Planning a project Asking questions Following directions Listening 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 PRE-SELF EFFICACY SCORE POST SELF-EFFICACY SCOREFigure 3. Impact of STEAM ACTIVATED! program on self-efficacy14The apparent losses in self-efficacy were associated with statements associated with ‘includingthe perspectives of others in decision making’ (-6.65%), ‘listening’ (-4.93%), and ‘setting goals’(-3.48%). Prior to participating in the program, the girls had more favorable perceptions abouttheir self-efficacy in relation to
to create a curb cut replacement plan. Engineers designaccessible transportation infrastructure and policymakers implement accessibility policies butoften these roles are performed in isolation. Co-teaching allowed us to put engineering inconversation with policy making. We also strategically assembled student teams so that eachteam was comprised of students from each of the engineering departments 1. This providedstudents the opportunity to engage with members of their cohort whom they may have littlecontact with over the course of their studies as a result of sub-discipline tracking. Importantly,course participants also collaborated with representatives from city and the county agenciescharged with managing the local sewer system and a
academic quality. • Demonstrate accountability. • Encourage, where appropriate, self-scrutiny and planning for change and needed improve- ment. • Employ appropriate and fair procedures in decision making. • Demonstrate ongoing review of accreditation practice. • Possess sufficient resources.This clarifies ABET’s role as one of accrediting programs through a focus on continuous im-provement, curriculum, student outcomes, skilled faculty, and adequately resourced programs.The accreditation criteria discussed above makes that clear. While compliance with federal lawsis important, it is not regarded as an indication of a commitment to continuous improvement andexcellence in education. Furthermore, since ABET accredits programs
, planning, and implementing design solutions. Theauthors found that students who participated in the creative lab demonstrated a higher confidencein continuing in engineering coursework than those who did not. As the study states, “Creativityis an important attribute for engineers practicing their profession in a global society” [12].Although students struggled with the open-ended nature of the design problems, they enjoyed thecourse and saw the value in the addition to their curriculum. Illustrating the importance of incorporating real-world engineering design problems, Odehet al. write, “Nowadays, engineering education needs to meet the requirements and needs ofbusiness and industry. This can be achieved by collaborating with the local
10 codes related to theproject’s overarching research questions around identity formation, makerspaces andunderrepresented students. The codes included “experiences that shape identity,” “road of trialsin engineering,” “stories of values, knowledge, skills, practices and norms in engineering,”“stories of bias, prejudice and stereotype,” “recommendations for makerspaces,” “pathways toengineering” and “aspirations, goals, desires or plans.” These deductive codes developed as aprovisional “start list” served as the first-cycle coding [39].Though all of the codes proved useful in establishing meaning, two of the codes became thefocal points for understanding unique aspects of these students’ experiences in makerspaces:stories of values
program administration view, where Black women recruitment and retentionadministrators in STEM face marginalization and silencing, leading to limitations in decisionmaking and funding decisions at the college and university level [22]. It is common withinworking groups or meetings that relatively privileged groups take up more space inconversations and the voices of minoritized groups are not heard or represented. Onemanifestation of this aspect is the communication of viewpoints by white cisgender womenleaders, who believe they represent all diversity but only represent the experiences of whitecisgender women. It can also occur in male-dominant environments in which co-curricularprogram planning occurs (e.g., a minority engineering program). The
protocol covered questions about the student’s post-graduation career plans and job search related activities. If the student had professionalengineering co-op or internship experiences, they were asked to describe what these experienceswere like and how they may be informing students’ career-related thinking going forward. Eachinterview was approximately 45 minutes long, conducted by phone, recorded, and transcribed.Further details about the overall study and the interview data collection process are provided in[14] and [15]. Because the current analysis focuses on experiences within engineeringorganizations, the data set includes interviews with students who reported having engineering co-op or internship experiences, only.Data Set 2The second
welfare, as well as global, cultural, social, environmental, and economic factors 3. an ability to communicate effectively with a range of audiences 4. an ability to recognize ethical and professional responsibilities in engineering situations and make informed judgments, which must consider the impact of engineering solutions in global, economic, environmental, and societal contexts 5. an ability to function effectively on a team whose members together provide leadership, create a collaborative and inclusive environment, establish goals, plan tasks, and meet objectives 6. an ability to develop and conduct appropriate experimentation, analyze and interpret data, and use engineering judgment to draw
in this work: historically, engineers have not agreed on foundational concerns ordefinitions of engineering. Hence, engineers do not have some form of constitution or bible thatthey can refer to provide any universal answers. To me, one of the best ways to consider current“norms,” as well as the propensity towards engineering in ethics or ethics in engineering, wouldbe to review how codes of ethics have evolved over time.As one noteworthy example, ASCE recently added a Canon 8, “Treat All Persons Fairly.”Subpart C of Canon 8 focuses on diversity: “Engineers shall consider the diversity of thecommunity, and shall endeavor in good faith to include diverse perspectives, in the planning andperformance of their professional services.” This is one
, Engineers: Employment, Pay, and Outlook, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2018, Feb. Accessed on: Jan. 28, 2020. Available: https://www.bls.gov/careeroutlook/2018/article/engineers.htm.3. “Charting a Course for Success: America’s Stategy for STEM Education,” Committee on STEM Education of the National Science & Technology Council, Dec. 2018, Accessed on: Jan. 28, 2020. Available: https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp- content/uploads/2018/12/STEM-Education-Strategic-Plan-2018.pdf4. M. C. Bottia, E. Stearns, R. A. Mickelson, S. Moller, and A. D. Parker, “The relationships among high school STEM learning experiences and students’ intent to declare and declaration of STEM major in college,” Teachers College Record
everybody else”. Student A said this was very different from theexperiences of their classmates, “Yeah, definitely very tight-knit, where you know everybody inthe community. You know, I know everybody in the grade, and then the grade above, gradebelow, which is crazy talking to people now, they're not used to that.”Student E shared a similar sentiment commenting when at home, “I can go to the store and I'llrun into so many people. I have to plan for extra time whenever I'm going anywhere. I run intopeople and talk with them for a while.” Later in the interview, they shared that being on at alarge campus “it's very easy to feel like just a number in the class”. This student shared thedesire to make campus feel smaller by joining a living learning
Confidence should be conducted.More meaningful internship experiences offered earlier in a student’s university education mayalso help to improve Career Fit Confidence of all students. Future research investigating theeffects of timing and number of internship experiences on Career Fit Confidence could informprogram planning that would increase persistence. The Expertise Confidence in ML/AI shouldbe further fostered in the curriculum to increase persistence of students pursuing thosespecializations. Earlier explicit exposure to ML/AI specialization Expertise in their first twoyears of undergraduate studies may positively influence the Expertise Confidence and IntentionalPersistence of students. Again, further investigation into the university
incentivized in severalways. It contributed to make this project a positive experience that has paved the way to similarSTEM projects on campus such as another pilot project embedded US 1100 that focuses onenhancing performance of students co-enrolled in remedial math and college level algebra. Thissummer 2020, one of the authors of this paper and a faculty in the School of Engineering will beworking also on another STEM project related to SVS. The project is a summer camp to high-school girls interested in STEM, in particular in engineering and engineering technology. TheSVS curriculum will be included as part of the camp planned activities. Finally, the authorsexpect that this experimental research strengthens the literature on SVS and helps
Polytechnic InstituteMelissa Shuey, Rensselaer Polytechnic InstituteMarta TsyndraMakayla Wahaus, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Makayla Wahaus received her Bachelors of Science in Sustainability Studies and Applied Physics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 2020. After completing her senior thesis, ”Community Supported Agriculture in the NY Capital Region: Pathways, Economics, and Community”, she plans to farm with a local CSA producer while navigating to her desired career path. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Student Perspectives on Navigating Engineering PathwaysLike many of the National Academy of Engineering’s consensus studies, the 2018 Pathwaysreport [1] tells
for all new construction of single-family homes, townhomes, and low-rise multi-family homes (CA Solar Mandate. 2020) o Other aspects that help CA include the state having plenty of sunlight (estimated at 284 days in a year) that helps solar generation. The State also has large desert land where currently a solar farm is in operation and others are planned to produce 550 megawatts (Nextera Energy, 2011). CA also has encouraged community solar farms which benefits homeowners to use solar energy without solar panels on their roofs (Livermore Community Solar, 2020). CA’s solar generation in 2022 accounts for 26.8% of the
guidelines known as the “Broader Impacts Criteria” (BIC), whichwere foundational in the preparation of the forthcoming NAE report. Broader Impacts are one oftwo main pillars by which all NSF funding proposals are assessed, alongside “IntellectualMerit.” The Broader Impacts requirement was officially introduced in 1997, and in 2002 the NSFbegan returning proposals without review if they didn’t mention Broader Impacts [24]. Theimplementation of Broader Impacts stemmed from recommendations from the Committee onEqual Opportunities in Science and Engineering; the passing of the Government Performanceand Results Act; and the “NSF in a Changing World” strategic plan [25] that outlined a long-termgoal of promoting knowledge in service of society. Currently
], provides the theoreticalframework for this study. This theory has been applied in both undergraduate [26]–[28] andgraduate-level [35], [36], [50] research to understand students’ academic motivations, role identity,and career goals among other things. FTP contains many components including how much a personconnects the present and future, the perceived instrumentality of someone’s present action for theirfuture goals, directionality which relates to a person’s perception that they are moving forward intothe future, speed which is a person’s ability to plan for the future, and extension which relates tohow far into the future a person sets their goals [51], [52]. These components (connection,perceived instrumentality, directionality, speed, and
this valuable space by supportingproductive and synergetic cross-institutional collaborations between PWIs and MSIs/HBCUs.Not surprisingly, the quality of such PWI-MSI/HBCU collaboration depends on the shared goalsand objectives, as well as mutual respect and egalitarian relationships established among thestakeholders from both institutions. In particular, it is a must to have a solid plan to understand,recognize, and capitalize on each institution’s strengths, not only the intellectual merits but alsothe cultural assets brought by the members of the collaborating MSI/HBCUs. This should be oneof the major criteria against which the quality of multi-institutional collaboration that includesMSI/HBCUs should be evaluated. By doing so, this multi
postgraduate research studies as a Master of Engineering student. A Critical thinker continuously looking at ways of improving teacher-student engagement processes, I am adept in organizing work flow, creating lesson plans, presenting ideas in a compelling way, interacting with the learners and fellow trainers with a view to improving content delivery across a range of engineering topics in a learner-based and hands-on approach. As such, I maintain professional boundaries while building lasting relationships. My passion for teaching encompasses circuit analysis, electrical machines and digital electronics, courses delivered while working as an assistant lecturer in Kenya at The Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and
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not to produce comprehensive or exhaustive cataloging of climatesthat exist in engineering doctoral education, the selection of seven focused climates is bestunderstood as a strength rather than a limitation.As items were not grouped to indicate Psychological safety climate, we planned to revise theitems and add new items for the second round of data collection. In addition, items presentingmulticollinearity, such as four items in Perceived cultural diversity, two items each in Diversityclimate, Mastery Climate, Performance climate, Authenticity climate, Organization support, andAffective commitment, will be revised to capture slightly different aspects of the designatedclimate and commitment constructs, while avoiding multicollinearity.Once
measures concerning a potential flood project were unrealistic: I just had to really just convey there were only so many options that we had in order to convey these floodwaters in a safe manner that wouldn't put people at risk, and the client kept getting stuck on how, quote, unquote, "Unrealistic" the flood was. So, I just kind of had to defer to ethics as unrealistic as somebody might think that is, the responsible and ethical thing to do is to plan for the worst-case scenario.Cesar shared a safety situation at the site: Safety is huge when it comes to ethics, right? Especially in a concrete manufacturing plant, you have dust all over the place, it's super dirty. There was a lot of moving pieces
bring change. So, I would say that to be honest, that's one of the biggest driving forces for me to pursue engineering, the kinds of things that I want to generate in my country at some point because there are changes, and at a large scale, not just like local changes. It's still within my plans to go to my home country at some point and make those changes, but I don’t know if I would describe my work right now as fully related. Right now, it's mostly about developing myself so I can be fully prepared, and someday we'll go back. But for the work I’m doing, I'm kind of like realistic in that it isn’t fully towards my goal—sadly, my country is really poor. There are a lot of other structural issues that we have to solve first in
medium-sizedto large-scale enterprises. 3 out of the 19 students completed one of their internships in Chinaat multinational companies headquartered in France, while the remaining internships werecompleted in Chinese companies. 4 out of 19 plan to seek further studies whereas the othershave found employment or are in the finalizing stage. The sample provides a reasonablerepresentation of the diversity within the program's overall population, including genderdistribution, internship experiences and career paths, with the aim of capturing a broad rangeof perspectives and experiences related to WIL within the program. Table 1 presents detailedinformation about the participants.Table 1. Participant informationParticipant Gender Internship
experience and learning.AcknowledgementsThis work was funded in part by a grant from NEO Performance Materials.References[1] P. Northouse, “Leadership: Theory and Practice,” All Books and Monographs by WMU Authors, Jan. 2010, [Online]. Available: https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/books/103[2] H. W. J. Rittel and M. M. Webber, “Dilemmas in a general theory of planning,” Policy Sci, vol. 4, no. 2, pp. 155–169, Jun. 1973, doi: 10.1007/BF01405730[3] M. R. Kendall, D. Chachra, K. Gipson, and K. Roach, “Motivating the need for an engineering‐specific approach to student leadership development,” New Drctns Student Lead, vol. 2022, no. 173, pp. 13–21, Mar. 2022, doi: 10.1002/yd.20475.[4] R. L. Martin, The opposable mind: winning through
andorganizational skills to succeed. They encourage students to plan and prioritize their workefficiently.Life-Long Learning Mindset: Engineering and technology fields are constantly evolving, sofaculty members believe that students should have a mindset of continuous learning. Theyencourage students to seek out opportunities for professional development and further education.Awareness of Industry Trends and Practices: Faculty members often believe that studentsshould be aware of current industry trends, best practices, and emerging technologies. They mayencourage students to engage with industry professionals, attend conferences, and participate ininternships.Resilience and Perseverance: Engineering technology faculty members understand thatstudents may
builtinto smart phones such as Siri, was a polarizing issue for most of the participants. Thirteenparticipants have VAs installed in their homes and use them regularly, expressing satisfactionwith how well they worked. Five of the remaining nine participants that did not use VAs werequite adamant that they did not use them and were not planning to do so, citing privacy concernsof installing passive monitoring devices in their homes. A wide variety of smart devices were mentioned by participants. The most commondevice, mentioned by twelve participants, was smart outlets that were used primarily to remotelycontrol Christmas lights, regular lights, and fans. Seven participants discussed security-relatedsmart devices such as Ring doorbells
as a result. Separately, any excerpts that were reflective of the strength ofthe participants’ anticipatory and initial—prior to and following their first year of study,respectively—SoB were captured, often In Vivo to maintain the students’ individual voices [31].In a second round of coding, the socialization experiences were then sorted into two categoriescapturing the participants’ exposure to their university and their planned discipline. Finally, theparticipants’ anticipatory and initial belonging was mapped against their pre-college experiencesto find themes across the eight students.PositionalityThe author recognizes his own positionality with respect to the work done in this study. Heacknowledges his privilege in having been able to
Paper ID #42446Implications of Engineering and Education Professor’s Problem-Solving Mindsetson Their Teaching and ResearchMs. Alexis Suzanne Capitano, Colorado School of Mines Alexis currently attends the Colorado School of Mines. She is a senior majoring in Electrical Engineering and simultaneously pursing a Masters of Science in STEM Education with a planned graduation date of December 2024.Ryan Miller, Colorado School of MinesDr. Kathryn Johnson, Colorado School of Mines Kathryn Johnson is a Professor at the Colorado School of Mines in the Department of Electrical Engineering. In the Fall 2021, she visited the