engineer has become strongly associated with a problem-solving mindset.Faculty members commonly described engineering as problem-solving itself [8], [9]. The designprocess is so permeated into the engineering profession, there are many common jokes thatrevolve around an engineer solving a problem in the “engineering way,” while missing potentiallysimpler, non-technical approaches to solving the same problem [10]. The engineering way ofsolving a problem can best be described by looking into the engineering design process.Engineers tend to have six habits of mind that help describe their way of thinking and that modelthe ideas used in the design process: systems thinking, problem-finding, visualizing, improving,creative problem solving, and adapting
engineering student from Maine attending OlinCollege and will be graduating in May of 2020. I chose Olin for the community, but also for theirpassionate mantra, “Engineering starts with people and ends with people.” This mantra painted anew picture of engineering for me as I had previously believed engineering was about usingmath to make cool things. In fact, I originally wanted to be an engineer to continue my passionfor robotics that I had developed over 9 years on a robotics team. But, this mantra created analmost invisible itch in the back of my mind that has slowly grown into the driving factor of mebecoming an engineer.My first real experience with people in engineering was my second semester at Olin in a classcalled Engineering for Humanity
this paper builds onprior evidence supporting the use of funds of knowledge and engineering design, as a STEMintegrator, as well as empirical research on the structure, content, and outcomes of effectiveprofessional learning to create transformative educational experiences for teachers, andultimately their students [7-10].The APRENDE ProjectThe Asset-based Practices in Engineering Design (APRENDE) project focuses on both middleschool students and their teachers. It offers the opportunity to have an early impact on students’engineering interest while also providing teachers with a broader perspective of how to developstudents’ engineering habits of mind and dispositions using funds of knowledge. The goal of thisthree-year project is (1) to
Paper ID #16581Understanding the Effects of Transferring In Statics Credit on Performancein Future Mechanics CoursesDr. Jacob R Grohs, Virginia Tech Jacob Grohs is an Assistant Professor in Engineering Education at Virginia Tech with Affiliate Faculty status in Biomedical Engineering and Mechanics and the Learning Sciences and Technologies at Virginia Tech. He holds degrees in Engineering Mechanics (BS, MS) and in Educational Psychology (MAEd, PhD).Ms. Michelle M Soledad, Virginia Tech, Ateneo de Davao University Michelle Soledad is a doctoral student and graduate research assistant in the Department of Engineering
Paper ID #41669Board 400: The Evolution of the IMPACTS Mentoring Model: Expandingthe Scope to Broaden Success in the Engineering ProfessoriateDr. Sylvia L. Mendez, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs Dr. Sylvia Mendez is a Professor and Chair of the Department of Leadership, Research, and Foundations at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs. She earned a PhD in Educational Leadership and Policy Studies from the University of Kansas, a MS in Student Affairs in Higher Education from Colorado State University, and a BA in Economics from Washington State University. She is engaged in several National Science Foundation
/dashboardaicte.php.11. Aspiring_Minds, National employability report of engineers 2016, Aspiring Minds.12. Kulik, C.-L.C., J.A. Kulik, and R.L. Bangert-Drowns, Effectiveness of mastery learning programs: A meta-analysis. Review of educational research, 1990. 60(2): p. 265-299.
Paper ID #15634Physics Jam, a Physics Preparation Program to Increase Student Performanceand Success in Introductory Physics Courses ˜Dr. Courtney Hadsell, Canada College I graduated with my PhD in Physics from The University of North Carolina in 2013. I am currently a physics instructor and physics program services coordinator at Ca˜nada College. I have a deep passion in promoting understanding and success for physics students thought pre-semester and continuing academic support. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Physics Jam, a Physics Preparation
Paper ID #13186Enhancing Accessibility of Engineering Lectures for Deaf & Hard of Hearing(DHH): Real-time Tracking Text Displays (RTTD) in ClassroomsMr. Gary W Behm, Rochester Institute of Technology (CAST) Gary W. Behm, Assistant Professor of Engineering Studies Department, and Director of NTID Center on Access Technology Innovation Laboratory, National Technical Institute for the Deaf, Rochester Institute of Technology. Gary has been teaching and directing the Center on Access Technology Innovation Laboratory at NTID for five years. He is a deaf engineer who retired from IBM after serving for 30 years. He is a
their teams on challengingproblems also promotes psychological safety in their teams [4].With these thoughts in mind, we began to be curious about the state of psychological safety andstudent engineering teams. This work in progress builds upon two pilot studies presentedpreviously and expanded to include data from additional universities [5,6]. In addition to beingcurious about benchmarking the psychological safety of student engineering teams, we were alsocurious to understand if we can improve psychological safety on underperforming teams. Each ofthe universities participating in this study provides leadership or teaming development training tostudents in some way. Therefore, we are curious if these efforts lead to improvements
Paper ID #41379Engagement in Practice: Innovating a Project-Based, Community EngagedCourse for Engineering Students that Fosters Ethical ThinkingProf. Tucker Krone, Washington University in St. Louis Tucker Krone joined the faculty in the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis in 2017. He teaches statistics, ethics, publication writing, communication, and community engaged courses. Tucker emphasizes engineering and statistics as forces for equity and social justice. Tucker Krone’s current passion focuses on integrating community engagement, social justice, equity, diversity and inclusion into
Paper ID #14736”Turning away” from the Struggling Individual Student: An Account of theCultural Construction of Engineering Ability in an Undergraduate Program-ming ClassMr. Stephen Douglas Secules, University of Maryland, College Park Stephen is an Education PhD student at UMD, researching engineering education. He has a prior academic and professional background in engineering, having worked professionally as an acoustical engineer. He has taught introduction to engineering design in the Keystone Department at the UMD A. James Clark Engineering School. Stephen’s research interests include equity, culture, and the
management. 4 Leadership SkillsOur thinking about leadership skills follows the work of two teams of engineering leadershipresearchers. John Farr and his colleagues were the first to identify leadership qualities relevant toengineers. These include: big thinker, ethical and courageous, masters of change, risk taker,mission that matters, decision-maker, uses power wisely, team builder and good communicator35, 36 . While this list of competencies was developed with an audience of engineers in mind,Simon Pitts and his colleagues took their list a step further by generating it in collaboration withprofessional engineers working in industry. Pitts et al
the need for more scholarship that highlights students' capacity to dismantle structures of oppression. iterature ReviewLHumanitarian Engineering Education Humanitarian Engineering (HE) educational programs are growing exponentially globally, from less than two accredited programs in 2000 to over 67 in 2020[6]. Students entering these programs tend to be socially minded and have a higher population of historically underrepresented minority groups compared to the larger engineering field[7], [8]. These cohorts are enrolling with a passion for addressing modern-day engineering initiatives such as the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and the National Academy of Engineering’s Grand
students. To solve thisissue we brought social awareness to members of the group, as well as tolerance andresponsibility with this approach. It also emphasized to the students a tolerant and an open-minded world, now and forevermore. A group of multidiscipline, multinational, multiculturalundergraduate students at Salt Lake Community College, majoring in Civil, Mechanical,Electrical and Computer engineering are working on a project involving vertical farming,hydroponic watering, and making the plant growing process smart.Food and its availability is of major concern in all nations, especially the underdevelopedcommunities. Students get exposed to different engineering disciplines, and learn how to work ina multicultural team and become socially
Paper ID #15222’Lion Leadership Lessons Video Series’ - Delivering Engineering LeadershipLessons to a Broad AudienceDr. Dean H. Lang, Pennsylvania State University, University Park Dr. Lang is currently the Associate Director of the Engineering Leadership Research Program at Penn State University. She holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from West Virginia University, an MBA from Johns Hopkins University, and a PhD in Kinesiology with a focus on Biomechanics from Penn State University. Dr. Lang’s previous professional experiences and research interests range from mechanical engineering facilities design to research that
Paper ID #21708Inspiring girls to pursue STEM (ages three to thirteen): a recipe for a suc-cessful outreach eventDr. Jodi Prosise, St. Ambrose University Jodi Prosise is Chair of Engineering and Physics and an Associate Professor of Industrial Engineering and Mechanical Engineering. She earned her PhD in Biomedical Engineering at University of Minnesota and her Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering at Iowa State University. She teaches courses in both Industrial and Mechanical Engineering at SAU, focusing in Engineering Graphics, Manufacturing, the Engineering Sciences, and Design. She was recently the PI of an NSF
navigation experiences.Lara Hebert, University of Illinois, Urbana - Champaign Assistant Director of Engineering Outreach and Public Engagement at the University of Illinois. She brings to this position and this initiative expertise in teacher education and curriculum design.Dr. Meagan C Pollock, Engineer Inclusion As an engineer turned educator, through her company, Engineer Inclusion, Dr. Meagan Pollock focuses on helping others intentionally engineer inclusion™ in education and the workforce.Dr. Lynford Goddard, University of Illinois, Urbana - ChampaignDr. Luisa-maria Rosu Luisa-Maria Rosu is the Director of I-STEM (Illinois Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics) Education Initiative and a Research Associate in
of individuals to enhance the teaching and learning ofengineering design and establish potential assessment indicators for determining competence insolving open-ended design tasks. Consideration of other related constraints and factors such astime, space, teacher training, and other personnel requirements should all be included inadditional analysis around the potential for integrating ACJ into research around engineeringdesign education. ReferencesAdecco (2014). Mind the skills gap. Retrieved from http://pages.adeccousa.com/rs/adeccousa/ images/2014-mind-the-skills-gap.pdfAtman, C. J., Adams, R. S., Cardella, M. E., Turns, J., Mosborg, S., & Saleem, J. (2007). Engineering design
engineering at a major universitythat likely did not have many Appalachian attendees, earned their engineering degree and arenow working in the field as engineers. On the campuses of major universities, Central Appalachian students are oftenmarginalized because these educational spaces were not created with their needs and experiencesin mind. The primary research question is, “What types of cultural capital did CentralAppalachian engineers use to become career-ready engineers during their undergraduateengineering experience at a major university?” This study seeks to provide pilot data for afuture phenomenographic study, with the outcome space being stories of success to provide pathsforward for tomorrow’s engineering students from the Central
Paper ID #37488Student curiosity in engineering courses and research experiences: ”I’mkind of torn between being a decent student and a decent engineer.”Dr. Natalie Evans, University of Virginia Natalie Evans, Ph.D. is a postdoctoral research associate in the UVA school of Education and Human Development. Her research examines how educational experiences influence the development of curiosity and creativity in students from preschool through college.Jessica Scoville, University of VirginiaJamie J. Jirout, University of VirginiaDr. Caitlin Donahue Wylie, University of Virginia Caitlin D. Wylie is an associate professor of Science
Paper ID #23732Implementation of a 3D Interactive Mobile App for Practicing EngineeringLaboratory ExperimentMr. Shuo Ren, Old Dominion University Shuo Ren is a PhD Candidate and Research Assistant in the Department of Modeling, Simulation, and Visualization Engineering at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia, USA. He holds a M.S. in Modeling, Simulation and Visualization Engineering from Old Dominion University and a B.S. in Elec- trical Engineering from Virginia Tech. His research interests include virtual reality, immersive learning and human-computer interaction.Mr. Zelin Zhu, Old Dominion University Zelin
Paper ID #22325Effective Design-based Implementation Research Using Complex Systems Mod-eling (Fundamental)Roxanne A. Moore, Georgia Institute of Technology Roxanne Moore is currently a Research Engineer at Georgia Tech with appointments in the school of Mechanical Engineering and the Center for Education Integrating Mathematics, Science, and Computing (CEISMC). She is involved with engineering education innovations from K-12 up to the collegiate level. She received her Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Georgia Tech in 2012.Dr. Michael Helms, Georgia Institute of TechnologyDr. Marion Usselman, Georgia Institute of Technology
students as they move through these institutionalized trajectories. He is co-editor of a 2010 National Society for the Study of Education Yearbook, Learning Research as a Human Science. Other work has appeared in Linguistics and Education; Mind, Culture, and Activity; Anthropology & Education Quarterly, the Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science; the Journal of Engineering Education; and the Cambridge Handbook of Engineering Education Research. His teaching interests include develop- mental psychology; sociocultural theories of communication, learning, and identity; qualitative methods; and discourse analysis.Frederick A. Peck Frederick Peck is a PhD Candidate in the School of Education at the University of Colorado.Prof
Paper ID #16992Mixed Method Study of the Evolution of Leadership Traits during a Leader-ship ExperienceMs. Luisa Ruiz Mendoza, University of Texas - El Paso Luisa is a recipient of the Gates Millennium Scholarship since 2009. In May 2013, Luisa graduated from Texas A&M University with a degree in Business Management. Then, in December 2014 she received a master’s degree in Higher Education Administration from the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP). Ms. Ruiz plans to pursue a doctorate degree in Educational Leadership and Foundations with a concentration in Engineering Leadership at UTEP. She would like to work on a
Paper ID #16321Using Peer-Generated Screencasts in Teaching Computer-Aided DesignDr. Dongdong Zhang, Prairie View A&M University Dongdong Zhang is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Prairie View A&M University. He graduated from University of Missouri-Columbia with a Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering. His research interests include: Micro- and Nano-Fiber Reinforced Compos- ites Processing Simulation, Transport Phenomenon in Polymer Composites Processing; Finite Element Analysis (FEA), Computational and Numerical Algorithms; Computer-Aided Design and
practice. We review a small number of their foundational works here. Riley’schapter on engineering mindsets uses engineering jokes to draw out normative perspectives rooted instereotypes.28 Each joke reveals an underlying assumption about what it means to be a “real” engineer—adoption of a positivist epistemology, acceptance of military authority, elevation of technical certaintyover subjective interpretation, disdain for literacy, and a single-minded focus on technical optimization.She points out that while self-deprecating jokes may lighten the mood, they can also be used to deflectattention from these otherwise serious and consequential commitments, erecting an obstacle to sociallyjust change. Her argument affirms Godfrey and Parker’s finding
STEMcareers [16, 17, 18]. Program teachers offer varied, hands-on projects in their engineeringclassrooms that are practical, but also community minded, artful, or even musical. This approachto an introduction to engineering course is theorized to attract the creative problem solver neededto succeed in the field of engineering. See Appendix A for the ENGR 102 HS teachingobjectives and learning outcomes. While the focus of this paper is gender and student self-efficacy, much more information about ENGR 102 HS in comparison to other dual creditprograms, the quality of instruction and the logistics of the EPICS High community serviceprogram and the GC DELI online units can be found in previous work by the authors [1, 15, 19,20, 21].During a given
Paper ID #22249Comparative Study of the Intersection of Engineering Identify and BlackIdentity of African-American Engineering Students at a PWI and an HBCUDr. Lesley M. Berhan, University of Toledo Lesley Berhan is currently the Interim Assistant Dean of Diversity, Inclusion, and Community Engage- ment for the College of Engineering and an Associate Professor in the department of Mechanical, In- dustrial, and Manufacturing Engineering at The University of Toledo. Her research interests are in the areas of composites and fibrous materials and engineering education. She received her B.Sc. in Civil Engineering from the
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Paper ID #42120Navigating the Mystery: An Approach for Integrating Experiential Learningin Ethics into an Engineering Leadership ProgramDr. James N. Magarian, Massachusetts Institute of Technology James Magarian is a Sr. Lecturer with the Gordon-MIT Engineering Leadership (GEL) Program. He joined MIT and GEL after nearly a decade in industry as a mechanical engineer and engineering manager in aerospace/defense. His research focuses on engineering workforce formation and the education-careers transition.John M. Feiler, Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyLeo McGonagle, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Leo McGonagle