. For example, an educationalinstitution may routinely recruit junior engineering faculty from a core group of researchuniversities that produce good numbers of qualified graduates whose research interests align wellwith the research programs of the hiring university. But if the research universities in that coregroup have a poor record of graduating female Ph.D.s in engineering, then the hiring institutionshould either broaden its recruiting activities to encompass more female-friendly graduateprograms or risk a Title IX violation. As with students, an educational institution may not useemployment tests or other criteria that have a disproportionately adverse effect on members ofone gender, unless such tests or other criteria validly predict
demonstrations illustrate general polymerscience concepts, as well as describe the student’s project. They additionally serve as long-termrecruiting tools for PEP. PEP students are expected to do at least one demonstration eachsemester they are in the program. Such demonstrations serve as ways to empower students asadvocated by Elmesky9.While PEP is a means of directly impacting a select group of high school and middle schoolstudents, the organizers recognize that it is important for the program to touch a larger number ofpeople. Parents and guardians of the participants are expected to attend an evening event in thespring that welcomes the incoming class of Polymer Envoys, provides facility tours, introducesthem to faculty and graduate mentors, and
Huang-saad Dr. Huang-Saad is an Associate Professor of Bioengineering at Northeastern University and the Director of Life Sciences and Engineering Programs at Northeastern's Roux Institute in Portland, Maine. Dr. Huang-Saad is Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Springer’s Biomedical Engineering Education and Division Chair for the American Society of Engineering Education’s Biomedical Engineering Division. Dr. Huang-Saad’s current research areas are entrepreneurship, innovation, and transforming higher education. She is funded by the NSF to explore the influence of the microenvironment of entrepreneurship education on minoritized populations, entrepreneurial ecosystems, and fostering graduate student professional development
. While working, he received his master’s in business administration and attended several process control and quality trainings. Before coming to Ohio State, he was an engineering technology faculty member for three years at the community college of Zane State College in Zanesville, Ohio. At Zane State, he taught several engineering courses including CAD, solid modeling, statics, strength of materials, machine design, and statistical process control, as well as many others. Page 25.657.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 From the Industry to the Student: Project
the team find three to four different ideas that they liked and then come together and choose one of those as a team.4.3 Art as a Communication Tool:Using the STEAM photovoice prompt, this theme is deducted. Art has many different benefitsincluding introspection and contemplation to consider different perspectives and ideas. In thisstudy, many students expressed the main benefit of art as a tool to enhance communication; inother words, art was used to better explain the product features and design. • I think virtual models are a very good way to explain an idea to an audience that may not know much about the topic or product. In the classroom setting I am personally primarily a kinesthetic learner but I also appreciate
engineering student populations.Dr. John K. Antonio, University of Oklahoma Dr. John Antonio is Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and holds the Howard & Suzanne Kauffmann Chair in the Gallogly College of Engineering at the University of Oklahoma (OU). Dr. Antonio received his PhD in electrical engineering from Texas A&M University in 1989. He was a faculty member at Purdue University and Texas Tech before joining OU as professor and director of computer science in 1999. He has been an investigator for a number of funded research projects. As Associate Dean, Dr. Antonio represents the Dean’s office on matters related to academic programs and services, including outreach, recruiting, scholarships, advising
with a specialization in electrical engineering from Roger Williams University. Her research interests include developing professional skills for engineering students and understanding mathematics barriers that exist within engineering.Ms. Katherine Drinkwater, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Katie Drinkwater is a recent graduate of Duke University with a Bachelor’s in Mechanical Engineering. She is excited to begin working towards her Ph.D. in Engineering Education at Virginia Tech in the Fall. Her interest in Engineering Education began through a project where she helped to design a makerspace inside a shipping container. Since then, she has explored design and engineering education through
individuals with an interest in technicalactivities have high self-efficacy in a variety of engineering subfields 6,7 .When Lent, Brown & Larkin 8 compared self-efficacy to other theories of career choice such asHolland’s 9 theory of fit between interests and occupational environment and Janis andMann’s 10 theory of decision making (considering consequences of alternatives) they found thatself-efficacy was a better predictor. Neither the theory of fit nor the theory of decision makingpredicted academic achievement or career perseverance. Bandura 1 summarized the role of self-efficacy and career choice as follows. “…efficacy is a robust contributor to career development.It predicts the scope of career options seriously considered, occupational
factors influence diverse students to choose engineering and stay in engineering through their careers and how different experiences within the practice and culture of engineering foster or hinder belongingness and identity development. Dr. Godwin graduated from Clemson University with a B.S. in Chemical Engineering and Ph.D. in Engineering and Science Education. She is the recipient of a 2014 American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Educational Research and Methods Di- vision Apprentice Faculty Grant. She has also been recognized for the synergy of research and teaching as an invited participant of the 2016 National Academy of Engineering Frontiers of Engineering Ed- ucation Symposium and 2016 New Faculty
-fold: 1) to help further bridge the gap between teamworkeducation and the actual skills needed to perform on professional engineering teams; 2) developengineering leadership competencies among students; and 3) to test a unique approach tosimulate more professional settings in a classroom, with the intended outcome of increasingstudents’ confidence in project management and comfort levels with professional-style feedback.BackgroundThe three authors formed a single instructional team for an origami engineering course. Two ofthe three authors on this paper are faculty members in a civil engineering department at the samehome institution, a large, public R1 university located in the southeastern United States. One ofthem has expertise in
UT Austin undergraduate students who act asmentors and role models for the students. Additional, industry mentors are recruited to providetechnical support as well as STEM career information. Page 25.647.32.1 Underlying Principles of Our CurriculumBeyond Blackboards is founded on design-based learning, which incorporates differentiatedcurricula with active learning. It is an instructional methodology in which students are engagedin solving socially-relevant community, regional, national, and global challenges. Our approachis based on a five step cycle that includes: 1. Hands-On Technology Exploration introducing a technical
will be sending my application to Tech within the next couple of days. I am very interested in becoming a Civil Engineer. -Seth Bond, Airline High School Senior (TechSTEP pilot participant 2005-06)LaTechSTEP targets students who have shown an aptitude for math and science but needadditional encouragement to consider a STEM discipline as a career choice. Participatingteachers select these students based on their personal experiences with them. “Allowing the high school teachers to select a few students from their classes gives us the ability to identify the students best suited for this program, the ones
American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Integrated e-Learning Modules for Developing an Entrepreneurial Mindset: Direct Assessment of Student Learning AbstractIn an effort to develop an entrepreneurial mindset in all our engineering and computer sciencestudents, the University of New Haven is embedding entrepreneurial concepts throughout the 4-year curricula in their majors. This is done with the use of several short e-learning modulesdeveloped by content experts. The modules are integrated into engineering and computer sciencecourses by faculty who reinforce concepts through a related activity, project, or assignment. Thee-learning modules, available online through course
researchers and learners during this project were important to our decision-making process,as our learning is itself an exploration of EFA as a method. Considering the amount of decisionpoints and interpretations involved in EFA research, the team agrees with recent calls in the fieldfor engineering education scholars to include positionality statements in quantitative work (e.g.,see [11-13]). The project team is composed of one undergraduate student in an engineeringprogram, one research scientist who recently earned a Master’s degree in an engineering programand is an incoming engineering education research PhD student, a doctoral student in educationalpsychology with an engineering background, and a faculty member in an engineering programwhose
engineering faculty in developing a Tablet-PC-enhanced model of instruction, as well as developing and implementing onlineengineering courses. The project also involves a partnership among Californiacommunity colleges to design and implement a Joint Engineering Program (JEP) that isdelivered online.The ONE-STEP project accomplished an important first step toward wideningengineering education access, increasing the number of California community collegesthat now offer online engineering courses. As a result, the number of community collegeengineering students who are able to take these courses and be prepared for upper-division courses upon transfer has increased. However, courses requiring laboratorycomponents are currently not offered online in any
AC 2011-772: THE EFFECT OF PREVIOUS TEAM EXPERIENCES ONSTUDENTS’ PERCEPTIONS OF INTERDISCIPLINARY ENGINEERINGPROBLEMSAlexandra Emelina Coso, Georgia Institute of Technology Alexandra Coso is a graduate student in the Cognitive Engineering Center at Georgia Tech, where she is pursuing a Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering. She received her B.S. in Aerospace Engineering from MIT and her M.S. in Systems Engineering from the University of Virginia. Her research interests include interdisciplinary engineering education, mixed method research, and cognitive engineering.Reid Bailey, University of Virginia Reid Bailey is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Systems and Information Engineering at the University of Virginia
reference materials(e.g., tutorials) that students could access any time during the design process. Additionally, thetool allowed students to explore the design space freely by clearly laying out all the availabledesign parameters. This coupled with peer-feedback during the teamwork likely lowered thestandards for the students to perform research and build knowledge about the potential solutions.Students exchange ideas regarding what information would be needed for solving the challengebased on their research.For the “Weighing Options & Decision Making” design strategy, there was an increase in thenumber of Adept Informed designers in reflection #2 as compared to reflection #1. In reflection#1, there were 6 Informed and 4 Adept Informed
-structured problems, some felt uncomfortable due to the problems’ ambiguity. Kirn and Benson [19] explored how engineering students perceived problem solving andtheir future goals, and found that students used different problem solving approaches dependingon how well the problem aligned with their future goals. They also found that students felt thatcontext played an important role in their problem solving processes. In addition, Jocuns et al.’s[20] findings showed that freshmen had little idea about what type of work they would be doingwhen they graduate. In another study, Adams et al. [21] investigated engineering students’ andprofessionals’ perceptions of problem solving and creativity and found that both students andprofessionals had a
Ebony O. McGee is an Assistant Professor of Diversity and Urban Schooling at Vanderbilt University’s Peabody College and a member of Scientific Careers Research and Development Group at Northwestern University. She received her Ph.D. in Mathematics Education from the University of Illinois at Chicago; and she was a National Academy of Education/Spencer Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow and a National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow. As a former electrical engineer, she is concerned with sci- ence, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) learning and participation among historically marginalized students of color. Her research focuses on the role of racialized experiences and biases in STEM educational and
Head in the Drexel University Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, and an Associate Dean of the College of Engineering, Co-Director of the A. J. Drexel Nanotechnology Institute, an affiliated member of the Materials Engineering Department, a member of the Center for Educational Research, and his research focuses on the area of nanophotonics. He is the recipient of a NASA New Investigator Award, the Drexel Graduate Student Association Outstanding Mentor Award, the Drexel University ECE Outstanding Research Achievement Award and the International Liquid Crystal Society Multimedia Prize. In 2003, he received a NASA/ASEE Summer Faculty Fellowship to research NEMS/MEMS adaptive optics in
Surveying and Geoinformatics at the University of Lagos. Mr. Abiodun emerged as the best graduating student in the Department of Surveying, Federal Polytechnic, Idah in 1994 and the best graduating M.Sc. student, Department of Surveying and Geoinformatics, University of Lagos in 2004. He has many papers to his credit both local and international. He is a member of many professional organizations in Nigeria. He is married with children.Joseph Olusina, University of Lagos, Nigeria Dr. J. O. Olusina is a Senior Lecturer and the current Head of Department of Surveying and Geoinformatics, University of Lagos. He obtained his Ordinary National Diploma in Surveying in 1984 and
graduation rates [5].Thus, promoting an environment where students can cultivate a sense of belonging is vital topromoting student success and retention of students at-risk of attrition [7]. Connections with aslittle as one other individual in the institution might influence their decision to persist in college[7].Summer Bridge Programs Traditionally, summer bridge programs are interventions implemented to supportincoming first-year undergraduate students as they transition from high school to a post-secondary institution to increase retention and academic success of these students [8].Conventionally, summer bridge programs are a multi-week experience during the summer beforea student’s first semester at a four-year university. During the
successful initial development of a one semester undergraduatecourse in Microstation © and GEOPAK©, for undergraduate Civil Engineering students. A briefsummary of the academic institution is provided, describing the environment within which theengineering program exists. The Bachelor of Science in Engineering program is described insummary. Significantly more details are provided concerning the Civil Engineering specialtyconcentration. The rationale behind why the course development was undertaken is explained,focusing on the specific educational needs of the undergraduate Civil Engineering students. Asummary of the capabilities of Microstation © and GEOPAK © is explored, relative toundergraduate versus graduate educational needs – as well as
– www.parallax.com ). The curriculumconsisted of open-ended projects that produce observable behaviors and allow students toexplore beyond the limits of defined exercises. Such activities included creatively programmingthe robots to draw different shapes and imagery – an unexpected activity initiated by a group ofstudents during an open exploration period. The design of the project activities encouraged teamexploration as well as independent operations. Working in a team environment encouraged thecamp attendees to make individual contributions to the overall success of their efforts, regardlessof whether their individual strengths lie in problem analysis, system design, construction orprogramming.The camps’ enrollment was limited to women in the ninth
EthicsIntroductionIt is well accepted by both engineering education practitioners and researchers that developingethical engineers is critical for preparing engineering students to meet the obligations ofprofessional practice upon entering the workforce. Yet despite changing society contexts, and inan era where active changes are being seen in post-secondary engineering students (e.g., Sottileet al., 2021; Sottile, Cruz, & McLain, 2022) engineering ethics education largely looks the sameas it did a generation ago. This paper re-examines the question of engineering ethics educationwith an eye towards evaluating how students and faculty respond to relatively modernengineering ethical situations.Literature ReviewA Case for Case StudiesAs Martin, Conlon, and
first year students a more concrete picture of what type of work they might performin the aerospace industry and the breadth of employment options available.Guest speakers from both government and industry were invited inside the classroom to discusstheir actual work, career path, and opportunities with their employer. As a reflection of U.S.government involvement in aerospace, a NASA astronaut presented a seminar and reflected onhow aerospace engineers at both NASA and supporting industry contractors are shaping thefuture of space exploration. The speaker also addressed concerns about the future of U.S.government investment in space programs. Another guest speaker specifically outlined the co-op program at their organization, which provided an
career engineers to adapt to engineering workplace culture.Dr. Samantha Ruth Brunhaver, Arizona State University Dr. Samantha R. Brunhaver is an Assistant Professor within The Polytechnic School, one of six schools in the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University. She is a mixed-methods researcher with focus on the preparation and pathways of engineering students. Her specific research interests include engineering student persistence and career decision-making, early career engineering practice, faculty pedagogical risk-taking, and entrepreneurial mindset. She completed her B.S. in Mechanical Engineering at Northeastern University and her M.S. and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at Stanford
to Foster Sustainable, Equitable, and Resilient Infrastructure ConceptsAbstractThis study aims to position active learning as a potential approach for teaching equitableresilience of infrastructure projects through online courses within construction curricula.Exposure to active learning methods can significantly enhance the problem-solving abilities ofconstruction management (CM) students, preparing them for complex technical challenges intheir future careers. Additionally, such interactive teaching strategies can help students retaininformation about advanced and practical concepts. However, in online learning environments,keeping students engaged poses a unique challenge. Unlike in-person classes
to show how shareddialogue between a mid-career faculty member and an early-career postdoctoral researcher canshed light on issues and lessons related to preparing for an academic career. The aim of this workwas to use individual reflection and collective sensemaking to examine professional formationand explore how to seed and sustain a discipline-based education research group in engineering.PositionalityThe collective and individual voices are woven throughout the paper with the author’s namespecified for personal reflections. Both of us completed our undergraduate and graduate degreesin civil engineering at large, public research-intensive universities in the United States: Denise, aBlack woman, at Clemson University and Madeline, a White
entrepreneurshipprogramming declines or may be completely lost.VentureWell, a not-for-profit that supports STEM innovators and entrepreneurs, has utilized itsFaculty Grants Program to provide seed funding to faculty champions to create courses andprograms that enhance student development of skills and knowledge associated with innovationand entrepreneurship. To foster lasting impact, the program sets the expectation that meritoriouseducational innovations will continue after funding ends. While this has occurred in most cases(over the last 5 years 72% of grantees' claim activities have continued, expanded or beeninstitutionalized), continuation of the program typically remains the responsibility of thefounding faculty members, an indicator that institutionalization