from Purdue University. Her research characterizes front-end design practices across the student to practitioner continuum and studies the impact of developed front-end design tools on design success.Ms. Leah Paborsky, University of Michigan Leah is a graduate from the University of Michigan with a B.S.E. in Mechanical Engineering and minor in Space Sciences and Engineering. She served as an undergraduate research assistant in the Daly Design and Engineering Education Research Group focusing on engineers’ beliefs about social aspects of engineering work. She is currently pursuing a M.S. in Aerospace Engineering Sciences at University of Colorado- Boulder.Dr. Sara L. Hoffman, University of Michigan Sara Hoffman
-12 school districts, community colleges, four-year universities andcommunity-based workforce investment boards. The overall goal is to bridge the gap betweenindustry-needed skills and those obtained through formal education. The expected outcome is thetransition of students into industry after high school, transfer into a community college, or seek afour-year college degree. Regardless of the career pathway outcome, the WFD programinculcates hands-on, practical skills in participants. These skills were included based on industryfeedback about the gap between current graduates’ skills and those expected in the field ofpractice. The skills were also echoed in the ‘Engineer of 2020’ report by the National Academyof Engineering. As a result, the
initial negative experience likely coloredthe students’ impression of the CodeChat tool and the LP paradigm. 13/167 ConclusionsThe hope in undertaking our exploratory investigations of LP in hardware-focused courses was thatLP would aid student learning, and improve the quality of the student output. We have presentedour results with the hope that other educators and researchers will apply LP in microprocessorsand HDL education at their institutions to help build a more complete understanding of how LPcan support student learning in electrical engineering courses.We have presented two cases of how LP could be used in hardware-focused courses. In the
Research Associate Professor in Academic Affairs. Dr. Streveler holds a Ph.D. in Educational Psychology from the University of Hawaii at Manoa, Master of Science in Zoology from the Ohio State University, and a Bachelor of Arts in Biology from Indiana University at Bloomington. She is co-principle investigator of three NSF-sponsored projects: Developing an Outcomes Assessment Instrument for Identifying Engineering Student Misconceptions in Thermal and Transport Sciences (DUE - 0127806), Center for the Advancement of Engineering Education (ESI-0227558), and Rigorous Research in Engineering Education: Creating a Community of Practice (DUE-0341127).Kimberley Breaux, KIMBERLEY R. BREAUX
structure previously determined through exploratory and confirmatory factor analysisrevealed five latent variables that align with a framework proposed by Fila et al. [1] for teachingengineering within a humanistic lens to help students develop a sense of belonging and theirengineering identity. Our SEM analysis showed that for all students, academic self-confidenceand self-efficacy and a broad understanding of engineering both have a significant positiveinfluence on their sense of belonging, which in turn has a significant influence on their attitudestoward persisting and succeeding in engineering. Appreciating the importance of non-technicalskills in engineering had no significant influence on most students’ sense of belonging with theexception
ofengineer: one with excellent communication skills, business acumen, and leadership abilities(www.e-lead.utep.edu).The target course for PDI implementation was the Intro to E-Lead course mentioned previously.This course is a predominantly non-technical course for which the primary goal is for students toacclimate to the E-Lead program and focus on developing their personal identity and criticalskills for success in engineering. As such, this course is a zero-credit course for incomingstudents. The assumption behind using this instructional approach in this course is that studentscan better empathize with their peers and will, therefore, better understand what incomingstudents need to know to be successful, as well as how to deliver the content
Paper ID #44435Leveraging the CARE Methodology to Enhance Pedagogical and InstitutionalSupport for Blind or Low-Vision (BLV) Learners in Electrical and ComputerEngineering (ECE)Aya Mouallem, Stanford University Aya Mouallem (she/her) is a PhD candidate in Electrical Engineering, minoring in Education, at Stanford University. She received a BEng in Computer and Communications Engineering from the American University of Beirut. Aya is a graduate research assistant with the Designing Education Lab at Stanford, led by Professor Sheri Sheppard, and her research explores the accessibility of introductory engineering education
electronic portfolio pedagogy and practices in engineering education and the evaluation of eportfolios and other social software tools (wikis, weblogs, etc.) to facilitate teaching, learning, and assessment for students, faculty, departments, and institutions.Camelia Rosca, Boston College CAMELIA ROSCA is a research associate at Boston College and the director of Education Research Testing and Evaluation Consultants (ERTEC). Her work includes test development and a wide range of educational research.Larry Ludlow, Boston College LARRY LUDLOW is Professor and Chair of the Educational Research, Measurement and Evaluation Department at Boston College. His research interests include faculty evaluations
notion that all engineering learners maintain vast knowledge,experiences, and skills that can be used to meet the demands of engineering coursework andengineering programs. Yet, those cultural assets may remain invisible, unrecognized, and under-leveraged by engineering educators. As engineering educators continue to make strides insupporting their diverse learners, additional steps are needed to make visible the unseen culturalassets that engineering learners use in the engineering classroom as they develop into theengineers of the 21st-century STEM workforce.This paper presents the findings of an exploratory, quantitative study of the cultural assets thatengineering students use while enrolled in undergraduate engineering degree
Paper ID #12565Problematizing Best Practices for Pairing in K-12 Student Design TeamsMs. Gina M Quan, University of Maryland, College Park Gina Quan is a doctoral candidate in Physics Education Research at the University of Maryland, Col- lege Park. She graduated in 2012 with a B.A. in Physics from the University of California, Berkeley. Her research interests include understanding community and identity formation, unpacking students’ re- lationships to design, and cultivating institutional change. Ms. Quan is also a founding member of the Access Network, a research-practice community dedicated to fostering supportive
, designed in response to the changing demands placed onengineering graduates in the future, as illustrated by The Engineer of 2020[3] and Educating theEngineer of 2020[4] reports. Both reports illustrate the need for engineers who can effectivelycontribute to the changing landscape of the field through creativity, strong communication skills,an understanding of the principles of leadership and by becoming lifelong learners. [3-4] TheUniversity of Michigan’s program includes elements intended to specifically address theseneeds. We have also explored new models for scalability through a pilot program, includingstudent-led larger group discussions of 50-100 participants.In the following sections, we will offer strategies for the development of a
Pajares40 posit that females Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM)students gain their self-efficacy through social persuasion and vicarious experience, whereasmales increase their self-efficacy through mastery experiences. Further, women in STEM fieldsrely on relationships to create and support their confidence to succeed in male-dominatedfields40. Both the present study and previous research in STEM education underscore the needfor effective interventions to increase self-efficacy among female students and thereby increaserecruitment and retention of females in construction management programs.Several potential interventions, as suggested by Lopez del Puerto, Guggemos and Shane,18 thatinfluence female student’s self-efficacy through
Paper ID #29189”Adversary or Ally”: Undergraduate Engineering Students’ Perceptions ofFacultyMr. H. Ronald Clements III, Purdue University H. Ronald Clements is a postbaccalaureate research assistant in the STRIDE lab at Purdue University and an incumbent graduate student for Purdue’s Engineering Education department for the 2020-2021 year. He works with Dr. Allison Godwin on her NSF CAREER grant titled ”Actualizing Latent Diver- sity: Building Innovation through Engineering Students’ Identity Development,” assisting with narrative analysis and interviews and helping to understand the identity trajectories of latently
environments in different ways thantheir male peers altering their continued interest in computer science.Personal FactorsPersonal factors such as motivation, sense of belonging, personal fulfillment, and identity caninfluence persistence to degree. Research shows that while these personal factors are unique toeach student, educational environments can be structured or altered to influence some personalattributes in ways that positively impact retention.Motivation can impact how students face and persevere through challenging concepts and coursework. Research using project based computer game development has shown that assignmentscan be structured to facilitate student motivation and encourage them to work through difficultmaterial [13]. Motivational
attitudes towards becoming engineers, their problem solving processes, and cultural fit. His education includes a B.S. in Biomedical Engineering from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, a M.S. in Bioengineering and Ph.D. in Engineer- ing and Science Education from Clemson University.Dr. Allison Godwin, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering) Allison Godwin, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of Engineering Education at Purdue University. Her research focuses what factors influence diverse students to choose engineering and stay in engineering through their careers and how different experiences within the practice and culture of engineering foster or hinder belongingness and identity development. Dr
. Page 22.1248.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011Restructuring the Robotics Laboratory and Enhancing the Robotics Curriculum at RIT AbstractThe Manufacturing and Mechanical Engineering Technology department at the RochesterInstitute of Technology has been involved in an ongoing effort to improve itsjunior/senior/graduate level Robotics in Manufacturing laboratory and curriculum. The previouslaboratory provided interesting challenges for the students to be able to get into the laboratoryspace and effectively use the equipment. The new laboratory exercises incorporate research ofselected robotics topics, new laboratory equipment, part
through a worksheet. This personality assessment connects individualinterests to related occupations, provides a vocabulary for students to discuss their careerinterests, and suggests relevant occupations based on the individual’s “type” [36]. Educationalopportunities beyond their current program were discussed, including education that can proceedafter their biosystems engineering degree, such as prosthetist training, medical school, orgraduate study in engineering [37]. Through this career development support, we explored theinterdisciplinary nature of biosystems engineering and the broad options for graduates of theprogram both within and beyond engineering, building on the course content covered by theprofessors of the course, and supporting
thorough knowledge of reading, writing and mathematics, plus a thorough groundwork in basic engineering principles. A good working knowledge of the English language and of the history of our country and at least a general understanding of the history of the world is also essential.7McKee’s commentary also referenced many other kinds of attributes and experiences importantfor success working abroad, but made it clear that these were to be developed after graduation. Page 24.1265.3Others argued that undergraduate engineering education should play a more prominent role. Forinstance, Cornell Professor of Civil Engineering N. A
Paper ID #41440Undergraduate Engineering Students’ Experiences of Faculty RecognitionDr. Kelsey Scalaro, University of Nevada, Reno Kelsey is a recent PhD graduate from the Engineering Education program at the University of Nevada, Reno. She has a BS and MS in mechanical engineering and worked in the aerospace industry for four years before returning to academia to complete her doctoral degree. Her research focusses are in undergraduate engineering identity and is interested in exploring how it can be equitably supported through pedagogical practices.Dr. Indira Chatterjee, University of Nevada, Reno Dr. Chatterjee has
mentors grad- uate and undergraduate engineering Fellows who teach in local K-12 classrooms through the Integrated Teaching and Learning Program’s TEAMS initiative, is on the development team for the TeachEngineer- ing digital library, and is faculty advisor for CU-Boulder’s Society of Women Engineers (SWE). Her primary research interests include the impacts of project-based service-learning on student identity, path- ways and retention to and through K-12 and undergraduate engineering, teacher education and curriculum development.Maia Lisa Vadeen, University of Colorado - Boulder Maia Vadeen is a Discovery Learning Apprentice at the University of Colorado Boulder’s College of Engi- neering and Applied Science. She
Paper ID #40736Cutting the Curb for Students with Disabilities Transitioning to HigherEducationSeth Vuletich, Colorado School of Mines Seth Vuletich is the Scholarly Communications Librarian the Colorado School of Mines. Seth provides specialized support to graduate students through all stages of the research lifecycle. Prior to entering the field of librarianship, Seth was a professional woodworker and earned a bachelor’s degree in geology from the University of Colorado, Boulder. Seth earned his Master’s in Library and Information Science from the University of Denver in 2021.Brianna B Buljung, Colorado School of Mines
Paper ID #11774Impacts of a Neural Engineering Summer Research Experience on High SchoolStudents (Evaluation)Kristen M Clapper Bergsman, Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering Kristen Clapper Bergsman is the Pre-College Education Manager at the Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering at the University of Washington. She is also a doctoral student and graduate research assistant in Learning Sciences and Human Development at the University of Washington. Previously, Kristen worked as an educational consultant offering support in curriculum development and production. She received her M.Ed. in Curriculum and
18% Leave 2nd year Graduate 13% in <6 years 56% Leave 3rd year 6% Leave after 3rd year 6% Figure 1: Attrition Rates at Local Site, Average over 10 yearsTypically, engineering educators have focused on curricular interventions to improve the first-year experience4, 5 and have researched the development of student cognitive characteristics suchas attitudes and
to choose engineering and stay in engineering through their careers and how different experiences within the practice and culture of engineering foster or hinder belongingness and identity development. Dr. Godwin graduated from Clemson University with a B.S. in Chemical Engineering and Ph.D. in Engineering and Science Education. Her research earned her a National Science Foundation CAREER Award focused on characterizing latent diversity, which includes diverse attitudes, mindsets, and approaches to learning, to understand engineering students’ identity devel- opment. She is the recipient of a 2014 American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Educational Research and Methods Division Apprentice Faculty Grant
personal and professionalinterests. For example, students are addressing important problems that matter to them in areas related tosocial change. Also, student teams have experienced successes with their innovations that stemmed fromeffectively blending knowledge from the humanities, business development, and engineering technology.To give examples, two student groups received external funding for their products to help those withmovement impairments and arthritis. A second group licensed their innovative kit for instructingelementary students about computational thinking through building model “Smart” clubhouses.Additionally, a third group devised a promising solution for pediatric needle phobia that focuses on theparent and child patient
faced byeducators and the result is often the sacrifice of engineering fundamentals that are unrelated to aprogram’s ultimate focus. There is a growing need for graduates that possess comprehensiveknowledge of engineering fundamentals from the full spectrum of engineering disciplines toaccommodate the increasingly integrated work place. Multi-disciplinary engineering degreeprograms are attempting to address this need, often by utilizing coursework from various“traditional” departments in well established engineering colleges. Integrated Engineering is anattempt to develop a comprehensive fundamental curriculum where all of the courseworkintegrally supports the overall course of study. With their broader, fundamental knowledgeIntegrated
freshman year10,11;one is able to succeed at a given task 3,9,10 supportive peer and mentor network to provide a “can-do” attitudeLearning: broadly, the acquisition of Formal coursework merged with skill-buildingknowledge and skills3 activities, workshops, and symposiaProfessional identity: the “feeling” that one Communities of peers, researchers,is a scientist, technologist, engineer, or entrepreneurs, and actively participating in themathematician 3,10,11,12,14,15 programProgram StructureThe CSP is designed to engage students from first semester on campus until graduation. In atraditional education, few, if any, first year students have
empowering the self through cooperative education," Asia-Pacific Journal of Cooperative Education 12, no. 3, pp. 205- 216, 2011.[36] P. D. Gardner, D. C. Nixon and G. Motschenbacker, "Starting salary outcomes of cooperative education graduates," Journal of Cooperative Education 27, no. 1, pp. 16-26, 1992.[37] R. E. Riggio, C. Kubiak, S. J. Taylor and P. Neale, "Evaluation of cooperative education program with an emphasis in industrial/organizational psychology," Journal of Cooperative Education 26, no. 1, pp. 59-66, 1994.[38] P. D. Gardner and G. Motschenbacker, "Early work outcomes of coop and non-coop engineers: a comparison of expectations, job level, and salary," Journal of Cooperative Education 33, no. 1, pp. 6
engineer for a non-profit organization focusing on building development and disaster recovery in developing countries.Dr. Anahid Behrouzi, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo Anahid Behrouzi is an assistant professor of architectural engineering at California Polytechnic State University - San Luis Obispo. She has been involved with STEM education beginning in 2003 as a volunteer and summer instructor with the North Carolina Museum of Life and Science. She has been engaged with undergraduate/graduate course delivery in the topic areas of engineering problem-solving, structural engineering, and reinforced concrete design at North Carolina State University (2008-2011), the University of Illinois at
. You can better imagine how government, school systems, private trainingorganizations, public educational organizations, watchdog agencies, standards organizationsCOGS), industry, and utilities view the issues and why."154.3 Knowledge-Building ActivitiesLearning activities and deliverables were developed in order to deepen and broaden theknowledge gained by participants while also capturing and preserving their findings and gainsboth for the participants themselves and for the purposes of dissemination and grant reporting.Most of these activities and deliverables were facilitated and supported through the use of anonline “course” site hosted on Instructure’s Canvas course management system (see Figure 6)and reports, discussions and other