student’s financial burden.Introduction Earning a professional engineering (PE) license is an important step many engineers taketo open career doors, protect the public, and provide credibility for their engineering skillsets. Inthe field of civil and environmental engineering (CEE) receiving professional licensure isespecially important as it often deals directly with the built environment and the public [1]. Oneof the first steps towards professional engineering licensure is passing the National Council ofExaminers for Engineering and Surveying (NCEES) Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) exam.After passing the FE exam, applicants must graduate from an ABET-accredited engineeringprogram, gain work experience, and pass the Principles and
; it’s about preparing students for careers” [2]. CTE consists of 17 career clusters,of which manufacturing is considered a major track, with the goal to prepare students for directemployment in one of the clusters [3]. High school CTE participation yields additional benefits,such as students reporting higher median annual earnings after graduation than students who didnot focus on CTE [4]. In 2019-20, 7.6 million secondary students and 3.5 million postsecondarystudents participated in CTE [5], showing the dominance of secondary school CTE education inthe pipeline to middle-skills, technical, and high-needs industry fields. After high school, manystudents enroll in two-year programs to prepare for the AM industry. To ensure a smoothtransition to
Paper ID #36913Measuring and Highlighting the Value of ProfessionalAcademic Advising in an ECE DepartmentAnnie Yong Patrick (Ms.) .Mary BrewerKimberly R Johnston (Academic & Career Advisor)Nicole Gholston (Academic and Career Advisor)Susan Broniak (Academic and Career Advisor) © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.com Measuring and Highlighting the Value of Professional Academic Advising in an ECE DepartmentAbstractProfessional academic advising is a growing trend in undergraduate education [1]. Having adedicated team of professionals trained to address
methodologies, community engagement projects, evaluation tools and technology, and gender issues in STEM education. https://orcid.org/0000- 0002-0383-0179Ruben Bustamante-Encina Ruben Bustamante-Encina is an academic secretary and professor at the Faculty of Engineering at the Universidad Andres Bello in Santiago, Chile. Ruben holds the degrees of Survey and Civil Industrial Engineer and an MBA. For the last ten years, his experience has focused on educational management, leading careers in industrial, logistics and mining area, and community engagement projects. In addition, he has contributed as a peer evaluator in accreditation processes in higher education institutions.Marcela Silva (M. Ed) Marcela Silva is the
help interpret students’ perceptions of how their experiences might affect oreven mediate their academic plans for the future and their future career paths.An initial survey was given to all FYE students currently enrolled in Calculus I at a southern,land grant, R1 institution with the open-ended question, “What do you believe is the purpose oftaking Calculus exams?” The data were analyzed through two coding cycles and several themesemerged depicting how students perceive the purpose of taking Calculus exams. These themeswere translated into items that then appeared on a second survey that gave the same studentsthe opportunity to indicate their level of agreement with these perceptions on a 5-point Likert-type scale. Additionally, this second
engineering research) from start to finish, pushing them out of their comfort zones whilelearning new professional skills and knowledge. When asked to reflect upon their summer researchexperience, students fondly described their experience. Their eyes opened up to the many diversebackgrounds of their peers and professionals. During the outreach project, many students feltuncomfortable interacting with strangers and networking. However, participating in this outreachproject served to encourage many students to continue pursuing their chosen career path. Thispaper describes the outreach project and its impact on REU students in more detail.The purposes of the paper are as follows:1. To provide detailed information on the integration of the outreach
important psychological dimensionof STEM student success.A sense of self-efficacy develops from a person’s evaluation of their past performance (i.e.,efficacy expectations) and their belief in their ability to shape future performance in a desireddirection (i.e., outcome expectations) [4]. Self-efficacy beliefs impact students’ motivation [5]and goal setting, including STEM career goals [6]. Self-efficacy has also been found topositively relate to academic performance such that higher self-efficacy leads to both the settingof higher goals and greater task-related effort, which together improve academic performance[7]. An accurate, rather than over- or under-confident sense of self-efficacy, is key forperformance within a domain (see: [8]). It is
innovation.Dr. Suzanne Zurn-Birkhimer, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE) Dr. Suzanne Zurn-Birkhimer is Associate Director of the Women in Engineering Program and Associate Professor (by courtesy) in the Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences at Purdue Uni- versity. Dr. Zurn-Birkhimer conducts research and leads retention activities including administration of the undergraduate and graduate mentoring programs and the teaching of the Women in Engineering sem- inar courses. For the past decade, Dr. Zurn-Birkhimer’s research has focused on broadening participation of women and underrepresented group in STEM fields. Recently, she has been investigating the intersec- tion of education and career path with
focusing on certainareas of computing, despite comprising 12.6% of the U.S. population [6]-[8]. Likewise, in2017, only 3.1% of workers in technical jobs among the eight largest tech companies in theU.S. were Black [9]. Moreover, not only are universities struggling with effectively recruiting and retaining Black computer science students, top tech companies are disproportionately hiring from existing computing talent [9], [10]. Additional and accessible resources are needed to support Black people looking to enter into computing and computer science. This may include resources for high school students considering computing careers, computer science graduates seeking jobs, or established professionals in other fields looking to enter the
5 4 3 2 1 03. Briefly state the technical skills that you learned during this capstone project.4. Do you think this capstone has been beneficial to your current or future career? Strongly agree Agree Neutral Disagree Strongly disagree N/A 5 4 3 2 1 05. Briefly state the impact and/or influence of this capstone project related to your current orfuture career. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition6. In your experience and opinion, did COVID-19
through smartdevices, users are increasingly exposed to cyber-crimes. Due to the limited training oncybersecurity and cyber-safe practices, young adults are especially an easy target for thesecybercrimes. It is also well-known that there is a need to enhance organizations’ cybersecuritycapabilities while spreading cybersecurity awareness among the masses. To the former cause,degree programs have been established throughout the US to train the workforce; however, theyhave proved insufficient. Therefore, we propose developing and integrating plug-and-playmodules for CS/CSE undergraduate courses at various levels to develop a security mindset amongthese students and inculcate interest in a cybersecurity career. Irrespective of what domain ofCS/CSE
could bedone for the future semesters.Every aspect of this course is designed so that managers in engineering or engineering-relatedfields find it pertinent and valuable to their career/personal success. In the meantime, the designof this course and lessons learned could provide implications for other engineering programs orinstitutions that are looking into offering a similar course. IntroductionCommunication plays a vital role in workplaces regardless of the types of profession. Peopleoften use various functions of communication to interact, inform, instruct, motivate/persuade,regulate/control, etc., in order to perform their day-to-day jobs [8]. Engineering managers andleaders are no exceptions, and
two have been recognized as best papers in American Society of Mechanical Engineers journals. He is a Fellow of ASME. Ali has taught 11 different courses and leads an engineering- based study abroad course in Brazil as well as the jointly-funded NSF-DoD REU site on Hypersonics (HYPER). Ali is well-known for engaging undergraduates in research, and he is UCF’s 2019 Champion of Undergraduate Research inaugural awardee. At UCF and in the broader higher education community, Ali focuses his efforts on expanding the pipeline of graduate students qualified to pursue careers in academia. Just before joining UCF as an Assistant Professor, he earned a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology. His
) improves performance and persistence of STEM majors. BothASPIRE interventions foster academic communities and support networks to meet these needs.To transition into a STEM career post-graduation, students must capitalize on their contentknowledge and a suite of non-technical interpersonal and cognitive skills that often are notintentionally nurtured in their undergraduate programs (Paul and Cowe Falls 2015). Tenopir andKing (2003) showed that engineers spend 60% of their time communicating with other people,yet most engineering programs include just one lower-division communication course, generallytaken at the freshman level. Leadership competency is frequently noted as a vital skill set soughtby employers, yet it is rarely included in an
resulted in a powerful approach to engaging students. The implementation ofsocial media as an education and communication tool in informal learning environments should bethoroughly explored to increase student engagement and learning. The percentage of students pursuing STEM degrees in college is on the rise, even though itremains low in many STEM disciplines [8]. Students recognize the importance of STEM careers, but amajor challenge for entering college students to complete their academic programs is to maintain focusand motivation on long-term goals [9]. Therefore, the motivation and engagement of college students arevery important to increase recruitment, persistence, retention, and graduation rates at STEM departmentand institutional
major since the students are exposed to all levels ofcognitive difficulties such as, applying and linking the fundamental knowledge and theories into amore complex real-world application. Learning-by-doing can be very impactful in comprehendingabstract engineering concepts at the introductory level. So, a first-year scholar develops learn-to-learn by yourself skills by learning-by-doing. Some important benefits of participating inundergraduate research that might assist in the student’s preparation for either graduate educationor a professional career, include gaining experience and learning the research process, increasingknowledge and how the knowledge is applied, defining their future career plan, learning aboutacademia and graduate life
potential job opportunities and careers was co-presented bywere expected to be college students. The team identified two Dr. Hongmei Chi and her graduate student, Maryambadges on Blockchain in the IBM Digital Badges & Moghadam. There was also a closing session activity where the This work was sponsored by a grant through The Fin-Tech Center atMorgan State University and the FAMU NSF ADVANCE Grant.winners of virtual entertainment room games were announced, • On a scale of 1 to 10, with 1 being “Absolutely No Interest”,and networking contacts were provided to participants. what is your level of interest in Blockchain prior to the
Operatorlicense to collect images using a drone. The camp provided opportunities to expand soft skills,explore college-level research, and community outreach. The apprenticeship curriculum wasimplemented by undergraduate and graduate students which included: daily Python codingclasses, developing quality research skills, improving public speaking, and introducing careersin STEAM. Local female STEM leaders were guest speakers and provided career advice. Theprogram concluded with a research symposium where they presented their research in posterand presentation format.This paper will provide details about recruiting, lessons learned working with students andparents under COVID-19 restrictions and developing research agendas for high school
professional papers on this subject. During the 2018/2019 academic year he received a Fulbright Scholar Fellowship to support a sabbatical in the Netherlands where he worked with Deltares, Rijkswaterstaat, and TU Delft on the issue of Backward Erosion Piping in the Netherlands levee system. Prior to his academic career, he had a 16-year career as a geotechnical consultant in California working for Woodward-Clyde (now part of AECOM) and Kleinfelder. The latter part of this consulting career was dedicated to assessing seepage issues in California levees and he consulted on the first two Deep Mix Method cutoff walls constructed in California under the auspices of the US Army Corps of Engineers. In addition to his academic career
STEMengagement, and their engineering identities [11], [12]. One study found that among first-yearcollege students interested in engineering, self-reported engagement in various STEM-relatedexperiences were predictive of their engineering identities [13]. However, young women’sengagement with tinkering and computer programming was associated with lower levels ofidentification with engineering. Overall, research reveals that understanding the factors thatcontribute to young women’s engineering identities is critical, as those with strong identities aremore likely to persist in engineering [14], [15].Similar to engineering identity, intentions to pursue an engineering major are highly predictiveof STEM college persistence and interest in a STEM career [16
Texas Tech University AbstractAccording to the Hudson Institute’s report Workforce 2020: Work and Workers in the 21st Century,national demographic trends suggest that 62% of those entering the labor force will be women by theyear 2005. However, women are not choosing to pursue careers in engineering. In fact, fewer than 20 %of the students studying engineering in college are women.In response, Texas Woman’s University (TWU), Texas Tech University (TTU), and Texas Instruments,Inc., (TI) have created a unique partnership to encourage members of traditionally under-representedpopulations to pursue graduate degrees in engineering. The partnership supports female and minoritystudents by providing
Engineering from the Polytechnic Institute of NewYork, and a Ph.D. in Acoustics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Upon graduation he became an Assistant Professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. In 1987 he joined the Department Electrical and Computer Engineering at UMASS Lowell as its Analog Devices Career Development Professor. Dr. Thompson has served on the executive boards of the Cooperative Research Fellowship program of Bell Laboratories (1991-1999) and the AT&T Labs Fellowship Program (1996-2006). At Bell Laboratories Dr. Thompson created with the Vice President of Research and Nobel laureate, Arno Penizas, the W. Lincoln Hawkins
highlight the necessity of broadening participation. Althoughcompanies may claim they want to do better, and some have begun to develop and implementinitiatives to promote and improve diversity, ongoing reports of discrimination and metricsdemonstrate there is still a long way to go to achieve inclusivity and parity in representation,particularly for women, Hispanic/Latinx, and Black/African American workers. To learn moreabout students’ pathways to a career, especially those which are underrepresented in thediscipline, and to examine what they believe may ameliorate interview preparation and the hiringprocess, we employed phenomenography. Phenomenography has been used in computing andengineering education as a qualitative methodology to assess how
a Ph.D. in Educational Psychology from the University of Connecticut in 2011. I’m currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Teaching, Learning and Culture (Joint appointment in Ed- ucational Psychology) at Texas A&M University. I teach graduate courses in measurement, research design, and statistics. My research focuses on the contextual factors, developmental relationships, and motivational processes that support and broaden participation in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) careers – particularly for students from groups historically underrepresented in STEM. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2022My
our plans for "real-time" tracking student tutoring were impacted.In the original cohort, 9 of the 11 students made good academic progress. Two students werebelow the target gpa performance levels but continue in the program. The original threshold gpafor scholars to stay in the program was not enforced for the first semester because of theextraordinary challenges these students faced. We interviewed these two students and made thejudgment that they still show good promise for success in their chosen major and have allowedthem to move forward in the program on a probationary status.Project Objective 4: Provide ECS Scholars with opportunities to engage in research, internships,professional development, and career training with the goal that 90
predictions about a system.11) Using output devices to react to live data.3. Survey and Interview ResultsAfter students came back from China, they completed a survey and individual interviews. Anexample of five key survey questions and a summary of the answers provided are listed below:1) Does this IRES program benefit your current study and future career? If yes, could you give some details and comments? Students expressed that IRES program gave them excellent experience to use computers and sensors to collect environmental data. There was also a mention that this IRES program helped them pursue their Environmental Science degrees.2) Does this IRES program provide a unique globally-engaged chance for you to study abroad
Engineering Education and Outreach.Samantha Ruth Brunhaver (Assistant Professor) Samantha Brunhaver is an Assistant Professor of Engineering in The Polytechnic School within the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering. Dr. Brunhaver joined Arizona State after completing her M.S. and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University. She also has a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Northeastern University. Dr. Brunhaver's research examines engineering student career decision-making, early-career engineering work experiences, engineering mindsets, and faculty development. She also conducts studies of new engineering pedagogy to improve student engagement and understanding.Jennifer Chandler
and culture of engineering foster or hinder belonging and identity development. Dr. Godwin graduated from Clemson University with a B.S. in Chemical Engineering and Ph.D. in Engineering and Science Education. Her research earned her a National Science Foundation CAREER Award focused on characterizing latent diversity, which includes diverse attitudes, mindsets, and approaches to learning to understand engineering students’ identity development. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.com “Everything sucked . . . for everyone”: Narrative of a Student Journeying Through Engineering Before COVID-19, During
structuralenvironment that confers a greater sense of belonging and ability to succeed to men thanwomen” (p. 8). Consequently, fewer women enter college intending to pursue a career inengineering because their school personnel most likely did not encourage them to considerengineering. Among those women who major in engineering, they are less likely than men toidentify themselves as engineers [10]. Myers et al. [10] found in their quantitative study of 701engineering majors at a private institution that 12-20% fewer women, across all academic levels,identified as engineers when compared to the men in their study. The higher chance of menidentifying as engineers is likely an outcome of the self-perpetuating societal belief thatengineers are typically White
, and federal projects and facilities. Paul is a Registered Roofing Observer (RRO) through the International Institute of Building Envelope Consultants. Paul is also a member of ASCE and currently serves as a faculty advisor for York College’s ASCE student chapter and engineering co-op program. In addition Paul has assisted with student engineering service projects in Uganda, Bolivia, & Guatemala.Kelly Ann Arcieri (Co-op/Internship Advisor) Kelly Arcieri has served as the Co-op/Internship Advisor for the Civil Engineering and Computer Science programs at York College of Pennsylvania since 2017. She teaches a career training class to prepare civil engineering and computer science sophomores for their first co-op or