, planning, scheduling, budgeting), critical thinking, self-drive andmotivation, cultural awareness in a broad sense (nationality, ethnicity, linguistic, sexualorientation) and high ethical standards, integrity, and global, social, intellectual andtechnological responsibility [3]. The focus of this paper is on some of those professional skills.Below are some examples of things that many employers look for in new engineering graduates: Leadership examples in school, at home, at work, in outside organizations, etc. Previous relevant work experience, preferably internships, co-ops, and research projects with professors. Can cogently discuss major projects, especially their capstone. Passion / interest in the company and
post-program. Post-program interviews take place 4-6months after the students return to the U.S. and after the student graduates from his or herundergraduate institution.Applicant DataTable 1 shows finalists’ data collected from years 2019, 2020, and 2021. Finalists were selectedafter the initial screening of the applications by a committee of the three U.S. leads and hostfaculty in Korea. The reviewers considered completion of relevant foundational coursework andacademic achievements as evidenced by a cumulative GPA. The committee took into accountthat there may be discrepancies in performance in the classroom and lab for some talentedstudents. Table 1: IRiKA Finalists’ DataCOVID-19 Impact and AdjustmentsDue
Paper ID #35859A practical method for improving Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion inNuclear ScienceMr. Jim Olson, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute After a twenty year Engineering career inventing and operating advanced technology in various private sector and military environments, Jim Olson returned to Academia to formalize and publish the methods and best practices he developed while mentoring and training Early Career individuals in the practical application of STEM concepts. Jim’s research if Engineering Education centric and he is currently pursing a Doctorate of Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy
Paper ID #37497Engagement in Practice: Community service buildsexcitement in designDavid R Mikesell (Professor & Chair) David Mikesell is professor and chair of mechanical engineering at Ohio Northern University. He joined the faculty after graduate work in automotive engineering at Ohio State, six years designing automated assembly machines and metal- cutting tools, and service as an officer in the U.S. Navy. His research interests are in land vehicle dynamics, autonomous vehicles, manufacturing, and robotics. Since 2015 he has served in leadership of the ASEE Mechanical Engineering Division including
bay design with modeling was really helpful and allowed me to look at a different software a little closer.Strategies for PT Content Adoption by Other Educators Through the two course offerings, the instructors/researchers have gathered several best practicestrategies that are recommended for consideration by other educators creating a PT course. Theserecommendations look at course flow, content to teach, and projects to utilize. The highlights provided areinformative to those wanting to make / modify a PT course.Course Flow: Try to teach PT content in the same manner and process that a professional would conduct. This technique captures a sense of practicality while also giving a framework for later adoption
faculty to help them write proposals and navigate the proposal preparation and grant management processes. She was a 2009 NSF CAREER awardee for her work operationalizing social capital for engineering education. More recently, Julie has encouraged the engineering education research community to embrace methodological activism, a paradigm whereby researchers intentionally choose methods for the political purpose of empowering marginalized populations. Learn more about her research team, Elevate, at juliepmartin.com.Deepthi Suresh I am a graduate student in biomedical engineering with a research focus in engineering education. I seek to improve the undergraduate experiences of other biomedical engineering students in ways
timeline to allow for delays and shifts.Related to the flexibility theme, we recommend that researchers prepare alternate interviewquestions and activities to allow for participants to best take part in the study. Additionally, wesuggest building a research timeline with significant buffer space to allow for the many delayswhich can occur in this type of research.Conclusion & Future WorkSignificantly more work is needed to better understand the impact and experiences of allstakeholders and participants in informal STEM learning experiences. A better understanding ofthese experiences will help support the development of a STEM-literate society and futureSTEM professionals, meeting the needs present in national calls. However, this type of
social interaction problems nowadays, as research indicated“the majority of coursework in engineering education today focuses on technical knowledge and skills ofmathematics, science, and engineering as well as new graduates generally feel prepared for the technicalaspects of practice, but many have difficulty transitioning to the socio-technical practices and culture ofthe workplace[28] ”.Additionally, to explore the collaborative inquiry deeply, we conducted a longitudinal study for threeinnovative engineering design works (arc-path prediction, parallel design of robot structure andsymmetrical design for robots) in our research case “Robo”. It can be seen that the three dimensions ofcollaborative inquiry are significantly repeated in different
Paper ID #37847A Strategic Curriculum Design for an IntroductoryEngineering Course to Encourage Self-Empowerment ofMinority StudentsVictor Manuel Garcia (Research Associate) Victor Garcia holds a PhD in Civil Engineering from The University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP). Victor is currently a research civil engineer at the US Army – Engineer Research and Development Center in Vicksburg, MS. He leads research projects sponsored by the US Department of Defense that focus on improving the design and construction practices for military transportation installations. Victor has been also collaborating with UTEP faculty on
these activities were impacted adversely by the pandemic,such as the postponement of this trip from Spring 2021 to Fall 2021, the transition of in-personinstruction to online instruction in late October, and the less than perfect final project’scompletion rate, beyond the normal adaptation of a course in a different country given thefacility and product differences. The different academic calendars in the U.S. and Bulgarianinstitutions also made it impossible in finding a suitable period for the students from bothinstitutions to interact, but we were able to connect the students with other American visitors inBulgaria to get comments on their designs. There were many other challenges, including thecultural influences on design, and
survey, re-formulate the question, propose a solution,an improvement, or an updated approach, design/build/implement the proposed approach, andpresent to others. In this cycle, the search for discovery and innovation materializes.This preliminary work investigates the use of research materials, introduction of practices, andthose performing this kind of work in the classroom, at every level. This study is done at a largeresearch institution where research is pervasive throughout and there are many engineeringtechnology students. Researchers chose the Student Perception of Research IntegrationQuestionnaire (SPRIQ) to assess student perception of research in their learning environment.The first step in assessing the implementation of CR in a
like snorkeling.An alternative option exists for students who do not want to travel with the class to completetheir international engineering field experience. This individual field experience option allowsstudents to craft their own engineering field experience. Requirements for this individualexperience are meant to ensure students have an equivalent experience while attaining thelearning outcomes for the course. Students are required to work or shadow an engineer that isworking in a country outside of the United States for 40 hours. While the nature of theengineering work is up to the student and the host engineer, the student does need to practice oneof the steps in the design process and have interactions with community or project
engineering teamsusing evidence-based practices.A common practice for engineering education practitioners when dealing with teamwork involvesestablishing technical objectives, forming the group, and assessing team performance at different stagesof the semester. However, for some, it remains mysterious what teaching practices work best to fostercollaboration and how that relates to the team performance at the end of the project.To get evidence-based practices, we need to use a theoretical framework such as the Beliefs andBehaviors Model to explore this social process of building mutually shared cognition. After the Scope ofWork (SOW) of the design project is assigned to the teams and the task performance is established,students need to start
experiences of academics investing extra time in developing andsupervising research projects for the Icarus Program. Our results suggest that the time investmentin providing students with a hands-on experience where they could voluntarily engage with realprojects had a positive impact on the faculty development of the faculty members. Theydescribed how participating in the program improved their teaching practices by being able tointeract closely with students and better understand what they thought was important. This alsoled to more engagement from the students in their courses by developing some out-of-the-classroom interactions with their professors. Similarly, this allowed for an opportunity toimprove their mentoring and research practices
school. He described being frustrated with thedepartment’s lack of effort and interest in helping graduate students create meaningfulconnections and felt stressed because of the ensuing social isolation. He was coping with thesechallenges through Acceptance and Active coping. “But it was nice when [undergraduate university] would host like barbecues or whatever. And I think there's less incentive for universities to do that for grad students, 'cause I think a lot of grad students don't care about that stuff. Like I said, a lot of people are very focused on their research, they wanna get that finished and they wanna do the best work that they can do in this limited amount of time. And I think that's totally valid
Paper ID #38336Sketchtivity, an Intelligent Tutoring Software: BroadeningApplications and ImpactMorgan Weaver (Graduate Research Assistant)Hillary Merzdorf Hillary Merzdorf is a Ph.D. candidate at Purdue University in the School of Engineering Education. Her research interests are in flexible assessment practices incorporating both traditional psychometrics and technology-based approaches, digital engineering education tools, and cognitive engineering methods for learning research.Donna Jaison Graduate Student at Texas A&M University.Vimal Kumar Viswanathan (Associate Professor) (San Jose State University)Kerrie
training. We leaned upon the expertise of on-campus resources including the Center forInclusion and Diversity (CCID) [28] and the Center for Teaching, Learning, and Outreach(CTLO) [29] to develop best practices for both the speaker and facilitator sides of the project.Our facilitator search consisted of independent research that we conducted to find speakers at ourinstitution and other schools with relevant expertise, as well as a survey sent to the departmentsoliciting speaker suggestions. The latter effort did not yield many recommendations and most ofthe speakers came from our research. We primarily found speakers based on their published workor lectures we found online, but other approaches included making use of our school’s alumninetwork and
Paper ID #38391Examining Faculty and Graduate Student Attitudes on Stressand Mental HealthDavid Feil-seifer David Feil-Seifer is an Associate Professor in Computer Science at the University of Nevada, Reno. His primary research interests are Socially Assistive Robotics (SAR) and User Interface design for Unmanned Autonomous Systems (UAS-UI). His research is motivated by the potential for SAR to address health-care crises that stem from a lack of qualified care professionals for an ever-growing population in need of personalized care as well as the uses for aerial robots for disaster mitigation. Prior to his
impact andproductivity within their profession. Jensen et al. [14] conducted a bibliometric analysis andfound that scientists who were active in wider dissemination activities (industry partnerships oroutreach presentations) produced more scholarship than those who did not participate in widerdissemination activities. In fact, the most active researchers publish in traditional journals andthen share in at least two of the following ways: communicating via popular media, collaboratingwith industry, or teaching. For these reasons, we set out to determine if researchers generally,and engineers specifically, could find ways to more effectively communicate their researchfindings with the public in several different informal learning
technologies, advanced composites manufacturing techniques, and materials characterization. His current research interests are in heat transfer, pyrometry, structural design, heat treatment, metal forming & fabrication, composites manufacturing, and product design and development. He is a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) as well as the Society for the Advancement of Material and ProcessEngineering (SAMPE) and he holds a position as a Technical Specialist (Materials and Processes Engineering) at a majorGeorgia aerospace airframe manufacturer. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.comLean Practices in Academia; A
student’s chosen undergraduate degree programme. TheIEP emphasizes creativity, communication, choice, interdisciplinarity, teamwork, professionaldevelopment and responsible innovation by learning through projects and the social context ofengineering. A main goal of the IEP at its inception was to position people and the complexchallenges of our world at the center of engineering thinking and practice for students bychanging the way we teach engineering at UCL. The IEP is 8 years old with the first intake ofyear 1 students under the new IEP curriculum in 2014-15 and our first graduating class in 2017.Over 6,000 students have graduated so far.The IEP has several innovative curricular features. An interdisciplinary cornerstone engineeringdesign module
the impact of theproject. This study will help others in planning similar experiences for engineering undergraduatestudents.The purpose of this REU Site was to encourage talented undergraduates to enroll in graduate school byexposing them to research and increasing their interest in graduate research. In this case study, first thebasic approach adopted to plan the REU Site and associated activities are presented in its first section,followed by a detailed description of the projects executed. In the end, evaluation proceduresused, the lessons learned, and the outcomes from the whole experience are summarized. One of thestudents commented on the technical writing skill that he gained from the REU experience and felt thatwas very useful in his
Paper ID #35817Analysis of barriers to graduation for transfer students in AerospaceEngineeringDr. Radha Aravamudhan, San Jose State University Radha Aravamudhan’s research interests include Culturally Responsive Pedagogy, Community cultural wealth and their application to curriculum specifically with respect to undergraduate engineering educa- tion as well as creative Arts-Based Research and Documentary film making. She supports faculty research in the area of undergraduate STEAM teaching and learning with a focus on increasing retention and grad- uation rates of under-represented student populations in engineering.Dr
from minority student population groups [15].Prior researchers have noted the benefits of REU in improving the research competencies ofundergraduate students [4] [12]. However, it has also been suggested that students are sometimesconfused as to whether they should continue in academia or get some experience in the industrybefore deciding about graduate school [16] [17]. To that end, REU sites provide a great platformfor students to understand what graduate school and research look like, opportunities thereafter,and how to prepare for them. The objective of this paper is to evaluate the impact of differentprofessional development activities in a REU program on overall student experiences andoutcomes. More specifically, this paper presents a
ofengineering education bounded by the EL community of practice. A substantial portion of theresearch on EL education is published through ASEE, primarily through the LEAD division.Therefore, this review supports the continued growth of this nascent field and identifies growthopportunities that will accelerate EL development and broaden its impact. Identifying, codifying,and synthesizing the previous research in EL provides crucial foundations for advancement andreduces the likelihood of redundant efforts [2]. Ultimately, this review seeks to answer threedriving research questions: 1) What topics has the EL research published at ASEE conferencesfocused on since 1996? 2) Are there gaps in the EL research published at ASEE conferences thatindicate growth
well as the minor. It also holds a university designation for social science andwriting-intensive credit. In the first half of the course, students define identity (including race,ethnicity, gender, sexuality, class, and ability) and intersectionality, understand forms ofoppression (e.g., racism, white supremacy, sexism, misogyny, misogynoir, transphobia,homophobia, classism, and ableism), examine social justice movements to eradicate theseoppressions, and identify policies that exclude/protect identities (across both society andcomputing environments). In the second half, this knowledge is used to examine how technologyreplicates/amplifies these societal issues, the impact on identities, and tech-related policies.Identity-centered approachThe
practices in academic mentoring: A model for excellence,” Nursing research and practice,vol. 2012, p. 3, 2012.[2] K.D. Kendricks, A.A. Arment, K.V. Nedunuri, & C.A. Lowell, “Aligning Best Practices inStudent Success and Career Preparedness: An Exploratory Study to Establish Pathways to STEMCareers for Undergraduate Minority Students,” Journal of Research in Technical Careers, vol. 3,no. 1, pp. 27-48, 2019.[3] M. Vandermaas-Peeler, P.C. Miller, & J.L. Moore, J. L., Excellence in mentoringundergraduate research, Washington D.C.: Council on Undergraduate Research, 2018.[4] L. Varghese, & L. Finkelstein, “An investigation of self‐efficacy crossover between mentorsand protégés within mentoring dyads,” Annals of the New York Academy of
competencies of future students tomatch SM needs [6]. Governments of countries such as South Korea, Taiwan, and Singapore, all keyplayers in the Asian manufacturing market, are also pursuing SM technologies and researchers arecurrently developing maturity models for SM adoption. As evident from these initiatives, the need for SM learning infrastructure requires engineeringcolleges and technical schools to develop new curriculum to better prepare graduates for this new SMenvironment to support the reconfiguring factories and supply chains [8]. There is a clear need to focuson developing a SM curriculum specifically focused on skill sets and competencies needed for effectiveSM technology adoption and implementation to address current knowledge gaps
Paper ID #35538Developing a Strategy to Include Financially Disadvantaged UndergraduateStudents into Graduate Engineering ProgramsDr. Sanjivan Manoharan, Grand Valley State University Sanjivan Manoharan is an Assistant Professor in the School of Engineering at Grand Valley State Univer- sity. His research areas include engineering education, nucleate pool boiling, aerodynamics, and turbo- machinery.Dr. Shabbir Choudhuri, Grand Valley State University Dr. Choudhuri worked as a Senior Research Engineer at Technical Service Division of Caterpillar Inc. for two years. He developed Virtual Manufacturing (VM) strategy and tools
Chair of ASEE's CDEI during the Year of Impact on Racial EquityHomero Murzi (Assistant Professor) Dr. Homero Murzi (he/él/his) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech with honorary appointments at the University of Queensland (Australia) and University of Los Andes (Venezuela). Homero is the leader of the Engineering Competencies, Learning, and Inclusive Practices for Success (ECLIPS) Lab where he leads a team focused on doing research on contemporary, culturally relevant, and inclusive pedagogical practices, emotions in engineering, competency development, and understanding the experiences of traditionally marginalized people (e.g., Latinx, international students