complete design process, fromproblem formation to a handoff of a final product/process to their client. The stages of the designprocess were also redefined from the original ICOV model, found in the DFSS framework.The first journey through the new paradigm is this current academic year, so a final assessmentof the effectiveness of the changes remains to be completed at the end of the academic year.However, teams are almost entirely on schedule or significantly closer to the planned schedulethan in the past few years as measured by weekly feedback from faculty advisors, which iscertainly a positive indicator.References:[1] Understanding the Educational and Career Pathways of Engineer, National Academy ofEngineering, The National Academies Press
, Environmental Engineering, Computer Engineering Project 3: Students design, build, and analyze a Mars Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, rover system that can navigate variable terrain. Computer EngineeringAnd while some of these disciplines benefit from the fact they are a bit more contextuallyindependent, such as mechanical engineering, the instructional team felt that some disciplinessuch as bioengineering, chemical engineering, biomedical engineering, and industrialengineering, could use more coverage. This would be in hopes to show a more diverse image ofengineering as a career choice.New project designsAlternative design options for project one and two have been
engineering students at TAMUK take an introductory engineering course entitled“Engineering as a Career” (GEEN 1201). Departments within the College of Engineering eachoffer their own section of the GEEN 1201 course specifically designed for their students. As partof an ongoing NSF project, the GEEN 1201 courses for four departments (CNEN, EECS, MIEN,and CAEN) have been augmented to include collaborative hands-on design projects. Theremainder of this section describes the design projects that were used in each of the updatedGEEN 1201 courses during the fall 2022 semester. Descriptions of the design projects used inprevious semesters can be found in [4, 5].Chemical and Natural Gas Engineering: There were four hands-on design projects offered tostudent
inclusive learning environments and mentorship practices. Homero has been recognized as a Diggs Teaching Scholar, a Graduate Academy for Teaching Excellence Fellow, a Global Perspectives Fellow, a Diversity Scholar, a Fulbright Scholar, a recipient of the NSF CAREER award, and was inducted into the Bouchet Honor Society. Homero serves as the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Chair for the Commission on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (CDEI), the Program Chair for the ASEE Faculty Development Division, and the Vice Chair for the Research in Engineering Education Network (REEN).Ms. Jazmin Jurkiewicz, Virginia Tech Jazmin Jurkiewicz (she/they) is a fourth-year PhD candidate in Engineering Education at
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/0038038520904918.Appendix[A1] T. L. Ross and L. Romkey, “Post-secondary Work Integrated Learning Through STEM Outreach,” presented at the 2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference, ASEE Conferences, Jul. 2021.[A2] A. T. Stephan, E. A. Stephan, L. Whisler, and A. I. Neptune, “Peer Sharing Presentations in a First-Year Engineering Learning Strategies Course,” presented at the 2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference, ASEE Conferences, Jun. 2020. doi: 10.18260/1-2--35047.[A3] A. Godwin et al., “CAREER: Learning from Students’ Identity Trajectories to Actualize Latent Diversity,” presented at the 2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference, ASEE Conferences, Jul. 2021.[A4] S. R. Ross, “Supporting your neurodiverse student population with the Universal
diversity and inclusivity as not an“added-on” soft skill requirement with limited relevance to their career goals, but as an essentialconsideration in real-world problems engineers must solve. In light of these considerations, wehave approached this challenge by restructuring an existing course which already had beensuccessfully structured to address engineering ethics concepts central to the nature and causes ofengineering failure, by expanding the course via the logical integration of case studies and otheractivities focused on the impact of diversity and inclusivity (or rather the lack thereof) on failuresin development, deployment and use of technology.Effective design or redesign of a course is not a simple matter – in fact, redesign of an
earned her Ph.D. in 2007 in Medical Engineering and Bioastronautics from the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Science and Technology, and holds an S.M. in Aeronautics & Astronau- tics from MIT and a B.S. in Materials Engineering from the University of Kentucky. She co-founded the UM Center for Socially Engaged Design and directs both the UM Global Health Design Initiative (GHDI) and the Sienko Research Group. Dr. Sienko is the recipient of an NSF CAREER award and several teach- ing awards including the ASME Engineering Education Donald N. Zwiep Innovation in Education Award, UM Teaching Innovation Prize, UM Undergraduate Teaching Award, and UM Distinguished Professor Award.Kentaro Toyama, University of Michigan
regional campuses, nor are they reported to the central campus. The objective of the first-year engineering curriculum is to provide an opportunity for students to explore engineering disciplines so that students can make informed decisions about their careers. So, these two courses achieve the goal of training these students for their second year of the degree program.5. Role of Administration: It was noted earlier that the regional campuses get limited funding to run the campus businesses. However, there is a process of submitting a budget to the central campus. Engineering coordinators submit the budget each year to the fiscal office. The purchases made for the lab supplies and equipment have to go through the university
cybersecurity and other tech areas [2]. To address this deficit, concerted effortswere made to recruit and retain females in the cybersecurity industry by providing educational, networking,and mentorship opportunities. As a result, women constitute about twenty-five percent of the male-dominated cybersecurity workforce [3]. Experts in the industry suggest companies can lessen the gendergap in the cybersecurity field by partnering with schools to educate girls, inspiring girls and women topursue technology courses, explicitly marketing career opportunities to women, and promoting women tohigh-level cybersecurity jobs to provide role models for these new workers. [2]Women have earned about half of all bachelor’s degrees, but the proportion of degrees
EM’s integration into the engineering curriculum are that itreinforces technical concepts (especially in design-related topics), helps promote greaterinclusion within the profession, and develops a mindset oriented towards problem-solving,empathy, creativity, and valuing the expertise of others. 10 The KEEN Framework’s“mindset+skillset” approach presents EM as a competency geared towards graduates creatingvalue for their organizations and communities in successful and rewarding engineering careers. 9To succinctly put it, EM is CBE.KEEN’s approach also benefits the development of computing professionals. Researchinvestigating the EM of engineering and computer science students did not report any differencesbetween these two groups.11 The
eight and 20 years ofteaching experience while the other three had three years of experience. This RET is alsomanaged by two women with careers in STEM, one an immigrant from North Africa. Weworked intentionally to create a welcoming research culture with our diverse teacherparticipants. The location of our RET site, a diverse urban metropolitan area surrounded by low-income rural areas, has helped our efforts to involve participants that have had little professionaldevelopment in computer science. In addition, our faculty-led research projects have appealed toteachers’ many different interests and tackle real-world problems that involve societal issues. Weplan to leverage these close connections and interactions with local school districts for
to make educational and career choicesbased on opportunities for service to their communities [24]. Finally, although ethics anddiversity are critical components of engineering training and practice, mostundergraduate engineering programs do not address these issues in-depth [25-26].We launched “Science and Engineering for Social Justice” as a 5-credit course selected ina competitive process through the University Honors Program. We chose to offer thecourse through the honors program to reach a diverse audience of students who wereaccustomed to high-level engagement with course material.By offering the course through the honors program was that we wanted the class to becomposed of both STEM and non-STEM students to cultivate a more rich
manual for the use of the Motivated Strategies for Learning Questionnaire (MSLQ),” The University of Michigan, Tech. Rep., 1991.[30] O. Adesope, N. Hunsu, B. van Wie, B. Austin, R. Richards, and P. Dutta, “Work in progress: Assessing engineering students’ motivation and learning strategies-a psychometric analysis of the motivated strategies for learning questionnaire,” in Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, 2017, pp. 1–6.[31] J. Clark Blickenstaff, “Women and science careers: leaky pipeline or gender filter?” Gender and education, vol. 17, no. 4, pp. 369–386, 2005.Appendix - Survey Questions Q1. How would you rate your study habits while learning remotely as
not promising for continued instruction online in the upcomingsemesters under the COVID-19 epidemic.References[1] Blaich, C. & Wise, K. (2020, September 14). Comparison of how faculty and staff have experienced their institutions’ responses to COVID-19. Higher Education Data Sharing Consortium (HEDS). Available: https://www.hedsconsortium.org/wp-content/uploads/2020.09.14-COVID-19-Survey-Faculty-v-Staff- Memo.pdf[2] The Chronicle of Higher Education (2020, October). ‘On the Verge of Burnout’: Covid-19’s impact on faculty wellbeing and career plans. Available: https://connect.chronicle.com/rs/931-EKA- 218/images/Covid%26FacultyCareerPaths_Fidelity_ResearchBrief_v3%20%281%29.pdf[3] Fox, K
professor for departments of Mathematics and Electrical Engineering at Tsinghua throughthe invitation of the university President Y. C. Mei and the dean of engineering Y.H. Ku (Wei2001). At the 10th International Congress of Mathematicians (Oslo, Norway) in 1936, Wienerpublished a paper about gap theory on behalf of both Tsinghua and MIT. Wiener had two paperspublished in the Chinese Journal of Electrical Engineering in 1935 and in 1936 respectively: OnOperational Calaculus and On the Kron Theory of Tensors in Electric Machinery. In his publishedbiography, Wiener cherished the year spent at Tsinghua as a very important time of his academiccareer. “If I were to take my specific boundary point in my career as a journey-man in science
and Technical State University Dr. Andrea N. Ofori-Boadu is an Assistant Professor of Construction and Construction Management with the Department of Built Environment within the College of Science and Technology at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (NCA & T). Her research interests are in bio-derived cement replacement materials, delivery of sustainable built environments, and professional identity development in STEM students, particularly architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) women. In February 2019, Andrea received the prestigious National Science Foundation NSF - CAREER award to research professional identity development processes in undergraduate AEC women. In 2020, she
and facilitates student and faculty training. She received her Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, and her BSEE from the University of Miami.Onyinyechi Nwadiuto Agu, University of New Haven Onyinyechi Nwadiuto Agu is a Graduate student at the University of New Haven in West Haven, Con- necticut. She is studying Data science and is expected to graduate in December 2021. She aspires to further her education and professional career by obtaining her Ph.D in Data science. Her professional interest are in engineering education as well as Machine learning and Natural language processing. In addition to her academic pursuit, Onyinyechi currently occupies the position of
, ask questions, generate ideas, and design afuture of improved student experience, learning, and persistence in engineering. Theseoutcomes are particularly crucial in early-career engineering courses while also beingimportant across engineering programs. Although these measures may not dictate theoptimal or requisite responses, constant analysis of and reflection on data by educatorsestablishes the foundation for effecting positive change. Engaging in this work has thepotential to enhance outcomes for students and can prove to be particularlytransformative when combined with equity-minded analysis involving intentionality indisaggregating data [15]. Such an approach also provides a lens for understanding howstudents’ learning experiences
most international students faced challenges during their firstsemester and that they were unsure how to seek help for these challenges. Students have alsoshared that ISST supported them with their career and academic challenges, but that they do notfeel ISST addressed their desire to connect with American students. Alongside the interviewresults, this paper will also present details of ISST and its offerings for students. This paper couldbe useful to colleges looking for manners in which they can fully support international students,specifically at the discipline-specific level.1. Introduction The transitional experience to college brings lots of firsts for all undergraduate students,as they are navigating a new educational system and
communication in engineering design, interdisciplinary communication and collaboration, design education, and gender in engineering. She was awarded a CAREER grant from the National Science Foundation to study expert teaching in capstone design courses, and is co-PI on numerous NSF grants exploring communication, design, and identity in engineering. Drawing on theories of situated learning and identity development, her work includes studies on the teaching and learning of communication, effective teaching practices in design education, the effects of differing design pedagogies on retention and motivation, the dynamics of cross-disciplinary collaboration in both academic and industry design environments, and gender and
from one I grew up in;” “You grow so muchas a person, you push yourself out of your comfort zone, and you learn so many skills that willhelp you in the long run during your career;” and “I’m extremely thankful for this program andfor the lifelong memories and impact it has left me with. I know I will be a better student, friend,employee, and person because of this experience”.The CVEN Rome Program appears to benefit students, as manifested via a slight increase inGPA. An increase in GPA indicates classes following the program did not suffer from lack ofbase knowledge that would have been obtained on the trip. When asked about their experience,students provided highly enthusiastic responses with positive agreement to every Likert scalequestion
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insights into how the pandemic affected faculty members from amental and emotional perspective [4]. A total of 1122 faculty members responded to the surveyfrom four-year and two-year universities. The analysis of the data highlights that the majority offaculty members are experiencing elevated levels of frustration, anxiety, and stress, as they arestruggling with increased workloads and a deterioration of work-life balance. This is especiallytrue for female faculty members. The survey also highlights that more than two-thirds of allfaculty members are discouraged enough to consider retiring or changing careers and leavinghigher education, with tenured faculty members even more likely to retire than others. Facultymembers faced a multitude of
Professor in Higher Education Counseling/Student Affairs at Califor- nia Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. He is Lead Principal Investigator for the NSF-funded California State University Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP) Alliance for Diversity and Strengths of STEM Faculty: A Culturally-Informed Strengths-Based Approach to Advance Early-Career Faculty Success. Dr. Almeida is also Co-Principal Investigator for the NSF Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics (S-STEM) grant, Engineering Neighbors: Gaining Access Growing Engineers (ENGAGE). Dr. Almeida’s graduate training is in Urban Education Policy – Higher Education from the University of Southern
next semester than peers. In another study [11],African American students who received the social-belonging intervention earned higher gradesthroughout the following 3-year period, halving the racial achievement gap. The interventionalso increased the percentage of African American students in the top 25% of the class. Inanother study [12], the social-belonging intervention increased the percentage of students whostayed full-time enrolled in college in their first year from 32% to 43% and increased thepercentage of ethnic-minority and first-generation college students who completed the first yearfull-time enrolled by 4%. In a recent study [13], the long-term effects of the intervention showedgreater career satisfaction and success in black
infrastructure, protective structures, and engineering education.Dr. Brock E. Barry P.E., United States Military Academy Dr. Brock E. Barry, P.E. is the Director of the Civil Engineering Division and Professor of Engineering Education in the Department of Civil and Mechanical Engineering at the United States Military Academy, West Point, New York. Dr. Barry holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Rochester Institute of Tech- nology, a Master of Science degree from University of Colorado at Boulder, and a PhD from Purdue University. Prior to pursuing a career in academics, Dr. Barry spent 10-years as a senior geotechnical engineer and project manager on projects throughout the United States. He is a licensed professional en
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