impact on students when the 3D printer was introduced. This was done after teaching thesame class content to all four classes. For the second experiment, a post-attitudinal survey was givento all of the students of the classes that used the 3D printer. This same procedure was followed forthe second year of the study. Training was an integral part of the student project as was attending different technologyworkshops provided by the Learning Environments (LE) area within the Academic Technologies(AT) department at UTEP. LE works directly with students and faculty to research and prototypetechnology in educational spaces. In addition, students were given a web space and training indifferent types of software (iWeb, iMovie, Inventor Fusion
and adapted by other instructors, and integrated intotheir own courses and/or GCSP, to reach an even broader audience.The on-ground version of this course uses a lot of active learning techniques and is discussion-based, incorporating activities such as mind mapping, debates, role-play-based simulation,design challenges, and case studies, to help students explore and understand the interdisciplinarynature of the complex global challenges. Additional detail on the on-ground version of the coursecan be found in [2]. This high level of in-person, active learning posed the biggest challenge totranslate to the MOOC. Therefore, in addition to reaping the benefit of modularization forportability, there was also a strong focus and intent on making
designed to immerse students in thefundamentals of innovation. It allocated one credit hour each to the study of innovation processesand ecosystems, essential skills for success in the first year of university study, and an open-ended,project-based innovation exercise. This exercise emphasized teamwork and critical thinking andenabled students to analyze historical and contemporary STEM innovations and forecast futuretrends in innovation. Additionally, the intersession program incorporated peer mentoring andteam-building activities, which are integral components of the retention strategies detailed in thesubsequent section.An anonymous survey was deployed at the end of the INNOV bridge program. 100% ofrespondents reported that the course furnished
Computational Thinking course for non-majors. An initialquantitative evaluation of the visualizations raised questions about their long-term effectivenessand ease of use. This study represents a qualitative study done to gain deeper insight into theexperiences of students. The results of this study demonstrated students were engaging withcourse materials in unexpected ways but frequently referred back to the visualizations.Additionally, students had an approach to understanding the visualizations that was both helpfuland problematic. These findings help to inform visualization and curriculum designers aboutstudent attitudes and strategies in using course materials.1 IntroductionDue to the abstract nature of Computer Science it is not uncommon for
Engineering at Cornell UniversityDr. Stacey E. Kulesza, Kansas State University Dr. Stacey Kulesza is an assistant professor in the civil engineering department at Kansas State University. Dr. Kulesza teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in geotechnical engineering and is a licensed engineer in the state of Kansas. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 We are thriving! Undergraduate women in engineering student project teamsAbstractFor more than two decades, female participation in undergraduate engineering programs hasremained stuck at 20%. The research focus has been on women who either choose not to enrollor withdraw. We propose a change in
Paper ID #21811Technology Enhanced Pre-Calculus Classrooms (Work in Progress)Dr. Melissa Danforth, California State University, Bakersfield Melissa Danforth is a Professor and the Chair of the Department of Computer and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at CSUB. Dr. Danforth was the PI for a NSF Federal Cyber Service grant (NSF- DUE1241636) to create models for information assurance education and outreach. Dr. Danforth was the Project Director for a U.S. Department of Education grant (P031S100081) to create engineering pathways for students in the CSUB service area. She is the co-PI for an NSF IUSE grant for STEM
the rolesthey play within engineering as a discipline, with their peers, and within engineering classrooms[13]. Women must author their individual engineering identities that will relate to the groupidentity of an engineer [13]. Educational experiences within the classroom have the potential tofoster agency through participation in engineering and directly influence a woman’s pursuit ofengineering both at secondary and post-secondary levels [8]. Development of this identity willrequire active participation in engineering curriculum and social integration into engineeringacademic communities [13].Social Cognitive Career Theory Social cognitive career theory (SCCT) was developed originally to connect anindividual’s career development
. Fast forward through coast-to-coast moves to Boston, San Diego and finally Rochester, Kathy spent many years in the fitness industry while raising her daughter, wearing every hat from personal trainer and cycling instructor to owner and director of Cycledelic Indoor Cycling Studio. Kathy draws upon these many diverse career and life experiences while directing WE@RIT. In the spring of 2020, Kathy earned her Master of Science degree in Program Design, Analysis & Manage- ment through RIT’s School of Individualized Study, combining concentrations in Project Management, Analytics and Research, & Group Leadership and Development. An unabashed introvert, Kathy enjoys reading and spending time with her family
curriculum than any individual factor.First-year college performance and subsequent retention and successSimilar to how a student’s high school achievement and experiences may be indicative of theirfirst-year success, first-semester GPA also has been found to correlate with retention and GPA atgraduation. Students with low grades at the start of their undergraduate studies have been shownto be less likely to be retained within an institution of higher education [4]. For example, a studyconducted at the University of Alabama reported a 48% higher graduation rate for students whohad a first-semester GPA higher than 3.00 compared to those with a first-semester GPA less than2.25 [6]. Raju and Schumacker [6] found that first-semester GPA in college along
) grant was designed to ignite and measure change in an engineeringdepartment to support inclusivity, diversity, and excellence. Literature indicates thatorganizational change hinges upon multiple factors. In particular, the ways in which incentivesand reward structures are used to support the change sought, the ways in which financialpriorities shape practices in an organization, human resource allocation and training, and policiesthat shape practice are critical components in change.Using a continuous improvement mindset to consider change, which assumes integral changerather than drastic shifts to practice, we frame a mixed methods case study of the University ofTexas at El Paso computer science department, a recipient of a 2016 RED grant
, Quality Measures LLC Dr. Gwen Lee-Thomas is the CEO of Quality Measures, LLC, a Virginia-based consulting firm special- izing in program and project evaluation, accreditation preparation, and capacity building. With over 22 years of experience in project evaluation and implementation of educational activities for over $100M in federal and state funded projects, Gwen consistently works collaboratively with her clients to maximize evaluation outcomes. As an external evaluator, Gwen has conducted over 70 evaluations in various areas with an emphasis in STEM-H related curriculum experiences at various colleges and universities across the U.S. Gwen’s work with NSF, USDOE, DOE, DOD, HRSA, and DOJ helps in providing the
Paper ID #13395Assessing the GRIT of Incoming Engineering StudentsDr. Laura Bottomley, North Carolina State University Dr. Laura Bottomley, ASEE Fellow, is the Director of Women in Engineering and The Engineering Place for K-20 Outreach and a Teaching Associate Professor in the Colleges of Engineering and Education at NC State University. She teaches an Introduction to Engineering class for incoming freshmen in the College and Children Design, Invent, Create, a course for elementary education students that introduces them to engineering design and technology as well as various electrical engineering classes. In 2009 Dr
challenges of the engineering curriculum. It was rewarding to feel like I was giving back to and supporting the community of female engineering students. • It has been an opportunity to connect with some of the younger students that I now see and talk to around campus. Also, an opportunity to give back to the program. I was in Page 26.1218.7 the same place and wasn't sure about my major at some point as well, and I was able to relate and advise these women. • Having positive role models was crucial to my experience and success at MSU. I've loved the
problems) and(10) lifelong learning1. The development of these traits is becoming increasingly important fortraining engineering students nationwide in that these traits help students persist and excel intheir chosen engineering disciplines. At the same time, full curricula and the rising cost ofeducation have placed pressure on institutions to reduce the credits needed for an engineeringdegree. As such, there is not enough space in the curriculum to that ensure all the necessarylearning occurs in the classroom. In addition, there is little understanding as to how out-of-classroom experiences might be critical sources of learning for engineering undergraduates.Shrinking budgets are worsening the problem as institutions now find themselves in a
Paper ID #44329Appreciative Inquiry as an Intervention for Equity-Centered EngineeringEducation Research and PraxisAnn Shivers-McNair, University of Arizona Ann Shivers-McNair is associate professor and director of professional and technical writing in the Department of English and affiliated faculty in the School of Information at the University of Arizona, on the lands of the Tohono O’odham and Pascua Yaqui.Gimantha N. Perera, North Carolina State University Gimantha Perera is a Sri Lankan born researcher and educator from NC State University. He was inspired to be an engineer by his maternal grandfather Anil, who
young children computational thinking by modeling playground environments. She seeks to expand her experience by volunteering and helping to facilitate STEM workshops.Mr. Salah Alfailakawi, Kansas State University Salah Alfailakawi is a PhD student in Educational Technology (ET) Graduate Programs at Kansas State University’s College of Education. His areas of interest include social/cultural issues in ET, the impact of ET on learners and teachers, as well as practice and change management. He earned his master’s degree in practice and theory in interdisciplinary studies from Montana State University Billings. He has been an a teacher of English as a foreign language since 2006 and a head teacher since 2012 (6th-9th
Paper ID #23625Assessing Engineering Disciplines with Expected Success for Females in SaudiArabiaDr. Ahmed M. El-Sherbeeny, King Saud University Ahmed M. El-Sherbeeny is an assistant professor at the Industrial Engineering department (since 2010) and head of the Alumni and Employment Unit (since 2013) at the College of Engineering, King Saud University. He completed both his PhD (2006) and Master’s (2001) degrees in Mechanical Engineering from West Virginia University (WVU), where he was a graduate teaching and research assistant. He holds a BSME from the American University in Cairo (AUC, 1998). El-Sherbeeny’s research
amovement “from having self-degrading racial identity attitudes to self-enhancing racial identityattitudes”8 (p. 34), where individuals feel secure about their own racial group and appreciateother racial and ethnic groups. The challenge with Cross and Helm’s theoretical models is thatthey both do not consider holistic individuals with their other identities. Therefore a use of amultifaceted model for racial identity development seems to address this issue. The Multidimensional Model of Racial Identity (MMRI) was first introduced by Sellersand others in the late 1990s; MMRI treats each AA individual uniquely with different thoughts,cultural views, and behaviors. This model provides an integrated view of racial identitydevelopment of AAs by
determine the learning impact on students when the3D printer was introduced. This was done after teaching the same class content to all classes. Forthe second experiment, a post-attitudinal survey was given to all of the students of the classes thatused the 3D printer. This same procedure will be followed for the second year of the research.Training was an integral part of the student project as was attending different technologyworkshops provided by the Learning Environments (LE) area within the Academic Technologies(AT) department at UTEP. LE works directly with students and faculty to research and prototypetechnology in educational spaces. Furthermore, students were given a web space and training indifferent types of software (iWeb, iMovie
-typical STEM bound students, especially girls in engineering; through interest and belongingness by promoting empathy-based engineering design in instruction and practice.Sean Palmer Marquardt Rice, Washington State University, Vancouver c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Do Students Believe Girls Belong in Engineering? So, What? (WIED- Diversity)In January of 2016, we began a mixed method study at an urban middle school in the PacificNorthwest. The purpose of the work was to study the relationship between mathematics, science,and STEM (as an integrated study) interest in a general school population and in an all-girlsafter-school program. The
(Burke & Stets, 2009). Identity theorists advocate that an understanding of PIDprocesses lead to targeted policies and programs that improve students’ persistence into variousprofessions. PID is the process by which students come to think, act, and feel like professionals(Cruess et al., 2015). It is the successful integration of personal attributes and professionaltraining in the context of a professional community. It is an ongoing process of interpretation andre-interpretation of experiences which allow the strengthening and maturing of an individualthrough a series of processes of professional education and experiences (Beijaard, 2004; Kerby,1991; Kogan, 2000). Multiple factors within and outside the educational and
the R-Studio/ShinyApps platform. Wediscuss this next.4.2. R-Studio/ShinyAppR is an open-source programming language popular in the data science community. R-Studio23 isan integrated development environment for R that is also free and open-source. R presents manyadvantages, being a free and open-source software with no license restrictions. It offers robustcross-platform compatibility and can be used on GNU/Linux, Mac OS X, and MicrosoftWindows environments in both 32- and 64-bit configurations. Over 4,800 library packages arecurrently available for use, including many powerful packages for matrix manipulation, statistics,and graphical representations. As such, R is the most comprehensive software in this group forstatistical analysis and
point average by a magnitude between 0.14 and 0.30,and also concluded that participating students exhibited less anxiety about math and science, increasedself-esteem and greater confidence. Other models that have been reported to be successful involve someor all of the previously described methods as well as general curriculum improvement, the inclusion offamily in Saturday math and science activities, industry speakers and field trips. More recently, Lynch etal [10] proposed a conceptual framework for Inclusive STEM High Schools (ISHS’s). The ISHS model isinclusive and selective, it implements a STEM focused curriculum with instructional strategies informedby research. The ISHS model also emphasizes project based learning, integrated
engineering education during the 2020-2021academic year. The transition to remote learning was particularly difficult for many of the hands-on experiential learning and laboratory courses that are integral parts of an engineeringeducation. Very few engineering programs in the United States offer purely remote learningenvironments for engineering students, and so this kind of teaching and learning was new forboth faculty, rapidly adjusting their curriculum in a short amount of time, and for the studentswho had to quickly adapt their learning styles [1]. In addition, most students across the countryleft their campuses and returned home to complete the spring 2020 semester from afar, leading tofewer interactions with their peers, faculty, and staff for
unique undergraduate curriculum at Rowan University, especially the Engineering Clinics. She has been involved in various outreach activities to recruit more women and minorities into engineering and is Program Chair Elect of the Women in Engineering Division of ASEE. She is the recipient of the 2011 New Jersey Section of ASCE Educator of the Year award as well as the 2013 Distinguished Engineering Award from the New Jersey Alliance for Action.Dr. Janet Callahan, Boise State University Janet Callahan is Chair and Professor of the Micron School of Materials Science and Engineering at Boise State University. Dr. Callahan received her Ph.D. in Materials Science, M.S. in Metallurgy, and B.S. in Chemical Engineering from
theseperceptions changed after STEP. Data were collected using open-ended entrance surveys andwritten responses on final exams. Research protocols were approved by the Institutional ReviewBoard (#13-577).Context and ParticipantsThe research setting was an introductory engineering course embedded within STEP. The courseis designed to introduce students to fundamental engineering concepts, and course objectivesincluded engagement with the engineering design process, exploration of engineering disciplines,engineering ethics, technical writing, and problem solving with software tools (Matlab). Thecourse curriculum integrated problem-based learning and product archaeology frameworks(Barrows, 1986; Kolmos, De Graaff, Johri, & Olds, 2014; Lewis et al., 2011
students; twentypercent of this population is female. The majority of the students graduating from thisprogram choose Technical Sales as their career. The diverse curriculum of thisengineering major causes students to be well sought out by the industry. However, acareer in Technical Sales is not a traditional choice for women, thus leaving the femaleundergraduates apprehensive about their career goals. So, a group of students and the IDfaculty decided to found an organization that catered to the needs of the female IndustrialDistribution Engineer and resolve this concern. This new organization was namedSociety of Women in Industrial Distribution (SWID).SWID was established with the intention of stimulating and catapulting female
Paper ID #34130”She’s More Like a Guy”: The Legacy of Gender Inequity Passed on toUndergraduate Engineering StudentsDr. Jeanne Christman, Rochester Institute of Technology (CET) Dr. Jeanne Christman is an Associate Professor and Associate Department Chair in the Department of Electrical, Computer and Telecommunications Engineering Technology. She holds a BS in Electrical En- gineering, an MS in Computer Science and a PhD in Curriculum, Instruction and the Science of Learning. Utilizing her educational background, her teaching specialty is digital and embedded system design and her research areas include engineering education
studentswishing to pursue careers in ecological engineering and may impede mainstreaming of EcoEeducation. Thus, there is a need to clarify a set of core competencies that EcoE programs andconcentration areas should incorporate to guide curriculum design.Current work to develop an ecological engineering body of knowledgeIn recognition of this need, the American Ecological Engineering Society (AEES) formed acommittee to define the EcoE Body of Knowledge (BOK). A BOK represents the full set ofconcepts, skills, knowledge, and abilities needed by professionals working in a particular domain.The process for developing the EcoE BOK presented herein was focused at the undergraduatelevel, though defining an expanded set of core competencies at the post
Paper ID #22107Peer Mentoring of Undergraduate Women in Engineering as a Mechanismfor Leadership DevelopmentMs. Kristin E. Sherwood, Stony Brook University Kristin E. Sherwood is a doctoral student in Science Education at the Stony Brook University. She is focusing her research on the representation of women in engineering and other STEM related fields.Dr. Angela M Kelly, Stony Brook University Angela M. Kelly is an Associate Professor of Physics and the Associate Director of the Science Education Program at Stony Brook University, New York. She attended La Salle University, Philadelphia, Pennsyl- vania, where she