Paper ID #37987Board 289: Fab Friday and Its Impact on Computer Science Majors’Motivation and Career ReadinessMarisol Clark-Ibanez, California State University, San Marcos ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Fab Friday and Its Impact on Computer Science Majors’ Motivation and Career Readiness1. IntroductionThis paper is about a program created to improve the academic success and workforce readinessfor low income, high academic potential Computer Science (CS) majors. It was funded by theScholarships for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (SSTEM) program of theNational
ofEducation and College of Engineering and Technology were funded in 2017 by a three-year,$599,939 grant through the Improving Undergraduate STEM Education (IUSE) program (Grant#1725707). This project focuses on the development of discourse on math and science topicsbetween teacher candidates and students using an immersive classroom simulator to practicemath and science methods with student avatars. This project follows cohorts of students througha mathematics methods course or a science methods course, and into their internship in schools.The goal of the project is to determine if the integration of interactive classroom simulationactivities (ICSAs) in math and science education courses improves teacher candidates’ ability tocommunicate and to
An Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Montclair State University, Dr. Anu co-directs the Software Systems lab at the Center for Computing and Information Science.Stefan A Robila, Montclair State University ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024K-12 Teachers and Data Science: Learning Interdisciplinary Science through Research ExperiencesAbstract: Data science is now pervasive across STEM, and early exposure and education in itsbasics will be important for the future workforce, academic programs, and scholarly research inengineering, technology, and the formal and natural sciences, and in fact, across the fullspectrum of disciplines. When combined with an emphasis on soft
NSF S-STEM(Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) grant awarded in January2017. Through an inclusive and long-range effort, the college identified a strong need forfinancial and comprehensive supports for STEM students. This project will offer financial,academic, and professional support to three two-year cohorts of students. The SEECRS projectaims to utilize a STEM-specific guided pathways approach to strengthen recruitment, retention,and matriculation of STEM students at the community college level.Scholarship recipients will be supported through participation in the SEECRS ScholarsAcademy, a multi-pronged approach to student support combining elements of communitybuilding, faculty mentorship, targeted advising
Research and Scholarship (2015), UW CoEd Faculty Award for Outstand- ing Service to the Education Profession (2016), UW CoEd Honored Fall Convocation Faculty (2017), and UW CoEd Faculty Award for Outstanding Research and Scholarship (2019).Since beginning at UW, Bur- rows has written, implemented, or evaluated over 50 unique grants. She has been the Program Director for GenCyber as well as PI of NSF grants for STEM and CS work. The core of her research agenda is to deepen science, mathematics, engineering, and technology (STEM) partnership involvement and un- derstanding through STEM interdisciplinary integration with in-service teacher professional development (PD) and pre-service teacher coursework. Her research
Paper ID #31465Outcomes and Assessment of Three Years of an REU Site in Multi-ScaleSystems BioengineeringDr. Timothy E. Allen, University of Virginia Dr. Timothy E. Allen is an Associate Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Virginia. He received a B.S.E. in Biomedical Engineering at Duke University and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Bioengineering at the University of California, San Diego. Dr. Allen’s teaching activities include coordinating the core undergraduate teaching labs and the Capstone Design sequence in the BME department at the University of Virginia, and his research interests
AC 2012-4854: MECHANIX: THE DEVELOPMENT OF A SKETCH RECOG-NITION TRUSS TUTORING SYSTEMMs. Olufunmilola Atilola, Texas A&M University Olufunmilola Atilola is currently a doctoral student in the department of mechanical engineering at Texas A&M University. She obtained her master’s degree from the University of South Carolina, Columbia and her bachelor’s degree from Georgia Institute of Technology, both in mechanical engineering. At Texas A&M, her research areas include representations in engineering design and innovations in engineering education.Ms. Cheryl OstermanFrancisco Vides, Texas A&M University Francisco Vides is a Graduate Researcher at the Sketch Recognition Lab at Texas A&M University
current position, he worked as a learning scientist for the VaNTH Engineering Research Center at Northwestern University for three years. Yalvac’s research is in STEM education, 21st century skills, and design and evaluation of learning environments informed by the How People Learn framework.Mrs. Elif OzturkMs. Ke Liu, Prairie View A&M University Ke Liu, is a graduate student and Graduate Research Assistant in the Department of Mechanical Engineer- ing at Prairie View A&M University. She received her BS in Donghua University, China. Her research interests include CAD, Virtual Reality Technology and CFD
responsibilities include providing support for student services, working with assessments of student services in online programs and also oversees the NSF STEM Master Scholar Program.Lori Wedig, University of Wisconsin, Platteville Lori Wedig works in the Distance Learning Center (DLC) as the Associate Outreach Specialist for the NSF STEM Master Scholars program and the Masters of Science in Engineering Graduate Scholars. She has worked in higher education for 25 years with the last 2 years working in the DLC advising the NSF STEM Master Scholar program. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 STEM Grown Masters Lisa Naderman
Student Development, 57(6), 742– 747.[2] Kallison, J. M., & Stader, D. L. (2012). Effectiveness of summer bridge programs in enhancing college readiness. Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 36(5), 340–357.[3] Tate, E. D., & Linn, M. C. (2005). How does identity shape the experiences of women of color engineering students? Journal of Science Education and Technology, 14(5/6), 483–493.[4] Chen, X., & Soldner, M. (2013). STEM attrition: College students’ paths into and out of STEM fields statistical analysis report. US Department of Education.[5] Ashley, M., Cooper, K. M., Cala, J. M., & Brownell, S. E. (2017). Building better bridges into STEM: A synthesis of 25 years of literature on STEM summer
Paper ID #39108Board 237: Classroom Skills Desired by StudentsDr. Muhammad Dawood, New Mexico State University Dr. Muhammad Dawood received his BE degree from the NED University of Engineering and Technol- ogy, Karachi, Pakistan, 1985, and his MS and Ph.D. degrees, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, in 1998 and 2001, respectively, both in electrical engineering. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Classroom Skills Desired by StudentsAbstract: Over last few decades, education researchers have focused heavily on pedagogy,learning outcomes, academic achievement
Paper ID #29391The differences between individual project and team project settings inan interdisciplinary REU siteDr. Hua Li, Texas A&M University, Kingsville Dr. Hua Li, an Associate Professor in Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at Texas A&M University- Kingsville, is interested in sustainable manufacturing, renewable energy, sustainability assessment, and engineering education. Dr. Li has served as P.I. and Co-P.I. in different projects funded by NSF, DOEd, DHS, and HP, totaling more than 2.5 million dollars.Prof. Kai Jin, Texas A&M University - Kingsville Dr. Kai Jin is a Professor of Industrial
several venues, e.g., at the 7th International Conference on Intelligent Sensors, Sensor Networks and Information Processing (ISSNIP 2011) in Adelaide, Australia, and the 3rd International Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques (SIMUTools 2010) in Malaga, Spain. In December 2007, Dr. Camp received the Board of Trustees Outstanding Faculty Award at the Colorado School of Mines; this award was only given five times between 1998-2007.Dr. Christine Liebe, Colorado School of MinesDr. Heather Thiry ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2021 PATHS S-STEM Scholarship: Successful Recruitment and Retention for Computer Science Majors/Minors1 Recruitment and Retention
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Grantee poster examines the impact of participation in the Rice EmergingScholars Program (RESP), Rice University’s comprehensive undergraduate science, technology,engineering, and mathematics (STEM) summer bridge program, on student perceptions ofuniversity belongingness within the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Within a quasi-experimental design, the researchers examined whether RESP participants experienced differentlevels of belongingness utilizing two measures: The Psychological Sense of School MembershipScale, as well as a measure of perceived peer support. Additionally, the researchers examinedwhether family income impacted students, regardless of RESP program participation. Finally,researchers examined whether family income moderated
(STEM CONNECT) project to supportlow-income, first-generation, women, URM, rural, and transfer students (“Scholars”) who arepursuing a career in mathematics and computing-intensive fields in Nebraska. STEMCONNECT is funded by the National Science Foundation’s Scholarships in Science,Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics program (S-STEM). The S-STEM program awardsinstitutions funding to “adapt, implement, and study evidence-based curricular and co-curricularactivities that have been shown to be effective supporting recruitment, retention, transfer (ifappropriate), student success, academic/career pathways, and graduation in STEM” [26].Consequently, STEM CONNECT engaged Scholars in several activities known to supportstudent success. The
, comprising 4.15%of the university workforce [11]. In undergraduate engineering courses, TAs performed a widevariety of tasks including lecturing, leading lab sections, conducting review sessions, facilitatingdiscussions, holding office hours, and providing technological support. A study of biologycourses demonstrated that TAs provided a more personalized experience for students that actedas an essential and valuable complement to the more aloof, authoritative, and strict control thatundergraduates perceived of instructional faculty. A similar study of high-enrollment biologycourses at a research-intensive Australian university [12] found that consistent TA-studentpairings were positively associated with gains in student motivation and learning
Paper ID #39159Board 365: Reaching Consensus: Using Group Concept Mapping in aMulti-Site STEM Hub Research TeamMr. Anthony Weiss, University of Missouri, Kansas City Anthony Weiss is a Ph.D. candidate in Mechanical Engineering with a co-discipline in Education, Lead- ership, Policy, and Foundations at UMKC. Prior to this he received his BS in Mechanical Engineering Technology from Pittsburg State University in 2016 where he also was a student-athlete participating in Cross Country and Track and Field. He went on to get his BS in Mechanical Engineering in 2019 from UMKC and then completed his Masters in Mechanical
Paper ID #38511Board 290: Faculty Experiences with Hands-on Models for CalculusInstructionProf. Eric Davishahl, Whatcom Community College Eric Davishahl serves as professor and engineering program coordinator at Whatcom Community College in northwest Washington state. His teaching and research interests include developing, implementing and assessing active learning instructional strategies and auto-graded online homework. Eric has been an active member of ASEE since 2001. He was the recipient of the 2008 Pacific Northwest Section Outstanding Teaching Award and currently serves on the ASEE Board of Directors as Zone IV Chair.Dr
Paper ID #12169Expanding Perception: How Students ”See” FluidsMs. Katherine Goodman, University of Colorado, Boulder Katherine Goodman is currently a graduate student at the University of Colorado Boulder in the ATLAS Institute, working toward a Ph.D. in Technology, Media, and Society. Her research is in engineering education, with a focus on fluids and design courses. She holds a B.S. in mathematics and a masters of professional writing. She has previously worked as a technical writer and project coordinator, and as an instructor in composition at the University of Southern California and the Community College of
of Alabama ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 An Innovation-Themed National Science Foundation S-STEM Grant ProgramTo enhance the competitiveness of the United States on a global scale through the provision ofSTEM graduates equipped with innovative skills, students must be educated in innovationmethodologies. With the support of a grant from the National Science Foundation's Science,Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Program (S-STEM), researchers at the University ofArkansas are focused on augmenting the number of STEM graduates who possess both trainingand experience in innovation. The program, Closing America’s Innovation Gap throughCollaboration
. Hug earned her PhD in Educational Psychology at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Her research and evaluation efforts focus on learning science, technology, engineering. She leads a social science and evaluation organization that focuses on inclusive excellence, broadening participation, and democratizing science.Paul Salvador Bernedo Inventado, California State University, FullertonFang Tang, Dr. Fang (Daisy) Tang is the Chair and Professor in the Computer Science Department at California State Polytechnic University - Pomona (Cal Poly Pomona). Dr. Tang received her Ph.D. degree in computer science in 2006 from The University of Tennessee - KnProf. Ilmi Yoon Professor Ilmi Yoon, Professor of Computer Science at
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Paper ID #22019Exploring Follow-up Effect of Scaffolding for Creative Problem Solving throughQuestion Prompts in Project-based Community Service LearningProf. Wei Zheng, Jackson State University Dr. Wei Zheng is a professor of Civil Engineering at Jackson State University. He received his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2001 and has over ten years of industrial experience. Since becoming a faculty member at JSU in 2005, he has made continuous efforts to integrate emerging technologies and cognitive skill development into engineering curriculum.Dr. Ye Yuan, Nantong UniversityMs. Jing Yan
Paper ID #32789A Comprehensive Professional Development Program for K-8 Teachers toTeach Computer ScienceProf. Leen-Kiat Soh, University of Nebraska - Lincoln Dr. Leen-Kiat Soh is a Professor at the Computer Science and Engineering Department at the Univer- sity of Nebraska. His research interests are in multiagent systems, computer-aided education, computer science education, and intelligent image analysis. He has applied his research to smart grids, computer- supported collaborative learning, survey informatics, geospatial intelligence, and intelligent systems. He is a member of IEEE, ACM, and AAAI.Dr. Gwen Nugent
Jones, Florida State University Faye R. Jones is a Senior Research Associate at Florida State University’s College of Communication and Information. Her research interests include STEM student outcomes and the exploration of student pathways through institutional research. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Assessing Educational Pathways for Manufacturing in Rural Communities: An Investigation of New and Existing Programs in Northwest FloridaAbstractA subset of manufacturing, the advanced manufacturing (AM) sector is defined using twocriteria: high levels of spending for research and development (R&D) and a high share of STEMjobs within companies. In northwest Florida, AM
engine for essays can be done at the levels of spelling, grammar, and vocabulary, whereas an engine for short answers must address meaning as a primary concern. From the perspective of computational linguistics, an essay scoring engine is primarily, but not exclusively, an application of computational syntax and stylistics, while a short answer scoring engine is primarily an application of computational semantics. The former fields have the more mature technology [25].A particularly promising means of carrying out the semantic analysis required to ultimatelyprovide automatic feedback to students based on their typed responses is to utilize a fuzzy sentencematching approach within a rule-based NLP algorithm [26]. Rule-based approaches
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