Paper ID #9747Analysis of a Short-Term STEM Intervention Targeting Middle School Girlsand Their Parents (Research to Practice)Ms. Christina ”Chris” Deckard, SPAWAR Systems Center Pacific Christina Deckard is a native San Diegan and enjoys the beach and the Southern California weather. Ms. Deckard graduated top of her class in Physics from San Diego State University in 1983. She enjoyed learning so much that she kept going back for more and received a Master’s in Physics and a Master’s in Mathematics. Ms. Deckard has been working at SPAWAR Systems Center for over 30 years. She has worked in the areas of acoustics, lasers
graduate attribute of a University e.g.UWA aims for students to develop: mature judgement and responsibility in moral, social, andpractical, as well as academic matters. However, whereas environmental impact issues have beenaddressed to a certain extent within engineering programs (and possibly others), environmentaland social justice have largely been ignored. The Engineers Australia accreditation board statesthat the curriculum should provide students the opportunity to develop the ‘ability to undertakeproblem solving, design and project work within a broad, contextual framework accommodatingsocial, cultural, ethical, legal, political, economic and environmental responsibilities as well aswithin the principles of sustainable development and
education and human resource development for over 30 years as high school industrial arts instructor, a training consultant to industry, and as a teacher educator at the university level. His research and consulting activities address ways to improve the quality of technical instruction. Dr. Johnson specializes in instructional design, instructional methods, and online learning. He is a primary developer of HRE Online, a web-based system that supports the delivery of the department's online graduate program. He is also the Research Director for the 33 National Center for Engineering and Technology Education and co-director of the Academy for Excellence in Engineering Education. The focus of
2019 Award for Excellence in Education Abroad Curriculum Design. He has also worked as a construction project engineer, consultant, and safety inspector. He be- lieves that educating the next generation of professionals will play a pivotal role in sustainability standard practices. In terms of engagement, Dr. Valdes-Vasquez has served as the USGBC student club’s adviser and the ASC Sustainability Team’s faculty coach since 2013. He is currently serving as a CSU President’s Sustainabil- ity Commission member, among multiple other committees. In addition, he is involved with various professional organizations at the national level, including the American Society for Engineering Educa- tion (ASEE), the
Paper ID #18607Embracing Ambiguity: A Framework for Promoting Iterative Design Think-ing Approaches in Engineering and Design CurriculaAnnie Abell, Ohio State University Annie Abell is an Assistant Professor of Practice at The Ohio State University in the Department of Me- chanical & Aerospace Engineering. Abell received her BS in Mechanical Engineering from Valparaiso University and a MFA in Design Research & Development from The Ohio State University with an em- phasis on Industrial Design. She teaches project-based, product design courses to senior-level and gradu- ate engineering students, as well as an
suitable to the two-course sequence for ourcapstone senior project, ME400 – Mechanical Engineering Design and ME 412 – MechanicalEngineering Senior Project. The team drafted both the interim and final project status reports toaddress the specific needs of the sponsor. This project was presented at the 46th WKU AnnualStudent Research Conference, where their work was favorably reviewed by peers and otherfaculty within the university community. It was also presented to the Mechanical EngineeringAdvisory Board.The Western Kentucky University ME curriculum assures that program graduates haveexperienced the engineering profession and demonstrated the ability to perform in a professionalmanner. The team project demonstrated student competence in the
Paper ID #37477Managers and Engineers: Impact of Defined Roles on Shared Leadership inCapstone DesignDr. Rebecca Komarek, University of Colorado Boulder Rebecca Komarek is the Associate Director of the Idea Forge at the University of Colorado Boulder. She has taught in the areas of education research, leadership development, and engineering design both at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Her background includes BS and MS degrees in structural engineering and education. She earned her PhD in engineering education with a focus on leadership development.Dr. Daria A Kotys-Schwartz, University of Colorado Boulder Daria
to prepare them to teach in theclassroom. This year the Fellows completed an Instructional Planning course and aTeaching Practicum with the Grant Coordinator. The course evaluations for both thesecourses indicated the Fellows felt these courses were effective in helping them developgood teaching skills and giving them exposure to best practices. For the InstructionalPlanning course, Fellows reported the following;100% The course provided useful information about best teaching practices and instructional approaches.86% Have a greater understanding of how education, research and professional activities can overlap to affect my own success.86% Helped develop authentic learning modules for middle and secondary classrooms.Fellows rated
in the research to demonstrate different key characteristics such as operationalmodel or location. In this way, the ethnographers will be able to get a more complete view of theoptions for maker spaces and be able to observe the impacts that each system presents to itsusers. This will allow for a more valuable assessment into the best practices associated withmaker spaces.AcknowledgementsThis work has been supported by the National Science Foundation under grant DUE-1432107/1431923/1431721. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendationsexpressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views ofNational Science Foundation.References1. Barrett T, Pizzico M, Levy BD, et al. A Review of
for supporting S-STEM student retention and graduationA recent self-study at Stevens Institute of Technology revealed that our 2nd and 3rd year retention ratesfor low-income STEM students are lower than those for our non-low income STEM student body. Toaddress this finding, the goal of our S-STEM program is to implement evidence-based best practices toincrease retention and graduation rates of low-income academically talented STEM students to levels thatmatch our overall STEM population. To accomplish this goal, we are seeking to: 1. implement best-practices with regards to cohort development and faculty, peer, and alumni mentoring programs to support the ADAPT Scholars, 2. develop targeted enrichment and mentoring activities
Initiatives from 2007-13, Director of Off-Campus Programs/State Prisons from 2006-07, and Federal Grants Director from 2000-07. In 2011, Buck was a THECB Star Award nominee and received the Texas Workforce Investment Council Promising Practice Award for Applied Sciences use of graduate/employer surveys. She has been recognized by the THECB for the design of an electronic site visit process that was implemented state-wide and for best practices implemented through the Perkins Grant. She earned her master’s degree in higher education administration and graduate certificate in higher ed- ucation administration, with a concentration on higher education law, from Northeastern University, and her Bachelor of Business
developmentneeds. Tanner [11] proposes the use of metacognition to help students learn to learn.In addition to these student-responsive curricular developments, [12] recommend the inclusion ofdisciplinary concepts at an early stage for academic survival, retention and success. Theyadvocate that classrooms should include active and interactive learning in order to help studentsdevelop an understanding of core disciplinary concepts.The current study builds upon these recommendations for student-centered curricula that areintroduced at the early stage of the program, and that actively engage students to develop abilityand commitment.Research Design and MethodologyThis research hypothesizes that negative impacts such as attrition and delays in graduation
a BEng in Computer and Communications Engineering from the American University of Beirut. Aya is a graduate research assistant with the Designing Education Lab at Stanford, led by Professor Sheri Sheppard, and her research explores the accessibility of introductory electrical engineering education. She is supported by the Knight-Hennessy Scholarship and the RAISE Doctoral Fellowship.Dr. Sheri D. Sheppard, Stanford University Sheri D. Sheppard teaches both undergraduate and graduate design-related classes, conducts research on fracture mechanics and finite element analysis, and on how people become engineers. From 1999 to 2008, she was a Senior Scholar at the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
). This has implications for the need to build leadership understanding and capabilitiesfor all engineers, and to emphasize continuing leadership education for all. Figure 2. S&E bachelor‟s degree holders with R&D as a major work activity by years since degree (NSF 2003)Further research by the National Science Foundation demonstrates what people do after earninga science and engineering bachelor‟s degree.2 Data from graduates who received S&Ebachelor‟s degrees before 1994 show that 51% earned no additional degree; 16.5% earnedprofessional degrees in business, law or medicine; 12.6% earned masters or doctorates in thesame field; and 5.9% earned masters or doctorates in other fields. Responses
been recognized through multiple best paper awards and keynote presentations at international and national conferences and workshops.Dr. Joachim Walther, University of Georgia Dr. Joachim Walther is a Professor of engineering education research at the University of Georgia and the Founding Director of the Engineering Education Transformations Institute (EETI) in the College of Engineering. The Engineering Education Transformations Institute at UGA is an innovative approach that fuses high quality engineering education research with systematic educational innovation to transform the educational practices and cultures of engineering. Dr. Walther’s research group, the Collaborative Lounge for Understanding Society
Paper ID #18124Incorporation of Ethics and Societal Impact Issues into Senior Capstone De-sign Courses: Results of a National SurveyDr. Angela R. Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder Angela Bielefeldt is a professor at the University of Colorado Boulder in the Department of Civil, Environ- mental, and Architectural Engineering (CEAE). She has served as the the ABET assessment coordinator for her department since 2008. Professor Bielefeldt is the faculty director of the Sustainable By Design Residential Academic Program, a living-learning community where interdisciplinary students learn about and practice
real world engineering problems eachsemester. He teaches Networks, Sustainable Design, Power Systems and research includes renewable powersystems. He received a PhD from the University of Cambridge, MSE from Rowan University and BSCE from MIT.JAMES BLANCK is a senior electrical and computer engineering student at Rowan UniversityPATRICK A GIORDANO, JR. is a junior electrical and computer engineering student at Rowan University whoenjoys the practice of "hands-on" engineering and excels at it. His plans include achieving his masters at Rowanafter graduating with his BSECE with minors in math, physics and computer science.DONA JOHNSON is a junior mechanical engineering student at Rowan University and a member Society OfWomen Engineers (SWE), the
case and the practices of these institutions in supportingprospective Black students as they explore and apply to graduate school. Furthermore, it isimportant to highlight not just how HBCUs have made their impact and strides in educationalsuccess, but also the underlying mechanisms that detail why HBCUs are able to produce suchcases of excellence in STEM. Therefore, this paper details the development of a surveyinstrument designed to uncover success metrics of Black students that majored in engineeringand computer science programs at HBCUs and have successfully transitioned into, or completed,graduate school. Survey development was built around the aims to 1) advance the contemporarytelling of the HBCU undergraduate experience as a pillar for
systems. In addition to these two primary thrusts, complimentaryresearch is also conducted when appropriate and productive. Typically, these involveopportunities to advance membrane applications for important classes of practical problems, andto understand related environmental implications of membranes.The heart of the PERMEANT project involves individual student projects designed withcollaborative links between projects and with foreign institutions. Students conduct much oftheir research as they would with any other laboratory-based project. A key difference is thattheir projects are designed around teams involving US and international co-advisors, studentsfrom both countries, and a study design based some activities being carried out in the
for project management practice to enable graduates toexecute appropriate Agile techniques to plan, and deliver quality results that frequently delivervalue to customers. During the course students are introduced to Agile processes which includedeveloping user stories and story maps, estimate and plan for sprints, track project execution andreleases using burn-down charts and conduct retrospective sessions. This paper discusses how agraduate student was able to successfully apply the Agile project management principles andprocesses learned in the graduate program to an Independent Study project designed to providestudents with the opportunity to apply their knowledge and experience gained during thecurriculum to addressing and solving a real
Paper ID #35859A practical method for improving Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion inNuclear ScienceMr. Jim Olson, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute After a twenty year Engineering career inventing and operating advanced technology in various private sector and military environments, Jim Olson returned to Academia to formalize and publish the methods and best practices he developed while mentoring and training Early Career individuals in the practical application of STEM concepts. Jim’s research if Engineering Education centric and he is currently pursing a Doctorate of Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy
(CE) graduate students through an extra-curricular pedagogy effort. Like other suchefforts, the program rests on research in composition and composition pedagogy and a commonunderstanding that writers learn by writing.1,2,3,4,5,6 This program was designed to address whatthe authors and others7 have identified as insufficient or uneven preparation for the level ofcommunication skills required for success in graduate engineering programs and subsequentemployment in academia or industry.Engineering educators have incorporated various communication pedagogy strategies into theundergraduate experience, including working with writing centers housed in Englishdepartments, establishing writing centers in departments of engineering, requiring
paper presents a journalistic approach to STEM learning by exploring the creation of a“technical”, online research publication intended for the middle and high school audience. Theintention of the journal is to feature articles that depict a variety of STEM related issues, learningpractices, research activities, and industrial careers, and is designed to increase the awareness ofmodern engineering and science practices currently ongoing within both academia and industry.Currently within its beginning phase of inception, the scope of the journal is to comprise acombination of student-initiated research projects, university research activities, and industrialengineering white papers to both actively engage students in problems of national concern
atcontinuous improvement of the mechanical engineering curriculum. Correspondingly, the resultsmay be considered anecdotal at best. Because the authors are all capstone design faculty, thereis an element of member-checking involved in the synthesis of results. A more robust process toensure trustworthiness of the results was not undertaken. Second, the results may be biasedtoward a positive impact of the Intro to ME course on student performance. As discussedpreviously, the mechanical engineering program implemented the Intro to ME course to bringthe CME Design Process forward in the curriculum and allow for greater practice and repetitionprior to the capstone design course in the senior year. Correspondingly, faculty may tend towarda confirmation
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of identities while comparing thestrength of students’ engineering identity.Current Research and Data CollectionThis work is part of a larger mixed-methods study in which we are examining the experiences ofengineering graduate students in the context of identity and motivation frameworks. We willutilize data from a large national survey of engineering graduate students to demonstrateexamples of meaningful disaggregation of demographic groups. Demographic information iscollected in accordance with best practices to collect a comprehensive range of demographic data[22]. The survey instrument, which contains Likert-type measures of graduate students’future-time perspectives, identity-based motivations, identities, and academic experiences
P.Eng., University of Waterloo Dr. Al-Hammoud is a Faculty lecturer (Graduate Attributes) in the department of civil and environmental engineering at the University of Waterloo. Dr. Al-Hammoud has a passion for teaching where she con- tinuously seeks new technologies to involve students in their learning process. She is actively involved in the Ideas Clinic, a major experiential learning initiative at the University of Waterloo. She is also re- sponsible for developing a process and assessing graduate attributes at the department to target areas for improvement in the curriculum. This resulted in several publications in this educational research areas. Dr. Al-Hammoud won the ”Ameet and Meena Chakma award for
only 5 studies that used qualitative methods, one ofwhich used a case study approach to study student experiences in an extracurricular makerspace(O'Connell, 2015). This review also pointed out that while empirical research is focusing onstudent outcomes and curricular integration, many of the reports on academic makerspaces focuson the equipment and physical space of the makerspace itself (i.e., 18 out of 22 reports cited).While qualitative methods are being used as a methodology to study experiences withinmakerspaces, reports on systems and space are still happening. For example, as recently as 2019at the 2019 International Symposium on Academic Makerspaces, Wildbolz and colleagues(2019) shared best practices for managing access to space
(KEEN), which is a partnership of more than 50 collegesand universities across the United States that serves as a lab to test and showcase best practices inentrepreneurially-minded learning, influence on institutional curricular change for greater impact[3]. Another experiential learning experience is through the Virtual Student Federal Service(VSFS) program which is an eight-month unpaid remote internship program managed by theOffice of e-Diplomacy in the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Information ResourceManagement, for U.S. citizen students, college-level and above, who would like to make a realdifference in the work of the U.S. government.Internships, coops, summer undergraduate research programs and VSFS programs require buy-infrom
states the outcomes that a student is expected to achieveimmediately upon graduation.SACS Long-Term Objectives for MSSE GraduatesThese are goals for career and lifetime achievement for graduates to attain 5 to 20 yearsafter graduation, by applying the Program Learning Outcomes.1. IMSE Graduates will assume enterprise leadership responsibilities in Industrial, Manufacturing and Systems Engineering environments.2. IMSE Graduates will develop innovative systems and processes for the design, development and deployment of products and services, for the benefit of society.3. IMSE Graduates will discover new knowledge, and develop new tools for the practice of Industrial, Manufacturing and Systems Engineering.4. IMSE Graduates will earn