and transgender (LGBT) individuals in U.S.workplaces often face disadvantages in pay, promotion, and workplace experiences.1-7 It is stilllegal in many states to fire LGBT persons due to sexual identity or gender expression.8 Recentscholarship on the experiences of LGBT students and professionals suggests that thesedisadvantages may be particularly pernicious within science and engineering-related fields, giventhe patterns of heteronormativity and heterosexism documented therein.9-12 LGBT faculty inscience, technology, engineering and math (STEM)-related departments face harassment anddiscrimination, marginalization, and chilly departmental and classroom climates.10 In a study oftwo NASA centers, furthermore, LGBT professionals encountered
. Training scholars tothink and work across disciplinary boundaries can enhance disaster preparation and management,which, in turn, can enhance disaster resilience, especially in vulnerable locations and forvulnerable populations. To that end, we have embarked on a cross-university collaboration thatbrings together scholars in engineering and science with expertise in natural hazards modelingand characterization, scholars in urban planning and policy with expertise in the social impactsof disasters (e.g. housing, economy) as well as in community engagement, and scholars inbusiness information technology with expertise in supply chain management that considers howsupplies are allocated and distributed before and after disasters. The disproportionate
student assessment. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Work In Progress: Factors Influencing Career Choice and Success in Undergraduate Biomedical Engineering StudentsIntroductionThe field of biomedical engineering (BME) has witnessed significant growth in recent years,driven by advances in technology and a growing emphasis on healthcare innovation. This growthhas led to a large range of post-graduation career paths for BME undergraduates includingmedical and professional school, graduate school, and direct employment as engineers in themedtech, biotech, and healthcare industries [1]. Much of the literature on career choice andmotivations of these students focuses on their plans at
. He received his B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Washington in 2012 and his PhD in Chemical Engineering from Stanford University in 2018. He later completed postdoctoral work at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Now, at UW, his research is focused on using ultrathin films and coatings to tackle challenges in energy, water, sustainability, and semiconductor processing.Nicole Minkoff, University of WashingtonDr. Alexis N Prybutok, University of Washington Alex Prybutok (she/her) is an Assistant Teaching Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Washington. She earned her B.S. in Chemical Engineering and her B.S. in Biochemistry from the University of Texas
promising practices in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) undergraduate education,” Board of Science Education, National Research Council, The National Academies, Washington, DC, 2008.[19] M. Lazerson, U. Wagener, and N. Shumanis, “What Makes a Revolution? Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 1980–2000,” Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, vol. 32, no. 3, pp. 12–19, May 2000, doi: 10.1080/00091380009601731.[20] D. J. Therriault, E. P. Douglas, E. Buten, E. A. L. Bates, and J. A. Magruder Waisome, “Characterization of Problem Types in Engineering Textbooks,” presented at the ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, 2022. doi: 10.18260/1-2--40557.[21] E. J. Theobald et al., “Active learning
) Work as a member of a team (5) Identify technology that meets the engineering Design a product that meets the engineering and and economic requirements defined by the economic requirements defined by the marketplace marketplace (2) (2, 6) Design a development program to enable and Determine a logical sequence of interconnected unit validate a design (2) operations to produce the product designed, with consideration of global, cultural, economic, and public health factors (2) Assess the economic impact of a product and its
Paper ID #36924Virtual or Face-To-Face Learning Mode: Is That the Question?Dr. Ghada M. Gad, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona Dr. Ghada Gad is an Assistant Professor in Construction Engineering at Cal Poly Pomona. She received her PhD in Civil Engineering (Construction emphasis), from Iowa State University. Her main areas of research is in construction management focusing on conDr. Monica Palomo, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona Professor B.S. Civil Engineering, University of Guanajuato, Gto, Mexico, December 1999. M.S. Civil Engineering, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, May 2003
This site was selected based on its isolated location and ability to reduce dependence on fossil fuels for energy. • Scenario E: Sustainably Fueled Jet Engine, Etihad Airways, Abu Dhabi, UAE (Internal Flow) o This airline was selected because of their initiative to get to zero emissions. • Scenario F: Water Filtration, Zulal Water Technology, Tripoli, Libya (Internal Flow) o This site was selected because of the difficulty of getting clean water. • Scenario G: Mars Drone, SENER Aerospace, Tres Cantos, Spain (External Flow) o This company was selected because of their work on a current Mars drone. D G
Paper ID #34794The Role of All-Female STEM Spaces in Encouraging High School Girls toPursue STEM (Fundamental, Diversity)Dr. Mariel Kolker, Morris School District Dr. Mariel Kolker is a second-career teacher of high school physics, engineering and nanoscience. She earned her B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Rutgers University, and her MBA in Finance from Ford- ham’s Gabelli Graduate School of Business, and worked for a decade in the Power Generation, Trans- mission & Distribution Industry before entering teaching in 2000. She earned her Ed.D. in Educational Leadership in STEM from UMass Lowell. Her interests are in
attending outreach events to engage citizen scientists across the Salt Lake City valley.Dr. Kerry Kelly, University of Utah Dr. Kerry Kelly is a professional engineer, an Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering and Associate Director of the Program for Air Quality, Health, and Society at the University of Utah. She has a PhD in Environmental Engineering and a BS in Chemical Engineering, and she just completed 8 years of service on Utah’s Air Quality Board. Her research focuses on air quality and the evaluation of emerging energy technologies including consideration of their associated health, environmental, policy and performance issues. Most recently she has been focusing on combustion particles, their associated
, technology, engineering, and mathematics(STEM). Plentiful prior studies [1], [2], [3], [4], [5], and [6] documented positive impacts ofsuch efforts using exit interviews. This paper evaluates a STEM-oriented summer programdesigned for high school students and examines the effectiveness of its educational instruments,using an opening survey, an end-of-program survey, and an alumni survey. Activities of highimpacts identified by this study can be used by other similar outreach programs that aim toincrease high school students' interests in STEM. The National Summer Transportation Institute (NSTI) program is one of the FederalHighway Administration’s (FHWA) educational initiatives. It is "to increase awareness andstimulate interest in
member at Grand Valley State University, he is working to develop and improve the freshman design courses.Dr. Karl Brakora, Grand Valley State University Karl Brakora is an assistant professor at Grand Valley State University and an engineer for BT Engineer- ing. He has worked on conformal vapor-phase deposited EMI/HPM shields for circuit board, lightweight composite aircraft enclosures for HEMP/HPM, and non-GPS positioning systems and techniques. Pre- viously, he was lead RF engineer for EMAG Technologies Inc. in Ann Arbor, Michigan from 2007 to 2014. There he worked to develop innovative technologies in the area of compact, low-cost phase arrays, high-speed signal acquisition and processing for radar command
Paper ID #42337Optimizing Co-Teaching Strategies for Success in a Neuroinclusive LargeMechanics of Materials ClassDr. Sarira Motaref, University of Connecticut Sarira Motaref is a Professor in residence in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Connecticut. She is a licensed Professional Engineer in the State of Connecticut. She received her PhD in 2011 from the University of Nevada, Reno. She has been teaching junior and senior-level design courses, as well as several large-enrollment classes. Sarira is currently serving as Assistant Director of Faculty Development at the School of
education. He has extensive international experience working on technical training and engineering projects funded by the Asian Development Bank, World Bank, and U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). Countries where he has worked include Armenia, Bangladesh, Bulgaria, China, Egypt, Indonesia, Macedonia, Poland, Romania, and Thailand. In addition, he has taught undergraduate and graduate courses in engineering education for the department. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Gender Differences with Regards to Interest in STEM (Evaluation)IntroductionIn an era of reform, Science, and Technology. Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) educationis a hot topic in
curriculum development. She is passionate about hands-on engineering design for every student, at every age level.Dr. Janet Y. Tsai, University of Colorado, Boulder Janet Y. Tsai is a researcher and instructor in the College of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Colorado Boulder. Her research focuses on ways to encourage more students, especially women and those from nontraditional demographic groups, to pursue interests in the eld of engineering. Janet assists in recruitment and retention efforts locally, nationally, and internationally, hoping to broaden the image of engineering, science, and technology to include new forms of communication and problem solving for emerging grand challenges. A second
Paper ID #15236Exploring Interdisciplinary Design in Relation to Workplace Success andCampus CommunityDr. Lisa M. Del Torto, Northwestern University Lisa Del Torto is an Assistant Professor of Instruction in the Bobbie & Stanton Cook Family Writing Program at Northwestern University. She teaches and coordinates Northwestern’s first-year design course, Design Thinking & Communication, a collaboration between the Cook Family Writing Program and the McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science. Del Torto completed her PhD and MA in Linguistics at the University of Michigan and her BA in Linguistics and Spanish
Paper ID #29660Problem Reframing and Empathy Manifestation in the Innovation ProcessMrs. Eunhye Kim, Purdue University-Main Campus, West Lafayette (College of Engineering) Eunhye Kim is a Ph.D. student and research assistant in the School of Engineering Education at Pur- due University. Her research interests lie in engineering design education, engineering students’ social processes (shared cognition and group emotion) in interdisciplinary design and innovation projects. She earned a B.S. in Electronics Engineering and an M.B.A. in South Korea and worked as a hardware devel- opment engineer and an IT strategic planner
Arabian students working on team projects in engineering/ technology courses at a U.S. institution found “encompassing effects of language deficiencies,lack of understanding of the local culture, difficulties adjusting to a mixed gender environment,neo-racism, and incompatibilities in the held values” [24].Cultural differences are likely to impact how students work in teams, including their preferencesand style. Two widely used cultural comparison systems are Hofstede’s [25] and the GlobalLeadership and Organizational Behavior Effectiveness (GLOBE) system [26]. Hofstededeveloped a 6-dimension system to characterize national culture on a 0 to 100 scale [25], whilethe GLOBE project has 9 dimensions on a 1 to 7 scale [26]. The GLOBE system
complexity and scale of the types of problems engineers solve[1]. Students’capability of working effectively in engineering teams is cognizant among employers in industrywho seek to hire new talent into their organizations [2]–[4]. One of the Accreditation Board forEngineering and Technology (ABET) student outcome criteria is to have the ability to functioneffectively in high performing teams. This requires universities to better prepare students withteamwork skills and to incorporate teamwork as an important part of engineering curriculum [5]In today’s world of engineering, companies are shifting towards working in larger team sizes dueto the complexity of solving engineering problems [6]–[8]. Engineering programs need to findways to effectively
/10.1207/S15327965PLI1104_01Doerschuk, P., Bahrim, C., Daniel, J., Kruger, J., Mann, J., & Martin, C. (2016). Closing the Gaps and Filling the STEM Pipeline: A Multidisciplinary Approach. Journal of Science Education and Technology, 25(4), 682–695. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10956-016-9622-8Jeffers Andrew T., Safferman Angela G., & Safferman Steven I. (2004). Understanding K–12 Engineering Outreach Programs. Journal of Professional Issues in Engineering Education and Practice, 130(2), 95–108. https://doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)1052- 3928(2004)130:2(95)Lave, J., & Wenger, E. (1991). Situated Learning: Legitimate peripheral participation. Cambridge University Press.Moos, R. H. (1980). Evaluating
animportant driver for promoting critical thinking. Introduction of student outcomes by TheAccreditation Board on Engineering and Technology (ABET) has expanded the opportunities foraddressing critical thinking in engineering curricula. In particular, this has opened the option toexpand the default definitions of critical thinking beyond calculative rationality and analyticalstrategies to include broader forms of reasoning, such as reasoning about values, assumptions,biases, and the broader social and global role of engineers and the designs engineers produce.Practitioners and scholars of liberation debate many aspects of the applied and theoreticalmaterial and, yet, many also share a particular contention: theories and models of liberationfollow
counter force. We know abstractly that reformtakes effort, but we found that we needed to focus and prioritize the basic act of speaking up inorder to balance out our ingrained cultural resistance to it.AcknowledgementsThis material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No.1519467. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in thismaterial are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National ScienceFoundation.References[1] The President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, “Engage to Excel: Producing one million additional college graduates with degrees in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics,” 2012.[2] National
education: Understanding the status and improving the prospects. 2009.[3] National Academy of Engineering, Changing the conversation: Messages for improving public understanding of engineering. Washington, DC: National Academies Press, 2008.[4] Ş. Yaşar, D. Baker, S. Robinson-Kurpius, S. Krause, and C. Roberts, “Development of a survey to assess K-12 teachers’ perceptions of engineers and familiarity with teaching design, engineering, and technology,” J. Eng. Educ., vol. 95, no. 3, pp. 205–216, 2006.[5] E. J. Marti and E. Kaya, “Assessing high school science teachers’ nature of engineering (NOE) perceptions with an open-ended NOE instrument (fundamental),” in ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, 2018.[6] A. L
not surpass the scores of their counterparts in20094. When the results were disaggregated by state, 2015 and 2017 math and science scores forNYS 4th graders decreased from 2009; NYS math and science scores for 8th graders seemedunchanged5.Given these results, there is potential for improvement. The Engineering Ambassadors workedwith students in Grades 6 -12 with the hope that middle and high school students could develop apositive attitude toward math and science, anchors of the STEM program. The Ambassadorsadded the engineering component to math and science learning through hands-on activities andincorporated technological enhancements - for full STEM implementation.The Ambassador program was designed around characteristics of middle
clusters, one of which is clean energy. Inone state, this is due in part to the 2008 Global Warming Solutions Act (GWSA), whichmandates that greenhouse gases be reduced in the state to 25% below 1990 levels by 2020, and80% by 2050 [1]. To address the growing need for investment in job creation, a privateuniversity, an urban high school, and an industry partner collaborated to create a program forhigh schoolers to instill excitement in this growing field. Specifically, this program addressesthe increasing need for a diverse and highly skilled STEM (Science, Technology, Engineeringand Math) workforce with a focus on Clean Energy. The program was designed to: ● Offer an introductory engineering design course which used project-based learning
experience. Over time a JOULE energy seminar series(JOULE) was added to elevate intellectual engagement in for trainees in The OhioState EmPOWERment Program and broaden their engagement with researchersacross this university. This paper investigates the development and accentuationof innovation capacities of Ph.D. trainees in The Ohio State EmPOWERmentProgram relative to other Ph.D. students who enrolled in science, technology,engineering, and math (STEM) disciplines at Ohio State and did not participate inthe Ohio State EmPOWERment Program. This work considers three differentconstructs for each of three scales (i.e., Interpersonal, Intrapersonal, Cognitive).Of the nine different constructs, six pass assumption tests and pre-test scores
, Science and Technology, vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 197-214, 2019.[5] S. Claro, D. Paunesku, and C.S. Dweck, “Growth mindset tempers the effects of poverty onacademic achievement,” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 113, no. 31, pp.8664-8668, 2016.[6] J. Rhee, C. Johnson, and C.M. Oyamot, “Preliminary findings using growth mindset andbelonging interventions in a freshman engineering class,” ASEE Conferences, 2017.[7] M. Tavakol, and R. Dennick, “Making sense of Cronbach's alpha,” International journal ofmedical education, vol. 2, pp. 53-55, 2011.[8] E. Blackwell, and P. Pinder P, “What are the motivational factors of first-generation minoritycollege students who overcome their family histories to pursue higher education
Paper ID #29373Work in Progress: California Challenges in STEM Energy Education throughHuman-Centered Design Process: A Cooperative Adaptive-Learning Approachto Academic Success for Underserved StudentsProf. Abbas Ghassemi, University of California, Merced Dr. Ghassemi is a Professor Emeritus of Chemical Engineering and is currently a faculty of Civil and Envi- ronmental Engineering at the University of California Merced. He serves as the Editor-in-Chief for Energy Sources, Part A: Recovery, Utilization, and Environmental Effects Journal. https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/ueso20/current . His area of expertise and interest
Paper ID #25105The Influence of Modeling on Science Self-efficacy among Middle School Stu-dentsDr. Cara N. Morton, Washington State University Cara has three years of structural engineering design experience and has been teaching civil engineering classes since 2014 at Washington State University. Her breadth of design ranges from waterfront structures in the Gulf of Mexico to seven story concrete buildings governed by seismic loads in Seattle, WA. She is pursuing material science related research regarding durable materials for construction. Currently, she serves as Clinical Professor at Washington State University
of Engineering Education Conference. 2013.16. Chandrasekaran, S., Stojcevski, A., Littlefair, G., Joordens, M. A Comparative Study of Staff Perspectives on Design Based Learning in Engineering Education. 2014.17. Chandrasekaran, S., Stojcevski, A., Littlefair, G., Joordens, M. Accreditation inspired project oriented design based learning curriculum for engineering education. in International Engineering and Technology Education Conference 2013. University of Technical Education, Ho Chi Minh City, 2013.18. Chandrasekaran, S., Stojcevski, A., Littlefair, G., Joordens, M. Project-oriented design-based learning: aligning students’ views with industry needs. International journal of engineering education, 2013, 29(5): p. 1109