personally invite them to courses prepared their children for the job program events. Although families were not always the market (internships) or graduate school able to make it, they appreciated the invitations. (e.g., research opportunities).Families’ stories derived from their participation in this program challenge dominant narrativesthat leave unquestioned deficit assumptions about low-income and of color families’ perceivedlack of support for their children’s college. Accordingly, this program helps to build asset drivencounterstories about the community cultural wealth that these students’ families leverage tosupport their academic and career success.Because students within and across the two program cohorts
mathematics) education has beenperforming well below numerous fellow OECD nations [1]. The committee identified severaldeleterious results if this trend continued, including the reduction of the United States’ competitiveeconomic edge. Stated benefits of improved science and technological literacy included theprovision of essential preparation for all careers in the modern workforce. Moreover, without aflourishing scientific and engineering community, young people may not be motivated to dreamof “what can be,” and might have inadequate motivation to become the next generation of scientistsand engineers that can address persistent national problems including national and homelandsecurity, health care, the provision of energy, the preservation of the
backbone of the current curricular programs including a math-intensivesummer bridge experience (Engineering Ahead), a first semester First-Year Seminar, and asecond semester STEM-Persistence Seminar. In addition, co-curricular activities of the LIONSTEM program focus on professional communication skills, financial literacy, career readiness,undergraduate research, and community engagement. Although our primary outcome measure ofthe program is retention in baccalaureate Engineering majors (and other STEM majors), alongthe way we seek to take a holistic approach to analyzing STEM-persistence as a byproduct ofone’s development of their STEM-identity. This paper presents data collected about roleidentities from the first cohort of LION STEM Scholars
introduced to the tool of a “team Contract” and presented with asimplified template recommended to be used in team projects later in the career. A secondlecture addresses the topic of “Social Loafing”. With some cases presented in class fordiscussion. In the spring semester they are introduced to the topic of “Conflict resolution” andrevisits the alignment of team contract with high performance teams. For these sections and theother activities in these introductory courses, students are placed in teams of 2-3 by CATME,and they get trained in the use of the resources it provides. Later in the career, some professorstake the initiative of introducing or reinforcing teamwork skills with some lectures or exercises,mainly to deal with conflict resolution
should join, and any differences between the two.The research questions that guided this study were: RQ1: How do undergraduate engineering students perceive the amount of time spent engaging in engineering clubs? RQ2: Why are undergraduate engineering students motivated to join engineering clubs? RQ3: What are the perceived benefits of engineering club participation?Students are motivated to join engineering clubs to find community with peers [3], applyknowledge to real-world settings [4], prepare for their careers [5], develop new skills [6], [7],and pursue personal interests [8]. Design clubs (both competition and impact-focused teams)provide additional opportunities to practice the design process [9], manufacture parts
the United States, primarily pressurized water reactor systems and boiling water reactorsystems. The overall fraction of electric power production by nuclear power in the United Stateswas identified at 20%. Four sectors in the nuclear power industry were identified: nuclear wastefacilities, nuclear power plants, nuclear fuel facilities, and nuclear-decommissioning activities.The workforce needs for each sector were identified and discussed.MethodsTo train, encourage and motivate students to pursue nuclear science and technology careers andjobs in our communities, our HBCU team has been assigned Task 4.2: Strategic Outreach forNuclear Workforce Pipeline Development and Maintenance. The objectives include thefollowing:1. Increase the number of
on two broad areas: achievement/retention in STEM and comprehension of illus- trated scientific textDr. Karin Jensen, University of Michigan Karin Jensen, Ph.D. (she/her) is an assistant professor in biomedical engineering and engineering edu- cation research at the University of Michigan. Her research interests include student mental health and wellness, engineering student career pathways, and engagement of engineering faculty in engineering education research.Dale RobbennoltAnne Hart, University of Tennessee, Memphis ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Work in Progress: Exploring the Landscape of Stressors Experienced by Doctoral Engineering
efforts to get students to interact with computational thinking as part of theireducation and to broaden participation is student engagement [18].Individuals may engage with computing in many different ways. They may start early on, withcomputational thinking integrated into elementary or middle schools in the U.S. [17], and otherpeople may elect to enroll in a computing major as soon as they start in tertiary education.Meanwhile, others enter a computing career later in life, entering through alternative pathwayssuch as coding bootcamps and self-learning through online resources [19]. Yet, given that it hasbeen argued that “the majority of youth have been systematically denied access to quality CSlearning opportunities” [17, p. 36:2], finding
. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023Work-in-Progress: Developing a Research Plan for a Retrospective Analysis of the Effect of Bridging Courses on Student Success in Graduate Studies1. IntroductionNorth Carolina State University’s Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (CBE)regularly accepts accomplished students to its graduate program with backgrounds such aschemistry, physics, or biology. However, these students may lack the prerequisite knowledge ofkey chemical engineering topics, such as transport phenomena and thermodynamics. Otherstudents may have an undergraduate background in chemical engineering but enter graduatestudy after an industrial career and would like a refresher on complicated topics
practices, STEAM, and S-L and further refined throughcomparison to student feedback on various activities.This framework has implications for both researchers studying S-L and STEAM education andalso practitioners seeking to set up their programs for success. While elementary teachers areoverworked and over-asked, developing S-L relationships with local university programs can beone solution to addressing STEAM workforce development at both K-12 and university levels.IntroductionIn a most recent effort to strengthen Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics(STEM) education nationwide, the goal of the Raise the Bar: STEM Excellence for All Studentsinitiative is to ensure their 21st-century career readiness and global competitiveness for all
into careers with the intent tobuild committed,knowledgeable employees.ClosingBuilding a robust digital security program takes time and focus. The focus includes a riskmanagement process, including OT, and developing a talented resource pool for addressing thecontinuing challenges. The changing threat landscape requires a constantly evolving program tostay ahead. LyondellBasell, like you, is on this never-ending journey. Proceedings of the 2023 Conference for Industry and Education Collaboration Copyright ©2023, American Society for Engineering Education
called “PeerMentoring/Learning, Teaching Assistants, and Career Mentorship,” which included three paperson peer mentorship [5,6,10].Within this atmosphere of enrollment pressures and promotion of student success, previouswork was carried out at Anderson University, a small enrollment-driven institution, to develop apeer mentorship program for first-year engineering students [2]. This work adapted lessonslearned from other, much larger engineering programs into a cohesive peer mentorship programin this smaller context [11,12,13,14,15]. The results of this previous work indicated promising © American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 2023 ASEE Illinois-Indiana Section Conference Proceedingsresults in short
professional career? Should there be legalramifications for violating the codes? Should there be professional consequences for violations? The learning materials also provide essentials to business ethics. While engineers are boundto follow their professional codes of ethics, engineers ultimately provide a service to businesses,as well as working for a business in the form of a firm or other type of business entity. B. Social ResponsibilityFor the next topic area, “social responsibility,” which is the second Canvas module, I choselearning outcomes that would provide students with a general background on how businesses arebuilt and structured traditionally as well as alternatives to those traditional models. This sectionwill discuss
. The purpose of thiscohort-based engineering faculty professional development is to further incentivize faculty tocreate curricular change by providing the opportunity to receive funding but also generatescholarly products that will be recognized in their career advancement (or P&T). The firstsection (2.1) summarizes the Curriculum Development component of the professionaldevelopment experience. The second section (2.2) summarizes the Scholarship of Teaching andLearning (SOTL) Virtual Writing Group (VWG) component of the professional developmentexperience.2.1 Curriculum Development For the curriculum development, faculty participants completed training on how bio-inspired design and STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts
structural systems. He has developed research projects in the area of structural deterioration of reinforced concrete bridges and in the development of damage detection techniques in structural systems based on Non Destructive Evaluation. He actively collaborated in the creation and development of the Monitoring Center for Intelligent Bridges and Structures, leading the analysis and structural evaluation of the systems. In the academic field, he has worked as a professor in the Civil Engi- neering career, in the area of structural engineering at the Instituto Tecnol´ogico de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM) Campus Quer´etaro. He has directed research projects for undergraduate and master’s degree students. He has
Code.org, only 53% of public high schools teachfundamental computer science topics, and only 37 states implemented at least five policies tomake computer science a mandatory part of their education systems at K-12 space [15]. Such alack in high schools may create a void or lack of interest in studying programming for collegestudents [16]. While some CS-major students had extensive programming and computingknowledge, others, such as non-CS-major students, may have never been exposed to the same[17]. Considering this limitation and void, many universities began offering programmingcourses to students in a computer science program as well as students who are not part of any oftheir computer science programs to meet future career options demand [18
Senior Undergraduate Aerospace Engineering StudentParker D. Landon, Boston University I completed two Bachelor’s degrees in Computer Engineering and Space Physics at Embry-Riddle Aero- nautical University in May 2022 and co-authored 4 peer-reviewed publications during my undergraduate career. I plan to complete a Ph.D. at Boston University in Physics, focusing on Accelerator Physics. I am a recipient of the Clare Boothe Luce and Fermilab ASPIRE Fellowships. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 (Work in Progress) Implementing the QFT to Incite Curiosity and Connections in an Introductory Electrical Circuits Course for non-EE MajorsAbstractIt
classifications where I learned the different types and uses for differentships in the world and the US. As someone who started with no knowledge on this industry, Ifelt I finished the course with a better concept of the shipbuilding industry… Apart from learningabout ship organization internationally, I learned about some tools that I had seen in theory incourses previously taken. This course showed how these tools are used to schedule, manufacture,and supervise shipbuilding. Overall, I felt this course to be helpful in both, providing a goodcontext of shipbuilding for anyone interested in pursuing careers related to it and in explaininghow management tools are used to prepare anyone interested in pursuing other managementcareers.” Although anecdotal in
studies.Data CollectionAn entry semi-structured interview protocol was developed for this study and probed at issuessurrounding student's interest in research, expectations from research, experiences gatheredduring the research, and intended career path upon graduation. The students were specificallyasked what they hoped to gain from participating in the research projects that they were engagedin. Interview questions that are relevant to the analysis done in this paper are included in Table 1.The 30-minute interviews were conducted via Zoom or in-person, depending on the choice ofparticipants, within the first 4-weeks of the students’ research experience. Interview data wererecorded with the permission of the participants and transcribed via a
to study) 29% 15% Organizational skills (keeping track of homework, complaints 17% 15% about using ecampus, all different programs they need to use, finding what they need to complete work) Juggling other responsibilities (job, sports, team, fraternities, 10% 23% etc.) Extenuating family circumstances 0 3%Example excerpts from each topic analyzed in the reflective essays are provided below:TIME MANAGEMENT: “I have honestly struggled with time management throughout mywhole school career. It’s just hard to find time to hang out with my newly made friends andcomplete all my school work with time to spare
School Head in the School of Civil and Environmen- tal Engineering at Oregon State University. His research interests include conceptual change and situated cognition. He received the NSF CAREER award inMustafa Aljabery, Oregon State University ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 A qualitative exploration of resource-related barriers associated with EBIP implementation in STEM courses1. Introduction:Pedagogical research has demonstrated a growing awareness of Evidence Based InstructionalPractices (EBIP) in engineering education. An EBIP is commonly defined as a novel educationaltool which redirects instructor efforts towards strategies which result in a demonstrable
-confidence, high school preparation, interest and career goals, and race andgender,” which they believed were interrelated [3]. Of these studies, twenty-eight indicated thathigh school preparation was a factor. The studies revealed a host of high school pedagogicalreason for attrition, including inadequate mathematics (calculus) preparation, low performance inscience classes, including physics, social sciences, and chemistry, overall high school GPA, andhigh school class rank. Some studies indicate that women and racial minorities may have lessaccess to high quality educational resources and opportunities during their high school years,which could impact their level of preparation for engineering programs in postsecondaryeducation. A significant
research methods that allow for deep investigations of constructs such as epistemic thinking, identity, and agency. Dr. Faber has a B.S. in Bioengineering and a Ph.D. in Engineering and Science Education from Clemson University and a M.S. in Biomedical Engineering from Cornell University. Among other awards for her research, she was awarded a National Science Foundation CAREER Award in 2022 to study epistemic negotiations on interdisciplinary engineering education research teams. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 The impact of pre-service teachers’ perceptions of engineering on their self- efficacy with teaching engineeringAbstractAlthough engineering is becoming
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considerationswhen working towards developing solutions to problems. In addition, a theme discussed was thatcreative solutions may be considered to be not as effective and/or realistic, and may be more risky.The data and results of this project provide insights for educators in the engineering field toincorporate domain of knowledge or experience that would help to support college engineeringstudents' engineering problem-solving, and to help students work toward solutions that are bothcreative and that will work.Introduction and Rationale Individuals choose to pursue a degree in higher education to establish a foundation for theirfuture careers. Therefore, the design of engineering curriculum at the college level needs to providestudents with the
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future careers in engineering. Students did most of their projectwork in our fabrication lab equipped with a laser cutter, a CNC machine, several UltiMaker 3Dprinters, and some power tools. They also had access to our circuits lab equipped with solderingstations, fume hoods, and circuit measurement and testing instruments. The faculty mentors gavea few short tutorials on how to use the equipment and topics related to the projects. Most of thetime was dedicated to hands-on project-based learning. Students also presented their iterativedesigns every other week to the entire SEI group, and showcased their projects to the public withposters and demonstrations at the school-hosted exposition of summer programs.The development of a 5 Degrees-of
does not prepare engineering students forfurther coursework and careers in engineering. At our engineering school, we offer a traditionalthree-semester calculus sequence with 3 different starting points. Depending on their priormathematical background, students have the option to begin their first semester with Calculus I,Calculus II, or Multivariable Calculus. In 2016, a two-semester honor’s engineering mathsequence was developed for the students with the strongest math background who wouldtypically begin with Multivariable Calculus in their first semester. The sequence enhances thetraditional calculus curriculum by addressing gaps in Calculus I and II skills, providing a morein-depth exploration of Multivariable Calculus topics, and
collocates student supportservices such as tutoring, academic advising, student career development, disability support, theWriting Center, University of Arizona’s Science, Engineering and Math Scholars Program,health and wellness center, and Serenity Space (supporting spiritual wellness) with spacesdesigned to facilitate collaborative, hands-on learning that promotes engagement withtechnology. The idea of a Student Success District (SDS) began to form when the nationalhistoric landmark Bear Down Gym (BDG) that sat between the Engineering and Science Libraryand Main Library was going to be renovated to include some student support services. UAL’sDean Sutton mentioned to colleagues in BDG that there were plans also underway for partialrenovations of
negativeconsequences, such as being accused of bias or jeopardizing their careers [3]. Another relevant article by Cokley et al. emphasized the importance of addressing theintersectional impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and racial injustice on the mental health of BlackAmericans and the need for culturally responsive interventions that address this population'sunique experiences and needs [4]. Thirdly, Tai et al. provide an update on the disproportionate consequence of COVID-19 onethnical and racial minority groups in the United States. They discuss the underlying factorscontributing to these disparities, including systemic racism, social determinants of health, andunequal access to healthcare [5]. Lastly, to contextualize these