prep classes to the Department of Defense community. His research interests include topics in structural engineering and engineering education. He serves as the Chair of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Committee on Education Chair and the American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC) Partners in Education Committee Vice Chair. Additionally, he serves as the Head Officer Representative for Men’s Basketball. He is a licensed Professional Engineer in Virginia and a Project Management Professional.Kevin Taylor Scruggs Major Kevin T. Scruggs is a Senior Instructor in the Department of Civil and Mechanical Engineering at the United State Military Academy, West Point, NY. He earned a B.S. in Civil
Graduate Research Assistant and Ph.D. student in the Department of Engineering Education at Utah State University (USU). With an undergraduate degree in Computer Engineering and a Master’s in Engineering Management, coupled with over 12 years of teaching experience with undergraduate engineering students, Zain is currently dedicated to pursuing a Ph.D. in Engineering Education at USU in Logan, UT, USA. His current focus is on coursework and literature exploration, with a particular interest in studying Meta-cognitive processes and how engineering students self-regulate their cognition and motivation strategies during problem solving activities.Dr. Angela Minichiello, Utah State University Angela (Angie) Minichiello is a
research and educational activities – reflecting the values, beliefs, and ways ofthinking that lead toward sustainable development in the context of engineering and engineeringeducation. The Minor will be highly informed by best practices for user-centered design,introducing opportunities for self-reflection, trial and error, and action-taking through a student-centered project-based learning approach that recognizes that students are in transition toadulthood. A robust stakeholder engagement process will be undertaken to align activities withgoals, involving three undergraduate mentors per year as co-designers and co-facilitators.Although the Minor will be open to all students with basic qualifications, unlike traditional minorsthat require
practices by learning from evidence-based techniques and approaches within the field. We work to help our community stay current on well-founded best practices by critically engaging with recent literature and hearing from experts within the engineering education sphere. · We grow through effort and persistence: We cultivate a growth mindset culture, seeking development and improvement in our understanding and practice of engineering pedagogy. The canon of engineering education research is always growing, so we continue to grow along with it and stay up to date via journal club and cutting-edge discussions. · Our community makes us strong: We strive to build a supportive space for students and educators alike to learn from one
McCormick Teaching Excellence Institute Research Fellow. Her research focuses on how identity, among other affective factors, influences diverse groups of 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, motivation, and identity development. Dr. Godwin graduated from Clemson University with a B.S. in Chemical Engineering and Ph.D. in Engineering and Science Education. Her research earned her a National Science Foundation CAREER Award focused on characterizing latent diversity, which includes diverse attitudes, mindsets, and approaches to learning to understand engineering students’ identity
educators have addressed theindustry-driven desire to help students work more effectively on teams and on projects, includinglarge center-based multidisciplinary efforts involving engineers from different fields,1 programsvertically integrated by courses,2 classroom-based integration of students within and outsideengineering in the sciences,3 teaming between business and engineering students in a capstonedesign course4 and graduate product design with business and engineering students.5 In addition,of course, many cross-disciplinary business and engineering programs and minors in other fieldsfor engineering students are available at many campuses.A means has been developed at Penn State Altoona to address many of these student and facultyissues
in 2014, Dr. Rahman extensively conducted research at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), USA for almost six years as a Research Scientist. He significantly contributed to research and development of the image processing, classification, and retrieval methods extensively used in the NLM’s Open-i Search Engine for biomedical literature. Dr. Rahman has good expertise in the fields of Computer Vision, Image Processing, Information Retrieval, Machine Learning, and Data Mining and their application to retrieval of biomedical images from large collections. Since joining Morgan, Dr. Rahman also has been actively involved in basic educational and instructional re- search by infusing several interactive and active
AC 2009-864: CONNECTOR FACULTY: A FRIENDLY FACE FOR EARLYENGINEERING STUDENTSDaina Briedis, Michigan State University Dr. DAINA BRIEDIS is an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science at Michigan State University. Dr. Briedis has been involved in several areas of education research including student retention, curriculum redesign, and the use of technology in the classroom. She is a co-PI on two NSF grants in the areas of integration of computation in engineering curricula and in developing comprehensive strategies to retain early engineering students. She is active nationally and internationally in engineering accreditation and is a Fellow of
aids to enhanced student learning.Dr. Lisa D. McNair, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Lisa D. McNair is a Professor of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech, where she also serves as Director of the Center for Educational Networks and Impacts at the Institute for Creativity, Arts, and Technology (ICAT). Her research interests include interdisciplinary collaboration, design education, communication studies, identity theory and reflective practice. Projects supported by the National Science Foundation include exploring disciplines as cultures, liberatory maker spaces, and a RED grant to increase pathways in ECE for the professional formation of engineers.Dr. David Reeping, University of Michigan
provide support and resources to develop these skills. The goal of thisintegration is to ensure graduates go into industry or graduate programs equipped tocommunicate effectively with the ability to work on teams to support projects and solveproblems. The need for these skills is reflected in ABET Outcomes and by what employersindicate graduates need to succeed [1-3]. Despite these efforts, employers indicate that recentgraduates may not possess the needed skills to communicate and collaborate effectively [4-5].Furthermore, graduates may struggle to transition from academic to workplace settings. Thesechallenges demonstrate the need to examine how engineering educators support professionalskill development, understand the factors that influence
specific to teamwork orcommunication in the programming class, beyond mention of building a resume or digitalportfolio. The CLOs may need to be specifically revised to promote student awareness andpractice of communication and teamwork through computation.The skills listed in Figure 2 were emphasized during the ideation and development of thesecourses, and the survey results suggest that they were also communicated to most students. Notethat we are not examining student competency here, but rather focusing on their experience ofthe program. These data establish a meaningful baseline by showing that most students saw astrong connection between the Engineering+ coursework and the key skills emphasized by thecurriculum designers. Additionally, in
mentorship that goes beyond the logistics of successfully completing a degree tothe holistic goals of whole-student growth and discovery of a path to lifelong personalfulfillment.Studies have shown that diverse array of factors may impact a student’s adjustment to collegeand their academic success, including self-efficacy and sense of belonging and community [1,2].We set out to create an advising framework that by design supports students as they develop self-efficacy and places students in cohorts to support community building and sense of belonging.This advising effort builds on previously reported efforts to implement a learner-centeredapproach for first-year advising, Advising-as-Teaching, at Northwestern University’sMcCormick School of
the graduate assistant for the Rising Sophomore Abroad Program, a global engineering course and study abroad program for first year engi- neering students. Her primary research interests are engineering study abroad, developing intercultural competency in engineering students, and international higher education.Mr. Timothy Kinoshita, Virginia Tech Timothy Kinoshita is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech. His research interests include graduate education, global engineering education, and education policy.Dr. Diana Bairaktarova, Virginia Tech Diana Bairaktarova is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech and the Director of the
participation in makerspaces is ascribed to early childhood experienceswith making [72]. Unsurprisingly, societal pressures and work-family conflicts experienced bywomen students in face of choice goals exist across geographical boundaries (e.g., in Japan, [38];in Thailand [62]; and in Canada [50]).Similarly, different cultural backgrounds enable students to develop cultural resources withintheir communities and apply these resources to their university experience [73]. Familial capitalsupports marginalized students to pursue humanitarian engineering through encouraging storiesand role models [74]. First-generation students also gain funds of knowledge from their familiesand communities regarding tinkering, perspective taking, and reading people [75
likelihood to accomplish a task.Physiological states that are experienced by an individual during an activity such as emotions orstress also have been shown to impact one’s self-efficacy [15].In an effort to relate the self-efficacy aspect of cognitive career theory to engineering students’ andengineers’ perceptions of important skills and abilities Winters et al. [9] conducted a longitudinalstudy. This research study questioned engineering students about their perceived importance ofvarious abilities such as math, science, and business. The individuals were surveyed throughouttheir undergraduate education and then again four years post-graduation. The researchersdetermined that as students’ progress through their undergraduate engineering education
organizations were already conducting longitudinal studies to measure their progress in these areas, we would have no reason to worry. We know, however, that’s rarely the case. A 1980 study by the ACSA, Tracking Study of Architecture Graduates, revealed almost identical concerns, as did the 1996 Building Community report as well as others before and after. None of these studies concluded that education is hopelessly flawed, but instead, that there is ample room for improvement on all fronts—if we do, in fact, agree that these are crucial skill sets needed to operate in the design and construction industries.”2Previous studies by one of our authors have found that architecture students value technicalcompetency
9.522.10As a specification of the system is developed, the pieces of hardware in hardware specificationlanguage can be packaged as reusable IP blocks21. Different manufacturers can reuse these Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationblocks in different designs. Sometimes IP blocks are called virtual components or cores22. Onechallenge when working with cores is interfacing between them when the cores are written indifferent specification languages. This demonstrates further the need for organization in thedesign process to minimize communication errors between software packages.To further aid in
communities at every level—from P–12 to post-graduate studies. Her work spans engineering identity and mindsets, global and entrepreneurial competencies, failure culture, first-year experiences in engineering, capstone design thinking, and the integration of service and authentic learning into the classroom and developing future faculty. In addition, she is committed to implementing innovative instructional methodologies and optimizing design through both traditional and non-traditional manufacturing techniques.Dr. Yashin Brijmohan, Utah State University Yashin Brijmohan is a registered professional engineer and Assistant Professor Engineering Education at Utah State University. He is also an Executive committee member of
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
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
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
, 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
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
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
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
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