numbers ofwell-prepared graduates in STEM occupations is a high priority in the U.S. [1-2]. To fill thisdemand, it is predicted that the U.S. needs to increase the yearly production of undergraduateSTEM degrees by 34%. Thus, there is an urgent need to provide undergraduates top-qualitytraining and prepare them for the transition to graduate school and/or to enter professionalengineering careers. However, training in industrial environment is currently lacking in mostundergraduate curricula.With increasing demands for high performance in structural systems, SST that includes advancedsensing, modern control, smart materials, optimization and novel testing, is receivingconsiderable attention as it has the potential to transform many fields in
engagement continuum is to sparknew initiatives across the educational ecosystem.Generally speaking, the steady production of diverse STEM graduates is accomplished through adependable pipeline of diverse student cohorts who are competent and prepared for STEMeducation at 2- and 4-year institutions. When done effectively, STEM pipeline developmentconnects higher education, families, K-12 educators, community organizations, and industrypartners as well as provides a spectrum of meaningful experiences towards skill developmentand career preparation. In addition to strengthening the connectivity among partners, a successfulSTEM pipeline brings with it a multiplier effect that overflows into other aspects of communitybuilding, so it has essentially a
on several NSF-funded projects related to design, including an NSF Early CAREER Award entitled ”CAREER: Engineering Design Across Navajo Culture, Community, and Society” and ”Might Young Makers be the Engineers of the Future?,” and is a Co-PI on the NSF Revolutionizing Engineering Departments grant ”Additive Innovation: An Educational Ecosystem of Making and Risk Taking.” He was named one of ASEE PRISM’s ”20 Faculty Under 40” in 2014, and received a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers from President Obama in 2017.Dr. Micah Lande, Arizona State University Micah Lande, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor in the Engineering and Manufacturing Engineering pro- grams and Tooker Professor at the
toinvestigate these ‘critical’ entrepreneurship experiences among engineering students includingthe impacts they have. The study applied the critical incident technique in a narrative format toelicit and thoroughly investigate three senior engineering student’s entrepreneurship experienceswho were very involved in advancing multiple entrepreneurial projects during theirundergraduate education. The study reports these critical experiences and their impacts in anarrative format with rich detail. The findings suggest that entrepreneurship funding programsand classes are primarily involved in catalyzing powerful student experiences that have profoundeffects including changes in attitudes, behavior, and altered career goals. This study overallprovides
students to face accessibility andsocialization issues.As a result, DHH students often face significant barriers in pursuing their educational goals,especially if they wish to pursue engineering careers. Transition communities can aid studentswho are deaf or hard of hearing adjust to new multimodal environments and enhance their abilityto access classroom information.There were about 138,000 deaf and hard of hearing students in college nationwide in 2010(Walter, 2010). State and federal efforts in support of Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of1973 and the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 have enabled deaf students to attend theschools of their choice and obtain support. As a result, over the 38 years between 1972 and 2010,the
Dominion University c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Advancing the Engineering Field: Opportunities to Support Transfer StudentsAbstract: Advancements in technology have made it vital that technicians advance their skills tostay current and competitive in the job market. Many technicians choose to transfer tobaccalaureate programs in engineering and other STEM fields in order to advance their skills. Asa result, engineering programs usually have a large population of transfer students. Many oftransfer students are studying while employed in the field and some juggle a career and familywhile advancing their education. Accordingly, transfer students
generation adds excitement and variety tothe implemented laboratory. The laboratory has been implemented for upper elementary andmiddle school students in an informal setting without formal surveys and feedback. This paperconcentrates on discussing the implementation for high school students enrolled in the GO-CAPS program [2]. This progressive program provides high school students a unique andyearlong learning experience to explore future career options [2]. Participating schools in theGreater Ozarks area, in Missouri (USA), are allotted a number of seats in the program. Studentsfrom the participating schools apply for the GO-CAPS program in their choice of area. The GO-CAPS board selects students based on the student’s interest and willingness to
. Yeter is currently a Postdoctoral Researcher in the INSPIRE Research Center in the School of Engineering Education at Purdue University. He obtained his PhD in Curriculum and Instruction empha- sizing in Engineering Education and Master’s degree in Petroleum Engineering at Texas Tech University. He is highly interested in conducting research within the Engineering Education framework. Recently, he received the Early Career Researcher Award from European Science Education Research Association (ESERA) in 2017. In addition, he is one of two scholarship recipients awarded by National Association for Research in Science Teaching (NARST) to attend the ESERA summer research confer- ˇ e Budˇejovice, Czech Republic in
Instruction EvaluationFigure 5. Unfair all the way around. Objectives Instruction EvaluationTo summarize, teaching and learning are improved when a course is built around appropriatecourse objectives and PIs, especially if they are stated and understood by the instructor and thestudents [24]. When PIs are taught and accomplished, student success is improved, coursemanagement is improved, career readiness is improved, and career advancement is accelerated.ABET accreditation and most outcomes assessment plans require PIs.How to Survive and ThriveThis section is included to provide advice on how to do well in the teaching, scholarship, andservice domains and successfully work toward tenure and promotion with the
, which hasbeen identified as often matching the preferred learning styles for many female students(Gollnick & Chinn, 2013). Another key program component is experiences of how engineeringis a field in which people can help others, a factor which has been identified as aligning withfemale interests and career aspirations (USDOC, 2011; Hubelbank 2007).The program research focuses on three areas: 1. The program’s impact on short-term interest andknowledge in engineering/STEM; 2. The effectiveness of matching lessons to learning goals; and3. Differences between sixth-grade students and eighth-grade students in success, interest inactivities, and problem solving methods. Through pre-program and post-program surveys,students answered Likert-scale
TechnologyAbstractThis paper introduces two scholarship projects funded by the National Science Foundation thatfocus on students who transfer at the 3rd year level from 2-year schools to the engineering andengineering technology BS programs at our university. The objectives of both the projects are:(i) to expand and diversify the engineering/technology workforce of the future, (ii) to developlinkages and articulations with 2-year schools and their S-STEM programs, (iii) to provideincreased career opportunities and job placement rates through mandatory paid co-opexperiences, and (iv) to serve as a model for other universities to provide vertical transferstudents access to the baccalaureate degree.The Transfer Pipeline (TiPi) project awarded 25 new scholarships
experiences,other courses in the curriculum, and their own career goals. Some of these questions askedstudents to reflect on and self-assess their own learning processes. Practice problems were low-stakes, “lightly graded” (for completion only) problems that were similar to homework and testproblems. For the first unit of the course, students were required to complete Portfolio 2(blended) to expose them to the active learning–based style. This experience allowed them tomake an informed choice of their preferred portfolio for Units 2, 3, and 4. A student choosing thetraditional portfolio was instructed to complete only the homework and test for the unit. Studentswho were undecided were allowed to complete the low-stakes activities and choose
students for careers at observatories and related industry. Lisa developedand directs the Akamai Internship Program, which has retained more than 85% of participants, includ-ing students from underrepresented groups, in the STEM pipeline. She works closely with scientists andengineers to increase access and opportunities through effective education, mentoring, and building part-nerships that bridge academia, industry, government, and community organizations, both nationally andinternationally. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Successfully Building a Diverse Telescope Workforce: The Design of the Akamai Internship Program in Hawai‘iAbstractThe outcomes of a longitudinal study of
such as Strength of Material, Electronics, etc.IntroductionMassachusetts Maritime Academy (MMA) is one of the only seven maritime academies in USdelivering highly qualified graduates in marine engineering to the maritime industry [1]. Basedon the survey result from the office of career and professional services at MMA, the MMA’smarine engineer major students have 94% job placement within 6 months after graduation [2].The curriculum of the marine engineer major has course credit requirements and four co-oprequirements of sea terms aboard USTS Kennedy and commercial ships. In order to graduatefrom MMA, the students are also required to obtain United States Coast Guard (USCG) Licensefor a Third Assistant Engineer of Steam, Motor and Gas Turbine
June 27 Careers with a Science Bachelor’s Degree July 11 Do’s and Don’ts of a Scientific Talk July 18 Careers at a National Laboratory July 25 How to Make a Scientific Poster August 1 Technical Resumes 101Workshops were conducted from noon to 1pm on Tuesdays with attendance required. Note, earlyworkshops in the series were directed at educating students about graduate school with laterworkshops providing exposure to divers careers in science and tips on how to enhanceprofessionalism in conduct and presentations. The counterpart to the weekly Tuesday workshopswas weekly seminars on Thursdays. Seminars were also held from noon to 1PM with
implementation of the LST program, set-up a state- of-the-art instrumentation laboratory, architected the new degree program, and helped to place a large number of Deaf/HH individuals into careers in the chemical sciences. For his advocacy for diversifying STEM fields, Dr. Pagano has been honored as a recipient of the American Chemical Society’s (ACS) Stanley C. Israel Award, the ACS/Dreyfus Foundation’s National Award: Encouraging Underrepresented Students into the Chemical Sciences, and U.S. Professor of the Year Award by Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) and the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018
signal processing, specifically detection and estimation for applications in target tracking and physical layer communications. Her work on target detection and tracking is funded by the Office of Naval Research. Dr. Nelson is a 2010 recipient of the NSF CAREER Award. She is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Tau Beta Pi, Eta Kappa Nu, and the IEEE Signal Processing, Communications, and Education Societies.Dr. Margret Hjalmarson, George Mason University Margret Hjalmarson is an Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Education at George Mason University and currently a Program Officer in the Division of Research on Learning in Formal and Infor- mal Settings at the National Science Foundation. Her research interests
to weather and climate. Students in third grade learnedabout weather, climate, weather patterns, and various hazards associated with weather. Then theyapplied their learned knowledge and the engineering design process to design a tornado proofstructure. As a cumulative experience of this lesson students were provided an opportunity tovisit a local news station, meet a meteorologist, and learn about climate data.Activity Students attended a STEM class for one hour every week for sixty minutes. This classwas a required special just like art or music. It was designed to expose students to theengineering design process, careers in engineering, and integrated STEM units based on statestandards. It was in this class that students
, Georgia Institute of Technology Dr Wendy C. Newstetter is theAssistant Dean for Educational Research and Innovation in the College of Engineering at Georgia Tech.Prof. Colin Potts, Georgia Institute of Technology Colin Potts is Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education and Professor of Interactive Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology. As Vice Provost he is responsible for academic support, career advising, the integration of curricular and co-curricular programs, community engagement, curricular planning and the Honors Program. His research areas are requirements engineering, software privacy, and professional ethics.Ellen Zegura, Georgia Institute of Technology Ellen Zegura is the Stephen Fleming
Grades Influencing Decision to 68% Yes, 32% No 81% Yes, 19% No Stay at WVU Tech People Discouraging Staying in 24% Yes, 76% No 20% Yes, 80% No College Top Three Campus Services Advising, TRIO, Tutoring Advising and TRIO (tied), Used TutoringTable 5: Summary of Themes for Female Students Encouragement to Pursue College Family (with a few citing faculty, career plans, and outside sources) Encouragement to Pursue Major Family, Faculty, Mentors, and Self People Discouraging
therewas more than a 0.5 difference in average response on a 5-point Likert scale, the following wereobserved: Hybrid-flipped (HF) students found the teaching style less effective (4.0 vs 4.8). HF students felt more connected to their TAs (4.6 vs 3.7). This was the biggest between the groups. The TAs were different fall to spring, so it is hard to know if this was in part an effect of TA personality. HF students found the programming tasks more meaningful (4.4 vs 3.8), less boring (1.6 vs 2.3), more helpful to their career goals (4.4 vs 3.8), and were less intimidated by the programming portion of the class (2.0 vs 2.5). HF students felt less qualified for the engineering topics portion (4.2 vs 4.8
taught elementary grades in Missouri, Texas, and Colorado over a span of 17 years. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Work In Progress: Impact of Exposure to Broad Engineering on Student PerceptionsIntroduction & MotivationThis work in progress paper primarily serves to introduce the structure and approach of arecently redesigned online course for undergraduate engineers. Future work to expandupon this initial exploratory paper is expected. The course aims to provide exposure to awide variety of core topics, as well as help students understand the “broad” skillsrequired for success in their future engineering careers. The content of the course iscontinually
-prepared for college and have clear future career goals. This paper presentsthe results of a new two-week summer enrichment program that focuses on improving studentpreparedness for college, while promoting active learning through hands-on experiences andactivities. Students were introduced to various engineering disciplines through hands-onactivities that included topics in chemistry, biology, physics, mathematics, computer science,electrical engineering, civil engineering, and mechanical engineering. The program alsoincluded two field trips where students toured a science laboratory and a manufacturing plantthat employ scientists and engineers from different disciplines.IntroductionIn 2014, nearly 45% of incoming freshman undergraduates entered
as SRAM, DRAM, and flash. The main target application of resistive memory technologies is for large data storage and the main targeted market is replacement of computer DRAM main memory and SRAM cache. In this research, we propose a unique application for resistive memory technology and that is to realize non-volatile single-bit latch element that can be used for building reconfigurable logic circuits. The results of student surveys on the experience of student participants with the research internship strongly suggest that such an experience is very valuable in encouraging students to purse STEM research careers. Moreover, this experience enhances students’ technical research skills such as scientific thinking, ability to
as a project management consultant. Her research contributes to the advancement of labor and personnel issues in engineering broadly and specifically in the construction industry through two research areas: untangling the complex relationship between activities people become involved in — operationalized as engagement — and the technical and professional out- comes gained — operationalized as competencies. The broader impact of this work lies in achieving and sustaining productive, diverse and inclusive project organizations composed of engaged, competent peo- ple. Dr. Simmons’ research is supported by awards from NSF, including a CAREER award. She oversees the Simmons Research Lab (www.denisersimmons.com), which
, liberatory maker spaces, and a RED grant to increase pathways in ECE for the professional formation of engineers.Dr. Marie C. Paretti, Virginia Tech Marie C. Paretti is a Professor of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech, where she co-directs the Vir- ginia Tech Engineering Communications Center (VTECC). Her research focuses on communication in engineering design, interdisciplinary communication and collaboration, design education, and gender in engineering. She was awarded a CAREER grant from the National Science Foundation to study expert teaching in capstone design courses, and is co-PI on numerous NSF grants exploring communication, design, and identity in engineering. Drawing on theories of situated learning and
ofuniversities; teaching focused universities, liberal arts colleges and major research universities.In recent years, more undergraduate students have been involved in research irrespective of theirdiscipline; science, engineering, social science or arts. It is already a proven concept that UR canenhance the intellectual merit of students by engaging them in inquiry-based learning, preparesthem for their graduate education and helps them in their professional development to enter intoa career of their choice. As a result, most universities, currently are focusing on engaging moreundergraduate students in research by developing innovative strategies. This study aims todiscuss the experiences of both authors in engaging undergraduate students in field
emphasis on astudent outcome. Figure 10: Sample Course Outcome Contribution to Student Outcome (a)Program objectives (consumer demand) validate quantified student outcomes as a platform forsuccessful careers. Quantified program objectives is based on the dependency: Program Objectives = f (Student Outcomes) = f (Production System)Quantified student outcome links in Figure 6 are the basis for quantifying student outcomecontributions to program objectives. The 2-tuple of parameters for each student outcome areCumulative Student Outcome Contribution and relevance of the outcome to a program objective(0 – 1.0). In this instance, program outcome relevance is specified by external stakeholders. The2-tuple products form a Program Objectives
Katherine directs the Washington STate Academic RedShirt (STARS) program at Washington State Uni- versity. She holds a Master of Science in Mathematics with a Teaching Emphasis.Ms. Sonya Cunningham, University of Washington Director, STARS Program Diversity & Access College of EngineeringMrs. Tanya D. Ennis, University of Colorado, Boulder TANYA D. ENNIS is the current Engineering GoldShirt Program Director at the University of Colorado Boulder’s College of Engineering and Applied Science. She received her M.S. in Computer Engineering from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles and her B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Southern University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Her career in the telecommunications
in STEM careers is because the culture ofSTEM, especially engineering and analytical areas, is a limiting culture devoid of what femalesseems to prefer, empathy and social caring [8]-[10].However, measuring constructs such as interest is complex because of the interactive anddynamic nature of constructs with one another, that the constructs are usually self-reported, andthat few standardized measurement terms exist [11]. STEM can be considered as one contentarea or four content areas. We often ask our students to describe STEM. They usually answer bystating the letters S, T, E, and M stand for science, technology, engineering and mathematics, butdo not state any concept of what “STEM” means. The term STEM is thought to originate withthe