education research, interdisciplinarity, peer review, engineers’ epistemologies, and global engineering education.Mr. Corey T Schimpf, Purdue University, West LafayetteDr. Alice L. Pawley, Purdue University, West Lafayette Alice Pawley is an Associate Professor in the School of Engineering Education and an affiliate faculty member in the Gender, Women’s and Sexuality Studies Program and the Division of Environmental and Ecological Engineering at Purdue University. She was co-PI of Purdue’s ADVANCE program from 2008-2014, focusing on the underrepresentation of women in STEM faculty positions. She runs the Feminist Research in Engineering Education (FREE, formerly RIFE, group), whose diverse projects and group members are
interviews of officials within Denmark’s ministries, this can only beconsidered a preliminary look at the institutional responses in Denmark. We also note that ouraccess at DTU was also limited by a recent, controversial decision on the part of one of thePROCEED co-investigators to relocate from DTU to Aalborg University. We believe ourfindings to be of significant interest to engineering educators in the United States. While the fullfindings of our study will be released in an edited volume produced by the PROCEED project, asummary of our findings is presented here for the ASEE audience. In the following section, wefirst present a brief introduction of the Bologna Process and the diverse reactions to it acrossnations and institutions.Varied
. As part ofthis group, I regularly train men, both on- and off-campus, to better serve as gender equity allies.I am a member of the Commission on the Status of Women Faculty, a committee that works todevelop and enhance gender-equitable policies at North Dakota State University. I am primaryauthor of a series of broadly distributed advocacy tips, have participated in a national webinar onengaging male faculty as gender equity allies, and have given several conference presentationson the same topics. Additionally, I currently serve on the planning committee for the NSF-funded project Transforming Undergraduate Education in Engineering (TUEE), which has thegoal of enhancing women participation and success in engineering programs.Dr. Holmes: I
States, Ecuador, Chile and Argentina and 26 workshops in Mexico, Chile and Argentina. He has participated obtaining projects funded by the European Consortium of Innovative Uni- versities, HP Development Company, Agencia Espa˜nola de Cooperaci´on Internacional para el Desarrollo and the University of Arizona. He is a member of the Mexican Council of Educational Research, Vi- cepresident of the Latin American Physics Education Network (LAPEN), coordinator of the Evaluation of Learning and Instruction Topical Group within the International Research Group on Physics Teach- ing (GIREP for French); member of the American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT) in which he was member and president of the International
—students wearconcert t-shirts showcasing their favorite music artists, instructors play music during class topromote a particular learning environment, groups of students listen to music as they worktogether on a project or as they attempt to solve a homework question. Previous research haslinked musical preference to personality and values, both of which correlate to social identity,and to a lesser extent, academic study habits. Pierre Bourdieu's landmark text La Distinction alsoasserts that social class influences judgments of taste and choices in cultural activities.Researchers have also used markers such as genre taste as a cultural indicator, focusing on"high" arts, such as classical music, ballet, and art museums as measures of culture.1
theirbachelor’s degrees in engineering. We focus on these individuals due to the scarcity of researchon their experiences and the relevance of their perspectives to engineering education.29-31Implications of this work will focus on recommendations for educational research and practice.Framework and LiteratureThe overall EPS project is broadly situated in social cognitive career theory (SCCT) which positsthat a variety of factors influence career choice including self-efficacy beliefs, outcomeexpectations, and learning experiences.32 SCCT has been used extensively in the study ofengineering students’ career choices.33-37 A main goal of our study has been to identify theschool and workplace factors related to the career choices made by engineering
. First, the project focuses on faculty community, rather thanexternal communities such as companies or local residential communities. The definition ofcommunity we adopted is not just in a physical location, but in an organizational location, in “thecooperation in labor, order and management,” (Tönnies, 2000, p. 43). This is important in ourconsideration of community of engagement, as we go beyond physical boundaries, such as thosebetween university and its wider locale, to cognitive boundaries, such as those within and amonguniversity colleges and departments. It is with this in mind that we define engagement andengaged communities. Second, it expands the definitions and model of community engagementby highlighting how engineering faculty
- dedicated to innovation in traffic safety and public safety technology, as well as research in decision support systems, data analytics and cybersecurity. Throughout his career and through his work with CAPS, Dr. Parrish has obtained approximately 200 funded projects totaling approximately $100M from a variety of state and federal sponsors. Dr. Parrish has published in approxi- mately 100 refereed journals and conferences, and is internationally active in computer science education, having served as the Chair of the Computing Accreditation Commission of ABET, and currently is chair of a major effort to revise the computing accreditation criteria and to develop new accreditation criteria for cybersecurity. Dr. Parrish
for Enhancement of Engineering Diversity and an advisor for international senior design projects in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. Ash- ley received her MS in Mechanical Engineering, MPH in Public Health Education, and BS in Mechanical Engineering from Virginia Tech. Her research interests include access to higher education, broadening participation in engineering, the integration of engineering education and international development, and building capacity in low and middle income countries through inclusive technical education.Teirra K Holloman, Virginia Tech Department of Engineering Education Teirra Holloman is a doctoral student in engineering education at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State
schools, are responding to theseserious issues with training, task forces, student groups, counseling services, and concertedattempts to shift the culture towards openness and accountability [30]. Further, there areprograms that actually center social justice, community engagement, and humility regardingprivilege and power are growing. Some examples include the Colorado School of Mines, MercerUniversity, Oregon State University, and Villanova University [31]–[34]. These not onlydemonstrate care for people and the environment impacted by engineering projects, but alsoencourages students to care for each other.An Ethic of Care may provide a framework through which engineering faculty and staff atuniversities can improve their cultures to be more
with disabilities2. Background2.1 Computing’s Diversity ScorecardComputing is a high growth field with well-paying career opportunities, but the percentage ofwomen and minorities in careers in computing is well below their percentages in both theworkforce and in society. With a 19% projected job growth in computing between 2016 and2026, employment prospects and compensation levels in computing are both excellent; the paygap between men and women is also low compared to other engineering disciplines.2 Yet overthe past decade, women have held only 25% of computer and mathematical (C&M) jobs whilecomprising 56%-58% of the total workforce [11]; in 2016, Blacks made up only 7.9% percent ofC&M workers while comprising 11.9% of all workers
aforementioned digitalnote project. In total, students were surveyed three times across different semester checkpoints. Inthis paper, the following subset of open-ended questions from the later two surveys were selectedfor analysis: 1. Evaluation 1: What benefits do you see from using digital notes? 2. Evaluation 2: What complaints do you have for digital notes in helping you learn new materials? (or frame as how satisfied are you?) 3. Errors: What errors in the digital notes have you noticed after using it for the past weeks? 4. Satisfaction: How do you describe your experience of using digital notes as a whole? And how do you describe your experience of using certain features of digital notes? 5. Adaptation: Have you developed new
minimize the effects ofnegative social identification can provide socialization opportunities to students. Additionally,establishing self-belief in engineering students can be accomplished by socialization of students;allowing them to observe one another’s goal setting and accomplishing those goals will allowthem to model their behaviors after each other. Consider long-term, independent projects thatmodel professional projects which require incremental goal setting and accomplishments; oftenthese take place in capstone or senior design projects, but introduction to these types of projectsearlier not only expose students to various types of engineering careers, but also allow them toexercise self-belief in lower-stakes opportunities.Finally, one
practices that work to downplay, obfuscate, or dismiss entirely the influence of socialand structural factors that reproduce educational disparities among historically marginalizedgroups in engineering and further drive them away from the field [4], [5], [13]. The broadersocietal implication of this problem is that it limits the diversity of perspectives that practiceengineering, which perpetuates the development of the unjust and inequitable distribution oftechnological consequences. We see this, for example, in the pervasiveness of algorithmic bias,infrastructure projects that harm minority communities, and a lack of (or undone) technologiesthat could benefit women and people of color [14], [15]. The recognition that we need to designculturally
understand major choice in specific engineering disciplines, but this study will focus on engineering major choice generally. igure 1FConceptual Model from Main et al.’s study[40]. ote: This study focuses on the high school life stage from the conceptual model. The figure wasNadapted to highlight this portion of the model. ethodologyMQualitative researchers study things in their natural setting to make meaning of phenomena as people experience them[41]. A common type of methodologyin qualitative research are case studies – a case study allows researchers to study a phenomenon in its bounded context[42]. This project used a case study to understand the factors influencing women students' pursuit of
first, and in the second, became confused aboutthe solution to an example problem. Reflecting on these two episodes and their implications formy instructional practice led to the following research questions: 1. In what ways does confusion manifest in an interactive classroom environment? 2. How can an instructor engage in reflective practice to make sense of and shift their framing of their confusion and mistakes?MethodsParticipants, Positionality, and ContextThis work is part of an ongoing ethnographic research project in which I serve as an instructor inthe chemical engineering department at a private, research-focused university while studying thefactors impacting instruction in the department from within. For this paper, I focus
comfortable standing up for themselves in the face of harassment. For example, Elioshared: I have a great relationship with my boss. She was not my professor [i.e., Elio had never taken a course with her], but she was the lead professor for the course. And she is always like, “You can come to me for anything,” and things like that. And she is a professor and she’s great about that for every student, not just me. I can hold my coworkers [fellow TAs] accountable a little bit more if anything they’re saying is like, “Whoa, [that’s inappropriate]” [unlike] if I were in a team of engineers in a group project with 200 other students in the mechanical [engineering] space and a professor that I barely know.Elio credited their professor with
]. Developed within theapplied disciplines of organizational theory and project management, engaged scholarshiprequires researchers to cooperatively interact with practitioner-stakeholders to identify,understand, and improve upon “complex social problems that often exceed our limitedcapabilities [as researchers] to study on our own” [18, p. 37]. Organizational engaged scholarshiphas been likened to design-based research in education, wherein education researchers team upwith a variety of education practitioner-stakeholders to iteratively advance the theory and designof an intervention to a complex educational problem, and is considered useful for researchersseeking to advance both scientific and practical knowledge together [17]; [20].Participants
. Her expertise extends to facilitating workshops and training sessions, catering to the needs of both staff and students within Purdue University.Sakhi Aggrawal, Purdue University at West Lafayette (PPI) Sakhi Aggrawal is a Graduate Research Fellow in Computer and Information Technology department at Purdue University. She completed her master’s degree in Business Analytics from Imperial College London and bachelor’s degree in Computer and Information Technology and Organizational Leadership from Purdue University. She worked in industry for several years with her latest jobs being as project manager at Google and Microsoft. Her current research focuses on integrating project management processes in undergraduate
was focused on an interorganizational what we even mean by rural, what some issues are, and why we should carepartnership between middle schools and industry in Southwest, Appalachian about it, followed by findings that are really framing the purpose of ourVirginia. The goals of this project were around providing middle school students presentation today.with hands-on experiences with engineering in a way that was locally relevant –meaning the activities they engaged in had some important context that studentscould see in their daily lives and the connections with industry partners whowere in the classrooms with students demonstrated these connections further.These efforts have continued as a part of Jake’s
they had withtheir primary advisor, many students did not know about existing resources on campus. Inaddition, no data had been collected about faculty perspectives on mentoring their graduatestudents. As a result, the fellows identified three projects to tackle during the 2022 calendar year:creating an engineering-specific individual development plan, surveying faculty members aboutmentorship, and educating students about healthy and toxic mentorship.Literature ReviewThe most influential factor on a graduate student’s doctoral experience is their primary researchadvisor [1] – [4], yet most institutions lack formal guidelines for the structure of this relationship.Identifying a mentor should be a major priority for graduate students early in
he earned his master’s degree in civil engineer- ing. He also worked as a project Analyst with AgileP3 after graduating with a Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng) in civil engineering from Covenant University, Nigeria. Adebayo has taught courses in Trans- portation and Chemistry at Morgan State University as part of his commitment to the STEM profession. He has attended conferences across the Transportation engineering field.Dr. Steve Efe, Morgan State University Dr. Steve Efe is an Assistant Professor and the Assistant Director of the Center for Advanced Transporta- tion and Infrastructure Engineering Research. He obtained his Doctor of Engineering in Civil Engineering with a major in Structural Engineering and minDr
methodologies, community engagement projects, evaluation tools and tech- nology, and gender studies in STEM education. https://orcid.org/0000- 0002-0383-0179Prof. Maria Elena Truyol, Universidad Andr´es Bello, Santiago, Chile Mar´ıa Elena Truyol, Ph.D., is full professor and researcher of the Universidad Andr´es Bello (UNAB). She graduated as physics teacher (for middle and high school), physics (M.Sc.) and Ph.D. in Physics at Universidad Nacional de C´ordoba, Argentina. In 2013 she obtained a three-year postdoctoral position at the Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil. Her focus is set on educational research, physics education, problem-solving, design of instructional material, teacher training and gender studies. She teaches
students feel successful, thus reinforcingSTEM identity. The perspectives of all three groups help to describe essential components of aresearch internship that can be employed in the development of high school STEM programs andways in which these programs can support URM students.Background and SignificanceCurrently, there are over one million STEM job openings without qualified applicants in theUnited States, and the field of Biomedical Engineering (BME) is projected to grow 10% from2021 to 2031 [7]. To meet growing BME workforce needs, it is essential to support initialstudent interests in STEM to aid students’ decision making. One strategy that has seensignificant success in encouraging students to pursue STEM and engineering fields has been
outcomes of the instructional design phase are clear learning objectives, clear ways toassess students' learning, and possible pedagogical approaches. Regarding the latter, we mustemphasize that virtual labs can be adopted with any pedagogical approach, includingdemonstrations, simulations, project- and problem-based learning, and inquiry-based learning.When you know in advance which approach you will use, a more tailored virtual lab can bedeveloped.2.2 Virtual Lab Design DocumentLike a game design document [31], a virtual lab design document is a comprehensive plan fordeveloping a virtual lab. It outlines the virtual lab's objectives, goals, and learning outcomes,as well as the instructional strategies and pedagogical approaches to be used. The
increase the retention and graduation rates(shown in Table 1).The RGV service area of UTRGV encompasses the four counties on Texas’ southernmost borderwith Mexico including Cameron, Hidalgo, Starr, and Willacy counties. Approximately 93% ofUTRGV students are residents in one of the four counties (~61% from Hidalgo County, ~28%from Cameron County, ~3% from Starr County, and ~1% from Willacy County).The need for the proposed project is based on three key characteristics of the region (Table 2): • Rapidly Growing Population: In terms of population, Table 2 shows that Hidalgo County (the largest county in the RGV) is growing at a faster rate than the USA. • Very Young Population: The U.S. Census Bureau also reports that the
, Geographical Information System and other civil engineering discipline. He has handled several national and international projects in the area of engineering, technology and Engineering Education. He has offered MOOC programme on SWAYAM Portal in the area of Student Assessment and Evaluation, Technology Enabled Teaching Learning, Sustainable Construction Materials and Techniques, Civil Infrastructure for Smart City Development etc.Dr. Janardhanan Gangathulasi, National Institute of Technical Teachers Training and Research, Chennai,India Janardhanan Gangathulasi holds both Bachelor in Engineering (Civil Engineering), Masters degree in Geotechnical Engineering from College of Engineering Guindy, Anna University, India and
motivation and their learning experiences. Her projects include studies of student perceptions, beliefs and attitudes towards becoming engineers and scientists, and their development of problem-solving skills, self- regulated learning practices, and epistemic beliefs. Other projects in the Benson group involve students’ navigational capital, and researchers’ schema development through the peer review process. Dr. Benson is an American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Fellow, and a member of the European Society for Engineering Education (SEFI), American Educational Research Association (AERA) and Tau Beta Pi. She earned a B.S. in Bioengineering (1978) from the University of Vermont, and M.S. (1986) and Ph.D. (2002
://doi.org/10.1002/tea.21458Gutiérrez, R. (2013). The sociopolitical turn in mathematics education. Journal for research in mathematics education, 44(1), 37–68.Jurow, A. S., & Shea, M. (2015). Learning in equity-oriented scale-making projects. Journal of the Learning Sciences, 24(2), 286–307.Kelly, G. J., Cunningham, C. M., & Ricketts, A. (2017). Engaging in identity work through engineering practices in elementary classrooms. Linguistics and Education, 39, 48–-59.Kelly, G. J., & Cunningham, C. M. (2019). Epistemic tools in engineering design for K‐12 education. Science Education, 103(4), 1080–1111Leydens, J. A., & Lucena, J. C. (2018). Engineering justice: Transforming engineering education and
pursue a college degree in STEM and moved on to a graduate degree in EducationalPsychology. The first author uses ‘they/she’ pronouns. The studies from which the interviewcame are part of a grant to the second author, which focused on helping preservice, earlychildhood teachers learn to debug block-based programming so they can teach with robots.Through the project, we developed scaffolding to help these preservice teachers learn to debug,and researched the effectiveness of such [30], [31], [32], [33]. But one of the critical take-awaysfrom this research was the importance of the positionality of the informants as prospectiveteachers who were learning to teach early learners, women who are highly under-represented incomputer science and