of awareness about engineering, the Program forEngineering Access, Retention, and LIATS Success (PEARLS) introduced a pilot one-creditIntroduction to Engineering course for first- and second-year students. Although first-yearintroductory courses are commonplace in many engineering schools [4][5], the UPRM doesnot offer such a course in a consistent manner to all first-year engineering students.PEARLS is a college-wide initiative that seeks to increase success statistics among low-income, academically talented students (LIATS) in the College of Engineering (CoE) [6]. Itincorporates multiple strategies, including talks and workshops, faculty and peer mentoring,and career planning. PEARLS’ initiative of an Introduction to Engineering course
14% Industry Experince Has Industry Experince 30% 36+ 31% Does not have Industry Experince 70%Scholars Next Steps Scholarship Recipient 79% Currently in computing/tech field of study 54% Not a Recipient 21% Planning to switch to computing/tech field 4% Planning to puruse a career in computing/tech 28%Career Breaks Planning to pursue a career not in tech fields
research publication or be invited to be an author with an ENG/CS faculty member.2.3. Grading PolicyStudents submit their assigned work to Canvas each week. Late assignments will receive a 5% deduction per day late.If a student has difficulty completing tasks on time, the graduate student and instructor discuss a plan to help thestudent. We use the following points for the learning objectives mentioned above.Table 1. Introduction to Scientific Research course assignments and grading policy Learning objective Assignment Points/Total points Scientific method Hypothesis
mentorship best practices, and topics related toinclusive mentoring. After this training, mentor/mentee introductions were made via email. Forthis program, mentors are asked to meet with their mentee at least once a week for one hour. Thiswas deliberately left open ended so that mentor/mentee pairs could decide what activities anddiscussions would be the most productive for them. We encouraged them to pair up with othermentors/mentee pairs for activities and spent time in the initial mentorship training brainstormingpotential activities with mentors. Although we initially planned to provide mentors with some levelof compensation for their time, this ended up being very difficult to do with the existing grantrequirements (see limitations sections for
College, where her primary role is to coordinate data collection, interpretation and dissemination to support teaching and learning, planning and decision-makinLeah Mendelson, Harvey Mudd College Leah Mendelson is an Associate Professor of Engineering at Harvey Mudd College.Steven Santana, Harvey Mudd College ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 The Impact of Diaries and Reflection on Self-Assessments of Learning in a First-Year Undergraduate Engineering Design CourseAbstractThis work-in-progress (WIP) paper communicates the impact of diary and reflection activities onstudents’ self-assessments of their learning in a first-year, studio-format undergraduateengineering design course
Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard Medical School at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, Dr. Feldman developed informatics metrics to quantify performance of clinicians when using digital diagnostic tools. He has published in Radiology, Academic Radiology, IS&T, SPIE, and RESNA. As a Latino and native Spanish speaker, born in Peru, Dr. Feldman has created markets and commercialized innovative telemedicine products in Latin America for medical device companies, including Orex Computed Radiography, Kodak Health Group, and ICRco. Dr. Feldman also served as Chief Information Officer (CIO) of Boston Healthcare for the Homeless Program where he led the strategic planning and migration to EPIC Electronic Health Records
postdoctoral affairs offices can better support thempersonally and professionally?Participants. A total of 10 postdoctoral scholars of color were recruited and interviewed for thisstudy. All participants were invited based on their involvement in an AGEP PostdoctoralEngineering Alliance, which focuses on the career development needs of engineeringpostdoctoral scholars of color who plan to move into tenure-track faculty positions. Allparticipants are from one of three higher education institutions located in the southern UnitedStates. One of the institutions is a Historically Black College or University (HBCU) classified asa doctoral university with high research activity (R2). Another is a predominately Whiteinstitution (PWI) classified as a public
eval- uation process and was recently (2016-2019), the accreditation coordinator for the school of Engineering. Her interest in engineering education emphasizes developing new classroom innovations and assessment techniques and supporting student engagement. Her research interests include broadening participation in STEM, equity and diversity, engineering ethics, online engineering pedagogy, program assessment so- lutions, transportation planning, transportation impact on quality of life issues, and bicycle access. She is a proud Morgan Alum (2011), having earned a Doctorate in Civil Engineering, with a focus on trans- portation. Dr. Petronella James earned her Doctor of Engineering (Transportation) and Masters of
individuals with a fixed mindset all indicated that they disagree that the PWS programhas connected them to leaders in their fields, while all growth mindset individuals indicate thatthey strongly agree that they have been connected to leaders in their fields. Additionally, thosewith mixed or growth mindsets have indicated that they plan to go to graduate school or areunsure at this point; however all those with a fixed mindset indicated that were not planning togo to graduate school. Finally, those with fixed mindsets note that their biggest challenges aremaking connections or planning for their futures. For instance, one senior fixed mindset studentresponded to their biggest challenge by noting, “The biggest challenge I am facing in collegeright
priority in the Hispanic culture, this can be lost opportunity if the family is not involved in the student’s plan. • The COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated some challenges such as course knowledge retention, socialization skills, focus and attention, among others. • Existing “welcome day” activities in the university are helpful but limited to general information such as library services, recreation, dining options, and other resources, but there are no explicit CECS immersion events.Boostcamp Building BlocksBased on these observations, the authors designed a series of activities over one week to provideincoming CECS freshman students with a jumpstart and accelerate the learning curve, effectivelypriming the students
.). I shared my concerns about this underdeveloped plan during my hiring negotiations, but thethen Dean asked me to trust her and I did. My contract working at the National ScienceFoundation and personal reasons (e.g. expecting my fourth child) prevented me and my familyfrom moving to Winston Salem, North Carolina until July 2017. Considering that the inauguralgroup of students would be arriving August 2017 (a non-negotiable start date) and the programand curriculum planning had not happened, I advocated for one additional faculty hire (beyondthe planned two) to help launch the new department. During the spring 2017 semester, I servedon the search committee with three colleagues (e.g. Keith Bonin, then Chair of Physics, PeteSantago, then Chair
the last 10 years to serving students in grades K-12 within the Orange Public Schools. Prior to her appointment as principal, she served as the vice principal of the STEM Innovation Academy and has played a pivotal role in planning and executing the vision and mission of the school. Desiring to increase her educational impact, Dr. Reid has recently become an adjunct professor at Se- ton Hall where she works with students in the Educational Administration and Supervision, Executive Master’s Program. Dr. Reid’s educational philosophy is based on Transformative Leadership. She believes true leadership lies within the empowerment of those around her and in creating a collaborative environment where
-building, for example, community designers(especially youth) are rarely in the lead. Often, the sense of urgency in a disaster recoverysituation creates a “help the helpless” mindset among aid agencies, and also creates a timeausterity that conflicts with listening, building local consensus, and modifying recovery plans [1][2] [3]. Few funding channels are open to community teams to design and implement their ownsolutions. It is difficult for community designers to access scholarly research and technicalengineering, and difficult for sophisticated engineers to embrace simple, inexpensive solutions.To put this in perspective, we understand development approaches in general, and disaster reliefapproaches in particular, to fall under one of four
leading network technology providers and driving marketing efforts for op- tical, access and data products developed by Fujitsu. Rodney was Chairman of the T1X1 Technical Sub-Committee (the organization responsible for SONET standardization) from 1990 through 1994. He has been active in SONET’s National and International Standardization since 1985. In addition, Rodney has published numerous papers and presentations on SONET. Rodney began his career with Fujitsu Network Communications in 1989 as the Director of Strategic Plan- ning. He also held the positions of Director of Transport Product Planning, Vice President of Business Management, Senior Vice President of Sales Management, Senior Vice President of Manufacturing
the experienced during the process. process. Table 8: Rubric for LO5 Assessment (Manufacturing a Part in the AFL). Assessment: Meaningful Assessment Evaluation Hansen argues that for assessment to be meaningful, it must assess for understanding. Assessment for understanding “requires careful planning and a variety of assessment approaches” (Hansen, 2011, p. 94). Hansen lists 8 principles for meaningful assessment, again adapted from Wiggins (Wiggins, 1998). Below, Hansen’s 8 principles, applied mostly to LO5, use manufacturing processes to manufacture a part, show how meaningful assessment is accomplished in this course: 1. Use
believing” [27] and social proof [28] as methods to establish the intervention message as a classroom norm. 5) Finally, the instructor brings the full class back together and asks volunteers to share what their group has discussed.Research QuestionsResearch on the Intervention’s Effects on StudentsThe first part of our research plan focuses on understanding how the ecological belongingintervention that was initially developed for first-year courses translates into second-year coursesand how it can be adapted across institutional contexts in both first- and second-year engineeringcourses. We pose three research questions:RQ1 (the course contexts): How do students, with a focus on minoritized students (i.e., Black,Latinx, and Indigenous
helping students engage indiscussions of engineering research’s impact on society. However, we have yet to find anexample of an introductory level course that discusses these topics geared toward theprofessional development of graduate engineering students within a broad range of career andresearch interests. Thus, we sought to develop a course that would help graduate studentresearchers understand the terminology around inequities and justice; interrogate well-knowncases of engineering research across a range of applications, technology, and higher educationbias and discrimination; reflect and discuss how their own research areas impact society; andform a plan for how they may address or actively prevent potential injustices. The course
, Somalia, and Burundi. Ourdata sources include first-person narratives from the youth, equity conjecture maps, and artifactscreated during the program. To answer our research questions, below we share the educational programming(including how it was planned and how it was eventually implemented), observations, artifacts,and researcher notes to share experiences of program implementation and takeaways for futureiterations. As to date there have been a total of four on site visits to the Safari Youth Club, datawill be continuously collected to answer all aspects of our proposed research questions. As ofnow, results from the sessions best support answers to RQ1 and RQ3. This paper and theresearcher observations/notes below are led by
available to you? How do you think your knowledge and skills will influence your career plans? Job Skills Follow-up: How did you develop this knowledge and these skills? Regarding getting a job, what do you think will be the most meaningful aspect of your job search process? What knowledge, skills, and abilities do you believe to be most Job Acquisition Skills important in obtaining your first job; how does this knowledge Perceptions of Preparedness and these skills and abilities
. The amount of time given away from researchover the summer to study for quals is dependent on one’s advisor; students may have to advocatefor the amount of time they estimate they will need. After reviewing material individually forseveral weeks, students generally transition to studying in pairs or groups, using a compendium ofpast problems to mock-examine each other. During the two weeks immediately preceding quals,senior graduate students self-organize to offer mock exams as well.When students arrive at their exam, they are provided with the exam questions, and allowed up toten minutes of silent time to peruse them. Students may use this time to plan their responsewithout verbal communication or use of the blackboard. Although the
execute stress relief through a weighted, scented blanket. He also served as a METAS (Mentoring, Educating, and Transforming to Achieve Success) mentor for incoming and transfer LatinX students, is a flute player in the UConn Concert Band, the Treasurer of the University’s Engineering World Health Chapter, and a KUBE (Kids and UConn Bridg- ing Education) Leader in which he designs and executes lesson plans for middle schoolers interested in STEM. Justyn hopes to get involved with the groundbreaking research in genetics, pharmaceuticals, or the aerospace industry as he prepares to graduate from UConn and begin to work on his Master’s degree.Mr. Thomas James Pauly, University of Connecticut Thomas Pauly is a senior
/construct things, but that they rarely mentioned that the products of engineeringare all around or impacts our everyday lives. [12] Even less common were details about howengineers work collaboratively or that they have to be creative in their work. In their quantitativesurvey, Cunningham et al. reported that teachers were more likely to believe engineers constructbuildings themselves and drive machinery, rather than planning and supervising these tasks. [1]Given this lack of awareness of the field, it is no wonder that many students have inaccurateperceptions of the potential to meet altruistic values in engineering because they do notappreciate the breadth of its impact or the importance of engineering in our everyday lives.Other researchers have
work is part of a larger study exploring the experiences of rural engineering students. Inaddition to investigating the motivations behind rural students’ decisions to pursue engineering,the study explored the formation of engineering identity and barriers rural students face whileentering an engineering community of practice [20]. A sample of the questions developed tospecifically probe the research question of this paper is as follows: • Why did you choose to attend college? • Why did you choose this university? • Why did you choose an engineering major? • What motivates you? • After graduation, do you plan to return to your rural community? Why or why not?Data AnalysisInterviews were recorded and transcribed by a
in astudy by Anagnos, Lyman-Holt, Marin-Artieda and Momsen [15]. The study was grounded inthe premise that ambassadors would benefit from self-efficacy for outreach and its associatedcomponents, including engineering knowledge and professional communication skills. Most ofthe 51 ambassadors responded that they perceived gains in skills to motivate others, resolveinterpersonal conflicts, adjust when things were not going to plan, manage time, engage inteamwork, explain technical concepts, and speak in front of an audience. Ambassadors’confidence in their abilities was also high as a result of participating in outreach. Longer time inthe ambassador program and more senior roles were associated with high rates of studentagreement that they had
) using the required tools and set the machine in operation and (ii) record the necessary observations as planned in the design stage. 3. Analyzing the Data: Analyzing the data starts with proving the validity of the method of analysis. Then follow the rough idea developed in the design stage to analyze the data using mathematical tools for finding out the desired process characteristics or responses. This may lead to establishing characteristics using the results 4. Interpret the Data: To draw conclusions from the findings of the analysis.2.4 Instructional Materials and ActivitiesThe instructional method used, comprises of the three components (i) pre-class guidedlearning (ii) in-class discussion and
the Initiating, Planning,Monitoring, Executing, and Closing Process Groups, with the primary focus on the PlanningProcesses and very minimal focus on the Closing Processes. The second half of the semester isdedicated to the same Economics topics covered in the original course, but are covered in a muchmore concise way.Guidelines for project acceptance criteria were formalized. Among other things, it wasdetermined that more emphasis was needed on developing industry-sponsored andmultidiscipline projects. In order to increase the availability of true multidiscipline projects, aformal agreement was formed with the Mechanical Engineering Senior Capstone program tocreate official multidiscipline teams in which both groups of students now report to
also interested in improving teacher education programs in the sciences by studying how teachers plan and structure learning using c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Paper ID #23995various methods. She has a BA in Biology and a M.Ed. in middle and secondary instruction from theUniversity of North Carolina at Charlotte. Her interests developed during her time in the science class-room, having worked in both comprehensive and early college high schools. Leadership experiences at theschool and county levels challenged her to study how teachers and students interact during learning. Shehas presented at
provide a description of ourmethods, which includes the site where the intervention was conducted, the design of theintervention, the data collection process, and the data analysis approach. Then, we present theresults of the intervention and provide a summary of the conclusions, implications, andrecommendations for our planned next steps in this research direction. The results of this studyare meant to inform a more thorough, mixed methods assessment of the simulation game’s nextimplementation, as well as to refine and iterate the game’s design.BackgroundContemporary engineering work primarily involved solving problems related to decision-makingamong alternatives, troubleshooting malfunctioning systems, and design, all of which requiresome level
instruction wall is a physical play structure.Children can enter the structure and climb between three levels, delivering colored balls to tubeslabeled with each of the three animals. Robot costumes allow children to be further immersed inthe role of a robot. The children are meant to weigh the benefits of different paths through the maze-likestructure, eventually choosing and “delivering the medicine” to the three animals along theoptimal route. On a station separated from the rest of the exhibit, labeled “Plan It!” on one sideand “Test It!” on the reverse, two-dimensional maps of the play structure can be used to plan andtest a route before physically entering the structure. To the right of the play structure, the exhibitfeatures a wall of
Founder and Owner of Integrated Resilience, LLC, he is a former Fluor Fellow, Director of Resilience Solutions, and Secretariat of the World Economic Forum – Disaster Resource Partnership (WEF DRP). He founded and spearheaded development of Fluor’s Business Continuity and Disaster Management Services which helped Clients build resilience by mitigating risk to natural disasters. He has more than 25 years of project management experience in diverse industries, including pharmaceuticals, chemicals, oil and gas, steel mills, microelectronics, water treatment, and contingency operations. His experience in rapid deployment, planning, disaster management, and reconstruction is a culmination of his work in support of the U.S