Experience Survey was developed at theUniversity of Washington (UW) and builds upon an Undergraduate Student Experience Surveywhich was originally designed at the UW. The Undergraduate Survey was expanded by theWomen in Engineering Program Advocates Network and administered to 29 institutions[27].The web-based Graduate Survey explores the extent to which graduate students feel comfortableand supported in their department. It asks questions about classroom experiences, laboratoryexperiences, department climate, professional development, relationships with faculty andmentors, academic program status and work/family balance. Additionally there is a questionabout career aspirations, and multiple demographic questions including marital status, children
Paper ID #41935WIP: Exploring Concept Maps as an Innovative Assessment Tool in Teachingand Learning Outside the ClassroomChloe Grace Hincher, North Carolina State University Chloe Hincher is a first-year graduate student pursuing a Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering at North Carolina State University. She is interested in the application of extracellular matrix biomaterial scaffolds to support stem cell therapy for cardiac applications. She is also the graduate assistant for the Grand Challenges Scholars Program, where she supports the program’s summer research experience for undergraduates, aids in program development, and
Powered by www.slayte.com Evaluating the Transition to the Professoriate for International Sponsored Graduate Students: Case Examples from an Iraqi-U.S. Program1. IntroductionA number of graduate engineering programs in the U.S. have agreements with foreign countriesto educate a cohort of students who receive government support to complete a doctoral degree inthe U.S. A common arrangement is for participating students to commit to returning to theirhome institution as a faculty member. Such programs create a unique scenario for doctoraltraining because the students know where their academic path leads them after graduation.Yet, there is an absence of literature on the in-doctoral preparation and post-doctoral transition ofinternational
factor which can help sustainstudents through unconscionable and demoralizing experiences [4]. A study of an entire graduateacademic community at an R1 STEM department shows that communicating about science withpeers, talking about teaching hurdles, and engaging in mentoring relationships contribute heavilyto a sense of belonging [8]. Fostering community and creating channels for communication withgraduate students and their peers and faculty members could provide these opportunities tocirculate information about career opportunities, attract job recruiters, and lead to perceivedacademic success.To assess community needs, this study uses community-led, stakeholder-centric, participatoryresearch. Community-led, stakeholder-centric, participatory
learning facilitators (PLFs) as they first seek to support theircapacity to teach, and in doing so, also gain insight from them. Many faculty report seekingfeedback from their PLFs as they make instructional decisions. Taking this further, some haveargued that students should be co-designers. However, engaging teams of students and faculty inthis way presents a clear power imbalance [24], but one that researchers have asserted can beovercome by positioning students as collaborators and discussing points of view and insightsgained from these different vantage points. Others have argued that because of the powerdynamics, an intermediary such as an expert in teaching and learning is needed to formsuccessful student-faculty design partnerships [25
anticipated. This issue was further compoundedby general public apprehension towards participating in in-person activities, which limited thediversity and number of participants, potentially affecting the representativeness andgeneralizability of our findings. In addition, students at some technical colleges in SouthCarolina received free tuition for their studies, decreasing their motivation to seek scholarships.Effects of Project Personnel TurnoverThe research project also faced significant turnover in personnel, primarily with the faculty andadministrators on the project. There is now only one member of the original proposal team, aseveryone from the original team has left the institution. The loss of key team members at variousproject stages led
dimensions of their work and to be ethical actors. While one approach to the ethicseducation of engineers involves separate courses in philosophy of ethical decision making, wecontend a better way to teach ethics to first-year engineering students might be to situate it in theeveryday decisions of engineers as they do their work in realistic scenarios while considering thepersonal and social consequences of their decisions by role-playing.Richly contextualized cases have been used to supplement the more purely philosophicalapproaches to engineering ethics education, but are often presented as third-person narrativesrather than as active first-person role-playing scenarios. Educational games have been shown tobe an effective teaching tool for complex
Paper ID #29438The Role of Teaching Self-Efficacy in Electrical and ComputerEngineering Faculty Teaching SatisfactionMr. Kent A. Crick, Iowa State University Kent Crick is currently in his third year as a graduate student at Iowa State University. He is currently a PhD candidate in Counseling Psychology and conducts research in self-determination as it relates to student and faculty motivation and well-being. Prior to attending Iowa State, he obtained a Master’s Degree in Clinical Psychology from the University of Indianapolis. He then worked as a research coordi- nator for the Diabetes and Translational Research Center
and industries, and employs an iterativeimprovement process to evaluate knowledge gained and promote effective communication and collab-oration. The primary goal is to equip graduate students with interdisciplinary skills and knowledge toprepare them for a diverse and dynamic workforce.Co-creation has been explored as a means of enhancing educational outcomes [2]. This approach aimsto transform the traditional view of students as passive consumers of education to active participantsin the learning and decision-making process [3]. The key features of this concept are collaboration inboth the process and output, transformative interaction, learner empowerment, a sense of communityand partnership in learning, and value. These findings are
into academia from the workforce. They often have less recent experience withadvanced mathematics curriculum [11], have different work style preferences than their youngerpeers [12], and may be more likely to have significant family responsibilities like care forchildren or aging parents that make balancing their academic and personal commitments morechallenging [13], [14].Our team’s earlier research used Eccles’ Expectancy Value Theory (EVT) to explore the factorsthat might influence returning and direct-pathway students’ decisions to enroll and persist inengineering doctoral programs [7]. Expectancy-value theory suggests that individuals’achievement related choices are motivated by their expectations of success (or competencebeliefs) given a
educators. Industry seeks graduates with up-to-date technical knowledge. Thehalf-life of an engineer's technical skills - how long it takes for half of everything anengineer knows about the field to become obsolete - is becoming strikingly short. Thepace of technological change has also imposed new challenges on faculty developmentand technical currency programs. Faculty professional development activities andtechnical currency play an important role in promoting student learning and success.Especially for non-research (purely teaching) institutions that offer technology drivenprograms, one of the most important factors determining student success is the technicalcurrency of faculty members. The Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology
in the Department of Engineering Education and Leadership at the University of Texas at El Paso. As an NSF Graduate Research Fellow, she received her M.S. and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, with a concentration in Biomechanics, from The University of Texas at Austin. An engineering education researcher, her work focuses on enhancing engineering students' motivation, exploring engineering identity formation, engineering faculty development, developing integrated course sequences, and methods for involving students in curriculum development and teaching through Peer Designed Instruction. Dr. Kendall's scholarship emphasizes the professional formation of engineers, specifically through the development and application
AC 2012-3936: INSTRUMENTATION FOR AN EMBEDDED CONTROLSYSTEMS DESIGN COURSE INCORPORATING THE DIGILENT ELEC-TRONICS EXPLORER BOARDProf. John Y. Hung, Auburn University John Y. Hung is a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Auburn University, where he has been on the faculty since 1989. Prior to his academic career, he worked for Johnson Controls, Inc., in the field of digital controllers for commercial building automation systems, and also worked as a consultant in control systems design. Hung is a Fellow of IEEE, and is President-elect of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IES). Previously, he served IES as Treasurer and Vice President for Conference Activities. He served as General Co
. Extended community members included students, children, anduniversity technology officers. These participants discussed how they were motivated toparticipate in STEM EEPs when a member of their extended community explained how STEMacademic entrepreneurship aligned with their career interests. When Dr. Wu was asked why sheparticipated in a STEM EEP, she noted, “My research has always had the bench towards that application, even though there's a lot of fundamental work that I also do as well. But I've never really thought about actually taking technology to the market until my son said, "No, mommy, have you thought about..." I said, "Well, I could explore it. Let's explore it."Dr. Wu explains how her decision to pursue a
Paper ID #18746Engineering Leadership in a Chinese Industrial Context: An Exploration us-ing the Four Capabilities ModelDr. Jiabin Zhu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University Jiabin Zhu is an Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Education at Shanghai Jiao Tong Uni- versity. Her primary research interests relate to the assessment of teaching and learning in engineering, cognitive development of graduate and undergraduate students, and global engineering. She received her Ph.D. from the School of Engineering Education, Purdue University in 2013.Miss Hu Yu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University Yu Hu is a graduate student at the
STEMeducation enterprise and broaden the pool of researchers that can conduct fundamental researchinto STEM learning and learning environments. This is motivated in part by the recognition thatimproved STEM education will benefit from qualitative and quantitative research [1], and for theneed to evaluate the effectiveness of various initiatives that are being explored [2]. Recent NSFawards have focused mostly on graduate students seeking to become STEM researchersincluding studies that established: 1) an Institute in Critical Quantitative, Computational, andMixed Methods Training for Underrepresented Scholars [3], 2) a Meta-Analysis ResearchInstitute (MMARI) to improve the quality of meta-analyses conducted in STEM education byproviding training to
students at University ofIllinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) to promote DEIA initiatives through allyship education.The original organizers established programming that consisted of six virtual workshops targetedat UIUC graduate students utilizing personal stories from minority leaders and educational toolsfrom DEIA professionals in Spring 2020. The topics chosen for the first year’s programmingincluded a graduate student experience panel, the interconnectedness of the Black Lives Matter(BLM) movement and STEM; a lesson on personal advocacy; allyship through everyday actions;conflict resolution techniques; and a panel of professionals in academia, industry, andgovernment on allyship throughout one's career. The introductory programming mostly
faculty members, the pipelineextends through graduate school, an academic appointment, and promotion through the ranks ofassistant, associate, and “full” professor. Interviews of women engineering deans illustrate thelimitations of the pipeline metaphor for describing the careers of female engineering academics.BackgroundThe pipeline metaphor reinforces the myth of linearity in education and career progression. Flowthrough the pipeline is linear, with no provision for changes of direction or speed, and no reentryonce one exits, or “leaks” out of the pipe. While not overtly gendered, the unidirectional,constant flow image of fluid in a pipe is similar to that of the (male) ideal worker who gives fullattention to his job, without distraction or
Paper ID #25765Preparing First-Year Engineering Students for a Career where Communica-tion Skills MatterDr. Leila Keyvani, Northeastern University Dr. Keyvani is an assistant teaching professor in the First year engineering program.Dr. Kathryn Schulte Grahame, Northeastern University Dr. Kathryn Schulte Grahame is an Associate Teaching Professor at Northeastern University and a mem- ber of the first-year engineering team. The focus of this team is on providing a consistent, comprehensive, and constructive educational experience that endorses the student-centered, professional and practice- oriented mission of Northeastern
, enrollment prediction, modeling responses to institutional financial aid, and developing an integrated model of student persistence within Carnegie Mellon's six undergraduate colleges. She is currently a member of ASEE, the Association for Institutional Research, and the Association for the Study of Higher Education.Cynthia Finelli, University of Michigan Cynthia Finelli, Ph.D., is Director of the Center for Research and Learning North at U-M. In addition, she actively pursues research in engineering education and assists other faculty in their scholarly projects. She also is past Chair of the Educational Research and Methods Division of ASEE and guest co-editor for a special issue of the
9PERFORMANCE REVIEW #2: PEER (360) AND SELF-ASSESSMENTContext: Students have engaged in a team-based project through nearly half of its duration, after having set performance goals weeks ago. This provides an opportunity for obtaining both peer and self- assessment data with regard to important knowledge, skills, and abilities being used in the project.Assignment: For each of three areas – Project development, Teamwork development, and Personal development: (a) Rate each team member (including yourself) on his or her personal demonstrations of the knowledge, skill, or ability listed. Insert team member names at the top of each column and fill all unshaded rows of those columns
tensionswithin the development of an engineering identity9. Engineering and technical communicationsresearchers also argue that a part of this success is that within such verbal-based activities,students are practicing the authentic engineering discourse needed to consider oneself “anengineer” 10.At the graduate level, some level of professional or academic identity has been achieved throughbachelor’s level education. However, the expectations for disciplinary socialization are muchstronger within the apprenticeship model of graduate education in the U.S. As graduate studentswork under a particular member of an academic discipline, they are able to participate fully inthe activities, the expertise, and the communication patterns of the discipline11,12
experiences and lessons learned in the design and development of aprofessional development course designed for first year graduate students in an interdisciplinarycomputational science program, under an NSF S-STEM grant funded project titled "AcademicSupport, Career Training, and Professional Development to Improve Interdisciplinary GraduateEducation for the Next Generation of Computational Scientists and Engineers". Herein wediscuss the development and implementation of this two-semester course sequence (1 credit eachsemester). The course modules included (a) Understanding the academic challenges, goals andtimelines in the interdisciplinary computational science program, (b) Individual DevelopmentPlanning, (c) Career Exploration, (d) Communication
program called, ”Revolutionizing Engineering & Computer Science Departments.”Her co-authored books include The Borderlands of Education (with Susan Lord), Mentoring Faculty ofColor, and Beginning a Career in Academia: A Guide for Graduate Students of Color. She is past-VicePresident (2017) of the Pacific Sociological Association, and an appointed consultant to the AmericanSociological Association’s Departmental Resources Group. Fluent in both quantitative and qualitativeresearch methodologies, her research uses theories from interdisciplinary sources including cultural stud-ies, critical race, gender and feminist theories. Central to her work are questions of culture, power andinequality. She is affiliated faculty with the Department of
network had significant impacts was in the retention of engineeringmothers in the workforce. Data showed that the support provided by the group contributed to theretention of the group’s members in the workforce, and assisted in their efforts to balance workand personal life. This paper will address these particular aspects of the group’s value to themembers, and recommendations will be made for how to leverage the knowledge to bettersupport this particular group in the workforce as they transition throughout their career fromrecent graduates to seasoned professionals while raising families.IntroductionPhrases like retention, work-life equilibrium, family, and career are frequently used, yet whencombined, they can become perplexing or overlooked
answered “Yes” to the third question was comparable among the twodepartments in our sample. When splitting the responses by rank, 75% of PhD students said“Yes”, as opposed to 67% of Faculty members. Among graduate students who responded “Yes”,it appeared that they heard this sentiment most often from friends (11 of 15) and colleagues (10of 15). About half said advisers or mentors were behind these comments (7 of 15). Only 5 of 15said family members were behind them. One person wrote that professors/ the chair told themthis, and one person wrote that random people say it when their career comes up. From thissurvey, we can then conclude that most women are indeed told that they receive advantages orpreferential treatment in the Engineering world
, and to use this consideration to make moreinformed and reasoned decisions about their academic and professional future. Further, insteadof being a single assignment with an optional resubmit, the project was now broken into fivephases: 1. Creation of a homepage and a brief biography 2. Creation of the six pages for the Six Tools, with reflection on each tool’s meaning, personal goals, and self-assessment 3. Addition of electronic artifacts to each of the six pages and updated self-assessment 4. Creation of page specifically written for one’s academic advisor 5. Refinement of entire portfolio, discussion of progress toward goals, and further personalizationThe project statement for each of the five phases is given as
are discussedThe “Science of Team Science (SciTS)” is emerging as a research area to explore how large-scale research (initiated in the medical research context) endeavors can be best accomplishedacross multiple institutions and potentially hundreds of colleagues 1–3. The Science of TeamScience literature has high value in studying collaborations in engineering and particularly theways in which students learn to become collaborative members of their research teams. SciTSfindings have only recently been introduced in an engineering and graduate engineering studenteducational context 3. Most of these studies promote competency- or logistical- bases forsuccess: that by having the right conditions for success, all teams will be able to be
. This in turn provides multiple opportunitiesfor each student to practice team consensus building, project management, oral presentations,persuasive speaking, etc., allowing the student to fully integrate these skills into immediatelyavailable tools for use after graduation.This operational model is optimized if led by a person with experience in the industrial setting. Atthe University of Arkansas the graduate group director will be an experienced engineeringmanager from Texas Instruments (TI), Professor Ken Vickers. During his twenty-year career atTI, he developed operational skills in his primary job as engineering manager and worldwide teamleader and demonstrated creative product development through his twenty-nine issued patents.This work
the skill-sets required of engineers to grow from: a) Early-career level engineering leadership responsibilities [Project engineering levels I - III] b) Mid-career level engineering leadership responsibilities [Technical program leadership levels IV-VI] c) Senior-career level engineering leadership responsibilities [Technology policy leadership levels VII-IX] This educational transformation will enable an opportunity for experienced graduate engineers to grow through the professional master of engineering (M.Eng.) and the professional doctor of engineering (D.Eng.) levels of proficiency while the degreed engineer continues his or her full-time employment in industry. Also