inequities in STEM education using quantitative and qualitative research methodologies and theories from interdisciplinary sources including cultural studies, critical race, gender and feminist the- ories. Her book, the Borderlands of Education, is co-authored with Susan Lord, Professor of Electrical Engineering. Camacho is affiliated faculty with the Department of Ethnic Studies, Women’s and Gender Studies, and the School of Peace and Justice.Dr. Joyce B. Main, Purdue University, West Lafayette Joyce B. Main is Assistant Professor of Engineering Education at Purdue University. She holds a Ph.D. in Learning, Teaching, and Social Policy from Cornell University, and an Ed.M. in Administration, Planning, and Social Policy
from high school through college completion. Her responsibilities have included managing various award and faculty recruitment programs, analyzing the impact of state legislative actions, coordinating efforts to increase resilience among college students, and preparing white papers on topics ranging from classroom utilization to student success. Dr. Rincon received her B.S. in Civil Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin, an MBA and an M.S. in Information Management from Arizona State University, and a Ph.D. in Educational Policy and Planning from The University of Texas at Austin.Prof. joan Chalmers Williams, University of California, Hastings College of the Law Joan C. Williams is Distinguished Professor
,Assimilating, Converging, and Accommodating. Project-based experiential learning ideallyharnesses a student’s natural interest and motivation to navigate an iterative path of evolvingexperiences, each of which enhance learning in different ways. Figure 1: Kolb's Experiential Learning Conceptual ModelImplementation of the experiential learning model is commonly done through project-basedlearning. Blumenfeld et al. defined project-based learning as, “A comprehensive perspectivefocused on teaching by engaging students in investigation.” 23 Within this framework, studentspursue solutions to nontrivial problems by asking and refining questions, debating ideas, makingpredictions, designing plans and/or experiments, collecting and
slows the spread of technology enabled pedagogy – cost. Specifically, theyconcluded that “equipment prices tend to still be too high and are not sufficiently stable to enableeffective planning, especially with respect to how costs are split between universities and theirstudents [12].” There was a discussion of possible business models that could enable students topurchase and keep their own personal kits. While the cost of these active learning platforms isquite low (usually less than or comparable to the price of a typical new ECE textbook), manyschools (especially Minority Serving Institutions or MSIs) find it a major challenge to ask theirstudents to purchase or even rent the existing device options. Some purchase a collection ofpersonal
by employers.The islands’ technical industries struggle to fill positions with local qualified talent, whilepersonnel hired from off-island have twice the attrition rate as local hires [2]. Currently, with theDaniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope (DKIST) under construction and planning for the potentialconstruction of the Thirty Meter Telescope underway, demands on Hawai‘i’s workforce are onlyincreasing. Since a majority of observatory positions are engineering and technology related,demand is highest for individuals with degrees in engineering, engineering technology, andcomputer science. Further exacerbating relations between telescopes and the community aresignificant disparities in demographics of telescope personnel. For example, women
,locating, and collecting information on objects that are potentially unexploded ordnance(UXO).” The students had two semesters and a budget of $15,000 to go from this statement to afield demonstration of their solution in Key West, FL.This project’s multi-disciplinary nature, broadly defined real world problem, engaged andthoughtful sponsor, and unique advising requirement produced student outcomes that covermost if not all of the ABET student outcomes criteria. This paper will cover the project fromconcept to final successful demonstration including; team forming, academic advising, missionplanning, project planning, research, development, fabrication, sensor development, sensorintegration, testing, demonstration, reporting, assessment and
bylocal and global collective action. We recognize that the next generation of leaders will be taskedto develop responses to a wide set of wicked problems in a socially and environmentallyappropriate manner. Some of the most prominent wicked problems in the immediate future willinclude sustainable urban planning, alleviating climate change, and feeding the world, to name afew. Emergent leaders, many of whom are currently students within and outside of engineering,will be central to realizing a more sustainable world for future generations. Our goal as authors isto inspire these future leaders (our students) to become motivated to and confident in respondingto these wicked problems in a manner that is socially appropriate and environmentally
between the Navajo way of life, which is a holistic cycle of thinking,planning, living, and assuring/testing,119 and an engineering design process (ask, imagine, plan,create, improve120). Thus the structure of the project itself can be described and presented in away that carries cultural meaning for Navajo students.Further, design projects can be structured to blend culture and course material. In engineeringoutreach camps in the Navajo Nation, students were asked to write a story related to their culture(e.g., “Describe a day in the life of a Navajo middle school student”). Students then, learn theengineering design process and build a Rube Goldberg®-style chain reaction machine that tellsthe story they wrote. This not only helps the students
together. Hello All -- Thanks to everyone for your patience as we organize a plan for the ASEE paper. After reviewing the reflective essays you wrote, thinking about the time we have available, and realizing how hard it is to schedule a joint meeting, here is what we propose. Paper: We address two questions in our ASEE paper (1) What types of experiences might be associated with being interviewed about a reflection activity, (2) What larger scale issues surface when reflecting on interviews about reflection activities? While we’ve already noticed patterns across your reflective essays for each of these questions (i.e., patterns in your experiences, and patterns in the types of larger scale issues
the freshman design experience, along with coordinating junior capstone at JMU. In addition to the Ph.D. in Civil Engineering, Dr. Barrella holds a Master of City and Regional Planning (Transportation) from Georgia Institute of Technology and a B.S. in Civil Engineering from Bucknell University. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 A Systematic Review of Sustainability Assessments in ASEE ProceedingsAbstractEngineers are increasingly called upon to develop innovative solutions while balancingcompeting economic, environmental, and social design constraints. Consequently, manyeducators and professional organizations are calling for improvements in
Paper ID #30435Real-World Examples and Sociotechnical Integration: What’s the Connec-tion?Jacquelene Erickson, Colorado School of Mines Jacquelene Erickson is a fourth year undergraduate student at Colorado School of Mines pursuing a major in Electrical Engineering. After graduation in May 2020, she plans to work in electrical distribution design at an engineering firm.Dr. Stephanie Claussen, Colorado School of Mines Stephanie Claussen is a Teaching Professor with a joint appointment in the Engineering, Design, and Society Division and the Electrical Engineering Department at the Colorado School of Mines. She ob
) onsiders pre-math-ready engineering students' outlook on their place in engineering C Transition Self related to their perceived identity and sense of belonging in engineering as they into transition into the major (ex: plans for their future career) Engineering efers to the help that pre-math-ready engineering students receive in engineering R (identity) Support related to identity formation as they transition into the major (ex: affinity groups) Describes the strategies pre-math-ready engineering students use to develop their
engineering methodologies (e.g., iterativevs. plan-based) and specific techniques for software design, implementation, validation,deployment, and maintenance. Pertinent to this study, one learning outcome relates tocybersecurity analysis.The course uses a project-based learning approach to teach these outcomes. Students work inteams (groups of 3 to 4 individuals) on a semester-long software engineering project. Teamsmust provide weekly updates, but these are intended to help course staff assist struggling teamsrather than as assessment instruments. The primary assessable assignments are the majormilestones of the project – deliveries in week 4, week ~8, and week 16. The project requirementshave been similar in all offerings of the course (Fall 2021
ethical followershipmerits exploration and to distinguish it from ethical voice. The literature shows that voice is oneof several followership behaviors that may be used to promote ethical behavior or inhibitunethical behavior at work. Uhl-Bien et al. (2014) frame voice as one of many proactivebehaviors that “assess the creative and deliberate ways that employees plan and act on theirenvironment to influence, change, and alter it in ways they see fit” (p. 93). Uhl-Bien et al. (2014)also refer to other followership behaviors like obedience, resistance, dissent, and feedbackseeking.Research Questions and Methods In response to the leader-centric view represented in ethical leadership literature, andgiven limited research available on ethical
learning compared with less academically successful students [37], [38].119 One important component of metacognition is the ability to plan, monitor, and evaluate learning. This is120 called self-regulated learning[39], [40]. As Zimmerman stated, self-regulated learning is about121 transforming “mental abilities into academic skills”[41]. Considering concepts such as Bloom’s122 taxonomy [42], students’ success can be fostered through direct instruction that challenges them to move123 from using lower-order to higher-order thinking on Bloom’s scale.124125 Promoting student metacognition includes instruction that explicitly helps students learn how to retain126 information, apply information to new situations, and skillfully and
, China, Vietnam,Philippines, South Korea, Taiwan, and Pakistan), two are in North America (Mexico andCanada), with the remaining country being Russia (identifies as both Asian and European)marking a substantial proportion of foreign-born workers within STEM hailing from Asian orWhite backgrounds [13-14]. Immigrant STEM workers with a bachelor’s degree or higher aremore prevalent than those without [13]. Moreover, the expected stay rates of noncitizen STEMdoctorate recipients planning to remain in the U.S. after graduation remained consistently high,especially among students from China and India [13].In 2021, approximately 3% of the total workforce identified as having at least one disability,encompassing both physical and cognitive disabilities
to campus and onlinelearning during the COVID-19 pandemic among US undergraduate STEM majors,” Journal ofAmerican College Health, pp. 1-8, 2021.[29] E. Blom, B. C. Cadena, and B. J. Keys, “Investment over the business cycle: Insights fromcollege major choice,” Journal of Labor Economics, vol. 39(4), pp. 1043-1082, 2021.Appendix A – Interview questions 1. Do you recall what year (freshman, sophomore, etc) and quarter you took ECH 1? If so when? 2. What was your major while taking ECH 1? 3. (If answer to question 2 is not an engineering major). Why did you not consider majoring in engineering before this point in your plan of study? 4. Were you exposed to science/engineering principles in high
institutional 30. Planning my career with the academic secretaries support 31. Receiving academic tutoring (α=0, 772) 32. Find health and wellness support services 33. Get involved in sports and complementary areas (leadership, diversity and gender, participatory meetings, etc.).The process whereby the instrument presented in table 2 was designed, built and validatedwill be reported on in separate investigation. The survey response scale is of the Likert typethat starts at 1. Strongly disagree, up to 5. Strongly agree. The statement for items 1 to 28was: From your experience this last academic year at the School of Engineering at the AndrésBello University, to what extent do
assessment items include Incorporating team awareness, the (1) product development teamwork training into ability to use teamwork quality; (2) group report; capstone courses can collaboration tools, (3) group presentation; (4) help students communication skills, the use of teamwork tools practically develop, planning ability, such as icebreaking and exercise, and improve interpersonal brainstorming; and (5) teamwork abilities and relationships, and writing team-building
detract from student success and motivation. This information canbe used in practice for enhancing programmatic planning and design as well as potentiallydeveloping novel program components that contribute to students becoming more self-determined,motivated engineers. It is my hope that one day in the near future, engineering education faculty,administrators, and leaders will cultivate and measure success based on a more comprehensiveassessment of lived experiences. Additionally, this research is intended to help leaders betterrecognize how their decisions regarding programmatic structures impact students’ experiences andsuccess.Introduction and Literature OverviewInequalities are deeply rooted in the U.S. education system. Students from
. Sadler, P.M., et al., Stability and volatility of STEM career interest in high school: A gender study. Science education, 2012. 96(3): p. 411-427.3. Tai, R.H., et al., Planning early for careers in science. Science, 2006. 312(5777): p. 1143-1144.4. Falk, J.H., et al., Taking an ecosystem approach to STEM learning. Connected Science Learning, 2016. 1: p. 1-11.5. Falk, J.H., et al., Understanding youth STEM interest pathways within a single community: The Synergies project. International Journal of Science Education, Part B, 2016. 6(4): p. 369-384.6. Clark, A. and R.L. Kajfez. Engineering Identity in Pre-College Students: A Literature Review. in 2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
is taught in context and with cultural relevance. Toaccomplish this well, the people involved in instruction planning and teaching must take the timeand care to listen to the students and attempt to understand their experiences, their communitypriorities, and particularly, their deeper world views.The writers reveal through these various cases the importance of acknowledging the IndigenousWorldview. A comprehensive study of the Indigenous worldview is important as many factorswithin the Western worldview of STEM are quite different from the Indigenous worldview.STEM content is to be presented thoughtfully and in a manner that respectfully leverages keyNative ways of understanding Science and Engineering. Instructors may leverage
. His dissertation work is looking at Engineering degree pro- gram curricula to understand impacts of institution types and commitment to servingness of underrepre- sented populations in engineering. He is trained in both qualitative and quantitative research and plans to pursue a tenure-track faculty position in the near future. His dissertation chair is Dr. Karan Watson and he is working under thr director of IEEI Dr. Tracy Hammond.Dr. Kerrie A. Douglas, Cornell University Dr. Douglas is an Associate Professor in the Purdue School of Engineering Education. Her research is focused on improving methods of assessment in engineering learning environments and supporting engineering students.Dr. Karan Watson P.E., Texas
slowlyincreased (Cunninghame et al., 2016), this group still remains largely underrepresented in STEMdisciplines (Moon et al., 2012). This discrepancy in representation reflects larger issues ofmarginalization in STEM fields and higher education at large. Current support structures fordisabled people remain ineffective, as accessing necessary resources requires navigatingphysical, cultural, and bureaucratic barriers (Groen-McCall et al., 2018). These barriers onlycontinue to widen for disabled students planning to pursue engineering careers (Prema & Dhand,2019), as seen in the high unemployment rate for disabled scientists and engineers, which isgreater than that of the entire U.S. labor force (Lee, 2010; NSF, 2017). Yet, disability is rarelyincluded
. Beyer, “Gender differences in causal attributions by college students of performance oncourse examinations,” Current Psychology, vol. 17, pp. 346-358, 1998.[34] V. L. Pateland G. J. Groen, “The general and specific nature of medical expertise: A critical look,” in K. A. Ericsson and J. Smith (Eds.), Toward a general theory of expertise: Prospects and limits, Cambridge University Press, 1991, pp. 93-125.[35] C. M. Seifert, A. L. Patalano, K. J. Hammond, and T. M. Converse, “Experience and expertise: The role of memory in planning for opportunities, “in P. J. Feltovich, K. M. Ford, and R. R. Hoffman (Eds.), Expertise in context, AAAI Press/MIT Press, 1997, pp. 101-123.[36
thegeneralizability of BSTiE to other communities. Nevertheless, BSTiE serves as a building block andmotivation toward understanding the thriving process for Hispanic students in engineering programs atPWIs, Native American students in engineering programs at PWIs, and other marginalized communities.Future WorkA limited body of work studies the university's role in facilitating thriving for Black students. This paper isa foundation to emphasize the need to look towards the university when considering how Black studentexperiences can be enhanced. We aim to build on this foundation by studying institutional support forthriving spaces for Black students. We plan to explore how universities can best support MEPs aspre-designated places of thriving for Black
encourage students to stay on track with course content is to provide frequent andstrict deadlines for homework or other type of formative assessments, which are often completedasynchronously outside of class time. Check-in dates help students break complex processes intomanageable chunks as they plan and progress through course goals, and final deadlines can helpthem organize and prioritize work and avoid the anxiety of missed work piling up at the end of theterm. Moreover, Felker at al. [9] suggest that giving extra credit for completing assignments earlycan be effective at encouraging students to have better work distribution. However, it is knownthat strict deadline policies may add to students’ stress [10, 11], promote the submission of
similar meaning into categories toform themes. For example, the three preliminary codes mentioned earlier in this paragraph werecombined into a theme of a sense of belonging to Engineering. For more examples refer tocolumn three in Table 2. To enhance the quality and trustworthiness of the study planning, datacollection, analysis, interpretations, and reporting, we solicited feedback from the research teamon all steps of the study. This included but was not limited to revising the interview protocol andcodebook, piloting interviews, and soliciting feedback from co-authors and other colleagues ascoding and analysis progressed through the project [25].Table 2. Example analytic process for data excerptsInterview excerpts [1