this masculine perspective underlies the hierarchy in how categories and sub-categories of faculty work are weighted in promotion, tenure, and salary decisions. For example,more “pure” scholarship is given more status and rewards: theory over application, quantitativeover qualitative, publishing over presenting, academic audiences over public audiences. Inaddition, work associated with students is devalued, and service to national organizations,conferences, or journals carries more weight than university or community service [17].Ultimately, Park argues for redefining and assessing scholarship as a way for universities tovalue women and fairly evaluate their contributions.Regardless of the values inherent in promotion systems, studies show
career engineers to adapt to engineering workplace culture.Dr. Samantha Ruth Brunhaver, Arizona State University Dr. Samantha R. Brunhaver is an Assistant Professor within The Polytechnic School, one of six schools in the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University. She is a mixed-methods researcher with focus on the preparation and pathways of engineering students. Her specific research interests include engineering student persistence and career decision-making, early career engineering practice, faculty pedagogical risk-taking, and entrepreneurial mindset. She completed her B.S. in Mechanical Engineering at Northeastern University and her M.S. and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at Stanford
education and careers in science.7 Researchunaccompanied by dissemination, however, makes the research process incomplete. Publishingoriginal research is the culminating step in the research process and an exceptional piece ofresearch will not matter if no one ever gets a chance to read it and to use it to inform futurescholarship, policies, and/or decision making.8 Not only does publishing the results of theresearch complete the project, but it also provides its own set of benefits including professionallypresenting a representation of completed undergraduate work, receiving feedback from a broadercommunity, increasing chances of graduate school acceptance, and distinguishing oneself in thejob market.8 Dissemination activities include poster
, course content, and teaching methods and the impact of those interactions onteaching and learning. Each of these factors impacts different levels of interaction in theclassroom. For example, dynamic interactions occur between both faculty members and students,as well as students with their peers in the classroom. The model posits that a deeper awareness ofthese variable and critical interaction patterns is valuable for the shaping of students’ uniquelearning experiences. Further, it serves to foster the importance of being aware of students’ andone’s own unique background, experiences, and social identities and how this influences theteaching decisions that faculty make, as well as how the classroom experience is received bystudents. Applying
Paper ID #44010Board 272: Examining the Catalysts and Barriers that Early-Career EngineersExperience to Their Adaptability at WorkDr. Samantha Ruth Brunhaver, Arizona State University, Polytechnic Campus Samantha Brunhaver, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor within The Polytechnic School of the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University. Her primary areas of research include engineering career pathways and decision-making, undergraduate student persistence, professional engineering practice, and faculty mentorship. Brunhaver is a mixed-methods researcher, utilizing both qualitative and quantitative
Paper ID #42754Board 360: Reflections from Graduates on the Impact of Engineers WithoutBorders USA Experiences on Professional PreparationLazlo Stepback, Purdue University, West Lafayette Lazlo Stepback is a PhD student in Engineering Education at Purdue University. His current research interests focus on engineering ethics, the connections between personal morals and professional ethics, and how students ethically develop as engineers. He earned a B.S. in Chemical and Biochemical Engineering at the Colorado School of Mines (Golden, CO) in 2020.Paul A. Leidig P.E., Purdue University, West Lafayette Paul A. Leidig works in
been described in a previous contribution[1]. A follow-up manuscript has described the first three interventions within the NRT, namely,an onboarding and orientation event, a career exploration symposium, and a multidisciplinaryintroductory course, along with the assessment and outcomes of each of these interventions [2].A third manuscript has presented three additional NRT components, i.e., a transferable skillscourse, an interdisciplinary research proposal and project, and a multidisciplinary researchsymposium, as well as their assessment and outcomes [3]. In a similar vein, this contributiondescribes several additional interventions within this NRT – a graduate certificate, field trips, aswell as internships and international experiences
, and a graduate degree in Educational Leadership from the University of San Francisco. She is committed to creating equitable and accessible public institutions of higher education, including inclusive environments for underrepresented students in STEM.Dr. Catherine T. Amelink, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Dr. Amelink is Associate Vice Provost for Learning Systems Innovation 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. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Pandemic Pivots: The Successful
and inclusion by measuring latent support for exclusionary practices, and designing interventions targeted at improving gaps in graduate student success and support, and faculty hiring, tenure, and promotion. Additionally, his research attempts to understand the impacts of online platforms and their algorithms on political contention in the United States.Lizandra C. Godwin, University of New Mexico Dr. Lizandra C. Godwin is a faculty member in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of New Mexico. Dr. Godwin earned her M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of Florida, and her B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Florida A&M University. Her
with the faculty members supervising their projects, graduatestudents, and one or two industrial mentors. Students also take part in other activities such asindustrial research lab and facilities tours, weekly group meetings, meetings with workingengineers and automotive researchers, an SAE conference, and seminars. The summer researchexperience is then capped with students giving oral and/or poster presentations of their researchprojects both at OU and at research conferences.Students participating in the REU program receive a stipend, free on-campus housing, as well asa small meal allowance and membership to the campus recreational facilities. Travel expenses toOU are reimbursed and if students get a conference paper accepted, funds are
about a class.! radical change in the person. These events are unplanned, unanticipated and uncontrolled” 6, p. 77. Critical events can be:! 1) ‘Extrinsic,’ produced by events external to the faculty member, such as the merger of Poly with Fulton,! 2) ‘Intrinsic,’ events that occur within the individual and happen in the natural progression of a faculty member’s career, such as working towards tenure or a mid-career move, and! 3) ‘Personal,’ events that happen in an individual’s personal life, such as having a baby or an illness.!Teaching Discussion of teaching
electrical engineering at Texas A&M University. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Paper ID #31171Miss Samantha Asbell, Texas A&M University Samantha Asbell is a graduate student at Texas A&M University currently pursuing her Masters of Science in Business. She received her undergraduate degree in Communication at Texas A&M. Following a research internship with the department of communication, Samantha applied for a role with the College of Engineering as an assistant for the I-Corps Site program. Samantha has a continuing interest in research as well as digital and
student and faculty affairs. They additionally initiated a pilot faculty launch programin 2017 to provide support and guidance to junior faculty launching their career at JHU, withdepartments prioritizing the hiring of URM or women faculty members. Finally, in 2019, the Tandon School of Engineering at New York University (NYU)formed an Inclusion @ Tandon committee that created the college’s first strategic plan forInclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Belonging (IDBE). This committee includes a facultyrepresentative from each department to lead the departmental IDBE plans. In 2020, Tandonlaunched its Office of Inclusive Excellence (OIE) and hired four Inclusion Officers to coordinateDEI efforts in the Tandon School, which includes one officer
affective factors vary among college undergraduates?,” in Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education 2019 Pacific Southwest Meeting, 2019, pp. 1–13.[19] C. Striolo, M. Pollock, and A. Godwin, “Staying or leaving: contributing factors for U.K. engineering students’ decisions to pursue careers in engineering industry,” Eur. J. Eng. Educ., pp. 1–25, Jan. 2020.[20] T. Humphries-Smith and C. Hunt, “An exploration of progression rates of widening participation students on to an integrated master of engineering,” Int. J. High. Educ., vol. 6, no. 4, pp. 69–78, 2017.[21] “Fixing the foundations: Creating a more prosperous nation.”[22] M. Scheidt, R. Senkpeil, J. Chen, A. Godwin, and E. Berger
outcome-based educational framework. She has also incorporated theories on social cognitive career choices and student attrition mitigation to investigate the effectiveness of institutional interventions in increasing the retention and academic success of talented engineering students from economically disadvantaged families. She’s also involved in a project that explores the relationship between the institutional policies at UPRM and faculty and graduate students’ motivation to create good relationships between advisors and advisees.Prof. Oscar Marcelo Suarez, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Professor Oscar Marcelo Suarez joined the University of Puerto Rico - Mayaguez in 2000. He holds a BS in Aeronautical &
is co-director of the NSF Science-Technology Center for Integrated Quantum Materials (CIQM) based at Harvard, MIT, Howard, and MOS, and she has othe NSF awards and subawards in areas of biological imaging, scalable nanomanufacturing, and undergraduate training. Alpert teaches an annual year-long Research Communication Laboratory seminar at MIT’s Research Laboratory of Electronics, and provides science communication coaching and professional development to students and faculty at several univer- sities. Alpert co-founded the NSF Nanoscale Informal Science Education Network in 2005, which has since broadened into a National Informal Science Education Network. She is a member of the Section Y Steering Group of the
two years. Since her appointment in 2014 she has been exploring active learning, peer instruction, team-based, hands-on, application-based techniques in her classes to fully engage her students. She was selected as a UIC Teaching Scholar for Spring 2017, named as an American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) ”35 under 35” winner in the education category for 2017 and named as American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) ”20 under 40” awardee for 2018. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021Reporting the Progress and Latest Status of an Ongoing S-STEM Project: An Integrated Program for Recruitment, Retention, and Graduation of
Professorship in the Department of Psychology and Behavioral Sciences at Louisiana Tech University. She is a member of the graduate faculty in Industrial/Organizational Psychology.Dr. Marisa K. Orr, Clemson University Marisa K. Orr is an Assistant Professor in Engineering and Science Education with a joint appointment in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Clemson University. Her research interests include student persistence and pathways in engineering, gender equity, diversity, and academic policy. Dr. Orr is a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award for her research entitled, ”Empowering Students to be Adaptive Decision-Makers.” American c Society for
opportunities, and make informed decisions ontheir career choice, and to gradually build an education portfolio to best market themselves for it.Two programs are offered: 1) Corporate mentoring program, which is developed between theCEAS Emerging Ethnic Engineering (E3) Program and General Electric (GE) Aviation forethnic minority engineering students. Students are assigned mentors from GE who periodicallymonitor the students’ performances till graduation. 2) Paid industrial cooperative program (Co-Op). This program places students in co-op paid jobs by the UC’s Division of ProfessionalPractice (DPP) during the sophomore, pre-junior and junior years. Mentorship is provided byDPP faculty (one for each degree program) to guide them to appropriate paid co
Paper ID #10226An inclusive process for developing a taxonomy of keywords for engineeringeducation researchDr. Cynthia Finelli, University of Michigan Dr. Cynthia Finelli is Director of the Center for Research on Learning and Teaching Engineering and research associate professor in the College of Engineering at the University of Michigan. She actively pursues research in engineering education and assists other faculty at U-M in their scholarly endeavors. Her current research interests include studying faculty motivation to change classroom practices, evalu- ating methods to improve teaching, and exploring ethical decision
Paper ID #38246Board 397: The Development of Professional Mentors to Supplement LowSocio-Economic Students’ Webs-of-SupportSarah Larose Dr. Sarah E. LaRose joined the Department of Agricultural Sciences Education and Communication at Purdue University in the fall of 2018 as an Assistant Professor of Agricultural Education. She earned a Bachelor of Science in Animal Science and a Master ofDr. Robert Merton Stwalley III P.E., Purdue University, West Lafayette Dr. Robert M. Stwalley III, P.E. joined the Agricultural & Biological Engineering department as a faculty member in the fall of 2013. He earned his Bachelor of
,professional presentations and conferences, academic and career advising, applying for tenureand sabbaticals, and teaching techniques are common conversations during the faculty meetings.These informal conversations provide the faculty and graduate assistants with professionaldevelopment and peer mentoring outside of their department colleagues.When the program expanded in 2011 to include more majors, we experienced greater diversity inthe student scholars, but an unintended tradeoff has been fewer opportunities for peer-mentoringamongst the students within academic majors. To compensate for this change, the weeklyseminars regularly break up for discussion into groups clustered by major or academic year, aswell as by affinity relationships based on
how engineering is performed [26].The authors criticized engineering education’s practice of providing ready-made problems whichhave been simplified by the removal of unnecessary details. This sterile, problem-solving focusresults in some students never developing a deeper understanding of true engineering. Asengineers have testified, the majority of their experiences as students in engineering coursesinvolved sitting in rows of desks, facing the front of the room, and copying notes written on achalk-board by an expert engineering faculty member who also had received no preparation ineducational theory [25]. Students often engage engineering with little explanation as to thepurpose, or benefit of, completing academic tasks; students, if they
staff members; observational data collection at CBEE faculty meetings;surveys of entering and graduating students; and video recordings and student surveys of reformand older studio activities. These data are being analyzed and findings will be used in furtherplanning and decision-making. Focus group data with undergraduates interested in thedevelopment of Pods and initial planning data have also been collected. An annual CBEEclimate survey of all undergraduate students, with the capability of disaggregation for varioussubgroups, will be initiated in spring 2017. Administering this survey annually to allundergraduates will allow both cross-sectional and longitudinal analyses, supporting a trackingof the impacts of specific changes to CBEE
purely financial support, the selected students received the support of aStudent Success Coach. The Success Coach was a half-time employee completely dedicated tomonitoring and supporting these 20 to 24 students.Support from provided by the Coach included: • Student support services: Provides aggressive individualized academic advising and career support through case management and counseling • One-on-one meetings: both electronic and in-person • Academic monitoring: use of mid-term grade sheets to monitor progress; mandatory meetings with the coach before dropping any classes • Resource guides: on career exploration, resume creation, external scholarships and internship searches created and distributed to students
STEM teacher professional development, and preservice teacher preparation in STEM.Dr. Elizabeth Litzler, University of Washington Elizabeth Litzler, Ph.D., is the director of the University of Washington Center for Evaluation & Research for STEM Equity (UW CERSE) and an affiliate assistant professor of sociology. She has been at UW working on STEM Equity issues for more than 15 years. Dr. Litzler is a member of ASEE, incoming chair of the ASEE Committee on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, and a former board member of the Women in Engineering ProActive Network (WEPAN). Her research interests include the educational climate for students, faculty, and staff in science and engineering, assets based approaches to STEM
Professor in Higher Education Counseling/Student Affairs at Califor- nia Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. He is Lead Principal Investigator for the NSF-funded California State University Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP) Alliance for Diversity and Strengths of STEM Faculty: A Culturally-Informed Strengths-Based Approach to Advance Early-Career Faculty Success. Dr. Almeida is also Co-Principal Investigator for the NSF Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics (S-STEM) grant, Engineering Neighbors: Gaining Access Growing Engineers (ENGAGE). Dr. Almeida’s graduate training is in Urban Education Policy – Higher Education from the University of Southern
the role of the faculty mentor [13],[15], [16]. Perez and Gong [17] found that the main factors impacting minority students’ accessto graduate school included cost, knowledge of available graduate programs, understanding ofgraduate study and research in general, and career relevance of the graduate degree options.B. Purpose of the StudyA main purpose of this study was to explore the impacts of undergraduate students' researchexperiences on their perceptions of career goals, graduate school, research knowledge and skills,and engineering career path at a Southwestern public research university in the United States(US). The following research questions guided this study. 1. How does the REU influence students’ career goals? 2. How does the
for queer folks, women, and people of color, through empowerment, collaboration, and co-development for a more equitable world. Shannon is also a Senior Graduate Facilitator and Lab Manager with the Center for Socially Engaged Design.Dr. Erika Mosyjowski, University of Michigan Erika Mosyjowski is the Research and Faculty Engagement Manager in the Center for Socially Engaged Design within University of Michigan College of Engineering. She earned a PhD and MA in Higher Education from Michigan and a Bachelor’s in Psychology and Sociology from Case Western Reserve University.Dr. Shanna R. Daly, University of Michigan Shanna Daly is an Associate Professor in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Michigan. She
habits and pleasures of good scholarship. Thecommon read used in the FYS class is Atomic Habits by James Clear. Working with a familiarfaculty member and one of the same student mentors from Engineering Ahead, the first semesterstudents explore the expectations of personal integrity, level of effort, and civility on a universitycampus. In addition to providing academic support for their entry level mathematics and sciencecourses, an additional curriculum component of FYS is career exploration. Throughout thecourse, students refine their resume and communication skills and take part in the largeruniversity career fair. Further, this course provides several opportunities for students to visit localindustries and extend collaborations with alumni