’ previous experiences with college writing.These results paint a rather bleak picture of our engineering undergraduates’ education aswriters. As Figure 4 indicates, many students will likely receive no disciplinary writinginstruction until their 3rd year of study. All of our students will be required to write at some pointin their undergraduate careers. However, considering the rate at which students place out of thefirst-year composition course and the lack of writing instruction in engineering courses havingwriting components, some students may never receive any writing instruction, disciplinary orotherwise, during their entire college career.Ideally, writing would be integrated throughout the curriculum by incorporating writinginstruction and
150 articles and chapters, her research centers on the intersections of career, gender communication, lead- ership, and resilience. Fellow and past president of the International Communication Association, she has received numerous awards for her research, teaching/mentoring, and engagement. She is working on Purdue-ADVANCE initiatives for institutional change, the Transforming Lives Building Global Commu- nities (TLBGC) team in Ghana through EPICS, and individual engineering ethical development and team ethical climate scales as well as everyday negotiations of ethics in design through NSF funding as Co-PI. [Email: buzzanel@purdue.edu]David Torres, Purdue University, West Lafayette David is a fourth year
Formative Feedback CoachingIntroductionFaculty development, as it relates to teaching and learning, has been a persistent challenge inhigher education. College faculty generally begin their careers with no formal training in teach-ing and, consequently, ‘teach as I was taught’ is the starting point for most new faculty. Respon-sibility for faculty development of teaching, therefore, falls to an administrative unit of theuniversity. Many institutions have successful faculty orientation and mentoring programs, butthose programs often fall short of moving new teachers to effective practice in engagement peda-gogy using active learning strategies. Modifying the practices of experienced faculty is particu-larly difficult.This paper explores how faculty
great area, but it's less than 15% of the courses that students take in an undergraduate career… then in the other 85% it’s completely invisible, you're going to think, as an engineering student, just doesn't matter. This broader impacts, if it had really mattered, my professors would have mentioned it more. But we’re trying to change that culture.Teaching ESI throughout the educational experience conveys the inherent interconnectedness ofethical decision-making and engineering. A psychology professor who teaches at a privatereligiously affiliated baccalaureate college with arts and science focus [26] developed an ethicscourse for computer science students that is integrated into the program. He described how thewhole department bought
implementation of a socio-technical laboratory, one that emulates anexperience of global engineering fieldwork.IntroductionThe practice of engineering is a profession that engages the material world. The work engineersundertake requires being in and around the processes, artefacts, and users of the solutions theydevelop. This necessarily leads to being involved in investigations “in the field” where a widerange of technical and non-technical data is gathered or generated, and situational awareness iscentral to their analysis and recommendations based upon the conclusions drawn in the givensituation. During their career, most engineers have undoubtedly faced the urgent matter of beingsent to an installation site or to visit a supplier to investigate a
. Lang’s current research interests focus on identifying, assessing, and developing key skills, knowledge, attitudes, and other intrinsic and extrinsic factors required for engineers to effectively lead others, particularly other engineers and across cultures.Dr. Meg Handley, Pennsylvania State University, University Park Meg Handley is currently the Associate Director for Engineering Leadership Outreach at Penn State University. Previously, Meg served as the Director of the Career & Corporate Connection’s office at the Smeal College of Business at Penn State University. Meg holds a PhD in Workforce Education at Penn State, where she focused on interpersonal behaviors and their impact on engineering leadership potential
Hatcher c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 An Introduction to the Integrated Community-Engaged Learning and Ethical Reflection Framework (I-CELER)Abstract Cultivating ethical Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics researchers andpractitioners requires movement beyond reducing ethical instruction to the rational explorationof moral quandaries via case studies and into the complexity of the ethical issues that studentswill encounter within their careers. We designed the Integrated Community-Engaged Learningand Ethical Reflection (I-CELER) framework as a means to promote the ethical becoming offuture STEM practitioners. This paper provides a synthesis of and rationale for
fixate the project as soon as possible.Students also reported in the survey how, even though coordinating and understanding otherdisciplines' priorities was challenging, it still provided them a real-life experience of what theywould encounter in their careers. It was very interesting to monitor the evolution of the mutualperceptions of their roles during the project with students either gaining a better understanding ofeach other’s roles and priorities, or even of their own roles on the project. With the increasing useof integrated PDMs in the industry, this module presents a valuable platform for students fromdifferent
EWBprojects, with their explicit social justice mission, has already been shown to have a positive effecton students, attitudes towards community service, and career expectations [2–7]. Other work hasdocumented the effects of service learning participation on meeting ABET learning outcomes [6]and providing global engineering competencies [8, 9]. While the benefits of service learning forstudent education are enticing, there is also some evidence that participation in projects with localcommunities, in contrast to internationally-based field work, can achieve the same studentoutcomes in terms of technical and professional skills [10, 11].Integration of service learning into the curriculum also necessitates the consideration of impactson the
prepare these individuals to demonstrate resilience, and be life-long learners[1]. Life-long learning is critical for the development of engineering graduates who will be ableto address the Engineering Grand Challenges [2] and other wicked problems of our ever-changing world. In parallel with this mission, universities also work to address student needsrelated to retention and inclusion. To add further complexity, engineering students now pursuean ever-widening range of career paths after completing their undergraduate degree. Onecommon thread across these competing demands are the needs for engineering education toholistically develop resilient individuals who can maintain motivation, invest significant effort intheir learning, and persist in
, and those thatare missing, in the problems that students solve, and are exhibited in the solutions they create.Then, we use the results to define a set of guidelines that would contribute to improve the realismof SDP’s, both in terms of their problem definition and of the evaluation and assessment ofstudents’ solutions.Introduction Research suggests that engineering education and practice are disconnected [1]. Inparticular, early career engineers believe that “engineering work is much more variable andcomplex than most engineering curricula convey” [2]. Successful engineering, in practice, isdriven by the skills necessary to solve open-ended, ill-structured problems, such as problemformulation, communication, people management
. Tamara J. Moore, Purdue University, West Lafayette Tamara J. Moore, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in the School of Engineering Education and Director of STEM Integration in the INSPIRE Institute at Purdue University. Dr. Moore’s research is centered on the integration of STEM concepts in K-12 and postsecondary classrooms in order to help students make connections among the STEM disciplines and achieve deep understanding. Her work focuses on defining STEM integration and investigating its power for student learning. Tamara Moore received an NSF Early CAREER award in 2010 and a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) in 2012. c American Society for
. Requiring students torevise writing in response to specific feedback may motivate them to pay attention to feedbackand apply it to improve their writing, especially when they consider the written productimportant to their career success. Feedback delivered within the context of professional work isespecially salient to students. Some research has found that participation in engineering designprojects provides opportunities for coaching and mentoring in professional skills, including 1teamwork and communication [10]. Researchers concluded that feedback on professional skillshelped students become enculturated into the community of engineering practice.Clearly, the acquisition of writing skills is an
curriculum in her classroom. She continued working on STEM research, specifically prob- lem scoping for young children, at Purdue University in the summer of 2017.Dr. Tamara J. Moore, Purdue University, West Lafayette Tamara J. Moore, Ph.D., is a Professor in the School of Engineering Education and Director of STEM Integration in the INSPIRE Institute at Purdue University. Dr. Moore’s research is centered on the integra- tion of STEM concepts in K-12 and postsecondary classrooms in order to help students make connections among the STEM disciplines and achieve deep understanding. Her work focuses on defining STEM inte- gration and investigating its power for student learning. Tamara Moore received an NSF Early CAREER award
: Did your above bin selection change from the bin selection made as a team in class? (A) Yes, (B) No, (C) Other - If yes, describe how your second bin selection was different from that made in class. If no, describe why it did not change. - Q4: If a friend or someone else who contributed to your trash bag asked you about the class on Friday, October 6 (the date module was implemented in class), what would you say? - Q5: How do you think this “Bring in Your Trash” activity could be improved? - Q6: What factors do you think you will consider as you make choices about materials in your future career as an engineer
Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University and his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Cincinnati. His research and teaching interests include wearable computing, electronic textiles, and interdisciplinary design teams for pervasive computing. In 2006 he was selected for the National Science Foundation’s Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) for his research in e-textile-based wearable computing.Dr. Marie C. Paretti, Virginia Tech Marie C. Paretti is a Professor of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech, where she co-directs the Vir- ginia Tech Engineering Communications Center (VTECC). Her research focuses on communication in engineering design
from multiple assessors directly tied to the established criteria. Studentswere then given time to reflect upon, and then address, the comments received through theconceptualization and experimentation stages of the Cycle.In closing, the development of the cornerstone project described here has had an overall positiveimpact, as students appreciated being “given a chance to solve a real world, open ended problemthrough our coding which will be useful in both our college careers and our careers later in life.”Those interested in implementing a similar project at their institution are welcomed to contact theauthors for additional information.References1. D. A. Kolb, Experiential Learning: Experience as the Source of Learning and Development
courses, and develops online content for Virginia Tech’s highly-regarded Master of Information Technology program. Dr. Kulczycki has various publications on topics including formal specification and verification, web services, and software reuse. His interests include object-oriented programming, software specification and reasoning, design patterns, and online learning.Dr. Steven Atkinson, Virginia Tech Steven Atkinson started his research career at the Software Verification Center at the University of Queens- land, in Brisbane Australia. He worked as a postdoctoral research assistant professor at West Virginia University, before transitioning to industry for the last 18 years. He has worked at enterprise document
down orally through classes and peergroups, while published strategies tend to be from faculty or administrative perspectives. Thework presented here codifies the successful and unsuccessful strategies that students acrossnumerous technical disciplines and from different backgrounds have used through theiracademic careers. The advice given is from a range of students at Wentworth Institute ofTechnology with a number of engineering and technical programs, gathered and analyzed bya team consisting of students, faculty, and administrators. The work serves as a guidebook forstudents, by students, in a range of rigorous programs. A survey was distributed to recent graduates and upper-level students from variousengineering and science backgrounds
Editor for both the Engineering Management Journal and Quality Approaches in Higher Education. Prior to his academic career, Schell spent 14 years in industry where he held leadership positions focused on process improvement and organizational development. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Writing as a Method to Build Better Engineers: Examining Faculty Perceptions of Writing’s ImportanceAbstractWriting is a critical skill for professional communication, providing a way to develop and examineideas, and a method to test learning. When perceived as meaningful by the writer, writing isfundamental for identity formation in disciplines, such as engineering. The
mentoring and providing broader exposure to industry culture and career opportunities; Location: North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC Agreement: master research agreement (8) allows employees to participate in recruiting and other campus events and to network with local professional Commitment: 6 year (2012-2018), $10 M minimum of sponsored research societies, other area companies, and groups across the Resources: 3 full-time staff scientists, 1 full time admin support university; Facilities: rental space on Centennial Campus - ~ 1600 ft2 with office
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other on campus. Programs may also create partnershipswith community-based organizations in order to encourage engineering-focused activities thatbring together Latino fathers and their daughters (e.g., parent/guardian and daughter roboticscompetitions and design competitions). In particular, this institutional support might take theform of starting or increasing support for First Robotics, Lego League, or Girls Who Codeinitiatives. Embedded within these community programs could be materials geared towardLatino males on the underrepresentation of Latinas in engineering and other STEM fields and therole their support can play in supporting female students in these majors and careers. This study also found that involvement with women’s
and interacting set of studentperceptions arose from the data For example, a commonly expressed theme in the focus groupswas the relative sense of gender parity in our engineering programs, but participants across theboard consistently shared experiences of gendered microaggressions. The findings suggestavenues for future research, as well as provide insights for interventions to improve the climateand experiences of underrepresented students.IntroductionResearch on student choice of and persistence in engineering majors emphasizes the importanceof students’ identification with a major or career in motivating their persistence and success [1-3]. Despite durable myths that students leave engineering primarily due to the difficulty of
topics leads to good job prospects and careers; moreover, science shows us that a greater diversityof perspectives in engineering teams leads to better results [6]; it is thus both a moral and practical imperativeto find ways to achieve greater diversity within engineering and technology fields.This paper describes experiences developing a new course at UMass Amherst, called Queer Lights, that aimsto share the excitement and potential of electronics and computing with students who might not otherwiseexperience these topics by pursuing an engineering major. The course has the following description: “QueerLights will cast light on lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer, and asexual (LGBTQA) topics while the studentsin the class literally cast light
college. My NSF CAREER project focuses on understanding how broader, more social contextsfor engineering design activities can better appeal to grades 5-9 students’ personal interests. Inthis context, I think about diversity in three distinct ways--the diversity of engineering, thediversity of solutions, and the diversity of people. The diversity of engineering relates to thediverse projects, fields, and domains engineers work on or in. My goal is to highlight to youngstudents that engineers do much more than build bridges, buildings, and cars. The diversity ofsolutions relates to the idea that any problem will have multiple possible solutions and that eachone brings its own unique benefits and tradeoffs. I want students to understand that
across the United States and Internationally. In addition to painting, he is known for new media environmental installations in the Northeast US, including Mt. Desert Island, Saranac Lake, Portland ME, St. Lawrence University, and Weymouth Nova Scotia. During 2017 he was a visiting fellow at Munich University of Applied Sciences, where he developed and auditioned his latest project, ”Convergence.” In addition to his art career he is a former New York State Assistant Forest Ranger for the Department of Environmental Conservation and is currently a licensed NYS guide in the Adirondacks. Burnett is currently an Associate Professor in the Graphic and Multimedia Design Program at the State University of New York
Learning to Engineering Learning 3Articulate (continued) 2. Relevance to Students and Field: What should students already know and be able to do related to this course content before taking the course? How will what students learn in this course help them in their further studies at Mines AND in their career? Why should this course be important to the students? 3. How to Ignite Student Passions: How will this course build on students’ interests and passions? Is it designed for students with specific interests and passions or does it provide opportunities for students to apply and utilize varying passions? 4. What’s the Added Value: What is the added value