and in person summer community development projects.Celebrate diversity of faculty and students while reducing gaps in opportunities andresources. In similar ways that we invite our graduate students in the [program deleted forreview], recognizing and valuing differences among Colombian faculty and students allowedthem to position themselves with respect to the histories of development and with specificstruggles of vulnerable communities. For example, during participatory workshops with students,they mapped their perspectives, began to position themselves and their histories in relation to thehistories of struggles in their territory, such as violent conflict around gold mining or Stateneglect in delivering basic services to their communities
Engineering Experiment Station, TAMUS TEES Research Scientist, Texas A&M University System Internal Evaluator and Data Collector for TAMUS LSAMPDr. Shannon D. Walton, Texas A&M University Shannon D. Walton, PhD, is the Director of Recruiting for the Office of Graduate and Professional Stud- ies and the Director of Educational Achievement for the Dwight Look College of Engineering at Texas A&M University. Holding dual positions, Dr. Walton’s responsibilities range from the recruitment and retention of a talented and diverse graduate student population to the management of science, technol- ogy, engineering and mathematics (STEM) programs, like the NSF-funded Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation
number of senior women faculty members hadchildren before they were awarded tenure and did not take extra time; some even went up fortenure consideration early.Climate related to collaborations within mechanical engineering departmentsCollaborations on grants and publicationsSenior female engineering faculty members recalled that prior to earning tenure, they were oftenadvised to do their research alone and only publish with their graduate students as co-authors toavoid the appearance that they may be unable to do their job independently. When I came here, one piece of advice I was given was be careful how much you collaborate, because when you go up for tenure, if you and big shot professor X have a joint proposal and joint
content, credit transfer, and accreditation concerns are understood by all members, streamlining communication about curricular issues. As members of a strong collaborative community that meets regularly to establish personal ties among members, institutions are more likely to be helpful with special needs, e.g., facilitating access to internships in faculty research laboratories or in local companies.3. Guidance and Support. Exchange of a flexible number of students with a wide range of partner institutions who provide personalized guidance and support to exchange participants. The ability to provide both guidance and support is a necessary member requirement.4. Institutional Visibility. Increased visibility for engineering programs
learning experiences and students designing to learn.Dr. Abhaya K. Datye, University of New Mexico Abhaya Datye has been on the faculty at the University of New Mexico after receiving his PhD in Chem- ical Engineering at the University of Michigan in 1984. He is presently Chair of the department and Distinguished Regents Professor of Chemical & Biological Engineering. From 1994-2014 he served as Director of the Center for Microengineered Materials, a strategic research center at UNM that reports to the Vice President for Research. He is also the founding director of the graduate interdisciplinary program in Nanoscience and Microsystems, the first program at UNM to span three schools and colleges and the Anderson
the individuals on the team, where abenefit could be learning for example. Our results, however, do not support the hypothesis thatthe guidelines that facilitate effective student teams also improve individual team memberlearning.IntroductionSoftware engineering projects at anything other than the smallest scales involve teams ofengineers. It is not surprising then, that courses in software engineering often include group andteam projects as part of both the students’ learning and their assessment. An informal survey ofthe courses in our own graduate software engineering program revealed that over half includegroup projects that contribute significantly (30% or more) to a student’s final grade. This isapparently in line with other engineering
representations to support conceptual design, design for manufacture and assembly, and design retrieval; developing computational representations and tools to support exploration of very complex engineering design spaces; research in solid freeform fabrication, including geometric processing, control, design tools, manufacturing applications; and design and development of energy harvesting systems. Crawford is co-founder of the DTEACh program, a Design Technology program for K-12, and is active on the faculty of the UTeachEngineering program that seeks to educate teachers of high school engineering.Dr. Christina Kay White, University of Texas, AustinDr. Chandra L. Muller, University of Texas, Austin Chandra Muller is
inspired to focus on International engineering education research. Her research interest broadly covers comparative education quality and engineering education innovation. Topics she is currently working on include Student assessment in project-based learning, General Curricula for students of Science and Technology(empirical case study), Standards of Engineering Education Accreditation(ABET), and the International Collaboration of Scholars in Graduate Education.Jennifer M Case (Chair, Engineering Education) Jennifer Case is Professor and Head of the Department of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech in the USA. Prior to her appointment in this post she was a Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the
focused on critical thinking, time management, and effective communication—skills essential for academic and personal success. Slide 7: Example of Skill Building Workshop • In this skill-building workshop, we focused on three key areas: critical thinking, time management, and effective communication. The session began with an engaging icebreaker where students introduced themselves and shared one personal goal for the semester, fostering a sense of community and collaboration. We then delved into critical thinking, exploring techniques such as questioning assumptions, evaluating evidence, and making well-reasoned arguments. Students participated in group activities that challenged them to analyze
lingering sense of dissatisfaction to students,such as low learning motivation, little demonstration of higher order skills, too little autonomyetc. One of the attempts for engineering education reform in Taiwan is to introduce accreditingprograms into colleges. In order to examine the core competence of student defined by ABETEC-2000, we aimed thus to develop a similar methodology under a three-year integrated projectthrough a joint research group from the National Central University, and Yuan Ze University.The cooperation of interdisciplinary expertise is intended to develop a series of guidelines to help Page 10.475.1the faculty to review the
instead exhibited non-cooperative behavior.The author asserted that these individuals thought that collaborative behavior indicatedweakness. As these convictions revealed themselves on projects, expectations were diminished,and distrust then ensued. Consequently, this distrust among project participants eventually led topoor communication, unfruitful conflict, and reduced performance. Many members of theconstruction industry understand this dilemma and attribute the problem to an unwillingness onthe part of the project participants to behave in a collaborative manner and this gives a startingpoint for research regarding how to promote more collaborative attitudes among constructionparticipants within the construction industry.25BackgroundIn 1607
socialresponsibility and sustainability.The IEEE, the IEE and other organizations are steadily gaining experience in the use ofthe tools provided by virtual communities software that includes the ability to post, share,discuss, and review information. The National Science Foundation is already usingvirtual communities for collaboration and is also greatly interested in their use tofacilitate the dissemination of funded projects.At this time, IEEE has a dozen communities, the most active one being the community onPower and Energy. Dozens of communities areplanned and under development, several in cooperation with other professionalassociations. This paper focuses on the costs, issues, opportunities, and challenges basedon the experience of IEEE and other
at Virginia Tech, his research focused on understanding engineering career choice in the Appalachian region of the United States. Matthew is currently employed as an engineer at Bledsoe Telephone Cooperative, a rural telecommunications service provider in Pikeville Tennessee.Dr. Holly M Matusovich, Virginia Tech Dr. Matusovich is an Assistant Professor and Assistant Department Head for Graduate Programs in Vir- ginia Tech’s Department of Engineering Education. She has her doctorate in Engineering Education and her strengths include qualitative and mixed methods research study design and implementation. She is/was PI/Co-PI on 8 funded research projects including a CAREER grant. She has won several Virginia Tech
serves as a pipeline for students graduating from the miniGEMSmiddle school programs wishing to continue to explore their intellectual curiosity through hands-on STEM research. Additionally, the students are then encouraged to apply for the 8-weekmegaGEMS High School Internship Program for juniors and seniors [2], [5] upon completion ofthe megaGEMS Unite program.As all of GEMS’ programs are funded through grants, GEMS is privileged to work with theAEOP Consortium. More specifically, GEMS has received funding from the Army EducationOutreach Program High School Apprenticeship Program and through the Technology StudentAssociation through grant submissions.The Army Education Outreach Program (AEOP) offers a collaborative and cohesive portfolioof
included if empathy development was amajor component examined or considered in the research. Many that integrated empathy did notdirectly explore its growth or development, it was more of a component considered or as part ofthe curriculum rather than the goal of the research. For example, McDonald and Pan (2020)presented feedback from graduate students on ethical considerations for artificial intelligence[49]. While this work elicited insight into prompting consideration of bias and fairness, fosteringempathy was more of an indirect outcome than the phenomena of focus. Alternatively studiesconducted in other countries were excluded since the interpretation and assessment of empathymay vary by culture depending on the societal norms and preferences
analytical thinking skills of 80% and 75% for CARE 11 and 10 groups, respectively, and helped the students understand and complete their math and science tasks. Analytical Reasoning- learning by-design activities improved analytical reasoning of over 65% of the students compared to 66% using STEM research projects with faculty. Design projects helped 67% of students explore their potentials (with 61% and 71% for CARE 10 and CARE 11, respectively).The agreement is probably higher one the over 30% students were “not sure” or disagreed. CARE 10 students who took Logic/Problem
Curriculum, Teaching, and Educational Policy graduate program at Michigan State University in 2010. Her current research focuses on three key areas: (1) de- signing, developing, and conducting validation studies on assessments of content knowledge for teaching (CKT) science; (2) examining and understanding validity issues associated with measures designed to assess science teachers’ instructional quality, including observational measures, value-added measures, student surveys, and performance-based tasks; and (3) extending and studying the use of these knowl- edge and instructional practices measures of science teaching quality as summative assessment tools for licensure purposes and as formative assessment tools
and by inviting all (toddlers to grandparents) to participate in exploration.45, 47, 54, 60 Page 15.501.6 Figure 2: Top reasons for parents’ interest in IridescentEngineers as Teachers: Personalization, Defined Outcomes, and Challenging ContentBy working with engineers at the university level, Iridescent provides families with challengingcontent and college readiness experiences, key components to increasing the participation ofminorities and women in STEM courses and careers6. University engineers also provide accessto the field of engineering that would not normally be accessible to the students at
and workforce demands. Some universities have begun developinginnovative doctoral programs that explore alternative defense pathways beyond the traditionaldissertation model. One such initiative is the Pathway to Entrepreneurship Patent Program,which offers a creative, student-centered framework within graduate education [1]. The purposeof this study is to investigate doctoral students’ and faculty’s experiences and perceptions with apilot patent defense program in engineering disciplines. Despite growing interest, there is limitedresearch on an alternative patent proposal defense for engineering doctoral students. Mostdoctoral programs remain focused on conventional academic research and are often less alignedwith applied science and
kinesthetic. Figure 5 shows one section of the controlroom in the Global Classroom. Page 23.1162.11 Figure 5. The Control Room of the Global Classroom3.4. Module Four: Asynchronous ToolsWhile synchronous learning enables students to meet at the same time for discussions,presentations and collaboration, asynchronous learning enables students to learn at differenttimes and locations. Instructors using asynchronous learning methods must think carefully abouthow they want to provide students with learning materials that can be studied at their own pace,when time is available. The environment should also provide a place where the
-Implement-Operate (CDIO), while making the key success-enabling principle ofthe Minority Engineering Program model--collaborative learning--an explicit and integrated partengineering curriculum design. The approach involves establishing a model framework foradapting and implementing CDIO so that it: can be generalized for and have programmaticimpact at other predominantly minority institutions similar to CSUN; can contribute to anevolving community of interaction, development and ongoing improvements in the education ofminority engineering students; and can significantly increase the number of minority studentsable to Conceive-Design-Implement-Operate new products and systems. The framework consistsof two components: adaptation and implementation
can be connected with my current idea or solution?” for guiding the generation of new solutions or ideas for generation of ideas ; Elaboration prompts are designed to activate strategies and help students elaborate and articulate their thinking and reasoning process, such as “How can I develop and expand this idea by both using my existing knowledge and understanding or researching more information?” for exploration of more idea or solutions; and Reflective prompts are intended to serve as cues to provoke students’ reflections and elicit self-evaluation on what happen in the past, such as “What did I leads me successfully to the right solution and how can I apply this into other similar
and learning process. The goal of this project is to explore the educational philosophiesenacted in the most impactful undergraduate classrooms, according to graduate students’perceptions, in order to give the new educator a foundation for their own course design process.Previous ResearchWhy Examine Students’ Perceptions of Learning Environments?At the start of the new semester, students enter a classroom not as “blank slates,” but withparticular conceptions about teaching and learning based on their prior experiences5. As a result,the effects of learning activities and perceptions of classroom interactions among the instructorand the students may differ by student5,8. Further, research has also shown that students’conceptions about teaching
York ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024Websites as Gateways to Inclusive Partnerships: Examining diversity representation forenvironmental nonprofits and engineering programs in Buffalo, New YorkAbstractThis research paper, targeting ECSJ-DEED joint session, aims to explore the importance ofdiversity representation on environmental nonprofit websites, particularly in Buffalo, New York.Assessing these websites is crucial when seeking potential partners for engineering programs andcommunity collaborations. By rigorously evaluating websites, we establish a foundation forinformed partnerships that enhance engineering students’ educational experiences. Websitesserve as a vital medium for organizations to
chapters. She is a former board member of the National Association of Research in Science Teaching and past president of the Association for Science Teacher Education.Dr. Elizabeth Ring-Whalen, St. Catherine University Elizabeth A. Ring-Whalen is an Assistant Professor of Education at St. Catherine University in St. Paul, MN. She holds a PhD in Curriculum and Instruction - STEM Education from the University of Min- nesota. Her research focuses on STEM education and what this looks like in PreK-12 classrooms and explores teachers’ beliefs of integrated STEM as well as how these beliefs influence teachers’ practices and student achievement in the classroom. Alongside this research, she has worked to explore the atti
Paper ID #46536Peer and self-assessment of teamwork for students with accommodations in aproject-based laboratory course.Dr. Bridget M. Smyser, Northeastern University Dr. Smyser is a Teaching Professor in the Mechanical and Industrial Engineering department at Northeastern University with research interests including lab and design pedagogy, inclusive teaching, and neurodiversity in STEM. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2025Paper from Practice: Peer and self-assessment of teamwork for students with accommodations in a project-based laboratory course.Student accommodations for
from the University of Victoria in 1987. As a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Waterloo, his research focus is machining, and he is well known for developing innovative 5-axis tool-positioning and flank- milling techniques. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Towards a Multi-Disciplinary Teamwork Training Series for Undergraduate Engineering Students: Development and Assessment of Two First-Year WorkshopsAbstractTeams have become the default work structure in organizations; thus, in work settings thatemphasize teamwork, employees must have knowledge, skills and abilities (KSAs) tocommunicate and coordinate with their
has worked as a consultant and researcher in tech companies. Amin’s hobbies include exploring the outdoors, trying new food, and traveling.Dr. Emily Moore P.Eng., University of Toronto Professor Emily Moore is the Director of Troost Institute for Leadership Education in Engineering (ILead) at the University of Toronto. She leads research and teaches on topics such as how engineers lead and learn to lead both as students and in practice. She has published on engineering leadership, equity in engineering, and incorporating systems thinking into complex decision making. Emily was appointed as Director of ILead in October, 2018 after more than twenty years in industry. Emily started her career at the Xerox Research
conflicts between profit motives andpublic good, leading some engineers to change careers (1). Common ethical issues includeillegal waste dumping and data manipulation (2). Research suggests a concerning link be-tween academic dishonesty in engineering education and unethical behavior in professionalsettings. Studies have found that engineering students are among the most likely to engagein academic cheating (3; 4). This behavior appears to correlate with unethical conduct in theworkplace, as demonstrated by surveys exploring decision-making patterns in both academicand professional contexts (5). These findings highlight the need for interventions to addressunprofessional behavior. Researchers have identified various approaches, with most interven
courses on Computer Security, Be- havioral Cybersecurity, and Applied Computational Cognitive Modeling to undergraduate and graduate students. Dr. Aggarwal has strong interdisciplinary collaborations with various universities and such collaboration will be beneficial for this project. Dr. Aggarwal published her research work in various conferences including HFES, HICSS, ICCM, GameSec, and journals including Human Factors, Topics in Cognitive Science, and Computers & Security. Her papers in HICSS-2020 and GameSec-2020 received ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Paper ID #39324 the