manufacturing, biomechanics, and other areas.Therefore, undergraduate BME students need intensive practical training on biomedical toolsand equipment to adequately prepare them for industrial careers. It is expected that upongraduation, most students would seek opportunities in industry [1]. Laboratories offer therequired real-world experience that is reported to significantly impact students’ learningexperience when integrated into the engineering curriculum [2].However, the use of physical laboratories comes with high monetary implications forinstitutions in terms of equipment acquisition, equipment maintenance, and staffingrequirements, especially in a rapidly evolving field like BME. Despite these challenges, thereremains an increasing industrial
University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana in 1990 and 1999, respectively. He taught at The United States Military Academy during his 25 year military career. After retiring form the military he has taught at the University of Texas at Tyler and The Citadel, where he was the Dean of Engineering for 10 years.Dr. Nahid Vesali, P.E., Pennsylvania State University Dr. Nahid Vesali is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Engineering Leadership and Program Management (ELPM) in the School of Engineering (SOE) at The Citadel. She joined the program in Aug 2020. She teaches project management, technical planning ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 From Need Assessment to Accreditation
University of Ulm (Ger- many, 2007-2010) and then an Associate Research Scholar at Princeton (2010-2013). His group’s research interests are in development and application of computational chemistry toward basic and applied studies for renewable energy and sustainability, and in 2017 he received and NSF-CAREER award. He also has interests in curriculum development for enhancing access to engineering curricula, and he currently serves on his school-wide DEI advisory committee.Dr. David V.P. Sanchez, University of Pittsburgh David V.P. Sanchez is an Associate Professor in the Swanson School of Engineering’s Civil & Envi- ronmental Engineering department and the Associate Director for the Mascaro Center for Sustainable
allocation algorithm and his work as program manager of the Cornell RoboFlag program, withnotable applications including AFRL UAV controls and NASA/NOAA unmanned boat designs. Asidefrom his work at Cornell, David also values his time dedicated to this area while at NASA Goddard as ateam lead in Code 88 Advanced Automations & Architectures.Most of David’s career at Cornell has focused on collaborative projects and research with industry, oreven in support of Cornell initiatives. Some of David’s favorites include:* Remote Occupancy Sensing HVAC controls system with M.E. Engineers Architectural consulting firmas well as recently Blackstone’s $448,000,000,000 Global Real Estate Portfolio * Sunn Hybrid LightingProject sighted as a top project in the
-income communities, with an emphasis on water and sanitation. Prof. Louis holds a BSc. In Chemical Engineer- ing from Howard University, MSc. in Chemical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and a PhD in Engineering and Public Policy from Carnegie Mellon University. He received the 2000 Presiden- tial Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers from the National Science Foundation, is a 2006-7 AAAS Energy Environment and Natural Resources Fellow, a 2014 Design and Health Faculty Fellow at the University of Virginia, and a 2015 Jefferson Science Fellow as Science Advisor to the Office of Global Food Security at the U.S. Department of State. Prof Louis is a Fulbright Specialist in Environment &
many kids get in their freshman year of college.Here Pam expresses the instrumental social capital that comes from participating in the cohortprogram. She shows that the program provided an opportunity to build a relationship with thefourth author. By creating that connection, the fourth author was able to encourage the student topursue extracurricular opportunities like joining the professional engineering organizationSociety of Women Engineers and traveling to their annual conference. She also shared that thesecond author provided instrumental social capital by sharing her career experiences.A required aspect of the cohort program was attendance at two required seminars and four choiceactivities on campus, ranging from career fairs to
Education, 2023 Analysis of Qualifications for Entry-Level Positions in Construction ManagementConstruction management graduates must possess a mixture of technical, soft, and technologicalskills in order to fulfill their job responsibilities as a project engineer, estimator, field engineer,etc. at the start of their career. There is a lack of information on the exact skills that are requiredof a recent graduate to occupy these entry-level positions in the construction industry. This studyanalyzed job listings in order to understand most common qualifications expected of graduatesand their most common responsibilities in construction. The researchers qualitatively analyzed agroup of 40 companies that
activities, lives, and careers. So, theimmediate response to these essentials: ✓ Directing more effort to enhancing informed decision making on technological issues [1]. ✓ Enhancing informed decisions furthers social justice and the common good [1]. ✓ [Technological and engineering] decision making can be interpreted broadly [1].is a qualified yes … yes, we are doing them … though aside from visible curriculum elements inthose institutions that have adopted technological and engineering literacy in their academics, theeffectiveness and discernability of the work of the division is just not in a way that is formallyand measurably discernable.So, what should we do; why should what we do be taken seriously; how can a uniformtechnological literacy
inestablishing standards for quality engineering education and accredits programs that demonstratetheir commitment to meeting these standards. We believe that the PV project is a testament to our ECE program’s dedication to providingstudents with a well-rounded education. Not only does this project enhance the quality of thecourse, but it also shows the program’s commitment to providing students with an education thatis both rigorous and relevant to their future careers. We address a few ABET impacts below: 1. Students The renewable-energy project provided students with hands-on experience in designing, building, and testing real-world applications of renewable energy technology. It
isresponsible for monitoring all departments. The Vice Provost for Graduate Studieshas less influence on undergraduate programs and accreditation, but plays animportant role in supporting undergraduate and graduate programs, and in improvingand supporting pathways to intellectual learning for students with career potential.The Vice Provost for Academic Affairs supports course evaluations, learning outcomeevaluations, surveys, and other aspects of course quality control, and works withdepartment chairs to ensure teaching excellence. The dean responsible forundergraduate study is mainly responsible for the quality and effectiveness ofundergraduate programs, cares about the vital interests of teachers and students, andguides the development of new
withinmovement building, an emergent line of research has turned to social movement schools (SMSs):organizational sites designed to bring together, educate, train and mentor individuals to beeffective and committed movement actors [6]. These intentional spaces empower theirparticipants to enact change [4], impact participants’ subsequent careers [7] and lead to thediffusion of a movement praxis across generations [5]. However, this literature has so faroverlooked the resource mobilization processes through which participants build the capacity forchange-making. This gap is important, because accessing, producing, and distributing resourcesare key to the survival and success of social movements [8], [9].Resource mobilization theory emphasizes the
core content areas when compared to entrepreneurship programsin higher education, that are often isolated to Business programs. For example, Rodriguez andLieber (2020) talk about the ways that high school programs that provided students with hands-on experiences working with small businesses were successful in developing entrepreneurialmindsets, competencies, and desires. They write: “Students in entrepreneurship educationshowed an overall statistically significant increase in entrepreneurial mindset, specifically incommunication and collaboration, opportunity recognition, and critical thinking and problem-solving. Moreover, there was a positive association between entrepreneurial mindset gains andperceptions of future career success.” (p, 87
Academia as a Minority Gender: A seminar featuring a faculty member from the Grainger College of Engineering, and one of the first female faculty to be hired in her department, was held. Students were invited to have cookies and coffee while they learned about the trials and tribulations of navigating academia as a woman. This was an opportunity for graduate students to visualize their own careers as future academics and scientists. Attendees also received engineering seminar credit for the event. This event targeted the ‘advice and support’ intervention. 5. Implicit Bias and Microaggressions Workshop: A workshop on implicit bias and how to recognize and respond to microaggressions in the workplace was conducted by
current hinted at but never explicitly named that gavestudents an incredibly strong sense of belonging. What I am referring to is the historical ortemporal aspect of belonging. Many of the traditional constructs are acute or snapshots of whatbelonging is at that moment in time. But what became clear through the interviews was thatmany of these students felt they belonged long before beginning their higher education journey,even though they had just begun their engineering career. This was especially prevalent in thetraditional engineering students, i.e. (white males) and was clearly contrasted when looking atthose traditionally minoritized. When Chad was asked to reflect on her engineering journey sofar, she began by describing. “I have my
Student Mentor Award in 2018, and was inducted into the Virginia Tech Academy of Faculty Leadership in 2020. Dr. Matusovich has been a PI/Co-PI on 19 funded research projects including the NSF CAREER Award, with her share of funding being nearly $3 million. She has co-authored 2 book chapters, 34 journal publications, and more than 80 conference papers. She is recognized for her research and teaching, including Dean’s Awards for Outstanding New Faculty, Outstanding Teacher Award, and a Faculty Fellow. Dr. Matusovich has served the Educational Research and Methods (ERM) division of ASEE in many capacities over the past 10+ years including serving as Chair from 2017-2019. Dr. Matusovich is currently the Editor-in-Chief
tools for learning and practice (textbooks, homework, projects, etc.) and evaluations ofmastery (midterms and finals). Though ineffective teachers were undesirable, successful studentsknew how to learn for themselves by reading the textbook, by notetaking from both book andlecture, by practice on homework and projects, and by mutual sharpening through work withother students. Their undergraduate professors provided the “intervention of a single coherentand personal authority to direct the [student’s] will at its beginning … for it to be self-directingafterword” [10]. The authority of the “sage on the stage” provided the influence and the will toobey that motivated developing engineers toward graduation and future careers. These
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).Marisela Martinez-Cola ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Work-in-Progress: Towards advancing grassroots transformative advocacy strategies for work justice of BIPOCx contingent
faculty member’s approach is thestrength, weaknesses, opportunities, and threat (SWOT) analysis, commonly used in strategicplanning and management [2]. The purpose of this analysis will be to provide recommendationsfor growth and best practices in administering verbal engineering exams, regardless of thespecific engineering course.BackgroundDo any general Google search on skills that an engineer needs in the workplace andcommunication will be on it, with a few examples cited here [3]–[5]. These communication skillsare not just important for students to succeed during their engineering education, but also in theirfuture careers, regardless of the industry [6]. Despite this importance, communication has beenflagged by engineers’ employers as a
internationally, STEM majors experience more attrition and longer times tograduate than other majors. The high rate of attrition has been documented from a public policystandpoint at various universities in the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, and SouthAfrica [1]. The cost of attrition is significant. Students who attrite are personally burdened by thecost of a partial education when the costs of college are rising [2] and by the loss of income froma lucrative STEM career. Socially, attrition of STEM majors reduces the size of the workforce ata time of high demand for skilled college graduates [3]. The cost of attrition is particularlydetrimental to underrepresented minority (URM) groups who attrite in larger numbers [4], and tothe diversity of
more interdisciplinary andnon-traditional approaches to engineering [33]. One quote that Omitoyin et al. [21] wrote sumsup this idea of how to drive participation and motivation in underrepresented groups is: “Therefore, it may be salient to align engineering course content with how students identify engineers: content that more closely aligns with improving the world, helping individuals, and solving problems” [21, p. 14].Looking to their future careers: Another theme that prevailed was how students seem to have aneye towards their future careers as motivation in their programs. For example, students are mostmotivated to participate in learning interventions and experiences that would make them moreemployable in the future
10, with an average number of 3 codes per excerpt.Across all student responses (among both cohorts) the most frequently occurring code wascommunication, followed by technical analysis/claims, and self-actualization.Table 1: Description of codes Code Description communication writing, delivering, formatting an oral and/or written report connection connection of topics from other courses with the laboratory, connection of laboratory course to the CHE discipline, one’s future career, or professional competencies equipment elements having to do with exposure to laboratory equipment (specific or general), including
Education, 2023Intersectionality Between Race and Gender in LSAMP-NSF STEM Program MentorshipAbstractRace and gender disparities exist in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM)fields, where their intersectionality promotes the greatest achievement gap. Minority students andfaculty are less represented in these fields. In engineering, especially, a hostile climate develops ifyou are a person with disabilities and/or non-cisgender and/or non-White man; and it is highlylikely that you will be part of a minority in the field. This can lead to stress, anxiety, and feelingsof isolation and hopelessness in a person’s academic and career pursuits. We researched if raceand gender affect the relationship
students it can be concluded that the students found thesoftware to be very useful, particularly for future applications in the highway engineering field. Studentsalso felt that the lab connected course materials to real world examples and practical applications. This isa very important feedback because if the students believe that the lab connected course materials to realworld examples and practical applications, it means that they are equipping themselves for a possiblehighway engineering career. The utilization of software like Civil 3D by highway/transportationengineering firms has been increasing for the past few years. Specifically, students will be well preparedfor creating new highway alignments, performing design checks for the highway
students to chooseengineering as a career. With an emphasis on smart and connected cities, the SCR2 programprovides summer research experiences (eight weeks for students and six weeks for teachers).This paper presents our learnings and insights of the program for the past four years withevaluation findings. There have been 116 students and 44 teachers who have successfullyparticipated. The research program was conducted on campus in 2019, but due to COVID-19, theprogram was conducted online in 2020. In 2021 and 2022, the program was redesigned to behybrid, and six host sites participated. Despite the changes in the program, students' prowess wasenhanced by their teamwork and engagement in the projects. The post-program survey raisedconcerns about
freshman, so I still went to career showcase even though no one’s going to hire a freshman, but I still show up. But I got to see a lot of people who kind of looked like me, who had similar experiences, and I got to talk to them which was kind of cool. So, it made me feel like, okay, this is great. This is totally feasible. I’m here, people have similar struggles, so I can definitely just ask them for help and move forward to the next step. Then post COVID, or while in COVID I was like, okay, so what happens now. So, you just kind of take it day by day while in COVID. But then post COVID, I think it was hard, trying to integrate back into society, even though I’m an extrovert, I was already comfortable
Impacts Phil Weilerstein is the President and CEO of VentureWell (formerly NCIIA). Phil began his career as an entrepreneur as a student at the University of Massachusetts. He and a team including his advisor launched a startup biotech company which ultimately weHope Liu ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Building a Framework to Understand the Impact of Entrepreneurship Support Programs on the Formation of EngineersIntroductionEntrepreneurship Support Programs (ESP) in engineering provide education,mentoring, and advising for emerging entrepreneurs and their ventures. The impact ofESPs on engineering students’ professional formation and the acquisition of
experience.Hsien-Yuan Hsu, University of Massachusetts Lowell Dr. Hsien-Yuan Hsu is an Assistant Professor in Research and Evaluation in the College of Education at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. Dr. Hsu received his PhD in Educational Psychology from Texas A&M University and has a background of statistics ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023A Systematic Review of Instruments Used to Evaluate the Effectiveness of the Entering Mentoring CurriculumAbstractMentorship has been shown to significantly impact students’ academic careers, research skills,productivity, mental health, and persistence in STEM fields. Recognizing this, many universitiesand research institutions
” of the course. a) Have new team member identify their “Big Rocks” b) Meet as a team to share and revise “Big Rocks”2) Share team values, organization, and processes3) Have new team member shadow classes4) Share material repository a) Course development documentation b) Syllabi, lectures, assignments, exams, activities c) Material from related courses5) Share logistical information a) Learning management site (e.g. Canvas, Blackboard) b) Consistency in grading between instructors, previous rubrics6) Help make connections with industry, guest speakers, university services (e.g., Student Advocacy and Disability Services, Technology Transfer Office, Career Services)7) Facilitate social events with new faculty
that utilize interdisciplinary approaches toward a better understanding of stem cell fate in the context of regenerative biomedical therapies. He is committed to the integration of research and education and has developed courses and programs that relate to entrepreneurship, service learning, and community engagement. He is an elected Fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE), an elected Fellow of BMES, and Past-President of the Institute of Biological Engineering (IBE). Awards and Honors include NSF-CAREER, Qimonda Professorship, Billingsley Professorship, IBE Presidential Citation for Distinguished Service, and University of Arkansas Honors College Distinguished
participated. It is recommendedthat, at a minimum, PDF versions of completion certificates be provided whenever possible.References [1] Norman, N., Robinson-Bryant, F., & Lin, Y. Examining adjunct faculty needs via adistance pedagogical framework in higher education. Journal of Higher Education Theory andPractice, 20(10), 113-122. 2020. [2] Wynants, Shelli and Dennis Jessica, "Professional Development in an Online Context:Opportunities and Challenges from the Voices of College Faculty," Journal of Educators Online,v15 n1 Jan 2018. [Online]. Available: https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ1168955.pdf [AccessedApril 10, 2023] [3] McCarthy, A.M. and Garavan, T.N. "360° feedback process: performance,improvement and employee career