Paper ID #24843Helping Engineering Student Organization Members ”Break the Bias Habit”Dr. Jennifer Sheridan, University of Wisconsin, Madison Dr. Sheridan is the Executive and Research Director of the Women in Science & Engineering Leadership Institute (WISELI) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.Dr. Manuela Romero, University of Wisconsin, Madison Dr. Manuela Romero is the Associate Dean for Undergraduate Affairs in the College of Engineering at UW-Madison. Dr. Romero oversees undergraduate student services, including student services centers (advising), engineering student development (career services, cooperative
appointment in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Clemson University. Her research interests include student persistence and pathways in engineering, gender equity, diversity, and academic policy. Dr. Orr is a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award for her research entitled, ”Empowering Students to be Adaptive Decision-Makers.”Maya Rucks, Clemson University Maya Rucks is an engineering education doctoral student at Clemson University. She received her bache- lor’s degree in mathematics from the University of Louisiana at Monroe and her master’s degree in indus- trial engineering from Louisiana Tech University. Her areas of interest include, minorities in engineering, K-12 engineering, and engineering curriculum
Paper ID #24803Summer Bridge Design: Purposely Fostering Engineering Expertise and Suc-cess with the Redshirting in Engineering Program ScholarsMs. Tanya D Ennis, University of Colorado Boulder TANYA D. ENNIS is the current Engineering GoldShirt Program Director at the University of Colorado Boulder’s College of Engineering and Applied Science. She received her M.S. in Computer Engineering from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles and her B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Southern University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Her career in the telecommunications industry included positions in software and
, respectively. In 2006, she resigned from her faculty job and came to Connecticut for family reunion. Throughout her academic career in Australia and Sin- gapore, she had developed a very strong interest in learning psychology and educational measurement. She then opted for a second Ph.D. in educational psychology, specialized in measurement, evaluation and assessment at University of Connecticut. She earned her second Ph.D. in 2010. Li has a unique cross- disciplinary educational and research background in mechatronics engineering, specialized in control and robotics, and educational psychology, specialized in statistical analysis and program evaluation.Dr. Ronald S. Harichandran, University of New Haven Ron Harichandran is
about“people” an act of giving significance to the story in the context of participating in the program.Across the interviews, every girl described her interest in making and all but one described activeinvolvement in different modes of making. Some of the girls described making at homefollowing specific YouTube channels or as a mutual interest with a family member. For others,making was an integral part of their school as they participated in maker classes or followed atrack in school. Eight girls described a specific STEM discipline as one of their career options.Half of the girls who came to the program described learning about the program from asupportive teacher who encouraged them in pursuing their interest in making.At the same time
Paper ID #26509”Where do we go from here?” A Discussion Regarding Technological Liter-acy / Philosophy of EngineeringProf. Carl O. Hilgarth, Shawnee State University Carl O. Hilgarth, M.S., is current division chair of the ASEE Technological and Engineering Literacy / Philosophy of Engineering Division of ASEE. He is Professor Emeritus and former chair of engineering technologies at Shawnee State University, Portsmouth, Ohio. He is a Fellow of the American Society for Engineering Management and Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronau- tics. Mr. Hilgarth has a 29-year career in academia
], motivatingstudents to pursue science careers [8] [9], enhancing student learning outcomes [10] [11],promoting STEM career among women [12], and psychological processes relevant to the problem[13] [14] are all examples of targeted interventions.On the other hand, an engaging first-year engineering experience can circumvent the need forinterventions and has been shown to play a critical role in encouraging excitement, retention, andsatisfaction in engineering [15] [16]. This is attributable to the importance of the first year and itsfrequent coincidence with failed classes and dropouts [17]. In addition, completion of the first-year (i.e., first-year retention) is predictive of eventual graduation rates [17]. Therefore, significantefforts have been invested
and machine learning. Specifically, he is interested in smartphone security, and IoT security.Dr. Kristina Rigden, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona Dr. Kristina Rigden is the Director of Outreach Programs and the Women in Engineering Program for the College of Engineering at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona (Cal Poly Pomona). In her position, she provides several different outreach programming events to engage K-12 female students to pursue STEM majors and/or careers. Dr. Rigden holds a B.A. in Liberal Studies from Cal Poly Pomona, a TESOL certificate, a M.A. in Teaching with a multiple-subject credential and an Ed.D. from the University of Southern California.Dr. Thomas Ketseoglou
integratetechnical and professional skills and knowledge in their development as an engineer [1]”. Inaddition, engineering students’ involvement in activities outside of the classroom, such asstudent competition teams, contributes to their achievement of numerous other outcomes;according to Simmons, et al, engagement with these activities enhances students’ “career andprofessional development, communication and leadership development, intellectualdevelopment, personal and social development, academic and social engagement, interculturalcompetence, satisfaction with college experiences, and college belonging and persistence inmajor and college [2]”. Working on a competition team, therefore, contributes to thedevelopment of students’ design and build skills
Paper ID #28782Landscape of Engineering Technology Programs as seen from ASEEAimee T Ulstad P.E., The Ohio State University Aimee Ulstad, P.E is an Associate Professor of Practice in the Integrated Systems Engineering Department at The Ohio State University. Prior to joining the faculty at Ohio State, Aimee was an industry professional in various field in engineering for over 30 years. Aimee received her degrees in Mechanical Engineering and Masters in Business Administration from Ohio State. She began her career as a packaging equipment engineer at Procter and Gamble, then moved to Anheuser-Busch where she worked for
important to ensuring persistence, we utilized empirical datafrom the MIDFIELD dataset [21]. MIDFIELD consists of data collected from over 1.5 millionundergraduate, degree-seeking students from 19 different institutions. It is a longitudinal studentrecord level database, which means it includes everything that appears on students’ transcripts,and that it contains tracking information on each student during their academic career. Itconsiders not only demographic student information (such as sex, ethnicity, and age), but alsoacademic information (such as their major, enrollment status, term and year in which the studentFigure 1: Adapted version of Astin’s I-E-O model applied to computing students to assess persis-tence/graduation rates. Includes pre
Diversity andInclusivityGoal:To strengthen faculty’s connection to industry and aid their ability to facilitate studentconnections, faculty will participate in an industry immersion experience during the summerwhere they work with practicing engineers and learn current industry practices. Additionally,faculty will acquire relevant industrial and teacher trainings. Ultimately, faculty will see theirrole, or identity, as moving students towards becoming practicing engineers who create a “morejust and humane world.” Students, too, will reflect on their identities as engineers and how thoserelate to their education and career paths. To bridge course work and industry practices, anIndustry Advisor with extensive experience in industry and passion for
within the Center for entrepreneurship at California State University, Chico. Mr. Rahn has extensive industry back- ground with software and consulting startups and specialized in new product and market development. Following his successful industry career Mr. Rahn transitioned to teaching strategy and entrepreneurship at Chico State. Over the past 16 years Mr. Rahn has developed the e-Incubator at Chico State, as well as created a course called Web-based entrepreneurship which focuses on helping students launch the on- line portion of their businesses using the Lean Startup approach. In 2016 he published ”e-Business for Entrepreneurs,” an online course for entrepreneurs building e-businesses
are mandated toreflect state career and technology education (CTE) curriculum frameworks, but the frameworksare not designed to measure graduates' abilities to meet AM employers’ current needs. Becausethis technology-reliant industry changes so quickly, faculty are challenged to source, develop,and implement responsive educational experiences. Through consultation with industry leaders,the Department of Labor (DOL) developed an AM competency model to illustrate and promoteworkers’ necessary knowledge, skills, and dispositions. To determine whether the AMcompetency model can function as an exit assessment for AM program graduates, we comparedAM program syllabi from five rural Northwest Florida state colleges to the DOL AMCompetency Model. We
this program that wasoffered between Penn State and UNI last year. The article also reports the motivation behind theprogram revisions, the integration of SDG’s with Drawdown, and the strategy for obtaining theapproval and support of the university faculty. The assessment of newer hands-on projects addedto the program and future activities are presented. The impact of this program on students’professional growth and career development are discussed, as well.1. IntroductionThe concepts of global citizenship [1,2] and sustainability [3] are essential in transformingundergraduate education in the United States in order to handle the challenges of the 21st century.Indeed, Higher Education institutions need to identify, create, and provide
transferred to a non-engineering program at UVA.When considering all freshmen who started UVA in 2011 and earned any bacherlor’s degree, thefour-year graduation rates was 89%. UVA has implemented a system to “total advising” to helpstudents persist in engineering. This approach “integrates academic, career and personalcounseling.”Ohland et al [21] used the MIDFIELD (the Multiple Institution Database for InvestigatingEngineering Longitudinal Development) which included the student records for 75,686engineering freshmen in nine public universities in the southeastern United States. Theresearchers found that eight-semester persistence is a good indicator for six-year graduation inengineering disciplines. This result is consistent with other research on
Paper ID #28070Work in Progress: Peer-based Programming in Undergraduate EngineeringDr. Jennifer L Johrendt, University of Windsor Dr. Johrendt is the Assistant Dean - Student Affairs for the Faculty of Engineering and an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical, Automotive, and Materials Engineering at the University of Windsor. She holds degrees in Mathematics and Engineering from Queen’s University in Kingston (B.Sc., M.A.Sc.) and Mechanical Engineering from the University of Windsor (Ph.D.). She began a career in automotive research as a product development engineer at the University of Windsor/Chrysler
wellness. 2. Apply various learning and study strategies to their University college classes. 3. Recognize the unique characteristics of their major, University including relevant co- and extra-curricular opportunities, and understand the significance of that discipline in today’s world. 4. Identify the role of faculty as experts in providing University guidance in academic planning, experiential learning and career goals related to the student’s major. 5. Develop a sense of self-awareness through University teamwork and collaborative efforts. 6. Work in multi-disciplinary teams. College of Engineering 7. Explain the basis for and
segment is a two-year independent livingprogram where the residents have opportunities to continue their education and learn essentiallife skills to make it out in the real world and obtain careers that would change their lives. CHMsits on a 5.3-acre campus that consists of two residential programs, a dining and recreation center,and job development center.Technical Analyses of the facilityThree CHM buildings were proposed to upgrade: Caritas Crisis Center, Rights of Passage, and theChapel. The Caritas Crisis Center, built in 1973 with an area approximately 6480 ft2, serves as a90-day shelter for youth coming directly off the streets. After the 90-day limit in the crisis center,residents have the option to leave or to continue to stay at CHM, in
issue, especially as it applies to retaining studentswithin underrepresented minority groups. Specifically, the course utilizes active teaching andlearning methods that have shown to be especially effective not only for engineering students asa whole, but in encouraging underrepresented minorities to gain the knowledge and confidencethey will need to further their academic and professional careers. This presentation will comparethe student performance metrics for all participating student populations to assess theeffectiveness of this new class as it relates to underrepresented minorities.KeywordsDemographic study, SCALE-UP, active learningBackgroundUTA has created a new first year engineering course, named ENGR 1300 – Engineering
was carefully designed to help first-year students achieve success in the programregardless of the specific engineering major they select in their second year. Therefore, thecourse includes themes centered on several design-and-build projects with the following programobjectives: 1. Provide students with the opportunity to experience engineering as an evolving, creative, and interdisciplinary career that impacts global society and daily life. 2. Provide students with the opportunity to develop process-driven problem-solving skills that recognize multiple alternatives and apply critical thinking to identify an effective solution. 3. Provide students with the opportunity to integrate math & science in an engineering context. 4
viable career option because it is seen as a dying technology. Some 64million baby boomers are poised to retire in large numbers by the end of this decade. This groupaccounts for over 40 percent of the U.S. labor force. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reports thatby 2010, the number of unfilled skilled worker posts will reach 5.3 million, increasing to 14 millionby 2015. Rapidly advancing technology will heavily influence the trends shaping the workplace ofthe future. All studies that look to the education and skills needs of today’s workers conclude thatemployers require more education and more technical skills from their employees. In today’seconomy, skill development and education must be a life long process as new technologies
from under-represented populations. The objective is to allow and encourage the participation of students coming from underrepresented minority groups.• Better prepare undergraduates for their professional careers. Students are expected to learn how to use state-of-the-art tools and methods to solve current research and practical problems. Also, they are expected to improve their written and oral communication skills through seminars and formal and informal presentations about their projects.• Improve student capability for learning independently. Faculty mentors provide the students with in-depth information and guidance at the beginning of their research assignments. After that initial phase and once given all the
present some of the empirical observationshere: 1. Inherent Social Constraints: The Jordanian women were affected with all the inherited social constraints that may deviate their thinking from getting involved in certain activities. Some of these activities do not welcome women. For instance, attitude tests in the 1970’s demonstrated that social implications and social responsibility issues have a significant effect on girls’ choices, but little on boys’1. This is in spite of the fact that studies indicated that men and women are attracted to the engineering profession for similar reasons, including ability in mathematics and science, career opportunities, challenge, and good salary prospects. 2. Cultural
devices and systems • Understand the capabilities and limitations of basic manufacturing processes and engineering systems.Who is it for? and who is in it?The program is design to be an effective minor to supplement the student’s non-engineeringdegree programs. This proposed program is designed to help students who are not engineeringmajors but are interested in understanding “how things work” • Are looking at directorship, management, technical marketing, sales, and related careers in an industry that continues to involve more technology • Are possibly interested in public policy—decisions impacting government, education, industry, religious institutions, health care • Are thinking about working in bioengineering
State University. He received the Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in Computer Science from the College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, in 1994 and 1991, respectively, and his undergraduate degree in Computer Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Athens, Greece, in 1989. He received the 2004 ALCOA Foundation Engineering Research Achievement Award, and the 2003 NC State Alumni Outstanding Research Award. He is a recipient of a 1997 NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award and of the 1994 Graduate Research Assistant Award from the College of Computing, Georgia Tech. He was inducted in the NC State University Academy of Outstanding
, students inthe Engineering Technology can become prepared for careers in Biotechnology Manufacturing.Acknowledgement The authors would like to thank Jimmy Hudson, President of CityScapes, for providingall the necessary information about the biotechnology history in the city of Huntsville, Alabama.Without his help and input, the writing of this paper would not have been possible. They alsowould like to thank Brian Pollack, CEO of Open Biosystems, for providing a brief descriptionabout the Huntsville Biotechnology Community. Special thank goes to Dr. Bill Teoh for apersonal tour of the facility of Operon Biotechnologies. Page
code is compiled, students can download the machine-language code to thesystem using a PC serial port and do not need any external EPROM burner. The data acquisitionsystem has non-volatile flash memory to hold the code, which allows students to run their codein a stand-alone mode.IntroductionComputer engineering is a discipline that combines both computer science and electricalengineering and prepares students for careers that deal with software and hardware componentsof modern computer systems 1. To educate computer engineering students effectively andpractically one needs to provide hands-on activity in class. It would be beneficial if they wereexposed to real-world engineering problems, which involve both software and hardwarecomponents of
university begin in the General EngineeringProgram (GEP). The two primary objectives of the GEP are to provide students with asound academic preparation for engineering study and to give them an opportunity to Page 13.913.3explore various engineering fields. Most students spend two to three semesters in thiscore curriculum as they learn the basic tools and fundamentals of engineering[3] whilebeing introduced via departmental presentations to the various engineering disciplinesthat are available on campus. As part of its overall mission, the GEP offers generaladvising, career counseling and engineering education.Students who leave the GEP and choose NOT to
includes, but isnot limited to planning, design, teaching, applied or fundamental research, publicadministration, or utility operation and the EnVEBOK must address all these forms ofpractice. Individuals receiving a degree in environmental engineering may neverpractice environmental engineering, but rather may seek other professional degrees, suchas law or medicine, or follow an entirely different career path. Therefore some pathsbeginning with a baccalaureate degree in environmental engineering may not lead tocomplete EnVEBOK fulfillment.The EnVEBOK builds on the body of knowledge appropriate for all engineers thenexpands into areas specific and unique to environmental engineering. The EnVEBOKprovides a guide for curriculum development and reform