Nevada, Reno. He graduated with his Masters in 2019 from the University of Nevada, Reno, and plans to pursue a career in academia in the future. His research interests are in graduate student attrition rates within academia, engineering identity development, and factors that influence decision making on persistence.Dr. Adam Kirn, University of Nevada, Reno Adam Kirn is an Associate Professor of Engineering Education at the University of Nevada, Reno. His research focuses on the interactions between engineering cultures, student motivation, and learning ex- periences. His projects involve the study of student perceptions, beliefs and attitudes towards becoming engineers, their problem-solving processes, and cultural
the field, gaining a betterunderstanding of the mentoring experience from their perspectives can provide vital informationregarding how volunteerism contributes to the new cultural norms of engineering.Project OverviewThis paper is situated in a larger project that aims to understand the impacts of broadening participationvolunteerism at the pre-college, undergraduate, and graduate levels on those doing the volunteering. Thepurpose of this work-in-progress is to explore the impacts of broadening participation volunteerism onstudents from underserved communities at the undergraduate level. We utilized Volunteer FunctionInventory (VFI) (Clary et al., 1995) as a theoretical framework to understand the aims, benefits, andconsequences of
instructional support programs for faculty, providing evaluation support for educational proposals and projects, and working with faculty to publish educational research. Her research interests primarily involve creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship education. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Leveraging Inquiry-Based Simulated Laboratory Exercises in a Virtual Classroom EnvironmentTrack Selection: Experimentation and Laboratory-Oriented Studies DivisionAbstractWe report on the implementation and impact of virtual laboratory modules in a specializedengineering course titled ‘Nondestructive Evaluation of Flaws’ offered virtually in
Paper ID #32635Work in Progress: STEM Students’ Experiences with Educational Technol-ogyToolsMr. Ahmed Ashraf Butt, Purdue University at West Lafayette Ahmed Ashraf Butt is a doctoral student at the School of Engineering Education, Purdue University. He is currently working as a research assistant on the CourseMIRROR project funded by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES). He is interested in designing educational tools and exploring their impact on enhancing students’ learning experiences. Before Purdue University, Ahmed has worked as a lecturer for two years at the University of Lahore, Pakistan. Additionally, he
their overall success as aresearcher. We also created multiple opportunities for the students to develop relationships withtheir peers and build community through a myriad of social events. Social activities weredesigned to take place during off hours and on weekends to avoid conflicting with studentresearch.MethodsThe mentors identified research project ideas for the participants prior to them arriving oncampus. Students participated in professional development opportunities that were eitherintegrated into their research immersion or separate activities. The students participated in theseactivities multiple times per week including workshops to inform them about how to besuccessful in the application process and graduate school, ethics, and
discussions among international engineeringdirectors, peer institutions expressed interest in a network of Global Engineering Fellows. Aninternational network of Fellows could establish a replicable program framework, standards, anddesirable outcomes at universities across the globe. Such a network could lead the way inleveraging globally minded engineering students throughout the world towards a commonpurpose, uniting students who are equipped with the capabilities to lead and inspire the world.An international network would oversee: • Standards for organization, such as an ethos, course curriculum, participant prerequisites, program requirements, assessment, and partner responsibilities. • Coordination of an annual project to promote
currently an associate professor in the Department of Computer InformationTechnology and Graphics at the Purdue University Northwest. He has 6 years of college teachingand research experience in computer networks and network security with 12 plus publications,taught computer networks, network security, network design & administration courses at bothundergraduate/graduate levels, mentored over 60 students through funded research projects,GenCyber and K-12 summer camps.Justin HeffronMr. Justin Heffron is currently a graduate student in the Department of Computer InformationTechnology and Graphics at the Purdue University Northwest. He received B.S. degree inComputer Graphics Technology from Purdue University Northwest.Jonathan WhiteMr. Jonathan
involved in several grants at CSULA increasing student articulation.Dr. Zanj Kano Avery ElDr. Gustavo B Menezes, California State University, Los Angeles Menezes is an Associate Professor in Civil Engineering Department at CalStateLA. Since becoming part of the faculty in 2009, Menezes has focused on improving student success and has participated in sev- eral teaching workshops, including one on ”Excellence in Civil Engineering Education” and another in ”Enhancing Student Success through a Model Introduction to Engineering Course.” He is currently the PI of TUES project to revamp the sophomore-year experience at the college of engineering (esuc- ceed.calstatela.edu) and the PI/Director of the First-Year Experience (FYrE
include pedagogy, CubeSat, etc.Prof. Tak Cheung, CUNY Queensborough Community College Tak Cheung, Ph.D., professor of physics, teaches in CUNY Queensborough Community College. He also conducts research and mentors student research projects. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 An experiential learning strategy in introductory mechanics using transferrable knowledge from daily examples and feedback inquiry in the development of an innovative mindset Sunil Dehipawala, Vazgen Shekoyan, George Tremberger, Raul Armendariz, David Lieberman and Tak Cheung CUNY Queensborough Community College Bayside NY 11364
with limited features for students per course. Available educators. $100/year is now offered Annually renewable.8 for member or through the Microsoft $40/year for non- Imagine program.7 member students. Annually renewable.6In addition to the three major commercial public cloud vendors (AWS, Azure and GCP), there aremany other public cloud providers/projects. For example, GENI (http://www.geni.net) provides avirtual lab infrastructure for networking and distributed systems research and education. Somehands-on computing and networking exercises are available on GENI for classroom use. Cloudlab(https
in the telecommunications industry included positions in software and systems engineering and technical project management. Tanya taught mathe- matics at the Denver School of Science and Technology, the highest performing high school in Denver Public Schools. She is currently a PhD student in the School of Education at the University of Colorado Boulder studying Learning Science and Human Development.Jenna Marie Seymour Greenwood, University of Colorado, Boulder c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 BROKEN PROMISES: RESOLVING FINANCIAL AID DILEMMAS THAT FURTHER MARGINALIZE STUDENTS IN NEEDAbstractMany engineering colleges around the country have made significant
would definitely just try to avoid the student because I just don’t wanna cause tension in between my fellow engineering classmate and…if it’s like a faculty member…I think I would just avoid them, too. – Michael, gay manWhen required to interact with others during group engineering projects, Alan describes not disclosingand trying to work alone as much as possible: You start to focus less on working with others and more doing your own thing just because you don’t really want to have to deal with [disclosing], so eventually you just end up deciding, “Well, if this is gonna start causing problems then I might as well just do it on my own,” and…I’ll just not disclose it if I have a group thing just
. This year, each of theregional competitions (San Diego, Los Angeles, Fresno, Sacramento, and Bay Area) will alsocontain a CCIC challenge in preparation of the state-wide CCIC championships. Because of thisunique opportunity of integrating the CCIC challenges into regional competitions we areconfident that our assessment tools and tools for broadening participation in cybersecuritycompetitions will be adopted. Additionally, working with the regionals, the authors believe thatthey will have unique access to a large number of competitors to track their persistence incybersecurity post-secondary school.Ties to previous efforts and researchThis project builds directly on existing research and scholarship of our team. Our previous workhas shown that
thescope of the engineering problems addressed. In our senior design classes, students are workingon the same problem across the two semester sequence. In ECE490, problems are defined ascase studies and can take anywhere from 30 minutes to two weeks. Giving students a largernumber of smaller projects allows us to provide them with unique experiences in our curriculum. Week Topic 1 Introduction to Engineering Design and Engineering Notebooks 2 Engineering Design Process 3 Identifying Problems and Needs 4 Identifying Requirements and Constraints 5 Specifying Requirements and Constraints 6 Brainstorming 7 Brainstorming 8 Preparation for Class Field Trip 9 Class Trip 10 Selecting an Approach
engineering education 30. The EuropeanCommission 6 report states that entrepreneurship competency development does not necessarilyinvolve a specific school subject, instead it requires a way of teaching (that can be adopted byall the subjects) in which experiential learning and project work have a main role . Further, thereport adds that the development efforts have to inspire students to develop an enterprisingattitude and require school environment where creativity and risk-taking are encouraged, andmistakes are valued as a learning opportunity 6.Research DesignMost of the studies on entrepreneurship relate to developed and not developing or emergingeconomies 31, 32. It has become important to study the emerging economies as they are growingrapidly
Solving. In STEPS courses students integrate what they are learning inscience, mathematics and communications, couple it with teamwork and project managementtools and build a working prototype of a useful machine. The requirement to start the STEPScourses is that they should complete the first course of Physics and two levels of communicationclass. After successful completion of the courses in Arts & Sciences, students enter one of the sixengineering departments to do upper level courses and pursue a specialized engineering degreeprogram.The Institute strives to develop students as whole persons and as the future leaders in theirrespective fields of expertise in the UAE and globally. ADNOC the sponsor company of ThePetroleum Institute has
developed.My thoughts about modifying the morally deep approach to design occurred concurrently with aservice project at the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota.5 It was during this period that Ilearned a great deal about the Lakota people and found inspiration in their wisdom tradition.From my perspective, the prayer (Four Directions) and visual metaphor ( Medicine Wheel) theLakota use in explaining life offer one approach to enriching the morally deep world designparadigm in the ways in which I was seeking.Pine Ridge Reservation, and the Wisdom of the Lakota Medicine WheelThe Pine Ridge Indian Reservation) is an Oglala Lakota Native American reservation located inthe U.S. state of South Dakota. Originally included within the territory of the
, "The Fisk-Vanderbilt Master’s-to-Ph.D. Bridge Program: Recognizing, enlisting, and cultivating unrealized or unrecognized potential in underrepresented minority students," American Journal of Physics, vol. 79, no. 4, pp. 374-379, 2011/04/01 2011.[4] R. Sowell, T. Zhang, B. N, and R. K, "PhD. Completion and Attrition: Analysis of Baseline Demographic Data from the Ph.D. Completion Project," Council of Graduate Schools2008.[5] (1/31/2019). National Science Foundation, National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics, Survey of Earned Doctorates. Available: https://www.nsf.gov/statistics/srvydoctorates/#tabs-1&sd[6] (1/31/2019). US News and World Reports 2019 Best Graduate School Rankings in
, male workforce that ignores systems of oppression.Our Proposed Use and Future WorkWithin the neighborhood context, we will attempt to use structural equation modeling to modelthe factors we have described prior into early measurement frameworks through: (1) the deliberatecreation of intersectional comparison groups, and (2) the weighting of variables based on genderedand racialized differences presented in various peer-reviewed literature and government reports.To create intersectional groups, we will follow the procedures outlined by Bahnson et al. [33] tocreate separate race-gender groups that go beyond controlling for race and gender (i.e. “Black-Women”, “Hispanic-Men, “White-Women”, etc). Within outside grant projects, we will thenassign
levels of engagement.Objectives of the StudyThe purpose of this work-in-progress is to report a project that used the Chi and Wylie’s [7]Interactive, Constructive, Active, and Passive (ICAP) framework to survey the degree to whichLow-Cost Desktop Learning Modules (LC-DLMs) helped foster different forms of cognitiveengagement as students learned about a venturi meter in a fluid mechanics and heat transfercourse.MethodParticipantsThe participants for this study were 67 undergraduate students of chemical engineering at a largepublic university in the Pacific Northwest of the United States. Students were enrolled in juniorlevel Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer course, the only fluid mechanics course that chemicalengineering students in the
. In the second study, Reid et al., [4] focus on the course content in first yearengineering programs and found that objectives of engineering courses can be grouped into majorcategories (e.g., engineering skills, professional skills, orientation to the program from theviewpoint of the university, orientation to the engineering profession). These studies are criticalefforts that begin to tease out the differences in first-year engineering programs and courses, butthey do not provide insight into the direct experiential impact on students.This Work in Progress paper will give an overview of our interview procedures, recruitmentmethods, and selected participant. The larger project examines first-year engineering differences inthe context of the
expected [10] for most situations. Rationalistic responseswere even found to questions that were supposed to elicit emotive responses. For example, afterbeing asked “In arriving at your decision, did you take into consideration the feelings orperspectives of anyone else? If so, how did this affect your decision making?”, Subject 155responded: “I took into consideration the kids who I guess ... who, who are LGBTQ+ or who have people in their lives who are close to them who are...then I looked at the perspective or I guess the, the benefits and downfalls of the class as a whole…”The emotive response was observed less often (39 out of 132 coded phrases or 30%), usually inone of two ways; first, subjects would project their own
perceptionsof doing engineering work, regardless of occupational title. We also believe that a sequentialregression model will show that engineering belief measures predict a significant proportion ofvariance in perceptions of having jobs “related to” engineering, over and above SCCT variables.AcknowledgementsThe authors would like to thank the Purdue University Davidson School of Engineering, whosePipeline Center funded this project. This work was also supported by the NSF (DGE-1333468).Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are thoseof the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.References[1] E. Cech, “The Self-Expressive Edge of Occupational Sex Segregation
attention to howidentities, especially those of the underrepresented, are affected by the changes made. What welearn will lead to a clearer understanding of the changes that promote engineering identities, andhow such identities affect students’ belonging in the program and persistence in the major.AcknowledgementsThis project was funded by the NSF IUSE/PFE: RED grant #1730354.References[1] K. Deaux, “Reconstructing social identity,” Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, vol.19(1), pp. 4-12, 1993.[2] S. Stryker, and P. J. Burke, “The Past, Present, and Future of an Identity Theory,” SocialPsychological Quarterly, vol. 63(4), pp. 284-297, 2000.[3] E. H. Erikson, Identity and the life cycle. New York: International Universities Press, 1959.[4
over the fiveyear duration of the project. Eligible applicants are evaluated based on financial need, academictalent, and interest in the field. ASPIRE Fellows receive a $2,500 per semester award for up toeight semesters. The Fellows’ progress is monitored from both an academic standpoint (i.e.,GPA) and a personal development standpoint (i.e., relationship with mentors). The ASPIREprogram success is determined by retention and graduation rates, combined with surveys thatcollect information about ASPIRE students’ external employment and perceptions of theprogram.This paper presents details of the ASPIRE program including descriptions of the recruitment andselection process, mentoring program, networking events, and academic design
and 25 EnvironmentalEngineering Majors in DoWRM. USE4WRM plans to recruit students through scholarships andincrease enrollment by 32% in ENE and 40% in WRM during the grant period. This will directlyincrease the enrollments in ENE and WRM to 33 and 21 at the end of the project period.USE4WRM will also attempt to maintain an even distribution of 7 male and 7 female studentsthrough the grant. This will increase the number of female students to 20 and that of malestudents to 34, and raise the male to female student ratio from 1:2 to 1:1.7. We will also raiseminimum qualifications for a USE4WRM scholar. The minimum GPA requirement will be 3.0and/or the minimum ACT requirement for the freshmen of 22. Table 1 provides a summary ofthe proposed
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engineering drawing, improve their threedimensional (3D) visualization skills, and to teach the fundamentals of a computer aided design.The students meet with the instructor twice a week in the laboratory during this three-credit-hoursemester-long course with each class lasting two hours long. Each class is scheduled to deliverthe lecture first after which the students are allowed to complete their assigned homework andask questions as needed. The students learn the principles of orthographic projections and applythe principles to multiple view drawings by hand during the first four weeks of a fourteen-weeksemester. A 3D computer aided parametric modeling tool, CATIA, is then introduced after handdrawing, followed by auxiliary and section views
the schoolprovides the environment with a desirable behavior for the system. We call the academic controlobjective the "Operator."This paper focuses on the agent system by building a simple dashboard tool that will collect students'information about their progress through the curriculum in a program and will generate advisingrecommendations. The agent logic employs principles used in project management tools designed tohelp the students complete their degree plan sooner. For example, it would provide a visualizationmap of course sequences, customized for each student, making advising adjustments that willoptimize the time to obtain the degree under a constrained set of resources. At the same time, theagent system provides feedback to the
; Besterfield-Sacre [14] employed model-eliciting activities as assessments ofundergraduate engineering students’ problem-solving capabilities. Despite these studies, it isstill difficult for educators to implement authentic summative assessments for first-year studentsin design classrooms. Thus, many educators employ more authentic tasks for formativeassessments and projects, but not for summative assessment.While assessing students’ engineering design process, first year engineering students are alsodeveloping the affective and regulatory competencies required for engineering success, such asself-efficacy in design, in math, and in engineering overall. Self-efficacy is skill-specificconfidence in one’s ability to succeed in spite of difficulty [15