U.S. and several countries. More than 75 authored or co-authored peer-reviewed publications, 100 conference papers and project reports, and several software packages and databases have been produced from this research. Dr. Burian’s enthusiasm for student learning has led to numerous teaching awards and the creation of new pedagogical approaches directed toward multi-institution collaborative learning. He has also sought to advance teaching effectiveness of engineering educators by serving as mentor at the American Society of Civil Engineers ExCEEd Teaching Workshop and as the developer of a vari- ety of teaching and curriculum development workshops, including the recent Wasatch Experience at the University of
environments with the goal of improving learning opportunities for students and equipping faculty with the knowledge and skills necessary to create such opportunities. One of the founding faculty at Olin Col- lege, Dr. Zastavker has been engaged in development and implementation of project-based experiences in fields ranging from science to engineering and design to social sciences (e.g., Critical Reflective Writing; Teaching and Learning in Undergraduate Science and Engineering, etc.) All of these activities share a common goal of creating curricular and pedagogical structures as well as academic cultures that facilitate students’ interests, motivation, and desire to persist in engineering. Through this work, outreach, and
Paper ID #26352Factors Influencing the Interest Levels of Male versus Female Students goinginto STEM Fields (Evaluation)Dr. Murad Musa Mahmoud, Wartburg College Murad is an Assistant Professor at the Engineering Science Department at Wartburg College. He has a Ph.D. in Engineering Education from Utah State University. Research interests include recruitment into STEM, diversity in STEM as well pedagogy and instruction.Ms. Jessica Marie Faber, Wartburg College Jessica is a student at Wartburg College studying Engineering Science with a minor in Creative Writing and Mathematics. She is active with soccer at Wartburg and works
projects, which required them to do additionalanalysis and research on a topic of their choosing and, importantly, incorporate site visits and theknowledge gained from those visits into the project.Finally, we borrowed some aspects of the Montessori Method17 that we felt might proveadvantageous. Engineering Rome is (1) a multi-level, course (i.e., appropriate for Freshmanthrough graduate students) designed to foster peer learning, and (2) the final project is a guidedchoice work activity with the instructor serving in the role of Montessori’s “directress.” WhileMontessori’s writings generally concern early aged learning (and not college students), we feltthere was substantial evidence that these ideas would be beneficial. For instance, Katz et al
Affairs, and International system, Officer of Diversity, Latina/o Affairs Education Policy (PhD)6 Human Development, Assistant professor of education, coordinator of STEM emphasis on reading and education for teacher preparation; currently planning a literacy (PhD) collaborative proposal with other faculty and administrators for a STEM Center at the request of the institution. Over the course of the last two years, collaborated with faculty in Engineering to write grant proposals for programs that would provide professional development for teachers
Sociology at Marquette University and a M.S. and Ph.D. in Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The courses she teach include Social Problems, Race & Ethnicity, Social Strati- fication, and the Sociology Senior Seminar. She was an Association for the Study of Higher Education /Lumina Fellow in 2003. Dr. Smith’s primary research interests include examining racial and class dispar- ities within the higher education system. She also writes on policy issues dealing with mentoring, access, retention, equity, and diversity in higher education. She has over 10 years of experience researching how colleges and universities can assist underrepresented students with understanding and navigating the insti- tutional
Accelerator is the Design Thinking Process developed by the Hasso-Plattner Institute ofDesign at Stanford, in which students are encouraged to empathize, define, ideate, prototype, andtest their inventions [5]. The learning objectives for students in the Summer Accelerator mirrorthose set out for students participating in the year-long program, including: choosing a problemand writing a problem statement about how people experience this problem; ideating solutions tothat problem that are better or less expensive than devices that are currently available; sketchingand making a prototype of their idea; obtaining feedback through conferencing and user surveys;and presenting their project to an audience through a “pitch.”Students in the Summer
questions and how they interacted with their peers during thediscussion. The students held steadfast to the discussion guidelines, exhibiting respect andconsideration for their fellow students, allowing for a deeper conversation. As the class consistsof senior engineering students, the expectation was that they would be able to identify theengineering failures, but may struggle with the discussion on racial inequities due to a lack ofexposure in previous engineering courses. Surprisingly, the students understood and articulatedthe impact of institutional discrimination on the events leading up to and response to HurricaneKatrina.However, not all of the students reviewed the reading material prior to class. Since a largeportion of the class had not
synonymously in the literature; however, postgraduate can either refer to aperson who has earned a high school diploma or who has also earned a collegiate-level degree.Graduate students and undergraduate students often follow different paths in the academicenvironment. They serve divergent roles, face separate challenges, and have differentexperiences. Graduate students face obstacles beyond the classroom—in their ability to meetwith advisers, attend conferences, and develop social support from their peers—thatundergraduate students may not face [3]. Even in the classroom graduate students may beexpected to meet different expectations than their undergraduate counterparts. This may includea greater volume of reading and reading assignments provided
theconcepts and each new lab assignment. We also presented strategies for approaching the labassignment and writing the report. Unfortunately, this approach does not scale well with theincreasing class size. Hence, we wanted to find a strategy for student success that scales wellwith the growing number of students, without compromising on instruction and that helps free upthe lab time that may be used to provide one-on-one time with students.1.1 Discovery of the Issues in Fall ’18 and Spring ‘19The motivation for using the flipped class delivery method for the lab instructions is based on theobservation of student performance and outcomes in Fall 2018 and Spring 2019. We analyzedthe lab assignment submission rate and earned lab grades. Figure 1 shows
seeing an increased number ofstudents coming in with college credit, either Advanced Placement (AP) or other. In 2014 whenthe original cornerstone pilot was completed, over 50% of entering students had some AP creditin Calculus, 20% had Chemistry credit, 35% have College Writing credit and 35% have Physicscredit. These students as well as current students with advanced credit face a limited courseselection to complete their academic schedules in these early semesters since it is difficult to findcourses that they can take in the first year that do not have prerequisites. This created the need torevise the curriculum to offer students the opportunity to accelerate their exploration of anengineering major. In order to accomplish this, students
, incorporating design work, self-assessmentand reflection, prototyping and creation, all with supervision and support. Another corecomponent is empowered peer-to-peer mentoring: PRL course assistants (CAs) are graduatestudents who have themselves been burnished in the cauldron of the PRL. They understand theelation of success and the opportunity within failure – and know how to turn both into learningmoments for students. The PRL CAs are guided by four faculty, and these groups collectivelyform a community of practice with mixed levels of experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities.Students learn from faculty, CAs, and peers; CAs learn from faculty, students, and other CAs;and faculty learn from students, CAs, and each other. This forms a rich fabric
general and engineering in particular almostexclusively focus on students of color. In effect, this research studies socioeconomic class bystudying race and ethnicity. While many low-income and first-generation students are also racialand ethnic minorities, not all students of color experience socioeconomic inequality. Moreover,this analytic frame misses many poor white students who do not have access to the samenetworks and support groups as do their peers who are students of color (e.g. MinorityEngineering Programs, Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers, National Society of BlackEngineers, etc.).In fact, socioeconomic inequalities, as distinct from racial and ethnic inequalities, rarely appearin definitions of diversity in STEM education
Paper ID #34313Work in Progress: Using Cost-effective Educational Robotics Kits inEngineering EducationMs. Caroline Grace Sawatzki, Saginaw Valley State University Caroline Sawatzki is a senior in the Electrical & Computer Engineering program at Saginaw Valley State University (SVSU), and has adopted a double minor in Mathematics and Japanese. Caroline expresses her love for helping her peers succeed academically through her employment at the SVSU Writing Center, where she assists students in the development of their professional and research writing skills. During her undergraduate education, Caroline has visited
cognizant of international student needs while integrating diversity 1718 activities into WIEP mentoring programs. We also recognized, as others have before that the international participants in our program could help to increase multicultural awareness for our domestic participants, while conversely, domestic students can support the integration of international peers into the university. While other studies related to cultural aspects of mentoring in education tend to focus on three primary themes surrounding the mentoring relationship, organizational structure, and “manner in which ethnicity and societal beliefs relate
Ghaisas, University of Oklahoma Shalaka has pursued a B.A. in Economics and M.A. in English from Fergusson College. She has com- pleted her MS in Teaching and Curriculum from Syracuse University.Dr. Xun Ge, University of Oklahoma Dr. Xun Ge (University of Oklahoma, xge@ou.edu) is Professor of Instructional Psychology and Tech- nology in the Department of Educational Psychology, Jeannine Rainbolt College of Education, the Uni- versity of Oklahoma. Her research expertise involves the design of question prompts in scaffolding stu- dents’ complex and ill-structured problem solving and self-regulated learning. Dr. Ge (2004) developed a conceptual framework using question prompts and peer interactions to facilitate
use of experimental centric pedagogy in a variety of settings and through multiple methods; the most frequent use was in a laboratory course with peers. Table 2 Use of ADB in Varied Instructional Modalities* Pre Post Instructional Modality Median % Used Median % Used Response 6+ times Response 6+ times Location/Setting of Use In a class setting Never 10 3 times
at the university level and as they pursue careers in industry. Graduating this December, she hopes to retain this knowledge for the benefit of herself and other women engineers as she pursues an industry career.Dr. Jon A. Leydens, Colorado School of Mines Jon A. Leydens is Associate Professor of Engineering Education Research in the Division of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences at the Colorado School of Mines, USA. Dr. Leydens’ research and teaching interests are in engineering education, communication, and social justice. Dr. Leydens is author or co- author of 40 peer-reviewed papers, co-author of Engineering and Sustainable Community Development (Morgan and Claypool, 2010), and editor of Sociotechnical
learning goals and explore potential new learninggoals.Qualitative DataA total of 297 weekly reflection papers and 27 final papers from 27 undergraduate studentsacross two independent cohorts served as the source of data for this qualitative research study.For the weekly reflection papers, the students were asked to reflect on their experiences duringthe weekly T-Group. The students were asked to write a reflection about situations which had asignificant impact on them. The weekly reflection papers enabled the author to perform alongitudinal analysis in regards to the student’s development of their authentic leadership skillsand to conduct triangulation of the data between individuals, peers, and facilitator.For the final papers (min. 3,500 words
Feminist Research in Engineering Education (FREE, formerly RIFE, group), whose diverse projects and group members are described at feministengineering.org. She received a CAREER award in 2010 and a PECASE award in 2012 for her project researching the stories of undergraduate engineering women and men of color and white women. She received ASEE-ERM’s best paper award for her CAREER research, and the Denice Denton Emerging Leader award from the Anita Borg Institute, both in 2013. She helped found, fund, and grow the PEER Collaborative, a peer mentoring group of early career and re- cently tenured faculty and research staff primarily evaluated based on their engineering education research productivity. She can be contacted
or early spring, the REEMS program sponsors materials professionals in“brown bag” seminars to discuss their careers, their academic backgrounds, and are asked toreview the mentors, teachers, and faculty who influenced their decisions that led them to theircurrent positions. The speakers conclude with words-of-wisdom to students regarding futurestudies and careers. Each of the professionals welcomes the opportunity to talk further withinterested students. Either in the fall or spring the REEMS PI, in collaboration with HCC student services,sponsors a series of student development workshops that emphasize the development of skills intime management, resume writing, and how to apply for scholarships, internships, collegetransfer, and
point in the past was negotiated with the otherdepartments in sort of an agreement that they came to in how the students will be graded. I don'treally know the details of that it's been there for longer than I have…And we've just kind of keptdoing that same thing.” It must be noted that instructors had autonomy to write their own midterm exams as Jacknoted that the instructors were “responsible for making the tests for their sections,” but not thefinal exam as the final was a standardized, multiple-choice exam for all sections and was writtenby the course supervisor. In triangulating this finding with the public documents from the institution, such as thefaculty and student handbooks, it showed consistency in one dimension and
Program information Connections to peer mentors & supports SJ: Data on belonging in STEM ADEI definitions Identity & Examples of equity in STEM Bias & Prejudice Belonging How identity pertains to engineering Social Identity Wheel (case studies) Story Sharing ENGR: Engineering design process Socially just mindset & contexts How Engineers Role of failure in design Social impact of product/design Make Decisions
technical writing Written Design Teamwork
transformation: the theory Mediated Learning Experience (MLE) from Feuerstein[23][26] and Maturana’s understanding of learning as a space of transformation for both thelearner and the teacher [27] [28].Mediated Learning Experience. Feuerstein defines the role of the mediator (or agent) asfundamental to promoting cognitive changes in a student. A teacher, a parent, or anadvantaged peer can fulfill this role, depending on the objective of transformation. Themediator must have maturity, experience, and the ability to organize, reorder, group, andstructure the stimuli or information the student receives based on a specific task or goal [26].This means that the agent mediates between the world and the student (subject), transformingthe stimuli the student
aid in the formation of peer-to-peer relationships[3] through a shared identity as a “maker”.Makerspaces are unique learning environments that center around the act of “making,” a broad term thatincludes almost all forms of creative manufacture such as sewing, woodworking, mechatronics, etc.Communities of practice form within these spaces as the collaborative use of machines and technologiespromote the sharing of ideas, knowledge, and experience[4] and a shared identity as a maker. Hilton[5]found that participation in university Makerspaces led to an increase in engineering design self-efficacyamongst undergraduate engineering students. Tomko[2] demonstrated that engagement in Makerspacesincreased engineering students’ motivation and
conducted on how female and low-income students function in a cooperative,learner-based studio environment and advance understanding of the role different levels ofmentorship (peer, senior members, assistants, and faculty) play in the PWS model and how itimpacts the performance of female members of the cohorts. By working together in a team-basedenvironment, the PWS built strong connections among the PWS scholar cohort. The PWS isdeveloping well-rounded students who are afforded hands-on experiences, and the opportunity towork in multi-disciplinary team environments and gain exposure to real-life projects in computerscience, engineering, and technology. These experiences, combined with professionaldevelopment and mentorship, will enable scholars to
, technical support, and encouragement. • GiggleBot programming workshop. One ExCITE student volunteer demonstrated three GiggleBots [16] to the CS I students. Three CS I students and five ACM/ACM- W members participated. Among these five students, two were freshmen, and three were upperclassmen. The presenter demonstrated how to drive a GiggleBot with a pre-programmed Microbit [17] and then let the participants do the same. The students also plugged markers into the GiggleBots, to let the robots draw lines on the papers on the floor by moving. Then the students were divided into groups to write programs for the robots on the computers in the lab and then download their code to the robots to
difficulties with online writing tools” [7, p. 3].Computer Science faculty were surveyed in June 2020 by Bizot et al [8]. 450 faculty respondedto the survey which had been distributed to the Computing Research Association (CRA) and theACM Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE) mailing lists. Thefaculty reported that they changed their pedagogical techniques after the move online. Beforemoving online, 250 faculty had used active learning in their classes. After moving online, 34.9%discontinued active learning, 43.4% made minor changes and 21.3% made significant changes.Collaborative projects and labs were also impacted by the move online. Of the 180 faculty whoused collaborative projects, 13.9% discontinued them, 71.7% made
develop the skills and writing habits to complete doctorate degrees in engineering. Across all of her research avenues, Dr. Matusovich has been a PI/Co-PI on 12 funded research projects including the NSF CAREER Award with her share of funding be ingnearly $2.3 million. She has co-authored 2 book chapters, 21 journal publications and more than 70 conference papers. She has won several Virginia Tech awards including a Dean’s Award for Outstanding New Faculty, an Outstanding Teacher Award and a Faculty Fellow Award. She holds a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Cornell University, an M.S. in Materials Science from the University of Connecticut and a Ph.D. in Engineering Education from Purdue University.Dr. Cheryl Carrico