solutions in coastal communities. The minor is part of a more extensiveresearch, engagement, and education initiative at ODU to support adaptation and resilience forcoastal communities.The success of the minor will be measured through a combination of student performance andpost-graduation career paths, as well as through engagement with community partners to assessthe impact of students' work on coastal resilience. Ongoing assessment and evaluation of theminor's outcomes will ensure that it continues to meet the needs of both students and communities.New Course Additions for the Minor a. Managing the Climate Crisis i. Description - Managing the Climate Crisis is a course that provides a structured framework for developing
network of university resources, and guide students in the exploration and selection of amajor and career direction.360 Coaching builds on the Advising-as-Teaching learner-centered approach to advising atNorthwestern University’s McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science [4], andsimilarly aims to leverage a naturally developing community within our first-semesterengineering design course, EGR 101L – Engineering Design and Communication. While manyof our 360 Coaches are involved with our first-semester design course as either an instructor or adesign team technical mentor, this is not universally true; some of our 360 Coaches are notinvolved in our first-semester course. This is a distinction between our 360 Coaching programand
engineering.Students were presented with both pre- and post-course surveys containing some of the samequestions to establish a baseline and then measure any changes due to the FERL experience. Thepre-course surveys were administered the day prior to or the first day of the course, while thepost-course surveys were completed two or three days prior to the last day of the course. Thepre-course survey allowed a baseline to be established by gathering demographic informationsuch as class year, sub-discipline interest, and career interests upon graduation; while alsoexamining why students chose the civil engineering major over other engineering degrees. Thepost-course survey included typical end-of-course feedback questions on how the course couldbe improved and
their white counterparts in attaining STEM degrees. According to the National Science Board,from 2000 and 2015, the number of science and engineering degrees awarded to Hispanic studentshas increased from 7% to 13% compared to 61% awarded white students [3]. These trendssignificantly impact the professional and career trajectories of students and limit the diversificationof the STEM workforce. For example, according to Pew Research Center Black and Hispanicgroups continue to be underrepresented in STEM fields [4]. Today the Black communitycompromises 9% of all STEM workers, while 7% of the total STEM population is represented bythe Hispanic community. Moreover, The Pew Research Center studied perceived reasons whywomen Blacks, and Hispanics are
Paper ID #32798Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics(S-STEM) Engineering Scholars Program at a Two-Year College: Prelimi-naryInterventions and OutcomesDr. Elizabeth A. Adams, Fresno City College Dr. Elizabeth Adams teaches full time as an Engineering Faculty member at Fresno City College in Fresno, California. She a civil engineer with a background in infrastructure design and management, and project management. Her consulting experience spanned eight years and included extensive work with the US military in Japan, Korea, and Hawaii. In 2008 Elizabeth shifted the focus of her career to education
(15.2%) compared to enrollment patterns in the general student population (21.7%). Disparitiesin enrollment are partnered with inequitable rates of course completion, with historicallyunderserved students completing 71% of these courses with a grade of C or better, compared toan 82% course success rate for their peers. These demographics mirror national demographictrends that indicate student access to degree and career opportunities in STEM offered by twoyear colleges disproportionately favors students who identify with hegemonic norms in STEM[2],[3]. The SEECRS project represents one institutions attempts at designing programming todismantle structures that reproduce these disparities.Beginning in 2018, Whatcom Community College started
engineering design as to how variousdesign experiences, especially introductory experiences, may influence student attitudes towards thesubject and towards engineering more broadly.Student attitudes is a broad and well-studied area and a wide array of instruments have been shown tobe valid and reliable assessments of various aspects of student motivation, self-efficacy, and interests. Interms of career interests, the STEM Career Interest Survey (STEM-CIS) has been widely used in gradeschool settings to gauge student intentions to pursue STEM careers, with a subscale focused onengineering (Kier et al 2014). In self-efficacy and motivation, the Value-Expectancy STEM AssessmentScale (VESAS) (Appianing and Van Eck, 2018) is a STEM-focused adaptation of
problems. These non-technical skills allowstudents to understand the social, political, economic, cultural, environmental, and ethical aspectsof their future jobs[1]. The development of leadership is especially important for students whowish to pursue management careers including project management (PM) which is a highlyneeded and promising career path. Few undergraduate students are exposed to PM during theirundergraduate curriculum, and most PM courses are based on literature and reading. TheNational Research Council Board on Engineering education noted that undergraduate curriculumneeds to be reformed in order for undergraduates to get extensive exposure to interdisciplinary,hands-on skills, creative design, and systems thinking[2]. At the
and discuss summer internship options.Following are comments from two professors that have taught students both the previouscurriculum and the new curriculum: • “The previous foundational courses had minimal coding using MATLAB, which is still used in some following courses, but did not supply the programming foundation required to code confidently. Students were left to develop this ability on their own when needed later in their collegiate career” [5]. • “Having just completed two decades in the auto industry, I was surprised that foundational courses did not include significant coding, so, previously, I had my students complete programming activities beyond those in the initial standard curriculum” [6
. Bolf travels thenation courting engineering graduates, he mentions that the area s recreational opportunities area real selling point for potential employees, but finds that many leave the area after a few yearsof employment, seeking careers in other industries and regions of the state and country. It isgenerally true that Iron Range born and raised high school and even college graduates who havecome back and have entered the mining companies are more likely to stay in the region for thelong term. The next logical question to ask therefore is how do we interest young Iron Rangestudents to pursue engineering in order to keep engineers in the region for the long term? Localgraduates are very familiar with the area, have family and friends that
sup- ply chain management, data analytics, logistics, production planning, lean manufacturing systems, and the intersection between operations management and information and technology. More specifically, his research seeks to innovate and improve operational performance using data analytics and IoT technology at manufacturing and supply chain levels. He is also particularly interested in supply chain resiliency, co- ordination issues, and real-time analytics-based decision making. Prior to his academic career, Dr. Diaz worked for seven years as a process engineer and management consultant in the international consulting arena. American c Society for
Carolina engineering technology, and construction managementat Charlotte’s William States Lee College of Engineering. students in the pursuit of their educational and career goals.Although the MAPS program was originally developed The program utilizes the talents and leadership of College ofand implemented through National Science Foundation Engineering upper class students to engage, direct, and(NSF) funding more than two decades ago, it is now fully support freshmen, transfer, and continuing students, new tofunded by the University as a key component of the the pursuit of an engineering or engineering technologySouthern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS) degree. The MAPS program is comprised of
high school and then considerpursuing a technology-related field in college. In the place of longitudinal data, researchers haveoften relied upon one-time measures meant to predict persistence with no follow-up evidence ofhow students’ intentions actually played out. In our study we examined how survey responses byhigh school girls predicted persistence three years later defined as being tech and computerscience majors [or minors] in college. We also examined other factors that may be influential inthat choice of major. A number of studies exploring field persistence from education to career have used theSocial Cognitive Career Theory (SCCT) model which holds that personal, behavioral, andenvironmental factors play a role in career decision
notrestricted to the engineering profession only. The goal here is to raise the concept of self-awareness within each student such that he/she understands that their service to society, througha career in engineering, will be valuable and successful if they truly focus on the proper fit forthemselves within the profession.Leadership and ManagementBased on input from leaders in the engineering industry (design, consulting, and constructionmanagement) invited to speak as guest lecturers in this course, we can conclude that someengineers will find themselves in junior leadership and management positions not long aftercompletion of their undergraduate studies. Leadership and management, although related, are notthe same.Students are introduced to the
, Southern Methodist University Paul Krueger received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering in 1997 from the University of California at Berkeley. He received his M.S. in Aeronautics in 1998 and his Ph.D. in Aeronautics in 2001, both from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). In 2002 he joined the Mechanical Engineering Department at Southern Methodist University where he is currently an Associate Professor. He is a recipient of the Rolf D. Buhler Memorial Award in Aeronautics and the Richard Bruce Chapman Memorial Award for distinguished research in Hydrodynamics. In 2004 he received the Faculty Early Career Development Award (CAREER) from the National Science Foundation. His research
Page 13.598.2solutions.BackgroundMost undergraduate chemical engineering programs face the challenge of continually evolving atraditional curriculum to meet the demands of the 21st Century. This very idea was presented toASEE in 1994 in “Engineering Education for a Changing World,” and it remains as valid todayas fourteen years ago. “Engineering education programs must be relevant, attractive and connected: o Relevant to the lives and careers of students, preparing them for a broad range of careers, as well as for lifelong learning involving both formal programs and hands-on experiences; o Attractive so that the excitement and intellectual content of engineering will attract highly
Institute and State University MAURA BORREGO is an assistant professor of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech. Dr. Borrego holds an M.S. and Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from Stanford University. Her current research interests center around interdisciplinary collaboration in engineering and engineering education, including studies of the collaborative relationships between engineers and education researchers. Investigations of interdisciplinary graduate programs nationwide are funded through her NSF CAREER award.Jenny Lo, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University JENNY LO is an advanced instructor in the Department of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech. Dr. Lo
facing the engineering community totake advantage of the untapped talent among underrepresented ethic minorities and highlights thefact that these groups remain overlooked by current recruitment and retention approachesemployed by universities.This paper introduces the Engineering Career Awareness Program (ECAP) at the University ofArkansas. This program is an engineering diversity recruitment-to-graduation initiative toincrease the number of underrepresented students entering and graduating from engineeringdisciplines. This program combines several piloted and proven recruitment and retentionstrategies into one cohesive program to recruit and retain minority students. The recruitmentstrategy is grounded in the education of students previously
Career outcomes. This paper reports both on baseline access, retention, andcareer data and a logic model associated with a comprehensive curricular reform resulting fromthe access, retention and career baseline data. As a result of this baseline data, the ERCeducational team has found innovative ways to infuse inductively based, situated curriculum andinstruction in addition to a student-centric outcome metrics into all aspects of the BMEcurriculum and associated laboratory experiences. These assessment measures build on theprinciples established in educational psychology and include pre and posttest BME conceptinventories, rubric-based laboratory assessments, BME efficacy measures and employersatisfaction measures. A comprehensive assessment
stateuniversities, making it difficult for faculty to provide optimum individual attention to students.Based on the overall need of increasing access to STEM careers and STEM student success,UTPA and STC submitted a proposal to the Department of Education. The project was recentlyfunded in fall 2008 over a two-year period under the College Cost Reduction and Access Act(CCRAA). The project, particularly focused on Hispanic and low-income students, is designedto increase enrollment, retention, and six year graduation rates in STEM fields at UTPA; toincrease enrollment, retention, and three year graduation rates at STC and the percentage ofqualified STC transfer students to UTPA (and other four year institutions) in STEM fieldsthrough strengthened pathways
department. Wefound funding to support our partnership from private corporations and foundations with similargoals; to improve the representation of African American, Latino, Native American, and femalesin engineering majors. SECOP focuses on introducing low income students to science,technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) careers and improving students’ contentknowledge in these topic areas. The goal of SECOP is to address the shortage of AfricanAmerican, Latino and Native American and female students studying science, mathematics,engineering, and technology at college level by introducing students to pre-engineering andadvanced mathematics classes early in their academic careers.The objectives of SECOP include:• increasing awareness of
typicalclassroom environment. The self-imposed challenge of going digital across all assignedcourses was in the hope that his classroom efficiency and effectiveness would be positive,and the transition from a business career and mindset to one of teaching and scholarshipwould be easier. Additional goals included increasing the opportunity and capability ofeasy and quick sharing of full course curriculum with fellow faculty, while reducing clutter(office and classroom) and grading times. Key to the framework was utilization of the LMSand its built in features, such as automated grading and tablet/stylus functionality. Alsoused were online tools for collaboration, industry supplied instructional materials, andlessons from massive open online courses (MOOC
withsystematized and readily accessible data on UD faculty diversity and satisfaction. Productsinclude up-to-date demographic data on representation, retention, promotion, etc.; a biannualfaculty climate survey and report; faculty exit interviews; faculty satisfaction interviews; andassociated social science research products.A second type of structural change that we employ focuses on institutional policies, procedures,and practices that effect faculty satisfaction and professional success. Examples include, but arenot limited to, P&T, mentoring, and family friendly policies such as stop-the-clock, dual career,and parental leave. Practices and policies are reviewed for clarity and equity; we developresources to increase their transparency; and, we
in established lab groups at the university.Using the Qualtrics online survey software, we conducted pre-experience and post-experiencesurveys of the participants to assess the effects of participating in this summer research program.At the beginning of the summer, all participants provided their definition of technical researchand described what they hoped to get out of their research experience, and the undergraduatestudents described their future career and educational plans. At the conclusion of the summer, apost-experience survey presented participants’ with their answers from the beginning of thesummer and asked them to reflect on how their understanding of research and future plansinvolving research changed over the course of the
in stretchable electronics, responsive material actuators, soft material manufacturing, and soft-bodied control. Dr. Kramer serves as an Associate Editor and Editorial Board member of Frontiers in Robotics and AI: Soft Robotics. She is the recipient of the NSF CAREER Award, the NASA Early Career Faculty Award, the AFOSR Young Investigator Award, the ONR Young Investigator Award, and was named to the 2015 Forbes 30 under 30 list. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Enhancing Student Motivation and Self-Efficacy Through Soft Robot DesignAbstractThis research paper evaluates student perceptual changes in engineering motivation and self
consortium incollaboration with a former Research Experiences for Teachers (RET) intern. Efforts by theconsortium included providing and evaluating interactive activities to the former RET intern’smiddle school students during a field trip to the university.BackgroundThere continues to be a significant disconnect between properly prepared graduates and thepredicted millions of jobs to be filled in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics(STEM) fields [4]. Research on developing the engineering workforce often indicates the needfor early exposure to the field in order to increase awareness and interest in careers related toSTEM [3]. The result is a growing emphasis on developing K-12 instructional materials focusedon engineering concepts
leadership, career prep, health informatics, and technology. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Towards an Employability Model for STEM Majors: Engagement-Based, Service-Producing, and Experience-DrivenAbstractIn this theoretical work-in-progress paper, we present Employ-STEM, a mentored employabilitymodel for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) majors which integratesfoundational concepts of experiential learning to enhance students’ educational experiencesbeyond the classroom, develop employability skills, and culminate in employment. The premiseof this model is that, under the guidance of a faculty mentor, students benefit from three mainlearning opportunities
Northwestern University.DeDe Griffith, Northwest Louisiana Technical Community College DeDe Griffith is the Vice Chancellor of Academic and Student Affairs at Northwest Louisiana Technical College. She earned a Master of Education degree in Higher Education Leadership Administration and Finance at the University of Houston where she is currently a doctoral candidate. Beginning with a career in engineering technology and transitioning to post-secondary instruction, she has more than 24 years of experience in community college technical education as both faculty and and administration.Cheri Greer, Northwest Louisiana Technical Community College Cheri Greer is Chair of the Industrial Technology Division and Department Head of the
family residence. Students are to adhere to instructions for bothprojects. This is especially important for the second project minimum where building standardsor codes are to be adhered to where applicable and emphasized by the instructor. In addition tothe lake cabin drawing, Quizzes and other assignments were also assigned but not considered forthis research. At the beginning of the Fall 2017 semester, students were to completequestionnaires related to their career choices in the construction industry and course relatedmajors/minors. Towards the end of the semester, a similar questionnaire was issued whichevaluated students’ experience in the course. The second questionnaire was designed todetermine whether or not students’ career choices
. Table 4. On-Campus Events ACTIVITY NOTES Career Day on Campus Career Fair targeting ET students; Quanta employees to present on company; QSWD Team to encourage students to apply for Internship Program / minimester course ETEC 1100 Department Quanta speakers on Campus for ETEC 1100 Dept. Speaking Engagement for both Speaker fall and Spring semesters Internship Program Info Meet with students to answer questions / encourage to apply for program Session Fall and Spring semesters Quanta-University Info session on Campus; Spring semester, Quanta speakers, representatives from Partnership Info Session QSWD Program to