generally. Mostrespondents indicated that the project increased their interest in undergraduate research.ConclusionIn conclusion, collaborative, project-based learning can help to create community among firstyear students. Survey results suggest that such activities can create a support network,particularly for our first-generation students. A project focused on research has the potential toengage first-year students in research at the beginning of their academic career. Programmablemicrocontrollers such as the Arduino Uno offer a platform for simple research projects that canteach students about the research cycle and prompt interest in further undergraduate research. Inthe future, we will continue to refine this course. The purchased kits have a
preferences allows for more relevantrecommendations that are tailored to meet individual needs. While user feedback has beenpromising, Matilda is a developing application and the authors will continue iterating theapplication based on user recommendations.References[1] S. Lukins, “What is a capstone project? and why is it important?,” Top Universities, 02-Dec-2022. [Online]. Available: https://www.topuniversities.com/student-info/careers-advice-articles/what-capstone-project- why-it-important. [Accessed: 10-Feb-2023].[2] Criteria for Accrediting Engineering Programs, 2020 – 2021. [Online]. Available: https://www.abet.org/accreditation/accreditation-criteria/criteria-for-accrediting-engineering- programs-2020-2021/. [Accessed: 10-Feb
the set of attributes defined by The Organisation for Economic Co-operationand Development (OECD) as ‘global competence’, as this trait in turn influences theacquisition of knowledge, awareness, and intercultural skills which are required for studentsmajoring in science and engineering, in order for them to succeed in their careers in aglobalised society [9]. Global competence is the ability to demonstrate recognition, respect,openness, and readiness to participate in activities with people from diverse culturalbackgrounds. In this paper, the Miville-Guzman Universality-Diversity Scale - Short Form(MGUDS-S) was used to examine how participants’ global competence levels differed beforeand after completing a humanities module on ‘Science and
in their courses. As in any teaching-learning process, one of the main actors isthe teachers [8]. They may require specific skills and training to achieve a successfulexperience. Additionally, for instructors, this educational format can provide benefits such asenhancing their career portfolio or resume, expanding their professional community, andexchanging teaching practices and feedback [9]. In this line, it is clear that a definition of theinstructor's profile is required since the courses with the COIL strategy are relatively new.Moreover, no formal faculty training programs include founding techniques to design courseswith faculty of different universities, developing evaluation techniques for acquiringknowledge, and the correct
anxiety, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), autism spectrum (AS), learningdifferences (i.e., dyslexia, dyscalculia, dysgraphia, and dyspraxia), and Tourette’s syndrome.The motivation for the project and underlying principle of the neurodiversity movement isthat neurodiversity has unique benefits to offer society [1] and engineering problem solving[2]. We believe in a growth-mindset [3], positive psychology [4], strengths-based perspective[5] so we omit disability and disorder from our vocabulary and use terms like differenceinstead.The INCLUDE project takes a holistic approach to changing academic practices, fromrecruitment in high school and transition to college, to career placement and employeroutreach. A significant part is the
, Oxford, UK, pp. 4424–4429.[11] W. C. Lee, H. M. Matusovich, and P. R. Brown, “Measuring underrepresented student perceptions of inclusion within engineering departments and universities,” Int. J. Eng. Educ., vol. 30, no. 1, pp. 150–165, 2014.[12] D. S. A. Hofacker, “Diversity and Inclusion in the Engineering Workplace: A Call for Majority Intentionality to Increase Career Self-Efficacy,” p. 10, 2014.Appendix A : Semi-structured interview format and questions[Land acknowledgement, introduction, safe space acknowledgement, review of consent form andinterview recording]Demographic Question:1. What is your gender identity?2. How would you describe your background/race/ethnicity?Interview Questions3. Please describe your role in
; Wemhoff, A. P., & Nataraj, C. (2011, June), Exchange: Sea Perch/MATE Science Learning Modules Paper presented at 2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Vancouver, BC. 10.18260/1-2—1795114 Ozis, F., & Pektas, A. O., & Akca, M., & DeVoss, D. A. (2017, June), How to Shape Attitudes toward STEM Careers: The Search for the most Impactful Extracurricular Clubs (RTP) Paper presented at 2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Columbus, Ohio. 10.18260/1-2--2845115 Pannier, C., & Berry, C. A., & Morris, M., & Zhao, X. (2020, June), Diversity and Inclusion in Mechatronics and Robotics Engineering Education Paper presented at 2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access, Virtual On
meaning and community concept ofengineering.9.10.11 The Holistic FUEL program was designed to provide comprehensive trainingthat connected societal challenges with undergraduate research opportunities for bothHispanic/Latinx and female populations enrolled in engineering disciplines. This training aidedthe students in developing career-enhancing learning strategies aligned with those of holisticengineers. Holistic engineers are trained within a “cross-disciplinary, whole-systems approach”that emphasize contextualized problem formulation and encourage innovative solutions tocomplex social challenges (p. 28).12Column three in Table 1 illustrates how the Foundry was applied in the development of theHolistic FUEL program. The program used the
allows cross-institution and interdisciplinarycollaboration on novel design projects and 2) to build students’ technical and collaboration skillsthat will be useful for careers at the intersection of cybersecurity and autonomous systems.Students learned core cybersecurity concepts using closed-ended assignments and expanded theirresearch and design skills with an open-ended design project. Throughout this process, theylearned how to collaborate with other teammates through modern collaboration tools, such asGithub, Google Drive, and Discord. Our student survey indicates that this pilot program achievedits goals and indicates that future iterations should refine the program’s structure and processes.Keywordsexperiential learning, capstone
applicationsand experience the difference that engineering and technology can make in our community. Wehope that these projects instill in our students an appreciation for the value that careers inengineering bring to our community.References1 Teach Me 3DP: http://www.teachme3dp.com/2 Make:able Challenge by PrintLab: www.makeablechallenge.com3 Rocket Fishing Rod: www.goliathgames.us/product/rocket-fishing-rod/4 Enabling the Future: https://enablingthefuture.org/5 Make:able 2022 Finalists: https://weareprintlab.com/blog/makeable-2022-finalists6 Make:able 2022 Winners Announcement: https://weareprintlab.com/blog/makeable-2022-winners-an- nouncement7 Meussner, B. (personal communication, August 20, 2022)8 TH-JP
with a variety of skillsets, it is equally important that multiple members are able to verify the same data and information. This experience is one that I expect will continue to influence my interactions with engineering teams throughout my career.”Another student asserted: “I expected to grow my knowledge in commercial UAS development and research skills.”Another student added: “Further experience in a collaborative setting, opportunities to learn and improve my own disciplines. While this is not work experience, I see this research opportunity as being very valuable while an undergrad student. It's a glimpse into the future ideally.” 3. How can this research project / experience be
students of color as impacted by their citizenship status. Specifically,they were not permitted exploration of career opportunities to the fullest extent. Christianbelieved that to be where the difference between him and Black Americans could be observed,“There are opportunities that I couldn't pursue because I'm an international student. It has tobe a citizen or permanent resident. In that case, there's a clear distinction between AfricanAmerican and someone that's international.” Another thing the findings revealed about the members' experiences was that movingto the United States was the first time many of them had experienced minority experiences inengineering/STEM. As Black Immigrant students, it was the first time that their race
) Identifying and accommodating different communication styles(+1.1) Aligning your expectations with your mentees’(+1.1) Accurately estimating your mentees' ability to conduct research(+1.1) Employing strategies to enhance your mentees' knowledge and abilities(+1.1) Motivating your mentees(+1.1) Building mentees' confidence(+1.1) Acknowledging your mentees' professional contributions(+1.0) Active listening(+1.0) Helping your mentees set career goals(+0.9) Accurately estimating your mentees' level of scientific knowledge(+0.9) Stimulating mentee's creativity(+0.7) Helping mentees develop strategies to meet goals(+0.7) Negotiating a path to professional independence with your mentees(+0.6) Working with mentees to set research goals(+0.6) Helping your
color, andimmigrants/children of immigrants. This helped break the false dichotomy of us (faculty) andthem (students), while providing eye-opening insights for the faculty from majority statuses. Ithas also connected the faculty from minoritized groups across departments.Insight #4: Improving teaching practices for DEI improves teaching overall.One insight from the tenured and tenure-track FLC members is that they have not taken the timeto examine their teaching practices during their careers very often, if at all. They commented thathaving the support to reflect upon and improve their teaching practices from a DEI perspectivemeant they would be deliberately improving their teaching overall. This has also positioned thenon-tenure track faculty
and getting a job intheir desired discipline. As summarized in Table 3, women and Latinx students expressedgreater feelings of certainty in both dimensions than their peers. Scholarship students,however, reported much lower levels of certainty of graduating (3.8 versus 5.4) andgetting a job in their desired discipline (2.5 versus 4.2). We note that the responses tocertainty of getting a job were low overall, perhaps pointing to a mismatch between theirundergraduate training and desired careers. For example, if students’ desired disciplinewas not the one in which they majored (i.e., they wanted to do humanitarian engineeringas an undergraduate but majored in chemical engineering because humanitarianengineering was not available). Their
improve mentees' technical and professional skills and competencies, developtheir engineering identity, and create a community that supports career growth. Scholars developtheir engineering identity through industry mentors who are racially and ethnically diverse. AllCohorts of scholars were assigned to industry mentors and had multiple mentor-menteemeetings.The Award Committee members also created an industry mentorship subgroup to work on theindustry mentorship module specifically. The industry mentorship subgroup established fourstages of mentorship to create an influential mentoring culture: matching participants, preparingparticipants, interacting with participants, and evaluating results. Also, in the participantmatching stage of the module
professionals, little has beendone to address spatial development in blind and low vision (BLV) individuals who havehistorically been underrepresented in STEM fields [13]. However, it should be recognized thatspatial thinking is fundamentally a cognitive process that does not just require sightedness. Whileliterature has a tendency to describe spatial ability and spatial thinking in terms that represent itas a visual input and manipulation process, it can also be a tactile input process that forms thefoundation that mental modeling is then conducted upon. While members of the BLVcommunity have led successful careers in STEM fields, there is great potential to attract manymore when tactile spatial interventions can be leveraged to help teach spatial
Engineering Education, 2023 An Analysis of Pre- and Post-COVID-19 Lockdown Spatial Ability Performance in Blind and Low-Vision ParticipantsAbstractHistorically, spatial ability assessments have been used to measure spatial thinking on specificconstructs in students participating in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics(STEM) courses. High spatial ability is linked to greater performance in STEM courses andprofessional STEM career fields. A spatial ability test used commonly for this measurement isthe Mental Cutting Test (MCT) developed in 1939 by the College Entrance Examination Board(CEEB). Unfortunately, the MCT is unable to measure the spatial ability of blind or low-vision(BLV) populations because it is only
worked in industry, leading the design and development of Texas Instruments’ TI-Navigator system (2001-2006). He has also been a classroom teacher, at middle school, high school, and community college levels. Corey holds degrees in Pure Mathematics (MS), English Literature (MA), and Mathematics Education (PhD).Dr. Hyunyi Jung, University of Florida Hyunyi Jung is an assistant professor of mathematics education at the University of Florida. Her research focuses on the learning and teaching of mathematics as a humanizing practice. She cares about students’ authentic mathematics learning experiences in safe spaces and has devoted her career to working with students and teachers to enact and study mathematical modeling
aptitude [2]. When community service is integrated into a school’s curriculum, it hasbeen found to increase students’ enjoyment of learning, academic motivation, and performance[2-3]. In adults, reports have shown that volunteering improves physical and mental health,boosts self-esteem, and increases overall happiness [4]. Students who support communityengagement initiatives such as volunteering related to their discipline, gain applicable experienceand advocate for their careers [5].Service learning is one type of community service in which projects are assigned within astudent’s curriculum [6]. Within the fields of Science, Technology, Engineering, andMathematics (STEM), [7] research has been conducted on how to improve student retention
established in their career and could pursue funding formentoring it became a focus, “I think for this funding opportunity- how can we purposefully create thesesituations in space for the actions and the feeling of mentoring to happen so students do feel seen andultimately included.” (M)These activities extend beyond opportunities and into communication and advocacy as a component ofinclusive mentoring. One mentor shared, “What I’ve gathered in terms of being a good teacher, a goodmentor is that I need to disseminate to two other disciplines throughout the institution, because at the endof the day I need to help a student get to a math class and ensure the professor sees the potential that I seein that student.” (JV)Finally, one mentor summarized the
University. He is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Auburn University. His research interests are in the areas of wireless networks and their applications, with current focuses on machine learning and AI in wireless networks, edge computing, and network security. He received IEEE INFOCOM 2014 Runner-up Best Paper Award as a co-author, ASU ECEE Palais Outstanding Doctoral Student Award in 2015, and NSF CAREER Award in 2022. He is currently an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Wireless Com- munications, a Guest Editor for IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering, and a Guest Editor for IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society.Dr. Daniela
Paper ID #40298Work in Progress: A Case Study on Large-Course First-Year EngineeringDesign ProjectsDr. Mark Jeunnette, University of Auckland Dr. Jeunnette is the Director of Engineering Design at the University of Auckland. His early career included engineering work in the automotive industry, engineering education, design consulting, and international development before completing his PhD in remote sensing for small-plot agriculture. His interests include engineering design education, aerial remote sensing for agriculture and the environment, image processing, and international development.Enrique del Rey Castillo
-Generation College Students that Impact Persistence,” Georgia Journal of College Student Affairs, vol. 37, no. 1, Jan. 2021.[6] R. L Navarro, L. Y. Flores, J. P. Legerski, J. Brionez, S. F. May, H. N. Suh, and A. K. Jung, “Social cognitive predictors of engineering students’ academic persistence intentions, satisfaction, and engagement,” Journal of Counseling Psychology, vol. 66, no. 2, p.170, Mar, 2019.[7] P. O. Garriott, R. L. Navarro, and L. Y. Flores, “First-Generation College Students’ Persistence Intentions in Engineering Majors,” Journal of Career Assessment, vol. 25, no. 1, pp. 93–106, Aug. 2016.[8] C. Gillen-O’Neel, “Sense of Belonging and Student Engagement: A Daily Study of First- and
about mentoring their students,and perhaps see some techniques or skills that they would like to explore for themselves.References[1] R. D. Augustine, “Persistent and attrition of engineering students, a study of freshman and sophomore engineering students at three Midwestern universities,” 1966.[2] L. A. McDade, “Knowing the ‘right stuff’: Attrition, gender, and scientific literacy,” Anthropol. Educ. Q., vol. 19, no. 2, pp. 93–114, 1988.[3] C. Adelman, “Women and men of the engineering path: A model for analyses of undergraduate careers,” 1998.[4] M. Besterfield-Sacre, C. J. Atman, and L. J. Shuman, “Characteristics of freshman engineering students: Models for determining student attrition in engineering,” J
to understand what this process may entail.According to some graduate education scholars, there are four core elements related to graduatestudents' development of an identity congruent with the norms and values of their field:knowledge acquisition, investment, involvement, and engagement (Weidman, 2006). Knowledgeacquisition describes how students learn skills and information that will help them perform wellin their new role as a Ph.D. student, as well as gain an understanding of what academic successentails. Through knowledge acquisition, students become aware of normative expectations of thePh.D. student role and can make a realistic assessment of their personal ability to pursue theirdesired career. The student's investment reflects their
, culturally sustaining and responsive pedagogies, design for additive man- ufacturing, project management, and process improvement. Lisa recently designed a framework for the implementation of design for additive manufacturing in the engineering curriculum. She is passionate about engineering education and enjoys working with students both as an instructor and as a role model to help prepare them for careers in industry.Dr. Andrea T. Kwaczala, Western New England University Andrea Kwaczala is an assistant professor at Western New England University in the biomedical engi- neering department. She teaches Biomechanics, Product Development and Innovation, Senior Design and Prosthetic and Orthotic Devices. She focuses on hands
Engineering Learning,” J. Eng. Educ., vol. 97, no. 3, pp. 355–368, 2008, doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/j.2168-9830.2008.tb00984.x.[13] A. Godwin, “The Development of a Measure of Engineering Identity,” in 2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition Proceedings, New Orleans, Louisiana, Jun. 2016, p. 26122. doi: 10.18260/p.26122.[14] K. L. Tonso, “Engineering Identity,” in Cambridge Handbook of Engineering Education Research, A. Johri and B. M. Olds, Eds. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014, pp. 267–282. doi: 10.1017/CBO9781139013451.019.[15] Z. Hazari, G. Sonnert, P. M. Sadler, and M.-C. Shanahan, “Connecting high school physics experiences, outcome expectations, physics identity, and physics career choice: A gender study
, making it possible for the user tocustomize their practice and focus on issues with which they struggle.Overview of the App Development ProcessThe design and development process was organized into three phases: design and prototype(complete), deployment and refinement (underway), and research study (future work). Moredetails of each of these stages are supplied in the sections below, and an overview is providedin Figure 1. Within each phase, iterative cycles of testing and refinement based ondesign-based research methods [19,20] were employed. Early undergraduate students,advanced undergraduate students, early career engineers, and faculty members were identifiedas key stakeholders and consulted during the development process
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Currently she is the internal evaluator for the projects Recruiting, Retaining and Engaging Academically Talented Students from Economically Disadvantaged Groups into a Pathway to Successful Engineering Careers (PEARLS) and for Building Capacity at Collaborative Undergraduate STEM Program in Resilient and Sustainable Infrastructure (RISE-UP). Both projects are funded by NSF.Prof. Fabio Andrade Rengifo, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Director of the Sustainable Energy Center (SEC) and associate professor in Power electronics applied to renewable energy in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at The University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez.Ruben Esteban