Development Center (VDC) at the University of Arizona committeditself to increasing retention of women students through improving the quality of educationalexperiences. Our approach was to develop programming and coursework for cohorts of womenengineering undergraduates. We focus on opportunities both within and outside the curriculumspanning the 4 undergraduate years: in building community during the freshman year, and inbuilding commitment to engineering by focusing on community projects during the sophomore,junior, and senior years. At this point, we have implemented our junior and senior programs. Thebasic process starts with a 1-day "innovation workshop" led by facilitators from the Institute forWomen and Technology. Next we have a 1-semester
research. In our classes,they learn how to apply the socially responsible engineering (SRE) framework, whichemphasizes “contextual listening” [63] and identification of opportunities to create value withstakeholders so they can empathically engage communities before, during and after their fieldresearch [64]. Through specific coursework assignments, they explore and reflect with otherson the reasons for being in HES and for wanting to do sustainable community development, toexplore the constraints, opportunities, and pathways placed in front of them by the histories oftheir families, of engineering, of development, and by the multiple dimensions of their identity(gender, race, ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, etc.). Then
Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia. He served on DAEC from the formation of the committee in August 2004 to June 2005. Page 11.130.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 A Successful Student-Initiated Assessment Method for an Environmental Engineering Graduate ProgramAbstractObstacles in assessing academic conditions can include generating interest in assessment effortsin order to achieve high response rates, transcending communication barriers, preservingconfidentiality, minimizing biases from numerous sources, and conducting meaningful statisticalanalyses. A graduate
. These questions were of much significance since by comparing responses for thesetwo sets side by side, one can estimate the contribution of coursework in developing certainskills in the student population. For example, graduate coursework in the program seemed tohave helped students in understanding fundamental concepts in environmental engineering aswas observed from significant difference in the confidence interval (from the UVA results) ofinitial preparedness and contribution of courses in that area. Conversely, for analyzing andinterpreting data, for locating technical literature, for conducting experiments and for written andoral communication, the difference in confidence intervals was not significant. These arecertainly important areas
surveys from the Graduate Student Experience in the Research University (gradSERU)online service. The fellows recognized several gaps in Purdue’s graduate mentoring experiencethat needed to be addressed: an engineering-specific individual development plan (IDP), surveysof faculty members, and educating students about taboo mentorship topics.An IDP was created for PhD or master’s students in the College of Engineering. The document isintended to guide students through four steps: a skillset self-assessment, goals for Year 1 ofgraduate school, a meeting between student and advisor, and progress updates after the first year.The IDP was published on the university website and distributed among the engineeringdepartments in August 2022 and has since
be developed. Project-based learning is particularly pertinent in engineeringeducation as the majority of professional engineering work is conducted through group projects.Therefore, it is logical to integrate project-based learning into graduate engineering education,alongside traditional, classroom-style coursework.Project-based learning offers an engaging means of education for students in engineeringcourses. Traditional coursework consists of a large amount of engineering theory followed by aseries of assignments, papers or examinations in order to assess the students understanding of thetheoretical material. Project-based learning offers a medium through which students can applythis engineering knowledge in a real world project, in
college [5]. However, EESI takes things one step further by incorporatingexperiential learning opportunities coupled with financial support, which changes students’personal income and builds an engineering identity. These factors not only create support inareas that alleviate external barriers, which assist black students' retention in college, but theprogram opens up opportunities to better prepare students once they graduate college to be readyfor the STEM workforce and/or graduate school.Some studies show that experiential learning can positively impact participants, but few focus onblack students and even less on a Historically Black College and University (HBCU).Consequently, this research highlights the impact of a structured community
Jones, Florida State University Faye R. Jones is a Senior Research Associate at Florida State University’s College of Communication and Information. Her research interests include STEM student outcomes and the exploration of student pathways through institutional research. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Assessing Educational Pathways for Manufacturing in Rural Communities: An Investigation of New and Existing Programs in Northwest FloridaAbstractA subset of manufacturing, the advanced manufacturing (AM) sector is defined using twocriteria: high levels of spending for research and development (R&D) and a high share of STEMjobs within companies. In northwest Florida, AM
identify theircultural capital from which to develop their future possible selves as engineers. Throughout thefirst two years, students will be mentored to foster their engineering identity while focusing onsupport for transition to college. Support for transition to college includes encouragement andhelp to form peer learning study groups, study habit workshops, note-taking methods, timemanagement, and financial aid-education. Support for engineering identity development in year1, include opportunities to meet industry professionals, visits to industry sites to learn first-handwhat engineering workplaces look like, engage with engineering leaders through a speakerseries, and attend recurring choice-based 2-hour technical and soft skills building
.) about themselves were the factors that wouldcontribute other than the FYE foundation course. Teamwork and communication wereagain mentioned mostly as being helpful in other courses or largely through extra-curricular engineering projects (e.g., civil engineering canoe, mechanical engineeringrace car, the aerospace engineering model airplane or the multi-disciplinary or inter-departmental satellite, etc.). 35% 30% Female(%) 25% Male(%) 20% Total(%) 15% 10% 5% 0%Figure 4. Other factors impacting development of student's successful
Paper ID #24085Faculty Ways of Knowing, Valuing, and Assessing Leadership in the Under-graduate Engineering CurriculumDr. Cassandra J. Groen, Virginia Tech Dr. Cassandra Groen is a post-doctoral researcher in the Department of Engineering Education and the Myers-Lawson School of Construction at Virginia Tech. Her primary research interests include pro- fessional identity formation in undergraduate civil engineering students, grounded theory methods, and theory development. Her current work includes the exploration of professional identity formation in civil engineering students who experience disabilities and the ways in
received his bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering from Florida State University in 2006 and his master’s degree in Environmental Engineering from Purdue University in 2008. While in the School of Engineering Education, he works as a graduate research assistant in the X-Roads Research Group and has an interest in cross-disciplinary practice and engineering identity development. Page 23.644.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Global Engineering Design Symposium: Engaging the Sociocultural Dimensions of Engineering Problem SolvingAbstractGlobal
decisions about further participation in engineering after graduation? • EDUCATION: What elements of students’ engineering educations contribute to the changes observed in questions one and two? What do students find difficult and how do they deal with the difficulties they face? • WORKPLACE: What skills do early-career engineers need as they enter the workplace? Where did they obtain these skills? Are there any missing skills? How are people’s identities transformed in moving from school to work?The APS consists of four cohorts. Cohort 1 is a longitudinal study of student participants at fouracademic institutions. The same individuals are being studied from their first through third yearsin college
2002 respectively. The Ph.D. program has graduated over 90 students, and the MS has graduated 70 students. He continues to build partnerships with regional industry and national laboratories for campus research efforts through the Applied Computational Science and Engineering Student Support (ACSESS) program ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024Design and Implementation of a Professional DevelopmentCourse for Interdisciplinary Computational Science GraduateStudents Design and Implementation of a Professional Development Course for Interdisciplinary Computational Science Graduate StudentsAbstractStudents in computational science graduate programs have unique challenges due to
attend a three-day, Chautauqua short course hosted by Landis entitled, “EnhancingStudent Success through a Model Introduction to Engineering Course” in June of 2008. In theworkshop, Landis stated that, “an effective student success course focuses on bringing aboutbehavioral and attitudinal change in areas related to five key themes: Community Building,Professional Development, Academic Development, Personal Development, and Orientation.”8As a result of our time at the short course, we recognized the gap between our current students,and model engineering students. We adopted a classroom model focused on changing ourstudents’ attitudes and behaviors and embraced the goal of teaching our students to becomebetter engineering students. In order to
especially interested in innovative teaching and learning approaches in engineering. Page 26.1628.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Understanding the Relationship between Living-Learning Communities and Self-Efficacy of Women in EngineeringAbstractRutgers University’s Douglass Residential College and School of Engineering developed apartnership to provide first-year women in engineering the opportunity to live together and studyengineering through the Douglass Engineering Living-Learning Community (DELLC). Thishigh-impact program, which provides first-year women enrolled in
Practical Guide. John Wiley & Sons, 2016.[26] J. R. Aaron, W. C. McDowell, and A. O. Herdman, “The Effects of a Team Charter on Student Team Behaviors,” J. Educ. Bus., Jan. 2014.[27] D. C. Davis and R. R. Ulseth, “Building Student Capacity for High Performance Teamwork,” presented at the 2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, 2013, p. 23.260.1-23.260.26.[28] M. Koretsky, “Back to the Future: Learning Chemical Engineering through Engagement in Disciplinary Practices.” ConocoPhillips Lectureship in Chemical Engineering Education, Stillwater, OK, 2017.[29] M. W. Ohland et al., “The Comprehensive Assessment of Team Member Effectiveness: Development of a Behaviorally Anchored Rating Scale for Self- and Peer Evaluation
University. In July 2020, she completed her bachelor’s degree in Environmental Engineering at the National University of Colombia. After graduation, Lorena worked as a research assistant investigat- ing the effects of development projects on environmental parameters and rural communities in Colombia, South America. Lorena has also been part of initiatives that promote access to high-quality education, gender equality, and environmental protection. Lorena recently started her doctoral studies at Mississippi State University, where she serves as a graduate assistant in the Office of Diversity Programs and Stu- dent Development at the Bagley College of Engineering. Currently, Lorena is interested in learning more about
Engineering and co-founder of the Integrative Learning Portfolio Lab in Career Education at Stanford University. She earned her undergraduate degree from UCLA and her PhD in Communication with a minor in Psychology from Stanford. Her scholarship is focused on engineering and entrepreneurship education, portfolio pedagogy, reflective practices, non-degree credentials, and reimagining how learners represent themselves through their professional online presence.Prof. George Toye Ph.D., P.E., is adjunct professor in Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University. While engaged in teaching project based engineering design thinking and innovations at the graduate level, he also contributes to research in engineering education
mechanical engineering (n=9), electrical engineering(n=3), general engineering (n=4), civil engineering (n=2), and one student each frommanufacturing, computer science, and no major declared. The second class included in the study was Experimental Design and TechnicalWriting(ENGR:291). In this two-credit-hour course, students develop their writing skills throughassignments related to common types of scientific and professional communication, such asresearch essays, project proposals, professional memos, journal articles, professional emails, andpresentations. Students are also introduced to fundamental concepts in experimental design. Forthe final project, students are asked to design, execute, and document an experiment of their ownchoosing
. Page 24.493.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 Engineering Camp: a residential experience designed to build academic capital in pre-college studentsAbstractEngineering Camp is a one-week on-campus residential program that exposes pre-college (post7th -11th grade) students to engineering disciplines through introductory seminars,demonstrations, laboratory experiments, and design challenges. The program improves students‟awareness of the breadth of engineering and emphasizes the benefit of developing skills inSTEM. The camp is offered in grade-based parallel sessions geared to the audience, and camperscan return in subsequent summers. Importantly, Camp provides a
American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education 2. Be able to identify necessary known and unknown information towards a solution and the process to be followed to arrive at a solution. 3. Work effectively in small groups through well-developed problem solving skills and be able to organize the group to optimize performance and results.During the course of this learning process, we anticipate the affect of the redirection of thecourse to be that students will be able to: 1. Identify with what it means to be an Engineer and being a part of the engineering community (at Vanderbilt) through exposure to practicing
Paper ID #31340Health Stress and Support System Narratives of Engineering StudentsDr. Greg Rulifson PE, USAID Greg is currently a Science and Technology Policy Fellow at USAID. Greg earned his bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering with a minor in Global Poverty and Practice from UC Berkeley where he acquired a passion for using engineering to facilitate developing communities’ capacity for success. He earned his master’s degree in Structural Engineering and Risk Analysis from Stanford University. His PhD work at CU Boulder focused on how student’s connections of social responsibility and engineering change
. As a K- 8 pre-service teacher educator, she includes engineering in her elementary and early childhood science methods courses and developed and taught an engineering methods course for middle school teachers. She also developed a graduate-level engineering education course for PreK-6 teachers. Dr. Lottero has provided professional learning experiences in multiple schools and school systems in Maryland. She has co-authored numerous engineering-focused articles for the teacher practitioner journal, Science and Children, and presents her research regularly through the American Society for Engineering Education. Her current research includes investigating how K-5 students plan, fail, and productively persist, and how
ofbusiness cycles. The views of the graduates have, by and large, been similar to thoseof the author and to views of some faculty members in Region’s colleges; and areconsonant with developing a more responsive educational environment.It is interesting to note that the evolution of engineering education in the Region haspassed through three consecutive stages. Stage one: the stage of founding andestablishment, lasted nearly a decade, and characterized mainly by adopting andtransferring a North American model of engineering education to the Region. Expats,at the time, were entrusted with the tasks of the transfer, and were guided primarilyby agreed-upon guidelines. Stage two: is the search for an identity stage. This is theperiod when nationals, who
well as the Past-Chair of the Continuing Professional Development Division of the American Society for Engineering Education. Dr. Springer received his Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Purdue University, his MBA and Doctorate in Adult and Community Education with a Cognate in Executive Development from Ball State University. He is certified as a Project Management Professional (PMP), Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR & SHRM-SCP), in Alternate Dispute Resolution (ADR), and, in civil and domestic mediation. Dr. Springer is a State of Indiana Registered domestic mediator.Dr. Kathryne Newton, Purdue Polytechnic Institute Dr. Kathy Newton is an Associate Dean of Graduate Programs and Faculty
professional develop- ment seminars for local industry on topics including forecasting, inventory control, production planning, project management, transportation logistics, procurement, and supply chain management.Dr. John Pickard, East Carolina University Dr. Pickard is an Assistant Professor at East Carolina University in the College of Engineering and Tech- nology. He teaches undergraduate and graduate Information and Computer Technology (ICT) courses within the Department of Technology Systems. Dr. Pickard plays an active role in building positive and sustainable industry relationship between the college, local businesses, and industry partners. Current industry recognized certifications include; Cisco Certified
Engineering Education, 2021Systems Thinking Tools in a Graduate Biological Engineering Class - A Work in Progress Author and AffiliationsAbstractWhen technological challenges involve complex systems that include interactions with othercomponents or agents, the system can exhibit unexpected and counterintuitive behavior. Systemsthinking is useful in such cases but is rarely taught in engineering courses that do not explicitlyinclude ‘systems’ or ‘systems dynamics’ in the syllabus. This work-in-progress describes anapplication of systems thinking concepts in an undergraduate and a graduate course inAgricultural Waste Management at North Carolina State University. Two specific systemsthinking tools were introduced to help
Paper ID #15401Stimulating Creativity in Online Learning Environments through IntelligentFast FailureDr. Kathryn W. Jablokow, Pennsylvania State University Dr. Kathryn Jablokow is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Engineering Design at Penn State University. A graduate of Ohio State University (Ph.D., Electrical Engineering), Dr. Jablokow’s teaching and research interests include problem solving, invention, and creativity in science and engineer- ing, as well as robotics and computational dynamics. In addition to her membership in ASEE, she is a Senior Member of IEEE and a Fellow of ASME. Dr. Jablokow
students’ motivation to persist in and learn about an engineering subject.Many studies have shown engineering identity as a predictor of students' educational andprofessional persistence. Thus, this theoretical framework’s inclusion allows the SPVEL to relatestudent learning profiles, formal and informal learning to their development and formation intoengineers. For example, it was found that there are significant gender differences in how first-yearstudents identify with engineering and becoming an engineer, where fewer women were exposedto the engineering field through applied or building experiences (0% women to 26% men);interactions with relatives who were engineers (20% women to 26% men) and STEM activities(10% women to 26% men) [94]. Thus