,technology development, improvement, and the responsible leadership of purposeful technologicalinnovation to advance the quality of life. Because creative service to society has been, and continues tobe, the primary mission of the engineering profession, the panel believes that the engineering professionitself, perhaps more than any other profession, can benefit from a redefinition of creative professionalscholarship and creative engagement.However, making reform of faculty reward systems a reality requires us to “break out of the box” ofconventional wisdom about engineering graduate education. The panel has become aware through ourcollective experiences, successes, and mistakes that Barwise and Perry’s theory may be correct … i.e. thehuman mind in
Societyfor Engineering Education, 2016).Aiming to capitalize on the benefits that makerspaces bring to formal education institutions, theUniversity of Ottawa opened its own on-campus makerspace in September 2014. The universityintended to create a space that fosters innovation, promote multidisciplinary projects, provideaccess to prototyping facilities, encourage and facilitate students’ entrepreneurship, and providea space for students to realize their designs and acquire and practice new skills, and knowledge.The makerspace adopted a business model that granted free access to all students on campus, anddedicated Sundays to community engagement. Through exposure to the makerspace and otherdesign spaces, students can collaborate with like-minded
reflection focusing on the similarityand differences in the responses. The assignment was designed with user variation in mind tochallenge the students’ notion of universal users and universal design. To encourage reflectionabout student responses in comparison to their chosen participants' responses, students wereprompted to respond to the following open-ended questions: What designs shared common understandings? What designs differed in the responses? What else did you notice?For purposes of analysis, the reflective responses from each first-year engineering cohort (Fall2019, Fall 2020, and Fall 2021) were combined, resulting in a sample size of 99 students. Datawere coded and analyzed utilizing inductive qualitative content
Paper ID #37228Qualitative Engineering Education Researchers and ourRelationships with Data: Exploring our Epistemologies andValues as a CommunityNadia Kellam Dr. Nadia Kellam (she/they) is Associate Professor of Engineering within The Polytechnic School of the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University (ASU). She is a faculty in the Engineering Education Systems and Design (EESD) PhD program and currently advises three doctoral students. Dr. Kellam is an engineering education researcher and a mechanical engineer. She is also deputy editor of the Journal of Engineering Education and co-chair of
Paper ID #37362US-Sweden Bioinformatics IRES: Investigating EngineeringStudents’ Attitudes and Perspectives Throughout a 10-weekInternational Research ProgramMark A Chapman (Assistant Professor) Mark Chapman is an assistant professor at the University of San Diego in the Department of Integrated Engineering. His interests lie in the fields of skeletal muscle mechanics, muscle disease, exercise physiology, international education and engineering education. He earned his MS and PhD in bioengineering from the University of California, San Diego and a B.S. in biomedical engineering from the University of
developed for the program support ESP’s goals to: 1) create a diverse andwelcoming STEM climate on the FCC campus through events and media that encourage broaderparticipation, 2) increase participation in engineering among economically disadvantaged studentsthrough targeted outreach and recruitment, 3) increase persistence of engineering students alongdiscipline specific pathways to transfer and graduation from four-year universities through a seriesof structured support interventions, and, 4) establish on-going collaborative transfer supportprocesses between the FCC engineering program and CSU-F.With these goals in mind, ESP’s success is evaluated based on achieving the following objectives: 1. Increase engineering degree and/or certificate
–findings. In addition, weunderstand that the path to becoming an anti-racist and socially just researcher is not completelylinear; it is complex and nuanced as students challenge their ways of knowing. Regardless ofwhat the path looks like, or how circuitous it is, our goal remains to provide graduate studentswith the skills to become socially just engineering researchers. This paper outlines the process ofcreating a course for graduate students that helps prepare them for engineering research withequity and justice in mind. By outlining the course development, structural components, and theinitial findings from the first offering of the course within our 3-year longitudinal study, we hopeto provide other engineering departments with encouragement
Paper ID #37187Rapid Change to Refined Teaching: Lessons Learned and Lasting Impactsthe COVID-19 Pandemic Had on How We Teach EngineeringMs. Boni Frances Yraguen, Georgia Institute of Technology Boni Yraguen is a PhD student at Georgia Tech. Her dissertation work is in the field of combus- tion/thermo./fluids. She studies a novel diesel injection strategy: Ducted Fuel Injection (DFI), which is used to drastically decrease soot emissions during diesel combustion. In addition to her thesis work, Boni is passionate about engineering education. She has led and participated in various educational stud- ies on the impact of
there was less live attendance in online SI sessions, and somestudents expressed negative feelings about attending SI online [14]. Keeping these pastexperiences with online SI in mind, we explored the effectiveness of our online SI offerings.Study contextFirst-year engineering students entering Northeastern University in September 2020 encountereda profound change in instructional strategy compared to previous years in which all classes wereoffered in-person: during the Fall 2020 semester classes were offered under a hybrid learningmodel in which a limited number of students could attend each class meeting in-person and theremainder would attend only remotely, based in part on student preferences. This study focusedon assessing consequences of
linguistic, cultural, literacy, and educational backgrounds.The perspective of faculty members in engineering is often to conflate language and literacy withsimply needing to improve English grammar to become ‘good writers’ at the doctoral level.A question also remains whether graduate communication support designed with peercollaboration in mind—such as in the case of graduate writing centers and learningcommunities—can fully serve the diverse needs of those who enter programs with diverselinguistic, cultural, literacy, and educational backgrounds. Many multilingual doctoral studentsbring with them culturally specific academic, professional, and broader rhetorical strategies thatmay conflict with locally defined and field-specific conventions in
attitude toward diversity and inclusion, we expect them toacknowledge its current state as a problem and to believe that improving it will bring somepositive outcome. Generally, the ECE faculty interviewed did show evidence of such a positiveattitude, and their reasoning fell very consistently into two themes: (a) the importance ofdiversity for equality, and (b) the benefits for students of working with diverse groups of people.Importance of diversity for equality “Well, the first things that come to my mind [about diversity and inclusion] are minority students and women. Especially in an engineering program and in ECE where we don't have enough women.” – ElliottFaculty frequently began their discussion on diversity by
Paper ID #16566Hands-On Made 4 ME: Deploying, Using, Developing and Evaluating Desk-top Computer Numerical Controlled (CNC) Systems in the Engineering Class-roomMr. Farhan Azhar, University of Massachusetts Lowell Graduate Research Assistant- Mechanical Engineering at University of Massachusetts Lowell.Mr. Kristofer Tite, University of Massachusetts, Lowell Undergraduate mechanical engineering student at University of Massachusetts Lowell.Dr. Stephen Johnston, University of Massachusetts, Lowell Stephen P. Johnston is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Plastics Engineering at the UMass Lowell. His research interests
AC 2008-891: THE IMPACT OF STUDENTS' LIFE EXPERIENCES ON PROGRAMRETENTION. A STUDY OF FEMALE ENGINEERING STUDENTS IN MEXICO.Carmen Villa, Texas A&M Carmen Villa is an Adult Education doctoral candidate at Texas A&M University. Carmen is a graduate assistant for Dr. Yvonna Lincoln and Dr. Carolyn Clark. Her research interests include underrepresented populations in higher education, cultural practices and their impact on education for Hispanic students.Jennifer Sandlin, Arizona State University Jennifer A. Sandlin is an assistant professor in the Division of Curriculum and Instruction at Arizona State University, where she teaches courses focused on consumption, learning, and
with CBL [challenge based learning] is the only reason I do notuse it on a daily basis.” In the interest of time, more traditional strategies can be used to teachother topics. In CEEMS, teachers would regularly discuss this healthy balance with otherteachers in the program and their resource team coaches. Similarly, teachers not participating ina formal program, such as CEEMS, could be encouraged to seek out a community of practice oflike-minded peers, with whom they can honestly discuss when to use engineering designchallenges and when to teach content using traditional pedagogies. In addition to the careful selection of standards, other factors not addressed in this paper mayhelp mitigate the barrier of time. Block scheduling can be a
image or images comes to mind when you think of engineers or engineering? 4. In your view, what is science? What is its purpose? 5. Do you agree with the statement “engineering is applied science? Why, or why not? 6. In what way are science and engineering similar? 7. What are the differences between science and engineering? 8. If two engineering firms are given the same job (to design a new cell phone), would the product be more or less the same? Why, or why not? 9. Please answer the following three questions based on the statement here. Imagine that another bridge is going to be built over the Colorado River. a. What do engineers need to consider in the process in planning this? b. What component(s) of this task will be
engineering will be as well. There is both a sense inwhich Nicole’s experience of shame is lived by her and a sense in which her engineeringenvironment establishes the context for her to live in the experience of shame. Our previousresearch [1,6,7] has provided a more extensive review of how shame has been examined in prioreducation research.With this individual-in-environment connection in mind, we chose to examine Nicole’s case ofexperiencing shame within the context of engineering education. Nicole, who identifies as aWhite woman, was a junior-level mechanical engineering student at the time of our interview.She also holds an identity as a student-athlete at the university. These multiple identities arepresent in different social situations in
on human action, communication, and learning as socio- culturally organized phenomena. A major strand of his research explores the varied trajectories taken by students as they attempt to enter professional disciplines such as engineering, and focuses on the dilem- mas encountered by students as they move through these institutionalized trajectories. He is co-editor of a 2010 National Society for the Study of Education Yearbook, Learning Research as a Human Science. Other work has appeared in Linguistics and Education; Mind, Culture, and Activity; Anthropology & Education Quarterly, the Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science; the Journal of Engineering Education; and the Cambridge Handbook of Engineering Education
mindfulness and its impact on gender participation in engineering education. He is a Lecturer in the School of Engineering at Stanford University and teaches the course ME310x Product Management and ME305 Statistics for Design Researchers. Mark has extensive background in consumer products management, having managed more than 50 con- sumer driven businesses over a 25-year career with The Procter & Gamble Company. In 2005, he joined Intuit, Inc. as Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer and initiated a number of consumer package goods marketing best practices, introduced the use of competitive response modeling and ”on- the-fly” A|B testing program to qualify software improvements. Mark has a BSS from
engaging students but increasing their learning experiences. Though it isrecommended learning environments should be designed to actively engage students, professorsshould also be mindful of how these activities are perceived by the students. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the types of activities used to teach electriccircuits and students’ reported perceptions of these activities. This systematic literature review isaimed at answering the following questions: “How are engineering learning environmentsdesigned to promote students’ understanding of electric circuits? What are students’ perceptionsof the types of activities used in enhancing their understanding of circuit concepts?” Systematicliterature reviews as opposed to the
working at the pickle plant—to help support the family and her husband’s wages from working for the railroad and a grocerystore. Even though neither of her parents graduated from college, it was never a doubt in her orher brother’s mind that they would since her parents had insisted as such since they were verysmall.For Julie, the appeal of engineering was that it would provide a good job and an opportunity tohelp other people. Both she and her brother ended up at Mines after an engineer at her father’sworkplace told them that it was the best engineering school. After graduating with a degree inmechanical engineering, she had multiple interviews in varying industries but took a job at anengineering firm that was expanding the public lightrail
engineering education (TEE)component of the program. Three main goals for the curricula are: (1) to immerse learners in challengingand stimulating classrooms where reliance in memorization, as normally done in the Dominicanclassrooms, is discouraged and the focus is instead on critical thinking, creativity, discovering engineeringand technology, and building collaborative (and leadership) skills. (2) Motivate the learners' curiosity andinstill in the young minds interest for learning. As previously stated, the Dominican classroomsconsistently discourage curiosity, creativity, and inquiry. (3) Improve understanding of the nature ofscience, engineering, and technology to widen the horizons, motivate students to pursue studies in STEMfields, and
Instructor Implements Project-Based Learning 1. Introduction & Objectives In the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Manitoba, Canada, a novice instructor with more than a decade of industry experience in consulting engineering practice re-designed a third-year structural engineering design course around a project- based instructional method. The impetus for changing the course was twofold: his own industry experience that drove his desire to educate students with the engineering knowledge and skills, and foster in them the engineering mind-set to succeed in industry; as well as the fact that the structural course that he was charged with teaching had
Paper ID #21613Lessons Learned from a Chemical Engineering REU: The Importance ofTraining Graduate Students Who are Supervising REU StudentsJoseph C. Tise, Pennsylvania State University Joseph Tise is a doctoral candidate in the Educational Psychology program at Penn State University. His research interests include self-regulated learning, measurement, and connecting educational research to practice.Ms. Kirsten Susan Hochstedt, Pennsylvania State University Kirsten Hochstedt is a graduate assistant at Penn State Student Affairs Research and Assessment. She received her M.S. in Educational Psychology with an emphasis in
Paper ID #22007Work in Progress: Institutional Context and the Implementation of the Red-shirt in Engineering Model at Six UniversitiesDr. Emily Knaphus-Soran, University of Washington Emily Knaphus-Soran is a Research Associate at the Center for Evaluation & Research for STEM Equity (CERSE) at the University of Washington. She works on the evaluation of several projects aimed at improving diversity, equity, and inclusion in STEM fields. She also conducts research on the social- psychological and institutional forces that contribute to the persistence of race and class inequalities in the United States. Emily earned a
Paper ID #24991Black Men in the Making: Engaging in makerspaces promotes agency andidentity for Black males in engineeringMr. Michael Lorenzo Greene, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus Michael Greene is a PhD Student in the Shifting Perceptions, Attitudes and Cultures (SPACE) Lab at Arizona State University. He is pursuing his degree in the Engineering Education Systems and Design program concurrently with a Master’s degree in Engineering. Michael received his B.S. in Mechanical en- gineering from the University of Pittsburgh in April 2018. His research interest lies in diversity, inclusion and K-12
Paper ID #28658I graduated, now what?: An overview of the academic EngineeringEducation Research job field and search process.Dr. Erin J McCave, University of Houston Erin is an Instructional Assistant Professor in the Cullen College of Engineering at the University of Houston. She joined the University of Houston after completing a postdoctoral/lecturer position split between the General Engineering program and the Engineering & Science Education Department and a Ph.D. in Bioengineering from Clemson University. Erin’s research interests include preparing students for their sophomore year, minority student engineering
InterestAlthough ‘bits and pieces’ of this educational advancement have already been attained in piecemealfashion across the county, these components have not been integrated as a system for replication acrossthe nation in the national interest nor have they been developed to their fullest in meeting the needs of thepracticing engineer and engineering leader in industry.The National Collaborative welcomes a diversity of education approaches and methods in the coalition Page 13.559.7but within a common framework of goals and objectives. Yet the National Collaborative is mindful thateach university participant in this effort must focus in the
they learn fromthe textbook and what they are expected to do in the actual Civil Engineering field.Additionally, those students who were taking the lab course simultaneously found this courseextremely helpful because they had more exposure to the use of the knowledge.A more formal presentation of the qualitative feedback will be included in a subsequent journalpaper. The results from this study also suggest that students who are self-regulated, keep theirgoals in mind, know what they are doing and why they are doing it, feel competent to do whatthey are supposed to do, and do their work as expected will do well in the class. The implicationsof these findings suggest the importance of motivation, self-regulation, and self-efficacy in
AC 2012-3154: CREATING AND SUSTAINING PRODUCTIVE RESEARCHGROUPS IN GRADUATE ENGINEERING DEPARTMENTS: RESULTS FROMA FACULTY AND FUTURE FACULTY WORKSHOPMr. John Andrew Janeski, Virginia Tech John Andrew Janeski is a Dean’s Teaching Fellow and Ph.D. candidate in the Aerospace and Ocean Engineering Department. His primary research interests center around spacecraft dynamics and control. However, the Dean’s Teaching Fellowship has afforded him the opportunity to pursue research topics that span his experiences as a graduate student and instructor. He earned his bachelor’s degree in physics from Rhodes College.Dr. Erin Crede, Virginia Tech Erin D. Crede completed her Ph.D. in engineering education from Virginia Tech
Paper ID #42171”I’m Not Like a Human Being”: How the Teaming Experiences of AfricanAmerican Females Reveal the Hidden Epistemologies of Engineering CultureKaitlyn Anne Thomas, University of Nevada, Reno Ms. Thomas is a doctoral student at University of Nevada, Reno in Engineering Education. Her background is in structural engineering. She received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in civil engineering from Southern Methodist University. Her research focus is in epistemology and epistemic injustice.Dr. Kelly J Cross, Georgia Institute of Technology Dr. Cross is currently an Assistant Professor in the Biomedical Engineering