Paper ID #38632Board 229: Can You See Yourself Here? Broadening Participation in STEMthrough Virtual Reality Career ExplorationDr. Sarah Lynn Ferguson, Rowan University Dr. Ferguson is the STEM VRCE project team leader, investigating the magnitude impact of STEM career exploration through the use of virtual reality video. An applied methodologist in education research, Dr. Ferguson focuses on the application of advanced research methods and statistics approaches to issues in education. Currently Dr. Ferguson works as an Associate Professor of Quantitative Methods at Rowan University, teaching education research courses in
, insufficient background inmathematics, and lack of role models, especially for first generation students, [2], to name a few.In this work, the leadership from three separate but similar programs operating at independenturban research universities, collaborate in a Track 3 NSF S-STEM funded project with theoverall goal of not only increasing student success but in studying and extending their programsto better reach student populations in need. This collaboration team refers to itself as ‘The UrbanSTEM Collaboratory’, and consists of three unique intervention programs, one from eachuniversity, that support student success and have demonstrated positive student outcomesthroughout the duration of the project, [3, 4, 5]. Although there are three separate
hands-on,project-based engineering tasks, and 3) connect young people to engineering-based summerlearning opportunities including industry exposure. In the face of the global pandemic,professional development opportunities for educators and informal learning experiences forstudents demanded new adjustments to content delivery unseen before. We discuss ourleadership team’s adjustments to online content delivery and school educator’s efforts to createand sustain a virtual STEM club through reflexive practices. Specifically, we transitioned a10-day, in-person professional development during the summer to a 5-day, blended professionaldevelopment, where asynchronous and synchronous activities were led by CISTEME365 staff.Additionally, we adjusted
highly visual, interactive format. Graduated from Washington State University with a B.S. degree in Chemical Engineering in 2017 and an M.S. degree in 2019 with a focus on biosensing.Kitana Kaiphanliam, Washington State University Kitana Kaiphanliam is a doctoral candidate in the Voiland School of Chemical Engineering and Bio- engineering at Washington State University (WSU). Her research focuses include miniaturized, hands-on learning modules for engineering education and bioreactor design for T cell manufacturing. She has been working with Prof. Bernard Van Wie on the Educating Diverse Undergraduate Communities with Affordable Transport Equipment (EDUC-ATE) project since Fall of 2017.Aminul Islam Khan, Washington
research. She is on the USD team implementing ”Developing Changemaking Engineers”, an NSF-sponsored Revolutionizing Engineering Education (RED) project. Dr. Lord is the 2018 recipient of the IEEE Undergraduate Teaching Award.Dr. Matthew W. Ohland, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE) Matthew W. Ohland is Associate Head and the Dale and Suzi Gallagher of Professor of Engineering Edu- cation at Purdue University. He has degrees from Swarthmore College, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and the University of Florida. His research on the longitudinal study of engineering students, team assign- ment, peer evaluation, and active and collaborative teaching methods has been supported by the National Science Foundation and
Engineer in Florida.Dr. Richard Gilbert, University of South Florida Richard Gilbert is a Professor of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering at the University of South Florida’s College of Engineering . Richard is a Co-PI of a NSF project, DUE 1839567, (ATE 2.0 Preparing Tech- nicians for the Future of Work), supported by the Advanced Technological Education Program. Richard is also the Co-PI for the grant that supports the NSF designated Center of Excellence for Advanced Tech- nological Education in Florida, FLATE. FLATE, now in its 15 year of operation, addresses curriculum, professional development, and outreach issues to support the creation of Florida’s technical workforce. Richard has over 30 years of experience
- gram Proposal Review Committee. She earned her B.S. in Mathematics from Morehead State University, and her M.S. and Ph.D. in Mathematics at Virginia Tech. After a postdoctoral position in Mechanical Engineering at Oregon State University, she joined Louisiana Tech in 2005. Her current research focuses on STEM education and diversity and inclusion initiatives. Dr. Evans has been awarded over $5M as PI or Co-PI on federal, state, and local grants. Additionally, she currently serves as the Workforce Development Lead (senior personnel) on a $6M National Science Foundation EPSCoR project across three universities.Mitzi Desselles PhD, Louisiana Tech University Dr. Desselles is Associate Professor and Chester Ellis Endowed
Paper ID #30170Zip to Industry: A First-Year Corporate-STEM Connection ProgramDr. Donald P. Visco Jr., The University of Akron Donald P. Visco, Jr. is the former Dean of the College of Engineering at The University of Akron and currently a Professor of Chemical Engineering.Nidaa Makki Dr. Nidaa Makki is an Associate Professor in the LeBron James Family Foundation College of Education at The University of Akron, in the department in Curricular and Instructional Studies. Her work focuses on STEM curriculum integration and science inquiry practices in middle and high school. She is a co-PI on an NSF funded project to
Performance Cash awards). Dr. Richard is involved in many outreach activities: e.g., tutoring, mentoring, directing related grants (for example, a grant for an NSF REU site). Dr, Richard is active in professional societies (American Physical Society (APS), American Institute for Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), etc.), ASEE, ASME. Dr. Richard has authored or co-authored about 25 techni- cal articles (19 of which are refereed publications). Dr. Richard teaches courses ranging from first-year introductory engineering design, fluid mechanics, to space plasma propulsion.Dr. Tanya Dugat Wickliff, Texas A&M University Delivering significant results in pivotal roles such as Sr. Consultant to high-profile clients, Sr. Project
Paper ID #18645STEM grown Master’sLisa Naderman, University of Wisconsin, Platteville Lisa Naderman graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Platteville in 2014 with a Masters of Science in Project Management through distance learning. She began her career at UW-Platteville working in Prospective Student Services as a recruiter, while taking on the roles of assistant women’s basketball coach and associate lecturer for the Health and Human Performance Department. Naderman is currently working in the Distance Learning center as an advisor for the undergraduate programs and student services coordinator. Naderman’s
measures have started totaper in recent years [2]. To meet current and future workforce demands for more STEMprofessionals in the United States, we must be creative about how to move beyond this ceilingeffect; and, great potential exists among the growing population of students who begin theirpursuit of a higher education at institutions other than 4-year public/private colleges [11].The purpose of this research project is to increase understanding of engineering transfer studentsand their experiences at both sending and receiving institutions. Research sites include four ofthe top ten producers of U.S. Hispanic/Latino engineers; the framework of transfer studentcapital was used to organize the project’s data collection and analytical plan (Figure
, Engineering Innovation, Biomaterials and Engineering Design and Appro- priate Technology (ETHOS). She was director of the (Engineers in Technical Humanitarian Opportunities of Service-Learning) for approximately ten years. She has incorporated service-learning projects into her classes and laboratories since she started teaching in 2000. Her research interests include community engaged learning and pedagogy, K-12 outreach, biomaterials and materials testing and analysis.Dr. M. Suzanne Franco, Wright State University Professor of Statistics and Research, Program Director for EdD in Organizational Studies, in the Leader- ship Studies in Education and Organizations Department, College of Education and Human Services.Dr. Leanne
research interests in the area of system improvement via quality improvement methods especially in the area of applied statistics, statistical process control, and design of experiments. Dr. Perry consults, instructs, and collaborates on quality improvement projects with representatives from biotech, health care, defense, and traditional manufacturing institutions. He has been an instructor for the Six Sigma Black belt training at the Six Sigma Institute for three years. He is a UCSD Certified Six-Sigma Master Black-Belt and an ASQ Certified Quality Engineer. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Developing Changemaking Engineers – Year
individual subjects, and apply and integrate the previouslearning in a new context. The framework consists of a series of sound- and video-themebased lab experiments and projects [7,8], whose complexities and abstraction levelsgradually grow with the progress of curriculum. The lab framework covers both hardware and software aspects of computer systems and theexperiments are done in the SoC (system on a chip) context [14], in which a system contains ageneral-purpose processor for “housekeeping” tasks and hardware accelerators for computation-intensive tasks. The commercial SoC platforms are too complex and use the proprietary andencrypted bus interconnect and IP (intellectual property) cores. A simple, open, and vendor-neutral SoC platform is
Institute of Technology. At Rose-Hulman, he co-created the Integrated, First-Year Curriculum in Science, Engineering and Mathematics, which was recognized in 1997 with a Hesburgh Award Certificate of Excellence. He served as Project Director a Na- tional Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering Education Coalition in which six institutions systematically renewed, assessed, and institutionalized innovative undergraduate engineering curricula. He has authored over 70 papers and offered over 30 workshops on faculty development, curricular change processes, cur- riculum redesign, and assessment. He has served as a program co-chair for three Frontiers in Education Conferences and the general chair for the 2009 conference. Prof
particularly focus on what prevents students from being able to integrate and extend the knowledge developed in specific courses in the core curriculum to the more complex, authentic problems and projects they face as professionals. Dr. Koretsky is one of the founding members of the Center for Lifelong STEM Education Research at OSU.Dr. Susan Bobbitt Nolen, University of Washington Professor of Learning Sciences & Human DevelopmentDr. Christine Kelly, Oregon State University Dr. Kelly earned her BS in Chemical Engineering from the University of Arizona and her PhD in Chem- ical Engineering from the University of Tennessee. She served as an Assistant Professor for 6 years at Syracuse University, and has been an Associate
Paper ID #16420CAREER: Informing Instructional Practice through the Study of Students’Future Time PerspectivesDr. Lisa Benson, Clemson University Lisa Benson is an Associate Professor of Engineering and Science Education at Clemson University, with a joint appointment in Bioengineering. Her research focuses on the interactions between student moti- vation and their learning experiences. Her projects involve the study of student perceptions, beliefs and attitudes towards becoming engineers and scientists, and their problem solving processes. Other projects in the Benson group include effects of student-centered active
background in English, philosophy, science, and all levels of education, Heather is currently a doc- toral student in curriculum and instruction and educational psychology. She is interested in psychological barriers affecting retention and success for students. Having been raised by an engineer, this project is close to her heart. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Promoting Inclusive Engineering Identities in First-Year Engineering CoursesIntroductionIn order to cultivate a diverse and inclusive engineering student population, engineeringprograms must purposefully teach engineering students to identify as engineers, appreciatediversity, and work
stronghold in science and technology. The President Council of Advisors onScience and Technology released a report in 2012 that there is a need to produce one milliongraduates in the STEM fields for the United States to keep up with the projected demands of theeconomy. In order to achieve this, the council recommends an overhaul of the old, traditionalmethods by adopting empirically validated teaching methods and replacing traditional labcourses with discovery based research courses1. The current generation of students are millenniallearners described as students born between 1982 and 20042. These students belong to the mostethnically diverse and computer literate generation and now represent the students currentlyenrolled in colleges across the
experiences were the same and that there were no distinct differences betweenthe two experiences. When reflecting on the different ways that they approached problem solving in classes andin college, students often stated that in college there is a preference and focus on following theengineering design process. Some students focused on specific aspects of the process such asmodeling and planning. These are practices that they did not often engage in during theirengineering and design experiences. Two students explicitly stated that in high school, they usedthe scientific method rather than the engineering design process. Since they did not use theengineering design process and since exploration was not a component of their projects
Skills during an NSF REU Program Related to Sustainable Management of Wastes and ByproductsAbstractA National Science Foundation (NSF) Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) site wasestablished through the Global Waste Research Institute (GWRI) at California Polytechnic StateUniversity, San Luis Obispo (Cal Poly) to engage students in research related to sustainablemanagement of wastes and byproducts. Project themes included waste containment, waste-to-energy conversion, remediation of contaminated sites, sustainable underground construction, andbeneficial reuse of byproducts in geotechnical engineering applications. The principalinvestigators, faculty researchers, and graduate student mentors
campus in Indianapolis (IUPUI). He has taught several courses in design, mechanics of materials, optimization, and directed many interdisciplinary projects related to design. Dr. Pidaparti’s research interests are in the broad areas of multi-disciplinary design, computational mechanics, nanotechnology, and related topics. Dr. Pidaparti has published over 250 technical papers in refereed journals and conference proceedings. Dr. Pidaparti received a Research Initiation Award from the National Science Foundation and the Young Investigator Award from the Whitaker Foundation. He is a member of Tau Beta Pi, Sigma Gamma Tau, and Who’s Who societies. He is a member of professional societies including AIAA (Associate Fellow
Adam Kirn is an Assistant Professor of Engineering Education at University of Nevada, Reno. His re- search focuses on the interactions between engineering cultures, student motivation, and their learning experiences. His projects involve the study of student perceptions, beliefs and attitudes towards becoming engineers, their problem solving processes, and cultural fit. His education includes a B.S. in Biomedical Engineering from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, a M.S. in Bioengineering and Ph.D. in Engineer- ing and Science Education from Clemson University. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Understanding How First-Year Engineering Students Create
Spring 2012, Dr. Lord spent a sabbatical at Southeast University in Nanjing, China teaching and doing research. She is on the USD team implementing ”Developing Changemaking Engineers”, an NSF-sponsored Revolutionizing Engineering Education (RED) project. Dr. Lord is the 2018 recipient of the IEEE Undergraduate Teaching Award.Dr. Richard A. Layton P.E., Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Richard Layton is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. He received a B.S. from California State University, Northridge, and an M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Washington. His areas of scholarship include student teaming, longitudinal studies of engineering undergraduates, and data
activities for students that will lead to important forms oflearning. Such activities include structured practice, having students work on projects, havingstudents engage in new experiences, and also having students reflect. Educational scholarship isuseful for advancing conversations related to specific activities and/or relationships amongactivities. In our work, we have been focused on advancing conversations related to the use ofstudent reflection in engineering education.Reflection can be understood as a form of thinking that involves stepping out, thinking about,and connecting forward. Defined in this way, reflection can be seen as distinct from otheractivities mentioned above and also a very broad category of possible activity. In prior work
Kikendall Orr, Louisiana Tech University Page 24.32.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 A Comparative Study of Engineering Matriculation Practices NSF IEECI Grant 1025171Project goalsThe original major goals of this project are to: 1) describe the matriculation patterns anddisciplinary choices of engineering students using MIDFIELD and 2) explore the underlyingreasons for patterns found with MIDFIELD through interviews with sophomore engineeringstudents at selected MIDFIELD partners. A third goal has since been added to develop ataxonomy of engineering
Tools for Nanotechnology Process EducationAbstract –The cost of equipment acquisition, operation and maintenance often places severelimitations on an institution’s ability to introduce laboratory modules in nanotechnology courses.This is exacerbated by the larger class sizes and shorter class times at the undergraduate level(compared to graduate level). This is the main reason why nanotechnology is not taught at mostundergraduate engineering curricula. The goal of this project was to develop innovative and cost-effective methods to bring meaningful and sustainable nanotechnology laboratory experience tothe undergraduate classroom. Two major tools were developed to overcome the challenges – acomputer-based nanofabrication trainer, and a remote
research involves cognitive/social psychology studies of science and engineering problem solving and creativity. His educational research and design work focuses on K-12 urban education in writing, science, technol- ogy, engineering, and mathematics—both in isolation and in various combinations.Birdy Reynolds, University of PittsburghMs. Shelly Renee Brown MEd, The Quality of Life Technology Engineering Research Center; University ofPittsburgh Shelly Brown, M.Ed. is an education and outreach coordinator for the QoLT Center at the Human En- gineering Research Laboratories and the University of Pittsburgh Department of Rehabilitation Science and Technology. Ms. Brown is responsible for all K-12 outreach projects and
, Virginia TechMr. John Harris, Virginia Tech Page 25.875.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 Lab-in-a-Box: Techniques and Technologies to Manage Large and Not soLarge Laboratory CoursesA project known as Lab-in-a-Box (LiaB) was developed in 2004 by faculty members in theVirginia Tech (VT) Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Department to improve studentlearning by allowing students to make their own observations on concrete examples offundamental concepts in electrical engineering.1 LiaB is a set of hands-on exercises in whichstudents design, build, and test at home circuits using
, we foreground those related to developing arts-based activities in our kickoff events.ContextThe GATHER project aims to increase the effectiveness of and sustain organizational changeefforts aimed at DEIJ goals by instigating a cross-institutional, DEIJ-centered CoT. Ultimately,GATHER aims to foster commitment to and capacity for creating DEIJ-oriented systems changein STEM higher education. The idea for creating this CoT came about through collaborationafter three of us had been working together to understand power dynamics on institutionalchange teams. We met when working on our individual grants aiming to “revolutionize”engineering education. In discussing the challenges and barriers to change that were seldommade public, we began an