developed VR hardware and software to be used in undergraduate STEM curricula. Under his direction, his students have devel- oped over fourteen different software packages to be used in such educational fields as electromagnetics, vector calculus, statics, and materials science: all topics where students can benefit from a rich visual ex- perience. Will currently advises twelve undergraduates in scientific visualization projects. Additionally, Will is an avid collaborator with colleagues outside the engineering discipline and has demonstrated visu- alization and virtual reality applications in psychology, foreign languages, photography, drawing, music, and library science. He is co-author of the textbook ”Developing
is posted in the departmentABET website to share with department community.CMMI Practice 12: Collect Process-Related FeedbackCollect work products, measures, measurement results, and improvement informationderived from planning and performing the process to support the future use andimprovement of the organization’s processes and process assets. This generic practiceprovides a reminder to all organizations and projects to constantly and forever keepimproving the process.Our ABET practiceThe department has made great strides in the assessment, evaluation and implementation ofcontinuous improvement activities.Plan-Do-Check-Act (PDCA) Cycle Applied to Criterion 4 of ABETThe Computer Science Department has been using the CMMI norms diligently
test anxiety, by gender, race/ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and first- generation status? 2. How are students’ GPAs in science, engineering, mathematics, and STEM overall related to test anxiety? 3. To what extent do gender, race/ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and first-generation status mediate the relationship between GPA and test anxiety?Research MethodsThis study is part of a larger grant project (DUE-1626287, DUE-1626185, and DUE-1626148),which examines how non-cognitive and affective (NCA) factors affect students’ success inengineering. In this research paper, we define student success as academic success through aproxy of grade point average (GPA).PopulationAs part of the larger project, we surveyed a total of n
of writing attitudes (as was the focus of theoriginal, wider research project) and asked participants to upload the personal statement andresearch statement from their winning application package. After cleaning the data forincomplete survey responses and for those who did not upload both documents, a final totalof N=50 participants were represented in the final data sets and corpuses of documents. Thedemographic distribution of the participants is indicated in the table below. Of the 50participants, N= 10 were undergraduates at the time of winning the NSF GRFP, N=24 werefirst-year graduate students, and N=15 were second year graduate students. Table 2: Demographic Information Racial/Ethnic Demographics
days, I try to put reasonable effort into winning academic accolades while remembering the manyaspects that can make them arbitrary and biased. I try to think about it pragmatically-- it is certainlyuseful, functionally, to me to win an award. It will help me have social capital to move on to the nextmore impactful project. I do not need to put the measure of my self worth in the academic accolade. Allacademic accolades come down to the decisions of a set of people, who may be very knowledgeable, butare still fallible. I try to remind myself that I do my work for bigger reasons than my own self-promotion.Any academic accolades are tools that help me do that work, not an end in themselves. 4. Collective Findings: Wisdom from the
engineering students. The survey askedstudents to self identify their gender. This was used to identify how these factors may influenceranking of rapport supportive behaviors. Additionally, this survey asked students both theiracademic program (the discipline within engineering) and their degree progression, in order toidentify how these factors impact such rankings.Based on findings in the literature, and given the scope of this project, the authors anticipate thatthe most effective way to broaden students’ retention in engineering education is throughestablishing rapport between engineering professors and their students. Using the results of thisstudy, we can design interventions aimed at faculty member’s ability to establish positiverapport, which
Paper ID #42058Analyzing the Impact of Multi-Faceted Women in Computing Support Programson Women Computing StudentsDr. Ilknur Aydin, Farmingdale State College, SUNY, New York Ilknur Aydin is an Associate Professor of Computer Systems at Farmingdale State College, SUNY, New York. Dr. Aydin’s research is in the general area of wireless and mobile networks with a focus on transport layer issues including multihoming, SCTP, congestion control, and network coding. Dr. Aydin has mentored undergraduate and high school students on research projects that involve the use of Arduino boxes and Raspberry Pi’s in the context of
their peers. One student talked about learning more about coding in C++,saying, “We all have an issue when it comes to coding, it's the same issue. It's not like it'ssomething different.” This interviewee said they fit in well and then described being on par withpeers in their coding work. Another student said they fit in their department and then went on toexplain their work with Cozmo, a small robot. This student said they were programming therobot to “do certain tasks” and that working on this project, as part of a professor’s researchwork, was what made them feel that they belonged. Perceptions of BelongingForty-two responses were coded in the affirmative, with the “Yes, I belong” code. Theserespondents did not appear to question
, construction safety, and control room management. Dr. Harvey has worked with the Federal Aviation Administration, the United States Air Force, Roche Diagnostics, Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Louisiana Department of Economic Development, and the National Science Foundation on projects. Before joining the academic community, Dr. Harvey was a consultant of business process reengineering for KnowledgeWare where he worked with Whirlpool and Ford Motor Company. Before that, he was the manager of business process reengineering for the Student Loan Marketing Association where he was responsible for the reengineering involved in the implementation of a $55
evaluator on several NSF-funded projects. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Exploring the Relationship Between Undergraduate Students’Personality Attributes and Their Transformative Learning in a Short-Term Study Abroad Program Exploring the Relationship Between Undergraduate Students’ Personality Attributes and Their Transformative Learning in Short-Term Study Abroad ProgramsAbstractLiterature has consistently pointed to the significant role of personality in students’ decisions toparticipate in study abroad programs. Studies have highlighted how such experiences areimpacted by key personality traits
based on the depth of cultural immersion and the diversity of travelexperiences.Future WorkIn our study, the artistic creativity of the research participants was demonstrated through adrawing while their innovation was evaluated by a self-rated measure. In our future work, weenvision assessing research participants’ term projects for innovation demonstrated through theirwork. This would provide us with more comparable measures for artistic creativity andinnovation self-efficacy attributes. Our future focus group with the research participants willexplore the portion of states that they reported having visited that they also lived in. This canhelp us better understand the relationship between the lived experiences of the participants withtheir
graduatestudents build community, such as Bridge programs [11],[12],[13], Alliances for GraduateEducation and the Professoriate (AGEP), the Louis Stokes Bridges to the Doctorate (BD) [6], theAlliances for the Inclusion Across the Nation of Communities of Learners of UnderrepresentedDiscoverers in Engineering and Science (INCLUDES) [14], CGS PhD Completion Project [15],Gates Millennium Scholars Program [16], and others. These programs help set students up forsuccess in their careers, complete their graduate degrees, and contribute to the advancement ofknowledge and innovation.Additionally, connecting students to opportunities earlier in the educational pipeline plays a keyrole in the diversification of graduate student populations as well as their
during model development. A few images from the dataset are shown below. Note that theimage size or quality does not bring down the accuracy of a model. A model trained on highquality images will need more computational resources. Figure 3: Examples of images with 'Neutral', ‘Happy’, ‘Sad’, ‘Surprise’ labels respectively. (Retrieved from https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/msambare/fer2013)3.5.1.3 Data PreprocessingThe data was next preprocessed to be prepared for the model that will be used for classificationin this project, MobileNetV2. MobileNetV2 is an efficient convolutional neural networkarchitecture used in various computer vision tasks such as image classification, object detection,and facial
effectiveness of culturallycentered approaches in bridging the gap in STEM participation and contribute to the ongoing dialogue oncreating inclusive and empowering educational environments. Future Work We aim to offer the UACI Summer STEM Camp consistently and continue to evaluate the impactof African-Centered STEM Education (ACSE) on African American learners. We plan to develop andadminister summative assessments for future UACI camp iterations. Examples of summative assessmentsmay include cumulative pre- and post-tests and/or a group project assigned that requires students to applymultiple concepts they learned throughout the camp. The latter would be a real-world problem concerningthe African
turnover,much of the older data was not considered relevant to the current research project. Analysis of the2018 data in the context of this holistic study is ongoing.1.1.3 Gallup Faculty and Staff ExperienceThe Faculty and Staff Experience Survey was developed by Gallup, Inc. in collaboration withMason. It was administered to all employees in 2022 and had a response rate of about 43% (665people) among the faculty population of interest. The survey was intended to measure employeeengagement and well-being, employee experiences and opinions regarding diversity, equity, andinclusion (DEI) at Mason, and flexible/remote work. Each of these variables was assessed viamultiple Likert-scale questions. The set of questions assessing employee engagement is
can follow Dr. Fletcher on Twitter @trinalfletcher and LinkedIn.Dr. Lisa Benson, Clemson University Lisa Benson is a Professor of Engineering and Science Education at Clemson University, and the past editor of the Journal of Engineering Education. Her research focuses on the interactions between student 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
demands (assignment, projects, internships, etc.), and the social pressures of engaging withpeers, and faculty. The microcosm of the college campus can be challenging for students, where some areleaving the familiarity of home and family to join spaces where they can be isolated. Prior researchsuggests that being socially connected can help to alleviate stress (Achat et al., 1998). Research alsoshows that minoritized student populations experience more barriers to persistence in STEM highereducation compared to white students and certain Asian populations due to the added stress of racismfaced by these populations (Harper, 2010; Pawley, 2019). Racial stress can manifest due to phenomenalike isolation, stereotype threat and microaggressions at
in academic environments. Moreover, Roma currently holds managerial roles and leads Extreme Building, Road, and Bridge Construction PLC, contributing to construction projects in the Shashemene district of Ethiopia.Demitu Geda, Bule Hora University Demitu Geda is a graduate of Waliata Sodo University with a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering and holds a Master’s degree in the same field from Bule Hora University. Currently, Demitu is a faculty member, instructing electrical and computer engineering courses at Bule Hora University in Ethiopia. Her research enhances accessibility, quality, and equity in engineering education, ensuring inclusivity for all students irrespective of gender, religion
officers (CEOs) inthe top 100 airlines globally [4]. This phenomenon has its own inherent implications but is of particular concern duringtimes of rapid growth in the aviation industry. In their 2023 report, Boeing projected that overthe next 20 years, 649,000 new pilots, 690,000 new maintenance technicians, and 938,000 newcabin crew members will be needed to meet global demand [13]. Recent industry developmentsinclude new airlines being announced in emerging economies and a proliferation of companiespursuing urban air mobility, among other initiatives. Talent acquisition and management isessential to support these enterprises. In their 2018 reauthorization of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), Congressmandated an advisory
• Writing seminar and support for AENG/MCHE 4911 Capstone Design • Seminar talk: “Why Engineers Must Be Excellent Communicators” for BIOE 8970 Bioengineering SeminarCreation of a UGA-writing-resource websitePartially as a result of the aforementioned writing initiative, UGA has indeed developed ahealthy culture of writing across campus, including a recent Faculty Learning Community (FLC)titled “Creating a Culture of Writing at UGA.” This FLC’s major project was the creation of awebsite called The Write@UGA Guide to Writing Resources (https://write.uga.edu/guide-to-writing-resources/) where writing-focused colleagues from the English, Marine Science,Biological Sciences, Religion, Economics, History, and Philosophy Departments (as well
findings SDT as part of SDT as a factor culture/climate in associated with engineering certain constructs Figure 1: Categorical breakdown of articles for first categorical analysisLimitationsThe scope of this literature review was limited by time, accessibility, and availability of theresearch team. This literature review is part of a larger study, and the literature review is one ofthe first steps in the project. As this had to be completed before next steps could be taken, thetime for the literature search and analyses was limited. The team was also limited by access tojournal databases. We gathered
Paper ID #42068Global Engineering Modules that Teach Currency Exchange and InternationalTradeDr. Hans M Tritico, University of Mount Union Hans is the Global Engineering Coordinator at the University of Mount Union where he also teaches environmental/water resources engineering classes. He is passionate about broadening students’ perspectives through project-based hands on learning techniques.Dr. Chad S. Korach, University of Mount Union Chad Korach is the Director of the School of Engineering and an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Mount Union in Alliance, Ohio
their relationship to the community orclient, as well as on-going research and engineering products.In one of our upper-level engineering classes focusing on societal influences for technical designat a large Midwestern university, students are asked at the start of the semester to describe atwhat point their ability to make design decisions ends. Eighty to 90 percent of engineeringstudents each semester indicate that at the end of project scope, once design has begun, externalconsiderations are no longer incorporated into the technical development process. In other words,students are taught to believe that once they begin the design process, they must follow aprescribed engineering route that leads to a deterministic outcome. This lack of
technical project,” focus on critical-thinking skills, which were also – mentionedin the open-ended responses.Self-reported gaps in student understanding and curriculum coverageIn the final set of questions, students were asked to self-report gaps in their understanding andwhat topics the chemical engineering curriculum overall should do a better job of covering. Inboth questions, students were asked to select their top three from the list of thirteen lab learningoutcomes, and the percentage of respondents that chose each learning outcome was quantified.In terms of self-reported weaknesses (Figure 4), over 40% of students selected “Designprototype” and “Compare to theory” as their greatest weaknesses. “Design experiment” and“Troubleshoot” were also
students having to financially support themselves. Table 7 provides excerpts from students whoexhibited autonomy and their reported family incomes.Table 7. Occurrence of Autonomy and examples from student stories Sub-Code Number of Instances Example Micro-Narrative “But since the move to online I spend weeks without Moved/stayed living my property here. It's quiet but it has given me 3 alone the chance to reflect and work on side projects I've been interested in starting.” [< $25K
engineer?Once the detailed analytic memos were complete, I iteratively condensed them through furtheranalysis to determine the main ideas for each category of analysis as presented in the followingsections. I also compared the memos for each series and each depiction of an engineer to identifyany common themes or counternarratives presented.Researcher PositionalityResearcher positionality impacts all research projects and is a fundamental aspect of the researchtopic, epistemology, ontology, methodology and communication (Secules et al., 2021). As such,I want to make clear my positionality and reflect upon how my positionality motivates thisproject and how I situate myself within the project (Jones et al., 2013). I identify as a whitecisgender
not sustained overtime [11], [12], [13]. Finally, when changes are made, they are often low fidelity - meaning they partiallyimplement the instructional strategies they claim [7]. While these results are important, they merelyreinforce what we know - current change process do not deliver the intended outcomes. However, currentresearch does little to answer why. Is low fidelity an issue of applicability or practicality? Do facultymembers not understand or not have the time to fully implement techniques? What causes changes to besustained, improved, or dropped? Understanding these requires understanding how not if change is made.This paper looks at the experience of one faculty in one course engaged in a common first courseimprovement project
teaching of SEPTs in scientificcomputing. Greg Wilson, who created the initial Software Carpentry project [7], has madenumerous recommendations to adopt of key SEPTs in the scientific computingcommunity [20, 27–29]. Interventions in engineering fields (outside of computing) are rare.The SWEBOK GuideFrom the earliest uses of the term “software engineering”, there have been calls to establish thefield as an engineering profession [30], particularly by the two leading professional societies incomputing, the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and the Computer Society of theInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). Efforts to establish software engineeringas a profession have included a call to compile a standard set of knowledge
is a subset of a project focused on investigating minoritized engineeringundergraduate students at a large, public, land-grant university in the Midwest. Through detailed,hour-long, semi-structured interviews, participants shared their experiences as minoritizedengineering students, especially as their experiences relate to their own mental health. This paperspecifically explores the narratives of two participants, illustrating the contrast in perspectives ofa first-year and fourth-year first-generation student. This paper underscores the importance ofcontinual dialogue with first-generation students, emphasizing that true inclusivity in engineeringeducation extends beyond mere integration; it demands sustained understanding and
lectures, onlinehomework / projects / exams, and students were provided support through weekly virtual officehours. Participation with lectures was a mandatory course element with weekly deadlines foreach set of lectures. For the flipped-style iteration, the course content was again delivered usingthe same pre-recorded virtual lectures (also as a mandatory course element with weeklydeadlines), online homework / projects / exams, but students were able to attend optional face-to-face work periods with the course instructor during the regularly scheduled lecture times.This work will provide a quantitative analysis and comparison of student course performance(e.g. final grade and final cumulative examination grade) across modalities. The aim is