first Ph.D. in me- chanical engineering from National University of Singapore in 1997. She served as Assistant Professor and subsequently Associate Professor in mechatronics engineering at University of Adelaide, Australia, and Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, respectively. In 2006, she resigned from her faculty job and came to Connecticut for family reunion. Throughout her academic career in Australia and Sin- gapore, she had developed a very strong interest in learning psychology and educational measurement. She then opted for a second Ph.D. in educational psychology, specialized in measurement, evaluation and assessment at University of Connecticut. She earned her second Ph.D. in 2010. Li has a unique
Engineering in the School of Engineering Education at Purdue University. He completed his PhD degree majoring in Curriculum and Instruction with an emphasis in Engineering Education and minoring in Educational Psychology as well as an MS degree in Petroleum Engineering at Texas Tech University. He also obtained an MEd degree from Clemson University. His research interests focus on teacher education and students learning issues within Engineering Education/Pedagogy and Computa- tional Thinking/Pedagogy field of studies. He received national and international recognitions including an Early Career Researcher award from European Science Education Research Association (ESERA) and a Jhumki Basu Scholar award from National
reflective engineer will be something that will encompass my entire engineering career but I feel that I am much more aware now, and this class is a direct link to this positive lifestyle.” —Student 03One student at a time... 13 of 20Acknowledgements The pilot course described here was conducted with partial support from Texas TechUniversity under a Seed Grant for Interdisciplinary Research. The data analysis and paperwriting were conducted with partial support from the National Science Foundation under GrantNo. 1806889. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in thismaterial are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily
when possible. Encourage students to attend relevant extracurricular activities. Encourage teamwork, group projects, etc. Highlight relevant news or current events relevant to the course. Relate course material to familiar phenomenon and problems that students may be called upon to solve in their intended careers. ○ Get to class early and post something on the screen (the NASA picture of the day or equivalent, quote, physical object on document camera, etc.) and ask students: what do you notice? What do you wonder? Spend the first few minutes of class talking about it. -- from Chapter 7 in [5] ○ Resources: i) Everyday Engineering Examples - blog
abstract learning and higher order thinking ability. Authors found that therewere no significant gender differences in CS skills, and the activity encouraged both men andwomen and can potentially solve the problem of underrepresentation of female students incomputer science. Authors also reported that females scored much better on higher-order thinkingskills in comparison to men.Similarly, using a mix-method design, Cakir et al. (2017) developed and evaluated a game-designworkshop in order to improve young girls’ abilities of programming and consequently enhancetheir views of the CS career. Changing young girls’ attitude help them develop their identity as acomputer scientist. Analysis of surveys, interviews and game content indicated that the
UNICAMP in the area of solid state device processing and semiconductor devices design. In 1995, he began a career as a consultant. In 2006, he founded the BiLab-Business and Innovation Lab at UNIFACS, Salvador-BA, Brazil. Recently, Dr. Mons˜ao has been involved in nationwide science and technology outreach projects using a Robotic Musical Instrument he and a colleague have developed. His current research interests are in the areas of engineering education, robotics, mechatronics, automation, electronic instrumentation and innovation. He has now a Post Doc position in the Graduate Program of Mechatronics at the Federal University of Bahia, UFBA.Dr. Jes Fiais Cerqueira P.E., Federal University of Bahia (Brazil) J´es de
students opportunities for acquiring 21st century knowledge and skills required to compete with a technology-rich workforce environment. The second c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Paper ID #15360 grant aims at providing educational and administrative support to undergraduate student in areas of career and financial management planning. He has been selected as Research Fellow at the Educational Test- ing Service at Princeton for two consecutive summer terms. He has been program chair and president of the regional association (Southwest Educational Research Association) and presently
game.Coaches make their players practice both in pieces and putting it all together. Routine problemscan be seen as analogous to a layup and complex real-world problems analogous to a scrimmage.In a previous study one student highlighted this difference when he asked, “you mean you wantme to solve this like a real problem in the lab or something, not like homework or a problem onan exam.” Our students have learned how to “play school” well, but we need to make schoolmore applicable to the careers we are preparing them to enter. Students need more practicesolving complex real-world problems. It seems unnecessary to make students wait to start thispractice only after they have mastered basic math and science concepts. As Schwartz et al.(2005) propose
design, innovation and sustainability; synthesizing the influence of societal and individual worldviews on decision-making; assessing STEM students’ learning in the spaces of design, ethics, and sustainability; and exploring the impact of pre-engineering curriculum on students’ abilities and career trajectories.Dr. Lorraine G. Kisselburgh, Purdue University Lorraine Kisselburgh (Ph.D., Purdue University) examines organizing and communicative practices in sociotechnical contexts, particularly collaboration in engineering design teams, spatial and material in- fluences on organizing, and gendered practices in technological settings. She has backgrounds in com- munication, human performance, and computer science, and
created only via the concerted effort of many actors in a culture which imbuesmeaning on the problem; any problems which are able to be discussed must have been noticed,measured, compared to a norm, reported, discussed, and accorded a shared meaning andimportance. Applying McDermott’s framework, we can see new dimensions to many commonapproaches in studying the problem of struggling students in STEM. In quintessential retentionresearch, the powers that be define the terms of success and failure (e.g., persisting in a certainmajor, institution, or career, achieving a certain GPA, stating a sense of disciplinary identity andefficacy), and find the aspects of students which contribute most to success or failure (e.g.,gender, race
socialimplications in terms of diversity (an overly used, minimalist justification) or some form ofdissemination into K-12. Yet they rarely find a way to connect course content with socialproblems, particularly those related to SJ. For example, and existing REU Site grant titled “FluidMechanics with Analysis using Computations and Experiments” is aimed at mentoringundergraduate students in “the current need for basic and applied research in fluid mechanicsacross a range of engineering disciplines as well as the training of undergraduate students instate-of-the-art laboratory environments.” And in traditional fashion, the grant justifies meetingCriterion 2 “by enhancing and diversifying the pool of students considering a research career inengineering
outstanding preparation for professional life. HerGPA upon graduation in engineering discipline A was around 3.1. She had lead CTA to successas a project manager, had engineering internships, participated in a variety of studentorganizations, and done research with the faculty advisor of the competition team.Alice had very specific and focused career goals, including the desire to work for a particularlyprominent and inspirational company. She also knew that while this goal could be realistic in thelong term, in the short term she would probably have to work for a less prestigious company tobuild her credentials before the more prominent company would want to hire her. …Short term [goal] is to find a job that will get me financial stable first
do believe that I would volunteer to do this again, aloneor with the people that we met.”- Brenda Díaz“This semester we learned a lot of things that will be useful in our professional careers, but Ibelieve that the best way to learn it was to put them in practice in the Resiliency andPossibility Challenge. We chose to perform maintenance work on the city parks and to enlistpeople in the community to continue doing it. We transferred knowhow to the community,created awareness, listened to their proposals and took their proposals to CongressmanDamián Zepeda who joined our initiative. Now we are now confident that this project willcontinue.”- Abigail A. Padill4.1 Case 2. Tampico - Prof. Maria Magdalena OcónStudents taking “Organizational
on empirical evidence to gain an understanding of how and whythe designed learning works. Thus, our ultimate goal is to utilize the DBR process to developtheories that can be translated into classroom practices to enhance students’ understanding ofscience, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) subjects while simultaneously inspiringthem to pursue STEM careers. We employ DBR constructs, in the context of a robotics-basedinstructional framework, to support both student and teacher learning in several ways. The use ofrobotics serves to help stimulate an interest in STEM learning for students. In addition, roboticscan help break the silos of the underlying disciplines of STEM to help realize the vision ofintegrating these disciplines. Such
engineering,complicating any analysis of diversification efforts. In the case of economic competitiveness, thegoal is simply production of the maximum number of STEM graduates. The strategy is puttingmore bodies into the beginning of the STEM education pipeline so more come out the other end.In the case of educational pluralism, the goal is more about economic (and career) opportunity“for all,” and inclusiveness and diversity as desirable social and educational foundations in theirown right. These two diversification logics often fold together in practice—and are oftenconflated by STEM education reform advocates—confusing the conceptual foundations formany STEM inclusiveness initiatives. Therefore, while policy support for broad-based STEMrecruitment
and professionals whoengage with EWB-USA, compared to average U.S. engineering peers.9,10 Research has shownthat serving society and helping people are more important career goals for women than men.11-14Thus, casting engineering through this lens of how it benefits society and people may help closethe persistent gender gap in engineering.It is an open question whether engineering faculty fully embrace these ideals of helping peoplethrough engineering, and serve as role models for using engineering to benefit society.Engineering faculty are critically important in meeting goals to educate engineers to have a broadset of skills, knowledge, and attitudes.15-17 Research on engineering faculty is less prevalent thanstudents, so the values of
. Another worksthree jobs – as a nurse in an assistive care home for the elderly, a Spanish tutor for business Page 26.1127.6people, and a clerical assistant on campus – while being a full-time engineering student at CSM.In the midst of this economic activity, CSM continues to be positioned as a “best bargain school”where students wanting to major in financially rewarding careers like petroleum engineeringbenefit from relatively low tuition and little expectations of possessing the kinds of social andcultural capitals associated with Ivy League schools. Furthermore, CSM’s location with respectto this economic activity allows many LIFG students to
theirsubsequent engineering courses and careers? Faculty often mention “problem solving skills” and“conceptual understanding”; but decades of physics and engineering education research havebarely addressed this question empirically.1-3Some engineering educators argue that traditional close-ended, well-structured and well-definedproblem-solving of the type demanded by end-of-chapter problems in physics textbooks isimportant to emphasize, because it develops skills that students can build on and apply in laterengineering classes. Others argue that mathematical sense-making—translating and seekingcoherence between mathematical formalism and physical reasoning (often intuitive), usingmathematics flexibly as part of sense-making about the physical world—is
significant attention in CE education programs because that KSA set isaddressed during the Engineer Intern process. That is and broadly speaking, formaleducation stresses analysis and, while it may include some creativity/innovation content,creativity/innovation are learned as part of design during the pre-licensure experience.My career includes three decades in full-time private and public practice. Informed bythat experience, I know that many Engineer Interns will receive at least modest designassignments. However, those tasks will tend to be carried out in a conventional mannerusing algorithmic approaches largely devoid of creativity/innovation expectations
, employees must haveknowledge, skills and abilities (KSAs) that empower them to communicate and coordinate withtheir colleagues2. The ability to act as an effective team member and leader is critical forengineering graduates entering industry, business or other career paths. Accordingly, theCanadian Engineering Accreditation Board (CEAB) has designated teamwork as one of thetwelve attributes engineering students must possess upon graduation3. Similarly, ABET hasincluded the “ability to function on multi-disciplinary skills” in its set of professional skills4.In our experience as engineering educators, based on observations as well as employer andstudent exit surveys, the traditional academic setting cannot give sufficient experiences forreasonable
Paper ID #14596Improvements in Student Spatial Visualization in an Introductory Engineer-ing Graphics Course using Open-ended Design Projects Supported by 3-DPrinted ManipulativesDr. Alex Friess, University of Maine Dr. Friess holds a Ph.D. in Aeronautical Engineering and a B.Sc. in Physics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (1997), and currently is Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering with the University of Maine (since 2012). Previously he has spent 5 years in Dubai as inaugural faculty of RIT Dubai and Dubai Aerospace Enterprise University. Dr. Friess’ industrial and academic career spans a variety of consulting
Marie Buzzanell, Purdue University, West Lafayette Patrice M. Buzzanell is a Distinguished Professor in the Brian Lamb School of Communication and the School of Engineering Education (courtesy) at Purdue University. She is the Butler Chair and Director of the Susan Bulkeley Butler Center for Leadership Excellence. Editor of three books and author of over 170 journal articles and chapters, her research centers on the intersections of career, gender communication, leadership, and resilience. Fellow and past president of the International Communication Association, she has received numerous awards for her research, teaching/mentoring, and engagement. She is working on Purdue-ADVANCE initiatives for institutional change
. And the third group con-centrated on quality of life and future plans for the region. In addition to that, all of the groupswere asked to compare their results with their home countries in terms of any major differ-ences or even similarities. The results were presented and discussed in class during one of theearly live sessions. Hereby the students simultaneously gained knowledge about their futuredestination and challenged their personal understanding about their own cultural background.Furthermore, they were introduced into the home countries of their future classmates. Anoth-er activity in this course part was dominated by several discussions about the essence of theengineering profession, necessary competences for successful careers in
contradicts a careful study of four institutions constrained in terms of educationalinnovation by accreditation, not because the process itself was cumbersome, but because of thenorms and constraints imposed by ABET evaluators and the broader engineering culture. 33Because ABET relies strongly on “old-boy networks” – exclusive relationships of mutualsupport and influence – to select leadership from Program Evaluators on up, the decision-makingstructure has a pronounced problem of underrepresentation (even by engineering standards) ofwomen, people of color, and younger engineers. Have any ABET evaluators been educatedunder EC 2000? How many have a true appreciation for professional skills? How many havespent careers focused narrowly in technical
broad categories for these competencies. For example, as outlined inFurco and Billig’s Service-Learning: The Essence of Pedagogy11, some learning non-academicoutcomes that are intrinsic to the service-learning philosophy fall within these domains:vocational (career); personal; civic and cultural; ethical; and, social. For a more thoroughelaboration of these domains, the reader is directed toward the original source. Other key components driving the decisions behind the project selection in a service-learning context are the resources available and student capacities to meaningful engage in theproposed projects. Resources refer to the institutional, community, financial, and materialresources and support available to a service-learning