program for high school students— NM PREP Academy—had a measurable effecton student confidence (a subcomponent of self-efficacy) and content knowledge. We also aimedto gain a greater understanding of how similar short-term intervention programs could be used toincrease interest, participation, and persistence in STEM-related careers, as well as to understandwhich specific portions of the program were most closely related to the students’ gains in eitherknowledge or confidence. Our research questions were as follows:1. Did the confidence and/or content knowledge of the students change as a result of engagement in the pre-engineering program?2. Was there a relation between changes in student confidence and knowledge?3. Was there a relation
P Okoye, Connecticut Department of Transportation Sharon Okoye is a senior engineer with professional experience in transit asset plan management, federal- aid program development and implementation, major corridor feasibility studies and roadway intersection design. Sharon is also Director of Connecticut’s Transportation and Civil Engineering (TRAC) program, and is currently working with state universities and the Department’s Office of Equal Opportunity & Di- versity to provide a 1-week summer program to introduce underrepresented high school students to college level transportation courses, as well as transportation careers, through the FHWA’s National Transporta- tion Summer Institute grant program
pursuing academic careers. Originally from Mexico, Dr. Santillan-Jimenez joined UK first as an undergraduate research intern and then as a graduate student performing his doctoral research at UK CAER and at the University of Alicante (Spain). After obtaining his Ph.D. in 2008, he worked as a postdoctoral fellow at Utrecht University (The Netherlands) prior to retuning to UK CAER, where he now holds the position of Princi- pal Research Scientist. His current research focuses on the application of heterogeneous catalysis to the production of renewable fuels and chemicals, with emphasis on the upgrading of algae oil to drop-in hy- drocarbon fuels. His synergistic activities include participating in a number of K-20
‐ science“Last summer I thought engineers only made electronics. Now I thinkengineers design stuff to solve a problem.” Thinking outside the bubble… important important importantHow important are each of the following Sort of Veryactivities to the work of an engineer? Not Research ResultsChildren who use EiE are more likely than control students to indicate that they are interested in engineering as a career
her PhD in Biomedical Engineering at the University of Virginia in 2016. Her disser- tation research under the mentorship of Dr. Kimberly Kelly focused on the development of liposomes targeted to the stromal compartment of pancreatic adenocarcinoma. She has taught Nanomedicine and been a teaching assistant for Calculus I and Physiology II. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Tricks of the Trade: Navigating teaching opportunities in the research- based engineering Ph.D.AbstractEngineering graduate students will ultimately face the decision of whether to stay in academia, workin industry, or pursue a different career path. Of those that elect to remain in
Paper ID #19518Meeting the Need for Diversity in STEM FieldsMr. James Burton Dorsey, Washington MESA James Dorsey is the executive director of Washington State MESA, a program that prepares and encour- ages underrepresented groups (K16) to pursue science, engineering and technology careers. Dorsey’s professional background includes 25 years with both Washington and California MESA, advancing K-20 STEM education equity on statewide and national levels. Before his tenure with Washington MESA, Dorsey was national director of program development for Cal- ifornia MESA, where he fostered new and enhanced partnerships with
attainment and the pursuit of a STEM career9. Effectivestrategies implemented within STEM intervention programs include but are not limited toacademic advising, faculty mentorship, tutoring, internship opportunities, and career and skilldevelopment. Such programs have the potential to be especially beneficial for women due to thedevelopment of a supportive community and integration into the academic environment, whichare areas that women tend to struggle with when entering engineering programs10. Women in STEM often contend with a marginalizing academic environment, which cannegatively influence their discipline-related self-efficacy and ultimately their persistence in thefield11 12 13 14 15. In Brainaird and Carlin’s16 longitudinal study
which engages and develops practical skills in the students. Currently she is exploring the performance and attributes of engineering technology students and using that knowledge to engage them in their studies. In addition to this work, she is interested in professional societies and how they support careers of their members.Dr. Gretchen L. Hein, Michigan Technological University Gretchen Hein is a senior lecturer in Engineering Fundamentals at Michigan Tech. She have been teaching ENG3200, Thermo-Fluids since 2005. She also teaches first-tear engineering classes. She has been active in incorporating innovative instructional methods into all course she teaches. Her research areas also include why students persist in
Assistant Dean for Inclusive Excellence, she leads the Broadening Opportunity through Leadership and Diversity (BOLD) Center, overseeing efforts to attract and prepare students for the rigors of engineering study and careers, and to improve student performance and graduation rates. Appointed in January 2014, Miller comes to CU-Boulder from the National Science Foundation, where she worked in STEM education as a American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow. Sarah believes that every child deserves an excellent education. She has worked in inner-city public schools, both as a teacher and as an administrator, and in the admissions office of Amherst College, where she earned a B.A. in Chemistry. She holds a PhD
Paper ID #19371Collaborative Research: From School to Work: Understanding the Transi-tion from Capstone Design to IndustryDr. Marie C Paretti, Virginia Tech Marie C. Paretti is a Professor of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech, where she co-directs the Vir- ginia Tech Engineering Communications Center (VTECC). Her research focuses on communication in engineering design, interdisciplinary communication and collaboration, design education, and gender in engineering. She was awarded a CAREER grant from the National Science Foundation to study expert teaching in capstone design courses, and is co-PI on numerous NSF grants
eligible. A studentis considered academically disadvantaged if the student graduates from a Washington State highschool where 30% or more of its students are receiving free or reduced-price lunch. Uponadmission to the WSU STARS program, students have access to individual mentoring, intrusiveadvising, a community of engineering students, specialized courses, and mathematics, physics,and chemistry tutoring. Each aspect of the program layers the foundation of success in academicperformance and career preparation.WSU STARS accepts a maximum of 32 students each academic year. During the first threeyears of the program, recruitment began in May after Pell Grant eligibility information wasreleased and largely took place in the summer months when students
. In addition, 90% of students who participated in Workshop 1 and 87% ofthose in Workshop 2, positively responded that after the workshop, they were more interested inpursuing engineering as a career (impacting both motivation and retention). The encouragingresults support this intervention as an effective tool to showcase the connection betweenengineering and healthcare, and to increase student motivation in engineering- irrespective ofgender.Keywords:Diversity, engineering education, healthcare, active learning, workshop.1. IntroductionUndergraduate education statistics show that in 2015 women earned 57% of all bachelor’s degreescompleted. However, only 19.9% of women earned a bachelor’s degree in engineering [1].Conversely, the bachelor’s
, and leadership development. During 2016, she received a grant to investigate the effectiveness of peer mentoring for safety improvement of construction workers. Previously, Dr. Hollar received the ELECTRI International 2014 Early Career Award.Dr. George C. Wang P.E., East Carolina University Dr. George Wang is an Associate Professor in the Department of Construction Management of East Car- olina University. His research interests include infrastructure construction engineering and management, ethics education in engineering and construction, risk management in construction, environmental and energy aspects in constructed facilities, nontraditional materials utilization in construction, concrete and asphalt
Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in 2006. He was a TMS Young Leader International Scholar in 2008, received the NSF/CAREER award in 2009, the Xerox Award for Faculty Research at Illinois in 2011, the AIME Robert Lansing Hardy Award in 2014, co-chaired the 2011 Physical Metallurgy Gordon Research conference, and became a Willett Faculty Scholar at Illinois in 2015. His research focuses on defects in materials using density-functional theory, and novel techniques to understand problems in mechanical behavior and transport.Prof. Kelly Ritter, University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignP. Scott Carney, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign P. Scott Carney is a Professor in the
— California State University Long Beach (CSULB) has low enrollments by women incomputing and engineering majors. This paper presents strategies implemented to improverecruitment and retention of women in these majors to break this long-standing pattern. Therecruitment strategies include outreach to admitted students while they’re still in the decisionprocess, improving language used on websites and publications, and roadshows to communitycolleges and high schools. The retention strategies include creating classroom modules thatpromote career exploration and strengthen problem solving skills, and holding professionalworkshops for faculty and staff to understand factors that influence success inengineering/computing majors by students from
, Assessment, & Data Adminis- tration in the College of Engineering & Computer Science at the University of Central Florida. She is Co-PI of 2 NSF-funded S-STEM programs and program evaluator for 2 NSF-funded REU programs. Her research interests include factors that impact student persistence, identity formation, and career develop- ment in the STEM fields.Salih Safa Bacanli, University of Central Florida Salih Safa Bacanli is PhD student at Department of Computer Science, University of Central Florida (UCF). He received his MS degree in Computer Science from UCF and BS degree in Computer Engi- neering from Bilkent University, Turkey. His research interests include opportunistic networking routing, wireless
general leadership and administration skills of the deserving facultymembers by leveraging career and motivation management practices established byorganizational behavior researchers. Greenhaus et al. examine the conditions under which careergoal setting contributes to effective career management [11]. Behar-Horenstein et al.[12]assessed faculty needs at a dentistry college and found 74% to 92% participants rating low theirknowledge in acquiring leadership skills and 45% participants rating poor or fair mentoring,which includes goal setting. Sorofman et al.[13] in their report on recommendations onimproving quality of pharmacy faculty’s work life include goal setting programs. We have notcome across any such research with respect to engineering
BackgroundIn 1992, several faculty members from the University of Evansville (UE), a small, private,master's-granting institution in the Midwest, were discussing methods to increase enrollment.The lack of female representation in engineering and computer science programs was a primaryconcern, prompting the idea of offering a summer program targeting women in engineering. 25years later, the summer program has evolved from a single week-long residential camp for highschool girls to include a separate 3-5 day residential camp for middle school girls, and a 5-dayday camp for middle school boys.The program addresses the critical need to help young women overcome cultural stereotypes andprepare for careers in engineering and computer science. The National
Paper ID #20983IllumiNUT Shake-Light Manufacturing: An Engineering/Business Interdis-ciplinary Supply Chain ProjectDr. Peter Raymond Stupak, Raritan Valley Community College Peter Stupak enjoyed a 22 year career in the optical-fiber manufacturing industry living and working in 7 countries where he held a variety of hands-on technical and business-management positions. Starting as a R&D Engineer, Peter became fascinated by how a manufacturing business operates and made succes- sive steps into engineering and manufacturing management culminating in the construction, start-up, and operation of an optical fiber factory in
], tackles these challenges in a novel way. Mostapproaches to increasing STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) enrollment ingeneral – and computer science enrollment in particular – focus on secondary or even primaryschool students or underclass college students. NECST, however, looks to interest undergraduatesclose to graduation, recent alumni, or returning students from any discipline in graduate study incomputer science. These interests are motivated as a change in career direction, or equally often as ameans to acquire skills, concepts, and frameworks that complement their original discipline or careerplans [4]. This can be an advantage for students of all disciplines, including undergraduatecomputing majors, since employers
asking questions (whether students believe ifthey ask a lot of questions, they will earn the respect of their colleagues), and career outcomeexpectations (whether they believe asking a lot of questions will hurt their chances for gettingahead at work).We were surprised to find that question-asking self-efficacy or outcome expectations did notsignificantly vary by gender, under-represented minority status, and school size. However,students with high question-asking self-efficacy and outcome expectations were more likely tohave engaged in four extracurricular experiences: participating in an internship or co-op,conducting research with a faculty member, participating in a student group, and holding aleadership role in an organization or student
with the increasingworld population while the resources available to meet these demands remain limited. Aninnovative workforce capable of designing creative solutions to these problems is needed.Agricultural and biological engineers focus on food, water, energy and healthcare systems andwill play a pivotal role in meeting these challenges. However, public awareness of these fieldsand their impact on society is limited. The objective of this study was to assess undergraduatestudent understanding of Agricultural Engineering (AE) or Biological Engineering (BE) degreeprograms and identify key motivating factors to pursuing a degree/career in these fields.Sophomore AE and BE students enrolled in a course on the engineering properties of
Coordinator• Veterans Affairs representative, Associate Dean of Students• Various information sources including “Combat2College” [2]The discussion and background research resulted in a list of potential course topics. The coursetopics were grouped by area and organized into course goals. The goals of this course wereestablished to provide returning veterans:• A smooth transition to college life (time management skills, financial management, wellness skills);• Basic tools for academic success (basic writing skills, library skills, oral presentation skills, and advising);• Information on resources available to returning veterans (VA benefits, academic services, career services);• A sense of community, camaraderie, and belonging (interaction
alsoeducated about careers that require this skill set and were introduced to a programminglanguage called “Processing”. We observed that students showed increased enthusiasmtowards CS. In addition, we noticed that the group activity component of the classesencouraged sociability and idea synthesis among peers. This CS community outreachprogram motivated us to extend the effort to teach science concepts using the Processinglanguage. This may potentially promote sociability, creativity, and empowerment inSTEM among middle school students. Specifically, we plan to use the Processingprogramming language to facilitate learning of biological and chemical concepts, sincesuch concepts can be difficult for students to visualize from a textbook. This
K-12 and postsecondary classrooms in order to help students make connections among the STEM disciplines and achieve deep understanding. Her work focuses on defining STEM integration and investigating its power for student learning. Tamara Moore received an NSF Early CAREER award in 2010 and a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) in 2012. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Engineering Notebooks for Formative Assessment (ResourceExchange) TargetGradeLevel:4-8 E n g rT E AM SEngineering to Transform the Education of Analysis, Measurement, &
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Tracking Research Self-Efficacy of Participants in an NSF Research Experience for Undergraduates SiteIntroduction and BackgroundParticipation in research during undergraduate engineering and science programs has beenshown to increase the retention of students into both technical careers and graduate studies.1Significant funding to support undergraduate student research in engineering and science isprovided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) through its Research Experience forUndergraduates (REU) program. REU sites generally host between eight and ten students duringthe summer months to
accordingly.In ideal circumstances, you would begin the graduate school application process no later than thesummer before your final year of undergraduate studies. During this summer (or earlier), youshould complete the following tasks: Identify potential schools, based on your research interests, family/personal needs, geographic preferences, and career/personal goals. Determine if you are required to complete any graduate school competency exams, such as the GRE [3]; if so, study for and complete these exams Determine if you are required to complete any language examinations, such as the TOEFL [4]; if so, study for and complete these exams Identify 3+ references, at least two of who are faculty members who
career pursuits. Inthis study, we focus on a series of courses that specific target larger groups of students who are both intheir field of study and common courses that are required by all students. Specifically, we examinedcourses grades for courses taken by students pursuing engineering and computer science degree programswith at least 50 students with PLTW experience over the Spring 2015, to the Fall 2016 semesters. Usingthis criterion, we compared the average course grades for Missouri S&T students with and without PLTWexperience for 41 courses in subject areas covering math, speech, English, statistics, chemistry,economics, physics, freshman engineering, and seven engineering programs. Students with PLTW courseexperience had higher
the state and regional level and an e-learning platformhosted by the College to provide dissemination of the resources for K-16 instructors and studentsboth statewide and nationally.B. Introduction:Each of the NSF-ATE projects at Orangeburg-Calhoun Technical College has worked closelywith other two-year colleges and with K-12 schools in the College’s service area along with K12systems throughout the state to develop and/or enhance the pipeline from K-12 into STEMprograms. The first project in this series of three (Diverse Engineering Pathways: CurriculumInnovation and Best Practice for Recruitment, Retention and Advancement of EngineeringTechnology Majors) was designed to promote access to STEM careers and provide courses forunder-prepared
enjoyed coding and buildingteacher education courses before they are asked to integrate engineering potential to sway students towards STEM careers, there is only some States during the Spring 2016 semester. Lego robots (Figure 2). All of the participants decided to integratedesign to their science teaching. The aim of this paper is to document to emphasis in engineering in middle and high school. Conversely, at thewhat extent pre-service elementary teachers improve their nature of elementary level, engineering