Engineering at Virginia Tech, with courtesy appointments in Computer Science and the School of Architecture + Design. He is the co-director of the Virginia Tech E-textiles Lab and the associate director of the Institute for Creativity, Arts, and Technology. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University and his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Cincinnati. His research and teaching interests include wearable computing, electronic textiles, and interdisciplinary design teams for pervasive computing. In 2006 he was selected for the National Science Foundation’s Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) for his research in e-textile
later. Her research interests currently focuses on engineering doctoral students in underserved populations such as women and international students.Dr. Samantha Ruth Brunhaver, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus Samantha Brunhaver is an Assistant Professor of Engineering in the Fulton Schools of Engineering Poly- technic School. Dr. Brunhaver recently joined Arizona State after completing her M.S. and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University. She also has a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Northeastern University. Dr. Brunhaver’s research examines the career decision-making and professional identity formation of engineering students, alumni, and practicing engineers. She also conducts studies
. Due to institutional constraints only two departmentscontributed students to the course. After thoughtful conversations with stake holder’s broadsupport was found for the goals of the course, but not for the mechanism of using aninterdisciplinary course to meet those goals. Currently, we are transitioning from a course-basedapproach to a non-course-based approach for supporting more effective ramps into research.Introduction and Literature ReviewTraining future professionals for science, engineering, and math (STEM) careers is the primaryundergraduate training mission of university STEM departments. Ideally, STEM education wouldprovide effective mentoring for talented students from all backgrounds. However, historicaldisparities persist in
], motivatingstudents to pursue science careers [8] [9], enhancing student learning outcomes [10] [11],promoting STEM career among women [12], and psychological processes relevant to the problem[13] [14] are all examples of targeted interventions.On the other hand, an engaging first-year engineering experience can circumvent the need forinterventions and has been shown to play a critical role in encouraging excitement, retention, andsatisfaction in engineering [15] [16]. This is attributable to the importance of the first year and itsfrequent coincidence with failed classes and dropouts [17]. In addition, completion of the first-year (i.e., first-year retention) is predictive of eventual graduation rates [17]. Therefore, significantefforts have been invested
and machine learning. Specifically, he is interested in smartphone security, and IoT security.Dr. Kristina Rigden, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona Dr. Kristina Rigden is the Director of Outreach Programs and the Women in Engineering Program for the College of Engineering at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona (Cal Poly Pomona). In her position, she provides several different outreach programming events to engage K-12 female students to pursue STEM majors and/or careers. Dr. Rigden holds a B.A. in Liberal Studies from Cal Poly Pomona, a TESOL certificate, a M.A. in Teaching with a multiple-subject credential and an Ed.D. from the University of Southern California.Dr. Thomas Ketseoglou
integratetechnical and professional skills and knowledge in their development as an engineer [1]”. Inaddition, engineering students’ involvement in activities outside of the classroom, such asstudent competition teams, contributes to their achievement of numerous other outcomes;according to Simmons, et al, engagement with these activities enhances students’ “career andprofessional development, communication and leadership development, intellectualdevelopment, personal and social development, academic and social engagement, interculturalcompetence, satisfaction with college experiences, and college belonging and persistence inmajor and college [2]”. Working on a competition team, therefore, contributes to thedevelopment of students’ design and build skills
Paper ID #28782Landscape of Engineering Technology Programs as seen from ASEEAimee T Ulstad P.E., The Ohio State University Aimee Ulstad, P.E is an Associate Professor of Practice in the Integrated Systems Engineering Department at The Ohio State University. Prior to joining the faculty at Ohio State, Aimee was an industry professional in various field in engineering for over 30 years. Aimee received her degrees in Mechanical Engineering and Masters in Business Administration from Ohio State. She began her career as a packaging equipment engineer at Procter and Gamble, then moved to Anheuser-Busch where she worked for
important to ensuring persistence, we utilized empirical datafrom the MIDFIELD dataset [21]. MIDFIELD consists of data collected from over 1.5 millionundergraduate, degree-seeking students from 19 different institutions. It is a longitudinal studentrecord level database, which means it includes everything that appears on students’ transcripts,and that it contains tracking information on each student during their academic career. Itconsiders not only demographic student information (such as sex, ethnicity, and age), but alsoacademic information (such as their major, enrollment status, term and year in which the studentFigure 1: Adapted version of Astin’s I-E-O model applied to computing students to assess persis-tence/graduation rates. Includes pre
Diversity andInclusivityGoal:To strengthen faculty’s connection to industry and aid their ability to facilitate studentconnections, faculty will participate in an industry immersion experience during the summerwhere they work with practicing engineers and learn current industry practices. Additionally,faculty will acquire relevant industrial and teacher trainings. Ultimately, faculty will see theirrole, or identity, as moving students towards becoming practicing engineers who create a “morejust and humane world.” Students, too, will reflect on their identities as engineers and how thoserelate to their education and career paths. To bridge course work and industry practices, anIndustry Advisor with extensive experience in industry and passion for
within the Center for entrepreneurship at California State University, Chico. Mr. Rahn has extensive industry back- ground with software and consulting startups and specialized in new product and market development. Following his successful industry career Mr. Rahn transitioned to teaching strategy and entrepreneurship at Chico State. Over the past 16 years Mr. Rahn has developed the e-Incubator at Chico State, as well as created a course called Web-based entrepreneurship which focuses on helping students launch the on- line portion of their businesses using the Lean Startup approach. In 2016 he published ”e-Business for Entrepreneurs,” an online course for entrepreneurs building e-businesses
are mandated toreflect state career and technology education (CTE) curriculum frameworks, but the frameworksare not designed to measure graduates' abilities to meet AM employers’ current needs. Becausethis technology-reliant industry changes so quickly, faculty are challenged to source, develop,and implement responsive educational experiences. Through consultation with industry leaders,the Department of Labor (DOL) developed an AM competency model to illustrate and promoteworkers’ necessary knowledge, skills, and dispositions. To determine whether the AMcompetency model can function as an exit assessment for AM program graduates, we comparedAM program syllabi from five rural Northwest Florida state colleges to the DOL AMCompetency Model. We
this program that wasoffered between Penn State and UNI last year. The article also reports the motivation behind theprogram revisions, the integration of SDG’s with Drawdown, and the strategy for obtaining theapproval and support of the university faculty. The assessment of newer hands-on projects addedto the program and future activities are presented. The impact of this program on students’professional growth and career development are discussed, as well.1. IntroductionThe concepts of global citizenship [1,2] and sustainability [3] are essential in transformingundergraduate education in the United States in order to handle the challenges of the 21st century.Indeed, Higher Education institutions need to identify, create, and provide
transferred to a non-engineering program at UVA.When considering all freshmen who started UVA in 2011 and earned any bacherlor’s degree, thefour-year graduation rates was 89%. UVA has implemented a system to “total advising” to helpstudents persist in engineering. This approach “integrates academic, career and personalcounseling.”Ohland et al [21] used the MIDFIELD (the Multiple Institution Database for InvestigatingEngineering Longitudinal Development) which included the student records for 75,686engineering freshmen in nine public universities in the southeastern United States. Theresearchers found that eight-semester persistence is a good indicator for six-year graduation inengineering disciplines. This result is consistent with other research on
issue, especially as it applies to retaining studentswithin underrepresented minority groups. Specifically, the course utilizes active teaching andlearning methods that have shown to be especially effective not only for engineering students asa whole, but in encouraging underrepresented minorities to gain the knowledge and confidencethey will need to further their academic and professional careers. This presentation will comparethe student performance metrics for all participating student populations to assess theeffectiveness of this new class as it relates to underrepresented minorities.KeywordsDemographic study, SCALE-UP, active learningBackgroundUTA has created a new first year engineering course, named ENGR 1300 – Engineering
was carefully designed to help first-year students achieve success in the programregardless of the specific engineering major they select in their second year. Therefore, thecourse includes themes centered on several design-and-build projects with the following programobjectives: 1. Provide students with the opportunity to experience engineering as an evolving, creative, and interdisciplinary career that impacts global society and daily life. 2. Provide students with the opportunity to develop process-driven problem-solving skills that recognize multiple alternatives and apply critical thinking to identify an effective solution. 3. Provide students with the opportunity to integrate math & science in an engineering context. 4
architecture (OSA) and engineering will certainly providethe foundations, skills, knowledge, and design sensibility that architecture students can build uponin their careers. There may be more graduating architects in future working for space agencies oroffices dedicated to outer space designs. But, what exactly should this body of knowledge containand how should it be delivered? This paper discusses how OSA can be offered as a specializationand/or a joint degree in architecture and architectural engineering programs.Key Words: architecture, outer space architecture, architectural engineering, terrestrialarchitecture, extreme conditions, design studio, seminar, deployable structures, inflatablestructures, Moon, lunar, Mars.IntroductionPlanet earth
] as professional identity to be the “relatively stable andenduring constellation of attributes, values, motives, and experiences in terms of which peopledefine themselves in a professional role”. The adaptability and mutability of professional identityearly in one’s career has been alluded to by Ibarra [10]. External validation by other professionalsin the field is an important element of professional identity [12, page 68]. Carlone and Johnson[13] noted competence, performance and recognition as dimensions of professional identity.Professional identity development has been studied in context of various professions such asmedicine [14], health care [15], pharmacy [16], and higher education [8, 9]. There is a reasonablebody of literature that
Professor at Graz University of Technology, Graz, Austria, in Nov. 2014 and Jan. 2016. His areas of interest include power system applications of power electronics and integration of renewable energy resources. Dr. Mehrizi-Sani is an editor of IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery, and IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion. He is the Chair of IEEE Task Force on Dynamic System Equivalents and the Secretary of the CIGRE Working Group C4.34 on Application of PMUs for Monitoring Power System Dynamic Performance. He was the recipient of the 2018 IEEE PES Outstanding Young Engineer Award, 2018 ASEE PNW Outstanding Teaching Award, 2017 IEEE Mac E. Van Valkenburg Early Career Teaching Award
understanding. Her work focuses on defining STEM inte- gration and investigating its power for student learning. Tamara Moore received an NSF Early CAREER award in 2010 and a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) in 2012.Kristina Maruyama Tank, Iowa State University Kristina M. Tank is an Assistant Professor of Science Education in the School of Education at Iowa State University. She currently teaches undergraduate courses in science education for elementary education majors. As a former elementary teacher, her research and teaching interests are centered around improv- ing elementary students’ science and engineering learning and increasing teachers’ use of effective STEM instruction in the
Paper ID #29307WIP: Motivation and Identity: The Impact of Identity on Recovering fromFailureCaroline Bolton, Bucknell UniversityDr. Elif Miskioglu, Bucknell University Dr. Elif Miskio˘glu is an early-career engineering education scholar and educator. She holds a B.S. in Chemical Engineering (with Genetics minor) from Iowa State University, and an M.S. and Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Ohio State University. Her early Ph.D. work focused on the development of bacterial biosensors capable of screening pesticides for specifically targeting the malaria vector mosquito, Anopheles gambiae. As a result, her diverse
beenshown to effectively transfer from the classroom to real-life settings [11], [14], [15]. Thistransfer is crucial, as the types of adaptive competencies (e.g. tolerating ambiguity, handlinguncertainty, and critical decision-making) design thinking helps build will play a large role instudents’ future careers that require new learning to solve non-routine problems [14].Research MethodsThe evidence linking design-thinking approaches to important behavioral outcomes, such asresilience, is promising though limited. Further, much of the research remains focused onclassroom outcomes, rather than on those beyond the classroom. Our study begins to fill thosegaps by implementing a high school camp created around the principles of design
student retention is being measured. In other words, in thisstudy "long-term" is associated with the students’ ability to retain content over the course of a10-week quarter, while in the future study, students’ content retention will be tracked overmultiple terms over a complete sequence of courses. This will provide a more meaningfulindicator of long-term content retention.IntroductionLong-term retention of engineering content is an important requirement for students to besuccessful in an engineering curriculum and to have a successful career after graduating. Coursesin a curriculum often build off each other and a weak foundation in a pre-requisite course canlead to students struggling and experiencing frustration in follow-on courses
survey of the different potential pathways for anengineering career, students increasingly are expected to complete meaningful design projectswithin these programs. This change creates opportunities to introduce first-year engineeringstudents to the complexities of the engineering information landscape via information literacyinstruction.Background on problem being addressedThe engineering education and library science literature suggest several best practices forcreating information literacy instructional (ILI) interventions. ILI interventions are mosteffective when contextualized to the specific needs of learners [1], [2] through integratinginformation literacy into the curriculum [3] and establishing the relevance of information literacyby
Creative team member for her local childrens theater. Her passion for STEAM is shown in her interest in soft skill-developement in engineering students.Dr. Elif Miskioglu, Bucknell University Dr. Elif Miskio˘glu is an early-career engineering education scholar and educator. She holds a B.S. in Chemical Engineering (with Genetics minor) from Iowa State University, and an M.S. and Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Ohio State University. Her early Ph.D. work focused on the development of bacterial biosensors capable of screening pesticides for specifically targeting the malaria vector mosquito, Anopheles gambiae. As a result, her diverse background also includes experience in infectious disease and epidemiology
offices on campus like the Academic Resource Center, Career Services, Advisingand Financial Aid. The RISE scholars also participate in the Guaranteed 4.0 program, consistingof four interactive seminars. According to the founder, Donna O. Johnson Mackey, “The focusof these seminars is not “how to study. Rather, we want students to learn how to learn andultimately achieve a mindset of academic excellence and success.” Using this comprehensiveframework, students learn simple strategies such as repetition for long-term informationretention, as well as more complex strategies focused on critical thinking and metacognition[11].The spring semester presents the scholars with opportunities to discover some of the connectionsbetween their interests and
mathematics in order for them to becollege- and career-ready. The Common Core State Standards (CCSS) for secondarymathematics aim to have students practice applying what they learn to real-world scenarios andproblems, while also emphasizing communication, collaboration, problem solving, and criticalthinking skills, similar to the NGSS [2]. Currently, many K-12 science classrooms are faced with challenges when giving studentsreal opportunities to do science involving true inquiry and hands-on learning, especially in high-minority enrollment schools, as they face underfunding and under resourcing, and haveincreasingly less access to certified science teachers [3]. This project, a mobile multifunctionalweather station, utilizes a fairly simple
compare with existing data and betterunderstand the Generation Z students’ conflict resolution style, which will help engineeringeducation become better prepared and orientated toward new generations of students on campus.IntroductionThis paper describes the course material design aiming to address the teamwork challenges in aproject-based engineering course in a first-year engineering program at a Carnegie R1 rateduniversity.The course objective of the “Engineering Problem Solving I” is to prepare students for anengineering career by providing opportunities to apply mathematics to solve engineeringproblems, acquire team working skills, practice written and verbal communication skills,enhance problem solving and design skills, and use a computer
college algebra.The Fundamentals of Success in Engineering (SES) Course DescriptionThe primary goal of SES is to help students with lower placement develop study skills beforethey are pushed into mathematically rigorous courses. The course was initially developed aroundthe Studying Engineering: A Road Map to a Rewarding Career (Landis, 2013). Using the text asa guide, students explored lessons that challenged them to think more about why they wanted tobecome an engineer, what would be required to become an engineer, and what professional skillsthey needed to be successful. The course culminated with the writing project “Design YourProcess for Becoming a World-Class Engineering Student” in which students appliedengineering design concepts to
, . dt2An engineer designing robots or drones must maintain the separation between the geometric andphysical aspects of the problem at hand and employ the appropriate computation for each part ofthe problem. References1. Dirk J. Struik, Lectures on Classical Differential Geometry, Dover Publications, Inc., New York2. Grossfield, A. (2018). Tilted Planes and Curvature in Three Dimensional Space Paper presented at the CIEC Annual Conference.ANDREW GROSSFIELDThroughout his career Dr. Grossfield has combined an interest in engineering design and mathematics. He earnedhis BEE at CCNY. Seeing the differences between the mathematics memorized in schools and the math understoodand needed by
Research Center, January 2018 https://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2018/01/09/diversity-in-the-stem-workforce-varies-widely-across-jobs/4. Potvin, P. & Hasni, A. (2014). Analysis of the Decline in Interest Towards School Science and Technology from Grades 5 Through 11. J Sci Educ Technol (2014) 23:784–802 https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2Fs10956-014-9512-x.pdf5. Junior Achievement, (2018) https://www.juniorachievement.org/web/ja-usa/press-releases/- /asset_publisher/UmcVLQOLGie9/content/research-reveals-boys’-interest-in-stem-careers-declining-girls’- interest-unchanged Proceedings of the 2020 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference University of New