, goals, and student needs. Some ofthe advising models documented in the literature include the following: (a) learning-centeredadvising approach (focused on connecting purpose of education with curriculum and degree),(b) engagement approach (focused on relationship building between student and advisor), (c)developmental advising approach (focused on student development and growth), (d)prescriptive academic advising approach (focused on checklists towards degree completion), (e)proactive advising approach (focused on students initiating advising meetings and advisorstacking those identified as at academic risk), (f) appreciative advising approach (focused oncreating positive interactions to support growth and academic planning), (g) flipped
disciplines has been achallenge. The Closing the Gaps initiative in Texas was launched in October 2000. This planaimed to close educational gaps within Texas and between Texas and other states by focusing onstudent participation, success, excellence, and research. In this paper we explore a series ofinterventions in a range of engineering and computer science degrees at the University of NorthTexas. The University of North Texas College of Engineering supports admission of all studentsinto the degree of their choice. We explore the enrollment patterns from the pre-pandemic, post-pandemic, new HSI designation, a resulting NSF grant and planning for implementation of theTexas Senate Bill 17 in 2023. We employ an asset framework through creating a range
, and career traineeship inaerospace-centric fields. The streamlined process of recruitment and project-based learning incollaboration with NASA and other aerospace professionals has shown to be effective in trainingthe first cohort of undergraduate and graduate students during the first year of programimplementation.During the summer of 2022, 6 NASA interns and 6 summer Research Experiences forUndergraduate (REU) students participated in the 10-week summer program with professionaldevelopment (PD) program featuring project management, career planning, RCR training,self-reflection, and technical communication. Because research shows that STEM students citepositive mentoring experiences as the most crucial factor in their retention, we developed
graduate degrees in Aerospace Engineering from Georgia Tech (PhD) and Systems Engineering from the University of Virginia (UVa). ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 From website to work environment: Exploring minority undergraduate engineering students’ conceptualizations of engineering careers at national laboratoriesAbstract Within engineering education, there have been rising calls for more research on thetransitional period students face leading up to graduation (e.g., post-graduation planning) andmoving into the next phase of their career. This study seeks to complement existing research byexploring the experience of students as they seek to make sense of engineering career
execution [17].The main characteristic of this stage is that the team develops the working mechanism toeffectively guide their collaborative work with strategies and plans. Continued collaboration thenleads to the fourth stage, Performing. At this stage, all members understand the expertise,position, working style, and personality of everyone to a certain degree. In addition, the teamcould prevent or even harvest from potential conflicts with constructive conversations.Adjourning is the last stage and refers to the period of time when the team disbands or finishesthe project [11-12]. After successful team experiences, teammates share feelings of sadness,express a willingness to work more in the future, recognize and appreciate the importance ofeach
has authored and co-authored several journal and conference publications in topics related to engineering education and course man- agement, design coordination, change management, site layout planning, constructability, claims and disputes, and simulation of design and construction operations.Miss Sarah Samir Sedra, United Arab Emirates university Sarah S. Sedra, a telecommunication engineer currently working at Etisalat UAE as mobile access plan- ning engineer. Worked previously for two years as an low voltage electrical engineer in AECOM middle east. Graduated in 2013 from Communication & electronics department in faculty of engineering Cairo university. After working for almost 4 years now I just started
State University’s 2000-2005 Strategic Plan, which reflected an expanded mission with a focus on research. From itsinitial founding, the ECE department had significant collaborations with local industry and inparticular from two major technology corporations that surrounded it. As the program grew andexpanded, the need for a doctoral program was seen as a natural next step in the progress of theuniversity and critical to serving the needs of local industry.Since this would be the first doctoral program in engineering and only the third at the university,several challenges existed. The first was the high cost associated with such a program, thesecond was resistance to the university in moving from a comprehensive institution to a
techniciansprograms [1]–[3].In its five-year history, KS has also provided technical assistance for developing and submittingproposals to NSF but has engaged 2-year HSIs exclusively. Prior to proposal development, KSfacilitates a STEM self-assessment and strengths/gap heatmap discussion with a cross-departmental STEM team at each participating college [4] [5]. KS then facilitates the 2-year HSISTEM team in developing a STEM plan and prioritized research concepts that align with theCollege Strategy, leverage STEM strengths, and address STEM gaps. This approach by KS hasgenerated a portfolio of potential research funding opportunities for STEM improvements at each2-year HSI prior to proposal development.The approach for the HSI ATE Hub is a 2-step intervention
- tical, access and data products developed by Fujitsu. Rodney was Chairman of the T1X1 Technical Sub-Committee (the organization responsible for SONET standardization) from 1990 through 1994. He has been active in SONET’s National and International Standardization since 1985. In addition, Rodney has published numerous papers and presentations on SONET. Rodney began his career with Fujitsu Network Communications in 1989 as the Director of Strategic Plan- ning. He also held the positions of Director of Transport Product Planning, Vice President of Business Management, Senior Vice President of Sales Management, Senior Vice President of Manufacturing, and c American Society for Engineering
worked extensively in the domain of welding, specifically in the area of weld- ing technology and training. He has a deep appreciation for the importance of the welding field and plan to continue pursuing research projects that benefit the welding community.Ms. Audrey Fyock, Iowa State University Audrey Fyock is a senior in Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering and first year Master of Business Administration student at Iowa State University. This is her first year doing an undergraduate research assistantship with the IMSE Department, where she is studying the impacts of undergraduate research on retention rates and graduate school.Devna Fay Popejoy-Sheriff, Iowa State University Devna Popejoy-Sheriff is
Women < Men Medium Laboratory, Research, and Studio Space Women < Men Eldercare Policies Women < Men Stop the Clock Policies Women < Men Page 26.162.7RIT included an additional question: How satisfied or dissatisfied are you with the quality of the long-range career map/plan that you have created? Of the 404 respondents to this particular question (thisexcludes the 18 who did not respond), 52% of men and 55% of women respondents were very satisfiedor satisfied with the quality of
institution types indicated they had the financial resources they needed to finish college. Yet, on the upside, similar percentages of students indicated they were receptive to financial guidance.5Interestingly, 73% of the surveyed students agreed that they needed to study more than they didlast year. The study suggests that sophomores should not be assumed to have “successfullytransitioned” to college: as a cohort and as individuals they have distinctive needs andexperiences.3 In general, students also realized that they needed to seek tutoring and completetheir education programs. However, only 56% of the students in two-year institutions planned totransfer to another institution or were undecided. In particular the sophomores
plans are as described above;however, what is typically presented to the students at each institution are web pages that containhelpful degree plans for the degrees being pursued. That is, students are generally only vaguelyaware that many different curricula exist for a degree program, and they are likely even less awareof the underlying degree requirements associated with the degree program. The key point is thatwithin each institution, degree plans have been carefully constructed so that if students followthem, they will earn their degrees. Thus, at the bottom of the Community College panel in Figure 1 Community College University AS Program
, industry or government collaboration, and/or travel.Discussion topics will also include process requirements of applying, conducting, anddocumenting the outcomes of the sabbatical.The suggested layout of the panel session is: • 5-minute introduction of panel topic and panelists • Overview of each panelist’s sabbatical activity (5 minutes each) • Brief whole group Q&A session to engage audience and panelists • Small group activities with documentation of Q&A: o What resources did you find helpful in planning your sabbatical? o What was the timeframe of planning, applying for, conducting, and documenting your sabbatical? o What were the requirements of your sabbatical
learningcommunity (FLC) with a local two-year institution to foster a collaborative community andsupport faculty in adopting APEX materials, which included helping them to consider, plan,apply, and reflect on effective practices for integrating computing into their courses. Buildingupon these pilot efforts, we are actively expanding adoption of the APEX program in severalways. First, we have begun holding summer and winter training workshops for faculty at severaladditional community colleges. Second, we are refining and improving the FLC experience aswe initiate new FLCs with these institutional partners. Finally, we will continue to assess theprogram’s efficacy through a research plan that evaluates student and faculty experiences,allowing us to optimize
Paper ID #34459Lessons Learned: College Student Surveys as a Professional DevelopmentToolDr. Dick Apronti, Angelo State University Dick Apronti is an assistant professor at Angelo State University. He teaches transportation engineering courses, engineering graphics, and plane surveying. His research interests are in transportation safety and planning. Dick Apronti also has interests in projects that improve access to higher education and college retention for minorities and under-represented groups. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021Lessons
addition, the SOE along with Science faculty ran a pilot workshop in the fall onways of teaching for diversity and inclusion. This workshop was based on the Bryn MawrCollege Teaching to Increase Diversity and Equity in STEM (TIDES) workshop. To encouragefaculty to attend future workshops on diversity and equity, the SOE had a raffle for staff andfaculty who took the implicit bias tests found at the Harvard site: Project Implicit:https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/takeatest.html.The formal response addressed each of the students’ recommendations. In some cases, wewere able to inform the students of activities already in process of which they were unaware. Inothers, we shared plans to address their issues, and in one case, we had to redirect some
already had a chromebook touse for these sessions. The teacher uses Google classroom. The middle school students werebused from the middle school and had to make up the work they missed.Connecting middle school students with teachers.The two middle school girls were interested in reaching out to the elementary school to sharewhat they were learning in coding in the middle school. After reaching out to the elementaryschool principal, they put together a one page proposal about their ideas. The principal thenconnected them with the elementary enrichment teacher who then connect them with a 4th gradeteacher. They scheduled two planning meetings and together they put a plan together about theactivities that would work best with the students and the
inengineering.In this work-in-progress paper, we describe a design-based research project that explores howstudents adopt positive learning behaviors and dispositions through a course, because positivelearning behaviors and dispositions have been shown to increase persistence through challengesand setbacks4.We have designed a course titled Engineering the Mind as an eight-week, second-half semestercourse that is offered for one semester-hour of credit. We plan to pilot this course in Spring 2017to prepare for the Fall 2017 offering.BackgroundDesign-Based ResearchDesign-based research (DBR) is a research paradigm that attempts to bridge laboratory studieswith complex, instructional intervention studies5. DBR is described as “theoretically-framed,empirical
. Table 2: Selected REU participants’ survey results (in percentage) Year-1 Year-2 Year-3 TotalOverall experience: Excellent/Very Good/Good 67/22/11 64/27/9 55/36/9 64/27/9Interested in going to grad school: 67/33/0 73/18/9 46/54/0 62/35/3increased/same/decreasedInterested in research career: increased/same/decreased 78/22/0 64/27/9 64/36/0 68/29/3Highest degree planned to obtain: 44/56/0 36/55/9 36/64/0 42/55/3increased/same/decreasedAlthough the overall satisfaction/impacts are almost same in the three years, REU participantsthemselves realized significant improvements in different aspects in different
member of the SWE and IEEE WIE. She is currently leading the Women’s Engineering Institute initiative at Embry-Riddle. Page 26.1745.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Women’s Engineering Institute (WEI) at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical UniversityOverviewEmbry-Riddle Aeronautical University’s College of Engineering has initiated a Women’sEngineering Institute, which will be a center of excellence on the Daytona Beach Campus torecruit, retain and serve female engineering undergraduate and graduate students. Part of theCollege’s strategic plan, the
manifests differentlybased on each team member’s positionality.Second, we planned to develop a transformative learning experience for engineering facultycentered around the role Whiteness plays in engineering education to co-construct ways todevelop critical consciousness. Critical consciousness allows an individual to understand theirown world more deeply while enabling them to intervene in their own reality and take actionagainst oppressive elements [6]. Originally, the development, implementation, and assessment ofthis learning experience (Years 2-4) took the form of a faculty development program in which werecruited and grouped engineering faculty from all over the nation. Data collected from thisfaculty development program would have included
-phase research agenda and an education plan. The first phase of theresearch agenda involved developing a conceptual model of student navigation [2] to guide theforthcoming stages of the project. The second research phase consisted of conducting semistructured interviews at one institution to develop an understanding of the role of identity instudent navigation. The final phase of the research agenda, which is upcoming, involvescollecting semi structured interview data from other institutions to develop an understanding ofthe role of context in student navigation. The education plan involves disseminating researchfindings via workshops, as well as developing an SJI to increase alignment between students andpractitioners around the utility of
, project management, process improvement, and culturally sustaining pedagogies. She serves as a co-advisor for National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE) at Western New England University. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 GIFTS: Transforming First-Year Engineering Curriculum with Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Entrepreneurial-Minded Learning Lisa K. Murray Western New England University, Springfield, MA 01119 First Year Program, College of EngineeringAbstractThis Great Ideas For Teaching (and Talking With) Students (GIFTS) paper presents a plan topromote diversity, equity, inclusion (DEI) and
structural panels subject to blast and static loading. Additionally, Timmy has earned the Envision Sustainability Professional Credential (ENV SP) equipping him with a framework that encourages systematic changes in planning, design, and delivery of sustainable civil infrastructure.Alexander Tucker, United States Military AcademyCharles James Richardson Reeves, United States Military AcademyNicholas Ryan Parker, United States Military Academy Nicholas Parker is a Civil Engineering major at the United States Military Academy at West Point. His academic interests revolve around transportation infrastructure and entertainment venue construction. Nicholas is a manager for the Division 1 Army Women’s Softball Team and he is also a
organizations that meet specific thresholds within engineering? What have other organizations used to anoint member institutions that meet a DEI threshold in particular and how else might institutions signal or confirm reaching that bar? How does the ADRP engage with and/or obscure the deepest currents of inequity operating in engineering education? This investigation is important to understand avenues for promoting DEI within postsec- ondary engineering institutions of all kinds, to help ensure that these institutions think critically about what their own campus can/should commit to and how their pledges/plans can disrupt stubborn systems of oppression. It further provides a basis for considering
, statistical analysis, simulation processes, optimization techniques, and risk analysis at the strategic and network management level. Among his research sponsors are the National High- way Cooperative Research Program (NCHRP), Metropolitan Transportation Commission in California (MTC), the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT), the El Paso Metropolitan Planning Organiza- tion (MPO), and the City of El Paso. His academic work is documented in more than 100 publications in peer- reviewed national and international journals, conference proceedings, books, and technical reports. Dr. Chang also serves as the Chair of the ASCE Infrastructure Systems Committee, and Vice President of isMARTI in the U. S Research Coordinator
projects; and conduct complex field and laboratory tests ofengineering materials. …. ... would perform complex and technical activities in support of variousengineering projects and/or pro- gram areas. These activities might include preparing written reportsand cost estimates of materials, supplies and equipment, and developing or reviewing contract plansand specifications. … may super- vise … technicians in such areas as design, construction inspection,surveying, traffic engineering, maintenance, planning, engineering research, and material testing.Additionally, …. may plan and schedule field and laboratory test work, review test reports, anddevelop test equipment and procedures. ….. may also be expected to use various computer applicationsin the
two separateQuality Enhancement Plan (QEP). The MAPS program support initiatives: 1) Transition, academic success, andserves as indoctrination for engineering, engineering professional development coaching, and 2) Specific first-technology, and construction management students to and second-year engineering course Supplementallearn, understand, and establish personal connections to Instruction (SI) selection and funding. The focus of thisacademic success and professional development paper is on the transition, academic success, andstrategies, campus-wide resources, networking professional development coaching component of theopportunities, and organizations. The MAPS program
Certified Six Sigma Black Belt (CSSBB) by The American Society for Quality (ASQ). He is also a certified Quality Management Systems (QMS) Lead Auditor by the International Register of Certificated Auditors (IRCA) in London. He was elected a Fellow by ASQ in 2007. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Using Design of Experiments and the PDSA to improve 3-D Printing in a Senior Quality Course AbstractResearch has shown that project-based learning (PBL) is more engaging than traditional teachingmethods. A proposed PBL method using two cycles of plan-do-study-act (PDSA) coupled withdesign of experiments will be tested as