humandevelopment [12]. Students become more sensitive to cultural issues and experience aheightened level of social responsibility [13]. These developed soft skills have the potential toextend to areas outside their academic experiences, like their career choices, participation inservice after college, or commitment to activism [10].While the experience component is critical to a service-learning project, this experience does notnecessarily result in learning [14]. The ability for students to recognize the meaning of theirexperience and personal development is enabled through preflection and reflection activities.Preflection is the idea of preparing students to think about their biases and establish theirexpectations before going into the service-learning
methods, neural network, and deep/machine learning for adeno-associated virus and liposome characterization. In 2020, he was awarded the best Research Assistant award by the School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering at Washington State University. Khan plans to pursue a teaching career upon earning his Ph.D.Olivia Reynolds (Graduate Student) Olivia received her PhD in chemical engineering from Washington State University in 2022. Her research is focused on the development and assessment of low-cost, hands-on learning tools for fluid mechanics and heat transfer. She plans to remain at Washington State University where she will teach the first-year engineering courses and develop the first-year engineering
Associate Professor of Engineering Education and Mechanical Engineering (courtesy) at Purdue University. Dr. DeBoer conducts education research and supports diverse students around the world as they are empowered to access, develop, and meaningfully apply engineering skills in their own communities. She has won multiple awards from the National Science Foundation (NSF), the American Education Research Association, the Spencer Foundation, and the US Department of State. During her first year as assistant professor, she received the NSF’s prestigious Early CAREER Award, and in 2017, she received the American Society for Engineering Education Mara Wasburn Women in Engineering Early Engineering Educator Award
academic careers and later in the workplace.This can be accredited to the opportunities provided through flipped learning to develop andrefine their practical skills such as problem-solving, innovation and collaboration, among others.Intentional content – Intentional content is content curated according to the students’ needs. Forexample, students in engineering tend to be visual or kinesthetic learners. They require physicaldemonstrations and the exposure to hands-on activities that will allow them to best understandthe concepts. Part of being an engineer also means working in a team which suggests thatengineering courses should include group activities where possible.Professional educators – The professional educators are the ones responsible
systems (CPS) andpractices such as product lifecycle management (PLM) that aim to integrate environmentalsustainability, ethical use of data and other societal factors throughout the lifecycle of a systemor product. The goal is to produce insightful educational modules on these topics that can beintegrated into existing undergraduate courses so that students acquire a broad understanding ofpotential research and career pathways in these emerging fields. These applications may alsomotivate students to better assimilate, gain and retain foundational knowledge in fundamentalprinciples taught in core engineering courses. The design of CPS and PLM involves multipledisciplines across the fields of engineering, computer science, business, health
Engineering Education,” Jun. 2009, p. 14.1002.1-14.1002.11. [22] C. Kang, H. Jo, S. W. Han, and L. Weis, “Complexifying Asian American student pathways to STEM majors: Differences by ethnic subgroups and college selectivity,” Journal of Diversity in Higher Education, Jun. 2021.[23] L. Lowe, Immigrant acts: on Asian American cultural politics. Durham: Duke University Press, 1996.[24] M. Tuan, Forever foreigners or honorary whites? the Asian ethnic experience today. New Brunswick, N.J: Rutgers University Press, 1998.[25] J. Tang, “The Career Attainment of Caucasian and Asian Engineers,” The Sociological Quarterly, vol. 34, no. 3, pp. 467–496, Aug. 1993.[26] C. S. Chan, “Issues of Identity Development among Asian-American
instruction–making activelearning even more important in remote instruction.Not every learning objective is best tackled with a full class period of active learning. Using avariety of instructional methods will help the students to succeed in different learning modes [13]and increase their learning flexibility [14] [15] which will benefit them in the classroom and intheir careers. Without denying all the benefits of active learning, students also need to becomecapable listeners, note takers, and questioners if they want to successfully participate in projectproposals, planning sessions, and public meetings as engineers.Whether using passive or active instructional methods, motivation matters. Deci and Ryan [16],Cavanagh [17], and Eccles and Wigfield
the number of and facilitating meaningful student-studentinteractions throughout the course.Fixed Learning Teams. As students were taking the first course in the major, with a subsection ofthe class (the transferring juniors) in their first semester at our institution, we decided to assignlearning teams based on some shared affinity (e.g., sector, career aspirations, or researchinterests) in which students completed all group learning activities in the course, while beingmindful to avoid groups in which only one member of a gender or under-presented minoritywould be present. Since students have not previously taken any courses within the department,and no previous grade data was collected, students were not grouped by any way to balance
different reason not tied to lack of resources: found a major better suited to their interests, decided to pursue another career or life opportunity, did not develop a strong engineering identity, etc.ConclusionsOverall this paper was a data driven approach to understand how SES impacts studentpersistance and performance through the aerospace engineering curriculum at a large R1university. We found that students from low SES backgrounds struggled more in calculus andearly aerospace classes, left the major at a higher rate, and had lower 6-year graduation ratescompared to students from high SES backgrounds. The admissions criteria at this universitysuggests that students come in with a strong math background. Students from low
use. It makes a tremendous contribution to the economy in the form ofincreasing gross domestic product (GDP), exports, creating high-paying jobs, supporting all othersectors, and provides a meaningful return on investment. The integrated nature of manufacturingis evident in its symbiotic relationship with innovation, Science, Technology, Engineering, andMathematics (STEM) education, and national security [1]. Unfortunately, few young Americanschoose a manufacturing career [2]. Meanwhile, the current manufacturing workforce is lesseducated and slower to adapt to new technology compared to other sectors. It is predicted thatbefore 2025, two million manufacturing jobs will be left unfilled due to a widening skills gap [3],which is further
undergraduate degree programs. Beginning in the mid-1980s, the field ofengineering education started to respond to numerous reports that there needed to be changesmade to engineering education. An increased emphasis on synthesis and design, open-endedproblem solving, development of management and communications skills, professionaldevelopment, and career-long learning are all included in this call for change. This response wasin reaction to a perceived need to correct a multiple decades long emphasis on engineeringscience that occurred post-World War II tilting the engineering education field away fromengineering practice and the new realities of a global economy that demanded skill sets notemphasized at the time [13]. Several new initiatives drove
, and Interconnectedness—encapsulate decades ofresearch on social cognitive career theory [5], social identity theory [6], self-efficacy theory [7],and need for social connectedness [8]. A fourth concept known to be important for inclusion isCultural-Intelligence (CQ). CQ enables people to work more effectively with culturally diverseothers, a skill critical for developing culturally intelligent, global engineers [9]. Having CQ alsoallows a person to understand the culture in a workplace, and, if inclusive, allows people fromdiverse backgrounds to feel that they fit in with the workplace culture. In addition, OverallInclusion (see Figure 1) was asked on a 1-7 strongly disagree to strongly agree scale, as well, todirectly gauge the more abstract
EM’s integration into the engineering curriculum are that itreinforces technical concepts (especially in design-related topics), helps promote greaterinclusion within the profession, and develops a mindset oriented towards problem-solving,empathy, creativity, and valuing the expertise of others. 10 The KEEN Framework’s“mindset+skillset” approach presents EM as a competency geared towards graduates creatingvalue for their organizations and communities in successful and rewarding engineering careers. 9To succinctly put it, EM is CBE.KEEN’s approach also benefits the development of computing professionals. Researchinvestigating the EM of engineering and computer science students did not report any differencesbetween these two groups.11 The
, vol. 31, no. 3, pp. 289-302, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10956-022- 09955-2[11] P. A. Reed and M. K. Ferguson, “Safety training for career and content switchers,” Technology and Engineering Teacher, vol. 80, no. 7, pp. 16-19, 2021.[12] International Technology and Engineering Educators Association, “Safer Engineering and CTE Instruction: A National STEM Education Imperative. State Reports,” [Online]. Available: https://www.iteea.org/SafetyReport.aspx. [Accessed Nov. 4, 2022].[13] T. S. Love, K. R. Roy, and P. Sirinides, “What factors have the greatest impact on safety in Pennsylvania’s T&E courses?,” Technology and Engineering Education Association of Pennsylvania Journal, vol. 69, no. 1, pp. 5
he collects analyzes information, while being a lead contribu- tor in the Product Life-Cycle Management group where he participates in making connections between computer security and Product Life-Cycle Management. The past summer, Nathan had an opportunity to intern within cybersecurity involving penetration testing and hopes to pursue a career in cyber security consulting.Prof. Kavitha Chandra, University of Massachusetts Lowell Kavitha Chandra is the Associate Dean for Undergraduate Affairs and Professor of Electrical and Com- puter Engineering in the Francis College of Engineering at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. She directs the Research, Academics and Mentoring Pathways (RAMP) to Success summer
career. Student questionstypically focused on grading. For those that asked about internships, information about schoolresources were provided and an offer was made to have the instructor review their resume. Of the37 students in the class, 3 of them submitted a resume for review.Academic integrity was addressed by asking students not to share the content of the oral examwith classmates, and instructor and IA had a comment area in the grading sheet to indicatesuspected academic integrity concerns. In Fall Quarter 2021 of MAE 30A there was no evidenceof students sharing oral exam content. To the contrary, students on the second day of the examscontinued to make mistakes, which would not be the case if the oral exam content had beenwidely shared
onboardingprocess to prepare them for oral exam administration, as well as ongoing feedback andmentorship. This ties in with a broader impact of this project, which is to better prepare the nextgeneration of engineering educators from the training we develop and implement. Some of theIAs who participate in this project have a strong interest in engineering education careers, andthe IA training they receive from this project will better prepare them as engineering educators.Oral exams are also excellent opportunities for technical conversations, similar to those seen inindustry interviews or in authentic team collaborations. IA training for this project, thus,translates beyond academic careers and can be of value to IAs focused on industry careers.Develop
identify competenciesneeded for transdisciplinary research teams. The competencies are focused on students and earlycareer academic professionals and especially those entering careers in FEWS fields and thoseteaching or mentoring these groups. The review identified competencies related to six domainareas, oriented around the individual, relationships and connections, team, process, outputs andoutcomes, and growth. As academic institutions continue to recognize the role oftransdisciplinary research in addressing complex societal issues, graduate education programswill have to incorporate transdisciplinary competencies into the curriculum. We offer thecompetencies identified by the INFEWS-ER project as a contribution to this ongoingconversation
assignments, ad the use of technology in the classroom. Boni hopes to pursue a career in academia with a focus on teaching and engineering education.Anna K LummusHannia Elisa KoolmanRoxanne Moore (Research Engineer II) Roxanne Moore is a Senior Research Engineer in the G.W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering and the Center for Education Integrating Science, Mathematics, and Computing (CEISMC) at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Her research focuses on design and engineering education with a focus on promoting diversity and inclusion. She has served as PI and co-PI for grants from multiple sponsors including NSF and Amazon totaling more than $9M. In addition, her STEM outreach programs and curricula have impacted
) and culturally responsive pedagogy (CRP). Currently, K-12schooling in the U.S. lacks exposure to the appreciation and knowledge surrounding thecreativity, rewarding work, and positive learning outcomes associated with STEM related careers[1]. This lack of exposure especially limits females and people of color, both of whom arealready underrepresented in STEM fields [2], [3]. As such, while the need for improving thesuccess rates in STEM coursework is pertinent across all racial and ethnic backgrounds, it isespecially critical to address the needs of students from underrepresented and historicallymarginalized populations that are disproportionately less likely to pursue and persist throughSTEM-related degree programs [4]. Any reform
Paper ID #37895Virtue Ethics in Robotics: An ethics module to cultivatecharacter and ethical reasoningErin Henslee Dr. Erin Henslee is a Founding Faculty and Assistant Professor of Engineering at Wake Forest University. Prior to joining Wake Forest, she was a Researcher Development Officer at the University of Surrey where she supported Early Career Researchers publishing in the areas of inclusive researcher development. She has taught over 20 different engineering courses across a variety of institutions and departments. She has received teaching awards including WFU’s Innovative Teaching Teaching Award and
Paper ID #37930‘Socially Distanced Community Engagement’ –Teaching GISSite-Analysis during COVIDJessie Zarazaga (Sustainability & Development Program Director)Cindy Hua Hello! I am a Ph.D. student in Applied Science for Engineering at Southern Methodist University. My research interests center on how community-based STEM can impact learning patterns and interest in STEM careers. I am equally interested in how such learning can also become a tool for student voice. During my time as a Human Rights Fellow, I created a STEM education program, STEM+Z: Investigating an Undead Apocalypse, using aspects of popular
Paper ID #37976Addressing Learning Objective Gaps Between RateMonotonic Theory and Practice using Real-Time SimulationExercisesSam B Siewert (Associate Professor) Sam Siewert has studied at University of California Berkeley, University of Notre Dame, University of Houston and University of Colorado Boulder and has a BS in Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering and MS/Ph.D. in Computer Science. He has worked in the computer engineering industry for twenty four years before starting an academic career in 2012. Half of his time was spent on NASA space exploration programs including the Spitzer space telescope, Space
biggest concern on the tools developed by academic research teams, such as APM andARMSIM#. In Summer 2016, we found that ARMSIM# cannot be installed on a couple ofWindows 10 computers due to a .net library error. Secondly, although the environment ofμVision is more complex than that of ARMSIM#, it is more powerful and has a better usabilityafter the learning curve. Thirdly, using a professional tool that is commonly used in the industrycan better prepare our students for their future careers. Table 2. μVision vs. ARMSIM# μVision ARMSIM# It is a professional tool released by ARM Ltd. It is a tool developed by a research group
’ futuresuccess in school, in their careers, and in life [5].PBL offers unique benefits to engineering students. One of the defining characteristics of PBL isthe use of ill-structured problems, which are problems that contain multiple viable solutions andsolution paths [3]. Ill-structured problems also contain uncertainty about which concepts andprinciples are needed to generate a solution, which requires students to develop higher-orderthinking skills such as the ability to initially identify and define the “correct” problem and setparameters for its solution [6]. In this way, with its focus on ill-structured problems, PBL helpsprepare students for tasks they will perform in their professional engineering careers.Another benefit of engaging engineering
engineering courses and enjoys working with his students on bridge related research projects and the ASCE student chapter.Benjamin Z. Dymond (Associate Professor)David A Saftner (Associate Professor) Dr. David Saftner is an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering. He earned a BS from the United States Military Academy and an MS and PhD from the University of Michigan. Prior to pursuing a career in academics, Dr. Saftner spent five years as an engineer officer in the US Army and serving in Missouri, Colorado, Kuwait, and Iraq. His areas of research include beneficial reuse of waste soil material, geotechnical site investigation and characterization, and teaching and learning in engineering education. He
information relating to the studentthought process, which can ultimately be incorporated into the algorithms of the CBL.Spatial visualization is the ability to think in 3 Dimensions (3D). Spatial visualization is used in awide range of careers [8] including architecture, engineering, biology, medicine, manufacturing,and art. Spatial visualization ability has been correlated to increased graduation rates [9] andaccomplishments in STEM ([8], [10], [11], and [12]). It has been shown that spatial visualizationis a learnable skill in adults [13] and children ([14], [15], [16]). A seminal study by Sorby [9] ofover 7000 students lasting more than a decade showed that spatial visualization trainingincreased GPAs and graduation rates among engineering
to recognize that junior researchers training in interdisciplinary settings are indifferent stages of learning their craft, have widely varying research and career goals, and workwithin the confines of research labs with shared access to limited resources. Possibilities to seekindividual experts and resources outside the lab are limited given their lack of wider network thatis rather associated with higher academic ranks and more experience (van Rijnsoever et al.,2008). This is not to say, however, that junior researchers do not have access to these networksthrough their senior colleagues, but collaboration nevertheless with restricted immediate accessto experiential knowledge and resources. Collaboration, therefore, becomes complex