assessing engineering student learning. She has participated in a number of curriculum innovation projects and has been active in the engineering education research and assessment communities. She is a Fellow of the American Society for Engineering Education and was a Fulbright lecturer/researcher in Sweden.Heidi Diefes-Dux, Heidi A. Diefes-Dux is an Associate Professor in the School of Engineering Education at Purdue University. She received her B.S. and M.S. in Food Science from Cornell University and her Ph.D. in Food Process Engineering from the Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering at Purdue University. Since 1999, she has been a faculty member within the First
Paper ID #42510 My name is Clara Templin, and I am from New Orleans, Louisiana. In terms of my educational interests, I am very curious about sustainability and ways to get rid of existing plastic pollution. In my senior year of high school, I conducted my own research project to see how plants grow when fertilized with normal mealworm poop compared to mealworm poop from a styrofoam diet. I am interested in exploring more topics like this. I am a third-year student in Materials Science and Engineering at Tech, and I am minoring in Industrial Design.Jill Fennell, Georgia Institute of Technology Jill Fennell, the Frank K. Webb Chair in Communication Skills at the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical
insights into the potential importance of socioculturalinterventions within engineering classrooms to improve the engineering climate, engagement, andretention of women and Black, Latino/a/x, and Indigenous (BLI) students. INTRODUCTION This research paper investigates predictors of engineering identity at the beginning of afirst-year engineering course as part of a larger project to understand continued enrollment inengineering courses. Retaining interested undergraduate students in engineering tracks requires aclear understanding of the predictors and influences on continued enrollment in engineeringcourses. Particularly, the retention of women of all races/ethnicities, and students who identify
teaching and uses active learning techniques to help students achieve an expert-like level of thinking. She guides students in bridging the gap between facts and usable knowledge to solve complex engineering problems.Prof. Curt Schurgers, University of California, San Diego Curt Schurgers is a Teaching Professor in the UCSD Electrical and Computer Engineering Department. His research and teaching are focused on course redesign, active learning, and project-based learning. He also co-directs a hands-on undergraduate research program called Engineers for Exploration, in which students apply their engineering knowledge to problems in exploration and conservation.Minju Kim, University of California, San Diego Minju Kim is a
, foster motivation and psychological growth. These psychological needs areautonomy, competence, and relatedness. Autonomy involves being and acting in harmony withone's integrated sense of self and values as well as feeling that one has ownership over one’sactions. In educational environments, autonomy is visible when learning environments offerlearners opportunities for choice, self-direction, and flexibility rather than imposing strict or rigiddirection and demands. Learners are thus motivated when they have choice in their academicpathways, courses, learning topics, classroom projects, etcetera based on their interests andaspirations. Competence involves mastering tasks and learning new skills and involves a sense ofaccomplishment derived from
institution has continued to cohort a number of their students for two or morecourses each semester after the FC pilot was institutionalized, in an effort to create Page 8.680.1Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and ExpositionCopyright ©2003 American Society for Engineering Educationenvironments that would better facilitate learning and provide greater personal supportfor students.The purpose of this study was to understand how both students and faculty experiencethese inclusive learning communities within the Foundation Coalition. The project wasconducted by a team of qualitative researchers made up
educational reforms, and it has been shown that there are gapsKnowledge (TPACK) Framework’, ‘Transformational in the successful application of change management practices,Leadership Theory’, and lastly ‘Adult Learning Theories’. All notably during the implementation and further investigationof these theories also develop an alignment with the research phases of educational initiatives. Vision 2030, one of the mostquestions.recent projects, combines social and economic activities, with educators in dynamic cycles, and giving help and assets. Toeducation playing a crucial role [11]. summarize, there are extensive deterrents to the viable execution
M.S. in Industrial Engineering, and a Ph.D. in Engineering from the University of Arkansas. His research interest includes decision quality, resilient design, set-based design, engineering and project management, and engineering education. During his time at the University of Arkansas, Eric has served as Principal Investigator, Co-Principal Investigator, or Senior Personnel on over 40 research projects totaling over $6.6 Million, which produced over 50 publications (journal articles, book chapters, conference proceedings, newsletters, and technical reports). He is an active member of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) and International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE) where he has served in
project. McMasters (2006) highlights four clusters ofskills as being important to qualified engineers: foundational technical skills, professional,engineering, and business skills. Broadly speaking, there are technical and professional skills;and to combat the dualism embedded within these two domains, socio-technical skills are used torepresent the nature of engineering competencies (Faulkner, 2007). Another line of research1 https://www.abet.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/C3_C5_mapping_SEC_1-13-2018.pdffocuses on how to facilitate the competency development of engineering students; andsummaries of some findings from this line of research can be found in two review papers(Ebrahiminejad, 2017; Shuman, Besterfield-Sacre, & McGourty, 2005
served as a post-doctoral researcher at University of Massachusetts where he studied bite mechanics in bats and taught System Dynamics. Jul has a passion for research in biomechanics and education. He loves teaching finite element modeling, vibrations and all of the fundamental mechanics coursesCorinna Marie Fleischmann (CDR) CAPT Corinna Fleischmann is a licensed Professional Engineer with military, academic and research experience in water resources engineering, environmental engineering, coastal resiliency, construction project management and engineering education. CAPT Fleischmann is a career educator who has been a member of the US Coast Guard Academy (CGA) faculty since 2004 and served as the Civil and
, and elected university senate member. He has served as principle investigator on projects in biomimetic micro air vehicles and hydrogen fuel cell propulsion systems. In these research projects (and others) he advised several PhD and MSc postgraduate students to completion. Dr. Ward is also experienced in directing undergraduate student teams competing in the SAE Aero Design and Shell Eco-marathon competitions.He has authored a text book called Aerospace Propulsion Systems (Wiley, 2010) and over 50 journal and conference papers. Prior to 2006, Dr. Ward worked as an aerospace engineer with the US Air Force for 18 years, which included a special 4.5 year assignment to the United Kingdom Ministry of Defence in London
What’s Next? From Analysis to ActionAbstractThis paper describes how data-driven examination of barriers to successful completion ofundergraduate engineering degrees amongst female-identifying and under-represented minority(URM) students at Seattle University has shaped the development of new policies and programswithin the College of Science and Engineering to better support students from underrepresentedor marginalized groups. This study is a continuation of a project in which we first analyzedgraduation data to extract characteristics that differentiate students who do or do not successfullycomplete degrees within engineering. We followed the data analysis with a survey to betterunderstand the experiences of students from underrepresented or
society through investigating community-based leMr. William Cohen, Ohio State University William Cohen is a Lecturer for the Fundamentals of Engineering program at The Ohio State University: a 2 semester course sequence for first-year engineering students focusing on programming in MATLAB, computer aided drawing in SolidWorks, and a semester long design-build-test project. William has also received his B.S. in Chemical Engineering and M.S. in Nuclear Engineering from Ohio State.Dr. James Edward Toney, Ohio State University James Toney earned the Ph.D. in physics from Carnegie Mellon University in 1998 and the B.S. in electri- cal engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1984. He is a Senior Lecturer in the
Paper ID #18921STEM in a ShoeboxDr. Deborah A. Lange, Carnegie Mellon University Dr. Lange is a civil and environmental engineer, having obtained her BS from Penn State (1979) and both her MS (1982) and PhD (2001) from Carnegie Mellon University. At Carnegie Mellon, she has been the Executive Director of both the Western Pennsylvania Brownfields Center (1996) and Steinbrenner Institute for Environmental Education and Research (2004.) Prior to joining the University, she was a consulting engineer responsible for the management of projects across the US as well as in South America, Europe and the Middle East. Currently
registered professional mechan- ical engineer with 15 years experience as a practicing engineer. She earned a BSME degree from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, a MSME degree from the Georgia Institute of Technology, and is currently pursuing a PhD in Engineering Education at USU. She is Principal Investigator for Online Learning Forums for Improved Engineering Student Outcomes in Calculus, a research project funded by the NSF TUES program. Her research interests include engineering student learning, distance engineering education, and alternative pathways to engineering education.Dr. Joshua Marquit, Pennsylvania State University, Brandywine Joshua Marquit is an Instructor in the Psychology Department at Penn State
that would better Deleted: ,prepare the workforce to meet new demands. Mertens’ text shows some similarities to Deleted: whichdiscussions and facets entwined around the concept of the T-shaped professional. Although thepaper does not mention “T-shaping” specifically, it emphasizes the value of combining specialistknowledge with more general knowledge to get a comprehensive perspective on the factorsinfluencing decision processes or innovation projects. Disciplinary thinking is seen as limiting,because it tends to neglect the importance of competing values and motives. The key Deleted: ingqualifications mentioned in Mertens’ title facilitate the vertical transfer of ideas and help to
TechnologyDr. Eric J. AlmDr. Alison F Takemura, US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute Alison loves wading into a good science story. Her first was her MIT doctoral thesis project, unlocking the gastronomical genome of a Vibrio bacterium. For some of the Vibrio’s meals, she collected seaweed from the rocky, Atlantic coastline at low tide. (Occasionally, its waves swept her off her feet.) During grad school, Alison was also a fellow in MIT’s Biological Engineering Communication Lab. Helping students share their science with their instructors and peers, she began to crave the ability to tell the stories of other scientists, and the marvels they discover, to a broader audience. So after graduating in 2015 with a
writing and speaking • Outcome 5: Identify, formulate, and solve engineering problems related to professional and ethical responsibilities, including interdisciplinary approaches to said problemsOur three-pronged assessment scheme measured success of the learning outcomes through (1)interviews with a student focus group and with individual instructors; (2) written student surveys,including a short mid-semester evaluation and Elaine Seymour’s Student Assessment ofLearning Gains (SALG) protocol at the end of the semester; and (3) review of the onlinediscussion forum transcripts and the final research projects. Results suggest that studentssatisfactorily achieved Outcomes 1–3 but that adjustments should be made to the course to
importance of the need for diversity2 andpercentages of underrepresented students in engineering have increased over the past 20 years3.Yet, the current numbers of minorities and women in student populations are still well belowparity with their distribution in the U.S. population. Current and projected demographic changesand the economic realities of the global economy have resulted in mounting pressures to meetfuture demands for a workforce that includes engineers more representative of the diversitypresent in the U.S. population.As the 21st century proceeds, a growing number of students will come from ethnic, cultural, orgender groups not typically seen at high frequencies in engineering classes. Among the manychallenges this poses for the
Paper ID #6555Faculty Reflections on a STEAM-Inspired Interdisciplinary Studio CourseDr. Nicola Sochacka, University of Georgia Dr. Nicola Sochacka received her doctorate in Engineering Epistemologies from the University of Queens- land (Brisbane, Australia). She currently holds a research and teaching position at the University of Geor- gia where she transfers her expertise in qualitative research methodologies to a variety of research contexts at the intersection of social and technological issues. This includes engineering education projects con- cerned with transdisciplinary education, student reflection, and
billioncompanies spend annually on diversity programs to create opportunity and inclusion strategiesfor minority groups5,6, including black engineers. Organizations typically enter into diversityprograms for one of two reasons: legal obligation or fairness4. There are many case studies ofsuccessful organizational diversity initiatives, and multi-organization case studies aswell13,45,48,49,50,51,52,53,54. Organizational diversity efforts may manifest themselves in trainingprograms and employee feedback47; as components of performance evaluations, in the form ofinclusion projects, as social networking, as the responsibility of management, in the form ofmentoring systems, and in affinity groups45
succeed in their selected field of study16. When faculty adhereto traditional grading practices (such as the imposition of curves), they have a differential impacton women students. Faculty differ in their views of, strategies for, and success at creating an atmosphere thatfosters learning.12 The subject matter of projects and problems, the fit between pedagogical andlearning styles, and classroom "climate" have each been discussed as influences that affectretention, particularly the retention of students of color and women students. Faculty practicesfrequently mentioned in the retention literature include: the use of study and project groups,exam construction, time pressure on tests (and tactics for neutralizing it); incorporation
brings science,economics (cost and financing), production, material selection, ascetics, form, function, humanfactors, logistics, operations, deployment, disposal, and every other facet of the project to an Page 10.56.7acceptable need solution. Acceptable solutions are usually sought because optimal solutions Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright ©2005 by C.F. Newberry. Published by the American Society for Engineering Education with permission.often cost more than they are worth – although optimal solutions tend to satisfy the “scientific”sense of order
that most of the papers with a focus onstudent engagement (139 in total) that were published between 2003 to 2023 reported howvarious educational interventions, such as use of distinctive pedagogies (e.g., project-basedlearning [2]; service learning [3]; game-based learning [4]), could enhance student engagement.While these studies contribute to identifying effective pedagogical approaches to enhancing theengagement of students at large, they were not designed to investigate who were more, or less,engaged in the educational practice; therefore, they do not inform how those students who wereless engaged in learning could be better supported to achieve optimal learning outcomes
to four-year universities to studyengineering bring a diverse range of experiences and perspectives, which greatly contribute to thefield of engineering and help national and regional workforce development. However, thesestudents face specific challenges, referred to as the vertical transfer penalty, when they transfer tofour-year universities. This can lead to lower completion rates for community college starterscompared to students who start at four-year universities. The issue seems to be related to factorsregarding the students' experiences, institutional characteristics, and geographic location. Thisstudy marks the initial stage of a comprehensive research project aiming to compare historicaltransfer student data over the past two
the five hierarchical levels of the affective domain (seeTable 1 for details on hierarchical levels). Finally, participants were asked (Q11) which of thethree domains they preferred to learn with and why. It should be noted that this interview consistedof questions about all three domains, and the results were split into three papers to better emphasizethe findings related to each domain of learning. In this paper, we focus only on the affective domainof learning. Readers interested in understanding more about the research on cognitive andpsychomotor domain are directed to the other papers from this project [2-3].Q1: How do you perceive learning as a process?Learning is an integral part of our lives. Each one of us learns the same things
for assessing interviewquality was developed as part of a larger, ongoing research project that is using IPA. From theIPA perspective, in-depth, one-on-one interviews effectively allow participants to recount richand detailed experiences in their lives [1]. The nature of semi- or unstructured interviews meanthat things can and do change throughout the course of the interview, and so, while it is commonto develop an interview protocol for an IPA interview, it generally serves the purpose ofpreparation for likely content and determining the appropriate order of questions rather thanstrict interview instructions. The interview quality reflection tool (IQRT)The development of the IQRT emerged as part of the ongoing IPA
/ethnicity, and immigration status among semiconductor en- gineers. She is currently the resident social scientist in the Electrical Engineering Department at Bucknell, exploring how to teach convergent (”deeply integrative”) problems to undergraduate engineers. Past re- search projects include studies of governance in engineering education and the influence of educational technology on engineering education.Dr. Stewart Thomas, Bucknell University Stewart Thomas is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. He received the B.S. and M.Eng. in Electrical Engi- neering from the University of Louisville in Louisville, KY. and the Ph.D. in