a betterunderstanding of engineering research (Figure 3).Figure 3. FCC Scholar Ratings of the Personal/Academic Outcomes of Faculty Mentoring (n = 6)As part of the ESP, scholars had the opportunity to mentor students in subsequent cohorts. CohortA served as peer mentors for Cohort B in year 2, while Cohort B students provided peer mentorsupport to Cohort C in year 3, and during the fourth year students in Cohort C provided mentoringto students in Cohort D. An Engineering Scholar faculty team member provided peer mentors withtraining, during which they learned about effective mentoring, received guidelines on their role,and received resources to support them as peer mentors. The faculty team supported mentorsthroughout the academic year
career Dr. Dean was Director of Operations and Business De- velopment for Clark-Smith Associates, P.C., and served as an Electrician in the US Navy aboard the USS South Carolina and the USS Enterprise.Mr. Connor Schwalm, Old Dominion University Connor Schwalm earned his B.S. in Physics from Old Dominion University in 2014. Currently, he is an Graduate Student in the Engineering Management and System Engineering Program at Old Dominion University working towards his M.E. in Systems Engineering with an expected graduation of August 2016. Currently, he works as a Graduate Research Assistant for Dr. Tony Dean on Stern2STEM, a pilot program to increase the student veteran population and retention rates in STEM disciplines
and staff advisors on academic and other issues that are of concernto them. Several other group activities are being planned in the current semester. One of them is avisit to a design and product development center of an automotive supplier. The STEM studentsare now discussing and planning to reactivate the student chapter of the American Society ofMechanical Engineers (ASME). Several students have become member of ASME and some ofthem have come forward to take the leadership role in the ASME student chapter. The possibilityof working with the student chapter of the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) to holdcampus and community events is also being explored. To understand the student’s needs and concerns, a self-assessment
institutions towards anincreased diversity of environments and ideas. The UVA course was directed to graduate levelstudents in engineering, and the HU course was for undergraduate engineering students. Initially,4 seminars were shared between the two courses covering Professional Engineering Code ofEthics, Corporate Ethics, Quality and Compliance, Intellectual Property, and Climate Ethics 9. Inthe subsequent year, the collaboration expanded with the goal to further relationships betweenfaculty and students that could lead to other forms of collaboration, including joint researchprojects, opportunities for graduate study and other mutual benefits. The current collaborationresulted in an internal grant from UVA to support one-day in-person student
bestsuited where a need for a change in vision, process, or culture is necessary [9].Teamwork and productivityUnderstanding and maximizing the skillsets of team members will ensure that resources areused effectively. To have a productive team, team members must work in synergy andcomplement each other.Tools that Aid Effective Personnel ManagementPersonality testsThe personality test is an assessment tool designed to understand the make-up of a person interms of traits, likes, dislikes, areas of strengths, weaknesses, and patterns of thoughts. It isthe consistent differences existing between two people that can either be inherent or learned.This set of tests seeks to unravel the unique set of drives, attitudes, emotional patterns,opinions, etc
involved in curriculum development and in efforts to form the professional identity of students. He serves as the faculty sponsor for IEEE-HKN honor society and a faculty advisor for IEEE. He provides numerous research experiences for undergraduates, primarily in the fields of optics and imaging which are his major areas of research. Dr. Jacobs is fellow of SPIE and a senior member of IEEE.Dr. Amy L de Jongh Curry, University of Memphis Amy L. de Jongh Curry, PhD, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at University of Memphis (UM) with secondary appointment in the Department of Electrical & Com- puter Engineering. She also holds an adjunct position in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery
students of all genders and race/ethnic/socioeconomicbackgrounds. It is designed to give students an early start in their engineering majors and helpbuild a community of students, faculty, and staff across different engineering disciplines. Forhigh school students this is an opportunity to further explore their interest in engineering whilebuilding networks with students and mentors in the university.Workshops, programs, and other initiatives to bring awareness to issues related to diversity,equity, and inclusion (DEI) in an organization (a workplace or an academic institution) havebeen around since the 1960s [3], [4], with questionable outcomes [5], [6]. However, during thesummer of 2020, amidst the global pandemic, certain events such as the
made them think deeply about their goals and how to achieve them.Undergraduate research opportunities: Undergraduate research funded by the CREATE programhas been very well received by both scholars and their faculty research mentors. A total of sixteenscholars were placed in laboratories of engineering professors who indicated interest in givingthem a research experience. An evaluation was conducted on scholars’ performance and allresearch mentors deemed that their scholars had participated satisfactorily. Some scholars havedecided to pursue graduate school based on these experiences.Career and graduate school guidance: CREATE may have given information on careers andgraduate school a bit too early in the program to the second cohort and
engage with specific tasks. This latter step was important in that it provided both amotivation to engage the work and a means to pilot the new instructional strategies.From the perspective of the authors and PLC members, the PLC provided a consistent space forits members to explore the concepts of social justice and inclusivity as they relate to curriculum,to our students, and to our own self-development. The environment was challenging but invitingand respectful, allowing for authentic discussion of ideas for teaming instruction activities andfor an opportunity to receive critical feedback. The variety of perspectives and experiences of thePLC members improved the quality of the teaming activities and modules that emerged, and alsopromoted the
lab studying solar energy.Learner-centered altruism sometimes means helping students with problems outside the course,such as finding an internship and preparing application materials. One faculty member took apoll of seniors and discovering their concern about the future (both entering graduate school andindustry) chose to implement a series of workshops in their course rather than overburdeningstudents with content. This faculty member implemented workshops designed to bring outsidespeakers with advice and knowledge the students felt as though they lacked (determined throughthe survey). Workshops allowed students to ask questions and gain advice from experts in areassuch as graduate admissions, industry hiring practices, and startup
included statements aboutteam work, critical thinking and problem solving, and personal skills. For example, one studentsaid, “The most important thing I learned was to stay focused and while doing research you haveto keep an open mind.”The strength of agreement items asked the participants to share some summary perceptionsregarding their experiences (Table 9). The students indicated that they had found value in the cross-disciplinary set of peers they had worked with. They liked the style of problem-based learning theyhad experienced in the REU. Although not necessarily in transportation, students were able to seethemselves in graduate study, academia, or research-based careers. That four of the fiverespondents “strongly agreed” that they were
experiences for veterans to motivate them tocontinue to graduate school or pursue a career in Naval STEM research. A mentor program wasimplemented to provide research faculty mentors, Navy engineering mentors and an expandedmentor network to support the student veterans. The program is well received at bothuniversities and has demonstrated a positive impact on the undergraduate student veterans.Several program challenges are presented along with methods used to overcome those challengesto provide a better experience for both the veteran students and faculty mentors.IntroductionThis paper discusses the development and execution of a multi-year veteran research exchangeprogram between the University of Tennessee and the University of North Carolina at
, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM).Mrs. Selyna Beverly, University of Michigan Selyna Beverly is current doctoral student in the Higher Education program at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She has worked as an administrator in a College of Engineering in California and through that experience grew interested in studying female faculty and students. Currently, her research centers on implicit bias within engineering and how it affects women who are pursuing engineering degrees. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Can I really do this? Perceived benefits of a
, especially, the experiences of under- represented undergraduate engineering students and engineering educators. She is a qualitative researcher who uses narrative research methods to understand undergraduate student and faculty member’s experi- ences in engineering education. Dr. Kellam is interested in curricular design and has developed design spines for environmental and mechanical engineering programs when she was a faculty member at UGA, and recently helped design the EESD PhD program at ASU. She teaches design courses, engineering sci- ence courses, and graduate courses focused on qualitative research methods. She also serves as a Senior Associate Editor of the Journal of Engineering Education.Dr. Anna Montana
’ students and faculty; the challenges that students at HSIs faceand institutional responses to the challenges; and resources that could help to address unmetneeds. As people around the tables learned that their institutions shared similar challengesdespite their locations in disparate parts of the country and different-sized enrollments,participants shared more details about successes and impediments they had encountered inbuilding STEM technician programs on their campuses.The groups identified the following strategies for positive project outcomes: • Bring relevant business and industry people onto advisory teams while planning an initiative. • Involve advisory team members in internships, mentoring and other experiential
majors than peers who identify as men [6], [16]. This sectionhighlights three barriers to sense of belonging: negative faculty interactions, negative peerinteractions, and stereotype threat. Though it has clearly been established that sense of belonging is an important factor inretaining women undergraduate engineering students, there are some potential barriers that havebeen documented to prevent students from experiencing belongingness. Blair et al. found thatfaculty have the ability to positively or negatively impact women STEM majors’ success [17].Upon studying faculty in a variety of STEM programs, researchers identified three-primarypositions related to how faculty members approach the idea of gender equity: gender blindness,gender
gender balances likely cannot use the strategy of advertising their genderratios to attract more women, schools may find it progressively easier to attract women as theirfemale enrollment rises.Role Modeling: An Existence Proof for Female StudentsThe low female faculty percentage in MIT’s engineering departments means that femaleengineering students may end up graduating with few, if any, female role models. Mentorshipand role models have proven to be important in people’s career development, but gender canplay a role as well.In his interview, former department head Rohan Abeyaratne gave an anecdote relating the firsttime the importance of having female faculty as role models truly sunk in. One thing I remembered greatly soon after Peko
the University of Washington in Seattle in 1985. He has worked at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md. (1986-1989) and in the Department of Neurosurgery at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, Mass. (1989-1991). Chudler is currently a research associate professor in the Department of Bioengineering and the executive director of the Center for Neurotechnol- ogy. He is also a faculty member in the Department of Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine and the Graduate Program in Neuroscience at the University of Washington. In addition to performing basic neuroscience research, he works with other neuroscientists and classroom teachers to develop educational materials to help K-12 students learn about
Tokyo, Japan.Dr. Elizabeth Litzler, University of Washington Elizabeth Litzler, Ph.D., is the director of the University of Washington Center for Evaluation and Re- search for STEM Equity (UW CERSE) and an affiliate assistant professor of sociology. She has been at UW working on STEM Equity issues for more than 17 years. Dr. Litzler is a member of ASEE, 2020-2021 chair of the ASEE Commission on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, and a former board member of the Women in Engineering ProActive Network (WEPAN). Her research interests include the educational cli- mate for students, faculty, and staff in science and engineering, assets based approaches to STEM equity, and gender and race stratification in education and the
5State’s Learning Resource Network (LRN) and is free to University faculty, staff, and students.Through videos and interactive vignettes that address a broad array of identity characteristics(e.g. age, disability, nationality, language, race, gender, religion, and sexual orientation), itprovides a clear set of 6 techniques that individuals can use to halt verbalized instances of bias atthe micro- and macro- levels in non-confrontational but effective ways. The training materialsalso include a workbook that allows students to practice the techniques learned and that is used,in part, as an assessment mechanism for the homework grade.Armed with the techniques presented in both the DEI Overview lecture and the “Ouch! ThatStereotype Hurts” bystander
Paper ID #43909Methodologies for Evaluating the Impact of STEM Outreach on HistoricallyMarginalized Groups in Engineering: a Systematic Literature Review (Other,Diversity)Jessica Nhu Tran, University of British Columbia Jessica Tran is an oncoming graduate student pursing a master’s degree in engineering education at the University of British Columbia (UBC). They are interested in exploring justice-oriented pedagogies and praxis, decolonization, and EDI (equity, diversity, and inclusion) within engineering education spaces, particularly within K-12 STEM outreach.Jessica Wolf, University of British Columbia Jessica Wolf is a
attitudestoward their diagnosis and requests for support can have a direct impact on their academicsuccess [14], [21]. In other words, when students perceive that faculty are more supportive andopen to discussing their learning needs, these students are more likely to succeed academically.To address this need, I-Course instructors provide an inclusion statement that directly addressesneurodiversity, acknowledges strengths and challenges, and invites students to communicatewith the instructor about these strengths and challenges. The statement may be provided orally,in writing as part of the syllabus, or in both formats. Rather than simply provide a standardstatement, faculty are encouraged to personalize this statement. Model inclusion statements
engineering and science education from Clemson University.Dr. Idalis Villanueva, University of Florida Dr. Idalis Villanueva is an Associate Professor in the Department of Engineering Education at the Univer- sity of Florida. Her work spans multi- and mixed-methods research and tools to explore the complex and intertwined cognitive, motivational, and affective mechanisms affecting underrepresented groups in sci- ence and engineering. In 2017, she received a prestigious National Science Foundation CAREER award to explore the topic of hidden curriculum (intended or unintended messaging in learning and working environments) in engineering. In 2019, she received the Presidential Award for Scientists and Engineers
of K-16 engineering learners; and teaching engineering.Dr. Glenda D. Young Collins, Mississippi State University Dr. Glenda D. Young Collins completed her doctoral work at Virginia Tech in the Department of Engi- neering Education. Her research interests include the role of university-industry partnerships in shaping student career expectations and pathways, the student to workforce continuum, and broadening participa- tion in engineering. Dr. Collins has worked as an Employer Relations Assistant for the VT Career and c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Paper ID #27724 Professional
engineering. Perhaps one way to characterize the role of LEES faculty in engineeringeducation is that we are brought in to compensate for that mismatch. Graham and Porterfield’s“Preparing Today’s Engineering Graduate: An Empirical Study of Professional Skills Requiredby Employers” compared the language used by ABET to describe non-technical skills with thatused in advertisements for engineering jobs and found many inconsistencies in the categories andterminology used. As the faculty responsible for helping students develop non-technical skillsand competencies, we may have an important role to play in establishing more consistency.Session 534A: Communicating Across Cultural and Epistemological Boundaries raised thelongest list of issues and potential
) and Centers(offering co- or extra-curricular activities) [6]–[8]. Particularly noteworthy is the growth overthe last 20 years in the number of programs and centers and the growth in faculty support andinvolvement in such Programs and Centers [9].Efforts to integrate entrepreneurial skills into existing engineering courses have been notable.For instance, Schar et al. [10] introduced a series of case studies in an introductory mechanicscourse, under the label of Scenario Based Learning. These case studies challenged students toapply their mechanics-based analysis skills to support product decisions involving businesselements. Woodcock et al. [11] explored how an engineering capstone design course couldhelp students learn entrepreneurial skills
engineering programs in the nation, we are building an innovative program aligned with the university mission of Pro Humanitate (For Humanity). We are committed to educating the whole person and the whole engineer with fearlessness and virtuous character. With inclusion being a core value, our engineering team represents 60% female engineering faculty and 40% female students, plus 20% of students from ethnic minority groups. Prior to joining Wake Forest University, Olga served as a Program Director at the National Science Foundation in the Division of Undergraduate Education and founding faculty of the Department of Engineering at James Madison University. As a 2009 NSF CAREER Awardee, her expertise and interests focus on
and environmental conditions as theyrelate to women in male-dominated fields will be examined briefly in this literature review. Taking an individualistic approach, Eccles’ (1994)17 Expectancy-Value Model ofAchievement suggests that academic and occupation related decisions are guided by one’sexpectations for success and the value one places on a particular activity. Research has shownthat women are less inclined to pursue male-dominated careers because they perceive thoseoccupations to be misaligned with their values18–20. Frome, et al. (2007)18 found that, 82% oftheir study participants with male-dominated career aspirations in their senior year of high schoolchose to change their career aspirations to either a gender neutral or female
1. Briefly, the centerpiece of the program is our quarterly Success inSTEM seminar, which students take every quarter for their first two years at University ofWashington Tacoma. Through these weekly sessions, students connect with each other and withtheir faculty cohort mentor, learning to support each other through challenging times,developing a growth mindset towards their academic journey, understanding barriers that leadto equity gaps in STEM such as stereotype threat and imposter syndrome, and building a senseof belonging and self-efficacy. The seminar allows participants to explore co-curricularopportunities (e.g., student clubs), campus resources such as disability services and financial aidoffices, and career preparation, while
decisions as wellas inclusion of the person or communities that will potentially be impacted by their work.To introduce the concepts of Design Justice in their courses, faculty members can start by readingthe Design Justice book [4], which contains many examples throughout the text. A case studycould be a good starting point, especially one that students can easily relate to. For example, thecase about the Spirometer, a device used to measure lung capacity. This was invented at a timewhen it was believed that race determined lung capacity, so the device was built with a racecorrection factor. When employers were sued for asbestos related lung-diseases caused due tolong exposure, Black employees would have to demonstrate worse lung function than