers. They arelistening to their instructors as mentors to the challenging careers that lie ahead. The captivatingquality of the engineering curriculum lends itself to be the base upon which communication skillsare presented to engineers. Professors would not have to spend great amounts of time discussing thecommunicating that they do. But knowing that professors
into freshman-level humanities course and a junior-level technical course allowed students to make connections with what they learned earlier in their college careers. • Not insignificant is the fact that this interdisciplinary project brought together three people from very different academic areas to exchange ideas.The Museum - Contributions to the Synthesis of Art and EngineeringWhile the seeds may have been planted much earlier, the synthesis of art and engineering atMilwaukee School of Engineering formally began in 2001 with the gift of the Eckhart G. Page 24.784.2Grohmann Man at Work collection to the University
their own pace. iGens use the internet a lot andspend time learning on sites such as You-Tube, Wikipedia, and Kahn Academy. They state that90% of online content has been created in the last 2 years so this trend will be growing. iGensconsider education as a means towards their eventual career. Practical experience is importantand 79% of iGens think educational programs should integrate internships. While iGens’ IQ isincreasing, the creativity quotient of this generation has been decreasing since 1990. In a survey,84% of parents and 79% of teachers think there is not enough time allocated in schools todevelop creativity. If students do not get exposed to creativity in elementary and high schools,then creativity will not be there for the
transition totheir careers. Students setting out for college campuses, getting out of the comfort of the familyfor the first time in life is itself a giant leap in their maturing. Then the experiential learningcoming from open discussions, making deep, meaningful connections, and dispute managementin classes and dorms all significantly contribute to shaping them as responsible future citizens.Students learn not only from the faculty but from their peers. They learn about themselves, theiridentities, their interest, their character, school pride, conflict resolution, emotional intelligence,and a whole host of things. However, even with all its benefits, this residential experience is notaccessible to all groups of students due to its high price tag
director of the Division of Undergraduate Education. At the NSF, Karen managed a budget of over $380 million and a staff of more than 35 charged with supporting innovative programs to strengthen undergraduate and graduate education and helped revitalize American entrepreneurship and competitive- ness. As the inaugural Dean of Arts and Sciences, Karen brings a variety of perspectives on faculty c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Paper ID #26597 development, career and executive counseling, leading change and setting a collaborative culture as well as service learning and business
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Paper ID #26448Examining How Skill-building Workshops Affect Women’s Confidence overTimeMs. Megan Keogh, University of Colorado, Boulder Megan Keogh is an undergraduate student studying environmental engineering and environmental policy at the University of Colorado Boulder. Megan has been involved in education outreach and mentorship for much of her college career. She completed a STEM education class in which she shadowed a local 5th grade teacher and taught three of her own STEM lessons. Megan has also been a new-student mentor through her department’s peer mentoring program. Now, Megan is interested in researching
andpersonal competencies that engineering education researchers identified as important forsuccessful engineering. This list is summarized in a preliminary version of Table 1.Second, we reviewed a subset of professional reports that highlighted competencies relevant toengineering student success, including ABET, National Science Foundation (NSF), the NationalAcademy Press, and the National Academy of Science, Engineering, and Mathematics. Similarto our review of engineering education research papers, we expanded the list of academic andpersonal competencies that these reports argued as crucial for successful professionalengineering or STEM careers. Furthermore, we refined personal competencies based oninterpersonal and intrapersonal competencies to
hiscommitment to broadening the education of engineers earned him the Olmsted Award in 1987,the top prize of our division.3 Today, we focus on the pedagogic reform that he pursued twodecades earlier at the University of Texas at Austin.Koen and the Emphasis on Teaching at UT AustinKoen was born in Graham, Texas, the child of two educators. When Koen was still a young boy,his father changed his career from teaching to photojournalism and moved to Austin where hebecame the staff photographer for the University of Texas at Austin. Through his father’s work,Koen came to know John J. McKetta, the chair of the Chemical Engineering Department andlater Dean of the College of Engineering.4Koen enrolled at the University of Texas, studying Chemical Engineering
Integrated CurriculumIntroduction and BackgroundThere have for many years been efforts to bridge the gap between educational experiences inengineering and the liberal arts and sciences. Such efforts typically take the form of coursesdesigned to promote technological literacy for liberal arts majors, or courses designed toencourage engineering or science majors to consider the social and political implications of theirprofessions.Technological literacy for non-technology majors has been addressed in a variety of ways. Onevery popular version is to provide a course for students, early in their collegiate career, to learnan engineering application that has direct relevance to their lives. This approach has been used atYale University in the course
course and whether journal submission should be included. After obtaining Page 22.1115.6faculty feedback, a course may be developed and offered.If a “technical writing” course is not developed there are changes or additions that can be madeto our current undergraduate curriculum to at a minimum expose our students to technicalwriting. The recommendations are listed below. 1. In each of the first discipline specific course that requires a laboratory report, provide students with a style manual from a top journal. The students will then learn at an early stage in their career proper terminology and sentence structure
evolution of the engineering curriculum since she joined the faculty in 2003. Her current research interests are twofold: as well as her research in biological materials (cur- rently focused on bioderived plastics synthesized by bees), she also researches the engineering student experience, including persistence and migration, differences by gender, and the role of self-efficacy in project-based learning. In 2010, she received an NSF CAREER Award in support of her research on engineering education. Page 22.1081.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Motivation
engineeringtechnology educational programs is not well defined. The career status of technicians,technologists, and engineers is not understood by educator or employer.”37 This confusion withengineering has not abated over the years. Engineering technology suffers, as an academic andeconomic discipline, from a lack of clarity about what it is, what its graduates do, and confusionabout the boundaries between it and its more powerful and well-known discipline, engineering.Using the paper’s theoretical framework for boundary work of knowledge, practice, and power,one can see the how the boundaries between engineering technology and engineering lackdemarcation, to the detriment of engineering technology. Knowledge. ABET, the national accrediting body for
’ conveyanceof what is known, as well as the deeper development of knowledge by students, a practice knownin the literature as ‘communication to learn.’ Therefore, isolating students’ learning professionalcommunication skills from the material they will need to communicate as professionals.As some of the most challenging and rewarding career opportunities for our students hinge onstudents’ abilities to critically apply and communicate the material they learn and to be able towork across geographic and field boundaries, we must work towards ways to engage them incourse material in richer ways. Interdisciplinary team teaching offers one promising approach foraccomplishing the integration of technical engineering skills development and communicationskills
Education.Tsai, J. Y., O’Connor, K., Myers, B. A., Sullivan, J. F., Reamon, D. T., & Anderson, K. M. (2018). Scaling Up or Scale-making? Examining Sociocultural Factors in a New Model for Engineering Mathematics Education.Turpen, C. A, Gupta, A., Radoff, J., Elby, A., Sabo, H., & Quan, G. M. (2018). Successes and Challenges in Supporting Undergraduate Peer Educators to Notice and Respond to Equity Considerations within Design Teams.Villanueva, I., Nadelson, L. S., Bouwma-Gearhart, J., Youmans, K. L., Lanci, S., & Lenz, A. (2018). Exploring Students’ and Instructors’ Perceptions of Engineering: Case Studies of Professionally Focused and Career Exploration Courses.Waugaman, K., Tsai, J. Y., & Zarske
portfolio manager in Fortune 500 companies and smaller firms in the Silicon Valley and abroad. She is passionate about bringing the user-centered de- sign principles she learned at Stanford and in her career to Mines’ open-ended problem solving program, and is working with others on campus to establish a broader integrated context for innovation and design. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019Designing For Stakeholders: Engineering and Applied Science Students Meet Stakeholders in a First-Year Undergraduate Introduction to Design CourseAbstractThe Design I program at Colorado School of Mines introduces open-ended problem-solving andstakeholder engagement to all first-year engineering and
Colorado State University. Her previous careers were as software design and development engineer, project manager, and program manager for Hewlett-Packard Company, and as a management consultant for Personnel Decisions International. She is author of ”Understanding Employee Engagement: Theory, Research, and Practice” and ”Organiza- tional Psychology and Behavior: An Integrated Approach to Understanding the Workplace”. She is the past Editor-in-Chief for the Journal of Managerial Psychology, serves on several editorial boards, and has published in peer-reviewed scientific academic and practice outlets. She frequently consults with organizations across the country, and actively collaborates on grant funded research with
and faculty place oncommunication skills, the students’ perceptions of themselves as communicators, how thoseskills are developed within the wider curriculum, how proficient the students are upongraduation, and how these capabilities can be strengthened through improved pedagogicalmethods. Throughout the study, we use five different data collection techniques: (1) aninventory of the types and frequency of communication instruction and assignments through acontent analysis of syllabi; (2) two online student surveys, one administered at the beginning ofthe students’ undergraduate career and one given before graduation, to measure self-efficacy forcommunication; (3) a faculty survey to gauge the value instructors place on communication, aswell