that they would stay on the pathway to a bachelor’s degree in engineering or computerscience. COVID-19’s impact on our plans to host in-person networking events in convenientlocations and times in specific regions of the U.S. resulted in a need to pivot to virtual events.While this move allowed us to offer these events to anyone interested in attending, regardless oflocation, it presented some recruitment challenges that negatively impacted event attendance bythe specific population we were most interested in studying,This study was also undertaken to help inform SWE’s program development to better supportCC students in STEM programs. SWE has limited relationships with students attending CCs, andthese events were offered as a way to introduce
Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”Measure the significance of the alignment of the research stakeholders [academicians,manufacturers, and students (graduate and undergraduate/senior-level)] through an AHP analysisand a statistical comparison of their individual priorities.Methodology of the Research ProjectTable 1 maps the methodology proposed to answer the research objectives. It is based upon asynthesis of various approaches to qualitative observational research. [5], [6], [7] In addition, Table 1includes a column, “Saaty step(s)”, to map the research methodology steps to the Saatyalgorithm. [8]Table 1. Research Plan Step Description of the Step Saaty
Paper ID #38182Board 207: ACCESS in STEM: An S-STEM Project Supporting Economi-callyDisadvantaged STEM-Interested Students in Their First Two YearsErica ClineMenaka AbrahamSarah AlaeiDr. Heather Dillon, University of Washington, Tacoma Dr. Heather Dillon is Professor and Chair of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Washington Tacoma. Her research team is working on energy efficiency, renewable energy, fundamental heat transfer, and engineering education. Before joining academia, she worked for the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) as a senior research engineer working on both energy efficiency and renewable
professional identity development in medical and engineering students, and formative joint display analysis on dissonance in a cultural competency study of first-year engineering students. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Exemplars of Integration in Engineering Education’s Use of Mixed Methods Research AbstractThis theory paper explores ways in which the engineering education community can achievemore comprehensive integration in mixed methods designs. We searched for exemplars in theJournal of Engineering Education, the European Journal of Engineering Education, and theAustralasian Journal of Engineering Education using “mixed-method” and “mixed
using a qualitative approach findings are able to emerge from the dataand not be restricted to pre-determined categories or themes. In this way we did not limit ourresearch analysis or findings to “fit” prior work conducted in different settings.MethodThis study is part of a larger project researching barriers to engineering as a career choice forAppalachian youth. The project used an exploratory qualitative methodology and employed in-person semi-structured interviews and maximum variation sampling32. In this section wedescribe the data collection, participant characteristics, and qualitative analysis (coding) used toanswer the research questions: What role(s) does interest play in engineering career choices ofAppalachian students? How do such
Paper ID #28898Building Early Elementary Teacher Confidence in Teaching ComputerScience Through a Low-Cost, Scalable Research-Practitioner CollaborationJustin Lee Clough, University of Southern California Justin L. Clough is a PhD student at the University of Southern California studying Mechanical Engineer- ing; his advisor is Assad A. Oberai. He received his Bachelors of Science from the Milwaukee School of Engineering and Masters of Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, both in Mechanical Engineering. He holds a DOD:SMART scholarship and works closely with the AFRL/RQHV teams at Wright-Patterson
. After each lesson and after thelesson series, students completed a written reflection on what they had learned, totaling to fivereflections over the semester. Their responses will be explored with a thematic qualitativeanalysis to answer the research questions above. The lessons continue to be adapted to thiscontext and are being taught to all sections of the course this semester. A rollout to all incomingfirst-year engineering students is planned for the Fall of 2023, so this analysis is ongoing, and allconclusions drawn so far are from Fall of 2022 and are denoted as a WIP.Definition of EmpathyDuring a pilot study in the Fall of 2022, 59 first-year students in the honors sections of“Introduction to Engineering” at a large R1 university
include recognition, interest, andperformance/competence. There are 11 questions total within the three constructs, including “Myinstructors see me as an engineering”; “I find fulfillment in doing engineering”; and “Iunderstand concepts I have studied in engineering.” These are assessed on a six-point scale(strongly disagree to strongly agree). Role identity is identified as a theoretical framework. Herinitial pilot study included over 300 students and the subsequent study had over 2500 studentresponses. As she concludes in her 2016 paper “The items developed to measure engineeringidentity are the first of their kind to quantitatively measure students engineering identity self-beliefs. I offer these items as a way to quickly assess and broadly
research design was guided by the job hindrance-control-support JHCSmodel [11] and prior studies of doctoral student stress (e.g., [8][9][10]). The overall researchquestion for the project is What is the nature of and what are consequences of stressors forgraduate students?Study DesignThis project mixes qualitative and quantitative research methods in a sequential design for thepurpose of triangulation [12] to in Year 1 uncover the identities of top stressors experienced bydoctoral engineering students and in Years 2-3 to measure their effects on student well-being andretention. The goal of the longitudinal interview phase of study in the first year of the project isto collect data supporting the creation and testing in years 2 and 3 of a novel
?”; and coping and help-seeking behaviors (six questions), for example, “What resourcesand support are there on campus or in your department for students who are stressed?”.Participants were asked to describe any interactions with other students and faculty regardingmental health issues and to share any other additional information about engineering-relatedstress. The interview protocol was developed from the results of a quantitative surveyadministered at the same institution in the fall of 2017, which included metrics of stress, anxiety,depression, inclusion, and engineering identity, as well as an open-ended response opportunityfor participants to share additional thoughts [8]. The interview was piloted with three participantsexternal to the
anythingwe have written about in this paper. For example, if teams of faculty and students are interestedin using our signification framework, either at their own institutions or as part of a cross-institutional study, we are open to sharing and/or collaborating. As we progress with our project,we will continue to share our experiences with SenseMaker with the engineering educationcommunity.References[1] LEES, "Welcome to the LEES website," Accessed on: 28 April, 2020Available: https://sites.asee.org/lees/[2] S. E. Van der Merwe et al., "Making Sense of Complexity: Using SenseMaker as a Research Tool," Systems, vol. 7, no. 2, p. 25, 2019.[3] L. A. Schreiner, "Thriving in College," New Directions for Student Services, vol. 2013
Formation (PFE: RIEF) program under Award#2024960. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in thismaterial are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the NationalScience Foundation.References[1] Patrick, Anita D., and A. N. Prybutok. "Predicting persistence in engineering through anengineering identity scale." International journal of engineering education 34, no. 2a (2018).[2] Marra, Rose M., and Barbara Bogue. "Women engineering students' self efficacy--alongitudinal multi-institution study." Women in Engineering ProActive Network (2006). Surveyavailable at http://aweonline.org/efficacy.html[3] Bilgin, Betul, James W. Pellegrino, and Vikas Berry. "Work-in-Progress: The Design of Up-to-Date
Paper ID #37179Fostering Community at the Graduate Level: One University’s Student-ledApproachHaroula M. Tzamaras, Pennsylvania State University Haroula is a 3rd year PhD candidate studying human factors at Penn State and is the current president of GradWIE.Sierra HicksGabriella M. Sallai, Pennsylvania State University Gaby Sallai is currently a graduate student in the Mechanical Engineering department at Penn State. She is working under Dr. Catherine Berdanier in the Engineering Cognitive Research Laboratory (ECRL) studying the experiences of engineering graduate students. She received her Bachelor’s degree from
link these surveystogether. As a result, the student’s identity is not known, but the pre/post surveys can be linkedfor the same student. Three instruments (1-3, below) comprised the survey and tookapproximately 5-10 minutes to complete. Each section of the survey provided data tooperationalize study variables identified in the PEERSIST model (Fig. 1), namely, engineeringself-efficacy, engineering identity, institutional identity, and supports and barriers.(1) Engineering Self-Efficacy Beliefs. Three items comprised this variable, adapted for this studyfrom Lent et al. [19]: confidence to (1) pass all remaining technical courses in the engineeringmajor, (2) pass all remaining design courses in the engineering major, and (3) graduate with
learning30 and co-generation.31 The students receive researcher’s expert opinion,which provides the benefits of cognitive apprenticeship.21In each iteration, two separate groups of students work toward building two identical robots. Forone group, the teacher and researcher use traditional qualitative observation, brainstorming,discussion, questionnaire, and feedback methods to analyze the outcomes of the iteration.7,8 Forthe second group, in addition to the traditional methods, the teacher and researcher follow someadvanced systems engineering approaches under the cognitive apprenticeship of the expertresearcher. The DBR is treated as a continuous improvement (CI) method,32 and resembles as theDeming or Plan-Do-Check-Act (PDCA) cycle.33 The teacher
. Bork and J.-L. Mondisa, “Engineering graduate students’ mental health: A scoping literature review,” Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 111, no. 3, pp. 665–702, 2022, doi: 10.1002/jee.20465.[13] Council of Graduate Schools, “Completion and Attrition in STEM Master’s Programs: Pilot Study Findings.” Council of Graduate Schools, 2013.[14] G. C. Fleming et al., “The fallacy of ‘there are no candidates’: Institutional pathways of Black/African American and Hispanic/Latino doctorate earners,” Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 112, no. 1, pp. 170–194, 2023, doi: 10.1002/jee.20491.[15] E. Hocker, E. Zerbe, and C. G. P. Berdanier, “Characterizing Doctoral Engineering Student Socialization: Narratives of Mental Health
collected during this study were both qualitative and quantitative, making this a mixedmethods study. The data we collected to extract creativity were mainly qualitative. Though therewere 11 instruments in total that we could use to extract data, and 13 graduate engineering studentsparticipating in the study (in 5 groups: G1 to G5), we had only nine complete sets for all 11instruments. As a result, we used a critical case study approach for our analysis.RQ1: How do engineering students perceive the importance of creativity in their leadershipdevelopment before and after creativity instruction?To answer our first research question, we examined the pre-course questionnaire and comparedthe participants’ ratings and reasons with their post-course self
Leadership Program, Fish Aides, Horizons Consulting Guild, and Engineering Honors. Upon graduation, Kiersten hopes to use her internship, study abroad, and organization experience to pursue a career in the energy sector. Having grown up abroad, she hopes to live internationally again sometime in the future.Jiacheng LuLori L. Moore, Texas A&M University Dr. Lori Moore is an Associate Professor in the Department of Agricultural Leadership, Education, and Communications at Texas A&M University. Dr. Moore teaches introductory leadership, leadership the- ory, adult education, and methods of teaching courses and supervises students completing their supervised American
Paper ID #12803Comparing Disparate Outcome Measures for Better Understanding of Engi-neering GraduatesMs. Samantha Ruth Brunhaver, Arizona State University Samantha Brunhaver is an Assistant Professor of Engineering in the Fulton Schools of Engineering Poly- technic School. She completed her graduate work in Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University. She also has a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Northeastern University. Her research examines the career decision-making and professional identity formation of engineering students, alumni, and prac- ticing engineers. She also conducts studies of new engineering
the results of the student learning would be a significant contribution tothese programs, emerging programs and to industry.Industry has been calling for leadership skills for decades, although not always labeling them assuch. A study by the National Society for Professional Engineers (NSPE) in the 1990s identifiedwhat industry valued in graduating engineers and how well they perceived engineering schoolswere doing at educating students in those areas. [28] At the ABET Symposium in April 2015, apanel of industry representatives identified the primary characteristics they sought in newengineering graduates. [29] In addition, the Engineering Accreditation Commission (EAC) ofABET has identified several skills that engineering graduates must
entrepreneurship, and women and leadership courses and initiatives at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. Prior to her work in academia, Nathalie spent several years in the field of market research and business strategy consulting in Europe and the United States with Booz Allen and Hamilton and Data and Strategies Group. She received a BA from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, an MBA from Babson College, and MS and PhD degrees from Purdue University. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Communicating the Value of a Transdisciplinary Degree: Comparing and Contrasting Perceptions Across Student GroupsAbstractMultidisciplinary, interdisciplinary, and
mathematics principles to real-world (engineering) applications, helping secondarystudents understand the importance of a college education, and providing hands-on science andengineering activities.Both Fellows and volunteer undergraduate student tutorsi assist secondary students withhomework, improving study skills, and standardized tests and examinations preparation. Summerscience experiences and academic year activities for teachers offer opportunities to work onengineering research projects with university faculty. Parents are gaining “College Knowledge”through a model Professional Learning Communities / Critical Friends Group format. The modelis designed to be exportable nationwide.This paper focuses on the involvement of university graduate and
under preparation for a detailed discussionof these results.7 Summary of Findings to Date and Future WorkIn summary, PLP is an open project that adapts to the needs of computer engineering educationand is designed to actively engage students in the learning process. PLP was created to connectcore concepts learned in various computer engineering courses, and is aimed at improving thelearning experience for students. It is grounded in the theories of social constructionism andsituated cognition. Results from the pilot studies show that PLP is highly effective in engagingstudents and in helping them gain valuable skills. One clear advantage we are beginning to see isthat students, instructors, and teaching assistants all found it very convenient
the potential ofthis approach for increasing (1) learners’ capacities to engage in both far transfer (innovation)and direct application (efficiency) and (2) the formation of STEM identity. This new study willuse a mixed methods approach, including a quasi-experimental research design incorporatingboth quantitative and qualitative data analytic methods. A combination of measures includingstandards-based science unit tests, existing district student and administrative data sources,student pre-post surveys, and a preparation for future learning (PFL) assessment tool.VI. ConclusionsWe have applied the theory of Imaginative Education to develop Through My Window, atransmedia learning environment for engineering education. Evidence indicates that
and Clinical Psychology, 29(10), 1074–1099. https://doi.org/10.1521/jscp.2010.29.10.1074Torka, M. (2020). Change and continuity in Australian doctoral education: PhD completion rates and times (2005-2018). The Australian Universities’ Review, 62(2), 69–82.Watkins, S. E., & McGowan, B. L. (2022). Black men doctoral scientists and engineers persisting: Peer support and racism in science and engineering. Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 59(10), 1853-1875.Weidman, J. C., Twale, D. J., & Stein, E. L. (2001). Socialization of graduate and professional students in higher education: A perilous passage? Jossey-Bass and ERIC Clearinghouse on Higher Education, Association for the Study of Higher Education
discussion matter including study skills, stress management, study abroad opportunities,and time management. As seen through both academic results (GPA, % honors, % probation, %transfers) and quantitative survey results, the program has been demonstrated to have a positiveeffect and has been lauded as a major success [6]. Page 25.678.3Similarly, the Graduate, Undergraduate Initiative for Development and Enhancement (GUIDE)program at Michigan Technological University groups entering 1st year engineering studentswith a sophomore, junior, or senior student as well as a graduate student mentor. Together, thesegroups of 3 are required to attend weekly
Engineering Education at Purdue University. Her research focuses what factors influence diverse students to choose engineering and stay in engineering through their careers and how different experiences within the practice and culture of engineering foster or hinder belongingness and identity development. Dr. Godwin graduated from Clemson University with a B.S. in Chemical Engineering and Ph.D. in Engineering and Science Education. She is the recipient of a 2014 American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Educational Research and Methods Di- vision Apprentice Faculty Grant. She has also been recognized for the synergy of research and teaching as an invited participant of the 2016 National Academy of Engineering
information7. A successful program, cognizant of thissituation, could implement interdisciplinary studies programs that combined, forexample, technology development and ecology, to help students make connections andsee relevancy and meaning in what they are studying, while fulfilling general educationor distribution requirements. Similarly, capstone experiences can be tailored to bothallow synthesis of learning across the four years as well as providing professional skills(i.e., resumes, interviewing, financial planning skills, etc.) that will help them succeedpost-graduation. Page 11.365.7 As discussed below, both the instructional format for each
theirinternational graduate students to ensure they thrive at their institutions. Previous studies haveinvestigated the historical, cultural, and social factors that have impacted the construction ofGES's academic identities. However, broader efforts are needed to understand the population ofengineering graduate students with a strong engineering focus at universities. This Work inProgress study presents the results of a pilot survey developed that seeks to understand thefactors that impact the well-being of international and domestic graduate engineering students.For this, we selected a survey that evaluates this population's social resources. The socialresources component assesses social and institutional support, their relationships with advisors
Shore. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Envisioning Equitable Pathways to STEM Graduate Education: Creating a Coalition including two public HBCUs and a public Research 1 University to Make It HappenAbstractTwo public HBCUs and a public Research 1 University established a coalition to developpathways to STEM M.S. and Ph.D. programs among Black, Latinx, and Native Americanstudents. Through a mixed-methods research project, the team: (1) identified Faculty Championsto support and advocate for the students; (2) developed a Memorandum of Understanding forSTEM programs between the institutions to facilitate sustained effort by our coalition; and (3)identified Pilot