workforce.To promote more female participation in the engineering curriculum, the Embry RiddleMechanical Engineering program has created a student project where undergraduatewomen design and build an off-road race vehicle for the SAE Mini-Baja competition2.The project is integrated into the Mechanical Engineering curriculum and is funded by agenerous grant from The Boeing Company. The project has increased womenparticipation in the project by 10 times compared to last year.This project has three goals. The first goal is to increase retention of women in thecurriculum. Potential women students turn away from engineering for a variety ofreasons, which are typically related to their perception of the engineering field3. Manyfemale students view
, integrating it with their sense of themselves in their livedworld (Belenky, Clinchy, Goldberger, & Tarule, 1997). Along with all students, women werealso found to benefit from faculty and advisors who are aware of their needs and from programsthat teach and support life management and study skills (Blaisdell, Middleton, & Anderson-Rowland, 1996).For minority engineering students, two particular findings out of Howard University warrantattention as well. The first is the negative impact of merit-based scholarships in the retention ofqualified engineering students: students who struggle in their first year drop out of engineeringmajors to protect their GPAs and maintain their scholarships, rather than pursue an engineeringcareer (Fleming
AC 2008-919: FROM 0 TO 60 IN 1 YEAREugene Rutz, University of Cincinnati Eugene is an Academic Director in the College of Engineering at the University of Cincinnati. He is the project leader of a collaboration to develop and deliver pre-eengineering to high schools. Eugene also manages the college's accelerated engineering degree programs.Michelle Shafer, Mt Notre Dame High School Michelle is a degreed Biomedical Engineer who now teaches science at Mt Notre Dame High School near Cincinnati.Brian Lien, Princeton High School Brian Lien teaches technology education classes at Princeton High School near Cincinnati.Carolyn Rost, Mother of Mercy High School Carolyn teaches science and serves
science and engineering curriculum. They arerespectively 1) the construction of the curriculum with the consideration of the students’ backgroundin light of formal and informal experiences and interests; 2) student/student interactions; 3)teacher/student interaction. Lewis [21] attributes these issues as main reasons that made the traditionalscience and engineering curriculum women exclusive, and asserts that real changes need to be made inall these aspects in order to make the environment women friendly.Gendered proportion is also suggested to be an essential element for the measurement of friendliness ofa learning environment, in that it is an important factor influencing the establishment of learning culture[4]. According to Hayes [10], the
with the IMSE department’s curriculum committee andfaculty will ensue.AcknowledgementsThe authors would like to acknowledge Iowa State University’s Miller Faculty Fellowshipprogram, the John Deere Foundation, and the Iowa Space Grant Consortium for providing thefunding necessary to implement and assess the impact of this pedagogy in an industrialengineering curriculum.References[1] Yoder, B.L., “Engineering by the Numbers,” www.asee.org/colleges, accessed 03FEB19.[2] Lichtenstein, H.L. Chen, K.A. Smith, and T.A. Maldonado, “Chapter 16 – Retention andPersistence of Women and Minorities Along the Engineering Pathway in the United States,”2013, Cambridge Handbook of Engineering education Research, pp.311-334.[3] US Bureau of Labor and Statistics
(summarized, by priority, in Table 1, below) include innovation;engineering education best practices; preparing students using a hands-on, project-based approach; integrating the traditional lecture format and laboratoryexperiences into a seamless “class-lab” format; strong professional developmentand service learning components; and an emphasis on a broad base of core skills,complemented with depth in focused concentrations: mechanical engineering(manufacturing focus) and chemical engineering (pharmaceutical focus). The initialconcentrations reflect regional and state engineering employment opportunities,the university’s historic strength in the health sciences, a forward-looking view ofengineering in the 21st century, and a desire to attract a
as a result can make quickdecisions regarding curricular changes. In this sense, ETIs are the ideal locations to test newcurricular ideas and pedagogical techniques. For example, many of the pedagogical reformssuggested by the NAE report “Educating the Engineer of 2020”2 can, in principle, be more easilyand quickly implemented by ETIs. Most importantly, ETIs have a single focus on teachingundergraduates. At my current institution, for example, this is the sole source of income forinstitution (we accept no federal or state money). Thus, it is essential to develop faculty intoexcellent teachers and to continually improve curriculum and teaching facilities. In other words,it is what we do and are expected to do.We do an excellent job educating
Department of Sociology.IntroductionSince 2000, the Accrediting Board of Engineering and Technology has emphasized as one of its11 program outcomes in Criteria 3 the importance for engineering students to master “an abilityto function on multi-disciplinary teams”1 and hence the need to integrate teambuilding skills intothe undergraduate engineering curriculum. This need has arisen because of changes in theworkplace, which now develops engineers into specializations, and requires collaborationbetween specialists and with non-engineers for product planning, design, and completion.Cutting edge engineering programs integrate teambuilding skills and experience into theircurriculum (see, for example, www.foundationcoalition.org).As Rosser2 notes, there
. Susan served as principal investigator or co-principal investigator of several national projects including: Project to Assess Climate in Engineering (PACE), a current study involving 25 universities; FacultyfortheFuture.org, a website designed to support women and underrepresented minorities interested in pursuing faculty positions in the STEM fields; Achieving Success in Academia, a program to assist junior women faculty to navigate the tenure system; Making the Connection, an initiative designed to increase awareness of engineering among students in grades 3-12; and Increasing Access for Women in Engineering, a curriculum and technical assistance project to establish or
an ABET EAC program evaluator in Electrical Engineering. Page 13.402.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 Developmental Advising – Exploring the Boundaries What are appropriate, caring limits?AbstractIt is generally recognized that developmental advising is a key component for studentretention and academic success. Yet faculty advisors may feel inadequately prepared to dosuch advising for what they think are very good reasons. Academic advisors in engineeringhave backgrounds in technology, industry, and curriculum but may forget that they havedeveloped life skills from which
continue pursuing an engineering degree. These twofactors were seen as a way to compensate them for onerous and time-consumingcoursework. Survey results illustrate that motivating factors for female students, more so Page 14.23.7than male students, were formal engineering student organizations. Qualitative findingsunderscore this finding further. Females explained that it was the intrinsic benefitsreceived from participation in such programming that served as motivation. Attendingengineering-related events was viewed as a means to integrate themselves into thedepartment and helped diminish feelings of tokenism. Additional benefits includedconnecting
AC 2010-1946: SUCCESSFUL WOMEN ENGINEERING STUDENTS: A SURVEYASSESSMENT TO GUIDE OUR EFFORTS TO BOOST WOMEN’S RETENTIONDaniel Knight, University of Colorado, Boulder DANIEL W. KNIGHT is the engineering assessment specialist at the Integrated Teaching and Learning Program in CU’s College of Engineering and Applied Science. He holds a B.A. in psychology from the Louisiana State University, and an M.S. degree in industrial/organizational psychology and a Ph.D. degree in counseling psychology, both from the University of Tennessee. Dr. Knight’s research interests are in the areas of retention, program evaluation and teamwork practices in engineering education. His current duties include
.) as well as integration of innovation and entrepreneurship into the Chemical and Petroleum Engineering as well as broader engineering curriculum. In addition, she is actively engaged in the development of a vari- ety of informal science education approaches with the goal of exciting and teaching K-12 students about regenerative medicine and its potential. Most recently, she has started to engage in the development of programs aimed at retaining women within Chemical Engineering including mentor lunches with visiting female seminar speakers, a leadership book club and sexual harassment workshops.Mrs. Lauren M. Byland, University of Pittsburgh Lauren Byland, M.Ed., Associate Director & Coordinator of Student
those choices have on careers, and how to “separateout” trends in engineering from those in the sciences were also important to attendees. Broaderquestions related to this issue area asked why the percentage of women engineers is greateramong ethnic minorities, whether part-time, tenure-track appointments are workable and wherethey may be available, and why there are so few women at the department chair levelnationwide.Key Recommended Action Items ≠ The chair is an incredibly important person for diversity success. Strong training and coaching efforts are warranted for the department chair regarding management, diversity and mentoring training – integrated into formal and informal performance and promotion review, and
energytechnologies.8 PV is a rising field in engineering, having an average growth of 40% per year overthe last twenty years.9 Among other skills, the field requires an understanding of electricalengineering, materials engineering, semiconductor physics, and sustainability. Great strides are being taken in PV engineering to remove barriers of participation andencourage the cooperation of others in related engineering fields.10 For example, curricularefforts are underway to enhance the interdisciplinary nature of PV, aid students in their learningof PV and increase their persistence in the field.6 To facilitate these efforts, engineeringeducators are starting to identify misconceptions inherent in learning PV, enhance educationaltechnology resources
. You are to make recommendations for the upcoming academic year. You must make recommendations based on the limited information below. Assume research interests of all people are similar.Adam – is an Assistant Professor in his 2nd year. His dissertation, focused on computer-integrated processes and manufacturing methods, received an award from the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME). He enjoys teaching his undergraduate engineering courses where he tries to limit lecturing and get students involved. Adam continues to develop his research agenda and his time has been fairly well protected and not taxed with many extra duties.Bob – is an Assistant Professor who submitted his tenure package two months ago and is waiting
from the fictional character Mary Poppinsare used to describe a variety of approaches and methods that have been developed andimplemented for effective leadership in academia by the author, a woman who is an engineeringdepartment chair (head) and director of a large national industry/university cooperative researchcenter. Following an introduction that includes background and motivation, a brief review of theliterature on academic leadership and gender differences in leadership is presented. Threeprimary approaches are then described, including: 1) know your organization, 2) fostercollaboration, a sense of team and community, and 3) serve as an example of excellence. Detailsof several methods and strategies are provided for implementing each
disciplinary female participation at U of A reflectsinternational patterns of subdisciplinary participation.In the case study institution, Civil, Mechanical, and Electrical Engineering were the mosttraditional and well-established disciplines, with international as well as national professionalassociations. That background appeared to be linked to entrenched beliefs and assumptionsabout curriculum content, pedagogies and professional issues appropriate to each discipline.Chemical Engineering was newer (first taught as a separate discipline at the U of A in 1967)but was also an internationally recognised discipline. The Department of Engineering Sciencewas a younger (approximately 25 years old) and less traditional discipline. BiomedicalEngineering
responsibility12.The university has also identified a desired graduate attribute profile so that an explicitdescription of the graduate the University aims to produce is established. For example,university graduates will be known for demonstrating in-depth disciplinary and interdisciplinaryknowledge, social awareness and responsible citizenship, adaptive expertise, creativity andinnovation, and critical thinking. A university graduate should also demonstrate strong intra-andinterpersonal skills and effective communication skills12. Having identified the university valuesand graduate attributes, these needed to be integrated into the new WELA LDP.Integrating University values and the desired graduate profileGraham, Crawley and Mendelsohn 4 distinguish
middle school in Phoenix, Arizona.Dr. Cheryl A Bodnar, Rowan University Dr. Bodnar is an Associate Professor in the Experiential Engineering Education Department at Rowan University. Her research interests relate to the incorporation of active learning techniques such as game- based learning in undergraduate classes as well as integration of innovation and entrepreneurship into the engineering curriculum. In particular, she is interested in the impact that these tools can have on stu- dent perception of the classroom environment, motivation and learning outcomes. She was selected to participate in the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) Frontiers of Engineering Education Sympo- sium in 2013, awarded the American
industrial experience by bringing practical examples and interactive learning to help students understand fundamental engineering principles. Her current research focuses on engineering education, outreach and curriculum development.Julia Ross, University of Maryland-Baltimore County Julia Ross is Professor and Chair of the Chemical and Biochemical Engineering Department at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Her technical research interests are in the area of cellular engineering. In particular, her work focuses on bacterial adhesion to physiological surfaces. In addition, she maintains an active research program in curriculum development with a focus on workforce
contributions to STEM. This paperdiscusses how she accomplished this somewhat hidden achievement and suggests a video anddiscussion activity geared toward prompting undergraduates to reframe their origin stories forcomputer science to include women. In another paper, we discuss the details of her algorithmand present a working program for use as an assignment for students in beginning computerclasses. IntroductionIn our engineering curriculum, we need to emphasize the human aspects of science andengineering. This need is clearly recognized by our accreditation agency, ABET, which requiresa portion of the curriculum to be set aside for such exposure. In order to be creative leaders inScience and Engineering
with advisors and mentors, and provided brainstorming andsupport to help negotiate these relationships.Evaluation MethodologyAssessment and evaluation were an integral part of this project from its initial conception. Thebudget for this project proposed, and was funded, with an explicit eye for evaluation and anexperienced educator was hired to plan, execute, and evaluate the program. Approval for Page 26.825.5research with human subjects was obtained from the University’s Institutional Review Board (IRB), and participants were provided with an informed consent form and had the option toparticipate in the discussion series with—or without
personalexperiences that led to their enrollment and persistence in a post- secondary engineeringprogram. These research findings will help enable K-14 educators to make informed decisionsabout deliberate efforts to engage and support young women, both in their career through pre-engineering and engineering curriculum supports and in the transition from high school tocollege.Research QuestionThe following research question was explored in this study: How do young women’s perceptionsof their K-14 STEM experiences influence their decision to enroll and persist in an engineeringmajor? The sequential approach allowed the researcher to construct specific focus group andinterview questions based on an initial quantitative survey to gain an in-depth understanding
Paper ID #6036Engineering Student Involvement: Comparison of Two Dissimilar Institu-tionsDr. Kerry Meyers, Youngstown State University Dr. Meyers background is in Engineering Education with experience in programs that might influence an incoming student’s experience, affect retention rates and the factors that determine the overall long term success of students entering an engineering program. She is the Director of the STEM College’s First- Year Engineering Program, the entry point for all beginning engineering students designed to provide a smooth transition from high school to University. She previously served as the
member.Since the inception of the Douglass Engineering Living-Learning Community in 2012, 42 first-year women have participated and completed the program. Of those women, 38 havesuccessfully stayed in an engineering curriculum (90% retention rate), and 29 have continued tolive together in another residence hall. To assess the effectiveness of this program on thepredictors of retention, all students participating were asked to complete the LongitudinalAssessment of Engineering Self-Efficacy (LAESE) developed by The Pennsylvania StateUniversity and University of Missouri. This instrument measures several outcomes related toretention and is widely used to better understand students’ feelings towards engineering. Focusgroups were also used to generate
individual diversity(i.e. breadth of experience of an individual) of both faculty and students. Foor et al.63 alsorecommend faculty to pay attention to “us” and “them” classroom dynamics that are establishedas a result of “capital differences” among diverse students and to be aware that students withaverage grades can also excel as engineers. In general, Foor et al.63 insist that faculty must makeunder-represented students feel “more welcome” in engineering colleges. Thus faculty cancertainly help students develop the critically required social capital29 and cultural wealth26.Insight 2: Research-based instructional strategies influence academic integration of all thestudents, more so of women. Faculty members use of research-based
equitable STEM experiences. Such a requirement could foster an interestin STEM subjects and careers in more, diverse students, while reducing the focus on STEMpipelines. This would parallel the situation in some other countries where the college track requiresall students to follow the same curriculum, regardless of gender. In another way, it would alignwith education in the humanities and social sciences where the focus is not explicitly on careersand pipelines, but on knowledge. Harvey Mudd College has had success in reaching gender parityin computer sciences by starting first year students at the same place, making certain that all takeIntroduction to Computer Science, thereby eliminating the effect of women feeling less preparedbecause of prior
recognize that STEM is a path that is open to them if they want to take it. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Ten Years Later – Where Are They Now?AbstractThis paper explores the educational and career trajectories of the alumnae of an outreach activityfor girls. The outreach activity was originally developed using an integrated marketing approachto attract girls into engineering programs.1 The program, a two day, overnight experience forrising 9th, 10th and 11th grade girls, focuses on showcasing engineering as an exciting, creativeactivity, including activities developed from that perspective. Started in 2005 and held annuallysince then, a total of over 500 girls have
Paper ID #19036Can I really do this? Perceived benefits of a STEM intervention program andwomen’s engineering self-efficacyChristina S. Morton, University of Michigan Christina S. Morton is a doctoral student in the Center for the Study of Higher and Postsecondary Ed- ucation at the University of Michigan. Christina has professional experience in Academic and Student Affairs, serving as an Academic Success Coach at Johnson C. Smith University and a Residential Direc- tor at North Carolina State University. Her primary research interests are in the motivation and persistence of underrepresented minorities in Science