discussion session which served as awrap up for the academic year long JTFD project including fall workshops and spring discussionsessions. As with the previous set of data from the six discussion sessions, the average scores arerelatively high, ranging from 4.4 to 4.8. Additionally, 96% of faculty agreed or strongly agreedthat “The JTFD project has been successful in creating a Community of Practice which supportsinnovation, implementation, and open dialogue between colleagues” and 100% of faculty agreedor strongly agreed that “The tools, strategies, and interaction I experienced throughout the JTFDproject will be of value to my future instructional practice and career success.” Thus, the wrap upsurvey demonstrates that overall impact and value to
advocates for change in their future careers. Hatchery Units are onecredit courses that are designed to address gaps in students’ technical knowledge identified bylocal industry, infuse ethics and social justice in the undergraduate computer science curriculum,and build communities of practice while providing a more streamlined integration experience fortransfer students to the program. Guided by Rawl’s [33] theory of social justice, the team willwork with students and faculty to create an environment that is welcoming and supportive for allundergraduate CS students and encourage graduates of the program to work to promote thesevalues as future computer science professionals. The development of these values will bepromoted by building communities
UK. He started his career in the UK as the Senior Research Assistant at the SERC Engineering Design Centre. He joined Brunel University in 1995 where he worked for 18 years before joining United Arab Emirates University in August 2011. During his stay at Brunel he has worked with many British industries. Dr Sivaloganathan is a keen researcher in Design and was the Convenor for the International Engineering Design Conferences in 1998 and 2000. He has been a regular participant of the ASEE annual conference during the past few years. He has published more than 85 papers in reputed journals and conferences.Dr. Essam K. Zaneldin P.E., United Arab Emirates University Dr Essam Zaneldin earned his PhD in 2000 from the
on multidisciplinaryteams are required to attend all training sessions with their teammates.Our engineering program utilizes team-based project learning in several course beginningfreshman year. In these courses, the engineering professors introduce the concepts of teamwork,collaboration and conflict resolution. These concepts are reinforced at several points throughoutengineering students’ academic career in other lab courses and even in some lecture courses, butthey are not the focus of those courses.So for capstone we decided to focus on professional skills almost exclusively during lecture, andbegan bringing in outside experts to lecture on different topics related to professional skills.While we brought in experts on project management
activities are detailed below:1. February 24th- 2016, Capital Area Science and Engineering Fair Volunteering2. February 26th-2016, Capital Area Science and Engineering - Award Ceremony3. March 9th-2016, STEM Career Launch Volunteering4. March 24th-2016, NSF STEM club talk on storm water runoff and pollutants in water supplies.In addition to the above events, the NSF-STEM club officers participated in CentralPennsylvania food bank as a community service and organized a fund raising event at April 28,2016, where newer members (mentees) and older club members (mentors) participated. Below,in Figure, 1 is the flyer that they used. Fig 1: Flyer used in one of the NSF STEM club fundraising activitiesThe impact of the NSF STEM
students at Macalester College as one contributionto countering this blind spot. In developing this course, our primary interest was to give studentsat an early stage in their academic experience an introduction to engineering, whether they cameto college with the idea of possibly pursuing a career in engineering or whether they wanted toget a deeper understanding of the influence of engineering on the world in which they live. Forthat reason our orientation in this course was different from the orientation found in Bucciarelli’sand Drew’s proposal for integrating the liberal arts with engineering (2015). As we were notprimarily interested in preparing future engineers, our course was less technically(mathematically) focused. Our course was also
in many educational institutions. The purpose of thismixed method study was two-fold. First, the researchers examined faculty member’s reactions toworking in a culturally diverse environment. Secondly, the researchers wanted to uncover bestpractices or strategies that might improve cultural awareness in workforce development in termsof navigating daily life within an educational institution. This study delved into the experiencesfaculty members reported having in their workplace. The study involved 224 faculty membersacross various departments and career statuses working at a public coeducational researchinstitution in the United States of America. The survey and interview responses to apredetermined set of questions were analyzed in order
student learning. Tamara Moore received an NSF Early CAREER award in 2010 and a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) in 2012.Siddika Selcen Guzey, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering) Dr. Guzey is an assistant professor of science education at Purdue University. Her research and teaching focus on integrated STEM Education.Mr. Kyle Stephen Whipple, University of Minnesota c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Middle School Students’ Engineering Discussions: What Initiates Evidence-Based Reasoning? (Fundamental)Introduction and literature reviewAs part of an effort to remain internationally competitive, the United
. Future work implies the application of a quantitativequestionnaire to discuss national and international implications.Introduction Over the last two decades, ABET has become a major change agent in engineeringeducation worldwide. In 1996, ABET’s Board of Directors shifted its emphasis on outcomesrather than inputs by adopting the widely known accreditation criteria EC2000. Criterion 3specified five technical and six professional skills that engineering graduates must face thechallenge of international competitiveness.1 Lattuca, Terenzini and Volkwein (2006) documentedthe impact of the engineering criteria EC2000 on engineering programs2. Schools of Engineeringworldwide have modified their curriculums to reinforce career preparation and
seniors at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), who have interest in pursu- ing STEM disciplines at the graduate-level. Annually, Dean Vaughan supervises direction of the 4-week FAME/UD Summer Residential Program for 30-35 high school students, the RISE Summer Enrichment Program for incoming engineering freshmen and, in the past, the HEARD (Higher Education Awareness Response in Delaware) Project, a college awareness program, funded by the Department of Education through Philadelphia GEAR UP for College Network. Globally in the College, he manages academic programs and policies that impact the careers of all engineering students at both the undergraduate and graduate level. Dean Vaughan is focused on
in new strategies to problem solution. Inthinking of these two extremes in mindset, it becomes apparent that neither is a “correct” mindset for all engineeringdisciplines or career opportunities. However, making both faculty and students aware of this difference may providesubstantial advantages in both the educational, and future career, environments. The present study is recognized as being very preliminary. For example, the students in this particularuniversity are selected through a relatively rigorous admission process, likely resulting in a number of impacts onthe mindset of the incoming student. Further, the sample size (approximately 250 responses) is relatively limited.Despite the preliminary nature of this research, a
University of Michigan.This research has been determined exempt from human subjects control under exemption #1 ofthe 45 CFR 46.101.(b) by the U-M Institutional Research Board (HUM00135376).References [1] Bachelor’s degrees awarded: 2004-2014. Women, minorities, and persons with disabilities in science and engineering. NSF, 2017. URL https://www.nsf.gov/statistics/2017/nsf17310/static/data/tab5-3.pdf. [2] Marina Papastergiou. Are computer science and information technology still masculine fields? high school students’ perceptions and career choices. Computers & Education, 51(2):594 – 608, 2008. ISSN 0360-1315. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compedu.2007.06.009. URL http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii
business experiences in international companies, and startup experiences. This has helped him lead a very successful industry career. Currently he is using his technical business experiences to develop and run entrepreneurial programs for the College of Entineering. These include Aggies Invent, TAMU iSITE, Invent for the Planet, Engineering Inc., and curricular classes. In addition, he mentors multiple entrepreneurial teams. Formerly he was a Senior Vice President of Fujitsu Network Communications, headquartered in Richard- son, Texas. With over 30 years of experience in telecommunications, Rodney was responsible for de- veloping partnerships with leading network technology providers and driving marketing efforts for op
AFB.Patricia Chaffey, University of Southern California Patricia Chaffey has had a passion for studying and designing interaction between humans and technology since her undergraduate career at Mount Holyoke College, and continues to pursue this interest at the University of Southern California. Some of her notable work includes developing a robotic learning companion and designing a simulation to study how people interact with swarms of robots using a virtual agent as an intermediary. Patricia has received awards to support her travel to conferences and leadership workshops, which include, but are not limited to, the 2018 ELIS Expanding Horizons award, and the 2017 Computing Research Association – Women Grace Hopper
to inspire human-centeredinnovation, the lead instructor presented material on how to design and implement a survey, andteams created a brief survey; the brief survey presented in the Appendix is an example of a team-designed survey. As a team, team members also created an interview protocol to learn about eachother. Each student interviewed at least one other team member and reflected on how theinterview had unfolded. Typical interview questions included, “What brought you to thisuniversity?”; “What activities are you involved in on and off campus?”; “What do you plan tomajor in and why?”; and “What are your long-term career goals?” Common interview reflectionsincluded, “I rushed through questions; I won’t do that next time”, “We should
Paper ID #30661Cybersecurity Awareness and Training Through a Multidisciplinary OSINTCourse ProjectAlyssa Mendlein, Temple University Alyssa is a PhD student in the Department of Criminal Justice at Temple University. She earned a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Boston University and a Master of Philosophy in Criminological Research from the University of Cambridge. She is now working on an NSF CAREER grant for Dr. Aunshul Rege, exploring adversarial decision-making and cybersecurity education innovation.Ms. Thuy-Trinh Nguyen, Temple University Trinh is a PhD student in the Department of Criminal Justice at Temple
(Johnson, 1999).3.0 The Interdisciplinary Research Experience for UndergraduatesFor the past two summers (2018 and 2019), groups of students from a college in the Southeastparticipated in a problem-based learning journey in the context of studying about autonomousvehicles. One of the long-term goals of this project was to prepare students, who areunderrepresented minorities, for careers in transportation. They were part of a multi-disciplinary,eight-week summer research experience that integrated curricular and extra-curricular activities(see Table 1). Table 1: Interdisciplinary Research with Problem-Based LearningExplore Engage Experience EvaluateActivating PriorKnowledge
majors.Background and ObjectivesRetaining students in STEM majors has remained a stubbornly difficulty issue for the collectiveSTEM education community to address. Studies vary, but typically report that only roughly halfof all students who enroll in science and engineering persist to the completion of their degree [1].For underrepresented minority students, the estimates are even lower, ranging from eighteen totwenty-two percent [2]. Addressing this issue begins with the moment that students arrive oncampus, as their first year can lay the foundation for their experiences as they proceed throughtheir undergraduate careers. However, understanding the reasons that students might choose toleave their initial discipline requires an examination of why they
. Once a community project and partner have beenprudently chosen, Sutton suggests the following transformative strategies to utilize in servicelearning pedagogy: “cumulative exposures, comprehensive experiences, capstone experiences,immersion experiences, interdisciplinary experiences, community participation, youthparticipation, reflective practice, long term participation, and institutional participation” (Sutton2012). While this is a lengthy list of strategies, not all of these concepts can be applied to asingle course, as several are realized over the duration of one’s academic career. The strategiesmost applicable to this paper are immersion experiences and reflective practice, due to theduration of this particular community engaged
electricalengineering. The broad goals of the collaborative are to increase representation of Hispanics orlow-income students in computer science careers, provide necessary course-specific academicsupport especially for gateway mathematics courses and introductory computer science coursesacross all three institutions.Project leadership is provided by a research-intensive university that has experienced a rapidincrease in the number of Hispanic and low income minority students who either are directlyenrolled at the university or who transfer from the two-local state colleges The two feeder statecolleges have more than 100,000 students whose demographics are represented as follows: 65%Hispanic, African-American, low income, or first time in college. Both state
Paper ID #21663Global Engineering Competency: Assessment Tools and Training StrategiesProf. Brent K. Jesiek, Purdue University, West Lafayette Dr. Brent K. Jesiek is an Associate Professor in the Schools of Engineering Education and Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University. He also leads the Global Engineering Education Collabora- tory (GEEC) research group, and is the recipient of an NSF CAREER award to study boundary-spanning roles and competencies among early career engineers. He holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Michigan Tech and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Science and Technology Studies
program team adapt the EDP course progression from the high school summerprogram into full engineering courses for implementation in high school classrooms. The coursesthat arise from Hk Maker Lab’s curriculum development efforts are to: 1. Enhance student interest in pursuing STEM education and career opportunities; 2. Enhance student STEM self-perception; 3. Develop student engineering design skills. This paper describes the structure and programmatic activities of the curriculum developmenteffort, as well as preliminary assessments and future plans for refinement.PROGRAM COMPONENTSProgram ParticipantsNew York City science, math, and engineering high school teachers are recruited to apply for theEDP curriculum development program
Management at Regis University, a B.S. in Electrical Engineer- ing and Computer Science at the University of California at Berkeley; has 25 years of software/hardware industry experience and 21 patents; and has volunteered extensively in developing countries.Mrs. Tanya D. Ennis, University of Colorado, Boulder TANYA D. ENNIS is the current Engineering GoldShirt Program Director at the University of Colorado Boulder’s College of Engineering and Applied Science. She received her M.S. in Computer Engineering from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles and her B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Southern University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Her career in the telecommunications industry included positions in
-efficacy model [10] and the social cognitive career theory [22] have been widelyutilized in engineering education research. These models define self-efficacy as an individual’sbelief in their ability to successfully complete tasks and reach desired outcomes. Further, it isclaimed that an individual’s perceived self-efficacy towards a specific activity influences theirinterest towards it, both of which indirectly influence the individual’s choice to further practicethe activity and gain proficiency at it. This finding was repeated in engineering education by across-sectional study on educators and students, where it was found that engineering design self-efficacy was influenced by experience and correlated with task-specific motivation (i.e
the build group to me was that it provided me with hands-on,technical experience that I had never been exposed to before. Getting that experience as afreshman in college was very helpful, as I am going into a career in engineering, and the skills inthis build group are crucial to that career. It was also impactful because it fostered personalgrowth and confidence-building. Getting to know and use some powerful tools, surrounded bywomen in engineering who are doing the same, was very empowering.”Co-Ed Group ResponsesWhat aspect of the building group had the most impact on you, and why?“Access to tools, I've never had access to before. I was raised by a single parent and whatevershe had and could use was what I was taught to use, but not much
coursesmainly. But the resources will be used in more course work needs for both engineering technologyand computer science departments. More students are being interested and want to work in theSCADA lab/center and proposing new research ideas. This year two of the students applied toEURECA’s FAST project to get summer funds in order to work in the center.References[1] Scheffer, E., Wibberley, D., and Beets, N. “What the future holds for SCADA systems and process automation”, Elektron, 19(7), July 2002, pp. 40-42. 2.[2] Velankar, A. and Mehta, A. “Latest trends in SCADA for process automation”, Proc. National Conference on Industrial Automation and Intelligent Systems 2002, Jan. 2002, pp. 9-11.[3] Control Engineering salary and career survey
gender gap can be found within different engineering disciplines. One of themost commonly-cited reasons for why systems and industrial engineering attracts more womenthan other engineering disciplines is that it is perceived as having more feminine qualities.Brawner et. al [3]surveyed 70,000 students and concluded that feelings of “warmth” and the ideathat systems engineering is more generally applicable to a career led women to choose theconcentration. Blosser [4]made a similar conclusion, presenting evidence that systemsengineering is seen as feminine while mechanical and electrical engineering are seen as moremasculine pursuits. Other research suggests that math confidence, a common explanation usedby researchers to explain why women choose
consortium of engineering education).Nupur Kulkarni, Cares for the environment - I am a Certified Leed Green Associate. I enjoy spending my hobby time in Photography, painting and traveling. Ardent faith in ethical behavior and a strong desire to make a career in ’spaces and local mediums’ Graduating in June 2017 from Savannah School of Art and Design – Geor- gia (USA) in Architecture after B. Arch from S.P. Pune University. Technical Skills such as AutoCAD, Google SketchUp, Photoshop, InDesign, Coral Draw, Illustrator, Premiere Pro, V-Ray, and Microsoft of- fice. Participated in several competitions viz. Essay writing ’Pune, People, and Places’, Green School Competition by Ethos ’In Big Tree Paradigm’ - focused on
identified (by faculty as well asstudents).46 Damages included 6 broken windows, 4 missing books, and assorted missing officesupplies. 17 students were later ordered to pay $250 for not leaving the building when ordered.47 Figures 25 (above), 26, and 27. Students occupy the Engineering Library, Carpenter Hall, April 26, 1972.46 Figure 28. Protestors outside Carpenter Hall.46 Other disruptions to the building occurred in February 7, 1972, when Honeywell, a militarycontractor, came to recruit at the Career Center. Students chanted loudly outside interviewdoors.48Engineering Librarians After 1973Below is a listing of more recent engineering library
acrossthe School of Engineering. Rather than teaching a slightly revised version of Circuits orThermodynamics, we envision a complete redesign of the course. Our approach will provide amodern look at energy and emphasize concepts relevant to students regardless of theireventual career path. Our development will be guided by the question “What does the engineerof 2040 need to understand about energy?” Following best pedagogical practices, we will startby identifying learning objectives for the course. Our current draft of learning objectives includesthe following:Students should be able to: 9 1. Solve engineering problems using energy concepts (e.g. heat, work, conservation of energy) 2