STEM as a career path[2]. Not only does this underrepresentation of low-SES graduates impact the overall numbers ofSTEM professionals in the U.S., but it also means that those graduates are missing out on all ofthe financial and professional benefits that a job in STEM offers.To address the representation gap in STEM for low-income students, the National ScienceFoundation created the Scholarships in STEM (S-STEM) grant program. NSF seeks to supportevidence-based initiatives that will support low-income STEM students financially and in othernon-financial ways. The Endeavour Program was developed as one of those initiatives, and itprovides scholarships for 80 students over their first two years in a STEM major. Knowing thatthe link between
Mexico, Drake State Technical College, and Chandler-Gilbert Community Col- lege. The award focused on expanding outreach activities to increase the awareness of potential college students about career opportunities in electronics technologies. Dr. Alaraje is a member of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), a member of the ASEE Electrical and Computer Engineer- ing Division, a member of the ASEE Engineering Technology Division, a senior member of the Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers (IEEE), and a member of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology Department Heads Association (ECETDHA).Prof. Scott A Kuhl, Michigan Technological University Scott Kuhl is an Associate Professor
including building tangible artifacts, design work, impacting society,fundamental technical knowledge, creativity, real-life application, problem-solving, andteamwork. The findings demonstrate diverse practices that drew different students to pursueengineering as a major and a career. This work can contribute to our understanding of howengineering courses can recognize and provide development opportunities for a wide variety ofengineering practices, ultimately supporting students in achieving their goals as engineers.Introduction & MotivationEngineering practice leverages a variety of technical and social knowledge and skills. However,engineering coursework tends to emphasize technical knowledge and skills required to practiceengineering work
response to identification of these systemic issues, in 2001 the National Science Foundationlaunched Institutional Transformation grants as a new initiative in the ADVANCE program.Research planning grants and career advancement grants supporting individual women werephased out, and greater emphasis was placed on systemic change within academic institutions[33]. From a review of 37 ADVANCE institutional transformation initiatives from 2001 to 2008,Morimoto and coauthors argued that creating equity in gendered organizations must go wellbeyond articulating policy, beyond attending to the needs of individuals, and beyond workingtoward balanced gender composition among the ranks of faculty, all of which they characterizedas surface-level work [5]. In
has been honored by the American Society of Engineering Education with several teaching awards such as the 2004 National Outstanding Teaching Medal and the 2005 Quinn Award for experiential learning.Dr. Rocio C Chavela Guerra, American Society for Engineering Education Rocio Chavela is Director of Education and Career Development at the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE). She holds a Ph.D. in Engineering Education from Purdue University, a B.S. and a M.S. in Chemical Engineering from Universidad de las Americas, Puebla in Mexico. Rocio’s current efforts focus on engineering faculty and graduate student development, with particular emphasis on the adoption of evidence-based instructional practices.Ms
Society of Engineering Educa- tion with several teaching awards such as the 2004 National Outstanding Teaching Medal and the 2005 Quinn Award for experiential learning. She was 2014-15 Fulbright Scholar in Engineering Education at Dublin Institute of Technology (Ireland).Dr. Rocio C. Chavela Guerra, American Society for Engineering Education Rocio Chavela is Director of Education and Career Development at the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE). She holds a Ph.D. in Engineering Education from Purdue University, a B.S. and a M.S. in Chemical Engineering from Universidad de las Americas, Puebla in Mexico. Rocio’s current efforts focus on engineering faculty and graduate student development, with particular
students being from rural communities, and ~36% being first-generation collegestudents. As has been discussed, all accepted students to the PTG program possessed a greatfinancial need as displayed by their eligibility for the Pell grant and/or the Subsidized StaffordLoan programs [1]. Each accepted student received scholarships of up to $4,500 for those who hadnot joined the HC, and up to $5,500 for those that did join the HC. Our success in recruitment hasbeen due to the implementation of the NSF-funded S-STEM program BreakingBarriers/Engineering Career Awareness Program (ECAP) [DUE1154146] fall recruitment bestpractices, as well as HC best practices. The Honors College has three Honors College recruiters,including one who now specializes in
topursue her interest in culture, mindfulness, and motivation in cross-cultural and international contexts. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019Social Networks Analysis of African American Engineering Students at a PWI and an HBCU – A Comparative StudyThe central objective of this interdisciplinary, inter-institutional PFE: Research Initiation inEngineering Formation (PFE: RIEF) project is to conduct a comparative study of the factorsaffecting the success and pathways to engineering careers of African American students at aPredominantly White Institution (PWI) and a Historically Black University (HBCU). The studyfocuses on investigating the criticality of the following three
disseminated.Project Rationale 2 There are many ways in which students can pursue the goal of earning a four yeardegree in engineering. Traditionally, students enroll in courses and earn a degreeattending the same four-year institution. While this method is appropriate for many students,other paths are becoming increasingly popular. An alternative path is through the use oftwo year institutions as a mechanism for the completion of a four year degree. Today,many students are choosing to begin their college career at community colleges andtransfer to a four year institution after a period of time to complete their degree. The benefits ofstarting at a community
the building of confidence in conducting research 65. These instruments have been developed by an external evaluator and will be collected by PI.• Course evaluations: The standard questionnaire administered by Rowan will be collected by the course instructor and will serve to provide student feedback on the experiments. Data will be collected by PI.• Surveys of K-12 educators and other partners: Reflective journals and surveys that measure teachers’ self-efficacy, concerns on adoption of the modules, and their students’ career aspirations towards engineering and perceived impact on students’ knowledge and attitudes will be administered. These instruments have been tested and validated by INSPIRE (external evaluator) and
consulting experience spanned eight years and included extensive work with the US military in Japan, Korea, and Hawaii. In 2008 Elizabeth shifted the focus of her career to education and academia, later receiving her Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from Arizona State University. Prior to her position at Cal Poly Dr. Adams taught engineering for 13 years in community colleges in Arizona and California. Her work highlights a commitment to undergraduate engineering education and its improvement through best teaching practices. Her research efforts are focused on increasing transfer student success.Dr. Nihal Orfi, Fresno City College Dr. Nihal Orfi teaches full time as an Engineering faculty at Fresno City College. She obtained her
1. Briefly, the centerpiece of the program is our quarterly Success inSTEM seminar, which students take every quarter for their first two years at University ofWashington Tacoma. Through these weekly sessions, students connect with each other and withtheir faculty cohort mentor, learning to support each other through challenging times,developing a growth mindset towards their academic journey, understanding barriers that leadto equity gaps in STEM such as stereotype threat and imposter syndrome, and building a senseof belonging and self-efficacy. The seminar allows participants to explore co-curricularopportunities (e.g., student clubs), campus resources such as disability services and financial aidoffices, and career preparation, while
organization. Engineering-focused companies require a diverse workforce that is capable of innovation and many studentswill not join these types of firms in as their first employer post-college. Intrapreneurial skillshave been shown to facilitate career progression and improve managerial skills andopportunities. In order to address the need for more STEM workers to have intrapreneurial skills,TIP recruited and enrolled academically talented and diverse electrical and computer engineeringundergraduate students. TIP provided a multi-faceted approach to improve entrepreneurshipskills. Specifically, the program combined faculty and industry mentorship, workforcedevelopment seminars, an industrial internship, entrepreneurship programs, and scholarships
sessions. The courseinstructor was from the math department and was not connected directly with the project. Thecourse description and outcomes are listed below.Course Description: An intensive review of pre-calculus mathematics for engineering students.The course will include hands-on activities and a field trip.Course Objectives: • Review pre-calculus mathematics topics. • Practice by applying pre-calculus to engineering problems. • Meet and interact with engineers at local engineering companies. • Explore campus resources (e.g., Learning Commons, Campus Wellness, Career Services).Student Feedback:Student feedback was gathered as part of an end-of-the-quarter survey and focus group sessionswith the external evaluator. Three
WorldInternational research collaborations provide important opportunities to support innovativeresearch and address the significant global challenges facing the world today. One way todevelop researchers who are both interculturally competent and able to navigate global researchnetworks within their field is to provide international research experiences for students. Priorwork has indicated that such experiences lead to a wide range of learning outcomes includingintercultural competence, research skills, personal development, and, importantly, a newperspective on their career goals and trajectory [1]–[6]. However, in the midst of the COVID-19pandemic, international collaborations and programs for students faced challenges in continuingtheir typical
and high school students with racially minoritized backgrounds, theCatalyzing Inclusive STEM Experiences All Year Round (CISTEME365) initiative aimsto better understand practices that increase students' motivation and capacities in pursuitof careers in STEM fields. Overall, the project aims to develop transformative paradigmsfor advancing interests, self-efficacy, abilities, and pathways in STEM with a set of threeinterconnected strategies. • School-based teams of classroom teachers and academic advisors participate in year-round professional learning experiences focused on diversity, equity, and inclusion in STEM, as well as a project-based electrical engineering curriculum. • Participating schools receive resources and
professional development requirementahead of COE career fairs.• GNEN 1000 Introduction to Engineering. This course will explore the various disciplines ofengineering in historical, present, and future context while incorporating basic design principlesin an interdisciplinary model. At the end of this course the student should have a significantunderstanding of all areas of Engineering, the emerging technologies, career prospects, andresearch possibilities therein.At UToledo most students admitted to the COE are placed directly in their major and take anintroduction to engineering course that is specific to their major during their first year. Studentsworking towards the transfer requirements for the COE therefore did not have access to a coursethat
thetransfer to a new university easy. Strategies employed by the LINK scholarship program focuson integration of new transfer students into the College of Engineering culture and onprofessional planning and skill development. We recognize that extracurricular involvement andleadership experience while an engineering student are important aspects in professionaldevelopment, but that a two-year timeline makes them difficult to achieve without intentionality.Efforts to integrate new transfers include a zero-credit (no cost) seminar that serves to familiarizestudents with the college and university environment and resources. Resumes are written,evaluated, and edited, and visits from the career services offices make sure that students areaware of support
study relied on qualitative interviews, using artifact elicitation interviews and constructivist critical incident technique interviews, of adult Makers. Through inductive analysis of a collection of interviews with Makers, a theme emerged where Makers from different educational backgrounds and with different careers (e.g., art, STEM, business) were making artifacts that had similar purposes. We present two cases of parallel pathways, (1) musical artifacts and (2) large-scale interactive artifacts, to demonstrate the multiple, parallel life pathways that Makers take to making their artifacts and the contextual events and activities that are critical to the direction of these pathways. The stories
graduate students and post-doctoral faculty), but the majority wereAssistant or Associate Professors (i.e., early careers rather than later careers).While the symposium was designed to allow faculty members to share specific teachingtools and techniques, we wanted to understand more about culture change. To explore this,we created a post-symposium survey to prompt participants to think deeply about thequestion of culture change. There were two open-ended questions (n = 21 responses): 1. Research I (R1) university is a category that the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education uses to indicate universities in the United States that engage in the highest levels of research activity. There is currently no
Science Foundation (NSF) and industry.Dr. Jacqueline A. Isaacs, Northeastern University Dr. Jacqueline Isaacs joined Northeastern in 1995 and has focused her research pursuits on assessment of the regulatory, economic, environmental and ethical issues facing the development of nanomanufacturing and other emerging technologies. Her 1998 NSF Career Award is one of the first that focused on environ- mentally benign manufacturing. She also guides research on development and assessment of educational computer games where students explore environmentally benign processes and supply chains in manufac- turing. She has been recognized by Northeastern University, receiving a University-wide Excellence in Teaching Award in 2000
- tion / Spencer Postdoctoral Fellow and a 2018 NSF CAREER awardee in engineering education research. Dr. Svihla studies learning in authentic, real world conditions, specifically on design learning, in which she studies engineers designing devices, scientists designing investigations, teachers designing learning experiences and students designing to learn.Mr. Bala vignesh Sundaram, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus Bala Vignesh Sundaram is a PhD student in Engineering Education Systems and Design department in Arizona State University. His research interest is in exploring the potential benefits of teacher empathy in engineering classrooms.Mr. Jemal Bedane Halkiyo, Arizona State University Jemal Halkiyo is
country.MethodResearch has found that the first two years of college learning are the critical period for studentsto decide whether to stay in or leave STEM fields. This time period has been shown to beespecially important to women and underrepresented minorities [3]. It is widely recognized thatProject-Based Learning (PBL) or “learning by doing” is one of the major instructional elementsto increase the retention rate for STEM students. PBL inspires STEM students not only withreal-world problems but also with the necessary foundational skills to pursue STEM careers [4].All student participants in the CSE program are encouraged to apply for internships and summerResearch Experience for Undergraduates programs, but due to the limited number of positionsavailable
college grades, adds a level of recognition to program graduates to establish thecompetency of the student.We collaborated with both AWS Educate and AWS Academy to develop and deploy appropriatecloud curriculum and instruction. AWS Educate is Amazon’s global initiative to acceleratecloud-learning and prepare learners for the cloud-enabled jobs of tomorrow. AWS Academyhelps close the skills gap by providing higher education institutions with free, ready-to-teachcloud computing curriculum equipping students with skills needed to pursue industry-recognizedcertifications and careers in the cloud [6], [7]. In short, AWS Educate provides a flexible andinformal environment focusing on learning at one’s own pace with digital badges whereas AWSAcademy
Paper ID #32669Empowering Students to be Adaptive Decision Makers: Finalizing aMulti-dimensional Inventory of Decision-Making CompetencyDr. Marisa K. Orr, Clemson University Marisa K. Orr is an Assistant Professor in Engineering and Science Education with a joint appointment in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Clemson University. Her research interests include student persistence and pathways in engineering, gender equity, diversity, and academic policy. Dr. Orr is a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award for her research entitled, ”Empowering Students to be Adaptive Decision-Makers.”Baker A. Martin, Clemson
education and the role of leadership and culture in process improvement. His research is supported by the NSF, private foundations, and industry and has received numerous national and international awards. He is an elected Fellow of the American Society for Engineering Management and serves as an Associate Editor for the Engineering Management Journal . Prior to his academic career, Schell spent 14 years in industry where he held leadership positions focused on process improvement and organizational development.Dr. Bryce E. Hughes, Montana State University - Bozeman Bryce E. Hughes is an Assistant Professor in Adult and Higher Education at Montana State University, and holds a Ph.D. in Higher Education and Organizational
and programThe Program for Engineering Excellence for Partner Schools (PEEPS) is a NSF S-STEMscholarship program, and was inspired by the Posse Foundation1. At the California Polytechnic(“Cal Poly”) State University, we wished to create a program in which underrepresented studentsin engineering receive significant financial aid (up to $10k for at least 4 years) and a network ofclassmates, faculty, and staff to support them throughout their college career. Our term andacronym, “PEEPS,” captures the idea of a “posse,” “family” or “my peoples” as a group thatsupports and cares for one another.Our primary goal is to recruit, retain, and graduate academically talented, financially needystudents2 from disadvantaged backgrounds to enter the
* Explaining key physical effects influencing selective thermal emitters in order to achieve high performance thermophotovoltaic systemsDr. Krishna Madhavan, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering) Dr. Krishna Madhavan is an Associate Professor in the School of Engineering Education. In 2008 he was awarded an NSF CAREER award for learner-centric, adaptive cyber-tools and cyber-environments using learning analytics. He leads a major NSF-fundedprojectcalled Deep Insights Anytime, Anywhere (http://www.dia2.org) to characterize the impact of NSF and other federal investments in the area of STEM education. He also serves as co-PI for the Network forComputationalNanotechnology (nanoHUB.org) that serves hundreds
-Gilbert Community College.Prof. brad allenby, Arizona State UniversityProf. Amy E. Landis, Clemson University Dr. Landis joined Clemson in June 2015 as the Thomas F. Hash ’69 Endowed Chair in Sustainable Development. Previously, she was an Associate Professor at Arizona State University in the School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment. She began her career as an Assistant Professor at the University of Pittsburgh, after having obtained her PhD in 2007 from the University of Illinois at Chicago under the supervision of Dr. Thomas L. Theis. She has developed a research program in sustainable engineering of bioproducts. Her research ranges from design of systems based on industrial ecology and byproduct
Practice in the Department of Engineering Education at Vir- ginia Tech. He holds degrees in Industrial Engineering (BS, MS), Master of Business Administration (MBA) and in Engineering Education (PhD). His research focuses on contemporary and inclusive ped- agogical practices, environmental, ethics and humanitarian engineering, and non-traditional knowledge transfer. Homero has been recognized as a Fulbright scholar and was inducted in the Bouchet Honor Society.Natasha Smith, Virginia Tech Natasha is the Director of Enrollment Management for the College of Engineering as well as an under- graduate academic and career advisor for General Engineering students. These dual roles allow Natasha the unique opportunity to