. Given the historical and persistent underrepresentation of minority groups in theengineering workforce, our work presents a timely effort to understand better and include thecareer attitudes of the emerging engineering workforce. We investigate how the concept of anengineering career is shaped for minority engineering students from a Hispanic-servinginstitution to further understanding on how career opportunities in government-funded labs areperceived by a group of Black and Latinx engineering student researchers experiencing the jobsearch and post-graduation planning process. For context, our study is a smaller portion of thePRE-CCAP (Partnership for Research and Education Consortium in Ceramics and Polymers)project. The consortium consists of
regenerate human tissues [2]. Basedon these important benefits to human health, biomaterials are projected to have global revenues of$348.4 billion by 2027 [3] and the employment of bioengineers is projected to increase by 6% by2030 [4]. To satisfy these increasing societal and economic demands for biomaterials, we mustengage students at a young age to join the field of biomaterials.Bioadhesives are an important class of biomaterials, designed to adhere biological componentstogether for tissue repair [5]. In a clinical setting, bioadhesives are used to stop internal fluid leaks[6] and aid in healing surgical wounds [7]. Additionally, scientists and engineers have designedexperimental bioadhesives to seal soft tissue defects and repair orthopaedic
allocated a budget with which they can acquire allthe necessary parts. The project was divided into three segments. First, the students constructedcustom powertrains that can be housed in a gearbox. Then, a steering made up of a servo and a 1parallelogram linkage mechanism was designed and assembled. Finally, students manufactured acustom chassis to accommodate and support the weight of all the electronics (including sensors),the gearbox, and the steering mechanism. Towards the end of the course, the RC Cars designedand built by these groups are evaluated through testing on indoor tracks that requires the cars tomaintain structural integrity during the
microfossil assemblages allowstudents to apply their identification skills and have an insight into various applications ofmicropaleontology in research and industry. FossilSketch environment allows students to practiceand receive feedback in real-time with little to no instructor supervision.Study Goals and Research QuestionsThe main research goal of this project was to develop and evaluate the effectiveness ofFossilSketch and its impact on student learning experiences and knowledge retention.The following research questions were assessed: • RQ1: To what extent does student comprehension and retention of micropaleontology knowledge increase (or decrease) after using FossilSketch? • RQ2: To what extent does students’ interest in and
strengthen the sustainability of our project, in 2022 our teamexpanded the reach of the RDI by training leaders form five institutions across the US, namelyPenn State, UC Irvine, University of Florida, Iowa State and North Carolina A&T, who pilotedthe RDI in their institutions as part of their rounds of incoming student orientations. With thehelp of our team, each one of the collaborating institutions committed two leaders who oversawthe adaption and implementation of the RDI model to better meet their students’ needs, whileaiding their institutions’ efforts to support diversity, equity, and inclusion. When adjusting themodel, some leaders followed the 2-3 day-long workshop model of the original RDI, whileothers implemented it throughout the
. Her research interests include critical, antiracist science teaching that works to dismantle systems of oppression. Currently, she is a research assistant on the DRK12 project COVID Connects Us: Nurturing Novice Teachers’ Justice Science Teaching Identities, which uses design-based research to develop justice-centered ambitious science teaching practices with in-service science teachers. She also works on NSF projects that aim to improve equity in undergraduate STEM education, especially for students with LGBTQ+ identities. In addition, she is working in the Education Leadership department exploring student activism around issues of racial equity. Her former role as a high school science teacher and facilitator of
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
(VentureWell, 2019) where the Technical Lead (TL), usually a faculty member,provides the technical expertise necessary for the project; the Entrepreneurial Lead (EL), usuallya graduate student or postdoctoral researcher, is the full-time leader of the project; and an I-Corps Mentor (IM), a volunteer business advisor, consults on the project (Blank & Engel, 2016;National Science Foundation, 2019; VentureWell, 2019).During the time period we studied, the I-Corps Teams program involved seven weeks of onlineinstruction, and in-person classes at the beginning and end, when cohorts of teams assembled indifferent regions of the country (current and future classes are expected to be exclusivelyremote). Teams accepted into the program received $50,000
of failure. The impact of engineers’ values and ethics, aswell as the crucial role of diversity and inclusiveness on successful engineering design, will bediscussed in detail.”Course redesign, phase I: To meet the DIV requirement, a new learning module was initiallyproposed, accompanied by appropriate readings, assigned video content, and recorded lecturesincorporating a variety of case studies. In addition, specific learning outcomes on diversity andinclusiveness and an assignment focused on evaluating these learning outcomes were added, asper the description below. The evaluation of the final group project (developed as a PowerPointpresentation using VoiceThread as well as a written report) will also proposed to be modified toinclude
Associate Teaching Professor and the Vice-Chair for Undergraduate Education in the Computer Science and Engineering Department at UC San Diego. In addition to research related to Automata Theory and Computability education, she works on projects that support professionalization pathways for students, including industry internships, TA development, and ethics and communication. Her research and teaching have work has been supported by grants and awards from UC San Diego, NSF, and industry partners.Kristen Vaccaro, University of California San Diego Kristen Vaccaro is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Cali- fornia San Diego, where she is also a member of the Design Lab. Her
are Cyber Stars’ Daily Schedules Commented [1]: I added general schedules for both virtual and F2F programs.The program was designed to provide middle school female students with active learning experiences underthe guidance of graduate student facilitators and STEM faculty. In other words, our goal was to include anabundance of interactive activities and projects for participants to complete in small groups. The activitieswere related to everyday items students encounter in their homes to help with drawing connections betweenthe concepts learned in the classroom and real-world contexts. Students routinely
to test with a variety of different cell phones, in order to ensure that our device willwork on as many devices as possible. Finally, an ability for the phone to interact with GoogleVoice/Wi-Fi rather than a standard cell phone subscription would allow for no recurring costs onthe device, but we would need to test more with this in the future.AcknowledgementsWe would also like to thank the Northeastern University Department of Physics for financiallysupporting our experience at the ASEE-NE 2022 conference. The project was designed andconstructed for the class Electronics for Scientists.REFERENCES1. https://www.electronicshub.org/mobile-controlled-home-appliances-without-microcontroller/2. https://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-neopixel
drink, smoke, play, gym, swim, lazy, travel, current health, hobby, study time, mood, sleep 2 Life-Style 14 time, motivation 3 Family income level, marital status, number of sibling, support, father education, mother education 6 4 Peer-related classmates, group study, friends 5 5 Subject structure, grading, policy, textbook, midterm-grade, assignment, quiz, project, attendance
conceptualized as comprising two dimensions:leadership competence and policy control [16], [17]. Leadership competence encompasses one’sbeliefs about their skills for organizing and leading groups and policy control is a person’s beliefthey can influence decisions about policy in an organization or community [16]. Understandingcivil engineering undergraduate students' sociopolitical control beliefs may provide insight abouttheir agency to participate in activities that promote systemic change related to infrastructureinequities.MethodsParticipants and ProceduresStudy data for this project included survey responses to validated scales measuring: criticalconsciousness, system justification beliefs, social empathy, and sociopolitical control
of abilities required to succeed professionally in theinformation age. The top four of these skills include critical thinking, creative thinking,collaboration, and communication [1]. In a typical engineering education curriculum, criticalthinking is addressed effectively. Also, students develop their collaboration skills via project-basedcourses that have become increasingly widespread in engineering education in the last twodecades. Furthermore, communication skills are often addressed through the inclusion of atechnical communication course or by otherwise satisfying the communication component ofestablished general education requirements. Laboratory experiences and project-based coursesemphasize the development of technical communication
native of the Republic of Liberia. Growing up as a kid, he has always been interested in computers, how they work, and their evolving applications. As a result of his curiosity regarding the use of computers, he developed a strong desire to enter the engineering field, which supersedes the goal of just finding a steady job. He holds an MSc. in Computer Engineering and is very passionate about Engineering Education and its application in developing countries. Over the years, he had led several student-centered projects and programs that promote STEM Education and Innovation. Collins creates and uploads Tech-Education-related content via Facebook and YouTube helping others improve their technical skills and remain
practices in engineering education. His current duties include assessment, team development, outreach and education research for DC Colorado’s hands-on initiatives.Dr. Beverly Louie, University of Colorado Boulder Beverly Louie is the Faculty Advancement Research Associate in the University of Colorado Boulder’s College of Engineering and Applied Science. Formerly she was the Director for teaching and learning initiatives in the Broadening Opportunities through the Broadening Opportunity through Leadership and Diversity (BOLD) Center, Director for the Women in Engineering Program and senior instructor in en- gineering courses ranging from first-year projects and chemical engineering unit operations. She holds B.S
setting. Lab space was limited to~16-18 students per room, with two rooms available to the two sections of the lab. While themajority of students enrolled in the F2F section of the class, various restrictions and quarantineevents for students living on campus meant that a sizeable portion of students might beparticipating virtually during a given week. To accommodate the varying needs of all thesestudents, the introductory and expository portions of the course were streamed live and recordedvia the Zoom web conferencing platform. The instructor would deliver a prelab lecture and discussmaterial in one room with the content streamed live and projected in the second laboratory room.Students working remotely could follow along synchronously and all
,experimentation, and "learning by doing" to demolish the myth that STEM careers are only formen, encouraging more girls to participate. Colden, an academician from the School of PhysicalSciences, had a similar opinion, stating that face-to-face activities such as science fairs, wherehigh school students can carry out experiments and projects, are crucial to increasing interest inSTEM.SpeakersTo construct the interview protocol, the researchers of this study built a list of possible questionsthrough brainstorming. Then, considering the length of the interview, we categorized thequestions into themes and rephrased them to focus on the objective of the interview. Four mainthemes turned out to be the most important 1) culture and family, 2) professional
and include topics in structural engineering, earthquake engineering, construction man- agement, transportation engineering, and engineering education. She also advises the Student Chapters of the Society of Women Engineers (SWE) and the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) at New Mexico Tech.Ms. Janille A. Smith-Colin, Southern Methodist University Janille Smith-Colin is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and a Fellow of Caruth Institute for Engineering Education at Southern Methodist University (SMU). She also leads the Infrastructure Projects and Organizations Research Group at SMU, whose mission is to advance sustainability and resilience goals through
information, the General Causality Orientations Scale (GCOS) [6] score, andaspect of student learning, as it is how instructors communicate Exams, Quizzes, In-lab Activities, Lab Assignments, Projects, In-class Activities, Class Assignments, or self-identified feedback preferences. Students were recruited for themisconceptions or gaps in knowledge to learners [2] and therefore, a Other, allowing them to enter an additional activity used. Instructors could also select that they do not quantitative data collection in Fall 2020. This quantitative data was used toworthwhile and deserving focus
Paper ID #32956Equity, Engineering, and Excellence: Pathways to Student SuccessDr. Doris J. Espiritu, Wilbur Wright College Doris J. Espiritu, PhD is the Executive Director of the College Center of Excellence in Engineering and Computer Science and a professor of Chemistry at Wright College. Doris Espiritu is one of the first National Science Foundation’s research awardees under the Hispanic- Serving Institutions (HSI) Program. She pioneered Engineering at Wright and had grown the Engineering program enrollment by 700 % within two years of the NSF-HSI project. Doris founded six student chapters of national organizations
. They crossed paths at events on campus before attendingthe same open house session for the Ph.D. program. Once they enrolled in the same program,they were part of the same cohort where they took many of the same classes, were part of thesame project teams and reading groups, and eventually shared social circles. Through theseshared experiences, they started talking about their experiences with the Ph.D. program,including similar observations and commonalities. Their similar prior experiences withengineering (especially their prior M.S. degrees at Purdue) and the accompanying uneasecontributed to them interrogating their experiences further, which formed the seed for this work.ScopingWe find it important to note that we write about the soul of
One” in The Serial Pod- cast and Storytelling in the Digital Age (Routledge, 2016), ”Sweeney Todd as Victorian Transmedial Storyworld” and ”The Sympathy of Suspense: Gaskell and Braddon’s Slow and Fast Sensation Fiction in Family Magazines” (both in Victorian Periodicals Review (49.1: 2016, 49.3: 2016)). Her current book project examines the dynamics of transfictional characters in the British long nineteenth century.Dr. Duane Lewis Abata, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology Dr. Abata has worked in academia for over forty years at universities and with the Federal government around the country. He began his career at the University of Wisconsin, served as Associate Dean and Dean at Michigan Technological
students take a rigorous and intensive University course (e.g., chemistry,calculus) with other non-Summer Scholars participants, as well as a cohort-based elective(Engineering Projects, Research, or Professional Development). In addition to their coursework,students are mentored in successful student behaviors such as study skills and participate inactivities that promote community-building and growth as engineers (e.g., local industry visits).While Summer Scholars is open to all students, in-state, underrepresented students (concerningrace/ethnicity, gender, and rural counties) are targeted with special invitations and scholarships.Summer Scholars significantly differs from traditional summer bridge programs, as this programtargets students
motivated and thus are likely to experience an increase inappreciation for and interest in engineering.Team DynamicsEngineers are social workers who operate in teams with various skill levels and areas ofexpertise to solve complex, ill-defined problems. Engineering educators value group projects andteamwork-based activities for a number of reasons including needs to fulfill ABET standards andto prepare students to work in industry (Borrego et al., 2013). Successful team-based instructionemploys cooperative learning and includes four aspects: positive interdependence, individualaccountability, face-to-face interaction, and self-assessment of team functioning (Woods et al.,2000). Positive interdependence refers to all team members being responsible
developed new methods for imaging and tracking mitochondria from living zebrafish neurons. In her work for the EERC and Pitt-CIRTL, April Dukes collaborates on educational research projects and facilitates professional development (PD) on instructional and mentoring best practices for current and future STEM faculty. As an adjunct instructor in the Department of Neuroscience at the Univer- sity of Pittsburgh since 2009 and an instructor for CIRTL Network and Pitt-CIRTL local programming since 2016, April is experienced in both synchronous and asynchronous online and in-person teaching environments.Dr. Kurt E Beschorner, University of Pittsburgh Dr. Kurt Beschorner is an Associate Professor of Bioengineering at
developers.Faculty Development as Interdisciplinary Work In the work of faculty development, faculty developers bring their own disciplinarybackgrounds to their roles, collaborate across disciplines, and operate at disciplinary borderswithin institution-wide and discipline-specific academic units [1]. In this project, facultydevelopment is framed as interdisciplinary work where faculty developers work to integratemultiple perspectives towards creating educational solutions and supporting faculty and graduatestudents in the development of their teaching and learning practice. Within theseinterdisciplinary interactions, challenges and conflict may arise because academic disciplineshave different ways of seeing problems and different methods for problem
Paper ID #30846Women on the two-year transfer pathway in engineeringDr. Emily Knaphus-Soran, University of Washington Emily Knaphus-Soran is a Senior Research Scientist at the Center for Evaluation & Research for STEM Equity (CERSE) at the University of Washington. She works on the evaluation of several projects aimed at improving diversity, equity, and inclusion in STEM fields. She also conducts research on the social- psychological and institutional forces that contribute to the persistence of race and class inequalities in the United States. Emily earned a PhD and MA in Sociology from the University of Washington
their training for the professoriate. • Dissertation Advisors: They guide the Fellows on their research project, monitor and evaluate their academic and research performance, provide career advice and serve as role models. • Teaching Coaches: Faculty from the universities who develop and deliver the teaching training program. They also serve as teaching mentors to the Fellows. • Community College (CC) Mentors: These are STEM faculty at community colleges who introduce the H-AGEP Fellows to the culture of the CCs, and help them recognize the challenges and rewards of academic careers at their institutions. They also mentor the students during the teaching practicum at the community college.4.2 Academic