engineering workforce. Angie received an NSF CAREER award in 2021 for her work with student veterans and service members in engineering.Dr. Matthew W. Ohland, Purdue University Matthew W. Ohland is the Dale and Suzi Gallagher Professor and Associate Head of Engineering Education at Purdue University. He has degrees from Swarthmore College, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and the University of Florida. His research on the longitudinal study of engineering students and forming and managing teams has been supported by the National Science Foundation and the Sloan Foundation and his team received for the best paper published in the Journal of Engineering Education in 2008, 2011, and 2019 and from the IEEE Transactions on
society. She is particularly interested in developing and implementing interventions to improve mental health related help seeking in undergraduate engineering students. Sarah graduated with a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Rowan University and a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Massachusetts. She began her academic career as teaching faculty in Chemical Engineering at the University of Kentucky. As an educator, Sarah works to integrate non-cognitive skills such as creativity, social and emotional intelligence, and communication into her courses. Her experience as a teaching faculty member led her to the development of her research in student mental health, resulting in her transition from
. L., Slack, T., & Junqueira, W. (2022a). Factors Impacting Engineering Advanced Degree Pursuit and Attainment Among Black Males. Journal of Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering, 28(4), 1-24. https://doi.org/10.1615/JWomenMinorScienEng.2021036005Henderson, J. A., Hines, E. M., Davis, J. L., Benjamin, L. S. S., Alarcón, J. D., & Slack, T. (2022b). It’s a Vibe: understanding the graduate school experiences of Black male engineering faculty. Journal for Multicultural Education. https://doi.org/10.1108/JME-01-2022-0013Henderson, T. S., Shoemaker, K. A., & Lattuca, L. R. (2022c). Career calculus: Assessing the psychological cost of pursuing an engineering career. Journal of
engineering culture and applying cognitive load theory in the engineering classroom. He is currently working on an NSF project attempting to improve dissemination of student narratives using innovative audio approaches. Gabe has a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Utah State University (USU). ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 From Mind Full to Mindful: Proposing Mindfulness as a Proactive Strategy for Safeguarding Mental Health in Engineering EducationAbstractEngineering students are increasingly reporting struggles with stress and mental healthchallenges during their undergraduate careers, yet most will only consider seeking
). I havelimited experience with qualitative research, and kept this in mind while interperting the resultsof our study. I tend not to think about how my identity is affecting my interpretation of datawithout prompting. As a non-engineer, educator, and social scientist, my biases are that empathyand critical thinking are integral to the development of deep-thinking. Career-focused beginningstudents are unlikely to take a critical look at the field of they have just entered, and need to seeexamples of this. I attempted to assist with data analysis and interpretation as the project hasbeen implemented.Michael Laver: I am a forty-nine year old white, cis-gender male from Indiana, currently livingin Rochester, New York. I received my bachelor’s
. Waidzunas, “Systemic inequalities for LGBTQ professionals in STEM,” Sci. Adv., vol. 7, no. 3, p. eabe0933, 2021, doi: 10.1126/sciadv.abe0933.[11] J. B. Yoder and A. Mattheis, “Queer in STEM: Workplace Experiences Reported in a National Survey of LGBTQA Individuals in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Careers,” J. Homosex., vol. 63, no. 1, pp. 1–27, Jan. 2016, doi: 10.1080/00918369.2015.1078632.[12] E. A. Cech, “The (Mis)Framing of Social Justice: Why Ideologies of Depoliticization and Meritocracy Hinder Engineers’ Ability to Think About Social Injustices,” in Engineering Education for Social Justice: Critical Explorations and Opportunities, J. Lucena, Ed., in Philosophy of Engineering and Technology. Dordrecht
important for a professional engineer. 5.6 (0.9) 5.8 (1.2)It is important to me personally to have a career that involves helping people. 6.6 (0.7) 6.4 (0.6)I will use engineering to help others. 6.8 (0.4) 6.6 (0.6)The needs of society have no effect on my choice to pursue engineering as a career. 2.5 (1.2) 2.8 (1.4)Engineers should use their skills to solve social problems. 5.8 (1.0) 5.9 (1.2)It is important to use my engineering abilities to provide a useful
(EED) at The Ohio State University. His research interests include teaching faculty development and early-career faculty experiences. Before joining the EED program, Marcus studied two years in the Engineering Education Systems and Design program at Arizona State University, he also earned his BS in Civil Engineering at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte and his MS in Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Federal University of Campina Grande in Brazil. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024Opportunities and Challenges in Teaching Equitable Design in EngineeringEducation: A Scoping Literature ReviewAbstract This paper presents the results from a scoping
silenced and highlighted inthe process of shaping hybrid pedagogies and engineering by reflecting on and assessing thenature of “hybridity,” “innovation,” and “design” in engineering education. Introduction During the late 2000s, the South Korean government identified the need to prioritizescience and technology policy in the university sector, specifically in the area of informationand communication technologies, with the aim of developing global leaders. A concerningissue of a "crisis in science and engineering fields" was identified, whereby many youngstudents were disinclined to pursue science and technology careers. In response, thegovernment initiated an effort to attract talented young
embraced.The faculty of RMC have a strong commitment to the liberal arts tradition. The College also hasa strong faculty governance model and “faculty control the curriculum.” A vote of the fullfaculty is required in order to begin a new major. A vocal minority of faculty members believestrongly that the purpose of a liberal arts education is “to promote the common good” [16],regardless of whether or not that education leads to career. They also believe that any newcurricular ideas must percolate up naturally from within the faculty rather than being driven byoutside donors.Given the faculty perspective described above, it became clear that in presenting the new majorfor faculty approval, it would be best to emphasize the scientific foundation of
engineering students at the junior level one must realize that they arefocused completely on the task at hand, placing themselves in a career that makes themchemical, mechanical, electrical, or one of the various other forms of being an engineer. Theyhave usually spent the first two years of college rushing through all the humanities, socialstudies, and composition classes that they can to remove those from their radar. Now they havearrived at the time when many colleges accept them into the brother/sister hood of theprofession. They come with a wide perspective on engineering, a number of mathematicscourses, and in many cases nothing more. They seem to understand all that engineering holds butfail to understand what is important in their lives as
skills and collaborative and inclusive teams into the curriculum. Dr. Rivera-Jim´enez graduated from the University of Puerto Rico at Mayag¨uez with a B.S. and Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering. She earned an NSF RIEF award recognizing her effort in transitioning from a meaningful ten-year teaching faculty career into engineering education research. Before her current role, she taught STEM courses at diverse institutions such as HSI, community college, and R1 public university. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Social Responsibility Views in Science and Engineering: An Exploratory Study Among Engineering Undergraduate
Engineering, English,Communication, Rhetoric, Theatre, Visual Art and Design, Science and Technology Studies, andEngineering Education. Our teaching responsibilities run the gamut of transdisciplinaryinstruction, including communication, science and society, professionalism, team skills,leadership and ethics, and responsibilities as an artist-in-residence, with instruction andsupervision at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Our research interests reflect theseactivities and our career stages span from graduate school to near retirement. We are united by acommon interest in how engineering students develop mindsets that enable effective humanisticpractice, and we share common values in supporting our students’ development of
-centered approach, and remind me to consider how important it is to be inclusive and equitable within STEM.” (AFS) ● “I think of why things were made the way they are and how certain people are favored over others when creating different systems.” (WGS) ● “This class has made me more aware of the many different ways technology affects society (and vice versa) and I will keep that in mind when pursuing my career in engineering so I am less likely
ofdevelopment, with communication assignments (e.g. memos, reports) accompanying manystages using genres appropriate for the given project phase. In almost all modules students arerole playing in the lab’s make-believe company, which is managed by Harold, doing work formake-believe clients.Prior to this faculty position, Harold had accumulated over 13 years of experience working inindustry. There, he learned through trial and error how important communication andprofessional skills are to the success of a technical professional’s career. So, when he begandesigning and teaching laboratory and project-based courses, he understood how they are anideal environment to simulate the settings and activities found in engineering workplaces,including
National Science Foundation projects in the engineering education realm, researching engineering career trajectories, student motivation, and learning. Sreyoshi has been recognized as a Fellow at the Academy for Teaching Excellence at Virginia Tech (VTGrATE) and a Fellow at the Global Perspectives Program (GPP) and was inducted to the Yale Bouchet Honor Society during her time at Virginia Tech. She has also been honored as an Engaged Ad- vocate in 2022 and an Emerging Leader in Technology (New ELiTE) in 2021 by the Society of Women Engineers. Views expressed in this paper are the author’s own, and do not necessarily reflect those of organizations she is associated with. Learn more about Sreyoshi’s impact
programs positioned the engineer’s role as a leader orcollaborator. Programs with an “engineering for” orientation framed leadership and collaborationskills in transactional or extractive terms - that the purpose of learning how to lead or collaboratewas to reap the greatest success for your career or your employer. This approach was commonlyfound in the international or global engineering minors, which emphasized “competency” and“effectiveness” as the goals, which would facilitate successful cross-cultural negotiation ormanagement. On the other hand, leadership or collaboration for “engineering with” relied moreon language that understood the goal to be co-development and mutuality. For example, whereother minors described the goal as solving
for error. However, this fear was tempered to some degree for Joris knowing thatresponsibility would be shared since engineers work in teams. Joris explained, It also kind of scares me, not really scares me because I know that for the career path I want to pursue I know that I want to design in groups, so it's not going to be my own personal responsibility. I'll still share that responsibility with some people, I assume.Joris perceived that teamwork and distributed responsibility lessened the fear he felt. However,him using the language “I assume” implies that he is not entirely sure of the reality of working asan engineer.StressTwo of the participants described feeling stressed about their future responsibility as
perceived by students as immediately relevant to their roles andidentities as engineers, resulting in decisions based on functional outputs but also entailinginterpretive flexibility and inherent contingency. We believe such approaches can produceeducational interventions that capture advanced conceptualizations of sociotechnical integration,while still being accessible to engineering students and interested faculty alike.AcknowledgementsThe authors thank our interviewees for sharing their time and expertise with us for this project,and we acknowledge their career-long commitments to engineering educational transformation.We thank our colleagues in the Engineering, Design, and Society Department for supporting andproviding focused feedback on our
Paper ID #39294Someone Like You: Theorizing LGBTQ Participation in Engineering throughNetwork Homophily and State AuthenticityDr. Bryce E. Hughes, Montana State University, Bozeman Bryce E. Hughes is an Associate Professor in Adult and Higher Education at Montana State University. His research interests encompass diversity and equity in engineering education, with a focus on LGBTQ students. He was recently awarded an NSF CAREER grant to study the experiences of LGBTQ under- graduates in STEM fields. He holds a Ph.D. in education from the University of California, Los Angeles, an M.A. in student development administration
intended for first year students, it is optional for certain majors, who areable to take it in later years if they desire.Researcher PositionalityWe identify as middle-class women who are interested in supporting and studying justice-oriented engineering education from elementary through undergraduate levels. Both of us haveengineering degrees followed by engineering education degrees and have taught undergraduateengineering courses. The first author, Chelsea Andrews, is a white American early-career facultymember, has been a part of this research project from its inception, and leads the researchcomponent, including overseeing data collection. She designed many of the sociotechnicalactivities for the course, including the lesson analyzed in this
, work in the repository was making a case for such an approach that integrated, the firsthalf of the 2000s focused on communicating the importance of such an integration forindividuals studying and not studying engineering, the second half focused on a more macrodemonstration of "how science, technology, and society are interwoven," (p.1) and 2017 – 2018moved to pedagogies focused on sociotechnical thinking and assessment techniques. A year afterthis study was presented, Erickson et al. (2020) made a case for sociotechnical thinking for notjust courses that students are currently taking but the importance of the role of sociotechnicalthinking to engage with problems later on in their careers. Indeed, the ability to 'get a job' is notthe only
, public responsibility,and whistleblower training into their curricula to ensure that the engineers of tomorrow are well-equipped to address the novel ethical dilemmas of AI.IntroductionThe prevalence of ethical challenges in engineering, particularly in the field of artificialintelligence (AI), is a growing concern to both experts and the lay public. Research indicates thata significant majority of engineers face ethical dilemmas during their careers; over 70% ofprofessional engineers have encountered ethical issues in the workplace and approximately aquarter find it challenging to align their professional ethics with their employer’s demands [1].This ethical complexity is especially pronounced in AI development, where engineers often
Past President and Wise Woman of the Organization for the Study of Communication, Language, and Gender. She has received career achievement awards from ICA, NCA, the Central States Communication Association, and Purdue University where she was a Distinguished University Professor in communication and engineer- ing education (by courtesy) and Endowed Chair and Director of the Susan Bulkeley Butler Center for Leadership Excellence. Her primary research areas are organizational communication, career, work-life, resilience, feminist/gender, and design. Her grants have focused on ethics, institutional transformation, and diversity-equity-inclusion-belongingness in the professional formation of engineers.Dr. Sean M
doctoral student who supervises her in her researchjob because he was patient answering her questions “I felt comfortable, it wasn't ever awkward, I neverfelt stupid for asking the questions”. In terms of her future career in academia, Creek explained that shewants a community of minds and practice. “We're setting up the work for future generations to finishwhat we started. It's supposed to be this huge exploration of life, and we're all in it together”. Creekexpressed in the final interview how she was surprised how much community and relationshipsmattered to her. She shared how she now understands that support networks were necessary to 11Dignity
authority figure and often assumed to be anunquestionable part of their authority or legally justified [1], [11]. While legitimate power maybe used appropriately or without causing undue negative effects on less powerful groups, that isnot always the case, and research from students suggested some stakeholders with legitimatepower took actions or made decisions that negatively affected other stakeholders. For instance,the student investigating lead paint on the East Side of Buffalo noted property owners haveignored or found ways to evade laws to address lead paint, leaving this area, which ispredominantly a community of color, with unsafe living conditions. As engineers move intotheir professional careers our students will need to interact with a
. My education and career inengineering took place in predominantly white, male settings. Because of the privilege Iexperience as a white person and the sheltering of experiences that my privilege offers, I haveundergone a massive amount of learning to identify systems of oppression embedded in theculture that may limit others in the profession. My goal with my research is to explore norms inengineering to understand and identify systems of oppression embedded in the culture that maylimit marginalized communities in the profession.Author 2: I am a queer, white woman raised by upper middle-class parents in a suburb to a midsized Southeastern city. I attended a mid-size public high school that was mildly diverse in termsof race and socio