primarily tasked with the education of undergraduate engineers. In her courses, she employs active learning techniques and project-based learning. Her previous education research, also at Stanford, focused on the role of cultural capital in science education. Her current interests include en- gineering students’ development of social responsibility and the impact of students’ backgrounds in their formation as engineers.Dr. Janet Y. Tsai, University of Colorado, Boulder Janet Y. Tsai is a researcher and instructor in the College of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Colorado Boulder. Her research focuses on ways to encourage more students, especially women and those from nontraditional demographic groups
, but are very difficult to quantify.1. Introduction Page 26.1221.2The Partnership for Retention Improvement in Mathematics, Engineering, and Science(PRIMES) is a University of Louisville cross-college collaboration aimed at reducing attritionamong our STEM majors. This project unites faculty from the College of Arts & Sciences, theJ.B. Speed School of Engineering, and the College of Education and Human Development intackling identified hurdles that contribute to poor retention (and thus low graduation rates) in ourrespective undergraduate STEM programs. PRIMES’ goals are quite simple: 1. Increase by 25% the number of Bachelor’s degrees
stillgrowing rapidly. In response, community colleges have been offering Associate’s programs incybersecurity for over a decade. The content of such programs has been driven by many factorsincluding the needs of local industry, professional certification requirements for entry-level jobs,and education advancement programs under such organizations as the National Security Agency,the National Institute of Science and Technology (NIST), the National CyberWatch Center, andthe Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).A consequence of this diversity of drivers is wide variation in the types of graduates produced,which is not conducive to developing shared expectations, from prospective students to employers.In addition, as a discipline matures, creating
opportunities during all four academicyears4. Our goal is to expose students to their future role as global engineers where they will berequired apply technology to balance impacts associated with the three pillars of sustainability—economic, environmental, and societal—to create safe and sustainable designs.As our first graduating class became seniors, we recognized that we could improve on thestudents’ ability to discover and understand their identity as the Engineer of 2020. Consequently,we became aware of the need to revamp the introduction to engineering course. While the initialcourse focused on developing strong analytical skills, creativity, communication, strong sense ofprofessionalism, and versatility—all skills of the Engineer of 20201—the
American families,where she used social and cultural capital documented how these families and other close networksare the first providers of educational experiences and aspirations for their children to pursue highereducation. Additionally, Castillo and Verdin [42] found that community networks, includingneighborhood friends, help Latinx students with their engineering coursework, consequentlysupporting their external recognition, sense of belonging, and persistent beliefs. As such, theinstrument here suggests the significance of social networks, in this case, neighborhood friends ofmigratory students, in the development, activation, or exchange of funds of knowledge to navigateSTEM spaces.The results in this piece not only provide an initial
specifically understand the perspectives of BME students. Given the need to createsustainable communities of practice to support engineering teaching and learning, consideringand understanding a specific context is important [10], [25], [26]. The BME students involved inthis study were of particular interest because of their interest and enrollment in a BMEInstructional Incubator course focused on engineering education curriculum development [27].The Instructional Incubator is a non-required, experiential course that leads a cohort of graduatestudents, upper level undergraduates, post docs and faculty through the instructional designprocess. It should be noted that all participants self-selected into this very particular and uniquecontext. The
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classes, 25% ofstudents attend a week long residential summer institute aimed at introducing the GCSP at theuniversity. Students enroll in a semester long multidisciplinary course in their first semester toexplore the grand challenges and to develop a plan to meet program requirements. The summerinstitute and introductory course provide students an opportunity to connect with their peers andnear peers who have made progress in the GCSP and begin building a community of scholars.Subsequently, students choose their own path through the program completing courses andexperiences relevant to their Grand Challenge theme. Requirements include at least twosemesters of research, 80 hours of service learning, and coursework combined with experience(s)in
, and D. L. McCoy, “Entering the (postgraduate) field: Underrepresented students' acquisition of cultural and social capital in graduate school preparation programs,” The Journal of Higher Education, vol. 87, no. 2, pp. 178-205, 2016.[9] A. S. Marzocchi, “The development of underrepresented students' sense of belonging in the mathematics community through participation in college outrach,” vol. 22, no. 2, pp. 119-138, 2016-10-19, 2016.[10] D. Verdín, A. Godwin, A. Kirn, L. Benson, and G. Potvin, “Understanding how engineering identity and belongingness predict grit for first-generation college students,” 2018.[11] Z. Fang, “A review of research on teacher beliefs and practices,” Educational
,” TheBridge, vol. 32, no. 3, pp. 8-13, 2002.[12] J. L. Hess and G. A. Fore, “A systematic literature review of US engineering ethicsinterventions,” Science and Engineering Ethics, vol. 24, no. 2, pp. 551-583, 2018.[13] M. C. Loui, “Ethics and Development of Professional Identities of Engineering Students”Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 94, no. 4, pp. 383-390, 2005.[14] E. A. Clancy, Quinn, P., and Miller, J. E., “Assessment of a case study laboratory toincrease awareness of ethical issues in engineering,” IEEE Transactions on Education, vol. 48,pp. 313-317, 2005.[15] L. J. Shuman., M. F. Sindelar, M. Besterfield-Sacre, H. Wolfe, R. L. Pinkus, R. L. Miller, B.M. Olds, and C. Mitcham, “Can our Students Recognize and Resolve Ethical Dilemmas
course (Introduction to Engineering) and upper level coursesare also discussed. Finally the instructors give an assessment and evaluation of the courses andspecifically address the active collaborative activities.IntroductionIndustry has made it clear to engineering programs that they want graduates who not only haveexcellent technical skills, but these new engineers must also have teamwork, communication,negotiation, and conflict resolution skills. Productivity in industry is not just a function of howwell an individual can solve a technical problem, but how an individual can work together in agroup to accomplish a complex task. As a result engineering educators today are finding itnecessary to teach students not only the technical fundamentals
student researchers drew from Dewey, Piaget,Vigotsky and similar educational philosophers rooted in constructivist epistemology whenconstructing the STEPS program. Constructivist learning theory dictates that learners constructtheir own knowledge and meaning from their experiences through accommodation andassimilation. The goals of this camp, with an eye to constructivist learning theory, are: 1. Build enthusiasm for STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) at a critical stage in an educational experience; 2. Target campers from underrepresented groups and lower socioeconomic populations; 3. Motivate campers to take STEM courses in their middle school and secondary education; 4. Energize campers to pursue STEM degrees
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in Li-ion batteries. In addition to his current research interests of developing diagnostic tools for electrochemical storage of renewable energy, Saqib is also interested in the Scholarship of Teaching of Learning (SoTL) and Engineering Education in particular. Prior to joining Marian, Saqib was one of the founding faculty members of the Mechanical Engineering program at the University of Indianapolis. He served as the program coordinator, undertaking major curriculum development, and led the program through a successful initial ABET accreditation review. He received multiple research grants, he coordinated the campus-wide Research Fellows programs, and his dedication to teaching was recognized through the UIndy
Paper ID #41866Teaching Strategies that Incorporate Social Impacts in Technical Courses andEase Accreditation Metric CreationMs. Ingrid Scheel, Oregon State University Ingrid Scheel is a Project Instructor at Oregon State University in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. She teaches Electrical and Computer Engineering fundamentals and design courses, and as a graduate student in Education is focused on curriculum design. Scheel’s industry experience includes prototype development, test article instrumentation, data acquisition, data analysis, and reporting. She contributes to the International Society for Optics
. Becausethe team aimed for interdisciplinarity, it was trying to develop its own community of practice buthad not yet achieved this because the students’ backgrounds and training (e.g. core coursework)were more aligned to traditional disciplines than the project at hand.Participants included six doctoral students, two post-doctoral research assistants who recentlygraduated from the same PhD program, and two faculty members who also held administrativepositions in the interdisciplinary unit. The six doctoral students (three men and three women) hadbackgrounds and were located in departments of engineering, computer science, media arts andsciences, and music. They were in their first, second, third, and fourth years of graduate school atthe University
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build upon our previous studies and examine the beliefs and behaviorsof engineering students entering in Fall 2021, including longitudinal research analyzing theeffects of various pre-college experiences and student attitudes on self-efficacy, SI usage, andfirst-semester outcomes [7].Consequences of Preparedness for First-Year Engineering StudiesPre-matriculation credits, defined as classes taken in high school that are equivalent to college-level courses, have historically been a key indicator of student success in undergraduate STEMeducation programs [8]. Students receive these credits based on results from AdvancedPlacement (AP) and/or International Baccalaureate (IB) tests, or through dual enrollmentprograms at community colleges and other
Engineering program at the Ted Rogers Centre for Heart Research.Theresa Frost, Toronto District School Board Theresa Frost is the Assistant Curriculum Lead- Science & STEAM at Western Technical-Commercial School, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. In her position as lead, Ms. Frost has transitioned her colleagues towards the intentional use of curriculum expectations to develop and guide interdisciplinary and inquiry- based learning, organizing participation in STEAM programming including the Discovery Educational Program through the Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering at the University of Toronto. Ms. Frost’s passion for STEAM and accessibility is shared with others through her participation in the
improving the culture and environment of undergraduate education experience for all students, particularly those from underrepresented groups.Mrs. Risa D Hartman, The University of Texas at Austin, NASCENT Center Risa Hartman oversees multiple Education and Outreach programs at the University of Texas at Austin. Her roles include: Staff Education and Outreach Director for the Center for Dynamics and Control of Materials, a Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC) and as the Pre-college Ed- ucation Director for the NASCENT Engineering Research Center focused on nanomanufacturing. She manages programs in the areas of graduate student traineeship and career development, undergraduate research, Research
ability to recognize, manage, and negotiate conflict [4], [5]. Asengineering students develop their technical expertise through undergraduate coursework andprofessional experience, it is also vitally important to engineering students’ professionalprospects and personal well-being to develop proficient conflict negotiation skills [5]. As a matter of fact, professional skills have been identified among the fundamentallyrequired skills by Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) by the time theengineering students graduate with an engineering degree, as such skills are captured in at leasttwo out of the seven Student Outcomes under Criterion 3, identified for the 2019-2020, and2020-2021 accreditation cycles. These relevant
, and professional liability Demonstrate an ability to explain the reasons for seeking professional licensure after graduation Demonstrate an ability to write effective essays and technical reportsGraduates have an ability to Demonstrate an ability to compose and deliver an effective oral presentation communicate effectively Demonstrate an ability to prepare a Statement of Qualifications (SOQ) for a civil engineering project Graduates have the broad education necessary to Demonstrate an ability to develop community consensus building techniques for a understand the impact of civil
were identified using internetsearch engines and professionally-oriented development websites (e.g., Burning GlassTechnologies). To be included in the subsequent analysis, degree programs were required tomeet all of the following criteria: (1) contain “mechatronics” in the name, (2) culminate in acertificate/credential, or more formal degree (i.e., Bachelor’s degree), (3) offered through acollege, university, or accredited online education institution, and (4) consisted of multiplecourses (i.e., not just one mechatronics course offered within a degree in another field). Graduateprograms were excluded to ensure results would be comparable to the Phase 1 survey of industryprofessionals. This search identified 29 mechatronics-related
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adding context, especially asit improves professional skills, student understanding of engineering identity and the meaning ofengineering, understanding of real world applications, and even skills related to empathy. Wecould build on these desires to develop curriculum that focuses on context. However, we alsoidentified significant challenges to adapting curriculum to include contextualized problems. Forinstance, there is a danger to relating contextualized problems to professional development, asone student sees it: I think decontextualized questions are lacking in purpose because they fail to address the real life situation that is requiring the question to be solved. This causes many college graduates to have
advisor for Women in Computing club at Farmingdale, contributed in Grace Hop- per Celebration as a technical committee member and reviewer. Dr. Aydin has published and presented in peer reviewed venues about women in computing and broadening the participation over a decade.Lisa Cullington, National University Lisa Cullington, Ph.D. is an educational researcher with expertise in curriculum development, learning outcomes and educational assessment best practices. She focuses on building and evaluating academic programs that promote inclusive excellence for all learners. Currently, Dr. Cullington serves as the Director of Learning Outcomes for National University. Previously, she was the Founding Co-Director of the Honors
(F.RSA) and a Fellow of the Royal Society for Public Health (F.RSPH). c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math (STEAM) Diplomacy: Preliminary Results from an Initial Pilot CourseAbstractA new course, “Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math (STEAM) Diplomacy,” hasbeen developed at the Missouri University of Science and Technology to introduce engineeringstudents to the field of foreign relations and the tripartite objectives of: 1) science in diplomacy;2) science for diplomacy; and 3) diplomacy for science. The course employs an availablescholarly monograph as a text and integrates materials created by the Center for
Engineering Education”GWEC. Many industry workers are also now teaching as adjunct faculty in many of themember schools. Industry supports GWEC because GWEC provides industry with whatthey need to succeed.III. What is GWEC?With the emergence of wireless technology and its myriad applications, business leadershave increasingly sought to employ college and university graduates with basic wirelessknowledge and skill. The demand for qualified engineers, technicians and informationtechnology (IT) specialists with a wireless background is considerable and expected togrow.In 1997, a model was created in the United States that has positively affected theworkforce for wireless technology companies. Through the Global Wireless EducationConsortium (GWEC
interactive web site, training, coaching curricula, electronicnewsletters, and electronic discussion groups that provide opportunities for building communityamong participants15. MentorNet provides on-going support and communications to the e-mentoring pairs through its coaching curriculum – a set of regularly delivered, customizeddiscussion suggestions. The discussion suggestions serve an educational purpose in supportingpairs as they progress through the stages of mentoring 16, 17, while also serving as reminders forparticipants to keep in contact with their e-mentoring partners. A final feature of the MentorNet program is the group of electronic discussion groups (e-groups; see Single, Muller, Cunningham, and Single for an in-depth
methods.Modeled after industry practices, this course sequence includes design sprints, projectmanagement, risk assessments and mitigation, formal design reviews by the course instructors,and presentations to industry professionals. Each cross-functional team includes a mix ofelectrical, computer, and mechanical engineers. All teams consist of students of differentethnicities, genders, and ages. Teams are formed with diversity in mind, but also based on eachstudent’s expressed project-type interest. The instructors then lead the students through problemidentification, project ideation, and development into an appropriately scaled design that is bothchallenging and doable.Much of the course is focused on team building and processes, conflict management