Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade - Reflections and Advice on the Educational Process

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christopher Emmanuel Early, The University of Houston-Clear Lake; Jose Daniel Velazco, University of Houston-Clear Lake; Miguel Rosales, University of Houston-Clear Lake; Edgar Cantu, AutoSol Inc.

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Diversity

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Student

Paper ID #17106Bridges to STEM Careers: A Student Mentor PersectiveMr. Christopher Emmanuel Early, The University of Houston-Clear Lake Christopher Early is a student at The University of Houston-Clear Lake. He is currently pursuing a Bachelors of Science degree in Computer Science and Mathematics. Christopher works as a Research Assistant and Student Mentor in the School of Science and Computer Engineering. He has also engaged in research at the University of Houston-Downtown.Jose Daniel Velazco, University of Houston-Clear Lake Jose Daniel was born in Jalisco, Mexico. Since his childhood, he has had an interest in

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade - Reflections and Advice on the Educational Process

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rebecca M. Reck, Kettering University

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Diversity

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career. Youremotional health might not be as straightforward to manage. Graduate school has emotional highs(e.g. success in research, accepted papers) emotional lows (e.g. rejected papers, failed tests) andstress. I learned that my emotional health is not something I could ignore. Taking time foryourself is important during your graduate school career. The last lesson of the paper is aboutsetting goals and finding opportunities to achieve your goals. A common goal for earning yourdoctorate should be preparing you for your career in either academia or industry.My BackgroundI am currently a Visiting Assistant Professor at Kettering University and I defended mydissertation on April 1, 2016, about 31.5 months after starting my Ph.D. in Systems

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade - Experiences Designing Courses and Communities

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Aileen Tapia, University of Texas, El Paso; Jose Martinez, University of Texas, El Paso; Peter Golding P.E., University of Texas, El Paso

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supports high schoolstudents interested in advancing to STEM degrees at institutions of higher education, and itprovides a near peer mentor experience that can assist the Junior Chapter members as theyproceed through the process of seeking and transitioning to university studies. We are workingto help students advance what we call the “SHPE driving pillars:” (1) academic development, (2)professional development, (3) outreach/community service, (4) leadership development, and (5)chapter development.The UTEP MAES/SHPE Student Chapter welcomes Junior Chapters with student membershipfrom all ethnicities for the purpose of increasing the number of Latino youth that enter andcomplete Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) related careers

Conference Session

Student-led Research on Engineering Education - Quantitative Methodologies

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Danielle Grimes, Mississippi State University; Tom M Leathem, Mississippi state university

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Diversity

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Student

confident I can do an excellent job on thetests in my courses for my major.” This indicates that female students are confident in theirability to understand the basic material presented to them; but they lack confidence in theirability to excel on areas of more difficult tasks and tests.Motivational factorsStudents were asked to consider five items of motivational factors and indicate to what level - ona five-point Likert scale - each of those factors played a role in selecting their major (Table 3).Overall the distribution of answers across the five items was fairly even (M=3.45, SD=0.121).Four of the five factors were identified as playing “some” (3) to “quite a bit” (4) of a role inselecting their major. The top three slots were more career

Conference Session

Listening and Negotiation

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Janet Callahan, Boise State University; Mary E. Besterfield-Sacre, University of Pittsburgh; Jenna P. Carpenter, Campbell University; Kim LaScola Needy P.E., University of Arkansas; Cheryl B. Schrader, Missouri University of Science and Technology

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ASEE Diversity Committee, Diversity

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Continuing Professional Development, Engineering Leadership Development Division, New Engineering Educators, Student, Women in Engineering

Engineering Mentoring from the White House; the 2008 Hewlett-Packard/Harriett B. Rigas Award from the IEEE Education Society; the 2013 Distinguished Educator Award from the ASEE Electrical and Computer Engineering Division; and was named an IEEE Fellow in 2014. Dr. Schrader earned her B.S. in electrical engineering from Valparaiso University, and her M.S. and Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of Notre Dame. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Listening and NegotiationAbstractNegotiation is an important skill for faculty at all stages of their career, but one that researchsuggests is often uncomfortable for women faculty to employ. This paper

Conference Session

Student Division Poster Session

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Galczynski, University of Maryland - College Park

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Student

extracurricular activities as an opportunity to gain further hands onexperience and knowledge about subjects that relate more to the real world. For example, Jimmysuggested he was eventually interested in joining the Engineering Car Racing team because hewas simply interested in learning more about how cars work and function. Beyond learning,Jimmy did not see too much value in extracurricular activities. Because he expected thatengineering companies would be more intently focused on his grades when considering him forinternships or future careers, Jimmy designated that he intends to prioritize his studies rather thaninvolving himself in extracurricular activities. This decision seems to align well with Jimmy’searlier assertion that responsibility and

Conference Session

Exploring Research Methodologies in Engineering Education

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Deirdre-Annaliese Nicole Hunter, Virginia Tech; Philip Reid Brown, Virginia Tech

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Student

the focus on instructors’ behaviors, interviews with the instructorsmay have been helpful to understand the intention of instructors’ behaviors.Example 3 – Re-analysis of Interviews for a New Research PurposeIn our third example, we present how another graduate student identified the interview data fromthe PBL data set as useful for his research needs and utilized it as a central component of hisdissertation research. The researcher was investigating the career goals that undergraduatestudents have, and how those students use their career goals to make choices in the present[16]. Inchoosing a data set for this research question, the researcher had to consider whether aperspective data set contained students discussing their post-graduation

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade - Experiences Designing Courses and Communities

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nadra Guizani, Purdue Univeristy; Hector Enrique Rodriguez-Simmonds, Purdue Engineering Education

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Student

striving to increase her instructional experience for her academic career. Creating thisworkshop was a good first step into gaining experience in creating a lecture and communicatingwith different parts of the school. Having a collaborative team building experience was also animportant graduate career goal. Co-leading the workshop increased Nadra’s confidence in herteaching style and helped to pinpoint areas that required improvement.H´ector’s motivations for conducting this workshop were to practice knowledge sharing acrossdifferent disciplines and to put engineering education research into practice. H´ector’s beeninterested in sharing programming skills with non-programmers since he ventured outside ECEand into Engineering Education. This

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade - Reflections and Advice on the Educational Process

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephanie Cutler, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; James J. Pembridge, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical Univ., Daytona Beach; Matthew A. Verleger, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical Univ., Daytona Beach

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Student

,participants included current graduate students, recently graduated PhDs, and experienced faculty whohad advised multiple PhD students throughout their careers. The disciplines of the participants were notidentified, but, from the nature of the FIE conference, it is assumed that a majority of the participantswere from engineering disciplines. The session leaders, as well as many of the session participants, holdPhDs in Engineering Education from Purdue or Virginia Tech. The session tried to maintain a focus thatwas not exclusively built around the PhD process in Engineering Education at those two institutions,though there was some natural gravitation toward that experience. Participants were asked to leave theirprocess maps on the work tables if they

Conference Session

Exploring Research Methodologies in Engineering Education

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ryan L Falkenstein-Smith, Syracuse University; Jack S Rossetti, Syracuse University; Michael Garrett, Syracuse University; Jeongmin Ahn, Syracuse University

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Paper ID #16779Investigating the Influence of Micro-Videos used as a Supplementary CourseMaterialMr. Ryan L Falkenstein-Smith, Syracuse University Ryan is a Ph.D. candidate at Syracuse University whose research interest range from carbon sequestration to engineering education.Mr. Jack S Rossetti, Syracuse University I am a second year Ph. D. student. Research interests: How students learn How to make teaching more effective and engagingMr. Michael Garrett, Syracuse University Michael Garrett is an incoming graduate student at Syracuse University. Throughout his undergraduate career he developed an interest in

Conference Session

Student-led Research on Engineering Education - Quantitative Methodologies

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jaclyn Kuspiel Murray, University of Georgia

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Diversity

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Student

Paper ID #15814An Analysis of First-Year Engineering Majors’ Spatial SkillJaclyn Kuspiel Murray, University of Georgia Jaclyn Kuspiel Murray is currently a research scientist at Georgia Institute of Technology in the depart- ment of biomedical engineering. In May of 2016 she graduated with a doctorate of philosophy in science education from The University of Georgia. She earned a bachelor of science in mechanical engineer- ing from Georgia Institute of Technology and a master of science in biomedical engineering from The University of Tennessee Health Science Center and The University of Memphis. After a brief career in