engineering, many of the URM studentsstruggle to complete their degree due to various factors: inadequate academic preparation,insufficient awareness career options, lack of necessary financial, academic, social, and culturalsupport for success, and low levels of self-efficacy.To address these barriers and build capacity for student success, SFSU has partnered with twolocal HSI community colleges, Skyline College and Cañada College. This collaboration involvesdeveloping and implementing several strategies through the Strengthening Student Motivationand Resilience through Research and Advising (S-SMART) project, which is funded by theNational Science Foundation's HSI Improving Undergraduate STEM Education (IUSE) program.One of the strategies developed
classified below as subtopics: 1. Established identity in CS with themselves and others. 2. Personal experiences and challenges in CS that are gender and/or race related. 3. Psycho-social characteristics experienced. 4. Personal feedback/recommendations for promoting equity, inclusion, and representation of black women in CS.Each subtopic and corresponding findings are discussed below.4.1 Established Identity in CS with Themselves & OthersFindings for this classification were based on five key questions that were asked during the focusgroup sessions: Q1: Do the participant(s) exhibit an identity towards computer science? Q2: Do the participant(s) consider themselves as computer scientists? Q3: Are they proud to be
Learning Community. He has offered a variety of high-school and first-year introductory and professional development courses over the last two decades. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Student Persistence Factors for Engineering and Computing Undergraduates Robert Petrulis2, Sona Gholizadeh1 , Ed Gatzke1 (1) University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC (2) EPRE Consulting, Columbia, SCAbstractThe research and evaluation team of an S-STEM project at a large, research-intensiveSoutheastern public university conducted a cross-sectional survey as a first step to comparefactors which may influence undergraduate student persistence in
in 2020-21, as shown by the Student Demographics reported in Table 1.Students in this program believe that remote undergraduate research programs “give opportunities tostudents all over the country to participate in research projects …. without having to live in the samelocation”; “[collaborating] with people from different backgrounds …. enhance[s] the research process”;and “[Diversity] is important to gain an extrinsic understanding of how our work can impact others, soby promoting diverse collaboration, it also improves the work itself” (Student Testimonials).The active outreach to high school students allows undergraduate community college researchers to takeon high school mentees. This serves to lessen the gap between undergraduate
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inengineering specifically [12-15, 28-29, 31-33, 38]. There were cross-cultural differences in the studies’ findings. In the study from UAE[26], women with higher SES were less likely to choose STEM majors and careers (Fig. 1),unlike in the US and UK where studies found higher SES to significantly impact the likelihoodof persisting in and choosing a STEM major, respectively [22, 24]. In Caspi et. al.’s study [16] inIsrael, they found no gender difference in ninth grade students’ choice of a STEM major whereasgender differences were found early on (i.e., prior to intervention) in STEM attitudes in USstudents [13]. Fig. 1 Likelihood of persisting in and choosing a STEM major Importantly, these studies support the
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students 34. Theresearchers found that social support and having a better sense-of-belonging yielded higher ratesof persistence in STEM students.Commuter students. Living off-campus can have implications in student success 35. Off-campushousing requires students to keep track of additional expenses, such as rent, groceries, and utilitybills. This living situation can also make access to student services more challenging becausestudents must travel to campus to access the services. The commuter student demographic beganto expand in the 1960’s, and has yet to see a decline 36. Access to course materials for commuterstudents have improved since the inception of learning management systems (e.g., BlackBoard)that provide electronic access to course
) in engineering and science hasbecome much discussed topic in the industry and also in the academia (Detroit Free Press, 2016;Burke, 2016). While the state licensure bodies monitor the professional conduct of the engineers,professional engineering bodies like National Society of Professional Engineers (NSPE) andAmerican Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) insist and expect their members to have goodmoral character and ethical integrity (NSPE, 2016; ASCE, 2012).However, the ethical contact and the professionalism of an engineer do not start with theengineer’s first assignment as a graduate engineer, but with what this individual learns inclassrooms as an engineering student and how s|he gets trained as an engineering intern. Theseeds of ethics
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Mission College S-STEM ATE* S-STEM HSI* Laredo College IUSE AISL HSI* ATE Miami Dade College S-STEM S-STEM* ATE* Palo Alto College IUSE S-STEM* ATE* West Hills CC S-STEM ATE* S-STEM S-STEM* Central Arizona 2 College ATE* HSI* LA Harbor College S-STEM Lee College IUSE HSI-F19 NMSU Grants ATE HSI* Phoenix College DRK12 HSI* HSI-F19 San Joaquin Delta S-STEM
) C(S) P(S) y(t) - Figure 1. PID Controller Feedback Systemwhere x(t) is the desired value (i.e., set point) e(t) is the error (i.e., x(t) – y(t)) w(t) is the controller output (i.e., actuator output) y(t) is the actual output (i.e., process variable (PV)) C(s) is the transfer function of the PID controller in the Laplace domain P(s) is the transfer function of the plant in the Laplace domainLet F(s) be defined as the Laplace transform of a function f(t): ∞ 𝐹𝐹(𝑠𝑠) = ℒ {𝑓𝑓(𝑡𝑡)} = ∫0 𝑓𝑓(𝑡𝑡) 𝑒𝑒 −𝑠𝑠𝑠𝑠 𝑑𝑑𝑑𝑑where s is the transform variable.Taking the Laplace
Awarding S-STEM Scholarships to Current StudentsAbstractLamar University in Beaumont, Texas was awarded an NSF S-STEM grant “Industrial andMechanical Engineering Scholars with Scholarships, Career Mentoring, Outreach andAdvisement, Professional Societies and Engineering Learning Community (SCOPE) S-STEMProgram” in 2015. Unlike most scholarship programs that target incoming students, thisscholarship targets enrolled students who have demonstrated successful progress towards aMechanical Engineering or Industrial Engineering degree by having minimum grades of B inCalculus I, Calculus II and Physics I and an overall GPA of at least 3.0. The SCOPE programrequires scholarship recipients to be an active member of the
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switched for Workshop 2 such that the participants will complete 8 CADmodules first and then the 4 origami modules. Workshop 3 will consist of 12 origami modules andWorkshop 4 will consist of 12 CAD modules with each module increasing in complexity anddifficulty. All 4 workshops will be deployed in Fall 2018 to first-year female engineering student. Itis estimated that there will be 50 - 75 participants in each workshop cohort.References [1] M. S. Khine, Visual-spatial Ability in STEM Education. Switzerland: Springer International Publishing, 2016. [2] M. C. Linn and A. C. Petersen, “Emergence and characterization of sex differences in spatial ability: A meta-analysis,” Child development, vol. 56, no. 6, pp. 1479–1498, 1985. [3] G. Park, D
prep weeks. Week 4's preparationconsisted of Paige and Gabby splitting up the work of creating a new set of slides and theirinstructor notes. Like the prior weeks, the expectation was to use AUT 2020's slides but not evenwatching the Zoom recording for AUT 2020's Data Visualization lecture helped the team feelconfident in delivering the content. The data does not provide information as to why the videowas unhelpful. As a result, Paige and Gabby did research on the topic to understand datavisualization (data type/measurement scale, nominal/ordinal/quantitative, etc.). This led to Paigeand Gabby updating the visualization examples using postcards from previous students. All threeeducators acknowledged the amount of work required for week 4 and
Paper ID #43077Board 188: A Legacy of Success: The High Achievers in STEMDr. Rahman Tashakkori, Appalachian State University Rahman Tashakkori received his PhD in Computer Science from Louisiana State University in 2001. He serves as the Lowe’s Distinguished Professor of CS and director for LSAMP and S-STEM programs at Appalachian State University.Dr. Jennifer R. McGee, Appalachian State UniversityDr. Cindy Norris, Appalachian State University ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 A Legacy of Success: The High Achievers in STEM Abstract - There are well-known and widespread
components ofspatial ability which may aid in the creation of more complete training.AcknowledgementsThis material is based upon work supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation underGrant No. 1712887. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed inthis material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the NationalScience Foundation.References[1] K. S. McGrew, “CHC theory and the human cognitive abilities project: Standing on the shoulders of the giants of psychometric intelligence research,” Intelligence, vol. 37, no. 1, pp. 1–10, Jan. 2009, doi: 10.1016/j.intell.2008.08.004.[2] D. F. Lohman, “Spatial Ability and G.” 1993.[3] A. Ramful, T. Lowrie, and T. Logan, “Measurement of Spatial
system users andother practitioners. For example, the LSRM may enhance the CATME system by accuratelymodeling longitudinal social relations data, and thereby improving the evaluation of teamdynamics and identifying potential areas for improvement. Ultimately, this may help instructorsbetter support their students' collaborative learning experiences and foster a more inclusivelearning environment. ReferencesAgrawal, A. K., & Harrington-Hurd, S. (2016). Preparing next generation graduates for a global engineering workforce: Insights from tomorrow's engineers. Journal of Engineering Education Transformations, 29(4), 5-12.Alsharif, A., Katz, A., Knight, D., & Alatwah, S. (2022). Using
aframework comprising 12 attitudes and 17 behaviors that align with the 3Cs.Parallel to the entrepreneurial mindset, we can define an innovation mindset as a set of beliefsand attitudes that lead to developing the capacity to produce valuable novelty. There is also adistinction between individual innovativeness and the innovation mindset. For example, Hunteret al.’s conceptual model of innovativeness [11] includes constructs such as knowledge, skills,and abilities, while the innovation mindset emphasizes dispositions, attitudes, and propensities[12]. Couros [13] describes eight characteristics of an innovator’s mindset: empathic, problemfinders/solvers, risk takers, networked, observant, creators, resilient, and reflective.This paper investigates
projects. The preliminary learning outcomes and framework presented in this studycan guide students through multiple stages where incorporating contextual factors is relevant andprovide prompts for reflection and methods to do so iteratively throughout their designprocesses. The findings from this work have implications for engineering design pedagogy and,ultimately, the potential to improve engineering graduates’ abilities to develop contextuallysuitable solutions.References[1] C. B. Aranda-Jan, S. Jagtap, and J. Moultrie, “Towards A Framework for Holistic Contextual Design for Low-Resource Settings,” Int. J. Des., vol. 10, no. 3, p. 21, 2016.[2] P. Clyde et al., “25 Years of Health Care Delivery in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
Paper ID #32725Broadening the Participation of Underrepresented Minorities in theMathematical SciencesProf. Tuncay Aktosun, University of Texas at Arlington Dr. Aktosun is a professor of mathematics at the University of Texas at Arlington. His research area is applied mathematics and differential equations with research interests in scattering and spectral theory, inverse problems, wave propagation, and integrable evolution equations. He is involved in various men- toring and scholarship programs benefiting students. He has been the GAANN Fellowship Director in his department since 2006, the NSF S-STEM Scholarship
for the NOT of a logic function. 44 Design a hierarchial carry-lookahead adder. 3 Create a truth table for a logic function. 45 Design an array multiplier for unsigned binary numbers. 4 Draw the logic network of gates that implements a logic function. 46 Multiply signed binary numbers with 2’s complement arithmetic. 5 Use Boolean Algebra to reduce a logic function. 47 Convert a fixed-point binary number to decimal. Give the decimal exponent range and precision of a single- or double- 6 Prove a
a study to examine the factors that impact theproduction of African American Ph.D.’s in engineering, as well as those factors that affectthe pathway to tenured faculty positions in engineering. Their findings have highlightedthe need to discuss race and gender and its impact on developing a more diverseengineering workforce [1-4].References[1] E. O. McGee, W. H. Robinson, L. C. Bentley, and S. L. Houston II, "Diversity stalled: Explorations into the stagnant numbers of African American engineering faculty," in ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Seattle, WA, 2015.[2] W. H. Robinson, E. O. McGee, L. C. Bentley, S. L. Houston II, P. K. Botchway, and R. Roy, "Racial and gendered experiences that dissuade a
9 10If for instance you were pursuing a mechanical engineering (ME) degree and through the courseof the Perseus II project you gained significant new ME relative knowledge and reinforcedinformation from classes throughout your UG career relative to ME that enhanced your abilityto apply ME knowledge you would select something on the higher end of the spectrum torepresent what you feel is a significant educational impact. ii. In a discipline/s of your Perseus II teammates : 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10If for instance you were pursuing a mechanical engineering (ME) degree and through the courseof the Perseus II project you gained significant new naval engineering relative knowledge, forexample the knowledge and ability to assess and design
Engineering Ambassadors reflected on student learning andtheir own practice after each presentation. The EAs responded individually to a six-questionopen-ended survey (Appendix C). Responses that were general in nature are displayed in Figure3.Figure 3. Engineering Ambassadors’ General Reflections on Lesson PresentationsBriefly describe Which part(s) Which part(s) Which part(s) What will you What your lesson of the lesson of your lesson of your lesson do to make that knowledge went really will you do the will you change? and/or skill well? same? change
. In addition, she runs a faculty devel- opment and leadership program to train and recruit diverse PhD students who wish to pursue academic positions in engineering or applied science after graduation. Dr. Sandekian earned B.S. and M.S. degrees in Aerospace Engineering Sciences at CU Boulder in 1992 and 1994, respectively. She went on to earn a Specialist in Education (Ed. S.) degree in Educational Leadership and Policy Studies in 2011 and a Ph.D. in Higher Education and Student Affairs Leadership in December 2017, both from the University of Northern Colorado. She is a Founding Leader of the American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE) Virtual Community of Practice (VCP) for LGBTQ+ Inclusion in Engineering
processes around EBIP-implementation. We hope that this model will facilitate moreeffective mentoring and training programs.References[1] A. Brooks, K. Heath, S. Brown, H. Dominguez, P. Shekhar, and J. Knowles, “One Size Does Not Fit All: Understanding how Faculty Implement Evidence-Based Instructional Practices in Their Engineering Courses,” presented at the IEEE Frontiers in Education (FIE), IEEE, 2022.[2] A. Brooks, J. Knowles, E. Clement, S. Prateek, and S. Brown, “Are All ‘EBIPs’ Created Equal? An Exploration of Engineering Faculty Adoption of Nine Evidence-Based Instructional Practices,” ASEE Annu. Conf. Expo., 2023[3] J. Knowles, A. Brooks, E. Clement, P. Shekhar, S. Brown, and M. Aljabery, “A Qualitative Exploration of