engineering design studentsAbstractThis evidence-based practice paper describes the use of creativity practice exercises intended toenhance student creativity in a capstone design program. Engineering programs, in general, andcapstone design programs, in particular, that seek innovative conceptual solutions to complexproblems would benefit from techniques to develop and assess student creativity. Therefore, astudy was performed to evaluate two such techniques. Over the first two years of the study,capstone design students in the United States Air Force Academy’s Department of EngineeringMechanics were each assigned to one of 14 teams which received various learning experiences(treatments) intended to enhance individual creativity and design project
Education,” Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 93, no. 2, pp. 105–115, Apr. 2004.[5] S. Ferguson and R. W. Foley, “Assessment of Student Learning Outcomes and ABET Accreditation: A Pilot Study of Fourth-Year Engineering Students using Longitudinal Concept Maps,” presented at the 2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Columbus, OH, 2019.[6] ABET, “Rationale for Revising Criteria 3 and 5,” 2016. [Online]. Available: http://www.abet.org/accreditation/accreditation-criteria/accreditation-alerts/rationale-for- revising-criteria-3/. [Accessed: 19-Dec-2016].[7] R. W. Foley, L. M. Archambault, A. E. Hale, and H.-K. Dong, “Learning Outcomes in Sustainability Education Among Future Elementary School Teachers,” Journal of
interventions were developed: (i)the use of international engineering case studies ina quantitative analysis course,(ii) the intentional formation of multinational student design teamswithin a capstone design course, (iii) a Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL)research project in a transport phenomena course, and (iv) an engineering course coupled to acommunity-engaged project. The research aims to address the following questions: 1. To what extent can global competence be developed in engineering students through the use of the proposed global engagement interventions? 2. What are the relative strengths of each of the proposed global engagement interventions in developing global engineering competence?For this project, the
at Virginia Tech, his research focused on understanding engineering career choice in the Appalachian region of the United States. Matthew is currently employed as an engineer at Bledsoe Telephone Cooperative, a rural telecommunications service provider in Pikeville Tennessee.Dr. Holly M Matusovich, Virginia Tech Dr. Matusovich is an Assistant Professor and Assistant Department Head for Graduate Programs in Vir- ginia Tech’s Department of Engineering Education. She has her doctorate in Engineering Education and her strengths include qualitative and mixed methods research study design and implementation. She is/was PI/Co-PI on 8 funded research projects including a CAREER grant. She has won several Virginia Tech
populations as well as many technical and non-technicalextracurricular opportunities. The survey will be sent to all undergraduate engineering studentsclassified as sophomores or juniors in the semester of the initial survey administration. The surveywas piloted with a group of undergraduate and graduate engineering students at this university infall 2019 and early spring 2020. The initial survey administration was conducted in spring 2020.Survey Measures. The survey will capture the types and extent of student involvement in variouscategories of extracurricular activities [25]–[27]. Students will select their involvements from alist of types of involvement (e.g., ambassador program, engineering/technical/design, professionalsociety, identity-based
Paper ID #37161Student perspectives on engineering design, decision-making,adaptability, and support in capstone designMs. Shruti Misra, University of Washington I am a graduate student in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Washington, Seattle. My research interest is broadly focused on studying innovation in university-industry partnerships. I am interesting in various ways that universitiesDr. Denise Wilson, University of Washington Denise Wilson is a professor of electrical engineering at the University of Washington, Seattle. Her research interests in engineering education focus on the role of self
of an engineering identity.The work presented here addresses this gap through a sequential, mixed-methods study. Theoverall goal of this study is to construct a grounded theory of engineering leadership as acomponent of the professional formation of undergraduate engineers. Informed by an analysis ofnational data, the grounded theory approach will lead to an explanatory model of engineeringleadership identity development. An initial application of the model will develop and test a seriesof educational interventions, enabling engineering educators to more effectively train engineeringstudents in leadership. In the first phase, existing national data sets of college students are analyzedusing quantitative methods to better understand how
’ Success and Persistence. Journal of Engineering Education. October 2005, pp. 419-425.10. Zhang, G., Anderson, T., Ohland, M., and Thorndyke, B. Identifying Factors Influencing Student Graduation: A Longitudinal, Cross-Institutional Study. Journal of Engineering Education. October 2004, pp. 313-320.11. Seymour, E., Hewitt, N. (1997) Talking about leaving: Why undergraduates leave the sciences. Westview Press.12. Arnet, J. (2004). Emerging Adulthood: The Winding Road from the Late Teens through the Twenties. Oxford University Press.13. Frank, M., Lavy, I., and Elata, D., Implementing the Project-Based Learning Approach in an Academic Engineering Course. Journal of International Journal of Technology and Design
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even parents, should also be aware that young students areable to engage in engineering practices such as evidence-based reasoning. This study also pointsto an important scaffolding tool to help young students build their EBR skills, using the question“Why?”LimitationsThis study followed three classrooms during a pilot implementation of an integrated STEM andliteracy curriculum for Kindergarten students. Teachers were using the curriculum for the firsttime and the curriculum was not in its final state. Classroom 1 did not have the fullimplementation video recorded so may have had additional instances of EBR in the classroom atother times.AcknowledgementsThe material presented is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation
experiences, new types of pressures may impact both students and their families. Toidentify some of the pressures that should be anticipated when introducing a new program, thisexploratory case study focused on the hopes, concerns, and fears of the first cohort of studentsenrolled in the first semester of a pilot program at the Purdue Polytechnic Institute – a new multi-disciplinary, hands-on, competency-based program. Since students do not act in isolation,additional considerations are given to expectations and concerns of their parents, and facultyresponse to those concerns. Students and parents were surveyed, and in-depth interviews wereconducted with both students and faculty. Qualitative and quantitative analyses found that whilethe majority of
of learning from school into professional practice as well as exploring students’ conceptions of diversity and its importance within engineering fields.Ms. Allyson Jo Ironside, Oregon State University Ally Ironside is a recent graduate from LeTourneau University where she studied Water Resources in Civil Engineering. She is currently fusing her technical background with her passion for education in pursuing a doctoral degree in Civil Engineering while conducting research in Engineering Education at Oregon State University. Her research interests include the adoption of teaching best practices in engineering and the personal epistemology development students.Dr. Nathaniel Hunsu, University of Georgia Nathaniel
, many of the existing studiesrely on quantitative surveys so the relative importance of factors are based only on the factorspre-determined to be relevant, i.e., participants can only answer questions about the factors theyare asked about. Because no single framework currently appears sufficient to adequately explainthe unique set of challenges Appalachian students face related to engineering as a career choice,we are embarking on a broader qualitative study of potential factors that draws on known factorsbut also explores potential interactions as well as areas not well accounted for in existingtheories.In light of this goal, this paper focuses on the development of appropriate interview protocols(high school, college and working professionals
Society.Desen Sevi Ozkan, Virginia Tech Desen is a Ph.D. student in Engineering Education at Virginia Tech and holds a B.S. in Chemical Engi- neering from Tufts University.Hannah Claire Strom, Virginia Tech I am currently a Sophomore Undergraduate in Chemical Engineering with an intended Spanish minor at Virginia Tech. I am participating in Undergraduate Research with the Engineering Education department and intend to study Engineering Education in graduate school. I have previously worked as a grader for the Foundations of Engineering Class and assisted teaching Matlab once a week. I also work as a peer mentor for incoming freshman through the Center for Enhancement of Engineering Diversity. I wish to explore more about
classroombelonging, but the more factors evident the greater the likelihood that a student would experiencethe feeling of classroom belonging.5.5 LimitationsThis study suffers from many of the drawbacks of pilot work. The sample size was small,meaning that effect sizes had to be quite large to register as statistically significant. This can beremedied through expansion to a broader base of students and additional institutions. Thesestudents were from only a handful of majors (mostly mechanical and civil engineering) andresults might differ significantly through inclusion of other majors.The engineering identity measure (EI) is new and adapted from Godwin et al.’s (2016)definitional work and has not been qualified as a valid and reliable measurement scale
One uses arithmeticaland algebraic principles to understand sentences as equations with the parts of speech asvariables. Level Two focuses on more complex applications of “sentence algebra” to helpengineering writers troubleshoot common sentence-level errors and develop a clear, discipline-specific style. Level Three uses flowcharts as algorithms to teach the rhetoric behind effectivedocument structures. The system’s quantitative approach and bottom-up paradigm make it user-friendly for engineering students by guiding their ascent toward writing mastery using anapproach already encountered in the students’ studies of math, physics, chemistry, and otherSTEM disciplines. The author is encapsulating this new math-based approach for
be used by instructors across many disciplines as a tool to improvestudent outcomes. In this paper, we explain our module development and course integrationprocesses and share selected results from a pilot integration in an engineering technology courseand a business course. The selected results include counts of awarded micro-credentials andresponses from a student perception survey. The findings will be useful for librarians and othereducators interested in scalable approaches to integrating information literacy content focused onthe university to workplace transition.IntroductionStudents graduating and entering today’s workforce encounter an information literacy (IL)landscape that is much different than the environment they experienced in
particular, the preparatory physics class that is part of the Engineering GoldShirtProgram first-semester curriculum was studied using a practice-research-practice model to drivechange. Multiple factors were used to assess and evaluate the course for continuousimprovement; these include the quantitative performance of students on a nationally normedtest, student qualitative and quantitative feedback from course evaluations, subsequent courseoutcome results, and student focus group and interview feedback. Engineering GoldShirtProgram students engineering identity formation during Summer Bridge was investigated byKnight et. al (2013). Creation of a Pre-Calculus for Engineers course was described by Ennis et.al. (2013) and then “calculus readiness” and
grant to study engineering students’ beliefs about their own intelligence.The purpose of this project is to both study students’ beliefs about intelligence as well as trainnew researchers in the field, including a professor and graduate student with no prior experienceor training in conducting engineering education research.Using a cross-sectional qualitative study, we are trying to answer the following research questionand subquestions:How do undergraduate engineering students characterize their beliefs about the nature ofintelligence?• How do students perceive the nature of their own intelligence? 1• How do student perceptions
climate survey included the climate scale with 50 items for 9 constructs anddemographic items to capture the respondents’ complex social identities. During summer and fall2023, we collected our first pilot study data of 287 doctoral engineering students from 28institutions in the U.S. The exploratory factor analysis (EFA) with the data from 287 engineeringdoctoral students revealed the latent factor structure of the climate scale for eight constructsindicated by 39 items. Internal consistency was good. Based on the EFA results, we planned torevise the items and add new items for the second round of data collection for the second pilotstudy in Year 2. Results from studies using the finalized survey are expected to guide specific policies
Paper ID #18835Designing a Course for Peer Educators in Undergraduate Engineering De-sign CoursesMs. Gina Marie Quan, University of Maryland, College Park Gina Quan is a doctoral candidate in Physics Education Research at the University of Maryland, College Park. She graduated in 2012 with a B.A. in Physics from the University of California, Berkeley. Her research interests include understanding community and identity formation, unpacking students’ relation- ships to design, and cultivating institutional change. Ms. Quan is also a founding member of the Access Network, a research-practice community dedicated to
) has thehighest impact to students’ grade outcomes, retention and graduation rates, as well as their senseof connection, belonging and positive experience in their first year. This complete research paperexamines the quantitative and qualitative impact of intentionally creating small,registration-based cohorts of students to regularly attend SI sessions, implemented at ouruniversity in a first year engineering course in fall 2020. Our results indicate that (as in othersemesters), students who attended SI sessions had statistically significant higher course GPAsthan those who did not attend, but an added benefit was that almost 40% of students in the courseregularly attended SI this fall, compared to previous fall semesters where only 12-22
caring that includes both comfortwith faculty and empathetic faculty understanding from the same author.Discrimination (25 items)Discrimination is an active process that influences belonging in engineering (McGee, 2020). Toaccount for this potential, we adapted and included five items across five different identity-axes(race/ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, (dis)ability, and socioeconomic status) from Bahnsonet al.’s (2022) work on discrimination in engineering graduate student experiences.Comfort and Team Inclusion (19 items)We believe feelings of discrimination and differences in belonging are also seen through students’comfort and inclusion on their team. As such, we included items based on these topics. Like othersabove, these scales
Consortium, host of the annual National Learning Communities Conference. She teaches the first-year seminar within learning communities and provides academic and graduation coaching for a group of students attending the university on state-funded merit scholarships.Dr. Ruth Ann Goldfine, Kennesaw State University Ruth A. Goldfine, PhD, is a tenured Professor and Chair of the Department of First-Year and Transition Studies at Kennesaw State University, a position she has held since 2013. She holds a doctorate in English and has been teaching in higher education for nearly 20 years. Prior to joining Kennesaw State University, Ruth held a position as a Technical Editor at the University of Dayton Research Institute, where
. Freeman, 1983, pp. 75-146.[6] J. S. Eccles, “Subjective task value and the Eccles et al. model of achievement-related choices,” in Handbook of Competence and Motivation, A. J. Elliot and C. S. Dweck, Eds. New York, NY: The Guilford Press, 2005, pp. 105-121.[7] J. S. Eccles, “Families, schools, and developing achievement-related motivations and engagement, in Handbook of Socialization: Theory and Research, J. E. Grusec and P. O. Hastings, Eds. New York, NY: The Guilford Press, 2007, pp. 665-691.[8] L. Hirsch, J. Carpinelli, H. Kimmel, A. Perna, and K. Narh, “Measuring the impact of undergraduate research programs on engineering students' attitudes toward graduate studies,” in Proceedings of the American
Innovative Intervention to Infuse Diversity and Inclusion in a Statics CourseAbstractEngineering educators strive to prepare their students for success in the engineering workforce.Increasingly, many career paths will require engineering graduates to work in multidisciplinaryteams with individuals possessing a diversity of skill sets, backgrounds, and identities. Therefore,it is important not only for future engineers to have the opportunity to work in teams as students,but also to have specific instruction that teaches them about teamwork skills and the valuediversity and inclusion bring to engineering practice. Furthermore, it is important that thisinstruction occurs throughout their engineering coursework, giving
. In future studies, a more qualitative researchapproach will be taken to complement the quantitative data in an effort to identify those criticalprogrammatic elements that impact URM students’ interest and self-efficacy in engineering ininformal learning environments. Moreover, we aim to explore the longitudinal impact of this typeof program on students’ decisions to pursue engineering studies. Moving forward, there are plansto use the knowledge gained from this study to update and package the lesson plans and activitiesdeveloped in the design course for broader implementation in other STEM-related programs.References1. PCAST. 2012. Engage to excel: producing one million additional college graduates with degrees in science, technology
Engineering Education, 2024 Exploring the Relationships between Artistic Creativity and Innovation Attitudes in Engineering StudentsAbstractThis research explored potential relationships between the innovation self-efficacy (ISE) ofengineering students and their artistic creativity and life experiences revealed on an ice-breakerassignment. In a community-building assignment, students were directed to introduce themselvesthrough cartoon monster drawings that communicated various personal attributes (such as thenumber of languages they speak, and the number of states visited). Previous research has foundthat multicultural experiences can shape feelings of self-efficacy concerning innovation andcreativity. This pilot study was
Computing Diversity Conference, Crystal City, VA, April 2018.[19] B. A. Pedersen, R. A. Hensel, S. A. Raisa, R. A. Atadero, A. A. Casper, R. R. DeLyser, C. D. Griffin, S. T. Leutenegger, M. L. Morris, C. Paguyo, J. Paul, S. Park, K. E. Rambo-Hernandez, and B. N. Roszelle, “Leveraging changes in engineering and computer science curricula to engender inclusive professional identities in students,” in Proceedings of the 2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference, July 2021.[20] C. Finelli and M. Kendall-Brown, “Using an interactive theater sketch to improve students’ perceptions about and ability to function on diverse teams,” in Proceedings of the 2009 Annual ASEE Conference and Exposition, Austin, TX, June 2009.[21] M. Kaplan, C. E. Cook
excellence. One of the signature programs offered is the “Academic ExcellenceWorkshop” (AEW). This program is offered as a one-credit pass/fail course for students in theirfirst and second years in the College and has met with varying levels of success, as measured bystudent performance, feedback on student surveys, and faculty perceptions of their effectiveness.Approximately 100 AEW courses are offered throughout the academic year for mathematicscourses (pre-Calculus through Calculus III) and select engineering classes. Students register forAEWs that correspond to the particular mathematics and/or engineering course(s) in which theyare enrolled. Because Syracuse University students pay block tuition, there is no financialdisincentive to enrolling