. Ofthe undergraduate students, 82% are white, 5.9% are Hispanic, 4.2% are African Americans, and0.3% are American Indian or Alaska Native. At the graduate level, these numbers are 80.6%,3.2%, 3.5%, and 0.4%, respectively. In comparison, the statewide demographics are: 79.2%white, 5.3% Hispanic, and 14.1% African American. Efforts to focus on inclusion and equity atthe university level have a long history. In the 1970’s, the university established the MulticulturalCenter that supported a wide range of cultural activities as well as academic and supportprogramming to the Minority Education Cohorts: Minority Science Education Cohort, MinorityTeacher Education Cohort, and Minority Business Education Cohort. This was the primaryapproach at the
disambiguation framework consists of fouriterative stages to create a “best-guess” of a completely resolved network data set and provides ageneral structure for future algorithmic methods. Results of this work will better enableresearchers to study larger, more holistic educational networks. BackgroundStudents benefit from social interactions in a variety of ways. For example, Kalaian et al.’s [5]meta-analysis identified that across 18 studies, formal small group settings enhance student’sabilities to succeed academically—especially among first-year engineering students (d = 0.84).Studying students’ online social media interactions, Su and Huang [6] found that students whofrequently use social media for academic
demographic information.Table 1. Participant information Child Caregiver(s) Child Child Caregiver Ethnicity Pseudonym Pseudonym Age/Grade Gender Information Jennifer worked in an Billy Jennifer 9/4th Male White elementary school as an art teacher. Edward 12/7th Male John worked in a John African
structured according toLind et al.’s [15] Indicators of Ethical Sensitivity (i.e., story characteristics, stakeholders,consequences, and ethical issues). (Note that the terms “ethical sensitivity” and “moral sensitivity”can be used interchangeably; in this paper, we primarily use Rest’s term “moral sensitivity” exceptwhen specifically referring to Lind’s framework.) The story includes story characteristics (e.g., acurfew was instituted in New Orleans), stakeholders (e.g., elderly residents), and consequences(e.g., drinking water was unsafe). The interview questions were designed to encourage participantsto discuss the fourth indicator, ethical issues. Using a qualitative content analysis, we found thatall participants focused on one major
and URM students.Pre-transfer advising focused on providing students with the information they need to transfer toa specific computing or engineering program within the College. This process helped studentsdiscover how their credits from their previous or current institution(s) would apply to a programas well as a successful pathway for transfer. Students were referred to pre-transfer advisingthrough a variety of different methods such as: transfer fairs (in-person & virtual), communitycollege academic advisor, searching UNIV’s website, referral from UNIV Admissions Advisoror COEIT faculty. During transfer fairs, students were able to obtain copies of COEIT 4-yearplans and program gateway information. Students were also able to complete a
devise a solution(s) to improve the performance of the system. • Devise an inventory policy that minimizes the total annual inventory cost of raw material.For more information about the system and related concepts, the reader is referred to [15].3.2 CourseThe game was implemented in the second course of Operations Research (IE 425: StochasticModeling in Operations Research) in the IE curriculum at Penn State University, The BehrendCollege. The course introduces Poisson processes, Markov chains, queueing theory, inventorytheory, and dynamic programming. The course applies these models to manufacturing andservice systems. It is a required IE course that is taken by the upper-level students in thedepartment. The main topics
mentors and mentees used atleast 50% of the time in their responses on the Pre-SPR; however, only mentors used this codein both their responses to the weaknesses and 200-word justification. Mentors cited fiveadditional codes in common (C-1N, C-2N, C 3N*, M-5N*, and S-2P). Mentees had noadditional shared alignment of codes in the Pre-SPR.At the end of the peer mentoring program, mentors and mentees were more aligned in theirreviews of the Post-SPR manuscript. Both mentors and mentees used three codes (C-2N, C-4N,and E-3P) in at least 50% of their Post-SPR responses. Additionally, mentors and menteesconverged on their use of C-4N in both the weaknesses and the 200-word justification. Mentorshad one additional code (C-3N), and mentees had two
Pakistan, Habib University.Towards this end, the paper first sets the ground for comparing the two frameworks by formallydefining them in the next section, after which the salient differences between the two areidentified across various dimensions. At the end, some recommendations are presented to guidecongruent teaching of the two frameworks to engineering students.2. Definitions2.1. Engineering DesignA few formal definitions of design obtained from various engineering design textbooks arepresented below: ● “Engineering design is a systematic, intelligent process in which engineers generate, evaluate, and specify solutions for devices, systems, or processes whose form(s) and function(s) achieve clients' objectives and users' needs
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Education at the University of Nevada, Reno. There she completed her Bachelorˆa C™s and is working on her Master of Science in mechanical engi- neering. Her research focuses are on undergraduate engineMs. Rachael Ciara Young Rachael has experience working in kindergarten through college engineering education and is passionate about fostering access and excitement for STEM studies. She graduated with dual bachelor’s degrees in electrical engineering and environmental science in 2022. Rachael currently works in aerospace with an emphasis on avionics and electrical power systems.Ms. Indira Chatterjee, University of Nevada, Reno Indira Chatterjee received her M.S. in Physics from Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland
lack oftransparency about university process; workload; role conflict [34]; the political landscape; andimpostor syndrome [35]. Satterfield et. al [30]. noted that the pool of research on the graduatestudent experience in STEM was limited and compiled a comprehensive literature review in2018 to set the stage for future work. The summary focused on the experiences of graduatestudents during their studies, and how individual factors (the influence of the student’s advisor),programmatic factors (isolation and teaching assistantships), and external factors (work-lifebalance and family influence) influence their persistence in the field [30]. Berdanier et al.’s [36]study of social media forums found that among the factors influencing attrition in
. Participants were then recruited, given consentinformation, and scheduled to participate.During the scheduled interview times, in an initial briefing, the participants were asked torecord verbal consent, given information about the study including instructions on how tothink aloud and respond, and given an opportunity to ask clarifying questions about the CImethod. Then participants were shown the survey and responded aloud to how they wouldanswer survey items. The interviewer(s) asked concurrent probing questions as participantsanswered these questions aloud, and at the end of each section of related items, theinterviewers asked broader retrospective questions. These questions included assessing theoverall clarity and design of the study, the
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justpartially agreeing that an official document distributed by the Ohio Department of Taxation wasrealistic, when in fact the specified procedures listed in such government documents serve as a“gold standard” that all corporate entities operating within the state must adhere to. To obtainadditional information from students regarding this aspect of the programming assignment, twoqualitative questions were included with the survey. For the question, “in what way(s) do youbelieve that learning to correctly compute sales tax is important?” 29 (out of 33) responses werereceived. Most students responded in similar ways, in that such computations are “used everysingle day” as “it is a necessary part of any business’s functions, so its accuracy is
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75th percentiles,respectively, and the whiskers extend to data points not considered to be outliers. Outliers areplotted as red +’s. If there are no boxes, then all responses besides the median response areconsidered to be outliers.Figure 1: Statistics for responses to survey question 1: How would you rate your study habits whilelearning remotely as compared to learning in person? 1=better in person, 7=better remotelyFigure 2: Statistics for responses to survey question 2: How would you rate your access to re-quired technology (e.g., computer and internet) while learning remotely as compared to learningin person? 1=better in person, 7=better remotelyAs shown in Figure 1, students generally reported a significant negative impact of
survey. Most of them are from Texas. Our next study willcertainly sample a large number of participants that better represent the population of the USA inthe warehousing and industrial distribution industry. For example, we could choose some areasin the country that have the greatest number of warehousing and distribution centers. These areashave vastly different cultures and environments. This way, the results of the study would includea better reflection of how the future of work would impact varying cultures, thus providing abetter insight into how employees and managers would be willing to accept the changes neededto incorporate new technologies into the work environment.References:[1] S. S. Bhattacharyya and S. Nair, "Explicating the
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askedparticipants to describe ways to improve entrepreneurship education programs, with specificattention to women faculty experiences.Table 1. Description of Participants Participant Race and Gender Discipline STEM Entrepreneurship Positionality Education Programming Participation Status (Yes/No) Dr. J Black woman (she/her) Engineering No Dr. Sh Black woman Engineering No (she/they) Dr. C Black woman (she/her) Engineering No Dr. W Black woman (she/her) Engineering Yes Dr. S Black
, the course, or the specific faculty member. This study aimed tounderstand the needs of engineering faculty members, especially those who had not workeddirectly with the engineering librarian for library resource instruction. The study was modeledafter a similar multi-site study conceived and organized by Ithaka S+R, a not-for-profitorganization that provides guidance and support for academic and cultural communities, thatexplored the teaching needs of business faculty members [3]. Interviews were conducted withfaculty members from the departments of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering and Industrial &Systems Engineering in the summer of 2020. This paper examines the main teaching themes thatemanated from the analysis of the interview
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stereotypes regarding AfricanAmericans academic capabilities, their numerical majority status within the HBCU context actsas a buffer enabling them to perceive their racial and professional identity as compatible andintegrated. On the contrary, the numerical minority status of African American engineeringstudents in PWI exacerbates their vulnerability to feel threatened by the negative stereotypesabout their group. Even as they struggle to maintain a positive ethnic identity, they question thecompatibility between their ethnic and professional identities. As Du Bois states, it is the tensionthat impedes “fluid participation in Black world(s) and white world(s)”. It is for this reason thatAfrican American engineering students in PWIs may struggle more
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and experiments in fluidmechanics, they generally do not possess the capabilities to perform hydrodynamic testing. Thispaper will present the work by the authors to develop a water flume that would allowhydrodynamic testing at velocities up to 2.0 m/s. The flume was constructed by anundergraduate and at a cost lower than commonly available commercial units. Both thefabrication process and the potential experiments that the flume could house are designed toimprove student learning in the area of fluid mechanics. The design is developed to be relativelycompact, with a 7’x3.5’ footprint and utilizes a commonly available single-stage centrifugalpump. Flow velocities in the test section can be varied passively by changing the insertcontaining the
, skills, and ability to solve complexproblems and to produce excellent solution(s) within the structure of the team. This concept wasfurther developed to include defining team and task, team climate, communication, and reflection(for a detailed description, please see Table 1)23-26.Design competence focused on finding and evaluating variants and recognizing and solvingcomplex design problems. These were further defined as having the ability to discover and designmultiple solutions to a given problem and to effectively evaluate those solutions to determine thebest solution, and having the ability to see the overall picture of a complex design problem, thenbreaking it into smaller, more manageable parts to solve while keeping the overall problem
wish to thank T.J. Nguyen for his work on the CyberAmbassadors project. We alsoappreciate the support and engagement of the many organizations partnering with theCyberAmbassadors project, including Tau Beta Pi, ACI-REF, CaRRC, the Carpentries, NRMNand CIMER. This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundationunder Grant No. 1730137. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendationsexpressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views ofthe National Science Foundation.References[1] H. Neeman et al., “The Advanced Cyberinfrastructure Research and Education Facilitators Virtual Residency: Toward a National Cyberinfrastructure Workforce,” in Proceedings of the
]. New SCCT models were developed to explain vocational satisfaction and well-being [10,11], and career management [9]. At the core of the original SCCT model, and most of the SCCTmodels that followed, are self-efficacy (i.e., confidence in the ability to successfully perform adomain-specific task, like a specific engineering skill), outcome expectations (i.e., anticipatedoutcomes of a particular behavior), interests (i.e., patterns of likes/dislikes for career activities),and goals (i.e., determination for a particular outcome). Taking this one step further, Lent etal.’s [9] integrative social cognitive model of academic adjustment, derived from both SCCT [1,2] and the social cognitive model of academic satisfaction [10, 11], explains how
appropriate realistic constraints, including consideration of health, safety, etc., to the engineering problem for the capstone design. Measure: Evaluated in final CPEN 3850 report • Competency: Students demonstrate ability to generate effective solution(s) to the capstone design problem formulated in CPEN 3850, including identified constraints. Measure: Evaluated in final CPEN 4850 report [1]Thus, in order to determine whether students can both identify and apply appropriate standardsand constraints, and apply these in an engineering design, it was decided that it was necessary toevaluate students continuously working on a project; therefore, measuring in sequentialsemesters was specified. Other required