-college)-level with a goal of pursuing an engineering major never make it to that200-level. In contrast to the 200-level experience, students earlier in their academic path aremore diffuse in 100-level math, physics, and chemistry courses that also serve other STEMmajors and include no direct instruction on how course content is relevant to their career goals.Opportunities to build community around engineering are up to individual students to seek out inextra-curricular opportunities such as student clubs. This challenge is amplified for most WCCengineering students who must complete 10-20 credits of prerequisite math and physicscoursework before credits apply toward their eventual Bachelor of Science degree.Table 1 illustrates the differential
forentrepreneurship and innovation. Although studies have analyzed how students perceive this typeof training, few of them have unveiled its influence on behaviors and career goals. The formativeuse of the assessment instruments employed is limited, so more efforts are needed to evaluateentrepreneurial training towards its continuous improvement. This article proposes a methodologyto involve students in curriculum evaluation so they become partners in curriculum delivery andteaching practices. To explore its benefits, we applied it on a Major focused on engineering design,entrepreneurship and innovation. During classroom sessions of three Major courses, a form wasused to generate individual reflections and collective discussions about course methods
“rigid classroom dynamics.” This resonates with another respondent’s descriptionof AB Engineering Studies classes as “more collaborative” than BS engineering. (Although thiswas a common observation, a single respondent felt that BS classes had “more camaraderie” thanAB classes.) Another response described the effect of different classroom styles on the student:“In BS classes, my thinking was myopic, and I was focused on simply absorbing the curriculum.In AB classes, I felt much more curious and open-minded.”Each of these responses related to an aspect of the “Faculty/Classes in Engineering Studies,”suggesting that a strength of the program is its faculty members and the classroom environmentsand experiences they facilitate. One aspect of this
faculty mentoring policy. Prior to working at MSU, she held full time positions at Northeastern University, Boston College, and National Geographic Society. McDaniels has over twenty years of experience in graduate student and faculty de- velopment, undergraduate and graduate teaching and learning and organizational change. She has had the pleasure of doing research and consulting domestically and internationally.. McDaniels holds degrees from Michigan State University (Ph.D.), Boston College (M.A.), and University of Michigan (B.A.). c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Equity, Inclusion and Ethics: Adapting a Mentoring Curriculum to Develop an Ethics Workshop for
towards thehighest level of quality within research projects. This paper presents the approach of how auniversity team (professor and graduate students) collaborated with the National Society of BlackEngineers (NSBE) to conduct a longitudinal analysis of a summer engineering program fundedthrough an Early CAREER faculty award from the National Science Foundation’s EngineeringEducation Broadening Participation (BPE) program. According to the literature, there is a greatneed for longitudinal analysis of STEM outreach programs, especially informal ones, and supportstudents from historically excluded backgrounds. This paper contributes to the academia-non-profit partnership literature within the context of longitudinal studies by mapping out the
their own decisions or courses of action(i.e., where the stakes and tradeoffs are real to the learner). As one author describes it, theseapproaches “[allow] students to draw on their own experiences…to create a focal point andmeaning around abstract ethical concepts” [19, p. 1390].While the literature on experiential learning in engineering ethics has grown substantially inrecent years, extensions of this strategy into the realm of engineering leadership education iscomparatively rarer in published research. Our development of The Mystery Lab, therefore,leverages an opportunity to explore how the strengths of an experiential approach to ethicsinstruction can be applied not just to personal decision making, but to the collective behaviors
implications across time and within ict studies. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 80(2):486 – 499, 2012. ISSN 0001-8791. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvb.2011.08.005. URL http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0001879111001126.[13] R. A. Ash, J. L. Rosenbloom, L. Coder, and B. Dupont. Personality characteristics of established IT professionals I: Big Five personality characteristics. IGI Global, Hershey, PA, 2006. pp. 983?989.[14] Nicole Zarrett, Oksana Malanchuk, Pamela Davis-Kean, and Jacquelynne Eccles. Examining the gender gap in it by race: Young adults decisions to pursue an it career. Women and information technology: Research on underrepresentation, pages 55–88, 02 2006.[15] S. Katz, J. Aronis, D. Allbritton
College, Columbia University. Her BA is also from Columbia.Dr. Mia K. Markey, The University of Texas at Austin Dr. Mia K. Markey is a Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Engineering Foundation Endowed Faculty Fellow in Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin as well as Adjunct Professor of Imaging Physics at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. A 1994 graduate of the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy, Dr. Markey earned her B.S. in computational biology (1998) from Carnegie Mellon University and her Ph.D. in biomedical engineering (2002), along with a certificate in bioinformatics, from Duke University. The mission of Dr. Markey’s Biomedical Informatics Lab is to develop decision
student and faculty affairs. They additionally initiated a pilot faculty launch programin 2017 to provide support and guidance to junior faculty launching their career at JHU, withdepartments prioritizing the hiring of URM or women faculty members. Finally, in 2019, the Tandon School of Engineering at New York University (NYU)formed an Inclusion @ Tandon committee that created the college’s first strategic plan forInclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Belonging (IDBE). This committee includes a facultyrepresentative from each department to lead the departmental IDBE plans. In 2020, Tandonlaunched its Office of Inclusive Excellence (OIE) and hired four Inclusion Officers to coordinateDEI efforts in the Tandon School, which includes one officer
shaping and supportingstudents’ group-learning experiences.6 While faculty practices are important in all group-learningapproaches, they can be particularly important for supporting under-represented students, whooften experience marginalization in such settings. Both faculty and peers can marginalizeindividual students in a variety of ways, including through assignment of work tasks, validationof work tasks, validation of ideas or perspectives, and the nature of the group task itself.First, at the onset of an activity, task assignment biases can often result from unconsciousexpectations about who may be more (or less) suited to certain tasks.7, 8 While each team isdifferent, with a different set of identities and personalities, there is also
by President Obama as a Champion of Change for Women in STEM, and participates in a number of diversity-enhancement programs at the university including serving as the Deputy Chair of the Women’s Commission and as a member of the ADA Task Force.Miss Catherine McGough, Clemson University Catherine McGough is currently a graduate research assistant in Engineering and Science Education at Clemson University. She obtained her B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Clemson University in 2014. Her research interests are in undergraduate engineering student motivations and undergraduate engineer- ing problem solving skill development and strategies.Joseph Murphy, Clemson University Joseph Murphy is a Fall 2018 graduate of
curriculum expert and a learning sciences researcher investigating learning, cognition and knowing in authentic practices. She is currently an Associate Professor in the area of Curriculum Studies at the Faculty of Education in Western University in Canada.Jingyi Liu, Nanyang Technological University Jingyi Liu is a master’s student at the National Institute of Education (NIE) at Nanyang Technological University (NTU). She is presently working on STEM+C educational-focused projects in Dr. Yeter’s Research Team at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. With a background in educational studies, Jingyi Liu brings a unique perspective to the role of technology in education, leveraging her expertise to explore
testing of a new assessment instrumentthat was designed to evaluate the dispositions of engineering faculty members regardingparticular classroom strategies. The instrument, named the Value, Expectancy, and Cost ofTesting Educational Reforms Survey (VECTERS), was designed to assess attitudes regardingspecific student-centered classroom strategies and to collect self-reported use of those classroomstrategies. The desire to develop this instrument emanated from the project evaluation of anNSF-funded Improving Undergraduate Science Education (IUSE) project at a large college ofengineering in the southwestern United States.The IUSE project provides professional development for pairs of faculty members from multipleengineering disciplines (e.g
challenging but also presented lots of opportunities for personal growthand cross-cultural learning.This transition into an engineering education program involved immersing myself in the newly developedengineering education field. It was very different to what I had done as an engineer or what I had studiedin college. I had to attend very small classes, with a lot of discussions, in a foreign language. I facedseveral challenges as an international student, but they made me more resilient, I developedproblem-solving abilities and I learned to find different people for different types of mentorships andadvice I needed during that time.After completing my PhD in engineering education, I became a faculty member in a smaller engineeringeducation
affective factors vary among college undergraduates?,” in Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education 2019 Pacific Southwest Meeting, 2019, pp. 1–13.[19] C. Striolo, M. Pollock, and A. Godwin, “Staying or leaving: contributing factors for U.K. engineering students’ decisions to pursue careers in engineering industry,” Eur. J. Eng. Educ., pp. 1–25, Jan. 2020.[20] T. Humphries-Smith and C. Hunt, “An exploration of progression rates of widening participation students on to an integrated master of engineering,” Int. J. High. Educ., vol. 6, no. 4, pp. 69–78, 2017.[21] “Fixing the foundations: Creating a more prosperous nation.”[22] M. Scheidt, R. Senkpeil, J. Chen, A. Godwin, and E. Berger
outcome-based educational framework. She has also incorporated theories on social cognitive career choices and student attrition mitigation to investigate the effectiveness of institutional interventions in increasing the retention and academic success of talented engineering students from economically disadvantaged families. She’s also involved in a project that explores the relationship between the institutional policies at UPRM and faculty and graduate students’ motivation to create good relationships between advisors and advisees.Prof. Oscar Marcelo Suarez, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Professor Oscar Marcelo Suarez joined the University of Puerto Rico - Mayaguez in 2000. He holds a BS in Aeronautical &
ofchange -- (See Appendix A). The logic model illustrates the logical relationship among programinputs (such as the grant funds and faculty expertise), activities (such as the introductoryengineering design course) and desired outputs (such as numbers of participating students) andoutcomes (such as increases in student interest in clean energy careers). This logic model wasused to inform the program design, including activities with students. In addition, the logicmodel was used to frame measures of success. This paper will describe our efforts, examine themeasurements of our goals, and discuss lessons learned over the three iterations of our program.BackgroundThree different cohorts of students participated in the program between 2013-18. Each
., teaching but not tenured or tenure-line) currently listed on the departmentalwebsite, none are women. Similarly, in Bioengineering, none of the non-faculty teaching stafflisted on the website are female. This can lead to a delegitimizing of the academic purpose andauthority of SEEFs due to unintended gender bias, and less emphasis on the organizationalculture capital (the shared sense of identity, norms, values and trust) and role models needed forundergraduate students to develop an engineering identity. This includes students seeingthemselves as a future educators or in an academic role such as a faculty member, which is a keyaspect of supporting diversity within the undergraduate population [36], with 41 percent of the1,525 students within the
about each of the fields of engineering, as well as connect with students and staff members in those departments.Throughout her high school’s 3 course STEM program, she was able to get hands‐on experience with CAD and using power tools, as well as experience developing a concept project to propose to the community.Another influential factor in her decision to pursue STEM comes from her father’s work as an electrical engineer. These influences led her to conduct this study to ensure more women have access to outreach programs and chose to pursue STEM careers. 4 Research Question and Objectives Research question: What influences more women
importance of traditionallearning pedagogies combined with experiential learning has been shown to increase overallcognitive competency [7] - [9]. To maintain relevancy and competitiveness in engineeringeducation, hands-on learning experiences with a global perspective needs to be integrated intothe curriculum [10], [11]. We believe critical skills such as empathizing, weighing ethicalconsiderations and effective communication are needed by graduates to navigate the 21st centuryglobal societal needs [12] - [17]. These learning opportunities could allow them to learn andpractice empathetical and ethical decision making with people from diverse backgrounds.Central to this capability is to provide the students with experiential learning opportunities
the market. The CUICAR faculty provides support through mentoringrather than defining a design problem statement.•Concept Ideation. The development of a vehicle prototype, which should be marketcompetitive, is an open-ended design problem that challenges students to explore and arriveat different design alternatives at both the vehicle system and component level. DOstudents learn in an order opposite to that of traditional education approaches, wherestudents search for answers, derive conclusions, make decisions, and justify designselections within managerial, social, economic, and engineering constraints. At this phaseof the DO program, students are divided into teams, including but not limited to majorvehicle subsystems such as powertrain
Paper ID #37742Addressing the Needs of Hispanic/Latino(a) Students with the FlippedClassroom ModelDr. Alberto Cureg Cruz, California State University, Bakersfield Dr. Cruz is an Associate Professor of Computer Science, Principal Investigator of the Computer Per- ception Laboratory (COMPLAB), and board member of the Center for Environmental Studies (CES) at the California State University, Bakersfield (CSUB). He received a few grants from the National Science foundation and local agencies to support work in applied machine learning and engineering education.Dr. Amin Malek, California State University, Bakersfield Professor
’ cognitive, personal, and professional development.” Science Education 91: 36-74.7. Guterman, L. (2007). What Good is Undergraduate Research, Anyway? The Chronicle of Higher Education, 53(50) A12.8. Nagda, B. A., S. R. Gregerman, J. Jonides, W. von Hippel, and J.S. Lerner. (1998). “Undergraduate student- faculty research partnerships affect student retention.” The Review of Higher Education 22: 55-72.9. Hathaway, R., B.A. Nagda, and S. Gregerman. (2002). “The relationship of undergraduate research participation to graduate and professional education pursuit: An empirical study.” Journal of College Student Development 43(5): 614-631.10. Kremmer, J.F. and R.G. Bringle, (2000). “The Effects of an Intensive Research Experience on
student learning and success, and the impact of a flexible classroom space on faculty teaching and student learning. She also led a project to develop a taxonomy for the field of engineering education research, and she was part of a team that studied ethical decision-making in engineering students.Trevion S. Henderson, University of Michigan Trevion Henderson is a doctoral student in the Center for Higher and Postsecondary Education (CSHPE) at the University of Michigan. He recently earned his master’s degree in Higher Education and Student Affairs at The Ohio State University while serving as a graduate research associate with the Center for Higher Education Enterprise. Trevion also hold’s a Bachelor’s degree in
Paper ID #34091Studying the Impact of Humanitarian Engineering Projects on StudentProfessional Formation and Views of Diversity, Equity, and InclusionDr. Kirsten Heikkinen Dodson, Lipscomb University Dr. Kirsten Heikkinen Dodson is an assistant professor of mechanical engineering in the Raymond B. Jones College of Engineering at Lipscomb University. She graduated from Lipscomb University with her Bachelors degree before completing her Doctoral Degree at Vanderbilt. Upon completing her research at Vanderbilt, she joined the faculty at her alma mater where she has focused on thermal-fluids topics in teaching and
graduate students in Spring 2017 and piloted again in Spring 2018 with 14students, 3 undergraduates and 11 graduate students. Assessment of student learning wasevaluated through the university’s student evaluation of teaching (SET) surveys, through twoquiz questions, and through an instructor provided single question survey, asking the students,“How did this course change your life?” Some key findings from the student survey included:“This course creates a vision of our personal growth. It is a complete overall course on life, itscharacteristics, other managerial skills and last but not the least it encourages you to be a goodleader. The most beneficial part that I learned from this course is that I understand how toorganize my life and how to
practices that advantage white men over other social groups continue to persistwithin both academia and engineering [5]. Antiquated ideologies about who belongs inengineering education often persist among faculty and students [6], particularly within PWIsettings, which can result in students of color experiencing marginalization and isolation duringtheir undergraduate careers [7], [8], [9]. Consequently, these students are often retained in theengineering pipeline at disproportionately lower rates than their white peers [1], [10]. Thecontinued underrepresentation of Black and Brown individuals among engineering bachelor’sdegree recipients in the U.S. contributes to persistent equity gaps and racial homogenizationwithin the profession [11
implementation of the undergraduate Bachelor of Science in Data Science (BSDS) program at the Wentworth Institute of Technology. This new degree was developed by an interdisciplinary committee, including faculty members from computer science, humanities, management, mathematics, and sciences to underscore the importance of collaborative expertise in the field of Data Science. We will discuss the curricular development as well as our efforts required to successfully launch the new program. We will provide insights into the decision-making process for aligning the program with dynamic industry requirements. A focus point for this program lies in fostering diversity and inclusivity, with a keen aim to amplify the presence of
Program Assistant for the National Institute of Health’s Maximizing Access to Research Careers Undergraduate Student Training in Academic Research program in the Department of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering at the University of South Florida.Dr. Ellen Puccia, Beta Research Associates Ellen Puccia, Ph.D., is an applied anthropologist with expertise in mixed methods data collection and analysis. In addition to her work in healthcare access, she also focuses on diversity, equity, and inclu- sion in STEM education. Specifically, she looks at the influence of social capital on the persistence of underrepresented groups in STEM. Currently, she is the owner and Executive Director of Beta Research Associates, Inc.Dr
otherapplications in prosthetics. “With this project I feel like it'll launch whatever career path I end up taking into motion and give me a lot more opportunities to do what I want to do in the future.” -RU student engineer, design team member “If you can really within the realm of what this product is intended to do and establish a process of doing that, the right concept to design, to optimization, to the manufacturing optimization step. If you can establish that as a biomedical, biomechanical medical device, this can transform itself into other applications in prosthetics too, that can use additive manufacturing as a as an optimal tool.” -TCU Faculty member, mentor to design teamQ10 - What do you wish to