, alongside a significant proportion of assertive members who promoted teamcohesion and connection instead of personality conflicts. The team received an 87% rating forefficacy, with approximately 94% of team members attributing assertiveness-related qualities(confidence, decisiveness, and open communication) to the team’s success, as opposed topersonality conflicts and incompatibility. The implementation of the conceptual framework ofthis study will be beneficial when supervising other extensive STEM educational initiatives.AcknowledgementThis study is part of the work supported by the National Science Foundation Grant # 1915615,titled “Adapting an Experiment-centric Teaching Approach to Increase Student Achievementin Multiple STEM Disciplines.” It
opportunities for graduate school. As a result of these findings,we increased our outreach opportunities to allow students to discuss and explore the benefitsof graduate school to build the interest and self-efficacy of our target population. Further, weasked faculty members that work with the students to reach out to students individually andencourage them to apply. Using this approach, after identifying 79 eligible students, 38applications were received, 84% from our list of eligible students, and 63% from populationsunderrepresented in engineering.Problem One of NSF’s strategic objectives is fostering the growth of a more capable and diverseresearch workforce [1]. According to the recent National Academies of Sciences, Engineering,and Medicine
AC 2008-1089: COMPARISON OF TRADITIONAL AND INTEGRATED FIRSTYEAR CURRICULA - GRADUATION SUCCESS AND MBTI DISTRIBUTIONJ. Roger Parsons, University of Tennessee-Knoxville Roger Parsons is the Director of the Engineering Fundamentals Division and a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Tennessee. He was an original member of the Engage curriculum development team.Rachel McCord, University of Tennessee-Knoxville Rachel McCord is a graduate teaching assistant in the Engage freshman engineering program at the University of Tennessee. She has a Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering and is currently a second year student in a combined Master of Science/Master of Business
The portrayal of faculty wellbeing in popular media: a comparison of STEM vs non-STEM facultyFaculty are key players in the success of colleges and universities, performing the teaching, research,and service necessary to keep programs thriving. However, it is often challenging to balance theirmultiple commitments, resulting in lower motivation [1]. Such challenges are heightened for facultyfrom different marginalized groups [2]. The perceived challenges of faculty work, including those of poorwork-life balance, have been identified as a deterrent to new generations of graduate students topursue faculty careers [3]. In a large survey of graduate students at the University of California System, itwas identified that students’ career goals
for inhibiting their college success. For example,student-faculty interactions typically have a positive impact on the academic performance ofstudents, but Black students who interact more frequently with faculty are more likely toexperience racial discrimination [9], [10]. This racial discrimination is negatively linked withstudents’ retention, particularly in STEM fields. The on-campus social experiences of studentsfrom lower-social class households are different relative to their peers from higher-social classhouseholds, which contributes to differences in educational and career pathways of upper- andlower-social class students [11]. The students from the upper-social class consider their collegeenrollment period as an opportunity to
joining Carnegie Mellon University as a Teaching Faculty in August 2016. Dr. Bedillion’s research interests include distributed manipulation, control applications in data storage, control applications in manufacturing, and STEM education.John Ziadat, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology Mr. Ziadat received his Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from the South Dakota School of Mines & Technology (SDSM&T) in 2014 before going to work for Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) in Hawthorne, CA as a Mechanical Design Engineer. In 2015, his decision to pursue graduate studies in Mechanical Engineering led him back to SDSM&T, where his thesis topic involves the numer- ical simulation of ballistic
forthe sake of the institution’s reputation, the desire to protect their most prolific and well-knownscientists, and the fear of being sued by the targets of bullying” 31 . Furthermore, the kind of negativerelationship between PhD student and advisor discussed in Narrative 3 can be a major contributingfactor to a students’ decision to either leave the PhD program or to complete the PhD programbut abandon a faculty career 32 . A 2018 Nature editiorial stated “[we] will never know how manypromising scientific careers around the world have been brought to a premature end because youngresearchers felt they could not continue to work under a bullying senior figure” 33 . Another author of this work had a very similar experience in their previous
Paper ID #25241Exploring Parents’ Knowledge and Awareness of Engineering through Mid-dle School Students’ Summer CampsEmel Cevik, Texas A&M UniversityDr. Michael Johnson, Texas A&M University Dr. Michael D. Johnson is an associate professor in the Department of Engineering Technology and In- dustrial Distribution at Texas A&M University. Prior to joining the faculty at Texas A&M, he was a senior product development engineer at the 3M Corporate Research Laboratory in St. Paul, Minnesota. He received his B.S. in mechanical engineering from Michigan State University and his S.M. and Ph.D. from the
findings.For a number of years, several members of the American Society for Engineering Education(ASEE) thought that ASEE should engage in the recognition of educational qualifications if itwas to be a truly professional society. It was felt that ASEE had a professional responsibility toencourage all new engineering educators to gain an initial teaching qualification, not to beconfused with subsequent faculty development. There were no courses equivalent to IGIP [9] butthere were a few well established and recognized courses that were regularly offered (e.g. NETI)[10]. The opportunity to pursue this issue came when Professor Arnold Pears invited one of usto join him in presenting a one-day workshop on evidence-based teaching for persons with littleor
discussed the pros and cons of various gradingoptions (e.g., credit/no credit versus a regular grading scheme), tools for synchronous andasynchronous learning, and strategies for assessing learning. For example, in a late March facultymeeting, faculty spoke about a decision not to give any midterm exams and grappled with how toshow care for all the hardships and uncertainty students were experiencing, while also trying tofigure out how to monitor student learning. One faculty member said: “In the classroom setting,you can walk around and watch the students do a problem. [Online], how do I determine whetherthe students are actually working on material or not? That's, that's what I don’t have an answerfor.”At meetings from spring 2020 all the way to
sports with his wife, son, and dog.Dr. David B Knight, Virginia Tech David B. Knight is an Associate Professor and Assistant Department Head of Graduate Programs in the Department of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech. He is also Director of International Engagement in Engineering Education, directs the Rising Sophomore Abroad Program, and is affiliate faculty with the Higher Education Program. His research tends to be at the macro-scale, focused on a systems-level perspective of how engineering education can become more effective, efficient, and inclusive, tends to be data-driven by leveraging large-scale institutional, state, or national data sets, and considers the inter- section between policy and
AC 2011-788: SATISFACTION OF FEMALE FACULTY AT TWO-YEARSCHOOLSDavid A. Koonce, Ohio UniversityCynthia D. Anderson, Ohio University Cynthia Anderson is an Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of Graduate Studies at Ohio Uni- versity. In addition to research on community college faculty, Dr. Anderson has published research on inequality, labor markets, rural communities, and gender.Valerie Martin Conley, Ohio University Valerie Martin Conley is director of the Center for Higher Education, associate professor, and coordinator of the Higher Education and Student Affairs program at Ohio University. She is the PI for the NSF funded research project: Academic Career Success in Science and Engineering-Related
students in my classes 4.97 1.37share my same personal interests.I can relate to the people around 5.31 1.48me in my extra-curricularactivities.Table 2: AWE Exclusion and Isolation Ratings for Women in EngineeringThe only concern with respect to self-efficacy is for the item, “I can succeed in an engineeringcurriculum while not giving up participation in my outside interests (e.g. extracurricularactivities, family, sports),” where women rated their self-efficacy markedly lower than otheritems with only 40% of respondents agreeing or strongly agreeing with the item. These findingspoint out the challenges faced, even by high performing women, of maintaining a life
not to answer/Others 2 0 0 0Note: 1East Asian includes Chinese, Korean, Japanese, etc.; 2South Asian includes Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi,Sri Lankan, etc.; 3Fellowship/scholarship/grant indicates gifted monetary award that students do not need to repay;4 Self funded indicates personal finances and/or savings; 5Student loans indicate money borrowed from a financialinstitution that must be repaid; 6Others include money borrowed from family/friend with an expectation to repay orfrom parents, and foreign (non-U.S.) support.Data Analysis The first goal of this study—To understand similarities or differences in the student’sidentified stressors between engineering graduate student
, students use the political lens to map out stakeholder and team member positions on their master’s project o Harvard Business School case: “Thomas Green: Power, Office Politics and a Career in Crisis” which describes the challenges a new employee faces when confronting company politics• Power and Influencexxx,xxxi . o From John Kotter’s, Power and Influence, methods for when one does not have positional authority on developing reserves of "unofficial" power and influence to achieve goals, reduce conflict and gain cooperation o Case from Cohan and Bradford, Influence Without Authority, covers the lifetime story of an influential leader, Nettie Seabrooks, within a
context: an exploration of factors influencing the adoption of student-centered teaching among chemistry, biology, and physics faculty," International Journal of STEM Education, vol. 2, no. 1, p. 13, 2015/08/18 2015, doi: 10.1186/s40594-015-0026-8.[14] J. Michael, "Where's the evidence that active learning works?," Advances in Physiology Education, vol. 30, no. 4, pp. 159-167, 2006/12/01 2006, doi: 10.1152/advan.00053.2006.[15] E. J. Theobald et al., "Active learning narrows achievement gaps for underrepresented students in undergraduate science, technology, engineering, and math," Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 117, pp. 6476 - 6483, 2020.[16] K. A
career stages.14-16 St. Rose and her co-authors Catherine Hill, AmericanAssociation of University Women’s director of research, and Christianne Corbette, a researchassociate examined hundreds of studies and identified “eight factors that helped depress thenumbers of girls and women in STEM: beliefs about intelligence, stereotypes, self-assessment,spatial skills, the college student experience, university and college faculty, implicit bias, andworkplace bias.”17These factors manifest themselves in the fact that women are less likely to indicate an intentionto major in a STEM field. Despite the fact that girls and boys take math and science courses inroughly equal numbers during pre-university schooling, by the time they graduate college,women are
their career goals and how this degree was necessary to achieve them.Applicants would apply through an engineering department. Currently applicants apply directly tothe Doctor of Engineering in Engineering degree program. A minimum of one year of experienceis required, and an informal interview is conducted between the program director and the applicant.Additional elements to the application package include: a personal essay describing the applicant’scareer goals and interest in the Doctor of Engineering program, three letters of recommendation,resume, and transcripts. Two of the letters of recommendation must be from faculty at theinstitution who agree to serve on the student’s committee. It is important that students makeconnections and have
engineers for professional endeavors.Students have numerous career choices available to them after graduation, and there is anopportunity to teach students how to navigate these options and make decisions that align withtheir professional and personal values and goals. This paper describes the implementation of anew course entitled Pathways to Impact offered at a large university that was created with theformal objective of exposing students to various professional pathway options and decision-making considerations. This course serves to enhance student confidence in understanding thedifferent ways in which they can make an impact throughout their careers, all while creating alearning experience that aims to strengthen students’ entrepreneurial
. Page 22.1714.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Writing Challenges for Graduate Students In Engineering and TechnologyAbstractGraduate education for most students is the move to deeper exploration of knowledge throughpersonal involvement, primarily through research and writing. By thesis or directed project,many graduate programs in engineering and technology incorporate substantial written research-based projects into the master’s level curriculum to prepare graduates for professional careers orfor further study at the doctoral level. Students in the engineering and technology fields faceseveral challenges in moving to written projects of
Paper ID #37600Board 54A: Student Impacts from Outreach-based Flood Risk Research inRural Texas, USADr. Erick Butler, West Texas A&M Dr. Butler has graduated from Cleveland State University in Cleveland, Ohio with a BS in Environmental Science (2007), an MS in Environmental Engineering (2009), and a Dr. Eng. in Civil Engineering (2013). Currently, he is an Associate Professor of Environmental Engineering at West Texas A&M University in Canyon, Texas, an institution he has been working for since August 2013. He is a registered P.E. in the state of Louisiana. His research interests include geographic information
communication and presentation skills, and scholarlydiscussions of current technological or educational issues related to the students research interests.These first two aspects should also include the exploration of new ideas and issues.Courses and experiences needed in the technical area can be built into the student’s program of study.This characteristic is especially crucial to the college or university faculty member who sees the needfor technical competencies as part of the doctoral program. Individuals with the career intent ofteaching in the discipline of industrial technology, at the collegiate level, will find ample opportunityto take technical courses and gain experiences to build upon their previous degree work and upontheir teaching
Paper ID #15266Student Persistence Through Uncertainty Toward Successful Creative Prac-ticeNajla Mouchrek, Virginia Tech Designer, Doctoral Student in the Individualized Interdisciplinary PhD in Human Centered Design at Vir- ginia Tech. Master in Design at the Graduate Program in Design, Innovation and Sustainability, School of Design, University of the State of Minas Gerais, Brazil. Bachelor in Social Communication at the Faculty of Philosophy and Human Sciences, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil. Her current research fo- cus on the application of co-creation and participatory design activities on education
Paper ID #9063Developing engineers who lead: Are student, faculty and administrator per-spectives aligned?Lt. Col. Brian J Novoselich P.E., Virginia Tech Brian Novoselich is an active duty Lieutenant Colonel in the United States Army and currently a Ph.D. student in the Department of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech. His is a former assistant professor at the United States Military Academy. His dissertation research interest is undergraduate student leadership development in capstone design teams.Dr. David B Knight, Virginia Tech Department of Engineering Education David Knight is an Assistant Professor in the
Paper ID #12518Supporting Students’ Plans for STEM Careers: How Prepared are HighSchool Educators in Appalachia to Help?Dr. Cheryl Carrico, Virginia Tech Cheryl Carrico is a Postdoctoral Research faculty member for Virginia Tech. Her current research fo- cus relates to STEM career pathways (K-12 through early career) and conceptual understanding of core engineering principles. Prior to her current role, Dr. Carrico spent over 25 years in the aerospace in- dustry conducting and leading R&D, design engineering, and project management for composite aircraft components. Dr. Carrico received her B.S. in chemical engineering
Paper ID #18274Impact of a Biomedical Engineering Undergraduate Research Program onStudent and Faculty Perceptions of CreativityMegan Huffstickler, Pennsylvania State University Megan Huffstickler is an Educational Psychology graduate student at Penn State who is interested in student learning in STEM fields.Dr. Sarah E. Zappe, Pennsylvania State University, University Park Dr. Sarah Zappe is Senior Research Associate and Director of Assessment and Instructional Support in the Leonhard Center for the Enhancement of Engineering Education at Penn State. She holds a doctoral degree in educational psychology emphasizing applied
Paper ID #13330Exploring the Interest and Intention of Entrepreneurship in Engineering AlumniMiss Janna Rodriguez, Stanford University Janna Rodriguez is a third year PhD student in Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University. Her re- search focus on exploring how engineering students, both undergraduates and graduates, can be prepared to become entrepreneurs and innovators in the corporate sector.Dr. Helen L. Chen, Stanford University Helen L. Chen is a research scientist in the Designing Education Lab in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Director of ePortfolio Initiatives in the Office of the
drop an organization," like, Why do you do this?" like, "It's not important to do all this stuff," and it really actually gets me kind of angry just because ... or sometimes let's say I want to do a new leadership role and one of the cons that they'll do for me is kind of like too overly involved and I get why that can be a negative thing if your work ethic is not there and you can't manage it all, but I think judging a person for being really involved as a negative instead of a positive is something...it's like a button that people push on me. Here Alex expresses her exasperation with faculty members judging students based on their involvement in OCCAs or thinking that they cannot handle their
Paper ID #9370Middle School Curricular Materials on Grand Challenges for Engineering:Impact on Efficacy and Expectancy BeliefsDr. Kimberly A.S. Howard, Boston University Dr. Kimberly Howard is an Associate Professor in Counseling Psychology in the Boston University School of Education.Mr. Jacob William Diestelmann, University of Wisconsin - MadisonTsu-Lun HuangLauren E AneskavichMr. Kevin ChengBenjamin Bryan Crary, University of Wisconsin - MadisonJean DeMerit, UW–MadisonTam Mayeshiba, University of Wisconsin-Madison Tam Mayeshiba is a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow/graduate student in the Ma- terials
Mexican-descent youth in the mid-20th century.Kathryn Watson Kathryn is a doctoral student at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs. Her work as a graduate research assistant for the National Science Foundation Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate focuses on diversifying STEM education.Valerie Martin Conley (Dean) © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.com Sacrifice: Messages STEM Postdoctoral Scholar Women Receive about Career and FamilyAbstractAn instrumental case study (Stake, 1995) explored the messages STEM postdoctoral scholarwomen receive about balancing an academic