population that ought to be explored (Gardner & Gopaul, 2012). Of the research on part-time doctoral students, these students have been shown to be lessengaged in their studies, less satisfied with their Ph.D. experiences and viewed as less motivatedthan their full-time student peers (Gardner & Gopaul, 2012). Studies have found factors that limitthe participation of these part-time students include socialization barriers, structural constraints,negative encounters, feelings of otherness, feelings of being treated less favorably thantraditional students, longer completion time, and beliefs of not having the same opportunities astheir peers (Graham & Massyn, 2019, p.192). Furthermore, part-time students are less likely tobe
and satisfaction. The formative evaluation helps determinewhether project goals were met and what hampered their implementation. A summative reviewassessed this program's impact on student's professional abilities for global employment. TheGlobal Perspective Inventory [20] and Engineering Global Preparedness Index were used tocreate a survey (e.g., the belief that one can make a difference through engineering problem-solving). The evaluator used a Likert scale to poll students before and after IRES. The surveytool examined research skills and global perspective inventory professional skills. Research Skill Development - Pre v/s Post Survey Peer review and publication process Report writing and poster presentation Result
completed his PhD in CivilEngineering at Clemson University, where he also received his MS and BS degrees in Civil Engineering. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Infrastructure Education in Unprecedented Times: Strengthening a Community of PracticeAbstractCIT-E (the Center for Infrastructure Transformation and Education) was founded in 2013,catalyzed by a National Science Foundation grant. During the grant, faculty members fromaround the country gathered for six workshops to co-create an entire model introduction toinfrastructure course. These materials have been peer-reviewed and are available at no charge toanyone who wants to use and/or adapt
culminatingsenior experiences. These activities demand students’ time and effort, interactions between facultyand their peers, especially for students from different racial or ethnic backgrounds. Short-termgoals are also essential for engineering students' academic success as they influence learningstrategies for tasks related to students' courses [12]. Research has shown that self-efficacyimproves learning and understanding in introductory (“Gatekeeper”) engineering courses [5].Methods“The NSSE survey, launched in 2000 and updated in 2013, assesses the extent to which studentsengage in educational practices associated with high levels of learning and development. NSSEannually collects information at hundreds of four-year colleges and universities about
Paper ID #33060Collaborative Learning in an Online-only Design for ManufacturabilityCourseMiss Taylor Tucker, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign Taylor Tucker graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a Bachelor’s degree in engineering mechanics. She is interested in engineering design and lends her technical background to her research with the Collaborative Learning Lab, exploring how to improve ill-structured tasks for engineering students in order to promote collaborative problem solving and provide experience relevant to authentic work in industry. She also writes for the Department
more girls in STEM to make it the new norm. She has also architected SFAz’s enhanced Community College STEM Pathways Guide that has received the national STEMx seal of approval for STEM tools. She integrated the STEM Pathways Guide with the KickStarter processes for improving competitive proposal writing of Community College Hispanic Serving Institutions. Throughout her career, Ms. Pickering has written robotics software, diagnostic expert systems for space station, manufacturing equipment models, and architected complex IT systems for global collaboration that included engagement analytics. She holds a US Patent # 7904323, Multi-Team Immersive Integrated Collaboration Workspace awarded 3/8/2011. She also has
making. 1 The SCCT model posits thatperson-centered variables of domain-specific self-efficacy coupled with interests and realisticoutcome expectations about the field propel individuals to pursue particular careers. Careerchoice is further influenced by a combination of supportive and inhibiting contextual factors.Supportive factors associated with pursuing computing include: early exposure, access to highquality learning experiences, supportive parents, and peer groups.2, 3 Inhibiting factors includelimited access, subtle and not-so-subtle racism and sexism, geographic location, and lower socio-economic status.3, 4 Importantly, SCCT incorporates gender and race/ethnicity explicitly in its model, whichrenders it appropriate for work with
program requirementsand higher expectations of academic preparedness, particularly in mathematics and sciences. Asignificant number of students enrolled in a minority institution like a Historically Black Collegeand University (HBCU) are still first-generation college students in their families. Hence, thechallenges they have to overcome as the first-year students are greater than their peers. Thissituation warrants a first-year course that is specifically designed to help the first-year studentwho intends to pursue an engineering major to successfully navigate their academic life withinthe campus. The first-year students are challenged with a number of issues including financialmanagement, time management, student advising and alcohol, and drug
Professional Skills module wherein the benefitsof volunteering within the engineering discipline, both in terms of making a difference tosociety but also with regards to promoting individual employability and self-directed learningwill be emphasized.Additionally, working with colleagues, a number of mentoring opportunities aimed atfoundation students were offered and supported by the School. One such opportunityinvolved students going into inner city schools to offer mentoring in mathematics. Whilstother students were recruited for a foundation level Peer Assisted Learning project, providingmaths mentoring for their peer group. At graduate level, finding time outside of thecurriculum to enable the students’ to participate in such activities proved to
selected for the program, not of the specifics of the project they will be working on,or who they will be working with.The final reveal is performed at our May poster session and graduation ceremony for ourdeparting fellows who completed the program. The new fellows are invited to the poster session,and have the opportunity to talk to their peers who have just completed the program. The postersession culminates with the graduation ceremony for the prior fellows and an initiation ceremonyfor the new fellows. It is at this ceremony that the fellow is paired up with their graduate studentmentor and the faculty advisor. The expectation is that the mentors and advisors will take thetime to get to know the new fellows, talk about the project, and
) enrollments over the past six years (2013-2019)[2] in contrast to the minor decline inother student groups. This growth has resulted in over 1060 military affiliated students enrolled inFall 2019[2]. The university Veteran Service Office (VSO) supports these veterans and familymembers through a wide variety of student services. The office has many programs which includea veterans specific orientation programs, counseling sessions (individual and group), and GreenZone Training for faculty. The office also maintains a veteran lounge and conference room. TheCollege Of Engineering veterans program, Veteran Education Continued Through EngineeringResearch (VECTER), provides additional services to veterans which include peer to peer tutoring,a faculty
and discussions over fifteen weeks covering 1) anintroduction and overview of STEM and STEM literacy, 2) guiding principles in STEM Education,3) typical components of STEM, 4) workshops on developing an instructional STEM unit(curriculum unit), 5) STEM instruction from an integrated approach, and 6) pre-service teacherresidency peer experiences (Appendix A).Evaluation Approach and Method Reflection in engineering education has become highly regarded as an evaluation approachinvolving the concept of “doing and reflecting on the doing” [8]. Supported by several engineeringeducation researchers, “reflective techniques” are important in fostering effective teaching andstimulating student learning [9-13]. Turns [9] defines reflection “as
teaching practices [13]. Kuh et al. [15] studied theeffect of engagement in meaningful academic activities on retention of first year students andshowed statistically significant impacts on GPA and persistence. They also noted a proportionallyhigher impact of educationally engaging activities on students from underserved groups. Acommon theme in the literature on engagement is academic challenge, faculty-student interactions,and peer interactions. In this regard, Carini, Kuh, and Klein [16] conducted a survey of over 1000students and determined a positive impact of engagement on critical thinking skills and grades.Empirical evidence resulting from research on strategies for engagement indicates that activelearning such as problem-based learning
practiced in other projects throughout the semester.IntroductionThere are many challenges in STEM education, including stimulating student interest, retainingstudents of diverse abilities and backgrounds, and preparing students to address the realities ofthe post-academic world and work-space. Many novel approaches have been developed toaddress these challenges, including problem- and project-based learning [1], entrepreneurship[2], and flipped classrooms [3].First-year engineering students face many unique challenges, including a heavy academic load ofprimarily technical courses. Engineering student success has been shown to be helped byincreasing students’ peer-to-peer instruction [4], and increased efficacy [5] and increasingstudents’ personal
research fellow at Carnegie Mel- lon University, Pittsburgh (2001 – 2003) and BHP Institute for Steel Processing and Products, Australia (1998 – 2001). Dr. Manohar held the position of Chief Materials Scientist at Modern Industries, Pitts- burgh (2003 – 2004) and Assistant Manager (Metallurgy Group), Engineering Research Center, Telco, India (1985 – 1993). He has published over 70 papers in peer-reviewed journals and conferences in- cluding a 2007 Best Paper Award by the Manufacturing Division of American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), three review papers and five book chapters. He has participated in numerous national and international conferences. He is a member of ASM International, TMS, ACerS, AIST, ASEE
Ph.D in Computer Science from the University of California, Davis. Dr. Haungs spe- cializes in game design, web development, and cloud computing. He is the developer of PolyXpress (http://mhaungs.github.io/PolyXpress) – a system that allows for the writing and sharing of location-based stories. Dr. Haungs has also been actively involved in curriculum development and undergraduate edu- cation. Through industry sponsorship, he has led several K-12 outreach programs to inform and inspire both students and teachers about opportunities in computer science. Recently, Dr. Haungs took on the position of Co-Director of the Liberal Arts and Engineering Studies (LAES) program. LAES is a new, multidiscisplinary degree offered
, of course, not the only ways of providing cybersecurity education. Studieshave previously assessed the efficacy of using techniques such as peer mentoring [25], peerinstruction [26], games [27] and competitions [28] to teach cybersecurity knowledge and skills.3. Program Description & Changes from Year OneThe NDSU REU program has a number of components. Students first select a topic. Duringyear one, students were asked to brainstorm topics, in conjunction with their research mentor.For year 2, faculty were asked to identify areas of research interest. Students were then pairedwith faculty mentors based on the topics that they indicated interest in. The student and thefaculty mentor were then asked to further refine the topic, working
entities at the university that align with progression through a doctoral program. Examples of the modules include: ₋ Year 1: time management, success in graduate school ₋ Year 2: responsible conduct of research, data management, teamwork, ethics, mentoring, oral presentations, writing conference abstracts ₋ Year 3: writing academic papers, effective graphics for presentations, networking, responding to reviews, having difficult conversations ₋ Year 4
’ institution as it has with manyother institutions across the US.As a Jesuit Catholic university committed to “the ideals of liberal education and the developmentof the whole person,”[11] LUM operates primarily as an undergraduate institution withconsiderable liberal arts requirements. Students who pursue LUM’s ABET-accredited bachelor’sof science in engineering must select one of four concentrations in electrical, computer,mechanical, or materials engineering. At the same time, all students are required to completecourses in the natural sciences and mathematics, as well as in the humanities and social scienceswherein reading, writing, and critical thinking skills are heavily emphasized [12]. The LUMCore Values Statement “calls upon the curriculum to
© 2022, American Society for Engineering Educationparties, thereby playing a central role in developing new innovations. 21 Although designed forpracticing professionals, within education it has been successfully used as a framework forpromoting technical writing skills22 and for thinking creatively in organizing proposal (AKAelevator) pitches in various engineering design projects. 23, 24MVPFrank Robinson first conceived the Minimum Viable Product (MVP) in 2001 as a visual form ofcustomer engagement designed to maximize return on risk. 25 The process became popular whenfeatured in Ries’ book The Lean Startup26 and is considered an essential step in the Lean Startupmethodology. This step focuses on the software development team getting a working
the United States.Cynthia Hampton, Virginia Tech Cynthia Hampton is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech. While at Virginia Tech, Cynthia has directed summer bridge programs, led peer support initiatives for un- derrepresented groups, and served on various commissions, committees, and research groups focused on student support, organizational change, graduate student policy, and culturally responsive evaluation. Her research interests include organizational behavior and change as it pertains to engineering education and broadening participation, faculty change agents, and complex system dynamics. Her research investigates narrative inquiry of faculty who use their agency
in more depth and highlighted the challenge in getting gender balance inthe program. In addition to an extended description of the Summer Bridge Experience, Ennis etal. (2011) also discussed the impact of residential life and peer mentoring on the program.Student academic placement was outlined and lessons learned from the math and scienceplacement tests and subsequent performance. Again, student feedback was assessed againstprogram goals and the impact of the Engineering GoldShirt Program on the culture in theengineering college is discussed.Many Engineering GoldShirt Program components were also researched extensively using bothquantitative and qualitative methods as part of a larger Inclusive Excellence project, Sullivan et.al (2015). In
, handling stress, etc. Service and Civic Responsibility: Engineering is a service profession. Engineers are charged to use their talents and gifts to solve problems that impact others. The performance and practice of engineering is an act of service. Understanding of Engineering Ethics: Engineers are expected to exhibit the highest standards of honesty and integrity. Engineers are to hold paramount the safety, health, and welfare of the public. Those whom engineers serve deserve nothing less. As one example, the competencies are also used in the required first-year seminar course, wherestudents create action plans and write goals to
one or more subsystems ofthe Theremin to convert from a circuit diagram to a breadboard layout. Every subsystem wasassigned to each least two students so that there was more than one person who has studied eachportion of the schematic. Students were also assigned topics for a literature search in preparationfor writing a journal article on the project. + - A B C D E F G H I J + - 1 1 2 2 3 3 4 4 5 5 6
judgments and exercise ethical practices.With funding from the National Science Foundation’s Cultivating Cultures of Ethical STEMprogram (Award 1540298), the research team has been integrating CSR content into targetedcourses in petroleum engineering, mining engineering, design, and the liberal arts at theColorado School of Mines, Marietta College, and Virginia Tech. As described in greater depthbelow, those modules range from single assignments and lectures to a course-long, scaffoldedcase study. The material for the modules draws from existing peer-reviewed literature as well asthe researchers’ ongoing ethnographic research with engineers who practice in the mining and oiland gas industries. One of the common findings from interviews and
served as a key leader and member of the UW OMA&D Outreach and Recruitment Unit that contributed to two consecutive years of increased underrepresented freshmen student enrollment at the UW. In her current capacity as the Director for the Pacific Northwest Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (LSAMP) Pro- gram at the UW, she strives to increase the recruitment, retention and graduation rates for underrepre- sented students in STEM disciplines while providing experiential and research opportunities. Through the LSAMP Program she was able to co-write the OMA&D/UW College of Engineering STEM focused study abroad seminar to Brisbane, Australia. This was selected for a best practice model workshop at
formation as engineersand non-engineers work together. While we understand this study to be limited in scope, thefeedback provides preliminary evidence for collaborative research across disciplines and howprofessional skills are fostered in the classroom.IntroductionUndergraduate engineering students are often trained in disciplinary concepts and techniques oftheir specializations, but are rarely given opportunities to work with collaborators from differentdisciplines. In Gary Lee Downey’s words, the very educational processes “producing engineersas outcomes” [1] may neglect key professional skills that those engineers need.Skills that relate to collaborating with peers in different disciplines are increasingly necessary forpracticing engineers
provided service to professional organizations such as ASME, since 2008 he has been a member of the Committee of Spanish Translation of ASME Codes. Dr. Ayala has published over one hundred journal and peer-reviewed conference papers. His work has been presented in several international forums in Austria, the USA, Venezuela, Japan, France, Mexico, and Argentina. Dr. Ayala has a 42.80 average of citations per year of all his published work. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Beyond the Classroom: Experiential Learning with Engineers Without Borders in GuatemalaAbstractEngineers Without Borders (EWB) is a non-profit organization that designs and
for the educational context for this study. Failure forthis study was defined as not implementing NE, which would ultimately mean students not beingable to learn hands-on engineering integrated with reading and writing. Terms Chances of Failure(CoF) and Impact of Failure (IoF) were used to measure the probability and impact of potentialfailure. Additionally, since the goal was to recognize which factors out of the 10 acted as barriersfor NE, the term Barrier Index (BI) was used to signify multiplication result from CoF and IoFvalues.First section of the questionnaire included questions around the 10 factors to gauge CoF based onthe situations and perceptions of teachers. For each of the 10 factors, a corresponding questionwas included in the
foundational information and gain researchexperiences. Junior students are paired with more experienced students to learn the technicalaspects of design. Short lectures / hands-on instruction is done throughout the semester. Thecourse is structured according to the best practices for collaborative projects. There are frequentopportunities for students to receive feedback by peers and the instructor at different phases ofthe research. Students get the opportunity to work individually and in teams. The team meets in © American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 2023 ASEE Southeastern Section Conferencesub-groups multiple times during the week. There is also a weekly meeting for the entire team