Paper ID #18380Broadening Participation of Female Students in STEM: Significant Outcomesin Less Than One YearMs. Donna Milgram, Natl Inst for Women in Trades, Technology & Science (IWITTS) Donna Milgram is the Executive Director of the Institute for Women in Trades, Technology, and Science (IWITTS) and has been Principal Investigator on 5 National Science Foundation (NSF) grants – including the CalWomenTech Project, which was highlighted by the NSF for demonstrating significant achieve- ment and program effectiveness and chosen as one of three model projects in the U.S. by the American Association of University Women (AAUW
in higher and adult education. His research interests focus on how social capital is manifested in communities to support or negate educational attainment. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 WORK IN PROGRESS ADULT LEARNER PATHWAYS TO PROSPERITY THROUGH STEMIntroduction This work in progress is developing and implementing the Adult Learner Pathways toProsperity through STEM (ALPPS) research project. ALPPS is informed by evidenced-basedpractices to assist adult learners with navigating the process to return to college and earn acertificate or degree in STEM disciplines. The program targets adult learners in the DallasCounty, Texas metropolitan area
. I am a former member of Dallas Robotics Group at the Dallas Makerspace, and plan to enroll in the National Stem certification program. I have completed PLTW and Robotics and Automation certificate programs, and attended Ar- duino Project and Raspberry Pie. I have been a mentor for the College Readiness and Leadership Program (CRLP) with the goal of implementing student leadership in our school. In addition, I like to work with 3D printing and design, and am a member of Enabling Hand, a team that creates and assembles prosthetic arm designs.Dr. Sheng-Jen ”Tony” Hsieh, Texas A&M University Dr. Sheng-Jen (”Tony”) Hsieh is a Professor in the Dwight Look College of Engineering at Texas A&M University. He
, hiring and staffing restrictions, and need tocontinue to execute engineering projects, the electric utility company needed an innovativeworkforce development solution. It was critical that any support services solution address theirimmediate and long-term talent needs and scale up or down to meet future businessrequirements.Engineering Services ModelShortly after the restructuring in 2010, the electric utility company entered into a partnershipwith EASi. EASi’s solution to addressing the electric utility company’s workforce developmentchallenges in Ohio was to create a unique engineering support services model that incorporated atalent development pipeline.According to Mr. Castelino, the structure and approach of the solution were designed to
Paper ID #42109Board 185: ”Someone has Invested in Me to Do This”: Supporting Low-IncomeStudents to Persist in STEM Through a NSF S-STEM GrantDr. Rachel Funk, University of Nebraska, Lincoln Dr. Funk has served as a research scientist with the Center for Science, Mathematics, and Computer Education at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) since 2021. She specializes in research about student experiences. Dr. Funk currently serves as the project coordinator and lead researcher of a S-STEM grant seeking to better understand factors that influence the persistence of students in STEM.Jim Lewis, University of Nebraska
. Johnson Austin earned a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering from The Pennsylvania State University, a Master’s in Business Administration from the University of Notre Dame, and Doctor of Education in Organizational Change and Leadership from the University of Southern California. At the University of South Florida (USF) she leads the project coordination for the National Science Foundation Florida Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (FL-AGEP), a $2.4M award to Florida A&M University (with a subaward to USF and Virginia Tech), Bethune-Cookman University, Florida International, and Florida Memorial University. Also, Dr. Johnson Austin is the project coor- dinator and Co-Principal Investigator
. She primarily teaches thermal-fluid sciences as well as introductory and advanced design courses.Amelia Elizabeth Cook, Lipscomb University Amelia Cook is an undergraduate student in the Raymond B. Jones College of Engineering at Lipscomb University. Amelia is studying mechanical engineering and, following her graduation, will be starting her career in engineering consulting as an EIT. She is currently researching the connections of humanitarian engineering projects affecting views of diversity, inclusion, equity, and professional development.Lewis Ngwenya, Lipscomb University Lewis Ngwenya is an undergraduate student at Lipscomb University. He is studying electrical and com- puter engineering and plans to get some
Paper ID #32564WIP: Engaging Software Engineering Students in Synchronous andAsynchronous On-line CourseDr. Bruce R. Maxim, University of Michigan - Dearborn Bruce R. Maxim has worked as a software engineer, project manager, professor, author, and consultant for more than forty years. His research interests include software engineering, human computer interaction, game design, social media, artificial intelligence, and computer science education. Dr. Maxim is Professor of Computer and Information Science at the University of Michigan—Dearborn and the Nattu Natarajan Professor of Engineering. He established the GAME Lab in
complete over a dozen projects on four continents. Shall’s work in this arena has been disseminated widely, including presentations at Third and Fifth International Symposia On Service Learning In Higher Education, lectures at Brown University, the University of Maryland, and the New School for Design, publications by the AIA Press and the University of Indi- anapolis Press and exhibitions at the San Francisco Museum of Art in La Paz, Bolivia, the Sheldon Swope Museum of Art, the Goldstein Museum of Design, the Venice Architecture Biennale and MoMA. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Engineering Change: Addressing Need through Collaborative
Paper ID #23158Supporting Diversity in Teams Through Asset MappingDr. Jamie Gomez R, University of New Mexico Jamie Gomez, Ph.D., is a Lecturer Title III in the department of Chemical & Biological Engineering (CBE) at the University of New Mexico. She is a co- Principal Investigator for the National Science Foundation (NSF) funded Professional Formation of Engineers: Research Initiation in Engineering For- mation (PFE: RIEF) for the project- Using Digital Badging and Design Challenge Modules to Develop Professional Identity. She is a member of the department’s ABET and Undergraduate Curriculum Com- mittee, as
on projects and consulted for a number of private companies, including Lockheed Martin, Harris, and Boeing. Zalewski served as a chairman of the International Federation for Information Processing Working Group 5.4 on Industrial Software Quality, and of an International Federation of Automatic Control Technical Committee on Safety of Computer Control Systems. His major research interests include safety related, real-time embedded and cyberphysical computer systems, and computing education. Page 26.769.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015
Center for Entrepreneurship California State University, Fullerton Pradeep Nair Computer Engineering Program California State University, Fullerton Amy Cox-Petersen Elementary and Bilingual Education Department California State University, FullertonUsing Business Entrepreneurship Practices to Engage Middle School Students in STEM Learning: Three Years PerspectiveAbstractSTEM-Inc is a 3-year NSF ITEST project designed as an after-school program targeting 7th and8th grade students from traditionally underrepresented groups. This project created a
management projects. She works extensively with food banks and food pantries on supply chain management and logistics focused initiatives. Her graduate and undergraduate students are integral part of her service-learning based logistics classes. She teaches courses in strategic relationships among industrial distributors and distribution logistics. Her recent research focuses on engineering education and learning sciences with a focus on how to engage students better to prepare their minds for the future. Her other research interests include empirical studies to assess impact of good supply chain practices such as coordinated decision making in stochastic supply chains, handling supply chains during times of crisis and
clusters, one of which is clean energy. Inone state, this is due in part to the 2008 Global Warming Solutions Act (GWSA), whichmandates that greenhouse gases be reduced in the state to 25% below 1990 levels by 2020, and80% by 2050 [1]. To address the growing need for investment in job creation, a privateuniversity, an urban high school, and an industry partner collaborated to create a program forhigh schoolers to instill excitement in this growing field. Specifically, this program addressesthe increasing need for a diverse and highly skilled STEM (Science, Technology, Engineeringand Math) workforce with a focus on Clean Energy. The program was designed to: ● Offer an introductory engineering design course which used project-based learning
Paper ID #32395Lessons Learned Developing and Running a Virtual, Faculty-Led,International Program on Sustainable Energy in BrazilDr. Courtney Pfluger, Northeastern University Dr. Courtney Pfluger an Associate Teaching Professor at Northeastern University in the College of Engi- neering. In 2011, she joined Northeastern as a teaching professor in the First Year Engineering program. As part of the First Year Engineering faculty she focusing on curriculum innovations and implementing educational lessons and engineering design projects on sustainability. In 2017, she moved full time into the Chemical Engineering department
ofenrollment and graduation, U.S. institutions will fall short of producing the needed HPCprofessionals [6]. Worse yet, groups largely untapped by this field, women and minorities,make up a significant portion of the nation’s growing talent pool [7], but are extremelyunderrepresented in HPC related disciplines.A Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Site is an important mechanism to combatthe shortage of HPC professionals. The REU program by the U.S. National ScienceFoundation (NSF) supports active research participation by undergraduate students in any ofthe areas of research funded by the NSF. REU projects involve students in meaningful ways inongoing research programs or in research projects specifically designed for the REU program.As one
the course as a one-credit seminar two times during 2016 to ~40 students from diverse academicdisciplines, personal interests and backgrounds, including many with no prior background with computerprogramming or electronics. We used the Arduino computing platform [7] combined with programmablelight-emitting-diode (LED) lighting technology and encouraged students to design and build projects thatexpressed some aspect of identity. An example project, shown in Fig. 1, is a wearable light-up pin that showsthe colors of the pride flag (ROYGBV) or the pansexual flag (pink, yellow, blue); the process of creating this pin provided opportunities to focus discussion on identity and
engineering students participating in virtual team projects was used in theanalysis. Results from the analysis are presented suggesting a statistically significant impact ofthe intervention on self-management skills when comparing randomly assigned teams with andwithout the intervention. The intervention is designed to be scalable so that it can be embeddedinto existing project-based courses. Our findings have important implications for thedevelopment of teamwork skills in engineering courses and provide evidence of a successfulstrategy that can be integrated into the existing engineering curriculum.KeywordsVirtual teams, team effectiveness, information and communication technologies, engineeringeducation, collaborative learningIntroductionThe
and Technical College with responsibility for guiding the College’s strategic planning process and developing and administering grant projects. Over the past five years, Dr. Reutter has secured more than $20 million in grant funds for the college. Previously, he served as Dean of Instruction for two Alabama community colleges and also taught computer science classes for over 28 years at various colleges and universities in California and Alabama. He is a Senior Fellow of the IEEE Society and the founder of two Silicon Valley software companies. Dr. Reutter began employment at Drake State in 2006 as Dean of Instruction and assisted the President in spearheading the campus efforts to achieve regional accreditation
multiple research projects that involve transdisciplinary collaborations in the field of engineering, medicine, and technology, as well as research on teacher preparation and the conducting of evidence-based practices in multiple contexts. Jennifer’s publications appear in the Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, Review Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, Focus on Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities, and Journal of Science Education for Students with Disabilities. Before joining the CTE, Jennifer was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Special Education at Towson University. Prior to joining higher education, she was a special education teacher at the Kennedy Krieger School
, ASME, and IEEE. He is also the Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Components, Packaging, and Manufacturing Technology and International Journal of Rapid Manufacturing.Dr. George Chitiyo, Tennessee Technological University George Chitiyo is a Professor of Educational Research and Evaluation at Tennessee Tech University. He teaches courses in research methods, statistics, and program evaluation. He is involved in designing and implementing evaluation initiatives of different types of educational programs and interventions in PreK-12 and higher education settings. His evaluation work includes projects in Advanced Technological Education (ATE), STEM education programs, and health related research.Ms. Mel Cossette
c Society for Engineering Education, 2021Online COVERAGE (Competition Of VEX Educational Robotics to Advance Girls Education) (Research-to-Practice, Strand: Other)IntroductionThe major objective of the COVERAGE (Competition Of VEX Educational Robotics toAdvance Girls Education) project is to increase female West Virginia middle school students’interest in Computer Science and STEM. As the original plan of the COVERAGE project, GirlsRobotics Clubs would be organized in three counties of West Virginia, including Kanawha,Fayette, and Lincoln Counties, to prepare female middle school students for a regional roboticscompetition at the end of 2020. The Covid-19 pandemic started soon
over a three-month period. An initial draft of the instrument was prepared from thequalitative themes identified in a prior study (Dalal & Carberry 2018; Dalal, Archambault, &Carberry, 2019) using a mixed methods instrument development process of joint display(Creswell, 2015). Further refinement followed the scale development procedures recommendedby DeVellis (2003). A five-point Likert scale ranging from “not at all important” to “extremelyimportant” was used to measure importance of various activities associated with different waysof thinking, particularly in the context of participants’ EER projects. A definition of the specificway of thinking was provided before the Likert-type questions to provide clarity. The instrumentwas
Jacinto College for thirty seven years and as an adjunct at the University of Houston (Clear Lake), for over thirty years, teaching computer science. I served two years as a Lieutenant in the US Army Intelligence and Security Agency, conducted computer research on Project MAC at MIT and started my own computer software businessMr. James LeRoy Meeks, San Jacinto College I am the lead professor in the field of Cyber security at San Jacinto College. In my tenure at San Jacinto College I have also developed other programs in the field of Computer Technology. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Bridges to STEM Careers Project-Based Success1. IntroductionThe NSF Bridges
, Determination, and striving for Excellence, in thisendeavor. This represents the art of building character in the minds of the young students.Non-pedagogical as it may be, that is exactly what we did in 2010 in a pilot project and found itvery rewarding. That is what we continued to do since then making this program a success. Thispaper describes the steps in this systematic approach to implement RE.What is reverse engineering?Experience is the teacher of all things. [2] RE is an invaluable learning experience and ateaching tool. It is “a scientific method of taking something apart in order to figure out how itworks.” [3] The technique does involve “an act that would otherwise be considered a copyrightviolation.” [3] Whereas, “copyright law has allowed
. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Implementation and Evaluation of an Engineering-Focused Outreach Program to Improve STEM Literacy (Evaluation)AbstractThis paper presents implementation and evaluation of an engineering-focused outreach programgeared towards exposing the middle and high school student population, especiallyunderrepresented and underserved groups, to science, technology, engineering, and mathematics(STEM) fields and careers. The STEM Academy project is a partnership between NASA,Elizabeth City State University (ECSU), school districts, state agencies, and other STEMenrichment programs. The program adopted a well-established NASA STEM curriculum withproblem-based learning at its core and
classroom in Texas and was awarded the PTA District School Bell Award for her service in STEM Education. She has been a leader in engineering education in the state of Texas throughout her career. Projects include creating and leading new teacher boot camps, developing the Texas standards for the Math/Physical Sci- ence/Engineering teacher certification and most recently developing the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills frameworks in STEM education. Widely known for her work with Project Lead The Way (PLTW), she served as the State Lead Master Teacher training over 700 teachers in PLTW Core Training Institutes for 15 years. Shelly holds a B.S. degree in Industrial Design and Development and an M.Ed. in Teacher
design and construction briefing, andoral exam. The briefing and oral exam is intended to simulate a realistic environment typical ofrecent graduate military engineer officers, and with a project that is based on the real-worldexperiences of the faculty. The paper will detail the course, the road design and constructionproject, and the briefing and oral exam. An assessment will then be presented with respect to theCE495 Transportation Engineering course objectives, civil engineering program studentoutcomes, and department mission to educate and inspire. 3 Literature ReviewThe original concept of the experienced based learning in the CE495 – TransportationEngineering was presented in the 2010 ASEE
Conference and has served as symposium and session chairs for many ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences. He is the general Conference Co-Chair for the 2016 ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences (IDETC/CIE). Dr. Purwar is also the department’s representative to the NY state-funded Strategic Partnership for In- dustrial Resurgence (SPIR) program. As the SPIR representative, he identifies and coordinates projects between the department and Long Island based industries. SPIR projects include joint proposals for fed- eral funding, manufacturing and quality assurance improvements, research and development, and testing and evaluation. He won a SUNY Research Foundation Technology
c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 The STEM Loop: Undergraduate Engineering Students Create a STEM Children’s BookAbstractThis paper documents an innovative project in which undergraduate mechanical engineeringstudents created and produced a children's book about combustion engines. Funded through agrant provided by Texas A&M University at Qatar, students researched, designed, and wrote achildren's book intended to promote interest in STEM fields. The book, written in both Englishand Arabic, will be used in Qatari public schools and in the Texas A&M University at Qatar’sSTEM Outreach Program. The interdisciplinary project was co-led by a mechanical engineeringprofessor and an