Paper ID #13957Practicing care in global engineering with underserved communitiesDr. Bhavna Hariharan, Stanford University Bhavna Hariharan is a Social Science Research Associate at the Kozmetsky Global Collaboratory in the School of Humanities and Sciences at Stanford University. Her field of inquiry is Engineering Education Research (EER) with a focus on engineering design for and with underserved communities around the world. For the last nine years, she has worked on designing, implementing and managing environments for interdisciplinary, geographically distributed, collaborative research projects among scholars, and
hierarchical dualisms (e.g. man-woman, mind-body, rational-emotional, culture-nature, technical-social, etc.), I aimed to increase the criticalconsciousness of engineering education and bring awareness to these normative value systems.This paper provides a story of how storytelling methodology saved my sanity, improved myresearch, and led to greater outcomes. Much of the words in the paper are adapted from Chapter3 of my dissertation (Paul, 2024).Prologue: ContextWriting a PhD thesis is a daunting task filled with trepidation, uncertainty, and anxiety. Afteryears of research, reading, data collection, and analysis, somehow this information is to bepresented into a coherent sequence of scholarships that demonstrates enough ‘rigour’ (Riley,2017) to be
Paper ID #43071Sustainability-focused Digital Case Studies: Enhancing Engineering EducationDeepika Ganesh, University of Michigan Deepika is a second year Ph.D. student at the University of Michigan, School for the Environment and Sustainability. She specializes in Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) and is curious about informal education spaces, especially outdoor and digital spaces, and their role in contextual learning environments. Her most recent projects include program evaluation for the Next-Gen Scholars program aimed at first generation and underrepresented masters students in her department, and studying
developing creative data visualizations, it is important to keep in mind bestpractices in accessible design such as using high contrast colors and alt text for digital works.This paper is just a starting point for exploring more compelling data visualizations. More workneeds to be done to develop these for a variety of potential audiences.ConclusionThe presented case studies explore the critical role of creative data visualization in enhancing theunderstanding and impact of various aspects of engineering education. It is important andbeneficial to look beyond traditional data representation methods and towards more innovative,visually appealing, and creative approaches. The first case study addressed the issue of genderdisparity in engineering. Use
leverage theories that speak to the gender-basedracialized experiences of Black students and the racialized nature of institutions. We aim to provideinsight into the institution's role in facilitating thriving for Black engineering students at PWIs.IntroductionThe experience of Black students in engineering programs at predominantly White institutions (PWIs) isrife with inequities in participation and racial stereotypes about ability and competence [1-4]. WhileBlack students navigate their way to success in engineering programs not created with them in mind,they often survive rather than thrive [5-6]. A literature review examining engineering student successfound that success is often defined as a collection of academic competencies that
. Because best practices suggestlimiting course outcomes to six or under [7], [8] it is unrealistic to think that faculty canadequately assess all thirteen learning outcomes for engineering laboratories described in Table3. This report based on responses from faculty supports the notion that not all lab learningoutcomes are equally important and points towards candidates for a focused set of outcomes thatshould be more thoroughly assessed. Departments should be mindful when determining whichlearning outcomes are best-suited for the ChE laboratory courses, with consideration of whichoutcomes translate to ABET criteria as well as which outcomes can be taught and assessed inother courses. While this paper focuses on understanding how faculty perceive
Paper ID #30045The Modalities of Governance in Engineering EducationDr. Atsushi Akera, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Atsushi Akera is Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director in the Department of Science and Technology Studies at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Troy, NY). He received his M.A. and Ph.D. in the History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania. His current research is on the history of engineering education reform in the United States (1945-present). He is a the current Chair of the ASEE Ad Hoc Committee on Interdivisional Cooperation; Chair of the International Network for
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international example to follow.U.S. higher education has had a long history of pursuing engineering expansion. “Every studyof engineering education in this century, beginning with the Wickenden report in the 1920s,directed attention to broadening the engineering curriculum [3, p. 120].” The broadeningincluded the humanities. The president of the National Academy of Engineering wrote, “Don’tbe tempered to crowd the humanities, arts, and social sciences out of the curriculum. Theintegral role of these subjects in U.S. engineering education differentiates us from much of therest of the world. I believe the humanities, arts, and social sciences are essential to the creative,explorative, open-minded environment and spirit necessary to educate the engineer
students presented their rehabilitation devicesand gave them to their clients.The course modules that were intentionally designed to help students engage with their clientsincluded empathic design, disability etiquette, and the ecological model of disability. Thelearning objectives of each module is described below, and authors of this paper will gladly sharespecific module curriculum upon request.Empathic Design Discuss empathy and how it relates to engineering design. Compare and contrast emotional and cognitive empathy. Describe the consequences of only using an analytical state of mind when facing today’s complex design problems.Disability Etiquette Provide examples of using first person disability language. Explain to a
it was definitelystrange to change my mind.” But in her new major, “I really, really like what I am in now andsince I started my new major it’s been doing a lot more science and less computers which wasnever my favorite. …I decided I’m going to law school…” She stated that via environmentallaw she “can make a bigger impact.” She also discussed the she would be graduating a semesterearly (after 3.5 years of college), since her new major required fewer credits. She noted that shewas looking forward to getting to pick her classes in the final semester.Persisting in Original Engineering DisciplinesA large contributor to Tanya’s persistence in EnvE may have been her early mentoringrelationship with an environmental engineering faculty member. The
Paper ID #23558Assessment of a Global Engineering Outreach CourseDr. Randy S. Lewis, Brigham Young University Dr. Randy S. Lewis is professor at Brigham Young University (BYU). He received his B.S. and Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from BYU and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, respectively. He currently serves as chair of the Education and Accreditation Committee of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) and as an ABET commissioner for accrediting engineering programs. He previously served in several national positions of AIChE. His research interests include biomaterials development, engineering
Paper ID #14975Barriers to Broadening Participation in Engineering Competition TeamsRui (Celia) Pan, Toyota Financial Services Dr. Pan is currently working as a sales, product and remarketing analyst at Toyota Financial Services. She received her Ph.D in Engineering Education from Purdue University. She hold a M.S. in Statistics and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering.Dr. Randa L. Shehab, University of Oklahoma Dr. Randa L. Shehab is a professor and the Director of the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Oklahoma. She was recently appointed as Director of the Sooner Engineering Education
Paper ID #11650Diversity in Chemical Engineering Education: Status and PerspectivesDr. Cheryl A Bodnar, University of Pittsburgh Cheryl A. Bodnar, PhD, CTDP is an Assistant Professor (Teaching Track) in the Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering at the Swanson School of Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh. She obtained her certification as a Training and Development Professional (CTDP) from the Canadian Society for Training and Development (CSTD) in 2010, providing her with a solid background in instructional design, facilitation and evaluation. Dr. Bodnar’s research interests relate to the
Briggs Personality Type Inventory. While these two tools provide students with useful insights about their personalities, behaviours and habits of mind, our findings suggest that engineering educators who use these tools with their students would be well advised to discuss them as temporally-contextualized orientations rather than immutable categories. If they can critically examine these two typologies and expose students to multiple ways of influencing, supporting and relating to their colleagues, the next generation of engineers will learn the value and practice of flexibility while opening themselves to qualitatively diverse forms of professional development. 2) If it proves to be the case that female
Scholarship Program continues to support the scholars financially andprovide critical support for their success. With this in mind, three scholars who were in theirthird year had their scholarships extended until graduation, and this was based on their academicperformance and funds available as a result only six of the ten new scholarships were awarded in2012-2013.The engineering majors represented by this cohort were chemical, civil, electrical, mechanicaland petroleum, and they entered LSU as transfer students in the fall 2010 or spring 2011semester. The scholars’ academic performance at selection (i.e. at the end of the spring 2011semester) was on average well above the scholarship criteria, and demographics indicate that theprogram attracted
Paper ID #12534Building a STEM Pathway with Engineering by Design andMs. Laura E. LeMire, The Community College of Baltimore County Upon graduation from the University of Maryland at College Park with her masters in geotechnical en- gineering, Laura went to work for Baltimore Gas and Electric where during her career there she was responsible for substation and transmission line construction projects, relocation and installation of BGE facilities for Oriole Park at Camden Yards and for the Light Rail, and for improving service reliability. After obtaining her MBA, Laura became the Director of Corporate Purchasing and was a
Paper ID #17468Developing Engineering Leaders Using a Reflective Autobiographical Exer-cise ˜ Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyDr. David Nino, David Ni˜no, Ph.D., is a Senior Lecturer in the Bernard M. Gordon-MIT Engineering Leadership Program, where he has a strong commitment to the development of leadership among undergraduates and graduate students across MIT and among engineers, more broadly. In addition to MIT teaching, he is active in an international consortium of engineering leadership centers and a founding officer of the Engineering Leadership Development Division of the American Society of
Paper ID #30606Solution Diversity in Engineering Computing Final ProjectsMs. Sara Willner-Giwerc , Tufts University Sara Willner-Giwerc is a Ph.D. candidate in mechanical engineering at Tufts University. She graduated from Tufts University with a B.S. in mechanical engineering and a double minor in engineering education and engineering management in 2018. She is a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow, which supports her research at the Tufts Center for Engineering Education and Outreach (CEEO) on technological tools, learning experiences, and environments for teaching engineering in classrooms pre-k
minimum required by a standard undergraduate degree (generally120 credit hours), or as the superfluous credits relative to the student’s specific degree program atgraduation [8, 15]. In this paper, we provide a new definition of excess credit hours (introduced byus in [13]) that takes into consideration the applicability(usability) of credits towards the degreerequirements (refer to Section 3). The more commonly used definition of excess credits used sofar in this Section will be referred to as extra credits from here on in this paper. It is clear thatexcess credits are a subset of extra credits. With this in mind, our primary objective in this paperis to explain the extra credit accumulation pattern of undergraduate engineering students
can do that, a child can do that" (Prof. N.-E) Engineering education: More "It's probably only about 20%, the deep technical knowledge, and the than "intellectual" skills rest is kind of being able to make it happen" (Prof. B.-E)Perception of the What for? "higher-order skills, I think, is one of those areas of connectivityintegration because successful engineer and successful artists have to employ critical thinking, they have to identify problems or re-identify problems and questions, they have to be open-minded to solutions
mill. That involved no red tape atall, but also a complete change for me. It’s in an extremely rural area, which I had never lived inbefore. I don’t know. It’s really weird, right? You don’t think of electrical engineering studentsworking in a steel mill, which was scary but also exciting. Since it’s private industry, notgovernment, I would make a lot more money. These two potential jobs were really fighting me,fighting each other in my mind. I was really struggling with the thought that I have to choose whatpath my life is going to take right now, and the choice that I make is going to determine my future,which isn’t something that I really had to do all by myself before. When I was selecting a college,I got input from my parents and friends
Paper ID #15349Increasing Multi-Cultural Awareness in Engineering StudentsMs. Ning Xuan Yip, Purdue University, West Lafayette Ning Xuan Yip is a third year student pursuing Chemical Engineering at Purdue University. She is part of the Leadership Team in the Women In Engineering Mentor and Mentee Pair Program, where she organizes meetings and networking events with a focus on developing relationships between the mentors and mentees. As the Diversity Liaison for the program, she works to increase the multi-cultural awareness of the participants, and to increase the retention of international students within the program
. She is currently working with Dr. Marissa Tsugawa on Neurodiversity Research and Education. She believes that neurodiversity can help her better understand her younger brother’s condition (Asphyxiation) and respond to his basic needs because his mind works differently from everybody else’s due to which he unable to express his feelings and pain.kiana kheiriDr. Marissa A Tsugawa, Utah State University Marissa Tsugawa is an assistant professor at Utah State University focusing on neurodiversity and identity and motivation. She completed her Ph.D. in Engineering Education focusing on motivation and identity for engineering graduate students.Hamid Karimi, Utah State University I completed my Ph.D. in Computer
Paper ID #34949Identifying Signature Pedagogies in a Multidisciplinary EngineeringProgramDr. Kimia Moozeh, University of Toronto Kimia Moozeh has a PhD in Engineering Education from University of Toronto. She received her Hon. B.Sc. in 2013, and her Master’s degree in Chemistry in 2014. Her dissertation explored improving the learning outcomes of undergraduate engineering laboratories by bridging the learning from a larger context to the underlying fundamentals, using digital learning objects.Lisa Romkey, University of Toronto Lisa Romkey serves as Associate Professor, Teaching Stream and Associate Chair, Curriculum
Paper ID #33453Migrator Stories in an Aerospace Engineering ProgramDr. Devayan D. Bir, Loras College Prior to teaching at Loras College, Devayan pursued his doctorate in Aerospace Engineering at Iowa State University and has worked as a Computer Aided Analyst in India. He earned his B.E. in Aeronautical Engineering, and has been passionate about Aerospace Engineering all his life. Hobbies include playing the guitar, soccer, and photography. Research interests include innovative pedagogies (Active, Flipped, and Online instruction) and applied numerical methods. Devayan has published peer reviewed papers, presented at
interviews with faculty, and email exchanges. Supplemented by field notes, a total of60 audio recordings, at least an hour each, were transcribed. A data log provides a summary ofthis data corpus, with data categorized as containing information about various topics (e.g.,assessment, technical writing instruction, learner-centeredness).The research team, composed of a learning scientist, a change management specialist, qualitativeresearchers, graduate assistants, and engineering faculty, individually reviewed the selected data withthe OCBs and Scott’s framework in mind, then met to discuss our interpretations [33]. Thisprocess also enabled the research team to perform member checking to establish trustworthiness ofinterpretations [34].To enhance the
support from role models (extrinsic) were major factors inhelping participants break barriers to engineering. L4 described how concepts didn’t come easyto her, “I just tend to work harder, but I had to work harder because I didn't come this natural tome as it would come to them” (L4). M5 struggled greatly in her calculus course and overcamethat as a barrier, “I started working really hard… I liked putting in hard work and seeing that Ican, I can get smarter and I can learn things if I put my mind to it” (M5). Barriers included thetraditional male dominated STEM classroom. M5 went on to describe challenges in a maledominated classroom that included both high school and her college experience, “I'm kind of lefton my own. I don't really get a
Paper ID #26743Transitioning to Engineering Without Losing Experiential LearningDr. Jeffrey L. Newcomer, Western Washington University Dr. Jeffrey L. Newcomer is a Professor of Manufacturing Engineering and Chair of the Engineering and Design Department at Western Washington University. He received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.Ms. Nikki Larson, Western Washington University After receiving my bachelor degree in Mechanical Engineering from Bradley University, I started working for Boeing. While at Boeing I worked to receive my master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering with an
Paper ID #29336A Review of Agentic Frameworks in Engineering EducationMs. Brianna Shani Benedict, Purdue University Brianna Benedict is a Graduate Research Assistant in the School of Engineering Education at Purdue University. She completed her Bachelor’s and Master’s of Science in Industrial and Systems Engineering at North Carolina Agricultural & Technical State University. Her research interest focuses on interdisci- plinary students’ identity development, belongingness in engineering, and agency.Mrs. Kayla R. Maxey, Purdue University-Main Campus, West Lafayette (College of Engineering) Kayla is a doctoral