between 15 and 22. It found that women are turning their back on these sectors for a variety of reasons, including a lack of science, technology, engineering and mathematics knowledge (30%), a perception that the industries are sexist (13%), and a belief that science, technology, engineering and mathematics-based careers are better suited to men (nine percent)”.High School Context and Formation of Educational and Career Plans Schools could play a positive role in highlighting the salience of gender in career relevantdecisions including the gender gap in science, technology, engineering, and mathematicsorientations [55]. A strong high school curriculum in math and science provides moreopportunities for concrete
representatives on behalf of the actual communities in subsequent years. They also mentoredthe next Duke student leaders who were planning to travel internationally so that the community’sfeedback would be implemented the following year. This model provided opportunities for studentleadership and fostered communication and mentorship between older and younger undergraduatestudents, which in turn has led to program sustainability within Duke.6 SUMMER 2020 VOLUME 8 ISSUE 2ADVANCES IN ENGINEERING EDUCATIONUsing Human-Centered Design to Connect Engineering Conceptsto Sustainable Development GoalsData and Statistics Duke student data were collected under Duke University Institutional
what to teach and how to organize assessment. The change to mastery-basedgrading has achieved the primary objective, but it has also engendered a culture shift of studentswho experience this system. Conversations about grading with students are more focused onauthentic learning issues than they were with the traditional system and students have shown thatthey understand and embrace the values associated with mastery-based grading.References[1] M. W. Durm, “An A is not an A is not an A: A history of grading,” Educ. Forum, vol. 57, no. 3, pp. 294–297, 1993.[2] A. Kohn. Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A’s, Praise, and other Bribes, Bridgewater, NJ: Replica Books, 1993.[3] K.D. Hjelmstad and A
successful engineering managers and systems engineers. Specific methods andtechniques taught and applied are operations strategy, product design and selection, total qualitymanagement, capacity planning, facility location, facility layout, work system design, leansystems, and scheduling. This course is required for those pursuing the Engineering Managementmajor and an elective for other engineering and non-engineering majors. The students in thecourse represent a diverse academic cross-section consisting of Engineering Management to non-engineering majors, honor students academically excelling to low-GPA at-risk students, andfrom sophomores (second year) to seniors (graduating). The three-credit hour course meets for75 minutes every other day on a 1
faculty who visit each section that week. ● Robot Scoring of Small Number of Points in Week 8. This is a high pressure deadline where students are tasked with demonstrating a fully functioning robot that can score a designated small number of points. Students that fail to reach this objective, create a plan with their section tutor. Partial credit is possible if the robot can score points within a week after the deadline. This partial credit grade is used as one the metrics used in this study to identify teams that are struggling with design challenges. ● Oral Presentation in Week 10. Each team gives an oral presentation of their robot, use of theory and project management in the design process. ● In Section Robot
, transportation system (or urban planning), energy production, and everything else, as it has held for child labor and steamboat boilers [10]. It is because values such as profit maximization, subjection of nature, and control over society are part of the hegemonic ones nowadays that green-revolution- like agriculture is largely preferred over agro-ecology. That is, not only does technology shape society (item 2 above), society (or those particularly powerful there), on its turn, does also shape technology, choosing its development pathway based on those ethical-political values taken (for some) as the preferred or best ones. They, indeed, shape one another, constituting a
, this class focused on approaches to equip studentswith better understanding of design process and product development. Some of the key featuresof this course were17 : 1. Learning and implementing the skills/approaches used in designing 2. Plan and organize data related to projects 3. Informing students with importance of analysis, evaluation and synthesis in designing 4. Use of important and fundamental concepts of work environment 5. Focused on inculcating ethical values related to work 3.2. Survey Instrument:The survey instrument used in this study comprises of two questionnaires, to measure andanalyze empathy in students of junior year in mechanical engineering. Junior year students indesign methodologies class
and E. Russell Johnston, Jr., Outstanding New Mechanics Educator Award from the Mechanics Division of ASEE. Professor Hanson brings four years of military and industry experience to the classroom. Upon completing his Ph.D. in structural engineering at Cornell University, he taught for two years at Bucknell University. He is a registered Professional Engineer.Dr. Matthew D. Lovell P.E., Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Matthew Lovell is an Associate Professor in the Civil Engineering Department at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, and he currently serves as the Senior Director of Institutional Research, Planning, and Assessment office. He is also serving as the director of the Making Academic Change Happen
of different backgrounds, and discovering topics that couldhelp impact the world. It helped me develop the skills that are needed in graduate school byshowing commitment, interest in learning, construct and developing plans on how to researchand do a specific topic, curiosity, work ethic, and reliability to the potential graduate schools thatI am ready for their research and to help impact the world positively. All the aside, in order forme to be able to do what I truly want to do, the career requires me to get a graduate degree.Student Experience: Isabel Bojanini, University of California, BerkeleyDuring my sophomore year at PCC, I joined the research group of Dr. Khuloud Sweimehthrough the Pasadena City College Early Career Undergraduate
wouldhave an effect on the project.Each section followed a three-fold structure that consisted of a seminar, workshop andfinally, deliverables. The structure was planned to maximise students’ interaction with thetopic and to be able to provide opportunities for multilayered interpretations. Timing-wise,the course was set in three week long cycles per section. In the first week of each cycle, theseminar part of the section took place, in the second week of the cycle there were theworkshops, and the third week was designated for preparing the deliverables. The pilot wasmainly conducted by an interdisciplinary teaching team of three. However, the seminarsrequired the contribution of invited speakers and the workshops had visiting teaching staff
stage, only 34 of 251students explicitly applied at least one criterion to assess credibility, but 153 of 279 students atleast significantly used reliable sources to support their final projects.Conclusions and Future WorkThis pedagogical reflection on this pilot project reveals some important limitations. Since this isnot a research project, we did not create a control group, since doing so would deprive somestudents of the originally planned pedagogy of the course, which was central to accreditationlearning outcomes. Also, we cannot confidently explain the discrepancy between theconsiderable use of peer-reviewed sources and the limited awareness of assessing credibility inthe students’ initial reflections. This reflection also cannot discern
Foundation— connect their funding explicitly to the SDGs. (The UN itself also funds projects related to the SDGs and has released a funding strategy.) You can read more about funding for each SDG by visiting this website: Who’s Funding the SDGs. You have been tasked with providing a literature review that will accompany a grant application—one that will convince its readers that your firm has a strong grasp on the current state of research in your area and a plan for where this research is headed in the near future. Your readers need the literature review to be sufficiently brief, easy to read, and accompanied by at least one visual aid (such as a table, figure, or infographic) that helps them
welfare, as well as global, cultural, social, environmental, and economic factors 3. an ability to communicate effectively with a range of audiences 4. an ability to recognize ethical and professional responsibilities in engineering situations and make informed judgments, which must consider the impact of engineering solutions in global, economic, environmental, and societal contexts 5. an ability to function effectively on a team whose members together provide leadership, create a collaborative and inclusive environment, establish goals, plan tasks, and meet objectives 6. an ability to develop and conduct appropriate experimentation, analyze and interpret data, and use engineering judgment to draw
in this work: historically, engineers have not agreed on foundational concerns ordefinitions of engineering. Hence, engineers do not have some form of constitution or bible thatthey can refer to provide any universal answers. To me, one of the best ways to consider current“norms,” as well as the propensity towards engineering in ethics or ethics in engineering, wouldbe to review how codes of ethics have evolved over time.As one noteworthy example, ASCE recently added a Canon 8, “Treat All Persons Fairly.”Subpart C of Canon 8 focuses on diversity: “Engineers shall consider the diversity of thecommunity, and shall endeavor in good faith to include diverse perspectives, in the planning andperformance of their professional services.” This is one
exposition, and with the content of the presentations, lesson plans, and studentworksheets provided by the participant teachers.5. ResultsCase study 1: Building a ping pong ball launcher robotAs described in the previous section, Teacher 1 provided the students of her eighth-grade mathclass with the example of the trajectory of a ping pong ball, launched from an initial height h0, asa parabola. The students were tasked with building a basic ping pong launcher robot. Thepedagogical approach utilized can be construed as a combination of discovery learning andcompetition-based learning approaches [6]. Prior literature [6] reports that it is expensive toorganize robotics competitions for students and to engage the general student body in
, Engineers: Employment, Pay, and Outlook, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2018, Feb. Accessed on: Jan. 28, 2020. Available: https://www.bls.gov/careeroutlook/2018/article/engineers.htm.3. “Charting a Course for Success: America’s Stategy for STEM Education,” Committee on STEM Education of the National Science & Technology Council, Dec. 2018, Accessed on: Jan. 28, 2020. Available: https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp- content/uploads/2018/12/STEM-Education-Strategic-Plan-2018.pdf4. M. C. Bottia, E. Stearns, R. A. Mickelson, S. Moller, and A. D. Parker, “The relationships among high school STEM learning experiences and students’ intent to declare and declaration of STEM major in college,” Teachers College Record
librarian coming to class to provide a lecture on library resources, citation management software, or general information literacy? Is there an opportunity to include other, non-traditional library resources, like patents, technical reports, or standards in your classes? Do you find that students need that information for your particular course?Conclusions and Future WorkThe authors learned a great deal from this study: first about integrating standards into anundergraduate level technical communication course for engineering students, and second aboutthe use of faculty and librarian collaboration to achieve course outcomes and improve thelearning experience of students. The authors plan to share additional insights in
everybody else”. Student A said this was very different from theexperiences of their classmates, “Yeah, definitely very tight-knit, where you know everybody inthe community. You know, I know everybody in the grade, and then the grade above, gradebelow, which is crazy talking to people now, they're not used to that.”Student E shared a similar sentiment commenting when at home, “I can go to the store and I'llrun into so many people. I have to plan for extra time whenever I'm going anywhere. I run intopeople and talk with them for a while.” Later in the interview, they shared that being on at alarge campus “it's very easy to feel like just a number in the class”. This student shared thedesire to make campus feel smaller by joining a living learning
Confidence should be conducted.More meaningful internship experiences offered earlier in a student’s university education mayalso help to improve Career Fit Confidence of all students. Future research investigating theeffects of timing and number of internship experiences on Career Fit Confidence could informprogram planning that would increase persistence. The Expertise Confidence in ML/AI shouldbe further fostered in the curriculum to increase persistence of students pursuing thosespecializations. Earlier explicit exposure to ML/AI specialization Expertise in their first twoyears of undergraduate studies may positively influence the Expertise Confidence and IntentionalPersistence of students. Again, further investigation into the university
“an abilityto apply engineering design to produce solutions that meet specified needs with consideration ofpublic health, safety, and welfare, as well as global, cultural, social, environmental, and economicfactors.” The new general criteria has added a detailed definition for Engineering Design [1]. Inthe new general criteria, SO5 replaces student outcome (d) in the old general criteria. It states “anability to function effectively on a team whose members together provide leadership, create acollaborative and inclusive environment, establish goals, plan tasks, and meet objectives.” In thenew general criteria a definition is added for term “Team” which is expressed as “a team consistsof more than one person working toward a common goal and
incentivized in severalways. It contributed to make this project a positive experience that has paved the way to similarSTEM projects on campus such as another pilot project embedded US 1100 that focuses onenhancing performance of students co-enrolled in remedial math and college level algebra. Thissummer 2020, one of the authors of this paper and a faculty in the School of Engineering will beworking also on another STEM project related to SVS. The project is a summer camp to high-school girls interested in STEM, in particular in engineering and engineering technology. TheSVS curriculum will be included as part of the camp planned activities. Finally, the authorsexpect that this experimental research strengthens the literature on SVS and helps
Polytechnic InstituteMelissa Shuey, Rensselaer Polytechnic InstituteMarta TsyndraMakayla Wahaus, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Makayla Wahaus received her Bachelors of Science in Sustainability Studies and Applied Physics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 2020. After completing her senior thesis, ”Community Supported Agriculture in the NY Capital Region: Pathways, Economics, and Community”, she plans to farm with a local CSA producer while navigating to her desired career path. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Student Perspectives on Navigating Engineering PathwaysLike many of the National Academy of Engineering’s consensus studies, the 2018 Pathwaysreport [1] tells
Paper ID #30371 Carlos Santos is a first year graduate student at the Wake Forest University Department of Psychology. His research includes longitudinal measurement validity and developing personalized user-interface data tools.Dr. Michael D. Gross, Wake Forest University Dr. Michael Gross is a Founding Faculty and Associate Professor of Engineering at Wake Forest Uni- versity and is part of the team that is planning, developing, and delivering the brand new Engineering program. The Engineering department is viewed as an opportunity to break down silos across campus and creatively think about reimagining the undergraduate engineering educational experience, integra- tion and collaboration across departments and