one standard error increase for thegroup after the Fellowship ended. These results suggest that multidisciplinary undergraduatescience communication fellowships with a cohort model may increase students’ confidence andself-efficacy in research. Other qualitative successes included students continuing theirextracurricular involvement in career-focused work after the program ended. The next step forthis research study is to conduct interviews with the students from prior cohorts to gainadditional insight into the potential broader impact of the program on student’s confidencewithin academia and in preparation for their future profession. We will continue to collect surveydata on future cohorts to grow our data set and get a more comprehensive
American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Teaching Teamwork: A Training Video Designed for Engineering StudentsAbstractThe ability to communicate and work effectively on a team has increased in importance in thefield of engineering as the demands of business and industry have evolved1. Engineers todayreport that communication is critical to their success and spend a large percentage of timeinteracting with others1 and working on teams2. Despite the need for interaction in practice,industry reports indicate engineering graduates show skill deficiencies in communication andteamwork3. Due to the importance of these skills, many encourage their integration into theengineering classroom, suggesting
% of surveyrespondents had already participated in undergraduate research. However, studentsexpressed an unclear connection between these activities and preparation for graduatestudy. Generally, undergraduates surveyed are uncertain about the impact undergraduateresearch will have on them. 28% neither agree/disagree with the statement that “doingresearch confirmed my interest in my field of study.” These results suggest that there is amissed opportunity to promote undergraduate research experiences as a mechanism toincrease graduate school aspirations, and provide students with foundational research skillsnecessary to thrive at the graduate level.Institutional BiasesThe second research question focused on exposing institutional biases that
Engineering (CEAE). She has served as the Associate Chair for Undergraduate Education in the CEAE Department, as well as the ABET assessment coordinator. Professor Bielefeldt was also the faculty director of the Sustainable By Design Residential Academic Program, a living- learning community where interdisciplinary students learn about and practice sustainability. Bielefeldt is also a licensed P.E. Professor Bielefeldt’s research interests in engineering education include service- learning, sustainable engineering, social responsibility, ethics, and diversity.Dr. Daniel Knight, University of Colorado, Boulder Daniel W. Knight is the Program Assessment and Research Associate at Design Center (DC) Colorado in CU’s Department
Paper ID #18755Modelling and Designing a Mechatronics System for High Speed PackagingOperations Using Mechatronics MethodologyMr. Vivek Pillarisetty P.E., Purdue University Northwest Vivek Pillarisetty is an Indian Graduate Student studying Mechatronics in Purdue University, Calumet in the state Indiana. He has done his under graduation in KLUniversity, Vijayawada, India. He is an outstanding student and favorite for all of his professors. He is an active participant in both co curricular and extra curricular activities. He is an avid reader and an interpreter. He learns the subject in depth and tries to work hands on
). Adopting community-based research principles to enhance studentlearning. Canadian Psychology / Psychologie canadienne, 61, 111-117.Cullinane, M., & O'Sullivan, S. (2020). Evaluating community-based research: Hearing theviews of student research partners. International Journal for Students as Partners, 4(2), 45-60.Glazier, R. A., & Bowman, W. M. (2021). Teaching Through Community-Based Research:Undergraduate and Graduate Collaboration on the 2016 Little Rock Congregations Study.Journal of Political Science Education, 17(2), 234-252.Gooding, K., Makwinja, R., Nyirenda, D., Vincent, R., & Sambakunsi, R. (2018). Using theoriesof change to design monitoring and evaluation of community engagement in research:experiences from a research
experience.Results Each student was encouraged to thoroughly describe their most memorable, importantexperiences and the impacts of those experiences. A thematic analysis was completed on theseexperiences and impacts. The research design naturally produced two main themes: (1)entrepreneurship experiences and (2) impacts. The main experiences students decided to discusswere related to participating in funding competitions, developing their project, experiencingchallenges and failures, taking entrepreneurship classes, and networking. The main impacts thatwere discussed were related to the development of an entrepreneurial mindset, new knowledgeand skills, and modified personal and project goals. These experiences and impacts are discussedin detail in
and advisor to the student chapter of the National Society of Black Engineers. Dr. Rogers has been recognized for his teaching, research, and service efforts through numerous invited seminars and awards. Notable awards include the 2015 Partner of the Year Award from RIT’s Multicultural Center for Academic Success, the 2016 Richard and Virginia Eisenhart Provost’s Award for Excellence in Teaching from RIT, the 2017 Emerging Investigator designation from Environmental Science: Water Research & Technology, the 2017 Henry C. McBay Outstanding Teacher Award from the National Organization for the Professional Ad- vancement of Black Chemists and Chemical Engineers, and the 2018 Dr. Janice A. Lumpkin Educator of
described how the research experience positively impacted their professionaldevelopment. One faculty member explained how they planned to apply what they learned tocourse development: My RET experience gave me the opportunity to research into relevant issues in Green and Sustainable Manufacturing for Developing Economies. I plan to create team based engineering design mini-projects for my students from my research findings. These real life mini-projects will help my students develop a deeper understanding of sustainable engineering design. I believe that using context-based approaches in my teaching will help my students learn content covered in my courses. By using context-based approaches, students
grant An Institutional Transformative Model to Increase Minority STEM Doctoral Student and Faculty Sucess.Dr. Yvette Maria Huet, Yvette Huet is Director of the ADVANCE Faculty Affairs and Diversity Office and a Professor of Kine- siology at UNC Charlotte. She has worked with and created a variety of workshops for faculty, graduate students and post-doctoral fellows, and current and future leaders and provided professional development consultation to faculty. She has provided training at UNC Charlotte and other programs and institutions across the country, many with current or previous ADVANCE grants, that addresses best practices in recruitment, inherent bias, communication, mentoring and reappointment, promotion and
similar backgrounds and have been found to increase theretention of HUG students [30]. Furthermore, Safe Zone ally training is an effective way topositively change campus climate by educating people about the terminologies of genderminorities and the biases these minorities experience [31, 19].To promote the pursuit of research careers among HUG students, we launched astudent-led initiative, the HUG Initiative, in the Department of Electrical and ComputerEngineering (ECE) at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, in which the proportion ofHUG students is consistently near 15% for both undergraduate and graduate programs. The HUGInitiative is a pilot study that systematically identifies the needs and obstacles of HUGs in theECE department
prior to Fall 2016. Thethree major areas of concern for the redesign effort are summarized in Table 1. This paperdescribes the efforts to reach the target population, promote multidisciplinary connections, andprovide a novel curriculum developed around the course workbook5 and designed to enrichstudent learning at Colorado School of Mines.Table 1: Significant Revisions to CSM 151 Implemented in Fall 2016 Target Topic Proposed Solution Improve Course Structure Design in-class activities to develop aspects of spatial visualization and move workbook to out-of-class homework Promote Multidisciplinary Introduce a team research project to explore the role spatial skills Connections play in
served as a key leader and member of the UW OMA&D Outreach and Recruitment Unit that contributed to two consecutive years of increased underrepresented freshmen student enrollment at the UW. In her current capacity as the Director for the Pacific Northwest Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (LSAMP) Pro- gram at the UW, she strives to increase the recruitment, retention and graduation rates for underrepre- sented students in STEM disciplines while providing experiential and research opportunities. Through the LSAMP Program she was able to co-write the OMA&D/UW College of Engineering STEM focused study abroad seminar to Brisbane, Australia. This was selected for a best practice model workshop at
glaciology. In recent years, he has focused on issues of mathematical education and outreach and he has developed a wide range of K-12 outreach projects. His current interests include the mathematical education of teachers, the scholarship of outreach, computational mathematics, and complex dynamics. Page 26.896.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Fundamental Research: Impacts of Outreach on Entering College Students Interests in STEM (Fundamental)IntroductionThe need to train qualified science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM
family member at both sessions, andsecond session hosted around 40 people, illustrating the size of the community created by theprograms. An important outcome of the post-program mentoring sessions was for the students topresent their research at a regional or national conference. Students worked with their mentorsshortly after the summer program ended to determine the best fitting conference for their workamong the potential opportunities. These opportunities included the ERN conference, ArkansasIDeA Network of Biomedical Research Excellence (Arkansas INBRE), the 2023 Membranes forViral Purification (MVP) Center annual meeting, and the 2023 MAST center annual meeting.Poster development and presentation practice sessions were held leading
; specifically, the cost modeling and analysis of product development and manufacturing systems; and computer-aided design methodology.Dr. Lisa Abrams, The Ohio State University Dr. Lisa Abrams is currently the Associate Chair for the Department of Engineering Education at The Ohio State University (OSU). She received her Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees in Mechanical Engineer- ing and PhD degree in Industrial Engineering from Ohio State. She has seven years of industry experience in the areas of Design and Consulting. Her research focuses on the recruitment, retention, and success of undergraduate students, especially those populations who are under-represented in engineering. She has developed and taught a wide variety of
skills,” sense of belonging, and learningexperiences for peer leaders and female CS students. Additionally, pair programming and peerinstruction may be viable practices that will help benefit women in computing with regards tolearning experiences and learning outcomes, but not their retention or persistence. Highlycollaborative course offerings, such as flipped classrooms and “trio of best practices”classrooms, were shown to improve learning experiences, learning outcomes, retention, andpersistence of minoritized women in computing. Future research is still needed aroundpedagogical impacts on individual intersections such as Black women, Latina women, andNative American women. Additionally, future quantitative studies should provide
Paper ID #20567Setting the Foundations for International and Cross-disciplinary Innovation:The U.S.-Denmark Summer School ”Renewable Energy: In Practice”Dr. Tela Favaloro, University of California, Santa Cruz Tela Favaloro received a B.S. degree in Physics and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the Univer- sity of California, Santa Cruz. She is currently working to further the development and dissemination of alternative energy technology; as project manager of a green building design initiative and researcher with the Center for Sustainable Engineering and Power Systems. Her background is in the development of
with a phenomenon? Professional development is a subset of learning and phenomenography focuses onlearning. Therefore, phenomenography can investigate research questions on the professionalformation of undergraduates, a topic of national interest [48]. The undergraduate curriculumbenefits by staying up to date with industry practices. Undergraduates have the opportunity to bemore prepared for the competitive high-stakes workforce. They have the opportunity to practicedifficult aspects of engineering and design. They have an opportunity to understand theworkforce they are about to enter. Industry gains new employees who are potentially betterequipped and trained for the technical and professional skills needed for the job. The
. degrees in Civil Engineering from the South Dakota School of Mines & Technology. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 To Be or Not to Be: A Dialogic Discussion of Two Researchers’ Hidden and Transitioning Identities Introduction Simplicities are enormously complex. Consider the sentence “I am”. With this opening adapted from a poem by Richard O. Moore (2010), we emphasize howsome of the simplest aspects of the human experience contain vast complexity: identity;belonging; education; justice. The CoNECD community focuses on these aspects and centers thescholarship and practice of equity and
committee. The facilitator also reminded the committeemembers to be respectful of what is and was within the control of the advisory committee.The committee provided considerable input that was distilled to the following vision.Vision • Our University is the BEST place for women in engineering and computing because it leverages world class best practices to recruit, retain, and graduate women, setting alumni up for lifelong success. • On our journey to achieve equity for women, the Women’s Advisory Committee continues to be a resource to the administration, faculty, students, and graduates. • Recruitment Vision: Incoming classes in the college include women at world class levels of representation, • Retention Vision
studying Human and Social Dimensions of Science and Technology in the School for the Future of Innovation in Society in ASU’s College of Global Futures. She practices Socio-technical Integration Research as an embedded social scientist who collaboratively works with technologists (STEM students, STEM faculty, and Tech Com- panies) to increase reflexive learning during technology development and implementation to pro-actively consider the impact of technology decisions on local communities and society at large. This work creates spaces and processes to explore technology innovation and its consequences in an open, inclusive and timely way.Mara Lopez, Arizona State University Dr. Mara Lopez is a full-time Research
environments actually helpingstudents to learn and to build confidence and motivation toward engineering design? Towardanswering this question, the juxtaposition of qualitative and quantitative research methods usedherein allows us to investigate the impact that these spaces are having on student motivation andconfidence in engineering design [8]. This paper presents results from mixed-methods researchconsisting of a longitudinal quantitative study and a qualitative interview study focused onunderstanding the factors leading toward student involvement in makerspaces.BackgroundThe longitudinal study presented in this paper consists of a survey that gathers information fromstudents on their involvement in the makerspace, self-efficacy for conducting
programming.The disruptive technologies are expected to be used and advanced in the progress of producingnew technologies. The recent development in transportation, such as autonomous and energy-efficient vehicles, defines a condition for the students in transportation engineering. So, studentsin the field of transportation engineering should be ready upon their graduation with newknowledge and skills that are compatible with the need of the industry. (Tang et. al, 2018; Li &Faghri, 2016).Undergraduate student research is found to be useful when the research question or problem isembedded in the real-life context. Research activities for students to promote knowledgeacquisition and developing critical skills can be practiced via different forms of
(CPE, LLB (Hons), M.Eng (Hons) , M.A. (Distinction), PhD, FIET, C.Eng, MBCS, CITP, SFHEA, MIEEE, FinstLM) started his career as a researcher for the International Or- ganisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva, working on the West Area Neutrino Facility and North Area 48. Since then Jo˜ao has held several positions in teaching and management in higher ed- ucation at institutions across the UK, Middle East, Africa and Asia. At Leeds Becket University, Jo˜ao specialised in teaching Mobile and Fixed Networking Technologies and introduced compendium-based teaching practices and led the design and implementation of the first Mobile and Distributed Computer Networks postgraduate course in UK. Jo˜ao authored and
Paper ID #27514The Impact of Participation in Multiple International Learning Experiencesfor Engineering StudentsJiabin Zhu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University Jiabin Zhu is an Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Education at Shanghai Jiao Tong Uni- versity. Her primary research interests relate to the assessment of teaching and learning in engineering, cognitive development of graduate and undergraduate students, and global engineering. She received her Ph.D. from the School of Engineering Education, Purdue University in 2013.Miss Yaxin Huang, Shanghai Jiao Tong University Yaxin Huang received a Bachelor’s degree in
Paper ID #30308A Review of the State of LGBTQIA+ Student Research in STEM andEngineering EducationMadeleine Jennings, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus Madeleine Jennings is a doctoral student and graduate research assistant at Arizona State University - Polytechnic Campus, pursuing a PhD in Engineering Education Systems and Design and a MS in Human Systems Engineering. They received a BS in Manufacturing Engineering from Texas State University - San Marcos. Madeleine’s research interests include investigating and improving the experiences of invisible identities in engineering, such as LGBTQIA+ engineering
in anthropology from Dickinson College.Dr. Matthew Frenkel, New York UniversityMr. Mikolaj Wilk, New York University Engineering Reference Associate at Bern Dibner Library c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018Project Shhh! A library design contest for engineering studentsBackground Bern Dibner Library of Science and Technology is an academic engineering librarysupporting the teaching and research needs of the faculty and student body of the New YorkUniversity Tandon School of Engineering. Tandon maintains a student population of about5,000 students, with roughly an even distribution between undergraduate and graduate students[1]. Located in Brooklyn, New York, Dibner Library is in an urban
Paper ID #43899Stories of Appalachian Engineers: A Phenomenographical Study of AppalachianStudents’ Quest for Success in Undergraduate Engineering ProgramsMr. Matthew Sheppard, Clemson University I earned my B.S. in Industrial Engineering and my M.S. in Mechanical Engineering; both at Clemson University. I have several years’ experience as a Manufacturing Engineer supporting process improvements, machine design, and capital project management. Now, I have entered into the Engineering and Science Education PhD program at Clemson University in tandem with teaching hands-on engineering principles in an undergraduate
Joyce B. Main is Associate Professor of Engineering Education at Purdue University. She received an Ed.M. in Administration, Planning, and Social Policy from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and a Ph.D. degree in Learning, Teaching, and Social Policy from Cornell University. Dr. Main examines student academic pathways and transitions to the workforce in science and engineering. She was a recipi- ent of the 2014 American Society for Engineering Education Educational Research and Methods Division Apprentice Faculty Award, the 2015 Frontiers in Education Faculty Fellow Award, and the 2019 Betty Vetter Award for Research from WEPAN. In 2017, Dr. Main received a National Science Foundation CAREER award to examine