Paper ID #25863Participation in Small Group Engineering Design Activities at the MiddleSchool Level: An Investigation of Gender DifferencesJeanna R. Wieselmann, University of Minnesota Jeanna R. Wieselmann is a Ph.D. Candidate in Curriculum and Instruction and National Science Foun- dation Graduate Research Fellow at the University of Minnesota. Her research focuses on gender equity in STEM and maintaining elementary girls’ interest in STEM through both in-school and out-of-school experiences. She is interested in integrated STEM curriculum development and teacher professional de- velopment to support gender-equitable
Paper ID #27310Queer(y)-ing Technical Practice: Queer Experiences in Student Theater Pro-ductions at a Technical UniversityMitch Cieminski, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Mitch Cieminski received a B.S. in electrical and computer engineering from Olin College of Engineering in Needham, MA in 2017. They are currently pursuing a PhD in Science and Technology Studies at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, studying the intersections of engineering cultures, peace and ethics, educational power structures, and the experiences of disabled, queer, and trans engineers. c American Society for Engineering
’ [materials] contribute to solutions every bitas much as ‘minds’ [social] do; information and meaning is coded into configurations of objects,material constraints, and possible environmental options, as well as in verbal routines andformulas or ‘mental operations. […] Our ‘cognition’ is always bound up with, co-dependentwith, the participation and activity of Others, be they persons, tools, symbols, processes, orthings” [14]. This emphasis of social and material context as being an intrinsic part of cognitionis one of the main points of situated cognition [7]. Therefore, it is worthwhile to explore the social and material contexts of the designactivities performed by practicing engineers and engineering students. Understanding how
assist incoming freshmen cope with first year mathematics classes. She developed teaching modules to improve students’ learning in mathematics using technology.Dr. M. Javed Khan, Tuskegee University Dr. M. Javed Khan is Professor and Head of Aerospace Science Engineering Department at Tuskegee University. He received his Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering from Texas A&M University, M.S. in Aero- nautical Engineering from the US Air Force Institute of Technology, and B.E. in Aerospace Engineer- ing from the PAF College of Aeronautical Engineering. He also has served as Professor and Head of Aerospace Engineering Department at the National University of Science and Technology,Pakistan. His research interests include
and technology from Virginia Tech.Marlena McGlothlin Lester, Virginia Tech Marlena McGlothlin Lester is the Director of Advising for the Department of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech. She leads the undergraduate advising team and oversees the advising process for all General Engineering students. She is responsible for the development of a hands-on, minds-on orien- tation model for all first-year engineering students, the creation of a comprehensive engineering major exploration tool, Explore Engineering, and enhancement of the academic planning resources available for first-year engineering students. Marlena strives to transform the advising experience for students and advisors through communication
assessment to track their understanding of the impact that their futureengineering roles might play. From the compiled results, the student response to the moduleswas positive, leaving many students empowered, curious, and excited. The module seriesaccomplished the goal of helping students be more prepared in understanding their role indesigning materials with their end-use in mind, thus infusing technical and social engineeringskill sets.IntroductionTraditionally, the engineering canon focuses solely on technical skills; but there is growingindustry and academic demand for engineers who design solutions with “sociotechnical”perspectives [1-4]. The term “sociotechnical” blends the social impact of technical engineeringprinciples; it is a concept
Adolescence, Contemporary Educational Psychology, c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Paper ID #27418and Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology. She received a Spencer Foundation Grant in 2007to examine academic prospects, interpersonal relationships, and social well-being of students in schooldistricts with a high concentration of students of Arab and Chaldean origins. Recently, she received in-ternal grants from the University of Toledo to conduct mindfulness intervention projects with elementaryschool students and preservice teachers. She is also the recipient of the Fulbright Specialist Fellowship
Year of College,” Strategic Enrollment Mgmt Quarterly, vol. 5, pp. 136- 149, 2018.[11] J.D. Bransford, A.L. Brown and R.R. Cocking, How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School, Washington, D.C.: National Academies Press, 2000.[12] D. Moursund, Project-Based Learning Using Information Technology, Eugene, OR: International Society for Technology in Education, 1999.[13] H. Barrows, “Is it Truly Possible to Have Such a Thing as dPBL?,” Distance Education, vol. 23, pp. 119-122, 2002.[14] E.D. Graaff and A. Kolmos, “Characteristics of Problem-Based Learning,” International Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 19(5), pp. 657-662, 2003.[15] A. Kolmos and E.D. Graaff, “Problem-Based and Project-Based Learning in Engineering
Internal Combustion Engines. This course is taughtin the Mechanical Engineering Department at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM).UWM has dual missions of research and access. As a result, the student population inengineering at UWM tends to consist of a higher percentage of under-prepared students enteringthe program than most engineering schools, but at the same time offers many undergraduateresearch opportunities for highly-motivated students. This brief profile of the engineeringstudents will be important to keep in mind as the results of this project are discussed.The use of project-based learning1,2 is not new, and has taken on various forms at differentinstitutions. For example, Ulseth et al.3 describe using a project that directly
Student makes concrete, changed. Everything was organized and set up very well. the thoughtful suggestions only thing I’d have to change anything is to ask the kids on how to improve how they feel about engineering . I feel as if it’s always mentoring of the youth. important to see wher their minds are when it comes to what they want to do later on in life. Other than that everything was fine.8 To be completely honest, I did not do the bridge example Student did not do the with the kids. I got there and the teacher just said to help the assigned project, but kids with homework if they had any questions. I really still gained a great deal enjoyed that, I was able to get to know a kid and
depended on which experts they had in mind. They wanted toevaluate the experts first, and then make the judgement of the validity of the expert’s answers.As mentioned above, the student who put neutral for the item of Certainty of Knowledge made acomparison between two different fields (civil engineering vs. biomedical engineering) and wasaware that her beliefs would vary according to the different fields. Contrary to theory, thesestudents’ choices of neutral points might reflect a more sophisticated thinking than other studentswho stick to the ratings of the scales.6. Conclusion The measurement validity issues with the self-report instruments of domain-specificepistemic beliefs may be due to any of the reasons we described in section “2.2
obligations to the university as an example of Institutional Identity.Discourse Identity is an identity associated with a personal trait, specific to one’s individuality. It isan identity formed around a trait recognized by other people such as being charismatic, charming,and witty [6]. Affinity Identity is an identity associated with being part of a like-minded (affinity)group. This form of identity is recognized once a person joins an affinity group and by joiningdevelops an identity through shared experiences or commitments to the group. Affinity identityhighlights the interconnection between identity and groups/communities. As engineering studentsdevelop their engineering identity, they also begin navigating social experiences afforded
on their work. The year-long Capstone experience will give students the opportunity to receive a wide spectrum offeedback, enhance their technical communication skills, and develop their professional networks.AssessmentThe PDT is designed as an integral experience and the development of professional skills willoccur in a progressive manner as the student makes progress through the different courses. Theprogram learning outcomes (PLOs) of the PDT were developed with the ABET list of professionalskills in mind and they give educators the opportunity to assess the level of competence in eachskills in a comprehensive manner. By the time a student completes the PDT, they will be able to: 1. Identify an engineering problem and formulate it in
insurance, faculty time, and overhead, the annual cost is in the$100K/year range. Who’s going to pay the tab? Not the students we hoped to enroll.With these goals and constraints in mind, members of our faculty, together with representativesfrom the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory and leaders from local high-techcorporations, set out to create a doctoral program from scratch.Implementation: Employer PartnershipsThe central idea is to instantiate DEng studies and research as a partnership between JHU’sSchool of Engineering and each student’s employer. Specifically, we expect the following fromthe student’s employer: • To provide an onsite co-advisor to be an advocate for the student and a local resource for their work. The co
integrated as a core framework for EFIC. Bekki andcolleagues [19] define EM as “the set of cognitive behaviors that orient an engineer towardopportunity recognition and value creation in any context, not just that of an entrepreneurialventure.” KEEN’s framework for EM, referred to as the “3Cs”, supports developing studentbehavioral and mindset outcomes, including using curiosity to explore the world, and makingconnections between different sources and information in order to create value for others[20].This framework has resonated and been applied by a number of faculty to drive content,assessment, and pedagogical changes in their courses. This has become known asentrepreneurially-minded learning (EML) [21]. The majority of courses in which EM has
particular, activities/tours that were specific toindividual project teams are not listed in this table).Teacher Research ProjectsEight faculty members from the school of engineering volunteered to supervise teacher projectsin the summers of 2016-2018. Each engineering faculty member gave an overview of his/herproject on the second day of the program and gave teachers the opportunity to tour the labfacilities and ask questions before being asked to rank the projects by order of preference on thethird day. Project assignment involved taking the teachers’ preferences in mind, as well as tryingto pair up appropriate skills and backgrounds to each project. Most teachers received their first orsecond choice and were generally pleased with the project
qualitative data during the second cycle of camps in summer 2019. Inaddition, an interesting outcome (theme 2) was that the camps did instill in the campers theconnection of words like “teamwork”, “collaboration” and “communication” to engineering.This has been indicated as a necessity in marketing engineering to the public, including K-12[16]. Finally, an outcome of theme 3 is that we will be giving guidance to the campers on classesthey should be considering to be successful in engineering keeping in mind what has beensuggested in [16]. We will also reinforce the connection of camp activities to fields ofengineering throughout the five days of camp. Future work will focus on understanding whichactivities and approaches serve to positively foster
Paper ID #25919Board 50: WIP: Evidence-based analysis of the design of collaborative problem-solving engineering tasksMiss Taylor Tucker, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Taylor Tucker graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a Bachelor’s degree in engineering mechanics. She is now pursuing a master’s degree at UIUC and will begin in the Digital En- vironments for Learning, Teaching, and Agency program in the department of Curriculum and Instruction in the fall of 2019. She is interested in design thinking as it applies to engineering settings and lends her technical background to her
school GPA, and SAT mathscores. Further details of the interventions, study, results, and the literature review conducted upto that point can be found in the paper 1. There is evidence that subtle psychological interventionscan be self-reinforcing under certain conditions, for example, in environments with chronicevaluations (such as school), performance gains can magnify and reinforce the intervention 2.There has been additional work published on fostering a growth mindset in engineering studentpopulations in the past two years. Freeman et al. described positive outcomes, includingdevelopment of a growth mindset, from engineering students being taught in a way that developsthe six engineering Habits of Mind 3. Frary examined if a growth mindset
Paper ID #25175Transformations in Elementary Teachers’ Pedagogical Reasoning: StudyingTeacher Learning in an Online Graduate Program in Engineering EducationDr. Jessica Watkins, Vanderbilt University Jessica Watkins is Assistant Professor of Science Education at Vanderbilt University.Dr. Merredith D. Portsmore, Tufts University Dr. Merredith Portsmore is the Director for Tufts Center for Engineering Education and Outreach as well as a Research Assistant Professor at the Center. Merredith received all four of her degrees from Tufts (B.A. English, B.S. Mechanical Engineering, M.A. Education, PhD in Engineering Education) and has
thevoices of my participants.Now that I have completed this course, I have the language, theories, and understanding tocompetently argue that youth of color are not a monolith and should not be treated as such whenbeing taught STEM. There are also skills, ways of knowing, being, representing, and living thatthese youth bring with them into the classroom, and educators should be sure not to overlook ordismiss these jewels of knowledge but celebrate them. Their current lived circumstances shouldnot dictate the education they receive or who they are to become in life, nor should a STEMeducation fit them into a narrow pathway that was not designed with their lives in mind. I learnedthat the engineering content that I teach youth should align with their
peers seems to be a helpful strategy in navigating the academic andsocial challenges of this engineering program. They appear to be like-minded in work ethic andrelatable through military experiences. The challenge then is to connect these student veteranswith one another, so they can further their relationships of support.DiscussionInterpretation of the ThemesThe focus of this study was to better understand the unique strengths utilized and challengesencountered as veterans with service-connected disabilities transition from military service intoan undergraduate engineering program. The demographics and military experiences of thestudent veterans that participated in this study vary widely, but there are many similarities whenit comes to the
the Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Work in Progress: First-Year Engineering College Students: Value Created from Participating in a Living Learning CommunityAbstractThis Work in Progress paper examines how to capture the perceived value obtained from first-year engineering college students (FYECS) from participating in the Engineering and InnovationResidential College (EIRC), a living learning community (LLC). People are social by nature andthrive through collaborating and living with others who share similar passions; however,oftentimes FYECS do not have a community of like-minded peers where support
Paper ID #26150How to Approach Learning: Engineering Students’ Perceptions of Project-based and Problem-based Learning at an International Branch Campus inthe Middle EastMiss Alaa Abdalla, Texas A&M University at Qatar Alaa Abdalla is a mechanical engineering student, class of 2019, at Texas A&M University at Qatar. Besides engineering she enjoys learning theoretical Math and Physics concepts. She pursued a minor in mathematics alongside her bachelor’s degree. She is also actively involved in writing and reading initiatives on campus. Currently, she is working on her undergraduate research thesis that looks at the
. D., Brown, A. L., & Cocking, R. D. (1999). How people learn: Brain, mind, experience, and school. Washington, DC: National Academy Press.[15] Borrego, M., Froyd, J. E., Hall, T. S. (2010). Diffusion of engineering education innovations: A survey of awareness and adoption rates in US engineering departments. Journal of Engineering Education, 99(3), 185-207.[16] Bourdieu, P. (1986). The forms of capital. In J. Richardson (Ed.), Handbook of theory and research for the sociology of capital, 241-258. New York: Greenwood Press.[17] Evans, C., & Kozhevnikova, M. (2011). Styles of Practice: How Learning is Affected by Students’ and Teachers’ Perceptions and Beliefs, Conceptions, and Approaches to Learning
, but predominantly believed that engineering matched 13their interests (41%) or that they were either good at or interested in math, science, computerscience, or problem-solving (30%). Eighteen of these 25 students also responded to the question“If your interests have changed, what did you learn about engineering that changed your mind?”Eleven students (61%) indicated that the work was more difficult than expected and seven students(39%) indicated that they discovered engineering is not what they thought it was and is not thecareer for them. Additionally, 14 of the 25 students who indicated having academic difficulty inboth math and chemistry (56
Paper ID #26276I Have a Ph.D.! Now What? A Program to Prepare Engineering Ph.D.’s andPostdoctoral Fellows for Diverse Career OptionsTeresa J. Didiano, University of Toronto Teresa Didiano is the Special Programs Coordinator at the Troost Institute for Leadership Education in Engineering at the University of Toronto. She develops and coordinates leadership programs for under- graduate students, graduate students, and engineering professionals. Teresa has an HBSc and MSc from the University of Toronto, and Life Skills Coaching Certification from George Brown College.Ms. Lydia Wilkinson, University of Toronto Lydia
engineering will be as well. There is both a sense inwhich Nicole’s experience of shame is lived by her and a sense in which her engineeringenvironment establishes the context for her to live in the experience of shame. Our previousresearch [1,6,7] has provided a more extensive review of how shame has been examined in prioreducation research.With this individual-in-environment connection in mind, we chose to examine Nicole’s case ofexperiencing shame within the context of engineering education. Nicole, who identifies as aWhite woman, was a junior-level mechanical engineering student at the time of our interview.She also holds an identity as a student-athlete at the university. These multiple identities arepresent in different social situations in
Paper ID #24991Black Men in the Making: Engaging in makerspaces promotes agency andidentity for Black males in engineeringMr. Michael Lorenzo Greene, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus Michael Greene is a PhD Student in the Shifting Perceptions, Attitudes and Cultures (SPACE) Lab at Arizona State University. He is pursuing his degree in the Engineering Education Systems and Design program concurrently with a Master’s degree in Engineering. Michael received his B.S. in Mechanical en- gineering from the University of Pittsburgh in April 2018. His research interest lies in diversity, inclusion and K-12
Paper ID #25362Intercultural Competency Differences between U.S. and Central Asian stu-dents in an Engineering Across Cultures and Nations Graduate CourseDr. Dena Lang, Pennsylvania State University, University Park Dr. Lang is the Associate Director of the Engineering Leadership Research Program at Penn State Uni- versity. She holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from West Virginia University, an MBA from Johns Hopkins University, and a PhD in Kinesiology with a focus on Biomechanics from Penn State University. Dr. Lang’s previous professional experiences and research interests range from mechanical engineering