team at Kettering University, and to the Society of Women Engineers at Kettering.Dr. Gloria Guohua Ma, Wentworth Institute of Technology Gloria Ma is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Technology. She has been teaching robotics with Lego Mindstorm to ME freshmen for several years. She is actively involved in community services of offering robotics workshops to middle- and high-school girls. Her research in- terests are dynamics and system modeling, geometry modeling, project based engineering design, and robotics in manufacturing.Prof. Stephanie G. Wettstein, Montana State University Stephanie Wettstein is an Assistant Professor in the Chemical and Biological Engineering department at
Adolescence, Contemporary Educational Psychology, c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Paper ID #27418and Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology. She received a Spencer Foundation Grant in 2007to examine academic prospects, interpersonal relationships, and social well-being of students in schooldistricts with a high concentration of students of Arab and Chaldean origins. Recently, she received in-ternal grants from the University of Toledo to conduct mindfulness intervention projects with elementaryschool students and preservice teachers. She is also the recipient of the Fulbright Specialist Fellowship
, Najran University I, Mohamed Khairi, my bachelor degree in computer science. I did my Masters in system science from University of Ottawa, Canada. My PH.D was in ”Master Data Management” from University of Phoenix. I have over 20 years of experience in IT industry - ten of them with Microsoft in Redmond, WA. Currently I’m assistant professor at University of Najran. In addition of teaching and Research I’m coordinator of graduation projects and field training for computer and information system college. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019Global Marketplace and American Companies in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA)Abstract In a
at all ranks (i.e., tenure and non-tenure track) inthe college. This occurs via targeted faculty communications and through interactions withcollege department heads.3.2.2 Staff Positions The Associate Dean leads a team that consists of an assistant director; event coordinator;media assistant and project based specialists (i.e. website developer, technical writers, etc.). Theteam strategically tailors and executes programs providing professional guidance for facultycollege-wide; works collaboratively with upper-level administrators and cross-college teams oncutting-edge programs for leadership as well as faculty development; and interacts withdepartment heads in recruiting, retention and promotion of a diverse set of faculty at all
agents of the social norms that privilegewhite students in engineering classrooms and organizations. In a study of African-Americanmale experiences on multiracial student engineering teams, Cross and colleagues found that thesocial norms of the engineering community decreased African-American students’ sense ofbelonging.18 Contributing factors included but were not limited to indifferent faculty interactions.The authors recommended that multiracial team projects should be monitored carefully byfaculty to ensure positive experiences of all team members.A study of Asian and Asian-American students in engineering showed that many students facedstereotypes from peers and faculty that detrimentally impacted their education, including that ofbeing the
factors such as: the ability to extract the key technical concept of the paper, thetechnical knowledge of the subject matter, proficiency and confidence in presenting, and thequality of the written report. Due to the hands-on nature of educational strategy, the laboratorycomponent is an integral part of any course offered in the SoT, and the EM course is noexception. Every week, the course-enrolled students have an opportunity to apply the knowledgethey gain in the classroom to the industrial equipment. By the end of the course, students have atleast 33 hours of hands-on activities. The knowledge gained via theoretical and practicalexercises is reinforced by the computer projects utilizing MATLAB simulation software.In 2009, the first attempt at
DLR_School_Lab RWTHAachen, is further developed in the IMA/ZLW & IfU institute cluster’s training model [13]. 3. Related projects in the field of extracurricular learning venuesThere is increasing interest in extracurricular learning venues where students and scientistscan promote and deepen interests in their specific field. In the United States and Japan, forexample, there are some excellent universities concerned with robotic science e.g. theUniversity of California at Berkeley, the Robotic Society of Japan, and the University ofYork. However, in contrast to these laboratories, which are exclusively available for seniorresearchers or at least PhD students, the DLR School Labs focus on a much younger targetaudience. The project aims to awaken
as a social experience particularly in terms of gender and race among underrepresented college students in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics). He has presented his scholarship at research conferences organized by the American Educational Research Association, Association for the Study of Higher Education, and Out in STEM Incorporated. Luis holds professional experience in various STEM student support initiatives at Rutgers University including the STEM Talent Expansion Program, Upward Bound Math-Science, and Project Advancing Graduate Edu- cation. He is a certified K-12 mathematics teacher in New Jersey with a Master’s degree in Mathematics Education and Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics from
construction education and training oppor- tunities, emphasizing construction-based workforce development. He has contributed to, and developed curriculum for, construction management training programs in Mexico, Egypt, and Tunisia. He is pas- sionate about connecting underrepresented and unemployed populations with sustainable employment opportunities in the construction industry. Jon has over five years of experience in construction and his commercial project management experience focused on core and shell office building projects and historic building restoration/rehabilitation in Washington DC Page 26.732.1
Paper ID #12638Honing Interpersonal Communication Skills for Difficult Situations: Evi-dence for the Effectiveness of an Online Instructional ResourceMs. Amy Elizabeth Dawson, Arizona State University Amy Dawson, M.A., is a doctoral student in the Counseling Psychology program at Arizona State Uni- versity. Amy is also a research assistant for the NSF funded CareerWISE project housed at ASU.Prof. Bianca L. Bernstein, Arizona State University Bianca L. Bernstein, Ph.D. is Professor of Counseling and Counseling Psychology in the College of Let- ters and Sciences at Arizona State University. Dr. Bernstein is Principal Investigator
were achieving their goals.”4 This challenge led to some programs being dropped fromconsideration due to a lack of documentation and evaluation data.4 In addition, minorityretention issues in STEM are complex phenomena, compounding the research and evaluationchallenge.6 While the need for more qualitative studies to understand these complex nuances isevident, there is also a need for more rigorous quantitative work. For example, in a review of 28Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation (LSAMP) projects, although studies wereprimarily quantitative or mixed methods designs, the focus was on participation numbers andgraduation rates of URMs in STEM with no experimental designs.6Tinto7 argues for improved assessment and evaluation efforts
stories to the overall project and to the community to “hear” the testimonies and to facilitate adhering to of engineering education the participants’ reality during analysis. -We co-construct meaning-making within the research team so as not to mis-construe or stray from participants’ testimony The concepts underlying the research design The knowledge produced needs to be meaningful
Paper ID #13824Developing an Intensive Math Preparation Program to Enhance the Successof Underrepresented Students in Engineering ˜Prof. Denise Hum, Canada College Denise Hum is an Associate Professor of Mathematics at Ca˜nada College in the San Francisco Bay Area. She received her M.S. in statistics at California State University, East Bay. Her academic interests in- clude accelerated math pathways, Reading Apprenticeship, and increasing the number of women and underrepresented groups in STEM.Ms. Anna Marbella Camacho, Canada College As Project Director for a $5.9 million Hispanic-Serving Institution
of the course, students have atleast 33 hours of hands-on activities. The knowledge gained via theoretical and practicalexercises is reinforced by the computer projects utilizing MATLAB simulation software.In 2009, the first attempt at converting the existing traditional model of the EM course into theblended version has been made. Utilizing the hybrid methodology, several lectures wereconverted into the online format and gradually introduced to the class of 40 students. Feedbackcollected from the students showed an interest in the hybrid/blended version of the course. Astandard assessment model previously conducted for traditionally taught EM coursesdemonstrated an increase in comprehension of the subject. The last contribution was due to
the third track involveda relatively new pre-existing AS degree program6 that would be updated.Furthermore, one of the faculty members on the SET curriculum feasibility committee alreadyhad a $.5 million National Science Foundation (NSF) Advanced Technology Education (ATE)grant titled, “Intelligent Infrastructure Systems Education Project”, with its foremost projectgoals being curriculum development (including course material and labs) and two-year collegefaculty development activities. Today, this technology is better known as the Internet of Things(IoT) or cyber-physical systems (CPSs) technology. Cyber-physical systems technology refers toembedded control systems that are “tightly coupled” to the real world and require timing toperform
Administration from Harvard University. One of his major research interests has been the impact of gender on science careers. This research has resulted in two books (both authored with the assistance of Gerald Holton): Who Succeeds in Science? The Gender Dimension and Gender Differences in Science Careers: The Project Access Study.Dr. Philip Michael Sadler, Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Philip Sadler holds a B.S. in Physics from MIT and an Ed.D. from Harvard. He co-authored the first integrated computer and laboratory introductory calculus course in 1975. He has taught middle school mathematics, engineering, and science and both undergraduate science and graduate teaching courses at Harvard. His research
. Like I just learned the universal [coefficient] theorem and how it connects to my research project. Once I understand and can apply it, then I get it. I work twice as hard [as others] to understand, but once I get it then I really see the connection and it’s much easier for me. I have to see how it’s applied in a conceptual way for me to get it.Carina: Honestly, I'm a little lazy, to be honest, especially when it doesn't really interest me. Ifit's something I have to do and I know I'm not going to like it. I guess I come to the point where,if it's too much material to where is overwhelming just to learn one simple thing, its just toomuch, and I get lazy about it and I don't even want to pursue reading it.Jasmine: I prefer to work by myself
important for womenof color. The importance of faculty-student relationships has also been explored more broadly interms of its impact on student motivation32, learning in situated (problem- and project-based)environments e.g., 33, 34, 35, and graduate education e.g., 36, 37. Similarly, Ong et al.’s 2011 reviewof the literature found that women felt that “professors played a critical role in making a STEMcareer a reality”38 for undergraduate and graduate women. Maton and Hrabowski III39 found thatinteraction with faculty, and particularly minority faculty, in and outside the classroom candecrease the feelings of isolation among minority students and contribute to positive outcomessuch as academic achievement, confidence, and persistence.“Mentoring
stressful for somecandidates, is an invaluable means for assessing candidate’s teaching skills. A scheduledpresentation is also an opportunity for regular faculty to meet adjunct candidates, before andafter the seminar, to get to know the candidate and discuss matters of mutual interest, includingpotential future collaboration. (1)Some of the adjunct faculty-particularly those who are seniors in specific industries- could offerimportant linkages for the development of industrial affiliate programs, co-op activities, summertraining opportunities, and employment opportunities for new graduates. They may also providenew ideas for senior design projects, topics for graduate theses, or render help in theestablishment of collaborative research
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Joanneum University of Applied Sciences, we offer a variety of engineering degreeprograms. The faculty considers it especially important to apply modern didactical methodslike project based learning in the degree program as early as possible to increase theefficiency of knowledge transfer and to fortify the students’ motivation to learn and to Page 26.410.6cooperate actively. Students are confronted, complementary to their regular courses, withproblems that are of a multidisciplinary nature and demand a certain degree of mathematicalproficiency7. This leads to a closer cooperation among the faculty and thus to a bettercoordination of the courses that take
writing from completing these reports.This project officially began in summer 2012 with one comprehensive goal – to help the GTAseffectively evaluate student writing in their lab courses. Knowing that a faculty member in theuniversity’s Department of Physics had developed a one-day training session for GTAs involvedwith the first-year physics sequence required of all engineering students, my first step was tomeet with him to learn the structure and results of his efforts. While the actual structure was notgoing to be applicable to our needs (the Physics assignments required much less writing and,therefore, less feedback), the program was successful in reducing the failure rate by a significantamount thanks to a GTA handbook, common rubric, and
Paper ID #16755Early English Language Assessment to Improve First-Year Student SuccessDr. Penny Kinnear, University of Toronto Penny Kinnear currently works with the Engineering Communication Program at the University of Toronto where she focuses on the development and delivery of Professional Language support for a highly student body. She has a background in applied linguistics, second language and bilingual education and writing education. She is co-author of the book, ”Sociocultural Theory in Second Language Education: An in- troduction through narratives.” Her current research projects include a longitudinal study on
, 7, 8] in order toexamine aspects of the “weeding out” process. This perspective is part of a broaderproject in the social sciences over the past several decades, a project that explores howboth persons and forms of social organization are constituted through social practice.Among the major aims of this work has been to challenge conceptions of culture as astable and relatively unproblematic body of knowledge that is transmitted from onegeneration to the next. Instead, culture is seen as a dynamic process in which humanagents create meaning by drawing on cultural forms as they act in social and materialcontexts; in so doing people produce themselves and others as certain kinds of culturallylocated persons while at the same time reproducing
Immediate Past-President of WEPAN, was PI on Tech’s NSF ADVANCE grant, a member of the mathematical and statistical so- cieties Joint Committee on Women, and advises a variety of women and girl-serving STEM projects and organizations. She is a past Vice President of ASEE and current Chair of the ASEE Long Range Planning Committee.Dr. Kim LaScola Needy P.E., University of Arkansas Kim LaScola Needy is Dean of the Graduate School and International Education at the University of Arkansas. Prior to this appointment she was Department Head and 21st Century Professor of Industrial Engineering at the University of Arkansas. She received her B.S. and M.S. degrees in Industrial Engi- neering from the University of Pittsburgh
learnersmove from topic to topic, managing a range of personal learning projects rather than a set, formalcurriculum; and d) mobile learners move in and out of engagement with technology. Sharples, etal., as a further step in postulating a theory of mobile learning, set forth characteristics thatdistinguish mobile learning when compared to other types of learning and make it worth specialconsideration. They acknowledged that considerable learning occurs outside classrooms. Theydocumented contemporary accounts of ubiquitous use of personal and shared technologies thatenable successful learning. Conclusions that they reached included: a) it is the learner rather thanthe technology that is mobile; b) learning is interwoven with other activities as part
Engineering & Me- chanics department, serving as a professional academic advisor to over 550 students. In January 2012, she became the Program Manager for Assessment & Retention for the College of Engineering, coordinating accreditation efforts for 12 ABET-accredited undergraduate programs and an ACCE accredited program. She created the Academic Center for Engineers (ACE) in the Spring of 2013 to provide tutoring support for engineering courses. She was promoted to Associate Director for Assessment & Retention Projects in July 2015. Kristin has completed Drexel’s Supervisory Certificate Program and ABET’s IDEAL Scholar program and is currently working toward completion of an M.S. in Human Resource Development
of the social high-speeddevelopment. In the same sense, the curriculum arrangement of engineering majors inundergraduate level practical teaching mainly consists of cognition practice, productivepractice, graduation practice, curriculum design and graduation project, among others.1 Beingthe significant component of practical teaching process carried out by engineeringuniversities, productive practice is recognized as the effective measure for consolidating anddeepening the professional basic theory, boosting engineering students’ abilities to linktheory with practice and to deal with practical problems, as well as optimizing the students’engineering practical abilities.Productive practice is a course which closely integrates classroom
Wednesday Friday Traditional Reading assignment Lecture Lecture Lecture Blended Online reading Lecture Worksheets, group projects, case studies, or homework time. assignment Held in active learning space working with peers and instructors.To answer the question, Do students benefit from the blended course?, we compared exam scoresfrom the traditional and blended courses. To answer the question, How do students progress onBloom’s taxonomy in the blended course?, we used worksheets that served both as learningactivities and measurements of Bloom’s taxonomy progress. We focused on two concepts thatstudents typically have
on co-ed groupprojects that showed that boys tend to take on more valued project roles and control access totools and materials, while girls end up in administrative roles [15], [16]. To evaluate the successof a single sex approach, researchers have examined single-sex after school programs and specialgirls-only programs within co-ed schools. For example, Fadigan and Hammrich [17] examined amuseum program for girls and showed that the program created a space for girls that supported apositive sense of self.On the other hand, there are practitioners and researchers that critique the idea of separating girlsby saying, for example, that girls need, eventually, to work in mixed spaces therefore it is best tofocus on their ability to navigate