extensively with students from kindergarten to graduate school, parents, and pre-service and in service teachers to both educate and excite them about engineering. As the Co-PI and Project Direc- tor of a National Science Foundation GK-12 grant, Parry developed a highly effective tiered mentoring model for graduate and undergraduate engineering and education teams, as well as a popular family STEM event offering for both elementary and middle school communities. Projects include providing comprehensive professional development, coaching, and program consulting for multiple elementary en- gineering schools in several states, serving as a regional professional development partner for the Museum of Science, Boston’s
work should be built. Appropriating the turtle in 1 It is important to note, this is the first CS course, since UC Berkeley has been tracking student course data, thathas ever achieved that feat.the LOGO programming environment gave children a way to think about the principles ofcomputation and the practice of programming.Design of an Inclusive CS0 CourseAt UC Berkeley, there are two separate ways a students can get a CS degree. They can either get aBachelor of Arts (B.A.) through the College of Letters and Sciences (L&S), or get a Bachelor ofScience (B.Sc.) through the College of Engineering. The major difference between the two tracksis that students who get the B.A. get to take breadth requirements that gives them exposure tomore
& sciences plusprofessions undergraduate degree majors and high graduate coexistence [34]. The undergraduateprofile is full-time, more selective, and lower transfer-in. The demographics of the enrolledstudents at the campus overall (2018) were: 44.3% female and 55.7% male; 65.9% White, 11.4%Hispanic/Latinx, 9.0% International, 7.8% Asian, 2.5% African-American, 1.6% AmericanIndian / Alaska Native, 0.6% Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander, and 1.2% unknown; 16.9% firstgeneration; about 16% of the undergraduate students were awarded Pell grants.The study includes three cohorts of students enrolled in a pilot engineering math course in fall2017, 2018, and 2019. These students encompass all of the different engineering majors at theinstitution
impacts of thenew soft robotics curriculum for K12 classrooms, this paper presents pilot analysis toward a machinelearning algorithm to analyze children’s drawings. When combined with other measurements, includinginterviews or observations, the Draw a Robot Task, enhanced with objective analysis tools presented here,can aid researchers in understanding the earliest perceptions and stereotypes of robots held by youngchildren.IntroductionRecruitment of new students to engineering majors relies on developing their interest and identities inengineering from an early age [1], [2]. With countless activities developed for young, elementary-agedchildren to experiment with STEM concepts, it is essential that we have a tool to understand changes intheir
situated in the Engineering for US All (e4usa): A National Pilot Programfor High School Engineering Course and Database program, a new pre-college engineeringinitiative funded in 2018 by the National Science Foundation. The program aims to demystifyengineering for all high school students as an avenue to engineering literacy and a means ofenhancing potential engineering pathways [17]. The e4usa course was intentionally designed tobe inclusive by providing engineering design experiences relating to student fields of interest inlocal and global contexts. The course objectives are broken down into four major threads andwoven through seven units. The four threads include: a) discovery of the discipline ofengineering and engineering identity, b
, along with a battery of social cognitive factors related to interest– including experience with engineering, knowledge and understanding of engineering as acareer field, and identity as an engineer. The study is part of an overarching program of researchat Arizona State University’s Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering, aimed at testing the efficacyof an out-of-school engineering program, Young Engineers Shape the World embedded in anNSF sponsored project. This project, Engineers from Day One, aims to facilitate the engineeringidentities of female, first-generation, and underrepresented minority students, with the goal ofincreasing these students’ entry and retention in engineering majors. The project is funded by aNational Science Foundation
Research. His teaching interests include develop- mental psychology; sociocultural theories of communication, learning, and identity; qualitative methods; and discourse analysis.Dr. Beth A. Myers, University of Colorado Boulder Beth A. Myers is the Director of Analytics, Assessment and Accreditation at the University of Colorado Boulder. She holds a BA in biochemistry, ME in engineering management and PhD in civil engineering. Her interests are in quantitative and qualitative research and data analysis as related to equity in education. She has been involved in the new pilot Engineering Math course at CU-Boulder since the start.Dr. Jacquelyn F. Sullivan, University of Colorado, Boulder Jacquelyn Sullivan is founding co
scale.unit operations lab. Figure 2b shows the new teaching environment, which we will designate asMIL for the maker/innovation lab (known to our students as the Meldrum Innovation Lab).UOL has been used for our unit ops laboratory and senior capstone labs for decades, and is likelysimilar to many unit ops chemical engineering laboratories across the country. It contains onelarge lab area which houses pilot-scale pieces of unit ops equipment. The space also includes acollection of smaller satellite laboratories: a wet lab, analytical lab, biochemical engineering lab,and reactor laboratory. Just down the hall from this space was a small room housing our 3Dprinters. The design course that is the test course for this paper was shoehorned into this
concept maps from the pre-classactivities or create new ones, allowing the instructors to evaluate knowledge gained and/orperception changes.Research Approach and ParticipantsIn the fall of 2020, two of the authors incorporated the newly-created module on the Impacts ofCOVID-19 on Transportation Systems and Stakeholders in their classes. The students involvedin this study included 11 students (2 undergraduate seniors and nine graduate master’s students)from Southern Methodist University (SMU), a medium-sized private research university. Bothundergraduate students were enrolled in the bachelor of science program in civil andenvironmental engineering. Master's degree students were enrolled in various degree programs,including the master of science
Dina Verd´ın is an Engineering Education graduate student at Purdue University. She completed her under- graduate degree in Industrial and Systems Engineering at San Jos´e State University. Her research interest focuses on the first-generation college student population, which includes changing the perspective of this population from a deficit base approach to an asset base approach.Hank Boone, University of Nevada - Reno Hank Boone is a Graduate Research Assistant and Masters Student at the University of Nevada, Reno. His research focuses on First Generation engineering college students’ engineering identity, belonging- ness, and how they perceive their college experience.He is also on a National Science Foundation
promote distribution of resources to the underprivileged portions of the community as well as increasing awareness of inequality through teaching.Katie Mills, Humboldt State University Katie Mills is currently on the staff at Humboldt State University, working with Academic Programs and Undergraduate Studies. Katie is a graduate of Humboldt State University, having completed a BS in Interdisciplinary Physics and Chemistry and a BA in Sociology. Her academic interests include the retention of underrepresented students in science and engineering. Page 14.705.2© American Society for Engineering
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assessed. Learning outcomes related to theengineering design process, teamwork, and design communication are established over a rangeof performance levels. Tables of performance descriptions define engineering designperformance along a continuum of proficiencies from the beginner to the practicing professional.Along this continuum, learning outcomes are proposed for graduating engineers and forengineering students mid-way through their programs of study. Assessment instruments andscoring scales are developed around these learning outcomes. These scoring definitions andassessments provide bases for benchmarking student performance, for developing and scoringassessments of design and for communicating graduates’ capabilities to employers and
. First of all, starting in the 2006-2007 academic year, the ECE department adopted a newtwo-semester, six-hour capstone design sequence for both its electrical engineering and computerengineering Bachelors’ programs. This new structure for the ECE senior design sequence made itpossible for all projects involving ECE students to be coordinated by a single faculty coordinatorwho was could ensure that all design projects included realistic design constraints and sufficientdepth for a capstone design experience, and that when possible, the design projects could also bemade multidisciplinary in nature. After a few pilot projects, a sustainable, collaborative modelbegan to take shape. Further improving the opportunities for interdepartmental
: Specialization vs. Standardization in the Factory Model of Engineering EducationAbstractThis research paper employs data from the study of a novel next-tier broadening participationaccess program to illustrate the challenge of maintaining awareness and understanding of ourstudents as individuals within institutional systems of assessment and record-keeping that treatall students as the same in the interests of standardization. These standardized practices areintended to aid in the production of high numbers of engineering graduates—not unlike a factorythat takes in raw materials in the form of students and outputs finished goods in the shape ofengineering graduates. This factory model of engineering education, like any high
through their careers and how different experiences within the practice and culture of engineering foster or hinder belongingness and identity development. Dr. Godwin graduated from Clemson University with a B.S. in Chemical Engineering and Ph.D. in Engineering and Science Education. Her research earned her a National Science Foundation CAREER Award focused on characterizing latent diversity, which includes diverse attitudes, mindsets, and approaches to learning, to understand engineering students’ identity devel- opment. She is the recipient of a 2014 American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Educational Research and Methods Division Apprentice Faculty Grant. She has also been recognized for the synergy of
how team dynamics affect undergraduate women’s confidence levels in engineering.Dr. Malinda S. Zarske, University of Colorado, Boulder Malinda Zarske is a faculty member with the Engineering Plus program at the University of Colorado Boulder. She teaches undergraduate product design and core courses through Engineering Plus as well as STEM education courses for pre-service teachers through the CU Teach Engineering program. Her primary research interests include the impacts of project-based service-learning on student identity - es- pecially women and nontraditional demographic groups in engineering - as well as pathways and retention to and through K-12 and undergraduate engineering, teacher education, and
better understanding of therelationship between CSE, beliefs about creativity, and the lived experiences of undergraduatewomen engineering majors will lead to strategies for educational reform that will benefit allstudents, increase pathways for female students into the engineering major, and contribute to thesuccess of women engineering. Methodology and Instrument A sequential explanatory mixed methods design was used for this study [30]. This two-phase methodology was best suited to this research because synthesis of the quantitative surveywith the themes discovered from the qualitative data analysis lead to answers to the researchquestions. In this sequential explanatory design, the quantitative survey
to empirically understand how engineering students and educators learn. He is currently the chair of the Research in Engineering Education Network (REEN) and an associate ed- itor for the Journal of Engineering Education (JEE). Prior to joining ASU he was a graduate student research assistant at the Tufts’ Center for Engineering Education and Outreach.Dr. Kenneth Reid, University of Indianapolis Kenneth Reid is the Associate Dean and Director of the R.B. Annis School of Engineering at the Uni- versity of Indianapolis and an affiliate Associate Professor in Engineering Education at Virginia Tech. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021
onintroducing students to engineering, the focus of such interventions and studies has shifted toconstructs that researchers believe will be better predictors of students choosing to pursueengineering as a college major and/or career (Hynes et al., 2017). Those include identity,perceptions of engineering, attitudes and beliefs toward engineering, self-efficacy in engineering,and interest in engineering. One factor that has been consistently cited among those conductingresearch and evaluation of such programs is students’ perceptions, attitudes, and beliefs towardengineering (Hynes et al., 2017). There have been mixed results with respect to the extent towhich in-school and out-of-school engineering programs are able to increase students’perceptions
Paper ID #33951Understanding Gen Z’s Declining Engagement with WE@RIT, a Woman inEngineering ProgramMs. Kathrine Ehrlich-Scheffer, Rochester Institute of Technology (COE) Kathy has served as Director of Women in Engineering at RIT (WE@RIT) since 2015, and brings a rich array of life experiences to the position. After graduating with a bachelor’s degree in Public Affairs from a women’s college where she learned first-hand the value of a female-centric support network, Kathy made her way to Silicon Valley. There she studied CMOS Mask Layout Design which eventually led her to a position in IT for a semiconductor IP start-up
effectiveness of our implementation. 2. Creation of a RED Advisory Board. We have spent several sessions with members of the community and industry to socialize the RED grant and to develop engagement activities for the grant. Both groups were enthusiastic about the RED goals and are represented on the RED advisory board. The board has identified the professional skills that they believed were most frequently missing from our engineering graduates. They then developed a pilot program called “Industry Scholars” that will develop and deliver workshops for first and second year students and engineering faculty members. The program will also provide internships to some of the first and second year students. In the
-engineering fields. Research on Engineering LLCshas focused primarily on student engagement. Two studies to examine performance and retentionfound that LLCs had little effect on first-semester grades but increased first-year retention inengineering by 2 to 12%. Unfortunately, one of these studies did not control for differences inincoming student characteristics, and another used a comparison group that differed little fromthe LLC group, possibly causing them to understate the LLC’s true effects. To improve ourunderstanding, this paper examines performance and retention in the inaugural EngineeringLLCs at a small, private non-profit, regional university in the northeastern United States.Results indicate that 82% of the Engineering LLC participants
responses from a range of computer science students from first year tograduate students. It should be mentioned that our study is not intended to be a completeformal quantitative investigation. Validation of the results with larger studies may berequired.The total number of raw data responses from all three institutions was 815. After cleaning theraw data to remove responses without signed consent, the total number of responses was 782.The full set of questions that were asked is included in Appendix A.Opinions of the respondents regarding the questions on search engine results and algorithm biaswere recorded in the form of a 7-point Likert scale ranging from “Strongly disagree” to“Strongly agree”. A sampling issue with the respondents was that
Education Grassroots Approach Abstract The earthquake engineering community has recognized that in seismically active regions throughout the United States, hundreds of thousands of students and staff unknowingly study and work in structurally vulnerable school and university buildings. The School Earthquake Safety Initiative (SESI), spearheaded by the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI), is a collaborative network of diverse, expert, and impassioned professionals who are committed to creating and sharing knowledge and tools that enable broadminded, informed decision making around school earthquake safety. The Classroom Education and Outreach
from a UK professor ii) ENGAGE: Everyday Examples in Engineering - NSF funded resourceMotivation is necessary but not sufficient for engagement [3]. Engagement, or a student’sactive involvement in a task or activity, is important because (among other things) it is linked toretention and graduation rates [4]. Luckily for us, of the 11 engagement indicators used by theNSSE study [4], many of them can be addressed but supporting the 3 antecedents of motivationabove. Others, including effective teaching practices (e.g. clearly explaining learning objectives,using examples to explain difficult points) are addressed in other guides in this series.Cited References[1] R. M. Ryan and E. L. Deci, “Intrinsic and Extrinsic
Engineering Education at Purdue University. Her research focuses what factors influence diverse students to choose engineering and stay in engineering through their careers and how different experiences within the practice and culture of engineering fos- ter or hinder belongingness and identity development. Dr. Godwin graduated from Clemson University with a B.S. in Chemical Engineering and Ph.D. in Engineering and Science Education. Her research earned her a National Science Foundation CAREER Award focused on characterizing latent diversity, which includes diverse attitudes, mindsets, and approaches to learning, to understand engineering stu- dents’ identity development. She has won several awards for her research
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—orbelieves, as we do—that all of the EOP competencies are important for students toexperience by the time they graduate, it behooves us to think about how to deliver thesecompetencies across a curriculum.The engineering curriculum in which this study occurred is designed to provide at least onePjBL class each semester. We envision a delivery of different subsets of the EOP frameworkcompetencies across the project-spine to ensure meaningful engagement is achieved for allcompetencies. This approach allows for at least two synergistic pedagogical and researchopportunities: 1) emphasizing a different subset of EOP competencies in different PjBLcourses allows students to see the interdependencies between those competencies in moredepth; and 2) spreading
peer mentoring relationships?Researcher PositionalityWithin this study, the first author was able to research a student population that she had been apart of for many years. She had completed undergraduate and graduate degrees at the institutionwithin the College of Engineering being studied. She brought personal experience to the study,both inside and outside of the classroom with both in-person and online courses, whichpositioned her as an insider since she was familiar with the organization and potential demandsin that realm [41]–[43]. She was mindful of her positionality throughout the study to providecritical and beneficial yet ethical research findings. The secondary author provided ampleexperience in the scholarship of mentoring and has