easily anticipate the implications of their present activities for the moredistant future and elaborate longer behavioral plans or projects. Our finding may haveimplications for how engineering students may be supported in developing motivations thatincrease intentions to persist in their degree to career pathway. Again, as these results show,different NCA factors are related to different outcomes. For a more comprehensive description ofthis study see [19].Research Question 2In addition to the above work surrounding how NCA factors relate to students pursuingengineering careers, we have done a range of work to support answering RQ2—exploring howNCA factors relate to academic performance and how NCA factors mediate responses toacademic or
and delivery sys- tems; developed designs for commercial and residential development; prepared land use plans; developed designs to protect against potential flood hazards; designed and developed plans and specifications for fluid handling systems, waste mitigation alternatives and remedial actions for RCRA and CERCLA sites including active industrial facilities and inactive disposal sites (including NPL sites); conducted feasibil- ity studies by evaluating and analyzing the economic and engineering considerations of multiple design alternatives; obtained extensive experience with innovative remedial techniques (including groundwater extraction and treatment, air sparging, soil vapor extraction, and bioventing
evidence of the effectiveness of the productarchaeology framework. This project uses existing survey instruments, including the Engineer of2020 survey and the engineering design self-efficacy instrument to assess positive studentattitudes and perceptions about engineering. Our assessment plan also uses two newly-developed design scenarios. These scenarios require students to respond to open-endeddescriptions of real-world engineering problems to assess students’ ability to extend and refineknowledge of broader contexts. Emerging pre-test/post-test comparison data reveal that theproduct archaeology activities lead to more positive student ratings of both their own knowledgeof broader contexts and their self-efficacy regarding engineering design
being and development. Students are encouraged toincorporate design mechanisms that allow device data to be uploaded to the Heartspring databasethat already contains these children’s clinical records, individualized education plans (IEPs), anddaily progress and behaviors as recorded on the iPod Touch 4 platforms carried by the paras thatwork one-on-one with these children throughout the day. Participation rates by students in broadcurricula (i.e., biomedical and otherwise) imply that students in any area of engineeringappreciate the opportunity to engage in a project with clear personal and societal benefit.I. IntroductionAbout 1 in 6 children in the U.S. had a developmental disability during 2006–2008, ranging frommild disabilities such as
limited research that has been conducted on engineering learning in informal environmentsprovides evidence that participation in engineering programs in secondary school can lead toenrollment or interest in studying engineering in college. In a recent review of the 18 STEMprograms targeting girls, the Harvard Family Research Project’s Out-of-School Time Database10found that most of the programs increased participant’s confidence in their math skills, improvedattitudes toward and engagement in math, and increased plans to attend or enroll in college. Intheir evaluation of FIRST (a robotics club), Melchior and colleagues 11 reported that the Page
students with the necessary information to selectappropriate steps leading to a goal9. In contrast, novice students lack appropriate schemas to Page 25.1121.2allow them to focus on underlying concepts within a problem and plan a successful solutionapproach10. As a result, these learners tend to rely on surface features of visual representationsand are unable to solve the problems11,12. The processes used during problem-solving depend upon the problem solver'sunderstanding and representation of the problem type13. It is clear from expertise studies thatexperts and novices differ significantly in the way they make use of visual
services by providing real-time bus arrivals and buscapacity and accepting rider’s feedback [11].2. Background on SmartSATSmartSAT (Smart San Antonio Transit) project has been developing a customizable mobile appfor the San Antonio (SA) Metropolitan Public Transit to explore the above challenges on thecritical services needed in the SA community. The project is designed to build and test a platformthat easily adapts to the changes in functional requirements and plans for expansion and long-termgoals. It intends to provide compatibility with other programs and devices by building anapplication infrastructure on the cloud. Through this development and testing, one of our goals isto investigate the rider’s satisfaction and quality of ridership
I can solve most of the problems I face if I have sufficient amount of time and if I show effort CR4 I have a belief that I can solve the problems possible to occur when I encounter with a new situation CR5 I trust I can apply the plan while making it to solve a problem of mine CR6 Dreaming causes my most important project to come to light CR7 I trust my intuitions and feelings of “trueness” and “wrongness” when I approach the solution of a problem CR8 When I encounter with a problem, I stop before proceeding to another subject and think over that problem 2. Algorithmic Thinking AT9 I can immediately establish the equity that will
planning the course session(s). Instructors were notcompensated for responding to the questionnaire, which we estimated to take less than 15minutes to complete.In total, we contacted 40 instructors across 27 courses. Of those, 26 distinct instructorsresponded from all 27 courses, with two instructors responding for multiple courseimplementations. These courses in which C-SED content was implemented in the past termincluded ten 100 level courses, nine 200 or 300 level courses, six 400 level courses, and twograduate courses that included design, professional skill development, and engineering sciencecourses. Twenty of the courses included only a single case study or design skill training, butseven courses included two to four C-SED sessions which
communication systems [18], but askedstudents to develop their own framing. Students completed the Wrong Theory Protocol (WTP),an ideation activity in which designers first propose harmful and humiliating ideas, beforegenerating beneficial ideas, a method that jointly supports creativity and empathy [19] beforeindividually planning their design solution [20].Figure 1. Design of the Radio Crafters CampWe collected video recordings, interviews, and artifacts of participants in a week-long camp. Forthe current study, we selected focal students as a way to highlight variability (N=4).In order to bring together inferences about how agency is displayed in discourse with human-material agency relationships, we used two forms of qualitative analysis
Paper ID #38438Board 369: Reimagining International Research for Students in a VirtualWorldDr. David B Knight, Virginia Tech David Knight is an associate professor in the Department of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech. He also serves as Special Assistant to the Dean for Strategic Plan Implementation and Director of Research of the Academy of Global Engineering. His research tends to be at the macro-scale, focused on a systems- level perspective of how engineering education can become more effective, efficient, and inclusive, and considers the intersection between policy and organizational contexts.Dr. Kirsten A
Education. Because of a GRA appointment where I research exemplary engineering colleges and their production of successful Black and brown engineers, I am currently interested in the preparedness of underrepresented students from undergraduate and master’s engineering programs to doctoral engineering programs. I am excited about having the opportunity to become a better ENGR/ENGE researcher. In the future, I aspire to be an engineering education policy advocate and have plans to develop a research preparation consortium. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 CAREER: Disrupting the Status Quo Regarding Who Gets to be an Engineer -- Highlights from Year
’ the KEEN Framework: An Assessment Plan for Measuring ABET Student Outcomes and Entrepreneurial Mindset,” in ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, 2020, vol. 2020-June, pp. 1–19, doi: 10.18260/1-2--33968.
aplan for their semester that includes extracurricular involvement and share it with their mentor,along with discussing long-term goals. At midsemester, the student and mentor meet to plancourses for the next semester and check in on academic progress. At the end, they meet to reflecton the semester, make adjustments for the next semester, update the student’s resume and discusscareer plans. Through this process, we ensure that the scholar is engaged in the college, finds theresources needed, and progresses academically and professionally.In addition to the faculty mentors, students are assigned a peer to whom they can direct questionsregarding their transition to the university. In the student success seminar that is required in thefirst
). We embed our IPA efforts within a constructivist grounded theory analysis [10] thatgenerates a theoretical model of the relationships between faculty emotion regulation andcultures of well-being (Objective 2). Further, the education plan to develop faculty training onregulating professional shame (Objective 3) is interwoven with the research focus to changecultures of well-being (Objective 2).In this paper, we focus on our data collection and analysis efforts related to understanding thelived experiences of professional shame in engineering faculty (Objective 1) and discuss how weleverage this in-depth insight to establish our aim to theoretically model relationships betweenfaculty emotion regulation and cultures of well-being in engineering
) was robotics. Also, themajority of student survey respondents (94%) attended the general Mt. SAC new studentorientation/Mountie Academic Planning Session, and of the 46 students in their first semester of the Mt.SAC engineering program, only 15 respondents (33%) indicated that they participated in the EngineeringSummer Cohort (ESC) program.These results are subject to re-testing and confirmation. Additional analysis will disaggregate results forstudents from underrepresented groups, different engineering majors, and correlation to engineeringcoursework completion. Future work will incorporate marketing of new engineering program awardsand transfer pathways, incorporating project-based learning into each engineering course, and
of our quarterly check-ins with our CoMPASSScholars in November 2022. We had 14 out of the 15 scholars that were on campus (since 5 werestudying at a global project center that term) participate in the event. Several reminders to thestudents with an explanation of the special event with dinner helped with the high participationrate (although some students could attend for only part of the time).Meetings with the CoMPASS support team (i.e., WPI faculty and staff) and the artist took placebefore the event to plan out the 2-hour event, and Figure 1 displays the flow of the eventcomponents. As students arrived to the meeting, we had our typical check-in chats and used theRose-Thorn-Bud activity [4] for mindful reflection. We also designed a
individually to offer academic advice and monitor the academicprogress of the correspondent STEM Scholars for further involvement in STEM culture. Theeffective practices for academic mentoring were:1) Each faculty mentor became familiar with the series of events and challenges that each ofhis or her scholars experienced during and after hurricane María and the chain of earthquakesevent and met individually with each scholar at least twice each semester. Faculty workedwith students to develop individualized plans. They offered guidance and support to helpthem stay on track and offered orientation regarding opportunities to attend STEMconferences or participate in STEM research.2) Faculty Mentors referred scholars to existing campus services to address
item, othersask me for help in my field, performed the worst in terms of how little it loaded onto either factor(factor 1, .26; factor 2, .36). Since the unrotated factor loadings did exceed generally acceptedminimum cutoffs for factor loadings (.4), and the reliability was reasonably high, we proceededto compute the composite scores for competence from the unrotated loadings for the purposes oftesting here. We plan to revisit this factor after we complete administration of the survey.We then ran several tests to see if these composite factors performed as would be hypothesizedin bivariate tests with other variables in our dataset. The descriptive statistics for all thecomposite factors are provided in Table 1. There is some variation among
that valueslearning-centered inclusive instruction using evidence-based teaching (EBT) methods. Theoverarching goals for the project are to increase student preparation and retention in STEMdisciplines.We seek to meet these goals via a number of different thrusts (or categorized interventions),which were described in more detail in a previous paper [1]. Now, the project (funded by a five-year NSF-IUSE implementation grant, following an NSF WIDER planning grant) is in its no-cost extension year and we are positioned to do some reporting on project impacts, along withsharing some lessons learned.We will begin by reviewing the program thrusts and estimating the number of faculty, graduateassistants and/or students impacted, as appropriate. Next
Paper ID #33021Investigating Professional Shame as Experienced by Engineering StudentsWho are Minoritized in their ProgramsMrs. Mackenzie Claire Sharbine, Harding University I am a Post-Baccalaureate Research Associate working full-time on an NSF grant. I am a member of the Beyond Professional Identity research group based in Harding University located in Searcy, Arkansas. I plan to further my studies in psychology through attending a graduate program for school or child psychology. It is my hope that these processes can lead to a career as both a researcher and practitioner.Dr. James L. Huff, Harding University Dr. James
be the most important aspect of the T1 university wehope to create.To support this journey, it is important to empower change agents in institutions andsupport them with an external network that will help them alter the communities theywork in. Symposiums like the one hosted as part of the NSF REFLECT project offer onemechanism to support such change agents. We hope to continue this important communitybuilding in future national workshops of this type.We plan to use the insights and content summarized in Table 1 to expand this conversationat a national level. We invite partners in this work and hope you might consider aconversation with your colleagues about the topic of T1 universities.AcknowledgementsThis project is funded by the National
not and the first year was notvery well-coordinated. The second summer ran much smoother.Adjustments due to COVID-19CSUN, like most other universities, switched to a virtual environment for all instruction in March2020. All of our year-long projects were also conducted virtually. Final presentations at the end ofMay 2020 showed that many of the projects experienced some disruption. Furthermore, most ofour plans for widespread dissemination about our program were also disrupted by COVID-19.Covid-19 directly affected several students who became sick or had relatives die. While several ofour graduating seniors found jobs, quite a few of the students found the job market in 2020 verychallenging. Undoubtedly, the lockdown and economic disruption
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
]. While innovative ideas offer the promise of challengingthe status quo, the processes of generating them also tend to be complex because of the preliminary set ofdivergent thoughts and ideas. Nonetheless, it is important to have a diverse group of people involved in theprocess of identifying the best strategies [2]. The use of workshops to distil the optimal strategies for successis well-documented particularly in terms of their long-term effectiveness in curriculum planning and design[3], [4]. Motivated by the tenets of design thinking, the workshop aimed to avoid how initiatives falterbecause of ignoring the connection between needs and outcomes, and the omission of eliciting prototypesto solicit feedback be it in course design [5], social
conceptual learning of diverse populations of students, within the contexts of the educational systems (i.e., institutional contexts, instructor and student histories, beliefs and practices, and the innovation – the CW).4. Promote and track propagation of the enhanced CW via targeted community building in ME. This will be accomplished through workshops, implementation of an Action Research Fellows Program, collaboration with professional societies in ME and outreach efforts to two-year colleges.5. Continue to develop and refine a sustainability plan for continued expansion of the CW.Last year, we focused on objectives 1 and 2. This year, we will provide a brief update on ourprogress on these, and will expand upon objective 4, community
capabilities that we can educate the next generation of engineers andscientists on. These core capabilities are: (1) Reliable Infrastructure for data collection andanalysis; it is important to educate the students about the importance of privacy as well; (2)Application of machine learning and data analytics across multiple domains; and (3) Distributedapplication development for deployment of services and applications in an efficient manner.3. Framework3.1 Module Types Based on the NSF guidelines for “Data Science: the science of planning for, acquisition,management, analysis of, and inference from data” [10], this study focused on Data Analysis andInterpretation through Interdisciplinary Learning. As seen in Figure 3, this includes activitieson
acceleratedover the last several years, and companies around the world are investing in their future with thecloud. With the increased demand for cloud-skilled professionals the last four years, we launcheda cloud literacy initiative to meet cloud talent needs. This initiative aims to provide our students inthe computing/IT fields with the knowledge, abilities and skills needed to accelerate their cloud-related learning.With the support of NSF ATE, we collaborated with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to create anew pathway for the next generation of cloud computing professionals. The course sequence wasdesigned in conjunction with an AWS Educate team assisting in the design of course sequencingand degree plans to leverage their educational experience in
complex word problems, to identify students of high ability and potential who enterRice without a comparable level of K-12 STEM preparation than that of the average incomingRice STEM student [13]. For example, some RESP Scholars did not have access to APcoursework in high school. STEM students who enter Rice with weak math skills are at aparticular disadvantage, as most STEM degree plans require students to complete calculus andcalculus-based physics courses simultaneously in the first year.This disparity in educational access and preparation was identified as a contributing factor toinequitable STEM degree attainment outcomes at the university, precipitating RESP’s founding.To address these disparities, the residential summer component of RESP
qualitative investigation of barriers to academic plans. Paper presented at the Frontiers in Education Conference, Saratoga Springs, NY, USA. http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/abstractKeywords.jsp?arnumber=4720256&tag=15. Lord, S. M., Camacho, M. M., Layton, R. A., Long, R. A., Ohland, M. W., & Wasburn, M. H. (2009). Who's persisting in engineering? A comparative analysis of female and male Asian, black, Hispanic, Native American, and white students. Journal of Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering, 15(2), 167-190. doi: 10.1615/JWomenMinorScienEng.v15.i2.406. Lord, S. M., Layton, R. A., & Ohland, Matthew W. (2011). Trajectories of electrical engineering and computer engineering students by race and