relative to their peers - reflecting opportunity gaps but notdeficits in capability. To normalize each applicant, students summarize their skills and interestsin an application consisting of demographic information, short answers, and eight 200-500 wordessays. The essays focus on the lived experiences of each student, offering students an opportunityto demonstrate their qualifications for the CIRCUIT program in their (1) potential for leadership 3 Table 1: A summary of the CIRCUIT pillars and benefits to stakeholdersPillar Description Student Benefit Nation BenefitHolistic Student selection Critical enabler for Evidence-driven
Technology, only 25% of engineering degrees, includingBachelor’s, Master’s, and Ph.D., were awarded to women in US institutions [1]. Theunderrepresentation of women in engineering may be due to a lack of diversity when recruitingstudents, as well as the fact that women have higher attrition rates than their men peers, so-called“the leaky pipeline” [2, 3, 4].Many studies have attempted to understand this high attrition rate of women students inengineering careers. Some suggest that women students have fewer opportunities to develop theirengineering interests or chances to be recognized as engineers compared with their mencounterparts [5, 6, 7, 8, 9]. Others note that women students face additional professionaldevaluation and chilly climates in
Program. Since 2012, the Mentor-Connect initiative has been funded by theNSF ATE Program to help two-year college technician educators and related STEM facultydevelop the grant-writing skills needed to meet NSF expectations and benefit from ATE funding.Over the past decade, 80% of Mentor-Connect participants have successfully submittedproposals. To date, the average funding rate for these proposals is 71%.This paper describes how the Mentor-Connect intervention works and for whom, what outcomeshave resulted for participants who become grantees, and how two-year colleges and technicianeducators can benefit.Funding Program HistoryThe Advanced Technological Education (ATE) funding program at the National ScienceFoundation (NSF) was created in 1992
and minority protégés participating in the LouisStokes Alliance for Minority Participation (LSAMP) program in Science, Technology,Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) across four different universities within a statewideuniversity system, in the United States of America, to learn the following regarding mentoringrelationships for minority STEM students: (1) how students respond to ideas and projects, (2)how students conquer challenges and respond to setbacks, (3) how students set and pursue theiracademic goals, (4) how students describe their undergraduate research mentoring relationshipwith peers and professors, (5) how students maintain their focus in a professional developmentprogram such as LSAMP, (6) how students characterize and describe
? Concepts Question 2: What do you think about the examples Effectiveness of Peer Collaboration and solved in class collectively as group? Engagement Question 3: What is your opinion on the instructor Increased Understanding and Confidence using visual supplements when solving problems? Question 4: What do you think about the rigor of Embracing the Challenge and Valuing this course compared to others? Rigor Question 5: What did this class teach you about Increased Knowledge of Dynamic Nature Engineering? of EngineeringCollectively, the themes that emerged in the study provide insight into students’ experiences withthe approaches and technique implemented by the
. Later, they scaffolded newly learned concepts and constructed a smart streetlight using sensors and integrated circuits. To add functionality to the design, participants learned basic programming to write a simple code to make an LED blink.Data collection Data collection included ten interviews with teacher participants, six classroom observations,and the review of student artifacts produced in the camp. The instructors included one facultymember from electrical and computer engineering, three graduate students, and oneundergraduate student. Instructors were interviewed to provide retrospective insights once afterthe first week of camp and once after the second week of camp (two interviews, 45 minutes each,for a total of ten
things that I learned the most.” (2022) • “The textbook was very guiding in breaking down the complexity behind sustainability and helped me better understand it.” (2022) • “I enjoyed the questions every week, it forced me to write and formulate thoughts on the applicability of engineering, which no other class really requires.” (2021) • “I think what helped me learn the most was when we discussed questions other than the assigned chapter problems, and/or when the professor gave her own mini-lecture on the topic.” (2021) • “Discussion based class time and listening to other perspectives is very good for learning.” (2021) • “The short lectures, discussions, research, and book
they care about, the people they are designing for. Through stories, engineers identify the problems that need solving, helping ensure their work truly makes a difference. And through stories, engineers inspire others to join their efforts, helping them write a new and better story for the future. So, it is a leadership skill. And one more thing: by learning to tell your stories, you learn more about yourself. In this course, you will learn to tell your stories in a variety of ways for different audiences.As part of the framing of the course, the instructors seek to “create a safe environment wheresharing freely is supported and respected.” The learning objectives for the course include thoseshown below: 1
such as recursion, sorting, and arrays. Students learned amajority of their core programming concepts (such as control flow, functions, types, and classes)through readings and checked their understanding through Jupyter notebooks with short writtenor programming questions. Much of the coding in the course was done through projects ofvarying scope, in which students could apply their programming knowledge to problems invarious fields. Examples of these projects include (1) implementing a suite of functions that usedstring, list, and dictionary operations to find likely protein-coding sequences within an organism’sDNA, (2) writing recursive functions to generate images of random art [15], and (3) designingand implementing an object-oriented
discretization parameters Metacognitive on the visual depiction ofknowledge the discretized reservoir model. AssessmentTable 3: Assessment Worksheet Learning Objective Assessment LO1: Students should be able to outline the Task: students would write an in-class quiz ordered computational tasks that constitute Acceptable evidence of this learning objective will be: the operation of a reservoir
formationof the scientific image both within the scientific communities themselves and outside of them [10].Currently, social platforms have promoted the development of new media, increasing new andinnovative methods for reading and writing, allowing the audience to increase as compared totraditional media. This is how the information is transmitted immediately and interactively,making the communication process more effective [11]–[15]. According to Pantoja "socialnetworks provide new possibilities to compensate for the open imbalance between the needs ofsocial communication and the means necessary for that communication" [16].Since the inception of social media in the late 1990s, it has had an unprecedented influence on ourpersonal and professional
Figure 1. Graphical model of emerging experience themes identified from the life history interview Theme 1: All of the women participants were aware of gendered ways of being anddoing. For some, their earlier familial/parental influences on non-gender defined ways of beingand doing allowed them to explore what they were interested in and comfortable with who theywere while they were exploring. For others, it was the positive experiences and influences fromother people or peers that helped them to develop a sense of self and ignore or reject theessentialization that gendered roles and expectations typically prompt. However, the mostimportant contributing factor was their own “I want and I can
. ● Write equilibrium equations for the FBDs. ● Use a coding language or spreadsheet to solve for the joint reaction forces and list in a table. Part IV ● Discuss how to model a support at a point. ● Create shear force and bending moment diagram for the vertical member of the pool lift. ● Determine the maximum shear force and bending moment location and magnitude Part V ● Choose what values to use for bending moment and centroidal axis to the point of interest for maximum
individualized tutoring tostudents who have trouble in a course. All students take the python programmingcourse and are placed into mathematics, either precalculus or differential calculus,based ontheir performance on a math placement assessment. Students are given the option toaccept or decline the grades for the summer courses. There is no penalty for declininga grade. Ultimately, our goal is to build students’ confidence and facility with thesecourses. 2. Enrichment SeriesThe enrichment series includes training on college readiness (study skills, timemanagement, self-advocacy), professional readiness (resume’ writing, technicalwriting, presentation skills), science identity and community (belonging, Blackfemale role models, peer-mentoring
homeworkassignments. Oral exams, due to their adaptive diagnostic nature, provide an opportunity to probestudents’ thought process behind their decision-making. In contrast, written exams are limited inthis capacity: when students write down an equation, it is difficult to tell whether they understandthe concept well or if they are trying to recall similar procedures from class examples andhomework assignments. Oral exams also allow students to receive feedback from a contentexpert who can clear up misconceptions. Group explanation activities offer the benefits offeedback exchange and social learning among students. The paper will present the details ofthese learning activities as well as the outcomes. Mixed research methods were used to study theimpact of
) apply mass and energyconservation laws; 2) perform kinetic analysis of reactions; 3) work collaboratively on a team todevelop and solve mathematical models; and 4) develop technical writing and oral presentationskills. The course uses a blend of lecture, in-class and homework problems, and open-endedPBL modules.PBL is based on a constructivist pedagogy, requiring students to work together to createsolutions to complex, open-ended challenges. Since BME 260 focuses on modeling, PBLchallenges were structured to engage teams to develop multi-compartment conceptual models.Teams also developed novel mass accounting and kinetic equations for important chemicalconstituents in their biological system, searched the peer-reviewed literature for
could use the app thenative development facilitated the use of assistive technologies found on both platforms.3.2. App Overview The resulting app, LionHELP, serves as a digital version of the school’s Red Folder. Theapp is divided into four sections: Recognize, Respond, Refer, and Resources. The app homescreen shown in figure one displays these four sections, each with a brief description of theinformation it contains. Note that for this writing the iOS version of the app was captured andthe Android version contains the same functionality. Figure 1: Home Screen for LionHELP The Recognize section was designed to be an interactive survey. Users select the symptomsthey are exhibiting or someone they are
level course are part of the program and duallyutilize experiential learning and peer instruction to facilitate greater student involvement andretention. Both course are in active development during the semester. This arrangement allowsmodifications to be made during the class that better suit the educational goals of the students. Inaddition to better education the course is designed to help address the need for optics andphotonics technicians across industry as addressed in Wanted: Optics and PhotonicsTechnicians 1 .MethodsBoth courses use a combination of the Lab-Based Studio and Mini-Lecture Studio classroomparadigms as defined by DeLyser and Thompson et al 2 . The lab-based studio paradigm is builtaround the presentation of a new topic
. compare and contrast available technologies around the globe for water resource management and sanitation 6. illustrate and critique the equity, diversity, social and environmental justice, sustainability applications across countries related to access to clean waterCourse outcomes are for the students to: recognize the water challenges we are facing globally articulate the cultural differences in the approaches to solve water challenges, including discussion of regulations and other constraints that govern the actions collaborate with peers from various countries to develop a solution to a water related issue adapt to changing cultural expectations, set of challenges, and
todemonstrate alignment between design inputs and outputs. The device consisted of anelectromechanical suction mechanism paired with flexible tubing to collect tear film samples.Project development was continued by two IMED students who originally helped identify theproblem in CIP. The students, through further clinical observation and testing, identifiedunintended usage of the device and were able to develop a subsequent design to better meetclinical need. A provisional patent has been filed and IRB approval for clinical data collectionand longitudinal development has been obtained.Implementation of the pipeline began in Summer of 2022 with CIP, and continued into the Fallwith the prototyping course and SD. At the time of writing, three projects from
incoming first-year engineering students participating in a Summer Bridge Program (SBP)[11]. During the workshop, we presented students with scenarios (i.e. Your first round of tests didnot go well and your usual studying habits are not working) to respond to through individualwritten response, small group written response and discussion, and a facilitated large groupdiscussion. The scenarios spanned six domains: academic performance, faculty and staffinteractions, extracurricular involvement, peer-group interactions, professional development, andspecial circumstances. We prompted the students to write down how they thought they wouldrespond to the four scenarios they were given. For example, one student’s individual writtenresponse to the
engineering, drug delivery, and cancer treatment. With numerous exter- nal and internal funding sources, he is actively engaged in research involving undergraduate students in various areas, including engineered red blood cells for oxygen therapeutics development. Dr. Zhang has published more than 40 peer-reviewed journal articles, authored the book Nanotechnology for Bioengi- neers, and holds multiple patents. When it comes to engineering and chemical sciences education, he is especially interested in integrating the entrepreneurial mindset into a wide range of courses. Dr. Zhang has been recognized by the ASEE’s Prism magazine as one of 20 high-achieving researchers and educa- tors under 40 (2018), the Milwaukee Business
the areas of Mechanics of Materials as well as in Engineering Education. As hobbies, he travels extensively and writes stories and poems in English, Spanish and Bengali. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 20232023 ASEE Annual Convention, Baltimore MDEngineering Materials Related Courses at the University of Puerto Rico in Mayagüez (UPRM) Beforeand After Hurricane Fiona Crossed the Island in September 2022ASEE Life MemberUndergraduate StudentABSTRACTOn September 18, 2022, a Sunday afternoon, hurricane Fiona entered Mayagüez with a tangential speedof 150 mph and dwelled for longer than five hours since she moved with a linear velocity of only about 5mph. Our campus was totally devastated and there
instructors’ department heads and peerreview committees summarizing their innovations to ensure their efforts were recognized; andwe tried to offer co-design of instructional innovations with peer mentorship to offset thelimitations with instructors’ limited time.In Spring 2023, we worked with two instructors from our initial cohort who were interested inimplementing ABP into their current courses. In the poster that will accompany this paper, wewill summarize additional data which will be collected throughout the Spring 2023 semester,including feedback from instructor check-ins.Future work and conclusionsGiven this paper was written during the first year of a three-year project, we have focused ondescribing our piloting efforts and preliminary
underrepresented students must develop together in the class activities. CRPempowers the teachers' role as a designer in implementing policies and sociocultural research fordeveloping three main competencies in classrooms. The first competence that CRP teachers haveis student learning. Ladson-Billings redefined this term in 2021. She writes that it means howmuch the student grows in one scholarly period that begins in the fall and finishes in the spring-measuring this individual growth. CRP highlights this growth and avoids demerits of thestandards test; CRP considers that standardized tests do not measure other meaningful learningthat students could have acquired during the academic year. The second competence, CulturalCompetence in the context of CRP
Paper ID #38245[Full Research Paper, Ethical Engineering in Industry and AppliedContexts] Responsibility and Accountability: Faculty Leaders, EthicsFrameworks, and Disciplinary EnculturationDr. Laurie A. Pinkert, University of Central Florida Laurie A. Pinkert is an Associate Professor of Writing and Rhetoric and Director of Writing Across the Curriculum at the University of Central Florida. Her research examines the role of communication practices and writing infrastructures in disciplinary development within fields such as engineering.Prof. Jonathan Beever, University of Central Florida Jonathan Beever is Associate Professor
increased by 23% between2008 and 2013, and then increased by another 37% between 2013 and 2018 [16]. The AmericanSociety for Engineering Education (ASEE) reported another 20% increase in the 2020-2021academic year. The top four degrees granted in 2021 were Mechanical Engineering (23.8%),Computer Science (16.2%), Civil Engineering (9.3%) and Electrical Engineering (9.2%) [17, 39]. The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) reported that in the 2007-2008academic year, 41.9% engineering and engineering technology bachelor’s degree recipients earnedcredits for Writing beyond English Composition with median of a 3 credits; and 24.5% earned a
engineering discipline [3]. This critical transition has gained particular attention in engineering education as aneffort to promote student success and retention in the discipline [4], [5]. Engineering studentsupport centers offer engagement opportunities for students that range from mentorship programsand seminars courses to living learning communities, all of which typically begin during the firstsemester of the academic year [5]–[7]. An overarching goal for these programs is to get studentsinvolved early and help them create social and academic connections with peers, upperclassmen, 1faculty, and staff at the university in an effort to improve
major for her. In engineering, where the cultural perspective is that a stereotypical student is white and male, students often have the unconscious bias that gives white, male students the benefit of the doubt, assuming they are smart and experienced. Socially, Black and brown women are stereotyped as angry or loud. Jamie’s awareness of this stereotype makes her think twice about speaking up. Additionally, disciplinary power also makes her reconsider speaking up— engineering courses are built on teamwork. If she were to speak up and was not supported by her peers because they did not notice anything happening, and her professor mentioned that she should just learn to deal with team dynamics, she
, evaluateprogress, advocate for their well-being, and connect them with relevant resources. They helpgraduate students navigate their programs and achieve their academic and career goals byoffering support, encouragement, and constructive feedback. This is why it is essential tocomprehend their opinion of the GRE as a graduate school application component for MS/Ph.D.programs.BackgroundNearly all studies on the GRE as an admissions component have focused on its predictivevalidity for graduate students’ success in terms of grades, time to degree completion, advisorrating, and peer-review publication ratings, among other graduate student success metrics.Kileger et al. [3] adopted a multivariate approach to measuring the predictive validity of the GREand