together. • I would also decrease the budget as our team didn’t come close to spending it all. • I would make the budget a little bit bigger. • I would show current students designs from the past classes to spark some ideas or set a standard. • Maybe a little more distribution in making the seems [teams], like if possible someone from each career in a team. • Change the presenting of the PRs to the small groups instead of huge groups. I liked how in the small group presentations it seemed like people asked more in-depth questions about the project instead of trying to get it over with. • Spend more time on what makes a good schedule and how to divide task up. • I would change how often we got to work in class
Paper ID #37725Construction and Use of a Concept Map in an UndergraduateDynamics ClassMohammed Noor-A-Alam Dr. Noor-A-Alam accomplished his Ph.D. with Energy Science & Engineering major from The University of Texas at El Paso. He has been serving as an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Indiana University Purdue University Columbus since August 2018. He also served as a faculty member of Mechanical Engineering at The University of Texas at El Paso and Washington State University. He started his academic career as a faculty member in the department of Chemical Engineering and Polymer Science at
Program Launch and EvolutionIn the summer of 2020, UMD’s Women in Engineering (WIE) program and the Department ofMechanical Engineering initiated the GOAL program in response to the sudden shift in the K-12educational environment created by the COVID-19 pandemic. The cancellation of outreachprograms, summer camps, and the complete pivot to online/remote instructions greatly reducedaccess to hands-on STEM curriculum and closed outreach avenues for the university. In particular,faculty and staff were concerned with the impacts of school closures on STEM opportunities fortraditionally under-represented groups. This shift had the potential to greatly disrupt the pathwayfor these groups to be exposed to and engage with STEM education and career
cultivating top-notch innovative talents.However, the extracurricular learning system needs further pilot verification to better balancethe improvement of scientific research literacy and the pressure on students’ curriculum.References[1] H. Heo, K.Y. Lim, and Y. Kim, “Exploratory study on the patterns of online interaction and knowledge co-construction in project-based learning.” Computers & Education, vol. 55, no. 3, pp. 1383-1392, 2010.[2] D.Drinka, and M. Y. M. Yen, “A Project-Centric Curriculum Design.” College Teaching Methods & Styles Journal, vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 25-34, 2006.[3] R. W. Lent, S. D. Brown, and G. Hackett, “Toward a unifying social cognitive theory of career and academic interest, choice, and performance
engagement. As expressed by one of the students: “I doubt my abilities a great deal and sometimes feel I don't belong in this field or am not capable of doing the work. Throughout the semester any small comment from you helped me feel more confident about my studies and pursuing a career in engineering. Specifically, when I was working on strength-based projects”.It was the instructor’s impression that projects submitted in fall 2021 had better quality comparedto fall 2020 as students were required to submit drafts of their project and receive feedback frominstructor.Majority of students preferred completing the project individually but there were a few projectscompleted by team of two students with topics of comedy or music
Annual Conference Texas Tech University Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education 1 students to earn two degrees simultaneously while preparing for a professional career in engineering. Undergraduate students attend TWU for three years as mathematics majors in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, then continue their education at the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science at UTD or the Dwight Look School of Engineering at TAMU for two additional years. After completion of the degree, students will receive the Bachelor of Science degree in
committee felt that while the benefits of a common course were many, there were problemsas well. For retention purposes, it seemed vital that engineering freshman be involved classroomparticipants. To ensure that students were not merely bystanders in their educational experience,thought-provoking, entertaining lab exercises needed to remain a part of the freshman courseexperience. Additionally, each department had department specific content that was necessaryfor their students to be successful in their academic careers. This content varied from departmentto department. There was not time in the semester to give all content to all students.New FormatDescriptionThe format which resulted from this process is a hybrid, using a one-credit-hour
. Criterion 2 states that engineering degree programs must define a set ofeducational objectives, promote those objectives to external interests, and have in place amechanism to evaluate the success of their objectives. Although ABET was reluctant at first todefine what was meant by educational objectives, recent agreement has resulted in the followingdefinition: Educational Objectives are broad statements that describe the career and professionalaccomplishments that the program is preparing graduates to achieve several years aftermatriculation from the BS degree. Proceedings of the 2005 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi Copyright © 2005
. Young peopleneed preparation in science and mathematics before they get into higher education – and beforethey begin flowing out into the workforce2. If we want more females and minorities to take aninterest in technological fields, we must create a more inclusive view of engineering andtechnology. The first step is to debunk the stereotype of the “computer nerd” by depicting thebroad array of career options in science and technology3. Proceedings of the 2005 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering EducationThis paper addresses activities that have been conducted in the El Paso area
program and the results that have been achieved so far. Background Facts“By avoiding computers, women [and minorities] may be missing out on the generoussalaries and abundant career opportunities in information technology.”1 Texas A&MUniversity – Corpus Christi (A&M-CC) in partnership with the Nation ScienceFoundation (NSF) and Texas Engineering and Technical Consortium (TETC) is trying tocombat the shortage of women and minorities in computer science. This shortage is seennationwide, and in 2001, 3.4 percent of all conferred undergraduate degrees were Proceedings of the 2005 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi
program and the results that have been achieved so far. Background Facts“By avoiding computers, women [and minorities] may be missing out on the generoussalaries and abundant career opportunities in information technology.”1 Texas A&MUniversity – Corpus Christi (A&M-CC) in partnership with the Nation ScienceFoundation (NSF) and Texas Engineering and Technical Consortium (TETC) is trying tocombat the shortage of women and minorities in computer science. This shortage is seennationwide, and in 2001, 3.4 percent of all conferred undergraduate degrees were Proceedings of the 2005 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi
systems and FPGA based sys- tems design. Career in Brief: Mr. Tewodros Mamo is a first-year Doctoral student at University of The District of Colombia majoring in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He received his B.S. in general engineering focused on Aerospace engineering from the University of Maryland Eastern Shore in 2018. Mr. Mamo then served as a K12 engineering teacher in Baltimore, Maryland and in Washington DC from 2018 to 2019. In 2019, he joined the University of the District of Colombia as an Electrical Engineering M.S. student and completed his studies with an emphasis on VLSI design in 2021. American c Society for Engineering
. Hawley, C. E., Cardoso, E. & McMahon, B. T. Adolescence to adulthood in STEM education and career development: The experience of students at the intersection of underrepresented minority status and disability. J. Vocat. Rehabil. 39, 193–204 (2013).20. Lee, A. Students with Disabilities Choosing Science Technology Engineering and Math (STEM) Majors in Postsecondary Institutions. J. Postsecond. Educ. Disabil. 27, 261–272 (2014).21. Hilliard, L., Dunston, P., McGlothlin, J. & Duerstock, B. S. Designing beyond the ADA-creating an accessible research laboratory for students and scientists with physical disabilities. in RESNA Conference (2013). Proceedings of the 2022 ASEE North Central Section Conference
concentration areas. Theapproach used is similar to what students expect once they start their professional career. Basedon the response received from students and industrial advisory board members who evaluatedstudent performance, the approach was very effective in enhancing student learning. The successof this approach has encouraged us to broaden the project to include all concentration areas incivil engineering going forward.ReferencesSirinterlikci, A. (2014, June), Interdisciplinary Capstone Projects Paper presented at 2014 ASEEAnnual Conference & Exposition, Indianapolis, Indiana. 10.18260/1-2—20691Sheppard, K. G., & Nastasi, J. A., & Hole, E., & Russell, P. L. (2011, June), SE CAPSTONE:Implementing a Systems Engineering Framework
in a particular field [e.g., 19]. Similarly,students’ skills development in a particular field are outlined in the curriculum and assessedagainst specific learning objectives. There are general skills (often called transferable skills) aswell as domain-specific skills. An individual’s skills proficiency can be judged by the results oftasks performed. It can be judged on the continuum from low to high.Thinking, skill, and knowledge interact with each other to control students’ career or vocationaldevelopment. But literacy can also be thought of as having three interdependent dimensions:knowledge, capabilities, and ways of thinking and decision making [e.g., 40]. Literacy, then, isbest conceptualized as including three dimensions of literacy
PU was EPU1 (post-test: I have set some long-range goals formyself), EPU6 (post-test: I have a plan for my career development), while the most ‘difficultto achieve’ item was SPU7 (pre-test: I have a life plan that makes use of my specific talents).Meanwhile, in sub-construct OR, the most ‘easiest to achieve’ items agreed by the studentswas EOR5 (pre-test: I organize the materials I will need for a job before I begin it), while themost ‘difficult to achieve’ item was SOR6 (pre-test: I am well organized). In sub-constructRP, the most ‘easiest to achieve’ items agreed by the students was ERP2 (post-test: I can tellthe moment that things start to go wrong), and the most ‘difficult to achieve’ item was SRP1(pre-test: I can recognize problems at
has also emerged explicitly in the learning standards ofscience teachers. Differences in the assumptions about engineering in these two groups werefound by Nathan et al. (2010). Tech Ed and science teachers’ views about engineering and thepurpose of K-12 engineering education influenced their support for students pursual ofengineering education in both secondary and post-secondary settings. Where Tech Ed teachersperceived engineering skills as key and science and mathematics concepts as integrated withinengineering in classrooms, science teachers perceived engineering students as necessarily highachieving in mathematics and science school subjects. Learner access to engineering education as a means of entry to career pathways is key
the NSF-funded Athena Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI). Her career in higher education began at Howard University as the first Black female faculty member in the Department of Computer Science. Her professional experience also includes Winthrop University, The Aerospace Corporation, and IBM. She is a graduate of Johnson C. Smith University (B.S., ‘00) and North Carolina State University (M.S., ’02; Ph.D., ’05), becoming the first Black woman to earn a Ph.D. in computer science at the university and 2019 Computer Science Hall of Fame Inductee. She is a native of Durham, NC. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by
’ awareness of and enrollment in CS courses, extracurricular activi- ties, and AP computer science exams–essentially, the extent to which all students are equally aware of the courses, extracurricular activities, and AP exams offered by their school, and the extent to which they enroll in them in equal proportions.McGill, Thompson, et al ASEE 2022Figure 2: The CAPE framework reframed to highlight the importance of the component within thefoundational capacity component. • Experience: Equitable student outcomes in CS courses and engagement in CS-focused col- lege and career options (e.g., the extent to which the course is equally and positively im- pacting
it was adult basiceducation (ABE), general equivalency diploma (GED) preparation, college education, orvocational training or career technical education (CTE)—had a 13-percentage point reduction intheir risk of recidivating after being released from prison. The same research revealed thatinmates who participated in college programs while in prison were about half as likely torecidivate as those who did not participate in any type of correctional education program [12].These outcomes hold when the population studied consists of women who enrolled in college-level courses prior to their release from incarceration [13].When examined independently, the anecdotal nature, lack of control, and limited transferabilityof individual studies raise
white men searching for their future careers” [57] hasimplications for the sense of belonging felt by underrepresented groups and thus the supportfor EDI.In common with the US approach to accreditation, Engineering Council (EC) practice‘control at a distance’ and individual institutions are free to select how LOs are both achievedand assessed [58]. Accreditation committees then evaluate whether engineering programsmeet the accreditation standards. Within the UK, several Professional EngineeringInstitutions (PEIs) are licensed to undertake individual accreditation events on behalf of theEC, something that Armstrong [59] claims result in ‘lack of precision and clarity’ of the LOs.As is proposed to be the case in the USA [58], [60] it is likely
promoting and rewardinginventiveness or inventive practices. We assert that as students advance from secondary to post-secondary schools and into multiple career pathways, their capacity and interest in engaging ininnovation, invention, and entrepreneurial ecosystems will increase, thereby increasing equity inthe designed world by empowering all student voices.INTRODUCTIONInvention is at the very essence of the human experience. We seek to make our lives better bycreating solutions to the challenges we face every day. With the complexity of today’s problemsdue to an expanding global economy, technological advancement, limited natural resources,healthcare challenges, and racial and ethnic divides, employing the same thinking and methods aswe did in
require resources, and so it is natural to assess their effectiveness. While short-termoutcomes like first-year performance and retention are commonly used, they are proxies for ourultimate goals: preparing students for future success in their chosen fields, and doing so in areasonable amount of time. Metrics for these goals include four-year graduation rates and,somewhat crudely, GPA at graduation. Although student success in any academic programshould be celebrated, at the national level there remains need to graduate students in engineeringand other STEM fields [15], [16]. Doing so in four years, rather than six or more, is more cost-effective and launches students into their careers sooner. Thus, the primary research questionsthat this paper
student in engineering and literature aboutableism in academia, to advocate for other disabled students like me. I have been told thatengineering and academia is not a place for someone like me. As someone whose career goalsinclude a tenure-track professorship, these statements made me determined to construct aninclusive and accessible place for myself and others like me. Over the course of my educationaljourney, I have collected news articles, journals, and books that have helped me to justify myplace in the academy and advocate for myself. I have also encountered many people who arewell-meaning in their support but lacked the resources or knowledge to assist me in myendeavors. This has led me to want to provide people with resources and engage
and non-STEMfaculty in how professors perceive their responsibilities to students. STEM faculty felt moreresponsible for preparing students for careers and graduate school, but they reported lessresponsibility to consider emotional or moral development and to foster tolerance and learnabout difference [42]. Because of these perceptions of faculty, students may struggle in STEMenvironments to be respected as whole people from diverse backgrounds who are multi-facetedlearners and thinkers.STEM fields continue to face problems with diversity and inclusion and with achievement gapsfor underrepresented groups, despite widely adopted missions to improve these conditions.Gonzalez, Hall, Benton, Kanhai, and Nunez report that “diverse environments
bridge and test it beforehandand then rebuild their bridge for the competition (i.e. learn from failure). It would be verydifficult to ask students to predict their peak loads based on calculations given the highlyindeterminate designs. The third potential enhancement is to conduct formal assessment focusedon the students’ interest, understanding, and attitudes about STEM careers. One possible surveyto use is the Student Attitudes toward STEM (S-STEM) survey [28].Acknowledgements The authors would like to thank Ms. Amy Preis, Ms. Sue Ratz, Ms. Rachel Rimmerman,and Mr. Darren Green for their assistance in organizing and hosting the competition for the pastseveral years. The authors would also like to thank the countless engineering
’ VRexperiences that will potentially help explain the changes in the quantitative data.Furthermore, insights into how and to what extent the VR story experience impacts students’engineering motivation and career pathway selections will be gathered. Students’ quantitativeengineering motivation data will be gathered with a questionnaire adapted from the valid andreliable Science Motivation Questionnaire II (SMQ-II) developed by Glynn et al. [73] due to itsexcellent overall reliability (α = 0.91) and criterion-related validity. Pre-post- Likert-typequestionnaires will be used to collect data before and after students participate in the VR storyexperience. The pre- and post-questionnaire will assess students’ intrinsic motivation, careermotivation, self
Paper ID #36878Origins of Requirement Development Skills in EngineeringUndergraduates: Students’ Initial Thinking and Use inEngineering DecisionsAndrew Olewnik (Assistant Professor) Assistant Professor | Engineering Education | University at BuffaloVanessa Svihla Dr. Vanessa Svihla is an associate professor at the University of New Mexico (UNM) with appointments in learning sciences and engineering. Her research, funded by an NSF CAREER award, focuses on how people learn as they frame problems and how these activities relate to identity, agency and creativity.William Wild (Director, Student Success Programs) (University at
State University and is the Director of the online Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering Program at Penn State. Her research interests include graduate-and postdoctoral-level engineering education; attrition and persistence mechanisms, metrics, policy, and amelioration; engineering writing and communication; and methodological development for nontraditional data. Her NSF CAREER award studies master’s-level departure from the engineering doctorate as a mechanism of attrition. Catherine earned her B.S. in Chemistry from The University of South Dakota, her M.S. in Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering from Purdue University, and Ph.D. in Engineering Education from Purdue University