students took all of their courses online, and another 2.97 million studentstook some of their courses online [2].With the growing importance of online education, the goal of this research is to better understandonline graduate engineering education programs by empirically identifying for the first timespecific factors that have a significant impact on program performance. Drawing from theliterature streams of heterogeneity and online learning, we examine the influence of onlinestudents who are veterans or active service members (Fig. 1). From the literature, heterogeneityhas been defined from social structure theory as the “distribution of the population among manygroups, defined by the probability that two randomly chosen persons do not belong
community including serving as General Co-Chair of the 2006 Frontiers in Education (FIE) Conference, on the FIE Steering Committee, and as President of the IEEE Education Society for 2009-2010. She is an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Education. She and her coauthors were awarded the 2011 Wickenden Award for the best paper in the Journal of Engineering Education and the 2011 and 2015 Best Paper Awards for the IEEE Transactions on Education. In Spring 2012, Dr. Lord spent a sabbatical at Southeast University in Nanjing, China teaching and doing research. Dr. Lord received the IEEE Undergraduate Teaching Award.Dr. Catherine Mobley, Clemson University Catherine Mobley, Ph.D., is a Professor of Sociology at
organizations, and extra-curricular activities” [1, p. 1]. Many of theseinstitutions have been designated as “veteran friendly” by organizations such as CollegeChoice’s “Best Colleges for Veterans” [11], Best Value Schools’ “Military-Friendly Colleges”[12], and G.I. Jobs’ [13] “Sponsored Schools that Want to Educate You.” These initiatives oftenhighlight the institutional characteristics that contribute to student veteran success. For example,College Choice recognizes that the best colleges establish “a vet-friendly culture at their school,which only happens through a holistic approach that engages the administrators, the studentbody, veterans, service members, and of course their families” [11, emphasis in original].Research indicates these programs
Paper ID #30666A Systems Engineering Approach to Mentorship Program for Online Mili-taryand Veteran Engineering StudentsDr. Reza Rahdar, Embry Riddle Aeronautical University Dr. Reza Rahdar, currently a full time faculty of the College of Aeronautics, have over 25 years of expe- rience in systems design/development, and engineering systems that include telecommunication systems and networks, Radio communications, air defenses systems, avionics systems, and Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS). Dr. Rahdar developed proficiency with systems engineering principles, pro- cess, and practices. He is an expert in taking
of knowledge” from the American Academy of EnvironmentalEngineers and Scientists (AAEES) and Army doctrine. The interaction of these two professionalaspects, and how they are integrated into the engineering design project, will be presented. Thedeliberate blending of these critical components from each perspective to meet both the needs ofthe engineering profession and the needs of active duty military service will be discussed.Although meaningful assessment of the impact of this educational approach is not borne out untilstudents have graduated, the faculty at our institution have assessment data that demonstrate thevalue of this approach for future personal and professional growth.Introduction One of the common attributes of a
brought practical applications from con- sulting design and construction to the classroom that students’ have found invaluable upon graduating. Serving as Experiential Learning Option advisor for multiple students’ portfolios, Dr. Lester has success- fully evaluated proposals from past work experience to grant course credit for distance students. He has served as the Civil-Site design option evaluator for Senior Design projects each semester as part of his normal teaching responsibilities. Dr. Lester has developed new courses in Civil Engineering Technology to better distribute the student load in Fluid Mechanics and the accompanying laboratory. Dr. Lester has also taught the Professional Engineering preparation
engineering educators can best help them to be successful. Ourfuture research on RANGE students will explore the challenges that these students experience inbalancing the competing demands of military service and academic pursuits in engineeringeducation.References[1] J. Marcus, "Community colleges rarely graduate the veterans they recruit," The Atlantic, 21 April 2017.[2] U.S. Veterans Administration: National Center for Veterans Analysis and Statistics, "Summary of veterans benefits: FY 2000 to FY 2016," [Online]. Available: https://www.va.gov/vetdata/utilization.asp. [Accessed 22 January 2020].[3] U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, "Annual Benefits Report, Fiscal Year 2018," Author, Washington, DC, 2019.[4] C. A. Cate, S. Lyon, J
efficiencies and cost savings achievedthrough online learning will more likely impact lecture-style courses than smaller courses. Researchers and educators have sought to determine online learning’s effectiveness in amultitude of studies. The United States Department of Education considered the results of manyyears’ worth of data to identify if any overall trends emerged. The researchers ultimately drewtwo major conclusions. First, they found that “online delivery produced a statistically significant,small-to-moderate-size advantage for learning” [5, pp. 30-31]. This conclusion stands in contrastto the commonly held belief of faculty that online learning leads to decreased quality ofeducation. The second finding was that “blended course design
and her coauthors were awarded the 2011 Wickenden Award for the best paper in the Journal of Engineering Education and the 2011 Best Paper Award for the IEEE Transactions on Education. In Spring 2012, Dr. Lord spent a sabbatical at Southeast University in Nanjing, China.Michelle M. Camacho, University of San Diego Michelle Madsen Camacho is Professor in the Department of Sociology & Faculty Administrator at the University of San Diego and is a former Fellow of the American Council on Education. Her research c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Paper ID #21760 focuses on
, underrepresentedminority, disabled, etc.). These challenges illustrate not only an obligation to conduct moreSVSM research, but also a need to push at the current boundaries of SVSM research for thepurposes of deepening the practical as well as theoretical impact of its findings.One way to advance SVSM research within the context of engineering education is through abroad(er) application of available theoretical perspectives and research methodologies,particularly those developed within the research traditions of other professionally oriented fields(e.g., teacher education, medicine). The purpose of this work in progress paper is to present fordiscussion a promising approach for researching alongside SVSM in engineering educationcalled ‘Narrative Inquiry
Chemical Engineering Department of the University of Utah. She received a B.S. in Chemistry from Utah State University and an M.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Utah. Her current research is focused on the development and improvement of electro- chemical sensors for disease diagnosis by breath. Her interest in support for diversity and special interest groups inspired her collaboration on this project.Mr. Michael Scott Sheppard Jr., Arizona State University Michael Scott Sheppard is a graduate research associate pursuing a Master of Science degree in Engineer- ing and a Ph.D. in Engineering Education Systems and Design at Arizona State University. He received a Bachelor of Science in Biomedical Science
. Issues in Information Systems, 2020. 21(4).3. Dwivedi, Y.K., et al., Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on information management research and practice: Transforming education, work and life. International Journal of Information Management, 2020. 55: p. 102211.4. Georgiadou, A., S. Mouzakitis, and D. Askounis, Working from home during COVID-19 crisis: a cyber security culture assessment survey. Security Journal, 2021: p. 1-20.5. Lallie, H.S., et al., Cyber security in the age of covid-19: A timeline and analysis of cyber-crime and cyber-attacks during the pandemic. arXiv preprint arXiv:2006.11929, 2020.6. Furnell, S. and J.N. Shah, Home working and cyber security–an outbreak of unpreparedness? Computer Fraud
. Student work has extended learning on reinforced concrete (RC), delved into new blastengineering design knowledge, incorporated the generation Mathcad-based engineering tools,and investigated performance-based alternatives to support rotation limits for one-way structuralmembers identified in the UFC 3-340-02. The project has provided a wealth of opportunities toprepare students for graduate level experiences and learn new content, while the analysis andresults from this capstone project will provide DOD engineers with new tools for design. Thispaper reports on the results of this effort leveraging DOD expertise and research withundergraduate experiential learning. The authors will demonstrate that through Project BasedLearning (PBL) the
. Ethnographic research was alogical fit for our study, which aimed to examine the cultural tension and confluence in femalestudents’ experiences situated in a traditionally male-dominated learning environment.Data Sources After IRB approval, the research team contacted the instructor of the course entitledMilitary Technology and Instrumentation (MTI) or Experimental Research Methods (ERM) toobtain his support for data collection. MTI/ERM was a new course developed through externalgrant support with a goal to broaden the military science and technology workforce. The courseincluded lectures and several hands-on laboratory activities designed to increase students’interest in and knowledge of military technologies and related career opportunities
practice sustainability. Bielefeldt is also a licensed P.E. Professor Bielefeldt’s research interests in engineering education include service- learning, sustainable engineering, social responsibility, ethics, and diversity.Dr. Greg Rulifson P.E., Colorado School of Mines Greg currently teaches in Humanitarian Engineering at CSM. Greg earned his bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering with a minor in Global Poverty and Practice from UC Berkeley where he acquired a passion for using engineering to facilitate developing communities’ capacity for success. He earned his master’s degree in Structural Engineering and Risk Analysis from Stanford University. His PhD work at CU Boulder focused on how student’s connections of
, demonstrating that the student veterans werehaving a positive impact in the classroom. This paper presents a brief overview of a new project-based assignment in a technical writing course designed to assess multiple outcomes, itsinstitution-specific implementation, and current veteran success indicators. Data from surveysand institutionally-defined leadership characteristics are presented. Finally, by teaming studentveterans with traditional students, technical writing educators can provide opportunities forstudent veterans to demonstrate in-classroom leadership and contribute experiential insight forthe collective benefit of student veterans and their traditional student counterparts.IntroductionIndustry has recognized the need for engineers with