between four universities and about 20 industry-leading membrane companies. Thecenter specializes in biopharmaceutical manufacturing, water treatment, membrane fundamentals,and chemical separations research. Part of the center’s mission is to provide unique membraneresearch opportunities for a variety of students. An opportunity exists to provide these researchopportunities in addition to mentoring and career preparation to students local to the NorthwestArkansas (NWA) communities. A major component of this effort consists of expanded ResearchOpportunities for Undergraduates (REU) programs for students not enrolled in traditional four-year degree programs. This expanded research program is referred to as the Local StudentResearch and Mentoring
presenting some basic theory, students received instructions on how to power the circuit,apply small changes, make observations, and interpret them. A post-survey was conducted toassess students’ engagement and interest in the workshop and electrical engineering as a career.Most of the participants declared the workshop was extremely interesting, or interesting. Most ofthem definitely agreed or agreed that the workshop improved their understanding of electricalcomponents through the hands-on activities. More than half of the students indicated that theyare interested in pursuing a career in electrical engineering. This collaborative work with MESAshows that short and highly engaging hands-on activities using inexpensive electroniccomponents can
Graduate Academy for Teaching Excellence Fellow, a Global Perspectives Fellow, a Diversity Scholar, a Fulbright Scholar, a recipient of the NSF CAREER award, and was inducted into the Bouchet Honor Society. Homero serves as the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Chair for the Commission on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (CDEI), the Program Chair for the ASEE Faculty Development Division, and the Vice Chair for the Research in Engineering Education Network (REEN). He holds degrees in Industrial Engineering (BS, MS) from the National Experimental University of T´achira, Master of Business Administration (MBA) from Temple University, and Engineering Education (PhD) from Virginia Tech.Miss Yi Cao, Virginia
data science, bioinformatics, and applied computing for the social sciences.These programs are designed to provide students with both domain knowledge and computingskills to better prepare them for today’s increasingly digital world. To benefit from theseprograms, however, students first need awareness that these opportunities exist. Furthermore,students majoring in non-computer science/engineering fields are often not provided withlearning experiences that foster their self-efficacy in pursuing computing courses, thus limitingtheir future educational and career choices [1 - 3]. Students from historically marginalizedcommunities, shown to be enrolled at higher rates in community colleges than in 4-yearinstitutions, are particularly affected by
purposes of soliciting feedback from others in our region. MethodologyFirst, for the benefit of the students, our faculty instructors engage with area industry by organizingclass field trips to chemical engineering industrial facilities and also bringing industry speakers tothe students. Our department strives to provide separate field trips to area industry sites for eachyear in the students’ academic career, and plans these visits for different classes that cover all levels Proceedings of the 2024 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference WestTexasA&MUniversity,Canyon,TX Copyright 2024, American Society for Engineering
incorporating additional skills like self-reflection and emotionalintelligence into the engineering curriculum.IntroductionIt is generally known that soft skills are necessary to support a successful career. Employers havecontinually voiced concerns about college students not being ready for the demands of theworkplace in terms of their personal and team-based soft skills. As a result, we focused ourefforts to design and implement a set of soft skills modules that can be seamlessly integrated intothe technical curriculum. This paper focuses on development and delivery of such soft skillmodules at the high school level to help prepare students for college and careers.After receiving grant funding from the Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation, the cross
supplemental instruction sessionsstrategically designed to provide support in both their engineering and mathematics courses.These sessions were led by upper-level peer mentors. Students were connected with facultymentors in their discipline through lunches that the SSP faculty team provided each week. Theselunches helped reduce food insecurity while also providing an inviting atmosphere for interactionbetween peers and faculty. Lunches also offered an opportunity to have career discussions andbring in professional development speakers like student organization leaders and graduatestudents.At the start of the first quarter of their sophomore year, nineteen students were either still ontrack or just one quarter behind in their engineering curriculum
students do not utilize mental health support, they will need strong social supportfrom their peers, faculty, and staff to thrive [6]. Due to the unique role of faculty members in theacademic and social development of international students, understanding the students’ needsmay position faculty members to support the students better in the first semester and beyond.Providing opportunities for international students to engage in collaborative problem-solving,networking events, and seminars helps international students feel a sense of belonging [7].Moreover, in smaller programs where experienced faculty members can provide mentorship,career advice, professional guidance, and encouragement, international students enjoy and thrivein a fruitful
information; 4) sendingapplications; and 5) enrolling. Later, Kotler and Fox [25] developed a seven-stage college choicemodel: 1) discovery of a desire to attend college; 2) research about college options; 3)application to college; 4) acceptance into college; 5) enrollment; 6) persistence; and 7)graduation.However, the choice of which college to attend is only half the battle – the student must alsodecide their college major or discipline. What motivates a student to decide on a career path?This is where existing academic literature on “broadening participation” in engineering splitsinto two segments – into student outreach and student recruitment – which is a significantfinding of this study that is discussed later in this paper. Just like college
howstudent self-beliefs influenced their experience with mental health during graduate school. Wealso found that graduate students’ perception of their experience is influenced by students’gender, nationality, and could influence student career trajectories. The results from our workhighlight the ongoing concerns with graduate school culture, and how it can disadvantage certaingroups. Further, this work can help identify student support mechanisms that can be instituted atthe individual, program, and college level to promote student retention and mental health.IntroductionMental health has become a particularly salient talking point in institutions of higher education[1]. Graduate students are identified as a unique population in academic
. The programsreferenced in the literature included: The Invention Bootcamp, Career Advancement MentoringProgram for Young Entrepreneurs (CAMP-YES), Poder (i.e., Spanish for “to be able to” and“power”), Pathways to Innovation, #WatchMeCode and STEM-Inc. We discuss these programsand interventions in the following paragraphs.The Invention Boot CampThe Invention Boot Camp is a four-week interdisciplinary program that focuses on teachingentrepreneurship, innovation, and STEM skills in a college environment to underrepresentedhigh school students in STEM [38]. One benefit of this program is that it utilizes an equitablelens in the recruitment and application process by going into schools with a large percentage ofracially minoritized and low-income
development in architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) students. In February 2019, Andrea received the prestigious National Science Foundation CAREER award to re- search professional identity development processes in undergraduate AEC women. She has also received grants from East Coast Construction Services, Engineering Information Foundation, and the National Association of Home Builders. Dr. Ofori-Boadu was selected to participate in the 2019 QEM-NSF INCLUDES summit. In 2018, she was selected as a 2018 National Science Foundation - NC A & T ADVANCE IT Faculty Scholar. She also received the 2018 CoST Teaching Excellence Merit Award. Dr. Ofori-Boadu received both the 2017 NC A & T - CoST Rookie
retention is a challenge for all students, it isparticularly apparent for women and minority students whose representation in engineeringdecreases at every education and career milestone.1,2 As a result, women and minorities stillmake up a small fraction of those earning engineering degrees. At our institution, a publicuniversity in the state of Colorado, the undergraduate population is about 20% women and 8%underrepresented minorities (compared to 20% and 11% nationally). Moreover, only about 15%of practicing civil engineers in some subdisciplines, like structural engineering, are women.3 Incontrast, women now make up over 30% of lawyers and physicians, and over 70% ofpsychologists. Since no evidence exists that significant gender or racial
described at feministengineering.org. She received a CAREER award in 2010 and a PECASE award in 2012 for her project researching the stories of undergraduate engineering women and men of color and white women. She received ASEE-ERM’s best paper award for her CAREER research, and the Denice Denton Emerging Leader award from the Anita Borg Institute, both in 2013. She helped found, fund, and grow the PEER Collaborative, a peer mentoring group of early career and re- cently tenured faculty and research staff primarily evaluated based on their engineering education research productivity. She can be contacted by email at apawley@purdue.edu
Ralph Coats Roe Awards. She earned her PhD from the University of Michigan. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Designing good practices for recruitment, admissions and program structure of engineering outreach programs to increase access for marginalized and non-traditional higher education students (Evidence-based practice)AbstractEngineering outreach programs aimed at students in higher education play a key role inproviding pathways for students to access studies and careers in engineering. Marginalized andnon-traditional students may not have the resources to represent their skills, goals and fit in theparlance and format that best matches
held fellowships in Ethics of AI and Technology & Society organizations.James N. Magarian, Massachusetts Institute of Technology James Magarian, PhD, is a Sr. Lecturer and Associate Academic Director with the Gordon-MIT En- gineering Leadership (GEL) Program. He joined MIT and GEL after nearly a decade in industry as a mechanical engineer and engineering manager in aerospace/defense. His research focuses on engineering workforce formation and the education-careers transition.Dr. Alison Olechowski, University of Toronto Alison Olechowski is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineer- ing and the Institute for Studies in Transdisciplinary Engineering Education and Practice (ISTEP
Paper ID #36707Building a Leadership Toolkit: Underrepresented Students’ Development ofLeadership-Enabling Competencies through a Summer Research Experiencefor Undergraduates (REU) in Engineering EducationMs. Elizabeth Volpe, University of Florida Elizabeth is a doctoral student at the University of Florida. She is pursuing a Masters and Ph.D. in Civil Engineering as well as a certificate in engineering leadership. Her research interests involve leadership, the experiences of early career women in engineering and improving diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice within engineering education and the engineering workforce. She
neural engineering data and results, and ethical and responsible conduct of research in neural engineering, and the role of neuroethics in neural engineering. 2. Neural engineering best practices: Knowledge of oral and written communication of neural engineering knowledge and research, and innovation. 3. Connections to neural engineering industry and careers: Knowledge of industry’s role in neural engineering, careers in neural engineering, and careers in neuroethics.Conceptual Framework The design of this RET program is guided by sociocultural theories of learning,including: cognitive apprenticeship [6]; situated learning [7], [8]; distributed expertise [9], [10];and
mathematics andscience courses. They further add that these types of curricular reforms are already beingimplemented in some middle schools, are providing opportunities for students to see real lifeapplications of theoretical knowledge acquired in mathematics, physics and other subjects, andare exposing to opportunities in the engineering professions. Godwin et al.18 suggestimplementing the NGSS (Next Generation Science Standards), which explicitly includespractices and core ideas from engineering and technology to develop appropriate identities ofstudents, which can guide them in choosing and performing in their engineering careers. Martin et al. suggest mentoring students pro-actively19. Murphy et al. underline the needfor proactive
howwomen consider leaving a job and in some cases, exit engineering altogether. A 'chilly' climatehas often been implicated as a primary or contributing reason for these exit decisions and hasbeen classified in the literature under such descriptors as a hostile or macho work culture,mysterious pathways to career advancement, and extreme work pressures. This study expands onthese previous studies by (a) emphasizing the engineering workplace experiences of millennialsin order to understand whether these chilly climate conditions have evolved over time or aretending to persist into the next generation; and (b) studying men as well as women to gain deeperinsight into which negative working conditions tend to occur across gender and which may begender
explore the predictiverelationships between our constructs and help institutions create strategies for the success of boththeir graduate students and their faculty.IntroductionPositive self-efficacy expectations, a person’s beliefs in their abilities to achieve their goals, havebeen shown to be essential to academic persistence and professional success [1], [2]. As such, inefforts to stave off attrition from graduate programs, engineering graduate students’ self-efficacyin the academic and research domains have received much attention from researchers [3], [4]. Inrecognizing that a students’ self-efficacy is influenced by environmental factors outside of theircontrol, the Social Cognitive Career Theory (SCCT) posits that a student’s career and
Program help with the matriculation of becoming an independent scholar (e.g., grant writing, self-efficacy, professor)?Literature Review The postdoctoral to professorate pathway has become a notable means of transition forgraduate students moving to faculty positions, however many of these scholars face structuraland interpersonal challenges as they navigate the transition to faculty positions (Rybarczyk et al.,2016). Studies have identified that the structural challenges postdocs face are due to a lack ofsupport from their institution in terms of career development and interpersonal struggles withfeeling exploited for low-cost labor (Rohn, 2011; Times Higher Education, 2012). A solutionposed, according to Sigma Xi Postdoc survey
their professional abilities and, ultimately, the engineering sector of the economy.Undergraduate research experience in particular is important because it develops keycomplementary skills needed for further research, alongside technical competencies.Experiencing research at the undergraduate level is correlated with positive post-graduationoutcomes, including effective speaking, understanding scientific findings, analyzing literature,and having clear career goals [2]. It also promotes three key graduate attributes required of allCanadian engineering students: communication, teamwork, and leadership [3]. Undergraduateresearchers are also more likely to intend to pursue a graduate or professional program inscience, technology, engineering or
eligible. A studentis considered academically disadvantaged if the student graduates from a Washington State highschool where 30% or more of its students are receiving free or reduced-price lunch. Uponadmission to the WSU STARS program, students have access to individual mentoring, intrusiveadvising, a community of engineering students, specialized courses, and mathematics, physics,and chemistry tutoring. Each aspect of the program layers the foundation of success in academicperformance and career preparation.WSU STARS accepts a maximum of 32 students each academic year. During the first threeyears of the program, recruitment began in May after Pell Grant eligibility information wasreleased and largely took place in the summer months when students
engineering ethics, researchin an academic setting, and graduate education opportunities and application process. Thefreshman year programs implemented showed success in recruiting students for the S-STEMprogram, and can serve as a model for other undergraduate programs looking to enrich theexperiences of their undergraduates by providing a comprehensive, supportive, and career-relevant environment inside and outside of the classroom.1. IntroductionEngineering education is constantly evolving and changing to meet the current and projectedneeds of the engineering profession. In 2010 1 the National Society of Professional Engineers(NSPE) released a position statement proposing additional undergraduate engineering outcomes:Leadership, Risk and
program of note because it is the secondmost chosen career path by Latinas/os in the sciences, and one that many Latina/o studentsdenote as prestigious or synonymous to being called a doctor6. Yet, Latinas/os remainunderrepresented in engineering. This paper aimed to address the problem of underrepresentationin engineering for Latina/o engineering students via a study of engineering identity that isgrounded on the Latina/o student experience. This study was guided by the following researchquestion: In what ways does membership in the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineersinfluence the engineering identity development of Latina and Latino students? Literature Review Latinas/os are a growing
for whom this program would betransformative in their personal lives and academic careers. These students are generallyidentified early in high school (if not in middle school) as high-potential scholars for whomaccess to opportunities like this STEM program are not common in their own school orcommunity centers. Effectively, the academic and social characteristics of each section aredesigned through this admissions process.Section instructors are asked to recruit teaching assistants for their projects with a target of oneTA per 4-5 high school students where classes ranges in size between 16 and 25. This class sizeis dependent on room size and/or laboratory capacity. These TA’s are drawn almost entirelyfrom the undergraduate engineering
, the study seeks to identify the factorscontributing to the gender imbalance and propose strategies to address the issue effectively.More specifically, the study addresses the following two research questions: 1. According to women faculty, what factors contribute to persistent gender disparity in engineering faculty in Ethiopian engineering colleges? 2. What strategies and interventions can be implemented to address the persistent gender disparity in engineering faculty and women's career advancement in engineering fields?This study's significance lies in informing Ethiopian policy and decision-makers within thehigher education systems. Highlighting the gender disparities among the engineering faculty atBule Hora University
EngineeringAbstractThe Construction industry is a dynamic, demanding, and challenging workplace for the recentengineering graduates entering the workforce. The construction industry is evolving asglobalization continues to generate transformation in the industries. Therefore, educationinstitutions must evaluate and implement the changes in the curriculum that provide the industrywith a skilled workforce. Work-life Balance (WLB) has become a challenge to the industry asthe next generation understands that having WLB is a priority in their career. This study focuseson understanding the work-life balance's influence on the Millennium generation entering theworkforce. A survey was provided to 161 university students in the construction industry, andthe results
benefits of the ACCESS program to students’ education and futureprofessional careers.1. IntroductionCybersecurity is of vital importance for protecting individuals, businesses, and governmentinstitutions from cyber threats. Furthermore, strong cybersecurity is essential for ensuringuninterrupted work of the critical infrastructure and the national security. However, there is ahuge unmet need for cybersecurity experts in the U.S. According to cyberseek.org, nationwidethere are over 755,700 open positions for different cybersecurity career pathways, which is asignificant increase from 597,700 open positions one year ago [1]. The Bureau of LaborStatistics projects that the employment of information security analysts, which is one of thecybersecurity