after graduation, whether theychoose to pursue a career or continue their education in a PhD program.As part of their graduate coursework, students will take classes from three different departmentsat MSU, which allows them to build connections with faculty and students from across campus.These units include the Department of Computational Mathematics, Science, and Engineering(CMSE), the Department of Statistics and Probability (STT), and the Department of ComputerScience and Engineering (CSE). Each contributing department teaches two of the six corecourses in the Data Science graduate program, which are: STT 810: Mathematical Statistics for Data Scientists. A streamlined introduction to probability and statistical theory, with an
graduate students. [18]The Library system at Penn State is one of the largest in North America, with several millionvolumes of books and materials along with several thousand journal subscriptions. TheEngineering Library works as a partner with the College to provide learning services and supportto students, faculty, and researchers. These services consist of information literacy instruction,research guidance, access to the Libraries' collections, student and faculty engagement, andlibrary outreach.The previous instructional model for teaching information literacy to the students at the Collegewas primarily via a 50-minute "one shot" class embedded in an engineering course. Itimmediately became apparent that the engineering librarian needs to make
discussed based on thecourse’s first implementation during summer 2021.Bridge Course Design and DevelopmentThe designed bridge course for the engineering technology students followed a similar approachto the chemistry bridge course previously reported in the 2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference[1]. The design model is referred to as the Integrated Course Design [2] and starts with the goalsof the course, followed by an analysis of the situational factors surrounding the course, with thelast step being the components of the course (i.e., assessment and feedback, learning activities,and instructional practices). Thus, the goals of the course were established before the content andlearning activities were selected. The design team then explored the
”, “Diversity Efforts” and “Faculty Endowed Recognition” awards. Her career spans local and international borders and have included roles in educational research, program administration, higher education accreditation and K-12 teaching. Dr Benjamin's research agenda explores issues related to minoritized student experiences, doctoral-level program quality, and engineering education. She is constantly envisioning novel ways to promote educational equity and consistently applies an educational quality lens to her scholarship.Kristin L Schaefer (PhD Student) Kristin Luthringer Schaefer is a licensed professional engineer (PE) and a licensed secondary teacher (grades 6-12), both in Texas, as well as the owner of her own
. Asdescribed by other researchers [21], in the absence of scientists of similar identities, she also hadto negotiate her identity with the normality of whiteness within scientific research spaces.Like other researchers [15], [16], our findings show that the development of science identity didnot necessarily lead to the REU students seeing themselves pursuing a research career. Central tothis decision was the perception of the REU students that scientific research was an individualendeavor not aligned with their desire for personal interactions in their future careers.This study supports further consideration of remote REUs, especially given the high cost of in-person REUs and geographic, family, and other constraints experienced by some students
students to learn andapply the practice.There seems to be common agreement among students and alumni that the first principlesthemselves might not be as useful as first principles thinking. This theme combined with lack ofassociating the utility value of first principles with a practical setting and conceptualizing firstprinciples as mostly content-focused, suggests that there might be a need to change the approachin teaching from first principles. The emphasis on first principles dates back to the creation of theprogram. However, one must also consider the conditions which resulted in such a decision in1934. The Faculty was moving towards conducting more research and perhaps an understandingof
engineering have been made by the National Academy of Engineering[11], the American Society of Engineering Education [12] and the National Science Foundation [13].Engagement and relevance was recognized by each of these governing bodies to be a weakness inundergraduate engineering education.The Kern Entrepreneurial Engineering Network (KEEN) was developed to create “a community ofengineering faculty and staff with a shared mission to graduate engineers with an entrepreneurial mindsetso they can create personal, economic and societal value through a lifetime of meaningful work” [14]. Inresponse to the call for reform in engineering education, KEEN members are driving change ineducational materials and teaching concepts so that engineering students
lesson onhow to use a decision matrix. Therefore, their final reports were generally lacking in anysubstantive discussion about how they arrived at an acceptable solution for the wing spar. It wasapparent that more often than not, the students simply manipulated numbers in the providedspreadsheet until a viable design emerged. Another critical shortcoming in the heritage courseand the final project was that students did not get any experience with physical prototyping.Physical prototyping is a major step in an engineering design process and is specifically calledfor in the institutional outcomes. Proficiency #6 of the AEM outcome reads:“USAFA graduates will be able to develop physical and/or virtual prototypes using engineeringtools which are
also to promote the individual understanding of his rolein a group.This research was conducted at Universidad San Francisco de Quito USFQ which is the firstLiberal Arts university in Latin America and the only one in Ecuador. It is located on thecountry’s capital, Quito. According to QS University Ranking, USFQ ranked #1 in Ecuador and#50 in Latin America. This private university enrolls about six thousand undergraduates andabout five hundred graduates every year. It also has a minority program, which providesscholarships to more than one hundred students from ethnic groups every year. Here, the civilengineering program falls under the Science and Engineering faculty with an average of 25students per professor. Additionally, there are two
Paper ID #36899Creating a STEM Diversity Collection in an AcademicScience and Engineering LibraryEric Prosser (Engineering and Entrepreneurship Librarian) Eric Prosser is the Interim STEM Division Head and the Engineering & Entrepreneurship Librarian with the Arizona State University Library. Eric is a liaison to the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering and provides research services for faculty, graduate students, and undergraduate students along with instruction in critical analysis and information literacy, including the legal and ethical use of information. © American Society
. Institutional mental health services, positiveinteractions with faculty, and mentorship with established professionals are all critical resourcesthat students need in their journey to becoming engineers.Future WorkWe are currently in the final semester of the longitudinal study, and we will interview theparticipants one more time. Once completed, we will have eight semesters of rich data followingour participants as they go from early engineering students to early-career engineers. We arecurrently developing papers exploring interactions between students and faculty and detailing theexperiences of COVID lived by four of the students in our study. As we near the end of thefunding for this project, we are developing a website that will house our students
language data. Experimentation Understand principles of design for social science experiments. Hypothesis Design theoretical experiments for making causal inferences. Independence Develop an independent research program. Coding Apply coding skills in execution of research. Mentorship Build mentor/mentee relationships with graduate collaborators.hands-on experience developing an independent research program in preparation for researchfellowships, graduate school, and STEM research careers.4 Program RecruitmentMisinformation is an emergent electronic threat to national security, personal, and public health.Online misinformation regarding COVID-19, and its causative agent the SARS-CoV
curriculumwhich brought the hardware and software together. This paper presents a study on the feasibilityand accessibility of this program and its effectiveness in engaging students and exposing themto key robotics concepts while helping them make suitable career decisions. The pre- and post-program surveys indicated that the students’ interest in a STEM field increased as a result of thiscamp, helped them understand that robotics is much more than just programming, and taughtthem mechanical design, practical electronics, and microcontroller programming in a flipped andexperiential learning format. Moreover, survey results also indicated an attitudinal shift in theirdecision making based on the knowledge, skills, and capabilities that they acquired in
in the deliberate decision to have geographic differences the student addsa variable to the explanations related to common sense and experience that we note above. Thefollowing student goes into educational and professional backgrounds to account for the responsesthey saw: Aside from my own results, I gathered the survey answers from my mom and dad. A person's background is important to the perspective they provide on certain matters, so it should make sense that their point of views should be brought to light. My mother is a top-of-her-class college graduate working as an accountant and my father is a sergeant detective for the IMPD. Both have been working in their respective line of work for as long as
Natural Resources Engineering, Biotechnical Engineering, Food Engineering andGeneral Biological Systems Engineering) offered by the department along with student motivations andplans to continue in the EBS major. This paper may be of interest to teaching faculty and departmentleadership in agricultural and biological engineering programs.Keywords: undergraduate, recruitment, retention, agricultural and biological engineering majorIntroductionThe selection process for choosing an engineering major by undergraduate students has received muchattention from the engineering education community. Studies of first-year student’s selection of anengineering major [1, 2] have utilized social cognitive career theory (SCCT) [3, 4] to frame three
coordination with a strongtechnical foundation. The purpose of this paper is to provide context and justification fordeveloping the Complete Engineer® program, overview the framework for the program,summarize the six Complete Engineer Competencies: Inclusive Excellence, Communication,Self-management and Leadership, Civic Responsibility, Teamwork, and Professionalism andEthics, and to serve as a guide for engineering programs that have similar student developmentobjectives. We conclude the paper with our next steps and future goals.KeywordsComplete Engineer, student development, non-technical skillsIntroductionThe world needs qualified engineers that are competent technically, personally, andprofessionally. An engineering graduate with a solid
Paper ID #37666Examining Engineering Education Research with AmericanIndian and Alaska Native Populations: A Systematic ReviewUtilizing Tribal Critical Race TheoryEdward Tyler Young Tyler Young is a graduate student at The Ohio State University currently pursuing a Master of Science in Aerospace Engineering and a Ph.D. in Engineering Education. He graduated summa cum laude from Case Western Reserve University with a Bachelor of Science in Aerospace Engineering before embarking on a career in STEM education.David A. Delaine (Assistant Professor) © American Society for Engineering Education
focuses on the interactions between student motivation and their learning experiences. Her projects include studies of student attitudes towards becoming engineers and scientists, and their development of problem solving skills, self-regulated learning practices, and beliefs about knowledge in their field. Dr. Benson is an American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Fellow, a member of the European Society for Engineering Education (SEFI), American Educational Research Association (AERA) and Tau Beta Pi, and the 2018 recipient of the Clemson University Class of ’39 Award for Faculty Excellence. She earned a B.S. in Bioengineering (1978) from the University of Vermont, and M.S. (1986) and Ph.D. (2002) in
creativity: the role of individual risk and ambiguity aversion on creative concept selection in engineering design,” Res. Eng. Des., vol. 27, no. 3, pp. 195–219, Jul. 2016, doi: 10.1007/s00163-015-0212-1.[12] S. Mohammed, G. Kremer, and M. Ogot, “Tolerance For Ambiguity: An Investigation On Its Effect On Student Design Performance,” Jun. 2006. doi: 10.18260/1-2--909.[13] E. Frenkel-Brunswik, “Intolerance of Ambiguity as an Emotional and Perceptual Personality Variable,” J. Pers., vol. 18, no. 1, pp. 108–143, 1949, doi: 10.1111/j.1467- 6494.1949.tb01236.x.[14] A. P. Mac Donald, “Revised Scale for Ambiguity Tolerance: Reliability and Validity,” Psychol. Rep., vol. 26, no. 3, pp. 791–798, Jun. 1970, doi: 10.2466
general area of wireless and mobile networks with a focus on transport layer issues including multihoming, congestion control, and network coding. Dr. Aydin has mentored undergraduates and high school students on research projects that involve the use of Arduino boxes and Raspberry Pi's in the context of Internet of Things. Dr. Aydin has been a vivid supporter of women in computing and increasing diversity in computing. She has been the co- faculty advisor for Women in Computing club at Farmingdale, contributed and participated in Grace Hopper Celebration as a technical committee member and as a reviewer, and published and presented in peer reviewed venues about women in computing and broadening the participation over a
Professor of Engineering Education) Dr. Kerrie Douglas, Assistant Professor of Engineering Education at Purdue, studies how to improve the quality of classroom assessments and evaluation of online learning in a variety of engineering education contexts. She holds a PhD in Educational Psychology and a M.A. in Educational Studies, with focus on school counseling. She is a co-PI on the SCALE project, leading the evaluation and assessment efforts. She recently received an NSF award to study engineering instructor decisions and student support during COVID-19 and impact the pandemic is having on engineering students. She also recently won the prestigious CAREER award from the U.S. National Science Foundation to study increasing
earned master’s degree froman accredited/recognized university can apply a maximum of 30 credit hours toward the90 credit hours required for the degree.Program requirements include: ❑ Selecting a Research Advisor/Major Professor ❑ Es t abl i shi ng a gradu at e progr am / advi sor y com m i t t ee . ❑ S ecuring approval of and successfully completing the Plan of Study. ❑ Passing a Preliminary Exam including Written and an Oral. ❑ Submitting a dissertation proposal. ❑ Submitting and defending a dissertation.Doctor of Technology students will be guided by a 4-member graduate committee consisting ofat least three regular members of University’s Graduate faculty, with one of the three graduatefaculty members representing the
’, IT,or innovative product endpoint of most design challenges. The STEM QuESTS Challenge wasdeveloped in spring 2021 and invites students to create engaging STEM curricula that will enticepre-college students to pursue STEM studies and careers. Students are asked to ‘think back tobefore college’ and consider what inspired them to choose their major and career pathway. Forexample, was it something fascinating they discovered in nature? Something going on in theworld? Was it a teacher? An experiment they performed in a science lab? A hobby they are 2passionate about? Based on this inspiration, student teams of 2-8 members from any school andany
collaboration.II.B. Introducing our investigation of cultural practices for supporting ethical engineeringOur research collaboration took place within the context of a larger NSF-funded research study.This study is exploring whether and how extended immersion in cultural practices of the UMDSTS-LLC program supports students’ macro-ethical sense-making about the world andexploration of their personal and professional ethical responsibility within it [4-5]. The primaryorienting research question in our broader investigation is, “How do activities in a multi-yearliving-learning program with an STS emphasis help shape engineering students’ development ofmacro-ethical perspectives and participation in macro-ethical practices across multiple contextsover time
the Big 5 factor model of personality and represents how accepting one is of different ideas and perspectives [10]Section 3: Engagement with Diversity and Inclusion-related Activities. As an exploratory partof developing a measure of culture of inclusion, we thought to assess behaviors associated withsupporting it. Specifically, we were interested in the extent to which faculty, staff, and studentswere already engaging in inclusion-related activities. We began our exploration by focusing ontwo common ways that Center members support a culture of inclusion: through engaging inrecruitment and mentoring of individuals from backgrounds underrepresented in engineering.Research has shown that when workplaces are not diverse (e.g., low percentages
students, would have negative repercussions for the individual’sperformance as well as the duration in which the students will be able to whether thatenvironment. This theory will help us to examine the level of compatibility as described byBlack graduate students and the academic environments they are successfully navigating. As the goal is to explore how institutions might better create spaces where Black studentsfeel their values and beliefs are espoused, person environment fit theory is used here tounderscore the need to utilize real experiences of those who have previously navigated thesehostile spaces to inform how these spaces can be climate controlled moving forward. In extantliterature, there has been documentation of coping
, particularly in observing studentperformance on exams. Generally, faculty members issue exams two ways for in-person/hybridmodality: 1) during the allotted class time, or 2) evening exams, which are granted an approximatetimeframe of two or three hours. During the course duration, the instructor posted lecture notes,homework assignments, and homework solutions on the CANVAS portal as supplement to assiststudents with course material. Additionally, all lectures were saved and recorded in the Zoomcloud in case students needed to review lecture concepts independently. However, during the examwindow, the instructor removed all student access to lecture notes, homework assignments andsolutions, and recorded lectures to enforce academic
peers was generally valued as a higher motivation for deciding on professionallicensure decisions than advice from faculty, advice from faculty was the lowest-rankedmotivation. Respondents had the option to name faculty who motivated them to pursueprofessional licensure but only ten faculty members were named. Of these ten faculty memberslisted, eight of them had their PE and the other two were department chairs. This indicates theimportance of having licensed faculty on staff to encourage students in taking the FE. Beyond the seven motivating factors represented in Table 4, four respondents clarified thata motivating factor was that they were required to take the FE exam to graduate. Of these fourrespondents, three agreed or strongly
increaseenjoyment and 5% of students determined the goal of gamified learning was not to improve theirgaming skills [9]. This reflection in their responses show that students know gamified learningisn't like playing a game as they would outside of the classroom, but rather it is used as anothertool to further their education in a modern way. From the responses of these engineeringstudents, it is evident that the need for an overhaul in the typical engineering education learningenvironment is very much needed. While students are eager to accomplish new feats in theireducational career, it is difficult for them to achieve those feats due to the competitiveness that isfostered, whether directly or indirectly, and lack of encouragement to explore outside of
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