EER, yet who are experts within their own engineeringdiscipline. Engineering faculty frequently have little experience conducting rigorous researchusing established social science theories and methods. RIEF mentors are experiencedengineering education researchers. Mentorship in the context of a RIEF grant is unique, as it isdifferent from graduate student training or peer mentorship between faculty in the samediscipline. Common conceptions of mentorship include a novice receiving guidance from anexpert, whereas RIEF PIs and co-PIs are both experts in their own domains. Mentoringrelationships between faculty are understudied, especially in the context of faculty with expertisein different disciplines that have unique training needs. Therefore
commonlyafforded minimal curricular choice and few opportunities to pursue a broad, balanced educationcompared to their campus peers. Exceptional, highly regarded and accredited engineeringprograms, while few in number, demonstrated the feasibility of highly flexible, customizable,and balanced programs. Though hypothesized that the low-choice, highly technical engineeringcurricular model may be a barrier to participation in engineering education, correlations betweencurricular choice/balance and educational outcomes had not been explored. In this pilot study,curricula and program outcome data were delineated for 21 engineering, math, natural science,and physical science degree programs (nine ABET-accredited, 12 non-accredited) at theUniversity of Colorado
presentation. Animportant strategy to enforce rehearsing involved pairing students to peer-evaluate theirpresentations prior to final delivery. This was in addition to a short animated video ‘Get Preparedto Present Well’ produced specifically for the course, along with a check list, to emphasize thekey techniques. A pre- and post-survey was conducted to benchmark presentation skills anddetermine how regimented rehearsing affected their delivery. When rehearsed, the studentsclearly saw an improvement in their performances and as a result developed a strongappreciation for the importance of practicing. However, the study also identified that when theassignment is demanding and time is limited, practice is first to be sacrificed.IntroductionABET
, personal identity, and social skillsamong others. While engineers lack a stellar reputation in the social skill realm, there is a levelof difficulty to constructive feedback and conflict resolution regardless of profession, withexperience and practice being key in improvement. In order to meet our objective of developingstudent skills, modules will need to be developed to assist students with constructive feedback.Possibilities being explored include role playing, brainstorming solutions to difficult teamproblems, and using the CATME peer evaluation tools [29]. Our on-going efforts are focused onmodules specifically around conflict resolution. Figure 4. Percent of Fall 2017 survey respondents strongly or somewhat agreeing with Likert scale
to calibrate and compare their own progression through their degreeprograms to the progress of their peers. As implied by curricular flowcharts (another importantartifact), the default progression for engineering students begins in the first semester with Calc1, proceeding onwards through the math sequence and ideally completing the required coursesby the fourth semester of their undergraduate careers. Consequently, students classified as notready for Calc 1 who start at Pre-Calc in their first semesters are already “behind” their peersfrom the start of their college experiences while students who place into Calc 2 or 3 their firstsemesters are “ahead.” Feeling behind rather than ahead can be potentially detrimental to studentattitudes and
systems design, development, and consultation firm. She joined the faculty of the School of Engineering and Computer Science at Baylor University in 1997, where she teaches a variety of engineering and computer science classes, she is the Faculty Advisor for the Women in Computer Science (WiCS), the Director of the Computer Science Fellows program, and is a KEEN Fellow. She has authored and co- authored over fifty peer-reviewed papers. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2020 The Challenge of Preparing iGen Students for Engineering and Computer ScienceAbstractA recent suicide by an engineering student began
as well as in academic writing, and a critical inquiry class taught by theHSA faculty. The critical inquiry class has multiple sessions taught by different instructors. Eachsession focuses on a topic that is related to the instructor’s specialty, yet all the sessions have acommon component: for the first few weeks, students and instructors engage in a discussion ofthe meaning of liberal arts education and its implications for HMC. In addition to completing theCommon Core, every student at HMC is required to take at least ten courses in HSA, with atleast four courses in an area of concentration. The engineering curriculum at HMC consists ofthree stems: design, engineering sciences, and system. The design stem includes three
provide a personalized “real-world” experience of policy/diplomacy, thestudents are invited to participate in an optional fellowship application process.Individually students propose a list of three potential fellowships to their classmates.From the comprehensive brainstormed list, each student selects a single topic andpresents a Pechu Kucha describing “why” they are qualified for this opportunity andshould be selected for a fellowship. Then students begin the process of completing a draftversion of an application. The draft paper is graded by a peer, and returned to the studentto use as part of the final submission for a fellowship. Because some fellowshipopportunities fall outside of the cycle of the class meeting, the instructor allows some
-Progress study, the research team explored two differing engineering courses ascases. The first course (case) was a Technical Communication course, which is considered a non-technical course to support students’ writing skills. The course is a mandatory course forengineering majors at the same institution of the original study [10]. The students enrolling in thecourse are primarily in their junior year in engineering and represent the majority of disciplinesin this college. The semester prior to this work in progress paper, data on the original iteration ofthe engineering professional identity study was published [10]. The authors followed the sameparticipants in this Technical Communication course in an effort to capture the changes inperceptions
theseperceptions changed after STEP. Data were collected using open-ended entrance surveys andwritten responses on final exams. Research protocols were approved by the Institutional ReviewBoard (#13-577).Context and ParticipantsThe research setting was an introductory engineering course embedded within STEP. The courseis designed to introduce students to fundamental engineering concepts, and course objectivesincluded engagement with the engineering design process, exploration of engineering disciplines,engineering ethics, technical writing, and problem solving with software tools (Matlab). Thecourse curriculum integrated problem-based learning and product archaeology frameworks(Barrows, 1986; Kolmos, De Graaff, Johri, & Olds, 2014; Lewis et al., 2011
reviewer in the National Science Foundation (NSF) Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) program. Dr. Agi received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque. He received his MBA from the Berkeley-Columbia Executive MBA Program.Donna M. Koechner, eNova Solutions, LLC Donna Koechner earned her BS in Electrical Engineering at Kansas State University and her MS in Elec- trical and Computer Engineering at the University of New Mexico. She has worked in academia, research and industry on products and projects including image segmentation and pattern recognition, software design, software specification, development and testing, product engineering, technical writing, course
and was awarded NAE’s 2008 Gordon Prize for Innovation in Engineering and Technology Education. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Implicit Bias? Disparity in Opportunities to Select Technical versus Non-Technical Courses in Undergraduate Engineering ProgramsAbstractUndergraduate engineering students are commonly afforded minimal opportunities to choosetheir courses as compared to their non-engineering peers on campus. In addition, manyengineering programs restrict students’ limited curricular choices to courses that are heavilyskewed to be technical in nature, further limiting students’ ability to realize a broad and balancedcollege
engineer in the group. d) At the next design meeting, focus the agenda on the impact of J. T.‟s behavior on the success of the project and threaten to speak with the project manager if he does not “shape up.” e) Have another senior-level engineer in the group have a private conversation with J. T. about his work.The final unit looks at the nuances of teaming within a virtual environment in which fellow teammembers may be located in a distant country and may come from diverse backgrounds. Toolswhich can be used to support and enhance virtual collaboration are explored. Discussion boardsand collaborative writing and editing within a course management program or via a documentediting program like Google Docs are used to
such initiatives, with LLC organized aroundsustainability having been established at more than a handful of colleges and universitiesnationwide. Proponents of living and learning communities point to social and educationalbenefits beyond enrollment and retention, such as better academic performance, studentengagement (civic, intellectual, and social), and critical thinking owning to experiential learningand co-curricular (and extra-curricular) learning opportunities. Also expected are more reliableand effective student transitions into higher education owing to the peer support network and rolemodels built around shared interests and positive identities (Tinto, 2000; Zhao and Kuh, 2004;Inkelas, et al, 2006; Brower and Inkelas, 2010). This
interdisciplinary courses.Change the World: Olin’s First GCSP CourseOlin’s GCSP redesign culminated in the creation of a new course, Change the World: PersonalValues, Global Impacts, and Making an Olin GCSP. It was co-designed by Assistant Professor ofEnvironmental Engineering Alison Wood (who is also Olin’s GCSP Director) and Professor ofthe History of Science and Technology Robert Martello to serve as the cornerstone of theprogram. The main goal of the course is to provide structured support for a culminating reflectivesynthesis. As mentioned above, in the early years of Olin’s GCSP, graduating seniorsaccomplished their reflection through mentored writing outside of any course, which workedwell for students in the early years of the program but less so
freeindividual use, we select the Corporate option at a monthly premium to accommodate asufficient number of projects and adequate online storage space. Logbook21 instructionsspecify for students to clearly identify personal contact information in case of loss, dividethe composition book into logical sections, and bring to all project related meetings andclass sessions. Besides these basic expectations for its use, the logbook is graded oncontent, organization and neatness. The Adjustment Factor allows a student’s grade to beincreased or decreased based on self, peer and faculty evaluation of that student’s overallcontribution and growth during the semester. Thus, we believe the portfolio approachworks best with other forms of assessment, as indicated
education research, interdisciplinarity, peer review, engineers’ epistemologies, and global engineering education.Mr. Corey T Schimpf, Purdue University, West Lafayette Page 26.1630.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Undisciplined Epistemology: Conceptual Heterogeneity in a Field in the MakingIntroduction “…conceptualization and theorization may be complemented by technique, but the technique cannot be substituted for this intellectual labor.”1In 2006, a group of leading engineering education researchers produced a research agenda
U.S. and several countries. More than 75 authored or co-authored peer-reviewed publications, 100 conference papers and project reports, and several software packages and databases have been produced from this research. Dr. Burian’s enthusiasm for student learning has led to numerous teaching awards and the creation of new pedagogical approaches directed toward multi-institution collaborative learning. He has also sought to advance teaching effectiveness of engineering educators by serving as mentor at the American Society of Civil Engineers ExCEEd Teaching Workshop and as the developer of a vari- ety of teaching and curriculum development workshops, including the recent Wasatch Experience at the University of
forced requirement of her large introductory STS course. At the same time, they weresignificantly less skilled at reading and writing than Wylie had anticipated. Their open laptops,poor attendance, missing assignments, and silence in response to her discussion questions wereperhaps all signs of their intimidation at this foreign subject, which may have heightened orcreated their resistance to learning about it. In response to students’ inability or unwillingness toread the assigned sources – a widespread cause of poor class discussions – Wylie began showingcartoons about issues relevant to the day’s lecture topic. After all, cartoons demand only basicliteracy skills, require no homework preparation, are fun and silly, and yet nonetheless manage
at the university level and as they pursue careers in industry. Graduating this December, she hopes to retain this knowledge for the benefit of herself and other women engineers as she pursues an industry career.Dr. Jon A. Leydens, Colorado School of Mines Jon A. Leydens is Associate Professor of Engineering Education Research in the Division of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences at the Colorado School of Mines, USA. Dr. Leydens’ research and teaching interests are in engineering education, communication, and social justice. Dr. Leydens is author or co- author of 40 peer-reviewed papers, co-author of Engineering and Sustainable Community Development (Morgan and Claypool, 2010), and editor of Sociotechnical
managers who had the task of deciding whether or not to race a formula F1 car. The case study described a tense, high- stakes situation in which engineers were unsure of the physical limitations of the motor of the F1 engine under certain temperatures and offered many costs (in dollars, sponsorship losses, etc.) involved in pulling out of the race or driving. The class alternates between students discussing in groups of 4-6 and writing thoughts, calculations, etc. down on posters. Instructor brings the class together and runs through simple cost analyses on the overhead projector in Excel. Towards the end of the class period, Instructor has students take a vote on whether to race or not-race. He then tells the class that the
]. Unfortunately, it is also perceived as an area of under-preparation by recentgraduates [26]. Women’s experiences in engineering design teams has been the subject of a number ofstudies, with several studies noting that women’s experiences in teams could potentially“recreate sexist environments already found in the university environment for undergraduatewomen if they are not properly managed” [28, pp. 82]. Negative experiences in teams (not beingaccepted, heard, or respected by her peers) could have significant long-term impacts, i.e., it couldbe the difference between staying or abandoning engineering after graduation. During teamwork activities, students negotiate their identities, status, and authenticity.[29] showed that gender is a
design, however, presentsengineering programs with two major challenges: placing limits on the “breadth” of eachoutcome; and clarifying the inherent vagueness in each outcome (or, defining the “specificity” ofeach outcome).1 ABET intentionally writes their student outcomes with a degree of vagueness toavoid engineering programs from adopting prescriptive curricular design and to allowengineering programs to have flexibility and freedom of interpretation. However, this vaguenessmay confuse engineering programs about how to address each outcome effectively.1 To addressthese types of issues, McGourty, Besterfield-Sacre, and Shuman called for operationaldescriptions of each outcome; although, they admitted that determining the specificity would bea
, and to construct future actionsbased on these insights.[18]Currently, reflection is employed in the engineering curriculum in various ways. Reflectionessays, reflective journals, portfolios, end-of-course evaluations and feedbacks, surveys,reflective discussions, and peer evaluations are amongst the more standard reflective activities.However, studies show that incorporating reflective activities into a classroom can be verydifficult and students are often not inclined to engage in reflective activities or to developreflective thoughts.[18-21] For example in a study conducted at a medical school in the UK wherereflective learning is now a requirement for licensing of doctors, out of 232 students, only 20took the introductory Reflective
University.Dr. Jenn Stroud Rossmann, Lafayette College Jenn Stroud Rossmann is Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Lafayette College. She earned her BS in mechanical engineering and her PhD in applied physics from the University of California, Berkeley. Prior to joining Lafayette, she was a faculty member at Harvey Mudd College. Her scholarly interests include the fluid dynamics of blood in vessels affected by atherosclerosis and aneurysm, the cultural history of engineering, and the aerodynamics of sports projectiles. She writes the essay series ”An engineer reads a novel” for Public Books. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 An Integrative Education in Engineering and
, using technology in the classroom, faculty development in instructional design, teaching diversity, and peer coaching. Dr. Utschig completed his PhD in Nuclear Engineering at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.Jeffrey S. Bryan Jeffrey S. Bryan is currently in his second-year of Georgia Tech’s M.S. program in digital media. He at- tended Southern Utah University as an undergraduate, and majored in English education. He worked for several years as a trainer for AT&T, teaching adult learners, and as an editor for an opinion research com- pany. He currently works as a Graduate Research Assistant in Georgia Tech’s Center for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning (CETL), where he assists with assessment and data
seminal work left unread by engineers dabbling in phenomenology and existentialism.(20) Aswith some great works, the actual writings of Husserl on philosophy are as revealing as how heoutlines previous philosophies to differentiate himself. Husserl argues that there are fourimportant revolutions in history of thought: Socratic/Platonic arguments based on logos and itssubsequent development into scientific thought; the Cartesian revolution; the transcendentalrevolution of Kant, whereby the only source of necessity is subjectivity and thus followsknowledge; and finally, the phenomenological revolution, which incorporates the form of andcontent of acts of knowing into a subjective framework. Descartes, according to Husserl’s history, believes
national exemplar in teaching engineering ethics. Her book Extracting Accountability: Engineers and Corporate Social Responsibility will be published by The MIT Press in 2021. She is also the co-editor of Energy and Ethics? (Wiley-Blackwell, 2019) and the author of Mining Coal and Undermining Gender: Rhythms of Work and Family in the American West (Rutgers University Press, 2014). She regularly pub- lishes in peer-reviewed journals in anthropology, science and technology studies, engineering studies, and engineering education. Her research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the British Academy.Dr. Juan C. Lucena, Colorado School of Mines Juan Lucena is
- cation with specific emphasis on innovative pedagogical and curricular practices at the intersection with the issues of gender and diversity. With the goal of improving learning opportunities for all students and equipping faculty with the knowledge and skills necessary to create such opportunities, Dr. Zastavker’s re- cent work involves questions pertaining to students’ motivational attitudes and their learning journeys in a variety of educational environments. One of the founding faculty at Olin College, Dr. Zastavker has been engaged in development and implementation of project-based experiences in fields ranging from science to engineering and design to social sciences (e.g., Critical Reflective Writing; Teaching and
40 peer-reviewed papers, co-author of Engineering and Sustainable Community Development (Morgan and Claypool, 2010), and editor of Sociotechnical Communication in Engineering (Routledge, 2014). In 2016, Dr. Leydens won the Exemplar in Engineering Ethics Education Award from the National Academy of Engineering, along with CSM colleagues Juan C. Lucena and Kathryn Johnson, for a cross-disciplinary suite of courses that enact macroethics by making social justice visible in engineering education. In 2017, he and two co-authors won the Best Paper Award in the Minorities in Engineering Division at the Amer- ican Society for Engineering Education annual conference. Dr. Leydens’ recent research, with co-author Juan C