the program and encourage faculty across the country to adopt our modelof embedding computing experiences in lower division courses.IntroductionAdvancements in digital technology have radically changed our daily lives and routines, from theway we educate students and navigate traffic to how we treat patients and collaborate withcoworkers. This infusion of technology brings with it an increased need for interdisciplinaryprofessionals with both domain knowledge and computing skills. Including more women andindividuals from historically marginalized communities will further diversify and grow thedigital workforce to meet this increased need. As interdisciplinary computing jobs command anaverage 14% salary premium [1], an increasingly diverse
at three U.S.institutions have collaborated as part of the National Science Foundation's InternationalExperience for Students (IRES) Site Track-1 project to develop a program to improve the globalcompetencies of undergraduate engineering students through a 6-week summer internationalresearch training program in collaboration with Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS (UTP),Malaysia focusing on applications of data science and artificial intelligence to solve energy andrelated infrastructure problems. This paper presents a case study of a collaborative IRES programfocusing on implementation challenges stemming from the pandemic and university policies andpractices. The COVID-19 pandemic has transformed/disrupted university and workplaceactivities
quantitative description of students’ community and belonging at IRE.1.1 Iron Range EngineeringIRE students complete lower-division coursework at community colleges around the nation [1]. Thenstudents join IRE for one semester on campus for preparation focused on developing students’professional, design, and technical skills. After this first semester, students earn their degree whileworking in a co-op and earning an engineering salary (average $21.5k per semester). Students remain fulltime students through the co-op based learning format by taking 1-credit hour technical competencies anddesign, seminar, and professionalism coursework, and earn course credit for coursework related to theirvaluable co-op experience by applying and further developing
of educationaltools for teaching computational thinking. The entire solution will be used in summer camptraining to teach programming skills to a young audience in Colombia. New projects havederived from the results, like the development of instructional guides for practices that use thesolution, and the development of enhanced versions that can reduce the costs of production andintroduce wireless communication.I. IntroductionIn “The Future of Jobs Report 2020” [1], the world economic forum (WEF) built a list of tenskills that will be most required in jobs by 2025, one of them being “technology design andprogramming”. Having technological skills is becoming crucial to find better job opportunities indifferent domains, but that poses a
expected withother variables in the dataset.IntroductionEngineering, along with other STEM fields, remains slow to design learning environments thatsupport minoritized students and their interests in or talents for STEM work. This troublesomediversity issue takes shape through participation barriers that filter out promising contributions tosolving some of society’s most complex problems [1]. Importantly, people from minoritizedbackgrounds broaden the variety of perspectives working on these pressing issues and the STEMworkforce benefits from their participation [2]. Newer lines of research are revealing how sexualorientation and different gender identities shape participation in STEM [3], adding to theimportance of understanding and counteracting
understandings of stress andparticipants’ decisions to depart. The results are transformative in gaining insight for themonitoring and understanding attrition in higher education.Introduction, Literature Review, and Theoretical FramingThe rate of attrition in engineering doctoral programs is substantial, with 44% of women and 36%of men leaving their Ph.D. programs, according to the Council of Graduate Schools [1]. Theattrition across disciplines and in the US has received attention due to heightened competitivenesswithin global higher education [2]. Several crises, including financial/economic crises, Covid-19,and systemic racism (the combination of Covid-19 and racism being called the ‘dual pandemic’[3]) together have decreased students’ certainty
elements (i.e., peers, instructor, and in-class instruction) were discussed in 55% of thereflections as positive “surroundings.” Within the classroom ecosystem, feelings about positiveCoI “surroundings” balanced 54% of respondents who discussed the physical room attributes asnon-supportive to learning. Interestingly, when students identified their CoI as a type ofsurrounding, they less-frequently identified physical attributes of the classroom as non-supportive.Thus, the presence of a Community of Inquiry may have diminished the perception or impact ofphysical room features. Overall, our results preliminarily suggest the positive influence that aninteractive flipped classroom structure can have on students’ perceptions of their “surroundings.”1
pursuing higher education, particularly in demanding STEM majors, is notsimple. Some young people in lower socio-economic status (SES) households have many morethings to consider than ‘am I qualified?’ Their decisions generally involve other family membersand home responsibilities [1] [2]. To work through these considerations and to prepare for anacademically demanding collegiate major, and then be denied admission into it at their local stateinstitution can be emotionally crushing [3] [4]. It is particularly upsetting when it is known thattraditional engineering admissions metrics discriminate against otherwise qualified students fromchallenged backgrounds [5] [6]. Researchers at Purdue University attempted to design analternative means of
question. The results suggest that nestedness is linearly proportional tousage, both increases and decreases. As such, tracking the nestedness of a makespace over timecan serve as a warning that unintended restrictions are in place, intentional restrictions and/orpolicies may be too severe, or whether a space has effectively recovered from temporaryrestrictions.Introduction and BackgroundEngineering makerspaces in academic settings are becoming significantly more common asresearch continues to hail their benefits for engineering education [1-4]. Network modeling ofthe spaces have successfully identified critical tools within the space, however the effects oflarge-scale events affecting usage over time has not yet been explored[4]. The importance
kitchen appliance), and the “design” ofthe students’ academic career pathways. The purpose of this paper is to present the progress onthe project supported by NSF award 2225247.The main objective of this project is to help freshman engineering students develop problem-solving skills that can be applied to their academic success. The college readiness, and hence theacademic success of incoming students at UTRGV College of Engineering and ComputerScience (CECS) needs to be improved. Statistics, shown in Table 1, indicate low levels ofretention and graduation rates particularly for CECS.Table 1. UTRGV College of Engineering and Computer Science First Year Full Time Freshman 1st Year Retention Rate
Higher Education.IntroductionThe NSF supported NYC Louis Stokes Alliance (NYC LSAMP) at CUNY has, since itsinception in November 1992, been at the forefront of a concentrated effort to substantiallyincrease the number of underrepresented minority students (African-Americans, Hispanics,Native Americans and Native Pacific Islanders), who pursue and graduate with BaccalaureateDegrees in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM). Since inception inNovember 1992 (through 2018), over 18,000 baccalaureate degrees have been awarded tounderrepresented minority students in CUNY. The campus based NYC LSAMP ActivityCoordinators (ACs) served a critical role in the LSAMP from inception [1].At every participating campus of the NYC LSAMP, the AC
Experiences for Undergraduates (REU)program in a chemical engineering department at a large, Research 1 (R1) university. In additionto learning technical research skills through the REU program, REU administrators hoped topromote and assess a host of educational and psychosocial skills, including the interest andmotivation for participating in undergraduate research, the likelihood of attending graduateschool, engineering growth mindset, sense of belonging, and creative identity. To measure anypotential changes in participants in these areas from before to after participating in the REU,evaluators conducted both pre- and post-surveys and individual interviews with the participants.With the mentioned host of learning outcomes associated with
, Dr. Jośe Muñoz, and Lisa BerdieIntroduction The authors of this paper hosted a 2-day conference that brought a group of Latiné/x/a/ocontingent faculty from the California State University (CSU) system together to betterunderstand the barriers they face in their professional roles and responsibilities while alsoidentifying assets they bring to the classroom and institutions. Contingent faculty face mountingand compounding barriers that have devastating effects, not only on the faculty, but also thestudents they serve since a majority of contingent faculty are hired to teach first-generation,working class, and students of color [1]. This paper seeks to synthesize a follow-up to theconference in where five STEM deans within CSU system
harrowing for gender minority (GM, e.g.,transgender, gender nonbinary) students [1]–[8]. The STEM climate is important to address dueto its likely impact on the lower persistence of sexual and gender minority (SGM) students [9]–[12]. Professional STEM societies provide students with a range of resources that help thempersist in STEM [13]. Specific societies created to serve LGBTQIA+ STEM students, such asoSTEM, have been shown to help students manage their identities in STEM in the face ofunwelcoming STEM climates. At the same time, these societies may offer less professional andacademic resources and prioritize identity management [4], [14], [15]. Because the impacts ofprofessional society participation may be different for gender minority
students’ learning experience as well as their overall learning outcomes.Introduction and BackgroundProject-Based Learning (PBL) is a learner-centered pedagogical approach used to engagestudents in authentic projects [1]. In PBL, students work collaboratively or individually toaccomplish the project tasks that require content knowledge and skills and produce a product toshow their knowledge of the content [2]. The assignments in PBL require students to acquire andapply information, concepts, and principles and they have the potential to improve students’competence in thinking (learning and metacognition) [3]. Moreover, working on real-worldprojects helps students realize the impact of those projects, which in turn, gives them a sense ofagency and
mentors, and their motivations and/or persistence. The first part of her career was spent designing residential split system HVAC equipment and Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) unitsfor Trane in Tyler, TX. Kristin has taught about design, engineering, and manufacturing to students of all ages in various places including to preschoolers via Schaefer Engineering’s STEM outreach, to senior mechanical engineering undergraduates at TAMU, to eighth graders in KatyISD at Beckendorff Junior High, and to freshmen mixed major undergraduates at UH. Kristin is also the mom of one smart teenage boy whose journey through learning differences and Type 1 Diabetes (T1D) has enabled her to connect with and support students with a broad spectrum
. Overall, this research and case study contribute to the attention needed toaddress equity, inclusion, and representation challenges of black women in CS by highlightingissues faced when trying to develop and establish themselves in the field.1. IntroductionThe field of computer science (CS) has grown rapidly in recent years. Despite this progress,disparities in the industry persist, particularly for individuals from underrepresented groups. Forinstance, black women, who pursue CS as a career choice, experience significantunderrepresentation in the field. This underrepresentation is also reflected in the percentages ofblack women who are awarded Bachelor’s, Master’s, or their Doctorate in CS and related fields[12]. By examining challenges faced by
Career Theory StudyAbstractThe present paper assessed the attributes that could influence career decisions amongundergraduate engineering students in Singapore. The social cognitive career theory (SCCT)was employed as the theoretical guideline for the investigation. This paper was directed bythree main research questions: (1) How do self-efficacy (SE), outcome expectation (OE),social support (SS), barriers (BR), and interests (IN) affect career decisions amongengineering students? (2) How do SS, OE, SS, BR, IN, and career goals (CG) correlate? (3)Are there any differences in the psychological factors between freshmen and seniorundergraduate students? 27 participants were recruited from an internationally recognizedresearch institution in
literature as ‘cultural shock,’ students have difficulties adjusting tovarious academic climates due to the lack of culturally relevant knowledge and skills [9]. In thisregard, Ollendick and King recorded a high prevalence of anxiety disorders among Americanyouth [13]. Blazer et al. and Robins et al. reported higher phobia and agoraphobia rates particularlyin African Americans [4], [16]. Barlow and Bell identified anxiety syndromes such as Pa-Leng,Koro, Nervous, and Taijin Kyofusho in assorted cultures [2], [3].Abdi et al. further revealed that GPA and standardized testing affect long-term anxiety and self-efficacy [1]. According to Chapell and Blanding, test anxiety effectuates when being preoccupiedby the possibility of negative score outcomes [5
strategies for female students to broaden theirparticipation in computing.As a part of the study, we collected data on the introductory course sequence, CS1 Introductionto Programming I, CS2 Introduction to Programming II, and CS3 Programming with DataStructure. The data included quasi-cohort course outcomes, quasi-cohort persistence, retentiongraduation, day 1 to census day enrollment, completion by transfer status, outcomes by major,and student support. In addition, to understand in-depth the level of preparedness and the level ofsatisfaction of women and minority students in computing, we also collected additional data.This effort included collecting the results of midterm exams, quizzes, course projects,assignments, and the final exam from CS1
the standard in the engineering professoriatedue to the underrepresentation of senior and emeriti faculty of color in engineering academia.Thus, this intrinsic case study explores the perspectives of 16 mentees and 14 mentors on thekeys to successful cross-race mentoring. Participant interviews were analyzed inductively andresulted in three themes: (1) self-awareness and empathy create trusting, honest conversations;(2) mentee career advancement must be core to the relationship; and (3) a history of racialallyship from the mentor is required. These findings reveal the importance of the IMPACTmentoring program creating successful mentoring matches in which mentees and mentorsdemonstrate self-awareness and empathy, focus on mentee career
Engineering Analysis course at the Engineering Technology (ET)department in the University of Houston – Downtown (UHD). Furthermore, to the best of theauthors’ knowledge, this is the first reported work where bayou water is used for powerproduction which is an inexpensive way to produce power.Keywords: Power, Bayou, Houston, Turbine, No head.1. Introduction: For most of the modern age, people have been getting most of the energy from coal, gas, andother types of fossil fuels. While people have used other forms of power generation, there hasbeen a substantial movement to find and use other forms of power generation where windturbines being the most well-known example. This work looks for alternate power generationthat has led to look at what
success seminars. This paper will share theexperience of the Center’s first year. Communication was a huge component of the EngineeringSuccess Center’s effort due to the wide distribution of students across learning modalities andphysical locations. Analysis of effective means of student engagement and the impact ofattendance on presentations/seminars due to remote offerings will be discussed. Tutoring wasoffered as a hybrid option to broaden the range of students participating and engaging with theservice. This paper emphasizes the lessons learned and the external evaluation conducted at theend of the Center’s first semester.1. IntroductionIn 2021, San Francisco State University was awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF)Hispanic
awarded annually [1]. The percentage of STEM bachelor’s degrees awarded tofemale students is 37.4% compared to their male counterparts, who constitute 62.6% of studentsearning degrees. Furthermore, only 6.5% of these degrees were awarded to Black students, and12.3% were awarded to Hispanic students. An increase in citations and publications citing theterm “STEM Outreach” (Figure 1) is evidence of interest in outreach within academia. Asoutreach programs are further developed for the purpose of early engagement for students fromgroups underrepresented in engineering, it is important for researchers to understand how toadapt research to outreach for students to create positive learning experiences.Figure 1. Results from a Web of Science citation
they observe unsafe practices, as they might have been conditionedto rely on authority figures (instructor or TA) in lab-courses to monitor and verbally remindstudents to use proper safety procedures and practices.IntroductionSince the tragic lab incident at UCLA in 2008 that resulted in the death of a graduate student, the2010 explosion at Texas Tech University that injured a graduate student and a professor, andseveral high-profile accidents in academic laboratories, academic lab safety has gainedconsiderable attention [1]. Since these high-profile incidents, academic lab safety, specificallychemical lab safety, has spurred a number of publications, programs, and risk managementguidelines and policies on academic lab safety and promoting
mechanical property test data, then calculated, analyzed andcompared their experimental and analytical property results, and discussed their findingsin their lab reports.Project DetailsFour pure (99.9% purity) aluminum tensile test specimens were sand cast using a matchplate in the lab and were subjected to hardness and tensile tests before and after coldrolling. The specimens’ patterns were 3D-printed ABS parts and mounted on the side ofan aluminum plate. The dimensions of the pattern follow the subsize specimen fromASTM E8M4, as shown in figure 1: Figure 1: Dimensions of the tensile test specimensEach group of students produced four tensile specimens by sand casting. Figures 2 and 3show the sand cast molds and match plates. The
Spanish term for “remix”- encompasses the combination,manipulation and mixing of music or other cultural products in the creation of something new[1]. This idea also alludes directly to the concept of hybridization, which lies at the core ofLatinidad and the essence of Latin culture, both musically [2] and culturally [3]. Remixing isconsidered not only a contemporary art form that cuts across multiple creative areas of the digitalrealm [1], but also an educational tool that provides a culturally authentic and creative form ofengagement for students [4]. The benefits of remixing as an educational approach were central tothe philosophy behind the creation of EarSketch, a music mixing software platform andeducational curriculum [5]. EarSketch
for researchto consider nuanced distinctions within STEM fields to assist research to practice transitions.Competition in securing jobs upon graduation is expected to continue, including for engineeringpositions. In fact, even in a market of high demand for STEM graduates, employers needcandidates that display the skills, interests, and readiness to be successful employees.A gap remains in understanding how prepared students feel and how they improve theirpreparedness to obtain their preferred FPAG, in particular within a specific discipline under theSTEM domain. To explore this gap, we sought to answer these research questions:1) What are students’ self-rated perceptions of preparedness for their preferred FPAG and howdo they compare to
specific number of points.This challenge was the catalyst to look for new methods of grading, though there were other drawbacks ofthe quality based grading that we also wished to overcome. Traditional grading has been shown topropagate biased and colonial structures [1]. The focus on single submission evaluations like examscaused a great deal of anxiety among students of all skill levels and contributed to greater errors andstereotype threat [2]. Finally, assigning a one-dimensional score to a student's work is necessarilysubjective and invites application of unconscious and conscious biases in grading. While these otherdrawbacks existed prior to the pandemic, their importance was often overlooked or underestimated.Labor-based grading had already
, Student Success, Machine LearningIntroductionAcademic institutions have always cared about and searched for ways to improve student successand retention. With the recent decline in student enrollment and retention rates nationally,improving student performance and completion rates has become an important objective forinstitutions [1]. One of the major changes City University of New York (CUNY) undertook wasto end offerings of traditional remedial courses as the research showed they hindered studentprogress toward their degree [2].College Algebra is a gateway course for STEM majors at the Queensborough CommunityCollege of City University of New York (CUNY) with high enrollment but low passing rates.While there have been initiatives constantly