develop effective latent variable model and instrument that reflects the factors of college students’ retention.Dr. Carol S Gattis, University of Arkansas Dr. Carol Gattis is the Associate Dean Emeritus of the Honors College and an adjunct Associate Pro- fessor of Industrial Engineering at the University of Arkansas. Her academic research focuses on STEM education, developing programs for the recruitment, retention and graduation of a diverse population of students, and infusing innovation into engineering curriculum. Carol is also a consultant specializing in new program development. She earned her bachelor’s, master’s and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineer- ing from the U of A and has served on the industrial
Academy and Women in Engineering Initiatives Fenn Academy • Stimulate and encourage 8th-12th grade students to explore engineering fields • Address the national shortage of students pursuing an engineering degree • Increase the number of underrepresented students • Assist teachers to enhance STEM lessons • Provide information for parents and counselors • Introduce students to college life and undergraduate engineering programBenefits: For Middle School and High Schools • Engineering Activity Day campus events • Engineer for a Day job shadowing program • Women Exploring Engineering program • Summer camp activities • Curriculum consultation • Small grants to teachers for engineering competitions/projects • Participation in
into smaller parts, andable to explain or determine what the root cause of a problem is.Keywords: affective domain, attitudes, undergraduate engineeringIntroductionLearning is an integral part of our lives. Each one of us learns the same things differently based onour preferred way of learning. We can learn by building mental models; through feelings,emotions, attitudes; and by physical movements. Based on this, the domains of learning are broadlycategorized as cognitive (knowledge), affective (attitudes), and psychomotor (skills) [1]. Eachdomain of learning focuses on one of three ways the brain can be engaged in learning. Thecognitive domain is focused on mental processes or thinking, the affective domain focuses onfeelings, attitudes, and
an engineering discipline? ● What would the curricula and courses look like? ● What would be the balance of education and engineering classes? ● How many engineering courses would be required for it to remain in the engineering school? ● What skills in education would be required, recommended, and/or beneficial? ● What would a Ph.D. qualifying exam be like? ● What other skills would be useful, such as math, statistics, qualitative and quantitative data analysis skills?In the end, Dr. Karan Watson worked with the curriculum experts in the Interdisciplinary Degreeprogram to determine what a degree plan would look like. The interdisciplinary program hasgraduated top engineering education people in the past
included a design sprint topractice design thinking, an introduction to the team’s selected focus area (presented by subjectmatter experts), and then proceeded with design thinking activities, further defining needs andinterests within the focus areas, ideating and then prototyping solutions, and developing actionplans. The curriculum included community-led, hands-on and practical exploration, ideation,prototyping, feedback and reflection sessions that resulted in a conceptual design conceived bythe community team.4.3. Symposium MethodologyOrganizing TeamThe organizing team for this symposium included several members of the IUDC, each of whomis a principal author of this work: 3 professors (Marcel Castro, Electrical Engineering;Christopher
. R., & Litzinger, T. A. (2021). An extension of the Thermodynamics Conceptual Reasoning Inventory (TCRI): measuring undergraduate students’ understanding of introductory thermodynamics concepts. International Journal of Science Education, 43(15), 2555–2576. https://doi.org/10.1080/09500693.2021.197584710. Mulop, N., Yusof, K. M., & Tasir, Z. (2012). A Review on Enhancing the Teaching and Learning of Thermodynamics. Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 56, 703–712. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sbspro.2012.09.70611. Klein, S. A. (1993). Development and Integration of an Equation-Solving Program for Engineering Thermodynamics Courses. Computer Applications in Engineering Education, 1(3), 265–275.12
areas compared to biological sciences and physical sciences.Minnesota has a large number of academically-talented and financially-needy students. In 2008,only 6.9% of bachelor’s degrees awarded in Minnesota were in STEM according to theMinnesota Office of Higher Education. The financial burden is a significant obstacle for studentsconfronting a challenging curriculum that needs more time commitment.Saint Cloud State University (SCSU) is the second largest in the system of public MinnesotaState Colleges and Universities (MN State). SCSU’s mission is to prepare students for life, workand citizenship in the twenty-first century to positively transform students and the communitiesthrough the discovery, applied knowledge, and creative interaction
institutional policies (or lack thereof), professional and personal networks, interactionswith colleagues and students, and articulated (or not) expectations all combine to createparticular climates and experiences for faculty at institutions of higher education throughout theUnited States in 2020. Those show gendered and race-based patterns. Many of the activities thatare integral to the reputation and function of an organization are often performed by women andfaculty of color. These activities, especially administrative and curriculum-based ones, tend torequire time and expertise but are not typically rewarded in traditional academic promotionstructures [1, 33, 6, 34, 31, 35]. In fact, research indicates that women faculty overwhelminglyare tasked
academic excellence and contributions to research have been recognized through several prestigious awards. In 2022, she was honored with both the CoST Graduate Rising Scholar Award and the NC A&T Graduate Rising Scholar Award. These accolades highlight her outstanding scholarly achievements and her commitment to advancing knowledge in her field. In 2024, Mercy’s dedication to education and her exemplary performance as an instructor were acknowledged when she received the Senior Graduate Teaching Assistant Award. This award underscores her effectiveness as an educator and her ability to inspire and mentor students. In addition to her academic and teaching roles, Mercy has significantly contributed to the broader
Paper ID #39226A Framework for the Development of Online Virtual Labs for EngineeringEducationDr. Genisson Silva Coutinho, Instituto Federal de Educac¸a˜ o, Ciˆencia e Tecnologia da Bahia Genisson Silva Coutinho is an Associate Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials at the Federal Institute of Science and Technology of Brazil. Genisson earned his Ph.D. in Engineering Education from Purdue University. His specialties are engineering education research, ed- ucational innovation, laboratory education, product design and development, finite element analysis, ex- perimental stress analysis, product
previously served as Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies in the School of Engineering at Virginia Commonwealth University and was a faculty member and administrator at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL). Her research interests include: Teamwork, International Collaborations, Fac- ulty Development, Quality Control/Management and Broadening Participation. She is an honor graduate of North Carolina A&T State University, where she earned her BS in Mechanical Engineering, in 1988. In 1991 she was awarded the Master of Engineering degree in Systems Engineering from the University of Virginia. She received her Ph.D. in Interdisciplinary Engineering from Texas A&M University in 1998. She is the recipient
Paper ID #43385A Quantitative Exploration of Geographic and Demographic Variance Transfer-StudentCapital Assets and Support for Pre-Transfer Engineering StudentsDr. Kristin Kelly Frady, Clemson University Kristin Frady is an Assistant Professor and Founding Program Director of the Human Capital Education and Development Bachelor of Science with a joint appointment between the Educational and Organizational Leadership Development and Engineering and Science Education Departments. Her research focuses on innovations in workforce development at educational and career transitions emphasizing two-year college and secondary
, the college successfully developed andimplemented a program curriculum involving day and night classes in electrical engineering andcomputer engineering. The curriculum program consists of 11-week courses and allows aflexible schedule for students to successfully complete an ABET-accredited degree in eitherBSEE or BSCE. During 2017, CoE proudly received an ABET re-accreditation for six yearswith no required interim reports.In 2015, the University tasked the CoE to develop a strategic plan in delivering onlineundergraduate and graduate engineering courses. Starting in April 2015, the college embraced aflipped learning approach for future and online delivery of undergraduate engineering courses.One reason for adopting flipped learning concerns
in conjunction with AugSTEM teammembers. Bringing various stakeholders together and convening at the two-year campus wasparticularly valuable for program evaluation.1. Knowledge Generation MethodsIn addition to ongoing formative and summative evaluation described above, our projectincluded a research component to generate knowledge about the lived experience of STEMstudents, influences related to social identity and institutional characteristics that contribute topersistence in an urban liberal arts college.2.1 Conceptual Frameworks Our qualitative research was guided by two overall conceptual frameworks, one from highereducation and one from social work. First, we drew on Nora’s student integration model [10],which views students as moving
inacademia was a concern that was brought up by multiple participants. More specifically, theparticipants noted that there are inconsistencies in what credits transfer from military experienceinto an engineering curriculum. A couple of the assets that were brought up during the sessionincluded, “vet populations are diverse and understand diversity,” and that student veterans are“very task-oriented compared to peers.”Funding. Another concern for SVEs surrounds funding. Some of the participants brought up the“lack of transparent alternate funding,” and “only 36 months of funding (initially)”. Oneparticipant brought up “GI Bill Logistics” as a barrier to academic success for SVEs. Thiscomment sits in juxtaposition with the comments noting VA
to achieve an experience that enhances their qualityknowledge and skills during their capstone projects. As Wm. A. Wulf, president of the NationalAcademy of Engineering (NAE), has noted, for the United States to remain competitive in a globaltechnological society, the country as a whole must take serious steps to ensure that we have adiverse, well trained, and multicultural workforce [2]. To support undergraduate minority studentsenrolled in STEM fields, TAMUK promotes the Senior Design / Capstone Mini-Grant (SDMG) tosenior students developing capstone projects as an integral part of their course program to completeits academic degree. The SDMG activity has an objective to help participants improving the seniordesign/capstone project
. Ressler P.E., United States Military Academy Stephen Ressler, P.E. Ph.D., Dist.M.ASCE, F.ASEE is Professor Emeritus from the U.S. Military Academy (USMA) at West Point. He earned a B.S. degree from USMA in 1979, a Master of Science in Civil En- gineering from Lehigh University in 1989, and a Ph.D. from Lehigh in 1991. As an active duty Army officer, he served for 34 years in a variety of military engineering assignments around the world. He served as a member of the USMA faculty for 21 years, including six years as Professor and Head of the Department of Civil and Mechanical Engineering. He retired as a Brigadier General in 2013. He is a registered Professional Engineer in Virginia, a Distinguished Member of
of novice teachers’ epistemological framing ofengineering learning and teaching. The inclusion of engineering design at all grade levels in theNext Generation Science Standards calls for efforts to create learning opportunities for teachersto learn to teach engineering. In our research on the role of engineering in elementary teacherpreparation, we ask, what learning goals do new elementary teachers take up when asked to doengineering design themselves, and what learning goals do they establish when setting upengineering design tasks for students?We conducted an interpretive comparative case study with two purposefully selected cases,chosen to unpack contrasting epistemological framing of engineering. Ana and Ben participatedin the same
past several decades, there has been an increasing emphasis on the importance of engineerspossessing important professional skills, including global readiness or awareness. In 2004, theNational Academy of Engineering (NAE) described the Engineer of 2020 as being proficient in“interdisciplinary teams [with] globally diverse team members” (p. 55).1 As the NAE stated,“While certain basics of engineering will not change, the global economy and the way engineerswill work will reflect an ongoing evolution that began to gain momentum a decade ago.” (p. 4).Engineering graduates will be called to solve increasingly global problems and to work in teamsthat contain members who are either from international locations or are globally distributed.Across the
hydrologic field measurements. Specialty areas of research and consulting include integrated urban water management, low-impact de- velopment, green infrastructure design, storm water management, flood risk modeling, vulnerabilities and adaptation strategies for urban water systems, and the water-energy nexus. Steve’s research projects have been funded by National Laboratories, EPA, NSF, DOD, DOE, State Departments of Transportation, and Private Industry. His work has resulted in more than 50 authored or co-authored peer-reviewed publi- cations. Dr. Burian currently is an Associate Director of the Global Change and Sustainability Center and the Co-Director of Sustainability Curriculum Development at the University of Utah
❏ Include a diversity/inclusive statement and land acknowledgment in your course syllabi - Make course names and descriptions inclusive so they correspond with everyone - Add pronouns and inclusive language to syllabus - but not as separate thing, as integrated into the syllabus so it becomes normalized (and talk about it) - Resources: Sample Inclusive Teaching Statements for the Course Syllabus ❏ Clarify the role of the instructor during your first-day instruction -- as a facilitator of learning as opposed to an authority figure - Share your personal story and motivation with the class - go beyond your professional titles. Students tend to feel connected with instructors who are willing
and better communicate to students how all engineering decisions should be madewithin the broader moral landscape, as opposed to a select few decisions. An engineeringeducation integrated with ethics as a way to make longer-lasting systemic change [13], [12].Incorporating experiences such as community outreach and guest speakers helps, in part, toframe an education in the ethical issues beyond the workplace [16]; however, this is just anextension, albeit a very valuable one, of the current education strategy. More recent papershave proposed game-based learning experiences, or ‘playful learning’ as a way for students toimmerse themselves in ethical issues and consider them from new perspectives [9], [8]. Thesestrategies provide an alternative
Classroom in the Online Environment of Covid? Computer Applications in Engineering Education, 2022. 30(2): p. 517-531.5. Morgan, J., E. Lindsay, C. Howlin, and M. Bogaard, Pathways of Students' Progress through an on-Demand Online Curriculum, in ASEE Conference and Exposition. 2019: Tampa, FL.6. Tsai, Y.-S., D. Rates, P.M. Moreno-Marcos, P.J. Muñoz-Merino, I. Jivet, M. Scheffel, H. Drachsler, C.D. Kloos, and D. Gašević, Learning Analytics in European Higher Education—Trends and Barriers. Computers & Education, 2020. 155: p. 103933.7. Mavroudi, A., M. Giannakos, and J. Krogstie, Supporting Adaptive Learning Pathways through the Use of Learning Analytics: Developments, Challenges and Future
use by students218 anywhere in the United States. The first tool, identified by two participants (one dean and one219 university director), is Curricular Analytics (https://curricularanalytics.org/), a free nationally220 available resource, provides tools and data analyses which helps students to visualize curricula221 and degree plans and analyze the impact on their student progress. This tool allows students to222 input curriculum or a degree plan in CSV file format and then provides an interactive223 visualization, generates an analysis of the complexity of the degree and potential bottlenecks,224 and provides 2-to-4 year articulation pathways. This tool allows students to simulate student225 progress under various
curriculum for the new Minor in Global Engineering offered by the CU Boulder College of Engineering and Applied Science starting in fall 2016. Ms. Sandekian earned B.S. and M.S. degrees in Aerospace Engineering Sciences at CU Boulder, a Spe- cialist in Education (Ed. S.) degree in Educational Leadership and Policy Studies from the University of Northern Colorado, and expects to earn her Ph.D. in the Higher Education Student Affairs Leadership program from the University of Northern Colorado in December 2017. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Global Engineering: What it Means at University of Colorado Boulder, and How We are Preparing our Students for
, and continued STEM interest in girls. Therefore, we developedtwo bioengineering curriculum modules for the NSBE SEEK program. These two modules areinfluenced by the Framework for K-12 Science Education: Practices, Crosscutting Concepts,and Core Ideas [20] published by the National Resource Council in 2012. This frameworkprovides an approach to strengthen and diversify the STEM pipeline through three dimensions:core ideas, scientific and engineering practices, and cross-cutting concepts. This framework,which additionally calls to address lack of diversity in STEM by equalizing opportunities tolearn, serves as the basis of the NGSS [21]. We used this framework to drive the design of ourmodules. We report here on the development of the two
Paper ID #21502The Career Pathways of Non-tenure-track Full-time Engineering FacultyMr. Cliff Fitzmorris, University of Oklahoma Cliff Fitzmorris is a lecturer in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Oklahoma. He was a practicing engineer in the telecom industry for fifteen years before joining the Uni- versity of Oklahoma as an adjunct instructor, later transitioning to a full-time non-tenure-track teaching role.Dr. Deborah A. Trytten, University of Oklahoma Dr. Deborah A. Trytten is a President’s Associates Presidential Professor and Associate Professor of Computer Science and
their social positions and unconscious biases might be operating in teamdynamics (DiAngelo, 2011). Recognizing the value of the work we have done on a smaller scaleand also the above, our university has, for instance, taken steps to begin to integrate this work ata programmatic level across the curriculum so that students have regular and repeated exposureto it. We have also, however, seen instances where this work does help privileged studentsbecome more aware of these processes and become able to recognize when they are happening.Such students then work to further understand and counteract the effects of stereotyping andbias, as one of our students writes: “As a white-passing male, I now feel obligated to learn moreabout the systems and
Paper ID #38645Death by 1000 cuts: Workshopping from Black engineering narratives frominterview to stageDr. Debalina Maitra, Arizona State University, Polytechnic Campus Debalina Maitra is a Post-doctoral Research Associate at ASU. Prior to her current role, Debalina Maitra was employed by CAFECS (Chicago Alliance for Equity in Computer Science), a NSF-funded Research Practice Partnership, for almost two years. She complDr. Brooke Charae Coley, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Brooke Coley, PhD is an Assistant Professor in Engineering at the Polytechnic School of the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona
programs. VAx represented not onlya conversion from traditional travel-based programs but was a departure from conventionalprograms featuring unique characteristics as follows [6]:1) Participation of six engineering institutes and universities from five countries across Asia (Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Thailand and the Philippines),2) A 14-class interdisciplinary curriculum led by 12 multiethnic lecturers including six each in technological and social science fields, supplemented by non-lecture activities like group discussions and team presentations,3) An engineering knowledge component designed to stimulate participants’ borderless engineering interests beyond their specific field of study and teach participants to apply combined