identities and roles of mentors for rising minority doctoral students inengineering. The findings revealed that various individuals, including family members, informalundergraduate mentors, and peers, played significant roles in supporting the decision ofminoritized students to enroll in doctoral programs. These mentors provided different forms ofsupport, ranging from emotional encouragement to practical guidance, thereby influencing thestudents' academic and career trajectories. The study highlighted the importance of recognizingand leveraging the diverse mentorship networks available to minoritized students to promotetheir success in doctoral programs [8].Curriculum BuildingAccording to Should You Go to Graduate School? by Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic
from a previous comparative analysis10 of the aggregatedataset comprising interviews with 45 women and 24 men who participated in the study. Theseresults are discussed in the next section describing the background to the present analysis.Results from an inductive analysis of transcripts from interviews with 11 white male engineeringstudents and 14 students representing non-white racial identities indicate first that maleengineers’ experience mentoring in a variety of informal and formal settings. Second, maleengineers struggled initially to connect the concept of mentorship to their mentoring experiences.Over the course of the interviews, they were able to provide examples of specific individualsincluding family members, peers, teachers and
collaborative notes [44], [46] Throughout the finalstages of analysis, the team reviewed collective comments to categorize codes and consideroverarching themes [44], [46]. These themes resulted in the findings described below.Triangulation and rigor were ensured through the use of varied data sources that capturedwritten, spoken, and performed moments in the process of professional development through thetwo courses [44]. Rigor was further established through prolonged engagement with theparticipants which allowed for continuous conversations, member checking, and peer debriefingalong the process of analysis and writing [45]. This participatory research approach amplified theparticipating teachers’ voices and created the space for an iterative process
notetaking as “a personalized, engaging method to spicing up your mundanenotes”, which correlated to her interview note of everyone having a unique “notetaking style.” Indescribing her artifact, Emily also noted the influence of her peers on her learning during theseminar. This artifact highlights Emily’s change of sentiment towards visual notetaking, fromconsidering her notes messy and never going back to review her notes prior to the seminar todescribing visual notetaking as “creative, rewarding, efficient.”Yifan was a second-year pre-science major student. Prior to the seminar, Yifan considered herselfa visual person, who learned information through writing instead of reading. She was interestedin the research process of visual design and saw the
designassessment, development, and use. Phase 2 reports the findings from interviews and surveys of 98faculty members identified from Phase 1. Faculty members were asked a variety of questions aboutclassroom assessment practices in capstone design courses. Findings suggest uncertainty on the partof many faculty members concerning sound assessment practices, including writing objectives, usingappropriate assessment strategies, sampling material appropriately, and controlling for mis-measurement of student achievement. Based on the findings a variety of recommendations arereported in this paper.IntroductionThe quality of teaching and learning in programs preparing undergraduate students for engineeringpractice is a focal point of national interest1. Reasons
thedesired learning outcomes for these internships? Is there a way to assess those outcomes withoutadding a huge burden onto faculty and students?Internships are a type of “experiential learning,” similar in some ways to service learning.Internships were identified as a high impact educational practice in a recent Association ofAmerican Colleges and Universities publication1. There are six student behaviors required byhigh impact practices thought to significantly improve student learning: 1. Invest significant time and effort 2. Demand interaction with faculty and peers about substantive matters 3. Result in an experience of diversity through extensive contact with people very different from themselves 4. Receive and respond to
field thantheir women peers accounting for only 19.8% among those who earned the engineering degree[1], [3]. By 2021, there was only a 2.4% increase in the total number of women graduating froman undergraduate engineering program [63]. Students of color are also underrepresented in theSTEM fields [1], [4], and their attrition in the STEM programs is likely to occur (e.g.,Latino/Latina/Latinx, African Americans, and Native Americans) [1], [5].Existing literature documented that men students’ high self-efficacy and low mathematical-related anxiety may be two of the factors driving their persistence in STEM courses [6] - [13].Self-efficacy, defined as “individual judgments of [one’s] capabilities to perform given actions”[14, p. 207], has been
teaching requirements, grant writing, and mentorship ofyounger students. Several recent studies have begun to analyze the skills needed for practicingengineers--many look at the desired attributes of a bachelor’s-level engineer, which haveinfluenced ABET standards, among other curriculum and program development 9,10. Fewerstudies have analyzed the critical knowledge, skills, and attributes of PhD holding engineers inacademia and industry, 9,11–13 however, it is clear that non-technical skills play a vital role incareer success for engineers in any career. Some of these include written and verbalcommunication skills, and ability to target communication for diverse audiences 12,13; ability toteach (formally or informally) peers, colleagues, or
compared to that of the topic-quiz reflection. These results might beexplained by the fact that students were requested to write a 1-page reflection for both the topicquiz and DYOP. It is reasonable that for some levels to increase, others must decrease. Sinceproblems designed by students on the DYOP were of similar complexity as those they completedon quizzes, a decrease in percent coverage at the Understand and Apply levels indicates lessemphasis placed on engagement at these levels during reflection rather than less engagement atthem. Indeed, it would be difficult for students to engage at the Analyze level without first havingengaged fully in the Understand and Apply levels. The decrease in N/A (-20.6%), however, can beattributed to a decrease
. Her research focuses on methods to improve the teaching and learning of team effectiveness in engineering design courses.Dr. Penny Kinnear, University of Toronto Penny Kinnear currently works with the Engineering Communication Program at the University of Toronto where she focuses on the development and delivery of Professional Language support for a highly student body. She has a background in applied linguistics, second language and bilingual education and writing education. She is co-author of the book, ”Sociocultural Theory in Second Language Education: An in- troduction through narratives.” Her current research projects include a longitudinal study on professional identity development of Chemical Engineering
TechnologyStudies (STS). Throughout the fall 2019 semester, I began to question the ways in which I hadbeen recruited and channeled, as a woman with an interest in science and math, into studyingengineering. Upon taking an introductory STS course, I was introduced to reflecting criticallyabout engineering as a field of study. This led me to enroll in a graduate seminar, EngineeringStudies, which provided me with a much deeper introduction to STS-inflected studies ofengineering, including engineering education. During this time, my professor, along with apostdoctoral fellow, were co-PIs for a study of student experiences in engineering education andhad already convened a group of undergraduate students who were in the process of interviewingtheir peers
student engagement and academic success measures (such as retention) hasbeen well-established in the literature (e.g.,[3]), the program was designed to create a smalllearning community experience for students who would be less likely to demonstrate highengagement with the university, the curriculum, their instructors, and their peers. There are manyreasons why low-income students might show low-engagement levels. One reason is that aschool and/or family obligation requires them to work a significant number of hours each week.It is difficult to attend football games or join a sorority when you are working 20-40 hours aweek off-campus. Engagement is a luxury that many low-income students simply cannot afford.The Endeavour Program was designed to
programs remain extremely low. The emphasis on conventionalpedagogical methods in engineering programs, coupled with a deficit-based approach that isfocused on the remediation of weaknesses, does little to foster the unique strengths ofneurodivergent students. In addition to the obstacles posed by traditional education system, thestigma related to a disability label leads many neurodivergent college students to neither discusstheir diagnosis with peers and professors nor obtain academic accommodations that may helpthem to persist in a challenging learning environment.To address these challenges and realize the potential contributions of neurodivergent individualsto engineering fields, a research project funded by the Engineering Education and
wasformative, conversations centered on how to use the information for improvement. Formativefeedback from instructional coaching provided a roadmap for improvement, and helped move theconversation away from final, summative evaluations of teaching ability that are commonly apart of performance reviews. Feedback was specific and timely.Professor K (see Table 3) asked, “Could you write a letter for my P and T case about my partici-pation in the grant and observations?” K’s unit head was very receptive to including such a letterin the promotion dossier. Observations made by a trained professional using the RTOP instru-ment are a reliable supplement and possible replacement for peer observations that are often usedto support the promotion and tenure
commented that it might be useful to find ways thatassessments could be built into the courses such that they do not conflict with the final projects.Despite the difficulties the staff members believed that quantitative tools could be useful andcomplement qualitative assessments. They stated that sometimes it is difficult for youth toexpress themselves through online writing. Additionally, some youth are not as expressiveduring public events such as the showcase. While anecdotal information from the youth parentsand peers showed positive outcomes, capturing these using structured, detailed methods wouldbe useful. Thus, the staff expressed that with better assessment tools and procedures, surveys orquestionnaires could still be useful in this
contribute to students’ stress andanxiety, and have been shown to impact achievement and retention. This study uses ethnographicmethods to investigate how expectations are socially constructed in engineering programs andhow students’ come to internalize these expectations. Data was collected in ten focus groupswith a total of 38 participants at two universities with different institutional characteristics. Thequalitative analysis drew on constant comparative methods and proceeded from topic coding ofsources of expectations to interpretive coding of mechanisms in which students internalizedexperiences. More specifically, sources of expectations were identified as academics, superiors,peers, extra-curricular, and from outside the major. The rich
described through this metaphoricframework. Our students instruct the new collegians to: • set the college stage early by knowing their desired major and being adequately prepared to pursue that major; • engage a supporting cast of peers, patrons and programs to become thoroughly involved in their academic careers; • accept the role of director by assuming academic responsibility including improving time management and study habits, and • anticipate and overcome critic’s reviews in the form of external grades and internal doubts.The data suggest differences in advice given by male and female students and students fromdifferent classifications (i.e., lower division students versus upper division students
each group to switch among peer learning vocabulary and conceptquestions, exploration of materials properties, recall type self-quizzes or web investigations. Inaddition, the materials within the applications are conceptually contained so that whileexploration and higher order connections are still encouraged, the students will not beoverwhelmed or have no contextual basis for judgments. The multi-media format of the iPodTouch will also allow applications that accommodate different student learning styles. One of thegrand challenges of engineering (National Academy of Engineering) is to advance personalizedinstruction/learning methods and there is no reason that collaborative groups should not be ableto customize their own learning
capacity to contribute to global sustainabilityissues like climate change. These experiences equip them well for the professional phase of theircareers, allowing them to collaborate effectively in an increasingly interconnected world.The integration of international virtual exchange (IVE) programs in engineering education hasgained significant attention in recent years. As part of this trend, the assessment of studentoutcomes through IVE has become a crucial area of research and evaluation. Recent studies,such as one conducted by East Carolina University, have demonstrated the potential of IVE toenhance student learning and academic performance [21]. The definition of IVE as “technology-mediated international experiences that are peer-driven
preparation programs in both industryand academia. This exploratory study's purpose was to scope existing peer-reviewed and publishedarticles describing the focus and target audience of engineering workforce training programs forgraduate students in industry and academia. The study aimed to explore what existing workforcetrainings exist for graduate engineering students and then, to see what skills they are teachingstudents. The objective was to, using the information from the scoping review, to begin to outlineworkplace reading skills and criteria for a future development of a theory of workplace readinessfor Ph.D. engineering graduate students. This exploratory study used the Virginia WorkplaceReadiness skills framework to classify the skills
]. In Computer Science (CS), studentsoften don’t see how their “systems” classes, like Computer Organization, fit in with theirprogramming classes. This results in decreased engagement with course content, whichundermines student learning. Reflective writing is a pedagogical strategy introduced by Dewey[2] and extended by Schon [3] that has been found to increase critical thinking in students byallowing them to analyze their experiences for better understanding. Moon’s [4] theory oflearning and reflection in undergraduate education explores reflection as a way to guide a studentfrom surface learning (memorizing facts) to deep learning (integrated ideas and a holisticview)[4]. Reflection that promotes deep learning can help CS students realize
and prevention, medical records, comparative outcomes research, and biomedical sciences. He has successfully published several peer-reviewed articles in biomedical sciences, physical medicine and rehabilitation, modeling and simulation of physiological signals, motion analysis, and engineering.Asad Salem ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Emerging Innovations and Global Challenges on Curriculum Design: Case Study of Teaching Security in Embedded System Design Mohammed Ferdjallah1, Asad Salem2 1 Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
initiative and translate her passion for STEM into opportunities that will attract, inspire and retain more girls in STEM to make it the new norm. She has also architected SFAz’s enhanced Community College STEM Pathways Guide that has received the national STEMx seal of approval for STEM tools. She integrated the STEM Pathways Guide with the KickStarter processes for improving competitive proposal writing of Community College Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs) and is currently a co-PI on the HSI ATE Resource Hub. Throughout her career, Ms. Pickering has written robotics software, diagnostic expert systems for space station, manufacturing equipment models, and architected complex IT systems for global collaboration
the course of the semester, the students were expected to submit a project proposal, meetwith the course instructor during office hours to discuss their progress, and bring in drafts oftheir two written deliverables for peer feedback. They received feedback on their design memosfrom other students in the semiconductors course. Their CSR summaries received feedback fromstudents taking the Corporate Social Responsibility course that same semester. The course is anelective that fulfills the humanities and social science graduation requirements forundergraduates. It primarily draws on social science research to develop students’ criticalthinking skills about CSR. Appendix A contains the complete project assignment document. CSR was also
a wide range of engineering and real-world applications thatstudents might encounter as practicing engineers or as graduate students. Information sourceswere restricted to peer-reviewed published work such as journal articles, conference proceedings,and books. Students were directed to use the main engineering digital databases EngineeringVillage or Compendex, which provide comprehensive coverage of literature in all engineeringfields. Unsupported assertions or claims were a basis of rejection or grade reduction of theproject grade. The attainment level of the lifelong learning competency was assessed using twoperformance indicators. The first performance indicator comprised of measures of students’ability to recognize the attributes of a
of Critical Thinking Award twice and is currently working towards incorporating writing assignments that enhance students’ critical thinking capabilities. Page 23.227.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Assessment Based on the Principles of Discovery and MetacognitionAbstract Leading educators and scholars in the area of cognitive science agree that a newparadigm for assessment called a learning paradigm must be generated to observe, measure, anddocument the success of creative, new educational methods and practices. Educators haveunderstood the implications and
Flexibility IP SCAFFOLDING Zone of Learner Assistance Learner Assistance Towards Independence OF Proximal Instructor Active Learning Peer Learning PLP Project or Exam INSTRUCTION Development Weeks 1-4 Weeks 1-4 Week 5 Student: Faculty ASSESSMENT OF • Non-technical core competency • Formative & summative feedback on model PERFORMANCE AND • Improved understanding of • Feedback on student interactions
AC 2010-205: STRATEGIES FOR CREATING AND SUSTAINING ADEPARTMENTAL CULTURELisa Bullard, North Carolina State University Dr. Lisa G. Bullard is a Teaching Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at North Carolina State University. Her research interests lie in the areas of teaching and advising effectiveness, academic integrity, process design instruction, and the integration of writing, speaking, and computing within the curriculum. She has won numerous awards for both teaching and advising, including the John Wiley Premier Award for Engineering Education Courseware (2009), NCSU Faculty Advising Award
of S&E bachelor’s degrees were awarded to women in 2018—women’srepresentation varies greatly by field and women are still underrepresented in S&E occupations”[1]. While representation of some student populations has seen an increase in the past decades(e.g., Latinx/Hispanic students have seen an increase in share of Science and EngineeringBachelor’s degrees awarded from 8% in 2008 to 12% in 2018 [1]), others have been stagnatingor declining (e.g., Black and African American students changing from 4.7% to 4.3% from 2008to 2018 [1]).Underrepresentation affects students’ ways of experiencing engineering education and practiceand creates unique sets of challenges compared to their majority-representing peers. Experiencessuch as “cold
, orathletics [1]. These extra-/co-curricular experiences encompass a significant part of many students’times as undergraduates [7]. In the 2018 National Survey of Student Engagement, 66% of seniorundergraduate engineering students reported weekly participation in co-curricular activities, and91% of survey respondents reported having held a leadership role in a student organization at somepoint during their time as undergraduate engineering students. Through these experiences, extra-/co-curricular participation can provide opportunities for students to practice skills in authenticenvironments [8]. By participating, students can connect to networks of peers and mentors [9],[10], increase sense of belonging in their discipline [10], [11], facilitate