Paper ID #29388Revising Roles: Enhancing an Engineering Capstone Course to ImproveOutcomes for WomenMary Kay Camarillo P.E., University of the Pacific Mary Kay Camarillo is an Associate Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of the Pacific in Stockton. She specializes in water treatment and in domestic and industrial waste treatment. Dr. Camar- illo’s research includes development of biomass energy projects for agricultural wastes and treatability assessments for oilfield produced water. She focuses on environmental problems in California. Dr. Ca- marillo earned her Ph.D. at UC Davis and spent many years in
writing component in a year-long senior capstone materialsscience and engineering (MSE) course sequence. This course requires students to completeprojects for clients and produce a written report, among other deliverables. To focus more onwriting education, the engineering professors brought in an English professor, who researchesengineering communication and is coordinating this project, to consult on assignments, commenton student work, and present on writing topics, including managing the writing aspect ofcollaborative work. Here, we assess the impacts of interventions on student writing andcollaboration, focusing on women’s experiences through a series of interviews. These interviewsfocused on learning more about women’s past experiences
132 Develop a business plan to fund the design and development of a product which would be considered an "Assistive Technology" device. Students work with a specific client and identify Capstone Assistive F Capstone I Donn Technology project to
retaining student inengineering, particularly women and minorities. Results show a seventh-semester retention rateof 63% for students who enrolled in the projects course during their first year, compared to acollege-wide rate of 58%. In addition, 67% of women who took the projects course in their firstyear were retained into their seventh semester, versus less than 58% for females that did not takethe projects course8. The specific benefits of the Appropriate Technology sections relative to theother course topics have not yet been evaluated, and is a topic for future study.Senior Design Course with EDC ProjectsIn the three-credit Environmental Engineering senior capstone design course, teams of studentswork on projects for a single client or
transformation is toattract and retain traditionally underrepresented groups to engineering, particularly women, and in effect,increase departmental diversity.To achieve the goal of more women engineers, the CECM department will take advantage of, and betteralign itself with the existing experiential learning nature of its sister programs on campus andbeyond. This will include common coursework at the freshman level in the first year experience (FYE)courses, at the sophomore level in the surveying courses, at the junior level in the construction economicsand finance courses, and at the senior level in the capstone senior project course. Further, the proposedexperiential, community service learning activities with Habitat for Humanity of Bulloch County
universal design in engineering curriculaAs our participants noted, there are few examples of accessibility and disability being included inthe engineering curricula. What are the best places to start introducing disability or UD into analready packed engineering curriculum? Capstone or cornerstone engineering design classes area natural fit for incorporating UD concepts into the engineering curriculum, challenging studentsto design for individuals of all abilities and backgrounds. Many engineering programs offerspecialty capstone design courses focused on assistive technology that provide a natural point forintroducing UD principles. For example: ● Recent senior design projects from the Colorado School of Mines under the mentorship of
al., “Enriching K-12 Science and Mathematics Education Using LEGOs.” Advances in Engineering Education, Vol. 3, No. 2, Summer 2012.11. Haury, D.L. and Rillero, P. “Perspectives of Hands-On Science Teaching.” ERIC Clearinghouse for Science, Mathematics and Environmental Education, Columbus, OH, March 1994.12. Garrity, C., "Does the Use of Hands-On Learning, with Manipulatives, Improve the Test Scores of Secondary Education Geometry Students?" 1998.13. NASA Systems Engineering Handbook, SP-2007-6105, http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/20080008301.pdf14. Carmen, C., “Integration of a NASA ESMD Faculty Fellowship Project within an Undergraduate Engineering Capstone Design Class,” 62nd
was the only girl in class among guys but over theyears I’ve worked past this.” Another student noted, “Professors speeding along courseworkbecause majority of the students which [sic] are dominantly males who already work in this field,already know this. Not giving enough time or breaking it down clear enough for you to actuallylearn what is being taught. It’s just being shown.” Yet another female student pointed to “Timemanagement since I am a housewife” as a major challenge. 90 80 70 60 50 Male 40 Female 30 20 10 0 Individual in- Team projects capstone project other class practiceFigure 3
transition from capstone trainingto engineering practice. Engineering education is meant to prepare engineering students for thechallenges of the engineering workplace, but this is not the same as preparing women for the(presumably) gendered experiences of engineering work. This study aims to answer the question:What unique challenges do women face in their first year of engineering work?We ask this question to make way for the question: What should women be prepared for intransitioning to engineering work?We attempt to answer our main research question with a qualitative analysis of data from a largerstudy, the [Project] study. Data comes in the form of 98 interviews with 45 engineeringnewcomers, at 3, 6, and 12 months of engineering work. Of the
serving as project director and principal investigator for multiple grants through the U.S. Department of Education and the NSF. Much of her work has focused on developing programs that fostered Universal Design for Learn- ing in higher education. Her doctorate is in Educational Policy, Research, and Administration from the University of Massachusetts.Prof. Susannah Howe, Smith College Susannah Howe is the Design Clinic Director in the Picker Engineering Program at Smith College, where she coordinates and teaches the capstone engineering design course. Her current research focuses on innovations in engineering design education, particularly at the capstone level. She is also involved with efforts to foster design
populations.Humanitarian Engineering is an area which aims to promote human welfare through the creation,invention and modification of appropriate technologies. One of the specific goals is to address needs ofpeople who have been largely ignored by the engineering community [12]. Over the last decade,humanitarian engineering programs and organizations have emerged in large numbers in the US.Additionally, humanitarian engineering programs typically tend to attract larger number of femalestudents than mainstream engineering programs. For example, a study at the Colorado School of minesfound that the percent of female engineering students who were participating in capstone projects that hada humanitarian aspect were significantly larger than those participating in
experiences.Dr. Marie C Paretti, Virginia Tech Marie C. Paretti is an Associate Professor of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech, where she co- directs the Virginia Tech Engineering Communications Center (VTECC). Her research focuses on com- munication in engineering design, interdisciplinary communication and collaboration, design education, and gender in engineering. She was awarded a CAREER grant from the National Science Foundation to study expert teaching in capstone design courses, and is co-PI on numerous NSF grants exploring com- munication, design, and identity in engineering. Drawing on theories of situated learning and identity development, her work includes studies on the teaching and learning of communication
during post doctorate research positions at the Uni- versity of Michigan (Ann Arbor, MI), Tohoku University (Sendai, Japan), and Mayo Clinic (Rochester, MN). He has taught classes for and been an advisor on capstone senior design projects for Wentworth students in the programs of electrical engineering, computer engineering, electromechanical engineering, and biomedical engineering.Mr. Joseph F. Santacroce P.E., Wentworth Institute of Technology c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Girl Scouts STEM DayAbstractGirl Scouts STEM day is a program at Wentworth Institute of Technology to help 4th or 5th gradestudents explore STEM fields. The event is organized
friends, so we mostly had task division. What he did—he wasn’t calling me or they were just doing it and when I was asking he said, “Okay, don’t worry. We just done it. We went to the lab and we just finished it.” I got so mad and I went to the professor and said, “He doesn’t—just share those projects, because I have to get a grade, too.” He said, “You chose him as a leader, so you have to go take care of it.” I sent him a few e-mails and asked him, “Okay, you should just give me more tasks, you have to just make—” I don’t know; he just never did. For the second semester of capstone I got B, because our professor said, “I didn’t see you doing those electrical engineering things,” and I said
Paper ID #9573Does Engineering Attract or Repel Female Students Who Passionately Wantto Help People?Dr. Angela R Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder Angela Bielefeldt, Ph.D., P.E., is a Professor in the Department of Civil, Environmental, & Architec- tural Engineering at the University of Colorado Boulder. She has been on the faculty since 1996. She serves as the ABET Assessment Coordinator for the Department. Professor Bielefeldt teaches introduc- tory courses for first year engineering students, senior capstone design, and environmental engineering specialty courses. She conducts engineering education
teamsAbstractWomen in masculine fields such as engineering often face a paradox when it comes tointerpersonal communication: if they speak like a woman they may be perceived as weak oremotional, but if they speak and act like a man they may be perceived as difficult to work with.This project attempts to uncover the tacit knowledge that successful engineering women haveaccumulated about communicating successfully as an engineer so that we can pass thisknowledge down to students. Discourse completion interviews with 23 female engineeringprofessionals and 19 female undergraduates asked participants to identify how they wouldrespond to situations where a teammate is dominating a project. We find that while students tendto either avoid conflict or correct
. Dally, J. W., & Zhang, G. M. (1993). A freshman engineering A4 120 design course. Journal of Engineering Education, 82(2), 83-91. Miller, R. L., & Olds, B. M. (1994). A model curriculum for a A5 capstone course in multidisciplinary engineering design. Journal of 113 Engineering Education, 83(4), 311-316.FindingsIn line with discourse analysis methods, the findings are presented through quotes and passagesfrom the five papers reviewed. It is important to note some of these quotes are paraphrased in thearticles, based off engineering design work done by others. We have not included these citations,as we
courseof study) (at least 8 units at the 300- or 400-level); 24 units of additional coursework in a liberalarts specialization; and at least 4 upper-level LSE courses: two on project-based learning, asenior project course, and a capstone. Students must also either study or intern abroad, orcomplete 2 additional upper-level courses in global studies.As of Fall 2014, 55 students have graduated with a B.A. in LSE at CPSU, and 55 additionalstudents are currently active in the program (48 as LAES majors and 7 currently on a one- ortwo-quarter individualized change of major agreement). (Two other students were denied theirdegree in Spring 2012, 3 students discontinued the program, and 1 student has completed all of
Education in Science, Mathematics, Engineering and Technology (CRESMET), and an evaluator for several NSF projects. His first research strand concentrates on the relationship between educational policy and STEM education. His second research strand focuses on studying STEM classroom interactions and subsequent effects on student understanding. He is a co- developer of the Reformed Teaching Observation Protocol (RTOP) and his work has been cited more than 1800 times and his publications have been published in multiple peer-reviewed journals such as Science Education and the Journal of Research in Science Teaching.Lydia Ross, Arizona State University Lydia Ross is a doctoral student and graduate research assistant at
-as-usual. Social justice should not be invisible in engineering education and practice [52]. Facultyprovide social justice examples from all three specializations throughout the curriculum. In addition, faculty embed four social justice case study projects in four semesters of thecurriculum: ENGR 101: Introduction to Freshman Design, ENGR 201: Experiential Engineering,ENGR 321: Electronic Circuits & Devices, and ENGR 381/382/383: Specialty Capstone DesignI. The case study format varies each semester. Freshmen groups are introduced to the case studyapproach in ENGR 101, when each group reviews assigned documents of a case, and then laterdescribes the case to other groups during a reserved course meeting. These sets of case
Paper ID #11940Engaging Freshmen Women in Research – Feedback from Students and BestPractices for FacultyMs. Terri Christiansen Bateman , Brigham Young University Terri Bateman is adjunct faculty in the Brigham Young University College of Engineering and Technol- ogy where she has worked with Women in Engineering & Technology at BYU, numerous mechanical engineering capstone senior design teams, and the Compliant Mechanisms Research Group. She received her bachelors and masters degrees in Mechanical Engineering from BYU, and also worked at Ford Motor Company as a manufacturing and design engineer in Automatic
, Wentworth Institute of Technology Gloria Ma is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Technology. She has been teaching robotics with Lego Mindstorm to ME freshmen for several years. She is actively involved in community services of offering robotics workshops to middle- and high-school girls. Her research in- terests are dynamics and system modeling, geometry modeling, project based engineering design, and robotics in manufacturing.James R McCusker PhD, Wentworth Institute of Technology James R. McCusker is an Associate Professor at Wentworth Institute of Technology in the Department of Electrical Engineering. Since joining Wentworth in 2010, he has been heavily involved with an array of
result related to the raceand gender and ignored other results of papers.CollaborationThree papers were about the mode of collaboration [20], [21], [23]. Flynn et al. [20]investigated the effect of mode of collaboration on female students while working in teams.The authors studied two different engineering teams working on the capstone project. Oneteam consisted of two men and two women. The mode of collaboration in this team wasdialogic. Another team consisted of two women and three men and the mode of collaborationhad the characteristics of dialogic, asymmetrical and hierarchical modes. In the first team,female students were treated equally with men and there was no major conflict among teammembers. But, in the second team, female students
Program (WE@RIT); ME Department Advocate for Engineering Honors Program; and Member of Multidisciplinary Capstone Design Leadership Team.Elizabeth DeBartolo, Rochester Institute of Technology ELIZABETH A. DEBARTOLO is an Associate Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department at the Rochester Institute of Technology. She earned her BSE at Duke University in 1994 and her MSME and Ph.D. at Purdue University in 1996 and 2000, respectively. She works with students on predicting and enhancing fatigue life in aircraft materials and structures and on determining mechanical properties of biological materials. Dr. DeBartolo serves on her college's leadership teams for both multi-disciplinary
introduced an extrinsic performance goal that enhancedthe undergraduates’ motivation, but left us able to answer our research question: what are thesimilarities and differences between women and men undergraduates in their intrinsic motivationto perform K12 outreach?MethodsOutreach Project Our study focused on an outreach activity performed in one mid-level course (Strength ofMaterials) within the ABET-accredited general engineering curriculum at a small (less than2,000) private regional liberal arts college. The course had an enrollment of 22 students spanning10 sophomores (45%), 11 juniors (50%), and 1 senior (5%), including 16 men and 6 women(27%). To expose undergraduates to outreach, all undergraduates enrolled in the Strength
Paper ID #16129Engineering Students’ Self-Concept Differentiation: Investigation of Identity,Personality, and Authenticity with Implications for Program RetentionMs. Kylie Denise Stoup, James Madison University Kylie Stoup is a senior honors engineering student at James Madison University. Ms. Kylie Stoup grad- uates with a BS in Engineering in May 2016. She is in the second year of her 2-year-long engineering capstone project so far, involving the design and implementation of a greenway system in Harrisonburg. Her career interests include transportation infrastructure and city planning with a focus in social equity, as
Paper ID #6759Negotiating Masculine Spaces: Attitudes and Strategies of First-Year Womenin EngineeringDr. Marie C Paretti, Virginia Tech Marie C. Paretti is an Associate Professor of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech, where she co-directs the Virginia Tech Engineering Communications Center (VTECC). Her research focuses on communica- tion and teamwork in engineering, design education, and engineering identity. She was awarded a CA- REER grant from NSF to study expert teaching practices in capstone design courses nationwide, and is co-PI on NSF . Her work includes studies on the teaching and learning of communication
leading to new curriculum projects, internships, research funding for undergraduatesor capstone projects, and government funding for research.5. Creating a pipeline of female engineering academics by increasing awareness and understanding ofthe academic career path. For example, SWE can increase understanding of what an academic career pathentails, resolve misconceptions, and/or conduct an awareness campaign. Examples include conferencesessions and/or webinars targeting a broad engineering audience.
Education in Science, Mathematics, Engineering and Technology (CRESMET), and an evaluator for several NSF projects. His first research strand concentrates on the relationship between educational policy and STEM education. His second research strand focuses on studying STEM classroom interactions and subsequent effects on student understanding. He is a co- developer of the Reformed Teaching Observation Protocol (RTOP) and his work has been cited more than 2800 times and he has been published in multiple peer-reviewed journals such as Science Education and the Journal of Research in Science Teaching.Lydia Ross, Arizona State University Dr. Lydia Ross is a clinical assistant professor in the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College
, quiet environment and then 5 min afterwards to write down theirreflections. During the session, some students shared their experiences with the visualizationand described their inner mentor.Session 2: Fear and Unhooking from Praise and CriticismThis session began with a discussion on distinctions of fear brought forward in the book.Pachad is defined as the fear of projected or imagined things. Yirah is a different fear thatcomes forward when connected to a calling or life’s dream. This inspired space brings outfeelings of expansiveness, exhilaration, or awe. In the session there was time to journal aboutexperiences with both fears. Then if there were willing participants, they shared experiences ofyirah with the group.The second part of the