Engineering Education Department at Utah State University. Her research centers the intersection identity formation, engineering culture, and dis- ability studies. Her work has received several awards including best paper awards from the Journal of Engineering Education and the Australasian Journal of Engineering Education. She holds a Ph.D. in En- gineering Education from Virginia Tech as well as M.S. and B.S. degrees in civil engineering from the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology.Gabriel Van Dyke, Utah State University Gabriel Van Dyke is a Graduate Student and Research Assistant in the Engineering Education Department at Utah State University. His current research interests are engineering culture and applying
circuit concepts but also using the appropriate metrics andcommunication style tailored for the audience for us to further identify potential misconceptionsthat students, teachers, or both of them share.MethodologyThis pilot study was a result of our ongoing interest in pinpointing misconceptions amongelectrical engineering students; thus, the development of our own instrument. There is not muchresearch in the use of concept inventory for instructors because concept inventories, as anassessment tool, is supposed to be designed by the instructors for the students. However, wesought to validate and use this instrument adaptively for both students and teachers who areinvolved in the learning and teaching of these engineering concepts. For this pilot
topics and specific ideas for surveyitems.13 For example, Crede and Borrego3 utilized ethnographic observations and interviews todevelop a survey about retention amongst graduate-level engineering students. Themes identifiedfrom this ethnographic study and previous research literature were used to develop surveyconstructs. The researchers then used participant excerpts to design specific survey itemsrepresentative of the survey constructs, often using the direct language of the target population.The survey was revised through two rounds of pilot testing. The first of these rounds includedreview by members of the original ethnography sample and a panel of experts. The second ofthese rounds included pilot testing of the revised survey with a
complicates social relations, and evidence that harassing or uncivilbehavior gets punished all have the potential to change individual risk-benefitcalculations. Bystander training can help to increase participant awareness andconfidence, and thus to consolidate norms that endorse interventions. We expect toreport results of our pilot study of bystander intervention in engineering at the 2023ASEE meeting. ReferencesCares, A. C., V. L. Banyard, M. M. Moynihan, L. M. Williams, S. J. Potter, and J. G. Stapleton (2015). Changing attitudes about being a bystander to violence: Translating an in-person sexual violence prevention program to a new campus. Violence Against Women 21(2), 165–187.Dobbin, F. and A. Kalev
Paper ID #36855Assessing authentic problem-solving in heat transferJiamin Zhang Jiamin Zhang, PhD, is a postdoctoral scholar and lecturer in physics at Auburn University. Her research focuses on studying authentic problem-solving in undergraduate engineering programs and what factors impact student persistence in STEM. She earned her PhD in chemical engineering from the University of California, Santa Barbara.Soheil Fatehiboroujeni (Assistant Professor ) Soheil Fatehiboroujeni received his Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from the University of California, Merced in 2018 focused on the nonlinear dynamics of
; Neville, 2015). Other scales have been written to capture theexperiences of only one intersectional group such as Keum et al. (2018) who designed theGendered Racial Microaggression Scale for Asian American Women (GRMSAAW). Oneexception to this approach of examining only one or two intersectional identities was Torres-Harding et al. (2012) who included several racial and ethnic identities in the design in the RacialMicroaggression Scale (RMS). None of these previous scales have been designed to capturemicroaggression experiences among engineering undergraduate students across severalintersectional identities. This study proposes the creation of a novel Engineering GenderedRacial Microaggression Scale (EGRMS) to capture the unique experiences and
students’ scores in a mathcompetition (Hangen et al, 2019b). I also am currently working on projects examining the role ofstereotypes for the motivation and math performance of female students and students of Asian heritage.Dr. Drazan (Biomedical Engineering): In addition to my technical training, engineering outreach andeducation has been a major theme in my scholarly development. As an undergraduate, I was a varsitybasketball player and one of my teammates, John Scott, created a non-profit called 4th Family Inc in 2011after he lost one of youth basketball players to gun violence. I became involved with the non-profit in2012 during my first year of graduate school. John Scott was coaching high school basketball and heasked if I was interested in
well, we fully engage with local high school teachers, students,parents, engineering faculty and student counselors, and the professional organizations andbusiness leaders who need our products for their workforce.Program ApproachIn this WIP effort, we are initiating a survey that will track student persistence and time tograduation for the E&ET programs, and with particular attention on female and minority students.Some pilot studies [2] show a large degree of variability in retention and graduation by race,ethnicity, and gender. The study shows the six-year graduation rate of Asian Americans was66.5%, Caucasians – 59.7%, Hispanics – 44.4%, Native Americans – 38.6%, African Americans– 38.3%, females 61%. A survey is being created that
system as a whole—is going to be necessary for making sustainableand significant impacts on human health going forward [1,4,10-11].The application of multi-scale systems bioengineering approaches to biomedical researchrequires knowledge of human physiology/pathology, in addition to quantitative skills in mathand engineering [4,12-14]. More importantly, however, it requires the ability to integrate thesesubjects in a meaningful way [15]. Within both the biotechnology sector and in academia, thedemand for graduates who possess expertise in the generation of high-throughput data—as wellas the modeling skills needed to analyze/predict pathological states and identify viabletherapies—has increased dramatically [2,4,16].In terms of STEM pipeline
Paper ID #10088Work-in-Progress: The Platform-Independent Remote Monitoring System(PIRMS) for Situating Users in the Field VirtuallyMr. Daniel S. Brogan, Virginia Tech Daniel S. Brogan is a PhD student in Engineering Education with BS and MS degrees in Electrical En- gineering. He has completed several graduate courses in engineering education pertinent to this research. He is the key developer of the PIRMS and leads the LEWAS lab development and implementation work. He has mentored two NSF/REU Site students in the LEWAS lab. He assisted in the development and implementation of curricula for introducing the LEWAS at VWCC
. Lemke, and C. Leicht-Scholten, “How to teach resilience thinking in engineering education,” Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure, vol. 9, no. 5, pp. 513–530, Sep. 2024, doi: 10.1080/23789689.2024.2356492.[16] A. Singer, G. Montgomery, and S. Schmoll, “How to foster the formation of STEM identity: studying diversity in an authentic learning environment,” International Journal of STEM Education, vol. 7, no. 1, p. 57, Nov. 2020, doi: 10.1186/s40594-020-00254-z.[17] “Measuring Undergraduate Students’ Engineering Self‐Efficacy: A Validation Study - Mamaril - 2016 - Journal of Engineering Education - Wiley Online Library.” Accessed: Nov. 05, 2024. [Online]. Available: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/jee.20121[18
AC 2012-5229: FACULTY SURVEY ON LEARNING THROUGH SERVICE:DEVELOPMENT AND INITIAL FINDINGSDr. Olga Pierrakos, James Madison University Olga Pierrakos is an Associate Professor and founding faculty member in the School of Engineering, which is graduating its inaugural class May 2012, at James Madison University. Pierrakos holds a B.S. in engineering science and mechanics, an M.S. in engineering mechanics, and a Ph.D. in biomedical en- gineering from Virginia Tech. Her interests in engineering education research center around recruitment and retention, engineering design instruction and methodology, learning through service (NSF EFELTS project), understanding engineering students through the lens of identity theory
modalities across the four categories. The findings corroborate positive reviews by formerparticipants and facilitators, especially for groups of university students from diverse culturalbackgrounds. The findings from the pilot study indicate a positive trajectory: Intentionalinclusion of guided, interpersonal communication exercises in engineering courses based on theUNESCO Story Circles methodology is appreciated by learners. The method offers a potentialtemplate for broad adoption in engineering programs due to its readily accessible, cost-free, andeasily adaptable format for diverse instructional settings.1 IntroductionAs we continue to adjust to the “new normal” in pandemic-infused academic contexts, manylearners, educators, and administrators
mechanisms, metrics, policy, and amelioration; engineering writing and communication; and methodological development for nontraditional data. Her NSF CAREER award studies master’s-level departure from the engineering doctorate as a mechanism of attrition. Catherine earned her B.S. in Chemistry from The University of South Dakota, her M.S. in Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering from Purdue University, and Ph.D. in Engineering Education from Purdue University.Gabriella M Sallai Gabriella Sallai is a PhD candidate in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at The Pennsylvania State University. Her work characterizes engineering graduate students’ experiences within graduate school. Gaby earned a Bachelor’s degree in
intervention aimed at exposing underrepresented fourth and fifth grade boys to hands-on, inquiry based STEM experiments and activities. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Paper ID #23043 Henderson is a part of the first year engineering experience team and he was recently appointed by the Dean of the College as the Director of the Program for Mastery in Engineering Studies (PROMES), a program aimed at increasing engineering student achievement, engagement, and graduation rates. His research interests are in engineering identity formation and persistence among underrepresented students
designed tointegrate biology into undergraduate engineering education at the UW. Our ultimate aim is tointegrate biology into the engineering curriculum at three levels. This includes: 1) developing aset of instructional modules that use biological examples to illustrate engineering principles forincorporation into existing freshman or sophomore level engineering science courses 2) a juniorlevel course in fundamental biological principles, and 3) advanced courses in engineeringbiological systems for seniors and graduate students. For our first effort in this program, wedeveloped a course to teach fundamental biological concepts that are sufficiently rigorous andrelevant to third and fourth year engineering students.This paper describes the broad
. Allison Godwin, Cornell University Allison Godwin, Ph.D. is the Dr. G. Stephen Irwin ’67, ’68 Professor in Engineering Education Research (Associate Professor) in the Robert Frederick Smith School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Cornell University. She is also the Associate Director of the Cornell NanoScale Science and Technology Facility and a McCormick Teaching Excellence Institute Research Fellow. Her research focuses on how identity, among other affective factors, influences diverse groups of students to choose engineering and persist in engineering. She also studies how different experiences within the practice and culture of engineering foster or hinder belonging, motivation, and identity development
, including faculty and staff with disabilities who teach or work in thelaboratory setting, graduate students whose research is performed in a laboratory setting,students and teachers with disabilities in the K-12 laboratory setting, and employees engaged inother workplace laboratory settings outside of academia.METHODSFaculty in chemical engineering departments across the world were surveyed todetermine the current state of accessibility in unit operations lab spaces andcourses.To assess the current state of unit operations lab space and course accessibility acrosschemical engineering departments, we developed a survey, shown in Table 1, based on theUniversity of Washington (UW) Disabilities, Opportunities, Internetworking, and Technology(DO-IT
(Zambia). The EWB Challenge has been piloted at Colorado State University for the past two years [4]and has been successfully undertaken by students across Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdomand Ireland since 2007 [5, 6]. The other two curricular groups studied are engineering students who willbe studying engineering abroad with a partner university for a semester or more, and engineering studentsundertaking a short term (3 week) sustainable design and construction three credit study abroad programin Costa Rica over the winter break. Finally, two co-curricular groups of students will be investigated,members of the universities Engineers Without Borders USA chapter will be looked at as two differentgroups. Those involved in the design
migrators faced the sameproblems as students who dropped out of STEM majors (leavers) but chose another STEMmajor. A qualitative study [15] on students migrating to industrial engineering (IE) showedthat students left their initial engineering major because of negative experiences with facultyand classes, very low interaction with faculty, and change in career goals to an industrialengineer. The other studies which have researched migrators are quantitative [10, 13] anddescribe metrics such as major stickiness (percentage of students that enroll and subsequentlygraduate in a major) and odds of graduation in the major. Quantitative studies into whystudents drop a major cannot provide the rich description obtained from a qualitative studythat is
urban student populations.In this paper we share the potential of the Backtracking Technique to generate contextualizedcareer pathway data for institutions and create visualizations that can aid in institutionaldecision-making through a study pilot. The pilot is an initial effort to test the project’s aims ofintegrating institutional data with phenomenological data to model student progression throughpost-secondary STEM programs. The analysis will identify and verify influencers that support orhinder student success. Quantitative data analyses will consist of descriptive and comparativemethods, which will be verified and informed by open coding and thematic analysis of thequalitative data. We share how the systematic investigation of
program where they designed virtual creatures while considering biomechanics [14].ENA allowed researchers in these projects to quantitatively analyze how components ofKnowledge, Skills, Identity, Values, and Epistemology were related within the communities ofpractice – even in complex learning spaces. This success illustrates the potential of using ENA inpractice-based learning contexts as well.Study ContextTo assess the potential for using ENA and the five epistemic frame elements to analyzepractice-based learning, a preliminary study was carried out at Iron Range Engineering – anABET-accredited upper division engineering program that implements practice-based learning.After completing lower division coursework at a community college, students
strategicallyintegrated into the entire TPP curriculum. A concerted effort to strengthen the TPP was enabledby a Noyce Track 1 project, with the goal that by graduation, our pre-service teachers are readyto teach as culturally responsive, effective and reflective educators. We piloted a new TPP coursefor pre-practicum experiences immersed in the community. While this paper is based on ourlocal context, some of our experiences and results might be transferrable or adapted for otherteacher preparation programs. STUDENT DEMOGRAPHICS: RACE/ETHNICITY K-12% Univ % 67.4 46
. Typically 5-7instructors are involved with the course throughout the academic year. Student assessment Page 23.134.2includes weekly problem sets and quizzes, a semester-long truss design project, two midtermexams, and a common final exam. Weekly tutoring assistance is provided by graduate teachingfellows (GTFs) across multiple sections.The vision for restructuring the course arose from several key deficiencies. As a service coursethat introduces all students in the College of Engineering to the basics of engineering analysis, itis vital that the material taught to the students be delivered in a coherent fashion and on auniform level. Section-to
school’s premises.EmbodimentParticipant Structures. Participating youth were organized into small groups with clearlyassigned roles, such as UAV pilot, safety officer, and spotter. These roles were rotatedthroughout the semester and every youth had a chance to play each of these roles. Each group ofyouth was supported by a dedicated STEM coach and another adult volunteer from the IHADprogram. Two undergraduate and one graduate student from the engineering program at theUniversity of Colorado were recruited to serve as STEM coaches who facilitated the program.Each coach participated in a professional development program designed to familiarize themwith UAVs, the overall curriculum, the engineering design practices being emphasized in thecurriculum
addressing initial mathematics course placement and initial mathematics course outcomes,particularly among students from minoritized populations, low SES backgrounds, and rural areas.The launch pilot focuses on elucidating the pathways that lead students into college math courses FTbelow calculus and on testing interventions at points of maximal theoretical impact. Although thedata we collect is specific to South Carolina, the framework for the study (Figure 1) is groundedin engineering identity theory and draws on national research on engineering identity andengineering pathways [1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14]. Each critical decision point isaffected by a range of inputs that are not unique to South Carolina
-employment experience hason students can help engineering education researchers (EER) understand the role that diverseteams, particularly in the capstone environment, can have for engineering students in thedevelopment of their collaborative abilities.In the long term, this study seeks to better understand how the social norms that are present ininterdisciplinary teams influence the development of effective collaborative behaviors. Thesebehaviors can be considered as belonging to a larger grouping of skills, sometimes called “meta-competencies,” that have become an increasingly important part of what employers look for fromengineering graduates [11]. However, this paper will focus directly on the curriculum design ofan interdisciplinary capstone
Work on Research Self-EfficacyWhile no instrument for EERSE currently exists, multiple efforts have been undertaken to measureresearch self-efficacy in general [13-20]. These measures typically describe research as beingcomprised of the conceptualization of a study; a literature review; the design and implementationof the study; data collection, analysis, and interpretation; writing and the presentation of the results.Notably, however, the vast majority of this research focuses exclusively on the research self-efficacy of students participating in graduate or undergraduate research. These studies also do notinclude engineering or engineering education students, with a few exceptions [18-20].Instruments to study the research self-efficacy of
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Education, 2015 The Business Case for Engineering Skills-based Volunteerism in K-12 EducationAbstractSkills-based volunteerism programs can provide technical employees effective and meaningfulopportunities to utilize, develop, and transfer their skills while contributing to their companies’community engagement objectives in K-12 education. While many companies encourage theiremployees to engage in education-related volunteerism, these efforts are often one-off eventsrelated to student outreach or recruiting, rather than opportunities for employees to utilize theirskills to not only give back to community, but also develop professionally and personally. Thisstudy focuses on assessing the impact of a pilot