mathematics (STEM) education. In addition, his work aims to show how STEM can make contributions to everyday anti-racism in schools, with specific attention to engineering and computer science. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Mind the Mindstorms: Technocultures of Engineering Education in Three U.S. Elementary SchoolsIntroductionThe LEGO Group’s proprietary educational robotics kit, LEGO Mindstorms, has been includedin numerous engineering education studies. An advanced search for “LEGO Mindstorms” in theAmerican Society for Engineering Education archives reveals over 400 hits found within“document content.” The amount of research that uses or at least mentions
Paper ID #25325Impact of Student Mindfulness Facets on Engineering Education Outcomes:An Initial ExplorationDr. Tomas Estrada, Elizabethtown College Dr. Tomas Estrada is an Associate Professor in the Department of Engineering and Physics at Elizabeth- town College, in Elizabethtown, PA. He received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Universidad de Costa Rica in 2002 and his M.S. and Ph.D. (both in Electrical Engineering) from the University of Notre Dame in 2005 and 2009, respectively. His research interests include control systems, engineering education, technology-related entrepreneurship, and sustainable engineering
Paper ID #25605Sociotechnical Habits of Mind: Initial Survey Results and their FormativeImpact on Sociotechnical Teaching and LearningDr. Kathryn Johnson, Colorado School of Mines Kathryn Johnson is an Associate Professor at the Colorado School of Mines in the Department of Elec- trical Engineering and Computer Science and is Jointly Appointed at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory’s National Wind Technology Center. She has researched wind turbine control systems since 2002, with numerous projects related to reducing turbine loads and increasing energy capture. She has applied experiential learning techniques in
Paper ID #26823Deep Observation: Geo-spatial Mapping as a Strategy for Site Engagementand Problem DesignDr. Jessie Marshall Zarazaga, SMU Lyle School of Engineering Jessie Zarazaga teaches GIS and Sustainability and Development in the Lyle School of Engineering at SMU. Working across the boundaries of urbanism, landscape mapping, infrastructure design and public engagement, Zarazaga explores ways to connect culture and community to place. Using GIS and partici- patory community mapping, she explores the impact of civil and environmental choices on the design of the sustainable city. Trained in architecture and urban design
considerations etc. are always present. One solution for these conflicts has always been suppressions through violence. Someone is going to be severely hurt by the innovation and development in the weaponry technologies. The example above might be extreme. Another good example is the e-waste issue we had talked about in the beginning of this semester. People in the first world are always attracted to more advanced electronics. But the technological development in the electronic industry driven by this consumerism will lead to more e-waste that has to been dealt with by the third country. The decision-making process based only on opinions from scientists and engineers seemed a little single-minded and lacked a flavor of humanity
creatively than we typically would.” Interconnected Learning The findings reported above showing differences in perception of how reading the bookexpanded their understanding, seem to suggest barriers in the students minds between learningabout different aspects of society. To say that your view of ethics is expanded, but not yourunderstanding of society or of engineering seems disconnected. This disconnect in types oflearning and understanding could be seen in other results as well. Student Comment: “The main disadvantage was the time spent reading took away from other time learning.” Student Comment: “Taking time to read the book took time away that could have been used learning other things. It was difficult to
jobs. One participantresponded with the following: I came to this job with kind of an open mind. I didn't really know what exactly I wanted to do after college, so I pretty much took the mentality of I was up for anything, job-wise. And this was kind of the first and best option that came around to me so I took it. I didn't really know what to expect, but from what my professors told me, just [the] engineering professional world in general is that you have to, like communicating with people that aren't engineers is a big thing and, you know, it certainly is in my job. – Jeff, Data Set 2In this quote, Jeff talks about having not really known what to expect upon started his first jobpost-graduation and
Paper ID #25409An Educational Framework to Promote Self-Authorship in Engineering Un-dergraduatesDr. Laura Kasson Fiss, Michigan Technological University Laura Kasson Fiss is a Research Assistant Professor in the Pavlis Honors College at Michigan Techno- logical University. She holds a PhD from Indiana University in English (2013). Her work has appeared in Victorian Periodicals Review, The Lion and the Unicorn, and The Cambridge Companion to Gilbert and Sullivan. In addition to her research on Victorian humor, she conducts higher education research and scholarship on issues of inclusion, reflection, and innovation.Dr
Paper ID #25301An Exploratory Study of Engineering Students’ Misconceptions about Tech-nical CommunicationDr. Cheryl Q. Li, University of New Haven Cheryl Qing Li joined University of New Haven in the fall of 2011, where she is a Senior Lecturer of the Industrial, System & Multidisciplinary Engineering Department. Li earned her first Ph.D. in me- chanical engineering from National University of Singapore in 1997. She served as Assistant Professor and subsequently Associate Professor in mechatronics engineering at University of Adelaide, Australia, and Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, respectively. In 2006
does the university prepare students for graduation? For what is the university heldaccountable? How do students participate in their preparation process? What does industrycontribute? These are questions that faculty and engineering programs must consider to besuccessful preparing minds for the next step in their students’ life’s journey. The universitysetting is expected to provide an environment to help students transition from high school tobeing an adult. Are graduates really prepared for what lies ahead? 1Each year Baylor University graduates another class of students who will begin theirprofessional life. For those faculty who have had the privilege of teaching both freshman andgraduating
engineering student from Maine attending OlinCollege and will be graduating in May of 2020. I chose Olin for the community, but also for theirpassionate mantra, “Engineering starts with people and ends with people.” This mantra painted anew picture of engineering for me as I had previously believed engineering was about usingmath to make cool things. In fact, I originally wanted to be an engineer to continue my passionfor robotics that I had developed over 9 years on a robotics team. But, this mantra created analmost invisible itch in the back of my mind that has slowly grown into the driving factor of mebecoming an engineer.My first real experience with people in engineering was my second semester at Olin in a classcalled Engineering for Humanity
began engineering education research related to social justice in control systems engineering in fall 2014. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Pain and gain: barriers and opportunities for integrating sociotechnical thinking into diverse engineering coursesAbstractThis paper uses narrative analysis to study the barriers and opportunities one research teamencountered as we set out to create a class assignment aimed at developing engineering students’sociotechnical habits of mind. One of the goals of this assignment was for it to be transferableacross multiple course contexts, including different engineering disciplines, course instructors,level of students, and course
engineering 1curricula could greatly benefit from sociotechnical integration in undergraduate engineeringeducation to encourage the development of sociotechnical thinking and habits of mind [4].Sociotechnical thinking is defined as, “…the interplay between relevant social and technicalfactors in the problem to be solved” [4]. Within the term sociotechnical, the first part, social, isused as an umbrella term that covers multiple broad social dimensions of engineering problemsolving, including but not limited to economic, environmental, ethical, and health and safety-related dimensions. Since the meanings of these latter terms can sometimes involve both
timesthroughout history and, more regrettably, it is still playing itself to this day in manyregions around the world. With this in mind, engineers as well as non-engineers have arole to play to ameliorate living conditions for humans everywhere to reduce thepossibility of war and conflict. The question humanity in general and engineers inparticular are faced with is how to engineer peace and employ various skills to build abetter future for all. The answer to this question starts with an attempt to combat thefactors that ultimately lead to conflict. Peace engineering is a branch of study in whichengineering and non-engineering students are trained to think critically across manydisciplines to use technical solutions involving science and engineering
development of increasingly sophisticatedtools to assess how students’ perceptions and approaches are or are not changed over time as aresult of their encounters with applied STS. Some notable papers in this regard are “MeasuringChange Over Time in Sociotechnical Thinking: A Survey/Validation Model for SociotechnicalHabits of Mind” [12], “Refining Concept Maps as a Method to Assess Learning OutcomesAmong Engineering Students” [13], and “The Whole as the Sum of More Than the Parts: 11 Developing Qualitative Assessment Tools to Track the Contribution of the Humanities andSocial Sciences to an Engineering Curriculum” [14].This group of papers
practices regardingearthquake risk mitigation, was asked to describe structural effects of various forms of earthmotion on the built environment, which is a better question for a civil engineer. She was able totalk about the social conditions of vulnerability to these hazards and about public understandingof seismic risk, but students seemed uninterested in this information. Instead, they approachedthis interview as a source of facts that they had already decided would be important for a designthat they already had in mind even though their faculty had encouraged them to try not to startdesigning until they had completed interviews. The first author took extensive notes on theexperience to refer to while writing this paper.When the students
writingknowledge transfer: a student who successfully completed freshman composition may still beunable to transfer skills, habits of mind, and approaches to writing from that setting toengineering because the rhetorical situations look drastically different [2].Yancey, Robertson,and Taczak define transfer as a “dynamic rather than a static process, a process of using,adapting, repurposing the old for success in the new,” and they argue that reflection—reflectionthat allows students to develop metacognition and a robust theory of writing—is integral totransfer [2]. In addition, for learning to take place and successful transfer to occur, students needto recognize what they don’t yet know [2].With an eye toward asking students to develop an engineering
a disk jockey (tofree his mind, develop capacity to be creative, and disconnect from fear ofrejection), three design classes, an internship, and his major project. Following isa short excerpt: I was able to apply both of these skills (creativity and research) in conjunction during my internship where I had to design a test fixture…. During this time, I realized that innovation is not a linear process. The steps to pursuing a design is iterative, and creativity can be utilized simultaneously with research. I also learned that there will always be stages of failure. Learning how to overcome these challenges, thus gaining support from real engineers in the field helped build both my creative
participating on an integrative team or educationalexperience required the faculty involved to grow, learn, and get out of their comfort zones.Session I was primarily concerned with integration within engineering curricula, while thesecond session was primary concerned with integration that occurred in particular courses orother educational experiences.Although the papers in all of the sessions reflected significant progress and accomplishment inintegration, “Measuring Change Over Time in Sociotechnical Thinking: A Survey/ValidationModel for Sociotechnical Habits of Mind” by Leydens, Johnson, Claussen, Blacklock, Moskal,and Cordova provides the most fully realized account of sociotechnical integration, which theauthors implicitly define as highlighting
to addressing modern engineering problems [15] and are helpfulin the cultivation of informed and expert designers [16]. When embedded and central toengineering cultures and pedagogy, scholars have argued that design provides students thepossibilities to gain a greater tolerance for ambiguity, adopt multiperspectival approaches toproblem-framing, and, ultimately, become informed designers [17]. Crismond and Adamsdeveloped the Informed Design Learning and Teaching Matrix that presented strategies andpractices aimed at helping students move from novice to informed designers [16]. The InformedDesign Learning and Teaching Matrix helps “by directing teachers’ attention to common designmisconceptions and habits of mind of beginning designers
Paper ID #27445Positionality: The Stories of Self that Impact OthersCynthia Hampton, Virginia Tech ynthia Hampton is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech. She also serves as program and student support for the Center for the Enhancement of Engineering Diversity (CEED). While at Virginia Tech, Cynthia has directed summer bridge programs, led peer support initia- tives for underrepresented groups, and served on various commissions, committees, and research groups focused on student support, organizational change, graduate student policy, and culturally responsive evaluation
Paper ID #26720Writing Across Engineering: A Collaborative Approach to Support STEMFaculty’s Integration of Writing Instruction in their ClassesRyan Ware, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Ryan Ware is a PhD student in Writing Studies primarily interested in cultural-historical theories of writ- ing and learning to write. He is part of an interdisciplinary team that focuses on helping STEM instructors integrate writing into their courses, and that helps departments integrate writing across undergraduate curricula.Nicole Turnipseed, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign Nicole Turnipseed is a PhD student in
Paper ID #26372Mandatory but not Required: Examining Change in the Year Two Imple-mentation of a Novel Engineering Mathematics CourseDr. Janet Y. Tsai, University of Colorado, Boulder Janet Y. Tsai is a researcher and instructor in the College of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Colorado Boulder. Her research focuses on ways to encourage more students, especially women and those from nontraditional demographic groups, to pursue interests in the eld of engineering. Janet assists in recruitment and retention efforts locally, nationally, and internationally, hoping to broaden the image of engineering
Paper ID #27378How Writing for the Public Provides Affordances and Constraints in Enact-ing Expert Identity for Undergraduate Engineering StudentsMathew D. Evans, Arizona State University Mathew D Evans is currently a doctoral candidate at the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College at Arizona State UniversityDr. Michelle Jordan , Arizona State University Michelle Jordan is as associate professor in the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College at Arizona State Uni- versity. She also serves as the Education Director for the QESST Engineering Research Center. Michelle’s program of research focuses on social interactions in collaborative
Paper ID #27310Queer(y)-ing Technical Practice: Queer Experiences in Student Theater Pro-ductions at a Technical UniversityMitch Cieminski, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Mitch Cieminski received a B.S. in electrical and computer engineering from Olin College of Engineering in Needham, MA in 2017. They are currently pursuing a PhD in Science and Technology Studies at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, studying the intersections of engineering cultures, peace and ethics, educational power structures, and the experiences of disabled, queer, and trans engineers. c American Society for Engineering