faculty were the insights of senior faculty in navigating many of theobstacles that could be encountered along the way. “It's helpful to sometimes be reminded ofhere's how you need to approach things,” said Gabriel, an assistant professor who had onlyrecently transitioned from the role of graduate student to faculty member. To answer RQ-2 about NFLC’s role in faculty development, the majority of facultymembers perceived the outcomes of NFLC as positive: new and enhanced relationships withcolleagues, a deeper understanding of the university and departmental structures and systems,and encouragement and support from the College. Faculty members often mentioned the opportunity to build relationships with othercolleagues as an ideal aspect
laboratories, and industry partners. Initiallycreated to empower junior faculty to connect with funding agencies, industry associated programdirectors and researchers, Faculty Development created a paradigm shift in the program whenmid- and senior-career and non-tenure track faculty expressed strong interest in participating.Trips were then also tailored to mid- and senior-career and non-tenure track faculty to stimulatenew energy and opportunities and broaden current research development. The program has beeninstrumental in achieving connections for all faculty resulting in new proposals, invitations toserve on panels, new collaborations and opportunities for their graduate students. An addedoutcome of group travel has been the enhancement of cross
Outreach Center (ROC): Mechanisms for Interdisciplinary CollaborationThe Research and Outreach Center (ROC) was established in 2010 by the SEMS Dean toconnect SEMS faculty and students with the region, the nation and the globe, demonstratediversity and interdisciplinary interests of all three departments with the school. ROC creates astimulating environment for faculty and staff to achieve their career goals and professionaldevelopment. Professional development of the faculty is achieved through researchconversations meetings (described more fully in the next section), summer research experiences,professional society training activities and technical/scientific conferences. From an institutionalstrategic point of view, the establishment of SEMS
career progressed, and frequently stated that thistrait is necessary for a successful career in engineering, but is not always an attribute that womendisplay. The sections that follow outline the findings of the study, including both the key factorsof support that helped women to be successful in academic engineering programs (ResearchQuestion 1) and the challenges that women frequently faced and overcame in their career(Research Question 2). The Challenge of Balancing Work and Family Demands: Making Tradeoffs Women at all three campuses described balancing work and family as one of the mostchallenging aspects of their careers in engineering. Female faculty members explained that theyhad to make significant tradeoffs to have children
Chair of the Board of Directors and member of the Executive Committee for the 10-campusUniversity of California system’s Global Health Institute. He also served on the Boards of Directors ofthe San Francisco Bay Area Council and the California Life Sciences Association Additional leadershipexperience included serving as the Dean of the Graduate School of Management at UC Davis, leading theSchool to the highest ranking in its history; Endowed Chair holder; founding Chair of an academic de-partment; leadership of seven centers/institutes, and campus-wide service roles as Chair of the Task Forceon Faculty Salary Equity, Chair of the Strategic Review of Human Resources, Chair of Board of Direc-tors of the Ecosystem for Biophotonics Innovation, Vice
to the activity, Aluminum Careers diversity of engineering careers available for Aluminum Foil Foil Boats. them to explore and the processes associated Boats with earning an engineering degree. 4 Learning Styles Introduce and discuss different student Building Activity: Introduce students to the activity, Straw learning styles, emphasizing the importance Straw Towers Towers. of customizing one's learning according to personal preferences 5 Industry Guest An invited guest speaker from industry, Ethics Complete the
engineering student populations.Dr. John K. Antonio, University of Oklahoma Dr. John Antonio is Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and holds the Howard & Suzanne Kauffmann Chair in the Gallogly College of Engineering at the University of Oklahoma (OU). Dr. Antonio received his PhD in electrical engineering from Texas A&M University in 1989. He was a faculty member at Purdue University and Texas Tech before joining OU as professor and director of computer science in 1999. He has been an investigator for a number of funded research projects. As Associate Dean, Dr. Antonio represents the Dean’s office on matters related to academic programs and services, including outreach, recruiting, scholarships, advising
engineering faculty in developing a Tablet-PC-enhanced model of instruction, as well as developing and implementing onlineengineering courses. The project also involves a partnership among Californiacommunity colleges to design and implement a Joint Engineering Program (JEP) that isdelivered online.The ONE-STEP project accomplished an important first step toward wideningengineering education access, increasing the number of California community collegesthat now offer online engineering courses. As a result, the number of community collegeengineering students who are able to take these courses and be prepared for upper-division courses upon transfer has increased. However, courses requiring laboratorycomponents are currently not offered online in any
reference materials(e.g., tutorials) that students could access any time during the design process. Additionally, thetool allowed students to explore the design space freely by clearly laying out all the availabledesign parameters. This coupled with peer-feedback during the teamwork likely lowered thestandards for the students to perform research and build knowledge about the potential solutions.Students exchange ideas regarding what information would be needed for solving the challengebased on their research.For the “Weighing Options & Decision Making” design strategy, there was an increase in thenumber of Adept Informed designers in reflection #2 as compared to reflection #1. In reflection#1, there were 6 Informed and 4 Adept Informed
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
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 Advancement of Science (AAAS) Science and Technology Policy Fellowship in 2012-2013, with a placement at the National Science Foundation. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Cross-Disciplinary Teamwork During an Undergraduate Student Project: Results To DateAbstractThis
classroom management problems and students with abewildering assortment of academic and personal problems, doing what it takes to learn aboutand integrate into the campus culture, and finding the time to do all that and still have a personallife (Adam et al. 2008, Felder et al. 2012; Kember and Kwan 2000). It becomes more challengingto get established when the department or the college does not have the adequate resources tosupport the new faculty, and lacks a formal faculty development and mentoring program oncampus. There are some tricks of the trade—what I have learned from the literature and from mypersonal experience that will be shared in this article so that new E and ET faculty become moresuccessful in their careers. Some of the key issues
team Building, sustaining and factors that influence dynamics and performance, and have aJunior leading effective teams decision-making tied to better understanding of their role in an and establishing personality, and identify effective team. Furthermore, integration at performance goals the importance of both this level provides an early intervention to team and individual help prepare students before their senior performance to achieve design projects, which are also team-based. overall team objectives
stand out that affected your choice to pursue engineering? This program? 18. Do you think being a woman will help your hinder your career as an engineer? Why? 19. Are male and female engineers equally rewarded for the same work?” 20. Do you think there are preconceived expectations of your performance because you are a woman? If yes, can you think of an example? 21. Do you feel you have to prove yourself as a woman? 22. Do you think female students are taken less seriously? 23. Do you feel like you’re going to be equally compensated? 24. As a female, do you feel that it hurts you’re chances of being an engineering/having an engineering future? 25. Do you plan on going to graduate school, working in
given field, and their level of attainment defines how well-prepared they are to meet jobdemands and excel in the future [16-17]. The general (meta) competencies are skill sets that enable themto function globally, such as to work with others, function in systems and meet organizational demands,and transfer task-specific skills to new challenges or tasks they have not encountered before [18-19].Thus, our goal is to revolutionize our learning community to develop an intentional culture of reflection,wherein members (both students and faculty) develop dispositions of metacognition and self-regulation.The competencies required by future engineers vary from industry sectors and even companies in thesame sector. In addition, recent graduates will
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
qualitatively answer theresearch question: What student value beliefs and expectations influence their decision of whichengineering major to pursue? The answer to this research question can provide in-depth insightsinto student’s expectancy values, particularly exploring relations between students’ expectationsand the type of resources they prefer to use.4. Research DesignTheoretical frameworkWe used the Eccles’ expectancy-value theory as a lens to analyze the findings of this study.According to Eccles’, an individual's’ choice to perform a task is motivated by two factors: 1)their belief that they can perform a task, and 2) their desire to undertake a task8,9. Eccles definesfour categories of subjective task values (STV): 1) attainment, 2) intrinsic
majors at our university. Studentsparticipated in team-building activities that prompted research into their engineering majors andcareer options. In Week 3, we organized an industry career panel with a diverse mix of recruitersand alumni that currently work as engineers. The students asked questions about the panel’s pastcollege experiences, internships, graduate school, and careers. Students also had the opportunityto practice their “60 second pitches” with the panel members to help prepare for a career fair.Throughout the quarter, we incorporated activities that addressed global perspectives ofengineering, current events, and social justice. In Week 4, we collaborated with an EthnicStudies faculty member and her students from a Gender, Race
Paper ID #16444Design of an Interactive Multidisciplinary Residential Summer Program forRecruitment of High School Females to EngineeringDr. Paula Ann Monaco, Texas Tech University Dr. Paula Monaco, E.I.T., successfully defended her dissertation research Spring 2016 and will begin a career in the water/wastewater reuse treatment. Paula has led multiple outreach summer programs at TTU and provides support to student organizations within the college of engineering. Her technical research focuses include; anti-fouling and scaling RO technology and pharmaceutical and personal care product screening to predict environmental
students in a traditional,lecture-based, engineering education experience no significant growth as self-directedlearners. Prior studies by multiple researchers indicate students experiencing PBLcurricula have experienced significant growth. These studies all used the Self-DirectedLearning Readiness Scale (SDLRS), a commercially available tool that has beenadministered to 120,000 adults and as been used in over 90 PhD studies.The researchers developed a qualitative study in an attempt to characterize how the PBLgraduates experienced self-directed learning. 27 PBL graduates were interviewed. Aphenomenographic methodology was used to determine how the graduates experienceSDL in their engineering practice.The result of the qualitative study is a set
testing of a new assessment instrumentthat was designed to evaluate the dispositions of engineering faculty members regardingparticular classroom strategies. The instrument, named the Value, Expectancy, and Cost ofTesting Educational Reforms Survey (VECTERS), was designed to assess attitudes regardingspecific student-centered classroom strategies and to collect self-reported use of those classroomstrategies. The desire to develop this instrument emanated from the project evaluation of anNSF-funded Improving Undergraduate Science Education (IUSE) project at a large college ofengineering in the southwestern United States.The IUSE project provides professional development for pairs of faculty members from multipleengineering disciplines (e.g
Paper ID #14767Motivating Students with an Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) Airmanshipand Research ProgramDr. George York, U.S. Air Force Academy George York, PhD, PE, is an Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the United States Air Force Academy, CO, and is currently the Director of the Academy Center for UAS Research. He received his PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Washington. His research interests include the cooperative control of intelligent systems, digital signal processing, and embedded computer systems. He is a Senior Member IEEE.Col. Jeffrey Butler, U.S. Air Force Academy
analysis, it is a judgmentdecision on maturity, based on a collection of factors that support an informed decision on thepotential success of an applicant. These many career oriented factors are typically not availablewhen assessing the Master’s applicant who has just completed their undergraduate degree.A 2013 study of professional working adult learners1 shares the quantitative results of alongitudinal study of nearly 400 working professional adult learners, from business and industry,who graduated from a tier 1 research university series of programs designed and developed forprofessional learners. This cohort-based set of programs employs a hybrid classroom anddistance-supported, innovatively-delivered graduate degree (MS) in technology
report that, after the engineering students participated in theprogram, “nearly all of them now expressed interest in becoming educators at some point in theircareers.”10 It is encouraging to see engineers acquire an interest in potentially pursuing K-12teaching as a future career path.Research QuestionsThis research explores how students integrate an ardent interest in pursuing two seeminglydissimilar careers—in engineering and teaching—and how they envision using engineering,teaching, or both, in their futures. Given the diverse student experience inherent in this degreeprogram built around the passion to become “more than an engineer,” this paper addresses twoprimary research questions:1. How do engineering knowledge and teaching knowledge
) educators have soughtinnovative ways for integrating technology in teaching and learning to engage and build theinterest of secondary school students in STEM disciplines as well as to capture their imaginationabout STEM careers. Recent technological advancements have allowed design, development,and commercialization of low-cost mini unmanned aerial vehicles (MUAV) that offer a noveland ideal platform to support STEM disciplines in high school classrooms.1 This paper focuseson one illustrative example wherein four sections of a 9th grade quantitative research course,consisting of 25 to 30 students each, were engaged by a graduate researcher through an ARParrot 2.0 (see Figure 1) MUAV-based lab activity, which considered the research question“How
gain an understanding of what is necessary to become asuccessful engineering student and future professional22, 23.Section 3: MethodologyWhat is unique about the current collaboration is the unit in which ASC 1000 is housed.Typically, a department or group of departments within an institution’s academic affairs unit isresponsible for coordinating its first-year seminar program. Student affairs professionals maytake on instructor roles or serve on an instructional team that includes a faculty member as theprimary point of contact. Since the course’s inception, it has been housed under the studentaffairs umbrella. Faculty members teach a few sections of the course every year, however, thelevel of collaboration between academic affairs and
the design team as if they are graduates employed by myfirm.” (R79)A similar number of respondents (n=47) addressed real-world projects, clients, and applications: “Iattempt to use the capstone design project to illustrate a microcosm of the real world, giving students asclose an experience to what they will encounter in design assignments.” (R53) Table 2 - Categories and Content Themes Regarding Teaching/Coordinating Strengths in Capstone Design Category # Resp. Content Themes (n=361) (in descending order of frequency) industry involvement; mentoring/advising/nurturing students; faculty
, adaptability). 3. Function well on a team. 4. Develop time and project management skills. 5. Apply knowledge to problem solving. 6. Gain hands-on experience with modern engineering tools and practices. 7. Practice effective business and technical communication skills. 8. Start networking and develop professional references. 9. Explore various career paths and refine personal career goals. 10. Exceed the company’s expectations through personal initiative and self-direction.This list of professional skills is not comprehensive, and is subject to modification, both in termsof the number and types of skills. We periodically revisit the needs of our students andemployers of our coops, interns and graduates as part of our process of continuous
around gender and race, underrepresented groups that are already atrisk for leaving engineering may be disproportionately affected by negative team experiences. Amore careful investigation of negative behaviors, particularly using the lens of motivation, mayhelp educators improve teaming experiences.BackgroundTeamwork is generally considered vitally important to engineering practice. Accordingly, ABETaccreditation guidelines for programs require documented student outcomes of engineeringcurricula that include both ‘an ability to function on multidisciplinary teams’, and ‘an ability tocommunicate effectively’.6 In a survey of faculty, students, and industry professionals,communication was the highest-rated trait for graduates, with another study
secondary and under- graduate students, developed the TESS (Teaching Engineering Self-efficacy Scale) for K-12 teachers, and rescaled the SASI (Student Attitudinal Success Inventory) for engineering students. As a program evaluator, she evaluated the effects of teacher professional development (TPD) programs on elementary teachers’ attitudes toward engineering and students’ STEM knowledge through a NSF DRK-12 project. As an institutional data analyst, she is investigating engineering students’ diverse pathways to their suc- cess.Dr. P.K. Imbrie, Texas A&M University P.K. Imbrie is the Deputy Director for the Institute of Engineering Education and Innovation and Asso- ciate Professor in the College of Engineering