) What does writing look like in engineering? • Increase peer and instructor dialogue in feedback [Chong 2012] Theory of situated cognition:* Written, oral, and visual communication exercises: 2) Which skills do engineering students
writing work (with “Katie” again doing more of this than theother names). These results suggest that participants used assumptions about teammatedemographic information as they made decisions regarding task division, at least regarding whowould do managerial and writing work.IntroductionGroup-based learning is a common aspect of undergraduate engineering curricula, and is acritical part of both first-year introductory engineering courses and senior-level capstone designcourses at many institutions across the country and around the world. Engineering educationresearch based on these courses has provided a solid understanding of the manner by whichstudent teams often allocate tasks and the manner by which gender and race influences thesedecisions
Virginia Tech, Clemson, Utah State,Arizona State, Ohio State, and others formalizing in the years since then. Other less formalized PhDpathways in engineering education have also appeared, expanding the possibilities of PhD study. Thus,the process of graduate school, while familiar to many academics, is also always becoming new. Whilesharing strategies and insights about graduate school has been done several times before [4], [5], it isimportant to update and reiterate those pieces of advice in new realities.Furthermore, while an intense and specific experience, most people only ever complete the PhD processonce. Each step of the process— coursework, qualifying or comprehensive exams, dissertation proposal,research, dissertation writing, and
resources, such as the mentee/mentor ratio, total yearsof the undergraduate program and the local culture are some of the factors that govern the effectivenessof mentoring.Key words: role model, peer mentoring, academic counseling, sponsor, international students.IntroductionThe dictionary definition of the word ‘mentor’ is “an experienced and prudent advisor”, stemming fromthe Greek name Mentor, the advisor of the king Telemachus [1]. Mentoring differs from academiccounselling in many ways. Both the mentor and the mentee need to know each other at a personal level,and thus a stronger bond develops between the two, maintaining a lasting relationship often throughouttheir lifetime. In the ancient epics of India, Krishna became the powerful mentor of
Paper ID #26197The Impact of Socio-cultural Factors in Qatar on Females in EngineeringMiss Maha Sultan Alsheeb, Texas A&M University at Qatar My name Maha Al-Sheeb. I am a joiner chemical engineer student Class of 2020. I have one brother and one sister. I joined the Academic bridge program in 2014. I believes in ”Difficult roads often leads to beautiful destination” Grand.Aspiration.Dr. Amy Hodges, Texas A&M University at Qatar Dr. Amy Hodges is an instructional assistant professor at Texas A&M University at Qatar, where she teaches first-year writing and technical and business writing courses. She also leads
Paper ID #26150How to Approach Learning: Engineering Students’ Perceptions of Project-based and Problem-based Learning at an International Branch Campus inthe Middle EastMiss Alaa Abdalla, Texas A&M University at Qatar Alaa Abdalla is a mechanical engineering student, class of 2019, at Texas A&M University at Qatar. Besides engineering she enjoys learning theoretical Math and Physics concepts. She pursued a minor in mathematics alongside her bachelor’s degree. She is also actively involved in writing and reading initiatives on campus. Currently, she is working on her undergraduate research thesis that looks at the
Accessibility Caucus, Purdue’s Student ASEE Chapter, andGeorgia Institute of Technology’s Lean In Chapter will present their ideas on what helps create asuccessful graduate community. The common findings of all organizations are consolidated intocategories of funding, recruitment, evaluation of success, and best practices for graduate studentorganizations.Tulane University: Women+ in Science and EngineeringBackground and DevelopmentTulane University’s Women+ in Science and Engineering (WISE), a graduate student andpostdoctoral fellow initiative, will conclude its first full year in June 2017. At the ASEE 2016conference, two graduate students and a Tulane Assistant Professor identified a critical need forgraduate student and postdoctoral peer
Professor NegotiationsCase 1: Starting offer at a top-ten engineering research programDr. Taylor Smith, having completed a two-year international post-doctoral experience at a majorinternational laboratory – and having proved worth by already having several externally fundedgrants in addition to numerous peer-reviewed papers, applied for two top-ten engineeringprogram assistant professor positions. The candidate was selected for campus interviews at eachplace, and the interview experiences consisted of the typical two full days of interview, includingbreakfasts, lunches and dinners, with various combinations of faculty, graduate students and staff– rigorous interviews designed to vet future colleagues for their ability to take on the research
problems visual through report writing of the entiremultimedia representation, etc.) as application process and then presenting toclass activities, class assignment and Assessment the class while discussion theira multi stage class project Triangle Metacognition aspects as well.independently and in groups. (LO.1) Every student can easily apply the basic mechanics principles to a real world engineering problem; a 3- stage class
Engineering UndergraduatesAbstract:When engineers enter the workforce they are expected to have professional skills and thetechnical background. However, beside some isolated presentation and writing trainingsincorporated in courses such as senior design, usually there is no official training for suchprofessional skills in engineering curriculum. With the support from National ScienceFoundation, we have developed a program where students have the opportunity to receivetraining on professional skills and practice them in a non-threatening environment. In thisprogram students prepare engineering related lesson plans and present them to local middle andhigh school students. The program offers special workshops on leadership, teamwork,presentation
in Engineering Education (FREE, formerly RIFE, group), whose diverse projects and group members are described at feministengineering.org. She received a CAREER award in 2010 and a PECASE award in 2012 for her project researching the stories of undergraduate engineering women and men of color and white women. She received ASEE-ERM’s best paper award for her CAREER research, and the Denice Denton Emerging Leader award from the Anita Borg Institute, both in 2013. She helped found, fund, and grow the PEER Collaborative, a peer mentoring group of early career and re- cently tenured faculty and research staff primarily evaluated based on their engineering education research productivity. She can be contacted by email at
TechnologyStudies (STS). Throughout the fall 2019 semester, I began to question the ways in which I hadbeen recruited and channeled, as a woman with an interest in science and math, into studyingengineering. Upon taking an introductory STS course, I was introduced to reflecting criticallyabout engineering as a field of study. This led me to enroll in a graduate seminar, EngineeringStudies, which provided me with a much deeper introduction to STS-inflected studies ofengineering, including engineering education. During this time, my professor, along with apostdoctoral fellow, were co-PIs for a study of student experiences in engineering education andhad already convened a group of undergraduate students who were in the process of interviewingtheir peers
): Preparing Junior ColleaguesAbstractDespite the importance of professional development, for most graduate students as up-and-coming faculty members professional development is informal at best. Graduate programs oftenemphasize gaining technical knowledge, skills, and abilities through courses and researchprojects, but provide less opportunity for future faculty members to gain experience withteaching, service, communication, assessment, proposal writing, etc. To provide this experience,we developed the Rising Engineering Education Faculty Experience (REEFE). Founded ontheoretical and practical models of graduate student development, REEFE is an innovativefaculty apprenticeship program for engineering education graduate students that places
form, to be read at homebefore coming to the lab. In many US campuses, the analyses and deep discussions are notperformed with the professor present in the lab to guide the students, but rather students work ingroups to analyze data and then provide formal written reports (30-60 pages) and presentations.Further, at home, approximately 28 hours are allotted in our total NCSU undergraduatecurriculum for hands-on experience in the CHE-specific labs, substantially fewer than the 40hours allotted for a single summer course at CPE-Lyon. Before traveling to France, Alex Kim heard rumors that French engineering students weremore advanced than their American peers, and he was interested in discovering whether or not
Ph.D in Computer Science from the University of California, Davis. Dr. Haungs spe- cializes in game design, web development, and cloud computing. He is the developer of PolyXpress (http://mhaungs.github.io/PolyXpress) – a system that allows for the writing and sharing of location-based stories. Dr. Haungs has also been actively involved in curriculum development and undergraduate edu- cation. Through industry sponsorship, he has led several K-12 outreach programs to inform and inspire both students and teachers about opportunities in computer science. Recently, Dr. Haungs took on the position of Co-Director of the Liberal Arts and Engineering Studies (LAES) program. LAES is a new, multidiscisplinary degree offered
, 4year summer program that provides academic training, mentorship, and hands-on experience formiddle and high school students that are interested in pursuing STEM careers. A series of newcourses that are to be offered as standardized courses at participating TexPREP institutionsthroughout the state are being developed by undergraduate engineering students.Nine undergraduate students majoring in mechanical and civil engineering and computer sciencewere hired to write the TexPREP course curriculum with the idea that students would be able todevelop course content that the participants could easily relate to. Following development of thecurriculum, undergraduate students actively participated in the implementation and reviewprocess. The primary
aqualitative paper outlining our student chapter experiences over the course of 2020’sunprecedented events. We also documented our writing experience, including future paper ideasand their anticipated project timelines, so that future officers will have a streamlined pathway topursue more involved ASEE conference papers.Chapter 3: Executing an informed pivot in chapter roles & responsibilities (June-December 2020)3.1 New strategies for increasing participation/engagementBased on feedback from our expert elicitation, we aimed to improve advertising of our chapter’sevents. Before the start of the academic year, we updated our website with current information(including our mission and values statements) and integrated a calendar on our homepage
comments you may have.” only two students responded with comments regarding their beliefs on societal impact in the healthcare industry (R1) and their appreciation for the lecture (R1 and R2). R2 in response to online format due to restrictions on in-person classes following university COVID-19 safety measures. Table 4. Concluding questions from the post-survey asking students (Q6-Q7) if they thought the topics were beneficial for engineers to learn and if they would recommend the topics to their peers. Free response resulted in two comments supporting their positive feelings towards the content.4.2 Thematic Analysis The final portion of the course required students to form groups to research, write a review
collection ofliterature articles in a systematic way. Borrego, Foster, and Froyd (2014) identified eight steps towriting an SLR [11]: 1) Decide to do a systematic review 2) Identify scope and research questions 3) Define inclusion criteria 4) Find and catalogue sources 5) Critique and appraise 6) Synthesize 7) Identify limitations and validity concerns 8) Write the reviewThree databases were accessed: Academic Search Complete, Education Resources InformationCenter (ERIC), and Scopus. A search string using Boolean logic operators was developed togather all articles relating to TAs in STEM education courses from the three databases. The finalsearch string was:("teaching assistant*" OR "teaching associate*" OR “UTA*” OR
felt the learning gainswere less because students were “missing the point” of the labs, as “we're not interested in whatyou got as a result. We are more interested in knowing why you've got what you got.” This couldmean that a targeted pedagogical training intervention specific to online-specific strategies topromote deeper, more critical thinking might be useful to GLAs and increase their self-perception of their role [6]. Strong peer support and a mentor system might also help relievesome of the pressure from adjusting quickly to a new role as a result of the transition tohybrid/online labs [14].Table 1: Salient themes from the graduate perspective and supporting quotes 1) Lack of “The interaction with students in the online
engineering education is directed towards teaching empathy as askill, Astin [24] conducted a comprehensive study to understand how the college experienceaffects students and, in particular, how faculty characteristics affect the experience of students.The study included 34 measures related to faculty characteristics, including type of teachingmethods, level of altruism, values, morals, and student orientation. Astin found that high researchorientation of faculty members had negative impact on student satisfaction. He found that thestudent orientation of faculty members had a number of positive effects on academic outcomessuch as degree attainment, self-reported growth in writing skills, critical thinking abilities,analytical and problem-solving
Luchini-Colbry is the Director for Graduate Initiatives at the College of Engineering at Michigan State University, where she completed degrees in political theory and computer science. A recipient of a NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, she earned Ph.D. and M.S.E. in computer science and engineering from the University of Michigan. She has published more than two dozen peer-reviewed works related to her interests in educational technology and enhancing undergraduate education through hands-on learn- ing. As a volunteer for Tau Beta Pi, the Engineering Honor Society, Luchini-Colbry facilitates interactive seminars on interpersonal communications and problem solving skills for engineering students across the U.S.Dr