cultures, student motivation, and their learning experiences. His projects involve the study of studen ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023S-STEM: Creating Retention and Engagement for Academically TalentedEngineers – lessons learnedINTRODUCTIONThis paper discusses the lessons learned and findings from formative assessment of the first fouryears of a five-year National Science Foundation S-STEM project entitled “Creating Retentionand Engagement for Academically Talented Engineers (CREATE)”. The project is located in theCollege of Engineering of a large western land-grant university and has retained 26 of the original32 students (referred to as scholars) who were selected to be part of two cohorts of 16
Paper ID #38007Board 392: Supporting Low-Income Engineering Transfer Students’Transition from Community College to a 4-Year University through aComprehensive Scholarship ProgramDr. Anna-Lena Dicke, University of California, Irvine Dr. Dicke is an Associate Project Scientist within the School of Education at the University of California, Irvine. In her research, she aims to understand how students’ motivation and interest in the STEM fields can be fostered to secure their educational persistence and long-term career success. Trying to bridge the gap between theory and practice, she is currently involved in an NSF-funded
Site project funded by NSF DMR program (Award #2050921) has completed itsfirst two years and provided research and educational opportunities to both undergraduates and high schoolteachers. The program achieved its overarching goals with noticed improved mentoring, researchexperiences, and communication during the second year attributed in part to the in-person programming.The REU program aimed to create an experience that took students beyond the development of technicalcompetence in science and engineering and provided an expertise particularly on research and innovationin various areas of energy and bioengineering. External evaluation, interviews and surveys of the REU andRET participants examined if the program goals were achieved. All
graduate from the Honors College with Distinction by Spring 2023. With Dr. James Huff as his advisor, his honors thesis is focused on characterizing the lived experiences of professional shame in accounting students. Grant Countess is a member of the Beyond Professional Identity (BPI) lab where he assists Dr. Huff with his research on shame and identity in the professional education setting.Kyle Shanachilubwa, Harding University ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Engineering Faculty Members’ Experience of Professional Shame: Summary of Insights from Year TwoAbstractIn this paper, we present an overview of an NSF CAREER project, in which we seek to
Council and a Principal Investigator on a National Science Foundation Advanced Technological Educa- tion project. His grant-funded activities are focused on serving Engineering Technicians in Undergraduate Programs, and broadening access to careers in STEM. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023High Tech and High Touch: Inclusive Ecosystems for Community College Engineering and EngineeringTechnology Student SuccessIntroductionThe economic demand for engineering and engineering technology professionals in the United Statescontinues expand with the support of national government policy. Through the efforts of previous andcurrent White House administrations [1]–[3], and recent legislation on
scholarship tomeet the full demonstrated need of each student for four years, including on-campus housing toensure that our scholars can fully participate in the college experience. Intentional programmingand a mentor network were implemented with an assets-based framework. One of WPI’spedagogical approaches to engineering projects is to have students learn and experience co-designing solutions with their end-users. Thus, we engaged our S-STEM CoMPASS Scholars toco-design a supportive college experience for first generations students at WPI.Methodology - Capturing student voices through a graphic recordingTo capture our students’ experiences, voices, and ideas, we partnered with a graphic illustratorand facilitator [2,3] for a design charrette at one
increased faculty interaction: The S-STEM Scholars are enrolledin the same sections of Statics and Calculus III in the summer. This also allowed us to schedulethe Professional Development course and related activities around their coursework and examschedules. The course instructors, as well as other faculty from the college, participate in theindustry tours to facilitate out-of-class interaction with faculty.Professional development course: The project team designed a two-credit hour professionaldevelopment course for the S-STEM Scholars. The course included curricular components inspatial visualization (Developing Spatial Thinking by Sheryl Sorby [7]), Gallup CliftonStrengthsFinder [8], team-building activities, job search skills, interview
”Developing Changemaking Engineers”, anNSF-sponsored Revolutionizing Engineering Education (RED) project. Dr. Lord is the 2018 recipient ofthe IEEE Undergraduate Teaching Award. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Reimagining Energy Year 3: Reflections on Course OfferingOverviewThis National Science Foundation (NSF) project focuses on the development of a new, requiredenergy course, “An Integrated Approach to Energy,” for second-year students that considersways to best include, represent, and honor students from all backgrounds using a collection ofpedagogical approaches known as culturally sustaining pedagogies (CSPs). It is sponsored by theDivision of Undergraduate
andindustry. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 NSF: Integrative Manufacturing and Production Engineering Education Leveraging Data Science Program (IMPEL)AbstractIMPEL is a transformative workforce education and training program that addresses the currentand projected skills gaps and requirements in data science in the U.S. manufacturing sector. Themission of IMPEL is to facilitate lifelong learning for the production engineering STEMworkforce through designing sustainable, pedagogically proven data science curricula viamodular courses with interactive online learning labs and experiential project-based learning.The planned tasks for IMPEL include an online
2011-2012 academic year he participated in a professor exchange, teaching at the Munich University of Applied Sciences. His engineering education interests include collaborating on the Dynamics Concept Inventory, developing model-eliciting activities in mechanical engineering courses, inquiry-based learning in mechanics, and design projects to help promote adapted physical activities. Other professional interests include aviation physiology and biomechanics.Dr. Milo Koretsky, Oregon State University Milo Koretsky is the McDonnell Family Bridge Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering and in the Department of Education at Tufts University. He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from UC
groups have access to HIEP activities,however, remain as questions to investigate. In this project, we examine engineering andcomputer science student participation in HIEP at two public land grant institutions. In thisstudy, we seek to understand how and why students participate in HIEP and how participationaffects their persistence and success in engineering and computer science majors. Set within therural, public land grant university context, this study conceptualizes diversity in a broad senseand includes women, members of underrepresented racial and ethnic groups, first generationcollege students, adult learners, and nontraditional student as groups contributing to the diversityof academic programs and the technical workforce.Purpose
theory and reflective practice. Projects supported by the National Science Foundation include exploring disciplines as cultures, liberatory maker spaces, and a RED grant to increase pathways in ECE for the professional formation of engineers.S Masters, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University S. Masters is a doctoral student and Graduate Research Assistant at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Masters received a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from University of Delaware and is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Engineering Education at Virginia Tech. Masters’ research interests include equity and social justice in engineering with particular attention to the experiences of women & LGBTQ
Engineers. She serves on the editorial board of the Bioelectromagnetics Society.Dr. Adam Kirn, University of Nevada, Reno Adam Kirn is an Assistant Professor of Engineering Education at University of Nevada, Reno. His re- search focuses on the interactions between engineering cultures, student motivation, and their learning experiences. His projects involve the study of student perceptions, beliefs and attitudes towards becoming engineers, their problem solving processes, and cultural fit. His education includes a B.S. in Biomedical Engineering from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, a M.S. in Bioengineering and Ph.D. in Engineer- ing and Science Education from Clemson University.Dr. Jennifer R Amos, University of
Motivation in STEM Using Culturally Relevant ContextsIntroductionThe purpose of this multi-year National Science Foundation (NSF) project is to design, implement,and evaluate integrated culturally relevant (CR) model-eliciting activities (MEAs) usingcommunity issues as the context for learning. To ensure cultural and career relevance the design ofthe CR MEAs is driven by societal challenges connected to community issues, to engageunderrepresented minority (URM) middle school students in CR MEAs that will develop theirlevel of community engagement, career exploration, STEM knowledge, and literacy. Teacherprofessional development was conducted to prepare teachers to utilize integrated CR MEAs in theirclassrooms as a context for learning.This project
Paper ID #23476Student Learning Trajectories from Making and Engineering ActivitiesDr. Micah Lande, Arizona State University Micah Lande, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor in the Engineering and Manufacturing Engineering pro- grams and Tooker Professor at the Polytechnic School in the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University. He teaches human-centered engineering design, design thinking, and design innovation project courses. Dr. Lande researches how technical and non-technical people learn and apply design thinking and making processes to their work. He is interested in the intersection of
B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. in civil engineering and a graduate certificate in engineering education – all from Clemson University. She has over ten years of construction and civil engineering experience working for energy companies and as a project management consultant. Dr. Simmons has extensive experience leading and conducting multi-institutional, workforce-related re- search and outreach. She is a leader in research investigating the competencies professionals need to compete in and sustain the construction workforce. Dr. Simmons oversees the Simmons Research Lab (www.denisersimmons.com), which is home to a dynamic, interdisciplinary mix of graduate researchers and postdoctoral researchers who work together to
Lisa D. McNair is a Professor of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech, where she also serves as Director of the Center for Research in SEAD Education at the Institute for Creativity, Arts, and Technology (ICAT). Her research interests include interdisciplinary collaboration, design education, communication studies, identity theory and reflective practice. Projects supported by the National Science Foundation include exploring disciplines as cultures, liberatory maker spaces, and a RED grant to increase pathways in ECE for the professional formation of engineers.Dr. Donna M. Riley, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering) Donna Riley is Kamyar Haghighi Head of the School of Engineering Education and
provide insight into the ways in which individuals can have new and evolving forms ofimpact within the field. The work performed as part of this project explores our early transitionexperiences, as six early career engineering education faculty, and the ways in which we are ableto exercise agency as influenced by factors at the individual, institutional, field, and societallevels. Each of us contributes our lived experience from our varying position and institutiontypes.Project OverviewThis two-phase project focuses on the study of early career engineering education faculty’sagency to facilitate change within different institutional contexts. In Phase I of this project, weare exploring our own experiences as early career engineering education
engineering courses as well as advanced courses in civil engineering for over 38 years. Dr. Thompson has also been involved with projects introducing engineering into K-12 education for over 15 years.Dr. AnnaMarie ConnerDr. ChanMin Kim, Penn State University ChanMin Kim, Ph.D. is Associate Professor of Education (Learning, Design, and Technology and Ed- ucational Psychology) at Penn State University. Dr. Kim studies methods to help early childhood and elementary teachers learn to integrate robotics and computer science into classrooms. Her current work includes research on methods to help preservice, early childhood education teachers learn to use block- based programming within culturally responsive teaching using
(Water Resources and Hy- drology) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his B.Sc Eng in Civil Engineering from the University of Natal in South Africa. His research and teaching are in the area of surface water hydrol- ogy. His research focuses on advancing the capability for hydrologic prediction by developing models that take advantage of new information and process understanding enabled by new technology. He has developed a number of models and software packages including the TauDEM hydrologic terrain analysis and channel network extraction package that has been implemented in parallel, and a snowmelt model. He is lead on the National Science Foundation HydroShare project to expand the data sharing
engineering technology, such as power system, power electronics, electric machines,etc, need to be revamped to deliver relevant information in light of current industrial practices.Complementary knowledge and skills including control theory, embedded system,communications, digital signal processing, etc, are needed to strengthen student knowledge andskills in communication and information technologies. The project investigator team iscomposed of three faculties in two departments, and this presentation focuses on the teachingand research initiatives in Engineering Technology (ET).Background As a supreme engineering achievement of the 20th century, U.S. power grid is one of thelargest and most capital-intensive sectors of the economy. Its total
Endowment for the Humanities, and the Colorado Commission on Higher Education, and he has published widely in engineering education literature. His research interests include measuring and repairing engineering student misconceptions in thermal and transport science. Page 25.322.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 Collaborative Research: Integration of Conceptual Learning throughout the Core Chemical Engineering Curriculum – Year 1Overview and ObjectivesWe report on the progress of the first year of a CCLI Type 2 project. The goal of this project is tocreate a
Faculty Professional DevelopmentAbstractThe research associated with this project is made possible by a National Science Foundationgrant. Minoritized students (MS) (defined in this work as African American and Latinx) oftenexperience increased instances of exclusionary academic environments compared to theirnon-minoritized counterparts [1]. As a result, MS are more likely than their peers to attrit fromtheir STEM majors. Faculty play a significant role in the development of either a positive ornegative academic culture. For this reason, there is a need to bring meaningful facultyengagement into the classroom to address the challenge of STEM degree completion disparitiesbetween MS and non-MS students. To directly address STEM faculty’s perception
4 leighann@csforall.org 5 Northern Lights Collaborative 5 jrosato@umn.eduAbstractWith respect to previous studies and the state of the quality of K-12 computing educationresearch, there remains room to improve the quality and quantity of research being conducted aswell as the identification of research gaps focused on ensuring all children’s learning needs areconsidered. To mitigate this, our project was designed to answer three research questions: Howcomprehensive is K-12 CER when examined with a specific lens on how it explicitly addressesbroadening
. Understanding the experiences ofengineers can guide the development of education, training, and other interventions to promoteethical and equitable professional cultures. The experiences of early-career engineers as theytransition into professional practice can shape their future attitudes and actions related toprofessional ethics, social equity in the work they do, and equity in the workplace. This NSF-funded project uses a sequential mixed-methods approach to study the experiences of early-career engineers with ethics and equity. Our poster will present findings from the first round ofinterviews with 13 early-career engineers from various engineering disciplines in the UnitedStates of America and Canada. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with
project manaJennie S Popp, Ph.D., University of Arkansa Jennie Popp, Ph.D. is a Professor of Agricultural Economics and the Associate Dean of the Honors Col- lege at University of Arkansas. As Associate Dean, Dr. Popp contributes to student success initiatives through the management of Honors College study abroaDivya Muralidhara, University of ArkansasMr. Thomas Carter III, University of Arkansas ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Developing and Implementing Innovation-based Academic Content and Experiences for First-Year Low-Income StudentsInnovation is critical to the health of our nation and economy, yet too few sciences, technology,engineering, and math (STEM) students
that are driving the Industry 4.0 revolution for smart factories [3–5]. Themechanical engineer of the future needs the same foundation of technical skills and ability tosolve problems as always. But additional skills are needed to participate in the IoT revolution.Thus, preparing mechanical engineering students to contribute in this new field is a pressingeducational need.To meet this need, we developed a new modernized mechatronics course that focuses on the IoTtechnologies, and incorporates project-based learning (PjBL) as well as software engineeringmethods from computer science. Our overarching goal is to integrate skills from computerscience and mechanical engineering, and bridge the gap in mechanical engineering curriculum tobetter
UniversityMs. Briceland McLaughlin, Boise State University Briceland McLaughlin is an academic advisor at Boise State University. She graduated with an M.Ed. from the University of Kansas in 2011 and has worked at higher education institutions across the country over the last decade in both student affairs and academic support roles. Briceland is interested in the intersectionality of student development theory and curriculum design.Dr. Donald Plumlee P.E., Boise State University Dr. Plumlee is certified as a Professional Engineer in the state of Idaho. He has spent the last ten years es- tablishing the Ceramic MEMS laboratory at Boise State University. Dr. Plumlee is involved in numerous projects developing micro-electro
institutional factors that contribute to a ”culture of disengagement” from the ethical dimension of engineering work among students in the engineering profession. His Ph.D. project is funded by the NSF and is concerned with promoting and im- proving engineering students’ ethical behavior and sensitivity through on-campus student organizations. His academic interests include mental health, international development, human rights, and engineering ethics. Currently, his ambition is to work within an international organization such as UNESCO and to be an advocate for promoting science and technology as critical tools of sustainable development as well as to participate in the dialogue between scientists, policy-makers, and
in partnership with theCenter for Aquatic Sciences (CAS) at the Adventure Aquarium. The CAS promotes theunderstanding and appreciation of aquatic sciences and provides outreach programs for a largepopulation of students in Camden, NJ and surrounding communities [1]. The partnership willallow the Algae Grows the Future project to expand its reach and will provide material for CASto implement. The theme of algae was selected because of the wide range of applications ofalgae, ease of growth and maintenance, and accessibility to any classroom. The Algae Grows theFuture team aims to promote a high quality engineering education, along with the integration ofhumanities to improve students’ understanding of the connections between the two fields.1.2