-curricular andextracurricular activities and to take greater advantage of on-campus academic and careerresources. Through this engagement, students may be more likely to meet potential socializerswho can stimulate and expand their career planning. Engineering programs can also liaise withemployers to make sure that job exploration and career mentorship are an explicit component ofco-op and internship programs, in addition to impressing upon industry personnel the impact ofindividual, one-on-one interactions with students on student career decision-making.Engineering faculty particularly have a large platform with which they can influence students’decisions, as they interface with students as professors, academic advisors, club advisors, andresearch
, interdisciplinarymix of undergraduate and graduate students and a post-doctoral researcher from various colleges and de-partments at Virginia Tech who work together to explore engineering and construction human centeredissues with an emphasis on understanding difference and disparity. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Key words: Study abroad; Faculty motivation; Faculty engagementSustaining a Study Abroad Program at Scale: What Motivates Faculty Members to Engage in Such Programs?As engineering work continues to become more globalized with multinational teams working onproblems in an array of contexts, engineers will need to understand how to work across politicaland
lived experiences of faculty women ofcolor, including “surviving and thriving” strategies; 3) sessions on diversity research; 4) hands-on workshops focused on career development strategies; and 5) a screening of the documentary“Living Thinkers: An Autobiography of Black Women in the Ivory Tower” followed by a Q&Asession with the filmmaker. The conference was also designed to encourage networking andincluded a poster session, a breakout session where small groups brainstormed solutions to careerproblems, and an evening networking reception.The conference drew 181 attendees from more than 50 institutions across the US, includinguniversity faculty, administrators, post-doctoral fellows, and graduate students. While mostparticipants were from
focus on Operations Research at Georgia Tech. She is President of the Health Systems Engineering Alliance (HSEA) Board of Directors. She is an active member of the Institute of Operations Research and Management Science (INFORMS), Dr. Ivy served as the 2007 Chair (President) of the INFORMS Health Applications Society and is a past President for the INFORMS Minority Issues Forum. Her research interests are mathematical modeling of stochastic dynamic systems with emphasis on statistics and decision analysis as applied to health care, public health, and humanitarian logistics.Dr. Jessica T DeCuir-Gunby, NC State University Dr. Jessica T. DeCuir-Gunby is a Professor of Educational Psychology and University Faculty
, department chair, and a junior faculty member. Adding these additionalcharacters allows us theatrically to explore the power differentials between faculty, along withimplicit biases, and to illustrate just how complicated an unstructured process can become. At theconclusion of Act II, we again moderate a conversation guided by three questions: 1) How didthe individual reviews impact the dynamics of the group review?; 2) What is your impression ofthe overall dynamics of that meeting?; and 3) What are some suggestions for improving thisprocess? In the discussion, we again provide space for our colleagues to raise other questions andto take the lead on “unpacking” these skits. Our performances of this focused conversation haveresulted in enriching
Engineering Education, 2018The influence of early STEM career exploration as related to motivation and self-determination theoryDr. Araceli Martinez Ortiz, Dr. Hiroko Kawaguchi Warshauer, Dr. Laura Cano Amaya andMs. Sara TorresAbstractA science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) summer intervention program is thesetting for a career-exploration research study with over 30 adolescent students in a low-incomecommunity. Using motivation and self-determination theory as a framework, the impact of earlyexposure to engineering and mathematics career opportunities is examined. In the larger study weutilized mixed methods to analyze how changes in middle school students’ affective characteristicsmay be linked to their future career decision
you keep in mind that some of the respondents graduated 16 years ago.In order to increase response-rate we took multiple actions that were developed based on pastexperiences and best practices [40]: • The invitations and survey featured clear but appealing design with photos of the course • We ensured concise content without unnecessary details. The content of the three e- mails varied slightly, highlighting various values for the respondent each time: the opportunity to give something back to their alma mater and prospective students by further improving the curriculum; the chance to reflect on their own educational and career goals; and an opportunity to win a prize. • The initial drafts took 20
effective teach- ing decisions, and the application of ideas from complexity science to the challenges of engineering education. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 “I came in thinking there was one right practice”: Exploring how to help graduate students learn to read academic researchAbstractIn the fall of 2017, an engineering educator with many years of experience offered a course toincoming doctoral students. The course was focused on helping the students explore approachesto reading published scholarship and develop their own scholarly reading practice. The coursewas taken by a student who documented her experiences in a reflection journal. Against thisbackdrop, this paper uses
enter college and combine past study habits with new learning strategies in an effort tohandle the collegiate workload of 4-5 undergraduate courses. Undergraduates learn new learningstrategies from personal experience, suggestions from faculty and staff, adaptation of past habits,and observation of and discussion with their peers. Thus, their ability to incorporate newstrategies into their own academic life is in many ways limited to the people they have contactwith, both in face-to-face settings, and now through the Internet. Undergraduate help-seekingbehavior can be influenced by faculty and peers 1,2 . While faculty members, tutors, mentors, andadvisors are a valid source of advice, recent graduates and current junior/senior students
experience to quickly bolster their program in areas where more courses are neededbut more research faculty are not.We found that the diverse career experience among our participants was an asset to their departments andthey believe their experience provides unique perspectives and experience that enrich their courses.G. Self-Reported Motivation to TeachOur second research question explores the factors that non-tenure-track engineering faculty believe motivatethem to teach. Studies of non-tenure-track faculty from all disciplines have shown that non-tenure-trackfaculty are motivated to teach by interaction with students, the classroom environment, and the ability tostrike a satisfactory balance between work and personal responsibilities. We asked
Paper ID #21704The Influence of an Externship on BME Predoctoral Students’ Career Devel-opmentMs. Julia N. Savoy, University of Wisconsin-Madison Julia N. Savoy, M.S., is an Assistant Researcher in the Wisconsin Center for Education Research, Univer- sity of Wisconsin-Madison. One aspect of her research examines the effects of professional development participation on the career pathways of doctoral students, postdoctoral scholars, and early-career faculty.Prof. Mia K. Markey, The University of Texas at Austin Dr. Mia K. Markey is a Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Engineering Foundation Endowed Faculty Fellow in
college fall 2018, including anintroduction to productive teaming skills through a collaborative game; use of productarcheology to help student explore ways in which products are gendered or racialized;exploration of cognitive bias and how it manifests in our personal and professional lives; acritical history of engineering; and exploration of team roles and the importance ofunderstanding one’s own personality and inclinations when participating on a team. In addition,two members of this subgroup are participating in a parallel effort supported through an NSFRevolutionizing Engineering Departments award: a Professional Learning Community (PLC).PLCs are collegial groups that provide educators across disciplines facilitated opportunities
professional practice as well as exploring students’ conceptions of diversity and its importance within engineering fields.Ms. Allyson Jo Ironside, Oregon State University Ally Ironside is a recent graduate from LeTourneau University where she studied Water Resources in Civil Engineering. She is currently fusing her technical background with her passion for education in pursuing a doctoral degree in Civil Engineering while conducting research in Engineering Education at Oregon State University. Her research interests include the adoption of teaching best practices in engineering and the personal epistemology development students.Dr. Shane A. Brown P.E., Oregon State University Shane Brown is an associate professor and
Grades Influencing Decision to 68% Yes, 32% No 81% Yes, 19% No Stay at WVU Tech People Discouraging Staying in 24% Yes, 76% No 20% Yes, 80% No College Top Three Campus Services Advising, TRIO, Tutoring Advising and TRIO (tied), Used TutoringTable 5: Summary of Themes for Female Students Encouragement to Pursue College Family (with a few citing faculty, career plans, and outside sources) Encouragement to Pursue Major Family, Faculty, Mentors, and Self People Discouraging
integration of critical incident technique [10] andSchlossberg’s Transition Theory [11–13] to create “incident timelines” capable of examining thetransition of early career engineering education researchers into new faculty positions.Studying transitions is particularly difficult for several reasons, which is why it requires a novelapproach. First, asking questions after-the-fact may not elicit information about how people wereexperiencing a situation in the moment, as people often forget or distort events. Second, peoplemay be reluctant to share certain information, particularly in a situation where interviews wouldeither be conducted by another faculty member or a graduate student. Third, the significance ofan event can be misunderstood if not
innovations within newteaching materials and the support provided by the Leonhard Center helped to facilitate andcatalyze the faculty. Led by the course chair and director of the design program, a proposal wassubmitted to develop a series of modules with the following goals in mind: • Strengthen relationship between the experience of a first-year engineering student and the vision of the college of engineering for graduating students • To provide a framework for students for the world-class engineer early in their education • Provide experience and vocabulary needed to make the World-Class Engineer an important part of engineering students’ identity • World-class Engineer attributes will be reinforced through
connect engineering students with theirsports interests by establishing internships with on-campus athletics programs. For engineeringstudents, internships serve as the gateway to future employment. Both internships and co-op workexperiences provide engineering students with opportunities to expand their courseworkknowledge by applying that knowledge within professional environments [1,2]. In doing so,students who participate in these kinds of experiences are more likely to look toward engineeringrelated employment post-graduation during their career decisions [3]. In this paper, we discuss the partnership between the industrial and systems engineeringdepartment faculty and students and athletic coaches across sports programs and the
faculty advisor. ● Success is also influenced by the attitudes formed by the student toward the university in combination with the environment that the university creates for its students. ● Because remote students do not have the same level of interaction with the campus community, special attention must be paid to providing them services in order to build that relationship. ● Meaningful, informed, personalized services during this period and through graduation will lead to higher levels of student satisfaction, retention, and success. ● Stakeholder engagement during the implementation will result in a better solution that is more readily accepted and adopted by the end users.It is with
decision to come out during a job interview, career counselors atWPI help prepare students to think about taking jobs in states that have fewer or noprotections for LGBTQ+ people. “If they’re going to Oklahoma,” this person told us,“they need to understand the legal protections they don’t have there, that they do havehere.” LGBTQ people are “a group that you can legally discriminate against in certainparts of the country still in terms of employment,” our source told us. In ResidentialServices, one of the professional staff organized a 5-week course on social justice and 11diversity for university employees and student Resident Advisors. He was recognized
) Joyce B. Main is Assistant Professor of Engineering Education at Purdue University. She holds a Ph.D. in Learning, Teaching, and Social Policy from Cornell University, and an Ed.M. in Administration, Planning, and Social Policy from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.Michelle M. Camacho, University of San Diego Michelle Madsen Camacho is Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of San Diego. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Exploring the Experiences of First-Generation Student Veterans in Engineering AbstractUnderstanding the experiences of first-generation students is important for expanding diversityand inclusion
the case study. Mostgraduate students, especially domestic graduate students, did not perceive there to be an ethicalissue present. Most domestic graduate students deflected the issue of foregoing a family and onlysaw an issue with the situation if the mentor explicitly made it clear that the student could notpursue a family and articulated that it was normal to feel pressure to pursue similar researchinterests. International graduate students had highly variable opinions with some ignoring theissue of foregoing a family and focusing on possible negative career impacts, while anotherfound the situation completely unethical because of the influence on personal life decisions. Allfaculty saw this case study as having ethical issues mostly
Society of Engineering Educa- tion with several teaching awards such as the 2004 National Outstanding Teaching Medal and the 2005 Quinn Award for experiential learning. She was 2014-15 Fulbright Scholar in Engineering Education at Dublin Institute of Technology (Ireland).Dr. Rocio C. Chavela Guerra, American Society for Engineering Education Rocio Chavela is Director of Education and Career Development at the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE). She holds a Ph.D. in Engineering Education from Purdue University, a B.S. and a M.S. in Chemical Engineering from Universidad de las Americas, Puebla in Mexico. Rocio’s current efforts focus on engineering faculty and graduate student development, with particular
well [laughter].” Other challenges encountered by mentors included: the mentor did not know much aboutthe student’s project, differential goals between the mentor and student, different preferences forwork time (early vs late in the day), communication, and having enough of a “heads-up” aboutgetting an REU student. This last challenge may be a factor of lack of communication betweenthe mentor and the supervising faculty member, as all faculty members were provided withinformation about their REU student prior to the start of the program.Discussion The purpose of the current study was two-fold: 1) to explore the ways in which graduatestudent mentors approach mentoring REU students; and 2) to study the impact of the
first cohort of doctoral students participating in thepilot program.Training ModelTraining in professional or “soft” skills, although not new in graduate education, is commonlydone on an ad hoc basis, as a ‘bolt on’ to a student’s program of study. Further, professional skillstraining is often targeted towards career placement and generally offered to students who areadvanced in their graduate studies. While there has no doubt been some success in following thisimplicit approach, we sought to explore how a more explicit approach might better serve STEMgraduate students.The innovative model (see Figure 2) piloted through the GS LEAD program challenges thatparadigm by positioning critical professional skills development [15], [13], [5] at the
the Capstone Project Capstone Project Proposal Duration 8 Weeks Formal Presentation Duration 4 WeeksProject Sponsor Advisor Instructor Figure 1 – Two Phases of the Capstone Project Courses FrameworkThe course outline for Part A clearly lays out the details for both parts of the capstone includingthe presentations to be made at the end of each part by all members of a student team.Teams also select a Faculty Advisor during Part A. The Advisor is Subject Matte Expert (SME)in the field. The Advisor can be any one of the
and applicant’s desires provides arobust environment to explore whether professional skills truly matter in the hiring process. Content analysis of job advertisements was used to research recruitment effectiveness[33] and to identify gaps between skills needed on the job and skills advertised [34]. For this study, the development of a list of terms from the existing literature (Table 4)provides a framework to support the identification of soft skills being sought by employers. Thelist of specific skills in Table 4 represents an aggregation across 5 years of academic researchinto engineering education, based on responses from students, alumni, professionals, andacademics. This additional validation step checks the skills
philosophy implored in the program is based on self-awareness, intention, andchoice. Observation and the natural skills and abilities that helped get the faculty members tothis point in their careers are emphasized in the coaching process. Meeting them “where they areat” is a common principle. Initially, there was no planned structure for each person; the coachallowed each individual faculty member to choose the agenda and topic to work on for thesession. The essence of the coaching perspective is that other people are full of potential. Theyare naturally talented, innately resourceful, and destined for greater things. They are also fullycapable of making their own decisions, solving their own problems, and seizing their ownopportunities and are
explored how considerations of sustainability influences how project success is defined and measured, project risks, market opportunities, and portfolio management. Most recently, a lesson was introduced to the course focused on helping students understand effective negotiating abilities as a critical project management skill. We explain how negotiations are an important element of life in general, and specifically in project management. Example applications of negotiation in project management include: definition of project scope; development of budget and schedule; management of conflict between team members; analysis of requests for changes to scope, schedule, cost, and specifications; handling results of project audits; and
choose one graduate program overanother remains largely unexplored. Kallio (1995) identified factors for choosing a graduateprogram that appear similar to the criteria for selecting an undergraduate program – “academicreputation of the program, program quality and size, price/cost, financial aid, geographiclocation, contact with faculty, and a student’s individual characteristics such as academic abilityand achievement” [8]. Kallio also noted that graduate students differ from undergraduates in thatspouses, family and work considerations more heavily influence their graduate program choices. In the same research, Kallio asked graduate enrollees in the University of Michigan theirmotivations for choosing the school in a survey exploring 31
and collaboration with others cuts across mental and physical health and he has done research on HIV/AIDS, depression, serious mental illness, child- hood diarrhea and acute respiratory illnesses, obesity and complementary and alternative medicine. Ryan has worked extensively in Latin America and Africa on health-related issues and helped redesign and implement a large-scale education reform in Qatar.Dr. Gery W. Ryan, Gery Ryan is Assistant Dean for Academic Affairs and core faculty at the Pardee RAND Graduate School where he teaches policy analysis and methods courses and mentors graduate students. Trained as a med- ical anthropologist, Ryan has conducted research on decision-making processes, ethnographies of