. Once data collection is completed and analyzed, the results andproducts of this 3-year experiment will advance a fundamental understanding of how STEM-oriented CVPs influence psychosocial and scholastic outcomes and, ultimately, persistence inSTEM.2. Research DesignTAMIU’s Institutional Review Board has approved our study protocol (IRB #2020-04-15). As partof our IRB protocol, we adhered to ethical standards by providing potential participants withdetailed information about our study. However, we were careful not to reveal the hypotheses orpredicted outcomes to maintain the integrity of the research. Once we obtained signed consentfrom participants (parental consent and participant assent, in the case of participants under 18 years1 As of this
integration of students and development of student-faculty bonds. It is expectedthat eight seminars will be held per academic year. Potential seminar topics are: (1) The CSET-STEMProgram, (2) Applying for Graduate School and Financial Aid, (3) Finding a Mentor, (4) Ethics, (5)Public Speaking, (6) Understanding Group Dynamics, (7) Managing Intellectual Property, (8) TimeManagement, and (9) Technical Writing.(b)Graduate School and/or Employment Preparation -- Scholars will be urged to register with the SCState Career Center. This will ensure that they are prepared to connect with graduate schoolrepresentatives and employers.(c)Academic Mentors – Each scholar will choose an academic mentor from a list of available mentors.This list will include faculty
topicsmight exist across content areas. “Technology and Society” concerns the relations betweenhumans and technology. This includes issues such as ethics and responsibility and the historyand evolution of technology. The “Design” section focuses on the methods though which Page 23.1160.6engineers create new technological products and systems. Content would include designmethodologies, cost-benefit analysis, and design evaluation. “Products and Systems” addressesthe systems nature of technology, and includes topics such as the flow of energy, materials, andinformation in systems, feedback and control, and the specific technologies characterizingmodern
, the faculty working groupcharged with developing the new policies and procedures has articulated 7 basic principles. They haveadded principles not explicitly articulated in current policies including on issues like inclusivity andequity, ethical conduct, transparency and collaboration.b. Identity-Affirming Mentorship The Identity-Affirming Mentorship Pillar focuses on enriching mentorship practices bycentering awareness of identity, positionality, and intersectionality. Through mentorship education,training, and inclusive professional development, our goal is to cultivate a culturally aware mentoring2framework that supports underrepresented early-career faculty as they advance in their career. As part ofthis initiative, we developed
#49163 Among her awards and honors are ABET’s Claire L. Felbinger Award for Diversity and Inclusion, ASCE’s Professional Practice Ethics and Leadership Award, the Society of Women Engineers’ Distinguished Engineering Educator Award, the UT System Regents Outstanding Teaching Award, and ASCE’s President’s Medal, one of the highest honors awarded in this global organization of over 150,000 members. Dr. Pearson is a registered Professional Engineer, an ENVISION® Sustainability Professional, and a Commissioner on ABET’s Engineering Accreditation Commission. Her book - Making a Difference: How Being Your Best Self Can Influence, Inspire, and Impel Change - chronicles her journey and her work’s focus on ”making sure
peer research environmentfor the undergraduates while providing a valuable mentoring experience for the graduatestudents. To foster collaboration, REU participants and mentors held biweekly Zoom meetings,where two students—one from each site—presented their work, encouraging questions andinteraction among peers. This setup facilitated cross-disciplinary engagement, allowingengineering and engineering technology students to share insights and observe each other’sapproaches. The program also included various professional development and social activities.At UAH, students participated in weekly professional development sessions every Thursday ledby experts from multiple departments. Key topics covered were research ethics, open inquiry,viewpoint
would work with which mentors based on shared interests.Faculty mentors then met bi-weekly with their mentees to discuss and develop individualresearch interests and on the off weeks met all together as part of a group session about broaderresearch concepts. Group sessions covered included an introduction to research methodologies,how to write research questions and conduct literature reviews, communicating science andscientific writing, ethics and scientific misconduct, presenting data and best practices for oral &poster presentations. During the last week of the semester, all scholars presented their researchquestions and literature review in a group setting which led to rich conversations and critiques ofthe research ideas present in the
Ethically with Global Marginalized Communities,” Environ Eng Sci, vol. 38, no. 5, pp. 320–330, May 2021, doi: 10.1089/ees.2020.0269.[4] E. A. Cech, “Culture of Disengagement in Engineering Education?,” Science, Technology, & Human Values, vol. 39, no. 1, pp. 42–72, Jan. 2014, doi: 10.1177/0162243913504305.[5] J. Smith, A. L. H. Tran, and P. Compston, “Review of humanitarian action and development engineering education programmes,” European Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 45, no. 2, pp. 249–272, Mar. 2020, doi: 10.1080/03043797.2019.1623179.[6] J. N. Magarian and W. P. Seering, “Celebrating Differences: A Conjoint Analysis of Senior Year Mechanical Engineering Students’ Occupational Preferences
mentoring skills in sciencecommunication [5]. Faculty then determined the overall set of lesson topics and selected thespecific lessons they would each work on, which were developed and shared in Spring 2024.The URE staff met online with the student cohort 10 times, with the bulk of the meetings duringSpring 2024. Topics included identifying the core elements of a research narrative, the structureof a scientific paper, the process of publishing a journal article, using a reference managementsystem, tools for collaborative writing, using styles in Google Docs and Microsoft Word, peerreview, and details about the journal’s formatting requirements and the submission process.Additional faculty lessons covered ethics, copyright, plagiarism and
weekly professional development workshop seriesfocused on providing students with the skills necessary to succeed in their summer researchproject and beyond. Active-learning workshop activities include: scientific communication(delivering an elevator pitch for different audiences, presenting at lab meeting, writing aconference abstract, making and presenting a scientific poster), research methods (hypothesisgeneration, laboratory documentation, data management, searching the scientific literature), andidentifying the broader impacts of their research (scientific outreach, research ethics andalgorithm bias). In addition to developing students’ research skills, a major goal of this workshopseries is to develop a sociotechnical mindset in the
remote learning context (during COVID-related remote learning)?• How does climate change impact on my local community, my state, and the world?• What are the ethical dilemmas and possible benefits of AI and robotics in our everyday life?• How can we strengthen community partners businesses and endeavors through internships and design work?These inquiries were advanced in a design cycle fashion that engaged students in investigatingchallenges and celebrations of community and how to advance and act within these contexts forgood. From 9th through 12th grade, students made use of engineering literacies and tools, such asroot cause analysis, 5 whys, stakeholder mapping, pitches, and design challenges. We found thatthe co-development of
. Statistical analyses included paired t-tests forwithin-group comparisons, independent t-tests for between-group comparisons, and the Mann-Whitney U test for non-parametric data. Effect sizes were calculated using Cohen’s d to quantifythe magnitude of observed differences, ensuring a comprehensive evaluation of the VRintervention’s impact on CT skills. Ethical guidelines, including informed consent andinstitutional review board approval, were strictly followed throughout the study.Results Descriptive statistics revealed differences in CT skills between the control and experimentalgroups across pre-test and post-test scores. The experimental group demonstrated improvementsin Creative Thinking (mean = 4.21) and Problem-Solving (mean = 3.01), while
at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. Papadopoulos has diverse interests in structural mechanics, sustainable construction materials (with emphasis in bamboo), engineering ethics, and engineering education. He is co-author of Lying by Approximation: The Truth about Finite Element Analysis. As part of the UPRM Sustainability Engineering initiative to develop a new bachelor’s degree and curricular sequence, Papadopoulos is PI of A New Paradigm for Sustainability Engineering: A Transdisciplinary, Learner-Centered, and Diversity-Focused Approach, funded by the NSF HSI program. He is also an active member of the Engineering for One Planet Network.Dr. Michael J. Prince, Bucknell University Dr. Michael Prince is a
between 1 and 2. Fourth, the participants valued theelements of working in tandem including enhancing mindsets about believing and thinking, developingskillsets about learning and applying knowledge. By mindsets, the key ingredients identified includecreative inquiry-led approach, design thinking, systems thinking, global citizenship, and ethical decisionmaking.There was unanimous agreement that more engagement can only be achieved by bringing social innovationinto the classroom through projects that ask students to work on real problems. This is consistent withBloom’s Taxonomy [12]. Some of the emerging constructs or prescriptions include what is now termed,“Fruits of Innovation,” i.e., what are the students tasked with creating – knowledge
finding internships to every cohort during their first program semester.They also offered a service called “interview stream” for students to practice interviewing skills.Invited experts spoke on topics such as personal finance and ethical issues. Local speakers withSTEM industry experience talked to students about careers in forensics and clinical laboratories.COMPASS scholars attended two presentation and discussion sessions with Dr. Theresa Duelloof the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who has significant experience advising students andplanning for graduate school. The Collegial Academy of the North Carolina Academy of Science(CANCAS) workshop held off-campus at Pfeiffer University offered plentiful opportunities forCOMPASS scholars to learn
project that introduces a variety of introductory engineering topics and requiresthe application of science and mathematics concepts. While each instructor is free to choose adifferent project and pedagogical implementation, the common technical topics include unit conversions, statistics, problem solving, engineering design, and safety. Ethics, teamwork, andcommunication are also emphasized in this course.After learning about the INSPIRES Heart-Lung project at the ASEE 2012 Chemical EngineeringSummer School, Rowan University adapted the project for use in Freshman Engineering Clinic Iin the fall semester that year. The overarching goal of
containing value statements, and individuals rate their values on a Likert scale. When implicit, value affirmation occurs through the assertion of desirable or ideal behaviors of an individual or population (e.g., an ideal professional engineer would be ethical in all business dealings). • Behavior Understanding: Behavior understanding is the process by which individuals identify their current actions or decisions with respect to a particular domain. In this research, behavior is always explicit taking the form of a survey instrument, and individuals rate their behaviors (as listed in the survey instrument) on a Likert scale. For example, an individual might rate the behavior, “When making
Paper ID #16514NSF TUES Grant: A Collaborative, Multi-Campus Program to EnhanceSTEM Learning in Energy Science, Technology and PolicyDr. Gary P. Halada, Stony Brook University Dr. Halada, Associate Professor in Materials Science and Engineering at Stony Brook University, directs an interdisciplinary undergraduate degree program in Engineering Science. He designs educational ma- terials focused on nanotechnology, advanced manufacturing, and how engineers learn from engineering disasters and how failure and risk analysis can be used to teach about ethics and societal implications of emerging technologies. Halada also
Environmentalengineering by Fall in spite of her FoK in mechanics. She was extremely frustrated with the step-by-step formulaic process that her teacher taught in statics as it removed all creativity and desirefor understanding of the physical phenomena. Realizing that most of her 18-yr old classmates areaccustomed to this process and “just listen and do it” [her tone of voice actually hints that theydo this uncritically], in contrast, she says: “I actually stop and wonder if this is the right thingthat I should be doing [amazing sense of ethical responsibility towards her knowledge] or if thisprocess is actually going to teach me what the professor wants to teach me [amazing sense ofmeta-cognition].” Realizing that her critical reflection takes more time and
“ Interaction during exam oral increased my motivation to learn”. 6. Oral exam administrator competency in both behavioral (tone, helpfulness, etc.) and technical aspects (questioning, accuracy of feedback, content knowledge, etc.).The surveys aimed to elicit students’ insight about the impact of oral exams on their learningexperience, how they prepared for the oral exams, and what they felt were the main benefits anddrawbacks of oral exams.To study the impact on academic performance within the class, a fewclasses conducted semi-experiments. There is no rigorous control group. The semi-experimentconducted is elaborated on in a later section. Ethical Approval:Ethical Approval was granted for the study by UC San Diego’s Institutional Review
committee and the National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) panel. She advises the student chapter of the Society of Women Engineers (SWE) at SFSU.Dr. Stephanie Claussen, San Francisco State University Stephanie Claussen is an Assistant Professor in the School of Engineering at San Francisco State Univer- sity. She previously spent eight years as a Teaching Professor in the Engineering, Design, and Society Division and the Electrical Engineering Departments at the Colorado School of Mines. Her research interests lie in sociotechnical teaching and learning, students’ and engineers’ perceptions of ethics and social responsibility, community engagement in engineering, and the experiences of low-income and first
engineering instructors and theconstruction CoP. The goal is to identify information that can help facilitate access to industrypractitioners that can complement the practical needs of construction engineering students andunderstand the practical course-support needs of construction engineering instructors. The surveywas administered online, and 293 engineering instructors and 143 industry practitioners filled itout. In addition, we secured ethical clearance through our IRB office. Data were analyzed usingdescriptive statistics, and some of the responses were analyzed by different variables to see ifthere were any important differences to show between participants. Preliminary results of thesurvey are presented next.Participants from IndustryOne
Kay Bothwell, Oregon State University Michelle Bothwell is a Professor of Bioengineering at Oregon State University. Her teaching and research bridge ethics, social justice and engineering with the aim of cultivating an inclusive and socially just engineering profession.Dr. Christine Kelly, Oregon State University Dr. Kelly earned her BS in Chemical Engineering from the University of Arizona and her PhD in Chem- ical Engineering from the University of Tennessee. She served as an Assistant Professor for 6 years at Syracuse University, and has been an Associate Professor at Oregon State University in the School of Chemical, Biological and Environmental Engineering since 2004, where she also served for three and
principles via hands-on experiences, highlights the importanceof professional ethics, project planning, prototype fabrication, engineering creativity, andpreviews each engineering discipline. Student teams undertake a design project that involvesdesigning, constructing, and testing an autonomous hovercraft. Work examining the effect ofproject-based learning by Major and Kirn [13] has shown increased confidence and reducedanxiety to perform engineering tasks. Cohort 1 took this course in-person and worked in teamswith at least one other CREATE scholar. Due to the pandemic the course was re-structured andstudents worked on teams of four to design Rube Goldberg machines. The course emphasizedengineering design and teamwork throughout the semester
experience including feeling more confident and preparedwith respect to engineering and problem solving, and feeling motivated to seek more researchexperience. Suggestions for improving the undergraduate research experience included offeringmore varied research projects, and clarifying student expectations.SeminarsSeminars are an integral part of the Engineering Scholars program. They are designed to increasestudents’ understanding of engineering research including the sociological aspects of conductingresearch. Engineering sociology seminars including topics such as engineering research ethics,research methods, identifying social problems addressed by engineers, and how to read academicjournals. Scholars rated the usefulness of these seminars on a
, effectivecommunication with their mentees will help them in their future careers. One mentor said, “I am always trying to have a mental note of how I am explaining things to thestudents…It will be the same thing when I get into the job field, there will be times when I haveto explain my ideas to people who don’t have my background and I will have to find ways tomake it relatable.” Another noted, “After I complete my PhD, I’ll go into a biotech company. Iknow their work ethic is working in groups, so I hope to bring to the table the communicationskills I developed through mentoring into those groups.”While mentors and mentees agreed that the PINC mentoring program successfully created anenvironment of open communication, they noted times when
teaching practices, and the use of technology and innovative pedagogies on student learn- ing and success. She also led a project to develop a taxonomy for the field of engineering education research, and she was part of a team that studied ethical decision-making in engineering students.Dr. Matthew Charles GrahamMadison E. Andrews, University of Texas at Austin Madison Andrews is a STEM Education doctoral student, Mechanical Engineering master’s student, and graduate research assistant for the Center for Engineering Education at the University of Texas at Austin. She received her B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Clemson University in 2017.Dr. Jenefer Husman, University of Oregon Jenefer Husman received a doctoral degree
structural mechanics and bioconstruction (with emphasis in bamboo); appropriate technology; engineering ethics; and mechanics education. He has served as PI of several NSF-sponsored research projects and is co-author of Lying by Approximation: The Truth about Finite Element Analysis. He is active in the Mechanics Division.Dr. Michael J. Prince, Bucknell University American c Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Paper ID #29762 Dr. Michael Prince is a professor of chemical engineering at Bucknell University and co-director of the National Effective Teaching