sustainability, Life Cycle Assessment, decision making for optimal design, and Computer-Aided Design and Engineering Education.Dr. Carolyn L. Sandoval, University of California, San Diego Dr. Sandoval is the Associate Director of the Teaching + Learning Commons at the University of Cali- fornia, San Diego. She earned a PhD in Adult Education-Human Resource Development. Her research interests include adult learning and development, faculty development, qualitative methods of inquiry, and social justice education.Mr. He LiuMr. Matthew Robin Kohanfars, University of California, San Diego I am a mechanical engineering master’s student that is focused on encouraging students to seek engineer- ing careers by developing entertaining
consists of seven main programmatic components aimed at improving theengagement, retention, and graduation of students underrepresented in engineering. Thesecomponents include: “intrusive” academic advising and support services, intensive first-yearacademic curriculum, community-building (including pre-matriculation summer programs),career awareness and vision, faculty mentorship, NSF S-STEM scholarships, and second-yearsupport [7]. Prior publications detail the unique demographics and structural context for eachprogram and assessment data from the initial years of the consortium’s formation, with particularemphasis on first-year student retention [7], [8]. Exploring the consequences of incorporatingRedshirt programs on diversity, equity, and
COVID-19 screener questions. The mean scores from women and men areprovided in Table 3, alongside the difference between the two population means. The differencebetween women and men’s mean scores is consistently positive across all twenty screenerquestions, indicating that women consistently felt greater levels of stress about home life, career,physical health, mental health, and academics compared to the men. In general, the mean scoreswere highest, for both men and women, for academic related prompts.To better understand these differences, t-tests were performed for every item with the nullhypothesis that the two population means are equal. The null hypothesis was rejected for ten outof twenty screener items. Significant differences (p <
workshops were designed to help students think more creatively in their class projectsand practice a growth mindset [14] through short exercises demonstrating cognitive biases,barriers, and traps that prevent people from finding creative, novel solutions to problems.Thereby, we hope that students would be less likely to fall into these traps. According to a recentstudy by Burnette et al. [15], students in a growth mindset intervention, relative to the control,reported greater entrepreneurial self-efficacy and task persistence on their main class project andimprovement in their academic and career interests. Reducing the negative effect of the cognitivebiases, barriers and traps requires deliberate and repeated practice of CPS techniques. Althoughwe
-based learning.Further, it has potential to help students, including students who have visual impairments,develop spatial skills that are not only valuable but required in many engineering careers.1. IntroductionThe continued optimization of wireless communications and other radio frequency (RF) systemsis an essential technological effort that has enabled the advancement of modern society.Antennas are an indispensable component of myriad vital RF systems, with applicationsspanning science, industry and commerce, personal communication and entertainment, publicsafety, and national security. Thus, antennas, along with electromagnetics more generally, “willcontinue to be the heart and soul of many modern technology advances ranging from
complete classassignments. Self-paced learning and practice of 3D printing and CAD software skills providesstudents with an opportunity to develop as self-regulated learners, which is a valuable skill forengineering students 15 .There are many different motivations driving students to pursue engineering and to persist throughtheir college career within the major, but one motivation, the “hands-on, action-oriented characterof engineering activities”, is more prevalent among men in the major 7 . Perhaps then, improvingself-efficacy in women regarding their tinkering abilities through greater access to, and use of,makerspaces can provide another motive for women to persist in engineering and, more impor-tantly, to incorporate engineering as part of
and consultant. He has taught and developed undergraduate and graduate courses in power electronics, power systems, renewable energy, smart grids, control, electric machines, instrumentation, radar and remote sensing, numerical methods, space and atmosphere physics, and applied physics. His research interests included power system stability, control and protection, re- newable energy system analysis, assessment and design, smart microgrids, power electronics and electric machines for non-conventional energy conversion, remote sensing, wave and turbulence, numerical mod- eling, electromagnetic compatibility and engineering education. During his career Dr. Belu published four books, fourteen book chapters, several
principles of sustainable development in the performance of their professional duties”[3]. Using both the UN SDGs and Envision is a realistic way to bridge the gap between theundergraduate design experience and the professional expectations students will be obligated toconsider in their future careers [4].Rubrics are frequently used in academia for assessing student performance and evaluatingprogram outcomes. Rubrics are advantageous because, in addition to allowing for assessingstudent work, they can be used to directly assess student performance while meeting the criteriaestablished by both ABET and ASCE. When focusing on sustainability, the literature is rich withexamples of rubrics that focus on environmental, social and economic goals for
library and information science education in response to the rising demand for data professionals[7]. Chu et al (2017) proposed that iSchools should make contributions based on the traditional andmodern advantages of data science-related fields, such as information organization and access,information management, information preservation, and information science research. Experts candiscuss and establish a more precise definition, scope and data flow of data science. Compile a listof fundamental principles, skills, and toolsets necessary for data scientists to help current and futureinformation experts assess their level and find courses and programs that suit their level, interests,and career plans. In order to improve the quality and
, challenge institutional violence, and minimize hostile environments forminority students [7]. Diversity & Inclusion Fellows (DIFs) engage in readings and workshopsthat help them to interrogate their own pedagogical philosophies related to inclusive pedagogyand develop and refine strategies and interventions for creating more inclusive classrooms.Faculty participants then implement these practices in one of their courses in the followingsemester. Meetings take place once or twice a month, and led by two experienced DIF facultymembers who serve as Lead Fellows.Eight DIFs were selected for the 2020 – 2021 academic year, including a librarian and seveninstructors at varying stages of their professorial careers. The DIFs included representativesfrom
appropriately, stand up formyself and others, be empathetic, and discuss rather controversial topics with others.”Lessons Learned (Thus Far) and Future WorkThis paper contributes to the relatively small body of literature on strategies for engaging inplanned change processes connected to gender and race relations and equity with engineeringstudents. The authors hope to create tested curriculum that can be implemented at various entitiessuch as universities and industries.In addition to impacting positive change for women and URMs in STEM, this model alsopromotes equity and inclusion for persons with disabilities, low socioeconomic status (SES) andother marginalizations within STEM fields. Preparation for careers in STEM will be advancedthrough this
competitions in high school andchose college majors in STEM related fields. Most of them cited years later the positive impactof MATHCOUNTS in their career and life.In this work, we would like to share our experiences and the detail processes so that others in ourASEE community may use as a reference when hosting math competitions for their localschools.MATHCOUNTS at our UniversityThe College of Engineering has been hosting the local MATHCOUNTS chapter competition formore than ten years. The engineering students acted as proctors and graders as part of theirengineering service activity. Including students, teachers, parents, and siblings, this eventattracted several hundred people each year to the campus on a Saturday between 8am to 3pm.Many of the
C. Paretti is a Professor of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech, where she directs the Vir- ginia Tech Engineering Communications Center (VTECC). Her research focuses on communication in engineering design, interdisciplinary communication and collaboration, design education, and gender in engineering. She was awarded a CAREER grant from the National Science Foundation to study expert teaching in capstone design courses, and is co-PI on numerous NSF grants exploring communication, design, and identity in engineering. Drawing on theories of situated learning and identity development, her work includes studies on the teaching and learning of communication, effective teaching practices in design education, the
andstudent affairs, and adequate resources), as well as a supportive academic (e.g., common courses,faculty advising, academically supportive climate) and co-curricular (e.g., study groups, socialactivities, career workshops) environment. The pinnacle of the best practices is an integration ofthese various layers and an assessment plan that allows practitioners to make changes.There are two types of research that has been conducted on LLCs: those that compare acrossmultiple programs and those that focus on one particular program. Research comparing LLCsacross programs have shown that they can have a positive impact on first-generation participants'transitions to college [2]; increased sense of belonging in their college [3]; and increasedopenness to
Eileen O’Connell, Wilbur Wright College Bridget O’Connell is an Academic and Career Coordinator for the Engineering Program at City Colleges of Chicago-Wilbur Wright College. She has a Master of Science in Higher Education Administration and Policy, a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, and worked in engineering industry for thirteen years. She is committed to serving underrepresented students in their pursuit of engineering education.David Potash, Wilbur Wright College David Potash has served as president of Wright College, one of the City Colleges of Chicago, since 2013. The first CAO at Curry College in Milton, MA, Potash was Associate Provost at Hunter Col- lege and Baruch College, CUNY. Trained as an
to learn from failures or setbacks is avaluable practice for preparing future software engineers for their careers. Exam wrappers canprovide an opportunity in an academic setting to improve grades, but also to learn to adjustbehavior in ways that may have long term impact.The related work is summarized in Table 1. The number of students participating in the examwrapper study is given in the second column; if multiple terms were studied (with and withoutexam wrappers), the number is the number of students who completed the exam wrapper portionof the study. The course title, level, and majors are given; if the level or type of major is notmentioned but can be reasonably inferred it is given in the table in italics with a question mark.The
students to improve engagement and retention for minority student groups. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Implementation of a Low Cost, Mobile Instructional Particle Image Velocimetry (mI-PIV) Learning Tool for Increasing Undergraduate and Secondary Learners' Fluid Mechanics Intuition and Interest Introduction Fluid mechanics is a foundational topic within many engineering career fields, includingaerospace, biological, biomedical, civil, mechanical, naval, and ocean engineering. However,engineering students are introduced to fluid mechanics as late as
of the type of work done by engineers. As we only interviewed women who hadchosen to study engineering, these female student participants provided valuable insight on themajor choices of their high school classmates. They shared stories of friends who were the topmathematics student in the school or had received fives on AP Physics and Chemistry exams.Their friends were strong students who clearly had the aptitude for engineering, but had chosendifferent fields. We asked each of the female focus groups why their highly qualified friends hadnot chosen to study engineering. Most of the women explained it was because their friendsbelieved engineering careers were anti-social and not about working with, or helping people.Sophie: I know a lot of
partnerships funded through NSF as wellas the stressing of convergence research represent highly impactful strategies.In this contribution, we highlight the approaches taken by an interdisciplinary team of scholarsincluding two early-career scholars and their mentors who form the Renaissance Foundry ResearchGroup (RFRG, the “core team”) as related to seeking and obtaining grant funding as applied toadvancing engineering education. Of particular emphasis is the “scaling of teams” which herein isdefined as the process of knowing when to and actually bringing in additional scholarly voices (i.e.,upscaling) or moving forward just with the core team (i.e., downscaling) to support these activitiesas related to various funding opportunities. As part of this
One” in The Serial Pod- cast and Storytelling in the Digital Age (Routledge, 2016), ”Sweeney Todd as Victorian Transmedial Storyworld” and ”The Sympathy of Suspense: Gaskell and Braddon’s Slow and Fast Sensation Fiction in Family Magazines” (both in Victorian Periodicals Review (49.1: 2016, 49.3: 2016)). Her current book project examines the dynamics of transfictional characters in the British long nineteenth century.Dr. Duane Lewis Abata, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology Dr. Abata has worked in academia for over forty years at universities and with the Federal government around the country. He began his career at the University of Wisconsin, served as Associate Dean and Dean at Michigan Technological
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, exploring the world of craft cocktails, and
studentsare Mexican; 83% of students are from the county in which the university is set. Our study issituated within senior-level capstone courses in Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science(E&CS).In order to explore the connection between engineering identity and belonging, this studydraws on one-year of intensive ethnographic data collection [24] to examine: (1) how Latinxengineering/CS constructed their engineering/CS identities; and (2) how Latinx studentsexperienced belonging in E&CS, both as a field of study and as a career option. 2The study focused on 19 student participants who were selected using purposive samplingbased on the following criteria criteria. Student senior design teams
address complex educational challenges, democratization of K-12 engineering education, and online and technology-based learning.Dr. Stacy S Klein-Gardner, Vanderbilt University Stacy Klein-Gardner’s career focuses on P-12 science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education, particularly as it relates to increasing interest in and participation by females and URMs and teacher professional development. She is an Adjunct Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Vander- bilt University where she is serving as the external evaluator on the NSF-funded Engineering For Us All (E4USA) project. Dr. Klein-Gardner serves as the chair of the American Society for Engineering Education Board of Director’s Committee on P12
workers are, the more diverse discussions will be heldleading to an increase in productivityI have also noticed how easy it is to forget that the majority of my peers are whitemales.It's a weird phenomenon that many (white) people think there are no opportunitiesfor whites anymore, when in reality we still have the majority... just not quite 99.9%of them. 26 Course Surveys Pre Post To what extent do you fell the course provided relevant and useful information for your career? To what extent did the course increase
oneproblem with relying on APIs for developing software—the need for continual development.4 Does game physics teach physics?The above case studies demonstrate a multitude of examples of game physics, PBA, games forteaching physics, and even preliminary research in the effectiveness of leveraging game physicsfor teaching physics. There are a few more factors and questions to consider before addressingthe central hypothesis of Section 1: • Physics is often required in game programming jobs [41]. • The math required is non-trivial, and cursory coverage in other courses will not suffice if someone wants to pursue this career path. • Mathematics helps to reinforce problem-solving skills. • Games tend to be extremely good for
teams [12]. Thecollaborative environment encourages innovative ideas and fosters teamwork, utilizing the skillsof individual students. Facing the challenges of today requires practice solving team-basedproblems so that freshmen gain not only design, but also personal and professional skills, early intheir career [13]. Integrating core engineering knowledge in a mathematical modeling anddesign course, while concurrently building a foundation in empathy, a critical design skill,prepares students to solve real-world problems [14].Methods – the Health Inequity Design Challenge – how can we solve this as engineers?Biomedical Engineering and Design is an introductory two-credit fall semester course. Freshmen(n=111) worked together in twenty-seven
prime mover behind getting the grant, and he had a greater apparent need for the money.People who believe in a utilitarian theory could argue for either decision. Smith should take themoney for he has a greater need for it and he is the main person on the project. Alternatively,Smith should not take the money for if he was exposed it would hurt his career. A potentiallyruined career is not worth a month of salary support.Duty theories could also argue the point either way. Some would say that Smith has a duty toprovide for his family. Others would argue that Smith has a greater duty to be honest withBrown and tell him about the salary support.People who believe in rights theories would probably criticize a choice by Smith to keep themoney
prime mover behind getting the grant, and he had a greater apparent need for the money.People who believe in a utilitarian theory could argue for either decision. Smith should take themoney for he has a greater need for it and he is the main person on the project. Alternatively,Smith should not take the money for if he was exposed it would hurt his career. A potentiallyruined career is not worth a month of salary support.Duty theories could also argue the point either way. Some would say that Smith has a duty toprovide for his family. Others would argue that Smith has a greater duty to be honest withBrown and tell him about the salary support.People who believe in rights theories would probably criticize a choice by Smith to keep themoney
Paper ID #34248Development of an Interactive Top Hat Textbook for Engaged LearningDr. Matthew M. Barry, University of PittsburghMiss Samantha E. WismerDr. Tony Lee Kerzmann, University of Pittsburgh Dr. Tony Kerzmann’s higher education background began with a Bachelor of Arts in Physics from Duquesne University, as well as a Bachelor’s, Master’s, and PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Pittsburgh. After graduation, Dr. Kerzmann began his career as an assistant professor of Mechanical Engineering at Robert Morris University which afforded him the opportunity to research, teach, and advise in numerous
online instruction? For the Name Generator, students were asked to identify the names of five people who theyconsidered to be influential to their success and persistence in engineering and how these peoplesupported them. For the Resource Generator, students were given a series of prompts (Figure 1)and asked to identify the groups of people who had supported them in these ways. Q1 Provided you with financial support Q2 Talked to you about their own work as an engineer Q3 Gave you information about the type of work that engineers in your field do Q4 Talked to about engineering career options Q5 Encouraged you to stick your major in engineering Q6 Gave you specific advice when you face an academic obstacle Q7