development of engineers that exhibit an“entrepreneurial mindset coupled with engineering thought and action expressed throughcollaboration and communication and founded on character.” [1] In support of this, KEEN hascreated a framework of student outcomes and example behaviors that may be used to inform thedesign of programs seeking to develop an entrepreneurial mindset. These outcomes andbehaviors are centered around what KEEN calls The 3 C’s - curiosity, connections, and creatingvalue. Specific example behaviors of curiosity, connections, and creating value as described bythe KEEN framework may be seen in Figure 1 [1] and it is through this lens that we haveincorporated entrepreneurially minded learning into our undergraduate curriculum. Fostering
global history. The joint ENGR 365-HIST 308 faculty-led travel course was her first experience with such classes and her first trip to Japan.Dr. Russell Sarwar Kabir, Hiroshima University Russell Sarwar Kabir is Assistant Professor in the School of Education and Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Hiroshima University. Emphasizing student interactions, his educational research interests center on the development of materials, courses, and workshops that apply intercultural learning approaches to interdisciplinary science education. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Co-offering Engineering and Non-Engineering Courses on Faculty-led Trips
into implications forstudent support. The lack of support and resources for Black and LGBTQ+ students at this HSIuniversity could be supported by counterspaces such as NSBE and oSTEM, which are importantsites of community-building and professional development for Black and LGBTQ+ students,respectively [2], [22]. Such counterspaces help marginalized students to lessen the overlapbetween their identity and being an engineer, allowing them to be more vocal and secure in theiridentity.In light of the intersectionality present in these narratives and in all student experiences, Seculeset al. [24] spoke to similar challenges of supporting multiply marginalized and ‘small n’ [25]populations within student support. Although Christina identifies as a
degree program. Their difficultiesmay be due either to a lack of preparedness for previous classes (stemming from their technicalcollege or from Clemson itself) or to not fully understanding what would be asked of themwithin the course before registration. In addition, they share struggles relating to their Clemsonprofessors. Positive impacts come from their experience at Clemson and their direct SPECTRAinvolvement. Examples of these benefits include building skills, participating in undergraduateresearch, creating and having a community with fellow students, and developing their identitiesas engineers and computer scientists. Undergraduate research is a highly valued aspect of theSPECTRA program. The students work closely with graduate students
and learningopportunities to keep the motivation and interest of students in STEM disciplines and preparestudents for what it will take to complete an academic and professional career in STEM.First Implementation of New Curriculum Design through Virtual EnvironmentEduGuide Participation and Mentoring InteractionsThe EduGuide online coaching platform was used as a strategy to complement the academicpreparedness and STEM identity development of first-year undergraduate students. The use of thisplatform was considered a key element of our curriculum, especially because its firstimplementation would occur in a virtual course setting due to the global pandemic. Topics suchas alleviating anxiety, class-taking strategies, community building, and
, and working on communication skills [24],[25].As research discussed that undergraduate researchers could engage in their lived experiences formore authentic interpretations of data, we engaged our lived experiences, especially bothundergraduate researchers, through the writing of positionality statements. Positionalitystatements have been a growing phenomenon in engineering education research as part of theefforts to uncover researchers’ preconceived notions that can shape how they conduct theirresearch [26]. By reflecting on their positionalities, Alshanti and Thu as undergraduateresearchers engage their lived experiences as engineering students to interpret instructors’ beliefsand behaviors on test usage. This becomes the foundation of this
theirundergraduate education is composed of many facets and through the relationships built inthe research group, they are able to leverage these relationships in multiple ways.The ways in which students are collaborating with each other and faculty in the group areindicators of facilitated faculty and peer interactions and comprehensive feedback, which arequalities of HIPs. By students and faculty communicating in relation to their work within thegroup as well as outside of the group, they are able to develop deeper relationships with eachother as shown in their interview quotes. The way the group is designed to supplement whatthe students are learning in the classroom and promote communication among its membershelps promote an environment of collaboration
Dr. Long, email: Leroy.Long@erau.edu.Dr. Sharnnia Artis, University of California, Irvine Dr. Sharnnia Artis is the Assistant Dean of Access and Inclusion for the Henry Samueli School of Engi- neering and Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Irvine. She is responsible for programs at the pre-college, undergraduate, and graduate levels to facili- tate the recruitment, retention, and overall success of students from traditionally underrepresented groups in engineering and information and computer sciences. Dr. Artis has 18 years of experience working with education and outreach programs in engineering and over 35 publications in STEM education and outreach. Prior
students, teachers, and others engaged in STEM education andthe focus of an NSF PRIME grant to examine the validity and reliability of the EDPPSR (NationalScience Foundation, 2011). In the years since the EDPPSR evolved, exposure to the rubric via the Innovation Portal has greatlyincreased. Not only is the rubric being used to assess the portfolios submitted by thousands ofstudents for PLTW’s Engineering Design and Development (EDD) capstone course, but students inother instructional contexts as well—from middle school through college—are using the rubric-basedframework to organize entries and artifacts that demonstrate their engagement in the engineeringdesign process. (Live, to-the-second data on users of the framework is displayed on https
through graduate education, and gender and race in engineering.Allison Godwin (Associate Professor) Allison Godwin, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of Engineering Education and of Chemical Engineering at Purdue University. She is also the Engineering Workforce Development Director for CISTAR, the Center for Innovative and Strategic Transformation of Alkane Resources, a National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center. Her research focuses on how identity, among other affective factors, influences diverse students to choose engineering and persist in engineering. She also studies how different experiences within the practice and culture of engineering foster or hinder belonging and identity development. Dr
projects; 10 out-of-class hours to attending two seminars in adepartmental lecture series and completing assignments; and 35 in-class hours to addressingknowledge and skills that build the student’s capacity for completing their capstone projects.The PFE course sequence is available to students beginning in their second semester of theprogram, and students can take the PFE course sequence through their junior year. Students arenot required to take each PFE course consecutively. The same instructor teaches all threecourses, ensuring that the courses follow a logical progression of skill development. Courseenrollment is increasing each semester, as students now entering as freshmen have the courses asrequirements for graduation. Objectives for each
AC 2011-750: ”IT’S GONNA BE A LONG TRIP.”- A STUDENT’S EXPE-RIENCE WITH ENGINEERING ABROAD.Tiago R Forin, Purdue University, West Lafayette Tiago Forin is currently a third year student in the School of Engineering Education at Purdue University. He received his Bachelors degree in Civil Engineering from Florida State University in ’06 and his Masters degree in Environmental Engineering from Purdue University in ’08. While in the School of Engineering Education, he works as a Graduate Research Assistant in the X-Roads Research Group and has an interest in cross-disciplinary practice and engineering identity development
-disciplinary design space at University of Colorado Boulder. She is also the Design Center Colorado Director of Undergraduate Pro- grams and a Senior Instructor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. She received B.S. and M.S degrees in mechanical engineering from The Ohio State University and a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from the University of Colorado Boulder. Kotys-Schwartz has focused her research in engineering stu- dent learning, retention, and student identity development within the context of engineering design. She is currently investigating the impact of cultural norms in an engineering classroom context, performing comparative studies between engineering education and professional design practices
in research and evaluation and special knowledge about STEM education in community colleges and four-year institutions. She presently serves as the external evaluator for four NSF-funded projects. These include evaluation of a first year experience in a majority-minority engineering college and an initiative to increase diversity in a predominantly white elite engineering college through collaboration with local community colleges. Ms. Schiorring is also evaluating an ATE project to bolster recruitment and preparation of diverse STEM teachers. Past projects include evaluation of an NSF-funded project to improve advising for engineering students at a major state university in California. Ms. Schiorring is the
first-year coursework. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Creating a Master “Entrepreneurial Mindset” Concept MapThe knowledge, skills, and attitudes associated with an entrepreneurial mindset (EM)continue to be debated within the entrepreneurship field. Although overlapping in theirproperties, there exist several definitions of what comprises an EM within engineering. Forinstance, as summarized in a recent review by Zappe [1], EM can range from a problem-solving approach applied within one’s life, to the associated skills and behaviors such asopportunity recognition, creativity, and risk mitigation that may be developed withinindividuals. Due to this range of definitions, it can be
with Disabilities: Engaging the Community through Educational Outreach and Toy Donation,” presented at the 2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Jun. 2019. Accessed: Oct. 28, 2022. [Online]. Available: https://peer.asee.org/engagement-in-practice-toy-adaptation- for-children-with-disabilities-engaging-the-community-through-educational-outreach-and- toy-donation[10] M. Y. Mollica, H. Feldner, A. Caspi, K. M. Steele, and D. G. Hendricks, “Toy Adaptation in Undergraduate Education and Outreach: An Initial Examination into Participant Experience and Perceptions,” in American Society for Engineering Education, 2017.[11] M. Y. Mollica, H. A. Feldner, S. Israel, A. Caspi, K. M. Steele, and D. G
studies the unintended behaviors of radio-frequency electronics illuminated by electromagnetic waves and he develops radars for the remote detection and characterization of those electronics. In the Fall of 2013, Dr. Mazzaro joined the faculty of the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at The Citadel. There, he is currently an Associate Professor and the primary instructor for Electromagnetic Fields, Signals & Systems, Interference Control in Electronics, and Antennas & Propagation. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Mini-Laboratory Activities to Reinforce Counter-Intuitive Principles in a Senior-Undergraduate Course on Electromagnetic
-12 makerspace, Fassoand Knight [9] found that the constant negotiation and collaboration required to complete aproject within the makerspace provide a sociocultural space to support identity development. Inhigher education settings, Carbonnel, Andrews, Boklage, and Borrego found that a semester-longproject which required the use of an engineering makerspace increased students’ technology anddesign self-efficacy, affect towards design, innovation orientation, as well as their sense ofbelonging in a makerspace [5]. In addition, in research that has emerged from this largerresearch study, Greene, Kellam, and Coley found that while makerspaces overall promotedagency and engineering identity for Black male undergraduates, makerspaces at PWIs
students best learn modeling practices through their explicit inclusion inthe curriculum [3]. One such approach to incorporate mathematical modeling into undergraduateengineering education is through open-ended modeling problems (OEMPs) in which studentswork either individually or in groups to develop mathematical models that describe a real-worldscenario [17]. OEMPs are similar to Model-Eliciting Activities (MEAs) [19] in that studentsmake and substantiate assumptions throughout the process of establishing their mathematicalmodels. A key difference between MEAs and OEMPs is that OEMPs prompt students toconsider multiple alternatives to determine the first-principles model that best representsthe engineering system in question, which uniquely
, Technology, and Society (STS) programI. IntroductionIn many orientations to social science research, study participants are positioned as objects ofinquiry, but are not treated as partners in the inquiry process or within knowledge developmentprocesses. This paper offers one account of an engineering education research team disruptingthis dichotomy between “researcher” and “researched.”This work takes place in the context of an NSF-funded ethnographic investigation of Universityof Maryland (UMD) College Park Scholars Science, Technology, and Society Living LearningCommunity (STS-LLC) [1]. Our investigation focuses on understanding how engineeringstudents’ macro-ethical reasoning develops within the cultural practices of this community [2-5].In our
well.Miss Amanda Marie Singer, The Ohio State University Amanda Singer is a second-year Ph.D. student in the Department of Engineering Education at The Ohio State University. She graduated in 2021 from Michigan Tech with a Bachelor’s and Master’s of Science in Environmental Engineering. Her current research interests include engineering identity formation, community college engineering education, and mixed methods research.Carter James Huber, The Ohio State UniversityDr. Rachel Louis Kajfez, The Ohio State University Dr. Rachel Louis Kajfez is an Associate Professor in the Department of Engineering Education at The Ohio State University. She earned her B.S. and M.S. degrees in Civil Engineering from Ohio State and earned
dealing with while teaching.We eventually recognized that our teaching skills would improve over time and needed to makespace for growth and give ourselves grace during this process (11 DM, 12 DM). Interacting withstudents this semester helped us to realize the urgency and need to drive change and innovationin higher education because it affects students’ lives and future opportunities.DiscussionAs mentioned above, we discovered that teaching is a complicated set of skills primarily learnedthrough practicing teaching. We grew and developed in very unexpected ways through thisprocess. We found new things about teaching. We learned about the vast array of skills requiredfor teaching and were able to begin building our teaching toolbox. We learned
. Page 22.428.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Design Aspects of a Database for Remote Laboratory ManagementAbstract This paper describes the design of a database which is used to manage the remote laboratoryRLAB. RLAB allows users from all over the world to access a set of real world physical models,to perform experiments by interactively working with them in a realtime environment, and todownload the resulting data to their own computer system for further processing. The onlyrequirement for the user's computer is an internet browser. RLAB was originally developed at Cologne University of Applied Sciences (CUAS) inGermany; it uses NI LabVIEW to perform the interfacing to the real world
instruction program9, and high intensity collaborative learning based onthe Treisman model10. Student professional organizations have been employed to conductoutreach, build community and act as a recruiting and retention hub 11-14. Studies to define bestpractices have been conducted15-16 and the question of commitment to an engineering majorbefore enrolling has been investigated17. The first-generation college students population hasbeen given additional scrutiny for encouragement to study engineering as colleges anduniversities have attempted to draw in engineering students through the community or juniorcolleges 18-20. More recently, community colleges and baccalaureate institutions havecollaborated to deliberately design practices and coursework
Paper ID #18212An Active Learning Environment to Improve First-Year Mechanical Engi-neering Retention Rates and Software SkillsBenjamin B. Wheatley, Colarado State University Benjamin Brandt Wheatley was awarded a B.Sc. degree in Engineering from Trinity College (Hartford, CT, USA) in 2011. He spent one year in industry at a biomedical device company before returning to graduate school. He is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Colorado State University (Fort Collins, CO, USA). His engineering education areas of interest include cultural competency, active learning approaches as they
technology byfocusing on recruiting, retaining, and graduating low-income female students.The PWS model is based on a Project-Based Learning approach to help students developtechnical and professional skills through real-world project experiences under faculty mentorshipbuilding a successful pipeline to the workforce from the college. The PWS program supports 2-cohorts of incoming students (2021 N=10 and 2022 N=9) through scholarships, coursework, andprojects mentored by faculty from computer sciences and engineering. Students have participatedin a 1-credit hour course each semester focusing on building and supporting students’ growthmindsets and recognition of the importance of grit through the examination of two books, CarolDweck’s Growth Mindset
GenerationScience Standards (NGSS) released in 2013 include a broader scope of STEM content throughthe inclusion of K-12 engineering education. The NGSS emphasize scientific inquiry,engineering design, and require K-12 students to have the ability to link broad concepts acrossthe various scientific disciplines in STEM [10]. By exposing children to STEM disciplinesduring the early years through hands-on, interactive, and problem-solving activities, researchindicates that children’s interest in STEM career fields’ increases, which establishes aneducational pathway for their future [11, 12]. Student interest, motivation and engagement inlearning science has been linked to both achievement and the intention to pursue coursework orcareers in STEM after high
Paper ID #36435Longitudinal Assessment of Engineering Student EM Usingthe ESEMA Self-Report SurveyAlexandra Mary Jackson Alexandra Jackson is a first year PhD student at Rowan University seeking a specialization in Engineering Education. She began her research in Rowan's Experiential Engineering Education Department in the Fall of 2019, and has developed interests in entrepreneurial mindset and student development. In particular, she is interested in assessment of entrepreneurial mindset through both quantitative and qualitative methods, and is currently working in both survey and concept map assessment. She
of a novel faculty teaching evaluation process with directengagement of student and industry review teams; (3) the launch of a new course series,Professional Formation of Engineers 1, 2, and 3 to provide electrical engineering students withprofessional skills and career development guidance to broaden their education experience andsupport them in better understanding their discipline and potential future careers; (4) Study ofthe impact of action-state orientation on student success. An overarching theme for the project isthat the new completely connected department model will engage all stakeholders in sharing theresponsibility to empower students to Take Responsibility to Understand Engineering (TRUE).INTRODUCTION The department of
university?”The large southwestern university engineering leadership team chose to address the need forchange using a deliberate “re-building strategy” [1]. This choice involved invoking “a processoriented approach to the remaking of a curriculum…, involving external stakeholders. Thisapplies sound systems engineering principles to the engineering curriculum itself” [1].“The re-building strategy…is a fundamental change of academic view linking academia withsocietal context and needs…by emphasizing a shared set of values, identity and commitment. Itis about educating engineers who will become change agents after graduation, with anunderstanding of stakeholder needs and the wider societal impact of engineered systems withinthe innovation process’ [1