programs. However, after admission, the problem ofretention becomes salient for underrepresented minority groups (URMs) in academia 1 . As youngBlack engineers continue to enter advanced graduate studies, it becomes important to examine thefactors that impact how they enter and ultimately decide to leave the institution. In this work, weused the autoethnographic method to share our experiences and illustrate the issues faced by BlackPhD students at elite research institutions. We relate our experiences chronologically starting withthe expectations from peers once arriving on campus, moving into the expectation of solving auniversity’s equity problems, and ending with the mental burdens of coping with an unhealthywork environment. All of these
postsecondary campuses, instructional development programs are typically offered by theteaching and learning centres of universities and colleges. These campus-wide programs, alongwith engineering-specific programs, are usually available to faculty members and graduatestudents in engineering. Possible structures of these programs can be workshops, courses, andseminar series; consulting, mentoring, and partnering arrangements’ learning communities; andteaching certification programs [6]. Other professional development activities for teachingimprovement include reading literature, or writing an article or chapter on teaching, learning orassessment, and attending an engineering education conference [7]. These efforts were found tobe positively related to
science.Background on science, technology and society continues with Warren’s11 “fruit bowl” approachto ecofeminist ethics, discussing how we discern appropriate ethics approaches for problems weface, and with Johnson and Wetmore’s3 plea to include considerations of science and technologystudies in engineering ethics. McCutchen’s exposé of conflicts of interest in peer review12 andGeiger’s history of military backing of science and engineering research at universities13completes the background unit.The first topical unit revolves around the theme of “technology and control,” drawing onexamples from military14-16, information17-20, reproductive21-23, and environmental24,25technologies. The potential for rich discussion abounds here, as students delve into
for patterns and trends. 6. Constructing explanations and designing solutions: Engage students in creating explanations of data, observations, and predictions to support their hypotheses and conclusions. Moreover, have students examine their design solutions vis-à-vis criteria and constraints, assess design trade-offs, and perform design refinement. 7. Engaging in argument from evidence: Have students engage with one-another in exchange of their explanations of a scientific phenomenon or design solution while gracefully accepting peer feedback. Such an interaction, where arguments are based on evidence and strengthened through peer feedback, can enable students to identify superior
-centered computing, and interdisciplinary research methods for studying cognition. I have written 140 articles on these topics, including over 80 peer-reviewed scholarly publica- tions. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 From toys to tools: UAVs in middle school engineering education (RTP, Diversity)AbstractWe have developed, implemented, and studied a 16-week, afterschool engineering programaimed at low-income middle school youth. The curriculum is based on Unmanned AerialVehicles (UAV/Drones), which participating youth must use and modify as appropriate toconduct a range of scientific investigations, culminating in the aerial survey of a mock
Paper ID #16796Promoting School Earthquake Safety through a Classroom Education Grass-roots ApproachDr. Lelli Van Den Einde, University of California, San Diego Van Den Einde is a Teaching Professor in Structural Engineering at UC San Diego. She incorporates education innovations into courses (Peer Instruction, Project-based learning), prepares next generation faculty, advises student organizations, hears cases of academic misconduct, is responsible for ABET, and is committed to fostering a supportive environment for diverse students. Her research focuses on engagement strategies for large classrooms and developing K-16
Paper ID #11657”Leaning In” by Leaving the Lab: Building Graduate Community throughFacilitated Book DiscussionsDr. Katy Luchini-Colbry, Michigan State University Katy Luchini-Colbry is the Director for Graduate Initiatives at the College of Engineering at Michigan State University, where she completed degrees in political theory and computer science. A recipient of a NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, she earned Ph.D. and M.S.E. in computer science and engineering from the University of Michigan. She has published more than two dozen peer-reviewed works related to her interests in educational technology and enhancing
, in mathematical modeling activities, the kind of detail infeedback that offers a better learning experience is still not well understood16. The prerequisitefor understanding the nature of effective feedback is to understand how students perceive andrespond to various types of feedback they are provided. The feedback TAs and peers provide andthe way students respond to it when revising their solutions capture important data aboutstudents’ thinking processes. In the literature, these thinking processes have been revealedmostly through an analysis of documented works, such as written feedback and studentsolutions15,17. However, such approaches do not reveal the whole story of students’ interactionswith feedback. The purpose of this study is to
holds an M.S. in Astronomy and Astrophysics and a B.S. in Astronomy and Meteorology from Kyungpook National University, South Korea. Her work centers on elementary, secondary, and postsecondary engineering education research as a psychometrician, data analyst, and program evaluator with research interests in spatial ability, STEAM education, workplace climate, and research synthesis with a particular focus on meta-analysis. She has developed, validated, revised, and copyrighted several instruments beneficial for STEM education research and practice. Dr. Yoon has authored more than 80 peer-reviewed journal articles and conference proceedings and served as a journal reviewer in engineering education, STEM education
draw upon theirLinguistic, Familial, and Social Capitals more readily when compared to non-First-Generationstudents (see Table 5). The understanding and belief that First-Generation students possessunique cultural resources to their peers are evident in many other additional studies [Verdin &Godwin, 2015] and our survey results suggest these differences are emergent in the Linguisticand Familial capitals they possess and leverage.First-Generation students readily draw upon their Linguistic Capital assets as it relates to having(and sensing importance) to speak or write about engineering in more than one language (ItemsB and H). Moreover, First-Generation students tend to agree that it is necessary to speak or writeabout engineering in more
teachdesign methodology and to enable the students to practice and improve teamwork skills”.16 Sothe “cornerstone to capstone” model can work for some institutions.In addition, engineering learning spaces are also being built to support undergraduateengineering education, sometimes specifically for first year engineering students. At theUniversity of South Australia, a large new learning space called “Experience 1 Studio” opened in2009 to help students adapt to university life, develop peer networks, benefit from collaborativelearning and engage with their studies.19 In fact, this learning space was shown to help studentstransition to college, especially women and minorities. At Yale University, the new Center forEngineering Innovation and Design was
nowavailable throughout senior design for students to hone their oral communication skills. Studentspresent their projects to a broad range of audiences, including high school students, peers,alumni, and industry. At the end of the semester, all students deliver a final oral presentationjudged by a diverse panel of evaluators.B.2.b. Industry support for other professional topicsWhile the IAB strongly believes in the importance of effective communication skills, industryvolunteers have stepped forward to share with students their personal passions and expertise inother areas of professionalism.Implementing a test plan – A representative from a prominent local company helps students bycoaching and evaluating them on how to write an effective test plan
(Science, Technology, Engineering andMathematics) learning. Students participate in teams organized as “virtual companies” thatdevelop products or services as they engage in long-term projects with a STEM focus. HSE teamprojects are STEM-based but involve students from various backgrounds and interests. HSEteams are coached by specially-trained high school teachers called “teacher-coaches.”Teams have access to real-world expertise and mentoring from professionals in academia andindustry. HSE teams write business plans, solve real-world problems, perform testing andanalyses, build prototypes, manufacture parts, operate within budgets, and manage their projects.Each spring, HSE teams showcase their work alongside college students at
between the TFAs and theirassigned teams. However, the class met as an entity a couple of times during the year to coverthe following topics: Course Administration, Documentation and Record Keeping; The DesignProcess; Leadership; Quality Functional Deployment (QFD); Scheduling, Gantt Charts andWork Breakdown Structures; Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA); Proposal Writing;Specifications Writing; and Ethics. Each lecture topic included an associated assignment.Senior design is considered a writing-intensive course and as such, several significant writingassignments were expected. These included individual monthly status reports, a letter of intent,monthly team status reports, a design proposal, and a final design project report
ago recognized the limitation of the lecture model: "The commonest error of the giftedscholar, inexperienced in teaching, is to expect pupils to know what they have been told. Buttelling is not teaching." 2A number of instructional strategies are currently being practiced and promoted in highereducation as a means of overcoming this limitation. They include (but are not limited to)cooperative learning,3, 4, 5 case teaching,6,7 classroom assessment,8 and writing across the c Throughout the paper, we use faculty participants’ full names followed by the reference number for the Page 7.145.2website ( 1) when quoting
this case provided by the NASA Space Grant.The student is living minority status in three dimensions (3D) as being a woman, a first-generation college student, and a Native American studying engineering.It is fascinating to analyze how one’s environment and experiences influence their resiliency.Data will be collected on her readiness for an academic career along measures including but notlimited to understanding of the research process, skills in academic writing, self-efficacy, andcompetence in oral presentation. The case study will explore her story. What experiences shapedher determination and brought her to this level, and what benefit did she gain from NASA Spacegrant? The goal is that sharing her story will encourage others to believe
communications for the Depart- ment of Civil & Environmental Engineering and the Department of Chemical Engineering. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Utah in Rhetoric and Writing Studies and an M.A. in English from Montana State University. His research focuses on land management policy in two discrete areas. The first relates to civil infrastructure projects and landscape-scale impacts on habitat, community resilience, and long- term land use planning; the second involves the utilization, conservation, and management of big game wildlife resources. For the past five years he has led various transdisciplinary teaching and research projects examining land and wildlife resource management conflicts vis-`a-vis
AC 2012-4192: SCAFFOLDING AND ASSESSING PROFESSIONAL DE-SIGN SKILLS USING AN ACTIVE-LEARNING STUDIO-STYLE CLASS-ROOMJamie Lynn Brugnano, Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering, Purdue University Jamie Brugnano is a Ph.D candidate in the Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering at Purdue Uni- versity. Her doctoral research is focused on intracellular drug delivery of peptide-based therapeutics for inflammatory applications. She earned her B.S. in biology from Harvey Mudd College. Her research inter- ests include tissue engineering, regenerative medicine, drug delivery, and effective techniques to improve biomedical engineering education. She has six peer-reviewed publications and is committed to mentoring and
. First, we conducted anexhaustive review of the literature on Millennial students, and identified three strikingcharacteristics of Millennial students (i.e., their preferences for collaborating with peers,connecting with one another, and creating for social change). Second, we followed up thisliterature review by reporting survey and focus group data collected from the select sample ofengineering graduate students. Specifically, the survey includes demographic information aboutthe cohort including birth year, gender, race/ethnicity, and semesters of teaching experience. In Page 15.948.2addition, we asked participants in the study to reflect on
research interests and ac- tivities center on gaining a better understanding of the process-structure-property-performance relations of structural materials through advanced multiscale theoretical framework and integrated computational and experimental methods. To date, Dr. Liu has published nearly 250 peer reviewed publications, includ- ing more than 130 peer reviewed journal articles, and received 2 patents. He has been the PI and co-PI for over 40 research projects funded by NSF, DOD, DOE, NASA, FAA, Louisiana Board of Regents, and industry with a total amount over $15.5M. Dr. Liu has served on review panels for many NSF, DOD, NASA, and DOE programs. Dr. Liu received the Junior Faculty Researcher of the Year of the
not appear to weigh it as an absolute sine qua non for a favorable tenure decision.Another takeaway is that many schools may still be evolving their criteria, as several suggest thatthere are no specific written guidelines, and yet a predominant culture of what constitutessufficient scholarly productivity exists.Herewith their comments:Schools not requiring grant activity: 1) I typically can give up to ~$25K in start up funding (from Academic Affairs), and can also help acquire specialized equipment that is necessary for their research that does not count against their start up (from School of Engineering funds). . . Grant writing is strongly encouraged, but not required for us. . . For tenure, they must be excellent
was as good(87.8%), if not better, than other students (77.6%). However, under-represented minorities(65.4%) and first-generation students (64.7%) did not fare as well. A number of studies havedemonstrated that first generation students, in particular, face some unique challenges [2]–[5].These students can lack the cultural capital their continuing peers have including the skills andknowledge to build social networks with their academic peers and the ability to tap institutionresources.These observations have encouraged us to consider implementing changes to our freshman levelcourses that can support the development of social networking skills and encourage theidentification and use of resources such as faculty and graduate teaching assistant
throughout our state’s counties. Weestablished a relationship with 4-H youth development, specifically curriculum developers andSTEM specialists, to start sharing existing lesson plans and resources with their agents and clubs.For example, we became very involved with an energy-based summer program that had beenrunning for over twenty-five years, even to the point of traveling the state during 2021 to take thesummer program to different counties. We also started working with 4-H to write grants, andwere awarded a grant from the Office of Naval Research for workforce development thatexpands existing outreach programs to Western TN.This grant is one of several grants, both internal and external, that we received after we started towork synergistically
○ è 6. Collaborate with peers ○ è 7. Use simulation software ○␣ ○ 8. Create simulations ○␣ ○ ○: Represented è: Partially represented ○␣: Not represented Table 1: Comparison of learning goals for traditional and virtual laboratories.Just as models and simulation are not meant to replace physical prototypes in industry, virtuallabs should not replace physical labs. They serve complementary purposes: the physical labsassist students in connecting the mathematical concepts to reality, and virtual labs help studentsconnect mathematical concepts
class period.Adopting the CW in the Context of Existing Trajectories of Practice.Both Al and Joe had promoted active learning in their pre-pandemic, pre-CW practice. Theiradoption of the CW was part of their trajectories of instructional practice, taken up to servespecific goals. Al used simulation activities and assigned one or two multiple choice conceptquestions during class, polling using “ABCD cards” and using a form of peer instruction (Mazur,1997). His goal was to uncover and support students’ conceptual thinking. This practice providedan easy entry point for Al’s use of the CW; he simply substituted the tool’s ConcepTests andpolling features for his previous method. The tool’s affordance for adding and using studentwritten explanations
Disabilities Quarterly, Teaching Exceptional Children,andIntervention School and Clinic. She is committed to collaborative grant writing and is the co-principal investigator of literacy projects funded by the National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences. A former special education teacher, Amber has taught in Iowa, Arizona, and Florida, and was a post-doctoral associate at Collaboration for Effective Educator Development, Accountability and Reform (CEEDAR Center) and clinical assistant professor within the College of Education at University of Florida. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered
introduced to a variety of campus resources, including Shah Center for Engineering career development, Library, Learning Enhancement Center, Writing Center, and Counseling Services. Students thus had the opportunity to learn more about campus resources, connect with their peers, and faculty and staff from the HC as well as the College of Engineering, and upper-class students from their programs. As the semester progressed, COF-IMPRESS-C scholars were encouraged to attend several other professional development opportunity and virtual community event held by HC. Dale Carnegie Training: COF-IMPRESS-C scholars were also invited to participate in Dale Carnegie training sessions, a program initiated by the college of engineering and in
design prototypes, but do not serve as an instructor or the course.Some 360 Coaches are instructors for our first-year design course and others are technicalmentors for design teams in the first-year design course, while the remainder are not involved inthe first-year design course.ImplementationOur 360 Coaching program places every first-year engineering student in a cohort of 12-14 peerswith layered support to mentor them and guide them to broader university support whenwarranted – a 360 Coach, an academic dean, and an E-Team (Engineering Team) peer mentor –helpful humans to serve as guides to university life. To support their roles as whole-studentmentors and advisors, every 360 Coach and E-Teamer (E-Team peer mentor) in the layeredsupport
higher education, have explicitlyshown how Asian American students differ from their peers, engineering education researchshould continue to follow this trend. When Asian Americans are disaggregated by subgroups, wesee differences in outcomes of classroom engagement [6], which could help educators addresscultural differences in the classroom. Future research should continue to include and highlightdifferences between various ethnic groups in engineering rather than assume Asian American asa singular group which most of the articles we found do.The vast majority of the 138 papers that appeared in the initial search results did not meet at leasttwo of the inclusion/exclusion criteria, despite the term “Asian American students” in eithertheir
limited number of Graduate Research Assistantships, International Research Programs, Peer Mentoring, Professional Development Institute, Weekly Research Presentations, Global CUNY Conference. Ongoing Program Components - Collaborative Infrastructure, Institutionalized Workshop Instruction in Gatekeeper courses, Research AssistantshipsWhile in Phase I, the Learning Centers formed the hub of the activities for the NYC LSAMPproviding tutoring in STEM courses and workshops for the restructured gatekeeper courses, theACs did not require a STEM background and were full time positions at each campus. Initiallyfocused on the operation of the STEM Learning Centers across the LSAMP in Phase I (1992-1997), the role was institutionalized and changed to