Design at Shanghai Jiao- tong University. Fellow and Past President of the International Communication Association (ICA), she served as President of the Council of Communication Associations and the Organization for the Study of Communication, Language and Gender. She is a Distinguished Scholar of the National Communica- tion Association. Her research focuses on career, work-life policy, resilience, gender, and engineering design. She received ICA’s Mentorship Award and the Provost Outstanding Mentor Award at Purdue, where she was University Distinguished Professor and Endowed Chair and Director of the Susan Bulke- ley Butler Center for Leadership Excellence. She has worked with Purdue-ADVANCE initiatives for
Getting involved Taking and seminars on student career internship in research passing the FE campus organizations counseling exam office Very important Somewhat important Not at all important Figure 9. Comparison of Understanding of Importance of Valuable Extracurricular Activities by
supporting adults through learning and career transitions. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021The Future of Work: Identifying Future-Ready Capabilities for the Industrial Distribution WorkforceAbstract: Emerging technological developments such as autonomous robots, the IndustrialInternet of Things (IoT), and cobots raise major challenges in labor markets and forpolicymakers responsible for promoting the necessary skills and employment. It is imperative tobetter understand and track these trends in the labor market and the future of work (FOW) so thatstrategies to inform, prepare for, and respond to changes in the industrial
STEM to make it the new norm. She has also architected SFAz’s enhanced Community College STEM Pathways Guide that has received the national STEMx seal of approval for STEM tools. She integrated the STEM Pathways Guide with the KickStarter processes for improving competitive proposal writing of Community College Hispanic Serving Institutions. Throughout her career, Ms. Pickering has written robotics software, diagnostic expert systems for space station, manufacturing equipment models, and architected complex IT systems for global collaboration that included engagement analytics. She holds a US Patent # 7904323, Multi-Team Immersive Integrated Collaboration Workspace awarded 3/8/2011. She also has twenty-five peer
items quantifying 16 latent non-cognitive constructs: 1). Academic motivation (AMO), 2).persistence (PST), 3). mastery learning goal orientation (MLG), 4). personal achievement goalorientation (PAG), 5). deep learning approach (DLA), 6). surface learning approach (SLA), 7).problem-solving approach (PSA), 8). implicit beliefs about intelligence and person as a whole(IMB), 9). self-worth in competition (SWC), 10). self-worth in other’s approach (SWO), 11).social engagement (SCE), 12). teamwork (TWK), 13). decision making in college major (DMC),14). fit with major/career (FIT), 15). occupational confidence (OCC), and 16). curiosity andexploration (CEI). The second column in Table 1 shows the number of items in each construct,ranging from 3 in SWO
, the experience becomes an extended interview, from the companyperspective, where they are able to gain more insight into a potential hire than can be gleaned froma resume or typical short on-campus interview. The approach also has the benefit of still allowingthe partner company to potentially directly contact a student of interest for a formal interview thatcan lead to a full-time internship, co-op experience, or a full-time position upon degree completion.The target audience for this course is primarily students in their sophomore year of engineeringand beyond due to the baseline technical experience that the students have achieved at that pointin their academic career having experienced at least one year of college and completing at
Apprentice Faculty Award, the 2015 Frontiers in Education Faculty Fellow Award, and the 2019 Betty Vetter Award for Research from WEPAN. In 2017, Dr. Main received a National Science Foundation CAREER award to examine the longitudinal career pathways of engineering PhDs. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Institutional Supports for Student Experiential Learning in Hybrid/Remote Learning ContextsAbstractStudents’ experiential learning in out-of-class involvements encompasses a significant part oftheir engagement and professional development in college. The covid-19 pandemic haschallenged the delivery of these experiential
. Edwing A. Medina, New York University Tandon School of Engineering Venezuelan-American, career-changer STEM Education researcher, Institutional Research, Assessment, and Accreditation. I am passionate about STEM teaching and learning, STEM modeling and multiple representations, and STEM discourse by/for English Language learners, historically under-represented groups. I create, analyze, and help make data visualizations actionable, so that they address under- representation by key constituencies in STEM Education, academic equity, and social justice issues. I bring a 10-year experience from multi-national corporate media entertainment, 10 years working with K-12 students and families interested (or developing their
informal learning environments. His recent projects include de- veloping and evaluating STEM-related programs, curriculums, and activities for children and their fami- lies, and conducting research on museum educators and their professional development.Ms. Yessenia Argudo, New York Hall of Science Yessenia holds a master of public health in community health education from CUNY School of Public Health and Public Policy. She has worked in various areas within public health including respectful maternal care, sexual and reproductive health, nutrition and global health. Her belief that ”knowledge is power” has fueled her career choices and led her to join NYSCI as a research and development assistant. She will be
, Teacher A developed curriculum materialsfocused on career pathways related to the field of neurotechnologies. For one of his lesson plans,Teacher A developed career biographies of CNT faculty, students, and staff across differentdisciplines represented in neurotechnology. Two of these biographies featured neuroethicsfaculty members and one featured a postdoctoral researcher from the neuroethics research group.The strategies described in this section demonstrate how teachers participating in the RETprogram had access to multiple professional learning opportunities centered on neuroethics. Inaddition, teachers designed curriculum materials that embedded neuroethics topics andpedagogical strategies for ethics education in the science classroom
many are enrolled in the school’s Humanitarian Engineering undergraduateminors. In contrast, Petroleum Engineering Seminar is a required course for petroleumengineering students that teaches CSR themes as part of its broader focus on professionaldevelopment. Both courses are almost exclusively taken by graduating seniors. For the purposesof this paper, we analyze one semester of data. In Fall 2017 the Seminar course was taught by aprofessor who held both a PhD in petroleum engineering and a JD and was appointed to thePetroleum Engineering Department. The course was grounded in project-based learning instudent groups, with a focus on practical application to student careers. The second author helpeddevelop the course activities and assignments
Paper ID #32523Elementary Students Learn How To Engineer Online (RTP)Dr. Stacy S. Klein-Gardner, Vanderbilt University Stacy Klein-Gardner’s career in P-12 STEM education focuses on increasing interest in and participation by females and URMs and on teacher professional development. She is an Adjunct Professor of Biomedi- cal Engineering at Vanderbilt University where she serves as the co-PI and co-Director of the NSF-funded Engineering For US All (e4usa) project. Dr. Klein-Gardner formerly served as the chair of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Board of Directors’ P12 Commission and the Pre-College
225,500 graduate STEM degrees were awarded in the U.S.; 181,000 being masterdegrees and 44,500 were doctoral degrees [1], [2], [3] . According to the National ScienceFoundation (NSF) [4], URM graduate students only earned about 9% of the overall doctoraldegrees awarded in 2015 and about 13% of undergraduate degrees. This evidence suggests thatSTEM doctoral programs in the U.S. are severely deficient in representation from students ofdifferent racial and ethnic groups. This is a disturbing historical and contemporary trend thatuniversities should pay close attention because of the implications on America’s ability tocompete on a global level with nation states succeeding at preparing individuals for careers inSTEM fields.The participation of URM
host of valueswas described by the participants. These values were categorized as: career attainment; personalgrowth; mental health and wellness; purpose, responsibility, and obligation; agency and identityforming; and belonging and acceptance.Table 3: A summary of the different counterspaces and the categories they fall under Counterspaces Identity Professional Familial Wellbeing Black Graduate Engineering Student Society (BGESS) ● ● Black Greek Letter Organization (BGLO) ● ● Black Graduate Student Association (BGSA) ● Black Student Association (BSA
, especiallyin the area of career and technical education (CTE) or other science, technology, engineering,and mathematics courses such as Computer Aided Design (CAD) that normally have hands-on orlaboratory learning were not simple to convert to a virtual environment [3]. During the initialmove to remote instruction, these courses were challenged with providing access to high-endequipment or computing resources requiring high-speed internet, and they no longer couldbenefit from in-person, close-up demonstrations of proper technique or the opportunity forteachers to ascertain students’ proficiency of the material in real time [4]. There were concernsthat some students might not be receiving quality instruction in these courses, which wouldnegatively
thetransfer to a new university easy. Strategies employed by the LINK scholarship program focuson integration of new transfer students into the College of Engineering culture and onprofessional planning and skill development. We recognize that extracurricular involvement andleadership experience while an engineering student are important aspects in professionaldevelopment, but that a two-year timeline makes them difficult to achieve without intentionality.Efforts to integrate new transfers include a zero-credit (no cost) seminar that serves to familiarizestudents with the college and university environment and resources. Resumes are written,evaluated, and edited, and visits from the career services offices make sure that students areaware of support
explore what engineering really means, both to society andthemselves, as well as how they can find success in engineering practice. Students do thisthrough several communication techniques, interactions with professionals, and development oflearning strategies in order to provide exemplars for the required SOs.The initial iteration (fall 2017) of the “What is Engineering?” module, led by Dr. Olga Pierrakos,focused more closely on helping students develop and explore academic and professional goalsand dreams in the context of understanding the engineering profession broadly andunderstanding foundational knowledge that defines engineering practice. Students completed apersonal statement of professional interests and career goals via a worksheet
study relied on qualitative interviews, using artifact elicitation interviews and constructivist critical incident technique interviews, of adult Makers. Through inductive analysis of a collection of interviews with Makers, a theme emerged where Makers from different educational backgrounds and with different careers (e.g., art, STEM, business) were making artifacts that had similar purposes. We present two cases of parallel pathways, (1) musical artifacts and (2) large-scale interactive artifacts, to demonstrate the multiple, parallel life pathways that Makers take to making their artifacts and the contextual events and activities that are critical to the direction of these pathways. The stories
Borrego is Director of the Center for Engineering Education and Professor of Mechanical Engi- neering and STEM Education at the University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Borrego is Senior Associate Editor for Journal of Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering. She previously served as Deputy Edi- tor for Journal of Engineering Education, a Program Director at the National Science Foundation, on the board of the American Society for Engineering Education, and as an associate dean and director of in- terdisciplinary graduate programs. Her research awards include U.S. Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), a National Science Foundation CAREER award, and two outstand- ing publication awards
study is informed by the need to address the well-documentedunderrepresentation of low-socioeconomic status (SES) and minoritized students in engineeringand other related careers [1]–[3]. Researchers advanced that, in addition to intellectual andscientific reasons, low-income students are attracted to the major by the potential prospect ofemployment after completing a degree [1], [4]. Financial considerations are critical for low-SESengineering students; this includes considerations of financial aid and differential tuition [5].Programs such as the National Science Foundation Scholarships in STEM (S-STEM) have beenimplemented to address financial assistance of low-SES students. This study is part of alongitudinal five-year S-STEM project
graduate students and post-doctoral faculty), but the majority wereAssistant or Associate Professors (i.e., early careers rather than later careers).While the symposium was designed to allow faculty members to share specific teachingtools and techniques, we wanted to understand more about culture change. To explore this,we created a post-symposium survey to prompt participants to think deeply about thequestion of culture change. There were two open-ended questions (n = 21 responses): 1. Research I (R1) university is a category that the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education uses to indicate universities in the United States that engage in the highest levels of research activity. There is currently no
have accurate understandings ofSTEM domains [8]. This is associated with reluctance in explaining STEM concepts andmisconceptions by the students [9]. However, caregivers’ values and their acknowledgement ofthe importance of STEM education were related to children’s interests and career aspirationdevelopment in STEM fields. Youth with understanding of their caregivers’ educational valuetowards science were more likely to have a career goal related to science [10].While there is literature describing caregivers’ involvement and their values towards STEMeducation, we know less about conflicts between caregivers and children in STEM learningactivities. Anderson, Piscitelli, and Everett [11] summarized three types of conflicts in agendasbetween
Science Foundation (NSF) and industry.Dr. Jacqueline A. Isaacs, Northeastern University Dr. Jacqueline Isaacs joined Northeastern in 1995 and has focused her research pursuits on assessment of the regulatory, economic, environmental and ethical issues facing the development of nanomanufacturing and other emerging technologies. Her 1998 NSF Career Award is one of the first that focused on environ- mentally benign manufacturing. She also guides research on development and assessment of educational computer games where students explore environmentally benign processes and supply chains in manufac- turing. She has been recognized by Northeastern University, receiving a University-wide Excellence in Teaching Award in 2000
- tion / Spencer Postdoctoral Fellow and a 2018 NSF CAREER awardee in engineering education research. Dr. Svihla studies learning in authentic, real world conditions, specifically on design learning, in which she studies engineers designing devices, scientists designing investigations, teachers designing learning experiences and students designing to learn.Mr. Bala vignesh Sundaram, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus Bala Vignesh Sundaram is a PhD student in Engineering Education Systems and Design department in Arizona State University. His research interest is in exploring the potential benefits of teacher empathy in engineering classrooms.Mr. Jemal Bedane Halkiyo, Arizona State University Jemal Halkiyo is
country.MethodResearch has found that the first two years of college learning are the critical period for studentsto decide whether to stay in or leave STEM fields. This time period has been shown to beespecially important to women and underrepresented minorities [3]. It is widely recognized thatProject-Based Learning (PBL) or “learning by doing” is one of the major instructional elementsto increase the retention rate for STEM students. PBL inspires STEM students not only withreal-world problems but also with the necessary foundational skills to pursue STEM careers [4].All student participants in the CSE program are encouraged to apply for internships and summerResearch Experience for Undergraduates programs, but due to the limited number of positionsavailable
college grades, adds a level of recognition to program graduates to establish thecompetency of the student.We collaborated with both AWS Educate and AWS Academy to develop and deploy appropriatecloud curriculum and instruction. AWS Educate is Amazon’s global initiative to acceleratecloud-learning and prepare learners for the cloud-enabled jobs of tomorrow. AWS Academyhelps close the skills gap by providing higher education institutions with free, ready-to-teachcloud computing curriculum equipping students with skills needed to pursue industry-recognizedcertifications and careers in the cloud [6], [7]. In short, AWS Educate provides a flexible andinformal environment focusing on learning at one’s own pace with digital badges whereas AWSAcademy
engineering and science education from Clemson University.Dr. Idalis Villanueva, University of Florida Dr. Idalis Villanueva is an Associate Professor in the Department of Engineering Education at the Univer- sity of Florida. Her work spans multi- and mixed-methods research and tools to explore the complex and intertwined cognitive, motivational, and affective mechanisms affecting underrepresented groups in sci- ence and engineering. In 2017, she received a prestigious National Science Foundation CAREER award to explore the topic of hidden curriculum (intended or unintended messaging in learning and working environments) in engineering. In 2019, she received the Presidential Award for Scientists and Engineers
professional lives by integrating theirBiomedical Engineering expertise with business and communication skills, (2) Graduates will beable to create value and meaningful work in the field by meeting the expectations of employers ofBiomedical Engineers, (3) Graduates who are interested will be able to pursue meaningful workthrough advanced study or alternate career paths, (4) Graduates will be empowered to take controlof their careers and to engage in responsible citizenship through dynamic roles in their local,national, and/or international communities, (5) Graduates will be able to integrate theirfundamental knowledge of sciences, mathematics, liberal arts, and engineering analysis in
from underprivileged families to aim for college education and careers in STEM fields. Aamir’s research interests include equity in STEM education and infusion of open source hardware and software in STEM classrooms through Internet of Things (IoT) Technology. Aamir is also interested in expanding the academic research opportunity to undergraduate students in in-service teachers in K-12. Aamir is an Aggie Research Leader and is active in mentoring undergraduate research scholars. Aamir has presented his research both at regional (SERA, TAMU LAUNCH) and at international (FIE, AERA) educational research conferences. Aamir has published his research in a high impact peer reviewed jour- nal, conference proceedings
. However, due to several significant obstacles, faculty have routinely shied awayfrom transitioning from traditional teaching to online learning. Several factors impact faculty andtheir hesitancy to adopt teaching online to include online teaching self-efficacy and a space forprofessional development.Online Teaching Efficacy and Professional development Bandura,A. published several influential studies examining the impact of self-efficacy ona person’s ability to persist in their career. Self-efficacy refers to “beliefs in one’s capabilities toorganize and execute the course of action required to produce given attainments [2].” He claimsthat self-efficacy determines “ the courses of action people choose to pursue, how much effortthey put