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
master’s programs is vital for grasping how the nextgenerations of engineers are grappling with the challenges that current and emerging AItechnologies will create.Research QuestionsDrawing on interviews with 62 electrical and computer engineering (ECE) master’s students(described in more detail below), we explore three broad questions related to their perspectiveson AI. (1) What opportunities and dangers do ECE masters students see in artificial intelligencebroadly? Do they exhibit unbridled enthusiasm for AI’s potential? Are they apprehensive orfearful of AI developments and what an AI-saturated future will hold? As the future leaders ofthese technologies, ECE masters students are bellwethers for the views of the engineeringprofession more
that “this course isirrelevant to my future! I’m only taking it to fulfill the course requirements.” The USTstudent’s dissatisfaction may also be attributed to the fact that many of them are graduate orPh.D. students, and some are with familial responsibilities, which makes it difficult for themto devote additional time to the course and its assignments. A few students from UST endshad also told us that such a course offered them an opportunity to “have a slight deviationfrom my main capacity or major”. However, some students from UST also expressed theirinterest in this course content, stating that “I chose this class specifically to challenge myselfto a topic more socially oriented” or to seek for “a diverse class environment”.PEDAGOGYAs
having sites connected to each other.” Additionally, the backboneconceptualization is strengthened due to the NF role being built into his local site structure. AtGreg’s site, local site leadership expects the NF to attend leadership meetings and conveyinformation between the NF team and the site. However, this can also play out in the oppositeway, where the backbone conceptualization is weakened by the local site contexts.Arpita is a graduate student located at a site that is currently going through a period of transitionafter a faculty lead left their position and a new faculty lead has stepped into the role. Thisexcerpt comes after an exchange between CT and Arpita in which she strategized about how thenew faculty member lead could be brought
defense industry,interpreted diversely by the student body. Theprevalence of these organizations, as reflected in thestudent quotes, suggests that the Clark School heavilyleans on this network for career opportunities,influencing the perceptions of student’s professionaltrajectories post-graduation, as the following participantquotation captures, “It's for all engineering majors, but it is Figure 7: Image of Corporate Sponsors especially for aerospace, and it's the constant and Military Organizations Associated dilemma and ethical tension about what to do with the Engineering School with all this military-corporate attraction. And I would say that opportunities from the Clark School grow very
’ institution as it has with manyother institutions across the US.As a Jesuit Catholic university committed to “the ideals of liberal education and the developmentof the whole person,”[11] LUM operates primarily as an undergraduate institution withconsiderable liberal arts requirements. Students who pursue LUM’s ABET-accredited bachelor’sof science in engineering must select one of four concentrations in electrical, computer,mechanical, or materials engineering. At the same time, all students are required to completecourses in the natural sciences and mathematics, as well as in the humanities and social scienceswherein reading, writing, and critical thinking skills are heavily emphasized [12]. The LUMCore Values Statement “calls upon the curriculum to
Emily Macdonald-Roach is an MASc student in Engineering Education at the University of Toronto. Her research interests include engineering identity formation, engineering culture, and equity, diversity, and inclusion in engineering career paths.Ms. Saskia van Beers, University of Toronto Saskia van Beers (she/her) is a MASc. student in Engineering Education at the University of Toronto. She holds a BASc in Engineering Science from the University of Toronto. Her research focuses on understanding how Canadian engineers reflect on the impact that their social location has had on their career.Sasha-Ann Eleanor Nixon, University of Toronto ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024Why would
key words in both topics relate to the structure andrelationships built into “Engineering and. . .” programs. Topics 2 and 4 fall under the theme ofidentity and culture, as the key words focus on an engineer’s sense of self and career. Topic 3falls best under the teams and groups theme, as the key words relate to the features of individualsand groups that contribute to teamwork. 14 Topic 1: Program Topic 2: Topic 3: Team Topic 4: Topic 5: Design Learning Skills Identity MentorshipKeyword 1 student engineers kgi identity mentorsKeyword 2
students who are underprepared”),then invited different topics, “Let’s move onto the second one (pause) then” into which anotherparticipant animatedly (eye contact around the room and to the Facilitator, gestures) jumped in: You have diverse faculty, this is the case where there are lady professors… the impact is going to be for the students to see an example, a person, a guide, and see that, not as a given, but if that situation exists it’s going to bring down a lot of the comments that people say. Um (pause)The Facilitator immediately filled the pause such that any other potential comments by thespeaker or other participants would be discouraged. The Facilitator’s action enabled him tointerject a reorienting remark to
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