attend social events, serve as academic advisors, meet withadvisees regularly, and serve as the primary conduit for Scholars into the projects. Scholars whohave completed the program and are juniors or seniors are asked to serve as peer mentors; for thecohort under study, the Peer mentors were selected from a group of high-achieving juniors/seniorssuch as those in leadership positions. Peer mentors receive a modest annual stipend and are askedto meet twice per quarter with their assigned mentee(s), respond to an end of quarter survey, andto attend social events. Each Scholar will also be assigned an early-career professional mentor whois a recent alum working at a local engineering company. We are planning for this at the startingof the second
Education. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 A comparison of the renewable energy and energy storage sectors in Germany and the United States, with recommendations for engineering teaching practices. L.B. Bosman, J. Brinker, and K.A. WalzAbstract: The German Energiewende is the planned transition by Germany to a low carbon,environmentally sound, reliable, and affordable energy supply. This paper reports on a U.S.faculty international study program, which took place in May 2019, to explore the intersection ofthe German renewable energy and energy storage sectors. The international program includedeleven instructional faculty from throughout the United States on a two
received sufficient training to prepare more advancedlearning modules. It is imperative to strengthen the STEM PST education and build long-termpartnerships between high schools and UH to stimulate high school students’ interest in STEM. In 2023, University of Houston (UH) in Houston, Texas was awarded an NSF ResearchExperience for Preservice Teachers (RE-PST) site grant titled “Industries of the Future ResearchExperience for Preservice Teachers in STEM Settings.” The goal of the Research Experience forPreservice Teachers (RE-PST) project is to provide summer research opportunities for highschool preservice STEM teachers to engage in IotF research. The project plans to host 10 high school preservice teachers each summer to participate
) develop strategies to besuccessful in computing, and iii) develop career plans and explore resources. To achieve theseobjectives, we designed a set of course-specific mentoring activities. In our initiative, we formeda group of mentors composed of successful alumni, graduate students, senior students, industrialpersonnel, and faculty of different races, genders, and ethnicities.We performed anonymous surveys, interviews, and reflections to answer our second researchquestion. We also analyzed students' course performance. Results show that mentoring improvesthe sense of belonging and confidence for both groups of students. Data also indicates first-yearstudents prefer mentoring to succeed academically (e.g., learning programming). On the otherhand
• Low population “mental health literacy” • Inadequate infrastructure, facilities, equipment, drug distribution systems • Shortage of skilled mental health workers • Geographic maldistribution of available workforce • Disciplinary imbalance: dominated by physicians and nurses • Hospital centered • Undeveloped information systems, with lack of high-quality local information to support planning • Poorly developed mental health systems research capacity • No culture of evaluation or continuous quality improvement • Poorly organized and marginalized consumers, carers, civil society • Narrow population coverage: wide “treatment gap
of experiences through fictional or non-fictionalnarratives to cover specific subjects[23]. A recent podcast from Leoson et al.[24] provided a clear synthesis of how storytelling canbe used to teach a variety of concepts through story-based pedagogy. According to them, storiescan enhance the learning experience by creating meaningful connections, establishing solidcontext and positionality, and supporting student engagement. A pedagogy centered on narrativesallows instructors the freedom to incorporate different models, technologies, subjects, andstorytelling plans to provide immersive experiences for students. For example, McQuiggan et al.[25] used a virtual environment called Crystal Island to teach concepts of microbiology
mostcases, they do not incorporate into their practices how the contents taught are related tosocial, environmental, and explicitly human social issues [7–9]. This training program willprovide teachers with the necessary tools to consider teaching in their curricular spaces atthis time of complexity. The importance of specific training for the best performance ofengineering professionals in teaching has been recognized.KeywordsTraining, Teaching, EftA, Engineering, Education, Americas, LACCEI.IntroductionOne of the challenges of this century is the training of engineers who teach classes atvarious universities in Latin America. This study proposes a training plan within theframework of the Latin American and Caribbean Consortium of Engineering
to traditional laboratory experiences. The LEGOclock project from the earlier lab-based course and the hovercraft project as part of the newlyintroduced project-based learning were introduced to the first-year engineering students.Upon completing these projects, a survey was administered to investigate whether studentsintended to continue pursuing Mechanical Engineering or plan to change their major. Four yearsof survey were compared for analysis; in these four years, an approximate average of 87% ofstudents in mechanical engineering decided to stay in the program. However, the retention ratedidn't meet the high expectations compared to previous years before the implementation ofproject-based learning. The remaining 13% chose to change their
subjects at an early age [7]. Around a third of peopleworking in STEM careers attribute underrepresentation to not believing in their own ability tosucceed in these fields (34%), the lack of Black and Hispanic role models in these fields (32%),and discrimination in recruitment, hiring and promotions (32%) [7]. The SUPERCHARGEproject’s primary focus on STEM education attempts to addresses, at a state level, the acute lackof representation of low-income and Students of Color in STEM programs nationwide [8].Project Organization The SUPERCHARGE project is organized as a four-year program spanning from July2022 to June 2026. The project is currently in the midst of Year 1 (July 2022 – June 2023),which is designated as a planning, development
, and overall social stability.Southern Command, the Department of Defense’s Combatant Command responsible forrelationships with military leaders across the Caribbean, Central and South America investsannually in various programs that require military engineers to design, plan, and build projectsthat were requested by partner nations and approved by the commanding general. Theseprograms are critical to engineer officer and enlisted professional development. Engineer unitcommanders request these missions due to the realistic experiential training value and theproject’s alignment with deployment readiness skills. These State Department and CombatantCommander approved training projects provide engineer leaders and service members anopportunity to
Research, 1979) and the development of more recentethical norms, this research project has been reviewed and processed by the author’s institutionalreview board (IRB). The author’s plan for this research is to utilize a mixed methods surveyapproach. Survey research has a long history in the realm of human subject research and has arelatively mature methodology associated with it (see, e.g., Sapsford, 2007). Mixed methods research involves both qualitative and quantitative data collection andanalysis (Creswell & Plano Clark, 2018). The use of quantitative data analysis in engineeringwork is long and uncontroversial given engineering’s historical commitment to philosophicalprinciples of post-positivism. More noteworthy is the use of
dispositional changes in STEM self-efficacy and identity.Students completed surveys and reflections at multiple points throughout their internship,including a retrospective pre/post survey capturing dispositional shifts during the experience.The results of the internship experience on student intern participants educational andprofessional plans at the 3 sites are evaluated in this paper. Results show significant gains onitems related to professional discernment (desire to work in a STEM field, use technical skills,on open ended problems for the betterment of society) for participants at all sites. Additionally,there are differences by gender.OverviewBeginning in 2015, the College of Engineering researchers and staff at UNIVERSITYdeveloped, piloted
canaddress them. In this stage, research scientists can collaborate with applied scientists,economists, and data scientists depending on the action that is being taken in the productexperience. In all cases there is engineering work required to make the desired changes, integratethe product with additional features, or setup the infrastructure to pilot new experiences.These product innovations are accompanied by an evaluation plan to measure the causal effect ofthe changes or new features on the outcomes of interest. The goal of the evaluation plan istypically to determine if the customer problem has been solved, which is often the definition ofsuccess. Economists and data scientists typically lead the causal inference part of the scienceworkflow.It
initially hesitant to engage with us on this project due to the logistics of kitcirculation and concerns with how kits would fit within their existing structure of their summerreading program. To allay the library’s concerns, we worked out a plan to utilize their existingactivity registration system to sign families up and their main branch for distribution. Our teamresponded to all email inquiries from the participants, provided weekly online Q&A sessions,and restocked used materials in kits. The library maintained control over registration andcommunication with families, including all personal identifying information. Our library partnersnoted that they appreciated that we worked within their parameters of lead time for planning ofthe summer
indicate thatthe PADS has potential to measure program efficacy. In order to ensure that participating campsand after-school programs provided high quality instruction, a separate team conductedstructured observations of the Study 1 research sites. For each participating site, a trainedobserver rated two one-hour samples of sessions using the Dimensions of Success (DoS)instrument [4] that is sensitive to good engineering instruction. This team also surveyed programfacilitators to determine the overall instructional plan, and administered the Common InstrumentSuite (CIS) as a post-test to measure attitudes towards engineering among youths and facilitators[5]. This data was summarized and shared with researchers to contribute to the analysis.We are
and Automation As program faculty began researching existing robotics platforms and software toimplement in these courses, it became immediately apparent that a wide gap exists between whatwe define as “robotics toys” and “industrial robotics.” The realization of this educational chasmsparked an entire new set of pedagogical challenges and research. This paper chronicles ourjourney from concept to initial implementation.Pedagogical ApproachCurriculum development for the RAM course sequence began with an overall plan of increasingpedagogical complexity throughout the course sequence. The idea started with a progressionfrom simple robotics fundamentals in the introduction course (ETSC 277), to more complextopics in the advanced course
Swarms with Distributed Swarm Control 3. Enhancing Security of Cloud-Connected UAS ServicesStudents were placed onto teams based on their prior course experiences and the projectrequirements. Common resources were provided for all students to train them in conductingresearch. Teams were then tasked with developing a more comprehensive research plan for theirspecific project and carrying out that plan throughout the 2020-2021 academic year.Students completed a pre-survey at the start of the project and a mid-project survey shortly afterthe winter break. The surveys combined project specific skills questions as well as relevantquestions from the Undergraduate Research Student Self-Assessment (URSSA), an NSF-fundedassessment tool to measure
Andriessen’s[4] dual purpose of DBR model as illustrated in Figure 1. The focus of the program design isprogressive refinement through the problem statement; defining the design and learningobjectives; planning (project management) of the curricular design, development of thecurricular ideation and selection of a design for initial implementation; and ultimately acontinuously reformed model with a curricular model improvement process. The focus of theresearch design is to establish the research questions; identify the learning theories applicable tothe research work; design of the research work that influences the curricular implementation andimprovement; and ultimately to disseminate what is learned and add to the body of knowledgeon engineering
Grainger College of Engineering. Sara performs undergrad- uate research in soft robotics and engineering education funded by the IDEA Institute at UIUC. Sara is interested in pursuing a career in Engineering Education as well as furthering her education upon gradu- ating.Mrs. Ilalee Harrison James, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Ilalee Harrison James is the Associate Director of The Hoeft Technology & Management Program. She serves as a lecturer in addition to leading the strategic plan for the program’s co-curricular outcomes. She is a first-generation college graduate who is passionate about improving career outcomes for underrepre- sented students in STEAM.Prof. Holly M. Golecki, University of
lesson plans. Figure 1. Summer PD program’s first-week CS/CT content course schedule.2.1.2. Course 2The second-week course was held at a local school district conference center. The course wastaught by four different CS teachers—a college professor, a high school teacher, a middle schoolteacher, and an elementary school teacher. Presentations were arranged so each instructor had achance to talk about teaching the concepts of loops, variables, conditionals, and functions at theirrespective grade level, allowing teachers to understand curricular progressions across the K-12grade span.An outline of the course schedule can be found below in Figure 2. Daily reflections werecompleted online at the end of each day and were graded for completion
features aredeepening content knowledge, promotion of active learning, fostering coherence, perceivedenhancement of knowledge and skills, and influence in teachers’ classroom teaching practice [2].Their results suggest that sustained and intensive professional development that focuses onspecific academic subject matter, coupled with planning for classroom implementation andalignment with national and state standards is more likely to produce enhanced knowledge andskills. This paper discusses the evolution of the Bioengineering Experience for ScienceTeachers (BEST) Program at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). As the largest urbanpublic research institute in Chicago, our Research 1 university is proud to serve an extremelydiverse
with engineering department faculty, staff, advisors, andfemale students. By understanding how and why elective tracks become gendered withinengineering majors, we hope to identify effective strategies for improving the preparation ofwomen to pursue technical roles and career paths in their chosen field of study, with the broadgoal of improving the workplace retention of female engineers.As this project is ongoing, we plan to present preliminary results based on wave one (1)interviews with 30 female engineering students in their sophomore year (the year when electivetrack selections are made).Project Background and Theoretical FrameworkExisting research shows that men and women in gender-typed occupations – such as engineering– often
coordination, strategic planning and administrative support for the internationalization of the campus, which includes the Education Abroad Office, Partnerships and Exchanges, International Student and Scholar Services, an Intensive English Program, faculty development programs, and cross-cultural learning living communi- ties. Amy has been at the University of Dayton since 1998, and has over 30 years experience working in a variety of international education programs. Amy has also worked in the areas of international admission, international student advising and study abroad. She has taught at both the graduate and undergraduate levels in the U.S., Chile, Thailand and the British Virgin Islands, and speaks both French and
participation (e.g., as subjects in research studies) with an uncertain value proposition.Research method innovations are needed to reduce barriers to access, minimize risks and costs toparticipants, and more quickly generate actionable insights for partner firms.Given the preceding discussion of trends and challenges, we plan to carry out and investigate theefficacy of multi-institutional, multi-sites field research using novel methods such as agileethnography, trace ethnography, and network ethnography. These methods are new andevolving, and thus have scarcely been used to study engineering practice. Yet they appear verypromising given their potential to generate research findings much more rapidly and with a
. 5 Cohort 8 DemographicsIn State (PA Residents): 7Out of State (Non-PA Resident): 22 6 Objectives • Share the key components and structure of the remote Summer Bridge • Data benchmarking the first-year students’ academic progress • sense of belonging compared to past students with a residential Bridge experience • Lessons learned and best practices • Provide tangible action items that can be replicated across different programs and campusesObjectives of presentation – from abstract 7Summer Bridge 2020 Timeline• April: Planning for remote bridge• May: Hiring
outreach project at Daniel Hale Elementary School which provides civil engineering lesson plans, afterschool pro- grams, family workshops and field trips. Prof. Villatoro is the Project Director for the Peer Advisement program sponsored by Perkins and designed to increase retention of females across the School of Tech- nology and Design.Laurin Moseley, CUNY New York City College of Technology American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Benefits of the virtual platform for K-12 STEM OutreachAbstractThe number of students enrolling and graduating with STEM degrees in the United States mustincrease exponentially in order to meet the predicted job
, and discuss the application process. • Make a compelling (clearly argued, articulated, inspiring, and well prepared) presentation about how their international experiences are relevant and beneficial to becoming a successful engineer. • Anticipate the cultural demands that may accompany international business travel and formulate a plan to compensate for such needs, including identifying appropriate resources to investigate how one can professionally engage with the target culture. • Discover opportunities for international internships, careers, and fellowships. • Reflect and build upon intercultural learning experiences and to consider ways to apply their knowledge, skills, and perspectives
communication competencies needed for successful civil andenvironmental engineering practice. To address this gap, the civil engineering curriculum addeda new course entitled Communicating with Stakeholders in Engineering. This course coverstopics including communication theory, stakeholder identification, communicating throughconflict, communication planning, implicit bias, public engagement principles, and more. Thecontent was selected to fill the gaps in traditional communication classes taken by civilengineering students to expose students to tools and approaches to workplace communicationand communication with public stakeholder groups. The topics covered in the course allowstudents to develop an understanding of and gain extensive practice with
expected to be junior or senior rank and must continue contactsocieties in order to build both the social and professional with the freshman students throughout the academic year.connections. Phase 1 in career development is to The class mentor is intended to play a major role in the course.understand one’s self. Activities in the course provideThe course sections were specifically required to remainopportunities for personal exploration and the use of small, 20 - 25 students, in order to promote a casualcareer planning tools. Tennessee Tech University is environment and allow for a personal connection with thetasked with developing a Quality Enhancement Plan that professor, the
. NIST’s National Initiativefor Cybersecurity Education (NICE) working group has made it strategic plan objective toincrease participation by women, minorities and veterans in cybersecurity1.Cybersecurity competitions have been promoted as a way to increase participation incybersecurity-related fields amongst high school students. Typical cybersecurity competitions atthe secondary school level currently focus on a very narrow set of computer-technical relatedactivities. These competitions are rewarding to students who have traditionally been attracted tocomputer-related fields. However, these participants of the competitions are not typically diversein gender or race2. The lack of diversity in cybersecurity competitions is a large problem if