STEM, and the development of novel instructional equipment and curricula for enhancing academic suc- cess in science and engineering.Ms. Jenny Ngoc Le, Skyline College Jenny Le serves as a Retention Specialist at Skyline College in San Bruno, California. She received her B.A. in Public Health at UC Berkeley, and her Master’s in Social Work at San Jose State University. In the past five years, she has specialized in coordinating learning communities and mentorship programs, where adolescents and college students can thrive. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 A Cohort-Based Program to Strengthen Retention of Underrepresented Community College
charter school in Salt Lake City. In her role as STEM Director Kate developed the schools programs in Computer Science, Robotics and Design Thinking.Dr. Adam Lenz, Oregon State University c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Developing a Measure of Engineering Students’ Makerspace Learning, Perceptions, and InteractionsAbstractMakerspaces have become a rather common structure within engineering education programs. Thespaces are used in a wide range of configurations but are typically intended to facilitate studentcollaboration, communication, creativity, and critical thinking, essentially giving students the opportunityto learn 21st century skills and develop
status,” Journal of Science Education and Technology, vol. 18, pp. 163-172, 2009.[3] C. Adelman. Women and Men of the Engineering Path: A Model for Analyses of Undergraduate Careers. Washington, DC: US Government Printing Office, 1998.[4] S. Bhatia and J. P. Amati, “’If these women can do it, I can do it, too’: Building women engineering leaders through graduate peer mentoring,” Leadership and Management in Engineering, vol. 4, pp. 174-184, 2010.[5] C. Poor and S. Brown, “Increasing retention of women in engineering at WSU: A model for a women's mentoring program,” College Student Journal, vol. 3, 421-428, 2013.[6] B. Sattler, A. Carberry, and L. D. Thomas, “Peer mentoring: Linking the value of a
Paper ID #23677A Study of the Attitudes and Practices of K-12 Classroom Teachers who Par-ticipated in Engineering Summer Camps (Evaluation)Dr. Amber L. M. Kendall, North Carolina State University Amber Kendall is the Coordinator of STEM Partnership Development at The Engineering Place at North Carolina State University. She recently received her PhD from Tufts University, where she worked as a graduate research assistant with the Center for Engineering Education and Outreach. She graduated from North Carolina State University as a Park Scholar with a BA in Physics, and spent several years teaching physics to high-school
, University of Texas at San Antonio Diana Dimitriu is a senior at the University of Texas at San Antonio, UTSA. She will be graduating with two bachelors’ in both Computer and Electrical Engineering and a minor in Mathematics in the Fall of 2018. She has mentored students through the Early Development of General Engineering, EDGE, Program at San Antonio College, the Roadrunner Transition Experience, RTE, at UTSA, and the Toyota Ambassadors program at UTSA. She is a Lead Mentor at RTE and is responsible for 60+ mentees and all the data on the back end, i.e. a datasheet that keeps track of over 600 students involved in the program. She also manages the YouTube channel for RTE. In addition to school and work, she is a College
Madrid-Banco de Santander (Spain) (2012). c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018Professional Development for High School Guidance Counselors to Facilitate Precollege STEM Preparation (RTP)AbstractResearch has shown that successful post-secondary study in engineering often depends upon pre-college coursetaking in advanced mathematics and physics. Many high school students rely uponthe guidance of their school counselors to select appropriate coursework to prepare them for theirintended careers. School counselors are uniquely positioned to provide a realistic alignment ofaspirations and prerequisite courses needed to succeed in a particular field. However, schoolcounseling for science
Paper ID #22582Using Design Challenges to Develop Empathy in First-year CoursesJordan Orion James, University of New Mexico Jordan O. James is a Native American Ph.D. learning sciences student and lecturer at the University of New Mexico’s School of Architecture and Planning in the Community & Regional Planning program. He has served as a graduate research assistant on an NSF-funded project, Revolutionizing Engineering De- partments, and has been recognized as a Graduate Studies student spotlight recipient and teaching scholar. Jordan studies learning in authentic, real-world conditions utilizing Design Based Research
Paper ID #21733Translating Theory on Color-blind Racism to an Engineering Education Con-text: Illustrations from the Field of Engineering EducationDr. 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. Prof. Pawley’s goal through her work at Purdue is to help people, including the engineering education profession, develop a vision of engineering education as more inclusive, engaged
professional faculty in 2016. In this role, she provides engineering communications instruction to students as they progress through the senior capstone project and develop relationships with project stakeholders in industry. She also supports transformative engineering program develop- ment, research, and implementation. In addition to her Ph. D. research interests in adult learning theory, post-colonialist critical consciousness, program design, and qualitative research, she is also collaborat- ing on research in the areas of communications-related success factors of recent engineering graduates in industry and effective tools for instructors of integrated engineering and communications courses. Donald Heer: Donald Heer
include develop- mental psychology; sociocultural theories of communication, learning, and identity; qualitative methods; and discourse analysis.Dr. Beth A. Myers, University of Colorado Boulder Beth A. Myers is the Director of Analytics, Assessment and Accreditation at the University of Colorado Boulder. She holds a BA in biochemistry, ME in engineering management and PhD in civil engineering. Her interests are in quantitative and qualitative research and data analysis as related to equity in education. She has been involved in the new pilot Engineering Math course at CU-Boulder since the start.Dr. Jacquelyn F. Sullivan, University of Colorado, Boulder Jacquelyn Sullivan is founding co-director of the Engineering Plus
high attrition rates in engineering was due to freshmen students’inability to connect their college coursework to their engineering career.44 To address this,cornerstone design courses have been introduced to present an introductory-type design course toshow students how engineering allows you to go from designing a system to building one.The impact of cornerstone design courses has reached beyond education, as industry partnerswanted a stake of what students were learning. Industry yearned for students to gain skills inproblem solving, critical thinking, and communication within a team format at an earlier stage intheir education.45Cornerstone and capstone design courses are opportunities for students to develop teamwork skillsand improve
2017, the course was instructed by twodoctoral graduate student instructors, and supported by undergraduate teaching assistants and asenior teaching fellow. Students have daily homework assignments, computer lab work, exams,and an engineering-related group project and final presentation. Upper-level engineeringstudents, hired as tutors, assist students each week night to provide guidance and support onhomework assignments and projects. In addition to the academic components of the FYSE program, the program seeks tocultivate community and a network of support among each FYSE cohort (see Appendix B forsample schedule). Team building is strengthened through various team-building activities, suchas a group outdoor challenge-by-choice course
Learning (PAL) programs and provides support to the General Engi- neering Learning Community. She is also co-developer of Entangled Learning, a model of rigorously- documented, self-directed learning in communities of practice. She has an M.A. in Music from The Pennsylvania State University and an M.L.S. from Indiana University. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Supporting Student Learning Through Peer-Led Course Support InitiativesAbstractThis evidence-based practice paper outlines the three course support initiatives in place atClemson University to support student learning. In recognizing variation in student needs andlearning preferences, our
the project, and concluded that it would be good to try in the long term. Hethanked Will for the idea, saying “good question.” Thus an undergraduate proposed a novel wayto address an engineering problem. He derived this suggestion from his broad education inengineering and his hobby of reading about innovative technologies. In Wylie’s observations,undergraduates tend to excel at this open-mindedness and ability to make novel connections. Inaddition, the PI took Will’s suggestion seriously because Will understood the lab’s specificproblem and matched his suggestion to it. Graduate students and PIs of course are also capableof open-minded, interdisciplinary thinking, but undergraduates’ current experience of wide-ranging coursework and their
courses. For the past decade, Dr. Zurn-Birkhimer’s research has focused on broadening participation of women and underrepresented group in STEM fields. Recently, she has been investigating the intersec- tion of education and career path with cultural identity and is developing strategies to inform programming and policies that facilitate recruitment and retention of underrepresented populations in academia. In 2012 Dr. Zurn-Birkhimer was presented with an Outstanding Alumni Award from the Department of Earth, At- mospheric, and Planetary Sciences at Purdue University. She also serves on their Alumni Advisory Board. Dr. Zurn-Birkhimer earned her B.S. in Mathematics from the University of Minnesota, and an M.S. and Ph.D
underrepresented group. In addition to scholarshipsupport, CLEAR Scholars are provided with an intentional set of activities that promotes studentretention, achievement, and persistence to graduation through: (a) Community-building througha cohort model; (b) Leadership and career development; (c) Engagement with industry; (d)Advising through mentoring; and (e) Resources for academic success (hence the acronymCLEAR). The ultimate goal of this project is to produce engineering graduates with lowerstudent loan indebtedness and greater preparation for post-degree roles.Entering the ProgramStudents apply for the CLEAR Scholars program as rising sophomores. To qualify, they must beengineering majors with a GPA of at least 2.7 earned in freshman math, science
]; n.d.a.).One way to accomplish this initiative is to model educational practices after the innovativeresearch and development processes characteristic of engineering businesses. According to [1],innovators within the engineering business model tend to be risk-averse, spending time andmoney on those innovations designed to address well-defined, specific needs. By contrast,engineering educators have traditionally focused upon knowledge creation and technologicalexploration, with less regard for market needs, associated cost, regulatory hurdles, etc. Ifengineering and computer science programs align with the innovators’ order, then studentswould first identify a social and/or industry need and then through coursework, obtain theknowledge and design
students to choose engineering and stay in engineering through their careers and how different experiences within the practice and culture of engineering foster or hinder belongingness and identity development. Dr. Godwin graduated from Clemson University with a B.S. in Chemical Engineering and Ph.D. in Engineering and Science Education. Her research earned her a National Science Foundation CAREER Award focused on characterizing latent diversity, which includes diverse attitudes, mindsets, and approaches to learning, to understand engineering students’ identity devel- opment. She is the recipient of a 2014 American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Educational Research and Methods Division Apprentice Faculty
education and his M.S. in electrical and computer engineering, both from Purdue University. He received his bachelor’s in computer engineering at Harding University.Mr. Kanembe Shanachilubwa, Harding University I am an undergraduate mechanical engineering major anticipating graduation in May of 2019. I am a member of the Beyond Professional Identity research group based in Harding University located in Searcy, Arkansas. I plan to further my studies in engineering education in graduate school particularly in regards to equipping students to work in development and sustainability.Dr. Stephen Secules, Purdue University-Main Campus, West Lafayette (College of Engineering) Stephen received a PhD in education at the University of
the Brian Lamb School of Communication and the School of Engineering Education (courtesy) at Purdue University. Editor of three books and author of over 150 articles and chapters, her research centers on the intersections of career, gender communication, lead- ership, and resilience. Fellow and past president of the International Communication Association, she has received numerous awards for her research, teaching/mentoring, and engagement. She is working on Purdue-ADVANCE initiatives for institutional change, the Transforming Lives Building Global Commu- nities (TLBGC) team in Ghana through EPICS, and individual engineering ethical development and team ethical climate scales as well as everyday negotiations of
, 66]. Whilestudents may hold and develop many identities (e.g., as college students, young adults,engineering students, athletes, etc.), this double-sided characterization draws attention to the rolethe institution might play in the professional formation of engineers. For instance, a departmentcan identify students as engineering majors, and the students themselves identify as futureengineers more strongly once admitted [67]. But when considering what it means to be aprofessional engineer and do the work of engineering, unless students have other sources of first-hand knowledge (e.g., through a parent who is an engineer, or through an internship), they mustrely on their engineering coursework to show them the way. Students seldom connect
establishment of an EELAC, training of faculty champions, anddevelopment of a structure to design and review experiential coursework offers a frameworkthrough which faculty can mentor other faculty in the development of experiential learningcompetencies and evaluate experiential course curriculum. As a work-in-progress (WIP) paper,the purpose of this paper was to present a theoretical foundation supporting the value ofexperiential education in higher education, discuss how ExEL was launched at our university,and describe how faculty worked together to deliver courses in an active and experiential wayspecific to engineering education course design.The formative evaluation process is not complete. Only preliminary feedback through studentand faculty
management committee developed a sense of autonomy and commitment to Icarus,with the goal of growing it sustainably over time with the support of the School of Civil Engineering. The Chairof the student management committee is now a full member of the Industry Advisory Board by petition of theexternal members of the Board. Furthermore, from a community building perspective, it is important tohighlight that most students enrolled in the program to try it for one semester and the majority has decided not toleave, some of them have expressed that will continue engaging with Icarus projects until the time theygraduate, because of the value they find in the program for their identity development as engineers.4. Methods In order to address the
hold paramount the safety, health, and welfareof the identified integral community” (emphasis ours) [24]. Though this canon only addresses theprofessional dimensions of engineering ethics, attention to ethics that emphasize the health andwelfare of others—and the social good more generally—in the personal and social spherespromises to be a fruitful approach to integrating the microethics of the day-to-day with themacroethics associated with institutions and broad social systems [25].Attending to Educational Culture and Not Just Student KnowledgeFinally, we find that if engineering educators desire to change how students develop and practiceethics, attention must be given not only to students’ demonstrated ethical knowledge, but also tothe
development of spatial reasoning abilities for engineering students. Bell has worked at Michigan State University since 1995. His work focused on the development of K-12 teacher abilities to use technology for teaching and learning. His recent research has focused on distance learning and collaboration through telepresence. One key aspect of this work is the study of embodied content for learning and collaboration. Embodied content includes collaborative textual environments as well as augmented/mixed reality. Other research includes idea-centered teaching and learning.Cui Cheng, Michigan State University Cui Cheng is a doctoral candidate in the Educational Psychology and Educational Technology program at Michigan
and has resulted in many publications (see https://sites.google.com/view/chenderson). He is a Fulbright Scholar and a Fellow of the American Physical Society. Dr. Henderson is the senior editor for the journal ”Physical Review Physics Education Research” and has served on two National Academy of Sciences Committees: Under- graduate Physics Education Research and Implementation, and Developing Indicators for Undergraduate STEM Education. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018A systematic literature review on improving success of UG woman engineering students in the USIntroduction Over the past three decades, women in the Unites States
in engineering, and applying their ownwriting and communication skills.Keywords—writing; writing studio; writing centerIntroductionThe call for engineering students to develop skills as writers and communicators has becomecommonplace. Engineering programs hear from their advisory boards and professionalorganizations of the importance of improving the written communication of their graduates[1], [2]. Educating students to become engineering writers, however, cannot happen in anyone course. Given the complexities of disciplinary writing and the number of audiences astudent will be communicating with once they enter the profession, a single course in writingis not adequate for students to develop as writers. Instead, research in writing studies
that a crucial factor in students’ learning and development ofengineering identity is how they are socialized into a research community. Our study (funded byNSF EEC RFE 1606868) draws on theories from the fields of education and science andtechnology studies, such as expertise [7], identity formation [8], and situated learning [9]. To investigate learning in labs, we collected qualitative data about students’ everydayinteractions with communities of graduate students, postdocs, and PIs. We conducted participantobservation in two engineering laboratories in a medium-sized public university for the academicyear of 2016-2017, which included attending meetings and shadowing undergraduates during labwork. The labs are about the same size and
Paper ID #21437Cluster Analysis Methods and Future Time Perspective Groups of Second-Year Engineering Students in a Major-Required CourseDr. Justine Chasmar, Goucher College Justine Chasmar is an Assistant Professor in the Center for Data, Mathematical, and Computational Sci- ences and the Director of the Quantitative Reasoning Center at Goucher College. Her research focuses on tutoring, student learning, motivation, and professional identity development. Through her background in learning centers, she has applied this research to undergraduate students and peer tutors. Her education includes a B.S. and M.S. in Mathematical
currently teaches in Humanitarian Engineering at CSM. Greg earned his bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering with a minor in Global Poverty and Practice from UC Berkeley where he acquired a passion for using engineering to facilitate developing communities’ capacity for success. He earned his master’s degree in Structural Engineering and Risk Analysis from Stanford University. His PhD work at CU Boulder focused on how student’s connections of social responsibility and engineering change throughout college as well as how engineering service is valued in employment and supported in the workplace. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Environmental Considerations in Engineering