Conference Session

ECCD Innovative Teaching Methods & Outreach

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lynn Albers, North Carolina State University

Tagged Divisions

Energy Conversion and Conservation

GK-12 Outreach Program] improved fellows’ communication skills, increasedtheir sense of community involvement, and impacted career and future plans of theundergraduate fellows.” 9As one, male, engineering undergraduate stated, “If you cancommunicate with 8-year-olds, then communicating with everyone else becomes less of achallenge” 9 Page 26.1528.3 Figure 1: The Model – Energy Engineering and Education Outreach Student 2The Model evolved from the author’s graduate experience working with two programs describedlater in the paper. Both programs have been successful at North Carolina State University.There were many lessons learned 2

Conference Session

Novel Student Experiences in Chemical Engineering

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

D. Jake Follmer, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Sarah E. Zappe, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Esther W. Gomez, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Manish Kumar, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park

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Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

overarching assessment methodology.In an extensive review of the literature, Seymour and colleagues reviewed published studies andconference proceedings examining the impact of undergraduate research experiences on studentoutcomes 4. Based on their review, they clustered the most commonly indicated benefits tostudents of such programs. These included: increased interest in specific areas of research andstudy among participating students; increased recruitment of underrepresented groups inresearch-based experiences; gains in research and research-based skills; clarification, refinement,and confirmation of educational- and/or career-related goals; increases in the understanding ofthe research process; and increases in both self-confidence of ability

Conference Session

Latest Trends and Implementations in Manufacturing Education

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sheng-Jen Hsieh, Texas A&M University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

research allows them to learn about recent discoveries and innovations,share about them in the classroom, and thereby encourage and stimulate students to pursueengineering and computer science careers such as industrial automation. The paper will describeprogram activities, research projects, outcomes, and lessons learned from a National ScienceFoundation-sponsored Research Experiences for Teachers program. Participants were recruitedfrom science, technology, engineering and math departments in high schools and collegesthroughout the U.S. Special effort was made to recruit teachers and instructors from districts andtwo-year colleges with large numbers of underrepresented minority students. Program objectiveswere to 1) provide opportunities for

Conference Session

NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sheng-Jen Hsieh, Texas A&M University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

workers in industrial automation andcontrol. In addition, it is necessary to invest in research to help maintain America’s leadership inthese areas. This paper describes a summer program designed to provide a research environmentfor undergraduate students to learn about mechatronics, robotics, and automated system design.The goal is to help participants to understand the research process, to acquire laboratory skills, toexpand their perspectives on science and engineering research, and to have a lasting influence ontheir career paths. Participants spent 10 weeks working on a research project with a mentor and agraduate student. Survey data suggests that students learned from the research experience andwill build on the experience in pursuing

Conference Session

Pedagogical Approaches in Construction Education

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tripp Shealy, Virginia Tech; Audra Ann Kiesling, Clemson University; Timothy R. Smail, Federal Alliance for Safe Homes

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Construction

management, architecture, and civilengineering programs (2-year, 4-year, and graduate degrees, 950 in total), only seven percentprovide courses with IRC related learning outcomes. A follow-up national survey toconstruction, architecture and civil engineering faculty suggests the barriers to teach codes arethe lack of available resources and low cognitive student learning perceived in teaching about theIRC. In response to these findings an online course was developed. Students learn how codeswill influence their professional careers, identifying the difference between prescriptive andperformance based codes and communicating how codes relate to the performance of a structure.Student learning outcomes are created through multiple active learning

Conference Session

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering Division Poster Session: Works in Progress

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bradley Bowen, North Dakota State University

Tagged Divisions

Pre-College Engineering Education Division

teacherworks for a company that specializes in engineering design, product design, productdevelopment, continuing improvement processes, or engages in other engineering-relatedprocesses. This externship provides traditionally licensed teachers an opportunity to experiencehow corporations are currently using the EDP design process and 21st century skills to solvetechnological challenges. The teachers can then return to the classroom with the ability to maketheir course content more relevant and engaging for the students. It also provides a more relevantopportunity for teachers to engage students in career awareness activities. The primary outcomeof the program is for the teacher to gain an understanding about the importance of and theknowledge to

Conference Session

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering Division Poster Session: Works in Progress

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

A. Leyf Peirce Starling, The Engineering Place, North Carolina State University; Diane Brauner, Perkins School for the Blind

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Pre-College Engineering Education Division

directlyimpacts the number of students with disabilities that go into STEM careers. Informal learningopportunities, such as summer camp experiences, provide students an opportunity to continue togrow and reinforce their interest in STEM. Previous K-12 summer engineering and sciencecamps designed for the general education population yielded an improvement in student attitudetowards science2. Additionally, data collected from previous camps designed to make scienceand robotics accessible to students with disabilities also demonstrated that these studentsincreased their interest in science3,4. However, while a few science and robotics campsspecifically for students with VIB have emerged in the past 5 years, little data has been publishedon the efficacy of

Conference Session

Construction Session 3: Curriculum

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Philip A. Dunn Jr. P.E., University of Maine

Tagged Divisions

Construction

Engaging Young Students to ConstructionAbstractHow do we interest students in construction education and ultimately pursue a career inconstruction? Students form their individual career interests in their school years beginning asearly as elementary school. As they progress in their educations, students are encouraged to seekhigher education for varied professions. Construction offers a challenging and secure future tothose who choose to enter into practice. However, it is a career that is often overlooked bystudents.As part of engineering forums that are offered in our area for regional school age students andtheir families, the Construction Engineering Technology program at the University of Maine(UMaine) sets up an informational table about our

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session I

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Spencer Seung Kim, Rochester Institute of Technology (CAST); Elizabeth Dell, Rochester Institute of Technology (COE)

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

develop a new instructional model and to transform traditional style inteaching to more student-centered, interactive, team-learning based method for the engineeringtechnology discipline. Therefore, the outcomes of this NSF project brought innovation andchanges, not only in terms of creating an effective instructional model for STEM education, butalso by encouraging students, as future workforces, to participate in various undergraduateresearch projects as they prepared for careers in the field of green manufacturing technology.1-5Instructional ApproachManufacturing has played a critical role in the technological evolution of our society, fromstructural steels to electronics and robotics technology. The GPMT, as a multidisciplinary fieldin

Conference Session

Industrial Engineering Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lesley Strawderman, Mississippi State University; Shuchisnigdha Deb, Mississippi State University

Tagged Divisions

Industrial Engineering

. Wheelchair Fitting Equipment Figure 5. Sample Student Work from Community Partner #4Student FeedbackAt the end of each semester, students complete a survey about their service-learning experience.The survey included both Likert scaled and open-ended questions. The survey contained fivesections: demographics, career and personal, community engagement, ergonomics and service-learning, and open-ended questions.For the fall 2015 semester, 44 students participated in the survey, and 41 complete surveys werereturned. Of the 41 participants, 73.17% (n=30) were male and 26.83% (n=11) were female.Regarding classification, 68.29% were junior standing (n=28) and 31.71% (n=13) were seniorstanding. Additional demographic descriptions are

Conference Session

Concurrent Paper Tracks Session I Accredidation

Collection

2016 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Julia Ziyatdinova; Artem Bezrukov; Phillip Albert Sanger, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Petr Osipov

Tagged Topics

International Forum

Psychology (1999) in Kazan State Technological University. Julia joined the team of Kazan State Technological University as an instructor at the Department of For- eign Languages and the School of Foreign Languages ”Lingua” in 1999 and was rapidly promoted to the position of Associate Professor at the Department of Foreign Languages in 2003. Her teaching career was perfectly balanced by the experience of a translator and an interpreter. She is a well-known person at Kazan international conferences and other events for her high quality consecutive and simultaneous interpreting, such as interpreting for the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Tatarstan. The new milestone in Julia’s career was the position of the

Conference Session

Concurrent Paper Tracks Session II Skills Development

Collection

2016 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Saud A Ghani, Qatar University

Tagged Topics

Diversity, International Forum

occupational field though,have always been under question and investigation. This paper is an attempt to present efforts,motives and incentives that help Qatari female students to excel in their overall engineeringstudies and career through promoting participation in events, conferences and externalcompetitions.Educating and Inspiring Female EngineersPrimary education and school policies targeting in promoting females’ interest in engineeringfollowed by further innovative university education will assist future Qatari female engineeringstudents to reveal and apply more qualification and abilities. US Department of Education, statedthat during 1990-2005 in the USA there has been a continuous improvement at the high schoolgirls’ average grade point

Conference Session

Addressing Diversity Issues in Engineering Education

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lea K Marlor, University of California, Berkeley; Catherine T. Amelink, Virginia Tech

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Two Year College Division

Paper ID #17058The Impact of Summer Research Experiences on Community College Stu-dents’ Self-EfficacyMs. Lea K Marlor, University of California, Berkeley Lea Marlor is the Education and Outreach Program Manager for the Center for Energy Efficient Electron- ics Science, a NSF-funded Science and Technology Center at the University of California, Berkeley. She manages undergraduate research programs to recruit and retain underrepresented students in science and engineering and also outreach to pre-college students to introduce them to science and engineering career opportunities. Ms. Marlor joined University of California

Conference Session

Practices for Student Learning Engagement

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Aditya Akundi, University of Texas, El Paso; Amit J Lopes, University of Texas, El Paso

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

needed to be successful in Engineering study. As part of this effort, the following tools are highlighted: Winning The First Month; Math Stress Quests; and Semester Project. The above efforts assisted in changing the ‘Foundations of Engineering’ course from a teacher dominated instruction and philosophy course to a more student learning centered, engaging, hands-on, engineering problem solving course that improves student-faculty interaction and student motivation which will better prepare them to have a successful engineering education and career. A survey was conducted to assess the effectiveness of the course redesign.I. Background on Undergraduate Engineering Issues In recent decades engineering schools worldwide are focusing on

Conference Session

International Research Experiences

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Claude Brathwaite, City College of New York, NYC Louis Stokes Alliance; Julianne Vernon, University of Michigan

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

International

the City University of New York. He was a Chancellor’s Fellow (City University of New York) and a NIH Postdoctoral Fellow (Weill Cornell Medical College-Division of Molecular Medicine). As the Project Administrator of the LSAMP, he oversees the day-to-day operation of the NYC Louis Stokes Alliance program across the 18 member campuses of City University of New York. Claude also served as the Co-Director of the Black Studies Program at the City College and the Project Director of the City Col- lege Black Male Leadership and Mentoring Program. The Black Male Leadership and Mentoring Project (BMLMP) at the City College of New York, provides a support system during the critical stages of aca- demic and career

Conference Session

Mathematics Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lynn Albers, Campbell University

Tagged Divisions

Mathematics

the main function was asteep learning curve in a very short amount of time. This may account for the drop inaverage from 4.3 in 2016 to 3.1 in 2017.One of the outcomes that the new school of engineering hopes to achieve is to helpstudents identify as an engineer. This course appears to be helping with this goal with anaverage of 4.2 in 2017. Unfortunately this question was not asked of the 2016 group andtherefore there is no comparison.In Part III of the survey, students responded to the following questions using a LikertScale of 1-5: 1 = Strongly Disagree, 2 = Disagree, 3 = Neutral, 4 = Agree, 5 = StronglyAgree. The average for each question is shown in Table 4. 1. I have spent considerable time researching to decide on my career of

Conference Session

Developing Teaching and Mentoring Skills

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hyun Hannah Choi, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Yuting W. Chen, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; A. Mattox Beckman Jr., University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Lucas Anderson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Blake Everett Johnson, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Matthew D. Goodman, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Chris Migotsky, University of Illinois; Nicole Johnson-Glauch

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

Specialist in Education at the Center for Innovation in Teaching & Learning (CITL) at the University of Illinois. He organizes the central campus teacher training program for the more than 800 new Teaching Assistants (TAs) Illinois welcomes each year. He continues to work with TAs throughout their graduate career by observing their classes, helping them collect and interpret feedback from their students, and shepherding them through CITL’s teaching certificate program. He offers a variety of workshops every year to faculty, staff, TAs, and undergraduates, on topics including course design, running effective discussions, and using humor in the classroom.Dr. Blake Everett Johnson, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Conference Session

Active Learning in BME, Session I

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brian P. Helmke, University of Virginia; William H. Guilford, University of Virginia

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical Engineering

of educational efficacy, the molecular basis of cell movement, and the mitigation of infectious diseases. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Learner Satisfaction and Quality of Student-Faculty Interactions in Traditional vs. Blended ClassroomsThe effectiveness of active learning methods to improve learning in STEM higher education hasbecome an area of national interest, in part because of a perceived need to increase retention ofstudents in STEM careers and support their career development in a global economy [1]. Supportfor designing courses with a variety of activities to increase student engagement is based onevidence of increased test scores and reduced failure

Conference Session

Thinking Outside the BOKs: ABET, Ethics, Civil Engineering as Liberal Education, and 3-Year Degrees

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jennifer Mueller PE P.E., Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Matthew D. Lovell P.E., Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Michael Anthony Robinson P.E., Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

-year curriculum. Ourthreads of learning approach allows faculty to teach ethical decision making in courses nottraditionally associated with ethics and provides students a more continuous exposure to ethicaldecision making. Students are introduced to the Civil Engineering Ethics Thread (CEET) at thevery start of their academic career during fall quarter of freshman year. Students are given a briefintroduction to the concept of the ethical thread of learning. At that time, they also complete apersonality assessment, as well as a survey to rate their perception of what is ethical when given avariety of scenarios, to identify their own set of personal values. At the end of the quarter, thesurvey results are revealed to students for the purpose of

Conference Session

Design and Implementation of Graduate Education

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Meredith Welch-Devine, University of Georgia; Ramana Pidaparti, University of Georgia; K. Paige Carmichael, University of Georgia; Janet E. Rechtman, University of Georgia; Brandy B. Walker, University of Georgia; Julie A. Coffield, University of Georgia

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Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

, and into communities to identify issues and develop solutionsthat increase both resilience and sustainability. The need to make 21st century graduate educationtraining requires educators to develop innovative approaches that provide critical professionalskills that transcend discipline and prepare students for a broad range of career choices. In thisstudy, a novel approach was developed for STEM graduate education that aligns professional skilltraining with experiential learning pedagogy adopted from training models in the healthprofessions. The training model designed for a cohort of newly admitted PhD students consists oftwo components, an immersive summer program (Leadership Academy), followed by a fallChallenge Course. The goals of the

Conference Session

Engineering Physics and Physics Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nathaniel Raymond Nunez, University of Detroit Mercy; E. Prasad Venugopal, University of Detroit Mercy

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Physics and Physics

received his Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, MA. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Undergraduate Research and Curricular Redesign of IPLS Laboratory CoursesIntroductionThe University of Detroit Mercy is a recent recipient of a National Institutes of Health (NIH)BUILD (BUilding Infrastructure Leading to Diversity) grant aimed at creating a career pipelinewith the goal of increasing the participation of under-represented minorities (URM) inbiomedical sciences research. Steep declines in the presence of these populations1,2 within thebiomedical research sector have caused sufficient alarm that the NIH has tasked granteeinstitutions “to

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Programs

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Huihui H Wang, Jacksonville University; Lee Ann Jerome Clements, Jacksonville University; Cindy Leong; Misha M. Chalkley; Crandall Maines, Jacksonville University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

that emphasizes student discovery. Scholars are selectedannually based on academic ability and financial need. Faculty mentoring, tutoring, peer studygroups, college survival skills training, career development, and undergraduate researchexperiences are all tools to help the scholars. Some MEP Scholars are actively participating inthe following research projects: 1) Design and Development of an e-Health System, 2) Designand Development of an Electronic Health Records program, 3) Study of the Field Effect onCharge Transport through Conductive Polymers Injected in Vascular Channels of AngiospermLeaves, and 4) A 3D-printed desk organizer. In this paper, MEP Scholars briefly present theirprojects and share their thoughts and reflections about the

Conference Session

Student Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Jayanta K. Banerjee, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus

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Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Student

, needs amore intimate image of a role model, a mentor who ignites academic inspiration on a very personal levelthroughout the undergraduate years and beyond. The multiple roles of a mentor are summarized by thesociologist Morris Zelditch of the American Council of Graduate Schools as follows: Mentors are advisors,people with career experience willing to share their knowledge; supporters, people who give emotionaland moral encouragement; tutors, people who give specific feedback on one’s performance; masters, inthe sense of employers to whom one is apprenticed; sponsors, sources of information about and aid inobtaining opportunities; models of identity, of the kind of person one should be to be an academic.”[3].Thus, a mentor is a very unique

Conference Session

Exploration of Broad Issues and Promotion of Engineering and Technological Literacy

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Dan G. Dimitriu, San Antonio College

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

of opening the first MESA Program in Texas [3], [4] in 2007. It was thefirst and still is the only MESA Program in Texas. From the beginning it was a center thatcontinuously promoted technical literacy and being coordinated by our Engineering Program, itwas also one of our major promoters and recruiters for students to pursue careers in STEM fieldsand particularly, in engineering. Its mission was, and still is, to help and support studentsbecome scientists, engineers, and mathematicians responding to a growing national need forqualified technical professionals.BackgroundThe term “technological literacy” refers to one's ability to use, manage, evaluate, and understandtechnology (ITEA, 2000/2002) [5]. In order to be a technologically or

Conference Session

Community Engagement Division Technical Session 4

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Melissa Morris, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University - Worldwide

Tagged Divisions

Community Engagement Division

. It is here that studentssometimes lose focus and cannot see that they are still headed to the career or specialization thatsparked their interest. They forget why they chose engineering in the first place, and so retentioncan be a challenge. This paper will present a course that not only addresses this issue, but alsoincorporates project-based learning and community involvement to enrich the educationexperience.BackgroundInarguably, engineering is a challenging curriculum. STEM fields have a completion rateranging from 21-54% as opposed to business at 63-71% [1]. In addition to academic challenges,notably in math [2], students need motivation and perseverance. Motivation in particular can behighly effective, and it was shown that getting

Conference Session

CPDD Session 2 - Professional Development - Where Are We Going?

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Susan J. Ely, University of Southern Indiana

Tagged Divisions

Continuing Professional Development

Paper ID #31454Online Professional Development for Embedding Industry Credentials inEngineering CurriculaDr. Susan J Ely, University of Southern Indiana Dr. Ely began her academic career at the community college level, after having worked as an engineer in areas of manufacturing, distribution, logistics and supply chain. Her research interests in Supply Chain Management include optimization through resiliency, lean supply chain practices and effective instruction in supply chain for career development, professional development of educators and online practices. c American Society for Engineering

Conference Session

NSF Grantees: Faculty Development 2

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Lea K. Marlor, University of Michigan; Cynthia J. Finelli, University of Michigan; Madison E. Andrews, University of Texas at Austin; Bobbie Bermudez, University of Oregon; Maura J. Borrego, University of Texas at Austin; Laura J. Carroll, University of Michigan; Nicholette Marie DeRosia, University of Oregon ; Matthew Charles Graham; Jenefer Husman, University of Oregon; Michael J. Prince, Bucknell University

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

also outreach to pre-college students to introduce them to science and engineering career opportunities. Ms. Marlor joined University of California, Berkeley in 2013. She has a B.S. in Materials Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.Dr. Cynthia J. Finelli, University of Michigan Dr. Cynthia Finelli is Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Professor of Education, and Director and Graduate Chair for Engineering Education Research Programs at University of Michigan (U-M). Dr. Finelli is a fellow in the American Society of Engineering Education, a Deputy Editor of the Journal for Engineering Education, an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Education, and past chair of the

Conference Session

Minorities in Engineering Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Aidsa I. Santiago-Roman, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus; Manuel A. Jimenez, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus; Luisa Guillemard, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus; Sonia M. Bartolomei-Suarez, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus; Oscar Marcelo Suarez, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus; Nelson Cardona-Martínez, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus; Carla López del Puerto, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus; Nayda G. Santiago, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus; Pedro O. Quintero, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus; Anidza Valentín-Rodríguez, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus

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Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering

), and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Currently she is the internal evaluator for the projects Recruiting, Retaining and Engaging Academically Talented Students from Economically Disadvantaged Groups into a Pathway to Successful Engineering Careers (PEARLS) and for Building Capacity at Collaborative Undergraduate STEM Program in Resilient and Sustainable Infrastructure (RISE-UP). Both projects are funded by NSF.Dr. Sonia M. Bartolomei-Suarez, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus Sonia M. Bartolomei-Suarez is a Professor of Industrial Engineering at the University of Puerto Rico Mayag¨uez (UPRM). She graduated with a BS in Industrial Engineering from UPRM (1983), a MSIE (1985) from Purdue

Collection

2020 St.Lawrence Section Meeting

Authors

Kyle Trenshaw; Emily Weber; Rachel Monfredo

models is important in retaining STEM majors,as well as creating a sense of community and belonging among students. Providing a networkthat scaffolds not only academic achievement, but also comradery results in classmates andmentors who become lifelong connections and support systems.Setting up this kind of learning community in a classroom moves away from a lecture-basedfocus and towards discussions in small groups around exercises and activities. This is the modelauthor Raymond Landis used to teach his Chautauqua Short Course “Enhancing Student Successthrough a Model Introduction to Engineering Course,” which was supplemented by his textbook,Studying Engineering a Road Map to a Rewarding Career [1]. Over three decades of teaching,Landis found

Conference Session

Survivor: The First Few Years

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elizabeth Creamer, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Tonya Saddler, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Margaret Layne, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators

recognized as one of the strongest influences on academic scientists’ and engineers’productivity1 and satisfaction2. Perceptions of climate reflect policies, practices, and interactionsat both a local level, as within a lab or department, and at more global level of the college oruniversity. The Collaborative on Academic Careers in Higher Education (COACHE), anemerging voice from Harvard University about faculty careers, measures climate to include (a)personal and professional interactions with colleagues, (b) opportunities for collaboration, (c)sense of fit, (d) intellectual vitality of the senior faculty, (e) fairness of evaluation, (f) equitabletreatment, and (g) support for professional development. Perceptions of climate at the more locallevel