studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She runs the erstwhile Research in Feminist Engineer- ing (RIFE) group, now renamed the Feminist Research in Engineering Education (FREE) group, whose diverse projects and group members are described at the website http://feministengineering.org/. She can be contacted by email at apawley@purdue.edu.Canek Moises Luna Phillips, Purdue University, West Lafayette Canek Phillips is a graduate student in the School of Engineering Education at Purdue University-West Lafayette and works as a graduate assistant in Dr. Alice Pawley’s Feminist Research in Engineering Ed- ucation lab. He holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Rice University and an M.S. in Mechanical
the Christian interpretation of life. And so, the practical by which isalso meant the technical (technological) was given less status than the academic by which isalso meant the pure.4 The Percy Report and its manpower projection.4.1. The committee began by categorizing the types of technologist that industry required, atask that would inevitably mean that it would have to consider the roles of the universitiesand technical colleges in meeting the needs when defined. The five categories were:1. Senior administrators.2. Engineer scientists and development engineers.3. Engineer managers (design, manufacture, operation and sales)4, Technical assistants and designer draughtsmen5. Draughtsmen, foremen and craftsmen.4.2. The committee felt that
Paper ID #9215How Students’ Informal Experiences Shape their Views of Engineering andAffect their Plans for Professional PersistenceDr. Kerry Meyers, Youngstown State University Dr. Kerry Meyers is in her second year as the Director of the STEM College’s First-Year Engineering Program at Youngstown State University. Her career is focused on the development of common, project based First-Year Engineering experiences, beginning at the University of Notre Dame where she was also the Director of the First-Year Engineering Program from 2005-2012. Further, her research interests relate to Engineering Educational issues in the
in engineeringcomes from the capacity to resolve complex problems; with a scientific approach, engineeringwill achieve more efficiently its purpose of serving society. However, this faith in the power ofsciences can be described as an intrinsic characteristic of who practices sciences and resolvesproblems using its theories and methods. Thomas Kuhn suggests that a “normal” science has thecapacity to establish paradigms and more rigid definition of its field and its problems, rejectingthe vision of other disciplines and problems that are “just too problematic to be worth thetime.”57 Upon these assumptions, engineers could have projected an idealistic scientificengineering that overlooks other essential parts of professional work, such as
society or group. To say that two people belong to the same culture is to say that they interpret the world in roughly the same ways and can express themselves, their thoughts, and feelings about the world, in ways which would be understood by each other. Thus, culture depends on its participants interpreting meaningfully what is happening around them, and “making sense” of the world, in broadly similar ways. (p.2)7For Hall, this communal sense making project is deeply contextualized, and has the “tendency to take onthe intellectual coloration of the place where it is operating.” (p.24)8 He characterizes culture asindivisible from power and underlines the “historic
, self-study, project, writing, etc.)” and “What are yourconcerns, if any, about relying on AI for academic purposed?”.ResultsFaculty Reflections on AI-Generated Course MaterialsFaculty members who used ChatGPT to redesign their courses provided detailed reflections onthe benefits and challenges of incorporating AI into the course development process. Thesereflections offer insights into how AI tools like ChatGPT can support syllabus creation, materialdesign, and assessment development while revealing areas where human expertise remainsessential. 1. Syllabus Design: Faculty noted that AI-generated syllabi were generally comprehensive, well-organized, and aligned with course objectives. For example, two faculty members
transdisciplinary focus on love as a foundational element in student learning, paired with theuse of a Holistic Design Thinking (HDT) methodology rooted in love, has been applied acrossvarious educational levels. These include eight senior-level, year-long secondary courses, sevensingle-semester undergraduate courses, and four graduate-level courses. Additional applicationsincluded junior high courses, capstone projects, and independent studies. Elements of pedagogyand methodology continue to evolve and have been extended into postsecondarytransdisciplinary honors courses.At the secondary level, students from several different public schools met for half-day sessions atan off-campus location throughout the entire fourth year of high school. The
atspecific schools. Students at Schools Beta and Zeta reported hands-on, project-based learning,and learning linked to real world applications. For example, Raphael at Beta described: My current teacher for the science stuff, he has a lot of hands-on lessons and he thoroughly explains everything and makes sure that we get it. And the examples that he uses are about everyday things. And then as the lesson goes on, it gets more advanced. And that makes it easier to digest and understand what's happening and how this translates to the real world.Additionally, Zara from Zeta reported: “I do like doing the stuff that was happening in my class,all the investigations, DNA stuff... I like the hands-on activities [because
process.Critical Thinking and the Engineering Design Process Relevant to this study, Putra et al. [13] researched student performance of criticalthinking skills (CTS) within the context of an engineering design project. Putra et al. [13, p. 142]summarize critical thinking as “...a cognitive process involving reasonable reflective thinking todevelop a decision based on the problem faced by a person.” Specifically, they drew on thecognitive skills outlined by the American Philosophical Association (APA) from 1990, as citedin Ernst & Monroe [14] in Table 1:Table 1 Critical Thinking Skills, Defined Skill Action Items/Demonstration Examples Interpretation Categorization, decoding significance, clarifying meaning
computerscience. This includes the capacity to offer CS education, access to and participation in CSeducation, and experiences of those students receiving CS education. After working with CAPEfor several months across various projects, we hypothesized that we could use it to help identifygaps in equity-focused CSER given its intent and focus as a framework specifically created forK-12 CS education. Our primary research question became: How feasible is it to use the CAPEframework for identify coverage gaps in K-12 CS education research?In this paper, we present two methodologies–one for investigating the feasibility of using CAPEto identify gaps across a dataset focused on girls (specifically focusing on implementation andpracticality of using this
also a Graduate Administrative Assistant for the Bioengineering Department and assists with advising students throughout their academic careers.Dr. Catherine E. Brawner, Research Triangle Educational Consultants Catherine E. Brawner is President of Research Triangle Educational Consultants. She received her Ph.D.in Educational Research and Policy Analysis from NC State University in 1996. She also has an MBA from Indiana University (Bloomington) and a bachelorˆa C™Dr. Catherine Mobley, Clemson University Catherine Mobley, Ph.D., is a Professor of Sociology at Clemson University. She has over 30 years experience in project and program evaluation and has worked for a variety of consulting firms, non-profit agencies
apply. Figure 3: Data AnalysisSkills related to CodingIn addition to “Programming Languages” section, to investigate the need for coding related skillsin more detail, we asked alumni to rate how relevant the following practices for their job are (eachon a 5-point Likert Scale): • Skill 1: “Working with big coding projects collaboratively” • Skill 2: “Managing workflows and version control” • Skill 3: “Testing and verifying code” • Skill 4: “Finding your way around complicated chunks of code”These practices can be considered to be specific to software engineers, however, in Figure S1 weshow that for approximately half of the MSE graduates
proof that they achieved the goal or on the way to achieve goal.For evidence, homework, quiz, project, midterm and final exam are the tools to evaluate students. 4Evaluation criteria or contents need to be almost same for all modalities. Table 1 summarizesHyFlex student attendance pattern for class size of 20 students. From the table it is clear majorityof the student prefer to attend in-person although online participations allowed more flexibilities.This may be happed due to nature of course.Enhance Students Learning in HyFlex Environment Students and instructor need to work together to create effective HyFlex environment. Toprepare students for these modalities instructor should provide
: Consider the flexibility and portability needs of veterans when choosing delivery methods for microcredential. Online learning, blended learning, and experiential learning methods could be considered.4) Develop assessment strategies: Create assessment strategies that effectively evaluate veterans’ knowledge and skills. This could include hands-on projects, case studies, and real-world scenarios.5) Collaborate with industry partners: Partner with industry experts, employers, and data science organizations to ensure that the microcredential aligns with the current demands of the field and meets the needs of employers.6) Evaluate and refine: Regularly assess the effectiveness of the microcredential and make improvements as needed based
, efforts made to diversity campuscannot be chalked up to individual accomplishments or failures, but rather demonstrate howinstitutional cultures determine which policies are adopted and acted upon [13]. We have selected these frameworks to reflect our commitment to better understanding howinstitutions, in conjunction with individual actors, can improve their diversity outcomes.Furthermore, our rationale is to look specifically at the institutional barriers that participantsmention that prevent them from being effective at carrying out diversity work, even if they arecommitted to that effort.Methods, Context and SampleThis paper developed from a larger project aimed at creating a sociotechnical framework toview, analyze and understand the
generate a moreinclusive classroom [6].The term STEM was first used in 1990 by the National Science Foundations in the United Statesas an acronym for policies, projects, and programs in the disciplines of Science, Technology,Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM). STEM programs and projects have been developed forprivileged populations that have had access to the best schools and universities in the world, sotheir benefits for vulnerable populations such as migrants and refugees have not been studied.However, STEM Education presents barriers and myths that discourage the interest of children andadolescents in these disciplines [7]. This context makes necessary an educational intervention atearly ages so that children become interested in STEM
Paper ID #39326Work in Progress: Introducing a coffee break to improve exam performanceand reducing student stress in construction majors ´ Esteban ToscanoRaulVanessa Guerra, University of VirginiaDr. Miguel Andres Guerra, Universidad San Francisco de Quito USFQ MiguelAndres is an Assistant Professor in the Polytechnic College of Science and Engineering at Uni- versidad San Francisco de Quito USFQ. He holds a BS in Civil Engineering from USFQ, a M.Sc. in Civil Engineering in Construction Engineering and Project Management from Iowa State University, a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering with emphasis in Sustainable Construction from
drink redeemable at the department’s cafe.Collected responses were divided into two groups based on whether or not students completed theassignments. For each, plots were constructed to represent the responses to Likert items. Shortresponses were subject to multiple rounds of inductive coding. Axial coding was then utilized togroup related codes into thematic groups where appropriate. A researcher experienced withqualitative analysis but external to the project was given the resulting codebook and a randomsubset of student responses. Interrater reliability was calculated using Krippendorff’s Alpha andfound to be 0.84, well exceeding the accepted minimum threshold of 0.68 [23, 24].ResultsThe results of the study are divided into four categories
the world. Developments overthe past decade have focused on sustainable long-distance aviation technologies, urban airmobility, low-cost access to space, and the commercialization of human spaceflight, to name buta few. These and other projects continue to demand talented engineers to support their researchand development. The NSF REDO-E grant supporting this study identifies several ways in whichdiversity in engineering consistently yields improvements across many facets of the discipline.Groups with higher diversity consistently demonstrate improved overall performance [1] as wellas improved understanding of relevant subject matter [2]. Such groups are also more adept atmaking ethical decisions [3], which is of especially critical
engineering [15],engineering programs have focused on the alignment of course LOs, curriculum (e.g., classactivities, tasks, projects), and assessment to achieve the various educational outcomes necessaryfor professional practice.Two weaknesses of the alignment between the LOs and their assessment is that instructors rarelyuse LOs as a basis for student assessment, and students are rarely asked to use them as the basisof self-assessment of their abilities. When explicitly using LOs for assessment, instructors arebetter able to ascertain the extent to which students are achieving the LOs [3], [16], [17]. Whenstudents are asked to reflect on their abilities by referring explicitly to the LOs, their attention isdrawn to what they should be learning and
about each of the fields of engineering, as well as connect with students and staff members in those departments.Throughout her high school’s 3 course STEM program, she was able to get hands‐on experience with CAD and using power tools, as well as experience developing a concept project to propose to the community.Another influential factor in her decision to pursue STEM comes from her father’s work as an electrical engineer. These influences led her to conduct this study to ensure more women have access to outreach programs and chose to pursue STEM careers. 4 Research Question and Objectives Research question: What influences more women
students expend on their learning, while the self-reflectionphase occurs after the learning efforts, and it helps in mediating students’ reaction to theirlearning. The cyclical nature of the self-regulation theory is completed with the forethoughtphase, which facilitates students’ subsequent learning cycles. Figure 2 below is the self-regulation model.Figure 2: Self-regulation model culled from Zimmerman [15]III. MethodologyA. Research Design and Project OverviewThe setting for this case study design is the Probability and Statistics for Engineers course at aUS Southeastern R1 university. The title of the course is introduction to the field of probabilityand statistics with an emphasis on topics and problems relevant to engineering. The
: interdisciplinary projects that provide safe drinking water to underserved communities in El Paso, Ciudad Ju´arez, Puerto Rico, and Haiti; a bridge that connected communities in Puerto Rico; a solar charging station for natural disasters in Puerto Rico; innovation and entrepreneurship activities on water quality sensors and phyto-remediation; remote sensing applications using Hyperspec- tral cameras on UAVs for water quality and agricultural applications; and study abroad opportunities that ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Paper ID #40102 advance the emerging field of Peace Engineering in
the students to determine one of two audiences first: Is this person trying to learn?Or is this person giving you grief? Either way a four-step heuristic script can help: (1) Optional graciousappreciation; (2) Return to the mission; (3) Provide some evidence; and (4) Offer to follow up. Afteroffering the heuristic, Author 1 provided a number of example scripts. “Thanks for that question. We see our mission as a problem-solving mission: to address the exclusion of particular groups of people from engineering and STEM more broadly. So, in terms of problem definition, particular end users fall outside of the specs for this project and organization because, simply put, not all end users face this problem. In the
independence, increasing self-efficacy gains,and reinforcing a growth mindset [16]. By taking time to cover the general problem solving stagesin class, they reduced the amount of students stuck in the design process that didn’t know how toapproach solving a problem by 2.3%. Additionally, Loksa and Ko explored how self-regulationimpacts student success on programming projects [5]. In their think-alouds, they found that themajority of participants explicitly verbalized planning. Only two of their participants from a CS1course did not mention planning. They noted that the more participants mentioned planning andcomprehension monitoring, the fewer errors the participants tended to have, indicating that havingstudents focus more on planning stages of
. This was evident in students’ discussions and the time it took forthem to complete the goals associated with each engineering challenge. Another tension that instructors encountered was their desire to facilitate socially constructedknowledge while encouraging independent thinking. This was rooted in the nature of someactivities, which relied upon jointly created designs. One instructor commented that the 3-Dprinting activity only allowed for one design per team to be printed: I would rather have such a project where every student has their own computer so they can utilize more of the design time and what not… It would have been maybe kind of more creative to have each student have their own design rather than have one
personal story and academic interest converge around: identity; language, ideology and consciousness; pedagogy, and epistemology. Broadly speaking, he focuses on critical qualitative inquiry with a discerning eye toward humanizing and culturally sustaining pedagogies.Idalis Villanueva (Dr.) For the past 10 years, Dr. Idalis Villanueva has worked on several engineering education projects where she derives from her experiences in engineering to improve outcomes for minoritized groups in engineering using mixed-and multi-modal methods approaches. She currently is an Associate Professor in the Engineering Education Department at the University of Florida. In 2019, she received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists
-traditional problems in engineering education. She has published in several international conferences.Samieh Askarian khanamani Samieh Askarian Khanamani is a Ph.D. student at the Department of Engineering Education, University of Cincinnati. She has 10 years of experience as Vice-Principal in elementary school in Iran. She has a bachelor's degree in project management Engineering from Payamnoor university and a Master's degree in Civil Engineering from Azad University. Her research area of interest lies in informal preK-12 education to strengthen the engineering pipeline.Gregory Bucks Gregory Bucks joined the Department of Engineering Education at the University of Cincinnati in 2012. He received his BSEE from the
. Halkiyo has been teaching different Civil Engineering courses at Bule Hora University, Ethiopia, where he also served as a department head and conducted various research and community projects. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.comEnhancing the Equity and Inclusivity of Engineering Education for Diverse Learners through an Innovative Instructional Design, Delivery, and Evaluation: International Students in FocusAbstractIn the United States, 64.9% of all engineering master’s and 59.0% of all engineering doctoraldegrees are awarded to international students [1]. These international students bring significantcultural and