) educators have soughtinnovative ways for integrating technology in teaching and learning to engage and build theinterest of secondary school students in STEM disciplines as well as to capture their imaginationabout STEM careers. Recent technological advancements have allowed design, development,and commercialization of low-cost mini unmanned aerial vehicles (MUAV) that offer a noveland ideal platform to support STEM disciplines in high school classrooms.1 This paper focuseson one illustrative example wherein four sections of a 9th grade quantitative research course,consisting of 25 to 30 students each, were engaged by a graduate researcher through an ARParrot 2.0 (see Figure 1) MUAV-based lab activity, which considered the research question“How
forindividual engineers to prepare for their professional careers. The approachable writing style andreflective nature of the content make this text ideal for any level of engineering student, but it isparticularly salient for first- or second-year students.Giving Voice to Values (GVV)The GVV curriculum was pioneered by Mary Gentile, former professor with the University ofVirginia School of Business, for application in business. GVV takes an “action-orientedapproach” to values-driven leadership.11 We selected GVV for the Engineering Ethics coursebecause many graduating engineering students will one day step into leadership roles in businessorganizations. A significant body of GVV content is delivered by Gentile as pre-recordedmodules, developed for a
variousproject teams and students who participate in the competition. The selectivity to reach the semi-finals by winning either the quarter-finals or the wild-card competition is 45%. To rise to thefinal stage of the competition, teams have about 9% chance. Only 3% of all teams, a total of 28students in the past two years, won a top Prize.We wished to establish whether the number of presenters per team had an effect on pitchsuccess. We observed a trend in recent years that having more than one person represent theteam lessened the memorization load per team member. The typical pitch, where one personrepresents the team, can still be very effective in providing a consistent story, as demonstrated bythe second elevator pitch winner of 2019, Castle Point
Paper ID #11794Developing the Postsecondary Student Engagement Survey (PosSES) to Mea-sure Undergraduate Engineering Students’ Out of Class InvolvementDr. Denise Rutledge Simmons PE, Virginia Tech Dr. Denise R. Simmons, PE, is an assistant professor in the Myers-Lawson School of Construction and in Civil & Environmental Engineering Department, and an affiliate faculty of the Department of Engineering Education at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. She holds a B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. in civil engineering and a graduate certificate in engineering education – all from Clemson University. Until 2012
career REU person participants and/or graduate education plans; Suggestions for REU program improvement Changes in REU students’ skill levels; Interviews with Experiences and challenges in working Administered in After completion of mentoring with students; Benefits obtained from person and over REU faculty REU collaboration; Suggestions for REU the phone
leadership elective at theUniversity of Toronto: Systems Mapping for Complex Problems. The paper offers observationsfrom the first two offerings of the course based on student assignments and semi-structuredinterviews conducted with students, augmented by instructor reflections. Our goal is to motivatefurther exploration in connecting leadership and systems thinking in the context of engineeringprograms.Systems ThinkingDonella Meadows, an early leader in the systems thinking movement, defined a system as “a setof things interconnected in such a way that they produce their own pattern of behavior over time”[12]. Her work focused on sustainability; as the lead author on “Limits to Growth,” Meadowshad a deep appreciation for the complexity of
necessary to develop impactful, innovative, and successfulengineering solutions [9]–[11].In addition to preparing engineering students to successfully address modern engineeringproblems, the inclusion of comprehensive engineering skills in the curriculum has implicationsfor students’ engagement and persistence in the field. Students’ engagement in their field as wellas their plans to pursue an engineering career or engineering graduate education is determined inpart by an alignment between their personal and professional interests and values in engineeringand curricular messages about what engineering practice includes. For some students, thepotential to leverage engineering for social good is a key motivation for pursuing work in thefield [12
is to retain and graduate at least 95% of these scholars.To enhance the success of these scholars, a zero-credit six-week orientation course wasdeveloped in Fall 2017 focusing on four dimensions of student wellness: academic, financial,social, and personal. This paper describes the development of this course, its content, and themodifications that were made to the course for Fall 2018.The paper will also address the research conducted in order to generate knowledge about theprogram elements that will be essential for the success of vertical transfer programs at otheruniversities. Two research instruments are described: an online survey and a focus groupinterview that were developed, and administered to the transfer scholars in their first
capital, and researchers’ schema development through the peer review process. Dr. Benson is an American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Fellow, and a member of the European Society for Engineering Education (SEFI), American Educational Research Association (AERA) and Tau Beta Pi. She earned a B.S. in Bioengineering (1978) from the University of Vermont, and M.S. (1986) and Ph.D. (2002) in Bioengineering from Clemson University. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Understanding Needs of Undergraduate Engineering Students Who View Degree Attainment as “Transactional”AbstractThis research paper explores the story of an undergraduate engineering student who
career and manage a project which requires developing anumber of soft skills, such as interpersonal, marketing, and communications 14. In order to be atrue engineering leader, engineering students must possess technical and nontechnical soft skills,which would give them an edge in the workplace 13. They must possess skills such as written andoral communication, customer relations, personal initiative, teamwork abilities, organizationalknowledge, and decision making that will facilitate the development of solutions to businesschallenges, to be effective leaders 15.According to the NAE (2004), “engineers must understand the principles of leadership and beable to practice them in growing proportions as their careers advance”. Engineers need
slate of programs to address diversifying goals on multiple frontsgreatly vary. Decisions about which K-12 activities to offer range from whether to host small tolarge size events, the design of an activity with respect to the appeal for younger, high school,minority and/or women students and whether to host it on campus or at a local school. Creatingand executing retention initiatives to support students once on campus may involve determiningthe amount of scholarship support necessary, teaching strategies to help students build anacademic community and maintaining pathways to involve more diverse students in research.An institution’s diversity slate may include individual projects resulting from faculty grants thatcreate a one-time outreach or
and adapted by other instructors, and integrated intotheir own courses and/or GCSP, to reach an even broader audience.The on-ground version of this course uses a lot of active learning techniques and is discussion-based, incorporating activities such as mind mapping, debates, role-play-based simulation,design challenges, and case studies, to help students explore and understand the interdisciplinarynature of the complex global challenges. Additional detail on the on-ground version of the coursecan be found in [2]. This high level of in-person, active learning posed the biggest challenge totranslate to the MOOC. Therefore, in addition to reaping the benefit of modularization forportability, there was also a strong focus and intent on making
terms of providing career development support forstudents in STEM, the way the departments are combined (e.g., professional versus non-professional) could dictate the values of top-level administrators and influence how theyconstruct possible solutions/interventions and how final decisions are implemented. Theprofessional nature of the engineering field may have a sizable impact on the extent to whichcollege administrators decide to create an engineering-specific career fair to provide access tointernship opportunities in the same way a college of science may prioritize undergraduateresearch to prepare its students for graduate studies or other professional schooling.Exo (Institutional) LevelAt the exo (or institutional) level, the type of
paper describes an effort to replicate best practices at Sam Houston State University in theimplementation of a cross-disciplinary course designed to provide students from diversedemographics with a more effective ramp into undergraduate research. The specific aim of thecourse was to provide students from diverse backgrounds with a curriculum designed to buildcommunity, introduce students to research faculty, and to counteract a perceived lack of researchreadiness. The student learning goals for the course included providing opportunities for studentsto: study key historical examples of excellent research; interact with faculty researchers whoperform projects across the STEM disciplines; and to explore the similarities and differencesbetween
engineering majors of interest to the larger project (namely, biomedical,chemical, mechanical, and electrical and computer engineering). Potential participants weregiven a link to an online survey, asking them to help the university prepare the next generation ofengineering students [27].Survey InstrumentThe survey instrument was divided into three sections: (1) characterizing the participants' post-baccalaureate pathways; (2) describing their experiences with and beliefs about engineering; and(3) collecting personal information about participants, including their demographics. First, tocharacterize career pathways, we asked participants to identify the number of career positionsthat they have experienced, including educational opportunities and
is the assessment chair and study abroad advisor for her department, the freshman director of the Civil Engineering Division for ASEE, and is the chair of the Continuing Education Committee for the Geo-Institute.Mrs. Kathleen Louise NazarPaul Bonfanti, Villanova University Paul Bonfanti is the Director of Planning and Policy Analysis for Villanova University. In that capacity, he performs quantitative and qualitative research and analysis for the University to inform policy and support strategic decision making. He also serves as an adjunct faculty member in the University’s Department of Public Administration, teaching Non Profit Management and Research and Analysis
. She has amassed over a decade of experience inthe field of education and has been bestowed the honor of “Outstanding Research”, “Diversity Efforts”and “Faculty Endowed Recognition” awards. Her career spans international borders and has includedroles in educational research, program administration, higher education accreditation and K-12teaching. Dr Benjamin's research agenda explores minoritized student experiences, doctoraleducation, and, presently, engineering education.Jerrod A Henderson, PhD is an Assistant Professor in the Cullen College of Engineering at theUniversity of Houston (UH) and the Director of the Program for Mastery in Engineering Studies. Heresearches engineering student success and engineering identity development among
Excellence in Engineering Network at UNT advised by industry and academia. She is an alumni of Leadership Texas (Class of 2013).Hector R. Siller, University of North Texas Dr. Siller is Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of North Texas. He holds a Ph.D. degree in Technology Innovation from Jaume I University, Spain and holds a master and a bachelor’s degree from Monterrey Tech, Mexico, in the fields of Manufacturing and Mechanical Engineering, respectively. His research areas include advanced manufacturing processes, additive manufacturing, micro-manufacturing, and metrology. During his career he has advised more than 30 graduate students and has published around 60 research
education, deaf education, and online learning. She is a co-PI on RIT’s NSF ADVANCE IT project, Connect@RIT, and leads grant activities in the Human Resources strategic approach area.Prof. Sharon Patricia Mason, Rochester Institute of Technology Professor Sharon Mason is an Associate Professor in the Department of Information Sciences and Tech- nology at RIT where she has served on the faculty since 1997. Sharon has been involved in computing security education at RIT since its inception. She is the PI of for the Department of Defense (DoD) In- formation Assurance Scholarship Program (IASP) awards to RIT. These scholarships enable students to study and do research in graduate programs in security, forensics and information
each participant’s responses.The inter-rater reliability between the two research team members on the coding of studentresponses was strong, with a Cohen’s Kappa value of 0.788 where a value above 0.750 indicatesa strong agreement above chance [18].Results and DiscussionThis study focused on answering the research question: is game-based learning an effectivemeans of introducing engineering to middle school students?Based on these worksheet responses it was concluded that students demonstrated awareness andknowledge about women in engineering fields, engineering concepts and principles, andengineering career paths and linked knowledge of these concepts back to their gameplay. Out ofthe 14 responses collected to the prompt “Recall something you
members impact student success [21]. Further, studentretention in their major is impacted by the quality of academic advising received [22]. Thedisconnect between degree and employment for ET students perceive a lower career availabilityfor these students, causing them to switch majors, a suggestion backed up by a study showingthat career availability is closely linked to student retention [23].Peer mentoring has been shown to increase both retention and self-esteem among collegestudents [24]. Campus mentors provide students with helpful information that can equip studentswith skills to deal with academic challenges and can help students make decisions, as shown in astudy of first-generation college students [25]. Thus, in general, the support
: 57% male and 43% female. Most interviewees were faculty with variousengineering, education, and entrepreneurship backgrounds.Interviews were conducted remotely via video conferencing by two research team members, whowere trained with uniform interview objectives and skills. Interviews were conductedindependently at scheduled times and varied from 20-40 minutes in length. The completerecordings of the interviewee responses to these questions were transcribed into text andunderwent an initial coding of analysis. Questions touched on several areas, including personalmentor experience, motivation and practices as a mentor, structure of innovative programs,impacts and challenges of student innovation programs and competitions, and suggestions
fields, such as advisors, faculty members, internshipsupervisors, employers, administrators, volunteer/community activities, seminars/workshops,and conferences. The pathway to graduate school strategy was intended to encourage allpromising undergraduate students to apply for graduate school and assisted them in creating aportfolio which would make them competitive to receive financial support.The three key issues that negatively impact student success in engineering are 1) inadequateacademic preparedness from high school, 2) inability of students to adapt socially to their newenvironment, and 3) having no prior understanding of the expected workload or level ofcommitment required of an engineering or engineering technology curriculum. These
off-campus are at a higher risk of attrition,delayed degree completion, and disconnect from the institution [20, 21]. Additionally, the program fosteredprofessional networking, supported the attendance of conferences, and advocated for the participants inapplying for internships by providing recommendation letters. Internships have been shown as bothpowerful career boosters and a catalyst for subsequent positive academic outcomes. Particularly, studiesshow that they improve the retention and graduation of engineering students. Studies also show thatinternships can be crucial to developing an identity as a STEM professional [22, 23]. iii) Skills DevelopmentSkill is defined as proficiency in the application of knowledge. The I-RISE
explored the tremendous potential of ITS in providing a student-centeredlearning experience to undergraduate and graduate engineering students. Essentially, we intendedto give the engineering students an experience of learning sketching at their own pace and tim-ing and replicate the experience of having a human tutor. Sketching is a valuable skill for en-gineering students, and also difficult for instructors to teach and provide individual attention tostudents. Students receive real-time personalized feedback on the sketches they draw using theITS. Through this study, we got an opportunity to gather details about user experiences from bothgraduate and undergraduate engineering students from three diverse institutions. A statisticallysignificant
Minority Engineering Program and the Purdue Office of Institutional Assessment, Dr. Stwalley collects, analyzes and manages data pertaining to the outreach, recruitment, retention and graduation of engineering students from historically underrepresented groups.Dr. Robert Merton Stwalley III P.E., Purdue University at West Lafayette Dr. Robert M. Stwalley III, P.E. joined the Agricultural & Biological Engineering department as a faculty member in the fall of 2013. He earned his Bachelor of Science in Agriculture and Biological Engineering (ABE) and his M.S.E. and Ph.D. from Mechanical Engineering at Purdue University. Dr. Stwalley is the former Director of Professional Practice at Purdue, has more than 20 years in
ownwork to others. Later in the day, they presented their projects and learning accomplishments to agroup of local high school students interested in pursuing STEM majors.Let Them Go: Project Development StageThe mentors opted to follow a format loosely based on current industrial practice: thedevelopment team members would report to an alternating team lead who in turn provides theproject manager and client a synopsis of their team status. As the internship deliverable wouldcontinue on to support doctoral research at the university, a graduate student involved with theproject assumed the role of client, while the other mentor worked as project manager and kepttrack of progress, timelines and the next wave of tasks. The student-interns would then
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migrators faced the sameproblems as students who dropped out of STEM majors (leavers) but chose another STEMmajor. A qualitative study [15] on students migrating to industrial engineering (IE) showedthat students left their initial engineering major because of negative experiences with facultyand classes, very low interaction with faculty, and change in career goals to an industrialengineer. The other studies which have researched migrators are quantitative [10, 13] anddescribe metrics such as major stickiness (percentage of students that enroll and subsequentlygraduate in a major) and odds of graduation in the major. Quantitative studies into whystudents drop a major cannot provide the rich description obtained from a qualitative studythat is
by others [10]. Thereverse belongingness is alienation, social isolation, or rejection, leading to depression in thelong term [11]. Among factors that influence the sense of belonging of women to a major areidentity or being valued [12]; stereotype-free educational environment [13]; formal and informalstudent organizations supporting female students [12]; family, faculty and peer support [7]. Onthe other hand, and specific to the construction industry, many prior studies indicate thatpresence of gender stereotyping, low sense of belonging, lack of support system, and lack offemale role models factor to women opting out of construction-related studies and careers [14],[15], [16].Previous research on sense of belonging found that only when an