Paper ID #38149Work in Progress: An Early Analysis of How LanguageCultivates Inclusive Engineering Culture for Black Students,Faculty, and StaffKarin Jensen Karin Jensen, Ph.D. is a Teaching Associate Professor in bioengineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Her research interests include student mental health and wellness, engineering student career pathways, and engagement of engineering faculty in engineering education research. She was awarded a CAREER award from the National Science Foundation for her research on undergraduate mental health in engineering programs. Before joining UIUC she
Paper ID #38251Cybersecurity for Everybody - A Multi-Tier Approach toCyber Security Education, Training, and Awareness in theUndergraduate CurriculumNikunja Swain (Professor and Chair) © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.com Cybersecurity for Everybody - A Multi-Tier Approach to Cyber Security Education, Training, and Awareness in the Undergraduate Curriculum.AbstractAlmost every career encompasses some form of security and today’s students must be introduced tovarious aspects of security to be effective in their career and daily lives. South Carolina State University(SC
Paper ID #35859A practical method for improving Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion inNuclear ScienceMr. Jim Olson, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute After a twenty year Engineering career inventing and operating advanced technology in various private sector and military environments, Jim Olson returned to Academia to formalize and publish the methods and best practices he developed while mentoring and training Early Career individuals in the practical application of STEM concepts. Jim’s research if Engineering Education centric and he is currently pursing a Doctorate of Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy
undergraduate cohort in engineeringtechnology majors. PPA provides a supportive college environment, empowersstudents with the resources to succeed academically and professionally, increasesfaculty awareness, provides the participants with positive role models, and creates anopen and inclusive community within the departments. The program elements havethe potential to enhance the diversity and inclusion of all underrepresented groups inengineering and computing professions. 3PPA is funded by the Strengthening Career and Technical Education for the 21stCentury (Perkins V) Act. The program was launched in Spring 2015 and has operatedon a budget of about $100,000. The
engineering profession. This Work inProgress paper describes research being done as part of an NSF-funded project, WritingAssignment Tutor Training in STEM (WATTS). The method is designed to improve feedbackwriting tutors without technical backgrounds give to engineering students on technical reports.Students in engineering programs have few opportunities to develop their writing skills. Usually,composition courses are part of the general education curriculum. Students often see thesecourses as unrelated to their majors and careers [2]. Ideally, writing support should be integratedthroughout a program. Since WATTs capitalizes on existing resources and requires only amodest amount of faculty time, it could enable engineering programs to provide
ofEngineering Success (AcES) was founded in 2012 for non-calculus ready first-time freshman(FTF) engineering students. AcES consists of a week of activities prior to the fall semester and asemester-long course in academic success and professional development, where students buildprofessional networks and improve their success skills through team activities, field trips, mathreviews, projects, academic success workshops, and career exploration. AcES charged a nominalapplication fee, but program specific scholarships were provided to remove the financial barrierfor underrepresented students such as low-income, women, underrepresented minorities (URM),and first-generation. AcES faced significant recruitment challenges due to the institutionalrecruitment
”, “Diversity Efforts” and “Faculty Endowed Recognition” awards. Her career spans local and international borders and have included roles in educational research, program administration, higher education accreditation and K-12 teaching. Dr Benjamin's research agenda explores issues related to minoritized student experiences, doctoral-level program quality, and engineering education. She is constantly envisioning novel ways to promote educational equity and consistently applies an educational quality lens to her scholarship.Kristin L Schaefer (PhD Student) Kristin Luthringer Schaefer is a licensed professional engineer (PE) and a licensed secondary teacher (grades 6-12), both in Texas, as well as the owner of her own
their experiences in some levels of detail so thatwe get to see how the grant changed the life and career of some very deserving Students.2. RMSE program The importance of mechatronics as a relevant and vital area of expertise has become widelyacknowledged by both academia and industry, as was stated in [4]. In the same article, it waseven suggested that perhaps all mechanical engineers should be mechatronic engineers. Theauthor of another article with the attention-getting but perhaps overstated title “The end of theM.E.?” [5] has, in a similar vein, implied that the traditional Mechanical Engineering programneeds to be revitalized. That jobs based on just the use of these traditional skills are more likelyto be outsourced is a directly
explores the experiences of early-career Black engineers and engineering students engaged in leadership. She received her B.S. in Industrial Engineering from the University of Pittsburgh and her M.S. in Human Systems Engineering from Arizona State University. Before starting her graduate studies, she worked in industry in operations as a manager. Katreena is committed to justice, equity, diversity, and inclusivity and hopes that her work will impact the culture and environment of the engineering education ecosystem. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.com “Is This Good For Me?": Exploring the Experiences of Black
impact of thecultural backgrounds on early-career engineering faculty members’ perceptions andunderstanding of creativity and (2) the selection of creativity-fostering methods in instruction.The use of “(inter)national” within the title of this essay is intended to represent two ways ofcomparing and contrasting: (1) faculty that were born in the same continent or similar culture,which is expressed through emphasizing the prefix inter- within parentheses, as well as (2)faculty living and working in a country different from their country (or culture) ofupbringing, expressed through the term international. Our research questions include:⚫ How do early-career engineering faculty members’ perceptions of creativity vary across their
related to what was covered in class that day. The thirdquestion was consistent week-to-week and served as a general means to collect broad feedbackand insight from students. Both the second and third questions were short answer, meaning thatresponses were typically a sentence or two long. The data being used from these surveys comesfrom the second question of the exit surveys from six weeks of class wherein students wereasked to reflect on the semester project. The six specific questions can be found below: 1. Have you ever made a connection between the musical instrument project and your experiences with engineering and other engineering coursework? If so, what? (Week 6) 2. Would you consider an engineering career in the arts? Did you
Paper ID #38229Parental perspectives: Examining caregiver experiences andperceptions of growth and learning within an out-of-schoolelementary engineering programPeter N. Knox (Doctoral Candidate) Postdoctoral Fellow University of VermontKelli Paul Dr. Kelli Paul is a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Research on Learning and Technology at Indiana University where her research focuses on the development of STEM interests, identity, and career aspirations in children and adolescents.Jungsun Kim (Research Scientist)Jing YangSawsan WerfelliAmber Simpson (Assistant Professor) Amber Simpson is a Assistant
as how the payment will take place, when it will take place,types of credits, roles of the banks involved, etc. Program and Course DesignThis ongoing collaborative project started on October 2020. Figure 1 shows the overall structuredesign of this collaborative project. First, entry level course modules are developed, and will be usedin current freshman introduction to engineering and business courses to increase students’ awarenesson standards. Second, an interdisciplinary undergraduate minor program on supply chainmanagement (SCM) and logistics standards has been created with an aim to improve undergraduatestudents’ career readiness. At last, an interdisciplinary graduate certificate program will
/Country) do you call home? 3 4. Do you have a particular engineering industry that you are already focused on? No big deal if not as we will explore career options during the semester. Just let me know. 5. When you begin your career (post-college), do you have a particular location around the planet where you would like to be working? 6. How well-versed are you in all things about this university? Grew up in a university family, or new to all the traditions and lore? Just trying to understand the audience here. 7. What are some concerns and fears that you have about the semester ahead? 8. What are some passions that you are bringing to your engineering career? 9. What level of
Paper ID #36073Modeling of Electric Vehicle Charging Effects on Existing GridInfrastructureDr. Tony Lee Kerzmann, University of Pittsburgh Dr. Tony Kerzmann’s higher education background began with a Bachelor of Arts in Physics from Duquesne University, as well as a Bachelor’s, Master’s, and PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Pittsburgh. After graduation, Dr. Kerzmann began his career as an assistant professor of Mechanical Engineering at Robert Morris University which afforded him the opportunity to research, teach, and advise in numerous engineering roles. He served as the mechanical coordinator for
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Prior to graduate studies, Erica joined Teach for America and taught high school chemistry in Las Vegas. While her primary research involves water and wastewater, she has strong interests in engineering education research, teacher professional development, and secondary STEM education. In 2021, Erica received the ASEE Pacific Southwest Early Career Teaching Award and two awards at UNLV for mentoring undergraduate and graduate students. She also received the Peter J. Bosscher Outstanding Faculty Advisor Award in 2019 from Engineers Without Borders and was recognized as a Nevada Woman in STEM by Senator Jackie Rosen.Cory Budischak, Temple University Cory is a teacher and researcher who
. Broadly categorized, students’understandings of success related to career preparation and opportunities—an expected theme forthose in technical degree programs, happiness or enjoyment in life, and living a life of purpose—what some might call “the good life.” Edwin’s response to our questions related to successreveals such understandings of success are not necessarily exclusive: “To me, [success] meansbeing able to fulfill your own personal purpose, while at the same time, enjoying it and making agood living out of it, I would say. That’d be success.”Though student participation in specific majors clearly shapes notions of success, students’insistence that the profitability of a future career is not the only—and sometimes not even theprimary
this pedagogical practice is implemented on first-year engineering students, it will have a significantimpact on their ability to organize, streamline and communicate an idea, provide a quick overview of aproject, or even showcase their academic and professional accomplishments through a resume, coverletter, elevator pitch and other persuasive technical documents. From their freshmen year, they willdevelop confidence to write and present simply, concisely, accurately, and coherently. This skill willcarry on with them in their future careers, aiding them in successful articulation of ideas, technicalinformation, and research to a global audience.
forthe Bridge students and their parents/guardians/siblings. Bridge instructors and college anduniversity administrators are invited. Meritorious Bridge student scholastic performances arerecognized in various categoriesE-Portfolio: The students will be coached in using an E-Portfolio system to document theirexperiences. Each student will prepare and upload a reflective essay documenting theirprofessional career aspirations and its relationship to the college education.Collaborative Courses: These are intended to support learning in Calculus and Physics, thehistoric 'weed-out' courses for engineers and are attended by all selected Bridge students. TheSCLC courses meet twice a week for 2 hours in addition to the regular Calculus or Physicscourse
-integrated learning experiences andteaching material through collaborative and digitally supported STEMlabs. In the following,we present the reasoning behind the project, its organizational and methodological approach,as well as the first phases of establishing virtual STEMlabs in the Northern region of Denmark.We discuss preliminary findings, potentials, and challenges related to the ongoing developmentof regional collaborative learning communities for teachers across disciplinary and institutionalboundaries to facilitate change and diversity in the local K-12 system and support pre-collegestudents’ interest in engineering and STEM-related educations and career paths, in particularwomen and minorities.The LabSTEM North projectTo identify crucial
Powered by www.slayte.com An Empirical Study of Programming Languages Specified in Engineering Job PostingsAbstractAdvancements in information technology have driven a demand for computer literacy and agrowing need for engineers to develop computer programming skills. Given the shift in demandfor these skills in engineering, educators must assess the learning outcomes of current curriculaand the selection of programming language utilized to develop students’ foundational knowledgeof programming in order to prepare students for their future careers. One way to approach thiscourse content decision is to teach based on industry needs. The purpose of this study was toidentify the programming languages desired by
)IntroductionThe diversity of the U.S. population is changing with predictions indicating that by 2050 therewill be no “majority race.” Already, Latino and Black communities make up 30% of thecountry’s population [1]. However, this current level of diversity is not reflected in the STEMfields. In engineering, there has only been a small increase in Hispanic graduates from 8.5% in2011 to 11.9% in 2019 and almost no increase in Black graduates (4.2% to 4.3%). Over 50% ofthe engineering graduates nationwide continue to be White [2]. Increasing diversity in STEM isrequired to solve important problems faced by society through a wider array of solutions [3].Unfortunately, Black, Latino, and Indigenous youth often close the door to STEM careers earlyin their
between teams. This work is incredibly important for thecompany, but doesn’t count much toward individual career progress. According to productivity logics, this is actually how it is supposed to work. Media studiesscholar Melissa Gregg [1], in her analysis of self-help literature, points out that people seekingcareer success are encouraged to identify the types of work that are most important and eliminatenon-essential tasks or delegate them to others. The small team leader is doing what he knows isnecessary for his own career progress. The central tension in this story, however, arrives whenwe consider those to whom the non-essential tasks are delegated, the ability of those individualsto resist or otherwise exercise agency in response, and
amateur radio license in 1975.Mr. Chuck Clayton Bland, Cal Poly, SLO Electrical Engineering Department Prof. Chuck Bland graduated from the Cal Poly electrical Engineering Department in 1982 to start a career with Motorola Solutions implementing Public Safety Communications systems. Thirty-five years later he returned to Cal Poly as a Lecturer in the Electrical Engineering Department. Chuck is a long time member and supporter of the Cal Poly Amateur Radio club. He and his wife Darla have two kids and a granddaughter.Mr. Marcel Stieber, Cal Poly Amateur Radio Club Marcel Stieber is an Electrical Engineering alumnus of California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo. He was a former President and is current
invite engineering educators to carefullyexamine how temporality might matter when considering the connections between previouslyconducted studies with their own ongoing projects. Our survey also asked students to provide anexample of unethical behavior in engineering and possible ethical problems they anticipate intheir future careers. Finally, we asked students to list three most important values for defining agood engineer. Such a question on professional ethical values responds to a gap in theengineering ethics literature, namely, that engineering students’ perceptions of professionalvirtues and values are not sufficiently addressed (especially among first-year students). Thispaper is part of a larger project that compares how students
assignments with lower stakes were duethroughout the week: a reading/lecture quiz, a survey to submit questions, and a shortenedhomework assignment. Finally, we changed some content near the end of the course to allowstudents to connect the course to their own career aspirations, which we expect can aid in long-term retention. Specifically, students chose among several possible topics to cover in the finalweeks, covered via typical pre-recorded lectures and reading, and also guest lectures. They wrotean abstract-length reflection on how they could use what they learned in this course later in theircareers. Overall, students remained engaged with the course throughout the semester andprovided favorable comments and evaluations of the course, including
) and desired personal characteristics for the graduatestudents (e.g., critical thinking, problem-solving approach, data preparation, analytics, andpresentation). The contributions from the advisory board were the driving force for the newdirection and strategy for the graduate program. Industry professionals suggested and inputsfrom the board were successfully incorporated.A study by Stelyn (2019) suggested the perception of students played an important role in thestructure for the new course providing a learning experience. The student feedback and studentfocus group were used in generating new course structure, operations, and the course impact fortheir career. Student evaluations of teaching and learning and student suggestions on
autistic adults often have difficulty joining or remaining in theSTEM workforce [5]. With the goal of creating maker programming to enable autistic youth toengage in the EDP with peers and to prepare autistic youth for future careers, a multidisciplinaryteam created the Inventing, Designing, and Engineering for All Students (IDEAS) MakerProgram. IDEAS brings together experts in maker education, autism inclusion, engineering,co-design, and research to bring interest-driven maker clubs into autism-inclusion public schoolsin New York City. The following paper describes the ways in which IDEAS supports autisticlearners in both in-person and online formats, and how IDEAS teachers responded to adversityby redesigning the curriculum for remote learning
divided among fourresearch mentors.WorkshopsAs part of the Research Scholars Program, the following workshops were developed to introducestudents to different aspects of research: 1. Formulating Your Research Vision 2. Submission & Review Process 3. Getting Your Paper Noticed 4. Academic vs. Industry Research 5. Research Next Steps: Building into Grad School and/or Entrepreneurship 6. Promoting Undergraduate Research on Your ResumeThe first workshop is aimed towards students just starting on their research journey while most ofthe other workshops are aimed at showing students how they can use their research experience toadvance their academic and professional careers. The workshops are organized and hosted by theauthors with guest
students from both programs, a focus on anintroduction to digital logic has superseded the goal of learning the fundamentals of electronics.PurposeThe purpose of this qualitative work-in-progress is to explore the development of a DE coursethat utilizes ubiquitous, affordable, and accessible, tools and practices to provide students with anauthentic, hands-on approach to learning and are applicable and relatable to students’ academicinterests and future career plans.Course BackgroundOne section of DE with 20-24 students is offered each semester and is taught by the sameinstructor. The course typically consists of an even mix of CST and ET students. Prerequisitesfor the course include Finite Mathematics or demonstrated equivalent competencies