Paper ID #38182Board 207: ACCESS in STEM: An S-STEM Project Supporting Economi-callyDisadvantaged STEM-Interested Students in Their First Two YearsErica ClineMenaka AbrahamSarah AlaeiDr. Heather Dillon, University of Washington, Tacoma Dr. Heather Dillon is Professor and Chair of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Washington Tacoma. Her research team is working on energy efficiency, renewable energy, fundamental heat transfer, and engineering education. Before joining academia, she worked for the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) as a senior research engineer working on both energy efficiency and renewable
mid-power solid propellant rockets bySpearrin and Bendana [6]. The approach is very helpful as it requires the students to solvevarious laboratory assignments as well as the working on the project. Individual professionalportfolios and roles were assigned to the students within each team such as design andmanufacturing engineer, etc. to motivate the students to show practical implications and real-lifeexperience. Investigation of the student performance characteristics of hybrid class for theengineering course of Statics was performed by Myose et al. [7].One thing common amongst all the studies cited so far is that none of the studies devised,investigated and implemented a course instruction structure for the specific courses studied
contribute to environmental challenges.Fig. 6. Example of the progression of a STEELS T&E standard across grade bands.When examining the standards, the committees also placed an increased emphasis on safety inregard to engineering design considerations and laboratory practices. The committees believedthis was important due to the essential making and doing aspect of T&E education, the increasedpopularity of interdisciplinary makerspaces and Fab Labs in schools [17], and the rise in out ofcontent area educators being tasked with teaching engineering practices [18-20]. A contentanalysis by P-12 safety specialists determined the
Environmental Health and Safety for Glastonbury Public Schools. He also serves as NSTA’s and NSELA’s Chief Safety Compliance Adviser. He is general manager and safety consul- tant for National Safety Consultants, LLC. Dr. Roy is a nationally/internationally recognized safety specialist, author of more than 13 laboratory safety books and over 800 safety articles in professional publications. He has presented safety programs for professional associations worldwide and is an autho- rized/certified OSHA General Industry outreach trainer. Dr. Roy co-authored the national technology education and career and technical education (CTE) safety research study published in 2022. He also serves as an expert witness for school STEM lab
low-resource settings and works alongside clinical partners at UW Medicine and Seattle Children’s Hospital. Kathleen graduated from the UW with a BS in Mechanical Engineering in 2021 with a focus in biomechanics and has worked at Novo Nordisk as a research operations intern to develop pilot projects in collaboration with the UW.Jonathan T.C. Liu, University of Washington Jonathan T.C. Liu (he/him) is a professor of mechanical engineering, bioengineering, and laboratory medicine & pathology at the UW, where his molecular biophotonics laboratory develops high-resolution optical-imaging devices and computational-analysis strategies for guiding treatment decisions. This work is funded by the NCI, NIBIB, DoD, NSF
ethics.This program began with College-wide, dean’s level administration and support. Thecommunication lab and consultations space was centrally located in the main College ofEngineering building. It was in this space that the director, administrative assistant, and graduateteaching fellows also occupied office space. PhD students from the College of Humanities withinterests in instructional communication, writing/composition, and communication across thecurriculum served as strong ambassadors for the importance of disciplinary expertise. In additionto classroom instruction, communication laboratories, and student consultations, the programdirector and graduate teaching fellows offered monthly workshops targeting engineering facultyon topics related
large public state university and taking part in the same researchproject. The internship was an 8-week program in the Biomedical Engineering (BME)Department funded by the Massachusetts Life Science Center (MLSC). All three students wereworking in the same lab co-hosted and mentored by the two laboratory Principal Investigators, aswell as undergraduate and graduate students in the lab. In-depth interviews with the three internsand their parents/caregivers were conducted and analyzed to understand parental relationships,mentorship relationships, and components of the home environment in developing STEMidentity and interest. Faculty mentors were also interviewed and provided perspectives on skillsets and confidence coming into the internship and
degrees on time [15], [16]. Future work will studystudents’ on-time graduation and degree completion, as well as the factors contributing to theseparamount problems in the academic community.Conclusions and RecommendationsSeveral academic as well as non-academic factors hinder minority students’ interest, persistence,and success. These factors include poor-quality teaching and advising, a challenging curriculum,deficiencies in mathematics, uninspiring courses, lack of sense of belonging, a lack of interactionbetween students and faculty, financial difficulties, a lack of hands-on projects as well as theavailability of infrastructure and laboratory facilities [1]–[3], [8]–[11]. All of these factorsgreatly contribute to major change and dropout
after the successful launch of both boats (right).USCGA Project DescriptionIn contrast to the course at USNA, cadets at USCGA typically enroll in the boat design/buildcourse as a first-year student (freshmen). The design portion of the course is an optional one-credit lecture offered during the fall semester. The build or construction portion of the course isoffered in a one-credit laboratory format during the spring semester. Both semesters areconsidered “Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory” electives and do not affect the students’ GPA. Studentscan join each class independently, meaning a student may enroll in the build portion in the springwithout participating in the design portion in the fall. Typical enrollment for the fall is upwardsof 20
educationand that of their children [20]. Foreign scientists and engineers hold important positions in U.S.universities, laboratories, and scientific industries [21]. Finally, one in four U.S. technologycompanies were founded between 1995 and 2005 by a foreign entrepreneur [22].In the case of Israel, the unrestricted mass migration of Jews from the former Soviet Union (FSU)in 1990 has been unique in the world for its benefits. Jewish immigrants from the FSU increasedIsrael's population by 20%, created their political parties to become a coalition government,promoted greater economic freedom, and moved the country away from socialism [23]. Clark etal. demonstrated with their empirical analysis of different countries that immigrant flows wererelated to
material was to some extentbeneficial for learning, but it cannot be replaced by the face-to-face environment thatallows association with laboratory equipment and field trips that provide a directapproach to the area of study [29], [30], [31], from this deduction doubts and concernswere born by students about the lack of practical training within their areas of study[32].The Covid-19 pandemic has changed the lives of the general population includingstudents in particular aspects, among them are students who were in the transition stagestarting their university studies (Post pandemic students) and students who wereinterrupted in the middle of their process (Pre pandemic students), however, bothgroups were separated from their social groups and were
did undergraduate students face during a research course, and how did they overcome these challenges to successfully complete their project? Sub-Question 3 (Self-Reflection): What impact did the research course have on undergraduate students' skills and knowledge and interest in research?3. BackgroundVarious efforts have been made to effectively organize and manage undergraduate researchprograms (URPs). One of the efforts, as suggested by Weldon and Reyna [5] and Thornton et al.[6], is to design a lab manual that outlines clear expectations for undergraduate researchers in thelab to help with a smooth transition for new students so that faculty mentors do not have toreinvent the wheel each time a new student joins the laboratory
highlight each student project related to each component(Table 1).3.0 Experimental Component Projects3.1 Research OverviewOne of the aspects that was attractive to the researchers and students in the Foods and NutritionalSciences, Human Sciences Department at the Tennessee State University, was that Calabresemicrogreens are high in isothiocyanate sulforaphane and are known to prevent certain cancers[6]. Therefore, they conducted laboratory experiments to analyze the growth cycle and nutrientcontent of the Calabrese microgreens. The human sciences ecological framework was used tostudy how the Calabrese microgreens could improve the lives of students, researchers, andstakeholders at the individual, family, community, and environmental level. Students
like peer assessments, self-assessments, and co-teaching facultygraders or Teacher Assistants (TA) remains a challenge.Communication skills and associated projects could be embedded across the engineeringcurriculum to enable students to hone WID and learn effective communication techniques.However, retention of communication skills could be lacking if well-designed integration andassessment processes are not implemented. Hence at the University of South Florida (USF), wehave embarked on developing courses that attempt to bridge this gap and ensure undergraduatespossess the necessary communication skills to become successful engineers. For instance, afoundation engineering laboratory course was developed for first-year students in
88% of responding universities offered an introductorycourse in transportation with 79% of responding universities requiring the course forundergraduate students in the civil engineering department. These courses ranged from three tofour credit hours, with 26% including a laboratory component. The lack of laboratorycomponents coupled with the discovery of only 85% of faculty having a transportationengineering background beg for further investigation into the state of transportation engineeringcurricula nationwide. The final question of the survey asked respondents to suggestmodifications to their university’s introductory transportation engineering courses. Mostrespondents suggested adding a laboratory to the introductory course or adding a
University and her M.S. and Ph.D. at East Carolina University in Biological Sciences specializing in coastal ecology. Currently, Deborah is a Instructional Consultant in the Foundational Course Initiative in the Center for Research in Learning and Teaching. While completing her doctoral studies, she redesigned the second-semester introductory biology laboratory, integrating authentic research experiences using citizen science. After joining the University of Delaware in the Interdisciplinary Science Learning Laboratories, she continued developing authentic learning experiences for students in her integrated biology and chemistry course. Deborah has also created pedagogical training programs for graduate assistants
senses than traditional online-based learning [12]. These extra sensesprovide a sense of immersion and presence. The sense of presence is the recognition of "beingthere,” while immersion is the quantitative measure by which technology can simulate a virtualenvironment [13] [14]. Studies have shown that multisensory integration boosts performance [15]and leads to faster, more efficient learning [16] [17]. These learning environments also provide theability to integrate artificial intelligence, such as speech recognition [18]. In addition, educatorshave complete control over the virtual environment, allowing them to simulate scenarios that maynot be possible in traditional laboratory or classroom settings.2.3 VR in Engineering and Manufacturing
in the I-RISE program. Therefore, the research experience wasmeaningful and addressed real-world problems in science and engineering, often involving hands-on andlaboratory experiences. The duration of the research activities was approximately five months. During thisperiod, students and faculty met frequently. The faculty derived the dynamics of research experiences anddirectly mentored students owing to the central role of faculty support in UREs [17]. Sometimes, graduatestudents working with the faculty trained students with the laboratory work and the technical aspects. Inregular meetings with students, the faculty discussed and guided the research and academic matters ofinterest to the students. ii) SponsorshipSponsorship through
Mihai Boicu, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Information Technology at George Mason University, As- sociate Director of the Learning Agents Center (http://lac.gmu.edu), Directtor of Laboratory for Collec- tive Intelligence, Co-Director of Personalized Learning in Applied Information Technology Laboratory (http://plait.gmu.edu/).Harry J Foxwell, George Mason University Harry is currently Associate Professor at George Mason University’s Department of Information Sciences and Technology. He earned his doctorate in Information Technology in 2003 from George Mason Univer- sity’s Volgenau School of Engineering (Fairfax, VA), and has since taught graduate courses there in big data analytics and ethics, operating systems
the George Washington University and a Ph.D. in minority and urban education from the University of Maryland. In 2003, Bruk was hired by the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (JHUAPL), where he worked on nanotech- nology and microsystems. In 2005 he left JHUAPL for a fellowship with the National Academies and researched methods of increasing the number of women in engineering. Later that year, he briefly served as a mathematics instructor in Baltimore City High Schools. From 2005 through 2018, Dr. Berhane directed engineering recruitment and scholarship programs for the University of Maryland. He oversaw an increase in the admission of students of color and women during his tenure and
]. They alsoobtain increased monetary compensation [5] and report higher job satisfaction. A study alsoshows that depth of experiential learning, as indicated by the amount of time committed to thoseactivities, correlates positively with cognitive gains, while breadth, as indicated by the number ofactivities that a student engages in, is associated with improved teamwork skills [6]. Inparticular, the number of internships that an undergraduate has is a major predictor of initialcareer outcomes [4].Experiential learning is increasingly considered a critical component of higher education,complementing more traditional forms of classroom and laboratory instruction. Experientiallearning opportunities can also inform career choice, help students build
Conference (pp. 1-5).IEEE.[19] Faber, M. H., & Stewart, M. G. (2003). Risk assessment for civil engineering facilities: criticaloverview and discussion. Reliability engineering & system safety, 80(2), 173-184.[20] Feisel, L. D., & Rosa, A. J. (2005). The role of the laboratory in undergraduate engineeringeducation. Journal of engineering Education, 94(1), 121-130.[21] Franz, H. (2008). Using Logic Control In A Safety And Fire Program Fire Alarm SystemEngineering Course. In 2008 Annual Conference & Exposition (pp. 13-1346).[22] Franz, H. (2005). Development Of A Fire Alarm Class Taken By Students From Two YearColleges. In 2005 Annual Conference (pp. 10-456).[23] Hillestad, D. (2022). Building Owners and Managers Organizational
smartphone's location, which can be used for a variety of purposes such asmaps, tracking, and location-based services.A special feature of these physical data recorded by the internal sensors, however, is that theycan be used beyond their actual purpose with the help of additional programs, so-called apps.This makes it possible to carry out both qualitative and quantitative experiments in a widerange of subject areas, especially in physics. Smartphones thus represent small, transportablemeasurement laboratories. The project presented in this paper focuses on the latter point, inwhich the sensors installed in smartphones are used to carry out quantitative experiments. Themain advantages of the devices are to be exploited, which are reflected in their
: Some division members have created what might be termed Technology Survey Courses. These courses address a range of technologies. In some cases, course content may include social and historical dimensions of engineering and technology. Approaches are varied including lectures, demonstrations, and laboratories. Scientific principles involved in technological applications are often a major component of these courses [1]. • Technology Focus Courses: These courses tend to address a single technological topic or issue. Subject matter is intentionally focused rather than intentionally broad. In some cases, the courses have a substantial technical or quantitative component. The classes frequently include
delivering such information. 5.1.3 | Need for improving hands-on experiences of studentsHands-on experiences were considered to be an important part of college life. They were perceivedto contribute to better MHW as they provided students to see the practical real-world applicationsof their courses. Students wanted improvement in the laboratory like providing more state-of-the-art laboratory equipment. The study participants were of the view that they should be able toengage in research work to gain practical hands-on experiences. For example, one of theparticipants said the following. “The college of engineering should have more research opportunities available for students in professors’ labs. There might be many such opportunities available
curriculum: at Tufts, students take the course(ES 4) in the fall semester of sophomore year and it forms part of their core conception of whatelectrical and computer engineering is. In general, their courses up to this point have been genericacross engineering, and many students see the course as a way to confirm whether an electrical orcomputer engineering major is right for them. As a result, we have both an opportunity and anobligation to inspire and motivate students in addition to helping them develop prerequisite skillsfor other courses.Digital logic labsAs at most universities, our offering of the course has a substantial laboratory component, wherestudents put in the hard (and rewarding) work of translating pencil-and-paper logic designs
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projects focused on broadening participation and success in STEM academia. Her research centers on creating inclusive higher education policies and practices that advance faculty careers and student success.Dr. Jennifer TygretAnneke BruwerDr. Comas Lamar Haynes, Georgia Tech Research Institute Comas Lamar Haynes is a Principal Research Engineer / faculty member of the Georgia Tech Research In- stitute and Joint Faculty Appointee at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. His research includes modeling steady state and transient behavior of advanced energy systems, inclusive of their thermal management, and the characterization and optimization of novel cycles. He has advised graduate and undergradu- ate research assistants