quality evaluation (topics, instructor/staff, field trips, and guest speakers) once at the completion of 36 or 40hrs of STEM learning instead of evaluating every session. 3. Teacher to stay at their satellite sites instead of rotating between middle school satellite camps. Provide additional training for pre-service teachers who will be assisting lead teachers. 4. Develop home-based project activities for family connection component of the project. 5. Integrate an Advanced Career (AC) model developed by the Southern Regional Education Board (SREB). Pilot test the AC curriculum focused on Aerospace Engineering with high school students. In addition, offer high school juniors and seniors
(such as branch statements and functions) will beintroduced in similarly slow and step-by-step fashion, and early on during the curriculum.Students will still learn about binary representations of numbers and characters; but rather thanfront-loading the curriculum with these topics, they will be introduced in places where they canpresent an “aha” moment. For example, once students have experienced the results of integerdivision, the binary representation of integers will be introduced in order to explain theunexpected observed behavior. Once students have seen that counting (integers) up by 1’s willeventually yield a negative number, the binary 2’s complement will be introduced. And oncethey have experienced round-off errors with decimal
Concepts to Harness Future Innovators and Technologists) project. Since September 2016, she co-leads the NSF STEM+C project, Curriculum and Assessment Design to Study the Development of Motivation and Computational Thinking for Middle School Students across Three Learning Contexts, that builds on TECHFIT. Professor Harriger’s current interests include outreach to K-12 to interest more students to pursue computing careers, applying IT skills to innovating fitness tools, and wearable computing.Arjun Shakdher, Purdue University Arjun Shakdher is currently a graduate student in the department of Computer and Information Tech- nology at Purdue University. He has been working as a Graduate Research Assistant since 2017 on an
curriculum and inadequatetraining of teachers.” A faculty member wrote, “We have a hard-enough time to teachfundamentals in our disciplines. I am concerned we may not have enough time to incorporate AIappropriately.” How to integrate AI into school settings and the curriculum is a concern. Onefaculty stated that it is “haphazard at the high school level, while overly focused on machinelearning in our universities.” Another offered more specifics by sharing “there is not enoughfocus on problem formation and epistemology.” Student preparedness for AI is an ongoingdilemma and is due to issues such as the “lack of sufficient mathematical education (foundation)to understand AI algorithms.” For faculty, there is some concern about “attempts to
NSF INCLUDES Mississippi Alliance for Women in Computing (MSAWC), partnering with stakeholders throughout the southern US to leverage, strengthen, and create awareness of existing programs and create new programs for young women in computing. Sarah holds a BS in Business Administration and Computer Information Systems from the Mississippi University for Women and a master’s degree in computer science from MSU. She earned her PhD in computer science from the University of Memphis.Ms. Litany H Lineberry, Mississippi State UniversityDr. Jessica Ivy, Mississippi State Universitt Dr. Jessica Ivy is an Assistant Professor of Secondary Education at Mississippi State University. Her research focuses on the integration
cohesion, collaboration, and communication, while widespreadpreference for Marginalization can result in weak workplace culture that lacks goals or missionand lead to low employee job satisfaction, engagement, and retention.By contrast, when most employees adopt an Integration attitude, the chances of diversitybecoming an accepted feature of the overall workplace culture are expected to increase, leadingto the multiculturalism of values, beliefs, and ideas that spawn creativity, innovation, equity, andinclusion [19]-[21]. Thus, maximizing the likelihood that engineers bring or are encouraged todevelop an Integration attitude to their jobs seems like the best approach for increasing thediversity in the engineering workforce. We will determine which
Paper ID #30727¿Por qu´e no los dos? The Importance of Translanguaging in BridgingLanguage, Literacy, and EngineeringDr. Joel Alejandro Mejia, University of San Diego Dr. Joel Alejandro (Alex) Mejia is an assistant professor in the Department of Integrated Engineering at the University of San Diego. His research has contributed to the integration of critical theoretical frame- works and Chicano Cultural Studies to investigate and analyze existing deficit models in engineering education. Dr. Mejia’s work also examines how asset-based models impact the validation and recognition of students and communities of color as
as it is delivered in the following iterations in thefuture classes.The developed case studies can be integrated in the curriculum either as home work assignmentsor as in-class exercises. The authors have utilized the case studies in both ways and it issuggested here that the more complex case studies should be assigned as home works whilerelatively narrow and focused case studies may be discussed as in-class exercises. It should benoted here that appropriate theoretical framework needs to be established via lectures to lay thefoundation before case studies based on the relevant topics are given to the students. In classquizzes are then utilized to assess the effectiveness of student learning where students gain thenecessary theoretical
Paper ID #24082Establishing an Engineering Core – What Does Every Engineer Need to Know,Particularly About Systems Engineering?Dr. Devanandham Henry, Regent University Dr. Devanandham (Deva) Henry is an assistant professor at Regent University in Virginia Beach, Virginia where he leads the systems engineering program. Previously, he was a research engineer with the Systems Engineering Research Center (SERC) at Stevens Institute of Technology. He has supported the develop- ment of Systems Readiness Levels, Graduate Software Engineering Reference Curriculum, the GUide to the Systems Engineering Body of Knowledge (SEBoK), and
-SPICE tomodel the device’s performance, and conducted significant tests to maximize power transferthrough adjustment of the microcontroller-based transmitting circuitry and careful measurementof the device performance. Emphasis was placed on completely redesigning a PCB layout, andthe group went through extensive revisions to finally arrive at an optimal and minimally sizeddesign.The 2014 Electrical Engineering group worked on integrating electromyography (EMG) sensorsinto the wireless control system of a wheel-based robot utilizing Bluetooth. The system involvedthe development of an algorithm that converts the changes in electric potential across musclesinto digital signals that are interpreted as executable commands by the robot. A
experiences in one summer that: (i) grow their engineering identities; (ii) increase their feelings of inclusion and belonging in engineering; and (iii) support altruistic cultural values by showing that mentorship and “giving back” is an integral part of being a good engineer.Coming up on our fifth year, CISTAR and NSBE SEEK are excited to continue this partnershipand grow this program to scale. In closing, we hope that reading about this partnership betweenCISTAR and NSBE SEEK–why and how it has been successful–will inspire and help topropagate similar types of programs in other Centers that share goals of broadeningrepresentation and supporting altruistic cultural values in
.” - Denis WaitleyIntroduction This research is a work in progress, an offshoot of an exploratory integration study ofSTEM + computational thinking (STEM+C) for minority girls. The larger study is a joint effortamongst a community center, an educational research institute and a STEM center at auniversity. These partners designed, tested and implemented the integration of newcomputational thinking (CT) practices into a research-based STEM program. The study islongitudinal, spanning two school years, in 10-week, twice weekly, 90-minute program. One ofthe goals of the program is to learn how to inspire, motivate and bolster minority girls STEM andCT abilities and perceptions. The purpose of this work in progress is to study how anintervention
connection toindustry and through changes in the four essential areas of a shared department vision, faculty,curriculum, and supportive policies.During the last year of this project, we conducted an audit of our activities taken during the six-year project to identify which were most impactful for the culture building in the department andwere relatively easy to implement and adopt by other departments. We shared our audit processand results at the 2023 ASEE conference [1]. This audit process helped us identify ten significantendeavors, each of which included multiple activities. These ten endeavors include creating amission statement to drive culture change, fostering the new culture in retreats, improvingdiversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) in
-Based Statistics,” Proceedings of the 2003 ASEE Annual Conference, 2003.3. J. Wasserman and R. Jendrucko, “Early Introduction of Statistical Concepts in an Undergraduate BME Program,” Proceedings of the 2005 ASEE Annual Conference, 2005.4. M. E. Prudich, D. Ridgway, and V. L. Young, “Integration of Statistics throughout the Undergraduate Curriculum: Use of the Senior Chemical Engineering Unit Operations Laboratory as an End-of-Program Statistics Assessment Course,” Proceedings of the 2003 ASEE Annual Conference, 2003.5. D. Mukai and T. McDonald, “Nonparametric, Computer Intensive Statistics Course Modules for Engineers,” Proceedings of the 2009 ASEE Annual Conference, 2009.6. R. Van Til, M. Banachowski, C
challenging technical curriculum. The core values of the program are based on the belief that mentor andmentee relationships and proven methodologies for fostering these relationships improves the effectiveness of STEM interventions forunderrepresented minorities. The effect of Bulls-EYE Mentoring will be studied through its ability to influence students’ perceptionsand attitudes towards engineering and their growth as an individual. The programs effect on undergraduate students’ desire to remainin the college of engineering will also be assessed. In addition, the effect of the program on middle school students’ STEM literacyand interest in pursuing STEM related degrees at the collegiate level. This paper presents the Bulls-EYE Mentoring
physics and a PhD in science education. Her research interests include physics/astronomy education, citizen science, and the integration of technology in teaching and learning. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Mitigating the Fear of Failure in a STEM + Computational Thinking Program for Minority Girls (Work-in-Progress-Diversity)IntroductionThis is a work-in-progress study. The purpose of the paper is to present research on anintervention informed by the first year of the study. We are conducting an after-school program,studying an integrated STEM +Computational Thinking curriculum, in an urban, low-incomeneighborhood. Our program’s broader intention is to influence how
fabrication in educational settings. He looks at the experiences of students in classroomsutilizing making in the curriculum and discusses the advantages of using digital fabrication in aneducational setting. In his observations, he found making to be an asset in the classroom whenutilizing contextualized learning of STEM topics, by creating meaningful, concrete tasks for aproject or concept.Edward Pines and colleagues [5] explored the possibilities of “Broadening Participation ThroughTngagement in the Maker Space Movement” and shared the lessons they learned in usingmakerspace activities as a partnering component to traditional engineering curriculum. Theycontribute an interesting discussion on how to balance the interests of the various
Paper ID #25688A Mixed Methods Analysis of Goals and the Impact of Peer Mentoring forParticipants in the WISE Honors ProgramDr. Jennifer A Gatz, Stony Brook University Public STEM education teacher of AP Biology and AP Research for Patchogue-Medford School District. Ph.D. in Science Education from Stonybrook University, 2017. Research affiliate at Stony Brook Univer- sity’s Institute for STEM education evaluating persistence, motivation, social and academic integration of women in science and engineering at the undergraduate level.Dr. Angela M. Kelly, Stony Brook University Angela M. Kelly is an Associate Professor of
of the importance of engineeringdesign’s integration with society, in our critical review we found it was mostly grand statementsbeing made in the introduction and conclusion, without much real substance in the meat of thepaper. This was most prominent in A4’s paper. The second paragraph mentions the importanceof covering “social issues like the environment” (A4, p.83), and in the conclusion they concludethe students “have shown significant progress in […] developing an appreciation of theengineering involved in creating wealth for society” (A4, p.90). Whereas, during the textualanalysis of the remainder of the paper, there were almost no other codes for society.This is again evident in A1, where the second sentence of the paper states
registered into all four of these courses, thusestablishing a cohort. This cohort was comprised of random students, without regard to theirdegree plan, placement tests, etc. All other first semester students were enrolled in thetraditional non-cohort curriculum. About a month prior to the start of the semester, each of theinstructors (MATH, PSYC, CSCI, and ENGL), and the IFYEP project coordinator (Dr. Mattes)attended several meetings (roughly 6 hours total) to establish a sequence of weekly topics thatwould easily allow for subject integration across the courses. An example of a weekly themethreading through the four core courses is illustrated in Fig. 1, along with an indication of howadditional major-specific first-semester courses could be
integrity in particular water bodies. 3. Historic exclusion of Māori from academics, as Māori were historically considered more suited to labors of the land than the mind. 4. Present-day school scheduling of subjects in ways that are culturally marginalizing, often resulting in students who are either weak in calculus or their cultural identity. 5. Institutional devaluing of identity and background, through curriculum rules regarding elective subjects.Specific examples help to describe the nature of these five barriers.Historic cultural conflict. An extract from The New Zealand Book of Events (1986) commentsthat on May 1, 1979, engineering students at the University of Auckland planning to perform amock Māori haka during the
northeast area of the USA, has been a resident of Fargo, ND since 1996.Dr. Austin James Allard, Turtle Mountain Community College Austin Allard is a Pre-Engineering Instructor at Turtle Mountain Community College. He earned a doc- torate degree in Civil Engineering from Texas A&M University. His work deals with using manufactured drones to map ecological areas. He is dedicated to using engineering solutions to investigate environmen- tal issues close to home.Teri Ann AlleryAnn Vallie, Nueta Hidatsa Sahnish CollegeDr. Bradley Bowen, Virginia Tech Bradley Bowen is an assistant professor at Virginia Tech in the School of Education’s Integrative STEM Education program. He has a B.S. in Civil Engineering from Virginia
is engineering classroom, with an inclusive curriculum havingclassroom-based interventions, we will focus on organizational diversity promotion factor asan indicator of climate perception.Our proposed model based on the literature review is as follows:Figure1: Proposed Model (showing the relationship of Perceived climate, sense of belongingand engineering identity based on gender)Current StudyThis study sits within a larger study designed to help all engineering students develop aninclusive professional identity. In addition to having excellent technical skills, students withan inclusive professional identity [23] seek out diversity in teams, leverage diversity toimprove team dynamics and outcomes, and consider a wide range of potential
NRP guidelines, detailing the requirements, were streamlined to be less than twelve pagescompared to the 20+ page documents of their predecessors.10 For student chapters, an advisor is either a faculty member or university administrator.11 The NAC provides up to 31 different awards to chapters based on their NRP performance across the student andprofessional chapters annually.12 Up to three different chapter awards for NRP v.3. 11 Figure 1. NRP v.3’s chapter activity in the SHPE annual cycle.2.3.2 Chapter v.3 Ecosystem Integration In addition to chapter ecosystem integration within the NRP v.3 report
percentage of student transfers are unable to keep a tightly controlledcohort of students progressing through the curriculum. Students usually have varied course loadsand different priorities due to family, financial needs or other responsibilities. Therefore, there isa need for an individualized approach to advising. The school’s administration faces challengesscheduling courses and allocating diminishing resources to satisfy student demand. In addition,faculty needs to assess the efficacy of their curriculum in a program, and collecting longitudinalstudent data is difficult. A web application system (mobile compatible) using a multi-agent approach has beendeveloped to allow the students (agents) to take more control over their
experience in the industryenvironment. Successful integration of workplace and education is expected to result inincreased focus, interest, and success for all our students [7]. These experiences are alsoexpected to positively affect course curriculum and teaching effectiveness through increasedfeedback by students and industry [7].The MET and SM curricula are rigorous, as both programs are math and physics intensive andare considered STEM programs. Both of them require courses such as (but not limited to)algebra, calculus, chemistry, physics, probability and statistics, industrial hygiene, human factorsand ergonomics, fire protection systems, system safety analysis, hazardous materialmanagement, introduction to solid modeling, applies statics
Paper ID #34970Creating a Diverse Next Generation of Technically- and Community-MindedSTEM Professionals (Experience)Dr. Denise M. Driscoll, Purdue University at West Lafayette (PPI) Dr. Denise M. Driscoll, Purdue University Dr. Driscoll is an experimental social psychologist with ex- pertise in stereotyping and prejudice, attitude and persuasion, diversity and inclusion, and managerial and intercultural business communication. Her experiences as an academic, diversity consultant, and admin- istrator over the last 30 years have helped her integrate broadening participation and inclusion practices across research
ElectronicAccess (Experience)AbstractThis paper will focus and comment on the operational variability introduced to a long-standing collaborative aimed at an underrepresented population of Native Americanengineering students in North Dakota. The focus of this paper will center on a decade-long distance-based education collaborative’s resilience to the rapid change incurred bythe adjustments forced upon education by the 2020 pandemic. The most notable of thechanges was the shift from having the majority of the student curriculum taught face toface (outside of the distance-based pre-engineering program) to suddenly the entirety ofthe learning experience moved online. For this particular program, this included the two-week Summer Camp experience at North
serves as a basefor learning how to build a circuit where errors in creating the circuit can be easily corrected. Page 26.605.5 F E C B A DFigure 1: An LED Circuit with (A) LM555 Timer Integrated Circuit, (B) 1.8MΩ Resistor,(C) 270Ω Resistor, (D) 22KΩ Resistor, (E) LED, (F) 10nF capacitor, with wires connectingthe electrical components on the breadboard.The 555 IC was placed between the bottom and top half of the breadboard, and the capacitor wasplaced towards the top of
reform needed thatconnects creativity to engineering in an atmosphere that welcomes diversity. Introduction Engineering is a creative and diverse profession integral to the sustainability of a rapidlyevolving economy, and a field where the diversity and perspectives of women engineers isessential [1], [2], [3]. This study examined the creative self-efficacy (CSE) of undergraduatewomen engineering majors, their beliefs about creativity, how they describe themselves ascreative, and their lived experiences that influenced them to choose engineering as a career path.ABET [4] highlighted the significant connection of creativity in engineering curriculum to theengineering profession. The creative