fellow, a Sandia Campus Exec- utive fellow, and a National Science Foundation Graduate Research fellow. She was a Churchill Scholar at University of Cambridge where she received an MPhil in engineering, and she has a B.S. in mechanical engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology. In 2018, ASEE named Dr. LeBlanc one of its ”20 Under 40 High-achieving Researchers and Educators,” and she received the National Science Foundation CAREER award in 2020.Dr. Erica Cusi Wortham, George Washington University Inspired by decades of work alongside Indigenous artists and activists, Dr. Wortham brings a concern for diverse, complex cultural and social contexts to her work at the Innovation Center, SEAS, George Wash- ington
. Katherine is an interdisciplinary scholar and artist with an expansive career and aca- demic history that she intends to utilize to help STEM organizations become more inclusive and equitable. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Knowing engineering through the arts: The impact of the film Hidden Figures on perceptions of engineering using arts-based research methods Katherine A. Robert University of Denver Morgridge College of Education, Doctoral Candidate in Higher EducationAbstractDespite decades of efforts, racial and gender diversity remains elusive for engineering
what, you know, what that entails. And like that it wasn’t really a career Iwanted to pursue. And she constantly told me, you know, like this is what you kind of limityourself to if you don’t pursue education.” Similarly, Melissa was motivated by her mother’sexpectation of upward mobility: “She never went to college, so she didn’t have anyunderstanding of what it entailed. But she just said that, in order for you to make money, youhave to get a degree, like, so that you don’t, like, be low-income like us. You have to get adegree.”The primary way that aspirational capital contributed to persistence in STEM was through itsmanifestation as encouragement/motivation/commitment. Students described the ongoing role oftheir family in helping them stay
mobilization of activists against marginalizing forces,such as the International Women’s Strike on March 8, 2017 [19]. However, revolutionary timecan take the form of daydreaming about a queered future on company time or pushing againstinstitutional norms which bar marginalized groups such as the GRSM community fromengineering institutions.This qualitative study utilizes the stories of four GRSM individuals who are currently or whoused to be pursuing an education/career in STEM. Using aspects of queer theory, Foucauldiananalysis, and revolutionary time, this study aims to answer the following research questions:What is the nature of the GRSM experience with power and privilege within the STEMinstitution? How do GRSM individuals imagine a revolutionary
, exploring the tenets (materials, electrical, and structural) of the BMEprogram at her institution and the career trajectories of BME graduates. When she realized that theBME program’s tenets did not align with her interests, she began considering MechanicalEngineering because she thought the program would provide her with various opportunities as astudent and future engineer aspiring to work in industry. Initially, she thought as a MechanicalEngineering student she would be able to take “classes that would be applicable to BiomedicalEngineering or Biomechanics,” however, later on, she realized later that the MechanicalEngineering program would not have provided flexibility within the plan of study “because of therigor in the mechanical engineering
Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania. He studies nanotribology, nanomechanics, and scanning probes. He is a recipient of the ASME Newkirk Award, a R&D 100 award, and a NSF CAREER Award. He is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the American Physical Society, the Materials Research Society, the AVS, and the Society of Tribologists and Lubrication Engineers. He holds 6 patents and has authored over 190 peer-reviewed publications. Previously, he was a faculty member at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He received his B.Sc. (University of Toronto, 1991) and his Ph.D. (University of California at Berkeley, 1997) in Physics, and was a postdoctoral researcher at Sandia
, "Who's persisting in engineering? A comparative analysis of female and male Asian, black, Hispanic, Native American, and white students," Journal of Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering, vol. 15, no. 2, 2009.[6] Y. Xie and K. A. Shauman, "Women in science: Career processes and outcomes," Social Forces, vol. 82, no. 4, pp. 1669-1671, 2004.[7] S. Hurtado, M. K. Eagan, and B. Hughes, "Priming the pump or the sieve: Institutional contexts and URM STEM degree attainments," in Annual Forum of the Association for Institutional Research, New Orleans, LA, 2012.[8] C. Rodriguez, R. Kirshstein, L. B. Amos, W. Jones, L. Espinosa, and D. Watnick, "Broadening participation in STEM: A call to
their own pace. iGens use the internet a lot andspend time learning on sites such as You-Tube, Wikipedia, and Kahn Academy. They state that90% of online content has been created in the last 2 years so this trend will be growing. iGensconsider education as a means towards their eventual career. Practical experience is importantand 79% of iGens think educational programs should integrate internships. While iGens’ IQ isincreasing, the creativity quotient of this generation has been decreasing since 1990. In a survey,84% of parents and 79% of teachers think there is not enough time allocated in schools todevelop creativity. If students do not get exposed to creativity in elementary and high schools,then creativity will not be there for the
mentoring of undergraduate students and high school students. He has been leading the development of the UTA learning communities and tutoring program for undergraduate and graduate students and has provided space and travel funds to enhance the UTA model. He is an active member of Gulf States Math Alliance and serves on its board of directors and co-organized the annual Gulf States Math Alliance conference in 2017-2020. Currently he is the PI on an NSF Math bridge to doctorate program at UTA. He also serves as a PI on a large UTA USDA-HSI collaboration project on smart agriculture data and mentoring students to research in data science and to pursue agricultural related career. American
pursuing a career in academics, Dr. Barry spent 10-years as a senior geotechnical engineer and project manager on projects through- out the United States. He is a licensed professional engineer in multiple states. Dr. Barry’s areas of research include assessment of professional ethics, teaching and learning in engineering education, non- verbal communication in the classroom, and learning through historical engineering accomplishments. He has authored and co-authored a significant number of journal articles and book chapters on these topics. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Toward Continuous Improvement of the
place during the least eventful summer of our academic careers.” “It allowed me to meet many other women who share the same interests” “It is really fun, but you get to learn as well. It also helps me see what college will be like, so it is a nice transition.” “It really helps you get ahead in terms of knowing your way around campus, coming in with a social group, and being able to take an engineering class ahead of time.” “Applying and completing this program is one of the best decisions I have ever made. Thank you so much for allowing me to have this opportunity.”Why did you participate in the FYSE Program? “I participated in FYSE because I found that it would be a
, examining various experiences and perspectives,and understanding how storytelling can build a sense of community. For these first-year students, they are experiencing this 60-minute program as part of their ENGR102 course - early in their college careers during a time when many crave community-building. When we devised this program in 2019, we saw a need to build morecommunity at our school - and little did we know that this need would be even more ofa priority just a few months later.An RE3 presentation to first-year engineering students in ENGR 102 consists ofabout 60 minutes of story-related activities and story sharing. The content for thepresentation was developed over the summer collaboratively among student trainersand faculty; a template
, service, and career advancement) and provideholistic faculty support in areas such as time management, work-life topics, and well-being [1].From the context of the CTL, the intentional alignment of programs, in which the relationshipsbetween goals and activities of different faculty development programs are considered, helps toidentify strategic approaches to advancing the CTL’s goals. At the same time, from the contextof faculty members, participating in exercises that encourage the consideration of an issue fromboth big picture and granular perspectives and the connections between the factors that impactthe issue can help foster reflection and make visible the role of faculty members in the issue.The objectives of this paper are to 1) present a
program reported greater enhancementof speaking skills, understanding scientific findings, and career goals when compared to their peerswith no research experience [9]. Despite widely cited benefits related to development ofprofessionally relevant skills and retention, the National Academies report notes that there remainsa need for more systematic research into the outcomes of undergraduate research experiences inorder to improve undergraduate training [7]. The report also highlights that much of the researchfindings are associated with 10-week summer programs (e.g. REU programs) and more researchon in-semester research experiences is needed [7].Engineering student clubs represent another common co-curricular mechanism in
illustrates the effect of the ECS-LLC. Those students who lived in the ECS-LLC atsome point in their academic career at Baylor were 37.7% (247) of the combined cohort with a63.7% 6yrEGR compared to the 44.3% 6rEGR of those who never lived in the ECS-LLC. In theECS-LLC group, 22.7% of the students left the university and 23.1% changed their major, but inthe other group, those numbers were 31.8% and 45.2% respectively. (a) (b)Figure 6 – Underrepresented groups and retention to graduation. The combined five yearsof freshmen cohorts from Figure 3 were further sliced into (a) female students and (b)minority students.In figure 6, we split out female and minority students. The 6yrEGR were 50.0% in women
education courses as important to their future careers as engineers. J. Blake Hylton, Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Ohio Northern University, j-hylton@onu.edu
critical that in cluster 2 had mid-level responses to interest, value, instructors and course designers develop flipped classrooms and perceived choice in programming tasks as well as with a specific focus on tying to student interest, identifying mid-level performance on an exam focused on value of the skills learned to future careers, and providing MATLAB programming. All other performance opportunities for student autonomy in the class. By pairing measures were similar between clusters. the flipped classroom with pedagogy linked to interest, value, Cluster 3 was comprised of 98 participants, or and perceived choice, instructors have
and science learning (pp. 331–352). Washington, DC: American Educational Research Association.[3] Settles, I. H. (2004). When multiple identities interfere: the role of identity centrality. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 30(4), 487–500. http://doi.org/10.1177/0146167203261885[4] Jones, B. D., Paretti, M. C., Hein, S. F., & Knott, T. W. (2010). An Analysis of Motivation Constructs with First year Engineering Students: Relationships Among Expectancies, Values, Achievement, and Career Plans. Journal of Engineering Education, 99(4), 319–336. http://doi.org/10.1002/j.2168-9830.2010.tb01066.x[5] Krathwohl. (n.d.). The Logic of Inferential Statistics (p. Chapter 19
instructor noticed a significant improvement in the writing at the last of semesterformal lab report, indicating students incorporated peer recommendations.KeywordsPeer review, engineering lab reports, technical writing.IntroductionPeer review is commonly used in higher education to enhance student learning. It has been reportedby many researchers 1,2 that peer assessment between students provides several benefits to thestudents; peer assessment provides feedback among peers and resembles professional practice, andin university environments also contributes to collaborative learning, that is something that theengineering students will perform in their real-life careers as long life learning skills. Peerassessment requires students to judge one
University.Prof. Nassif E. Rayess, University of Detroit Mercy Nassif Rayess is an associate professor at University of Detroit Mercy (UDM), He teaches design, in- novation and entrepreneurship. He received his Ph.D. from Wayne State University and joined UDM in 2001. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017Using Design Thinking Principles to Develop New Community Centered Engineering Educational Initiatives for High School Students (A Work in Progress)IntroductionThe pathways of a typical high school student towards careers in engineering are fraughtwith obstacles; chief among them is a misconception that engineering is a singularlytechnical pursuit devoid of human interests
c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017Middle school girls as “experts” to elementary students: A coding trial.The objective of this “work is progress” is to allow middle school girls to become the “experts”,rather than the students, in computer science and engineering outreach. The hypothesis is thatleading outreach will cause middle school girls to self-identify in STEM while acting as rolemodels for the younger students. Although the number of women in STEM fields has beensteadily growing, this has not been true in computer science. Over the past 20 years, thepercentage of women earning computer science degrees has decreased from 28% to 18%.i This isa problem not only because these women are missing out on a lucrative career
theirwork but also a broad entrepreneurial mindset with a clear understanding of the societalunderpinnings of engineering decision making and the need to address diversity [12-15].Additionally, the ways in which students can be engaged through the use of online educationalresources, and the corresponding use of online tools to assess student learning, have changed theways in which students can access educational opportunities as well as dramatically altered cost-of-delivery models of education [16].More broadly, data from industry suggests, and have been supported by recent Gallup surveys,that the attitudes, behaviors, and motivations (what one might call “mindsets”) of engineeringgraduates are increasingly important to their future careers
-STEM programs. Program Successes Weaknesses Insights for Future S- Element STEM Program GPA High GPA Difficult for students to Set minimum GPA at Requirement requirement made rebound if they performed 2.5 for Freshman students’ cognizant poorly during any retention and then 2.75 of the importance of particular semester, thereafter. academic especially early in their performance. academic careers (which is a particular problem at a
. Tressa Kay Mikel, University of California, BerkeleyAida Marie MoralesMiss Sanya SehgalDr. Melissa L. Whitson, University of New Haven Associate Professor of Psychology c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 A Three-Year Study of Adult Undergraduate Engineering StudentsAbstract Adult learners belong to a large group of individuals for whom lifelong learning is both adesire and a necessity and for whom career changes are or will be the norm. This topic is notexclusive to engineering, but impacts many STEM professionals. Adult learners also includethose who may have significant family responsibilities, medical issues, work obligations,returning veterans/active service military people, or
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methods for the human sciences. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, Inc.Robinson, W. H., McGee, E. O., Bentley, L. C., Houston II, S. L., & Botchway, P. K. (2016). Addressing negative racial and gendered experiences that discourage academic careers in engineering. Computing in Science and Engineering, 18(2), 29-39.Settles, I. H., Cortina, L. M., Malley, J., & Stewart, A. J. (2006). The climate for women in academic science: The good, the bad, and the changeable. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 30(1), 47-58.Smith, J. M., & Lucena, J. C. (2016). "How do I show them I'm more than a person who lifts heavy things?" The funds of knowledge of low income, first generation engineering students
, facility, and prior experience with programming. Research1 has shownbenefits in using tutorials via mobile and web applications to better engage students and helpthem learn at their own pace and level. The programming platform will be Matlab/Octave2 whichis a programming language initially developed for numerical computations. It is widely usedacross industry and academia and research institutions. Knowledge in Matlab/Octave is requiredin many of the engineering job openings, which makes it a very important technical skill that ourstudents have to master for a successful career as engineers.Knowledge of programming and specifically Matlab is a prerequisite for several classes taught atthe Schools of Engineering around the country and a Matlab
Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Hands-on Entrepreneurial Engineering Management Course and Its Experiential LearningAbstractEntrepreneurial Engineers are educated for the forthcoming economy and market, whereentrepreneurs with technical skills have tremendous opportunities and career options. This newcourse was developed in Spring 2015 and offered in Summer 2015, delivering skills sets inengineering, marketing management, economics and globalization for the 21 century’s state-of-the art Renaissance Engineers and Managers as a faculty-led program in Turkey.The authors strongly believe in experiential learning. Traveling, experiencing, and exploringother cultures helps students grow personally and professionally
results suggest that more instruction on opportunities forprocess and utility water recycling should be incorporated into the Design II curriculum.SummaryLess than a quarter of our students avail themselves of any industrial internship opportunityduring their undergraduate career at TAMUK; an industrial internship is not a requirement in ourundergraduate degree program. Additionally, roughly one half of the students in our chemicalengineering curriculum come from parts of our state where there are numerous refineries andchemical process plants, while the remainder come from nearby areas of our state where there isno refinery or chemical process industry whatsoever. Based on this information, only a smallfraction of our students may have been
Paper ID #22468Work in Progress: A Study of Transparent Assignments and Their Impact onStudents in an Introductory Circuit CourseDr. Jack Ou, California State University, Northridge Jack Ou received the Master Degree in 2001 and the Ph.D. degree in 2005 from Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey. He joined Sonoma State University in 2011 and California State University Northridge in 2015. Prior to starting his teaching career, he held several industry positions at Lucent Technologies, Anadigics, Vitesse Semiconductor, IBM and Lyric Semiconductor. His primary area of research is analog and radio frequency integrated