Education Grassroots Approach Abstract The earthquake engineering community has recognized that in seismically active regions throughout the United States, hundreds of thousands of students and staff unknowingly study and work in structurally vulnerable school and university buildings. The School Earthquake Safety Initiative (SESI), spearheaded by the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI), is a collaborative network of diverse, expert, and impassioned professionals who are committed to creating and sharing knowledge and tools that enable broadminded, informed decision making around school earthquake safety. The Classroom Education and Outreach
for the difficulties they mightface professionally and personally in the future. It has also been criticized for insufficient 1 This study is supported by the “Re-development of Cornerstone Curriculum in Civil Engineering for Futures Thinking”, sponsored by the Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan, under Grant no. MOST 104-2511-S-032-003.curricular opportunities to involve students in design, experiences for teamwork andcommunication, and knowledge and awareness of fields outside engineering.4, 11 Among the key elements called for in engineering education reform, threeoverwhelmingly stand out: (a) softening the
women's abilities) aswell as institutional policies and practices. Studies have shown that a chilly climate can have anegative impact on cognitive development and can also influence women’s desire to stay andpersist within a science, technology, engineering, or math (STEM) field. At The Ohio StateUniversity College of Engineering (COE), women are currently 20% of the overallundergraduate student population within the College.Improving women’s retention in engineering fields requires a multifaceted approach. Both directsupport for women, along with the development of allies, are crucial to promoting a long-lasting,positive climate for women studying in this field. Allies for Women Engineers (AWE) at TheOhio State University is a pilot cohort of 11
employees, despite the many overall organizational benefits. Further, the literature indicatesleadership is an important element in the complex stress-employee construct. However, the quantitativedata collection in this study reveals that students in the fields of engineering and management do notconsider increased stress to be a potential outcome of implementing Lean projects. In addition, theanalysis of the survey data identifies opportunities to assist Engineering Managers in effectively dealingwith the negative effects caused by Lean activities.Finally, the results are used to present recommendations for educational and managerial training, soleaders can develop better ability to address the important issue of employee stress in today’s
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boundaries andcultural backgrounds, as well as across disciplines to successfully apply the results of basicresearch to long-standing global challenges such as epidemics, natural disasters and the searchfor alternative energy sources.”2 Clearly, the global preparedness of engineering students isbecoming an important educational outcome and is a natural extension to recent concerns by anumber of national commissions and scholars, who have also noted the impact of globalizationand the implication for continued U.S. economic leadership.3-5Hence, the purpose of our collaboration is to comprehensively study the various ways that wecan better educate globally prepared graduates given an already crowded curriculum.Specifically, we aim to better understand
training that uses an entrepreneur- ship model to teach participants to achieve scalable sustainability in NSF-funded projects. Past projects include evaluation of an NSF-funded project to improve advising for engineering students at a major state university in California. Ms. Schiorring is the author and co-author of numerous papers and served as project lead on a major study of transfer in engineering. Ms. Schiorring holds a Master’s Degree in Public Policy from Harvard University. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Developing Resources to Support Comprehensive Transfer Engineering Curricula: Assessing the Effectiveness of a Hybrid
yielded fivequalitatively different ways undergraduate engineering students experience the transition frompre-college to university engineering: Foreclosure, Frustration, Tedium, Connection, andEngaging Others.Utilizing the results of these interviews, we developed a quantitative instrument to explore therelationship between pre-college engineering participation and students’ transitions into first-year engineering programs at a larger scale. Results of the administration of a pilot versionshowed high overall reliability for the instrument as a whole, as well as high reliability for sets ofitems associated with the different ways of experiencing the transition from pre-college touniversity engineering.The results of this research will help
employing quantitative methods are likely of most interest to practitioners who wouldwant to evaluate the effectiveness of this pedagogical approach before implementation in theclassroom. As a means of identifying future possible frameworks for further investigation on theimpact of peer coaching on female engineering students, this study explores the followingresearch questions: (1) How does student opinion about coaching transform through this class?(2) What new or revised perspectives do students gain, as both coach and coachee? (3) How doescoaching equip engineering women for the transition to the workforce? Findings indicate thatstudents’ initial apprehension about coaching progresses into recognition and experience ofbroad potential impact
Paper ID #15045Assessing The Effectiveness of an Engineering Summer Day CampMs. Alison Haugh, University of St. Thomas Alison Haugh is in the third year of her studies at the University of St. Thomas, Majoring in Elementary Education and STEM Education,while Minoring in Engineering Education. Her undergraduate Playful Learning Lab research is focused on expanding quality engineering education with an eye to under-served populations, including students with disabilities. Alison is the Lead STEPS (Science, Technology and En- gineering Preview program) curriculum constructor, lead trainer and lead on-site researcher
in a student’s decision as to where to attendand what to study. Many other successful programs focus on younger students to intervene incritical decision making times.For this project we paired schools that have been a part of ongoing K-12 outreach programs withadditional schools that have a larger percentage of underrepresented groups in their generalpopulation. In the initial pilot, participating High Schools sent two teachers and six students tothe STEM-Discovery camp. Teachers were urged to select student teams that balance academicdisciplines with roughly half having interests in science/math and the other half in other fields.Teacher workshops were used to guide teachers through the engineering design process, as wellas the content
leadership learning opportunities and experiencesof undergraduate engineering students as a whole. Our study fills this gap by examining how1203 undergraduate engineering students at a large, Canadian, research-intensive university haveused non-formal learning spaces—co-curricular and extra-curricular activities—to hone theirleadership and engineering skills and identities. Our quantitative analysis of survey resultssuggests that explicit leadership programing, student government and industry-basedprofessional development activities were most effective at helping engineering students developtheir leadership skills. When it came to catalyzing their engineering skills development, wefound that internships, design competitions and professional
, University of Maryland, College Park Stephen is an Education PhD student at UMD, researching engineering education. He has a prior academic and professional background in engineering, having worked professionally as an acoustical engineer. He has taught introduction to engineering design in the Keystone Department at the UMD A. James Clark Engineering School. Stephen’s research interests include equity, culture, and the sociocultural dimensions of engineering education.Prof. Shuvra Bhattacharyya, University of Maryland, College Park, and Tampere University of Technology Shuvra S. Bhattacharyya is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Maryland, College Park. He holds a
diversity, and understand their effects in students performance. Isabel received her professional degree in biological engineering at the Pontificia Universidad Cat´olica de Chile and her MA in policy, organizations and leadership studies at Stanford Graduate School of Education. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Redesigning engineering education in Chile: How selective institutions respond to an ambitious national reformIntroductionIn 2012, the Chilean government launched the “Nueva Ingeniería para el 2030” program, whichaims to redesign engineering education, enhance applied research, technology development,innovation and entrepreneurship around engineering campuses.1
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/failures and creative performance metrics. Our results show that while the correlationbetween number of attempts (i.e., failure rate) and creative performance was statisticallysignificant, the relationship was weak. In addition to these and other quantitative results, thisresearch has value for engineering educators as a case study in the evolution, scaling, andtransfer of face-to-face experiential learning tasks to global online learning environments.1. IntroductionThe relationship between creativity and failure appears to be a complex one, with scholarsdebating the positive and negative effects of failure on the quality and the quantity of creativeoutcomes6, 7, 12, 13. Within this context, the concept of Intelligent Fast Failure (IFF