and salary for non‐administrative functions of center staff (training mentors or conducting evaluations for example). Our center manages compliance with our child safety policy including child safety training and fingerprinting and background checks. Our center coordinates outreach scheduling based on both K‐12 and lab schedules. We check‐in annually with the PI, or more frequently depending on the outreach plan and budget, if the outreach is not going as planned, or we are not seeing expenses against the internal accounts as expected. Program evaluation—we’ll conduct pre and post surveys or other evaluation methods as planned in proposal and share with faculty for their annual NSF reports
evaluator help you with interpreting results and furthering your DEI project?Plan for the Workshop session:Introduction of speakers and expectations for the session (5 minutes) a. Recognition of Native Land: “We are gathered today on the occupied territory of the Pamunkey and Piscataway people, who have stewarded this land for generations.” b. Introduction of speakers and attendees: Names, pronouns c. Open with a brief assessment of attendee’s experience in working with evaluators. i. Ask for a show of hands: Who has never worked with evaluator? Who has had bad experiences with an evaluator? Who has had good experiences with an evaluator? Who
vary with respect to first-year engineering structure, content, andtiming describe their experience participating in engineering communities of practice and theiremerging engineering identities?” Data is being collected through a baseline survey of first-yearengineering students, three-phase interviews with students following their FYE courses, andfocus groups with FYE instructional staff. This executive summary and poster focus on thelongitudinal memos which have assisted in our ongoing analysis of participant interviews.Additional details regarding work completed to date and future plans are also discussed.Theoretical LensFor this work, identity and community are conceptualized using Wenger’s Community ofPractice [5]. We conceptualize
problem where they can effectchange. Through this work, the student will review possible remedial actions and determinewhich are viable relative to social, cultural and economic resources.To facilitate the community engagement and input, a consulting model is utilized. The consultingmodel takes into account the client’s perspective of the issues at hand and integrates the clientinto the conversation from the beginning of the process. Similarly, the client is consulted atvarying points of the project to ensure that the project and the resulting product will meet theirneeds. Contingency planning and risk calculation are also part of the learning of objectives of theconsulting approach. In addition, lessons in documentation and community
to take the test at all. While the spatial skills test was apart of the course grade for the freshmen classes, seniors were offered extra credit for simplycompleting the test. In future years, we plan to further incentivize the seniors to put forward theirbest effort by presenting the activity as a friendly competition between the freshmen and seniorclasses. We also plan to reach out to students beyond just the Mechanical and Civil Engineeringdepartments.Lastly, all four data points consisted of different populations of students. We plan to complete alongitudinal study with one-to-one tracking of students to yield more reliable results.Additionally, the two senior classes did not have the benefit of a spatial skills intervention intheir
low-income families, we have implementeddiverse support programs, including co-curricular and outreach activities. These initiatives weremade possible through the NSF’s S-STEM grant, awarded to us in August 2022. The project aimsto prepare talented minority and underrepresented students to successfully enter computing-relatedworkforce or graduate program to meet local and national needs, which would be also helpful forincreasing the diversity of computing field. The purpose of this paper is to spotlight our ongoingefforts, provide an overview of the outcomes achieved through these initiatives, and outline ourforthcoming plans for continued support and enhancement.Program Description and Supporting ActivitiesOur S-STEM program aims to empower
tenets. First, change and healing in any system beginwith the individuals in the system changing and healing through reexamining assumptionsand mental models, including beliefs and values. Second, since individuals make up asystem and culture, as individuals change, heal, and re-engage, the system will alsochange and heal. Evidence suggests that a change process that begins with individuals’mental models—especially leaders’ [7]—and that accounts for emotions and desires [8], iseffective to successfully bring forth change in an organization.Initial StepsAs fundamental culture change is a difficult and involved process, the first year of the granthas largely focused on planning and logistics to build the foundation for a successfultransformation
skills and an interdisciplinaryfocus, such educational experiences have deeper and more meaningful effects. Our MontclairState University NSF Research Experience for Teachers (RET) grant (NSF Award Number:#2206885, IRB Number: 22-23-3003) exposed teachers to a program integrating solar weather,data science, computer science and artificial intelligence, and STEM pedagogy. The cohortcomprised nine middle- and high-school teachers with diverse academic backgrounds anddemographics from northern and central New Jersey. The teachers interacted with and wereadvised by faculty from Montclair and two other institutions, and by outside experts, to learn thebasics, develop lesson plans, and present these to and interact with a learning-intensive summercamp
steps or ‘domains’ of academic research which wecategorized as: exploration, planning, execution, interpretation, and dissemination. The KSO-based survey had 18 questions asking students to rate their ability to perform various sub-activities within the exploration, planning, execution, interpretation, and dissemination researchdomains on a five-point likert scale (Table 1 below). A Qualtrics online survey was sent tostudents enrolled in these classes, taken before and after participating in any CURE-relatedactivities. The 18-question survey asked students to rank their perceived ability to performvarious research tasks related to the five research domains using the Likert scale: 1 - Very Poor,Poor, Fair, Good, or Very Good.Survey validation
education, with specific attention to first-generation college students, low-income and immigrant populations. He loves running, books, anime, traveling, and food, especially when he gets to do it in the company of his husband Tommy and those he meets along the way!Dr. David B Knight, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University David Knight is a Professor in the Department of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech and also serves as Special Assistant to the Dean for Strategic Plan Implementation in the College of Engineering. His research tends to be at the macro-scale, focused on a systems-level perspective of how engineering educa- tion can become more effective, efficient, and inclusive, and considers the
the experience of Black engineering students? Respond at poll below. PollEv.com/rarejusticeHere, we’ll open with an interactive activity. This will be an opportunity to help theaudience become familiar with the types of activities adopted by the center toinstigate thought, dialogue, reflection and vision forward. This activity and theresulting conversation will not last more than 5 minutes of the session. 2 Session Plan § Role call & kickoff activity
surveys from the Graduate Student Experience in the Research University (gradSERU)online service. The fellows recognized several gaps in Purdue’s graduate mentoring experiencethat needed to be addressed: an engineering-specific individual development plan (IDP), surveysof faculty members, and educating students about taboo mentorship topics.An IDP was created for PhD or master’s students in the College of Engineering. The document isintended to guide students through four steps: a skillset self-assessment, goals for Year 1 ofgraduate school, a meeting between student and advisor, and progress updates after the first year.The IDP was published on the university website and distributed among the engineeringdepartments in August 2022 and has since
competition in detail, including goals,implementation, and challenges. The paper also discusses the challenges introduced by theCOVID pandemic and how the event was moved to a virtual platform to ensure social distancing.Finally, lessons learned and future plans are presented. IntroductionIt is currently well understood that team competitions are an important component of engineeringeducation1-3 and support education in teaming, communications, leadership, design and open-ended problem solving. While classroom and laboratory learning are the backbone of engineeringeducation, extracurricular competitions, especially those that involve teaming, are an excellentway to augment learning. Not only does competition
AccreditationCommission (ETAC) criteria and construction engineering programs at 27 institutions using itsEngineering Accreditation Commission (EAC) criteria [3].Clearly, construction management remains intertwined with engineering. This connection cannotbe ignored or discounted when studying the “supply” of construction managers. The Bureau ofLabor and Statistics (BLS) defines a construction manager as someone who “plan[s],coordinate[s], budget[s], and supervise[s] construction projects from start to finish” in theOccupational Outlook Handbook (OOH) [1]. The work of construction management (planning,coordinating, budgeting, and supervising) involves solving problems whether those problems arebefore the start of construction (planning and budgeting), during
teachingpractices. Fellows also participate in workshops to prepare inclusive teaching philosophies andlearn to create lesson plans that are aligned with the mission of their institution and incompliance with the curricular or subject plans. The deliverables are submitted for review andfeedback from the faculty mentors and the Aspire lead team. At the end of the semester, fellowssubmit a teaching portfolio as evidence of completion and participate in a closing ceremony inwhich the fellows and their mentors are recognized.IV. Similarities and Differences between RC Collaborative modelsSimilarities:Each of the two Texas RC collaboratives includes two universities; one of them is a largeresearch-intensive in an urban setting while the other is a comprehensive
urbanplanning method. These approaches shift the power relationships traditionally established ininterview settings and allowed student participants to shape the direction of their interviews andstorytelling.In this paper, we first describe the central ethical and justice challenges to soliciting andengaging BIPOC students in research about their experiences. After describing the goals of thestudy, we explain two key strategies that allowed us to address these challenges in our datacollection: 1) Use of boundary objects to elicit participants narratives, and 2) the integration ofparticipatory urban planning methods.We show sample data sets to explain the ways our methods provided opportunities to learn morefrom students, to gain a comprehensive
participatingin and delivering high-performance sustainable infrastructure projects. Finally, this study wouldbe valuable for implementing SI and enhancing the project management skills of the future AECworkforce.BackgroundSustainable infrastructures (SI) must be planned, built, and maintained carefully to fulfill theirintended function due to their complex design and construction. Such complex projects typicallyinvolve a wide range of stakeholders. These stakeholders hold diverse roles and responsibilitiesincluding setting the project's parameters and performance standards to running and maintainingthe finished infrastructure, all of which vary as the project progresses [1]. The path to sustainablegoals, which might include zero energy, zero carbon, and
, 2023 Robotics Empowered Convergence Engineering Education He Shen, Aren Petrossian, Joseph Vizcarra, Eva Schiorring, Mark TufenkjianAbstract: This paper presents the design and first-time offering of a convergence engineering course,“Introduction to Autonomous Robotic Systems,” where students from four engineering majors worked ininterdisciplinary teams to create submarine robots and accomplish complex autonomous missions. Thetechnical knowledge covered in the course included: robot design, mechanical analysis, sensing andactuation, electrical system design, guidance, navigation, control, robot operating system, computer vision,object recognition, and mission planning. The students are engaged in a whole project cycle within
bachelordegree program within the four year timeframe and a lower likelihood of taking more than fouryears to complete the degree, female minority STEM students had the highest percentage of dropor stop attending rates. These findings offer some initial insight into the challenges faced by female minoritystudents in STEM fields in terms of degree completion and retention. This analysis marks thebeginning of a journey to understand their experiences, and plans are in progress for the nextphase of this study, which is scheduled for the fall 2023 semester. The next phase will focus onidentifying the barriers that these students face and will include activities aimed at improvingtheir confidence, preparedness and sense of belonging. Section 6.0
’ assessment of the climatewithin the first-year engineering experience. In this paper, findings from the second year ofpiloting our workshops are described. In this second iteration of training, new teaching assistantsparticipated in our foundational training in GIDBEA, and returning ones built on theirintroductory knowledge to learn about social justice and principles of inclusive leadership. Thedata shows that most of the teaching assistants found the workshop content and activitiesrelevant to them as peer educators. Several teaching assistants shared inclusive leadershipstrategies that they planned to implement in the coming semester. The goal of this study is toinform plans for implementing solutions into training that address deficiencies
resultsshowed higher student success with writing-intensive courses in developing critical writing skillsin a construction management course [2]. Challenges of developing writing skills amongundergraduate STEM curricula are addressed by Mayo and Wheaton [3] who state that writingassignments can be developed such that they assist students in connecting their technical work toreal-world applications. In their lesson plan, the students were expected to post their work on apublic platform encouraging students to produce quality work. Richards and Milanovicestablished partnerships with professional writing faculty, industry members and technicalcourse instructors to mentor senior design project students in effective writing through pairedteaching [4]. In a
provided was in the area of structural engineering. Nine students were selected toparticipate in the Site; four students selected were from institutions outside Cincinnati, and five wereselected from UC. These included three women, one Native American male, one Hispanic male, oneAfrican American male, and three white American male students, and each group worked on a separateproject during the two summer months. Each group were supervised by the Project Director (author)and a Faculty Mentor, one Graduate Student Mentor (Research Assistant), and a Lab Technicianduring the complete duration of the REU Site. The whole research program was planned and conducted,the details of the projects selected for the students, and procedures were used to evaluate
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at California State University, Fullerton (CSUF). Her research interests include traffic flow modeling, statistical methods for transportation data analysis, and sustainable transportation planning. Her work has been published in several peer-reviewed journal publications and conference papers, and presented at numerous academic conferences. Dr. Reina has also served as an advisor of undergraduate research and applied projects such as those conducted by the student chapter of the Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) and awardees of the Dwight David Eisenhower Transportation Fellowship. American c Society
. ➢ Integrate ethical considerations from the outset. 3.4 Ethical implications ➢ Collaborate with ethics committees and external experts. Legal and regulatory ➢ Work closely with legal experts to ensure compliance. 3.5 compliance ➢ Conduct legal reviews and obtain necessary approvals. ➢ Ensure effective resource allocation. 3.6 Resource constraints ➢ Prioritize tasks to meet project goals within constraints. Performance and ➢ Manage computational resources efficiently. 3.7 scalability ➢ Plan for scalability to handle large volumes of data. Team
therefore benefit immensely from theInstitute’s activities. Parents, Guardians, and School Counselors are urged to encourage theirchildren, wards and advisees to apply. Minority and female students are strongly encouraged toapply.Program AdministrationRecruitment and Student Selection ProceduresThe Project Team uses the following plans to recruit students for the Institute: visitation toschools, youth groups and churches, Newspaper & Newsletter publications, emails and letters,Personal contacts/Word of Mouth, Town Hall Meetings and Flyers. The Institute also puts updisplays at local STEM related competitions and workshops. In addition, recruitment materialsare mailed to middle schools, parents, individuals, and alumni of the Institute. Also a
develop and establish mentoring plans without any formal training in how to beeffective mentors. Since the start of this initiative, over 300 faculty, postdoctoral associates and graduatestudents have been trained on promising practices, strategies, and tools to enhance their research mentoringexperiences. In addition to formal mentor training, opportunities to foster a community of practice withcurrent mentors and past mentor training participants (sage mentors) were provided. During theseinteractions, promising mentoring practices were shared to benefit the mentors and the different mentoringpopulations that the EFRI-REMs serve. The community of practice connected a diverse group of institutionsand faculty to help the EFRI-REM community in its
evaluate main project and Quick- 1Build submissions, we developed a rubric with categories spanning the steps in the engineeringdesign process. Accuracy, reliability, and ease of implementation were considered when designingthe rubric.Compared to other high school engineering programs that offer sequential engineering courses,our proposed curriculum is unique in that it offers students an opportunity to learn about differentengineering disciplines, teamwork, time management, project management, planning, execution,and evaluation via a project-based learning environment [12-13]. During the semester, studentssimultaneously work on long term and short
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 Years Figure 3 - Number of years until tenure-track participants can apply for tenure (n=21)TeachingA teaching portfolio has many elements in common with the teaching section of a tenureportfolio, and in many cases, they are the same. At my university, the teaching section doesresemble a teaching portfolio. As such, all new faculty are provided a copy of The TeachingPortfolio by Peter Seldin, J. Elizabeth Miller, and Clement A. Seldin.5 The authors5 provide thefollowing steps for creating a teaching portfolio: 1. Planning, identify
UniversityMatilde Luz Sanchez-Pena, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering) Matilde Sanchez-Pena is a first year PhD student in the Engineering Education program at Purdue Uni- versity. Her research interests are diversity in engineering, education policy making and the effective teaching of statistics in engineering.Dr. Joyce B. Main, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering) Joyce B. Main is Assistant Professor of Engineering Education at Purdue University. She holds a Ph.D. in Learning, Teaching, and Social Policy from Cornell University, and an Ed.M. in Administration, Planning, and Social Policy from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.Dr. Ebony Omotola McGee, Vanderbilt University
. Thereflective comprehensive report challenges students to evaluate themselves against a benchmarkstudent—referred to as a "world-class" engineering student—based on the following objectives:1. Goal setting a. Setting your goal(s) i.e., major, time to graduation, GPA b. Strengthening and clarifying your commitment to your goal(s) c. Setting up a ‘Road Map’ – a plan to guide you over the next years to graduation d. Understanding the essence of engineering2. Community building a. Building relationships, and making effective use of your peers (help-seeking) b. Participating in co-curricular activities3. Academic development a. Navigating the university system, resources, and academic advising b