Paper ID #41494Factors Driving and Impeding STEM Student Motivations and Success ¨Ms. Claudia Calle Muller, Florida International University Claudia Calle M¨uller is a Ph.D. student in Civil and Environmental Engineering at Florida International University (FIU). She holds a B.S. in Civil Engineering from Pontificia Universidad Cat´olica del Per´u (PUCP). Claudia has 4+ years’ experience in structural engineering designing reinforced concrete residential and commercial buildings in Peru; 2+ years’ experience in entrepreneurship building a successful health coaching and wellness business; and 4+ years
Paper ID #44536Constructing the Future from Where We Already Stand: A Workshop BridgingLatine Everyday Ingenuity and Connected LearningDr. Raul Mishael Sedas, Caltech; LIGO Educational researcher and evaluator of out-of-school environments focused on engineering. Learning scientist and designer interested in design-based activities that foster and enhance STEAM+Design learning for the empowerment of non-dominant populations. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Constructing The Future From Where We Already Stand: A Workshop Bridging Latine Everyday Ingenuity and
Organ Behav, 22(2), pp. 89–106.[17] Eppler, M. J., 2006, “A Comparison between Concept Maps, Mind Maps, Conceptual Diagrams, and Visual Metaphors as Complementary Tools for Knowledge Construction and Sharing,” Information Visualization, 5(3), pp. 202–210.[18] Dixon R. A., and Johnson S. D., 2011, “Experts vs. Novices: Differences in How Mental Representations are Used in Engineering Design,” J. Technol. Educ., 23(1).[19] Solvie, P. A., and Sungur, E. A., 2006, “Concept Maps/Graphs/Trees/Vines In Education.” Proceedings of 5th WSEAS International Conference on E-Activities. Venice, Italy. 220– 228[20] Sands, D., Parker, M., Hedgeland, H., Jordan, S., and Galloway, R., 2018, “Using Concept Inventories to Measure
Paper ID #41871Designing Equitable STEM Education Modules with Renewable Energy TechnologiesDr. Matthew Aldeman, Illinois State University Matthew Aldeman is an Associate Professor of Technology at Illinois State University, where he teaches in the Sustainable & Renewable Energy and Engineering Technology undergraduate programs.Prof. James Mathias, Southern Illinois University, CarbondaleDaniel Austin Darcy, Illinois State UniversityCheron James ElmsKaitlyn Marie QuinnDouglas Andracki ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Designing Equitable STEM Education Modules
Paper ID #41408How to Develop a Culture of Coding for the Future: A Case Study of themegaGEMS Coding AcademyGeorge Zaccheus Sikazwe, University of the Incarnate Word George Z. Sikazwe is an undergraduate electrical engineering student at the University of the Incarnate Word in San Antonio, Texas. Mr. Sikazwe is passionate about applying engineered solutions to real-world problems. As a student research assistant in the Autonomous Vehicle Systems Research Laboratories his focus is in computational intelligence, specifically applications of deep learning onto hardware. For the GEMS (Girls in Engineering, Math, and Science
Paper ID #42987Work-in-Progress: Visualizing Bubble Formation on Pt2Al3 Surface duringDibenzyltoluene (DBT) DehydrogenationIl Yoon, University of North GeorgiaChandler Levi Davis, University of North Georgia Student researcher for the UNG FUSE summer research program. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024Work-in-Progress: Visualizing Bubble Formation on Pt2Al3 Surfaceduring Dibenzyltoluene (DBT) DehydrogenationIl Yoon, University of North GeorgiaChandler Davis, University of North GeorgiaAbstractDibenzyl Toluene (DBT) has emerged as a highly promising Liquid Organic Hydrogen Carrier(LOHC) for efficient hydrogen storage
was not likely to occur in the summer 2021.Students from the University of Pittsburgh had typically traveled to Denmark during the summerfor an international experience as part of electrical engineering coursework. During fall 2020,instructors and study abroad professionals from the University of Pittsburgh and the DenmarkTechnical University began meeting to brainstorm potential next steps and possibilities (if any).In lieu of travel, virtual research talks and company tours could be offered to students at bothuniversities as “international experiences.” However, upon getting very creative and with anopen mind, this group decided to pursue a course to be co-taught by instructors from bothuniversities that encompassed project-based learning
Paper ID #43984A Case Study of Student-Community Interaction through an Education-FirstAssistive Device Design ClassProf. Hannah S. Stuart, University of California, Berkeley Hannah Stuart (Senior Member, IEEE, 2023) received the Ph.D. degree in mechanical engineering from Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA in 2018. She is the Don M. Cunningham Assistant Professor in mechanical engineering with the University of California at Berkeley, where she founded the Embodied Dexterity Group. Her research interests include design for human assistance, autonomous robots, haptics, and bioinspiration. Dr. Stuart is a recipient of the
Paper ID #43764Experiences of Nuclear Workforce Pipeline Development and Maintenanceat a Historically Black College University (HBCU)Dr. Antony Kinyua, Morgan State University Dr Kinyua is an Associate Professor of Nuclear Science and currently affiliated to the Department of Physics and Engineering Physics at Morgan State University (MSU) as a lecturer teaching Engineering Physics and Earth Sciences. He has more than 30 years of experience. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024Experiences of Nuclear Workforce Pipeline Development and Maintenance at a Historically BlackCollege University (HBCU
Design self-efficacy. This is inconsistent with prior studies inwhich identifying as a Man proved to be a significant predictor [2] or highly correlated toself-efficacy in the domain of engineering [5]. In recent years, much attention has been placed onincreasing representation and recruitment of women in applied sciences and engineering,examples of which include: hiring more women faculty members [10] and creating STEM clubsin high schools for woman-identifying students [14]. All-girl STEM extracurriculars haveenabled woman-identifying students to become more resilient to gender biases and stereotypes,in addition to collaborating with like-minded individuals [14]. Also, our sample contained 43.5%of respondents identifying within the Gender
Paper ID #43510Project-Based Learning: Wireless Sensor Node Project for 2nd-Year ECEStudentsMr. Shuxiang Yu, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Shuxiang Yu is currently an instructor in the Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Virginia Tech.Dr. Tyler Milburn, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Tyler Milburn is currently an Instructor in the Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Virginia Tech. Tyler received his B.S. and M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Ohio State in 2016 and 2018. In 2023, he completed his Ph.D in Engineering
Paper ID #45360Impact of a Femalized Architecture, Engineering, and Construction KinestheticLearning Model on the AEC Career Knowledge, Self-efficacy, and OutcomeExpectations of African American Middle School GirlsMiss Mercy Folashade Fash, North Carolina A&T State University Mercy Fash is a dedicated and accomplished PhD candidate in the Applied Science and Technology program at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (NC A&T). Her research is primarily focused on increasing racial and gender diversity in STEM careers, addressing critical gaps and promoting inclusivity in these fields. Mercy’s
engineers. In many cases they fell into a trapas freshmen when some evil force behind the curtain told them that they were not creative andcreativity was a strange item practiced by those characters in departments like Theatre andEnglish. Over the years all incoming junior mechanical engineers at Michigan State Universityhave been writing poetry, not to punish them or to drive them to the dark side, but to allow themto widen their perspective on the world in which engineers inhabit with other people who are justas creative as they.Yes, all people have an enormous amount of creativity. It simply takes a gentle push orsometimes a swift kick to open their minds to their creative selves. Writing poetry can be afascinating and creative endeavor that
Aeronautics & Astronautics from Purdue University, West Lafayette in 1989. In 2004, he joined the Virginia Commonwealth University as aKimberlee Ann Swisher ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Using Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools in middle school instruction and its impact (Work in progress)AbstractArtificial Intelligence (AI) has been praised and vilified across the human spectrum. Suchextreme reviews can be confusing to young learners, such as at the middle school level. Studentsat the middle school are at critical growth phase, where habits of the mind start being formed. Itis therefore important to create interest and establish confidence in AI use at an early
workshop materials and LEGO SPIKE system in a classroomenvironment.Continued work towards the development of a mobile roadshow version of the AIR workshopswill also be presented, as will metrics on student demographics and STEAM topic exposure. Theroadshow concept, whereby a subset of the week-long summer program is presented in a four tosix-hour format was beta-tested in October of 2022. The intent of the roadshow is to bringrobotics educational opportunities to under-represented and economically limited communities.The authors continue to seek funding to implement the concept fully.IntroductionThe intersection of Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics (STEAM)education is vital for nurturing young minds and fostering future
Paper ID #42971Creating Learning Communities for Student Success in Gateway DiscreteLinear SystemsDr. Cheryl B. Schrader, Wright State University Cheryl B. Schrader recently retired as president and rejoined full-time professor ranks in Wright State University’s Department of Electrical Engineering. Prior to Wright State she served as chancellor of Missouri University of Science and Technology and associate vice president for research and dean of engineering at Boise State University. Professor Schrader earned her BSEE degree from Valparaiso University and MSEE and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Notre Dame. Over her
vehicles.Feedback from students revealed high excitement and engagement, along with a deeperunderstanding of the topics in lesser-known areas of Optimization, Human Factors Engineering,and Robotics. Our experience supports the value of hosting more outreach programs on variousengineering topics, utilizing hands-on activities with enriching learning experiences to broaden 14access for diverse student populations and encourage interest in engineering and related fields.STEM programs should continue to focus on providing outreach programs for underrepresentedpopulations to nurture young minds and diversify representation in STEM fields. By increasingstudents
methods, or impactful results.Some STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Math) events take the format of atraditional science fair, where students develop experiments and present, but integrate arts andcreativity. These tend to still be focused on students ages 10 and up [5] [6]. Alternatively,STEAM Nights tend to be family events where attendees visit various booths to conduct hands-on activities appropriate for all ages. These nights are an opportunity for students and theirfamilies to engage in a plethora of hands-on, mind-on activities. They ignite an interest inacademic areas that perhaps students would not typically be interested in or deepen an alreadyfound passion. STEAM Nights are generally set-up as an open house style event
school students. The curriculum development team developed aschedule that included short lectures/speakers, tours of both campuses' facilities, tours of localmanufacturing companies, and various hands-on/minds-on activities ranging from intro toelectronics to designing and programming microcontroller creations. These activities are detailedbelow.Short lectures/speakersSeveral short lectures were included to introduce the various players in the program. Thesespeakers covered a range of topics that included careers in the semiconductor industry, giving anelevator pitch, education pathways, applications for semiconductors in everyday life, and howsemiconductors are manufactured.Campus toursStudents toured engineering/technology buildings and spaces
Grant No.2306178. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendation expressed in this materialare those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National ScienceFoundation.References[1] J. Trevelyan, “Transitioning to engineering practice,” Eur. J. Eng. Educ., vol. 44, no. 6, pp. 821–837, Nov. 2019, doi: 10.1080/03043797.2019.1681631.[2] Z. S. Byrne, J. W. Weston, and K. Cave, “Development of a Scale for Measuring Students’ Attitudes Towards Learning Professional (i.e., Soft) Skills,” Res. Sci. Educ., vol. 50, no. 4, pp. 1417–1433, Aug. 2020, doi: 10.1007/s11165-018-9738-3.[3] R. P. Aleman and et al, “Mind the Gap: Exploring the Exploring the Perceived Gap Between Social and Technical Aspects
Engineering Education, 2024 Design Iterations as Material Culture Artifacts: A Qualitative Methodology for Design Education ResearchAbstractStudying design processes requires the researcher to move with the designer as they negotiate anaction-reflection cycle comprised of a multitude of relationships, including the designer’srelation to themselves, to human and more-than-human others, and to the beliefs, values, andassumptions that design us every day. This paper’s goal is to introduce a qualitative methodologyfor studying the complex relationality of design, particularly (but not exclusively) in anarchitectural design education context. This methodology has theoretical and methodologicalunderpinnings in Process Philosophy and
University. His specializations include qualitative methods, post-secondary transitions, and academic writing.Dr. John Carrell, Texas Tech University John Carrell is Assistant Professor of Engineering at the Texas Tech University Honors College. He received his doctorate in industrial engineering from Texas Tech University and his research focuses on enriching engineering education through the humanities.Michael Scott Laver, Rochester Institute of Technology Michael Laver received his bachelor’s degree from Purdue University, West Lafayette in 1996 in both history and psychology, and his Masters and PhD in East Asian Languages and Civilization from the University of Pennsylvania in 2006. He is currently a professor in the
colonialism can be perpetuatedthrough engineering.To address this gap, I designed course lectures and shared resources that could speak to howpower dynamics and systems of oppression impact engineering design. A critical considerationfor me was the belief that discussions around topics such as race, gender, class, etc. should not berelegated to one week focused on “equity.” I was worried that relegating all equity- and justice-related content to one week would devalue it in the minds of students and perpetuate the idea thatall the other content in the course was neutral or apolitical. My course had two full weeksdedicated especially to gender and colonialism in the course. In addition, most of the other weeksincluded concepts, ideas, and examples
event a success. Many havecontinued to create additional opportunities for education, public dialogue, and impact in their respectiveenvironments. Considering these indications that the program was a success, this study’s research objectives aremeant to draw from that collective experience and provide insight for engineering educators designing similar skill-sharing events between engineers and students and professionals from other disciplines, especially those stemmingfrom a specific need to take a multi-sectoral approach. With that in mind, this study of that program, as well asreflections on this interdisciplinary collaboration and measures of the program’s impacts, was a valuable opportunityto examine our research questions and derive
solve theproblem—as the designer proceeds in the design process. Andrews connected design failures toPiaget’s “perturbations” in the environment that encourage students to get curious and learn [4,9]. Another way to consider how design failure may inspire learning is to compare it to howanomalous data may do the same in science education. As Chinn and Malhotra found in fourseparate experiments, “upper elementary school children are fair minded in their observations ofdata about empirical regularities in science, and they are willing and able to change their beliefsin response to their observations” (p. 342) [10].Squarely in the engineering education space, Crismond [11, 12] and Crismond and Adams [2]assert the importance of diagnostic
Paper ID #41604Remote Learning: A Means to Advance Educational Equity in Isolated orRural RegionsMr. Marcelo Caplan, Columbia College Marcelo Caplan - Associate Professor, Department of Science and Mathematics, Columbia College Chicago. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024Remote Learning: A Means to Advance Educational Equity in Isolated or Rural Regions (Evaluation ofProgram/Curriculum) 1. AbstractA significant disparity exists in the quality of education between urban and rural areas in Latin America.While urban centers and towns benefit from well-equipped schools staffed by qualified educators
Paper ID #43089Corsi-Rosenthal Box Learning Module: How Can We Make Clean Air Accessiblefor Schools? (Resource Exchange)Aaron Richardson, University of Connecticut Aaron Richardson studies and teaches with a focus on social and racial justice, accessibility, and creating relevant curriculum that will make use of students’ lived experiences and knowledge to help them bring their own personal meaning to their education and into the classroom. Aaron Richardson’s interest in the Corsi-Rosenthal Learning Module project revolved around accessible, relevant science and engineering education for students by using phenomena that
answer two general short-answer questions followed by aquestionnaire containing specific items where you will rank the frequency and importance of variouscommunication modes and skills.In a few sentences, please give your initial responses to the following questions (no need to spendsignificant time, it can be whatever comes to mind first): 1) What communication skills do new engineering graduates need to improve? 2) What are the top one or two ways new engineering graduates can improve their communication skills? Communications WRITTEN How often used Daily Weekly Monthly
we have toreach people on a deeper intellectual, emotional, and moral level. . . A candid sharing ofperspectives on race—grounded in facts. . .leads to greater awareness and action” (p. xviii).Throughout The Conversation, Livingston offers research findings and imaginative analogies thatare relevant to the discourse on diversity in engineering. In a similar vein, Jonathan Haidt in TheRighteous Mind: Why Good People Divided by Politics and Religion (2013) presents a socialintuitionist model of persuasion that explicates the underlying processes by which socialinteraction “sometimes leads people to change their minds” (p. 55). Together with rhetoricaltheory, social psychology provides us with available resources for persuasion that could be
Paper ID #42788Investigating Student Experiences of Inclusion and Exclusion to Guide MakerspaceDevelopmentDr. Aubrey Wigner, Colorado School of Mines Aubrey Wigner is an assistant professor at the Colorado School of Mines where he teaches engineering design, entrepreneurship, and systems design.Dr. Dean Nieusma, Colorado School of Mines Dean Nieusma is Associate Professor and Division Director of Engineering, Design, & Society at Colorado School of Mines.Catherine Chase Corry, Colorado School of MinesJulianne Stevens, Colorado School of Mines ©American Society for Engineering Education