inclusive, engaged, and socially just. She runs the Feminist Research in Engineering Education Group whose diverse projects and group members are described at pawleyresearch.org. She received a CAREER award in 2010 and a PECASE award in 2012 for her project researching the stories of undergraduate engineering women and men of color and white women. She has received ASEE-ERM’s best paper award for her CAREER research, and the Denice Denton Emerging Leader award from the Anita Borg Institute, both in 2013. She was co-PI of Purdue’s ADVANCE program from 2008-2014, focusing on the underrepresentation of women in STEM faculty positions. She helped found, fund, and grow the PEER Collaborative, a peer mentoring group of early
with natural fiber composite materials. He is also interested in entrepreneurship,sustainable engineering, and appropriate technology in developing countries. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 What Skills Do Engineering Students Really Need for the Workplace and Life?AbstractEach year technology changes impacting the requirements has for engineering entry level jobs.Students must increasingly be prepared for the unexpected in the workplace. Disruptivetechnologies will have a profound impact on industry and society as a whole. Faculty must alsobe ready for these changes and adapt engineering programs to this new world. Thus, it is good toperiodically
LGBTQIA+ CommunityThroughout this paper, we reference the term “LGBTQIA+,” which is an umbrella acronym usedto describe any person who does not identify with heterosexual and cisgender norms (Gold,2019). Recent research on the LGBTQIA+ student experience shows a growing interest on thistopic, both within and outside of the field of engineering education (Lange et al., 2019). Withinthis encouraging trend, the disciplines that have placed the greatest sense of urgency onunderstanding this community’s experiences appear to have been higher education, psychology,and queer and gender studies. Research from these fields have shown that LGBTQIA+ studentsexperience heightened levels of verbal and physical violence, harassment, and discrimination. Asa
communityrecognizes the importance of communication skills, research on measuring visualcommunication skills of engineering students is limited [9]. For the study presented in this paper,students’ visual communication skills were assessed by comparing visual displays submittedearly in the term with those submitted at the end of the term.The study population used for this paper includes 71 students who have enrolled in andcompleted the course, The Way Things Work, in 2017, 2018, and 2019. Class enrollment by yearand gender are given in Table 1. Note that in 2017 enrollment was not limited but in 2018 and2019 enrollment was limited to 16 students and 24 students, respectively. In 2017, the coursecarried Technical and Applied Science (TAS) credit. All Dartmouth
, being recognized by the United States White House as a Champion of Change for STEM. She has been recognized by Penn State’s Rosemary Schraer Mentoring Award and Howard B. Palmer Faculty Mentoring Award. She was recognized in 2014 by the Society of Women Engineers’ Distinguished Engineering Educator Award and in 2016 by ASME’s Edwin F. Church Medal ASME’s George Westinghouse Medal. In 2017, she received ABET’s Claire L. Felbinger Award for her work in diversifying engineering. In 2019, she received AIAA’s Air Breathing Propulsion Award for her contributions to promoting diversity and for her technical work in gas turbine cooling. Dr. Thole holds two degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Illinois
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in their major discipline. The details of thesesurveys and results of coding responses are discussed in [37].In order to explore more deeply the themes arising in students’ survey responses, and to betterunderstand their personal and group feelings, perceptions and opinions, we performed focusgroup interviews with engineering students who had completed WGS 250. Facilitated focusgroups have been shown to be effective at offering access to “participants’ own language,concepts and concerns” in “social contexts for meaning-making,” comprising a feministmethodology appropriate to our research questions and goals [38].The focus group portion of our study was exempted from requiring approval by our institution’sIRB after review in summer 2019
undergraduate senior project would never haveseen publication without her encouragement. Similarly, I am incredibly grateful for the Cal Polydepartment of computer science and software engineering (CSSE) faculty who have providedkind and generative feedback on the PEPC course plan and computer science education. I couldnot have kept returning to this text without the care that Leece LaRue, Leonard, my parents, andsister have shared with me. Many thanks to the ASEE LEES division chair and reviewers of thisdraft for their time and thoughtful feedback, which has informed this publication and continuesto animate my current thinking.References[1] B. J. Child, “Indian boarding schools,” J. Curric. Pedagogy, vol. 13, no. 1, pp. 25–27, Jan. 2016, doi
and institutional data set. It is our goal tounderstand the social and organizational processes that determine how changes in engineeringeducation occur, and understand this well enough to present policy recommendations on how topursue effective, meaningful, and enduring changes in engineering education at differentinstitutional scales.Our first major work-in-progress report was presented last year at ASEE 2019 in Tampa, Floridaand was on the development and implementation of ABET EC 2000 [1]. While ABET is a majorpart of what drives change in engineering education, we do not address accreditation directly inthis paper. Instead, this year we focus on the broader social and organizational processesassociated with “higher education governance
, semiconductor technology has improved at anexponential rate following the self-fulfilling prophecy of Moore’s Law. Improvements insemiconductor technology have in turn enabled remarkable improvements in communication andinformation technology, leading to major changes in the way people communicate, compute,acquire and use information, and seek entertainment.This paper describes a First-Year Seminar taught in 2017 and 2019 in which students from arange of different majors explore the history and societal impact of semiconductor and relatedtechnologies throughout the semiconductor era. The goals of the seminar are to provide studentswith a qualitative understanding of how semiconductors are designed and manufactured, anappreciation for how the technology
Paper ID #34766Strategic Disruptions Toward a More Liberatory Engineering EducationDr. Rachel Koh, Smith College Koh joined the faculty at Smith College in 2019 after earning a doctorate from the University of Mas- sachusetts Amherst in 2017 and teaching at Lafayette College in Easton, PA, for two years. Their scholarly interests include sustainable materials, renewable energy, and advancing engineering education through inclusive and liberatory pedagogies.Dr. Jenn Stroud Rossmann, Lafayette College Jenn Stroud Rossmann is Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Co-Director of the Hanson Center for Inclusive STEM
at Wake Forest in 2019.Dr. Olga Pierrakos, Wake Forest University Dr. Olga Pierrakos is Founding Chair and Professor of the new Department of Engineering at Wake For- est University - a private, liberal arts, research institution. As one of the newest engineering programs in the nation, she is facilitating the realization of building an innovative program aligned with the university mission of Pro Humanitate (For Humanity) and well-integrated within the liberal arts tradition. Her vision is to educate the whole person and the whole engineer with fearlessness and virtuous character. She is the PI on the Kern Family Foundation award to infuse character education across the WFU Engineering cur- riculum in partnership
future work, assessment of thesuccess of the course curriculum will be completed through qualitative analysis of studentreflections, interviews and document analysis of student work. Additionally changes in students’attitudes towards engineering and social responsibility will be assessed through quantitativeanalysis.IntroductionSocial Responsibility, Social Justice, and Ethics in Engineering EducationDeveloping engineers who are capable of understanding their social responsibility in the world isbecoming increasingly important. This has been recognized by the Accreditation Board forEngineering and Technology, Inc. (ABET) which, as part of their 2019 - 2020 criteria foraccrediting engineering programs, includes the following student outcome for
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Engineering Students Change the WorldAbstractAs part of the ongoing work described in “Work in Progress: Transformation through LiberalArts-Focused Grand Challenges Scholars Programs” (from the ASEE 2019 Annual Conferenceand Exposition), a professor of environmental engineering and a professor of the history ofscience and technology collaborated to add a new liberal arts course to the engineeringcurriculum at Olin College of Engineering in spring 2019. That work suggested that studentslearn new ways of thinking, knowing, doing, and being through participation in a transformativeliberal-arts infused Grand Challenges Scholars Program. This project-based course was createdwith learning objectives of communication
become better science communicators, currently in the context of a multi-year NSF-funded EPSCoR project. She currently introduces VTS protocols in workshops on sci- ence education, science communication, and deliberative democracy. During the 2018-2019 academic year she was a fellow at the Institute of Civic Discourse and Democracy at Kansas State University.Dr. Roman Taraban, Texas Tech University Roman Taraban is Professor in the Department of Psychological Sciences at Texas Tech University. He received his Ph.D. in cognitive psychology from Carnegie Mellon University. His interests are in how undergraduate students learn, and especially, in critical thinking and how students draw meaningful con- nections in
Table 1.Table 1: Spring 2019 Focus groups in two engineering courses. Students were invited to selecttheir own non-identifying pseudonyms. Course Focus Participant Pseudonym Participants Group # Intro to ME 01 Bob, Brian, Cleopatra, Dakota, Pete, and Sheila 6 Intro to ME 02 Colson, Grace, Kai, and Seven 4 Electromagnetism 03 Cheddar, Pepperjack, Mozzarella, and Swiss 4 Electromagnetism 04 Ponyboy, Krump, Johnathan, John, and Spencer 5 Total 19As seen in Table 1, Spring 2019 FG data came from four FGs across two
, likely have implications forengineering students’ interest in continuing in engineering and professionals’ plans to stay intheir engineering jobs. Indeed, persons with disabilities are equally likely to enter engineeringmajors, but graduate with engineering degrees at lower rates. Similarly, only 65% of personswith disabilities who have an engineering or science degree are employed in STEM, versus 85%of persons without disabilities [9]. I thus examine students’ and professionals’ intentions to stayin engineering in the future.MethodsEngineering Students: ASEE Diversity & Inclusion SurveyThe ASEE Diversity and Inclusion Survey (ASEE-DIS) includes 1,729 students enrolled in anengineering program in one of eight US colleges or universities. 4 A
.), and University of Michigan (Ph.D.). Before joining Texas Tech, he was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University and an assistant professor at University of Notre Dame. His research and teaching interests include developing innovative water treatment technolo- gies and incorporating knowledge related to such efforts in the environmental engineering curriculum. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Exploring Ways to Develop Reflective Engineers: Toward Phronesis-Centered Engineering EducationAbstractThe purpose of this work-in-progress research paper is to explore how engineering students’phronesis (ethical judgement or practical wisdom) can be fostered in