engineering design. However, perspective-taking is only one facetof empathy. This work reviews models of empathy, pedagogical strategies for empathy education, andempathy assessments that have been employed in the context of BME education to enable BMEinstructors to integrate empathy education in their individual course contexts and continue to developempathy education within BME education.Keywords: Empathy, Biomedical Engineering, UndergraduateIntroductionAs the world has become increasingly global, so too has engineering become a global practice, requiringengineers to have diverse social and technical skillsets [1]. This is particularly important as modern-dayengineers are expected to participate and problem-solve within sociotechnical challenges
moresupportive communities, and specific transfer pathways. Academic pathways provided bycurricular maps affect students' likelihood of persisting in their studies. [18]. The newexperiences have been significant in providing a clear sense of direction and an increase in self-efficacy [19].V. FUTURE WORKFigure 1: The complete process of our research including future work.All the interviewed participants are enrolled in an engineering program at Wright College.Picking reverse transfer students that are not in any pathway, and non-engineering students willgive us two reverse transfer populations to compare. The next group of interviews will berandomly chosen from reverse transfer students who are not involved in a program but are onlytaking courses to be
Development of a Research-Based Application for Effective Mentor-Mentee MatchingI. INTRODUCTIONMentoring is a relationship between two individuals, wherein a mentor, an experienced andknowledgeable individual, provides guidance and support to a less experienced mentee. Thisrelationship is established with the objective of imparting knowledge, skills, and expertise tofacilitate the mentee’s personal and professional growth [1]-[5]. Currently, there are severalmodels of mentoring relationships. Mentoring can happen on a one-to-one basis. It can besituational, group or peer-based [6]. It can also occur in formal or informal contexts [4]. An idealmentoring relationship must happen organically [7].Mentoring is an essential tool for
number of workshops and panels with REU program alumni and projectmentors. A full agenda from the first iteration is provided in Appendix 1 below.Evaluation and FeedbackTo evaluate the boot camp experience, participants were asked to rate their experience in threeways: 1) Quality of Presentations given at the boot camp, 2) Effectiveness of the boot camp inpromoting a sense of community, and 3) Open ended feedback to improve the boot camp infuture iterations. The full feedback survey is provided in Appendix II. This study was reviewedand deemed exempt by the University of Minnesota IRB under STUDY00009659Results14 of the 17 participants filled out the evaluation survey, which was delivered electronically theday after the boot camp was completed
solutions to the problemsposed to the industry [1], [2], [3], [4], [5] . However, to ensure the team can work togethereffectively, each team member must feel safe, included, and valued by the team [6]. It is this“psychological safety” as discussed by Edmondson, and the pursuit to mentor students on itsimportance and how they might contribute to it that served as motivation for the intervention ofthis study. The intention of the authors was to increase student awareness regarding genderharassment, inequity and the bystanders that watch it happen, through discussions centered oncompassion for those who experience harassment or inequities. This was attempted throughfacilitating classroom discussions focused on clips from the documentary film Picture a
and SlavicStudies developed a successful Five-Year Engineering plus German dual degree program in2012.In recent years, undergraduate engineering students requested the college's leadership for asimilar program in Engineering plus Spanish. To gauge the interest in a dual degree program inEngineering plus Spanish, we searched the university database for engineering students majoringor minoring in Spanish. In Spring 2023, 29 engineering students were minoring in Spanish.There were no engineering students with a Spanish major. Interestingly, 60 percent of thestudents majoring in engineering and minoring in Spanish are females (Figure 1).The University of Georgia’s College of Engineering is committed to increasing the number ofunderrepresented
Dr. Gaskins is the Associate Dean of Inclusive Excellence and Community Engagement in the University of Cincinnati College of Engineering and Applied Science, the only African-American female currently teaching in the faculty of the College of Engineering ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Faculty Perception on STEM Culture at a Women’s UniversityAbstractIn higher education, women's universities have notoriously provided a utopia for women collegestudents to thrive [1]. Specifically, women students feel at liberty to exercise their intelligencealongside their female counterparts [2]. Even more so, women undergraduate students have oftenregarded their academic programs to be
, engagement, and retentionof knowledge.Keywords: Visual Literacy, Educational Infographics, Cognitive Tools, Teacher Education,Engineering Education.IntroductionIn the digital era, the dynamics of how individuals’ access and process information have shifteddramatically. No longer are libraries the primary starting point for inquiries; instead, the ubiquityof internet access and advancements in mobile communication technology have made onlineplatforms, through search engines and web pages, the mainstay for acquiring up-to-dateinformation [1][2]. This evolution reflects the emergence of “digital citizens” who prioritizeconcise, visually appealing information formats over traditional text-heavy content, marking asignificant shift in information
of Biomedical Engineering. I am involved in mentoring students in both the laboratory and in the classroom and have research interests in peer feedback, team dynamics, and incorporating more translatable skills to my classes. Currently, I teach senior capstone, research and experimental design, and medical device design. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Work in Progress: Towards Self-reported Student Usage of AI to Direct Curriculum in Technical Communication Courses1. IntroductionThe use of AI by students in biomedical engineering courses has rapidly grown in the past year[1]. Courses that prioritize critical thinking and technical writing have seen students relying
engineering education. Weconducted a scoping review of engineering textbooks from five large engineering programs,considering 64 unique books [1]. For instance, we found that only 11% of engineering textbooksmentioned “variability,” and that the textbooks mentioned the term “force” ~2.5x as frequently as“uncertainty.” These results help quantify the degree to which variability is under-emphasized inengineering education.Our work has also fashioned conceptual tools to help understand professional engineeringpractice. We conducted a qualitative study of practicing engineers’ data analysis approaches. Theresulting NAT Taxonomy categorizes choices as either neglected (if they neglect variability),acknowledged (if they acknowledge the existence of
a lack of knowledge of engineering practices and thedistinction between engineering and scientific inquiry [1]. In addition to the natural science(physical science, earth and space science and life science standards), the NGSS includesstandards specific to engineering, technology and applications of science which must be taught,and which can be used to create assessments [2].As of June of 2023, 48 states have adopted NGSS or NGSS-based science standards [3]. AsNGSS has been adopted and implemented across the US, K-12 teachers are tasked with findingways to incorporate engineering practices in their science lessons, despite having little formaltraining as part of the teacher certification process. This has led to an increased need
, 2024AbstractThere is substantial opportunity for engineering graduates to enter the workforce to engage in afulfilling career and achieve social mobility. Still, there is a lack of adequate support forlow-income, academically talented students. The purpose of this poster is to describe theinterventions designed to support S-STEM scholarship students at Rowan University in the firstyear of our S-STEM project. Our S-STEM project objectives are threefold: 1) Providescholarships to encourage talented students with low incomes and demonstrated financial need toinitiate and graduate from engineering majors in the College of Engineering at Rowan Universityand subsequently enter the engineering workforce or a graduate program; 2) Develop a supportsystem that
isincluded at the end of the paper. I. IntroductionTo be effective problem-solvers, students must understand the relationship between taskcharacteristics and associated processing demands such as monitoring and evaluation(M/E) throughout the problem-solving activities. The individual’s knowledge about theproblem-solving task is known as metacognitive knowledge about the task (MKT) [1]. TheMKT that students develop helps them interpret tasks, and to bridge the gap between mentalrepresentations of the problem and effective solution strategies. According to the generativelearning theory, the effective comprehension of a complex subject requires learners toactively engage in the process. Learners are urged to selectively focus on
Faculty Professional DevelopmentAbstractThe research associated with this project is made possible by a National Science Foundationgrant. Minoritized students (MS) (defined in this work as African American and Latinx) oftenexperience increased instances of exclusionary academic environments compared to theirnon-minoritized counterparts [1]. As a result, MS are more likely than their peers to attrit fromtheir STEM majors. Faculty play a significant role in the development of either a positive ornegative academic culture. For this reason, there is a need to bring meaningful facultyengagement into the classroom to address the challenge of STEM degree completion disparitiesbetween MS and non-MS students. To directly address STEM faculty’s perception
journeys, eventual careers, and professional engineeringidentities [1], [2]. Unfortunately, many faculty members lack the necessary resources andtraining to enhance their knowledge, empathy, and understanding of the diverse experiences andidentities that students bring to the engineering classroom [1], [3], [4], [5]. Gaining theseunderstandings can be especially challenging for faculty who teach courses consisting of studentswith minoritized identities that are non-apparent or hidden. In such cases, these identities cannotbe easily observed through daily faculty-student classroom interactions and often go unnoticedunless they are explicitly disclosed.The absence of these resources has limited progress in fostering a more inclusive
connection toindustry and through changes in the four essential areas of a shared department vision, faculty,curriculum, and supportive policies.During the last year of this project, we conducted an audit of our activities taken during the six-year project to identify which were most impactful for the culture building in the department andwere relatively easy to implement and adopt by other departments. We shared our audit processand results at the 2023 ASEE conference [1]. This audit process helped us identify ten significantendeavors, each of which included multiple activities. These ten endeavors include creating amission statement to drive culture change, fostering the new culture in retreats, improvingdiversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) in
. The mixed methods design uses a surveyfollowed by exploratory interviews. Additional narrative interviews will be conducted to gatherrich data on student experiences with psychological safety and how they evolve over time.BackgroundFaculty advisors play a pivotal role in shaping doctoral students' identities as researchers,including their research skills and overall perspective on the research process [1], [2]. Despitetheir critical role, faculty often lack training in providing essential psychosocial support to thedoctoral students they advise [3]. This gap can result in students, particularly underrepresentedgroups in engineering (e.g., women, Black, and Latinx students), encountering chilly academicclimates [4], [5], [6], [7], leading to
with Industry (NSF Award #2030297) – herein referred to as INNOV – is designedto offer academic innovation opportunities, alongside scholarships and retention programming tofacilitate student success [1, 2].The structure of the INNOV program encompasses several components: 1) a credit-bearinginnovation bridge program conducted during the intersession immediately before the students'initial semester on campus [1], 2) a year-long sequence of innovation courses featuring industry-partnered projects in the first year [2], and 3) innovation-themed field trips to various industriesand startups. Additionally, the program incorporates a non-curricular segment known as the Pathprogram, which includes a first-year residential community, peer and
the project, VADER-1 and VADER-2were developed to enhance first- and second-year students’ self-efficacy and retention in AE/Cprograms. VADER-R, aimed at recruiting high school and community college students into AE/Cprograms, is under development. VADER-1 and VADER-2 were implemented in 10 courses (405students) across three institutions in Fall 2023. The impact of VADERs was assessed throughreflection surveys guided by Social Cognitive Career Theory, pre- and post-domain knowledgequizzes, and time-stamped click-stream data reflecting student interactions within the virtualenvironment.1. IntroductionArchitectural Engineering and Construction (AE/C) education faces persistent challenges inenhancing students’ proficiency while fostering and
California, Irvine and is working on a Masters in Science Education at California State University Long Beach. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Breaking Through the Obstacles: Strategies and Support Helping Students Succeed in Computer ScienceIntroduction and MotivationNot only that there is a continuously growing number of students who want to study computerscience (CS) but also there is a large need for CS graduates. The computing jobs are crucial forthe development and growth of the economy worldwide. For example, the data from theIntegrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) [1] by the U.S. Department ofEducation’s National Center for Education Statistics
same meaning in their respective languages. Toassess the quality of the representations in our meta-embedding in the context of code-switching,we employed a neural network to conduct text classification tasks on code-switching datasets. Ourresults demonstrate that, compared to pre-trained multilingual models, our model can achieve highperformance in text classification tasks while utilizing significantly fewer parameters.IntroductionIntelligent tutoring systems (ITS) emulate human tutors on specific topics by using constructivistapproaches to teaching. As such, they monitor user progress and ask challenging questions, elicit-ing deep explanations and providing feedback through conversation [1], [2]. ITSs have been usedsuccessfully in many
material being studied. Students’ responses show that there is a lack of (1)time to process the information received, (2) debriefing of material content to prevent cognitiveoverload, (3) application to real-world scenarios, and (4) critical analysis of theoretical principlesto practical implementation. We argue that argumentation in the classroom through acombination of in-person and digital critical reflexivity can allow students to achieve theseobjectives when learning about tissue mechanics. The implementation of pedagogicalinterventions that allow for socialization in person and virtually promises different avenueswhere critical reflexivity can happen. The digital platform Perusall, for example, has been provento be a valuable annotation tool
LearningFoundations. Other objectives for the project include providing professional developmentopportunities for students and faculty, such as guest speakers and seminars, AI bootcamps, andcompleting the AI4ALL Discover AI certificate, to learn more about the concepts andapplications of AI. Additionally, the team aims to complete an evaluation on partnershipsbetween CCs, universities, and industry partners, and conduct a computing identity study, whichis the focus of the role of the research team.3. Research Project Details As a continuation of the project, the research team employed a phenomenological study,informed by computing identity development theory [1], [2] and Hispanic-Servingnessframeworks [3], to conduct semi-structured interviews to
share insights from the family narrative (synthesisof all the data generated from the family’s participation) and results of how the family enactedspecific engineering practices. Also, the authors will share a preliminary reflection on how thesepractices might serve as a vehicle to positively impact the sense of belonging of Blackengineering students.1 IntroductionThe academic success of Black students is linked to the familial cultural capital. The familymodel has been employed as a means of helping students adjust to the rigors of higher education[1]. Positive effects on academic accomplishment are produced when a child's academicendeavors are supported by their family [2]. Familial capital shows up in the form of motivatingthe student to
summarizes the first-year progress made on a research grant funded through theNational Science Foundation EDU Core Research: Building Capacity in STEM EducationResearch (ECR: BCSER) program. The research activity has two primary objectives. Thoseobjectives are: (1) address the underrepresentation of Latinas in graduate engineeringprograms, and (2) establish an engineering education research program that focuses on thefundamental research of the experiences and support systems that foster the success ofdiverse students in engineering. The first objective will be investigated through a mixed-methods research approach. The second objective will be supported through specificactivities that build the principal investigator’s capacity to mentor and
the understanding of factors influencing womenSTEM faculty's participation in entrepreneurship education programs and contributes to thecreation of an inclusive and equitable landscape for entrepreneurship education across STEMdisciplines [1]. By merging multiple theories into a unified model, this project offers a creativeway of leveraging interdisciplinary perspectives, underscoring the importance of a sharedtheoretical foundation for effective education research. 1INTRODUCTIONDiscipline-Based Education Researchers (DBERs) often use theoretical concepts from disparatefields and tailor them to the specific contexts of their discipline [1]. While
to approach problemswith a holistic view, make decisions based on evidence, collaborate effectively in teams, andlearn from setbacks. Laboratory work plays a crucial role in shaping the professionaldevelopment of university engineering students as it enables them to cultivate these essentialpractices [1, 2]. A successful laboratory task design should provide students opportunities todevelop these practices but also needs to adhere to the constraints of the educationalenvironment.In this project, we explore how both virtual (simulation-based) and physical (hands-on)laboratories, based on the same real-world engineering process, develop the practices studentswill need in their future careers. In an engineering virtual laboratory, students work
. Furthermore, she examines campus environments and how institutional agency influences student success. This research spans three different spheres of influence including 1) student experiences, 2) higher education institutions, and 3) societal contexts. Her most recent research considers the intersection of Latinx identity and STEM identity at Hispanic Serving Institutions that are also community colleges. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024RUNNING HEAD: STEM SUCCESS AT AN HSI COMMUNITY COLLEGE Comprehending the Complex Context of Community Colleges: STEM Student Success at a Hispanic Serving Institution Lucy Arellano, Jr
interventions were developed: (i)the use of international engineering case studies ina quantitative analysis course,(ii) the intentional formation of multinational student design teamswithin a capstone design course, (iii) a Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL)research project in a transport phenomena course, and (iv) an engineering course coupled to acommunity-engaged project. The research aims to address the following questions: 1. To what extent can global competence be developed in engineering students through the use of the proposed global engagement interventions? 2. What are the relative strengths of each of the proposed global engagement interventions in developing global engineering competence?For this project, the
, 2024 Novel Approach Designing Interview Protocols with Generative Large Language Models to Study Mental Models and Engineering DesignAbstractThis paper describes the use of AI to support the initial development of an interview protocoldesigned to elicit engineering students’ mental models of socio-ecological-technological systems(SETs) and how these models influence their design decisions. The protocol was created for astudy that addresses the need to prepare engineering students to design sustainable solutionssuitable for a world afflicted by climate change. Three frameworks informed the creation of theprotocol: (1) mental models theory, (2) theory of planned behavior, and (3) social-ecological