-brick assembly Students assemble building bricks from front, top, and side-view images. 4 Building-brick sketches Students create 3-view sketches of building brick structures, and assemble building blocks based off a classmate’s sketches. 5 Worksheet Students complete a worksheet containing orthographic projection exercises. 6 Post-intervention measurements Students complete the last 12 questions of the Vandenberg MRT and create 3-view sketches of pipefittings.Table 1 outlines our six-day intervention to improve the mental
[their] relationships by building communication skills, learning to recognize unhealthyrelationship behaviours, and finding ways to manage anger. [Students] also learn how to respondmore effectively to others [7].”This assignment was introduced in the Winter 2019 offering of the course and has been assignedto Summer 2019 and Winter 2020. While enrolled in the Technical Communications course,students work in teams to complete a design project that requires teamwork and effectivecommunication amongst teammates; thus, the modules within the Communication andInterpersonal Relationships pathway are relevant to the course. The course instructor did notreceive any negative feedback regarding the content of the modules, instead, negative feedbackwas
, and ASEE Campus Repre- sentative. Dr. Miguel is also a member-at-large of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department Heads Association (ECEDHA) Board of Directors. She has been a member of the ECEDHA Annual Conference Program Committee since 2013.Dr. Jean M. Jacoby, Seattle University Jean Jacoby is an Associate Dean and a Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering in the College of Science and Engineering at Seattle University. Dr. Jacoby joined SU as the Clare Boothe Luce Pro- fessor of Environmental Engineering. Since 2010, she has served as the director of the SU Project Center and coordinates the college’s undergraduate research program. Dr. Jacoby is the co-Principal Investiga- tor on an NSF
NSF-funded project at UTEP dedicated to broadening the participation of Latinx students in higher edu- cation. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Latinx Students’ Sense of Belonging in Engineering and Computer Science at an HSIThe persistent under-representation of Latinx people, particularly Latinas, in Engineering andComputer Science (E&CS) is well-documented. This under-representation occurs both in thepipeline into and through undergraduate E&CS studies, as well as into the profession: only one-tenth of E&CS degrees were awarded to “Hispanics” in the ten-year period from 2004 to 2014[1], while 2018 data showed that only 8% of the
influenceswomen’s efforts to persist and succeed in STEM fields. This study, which is part of a largerNSF-funded project within the CareerWISE (CW) research program, highlighted the voices ofwhite women and WoC in STEM doctoral programs with the goal of identifying factors thatpromote their STEM persistence. A total of 33 women in STEM doctoral programs across theUnited States were interviewed. Participants were asked to provide recommendations for fellowwomen in STEM who are considering leaving their programs to facilitate their persistenceamidst challenges they might face. The findings were summarized into four broad themes: 1)seek interpersonal support, 2) prioritize mental health and wellbeing, 3) affirm and encourageone’s belongingness in STEM, and 4
understanding of the aims and uses of engineering knowledge. The purpose of this work is to explore if there is a relationship between a participant’srace/ethnic background and the paradigm which they hold, specifically that of the NewEcological Paradigm. This will provide educators and researchers a way to increase ourknowledge for broadening the participation of traditionally marginalized populations inengineering. This project utilized existing survey data of senior engineering students at a U.S.university to investigate this relationship. It is hypothesized that students from traditionallyunderrepresented groups and people of color will be more likely to endorse the New EcologicalParadigm than their White counterparts. A Pearson’s chi-square
, 2009). With this information in mind, developing a college campus that is 100% wheelchairaccessible is an important aspect of the design process. The purpose of this project is to educateand inform others about the difficulties encountered regarding wheel chair accessibility onCentral Michigan University’s campus. Upon completion of this activity, areas requiringimprovement to become more accessible to wheelchairs will be recognized. Safe and relevantredesign recommendations to accommodate the needs of wheelchair accessibility will beprovided with the intention of improving wheelchair accessibility.STATEMENT OF WORK:The purpose of this project was to determine how wheelchair accessible Central MichiganUniversity’s campus is and offer
teachers. Her research agenda focuses on gender dynamics in STEM education and instructional approaches that promote equity in science and engineering.Dr. Martina Nieswandt, University of Massachusetts Amherst Martina Nieswandt is an Associate Professor of Science Education and Interim Associate Dean for Re- search and Engagement in the College of Education at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Her research focuses on the relationship between motivation, affects and learning associated with K-16 sci- ence concepts and various instructional contexts (e.g., small groups, project-based learning) utilizing mixed-methods approaches.Dr. Elizabeth McEneaney, University of Massachusetts, Amherst Dr. McEneaney is
in higher education. Online homework has been a readily used resourcein many institutions for various subjects including mathematics, physics, chemistry, andengineering. The authors’ institution, Louisiana Tech University, has had plenty of experiencewith the open-source, freely available homework delivery tool WeBWorK. Currently,WeBWorK has been used as a homework tool in mathematics and engineering courses, includingstatics and mechanics of materials and circuits.This work is part of a funded National Science Foundation (NSF DUE #1244833) project withthe aim of expanding the use of WeBWorK into the engineering fields. Specifically, the projectlooked into the implementation of WeBWorK into three semester-long, sophomore-level, corecourses
instructional and student roles.Purpose of the Paper: The purpose of this paper is to provide preliminary results of an investigation of therelationship of learning setting and instructional use of the Analog Discovery Board (ADB) onpotential student outcomes. Learning settings studied in this paper include: 1) traditionalclassrooms (e.g. instructor centered, emphasis on transmittal of theory with limited integration ofthe ADB and experimental centric learning introduced for students to practice new concepts); 2)lab settings (e.g., student- centered, emphasis placed on practicing and discovering conceptsintroduced via separate lecture based formats; lab instructors and lecture instructors were notalways the same); and 3) homework (e.g. project
, therehas been lack of empirical research addressing the relationship between ethics and emotion. Inparticular, it is not known how emotion and intuition actually influence ethical decision-makingof engineering students.In this work-in-progress paper, we present preliminary results of our exploratory investigationabout how emotion and intuition permeate engineering students’ experiences with ethics. Weanalyzed 11 interview transcripts, which had been collected as part of a larger longitudinal,mixed-method research project with engineering students. We conducted an inductive thematicanalysis and found that students experienced a wide range of moral emotions from positive tonegative depending on the situation. We also found evidence of students’ use
,like the New Jersey Project. This 1986 conference developed an inclusive curriculum that beganas distinct women’s studies and evolved into curricular integration of race, ethnicity, class andgender, introducing both content and methods. By 1996, the project grew to involve more than100 faculty members in two- and four-year higher education institutions; it was followed by theCurriculum Mainstreaming Teaching Initiative that involved faculty from New Jersey, Maryland,Massachusetts, New York, Illinois, California and Tennessee.History textbooks in British Columbia tended to add content about women’s issue in sidebarsand asides from the main text. This “filler feminism” trivialized the contributions of women anddepicted a subservient, lessor role
experience evaluating programs that fall under the umbrella of educational evaluation, including K-12 educational curricula, K-12 STEM programs after-school programs, and comprehensive school reform initiatives. She received her Ph.D. in Research, Measurement and Statistics from the Department of Education Policy at Georgia State University (GSU).Dr. Jessica D. Gale, Georgia Institute of Technology, Center for Education Integrating Science, Mathematics,and Computing Dr. Jessica Gale is a Research Scientist II at Georgia Tech’s Center for education Integrating Science, Mathematics, and Computing (CEISMC). Her research focuses on project-based learning, STEM inte- gration at the elementary and middle grades levels, design
,analyses of award winning products, and a case study of a long-term design project, DesignHeuristics capture the cognitive “rules of thumb” used by designers to intentionally vary their setof candidate designs[23]. These strategies appear to be ones that expert designers employautomatically, without consciously deciding to do so[24]. The heuristics were individuallyextracted across multiple concepts from multiple designers to reflect a useful level of abstractionin describing how to alter design characteristics to create new ones[25]. The resulting set of DesignHeuristics capture 77 different strategies, each of which can be applied independently or in tocreate new designs[26].The set of Design Heuristics is packaged as an instructional tool for
change, and to denote measures of technical competence. Thesteady rise starting around 1980 coincides with the time that personal computers became bothpopular and affordable; for example the IBM PC was introduced in 1981. The accessibilityof technology to all age groups has only grown since then (Mawson, 2007). The 1980’s wasalso the decade technological literacy began to come under increasing consideration in highereducation by policy makers (The Committee to Idenfity Critical Issues in Federal Support forScience and Technology, 1986), foundations such as Sloan (Florman, 1987), and the AAASthrough Project 2061 (Rutherford, 1989).The 1990’s saw increasing interest in technological literacy at the policy level (The Board forEngineering Education
cultures. This experience more often helps to handle the specific issues in theteam project.”Cultural intelligence factors - Behavior, Metacognition, Cognition, and MotivationThe most prevalent difficulty that arose was international faculty members’ personaladjustments. They often struggled and felt powerless when working on a culturally diverse team.This was even more evident for international women faculty. After participating in a cross-cultural training, faculty members reported that the main necessary changes in behavior observedwere self-confidence and assertiveness. Therefore, the participants’ responses were examinedfurther to gain more detail about how cross-cultural training plays a valuable role in changing afaculty member’s behavior
important factor in persistence to degree completion. For example, somestudies report that the diversity gap in STEM participation may be attributed more to perceptionsand beliefs than to academic preparation or achievement levels [1-5]. To the extent that suchperceptions and beliefs form an inaccurate (or “negative”) vision of a future engineering career,curricular approaches that aim to form a more “positive” vision may be warranted. Theseapproaches can be pedagogical, such as collaborative and project-based learning [6-8], content-based by aiming (for example) to expose the positive contributions of engineering to society [9-12], or both. All other things being equal, curricular features than can foster among students amore positive
students an opportunity togrow their skills over the course of their degree program. While engineering mechanics coursesare not always associated with student team projects, these courses provide the opportunity toshow students how teamwork and diversity are relevant to problem solving. And, as mechanics-oriented courses often dominate the sophomore and junior level of many engineering programs,they can be an important venue for providing continuous instruction to students about workingwith others and in teams. This paper introduces and examines the effects of a teamworkintervention in Engineering Mechanics: Statics aimed at teaching students about the importanceof diversity and inclusion in engineering with specific attention on problem solving
Paper ID #27412Investigating Children with Autism’s Engagement in Engineering Practices:Problem Scoping (Fundamental)Ms. Hoda Ehsan, Purdue University-Main Campus, West Lafayette (College of Engineering) Hoda is a Ph.D. student in the School of Engineering Education, Purdue. She received her B.S. in me- chanical engineering in Iran, and obtained her M.S. in Childhood Education and New York teaching certification from City College of New York (CUNY-CCNY). She is now a graduate research assistant on STEM+C project. Her research interests include designing informal setting for engineering learning, and promoting engineering
inclusive, engaged, and socially just. She runs the Feminist Research in Engineering Education Group whose diverse projects and group members are described at pawleyresearch.org. She received a CAREER award in 2010 and a PECASE award in 2012 for her project researching the stories of undergraduate engineering women and men of color and white women. She has received ASEE-ERM’s best paper award for her CAREER research, and the Denice Denton Emerging Leader award from the Anita Borg Institute, both in 2013. She was co-PI of Purdue’s ADVANCE program from 2008-2014, focusing on the underrepresentation of women in STEM faculty positions. She helped found, fund, and grow the PEER Collaborative, a peer mentoring group of early
skills. Inparticular, her study revealed that out of 24 outcomes the participants viewed the following eightas the most important to engineering: problem-solving, teamwork, communication, ethics,design, project management, technical specialization, and leadership. Although leadership wasthe eighth most frequently cited outcome, it aligned closely with four higher-rated outcomes:teamwork, communication, ethics, and project management.Studies that examine the perceived importance of technical and professional skills among recentengineering graduates produce similar findings to those of Bielefeldt (2018): while graduatesvalue technical skills, they consider some professional skills more important than technical skills.For instance, in his study of
/ethnic identities, class, and languagepreference. While we know that first-generation college students are more likely to be Latino/aand/or African American [8], [12], [29], and socioeconomic status varies among this population,it was important to consider culture not as a bounded system commensurate with bounded socialgroups, but as a “process of everyday life, in the form of daily activities” [22, p. 237].We used ethnographic and interview data of engineering students, collected during two separateresearch projects, to generate broad themes. Using our two qualitative datasets, we were able togenerate six themes that captured aspects of students’ funds of knowledge. The six themes wegenerated were: connecting experiences, tinkering knowledge
the Engineering Majors Survey(EMS). The EMS is part of a research project initiated by the National Center forEngineering Pathways to Innovation, or for short EPICENTER. It was designed to investigate“engineering students’ career goals surrounding innovation, and the experiences and attitudesthat might influence those goals” [8]. In 2015, the initial survey (EMS 1.0) of thislongitudinal project was administered to over 30,000 undergraduate engineering studentsenrolled at 27 universities across the United States. A total number of 7,197 students filledout the survey questions. A second (EMS 2.0) and third (EMS 3.0) wave of surveys were sentout in 2016 and 2017, respectively, to approximately 3,500 participants who voluntarilyagreed in EMS 1.0
level, targeted programs provide students with practical experience they caninclude in their college and career applications. Currently in its pilot phase, the Robotics programengages faculty from both the high school and college working alongside their respectivestudents on a dedicated robotics project with aspirations of competing in local, state and nationalFIRST Robotics Competitions. A second program currently in its second semester connectsstudents to the national college/career readiness program, ACE Mentor Program of America.This program provides our students and faculty the opportunity to collaborate on a preconceiveddesign project led by a national construction firm, Turner Construction. Students meet once aweek after school for six
-related environments are notthe norm – not statistically, nor sociologically. This problem is addressed as the “strength ofnumbers” emphasizing that the most important strategy is to improve the relative amount offemales [2]. The expectation is that this gender imbalance problem will stop when females growto a critical mass [3]. However, the question still remains on when we will accomplish this? Astrategy that could reduce in the long term this gender gap, at least within academia, is gettingfemale undergraduate students involved early in research projects [1].Empirical studies make an attempt to (1) understand the decision-making behind female careerchoices [4-5], (2) pressures that contribute for females to take career breaks [6], (3) factors
B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. in civil engineering and a graduate certificate in engineering education – all from Clemson University. She has over ten years of construction and civil engineering experience working for energy companies and as a project management consultant. Dr. Simmons has extensive experience leading and conducting multi-institutional, workforce-related re- search and outreach. She is a leader in research investigating the competencies professionals need to compete in and sustain the construction workforce. Dr. Simmons oversees the Simmons Research Lab (www.denisersimmons.com), which is home to a dynamic, interdisciplinary mix of graduate researchers and postdoctoral researchers who work together to
professor of engineering education at the University of Georgia. He is affiliated with the Engineering Education Transformational Institute and the school electrical and computer engineering at the university. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in electronic and computer engi- neering from the Lagos State University in Nigeria, a Masters in Project management from the University of Sunderland, and a PhD in Educational Psychology from Washington State University. His research in- terests include learning and cognition, students’ engagement, and the assessment of learning and students engagements, in engineering classrooms. His expertise also include the development and validation of measurement inventories, systematic reviews
, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 116-125, 2006.[3] C. Crosthwaite, I. Cameron, P. Lant, and J. Litster, "Balancing Curriculum Processes and Content in a Project Centred Curriculum In Pursuit of Graduate Attributes," Education for Chemical Engineers, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 39-48, 2006.
engineering education strategies as well as the technologies to support the 21st century classroom (online and face to face). He also has assisted both the campus as well as the local community in developing technology programs that highlight student skills development in ways that engage and attract individuals towards STEAM and STEM fields by showcasing how those skills impact the current project in real-world ways that people can understand and be involved in. As part of a university that is focused on supporting the 21st century student demographic he continues to innovate and research on how we can design new methods of learning to educate both our students and communities on how STEM and STEAM make up a large part of
, WI, employing wind, solar and biomass energy technologies to reduce their carbon footprint.Early adopters of sustainable living methods and renewable energy usage, Cris has presented at localevents and has been frequently interviewed by the media as a subject matter expert.Cris volunteers asa mentor and judge for the Kidwind, SkillsUSA, Project Lead the Way and Electrathon events in theMidwest. He continues to teach industrial electricity topics for local businesses and industries as a privatecontractor on an as needed basis, and remains active with Madison College faculty teaching with theCREATE Solar Academy classes every summer. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Impacts on Teaching