. Following military service, Michael obtained a Bachelor of Sci- ence in Engineering degree from Arizona State University, graduating in 2013. His research and service interests include veterans in engineering, veterans with service-connected disability, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and human sex trafficking.Dr. Nadia N. Kellam, Arizona State University Dr. Nadia Kellam is Associate Professor in the Polytechnic Engineering Program at Arizona State Uni- versity. Prior to this position, she was an Associate Professor at the University of Georgia, where she was co-director of the interdisciplinary engineering education research Collaborative Lounge for Un- derstanding Society and Technology through Educational
institutions to advance work on project-based learning. She believes project- based learning holds significant potential for increasing the diversity of students who succeed in college and who persist in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields, and she views her work with the Center as contributing to education reform from the inside out. She holds an M.A. in Developmental Psychology from Clark University and a B.A. in Psychology from Case Western Reserve University. Her background includes working in the field of education evaluation, where she focused primarily on the areas of project-based learning; STEM; pre-literacy and literacy; student life; learning communities; and professional development. She has
. Ashleigh Wright, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Ashleigh R. Wright, PhD is the Associate Director of the Institute for Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Access and Assistant Teaching Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the Grainger College of Engineering. She is responsible for collaborating with college and departmental leaders and stakeholders to identify needs and priorities, developing and implementing evidence-based strategies, and measuring progress and effectiveness quantitatively against key metrics that promote diversity, equity, inclusion, and access to the undergraduate and graduate student communities. She also conducts research that analyzes trends, driving factors
Engineering Department at the University Nevada Reno. After completing her PhD in Engineering Education at Virginia Tech in 2015, Dr. Cross worked as a post-doctoral researcher with the Illinois Foundry for Innovation in Engineering Education and in the Department of Bioengineering with the Revolutionizing Engineering Departments (RED) grant at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Dr. Cross’ scholarship investigated stu- dent teams in engineering, faculty communities of practice, and the intersectionality of multiple identity dimensions. Her research interests include diversity and inclusion in STEM, intersectionality, teamwork and communication skills, assessment, and identity construction. Her teaching
mandatory in-class activity sheets were developed and used for teaching each of the 55 concepts. This paperpresents the details of the KACIE model and its impact on fluid mechanics instruction bycomparing relevant data from the Fall 2015 control semester when the same course was offeredin a traditional teaching environment. The results show that the media-rich KACIE interventionin an HBCU has significantly improved students’ academic engagement and success,substantially reduced failure rate, and enhanced their critical thinking ability. I. INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND Twenty-first century engineering education in the US has benefited greatly from the attentionand fresh thinking in recent years, yet it continues to
. A member of the Grand Portage Band of the Lake Superior Chippewa Jordan obtained both his Masters of Community & Regional Planning and Bachelors of Media Arts from the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque where he lives with his wife and three daughters.Mr. Nicolai Loner, University of New Mexico c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Asset-based design projects in a freshman level courseAbstractThis Complete Research paper describes how we identified diverse student assets and redesigneda first year course to develop professional engineering identity. Despite many efforts to diversifyengineering, first-generation college attendees, non-traditional students, and students
. Ross, Florida International University Monique Ross, Assistant Professor in the School of Computing and Information Sciences and STEM Transformation Institute at Florida International University, designs research focused on broadening par- ticipation in computer science through the exploration of: 1) race, gender, and disciplinary identity; 2) discipline-based education research (with a focus on computer science and computer engineering courses) in order to inform pedagogical practices that garner interest and retain women (specifically Black and His- panic women) in computer-related engineering fields. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021
provide hands-on, real-world learning; a combination of technicaland professional skills; and opportunities for new experiences and coursework. Improvementscan be made in community building, access to possible career information, better marketing toemployers, and more mentoring opportunities.IntroductionThe demand for engineers and other STEM related occupations is increasing [1], yet therecruitment and retention of students to their engineering programs continue to be a source ofpressure for universities [2, 3]. Currently there is limited research concerning how and whystudents choose certain engineering degrees, which becomes an issue as universities compete todraw in more students through innovative engineering programs. More recently, there
. In developing the intervention activities, the investigative team consideredbest practices from a large body of literature on improving the retention and graduation rates ofunderrepresented minority students in STEM to address the following research question:Research Question. Does peer-led team learning through recitation labs in engineering coursesincrease students’ mathematics confidence, mathematics efficacy, engineering identity, andpersistence in engineering pathways?The team constructed the activities based on studies that highlighted the need for active andcollaborative learning environments to engage underrepresented minorities, specifically femalestudents, in engineering fields. These activities had high indicators for support to
University-Main Campus, West Lafayette (College of Engineering) Monica E. Cardella is a Professor of Engineering Education at Purdue University.Natali Huggins, Natali Huggins is a PhD student in the Higher Education program at Virginia Tech. She holds a master’s in public administration from the National Experimental University of T´achira in Venezuela. She has sev- eral years of experience in higher education administration and internal audit in Venezuela. Her research interests include diversity and inclusion in graduate education, particularly international and Latinx grad- uate students’ persistence and development. She is interested in supporting students in their transition and adaptability to higher education in
self-esteem, self-efficacy, and effective self-advocacy; - community building with other students with disabilities as an opportunity to support and share strategies for success with one another; and - community building in groups of diverse learners (with and without disabilities) to teach and promote true inclusivity (this should also involve personal skills development opportunities for students without disabilities). • Create stronger partnerships with high schools to: - promote engineering and other STEM fields to educators, administrators, and counselors as viable options for students with disabilities
, June 2016.[3] D. L. Jackson and F. S. Laanan, “Desiring to fit: Fostering the success of community college transfer students in STEM,” Community College Journal of Research and Practice, vol. 39, no. 2, pp. 132–149, July 2014. doi:10.1080/10668926.2012.762565[4] A. L. Zuckerman and S. M. Lo, “Transfer Student Experiences and Identity Navigation in STEM: Overlapping Figured Worlds of Success.” CBE life sciences education, 20(3), ar48, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1187/cbe.20-06-0121[5] B. K. Townsend and K. Wilson “A hand hold for a little bit: Factors facilitating the success of community college transfer students to a large research university,” Journal of College Student Development, August 2016, https
student characteristics and issues that help low-income,academically talented students with demonstrated financial need succeed; and (3) To transfer theknowledge gained through this study to improve the delivery of engineering education to abroader population of students. The state of Nevada seeks economic diversification, with a visionto develop a strong, flexible and educated workforce, which begins with skilled, talented, anddiverse engineers to fill high-tech positions. CREATE will change the propagating effects onsociety of poverty resulting from poor education by producing graduates to work in regional andnational industry through existing strong partnerships between the College of Engineering andindustry as well as by preparing these
continueto develop ML/AI educational programming in response to the growing demand: promotingmeaningful social connection, defining and sharing numerous pathways within ML/AI, and thinkingcarefully about building programming confidence and avoiding the weed-out effect.Prior work has shown that social belonging intervention through worksheet-style materials improvedperformance, confidence, health, and social engagement, particularly for women and Black studentsin engineering and CS [48], [49]. Our study proposes a potential alternative form of social belongingintervention through diverse opportunities for social connection. Extroverted individuals may enjoyweekly socials, but introverted individuals may prefer 1-on-1 mentorship. Institutions should
and behavior of con- crete structures; and he is actively involved within the professional engineering community. Furthermore, Dr. Tuchscherer has also supervised sponsored research and educational reform initiatives related to the improvement of student learning.Dr. Ron Gray, Northern Arizona University Ron Gray, Ph.D. is an assistant professor of science education in the Center for Science Teaching and Learning at Northern Arizona University. He graduated from Oregon State University with a doctorate in science education. His work largely focuses on providing secondary science teachers the tools to design and implement learning experiences for their students that are effective and authentic to the discipline
redlining and underbounding. While the environmental justice movement hasmade great strides in incorporating public health research into these issues, there has been lesseffort focused on integrating environmental engineering training into the movement. This paperdescribes research on developing and implementing a suite of integrated, interdisciplinary,community-engaged, anti-racism training opportunities for civil and environmental engineeringundergraduates to build capacity for addressing environmental justice challenges. For this project,we integrate environmental engineering, applied anthropology, and Science TechnologyEngineering and Mathematics (STEM) education to redesign existing civil and environmentalengineering courses to include
Education, 2020 A Construction Management Competition as the Basis of a Capstone Culminating EventCulminating design events serve as a hallmark of most undergraduate engineering programs.This paper presents a case study of a novel approach to conduct a compressed-timeframeculminating event just prior to graduation. The event is designed to leverage best practices inliterature related to team-building, competitions, student leadership, real-project case studies, andhigh-impact practices. The culminating event takes place at the conclusion of a two-semestercapstone sequence. In the middle of this two-semester sequence, 12 students from a class ofroughly 40-50 participate in the intercollegiate Associated Schools of
, respectively in 2008 and 2009. Before joining the University of Illinois, she has held a post-doctoral position in INRIA at Nancy (France), and she was an Assistant Professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and at the City College of New York (CUNY).Dr. Kelly J. Cross, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Dr. Cross completed her doctoral program in Engineering Education at Virginia Tech in 2015 and is currently working as a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is involved with multiple educational research projects with faculty and graduate students at UIUC. Her research interests include diversity and inclusion, teamwork skills, assessment, and identity
students' engineering self-efficacy during their first two years ofstudy? (3) What approaches are used by the faculty when implementing the model that leads todeveloping students' research skills (laboratory research skills followed by publication) – acommunity of practice, engagement with students outside the classroom, etc.? It will also developa community of practice for faculty to apply the model to other underrepresented STEMundergraduates.The project adapted the Affinity Research Group (ARG) Model, developed at the University ofTexas, El Paso, a Hispanic Serving Institution, which adapted the model to benefit thosetraditionally underrepresented students in higher education with differing abilities inundergraduate computing programs. The
Paper ID #36974Creating a Blueprint for Success in First-Year ComputingProf. Frank Kreimendahl, Wentworth Institute of Technology Frank Kreimendahl is an assistant professor in the School of Computing and Data Science at Wentworth Institute of Technology. He is focused on teaching computer science fundamentals and building stronger resources for student learning. He aims to bring interest and competence to algorithm-driven problem solving in the classroom.Durga Suresh-Menon ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Creating a Blueprint for Success in First-Year
recently, Cechidentified a pervasive “culture of disengagement” in her pioneering study of four engineeringdegree programs, with student concerns and commitments related to public welfare decliningconsiderably during their years of undergraduate education.13Another strand of the literature has reported on efforts to measure how educational interventionsfocused on social and ethical responsibility specifically impact students. As Colby and Sullivannote, formal coursework/curricula and community-based learning are among the leadingstrategies used to teach engineering ethics and related topics.16 Regarding the former, a study byLoui reported modest increases in DIT-2 scores after engineering students were exposed to avideo-based case study of on an
faculty of Wayne State University for 25 years, where she developed and implemented both undergraduate and graduate programs in biomedical engineering and helped to establish a department of biomedical engineering. Her endowed professorship at MSU focuses on research to increase the success of students in engineering through creative pedagogical techniques. Dr. Grimm completed her B.S. in Biomedical Engineering and Engineering Mechanics at The Johns Hopkins University in 1990 and her Ph.D. in Bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania in 1994. She has just finished a 3-year rotation as a program director for three BME-related programs at the Na- tional Science Foundation. During this time, she served as co
research interests include development of self- concept/identity/professional development in college students, imagination/creativity, reading for plea- sure, and maltreatment/foster care in economically, linguistically, and culturally diverse samples.Dr. Belle Wei, San Jose State University Belle Wei is Carolyn Guidry Chair in Engineering Education and Innovative Learning at San Jos´e State University (SJSU). Previous roles include: Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs at California State University, Chico; a decade of service as the Don Beall Dean of Engineering in the Charles W. Davidson College of Engineering at SJSU; faculty member of SJSU since 1987; and visiting Associate Professor at Stanford
University, Berks Campus Sadan Kulturel-Konak is a professor of Management Information Systems and the director of the Flem- ming Creativity, Entrepreneurship and Economic Development (CEED) Center at Penn State Berks. She received her Ph.D.in Industrial and Systems Engineering (Auburn Univ.)Dr. Abdullah Konak, Pennsylvania State University, Berks Campus Dr. Abdullah Konak is a Distinguished Professor of Information Sciences and Technology at the Penn- sylvania State University, Berks. Dr. Konak also teaches graduate courses in the Master of Science in Cybersecurity Analytics and Operations program at the College of Information Sciences and Technology, Penn State World Campus. Dr. Konak’s primary research interest focuses
• deliver relevant and challenging educational programs to attract an outstanding diverse student body • prepare graduates for rewarding careers in their chosen professions and encourage graduates to extend their level of knowledge through lifelong learning • conduct leading edge research advances engineering science and stimulate the intellectual development and creativity of both students and faculty, • extend exemplary engineering service and transfer knowledge that contributes to the well- being and betterment of society. In order to broaden participation in engineering, UNL COE will broaden the admission reviewprocess to deemphasize student test scores and to
are excluded from participation bycultural and structural elements of the teams. This paper offers recommendations to advisors,departments, and engineering educators about the scaffolding necessary to offer more authenticlearning opportunities and build teams that are more diverse.IntroductionThe development of individual skills such as leadership and communication along withopportunities for collaborating with diverse individuals in a team environment are consideredessential to prepare undergraduate engineering students to meet the grand challenges facingsociety.1, 2 This consideration is informed by the global need for engineers who can workeffectively toward solving complex issues in an increasingly diverse yet inter-connected
of New York at New Paltz Bianca Bermudez is a senior at SUNY New Paltz pursuing a BS in Mechanical Engineering. She has a strong interest in CAD modeling and 3D-Printing (additive manufacturing) and is actively developing her skills in these areas. She enjoys participating in research and is eager to explore the practical applications of engineering and emerging manufacturing technologies.Shaima Herzallah, State University of New York at New Paltz Shaima Herzallah is a dedicated student at the State University of New York at New Paltz, pursuing a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering, with an expected graduation date in May 2026. Throughout her studies, she has gained hands-on experience through academic
Paper ID #212802018 CoNECD - The Collaborative Network for Engineering and ComputingDiversity Conference: Crystal City, Virginia Apr 29Promoting Inclusivity in Computing (PINC) via Computing Application Mi-norProf. Ilmi Yoon, SFSU Professor Ilmi Yoon, Professor of Computer Science at San Francisco State University (SFSU), is an expert in gamification and game development, particularly in interactive media, 3D over the Internet, and network information visualization. She has developed ”DeBugger” Multiplayer Online Game for Educating Computer Science since 2011 and started to focus on various computational education research
and observation of student confidence in the labs willgage the total success of teaching manufacturing for a large class.ReferencesGroup Cell 1) Leighbody G.B. and Kidd D.M., Methods of Teaching Shop and Technical Subjects, Delmar publisher, 1966. 2) Nowak, M.L., Identification of Teaching Strategies and Leaning Activities for Manufacturing Technology Education Programs, Dissertation, Texas A&M University, 1988. 3) Miller M.R., Strategies for Developing an Exemplary Program in Manufacturing Engineering Technology, Dissertation, Texas A&M University, 1993. 4) Nelson M.S., Technical Competencies for Entry-Level Manufacturing Engineering Technologists for the Year 2000, Dissertation, Texas A&M
provide an important bridge between education and employment inengineering and providing marketable skills is a major function of the experience [1]. There isgrowing consensus around capstone projects as a potential site for teaching students professionalskills, such as problem solving and teamwork [2]. Yet there remains a gap in skills betweenemployer expectations and the graduates they hire [3], suggesting that not all capstone coursesare providing sufficient support for developing these skills. For example, [4] found limitedgrowth in professional skills in small, short-term project experiences.One potential amplifier of developing professional skills is self-efficacy. The central premisebehind self-efficacy theory is that having knowledge and