program in the Mid-Atlantic region were tasked to write a reflective essay explaining the challenges faced intheir first four weeks in college. A thematic analysis of the qualitative data was used to analyzethe reflective essays.This “work in progress” paper will summarize the main results of the study. Based on theanalysis, we propose interventions to assist these students in their transition from high school tocollege. This project is relevant to institutions seeking to improve the retention of students intheir engineering programs.Background:First generation college students are defined as students whose parents completed only a highschool diploma or equivalent. Some researchers include in this classification those studentswhose parents
to Apply the concept of logarithmic decrement to extract the spring and damping constants from a given transient response, Generate frequency spectra and use them as the primary guidance to design a vibration system, Perform Fourier series expansion on a periodic square wave disturbance and interpret the impact of the harmonic components on the vibrating system, and Communicate effectively with a range of audience by writing a formal technical report.EML Objectives © American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 2 2023 ASEE Southeastern Section Conference CuriosityA history of airplane starting from the first flight in
us to conduct research “with” and not “on”another, situating the Other as equals not to change the other but to change self [18].MethodsAnuli and Glory discovered that they had similar interests at an online conference and thereafterthe idea of writing a duoethnography emerged, they then invited Kelly to join the team, and webecame a trio-ethnography. Our research process started in July 2022 when we participated in a 5-week workshop where we worked with mentors to refine our research plan. Thereafter, we metevery Monday for an hour over 6 months to execute our study. Collaboration tools utilized wereZoom, Google Drive, WhatsApp, and emails. After our interview questions were drafted to guideour dialogue, we emailed them to a faculty member
demonstratedto improve collegiate graduates’ entry-level starting salaries, level of initial position, and jobresponsibilities [10] [11] [12]. The authors discuss the importance of experiential experiences inthe formation of professionalism in RS students [13]. To establish a reflective element withineach RS student experience, each fall the students come together for a one-hour seminar to talkand write about their journey and to continue learning about methods of growing their supportweb with university professors and staff [14].The RS students selected for this program implementation were typically residential applicantsof a low-socioeconomic status (SES) and that selected an under-represented minorityrace/ethnicity in their database entry. There was
ASPIRES internship program has three levels targeting students atdifferent stages in their academic careers. The ASPIRES Summer Group Research InternshipProgram is the second level ten-week program for sophomore students who have no previousresearch experience and have at least one more year of courses to complete at Cañada Collegebefore transferring to a four-year university. In addition to allowing students to participate in theprogram as part-time interns, the group setting wherein students work with their peers and facultythey know will give students the supportive learning environment needed to succeed in their firstinternship experience. A collaborative learning environment has been shown to positively impactminority students—improving
development and expanding awareness of opportunities. All of these activities have fostered a tight-knit learn- ing community and provided ample opportunities for peer mentoring and networking with alumnae. Because we focus on recruiting first-year students and retaining them through graduation, the program has grown from nine freshmen in the first year to over forty students now who range from fresh- men to seniors. Our recruitment efforts have become more successful as the program has grown which we attribute to the active involve- ment of current students in recruiting and a record of the programs accomplishments. Retention is higher than expected; moreover, re- tention rates are increasing. Students are excelling academically and
metacognitive reflection submissions to the learning management system,(6) Disseminate findings with a SoTL manuscript, and(7) Complete evaluations.Requirements for the SoTL manuscript were as follows: (1) fill in the manuscript template usingthe headings provided, (2) write a paper that includes a minimum of 4000 words and a minimumof 20 citations, and (3) include the phrase “entrepreneurial mindset” in the title, abstract,introduction, and literature review. Additional details can be found here:https://www.sotlaccelerator.com/ Figure 1. Example Schedule (Spring 2023) ParticipantsThe SoTL Accelerator professional development program was delivered virtually. As such, theparticipants included 30 engineering instructors
transformation obtained from LAS. We found students whoexperienced “profound transformation” or “straightforward transformation” had significantlyhigher scores for attitude towards uncertainty, criticality and transformative outcomes, ascompared to the students who experienced “no transformation”. Upon exploring differences inTROPOS score based on demographics, we found significant differences for race wise andgender wise distribution. The Black and African American students had significantly higherscores for attitude towards uncertainty as compared to their white peers, χ2 ([4], N = [90])= [10.398], p = [.023]. Further, female identifying students scored higher than male identifyingstudents on the attitude towards uncertainty and transformative outcome
preparation for engineering courseworkand help them to develop a community of peers that can support each otherboth socially and academically in their transition to college. You might also have afurther layer of DEI-focused intention built into your program. Because there’sfrequently a strong correlation between race and first gen status, it could be thatyou’re also intending to improve diversity in engineering by providing a strongstart for students from racially/ethnically minoritized groups. If that’s the case,racial equity in the effect of the program might also be identified as an importantoutcome. A logic model provides a quick reference for charting theseconnections between a program’s activities and its intended outcomes
colonialism” [3, p. 19]? As settler engineeringeducation researchers based in the setter colonial nation now called Canada, we write this paperas a process of ‘pausing’ [9] to discuss the tensions we have experienced in ‘Indigenizing’ or‘decolonizing’ efforts in engineering education in our Canadian and American universityinstitutional experiences.We structure this paper as a dialogue between the first two authors, Jess Tran and Jessica Wolf, toreflect on our engineering education experiences, as recent Canadian and Americanundergraduate and current Canadian graduate students. This written dialogue is an artifact of themany dialogues we have engaged in wrestling with these tensions, including severalconversations we had as an author team. We reflect
. Additionally, we noted that assignments and projects alsosupported connections to community members (often through the use of guest speakers or eveninternships) and connections to future employers (again through the use of guest speakers andinternships). Furthermore, in the high school curricula, there was a strong focus on developingcommunication skills (through both written and oral presentations), developing collaborationskills (through many group projects and peer evaluation opportunities), and also a connection todigital literacy. In fact, entrepreneurship education programs at the high school level were oftenlinked (in both advertising materials provided by the schools as well as in language form syllabi)to 21st Century Skills development
intentions and destinations vary by students’ gender andrace/ethnicity? We examine students’ career pathways in other majors to contextualize patterns.Data come from the longitudinal, NSF-funded Engineering Majors Survey (EMS). The firstwave of EMS (EMS 1.0) was administered at a nationally representative sample of 27 U.S.engineering schools in 2015. A second wave was administered to 1.0 respondents in 2016, and athird wave, in 2017. Our baseline sample is maximally composed of 87 1.0 respondents whomarked that they were environmental engineering majors, 695 respondents marking civilengineering majors (our “peer” major), and 6,408 respondents majoring in other engineeringfields. Our longitudinal sample is smaller, requiring more of a detailed
program (NSF IUSE), three community colleges fromNorthern California collaborated to increase the availability and accessibility of theengineering curriculum by developing resources and teaching strategies to enable small-to-medium community college engineering programs to support a comprehensive set oflower-division engineering courses that are delivered either completely online, or withlimited face-to-face interactions. This paper focuses on the development and testing ofthe teaching and learning resources for Introduction to Engineering, a three-unit course(two units of lecture and one unit of lab). The course has special significance as agateway course for students who without the role models that their middle class peers sooften have readily
lower percentage (64%) of students found it comfortable touse the mobile device and application to document use of correct units during the solutionprocess. Participants were expected to use a stylus to write the solution process on the digitalwhiteboard made available through the Explain Everything application. This study did not askfollow up questions to the participants on why they found documentation of units particularlydifficult.Creation of graphs and the labeling of axis and curves were also areas of difficulty, since only58% of the participants expressed that they were comfortable in doing it. It appears thatcreating/importing a graph or labeling its component parts from within the Explain Everythingapplication, was not an easy task for
able to survive in the program. We incorporated the intervention strategies in the regular course environment as part of theweekly group work participation, homework, midterm exams, and group research presentation.During the first week of the semester, we introduced the concept of growth mindset to thestudents. The students watched a talk by Dr. Carol Dweck, the psychologist who proposed themindset theory, and Khan Academy’s video on growing one’s intelligence through struggleduring the weekly group work. We encouraged the students to reflect on their own ideas aboutintelligence and the importance of having a growth mindset while studying chemicalengineering. The students then shared their thoughts with their peers. In Table 2, we
, andusability of the developed system. The project provided a great opportunity for the studentinterns to gain valuable research experience in human-machine interfaces and to improve theirskills in teamwork, time management, as well as scientific writing and presentation. It alsohelped the students strengthening their confidence and interest in pursuing a STEM profession.I. IntroductionIncreasing the recruitment and retention of students in science, technology, engineering, andmathematics (STEM) is essential to produce sufficient STEM-skilled professionals for continuedUS economic growth and competitiveness [1]. Community colleges enroll almost half of thenation’s undergraduate students and play a significant role in STEM education
coordinators to centralize informational resources including support activities (e.g.tutoring, workshops, etc.) and opportunities (e.g. research opportunities, internships,scholarships, presentations, etc.). It also houses resources for the technical writing module andinformation on student enhancement plans and professional development funding. Thedevelopment and implementation of personalized student enhancement plans (SEPs) which allowprogram participants to identify long-range plans and set associated short to long range goals insupport of these plans is one of the primary aspects of the program (Kunberger & Geiger, 2016).Originally implemented for upper level students, the activity has been expanded to all programparticipants for this
on Undergraduate Research, undergraduate research is defined as “aninquiry or investigation conducted by an undergraduate student that makes an originalintellectual or creative contribution to the discipline [1].” As stated in literature, undergraduateswho conduct research show improvements in thinking independently, thinking critically, puttingideas together, solving problems, analyzing data, analyzing literature, interpreting researchfindings, conducting ethical research, writing and communicating [2-9]. Literature also assertsthat it is rare for students to have enough opportunity to gain higher-order thinking skills fromtheir undergraduate research experiences [10].Students involved in undergraduate research also report outcomes that may
gesture production in bilinguals, gestural effects on learning, visual attention to hand movements, and the role of expectation in communication. Her work has been published in journals such as the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, as well as in peer-reviewed conference proceedings. Her work is also highly interdisciplinary, crossing the fields of cognitive science, embodied cognition, psycholinguistics and education. She serves as the honorary secretary of the Educational Research Association of Singapore (ERAS) for 2024-2026.Dr. Ibrahim H. Yeter, Nanyang Technological University Ibrahim H. Yeter, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor at the National Institute of Education (NIE) at Nanyang
health services compared to their peers [4]. These issues wererecently claimed to be understudied [5], but efforts to explore the mental-health-related andattrition-related experiences of engineering graduate students have become more common (e.g.,[6], [7], [8]).Our work investigates the implications of stressors on student well-being and retention. Stresshas been linked to attrition rates for engineering graduate students [8], [9] and stress has beenrelated to mental health challenges in graduate students [10], [11], [12]. Research has suggestedthat a relationship exists between doctoral student mental health and attrition, particularly forstudents exhibiting high anxiety symptoms [11], [13], suggesting that the three phenomena ofstress, mental
cope with the stresses of life, realize their abilities, learn and workefficiently, and contribute to their community and to socio-economic development” [25]. Inacademia, students and professors alike struggle with their mental health and well-being. Facultyat all levels must balance many roles and responsibilities such as teaching, mentorship, researchand administrative tasks. Similarly, graduate students must complete course and/or laboratorywork, teaching or research assistantships, secure funding to cover costs of tuition, write andpublish papers, attend meetings, and complete administrative tasks. Notably, graduate studentsexperience rates of depression and anxiety at rates six times higher than the general population[26]. Research
to provide diverse perspectives on pressing topicswithin academic and non-academic communities. Individuals participating in panels are usuallybrought together to express a wide range of viewpoints and to combine ideas, research, andexperiences. We see an opportunity to extend panel discussions to have enduring impact bybroadly distributing the data synthesized during the panel discussions. The use of paneldiscussions as a research endeavor has the potential to broaden researchers' ways of knowing, yetknowledge transfer from panel conversations to peer-reviewed publications has to this point beenminimal.This paper highlights a methodology for analyzing panel discussions, discourse content, andpanelist reflection to produce research results
2 Female 1 Male 0 Video with Video that Video that No only the shows the shows preference writing instructor students regarding visible video formatFigure 4: Student Responses to the Question: “For the worked example videos, which format doyou prefer?”Next, Figure 4 shows student preferences
submit evidence of work in these areas. During the review, thecandidate presents a portfolio with evidence of their work, intended to tell the professional storyof the candidate while on the tenure track. While each candidate tailors his or her portfolio to theinstitutional emphases across the performance categories, there are some common artifacts1: Teaching o Preliminary narrative o Summary of teaching responsibilities o Samples of syllabi o Student evaluations o Peer evaluation of teaching o Examples of graded student work o Examples of experimentation and improvement in the classroom Research/Scholarship o A complete list of journal
Program take a three-credit hour leadership course eachsemester. The course in each semester includes a mandatory pre-semester retreat that is anintensive, multi-day event consisting of experiential learning, interactive exercises and dialogue.During the semester, weekly class sessions include dialogue with peers, business simulations,personal reflections, case study discussions, and conversations with thought leaders fromindustry, government, and nonprofit organizations.The student selection process includes an application, reference check and interview. Thestudents must be in good academic standing, but their grade point average is not a considerationin the selection process. Rather, we select students based on commitment to personal growth
what we consider to be higher-level research tasks. (Ten of 12 studentsresponded to the pre survey, while nine responded to the post survey. Seven responded to both.)Initially, students reported they were “somewhat” or “very” comfortable in their ability to dogeneral tasks such as “working independently,” “problem solving in general,” and “managing mytime.” This is contrasted with their lower initial comfort levels in doing more specific—perhapshigher-level—research skills , such as “defending an argument when asked questions,”“identifying limitations of research methods and designs,” “understanding journal articles,” and“writing scientific reports and papers.” Following the REU program, however, the resultsshowed a change. On average, they
problems visual through report writing of the entiremultimedia representation, etc.) as application process and then presenting toclass activities, class assignment and Assessment the class while discussion theira multi stage class project Triangle Metacognition aspects as well.independently and in groups. (LO.1) Every student can easily apply the basic mechanics principles to a real world engineering problem; a 3- stage class
studentstraveled on in order to protect their anonymity.Data Source Data for this narrative analysis are written journal reflections completed by participantsduring the abroad portion of the global engineering program. Table 2 provides an overview ofthe reflection prompts given to students while abroad. In addition to these prompts, students wereasked to write daily reflections on their experiences abroad. Sampled journals range from 7-15pages in length.Data Analysis We conducted a narrative analysis on reflective journals from eight VT-NETSparticipants in the broader experiential global learning program. We employ narrative as amethod of analysis [24], [26], [27], focusing on the stories participants share in their journalreflections. Our
– Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Joint Program.Catherine G. P. Berdanier, Pennsylvania State University Catherine G.P. Berdanier is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Pennsylvania State University. She earned her B.S. in Chemistry from The University of South Dakota, her M.S. in Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering and her PhD in Engineering Education from Purdue University. Her research expertise lies in characterizing graduate-level attrition, persistence, and career trajectories; engineering writing and communication; and methodological development. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Exploring Engineering Graduate Students’ Perceptions of
successful. They may really struggle in reading or writing, and for this to happen, for them to be able to participate in this kind of an experience. This might be an area where they’re really successful, and it’s such a confidence boost. I also think it’s important for kids to see, you know, they pick up on things. They know, they understand that sometimes students are struggling, so being able for them to see like the value from their peers that they have really good ideas to share. You know, because they do, and it’s just it’s not necessarily always the way that we’re able to show that to others”Molly highlights the ways that DT differs from other talks. For the students, the novelty ofengineering, engaging in