University, where he also served as a research assistant at the Environmental Pollution Research unit, in Ile-Ife, Nigeria. As part of his contribution to science and engineering, Pelumi has taught as a teaching assistant both at Morgan State University and Obafemi Awolowo University. With passion to communicate research findings and gleaned from experts in the field as he advances his career, Olaitan has attended several in-persons and virtual conferences and workshop, and at some of them, made presentation on findings on air pollution, waste water reuse, and heavy metal contamination.Adebayo Iyanuoluwa Olude, Morgan State University Adebayo Olude is a doctoral student and research assistant at Morgan State University’s
not wish to disclose it in the higher education setting.Project Overview and ContextThe NSF:RED project activities span the entire experience of the undergraduate studentengineering experience, including recruitment and transition into the engineering program,community building, transforming teaching and learning, holistic support and advising, andproviding career support as students prepare to join the work force. This paper focuses on onekey area of the project: the department’s efforts to transform teaching and learning through theredesign of core courses within the department, creating an inclusive learning environment inwhich all students may thrive. Efforts were aimed at enhancing the inclusivity of engineeringcourses for neurodiverse
Science, New York University) Elizabeth Hervias (Chemical Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology) Maryom Rahman (Chemical Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology) Amina Anowara (Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, Princeton University)B. Mentor PoolThe research projects performed by the undergraduate students during the summer REU will be within theareas of diagnosis, therapy, and mechanistic modeling of cancer systems. To further this intellectualcuriosity and the innovation spirit, the chosen faculty members are renowned, including multiple NSFawardees (2 NSF Career Award winners). The faculty members have a diverse intellectual focus in cancer,from diagnostic devices, machine learning, and mechanism to therapeutic
personalize the learning experience, leading to adeeper understanding of subject matter, self-regulated learning, improved accuracy of studentdata analytics, and enhancement of essential skills for industrial careers. Supporting this finding,Chen et al. [9] observed a high performance on quizzes focused on assessing business students’ability to recollect and understand conceptual knowledge alongside a consensus on the use ofchatbots to foster higher-order skills such as critical thinking. Similarly, Hwang and Chang [10]highlighted the interactive feature of chatbots as a means of fostering deeper engagement withcourse concepts through conversations that go beyond text and videos.The utility of GAI for assessment has been explored with assessment
research community and to ultimately broaden participation. Dr. Villani is the co-advisor of the Supporting Women in Computing Club where she has mentored many women students in the program. Dr. Villani is the recipient of the Chancellor’s Award for Teaching Excellence, 2012. Prior to joining FSC, Dr. Villani had a 15 year computer consulting career in the Risk Management and Insurance Industry.Dr. Nur Dean, Farmingdale State College, SUNY, New York Nur Dean is an Assistant Professor in the Computer Systems Department at Farmingdale State College in New York. She obtained her PhD in Computer Science from The Graduate Center, City University of New York and holds an M.S. in Applied Mathematics from Hofstra University in New
sustainability, leveraging her expertise to address pressing challenges in the field.Dr. Scott R Hamilton P.E., York College of Pennsylvania Scott Hamilton is a Professor of Civil Engineering at York College of Pennsylvania. He is a registered Professional Engineer and has both a MS and PhD in civil engineering and a Masters in engineering management from Stanford University and a BS from the United States Military Academy, West Point. He is a retired US Army Corps of Engineers officer who has had assignments in the US, Germany, Korea, and Afghanistan. During his military career he spent over 10 years on the faculty at the US Military Academy at West Point teaching civil engineering. He also served as the Director, Graduate
has taught as a teaching assistant both at Morgan State University and Obafemi Awolowo University. With passion to communicate research findings and gleaned from experts in the field as he advances his career, Olaitan has attended several in-persons and virtual conferences and workshop, and at some of them, made presentation on findings on air pollution, waste water reuse, and heavy metal contamination.Dr. Oludare Adegbola Owolabi P.E., Morgan State University Dr. Oludare Owolabi, a professional engineer in Maryland, joined the Morgan State University faculty in 2010. He is the assistant director of the Center for Advanced Transportation and Infrastructure Engineering Research (CATIER) at Morgan State Universit
her first year in the joint biomedical engineering master’s program offered by UTHealth San Antonio and The University of Texas at San Antonio. Her decision to pursue a career in biomedical engineering came from her love of healthcare and her love for innovative problem-solving. Upon receiving her Master of Science in Biomedical Engineering, Jimena hopes to work in the Biotechnology industry.Ms. Brooke McGill, The University of Texas at San Antonio Brooke McGill is pursuing a Bachelor of Science, directed in Chemical Engineering, at the University of Texas at San Antonio. She wishes to specialize in biomedical and medical science within the Chemical Engineering field, which is why she takes her job as Dr. Nehal Abu
. 1, pp. 4–8, Jan. 2021, doi: 10.1016/j.tree.2020.10.010.[10] M.-E. Baylor, J. R. Hoehn, and N. Finkelstein, “Infusing Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Throughout Our Physics Curriculum: (Re)defining What It Means to Be a Physicist,” The Physics Teacher, vol. 60, no. 3, pp. 172–175, Mar. 2022, doi: 10.1119/5.0032998.[11] G. Potvin et al., “Gendered Interests in Electrical, Computer, and Biomedical Engineering: Intersections With Career Outcome Expectations,” IEEE Transactions on Education, vol. 61, no. 4, pp. 298–304, Nov. 2018, doi: 10.1109/TE.2018.2859825.[12] J. Rohde et al., “Design Experiences, Engineering Identity, and Belongingness in Early Career Electrical and Computer Engineering Students,” IEEE Transactions on
eventually led her to a position in IT for a semiconductor IP start-up. Fast forward through coast-to-coast moves to Boston, San Diego and finally Rochester, Kathy spent many years in the fitness industry while raising her daughter, wearing every hat from personal trainer and cycling instructor to owner and director of Cycledelic Indoor Cycling Studio. Kathy draws upon these many diverse career and life experiences while directing WE@RIT. In the spring of 2020, Kathy earned her Master of Science degree in Program Design, Analysis & Manage- ment through RIT’s School of Individualized Study, combining concentrations in Project Management, Analytics and Research, & Group Leadership and Development. An unabashed
ability to produceindependent and productive workers. Rote memorization dominates pedagogical practice acrossmost of the nation.The results of the pervasiveness of rote pedagogies are far-reaching. Directly, studentsdisengage, learn less effectively, and lose interest in STEM careers. Engaging Ghanaian studentsin hands-on activities can, however, significantly counter these negative effects [2,3]. Byextension, rote memorization results in minimal technological innovation that Ghanaians canpoint to with pride as a local output. This falsely perpetuates the negative global narrative aroundwhat capabilities young Africans possess. The concept of stereotype threat has been used tounderstand how students who are viewed poorly because of their identity
Engineering with Cyber-Physical Systems. He recently retired from IBM after a 31-year career. He held a diverse set of leadership positions across product development (both hardware and software), supply chain and manufacturing, sales operations, research, corporate strategy, leading large teams, and talent development. Nick has led and contributed to many critical projects including saving the mainframe business, taking AIX/Power to the #1 UNIX position, establishing Linux servers in the enterprise market, and was on the team that built the first Bladed architecture for the general purpose x86 market. Nick received a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from University of Massachusetts at Amherst, an M.S
engineering culture and applying cognitive load theory in the engineering classroom. He is currently working on an NSF project attempting to improve dissemination of student narratives using innovative audio approaches. Gabe has a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Utah State University (USU). ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 From Mind Full to Mindful: Proposing Mindfulness as a Proactive Strategy for Safeguarding Mental Health in Engineering EducationAbstractEngineering students are increasingly reporting struggles with stress and mental healthchallenges during their undergraduate careers, yet most will only consider seeking
Engineering, Morgan State University, Baltimore, Maryland. Pelumi got his BSc and MSc degree in Physics from Obafemi Awolowo University, where he also served as a research assistant at the Environmental Pollution Research unit, in Ile-Ife, Nigeria. As part of his contribution to science and engineering, Pelumi has taught as a teaching assistant both at Morgan State University and Obafemi Awolowo University. With passion to communicate research findings and gleaned from experts in the field as he advances his career, Olaitan has attended several in-persons and virtual conferences and workshop, and at some of them, made presentation on findings on air pollution, waste water reuse, and heavy metal contamination.Dr
Qatar.Dr. Shane A. Brown P.E., Oregon State University Shane Brown is an associate professor and Associate School Head in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Oregon State University. His research interests include conceptual change and situated cognition. He received the NSF CAREER award in ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024Personal Epistemology of Middle Eastern Graduate Students at Oregon State University: Beliefs about Source of KnowledgeIntroductionEducation is an essential aspect of a human's life to achieve better ways of living facilitated byfinancial stability, self-dependency, and social equality. However, standardizing education forevery individual is
PD program, an application was shared withengineering faculty and engineering graduate program coordinators before the start of the spring2024 semester. The application also was sent directly to engineering graduate students assignedas TAs for the semester. Six engineering graduate students submitted applications and wereaccepted to participate (Table 2). All participants expressed interest in inclusive teaching and/orfaculty careers. One of the graduate students served as a TA in the fullest capacity (i.e., taughtweekly recitation sessions). As mentioned above, challenges with TA appointments preventedmost of the participants from actively teaching in a TA role.Table 2. Demographics of engineering graduate student participants in the pilot
within the overall nationalpopulation. Faculty members and administrators play key roles in academia, from deciding whogets hired in faculty roles to teach and advise students, to deciding policies and practices thatsupport student retention and graduation. Thus, the beliefs of STEM faculty members andadministrators about who belongs in their institutions, in their disciplines, and the types ofopportunities and access they should have speak to the decision-making that shapes the exclusionthat occurs in STEM.PurposeThis study is part of a larger research project designed to investigate factors that help or hinderindividuals from minoritized racial and ethnic identities when pursuing careers in the STEMprofessoriate. The research questions that
STEM fields and enhancing retention by reducing dropout rates, particularly inmale-dominated environments through supportive and collaborative settings 6 . Creating gender-aware courses that promote participation across technical and managerial roles and introducingrole models can build STEM self-efficacy, encouraging young women to pursue and remain inengineering careers 7,8 . Addressing unconscious bias and providing fair role assignments furtherenable female students to confidently take on technical responsibilities while fostering a strongsense of community and professional commitment 9,10 .Ultimately, this project highlights how practical, student-led initiatives in engineering educationdrive real-world skill development and meaningful
engineering.The high-level objectives of NEET are to: • Reimagine what and how our students learn, to better prepare them to address critical societal challenges in the 21st century. • Strengthen MIT’s contribution to engineering education worldwide.NEET is based on the following four principles: • Our education should focus on preparing our students to develop the new machines and systems that they will build in the middle of the 21st century. • We should help our students to prepare themselves to be makers, discoverers or along this spectrum, and we should teach engineering fundamentals as a foundation for careers both in research and in practice. • We should build our education around the way our students best learn
Engineering Education at Purdue University. Her research focuses what factors influence diverse students to choose engineering and stay in engineering through their careers and how different experiences within the practice and culture of engineering foster or hinder belongingness and identity development. Dr. Godwin graduated from Clemson University with a B.S. in Chemical Engineering and Ph.D. in Engineering and Science Education. She is the recipient of a 2014 American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Educational Research and Methods Division Apprentice Faculty Grant. She also was an NSF Graduate Research Fellow for her work on female empowerment in engineering which won the National Association for Research in
• the sharing of best practices in the content, teaching, certifications, articulation and career pathways for renewable energy technicians among participants and with their international peers • the use of an online learning collaborative site for knowledge-building activities and to share and disseminate curricula and other learning materialsGermany in particular presented an interesting case. The German Energiewende – or “energytransition” – is an on-going, nationally coordinated, comprehensive undertaking that has twofundamental drivers: the development and deployment of renewable energy sources and anincreased and widespread implementation of energy efficiency measures, all of which isoccurring in a relatively
last week of the internship, the second author went on-site to act as a participant-observer.As part of this evaluation, focus-group and exit interviews were conducted with the interns andtheir mentors to collect more in-depth qualitative evidence of participant learning and experiencein the program. Protocol for focus-group interviews with the interns emphasized eliciting furtherdata regarding: a) their understanding of the problem context b) assumptions about the problemcontext or purpose of the work c) overall impact of the program on their learning experience inrelation to prior classroom-based learning and their future education and career planning.Separate protocol for interviews with the university program mentors prompted: a
, IEEE Globecom, IEEE ICC, and IWCMC.Dr. Abd-Elhamid M. Taha, Alfaisal University Abd-Elhamid M. Taha is an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering At Alfaisal University. His research spans radio resource management, Internet of Things (IoT) services, and modeling in networked cyber-physical systems. Abd-Elhamid is a senior member of the IEEE, and a recipient of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) Early Career Researcher Award as well as several awards at Alfaisal University for distinction in teaching and research.Prof. Kok-Lim Alvin Yau, Sunway University KoK-Lim Alvin Yau received the B.Eng. degree (Hons.) in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Universiti Teknologi Petronas
the learning objectives for the real-world computersimulation described in [21, p. 332]. Other objectives include budgetary and time constraints,teamwork, and “large industrial-scale chemical processes” [21, p. 332]. Professional standardsare one element of the real-world examples discussed in [22].Career preparation is another common element in papers describing real-world activities. “Real-world examples tie material to future jobs,” writes Campbell [23, p. 3]. The fact that “all foursenior student interns received engineering job offers before graduation” was noted as anoutcome of the solar charging design project described in [24]. Bridging the gap betweentheoretical and practical knowledge, where presumably practical knowledge is the
for women to choose a CS career. Orthogonally, Wang [43] correlatedfinancial aid with STEM major selection. While our student participants witnessed the impact ofexposure, staff support, and supportive policies, we did not explicitly investigate financial factors.We propose to investigate the influence of financial aid and other SES factors using quantitativeanalysis and to recount the population of varied SES.Gender and Race/Ethnicity: Students from minoritized groups in CS, as defined in [44], areunderrepresented due to both entry and high attrition (switching majors or dropping altogether).For example, women are less represented in the CS field due to pre-entry, institutional, andsocietal factors [45]. Oftentimes, minoritized CS students
, E. J., Harper, S., Cashion, T., Palacios-Abrantes, J., Blythe, J., Daly, J., Eger, S., Hoover, C., Talloni-Alvarez, N., Teh, L., Bennett, N., Epstein, G., Knott, C., Newell, S. L., & Whitney, C. K. (2020). Supporting early career researchers: Insights from interdisciplinary marine scientists. ICES Journal of Marine Science, 77(2), 476–485. Scopus. https://doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fsz247Anna (Kia) Nobre. (2017). Neuron, 96(1), 11–13. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2017.09.023Announcements11Announcements are published free of charge for members of The American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG). Please e-mail announcements to ajhg@ajhg.net. Submission must be received at least 7 weeks before the month of
. The authors found that white women, in particular, softened the negative impact ofsexism with white privilege, relying on their race to help them form closer relationships withfaculty. Conversely, undergraduate women of Color found that race served as a barrier torelationship building with professors, which hindered their ability to access career-relatedopportunities. However, the findings of Salazar et al. [11] also indicated that exposure toprofessors of Color facilitated relationships with racially underrepresented students, which thengave these students access to networks that supported their career goals in STEM. Finally, theauthors found that the effects of both racism and sexism were lessened when students wereengaged in research. The
went well: 1. Established a sense of belonging to the Data Science program 2. Introduction to case studies 3. Interview etiquette, resume building & STEM Career Fair prep most successful class taught What did not go well: 1. Spacing of assignments and length of time to complete the assignments 2. Too many topics from University Perspectives 3. Student interaction was lacking during class Continuous Improvement for next year: 1. We are adding a textbook Teach Yourself how to Learn by Saundra McGuire 2. Adding more case studies and information about the data science program + concentrations 3. Reevaluate how many things we utilize from University Perspectives
infor- mation science from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), Hefei, China, in 1995 and 1998, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Minnesota (UMN), Minneapolis, MN, USA, in 2002. He is currently a Full Professor with the Department of Elec- trical and Computer Engineering, University of Connecticut (UCONN), Storrs, CT, USA. His general research interests lie in the areas of wireless communications and signal processing. He received the 2007 ONR Young Investigator Award and the 2007 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engi- neers. He was an Associate Editor for IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS from 2005 to 2007, IEEE
Paper ID #34466Student Motivation and Self-efficacy in Entrepreneurial-minded Learning(EML): What These Mean for Diversity and Inclusion in EngineeringClassroomsProf. Erin A. Henslee, Wake Forest University Dr. Erin Henslee is a Founding Faculty and Assistant Professor of Engineering at Wake Forest University. Her research spans biomedical engineering, e-sports, and STEM education. Prior to joining Wake Forest she was a Researcher Development Officer at the University of Surrey where she supported Early Career Researchers. She received her BS degrees in Engineering Science and Mechanics and Mathematics from Virginia