’ understand- ings of core engineering concepts.Dr. Charles E. Riley, Oregon Institute of Technology Dr. Riley has been teaching mechanics concepts for over 10 years and has been honored with both the ASCE ExCEEd New Faculty Excellence in Civil Engineering Education Award (2012) and the Beer and Johnston Outstanding New Mechanics Educator Award (2013). While he teaches freshman to graduate- level courses across the civil engineering curriculum, his focus is on engineering mechanics. He im- plements classroom demonstrations at every opportunity as part of a complete instructional strategy that seeks to overcome issues of student conceptual understanding.Dr. Luciana R Barroso, Texas A&M University Luciana R. Barroso
who interacts regularly with students and participates in evaluatingstudents’ project performance. Student accountability to the client is important. Real-worldproblems have been associated with increased student commitment to the project in comparisonto instructor-created problems2.Although industry-academic research collaboration and industry-based capstone experiences arewidespread, we found little guidance in the literature about strategies for incorporating an open-ended client project within a single graduate course. This paper describes the experiences of twofaculty members at different institutions, one industry partner, and our students with such aproject. In what follows, we discuss the ways that the project was integrated into our
research avenues. The flexibility of theprogram makes it beneficial for tenure-track as well as non-tenure track faculty while givingstudents at all stages of their academic careers the opportunity to participate in hands-on researchprojects.CI projects are offered in each academic discipline, many of which offer a number of projectsfrom which students can choose. The program encourages student-centered projects that allowundergraduates to explore a topic of interest while developing a sense of independence.According to the CI Spring 2014 survey data, approximately 20% of projects result from ideasgenerated by students who then approach a faculty member to be the project mentor. Studentsreceive course credit for their participation which can be
learning community is for new faculty and instructional staff to gettheir careers off to an efficient and productive start. It is intended to provide a culture of supportfor (primarily) teaching, and (secondarily) research and service, in a relaxing and collegialenvironment. Specific goals of the community are to help faculty 1) plan, implement and manageeffective in-class and out-of-class instruction, 2) develop and use instructional materials, 3) applyresearch-based techniques of effective instruction, 4) plan and implement evaluations ofinstruction, 5) mentor students and be mentored by senior faculty colleagues, and 6) makeeffective use of departmental, college, and campus instructional resources.Staff members from the college’s Academy for
counselors andteachers, by college faculty advisors and career center personnel, or could be made available tostudents in high school or college computing classes. (To order or download an easy-to-useresource for this purpose, see www.ncwit.org/resources/computing-get-most-out-your-college-degree.) But to gauge whether computing occupations are a good fit for their interests andambitions, students also need to be exposed to the nature and diversity of computingoccupations. In the following, we discuss other research-supported recommendations forinvolving girls and women, and more diverse students in general, in computing.Computing is often inaccurately stereotyped as a “geeky” or masculine endeavor. Classroompractices, both at the K-12 and college
includesa 1-credit course devoted to selection of an engineering major. This includes hands-on activitieslead by faculty and industry professionals to learn about each of the engineering disciplinesoffered.At the Private institution, the students are exposed to a basic engineering design process throughmulti-week projects that are not intended to aide in engineering discipline selection. However,students complete a series of homework assignments throughout the semester that aid inselecting their major, understanding engineering career options, and integrating into the Collegeof Engineering.At the Large Land Grant, the students are exposed to a variety of engineering disciplines throughweekly laboratory experiences, but selection of a major is not a
Paper ID #14346Summer Courses as a Platform for International Collaboration in ChineseHigher Education: An Exploration of Students’ Learning ExperiencesMiss Qunqun Liu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University Qunqun Liu is a graduate student at the Graduate School of Education in Shanghai Jiao Tong University. She obtained a B.S. in public administration from China Agricultural University. Her current interest focuses on the cognitive development of engineering graduate and undergraduate students, the assessment of teaching and learning in graduate education.Dr. Jiabin Zhu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University Jiabin Zhu is an Assistant
, focus Page 26.872.10 groups and surveys—are effective in identifying and defining graduate students, as well as their specific needs and preferred resources. Innovation through Technology: University websites are often an information-rich portal for students, employers, faculty/staff, parents and alumni. Most sites offer targeted pages for each of these groups. Websites also offer a medium for delivering career services— indeed, web based resources are increasingly used as an alternative to physical locations. Career Courses and Workshops: Semester courses offer students the option to earn credit while
, students use the political lens to map out stakeholder and team member positions on their master’s project o Harvard Business School case: “Thomas Green: Power, Office Politics and a Career in Crisis” which describes the challenges a new employee faces when confronting company politics• Power and Influencexxx,xxxi . o From John Kotter’s, Power and Influence, methods for when one does not have positional authority on developing reserves of "unofficial" power and influence to achieve goals, reduce conflict and gain cooperation o Case from Cohan and Bradford, Influence Without Authority, covers the lifetime story of an influential leader, Nettie Seabrooks, within a
Paper ID #12518Supporting Students’ Plans for STEM Careers: How Prepared are HighSchool Educators in Appalachia to Help?Dr. Cheryl Carrico, Virginia Tech Cheryl Carrico is a Postdoctoral Research faculty member for Virginia Tech. Her current research fo- cus relates to STEM career pathways (K-12 through early career) and conceptual understanding of core engineering principles. Prior to her current role, Dr. Carrico spent over 25 years in the aerospace in- dustry conducting and leading R&D, design engineering, and project management for composite aircraft components. Dr. Carrico received her B.S. in chemical engineering
Paper ID #13330Exploring the Interest and Intention of Entrepreneurship in Engineering AlumniMiss Janna Rodriguez, Stanford University Janna Rodriguez is a third year PhD student in Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University. Her re- search focus on exploring how engineering students, both undergraduates and graduates, can be prepared to become entrepreneurs and innovators in the corporate sector.Dr. Helen L. Chen, Stanford University Helen L. Chen is a research scientist in the Designing Education Lab in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Director of ePortfolio Initiatives in the Office of the
Paper ID #11425The Impact of Faculty Development Workshop on Students’ Understandingof Academic IntegrityMs. Kirsten S Hochstedt, Penn State University Kirsten Hochstedt is a graduate assistant at the Leonhard Center for the Enhancement of Engineering Edu- cation. She received her M.S. in Educational Psychology with an emphasis in educational and psycholog- ical measurement at Penn State University and is currently a doctoral candidate in the same program. The primary focus of her research concerns assessing the response structure of test scores using item response theory methodology.Dr. Sarah E Zappe, Pennsylvania State
Paper ID #11158Increasing Student and Faculty Participation and Student Learning in an Un-dergraduate STEM Summer Research Program in a Government Institutionthrough a Higher Education PartnershipDr. Mary Yvonne Lanzerotti, Augsburg College Dr. Lanzerotti received her A.B. from Harvard College, M. Phil. from University of Cambridge (U.K.), and her Ph.D. from Cornell University, all in physics. She is an Assistant Professor of Physics at Augsburg College, in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Previously she was a faculty member in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Air Force Institute of Technology, Wright
Page 26.1323.11 potential to both create and make visible a wide range of connections—what I might call integration in time and integration in the person (phrases I arrived at after talking with Lauren). Regarding the former, I described to Lauren my hope that the reflection activity we discussed helped the learners inquestion—graduate students interested in engineering education—relate their experiences in an onlineworkshop to prior experiences and knowledge about engineering education, as well as to anticipatedexperiences in their academic careers. Ideally, learners would gain more from the online workshopexperiences by understanding them in this larger temporal context. What I am calling integration in the person is another
Education, 2015 Recruitment Efficacy of a Summer Undergraduate Research Program: Impact on Graduate School Intent and SelectionIntroductionSuccessful recruitment of an inclusive student body is essential to enriching the quality ofgraduate programs1, 2. Therefore, universities implement multiple activities to recruit diversestudents for post-baccalaureate studies to their institutions. Some of the recruitment activitiesinclude offering informational meetings, campus tours, career fairs, summer research programs,and assistantships3 to prospective students.Poock3, who surveyed members of the National Association of Graduate AdmissionsProfessionals (NAGAP), found that NAGAP members “perceived only one of the twenty fiverecruitment
as a frameworkfor promoting professional development and community building for graduate students.Building on the themes of the book, this program sought to promote reflection amongparticipants about the choices and actions that women can take to position themselves forsuccess—and encouraged exploration of students’ personal vision of success. Results of pre-and post-tests, along with observational data gathered by the facilitators, indicated that studentswere concerned largely by two topics: concerns about how to balance their career ambition andtheir goals for a fulfilling personal life (whatever that may be), and how to have positive andbeneficial relationship with mentors or advisors. Students also shared their challenges andfrustration
9PERFORMANCE REVIEW #2: PEER (360) AND SELF-ASSESSMENTContext: Students have engaged in a team-based project through nearly half of its duration, after having set performance goals weeks ago. This provides an opportunity for obtaining both peer and self- assessment data with regard to important knowledge, skills, and abilities being used in the project.Assignment: For each of three areas – Project development, Teamwork development, and Personal development: (a) Rate each team member (including yourself) on his or her personal demonstrations of the knowledge, skill, or ability listed. Insert team member names at the top of each column and fill all unshaded rows of those columns
engineering knowledge. The Council emphasized that University of Portland’s competitive advantage over the larger engineering schools has been that we graduate students with a breadth of knowledge in addition to technical depth, i.e., the University of Portland develops “T-shaped” engineers10. Council members noted that the competition for graduate placement is no longer local, but is now global. Promotes student development of global competencies that will enable our graduates to work more effectively on cross-cultural teams. The Council emphasized that this sill is highly valued for engineering employers. Enhances capacity for personal and professional growth for our graduates, as well as their career mobility. Is
during their graduate program. The findings ofthis work suggested several common themes within the experiences of returners and provided auseful starting point for a more broad-scale investigation. These themes were clustered based ondifferent aspects of returners’ identity, including their identity as scholars, as individual students,as members of the student community, and as whole people. Themes also emerged that describedthe transition in identity that took place as returners made and executed the decision to return toschool2. Further analysis showed that Expectancy Value Theory (EVT) was a suitable frameworkfor interpretation of the data4. This interpretation yielded several interesting findings. First, it wasfound that the returners had a
Paper ID #11735The Perceived Impact of Information Technology Experiential Learning onCareer Success: A Pilot StudyMr. Dalton Bishop, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis Dalton Bishop is an MS Tech graduate student at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. He works as a full-time IT Systems Administrator for KSM Consulting in Indianapolis, Indiana. His primary areas of interest are server operating systems, data communications, and IT education.Prof. Connie Justice, Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis Connie Justice is a Clinical Associate Professor in Computer and Information
person to coordinate a system like healthcare in the US? In thefaculty context, how do faculty members, students, administrators, government funders, andothers come together through documentation and in person to coordinate, for example, tenurepractices? I was interested in extending this to engineering student life – how did ruling relationsinfluence the structure of undergraduate education? And did it influence engineering differentlythan the other “letters” of STEM? So I built this theory into my CAREER grant proposal, titledLearning from Small Numbers (LfSN). I grounded my argument in both engineering educationresearch and women’s studies literature, and argued that: 1. the choice of much existing engineering education research on gender
specificcontent area, and micro-communities of practice as those reflecting collaboration of smallercohorts of STEM faculty, in-person and virtually.This study addresses the following research questions: 1) How do engineering faculty involvedin a community of practice engage in knowledge transfer? 2) How does knowledge transfer ofspecific evidence-based instructional practices occur in an engineering faculty community ofpractice?Conducted within a large research project aimed at exploring stages of pedagogical change, thiswork utilizes a qualitative methodology. Nine faculty in a first-year engineering departmentparticipated in hour-long semi-structured interviews exploring use of EBIPs and collaboration.Interviews were analyzed using thematic coding to
provides a strong educational experience via theorycombined with practice in a class/lab atmosphere. Dedicated faculty and staff are directlyinvolved in classes and labs, and each degree program culminates with a senior design or"Capstone" project, which is required for graduation. Capstone projects emphasize projectmanagement, technical deliverables, and multidisciplinary effort in team-oriented, long-termprojects. As a result of the heavy emphasis on practical, applied, and experiential learning,students who graduate from ISOE are well prepared for careers in all aspects of engineering. Theschool has more than 800 engineering students. In addition to modern classrooms and computerlabs, ISOE has fully equipped labs including a class 1000
members. They also vary with regard to how much faculty interacts withknowledgeable faculty-development professionals or are mentored in some way by colleagues.Additionally, faculty development can be differentiated by whether it is discipline specific orcampus wide, voluntary or mandatory, focused on faculty and/or graduate teaching assistants, orby the issues it is intended to address (e.g., promoting active learning, imbedding educationaltechnology, supporting student diversity). Each of these elements, and others, should beconsidered when designing a cohesive faculty development program.The design of faculty development services at CELT is grounded in an assumption that thelearner/learning-centeredness of PLC conceptions is present in the
., postsecondary education, private industry,government), and roles (e.g., undergraduate and graduate students, faculty members,academic administrators, program officers, chief executives). These individuals were either Page 26.746.6personal contacts (individuals whom we had met prior to or through Epicenter activities) orsuggested to us by other invitees. This process resembled chain-referral data collectionmethods in social science research.5Design-wise, once our attendee list came into shape, we structured our agenda such that allattendees were placed on a single, unitary track of sessions, as opposed to having parallelsession tracks that attendees would
STEAM-inspired interdisciplinary studio course. Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference. Atlanta, GA.6. McCord, R., Hixson, C., Ingram, E. L., & McNair, L. D. (2014). Graduate student and faculty member: An exploration of career and personal decisions. Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference. Indianapolis, IN.7. Delamont, S. (2007). Arguments against auto-ethnography. In British Educational Research Association Annual Conference (Vol. 5, p. 8).8. Holt, N. L. (2008). Representation, legitimation, and autoethnography: An autoethnographic writing story. International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 2(1), 18-28.9. Ellis, C., Adams, T
. There is an explicit goal to increase the number of students graduating, transferring or earning a workforce credential by more than 90,0009. The accomplishment of such goals will result in greater applicant pools and students interested in transferring to the university, which will ultimately need to be accommodated at the university level. According to a 2005-‐06 VCCS report, 38% of students who graduated from VCCS in a STEM field continued in a STEM field at a 4-‐year institution. Additionally, of students earning an associate’s degree from VCCS and transferring to a 4-‐year institution, 75% completed a bachelor’s degree9. Although
Paper ID #11535A Series of Singular Testimonies: A New Way to Explore Unearned Advan-tages and Unearned DisadvantagesDr. Julie P Martin, Clemson University Julie P. Martin is an assistant professor of Engineering and Science Education at Clemson University. Her research interests focus on social factors affecting the recruitment, retention, and career development of underrepresented students in engineering. Dr. Martin is a 2009 NSF CAREER awardee for her research entitled, ”Influence of Social Capital on Under-Represented Engineering Students Academic and Career Decisions.” She held an American Association for the
. Page 26.1727.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 What makes an undergraduate course impactful? An examination of students’ perceptions of instructional environmentsAbstractTo provide significant learning experiences for undergraduate engineering students, educatorshave resources in the literature, colleagues, and personal experiences to supplement their coursedesign process. This study aims to capture the stories of graduate students who are looking backat their undergraduate experiences and describing the features that made a specific courseparticularly impactful. Specifically, the goal of this study was to explore the educationalphilosophies enacted in the most impactful
Foundation (NSF)ADVANCE grant, which works to align University policies and practices to promote inclusionand increase the recruitment and retention of women faculty in science.6 The primaryfacilitator’s background was in higher education and she was experienced at designing andevaluating co-curricular programs. The primary facilitator took the lead role in developing thecurriculum; facilitating the discussions; and designing, deploying and evaluating the assessmentinstruments.The secondary facilitator was an academic staff member with an earned PhD in Engineering andresearch experience in engineering education and graduate student development. The secondaryfacilitator was responsible for developing the initial grant proposal, including the