Paper ID #11650Diversity in Chemical Engineering Education: Status and PerspectivesDr. Cheryl A Bodnar, University of Pittsburgh Cheryl A. Bodnar, PhD, CTDP is an Assistant Professor (Teaching Track) in the Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering at the Swanson School of Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh. She obtained her certification as a Training and Development Professional (CTDP) from the Canadian Society for Training and Development (CSTD) in 2010, providing her with a solid background in instructional design, facilitation and evaluation. Dr. Bodnar’s research interests relate to the
Briggs Personality Type Inventory. While these two tools provide students with useful insights about their personalities, behaviours and habits of mind, our findings suggest that engineering educators who use these tools with their students would be well advised to discuss them as temporally-contextualized orientations rather than immutable categories. If they can critically examine these two typologies and expose students to multiple ways of influencing, supporting and relating to their colleagues, the next generation of engineers will learn the value and practice of flexibility while opening themselves to qualitatively diverse forms of professional development. 2) If it proves to be the case that female
Scholarship Program continues to support the scholars financially andprovide critical support for their success. With this in mind, three scholars who were in theirthird year had their scholarships extended until graduation, and this was based on their academicperformance and funds available as a result only six of the ten new scholarships were awarded in2012-2013.The engineering majors represented by this cohort were chemical, civil, electrical, mechanicaland petroleum, and they entered LSU as transfer students in the fall 2010 or spring 2011semester. The scholars’ academic performance at selection (i.e. at the end of the spring 2011semester) was on average well above the scholarship criteria, and demographics indicate that theprogram attracted
Paper ID #12534Building a STEM Pathway with Engineering by Design andMs. Laura E. LeMire, The Community College of Baltimore County Upon graduation from the University of Maryland at College Park with her masters in geotechnical en- gineering, Laura went to work for Baltimore Gas and Electric where during her career there she was responsible for substation and transmission line construction projects, relocation and installation of BGE facilities for Oriole Park at Camden Yards and for the Light Rail, and for improving service reliability. After obtaining her MBA, Laura became the Director of Corporate Purchasing and was a
Paper ID #17468Developing Engineering Leaders Using a Reflective Autobiographical Exer-cise ˜ Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyDr. David Nino, David Ni˜no, Ph.D., is a Senior Lecturer in the Bernard M. Gordon-MIT Engineering Leadership Program, where he has a strong commitment to the development of leadership among undergraduates and graduate students across MIT and among engineers, more broadly. In addition to MIT teaching, he is active in an international consortium of engineering leadership centers and a founding officer of the Engineering Leadership Development Division of the American Society of
Paper ID #30606Solution Diversity in Engineering Computing Final ProjectsMs. Sara Willner-Giwerc , Tufts University Sara Willner-Giwerc is a Ph.D. candidate in mechanical engineering at Tufts University. She graduated from Tufts University with a B.S. in mechanical engineering and a double minor in engineering education and engineering management in 2018. She is a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow, which supports her research at the Tufts Center for Engineering Education and Outreach (CEEO) on technological tools, learning experiences, and environments for teaching engineering in classrooms pre-k
minimum required by a standard undergraduate degree (generally120 credit hours), or as the superfluous credits relative to the student’s specific degree program atgraduation [8, 15]. In this paper, we provide a new definition of excess credit hours (introduced byus in [13]) that takes into consideration the applicability(usability) of credits towards the degreerequirements (refer to Section 3). The more commonly used definition of excess credits used sofar in this Section will be referred to as extra credits from here on in this paper. It is clear thatexcess credits are a subset of extra credits. With this in mind, our primary objective in this paperis to explain the extra credit accumulation pattern of undergraduate engineering students
can do that, a child can do that" (Prof. N.-E) Engineering education: More "It's probably only about 20%, the deep technical knowledge, and the than "intellectual" skills rest is kind of being able to make it happen" (Prof. B.-E)Perception of the What for? "higher-order skills, I think, is one of those areas of connectivityintegration because successful engineer and successful artists have to employ critical thinking, they have to identify problems or re-identify problems and questions, they have to be open-minded to solutions
mill. That involved no red tape atall, but also a complete change for me. It’s in an extremely rural area, which I had never lived inbefore. I don’t know. It’s really weird, right? You don’t think of electrical engineering studentsworking in a steel mill, which was scary but also exciting. Since it’s private industry, notgovernment, I would make a lot more money. These two potential jobs were really fighting me,fighting each other in my mind. I was really struggling with the thought that I have to choose whatpath my life is going to take right now, and the choice that I make is going to determine my future,which isn’t something that I really had to do all by myself before. When I was selecting a college,I got input from my parents and friends
Paper ID #15349Increasing Multi-Cultural Awareness in Engineering StudentsMs. Ning Xuan Yip, Purdue University, West Lafayette Ning Xuan Yip is a third year student pursuing Chemical Engineering at Purdue University. She is part of the Leadership Team in the Women In Engineering Mentor and Mentee Pair Program, where she organizes meetings and networking events with a focus on developing relationships between the mentors and mentees. As the Diversity Liaison for the program, she works to increase the multi-cultural awareness of the participants, and to increase the retention of international students within the program
. She is currently working with Dr. Marissa Tsugawa on Neurodiversity Research and Education. She believes that neurodiversity can help her better understand her younger brother’s condition (Asphyxiation) and respond to his basic needs because his mind works differently from everybody else’s due to which he unable to express his feelings and pain.kiana kheiriDr. Marissa A Tsugawa, Utah State University Marissa Tsugawa is an assistant professor at Utah State University focusing on neurodiversity and identity and motivation. She completed her Ph.D. in Engineering Education focusing on motivation and identity for engineering graduate students.Hamid Karimi, Utah State University I completed my Ph.D. in Computer
Paper ID #34949Identifying Signature Pedagogies in a Multidisciplinary EngineeringProgramDr. Kimia Moozeh, University of Toronto Kimia Moozeh has a PhD in Engineering Education from University of Toronto. She received her Hon. B.Sc. in 2013, and her Master’s degree in Chemistry in 2014. Her dissertation explored improving the learning outcomes of undergraduate engineering laboratories by bridging the learning from a larger context to the underlying fundamentals, using digital learning objects.Lisa Romkey, University of Toronto Lisa Romkey serves as Associate Professor, Teaching Stream and Associate Chair, Curriculum
Paper ID #33453Migrator Stories in an Aerospace Engineering ProgramDr. Devayan D. Bir, Loras College Prior to teaching at Loras College, Devayan pursued his doctorate in Aerospace Engineering at Iowa State University and has worked as a Computer Aided Analyst in India. He earned his B.E. in Aeronautical Engineering, and has been passionate about Aerospace Engineering all his life. Hobbies include playing the guitar, soccer, and photography. Research interests include innovative pedagogies (Active, Flipped, and Online instruction) and applied numerical methods. Devayan has published peer reviewed papers, presented at
interviews with faculty, and email exchanges. Supplemented by field notes, a total of60 audio recordings, at least an hour each, were transcribed. A data log provides a summary ofthis data corpus, with data categorized as containing information about various topics (e.g.,assessment, technical writing instruction, learner-centeredness).The research team, composed of a learning scientist, a change management specialist, qualitativeresearchers, graduate assistants, and engineering faculty, individually reviewed the selected data withthe OCBs and Scott’s framework in mind, then met to discuss our interpretations [33]. Thisprocess also enabled the research team to perform member checking to establish trustworthiness ofinterpretations [34].To enhance the
support from role models (extrinsic) were major factors inhelping participants break barriers to engineering. L4 described how concepts didn’t come easyto her, “I just tend to work harder, but I had to work harder because I didn't come this natural tome as it would come to them” (L4). M5 struggled greatly in her calculus course and overcamethat as a barrier, “I started working really hard… I liked putting in hard work and seeing that Ican, I can get smarter and I can learn things if I put my mind to it” (M5). Barriers included thetraditional male dominated STEM classroom. M5 went on to describe challenges in a maledominated classroom that included both high school and her college experience, “I'm kind of lefton my own. I don't really get a
Paper ID #26743Transitioning to Engineering Without Losing Experiential LearningDr. Jeffrey L. Newcomer, Western Washington University Dr. Jeffrey L. Newcomer is a Professor of Manufacturing Engineering and Chair of the Engineering and Design Department at Western Washington University. He received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.Ms. Nikki Larson, Western Washington University After receiving my bachelor degree in Mechanical Engineering from Bradley University, I started working for Boeing. While at Boeing I worked to receive my master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering with an
Paper ID #29336A Review of Agentic Frameworks in Engineering EducationMs. Brianna Shani Benedict, Purdue University Brianna Benedict is a Graduate Research Assistant in the School of Engineering Education at Purdue University. She completed her Bachelor’s and Master’s of Science in Industrial and Systems Engineering at North Carolina Agricultural & Technical State University. Her research interest focuses on interdisci- plinary students’ identity development, belongingness in engineering, and agency.Mrs. Kayla R. Maxey, Purdue University-Main Campus, West Lafayette (College of Engineering) Kayla is a doctoral
design, 4) increasedinterest in pursuing an engineering career, and 5) improved technological literacy [4]. With thesegoals in mind, the objective of this study was to examine how a newly developed instructionalmodel, known as Argument Driven Engineering (ADE), is related to changes in middle schoolstudents’ attitudes toward engineering and participation in engineering careers. This study ofengineering attitudes is important both for developing effective curriculum and pedagogy forengineering in science classrooms, and also for addressing nation-wide problems with diverserepresentation and participation in engineering degree programs and occupations.In 2012 the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology issued a reportprojecting
Paper ID #39932Exploring Undergraduate Engineering Students’ Understanding of PowerDynamicsKenya Z Mejia, University of Washington Kenya Z. Mejia is a PhD Candidate at the University of Washington in the Human Centered Design and Engineering program. Her work focuses on diversity and inclusion in engineering education focusing on engineering design education.Hailee Kenney, University of WashingtonTiffany Dewitt, University of WashingtonDr. Jennifer A Turns, University of Washington Dr. Jennifer Turns is a full professor in the Human Centered Design & Engineering Department in the College of Engineering at the
ofdeterminism arising from physics and evolution. Personalism assumes individuals havesignificance, are unique, and serve as ends-in-themselves [6]; that is persons do not serve asmeans to a larger social end. Personalism also recognizes that humans exist in relation to otherpersons and society rather than as isolated, rational, Cartesian minds. In regard to educatingfuture engineers, personalism posits that to become engineers, students should undergo bothprofessional and personal development. Thus, the focus of any degree program should be ondeveloping individuals in fullness.The adoption of personalism—an individual-focused philosophy—as a constraint needs someexplanation in relation to the concept of a “common good” since individual wants and
Paper ID #46528Exploring Women Engineering Students’ Gendered Internship ExperiencesJing Zhang, University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignHou XieRosie Ruoci Shen, University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignMs. Valeri Werpetinski, University of Illinois Urbana - Champaign Valeri Werpetinski is the Assistant Director for Women in Engineering and a KEEN Instructional Catalyst in The Grainger College of Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.Prof. Lawrence Angrave, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Dr. Lawrence Angrave is an award-winning computer science Teaching Professor at the University of Illinois Urbana
personal interests and finding a senseof community as leading motivations for first-year students to join extracurriculars [23]. Mostprevalent in this study were Avery, Zoey, and Olivia’s desire to engage with a community ofsupport that mitigated underrepresentation in their classes and engaged like-minded individuals.It is evident that classroom environments are not suited to support women in engineering on theirown. An engineering culture that perpetuates masculine social norms forces women to grapplewith the perceived incongruence between their identities as a woman and engineer. As such,these women in engineering chose to seek out counter spaces to feel appropriately supportedwithin engineering.Additionally, GI ESOs were desirable for their
intentions with the technology they are building. If someone takes their technology and uses it, you know, in a bad way that’s more on the person who used it. That’s my personal opinion (shrugs shoulders) anyways.Asked if in his future job he personally will have to grapple with the social impact of his designs,he says that he would like to be involved in that discussion. But says that engineers might belimited by their mindset: Engineers can be closed minded. We are very technically oriented. We don’t really think a lot about our impacts...I think it’s just how our brain works...Because I don’t come from an engineering [familial] background, I think about it. I would like to have some say in how [my
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provided insight into the perspectives andmethodologies of the two disciplines. Five graduate structural engineering students were in thecourse. The architecture professor was contemporaneously teaching a third-year undergraduatearchitecture studio. The architecture students spent the semester designing a Social CreativeResource Center (SCRC) and were in the final design phase during the last six weeks of thesemester. It was at this stage that each engineering student was paired with an assignedarchitecture student to participate in an interdisciplinary collaborative project-based learningexperience. The engineering student served as a consultant to the architecture student, helping toresolve structural aspects of the design, while being mindful
in mind. It was in the memo-writingprocess that I began to link my findings back to postfeminist theories and frameworks regardinggender and work and tie themes together. Throughout the process, I was struck by the fact thatpracticing engineers on the site describe how they love their jobs, but are very vocal about thefact that they face barriers because they are women and that engineering is a difficult anddemanding profession. Furthermore, young women are encouraged to use individual strategiesthat often focus on cultivating a confident subjectivity and engaging in hard work to overcomebarriers in engineering. While such advice may seem to progressive, in many ways it contributesto the maintenance of gender inequalities in
Divisions (CED, WIED, DEED, MIND, ERM, LEES, etc.), Society of WomenEngineers (SWE), National Society for Black Engineers (NSBE), National Society forProfessional Engineers (NSPE), Professional Engineers societies, etc.Figure 2 shows an actual Wake Forest Engineering faculty ad from fall 2018. The content ofthis faculty ad shows vision, values, and inclusion. The ad has some elements that one would nottypically see in a faculty ad, including (a) departmental values upfront and visibly clear, (b) asection describing our uniqueness and a vision of the kind of engineering program we arelaunching, (c) a section describing a vision of who we want. The ask for the candidates alsodemonstrate inclusion and an invitation to align with the vision and values
Paper ID #21265Student Evaluation of Teaching in an Engineering Class and Comparison ofResults Based on Instructor GenderMr. Byron Hempel, University of Arizona Byron Hempel is a PhD graduate student at the University of Arizona, having received his B.S. in Chem- istry at the University of Kentucky and Masters in the Chemical and Environmental Engineering Depart- ment at the University of Arizona. Working under Dr. Paul Blowers, Byron is focusing on improving the classroom environment in higher education by working in the flipped classroom. He is a University Fellow, a Mindful Ambassador, and Chair of the Graduate Student
also presenting some recognition of therelativistic nature of morality – and of design.Semester 2There were few, if any, changes in Brenda’s ethical orientation. She still maintained, for the mostpart, dualistic descriptions of morality and continued to appeal to authority structures as sourcesfor moral answers in design. Similar to her first semester, Brenda’s basic conceptions of ethicswere constrained by professional standards and established codes of practices. I: When you hear the word ethics, what’s the first thing that comes to mind? R: Um, I think of professional ethics [pause] in engineering, like different codes of practice. Just making decisions that are not only morally right but also follow
constraints of your facility type?NEEDS: CONSTRAINTS:With the above in mind, consider the strengths and weaknesses of growing algae using themethods below. Photo Bio-Reactor Tubes PROS:CONS: Open PondsPROS:CONS:My ChoiceIn Class:Choose a growth methodWith your team, complete a decision matrix to choose a growth method. As an example, a student used a decision matrix to choose a major. Based on the matrix, she chose to major in chemical engineering. Difficulty of do I like the