different groups on the map, shown inFigure 3. This will include recruiting students from different parts of the maps in order to conductlongitudinal interviews about engineering pathways and the negotiation of identities as engineers.This corresponding qualitative work will build upon this study’s existing quantitative results andwill inform additional studies with the insights recorded.ConclusionThis paper described the key model parameters that researchers must consider in using a newstatistical method, Topological Data Analysis (TDA). We also presented how TDA can be usefulto characterize students’ latent diversity from a survey study of 3,711 first-year engineeringstudents’ incoming attitudes, beliefs, and mindsets at 32 ABET-accredited
risk-taking andleadership1-4 cited as the most common barriers. Studies sponsored by the National ScienceFoundation also show that although the preparation for college is improving for AfricanAmericans students, the percent of high school graduates who enroll in college has not increaseddue to deficiencies in quantitative literacy in K-12 curricula and the lack of activities that relatescience, mathematics, engineering and technology (STEM) to real world experience.1 TheAmerican Association for the Advancement of Science Project 2061 has noted that merely"covering" the topic or teaching unit is not sufficient to assure that the material will actually helpstudents learn important ideas within those topics.2 In contrast, Project CARE research
that involved combining fiveeducation best practices of recruitment, formal mentoring through peer mentors, summer campengineering math preparation and workshops, academic year stipends, and summer internships atlocal and regional companies.The Just in Time Math (JITM) strategy was implemented to increase the interaction betweenfreshmen and engineering faculty and peers during the first semesters of study. As a result, moreengineering students have shown greater enthusiasm for the field of engineering which resultedin better retention and graduation rates. The JITM course included lecture, lab and recitationcomponents and an application-oriented, hands-on approach. The JITM course addressed mathtopics specifically used in the core entry-level
Paper ID #20327Encouraging Young Women to Pursue Engineering: 25 Years of SummerCamp Successes and ChallengesDr. Jessica J. Lofton, University of Evansville Dr. Lofton is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Evansville, and the Director for the OPTIONS in Engineering summer camps for middle school and high school girls. After earning her B.S. in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Evansville, she completed her M.S. and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Illinois, with a graduate minor in College Teaching. She is a faculty advisor for the student chapters of
Instructional Diagnosis): Tapping Student Perceptions of Teaching" in E.C. Wadsworth (ed)., Stillwater, OK: New Forums Press, 1988.[9] J. Kulik, "Student Ratings: Validity, Utility and Controversey," New Directions for Teaching and Learning, pp. 9-25, 2001.[10] A. Sherry, C. Fulford and S. Zhang, "Assessing Distance Learners' Satisfaction with Instruction: A Quantitative and Qualitative Measure," The American Journal of Distance Education, vol. 12, no. 3, pp. 4-28, 1998.[11] L. M. Blaschke, "Using social media to engage and develop the online learne in self-determined learning ," Research in Learning Technology, vol. 22, 2014.[12] S. Wickramasinghe, and W. Timpson, "Mid-Semester student feedback enhances student learning
Organization Development, vol. 11, no. 4, pp. 97-99, 1984.[7] B. Black, "Using the SGID Method for a Variety of Purposes," in To Improve the Academy: Resources for Faculty, Instructional, and Organizational Development, Stillwater, OK: New Forum Press, 1998.[8] N. Diamond, "SGID (Small Group Instructional Diagnosis): Tapping Student Perceptions of Teaching" in E.C. Wadsworth (ed)., Stillwater, OK: New Forums Press, 1988.[9] J. Kulik, "Student Ratings: Validity, Utility and Controversey," New Directions for Teaching and Learning, pp. 9-25, 2001.[10] A. Sherry, C. Fulford and S. Zhang, "Assessing Distance Learners' Satisfaction with Instruction: A Quantitative and Qualitative Measure," The American Journal of Distance Education, vol
to consider what dispositions I brought to this research as both a graduatestudent and an instructor. My experience as a graduate student increased my ability to noticewhen language was affected by the desire to express competence and reflect a certain identity,two important elements in our study of empathetic disposition. Through my teacher lens, I wasable to discern shifts in speech that indicated a change of attitude or perspective at both historicaland personal levels. As someone who values human-centered research and empathetic pedagogy,I worked to maintain impartiality in my analysis through reflexivity and collaboration with theother analysts on our team to help ensure my interpretations of the data remained close to thestudents
both the program model and the impact of the program. Data collected fromparticipants includes demographics data, efficacy and learning assessments, and evaluations ofthe programs‟ content. This data is collected through survey templates provided to local studentleaders, tabulated locally, and returned to the National leadership. Through the pilot studies thedata collection and research methods are verified for their effectiveness in this unique programmodel. This paper will present the program assessment for internal development as well asaddress research questions about engineering students involved in STEM mentoring activities.Finally we present recommendations for developing the program further and a plan for acomprehensive study of the
accidental competencies. Quantitative and qualitative results of a study of theapplication of LSBL in a two term capstone design class in aerospace engineering aircraft designare discussed with emphasis on the impact of the approach on student’s design relatedprofessional and technical skills as measured by multiple survey applications and one-on-oneinterviews. Results indicate that the participants found the LSBL experience to be moreengaging than the traditional lecture approach and did help students respond and begin to thinkmore like aerospace engineering practicing professionals. It is felt that such efforts begin toaddress the “gap” between academia and industry.Introduction What differentiates the expert practicing engineer from the
sequential designs within a mixed methods approach[4], a variety of research techniques was employed to elicit students’ views and attitudes. Afocus group of five Latino/Hispanic students was asked about their perceptions and attitudesregarding the climate within an engineering college. From their responses emerged 10 themes,collapsed into six dimensions; these were later used to construct a nine-item survey instrumentdeployed to over 150 Latino/Hispanic engineering students. In asking whether Latino/Hispanicengineering students felt disconnected to the general student population and to the engineeringdiscipline, the study also investigated the extent to which self-segregation occurred across otherethnic/racial groups. Questions were primarily
pursued a Master’s Degree in Educational Studies at the University of Nebraska -Lincoln (UNL). While pursing his Master Degree he worked as the coordinator for the student technology program on the UNL campus, where he taught over 150 workshops on technology uses in the classroom to faculty, staff and students. Dr. Daher completed his Ph.D in Educational Studies with a focus on Instructional technology from UNL and is currently serving as the Director of the Engineering and Computing Education Core, College of Engineering and an Assistant Professor of Practice of Engineering Education. Tareq focuses on transforming engineering education in the College through graduate courses, faculty and graduate student professional
faculty mentorship, the pathway into and through graduate education, and gender and race in engineering.Dr. Allison Godwin, Purdue University, West Lafayette Allison Godwin, Ph.D. is an associate professor in the Robert Frederick Smith School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Cornell University. She is also the Engineering Workforce Development Director for CISTAR, the Center for Innovative and Strategic Transformation of Alkane Resources, a Na- tional Science Foundation Engineering Research Center. Her research focuses on how identity, among other affective factors, influences diverse students to choose engineering and persist in engineering. She also studies how different experiences within the practice and
leadership learning opportunities and experiencesof undergraduate engineering students as a whole. Our study fills this gap by examining how1203 undergraduate engineering students at a large, Canadian, research-intensive university haveused non-formal learning spaces—co-curricular and extra-curricular activities—to hone theirleadership and engineering skills and identities. Our quantitative analysis of survey resultssuggests that explicit leadership programing, student government and industry-basedprofessional development activities were most effective at helping engineering students developtheir leadership skills. When it came to catalyzing their engineering skills development, wefound that internships, design competitions and professional
to Inform First-Year Bowman, T. A. Seifert, G. C. Wolniak, E. T. Advising Practices and Policies at Northwestern Pascarella, and P. T. Terenzini, “How college University's McCormick School of Engineering,” affects students: 21st century evidence that higher Paper presented at 2017 ASEE Annual Conference education works”, Vol. 3, 2016. & Exposition, Columbus, Ohio, June 2017, https://peer.asee.org/29143[2] L. D. Patton, S. R. Harper, and J. Harris, “Using critical race theory to (re)interpret widely studied
space propulsion. He received BS, MS, and PhD degrees from the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, and was a research engineer at Starfire Industries LLC before returning to academia as an assistant professor of aerospace engineering at the Missouri University of Science and Technology. In 2017 he joined the faculty of aerospace engineering at the University of Illinois. He has published over 150 journal and conference papers on space propulsion and he regularly teaches 200 students a year in his senior-level aerospace propulsion course. He was recipient of the University of Illinois Provost Award for Excellence in Under- graduate Teaching in 2023. ©American Society for Engineering
related grants funded by the National Science Foundation, and a prior paper by the P4E research team was awarded Best Diversity Paper at the ASEE Annual Conference in 2015. She also conducts technical research with civil engineering and construction management graduate students. She and her students study ways to extend the safe and useful life of existing structures, particularly concrete bridges, through enhanced inspection, management and repair techniques. This research has been funded by the Mountain Plains Consortium, a USDOT University Transportation Center, and the Colorado Department of Transportation. She teaches courses in structural engineering such as reinforced and prestressed concrete design and civil
(WSUV), a branch campus of aresearch-one (R1) land grant university offering ABET-accredited programs in electrical andmechanical engineering. OIT had around 650 students and 30 faculty members in its engineeringprograms, offering multiple engineering lab courses, including sophomore-level lab courses incivil engineering taught by faculty and supported by undergraduate teaching assistants. WSUV’sengineering programs, with about 350 students and 15 faculty members, included junior-levelmechanical engineering courses in the study, all taught by graduate teaching assistantssupervised by instructors. Table 1 presents the basic information for the participating lab coursesfrom the two institutions we studied.Table 1: Participating engineering
navigate diverse cultures and places, learning and applying the course content in afamiliar setting before departing. Engineering students who implement some of the skills andcontent typically see an immediate return during the experience. The reflective final project thatthey complete once they return reinforces the awareness and skills that are a link betweenclassroom theory and concepts and real-time impacts.Through a continuous improvement feedback model, this paper also seeks to identify the rangeof content that can be refined and leveraged for various locations. Quantitative results indicatethat global/cultural skills are relevant immediately, requiring little reinforcement from othercourses. This study provides a baseline of data and
mentoring relationships for women pursuing technical careers”, Journal of Engineering Education, Volume 89, 2000.11 Judge, J. and Leary, J. “Department-Specific Mentoring Network for Women Students in Engineering”, Proceedings of 35th ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, Indianapolis, IN, 2005.12 Wilder, P., Kenefic, R., and Burke, A., “Integrating engineering practice into undergraduate curricula using project simulation: outcomes related to retention and persistence” Proceedings of 35th ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, Indianapolis, IN, 2005.13 Rippon, S., Collofello, J., and Hammond, R., “Helping Freshmen Develop a Personal Identity as an Engineer” Proceedings of the 2011 American Society for
quantitative and qualitativemethods requires expertise in many areas and can be a challenge on its own. One way to addressthis is to have experts with a variety of experience associated with project. On one‘s owncampus, experts in statistics for qualitative work or interviewing and data coding for quantitativework can be a treasure for supporting work in engineering education research.ResourcesInstruments from Study 1 are available throughhttp://www.ee.washington.edu/research/community/Community/Home.html.Instruments and models from Study 2 can be requested through Dr. Julie Martin(jtrenor@clemson.edu).SummaryIn Study 1, the role of community as it is associated with student engagement in academicendeavors can range from negative to negligible to
. We were also interested in how challenges might be overcome with moreresources and coordination. It is clear that many Nodes and Sites lack funding andexpertise necessary to do evaluation research, and the sharing of instruments andevaluation protocols could enhance evaluation and assessment activities. As I-Corpsenters a new phase of expansion, findings from this study will inform our ownevaluation work going forward, and allow us to share best practices with I-Corpseducators and administrators across the U.S. BACKGROUNDAcademic EntrepreneurshipMany institutions are actively investing in entrepreneurial ecosystems and initiatives toboost the involvement of faculty and graduate students in commercialization
andreflect on their community’s strengths and concerns through imagery, fostering critical dialogueand knowledge-sharing [1]. While popularly utilized in medicine, social sciences, and education,its application in engineering education [2–5] and computer science education [6–8] is relativelynew and underexplored. This position paper aims to bridge this gap by presenting acomprehensive account of a pilot study that introduces photovoice to computer science students,showcasing the method’s merits and contributions. It will outline implementation and adaptationof the method’s steps, obstacles faced during its duration, the value derived from the emergentthemes from visual artifacts developed from participants, and the holistic value derived fromactive
the last 60 years, engineering graduation rates have been around 50% [4]; similarly, inMexico, engineering graduation rates barely achieve 40%. A review of the literature conductedby Geisinger and Raman [4] identified a set of factors that contribute to the attrition of students.These factors include classroom and academic environment including teaching and advising,grades and conceptual understanding, self-efficacy and self-confidence determined by highschool preparation in math and science among others. Engineering educators have argued thatpersonal and socio-economic factors can contribute to the attrition of students; however, there isa proportion of engineering students that leave because of the educational system. Studies haveshown that
graduates prepared to engage in entrepreneurial and intrapreneurialactivities?The research team is pursuing these questions through a multi-method approach, includingqualitative and quantitative methods. The work meets the requirements of Design andDevelopment Research, as specified by the Common Guidelines for Educational Research in thatit contains: 1) Development of a solution based on a well-specified theory of action appropriateto a well-defined end user; 2) Creation of measures to assess the implementation of thesolution(s); 3) Collection of data on the feasibility of implementing the solution(s) in typicaldelivery settings by intended users; and 4) Conducting a pilot study to examine the promise ofgenerating the intended outcomes [22].Theory
implementation of the solution(s); 3)Collection of data on the feasibility of implementing the solution(s) in typical delivery settingsby intended users; and 4) Conducting a pilot study to examine the promise of generating theintended outcomes [12].Description of Study Site and ParticipantsThe data presented in this paper were collected from five regional community college partnerswhose primary emphasis is on 2-year degrees and workforce certificates, in addition to limitedBachelor’s degrees in nursing, secondary education, and business. The missions of these statecolleges is to support the needs of the local community and prepare students for workplacesuccess.Pre-Research ActivitiesThe research team conducted a comprehensive literature review in the
: 1) Development of a solution based on a well-specified theory of action appropriateto a well-defined end user; 2) Creation of measures to assess the implementation of thesolution(s); 3) Collection of data on the feasibility of implementing the solution(s) in typicaldelivery settings by intended users; and 4) Conducting a pilot study to examine the promise ofgenerating the intended outcomes [22].Theory of ActionHuman capital theory is a theory of investment in human capital, or the abilities and skills,acquired through investment in education and training, of any individual, that enhance potentialincome earning [23]. Human capital models examine how students make cost–benefit analysesand subsequent decisions on whether to attend and persist
Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering, vol. 24, no. 2, 2018, Accessed: Feb. 19, 2024. [Online]. Available: https://www.dl.begellhouse.com/journals/00551c876cc2f027,4c37811e62eac771,359bf188 17ac4bed.html[19] L. N. Fleming, S. E. Burris, K. C. Smith, L. B. Bliss, I. N. Moore, and F. Bornmann, “Beyond persistence: Graduate school aspirations of Hispanic engineering students at HSIs,” in 2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, 2014, pp. 24–228. Accessed: Feb. 19, 2024. [Online]. Available: https://peer.asee.org/beyond-persistence-graduate-school- aspirations-of-hispanic-engineering-students-at-hsis[20] M. G. Cuellar and A. M. Gonzalez, “Beyond the Baccalaureate: Factors Shaping Latina/o Graduate
," Pew Research Center, Washington, D.C., 2016.[2] K.-y. Wong and C. K. Yip, "Education, economic growth, and brain drain," Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, vol. 23, no. 5-6, pp. 699-726, 1999.[3] L. Cancado, J. Reisel, and C. Walker, "Impacts of a Summer Bridge Program in Engineering on Student Retention and Graduation," Journal of STEM Education, vol. 19, no. 2, 2018.[4] D. Wood, A. Gura, J. Brockman, G. Gilot, S. Boukdad, and M. Krug, "The Community-Engaged Educational Ecosystem Model: Learning from the Bowman Creek Experience," presented at the Engaged Scholarship Consortium, Minneapolis, MN, 2018.[5] D. Wood, A. Gura, J. Brockman, A. Rayna Carolan-Silva, S. Boukdad, and J. C
Paper ID #30728Poverty and Guidance: Challenges and Opportunities in MathematicsPreparation for EngineeringDr. Eliza Gallagher, Clemson University Dr. Gallagher is an Assistant Professor of Engineering and Science Education at Clemson University, with joint appointments to Mathematical Sciences and Education & Human Development. Her research interests include student cognition in mathematics, development of teacher identity among graduate teach- ing assistants, and curricular reform to foster diversity and inclusion in STEM fields. She is co-PI on an NSF INCLUDES Design and Development Launch Pilot, ”Statewide
success for underrepresented students in the STEM fields[13-15]. Investigating academic self-concept can provide a conceptual tool to understandstudents’ perceptions of their academic identity, their perceptions of their capabilities within theacademic discipline and how they overcome academic challenges.Complementing undergraduate enrollment numbers, women have been shown to demonstrate ahigher academic self-concept in biology and medicine as opposed to engineering and math [14].According to the National Science Foundation, men earned approximately 75% of theengineering, mathematical and computer science bachelor’s degree in 2020 [6]. Men alsodemonstrate higher levels of academic self-concept [16]. Given the reported lower levels ofacademic self