, University of North Texas Shirley Anderson is a Ph.D. student in Higher Education at the University of North Texas. She is also the Assistant Director of the Health Professions Advising Center at UT Dallas. Her research interests surround the topic of Marginalized Students in Healthcare. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Faculty and Administrators' Servingness in Engineering Education at Hispanic Serving Institutions: A Systematic Review AbstractThis systematic review study aims to investigate the roles and contributions of engineeringfaculty members and administrators in enhancing the educational experiences of Latinx and
&M University Dr. Malini Natarajarathinam is an Associate professor with Department of Engineering Technology and Industrial Distribution. She teaches classes on strategic relationships for industrial distribution, distribu- tion information systems and new directions in Industrial Distribution. She is also the founding faculty and advisor for the Society of Women in Industrial Distribution (SWID). She works on many service learning projects with her students where they work with many local community agencies. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016Women in Industrial Distribution: emerging opportunities and challenges for female college
those at thecollege level. For the three principles: outreach and recruitment, support services, and inclusiveenvironment, the authors investigated the existing barriers and ways to address them. In theprocess, this group of researchers articulated some critical issues that prevent diverse andeconomically disadvantaged undergraduate students from seeking a graduate degree inengineering. Realizing this, a Grand Valley State University (GVSU) team comprised ofadministrators and faculty members sought to build a comprehensive program that incorporatesall of the aforementioned structures and others. This paper describes the development strategy ofsuch a program that culminated with an NSF award.Development of Program StructureIt is understood that
Paper ID #42619TA Training at Two R1 Institutions: A Comparative AnalysisMs. Haley Briel, University of Wisconsin, Madison Haley Briel is an instructional design consultant with the Collaboratory for Engineering Education and Teaching Excellence (CEETE) within the Center for Innovation in Engineering Education (CIEE) at UW - Madison’s College of Engineering. Her work focuses on promoting inclusive, evidence-based best practices in teaching for instructional staff and faculty. She is particularly passionate about teaching assistant training as a foundation for graduate students as they begin careers in academia.Dr. Deesha
didactic training and real world applications, and exposedthem to people working in a STEM field. Over a period of four years, STEP participants had theopportunity to tour several STEM industries in the metropolitan area.The 3+8 undergraduate research component of STEP provided participants with an 11-weekresearch experience. The 3-week session introduced students to research through partnering witha faculty member at the 2-year institution; this was followed by an 8-week research experienceguided by research faculty members at 4-year institutions. In both components, students worked20-25 hours per week. Students participating in the 3+8 program gained experience in collectingdata, monitoring their progress, solving problems and troubleshooting
, advancing work inthe community. Similarly, Percy Pierre described how, as director of the Sloan EngineeringProgram, he supported pre-college engineering education efforts for minority students. Althoughthese pioneers helped fund different kinds of engineering education work (research, teaching,and learning), they all described their influence more in terms of legitimacy for engineeringeducation than in monetary terms.Kemnitzer’s account focused on supporting early-career faculty through an NSF program thatwas the precursor to the current CAREER program. She recalled how the first award of this kindto a faculty member engaged in engineering education work was a significant step toward thefield gaining legitimacy at the national scale. She described
. The objective of the informationalinterview was for students to virtually meet with someone from industry, government, academia(graduate student or faculty member), or an alternative STEM career path that was of interest tothe student. Interviews conducted engaged Penn State graduate students, faculty, panelists, andconnections from their home institutions’ alumni networks. In the final week of the program,students shared their experience with the larger group. Participants reported positive interactionswith their interviewee, with many of the interviewees offering to review a resumé, connect themwith someone in their company or network or alert them to the potential of a career or internshipopportunity.Scientific and Research Skills
from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.Trenton Robert Douthwaite ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023Engineering Management Student Study-Abroad Opportunities: Design Considerations for EM Programs and Faculty MentorsAbstractLeading an undergraduate program in Engineering Management (EM) can be challenging due tothe need to balance the requirements of accreditation engineering topics (ET) and the desire toinspire students through study-abroad opportunities. Often, foreign colleges do not offer thesame level of ET rigor, putting students at risk of falling behind and not graduating on time. Thispaper proposes one approach to planning and creating student opportunity. It begins
channels. E-mentoring can be beneficial for graduate students who may not have easy access to mentors in person. 6. Reverse Mentoring: In this type of mentoring relationship, the mentee takes on a mentoring role for the mentor. This can be useful when the mentor is seeking to learn more about the experiences and perspectives of the mentee, such as when a senior faculty member mentors a graduate student from a diverse cultural background.There are several types of mentoring relationships that can be used to support graduatestudents in STEM fields. Each type has its own advantages and can be used in differentsituations depending on the needs of the mentee and the goals of the mentoring relationship.Components for successThere
Authority? Learning and Active Resistance, College Teaching., Summer 2002 v51 i3 p86(6).Biographical InformationPAULA BATYPaula is a senior standing student in the Department of Construction Technology. Paula will graduate in May 2003with a Bachelor of Science. Paula is a member of the Construction Specifications Institute (CSI), the Society ofStudent Constructors (SSC), and the American Society of Agricultural Engineers (ASAE). She is employed part-time and summers as an Engineer Student Trainee with the USDA Natural Resource Conservation Services. Paulareceived an undergraduate research grant from IUPUI for research work she did in Germany during the summer of2003 on green vegetated roofs.PATRICIA L. FOXPatricia L. Fox is the Associate
Paper ID #17806Engineering Technology Graduate Students: Roles Professional Societies Havein Their FormationDr. Anne M. Lucietto, Purdue University Dr. Lucietto has focused her research in engineering technology education and the understanding of engineering technology students. She teaches in an active learning style which engages and develops practical skills in the students. Currently she is exploring the performance and attributes of engineering technology students and using that knowledge to engage them in their studies.Dr. Diane L. Peters P.E., Kettering University Dr. Peters is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical
Alumni - Each year approximately 20 -25 former FOCUS Scholars, whomatriculated and received an advanced degree from Georgia Tech return to take part inthe program. In addition to the informal interaction with the FOCUS Friends and FOCUSScholars at various events, alumni panels are convened. Topics discussed are industrialcareers, academic careers and entrepreneurship as well as life at Georgia Tech. In additionto the FOCUS alumni, all of the African American Georgia Tech graduate alumni areinvited to attend the weekend's events. Alumni events include: • Enjoying the President's dinner along with the FOCUS Scholars, Fellows andFriends and current Georgia Tech faculty, staff and students. • Attending a State-of-the Institute with the
this paper. This paper hopes to contribute to these emerging needs and thefuture development of these crucial areas of graduate engineering education.1. IntroductionAs organized in the Cold War and perpetuated with funding from federal agencies such as theNSF, NIH, etc. [1], [2], traditional graduate student research is often limited to an academicscope--for the advancement of graduate advisors, the continuation of students’ academic careers,and/or to be published in academic journals. Yet this knowledge rarely reaches impoverishedcommunities in need of research findings and undergraduate students eager to turn graduate-levelresearch into design and service-learning projects, especially in languages and formats that canmake it accessible and
and challenges of implementingthe first year in an experimental pilot program. As part of a set of initiatives to transform highereducation at Purdue University, the Polytechnic Institute (PI) was designed to be a multi-disciplinary, hands-on, competency-based experience for undergraduate students in technologyprograms. In Spring 2014, the PI began recruiting students, and in Fall 2014, the programopened its doors to its first cohort. The faculty who had taken a year to design and develop thefirst year curriculum eagerly awaited their new mentees. However, students came in with theirown hopes and concerns, which impacted their desire to join and remain in the program.Students were not alone in their decision-making. They were guided and
science earn significantly more than students who major in the humanities andsocial sciences. Finally, high ability students have been found to shift to majors that result inmore profitable professional pathways and lower ability students shift to “easier majors”7.Student ability and their expectation of future earning potential were reported as importantfactors in the selection of a college major; however, these perceptions may have errors thatwould influence major change8. Social Cognitive Career Theory is based on the idea that careerdevelopment is a process related to self-exploration and choice, but that there can be barriers thatconfound decision making. For example an individual’s prior experiences and background(culture, gender, genetic
changing faculty) is being explored in an NSF-supported project “Changing Faculty throughLearning Communities.” The project employs four mechanisms to promote change in facultymembers: speakers, workshops, faculty learning communities (FLC), and matching grants tosupport women students. Specifically, the project aims to catalyze changes in the way facultythink about four concepts that are tightly linked to the concept of gender diversity: 1) mentalmodels, 2) development and invitation, 3) personal vision and commitment, and 4) the culture ofengineering and science. The following paper describes change mechanisms, highlighting FLC,and four changes that learning community participants report. Participants a) shifted fromsearching for external
preparing and exploring. This is due to the nature of the innovation experience, that healso was actively involved in the development of a feature which wasn’t received well.These examples start to illustrate the interaction of the dimensions in making up a meaningful(in this case innovative work effort) event. While offering limited information on whattriggers moving from one dimension to another, what we see is evidence that thesedimensions somehow make-up an experience. We come back to this point in the final sectionthe paper.4 Discussion and ImplicationsAiming to gain more knowledge about how early career engineers are engaged in meaningfulwork and innovation activities, we analyzed the experiences of 13 newly graduated softwareand computer
effort (incremental theory; orincremental belief)” [8].Resilience is the ability of a person to cope with and adapt to changing circumstances successfully.For many engineering students, the adjustment to college from high school includes stressors bothrelated and unrelated to academics. New living conditions, routines, and challenging classes allcontribute to the stress of undergraduate students in engineering [6]. Students that have higherresilience have been shown to have better mental health and well-being, better educationaloutcomes, and better employability [4, 8, 12].Exploration of these theories specifically in engineering contexts is limited. Tek and colleaguesexplored the effect of self-efficacy in an introductory programming course
prompts students to experience new and different perspectives asthey build knowledge together [13]. When engineering and education students develop lessonplans collaboratively, they share expertise from their respective disciplines with each other. Theyalso bring personal experiences as students of a particular gender and background, withparticular interests. These perspectives inform their decision making as they collaborativelydesign lessons to engage their fifth/sixth grade partners. This practice integrating multipleperspectives is essential for engineers tackling complex interdisciplinary problems and futureteachers addressing the needs of an increasingly diverse student population.This study aims to answer the following research questions
faculty relationships. Students also mentionedthat interaction with staff and faculty members who identify as one of them is missing in their collegeexperience.For example Barbara [in person, Civil Engineering, expected graduation 2023] explained her example ofusing campus support. I used it a lot last year. I had M H as my advisor, but he left this semester. It's just, it sucked because he was such a good advisor. He was really helpful. He helped me with my classes and he helped me with scholarships. He would just check in on me daily basically. That was really nice. Tutoring, I really hate asking for help, so I didn't necessarily use tutoring...DART (safety escort)..."This semester when I was there, I
Kremer is an Associate Professor of Engineering Design and Industrial Engineering at the Pennsylva- nia State University. She received her Ph.D. from University of Missouri-Rolla in Engineering Manage- ment and Systems Engineering. Her research interests include multi-criteria decision analysis methods applied to improvement of products and systems and enhancing creativity in engineering design settings. Her published work appears in journals such as Journal of Mechanical Design, Journal of Engineering Design, Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing, Journal of Engineering Education, European Journal of En- gineering Education and Technovation. She is a member of IIE, ASME, and ASEE. She is also a National Research
the community-facing view, 21CS wereevident, thus, this is the context that framed our decision to focus on the 4Cs of 21CS. Througha mixed-methods design, our intent is to understand if students perceive that their skills changeover the semester, and to which course elements they attribute these changes.We explore the following research questions: 1. Do participants’ critical thinking, collaboration, communication, and creativity/problem solving change from pre- to post-semester in an engineering design capstone course? 2. Do participants’ self-ratings and reflections throughout the semester align with any quantitative changes resulting from question 1? 3. How do students perceive their growth in communication
faculty and graduate students involved in these activities. Today, only a very smallpercentage of engineers and scientists who are involved in research are exposed to technologycommercialization training or activity. At many research universities, the primary role for facultyis very oriented towards scientific production, more than either teaching or entrepreneurialengagement. Many individual and institutional factors are believed to influence academicresearchers’ decisions regarding whether to engage in academic entrepreneurship, and whether tocontinue to stay involved. Therefore, increasing participation requires a comprehensiveunderstanding of academic researcher motivations.Motivation for EntrepreneurshipMotivation is defined as “a set of
. This more personalized approach with an emphasis on students' individualresearch topic is considered to be better suited for graduate students [10].Until Winter 2014, the professor taught the critical analysis of a scientific paper. In Fall 2014, atthe professor's request, this part was transferred to the librarians, who have been in charge of allthe pedagogical contents of the workshop ever since. However, at Polytechnique Montréal, onlya professor can be the coordinator of a credited course or workshop. Thus, the professor remainsin charge of the workshop, but he plays more of an advisory role and intervenes only in the eventof a disagreement or specific problems, such as issues regarding grading.ING6900 continued to be mandatory for
constructed identities allow for the reproduction of social inequality, with a focus on understanding the ways institutions of higher education and other social struc- tures challenge or uphold hegemonic environments in which majority populations accumulate power that harms students underrepresented in certain contexts. ˜Maricela Banuelos, University of California, Irvine Maricela Ba˜nuelos received her Sociology B.A. from the University of California, (UC) Santa Barbara in 2016, and graduated with Summa Cum Laude. She received her master’s in Educational Policy and Social Context from UC Irvine in 2020 and is currently pursuing her Ph.D. in Sociology at UC Irvine with an emphasis in Chicano Latino studies
Waterloo Dr. Al-Hammoud is a Faculty lecturer (Graduate Attributes) in the department of civil and environmental engineering at the University of Waterloo. Dr. Al-Hammoud has a passion for teaching where she con- tinuously seeks new technologies to involve students in their learning process. She is actively involved in the Ideas Clinic, a major experiential learning initiative at the University of Waterloo. She is also re- sponsible for developing a process and assessing graduate attributes at the department to target areas for improvement in the curriculum. This resulted in several publications in this educational research areas. Dr. Al-Hammoud won the ”Ameet and Meena Chakma award for exceptional teaching by a student
disciplines.Section six describes the course assessment methods, including the post-course survey and ananalysis of students' responses from a pilot implementation, focusing on their comprehension ofengineering disciplines, readiness for academic challenges, and confidence. Section sevendiscusses how students’ feedback has been used to enhance the course and the nextimplementation. Finally, the last section concludes by reflecting on the effectiveness of thecourse, arguing the potential impact of this course on students' academic and career decisions.2. Literature ReviewA student choosing an engineering major is influenced by factors ranging from personal interestsand abilities to external influences like family, educators, and societal perceptions [3
andcommunicate with the staff advisor about hiring decisions. Aside from this, the student team isextremely independent from other makerspaces that often use faculty and staff to run the space,which introduces a sense of community within the team and encourages a shared goal of creatingand teaching valuable workshops. The management system we currently employ has four workshop coordinators, typicallymore senior/experienced students, responsible for most administrative tasks. This allows theworkshop instructors to focus on the actual creation and leading of workshops. However, we donot want the position of coordinators to establish a higher position of power over the instructors.We have taken steps to ensure every member of the team knows that
the position, salary, responsibilities, characteristics needed to succeed at the employingcompany, and why the respondent moved to IT if a career transition was made. DFB includesquestions about age, gender, family and living situation, and general and technical education offamily members. The EECI category covers courses taken in high school and college; the influ-ence of relatives, teachers and friends on the respondent's choice of an IT career; and the influ-ence of personal attributes and activities on the choice of IT. WRA includes characteristics andbenefits of the job that are important to the respondent. Completed questionnaires were received from 431 respondents (289 women and 142men), 92% of whom are U.S. citizens. The mean
AC 2012-3203: ENGINEERING STUDENT INVOLVEMENTDr. Kerry Meyers, University of Notre Dame Kerry L. Meyers is a professional faculty member in the College of Engineering at Notre Dame and an instructor and coordinator in the First-year Engineering program, and she is also involved with students at a variety of levels, including a graduate student teaching apprentice program, an undergraduate peer men- toring program, and STEM outreach (Expanding Your Horizon’s program). She has a B.S. in mechanical engineering from Purdue University, M.S. in mechanical engineering from Oakland University, and com- pleted her Ph.D. in engineering education at Purdue University. Meyers has several years of industrial experience in