]investigated that how much gender affected the satisfaction about studying engineering andhow much this satisfaction influenced students’ choice for working as an engineer in thefuture. Ohland et al. [4] compared two success measurements (eight-semester persistent andsix-year graduation rate) of engineering students in different institutions based on differentrace and gender. Pawley, Schimpf, and Nelson [5] analyzed the content of papers thatpublished in the journal of engineering education from 1998 to 2012 to understand how muchthese papers connected gender theories to engineering education. Even without consideringthe results from these studies, we can see authors exploring various issues related to race andgender in the undergraduate years.However
, demonstrate howstory messages may be misinterpreted. Student misunderstanding of their ownmotivations and their ability to mobilize and engage others may occur due to: 1. Blurring Entrepreneurial level concepts with individual story phenomena. Many confuse the big picture definition of entrepreneurship with individual level entrepreneuring activity. Specifically, audiences sometime assume that the confident, clear entrepreneur’s delivery of his story indicates an equal strength of conviction, and clarity in their personal life. In fact, the reality may be something very different. During the first class meeting, Jon (introduced earlier) a graduate student and new company-founder, confidently shared his non
identity is related to how a person sees themselves in society.Intellectual identity is associated with the desire to become an engineer. The authors discussimplications of these identities to academic and social support systems.Significant bodies of research have focused on the masculine culture of engineering and itseffects on female-identifying students. Faulkner explores the dichotomous styles of thoughtpresent in engineering and their perceived hierarchy and relationship to gender [13]. The twodualisms explored are technical/social and abstract/concrete. The author suggests that thetechnical/social distinction of engineering maps to masculine instrumentalism and feminineexpressiveness. The relationship of abstract/concrete dualism of
c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 ENGINEERING ETHICS IN TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIETY COURSESIntroductionUniversity technology and society courses provide students with the opportunity to studyprofessional or engineering ethics, but ethics seen in a different context from that of a formalengineering ethics course. Ethics can be the unifying core for such courses. The formalprofessional ethics course might follow one or more of several possible approaches: (i) use ofrelevant moral virtues as guides to making decisions, (ii) emphasis on consequences to allstakeholders, or (iii) application of rules or codes that must be followed. These approaches canlead to conflicting solutions. An
. IECsupports both types of partnerships to the extent requested by its members. There is oneadditional type of partnership – organization to organization. All partnerships can benefit fromADEP concepts. The following are examples of presently active partnerships.Intel Funded Program Connected Students and Faculty from Two IEC MSI Schools withTheir Counterparts at an IEC Affiliate PWI School – Faculty from UCSD and IEC leadershipdeveloped a proposal to Intel to fund an Asset Driven Equitable Partnership to pilot a pathway tograduate studies for groups of 3 students from two different IEC Core members. Students wereengaged in research at their home institution during the academic year and at UCSD in thesummer. This program provided funding to support
, led, and managed a number of multimillion dollar federal grants for STEM teacher professional development for Baltimore County Public Schools and NAPE, with resulting publications and professional learning. She began her career as a faculty member at the Community College of Baltimore County working with smart, capable, hardworking, and appreciative minority students who had somehow fallen through the educational cracks. That was her first glimpse into the failure of the education system from teacher training to student learning. Morrell’s quest has always been to answer the question, how do we as a country improve student outcomes in STEM for all students? How do we finally recognize and close gaps in performance
area and not general or introductory engineering. These, among otherfactors, make designing an effective introduction to engineering courses challenging. Landis [1]recommends five course objectives for introduction to engineering courses: community building,professional development, academic development, personal development and orientation.Design projects apply to many of these. In community building, the team aspects of numerousprojects help students develop professional skills and build a support network for their collegeexperience. Teaching the engineering design process and engineering’s role in a better society isexcellent professional development. Productive interactions with peers and faculty, as well aslearning to prioritize important
commit to academictasks, as well as persevere during challenging academic tasks. Research has connected efficacybeliefs to educational processes and outcomes such as academic major selection, scholasticachievement, persistence, and long-term, post-graduation career decisions.20-24 2Most of the literature on academic self-efficacy comes from the field of educational psychology.However, engineering education literature has embraced the value of promoting high academicself-efficacy, especially when promoting engineering students’ academic goals, success, andcareer interests. For example, based on findings from an engineering education study
challengesin Puerto Rican communities, compounded by the additional constraints and threats imposed bythe COVID-19 pandemic. This led to a decision to recraft a planned summer conference as partof a sponsored research project “Cultivating Responsible Wellbeing in STEM: SocialEngagement through Personal Ethics” (NSF 1449489) into a virtual symposium consistingprincipally of community designers. Thus, we launched the 2020 Co-Creating Symposium, inwhich we aimed to prototype a new model of solution-seeking at the community level which, asnoted previously, would break the pattern of the paternalistic, outsider-driven power dynamics.3. Co-Creating Guiding PrinciplesIn conceiving the Symposium, we asked the following questions: ● How might we create an
for high school faculty to bring energy training into their classrooms, developing programming around emerging energy technologies, promotion of career awareness activities, and working on diversity challenges in the energy industry workforce. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Managing a Multi-Institution Block Grant for Renewable Electricity Research1. BackgroundThe Renewable Development Fund (RDF) was originally established in 1994 by the State ofMinnesota. Funds are provided by Xcel Energy ratepayers in exchange for an allowance to storespent nuclear fuel from two nuclear generating plants in the state. The RDF funds are intended“to increase renewable energy market penetration
anengineering program. Cultivating a culture of doing engineering can result in graduates who notonly are prepared technically and professionally with a practical, realistic understanding of whatit is to be an engineer, but also who identify with and are committed to the engineeringprofession.ObjectiveThe project’s objective is to develop a mechanical engineering program where students andfaculty are immersed in a culture of doing engineering with practicing engineers from industrythat in turn fosters students’ engineering identities. The culture of a program plays a significantrole in effective, innovative STEM education [25], [26]. The culture of “Engineering withEngineers” is being built through the interactions of students, faculty, and industry
high school and then considerpursuing a technology-related field in college. In the place of longitudinal data, researchers haveoften relied upon one-time measures meant to predict persistence with no follow-up evidence ofhow students’ intentions actually played out. In our study we examined how survey responses byhigh school girls predicted persistence three years later defined as being tech and computerscience majors [or minors] in college. We also examined other factors that may be influential inthat choice of major. A number of studies exploring field persistence from education to career have used theSocial Cognitive Career Theory (SCCT) model which holds that personal, behavioral, andenvironmental factors play a role in career decision
Distinguished Member status (2019); the CRA A. Nico Habermann award (2018); and the Richard A. Tapia Achievement Award (2017). He is originally from San Juan, Puerto Rico.Dr. Debarati Basu, Embry Riddle Aeronautical University Dr. Debarati Basu is an Assistant Professor in the Engineering Fundamentals Department in the College of Engineering at the Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University at the Daytona Beach campus. She earned her Ph.D. in Engineering Education from Virginia Tech (VT). She received her bachelor’s and masters in Computer Science and Engineering. Her research is at the intersection of Engineering Education (EE) and Computing Education Research (CER) to advance personalized learning, specifically within the
and navigational capital are less likely to know they should pursueprofessional opportunities or how to do so. FGC students often have less knowledge ofuniversity resources [15], and fewer mentors [22]. The lack of mentoring is a predictor of URMstudents’ decision not to pursue graduate work in STEM [23]. For students with the navigationaland academic capital that enables them to apply for these opportunities, the benefits multiply.From knowing to reach out and how to reach out, they develop relationships with faculty thatlead to letters of recommendation, referrals, or industry contacts. This knowledge can become a‘rich get richer’ effect, where students who did not know the importance of an opportunitydiscover it too late and do not develop
disciplinarities ofher own research and teaching. Her graduate training is in STS, and her research has analyzedinter- and transdisciplinary collaborations between engineers, artists, and scientists [19]. She ismotivated by the potential for interdisciplinary engagement to change engineers’ outlooks ontheir education and profession. Her experiences as an instructor of STS-based core courses forengineering and computer science students have helped to shape her outlook on teaching and herapproach to this paper.Lastly, Dr. Desen Ozkan’s graduate background is in engineering education, specifically inunderstanding how faculty developed and maintained interdisciplinarity amid universitystructures. She focused on interdisciplinary design courses that used human
employees’ Position Descriptions. Position Descriptions represent aclear opportunity in our efforts to empower faculty and staff to identify, agree upon, and carryout responsibilities that can be outside of the traditional norms in the academy. Our School willidentify Change Leaders and formally allot 10% of their effort toward shifting the School’sculture to re-situate learning and instruction. More broadly, all faculty will be expected toadvance and equalize undergraduate and graduate student success across demographics throughcommunicating clear expectations and holding people accountable to these expectations. Thisapproach places responsibility for culture transformation on each community member asopposed to relying on a dedicated few. Such an
method, systems engineering, creative problem solving, reverse engineering,team building exercises, and an overview of the engineering disciplines and applications. Eachtopic includes introductory notes, a glossary of terms and vocabulary quiz, problem sets, at leastone project, and documentation. Since a textbook is not used, students are expected to build areference binder for notes, handouts, and assignments, and maintain an engineering notebook fortheir small projects. In the second year engineering class, students select their own projects andbuild a personal portfolio. Lightly structured, the Engineering class comes with a FIRST TechChallenge robotics team, a chapter of the Technology Students Association, and access to localprograms and
calculus in particular insolving physics problems. The program is administered by a faculty member assisted by a smallgroup of student tutors. The program’s content focuses initially on a math review using an onlineadaptive math program to get students up to pre-requisite requirements for physics. Students aregiven a pre-test on key math concepts. The results of the pretest are used to automatically createa customized study plan. Once a student has finished the math review they can continue on to anintroduction of core physics concepts, which are introduced though online video lectures andmini-lectures given by the instructor. They then have the opportunity to test their new physicsknowledge on practice problems. Since its pilot implementation of
students who are underprepared”),then invited different topics, “Let’s move onto the second one (pause) then” into which anotherparticipant animatedly (eye contact around the room and to the Facilitator, gestures) jumped in: You have diverse faculty, this is the case where there are lady professors… the impact is going to be for the students to see an example, a person, a guide, and see that, not as a given, but if that situation exists it’s going to bring down a lot of the comments that people say. Um (pause)The Facilitator immediately filled the pause such that any other potential comments by thespeaker or other participants would be discouraged. The Facilitator’s action enabled him tointerject a reorienting remark to
with coaches, and future research will focus on both their effects on the program andthe program’s influence on the coaches. As the program expands to include grant proposalreview, we will be exploring the similarities and differences between schema development formanuscript and grant proposal review. Sustaining the EER PERT Project: Beyond the completion of the NSF funding period,we will be exploring other ways to support this as an ongoing activity in the EER community.Possible models include fee-based programs: in-person or online workshops, and online,asynchronous training developed and refined through this project. The target audience for theseprograms would be early career researchers, post-doctoral researchers, and graduate
advantage” (in this article, we callthis privilege), the education of the dominant group, and practice and accountability[6]. Thisstudy takes an additional step to differentiate between allies and advocates, tying the differenceto programmatic levels and participation: Advocates are active and effective proponents of gender diversity and equity, specifically in terms of increasing the number of female faculty, encouraging the hiring and promotion of female faculty in administrative positions, and ensuring the fair and equitable treatment of women within partner institutions. They are committed to increasing their understanding of gender bias and its impact on the academic careers of women. Allies are men
Paper ID #38814Preparing the manufacturing workforce for Industry 4.0 technologyimplementationDr. Sheng-Jen Hsieh, Texas A&M University Dr. Sheng-Jen (”Tony”) Hsieh is a Professor in the Department of Engineering Technology and Indus- trial Distribution and a member of the Graduate Faculty at Texas A&M University. His research interests include automation, robotics, cyber-manufacturing and Industry 4.0; optical/infrared imaging and instru- mentation; micro/nano manufacturing; and design of technology for engineering education. He is also the Director of the Rockwell Automation Laboratory at Texas A&M University
% to 40% of new graduates in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics(STEM), business, and any field involving quantitative analysis would have to become thesedata-literate managers and analysts, in order to meet the United States demand of two to fourmillion by 2024 [2]. The authors stress the importance of data visualization to support decision-making. To add to the complexity, some workers can and will take on more than one role,especially in small and medium-sized organizations.What we have referred to as ‘workforce needs’ may be more correctly characterized as growthpotential, in the sense that most industries are still capturing only a fraction of the potential valuefrom data and analytics [2]. Beyond considerations about
important for transfer participants. In addition, community collegecharacteristics influenced college choice for transfer students, specifically affordability (i.e.,lower tuition, community college access programs, ability to live at home) and personal/social fit(i.e., close to home, small class sizes).The key difference in the decision-making process of transfer and non-transfer students was thattransfer students tended to view college as an investment in their future. Transfer studentsfrequently discussed the costs and benefits of higher education but very few non-transferstudents were influenced by these factors. Several transfer students were concerned about thecost of higher education and shared that their parents were unwilling or unable to
intelligent (“I have always been smart”), being persistent and working harder thanothers, or developing a dogged determination to prove the stereotyping wrong (“well, now I’mgoing to go...like, just watch me!”)One student identified her female status as a benefit as well as a barrier. This student describedhow a female faculty member referred her to a female scientist career network. Through thisnetwork she was able to make advances in her research and her career development.No faculty in the focus group mentioned gender as an impact on their work with students. Thisdoes not mean faculty were unaware of gender and the experiences of women in science,however, in the limited time of the interview, gender did not come up as a topic.Nontraditional, older
are being seen, heard, and receiving credit for different aspects of their scholarship.Allyship can have downsides for members of the in-group given the importance of collegiality inthe academy [10]; however, they note that ally programs can improve campus climate for allfaculty members. Having allies can enhance feelings of belonging; this was noted for Blackwomen in STEM [11]. Allies can be critical in establishing an identity [8]. This paper and panelexamine best practices for male allies of female faculty members.Advocacy and Allyship for WomenThe reasons for advocating and allying for women in technical fields are typically personal, andmay be driven by internal or external forces. The panelists discuss this range of factors in
, resilient, and successful University graduates. The McCormick Administration decided to build an advising model based on a learnercentered concept sometimes called the AdvisingasTeaching paradigm. Traditionally, FirstYear students at Northwestern University were assigned to a faculty adviser, in a department based on their stated intended major. Undeclared students were randomly assigned to a faculty member. This advising model gave incoming students a home department, but not necessarily the department undeclared students wanted. In addition, students that changed majors, or were exploring majors, often needed to find their own connections with faculty in other departments. Lastly, in addition to helping students new to the university
multidisciplinary contexts and develop theirprofessional knowledge and skills. The intent was to engage over 100 undergraduateengineering students each year in a serious pursuit of ways in which progress can bemade on these challenges.Each semester, the program begins with engineering faculty members. A solicitationis sent to all engineering faculty members inviting proposals to support teams ofstudents. The incentive is that the College provides support for up to one graduatestudent who will work with an undergraduate student team, usually ten or moreundergraduate students. The graduate student will help the team with their technicalknowledge and often greater experience about the subject matter. Combiningundergraduate students, and graduate student, and
AbstractThis paper explores what elements and concepts should be included in a pre-college, widelyavailable digital course designed to better guide, inform, and prepare high school studentsinterested in pursuing a career in engineering. The purpose of the course is to provide a digitaltool for exploration by high school students and their advising network as they seek to gain abetter understanding of what an engineering education and career entails. As the investigationhas progressed, the potential benefit of developing separate courses for “guide and inform” and“prepare” is appearing. This paper will focus on the development of the comprehensive coursewith the understanding that there is potential for a separation by themes tuned to
from the survey instrument (more than 200 respondents). ● 90% talked with family before changing majors. ● 73% of respondents were satisfied or very satisfied with their decision to change majors. ● 68% had taken an Introduction to Engineering course and indicated it was helpful in deciding to change their major. ● 67% chose their major before they chose the institution. ● 56% changed their major because it no longer aligned with their interest and another major suited them better. ● 25% changed their major within two (2) semesters, with 30% changing their major after one semester. Very few students changed their major after 3 semesters. ● 16% had one bad experience with a faculty member, where 19