can apply when engaging communities. Finally, it concludes with lessonslearned from this criteria development and curricular integration for engineering educatorscommitted to educating students to become socially responsible engineers and making theirprojects both socially just and sustainable for communities.1. IntroductionIn engineering education, there has been a proliferation of projects aimed at communitydevelopment, most of these motivated by strong personal desires to help solving big andcomplex problems like poverty, climate change, lack of drinkable water, etc. and also byinstitutional needs to enhance students experiences and professional development, exposure tointernational education, and, in some cases, to contribute to program
to a PISA (Program for International Student Assessment) test report [1], only 10 % ofthe Paraguayan student participants have passed the tests on reading, mathematics and science.Space-related educational programs have become a very inspiring way to implement STEMeducation. One CanSat (Can-Satellite) training program for teachers, that later will perform similarprojects with their students, is a very effective tool to motivate students into STEM. During theprogram, teachers build a “very small and simple satellite” (a pico-satellite) that has similarfunctions as larger ones. They learn how to plan, design and solve problems as if they were on areal space mission. The objective of our study is to measure the performance of teachers as
reviews common themes across mentor evaluation data and discusseshow these factors are contributing to the development of future faculty members prepared towork with diverse student populations. Our preferred method for delivery is a short traditionallecture followed by facilitated discussion of best practices among session attendees.IntroductionThe positive effects of receiving mentoring have been well researched and documented.Mentoring has been linked to the academic success [1], research accomplishments [2], andmatriculation to graduate school [3] of undergraduate students. Furthermore, mentoring has beenfound to be especially important for students from underrepresented backgrounds. For example,mentoring relationships empower
, through which he studied in the Stereotypes, Identity, and Belonging Lab (SIBL) at the University of Washington during the summer of 2018.Zhihui (Sherry) Chen c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 CAREER: Actualizing Latent Diversity in Undergraduate Engineering EducationIntroductionCultivating a culture of inclusion is critical to engineering education. The environment in whichstudents learn shapes not only their competencies but also who they become or their identities asengineers. Developing an engineering identity has been found to be important for a number ofdifferent outcomes including academic and personal development [1]–[5] as well as retention [6]–[8
Universities – Larger programs. The current total enrollment is 10,417. It is aregional public university located in San Angelo, a city with a population of approximately100,100. San Angelo is in the West Texas region of the state and is a three hour or longer drivefrom any major urban center. The university draws students largely from West Texas.The university is a Hispanic-Serving Institution with a Hispanic enrollment of 40 percent asshown in Figure 1. However, as the data in Figure 1show, the faculty are significantly lessdiverse than the students with only 8 percent of faculty identifying as Hispanic.Within the engineering program, the diversity picture is dramatically different as shown by thedata in Figure 1. The students within the engineering
feasible, viable, credible and desirable solutions.Dr. Barbara A. Karanian A., Stanford University Barbara A. Karanian, Ph.D. , Lecturer, formerly visiting Professor, in the School of Engineering, in the Mechanical Engineering Design Group at Stanford University. Barbara’s research focuses on four areas: 1)grounding a blend of theories from social-cognitive psychology, engineering design, and art to show how cognition affects design; 2) changing the way people understand the emotion behind their work; 3) shifting norms of leaders involved in entrepreneurial-minded action; and 4) developing teaching methods with a storytelling focus in engineering and science education. Founder of the Design Entrepreneuring Studio
desired program outcomes will also be outlined.2.0 Curriculum OverviewFigure 1 presents an overview of the new architectural engineering program. Highlights of thisprogram include the following: 1) the students alternate between academic and coop work terms,with the exception of having two back-to-back academic terms in their fourth year; 2) each termfeatures a studio course – as mentioned earlier, each of these courses will involve the planningand execution of a series of design projects that integrate and put into practice concepts coveredin the other courses the students will be taking; 3) the core courses in the first two years are builton the established civil, environmental, and geological engineering programs at the sameinstitution, and
Education, 2020 Integrating the IDEO Design Process to Find Solutions toEngineering Challenges in a Freshman General Education ClassIntroductionHow undergraduates are introduced to the discipline of engineering at the college level can havelong-term educational and professional implications, including influencing decisions to pursue orleave engineering majors and validating beliefs about the purpose of engineering in society [1].Classroom lectures have been traditionally used within introductory engineering courses as theycan transmit large amounts of content [2]. However, they are generally less effective in helpingundergraduates engage with and apply content [3]. In recognition of this, learner-centeredapproaches are increasingly being used in
Society for Engineering Education, 2020Changing an Electrical and Computer Engineering Department Culture from the Bottom Up: Action Plans Generated from Faculty Interviews Previous research [1] has documented the pressures encountered by STEM faculty at R1institutions: weighty teaching loads, pressure to “publish or perish,” urgency to obtain funding,mentorship of graduate students, and the stress of promotion/tenure all can have deleteriouseffects on the well-being and job satisfaction of faculty. Moreover, these pressures interact withthe disproportionate barriers faced by underrepresented faculty [2]. Given the predicted growthof faculty positions in coming years (11% from 2018-2028) [3], and that many of these positionswill be
departments for his outstanding teaching and research excellence. To supplement his teaching and research, he has been involved in numerous professional societies, including ASCE, ACI, ASEE, ASC, ATMAE, and TRB. His research output has been well disseminated as he has published thirty journal papers and thirty-nine conference papers. His research interests are 1) Creating Innovative Sustainable Materials, 2) Structural BIM Integration, 3) 4D/5D BIM, 4) Virtual Testing Lab, 5) Innovative Construction Demolition, and 6) Carbon Footprint Analysis on Roadways. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020Changing 3rd World Lives Through STEM Education in HondurasAbstractDuring the summer of 2018
research interests include novel assessments of educational efficacy, the molecular basis of cell movement, and the mitigation of infectious diseases. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Clinician-engineer career bias and its relationship to engineering design self-efficacy among Biomedical Engineering undergraduatesBackgroundBiomedical engineering undergraduates are often drawn to clinical practice rather than to careersin engineering – 54% according to one study in 2008 [1]. An informal survey of recent careeroutcome dashboards suggests that this remains the case, though medical schools are not calledout separately in those reports. These
investigator on over $20 million in federally competitive grants to support her research. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Closing the STEM Labor Gap Through a Path to Graduation (PTG) for Low Income, Rural StudentsThe current shortage of STEM graduates has highlighted the importance for novel approaches toincreasing the pool of intellectual talent [1]. These approaches can be expected to lead to increasedrecruitment of, and facilitating pathways to, success in the number of STEM graduates. The stateof Arkansas has consistently ranked near the bottom, in comparison to all 50 US states in collegeattendance, as well as the number of Bachelor of Science degrees awarded in
possibility of pursuing the creation of a community-based waste-upcycling business.Both the Web of Life and Social Cartography workshops invited the participation of a large numberof community stakeholders to first co-create a common systemic model of the community system(STW #1) and then see how the model fits in the physical geographical space and how each individualin the systems fits and navigates in the space (STW#4) . This paper presents the structure andexecution of these workshops and the resulting artifacts created by participating stakeholders. Itwill also discuss the implications for further work within the context of the identified ExSJ projectand more broadly for community-engineering partnerships
asfrom underrepresented minority groups. An integrated model, based on Lent’s et al. SocialCognitive Career Theory [1], combines several strategies that include faculty mentoring,communities of learners, reflection, apprenticeship, peer-led team-learning, and cooperativelearning to target attrition and improve graduation rates.Peer-Led Team LearningThe Peer-led Team Learning model [2] was created to address retention and enhance in-depthknowledge of students in chemistry courses. In PLTL student leaders are trained to teach otherstudents the core or fundamental concepts in a course. Students who have done well in previouscourses are selected to be peer leaders and to run weekly workshops on fundamental topics in acourse. Leaders are trained in
communication efforts [1].One of the major trends in higher education is supplementing traditional modes of education withonline learning platforms and environments [2]. Schools have collaboratively developedasynchronous learning environments that allow for up-to-date lectures with on-demand access,making courses available to students with differing schedules [3]. Beyond a lecture-exam modeof instruction, institutional programs are creating courses that allow students to engage ininnovation-based learning. In addition to learning course basics, students are required to formgroups to tackle a group-defined project where success is marked by the degree of impact outsideof the classroom and beyond the university.This paper seeks to provide a case study of
Florida AM Curriculum Framework aligns to theDepartment of Labor’s Advanced Manufacturing Competency Model, we used text mining toextract and compare the key competencies found in both documents. Through this approach, wecompared these documents and identified: 1) frequently addressed topics; 2) verbs that guidedthe complexity (i.e., Bloom’s Revised Taxonomy of Learning Objectives cognitive level) of thecourse learning task versus workplace competency; and 3) overall match between the documents.Our results suggest that the documents overlap very little, with significant misalignments inhigher-level Bloom’s verbs. We present implications for educational institutions, AM policymakers, and industry; suggest a revision cycle and process; and propose
engineering education, modeling is fundamental for manycore concepts, though it is rarely explicitly taught. There are many benefits to explicitly teachingmodeling, particularly in the first years of an engineering program. The research questions thatdrove this study are: (1) How do students’ solutions to a complex, open-ended problem (bothwritten and coded solutions) develop over the course of multiple submissions? and (2) How dothese developments compare across groups of students that did and did not participate in a coursecentered around modeling?. Students’ solutions to an open-ended problem across multiplesections of an introductory programming course were explored. These sections were all dividedacross two groups: (1) experimental group - these
. The mentors work closely with female middle schooland high school students in the robotics clubs on monthly basis. The mentors also help femalemiddle school and high school students with their math and science coursework. In addition tomonthly in-person meetings, virtual meetings are held in which the mentors post videos onlinefor middle school or high school students. 1For this education research project, we are working with two research questions as provided below.Research question 1: “Does being mentored by undergraduate female students increase thestudents in the middle school and high schools’ interest in STEM disciplines?”.Research question 2: “Does increasing the parents’ STEM awareness
they arepresented with assignments requiring quality academic sources. It is crucial to reach studentsearly in their college career to instill IL skills into their scholarly endeavors. To help remedy thisdeficiency, academic librarians collaborate with teaching faculty to provide IL instructionsessions to their classes, providing students with a basic introduction to the library to advancedresearch skills. While important to an engineer over the course of their studies and professionalpractice, little has been done to integrate IL to engineering curriculum.Those studies that have examined IL, focus on the self-perceived skills of upper-divisionstudents in design courses [1]; are for a singular major course [2] or are focused on
engineering students are not prepared by current pedagogies to actethically? To frame this question this paper questions how well rules-based, or deontological,ethics provides useful guidelines in the case that the domain in which decisions are made becomecomplex or when technology is changing rapidly. Given that some companies report the half-lifeof information is as short as six months [private communication], can engineering ethics alwaysprovide useful guidance to action, or are there situations where other ethical frameworks aremore appropriate?Engineering ethics is an often-discussed subject, and substantial work in engineering educationaddresses how to effectively teach ethics [1]–[3], evaluate learning outcomes [4], and identifyissues and
in Colombia (Universidad del Valle) wanted to receivespecialized academic advice and support in the field of composite materials manufacturing foraerospace applications.The Fulbright Specialist Program is a unique opportunity for U.S. academics and establishedprofessionals to engage in two- to six-week, project-based exchanges at host institutions acrossthe globe [1]. Steven McNeil wrote: “being a Fulbright Specialist was a fantastic experience forme, not just for the increase in cultural awareness and exposure to different learningenvironments, but also the interactions with the wonderful Italian students and faculty thatforged life-long friendships” [2]. Doris MacDonald found during her specialist program inIndonesia that working was
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering from Elizabethtown College, a Master’s degree in Computer Science and Software Engineering from Auburn University, eleven years of experience in industry as a software engineer, and seven years as a full-time faculty in the departments of computer science and engineering. Her interests focus on broadening participation in engineering through the exploration of: 1) race, gender, and identity in the engineering workplace; 2) discipline-based education research (with a focus on computer science and computer engineering courses) in order to inform pedagogical practices that garner interest and retain women and minorities in computer-related engineering fields.Prof. Zahra Hazari, Florida
the profession, and ethicaldilemmas with a limited scope [1], [2], [3]. In contrast, macroethics concerns sustainability, publicpolicy, and broader impacts such as human rights [1], [4], [5]. At many institutions, ethics is not arequired course for engineering students; instead, students are often instructed to memorizeabstract ethical codes, likely causing them to take ethics less seriously [6], [7]. That is, memorizingabstract ethical codes does not provide a solid foundation for providing solutions to ethicaldilemmas. As such, many students tend to draw from personal experience rather than from theirprofessional ethical education when facing ethical dilemmas, which can lead to undesirableoutcomes [6], [7], [8]).Troublingly, Cech (2014
potentialfindings. For this case, the intervention led to a change in the sketches as well as in how thestudent was talking about people who would use the designs. This case study suggests that achange to instructions during conceptual sketching—requiring representations of people—mayfoster engineering students’ engagement in human-centered design practices.IntroductionHuman-centered design (HCD) requires a deep understanding of people in the design context[1]–[3]; however, research documents that engineering students have struggled to consider thepeople who will use their designs [4]–[9]. Empathy is a key mindset in human-centered design inorder to effectively understand people’s experiences and incorporate them into design decisions[10]–[12]. Empathy
significant andvaluable, but otherwise absent in their engineering education. This paper serves as a call toengineering education community to engage with contemplative practices as a way of creatingmore inclusive learning environments for all of our students.1. IntroductionThis Work-in-Progress paper describes a collaboration that aims to integrate art, teaching,learning, research and activist work through the union of four instructors, three undergraduateteaching assistants, and their seven unique ways of knowing that are grounded in our differences- ethnicity, cultures of origin, first language, education, artistic craft, age, class, gender, wisdomtraditions. This project brought together our differences to co-create a new educational paradigmfor
has probably beenmost pronounced in engineering, as engineering activities typically involve consumptionof energy and resources, and create changes in the physical environment [1]. A growingbody of literature is available, addressing and discussing the definition and use of variouscompetences including systems-thinking and critical thinking for sustainabledevelopment [2,3] . Systems-thinking is identified as an important learning outcomerelated to incorporating sustainability in engineering classroom. Additionally, systems-thinking provides an understanding of a system by examining the link and interactionsbetween the elements that comprise the whole system. Sustainability systems-thinkingskills include (i) identifying dynamic relationships
Westmoreland Academic Success Program. In this capacity, she provides vision and direction for the Tutoring and Peer-Assisted Learning (PAL) programs and provides support to the General Engineer- ing Learning Community. She is also co-developer of Entangled Learning, a framework of rigorously- documented, self-directed collaborative learning. She has an M.A. in Music from The Pennsylvania State University and an M.L.S. from Indiana University. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Continuing to Promote Metacognitive Awareness in a First-Year Learning Strategies CourseAbstractThis complete, evidence-based practice paper builds upon our previous work [1] in
Paper ID #29134Counteracting the social responsibility slump? Assessing changes instudent knowledge and attitudes in mining, petroleum, and electricalengineeringDr. Jessica Mary Smith, Colorado School of Mines Jessica M. Smith is Associate Professor in the Engineering, Design & Society Division at the Colorado School of Mines and Director, Humanitarian Engineering Graduate Programs and Research. She is an an- thropologist with two major research areas: 1) the sociocultural dynamics of extractive and energy indus- tries, with a focus on corporate social responsibility, social justice, labor, and gender and 2) engineering
Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Crayowulf: A Multidisciplinary Capstone ProjectABSTRACTSenior capstone projects provide an excellent means of having students apply and integrate manyof the topics they have learned over the course of their undergraduate education. In this paper, wedescribe a two-semester (10-month) senior capstone project in which a multidisciplinary group—one computer science student, one electrical engineering student, and two mechanical engineeringstudents—worked as a team to implement an innovative Beowulf cluster design. The clustercommemorates the Cray-1 supercomputer, with a small hexagonal aluminum case enclosing adistributed multiprocessor consisting of five Nvidia Jetson TX2 single board
schedules are full of teaching, research, service, and learning requirementsthat are on relatively strict timelines. In an effort to overcome these challenges, an ad hoc teamwas formed at California State University, Chico with representatives from all seven colleges.Three main pillars of innovation were identified (1) an entrepreneurial learning experience, (2)an on-campus makerspace, and (3) community outreach and engagement. This paper focuses onthe design, implementation, and success of the on-campus makerspace and as well as the lessonslearned and areas for improvement. The space is entering its third year of operations and hasseen over 1,500 projects completed in spring 2019, a marked increase in usage.IntroductionThe maker movement is