) explores her experience as an internationalstudent from India teaching in the United States, while Anyerson (Second Author) examines histeaching experience in his home country of Colombia. Our review of the literature on theexperiences of international graduate students found that prior work has primarily focused onunderstanding their sense of belonging and acclimation to higher education settings in the UnitedStates. And yet, their teaching motivation and identity as international graduate students havebeen underexplored. Expanding on existing work that examines intrinsic factors of motivation(autonomy, competence, and relatedness) for graduate teaching assistants in engineering, weanalyzed written reflections and discussions about our personal
Paper ID #32258Minority Student Experiences in Engineering Graduate Programs:Socialization and Impact on Career TrajectoriesDr. Catherine T. Amelink, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Dr. Amelink is Associate Vice Provost for Learning Systems in the Office of the Provost at Virginia Tech. She is also an affiliate faculty member in the Departments of Engineering Education and Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at Virginia Tech.Dr. Mayra S. Artiles , Arizona State University Mayra S. Artiles is an assistant professor in engineering at the Polytechnic School of the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering
experience to quickly bolster their program in areas where more courses are neededbut more research faculty are not.We found that the diverse career experience among our participants was an asset to their departments andthey believe their experience provides unique perspectives and experience that enrich their courses.G. Self-Reported Motivation to TeachOur second research question explores the factors that non-tenure-track engineering faculty believe motivatethem to teach. Studies of non-tenure-track faculty from all disciplines have shown that non-tenure-trackfaculty are motivated to teach by interaction with students, the classroom environment, and the ability tostrike a satisfactory balance between work and personal responsibilities. We asked
educators.Our quantitative study is based on a dataset of 559 early-career engineering graduates whoparticipated in the Engineering Majors Survey (EMS). EMS is a longitudinal U.S. nationwidesurvey designed to explore engineering students’ and then later graduates’ technical,innovation, and entrepreneurial interests and experiences. Innovative behavior outcomes areanalyzed considering socio-demographic characteristics such as gender and underrepresentedracial/ethnic minority (URM) status, and characteristics of the workplace such as industryand company size. Furthermore, we elaborate on the interrelation of innovative behavior andleadership responsibility.We find no significant differences in innovative behavior of female and male engineeringgraduates
Female MaleMethodologyThis paper reports on part of a larger study conducted through the institution’s provost office toassess the impact that work-life policies have on faculty careers. An assistant provost served asprincipal investigator with graduate students as co-investigators. The principal investigator hadaccess to university records that identified faculty members who had used the tenure clockextension and modified duties policies between 2006 and 2013. The study was designed as amixed methods study, drawing from survey data and faculty interviews. However, the surveydata presented limited results so this paper focuses on analysis of the qualitative data.SurveyA total of 168 faculty members who had been identified through
strategies to design tools and education. She teaches design and en- trepreneurship courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels, focusing on front-end design processes.Dr. Diane L. Peters, Kettering University Dr. Peters is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Kettering University.Dr. Steven J. Skerlos, University of Michigan Professor Steven J. Skerlos is Arthur F. Thurnau Professor at the University of Michigan. He is a tenured faculty member in Mechanical Engineering and Civil and Environmental Engineering. He also serves as a UM Distinguished Faculty Fellow in Sustainability. He is Director of Sustainability Education Programs in the College of Engineering and Co-Director of the Engineering
role of leadership and culture in process improvement. His research is supported by the NSF and industry and has received numerous national and international awards. He is an elected Fellow of the American Society for Engineering Management and serves as an Associate Editor for both the Engineering Management Journal and Quality Approaches in Higher Education. Prior to his academic career, Schell spent 14 years in industry where he held leadership positions focused on process improvement and organizational development.Dr. Bryce E. Hughes, Montana State University Bryce E. Hughes is an Assistant Professor in Adult and Higher Education at Montana State University, and affiliate faculty member with the Montana
of future engineering faculty and developing a more diverse, equitable and inclusive Purdue Engineering.Dr. Janet M Beagle Dr. Janet Beagle is the Director of Graduate Programs for Purdue Universityˆa C™s College of Engineering. Formerly the Director of Graduate Admissions over five campuses and more than 100 graduate programs, she has worked with graduate recruitment and admis ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Evaluation of current graduate student preparation after completing the GradTrack Scholars Virtual Mentoring Program as an undergraduate student Lexy C. Arinze, Jackie E. McDermott, Janet M. BeagleAbstractMentorship
provide a scholarship for tuition and fees, but the students found additional usesfor the funds by freeing up resources and time in other areas. These ideas are salient in thisdiscussion because, while students had a scholarship, it meant they were no longer jugglingmultiple responsibilities; rather, they were able to reduce the hours they needed to work to findfinancial stability.The study further explores how pre-transfer programs influence students at various stages oftheir journey. The flexibility of such programs and their influence on students' career decisions ishighlighted. Some students faced challenges like personal life events and the impact of thepandemic. The cost of education and minimizing student debt are significant concerns
get experience writing a paper, making a poster, and presenting my work” “An in-depth understanding of research and graduate school opportunities” “I hope to learn how to operate the equipment used in analysis or material systems”The EnSURE program is marketed as an “internship in graduate school” so it is bothunsurprising and reassuring that nearly all responses to this question involved students’ desires togain research skills, disciplinary knowledge, and other experience that will assist them inreaching their academic and/or career goals.It is interesting that very few students (3% of total responses) indicated that they were hopingthat EnSURE would help them clarify their career path. Many other researchers 3,3,4,9,20–23
institutional policies (or lack thereof), professional and personal networks, interactionswith colleagues and students, and articulated (or not) expectations all combine to createparticular climates and experiences for faculty at institutions of higher education throughout theUnited States in 2020. Those show gendered and race-based patterns. Many of the activities thatare integral to the reputation and function of an organization are often performed by women andfaculty of color. These activities, especially administrative and curriculum-based ones, tend torequire time and expertise but are not typically rewarded in traditional academic promotionstructures [1, 33, 6, 34, 31, 35]. In fact, research indicates that women faculty overwhelminglyare tasked
college fall 2018, including anintroduction to productive teaming skills through a collaborative game; use of productarcheology to help student explore ways in which products are gendered or racialized;exploration of cognitive bias and how it manifests in our personal and professional lives; acritical history of engineering; and exploration of team roles and the importance ofunderstanding one’s own personality and inclinations when participating on a team. In addition,two members of this subgroup are participating in a parallel effort supported through an NSFRevolutionizing Engineering Departments award: a Professional Learning Community (PLC).PLCs are collegial groups that provide educators across disciplines facilitated opportunities
as exploring students’ conceptions of diversity and its importance within engineering fields.Dr. Marie C Paretti, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Marie C. Paretti is a Professor of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech, where she co-directs the Vir- ginia Tech Engineering Communications Center (VTECC). Her research focuses on communication in engineering design, interdisciplinary communication and collaboration, design education, and gender in engineering. She was awarded a CAREER grant from the National Science Foundation to study expert teaching in capstone design courses, and is co-PI on numerous NSF grants exploring communication, design, and identity in engineering. Drawing on theories of
Full-time PhD student in curriculum and pedagogy program at OISE and first OISE student as classical voice musician at the Faculty of Music. Her research focuses on governance, curriculum policy and leadership. Currently, she is the Graduate Research Assistant of SSHRC Creating equitable structures in early secondary school mathematics project and researcher at Encore Lab. She is Co-President at the Canadian Committee of Graduate Students in Education of the Canadian Society for the Study of Education. She serves as President at CTL Students’ Association and Graduate Student Member at OISE Council & Research Committee. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023A Trio-Ethnography
major choice to one of future possibilities and connection tocareer. This shift may support future identity work in other subfields of computing, as well as inother elements of computing education, such as graduate study. As computer science seeks todiversify, the act of becoming in computing will be an important avenue of investigation, and theconnections students make to specific careers in the field may support identity development thatmoves beyond the role of student towards future professional identities.KEYWORDSCommunity of Practice, Career Identification, Learning Contexts1 IntroductionComputer Science and computing career identity are concepts in the computer scienceeducational research field that have seen growth in the last
on two broad areas: achievement/retention in STEM and comprehension of illus- trated scientific textDr. Karin Jensen, University of Michigan Karin Jensen, Ph.D. (she/her) is an assistant professor in biomedical engineering and engineering edu- cation research at the University of Michigan. Her research interests include student mental health and wellness, engineering student career pathways, and engagement of engineering faculty in engineering education research.Dale RobbennoltAnne Hart, University of Tennessee, Memphis ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Work in Progress: Exploring the Landscape of Stressors Experienced by Doctoral Engineering
different groups (such as race or gender) and the resulting psychological re-sponses. ICT identifies key conditions that enable positive contact between members of differentraces and genders in a group. For this exploratory analysis, we included all participants in the larger study who identifiedas African American and female; all were full-time undergraduate students enrolled in an engi-neering course with a team project. The nine participants represent a range of years in school andengineering majors. Data collection followed a three-interview sequence and included questionsabout participants’ background, their team project, and their reflections on the teaming experi-ence, respectively. In this paper, we present our initial exploration of
reliability, risk assessment, systems modeling, and probabilistic methods with social science approaches. She is a recipient of the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship and a 2023-2024 Mavis Future Faculty Fellow. She is a member of the NIST Center of Excellence for Community Resilience and collaborates with engineers, economists, social scientists, and planners on the development of tools to support community resilience decision-making. She has been recognized for her research at multiple international conferences with a Student Best Paper Award at ICOSSAR 2021/2022 and CERRA Student Recognition Award at ICASP 2023.Prof. Eun Jeong Cha, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Eun Jeong Cha is an associate professor in the
in engineering, competency development, and understanding the experiences of traditionally marginalized engineering students (e.g., Latinx, international students, Indigenous students) from an asset-based perspective. Homero’s goal is to develop engineering education practices that value the capital that traditionally marginalized students bring into the field and to train graduate students and faculty members with the tools to promote effective and inclusive learning environments and mentorship practices. Homero aspires to change discourses around broadening participation in engineering and promoting action to change. Homero has been recognized as a Diggs Teaching Scholar, a Graduate Academy for Teaching
results from individuals’ own values, interests, and preferences for a particular 4career path as well as their pre-existing skills.26 Building occupational knowledge refers to thetangible facts that an individual may have about an occupational position. Such knowledgeresults from personal research, actual exposure to a career path, and training opportunities.Research shows that student veterans are most concerned about finding a job after graduationand thus want to major in fields that will assist this goal.27 Greater understanding of SVEs’career intentions and decisions could boost the graduation rate of student veterans, a trend thathas improved in recent years, according to the Million Records
. doi:10.1016/0030-5073(84)90001-1Lent, R. W., Singley, D., Sheu, H.-B., Gainor, K. A., Brenner, B. R., Treistman, D., & Ades, L.(2005). Social Cognitive Predictors of Domain and Life Satisfaction: Exploring the TheoreticalPrecursors of Subjective Well-Being. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 52(3), 429-442. doi:10.1037/0022-0167.52.3.429Miner, K. N., January, S. C., Dray, K. K., & Carter-Sowell, A. R. (2019). Is it always this cold?Chilly interpersonal climates as a barrier to the well-being of early-career women faculty inSTEM. Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: An International Journal, 38(2), 226-245.National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (2017). Women, Minorities, and Personswith Disabilities in Science and
personal journeys as engineers. That [The older SHPE student’s] motivation translated into their school as well, into them being engineering students, and to their professional development, and you could tell every single one of these people here, these guys are going to accomplish their education, accomplish their career. –Manolo I quickly started to see the benefits of SHPE...most importantly hearing what other Latino engineers were like, and how they got there, hearing their story. –AnthonyNurturing an engineering familia Within SHPE students found more than friendship and collegiality, they found a familia(family) of engineers. The students discussed the strong ties that connected them to their peers
Grades Influencing Decision to 68% Yes, 32% No 81% Yes, 19% No Stay at WVU Tech People Discouraging Staying in 24% Yes, 76% No 20% Yes, 80% No College Top Three Campus Services Advising, TRIO, Tutoring Advising and TRIO (tied), Used TutoringTable 5: Summary of Themes for Female Students Encouragement to Pursue College Family (with a few citing faculty, career plans, and outside sources) Encouragement to Pursue Major Family, Faculty, Mentors, and Self People Discouraging
and establishing their careersas well, it is a valuable timeframe to investigate [1] [2] [3]. During this period, we can betterunderstand how engineering students’ personal and social identities, which are their conceptionsof themselves as individuals and group members, engineering identities, which is theirconceptions of themselves as engineers, and ethical identities, which is their conception ofthemselves as people who identify with their professional ethics, develop. Reviewing these threeidentity types is valuable in identifying both their pre-established impacts on career choice andaspirations as well as the remaining gaps in literature that need to be filled such as the connectionbetween moral behavior and vocational choice [3] [4] [5
, constructing one’s sense of self throughconstant development and self-reflection [5]. It includes the traits and characteristics, socialrelations, roles, and social group memberships that define who a person is within a particularsetting. Engineering identity, especially for students, reflects their acceptance of and recognitionas part of the engineering field, influencing their decision to enter and persist in the field [6].When students possess a strong engineering identity, they tend to perceive themselves as futureengineers, fostering their commitment to their pursuit of an engineering career [7]. This identitycontinues to impact their learning, serving as a guiding force throughout their studies [8]. Morelock synthesized the disperse
the next generation of faculty: Graduate school as socialization to an academic career. The Journal of Higher Education, 73(1), 94 – 122.Austin, A.E., & McDaniels, M. (2006). Preparing the professoriate of the future: Graduate student socialization for faculty roles. In: Higher Education: Handbook of Theory and Research, Volume 22, p 397 – 456.Blume-Kohout, M.E. & Adhikari, D. (2016). Training the scientific workforce: Does funding mechanism matter? Research Policy, 45, 1291 – 1303.Burt, B. (2014). The influence of doctoral research experiences on the pursuit of the engineering professoriate (Doctoral dissertation, University of Michigan).Carlone, H.B. & Johnson, A. (2007). Understanding the science
as it relates to this careerpath.Data are being collected on Fellows’ reactions to individual grant activities and their overallparticipation. In addition to Fellow data, participating faculty are surveyed to provide furtherinformation on student growth in key areas of concern (teaching, research, and multiculturalawareness to work with diverse populations). Fellow surveys will continue to be collected beyondgraduation to further understand how Fellows transition into and exist within academic settings.The research on career decision-making is being conducted through a Social Cognitive CareerTheory lens. This lens focuses on three aspects of career development and decision-making: (1)how an individual develops their career interests, (2) how
onDeveloping a Personal Brand, Creating Healthy Boundaries, Promotion and Tenure Process, aDeans Panel, and an Agency Panel. Open to all with free participation and registration, thisinitiative aims to make a significant impact on representation of Hispanic faculty. By offeringvaluable insights and resources, the conference seeks to empower early career faculty membersand enhance their professional journey. The provision of free participation not only breaks downfinancial barriers but also contributes to fostering a more inclusive academic community.Importantly, this initiative recognizes the profound influence of diverse faculty onHispanic/Latinx students, offering them positive role models and mentors. By strengthening thefaculty body's diversity
. Aaron W. Johnson, University of Michigan Aaron W. Johnson (he/him) is an Assistant Professor in the Aerospace Engineering Department and a Core Faculty member of the Engineering Education Research Program at the University of Michigan. His lab’s design-based research focuses on how to re-contextualize engineering science engineering courses to better reflect and prepare students for the reality of ill-defined, sociotechnical engineering practice. Their current projects include studying and designing classroom interventions around macroethical issues in aerospace engineering and the productive beginnings of engineering judgment as students create and use mathematical models. Aaron holds a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering
strategic plans were developed to serve as the starting point for career preparationsince many graduate students do not feel sufficiently prepared, especially for careers outside ofacademia [1]. The graduate students were encouraged to think about where they sought to beemployed upon graduation and to be mindful that more than a doctoral degree would be requiredto obtain employment. Guided conversation allowed them to think of the yearly activities theyshould consider undertaking. The strategic planning also extended to the broader vision of theresearch group. Part of the change vision of the faculty member was establishing an organizationbuilt on mutual benefit. By articulating visions and strategies on an individual and collectivelevel, the