, 2017 ASEE Safe Zone Workshops and Virtual Community of Practice to Promote LGBTQ Equality in Engineering The results discussed in this paper are part of a transformative project that links diversityresearch with a faculty development initiative to promote LGBTQ equality in engineering. Theaims of the project are to (1) identify aspects of engineering culture that present barriers toLGBTQ equality, (2) build knowledge and skills to disrupt discrimination and promote LGBTQequality in engineering departments on college campuses and (3) to identify best practices forpromoting LGBTQ equality in engineering. Safe Zone is a term commonly used in schools andworkplaces to describe both a learning experience (workshops) as
. While the most frequent studentresponses to the four questions were skill in math, dedication, focus, and study groupsrespectively, the five emerging factors associated with greater student success were: (1)Participation in effective program components that provide practical engineering experience --project or problem-based courses, research experience, and industry internships; (2) A burningdesire to become an engineer and reap its economic benefits; (3) Taking advantage of allresources provided; (4) Combining motivation and dedication with effective time management;and (5) Involvement in MEP programs. The results are noteworthy in suggesting that the firstand foremost success factor for minorities in engineering is exposure to engineering
- tion and Infrastructure Engineering Research. He obtained his Doctor of Engineering in Civil Engineering with a major in Structural Engineering and minor in Construction from Morgan State University. He has more than 15 years of outstanding experience in practicing, teaching, and research in civil and transporta- tion engineering. He is experienced in project management, inspection and construction supervision, adaptive materials and construction techniques, high performance material testing and simulations, mate- rial modeling and computational mechanics. His major areas of research interest are structural engineer- ing, construction, sustainable infrastructure, new material development, physical and numerical modeling
– Module DevelopmentABSTRACTDue to the increasing prevalence of cardiovascular and orthopedic disorders in today’s modernsociety, there is a necessity to engineer biomaterials that improve the quality of life for peoplewith painful and debilitating diseases. This will require educational institutions to providespecialized instruction in these areas. Yet, there have been relatively few published reports onbiomaterials and tissue engineering-related lab activities, and existing activities lack a foundationin materials science. A primary deliverable of this project is to address this need and thusstrengthen science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) education by developinginteractive experiments that introduce tissue engineering through a
Paper ID #8971Assessment of Product Archaeology as a Framework for Contextualizing En-gineering DesignDr. Kemper Lewis, University at Buffalo, SUNY Kemper Lewis is a Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University at Buffalo - SUNY. He is the project PI for the collaborative NSF TUES grant, ”Assessment of Product Archaeology as a Framework for Contextualizing Engineering Design”. The project is a collaborative effort between the University at Buffalo - SUNY, Arizona State University, Penn State University, Northwestern University, Bucknell University, and Virginia Tech.Dr. Deborah A. Moore-Russo
an Assistant Professor of psychology at the University of Tulsa. His research focuses on the effectiveness of simulations, roleplays, and other high-involvement training across a variety of organizational and educational contexts. His educational training projects have included engineering, computer science, and law, as well as responsible conduct of research.Dr. Jeremy S. Daily, University of TulsaDr. R. Alan Cheville, Oklahoma State University Alan Cheville in interested in engineering education and high speed optoelectronics. He is currently an Associate Professor of electrical and computer engineering at Oklahoma State University and is currently serving as a program officer at the National Science Foundation.Dr
of Houston (UH) in Houston, Texas was awarded an NSF ResearchExperience for Preservice Teachers (RE-PST) site grant titled “Industries of the Future ResearchExperience for Preservice Teachers in STEM Settings.” The goal of the project is to host 10 highschool preservice teachers each summer to participate in Industries of the Future (IotF) researchfields and then convert their experience into high school curriculum. In the 2020 report of thePresident’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) to the President of theUSA, PCAST has recommended a set of bold actions to help ensure continued leadership in IotF,comprising artificial intelligence (AI), quantum information science (QIS), advancedmanufacturing, advanced communications
explores the use of virtual reality for engineering process visualization and simulation, as well as spatial presence in engineering education and professional development for additive manufacturing and cybersecurity. Dr. Ojajuni’s academic background includes a PhD in Science and Mathematics Education from Southern University and A&M College, an MSc in Mobile and Satellite Communication from the University of Surrey, and a BEng in Computer Engineering from Covenant University. Throughout his professional journey, he has been actively involved in various large-scale projects, such as the Southern University Reaching Across the Digital Divide (SURADD) project, an NTIA-funded initiative to develop VR/AR
ASEE and received the 2018 IEEE Undergraduate Teaching Award. She is a coauthor of The Borderlands of Education: Latinas in Engineering. She is a co-Director of the National Effective Teaching Institute (NETI). ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Examining Scripts of Whiteness in Engineering EducationAbstractFunded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Racial Equity in STEM Education Program,this project aims to deeply interrogate the influence and pervasiveness of Whiteness inengineering culture. While there has been substantial research into the masculinity ofengineering, Whiteness has received far less attention. We claim the centrality of Whiteness inengineering curricula
. His research interests lie in creating equal opportunities for all students and developing research and teaching proposals in STEM-integrated education that promote quality, equity, inclusivity, and student-centered instruction. He also brings 18 years of experience in project engineering to his work, specializing in the design of stainless-steel equipment, stainless-steel piping, and welding. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Asset-based practices in a STEAM middle school: Lessons learned from teachers’ perspectivesAbstractThis NSF-funded study sought to explore the ways in which middle school teachers developedan understanding and appreciation for funds
American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Is it Rocket Science or Brain Science? Developing an Approach to Measure Engineering IntuitionIntroductionSolving complex 21st century engineering problems requires an ability to judge the feasibility ofsolutions. This engineering judgement is an essential skill for today’s engineering practitioners.It is imperative that we prepare the future engineering workforce to exercise this judgement,informed by engineering intuition, while avoiding graduates who simply take output at facevalue without critical analysis. This requires that we first understand the construct of engineeringintuition.This project seeks to characterize and develop
engage joint PWI-MSI teams in the US education and research enterprise. The IECis a novel collaboration among nearly 20 MSIs, most of whom participated in an NSF fundedmulti-year, engineering education project. This new organization was built on the idea that thiscollaboration can be leveraged and moved to the next level to provide higher capacity building ateach of the consortium members. The hypothesis is that there are windows of opportunity openthrough establishment of research and educational collaborations between its MSI members withPWI research-intensive institutions. This is especially true since its member institutions serve aunique population of minority students. The IEC is developing the infrastructure and programs tofacilitate
continues into the second year.These positive results indicate that it would likely be advantageous to transition this program to amulti-university project to more effectively demonstrate the robustness of the process for RisingScholar students.I. Background and structure of the Rising Scholars ProgramThe project, NSF S-STEM 1644143: Rising Scholars: Web of Support used as an Indicator ofSuccess in Engineering, is a research/scholarship program that was initiated in September 2016at Purdue University. The research portion of the program was designed to determine whetherhaving a strong support network could outweigh high school grades and test scores in predictingsuccess in STEM majors, particularly engineering. ‘Rising Scholars’ (RS) is the
for Leadership Excellence. She has worked with Purdue-ADVANCE initiatives for institutional change, four EPICS teams including Transforming Lives Building Global Communities (TL- BGC) in Ghana, and individual engineering ethical development and team ethical climate scales as well as everyday negotiations of ethics in design and professional formation of engineers through NSF funding. [Email: pmbuzzanell@usf.edu; buzzanel@purdue.edu]Dr. Carla B. Zoltowski, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE) Carla B. Zoltowski is an assistant professor of engineering practice in the Schools of Electrical and Com- puter Engineering and (by courtesy) Engineering Education, and Director of the Vertically Integrated Projects (VIP
Paper ID #30668Using Design to Understand Diversity and Inclusion within the Context ofthe Professional Formation of EngineersDr. Carla B. Zoltowski, Purdue University-Main Campus, West Lafayette (College of Engineering) Carla B. Zoltowski is an assistant professor of engineering practice in the Schools of Electrical and Com- puter Engineering and (by courtesy) Engineering Education, and Director of the Vertically Integrated Projects (VIP) Program within the College of Engineering at Purdue University. She holds a B.S.E.E., M.S.E.E., and Ph.D. in Engineering Education, all from Purdue. Her research interests include the pro
cybersecurity outreach among K-12 students. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 WySLICE - Integrating Computer Science throughout Existing K-12 Core Disciplinary AreasAbstractThis project assembles a network improvement community comprised of partners from theUniversity of Wyoming, community colleges, Wyoming school districts, the Wyoming LibrarySystem, the Wyoming Department of Education, and local software development firms. Thecommunity meets once monthly over the duration of the project to collaborate stakeholderagendas for meeting the project goals. The community enlists K-8 teachers from across the stateto experience professional
Innovation and Strategic Projects in the College of Engineering at Montana State University (MSU). Plumb has been involved in engineering education and program evaluation for over 25 years, and she continues to work on externally funded projects relating to engineering education.Dr. Douglas J. Hacker Dr. Hacker is a full professor in the Department of Educational Psychology and participates in both the Learning Sciences Program and the Reading and Literacy Program. Prior to receiving his Ph. D. in educational psychology from the University of Washington in 1994, Dr. Hacker worked as a high school science and math teacher and then as a school counselor. From 1994 to 1999, Dr. Hacker was an assistant/associate professor
on NSF grant projects related to students’ resistance to active learning and how funding impacts STEM graduate students. His own dis- sertation work examines learning, marginality, and environmental citizen scientists. He has a B.S. and M.Eng in Environmental Engineering both from Texas Tech University.Dr. Prateek Shekhar, University of Michigan Prateek Shekhar is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Michigan. His research is fo- cused on examining translation of engineering education research in practice, assessment and evaluation of dissemination initiatives and educational programs in engineering disciplines. He holds a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin, M.S
are moreinclusive and suited for the 21st century workforce. The CEE Department’s contribution to theRED program is called Revolutionizing Engineering Diversity (RevED). The RevED team isembarking on its second year, building on the momentum established in the prior year. Underguidance from RevED, the CEE Department faculty have taken part in workshops that haveestablished a shared set of values and language around diversity and inclusion. The CEEDepartment is currently engaged in implementing inclusive curriculum in several courses offeredfreshman through senior year. This poster intends to showcase the developments made in severalCEE courses that have developed student projects or assignments that enable students to have amore global and
Paper ID #22967Board 59: Shame in Engineering: Unpacking the Socio-Psychological Emo-tional Construct in the Context of Professional FormationDr. James L. Huff, Harding University James Huff is an assistant professor of engineering at Harding University. He is the lead investigator of the Beyond Professional Identity (BPI) lab, which conducts research that is aligned with unpacking psy- chological experiences of identity in professional domains. Additionally, James directs multiple student projects that use human-centered design in the context of community engagement. James received his Ph.D. in engineering education and
Paper ID #28972Building Educator Capacity in K-12 Engineering EducationDr. Elizabeth Cady, National Academy of Engineering Dr. Elizabeth T. Cady is a Senior Program Officer at the National Academy of Engineering (NAE). She has worked on a variety of projects that examine and enhance systems for the formal, informal, and life- long education of engineers and improving diversity and inclusion in engineering. She is leading a project that will recognize and share innovative practices that improve diversity in undergraduate engineering education and also staffs a consensus study examining the capacity of K-12 teachers to teach
culture. Broaderimpacts of this program on Native American youth involve precollege partnerships developedbetween teachers and research mentors post-RET, such as student and faculty mentor visits tolocal participant classrooms at least once a year to support teachers with their RET researchlesson plan; a nanophotonics afterschool club for 3rd graders; an afterschool STEM programbringing together precollege teachers, students, parents, and university students, an on-campusUA optics summer camp with an RET partner school; Frontiers for Young Minds project withCIAN and an RET participant’s students; STEM comic book development collaboration with anRET participant as illustrator; and RET STEM education contributions for dissemination onCIAN’s
equipment as required for class projects • Voluntary Involvement - students who self-reported using makerspace equipment for projects not required for class, such as personal projectsThe engineering design self-efficacy (hereafter EDSE or self-efficacy) questions on the survey,developed by Carberry, Lee, and Ohland [10], sought to understand student perceptions regardingtheir abilities to conduct engineering design tasks. From the scores reported by students on thesequestions, we were able to get a quantitative measurement for their confidence, motivation,expectation of success, and anxiety surrounding engineering design tasks. The scores wereanalyzed across different comparison groups to see existing trends.University
a deficiency lens and seek to mold these students tobecome more like their privileged peers. The first-generation college students, from working-classfamily backgrounds, we came to know through our own research and teaching spoke about howtheir experiences and the experiences of their community as people who worked with their handsfor a living were devalued and even erased from the engineering curriculum and teaching practices[5]. Thus, in our first ethnographic research project with first-generation college students inengineering, we challenged the dominant deficiency lens by investigating the unique strengthsthese students brought with them to engineering by virtue of those very backgrounds. Many of thelow-income, first-generation college
Paper ID #24800Board 30: Sustainable Bridges from Campus to Campus: Outcomes for TwoCohorts of Jump Start Second-year Bridge Participants (#1525367)Dr. Catherine L. Cohan, Pennsylvania State University, University Park Catherine Cohan holds a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology and has been a research psychologist for over 20 years. Her areas of expertise include engineering education, retention of underrepresented students, mea- surement, and assessment. She is currently an Assistant Research Professor on the Sustainable Bridges NSF IUSE project (Peter Butler, PI). Previously, she was the project coordinator the the Toys’n MORE
were shared in [2].The following sections discuss the high-level objectives for the program and detail the progressof the project and the scope of learning objectives addressed by the current set of activities. Anexamination of the outcomes from the dissemination and implementation of the funded activitiesover the past year-and-a-half is explored through the lens of impacts on student attitudes towardslearning and connections students made among the activities and key systems and controlsconcepts. A summary of conclusions drawn by instructors implementing the activities areexplored with regards to the ease of activity implementation, the ease of adapting the activities tolocal needs, and the associated impact the activities had on student
Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, and Computer Engineeringcurricula. Due to costly hardware needed for communication and networking teachinglaboratories, many of these courses are taught without a laboratory. Additionally, such hardwarebased teaching labs lack the flexibility to evolve over time and adapt to different environments.Supported by an NSF TUES type II grant, we have developed a software defined radio (SDR)based general modulation/demodulation platform for enhancing undergraduate communicationand networking curricula. In our previous NSF funded CCLI project “Evolvable wirelesslaboratory design and implementation for enhancing undergraduate wireless engineeringeducation”, we have developed and demonstrated the first nationwide
Tufts University. He has additional appointments in the Department of Education and the Center for Engineering Education and Outreach at Tufts. His current engineering education research interests focus on learning through service-based projects and using an entrepreneurial mindset to further engineering education innovations. He also researches the development of reuse strategies for waste materials. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Innovation Corps for Learning (I-Corps™ L): Assessing the Potential for Sustainable Scalability of Educational Innovations Karl A. Smith1, Rocio C. Chavela Guerra2, Ann F. McKenna3, Chris Swan4
Paper ID #30680Engendering Community to Computer Science Freshmen through an EarlyArrival ProgramProf. Alark Joshi, University of San Francisco Alark Joshi is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of San Francisco. He was a co-PI on the IDoCode project (http://coen.boisestate.edu/cs/idocode/) that led to a change in the landscape of computer science teacher preparation and education in the state of Idaho. Currently, he is a co-PI on the S-STEM proposal focused on engaging students in the local community to enable successful outcomes for them with respect to courses and internships/jobs
Virginia. Her current research focuses on assessing learning and professional outcomes in formal and informal STEM learning environments; how data are used to inform decision-making; and the uses of different research, evaluation, and assessment methods to solve educational problems. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Scaling up the SIMPLE Design Model for Faculty Development: Lessons LearnedAbstractThis NSF DUE-funded project has supported the scaling and study of the SIMPLE model forfaculty teaching development. The SIMPLE model provides a framework for ongoing teachingdevelopment in discipline-specific peer groups (SIMPLE groups) designed to support