© American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 2023 ASEE Southeastern Section Conferencerecognized. Many industry engineers and employers express the benefits of acquiring industrycertifications. Ricci believes “engineering certifications are a way for professionals to distinguishthemselves and to validate their experience, skill, and knowledge in a specific field” [1]. Byincorporating industry certifications into the undergraduate curriculum, Mata proposes that thesecertifications will enhance students’ educational experience and increase the value of thecurriculum [2]. Archer implies that a SolidWorks verification adds value to your resume,improves your confidence level on the job and increases your career
for future career opportunities [1], such as jobs involving datamanagement and analysis. To help fill this gap, academic libraries and other entities often offershort-format instruction on such topics, as well as in related topics, such as conducting literaturereviews, understanding the research lifecycle, and issues regarding scholarly publishing [2].Although commonly associated with STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math)disciplines, data analysis and related skills and knowledge have become an important componentof research in many academic fields, including humanities and social sciences [3]. If training inthese skills is not integrated into their program’s curriculum, students may be expected to learnsuch skills on their own [4
holistic narrative of theirpersonal and career experiences [6]. The criteria for admissions rely upon academic transcripts,references, résumé, short essays, and a 30-minute virtual interview.Our holistic application process is designed to eliminate biases typically found in admissionsprocesses. Applicants write short essays related to their computing goals, backgrounds andexperiences, and time commitment to the program. Our admissions goal is to take intoconsideration the students’ full experience, including their academic history, work experience,and how our program could support their plans to broaden participation in computing.Application interviews allow students to determine if our program is a good fit for their goals,learn about our
incoming graduate students and advanced undergraduates in BME orrelated disciplines including life science. The wide range of quantitative background of BMEstudents is the main factor that sets this course apart from machine learning courses traditionallytaught in other engineering and computer science programs. A significant proportion of incomingBME Masters students intend to use our BME program as a vehicle to enhance their preparationfor future careers as data scientists in the biomedical industry. With this target group in mind,this course has no prerequisite and a paramount goal of this course is to provide students anappreciation of knowing the “why” and not just the “how” in biomedical data analytics. Thecourse objectives (LOs) are
, or even anundergraduate engineering degree, since the aim therein might be to prepare students for a rangeof possible careers, and not just in profit-driven industry. However, if we consider students (manyforeign and self-funded) in engineering master’s programs, especially in fields like computerscience and industrial engineering, the goal very often is industry. Hence, while we leave a fullargument on the merits of the alignment problem for a future paper and other authors, wemaintain that the motivation to formulate, evaluate and present partial solutions to, the alignmentproblem (if found to be acute) is a worthwhile pedagogical task. It also has practical goals,allowing engineering programs in universities to justify their value in a
Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.com Work in progress: Creating micromoments to develop a student’s entrepreneurial mindsetIntroductionEngineering programs aim to prepare students for their careers. This includes training students tobe innovative and to adapt to fast-changing professional environments. To address this aim,many programs adopt pedagogical approaches that promote inquiry and use skill-based learning,such as entrepreneurial minded learning (EML). With the framework that was developed by theKern Entrepreneurial Engineering Network (KEEN) [1], EML promotes curiosity, connections,and creating value strategies, known as the 3C’s. EML encourages
, 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, the President’s Aspiration Award in 2005, and a College of Engineering Excel- lence in Mentoring Award in 2015. An ELATE Fellow, Dr. Isaacs has served in numerous administrative leadership roles at Northeastern
Agricultural Education and throughout his career he hasconcentrated on curriculum development and professional training of youth, young adults, andeducators. Doug Ullrich has an EdD in Agricultural Education and has worked in past with manycurricula development and educational grants from NIFA, Texas Education Agency, etc. AshleyMorgan-Olvera is with the Texas Invasive Species Institute (TISI) located at SHSU. Throughouther ten years with TISI, she has developed invasive species education & outreach programs andworkshops to engage K-12 students through USDA-APHIS funding. Their website is beingutilized as an additional platform to disseminate information on our Agricultural BiosecurityCurriculum and interactive invasive species modules developed
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
from the University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez (UPRM) in 1985, and his SMDr. Barry J. Sullivan, Electrical & Computer Engineering Department Heads Assn Barry J. Sullivan is Director of Program Development for the Inclusive Engineering Consortium. His 40- year career includes significant experience as a researcher, educator, and executive in industry, academia, and the non-profit sector. He has developed ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Paper ID #39917Michelle Klein, Electrical and Computer Engineering Dept. Heads Assoc. (ECEDHA)Yeimidy Lagunas, Inclusive Engineering ConsortiumMilford MuskettAmanda
content experts, faculty advisers offer invaluable insight and guidance to undergraduatestudents pursuing their field, extending their influence on students beyond the classroom and intoadvising relationships. Undergraduate students benefit from the unique perspective facultyadvisers offer [7], particularly when faculty advisers engage students around topics within theirdiscipline, related career fields, and advanced educational opportunities and research. A tangibleexample of where these strengthened relationships are unfurled is the drafting of strongerreference letters, where faculty are able to provide a more holistic and comprehensive descriptionof the student as a unique individual.It is critical for students to develop connections to
engineering problems and relate to what ourengineering students will be seeing in the future. These types of problems and experiences arevital to helping prepare students for future careers, however especially in first- and second-yearengineering courses, more emphasis needs to be placed on relating engineering concepts andproblems to our students’ culture and community.Connecting to students' culture and community in the college classroomWhile engineering often feels devoid of culture and community, all engineering solutions existwithin and for specific communities and cultures. How we bring students’ backgrounds into theclassroom will vary depending on student demographics and the location of the college oruniversity. Simple methods to engage
Paper ID #37225Studying the Formation of Engineers in the Learning Ecologies of EnergyEngineering Education and Energy Engineering PracticeDr. Russell Korte, The George Washington University Russell Korte, PhD. studies the social, cultural, and professional systems in organizations and higher education, along with their effects on learning and performance. This work focuses on the professional education and socialization of engineering students, the work of practicing engineers, as well as the prepa- ration of professionals for their future careers. Dr. Korte is an Associate Professor of Human and Organizational Learning
. program offeredin the Florida State College System as well as pursue a B.S. EngineeringTechnology degree that also leads to a Professional Engineers License. Tomaintain this rewarding ET career path, the Florida Advanced TechnologicalEducation Center (FLATE) with support from the Florida Department of Education,the National Science Foundation, and the National Institute of Standards andTechnology, NIST, supported Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) interactsdirectly with manufacturers, college technical faculty, and college upperadministration to assure the ET degree program focus is manufacturing industryimpact within each college service region.IntroductionA recently completed National Science Advanced Technological Education
an early-career engineering education scholar and educator. I hold a B.S. in Chemical Engineering (with Genetics minor) from Iowa State University, and an M.S. and Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from The Ohio State University. My early Ph.D. work focused on the development of bacterial biosensors capable of screening pesticides for specifically targeting the malaria vector mosquito, Anopheles gambiae. As a result, my diverse background also includes experience in infectious disease and epidemiology, providing crucial exposure to the broader context of engineering problems and their subsequent solutions. These diverse experiences and a growing passion for improving engineering education prompted me to change career
wereactually computer science majors, with most of the remaining students being transfers into thenew software engineering major. Student feedback at the end of the course showed that most,though not all of these students grasped the relevance for their closely related field, even studentsintending to pursue a research-related career. The fact is that only a fraction of the body ofknowledge about software requirements engineering is unique to software engineering. Theauthors believe that it could be easily adapted for use in other engineering disciplines.This argument is analogous to the one for project management, which Rose-Hulman also teachesas a course specifically for SE and CS majors. Project management principles apply across avery broad
Session T3C4 Predicting Freshmen Engineering Students Success Using Artificial Neural Network (ANN) Based Emotional Intelligence (EI) Model Kenneth Nix Guadalupe Fernandez Chad Jurica Laura Lopez Ranjeet Agarwala Robert A. Mclauchlan Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Texas A&M University-Kingsville AbstractEmotional skills are key to personal happiness, healthy relationships, and personallymeaningful careers. This paper investigates sensitivity analysis of key EmotionalIntelligence (EI) indicators used in an
includea risk management section. Even where TRM is not required by government edict, manybusinesses are instituting their own internal requirements for it. This means that today’sengineering and technology graduates would benefit from an exposure to TRM processes.But there is even more of an advantage to introducing this in the classroom. Properlyapplied, Technical Risk Management can be used in a Capstone Design Course as ameans of tying together the various concepts that have been studied during the entirecollege career. This connectivity can be a welcome addition to such a course. The TRMprocess consists of four phases, Risk Identification, Risk Assessment, Risk Mitigation,and Risk Management. The Risk Mitigation phase forces the design team
been from an underrepresented minority group.Thus, enrollment of our participants in graduate programs has begun to enhance diversity inengineering. Moving forward we will continue to track student progress through their degreesand the careers they ultimately pursue in comparison to their original intent as reported duringour program.IntroductionMany graduate programs in science and engineering seek students who have participated in anundergraduate research experience. Undergraduate research provides participants with hands-onresearch skills such as how to review the literature, conduct experiments, and analyze data,which are all important for graduate level research. Research experience for undergraduateprograms often offer additional
professional career training at the university level. A lack of consistency amongframeworks is evident as computational thinking is defined in the literature using different topicsets. We support the assertion made in the literature that computational thinking is much morethan simple programming skill [11] [12] [13]. In our framework, engineering students masteringcomputational thinking have mature skills in computational abstraction, solution decomposition,algorithm development and implementation, data representation and analysis, and a respect forhow computers impact society [14].First-year engineering courses vary widely. Some institutions have common first-yearexperiences where all engineering students are introduced to computer programming and
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
explore what engineering really means, both to society andthemselves, as well as how they can find success in engineering practice. Students do thisthrough several communication techniques, interactions with professionals, and development oflearning strategies in order to provide exemplars for the required SOs.The initial iteration (fall 2017) of the “What is Engineering?” module, led by Dr. Olga Pierrakos,focused more closely on helping students develop and explore academic and professional goalsand dreams in the context of understanding the engineering profession broadly andunderstanding foundational knowledge that defines engineering practice. Students completed apersonal statement of professional interests and career goals via a worksheet
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
Borrego is Director of the Center for Engineering Education and Professor of Mechanical Engi- neering and STEM Education at the University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Borrego is Senior Associate Editor for Journal of Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering. She previously served as Deputy Edi- tor for Journal of Engineering Education, a Program Director at the National Science Foundation, on the board of the American Society for Engineering Education, and as an associate dean and director of in- terdisciplinary graduate programs. Her research awards include U.S. Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), a National Science Foundation CAREER award, and two outstand- ing publication awards
study is informed by the need to address the well-documentedunderrepresentation of low-socioeconomic status (SES) and minoritized students in engineeringand other related careers [1]–[3]. Researchers advanced that, in addition to intellectual andscientific reasons, low-income students are attracted to the major by the potential prospect ofemployment after completing a degree [1], [4]. Financial considerations are critical for low-SESengineering students; this includes considerations of financial aid and differential tuition [5].Programs such as the National Science Foundation Scholarships in STEM (S-STEM) have beenimplemented to address financial assistance of low-SES students. This study is part of alongitudinal five-year S-STEM project
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
have accurate understandings ofSTEM domains [8]. This is associated with reluctance in explaining STEM concepts andmisconceptions by the students [9]. However, caregivers’ values and their acknowledgement ofthe importance of STEM education were related to children’s interests and career aspirationdevelopment in STEM fields. Youth with understanding of their caregivers’ educational valuetowards science were more likely to have a career goal related to science [10].While there is literature describing caregivers’ involvement and their values towards STEMeducation, we know less about conflicts between caregivers and children in STEM learningactivities. Anderson, Piscitelli, and Everett [11] summarized three types of conflicts in agendasbetween