in the Department of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech. In this role, she conducts qualitative research to expand and deepen existing literature related to the experiences of civil engineering students who identify as having a disability.Dr. Cassandra J McCall, Virginia Tech Cassandra McCall, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor in the Engineering Education Department at Utah State University. She holds a Ph.D. in Engineering Education from Virginia Tech and M.S. and B.S. degrees in Civil Engineering from the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology. The core of Dr. McCall’s work is to broaden participation in engineering by exploring the intersections of identity, engineering, and culture as students become
Paper ID #32171Gen Z’s Declining Engagement with WE@RIT, a Women in Engineering Pro-gramMs. Kathrine Ehrlich-Scheffer, RIT Kathy has served as Director of Women in Engineering at RIT (WE@RIT) since 2015, and brings a rich array of life experiences to the position. After graduating with a bachelor’s degree in Public Affairs from a women’s college where she learned first-hand the value of a female-centric support network, Kathy made her way to Silicon Valley. There she studied CMOS Mask Layout Design which eventually led her to a position in IT for a semiconductor IP start-up. Fast forward through coast-to-coast moves to
deployed to the students enrolled in eachparticipating course.The survey design and implementation has been mindful of both student and faculty time.Students first select aspects of the course they feel need improvement and are only asked detailedsurvey questions about those areas. Then students respond to multiple select questions to identifywhat is going particularly well in the course, both in class and on assignments. A third block ofquestions, suggested and vetted by Cornell’s Diversity Programs in Engineering Office, asksstudents about feeling included in the course. Using drill-down and multiple select optionsorganizes student's responses, making it more efficient to identify themes in the data. When thestudents' responses have been
Paper ID #242332018 CoNECD - The Collaborative Network for Engineering and ComputingDiversity Conference: Crystal City, Virginia Apr 29Advancing the College of Engineering Strategic Goal of Becoming a NationalModel of Inclusivity and CollaborationMichelle Kay Bothwell, Oregon State University Michelle Bothwell is an Associate Professor of Bioengineering at Oregon State University. Her teaching and research bridge ethics, social justice and engineering with the aim of cultivating an inclusive and socially just engineering profession.Dr. Padma Akkaraju, College of Engineering, Oregon State University Padma Akkaraju is the
Paper ID #18841Gender and Ethnic Differences in Classroom Engagement and KnowledgeBuilding in Engineering Energy Science CoursesDan Haskett, Georgia Southern University Georgia Southern StudentDr. Jonathan C. Hilpert, Georgia Southern University Dr. Jonathan C. Hilpert is an Associate Professor of Educational Psychology in the Department of Cur- riculum Reading and Foundations in the College of Education at Georgia Southern University. His re- search interests include student motivation, engagement, and interactive learning; emergent and self- organizing properties of educational systems; and knowledge construction of
helpfulness of 38 “I feel all engineers can work together and help each other teamwork different skill sets/ in different aspects such as Chemistry, Physics, and thought processes, Biology.” solving complex problems, more “You can discuss and solve problems more efficiently with efficient problem multiple minds working …rather than just one.” solving, learning from others, correcting “We were able to break down a complex problem into very mistakes, and realizing manageable pieces
learner.” (ID 54, File 05) Instructors: Individual (62%): -“Math is the skill that springs to mind first, but there are more skills that define a professional engineer. A “professional” has a level of expertise, responsibility, and accountability that he or she
Paper ID #23155Preliminary Findings of a Phenomenological Study of Middle Eastern Women’sExperiences Studying Engineering in IrelandProf. Shannon Massie Chance, University College London & Dublin Institute of Technology Prof. Shannon Chance is a licensed architect with 18 years of experience teaching three major subjects: ar- chitecture (at Virginia Tech and Hampton University, where she was Professor of Architecture), education (at William and Mary University), and engineering (at Dublin Institute of Technology in Ireland where she serves as Lecturer in the School of Multidisciplinary Technologies). Alongside
Paper ID #21076Professional Development Program for Improving the Diversity of Faculty inElectrical and Computer Engineering (iREDEFINE ECE)Dr. Susan M. Lord, University of San Diego Susan M. Lord received a B.S. from Cornell University and the M.S. and Ph.D. from Stanford University. She is currently Professor and Chair of Electrical Engineering at the University of San Diego. Her teach- ing and research interests include electronics, optoelectronics, materials science, first year engineering courses, feminist and liberative pedagogies, engineering student persistence, and student autonomy. Her research has been
are aware of the potential legal implicationsof some of the participants’ lived experiences and are mindful of the exponential weight ofintersectionality [37] and the analytic tools offered by critical race theory (e.g., foregroundingrace/racism; focusing on racialized, gendered, and classed experiences; using interdisciplinaryunderstandings) to bring the issues to the fore [38].In reviewing the literature, we note that socially-constructed beliefs and subsequent behavior –and vice versa – within engineering lead to cultural mismatch, identity conflict,compartmentalization of work and social lives, diminished job satisfaction, and psychologicalstress [15], [16], [19], [29]. The individual impact of racism can be assessed through
workshops andcommunity of scholars activities, which was created because of the desire to ensure instructorsassigned to teach in a redesigned engineering building opted to make every teaching spaceparticularly adapted for an active learning class. This meant a shift in pedagogical practice, withmuch less regard for lecturing as a significant part of the courses. It was clear that many facultywere not aware the redesign was being done with this change in teaching paradigm in mind. Notbecause instructors had not had opportunities to see what was being considered, but rather thatthe building redesign did not rise to their significant concern given all the other demands on theirtime. However, their concerns heightened as the prospective building, and
Paper ID #25243Impact of Evidence-Based Active Learning Faculty Development on Low-SES Engineering Students’ AchievementDr. Lindy Hamilton Mayled, Arizona State University Lindy Hamilton Mayled is the Director of Instructional Effectiveness for the Fulton Schools of Engineer- ing at Arizona State University. She has a PhD in Psychology of Learning, Education, and Technology from Grand Canyon University. Her research and areas of interest are in improving educational outcomes for STEM students through the integration of active learning and technology-enabled frequent feedback. Prior to her role and Director of Instructional
graduation. Somestudents also described their enjoyment of the camp, particularly the chance to learn from peersand make social contacts with a group of like-minded students.Concluding Remarks The design of E-GIRL curriculum successfully excited female students about engineeringcareers. The structure and activities provided participants with a unique opportunity toexperience a week as an engineering undergraduate student both academically and socially.Interactive lessons and the group project introduced students to engineering problems and currentproblems engineers (hydraulic fracturing) are working to solve. Since female students tend toprefer problem solving with real world and social connections,5 a project focused on hydraulicfracturing, a
Engineering Education to the New Century, by the Committee on the Engineer of 2020, Phase II, Committee on Engineering Education, National Academy of Engineering, 2005.8 Bransford, John D., Brown, Ann L., and Cocking, Rodney R., “How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School,” with additional material from the Committee on Learning Research and Educational Practice, National Academy Press, Washington D.C., 2000. Nation Academy of Sciences9 Popovic, Milica, “Giving Life to Teaching Introductory Electromagnetics: A Three-Year Assessment Plan,” 2004 IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium, pp. 3361–3364, 2004.10 Carlson, Lawrence E., and Sullivan, Jacqueline F., “Hands-on Engineering: Learning by Doing in the
translates into academic, work, and career self-efficacy particularly for women. Student sections of industry clubs and professionalorganizations such as the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, the AmericanSociety of Mechanical Engineers, the Lunar Lion Team at Penn State, and the National Societyof Black Engineers provided the students interviewed here with a heightened sense of academicand work self-efficacy. These organizations afforded students valuable opportunities to meetlike-minded engineering students, learn about important industry news, and serve as mentorswhile providing outlets to employ technical skills taught in the classroom.Although only the full-time engineer data pool was asked specifically about whether their co
Paper ID #16025Targeted Recruitment of Biomedical Engineering Graduate Students: TheInfluence of Recruitment Event ChangesMs. Brittain Sobey, The University of Texas - Austin Brittain Sobey is the Graduate Program Coordinator for the Department of Biomedical Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin. She earned her Master of Education from Boston University.Ms. Margo Cousins, The University of Texas - Austin Ms. Cousins oversees undergraduate and graduate academic advising at the Department Biomedical Engi- neering at The University of Texas at Austin. She directs the office in strategic academic and professional
Paper ID #12041Hex-Oid Habitat Design Challenge: Teaching Engineering Design in a Multi-disciplinary Role-Play ScenarioDr. Robert H. Mayer Jr., U.S. Naval Academy Dr. Mayer is a professor of ocean engineering at the U. S. Naval Academy. He is a past chairman of the Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering Department and currently teaches courses in ocean engineer- ing design, probability & statistics, and underwater search & recovery operations. His research interests relate to the application of statistics, operations research methods and computers to the management, en- gineering and construction of ocean
Paper ID #12728How Dialogue on ’Ingenuity in Nature’ Increases Enthusiasm for Engineer-ing and Science in Traditional Religious CommunitiesDr. Dominic M. Halsmer P.E., Oral Roberts University Dr. Dominic M. Halsmer is a Professor of Engineering and former Dean of the College of Science and Engineering at Oral Roberts University. He also serves as the Director of the Center for Faith and Learn- ing at ORU. He has been teaching science and engineering courses there for 23 years, and is a registered Professional Engineer in the State of Oklahoma. He received BS and MS Degrees in Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering
the common fundamentals and practices thatdefine the theory and effective practice of engineering, technology, and science, but alsocommunicate these principles in an academic forum. With this in mind, a baccalaureatedegree program in Design Engineering was proposed in 2004. Subsequent modificationsto it were made in 2008, 2010, and 2012 based on assessment outcomes.Since the proposal of this original program, there has been an increase in demand forqualified manufacturing design engineering professionals. This is because this programoffers practical training in the area of manufacturing design engineering. Unlike atraditional Mechanical Engineering program, this program emphasizes those technicalskills that would build on each student’s
,attended the meeting late and ill prepared, etc.5. ConclusionThis paper presents a study that compares the team effectiveness between globally distributedand locally distributed engineering teams that are built upon the engineering classes. The resultshows that the locally distributed teams significantly outperformed the globally distributed teamsin terms of the measures of utilization of resources, experimentation/creativity, and evaluation ofteam functions. Such results can be used for instructors to better prepare student’s mind in termsof how to succeed in a distributed teams as individuals and how to mingle all team memberstowards a more functional team. With respect to future works of this study, together with afollow up assessment of every
engineers, and engage the community as service-minded leaders. Generally, thesestudents came to SPU from low-income households, underrepresented populations, and atypicalbackgrounds. By examining our body of ECASE scholars in this paper, we aim to expandperceptions about who could, who would, and who does succeed in earning the rigorousundergraduate electrical engineering degree.This paper includes a discussion of the lessons learned from interacting closely with 49 ECASEscholarship recipients and supporting them in an adaptive manner to address their individualneeds. The paper provides composite illustrations of the range of their backgrounds and uniquesituations. It highlights the challenges faced by these students during matriculation at SPU
Paper ID #17286Major Observations from a Specialized REU Program for Engineering Stu-dents with ADHDDr. Arash Esmaili Zaghi P.E., University of Connecticut Dr. Arash E. Zaghi received his PhD in Civil Engineering from the University of Nevada, Reno, where he worked on the seismic behavior of novel bridge column and connection details. After graduating, he stayed with UNR as a Research Scientist to overlook two major research projects involving system-level shake table experiments. In 2011, Dr. Zaghi joined the Department of Civil and Environmental Engi- neering at University of Connecticut as an Assistant Professor. His
technical versus non-technical course choiceallocations. Perhaps an unstated bias exists that choice equates to less “rigor,” and so theunintended message to students of differential choice in technical versus non-technicalcoursework may be that knowledge and courses in non-technical subjects are comparativelyunimportant. Values are inherent in engineering design; so just as the technical content of anengineering program is (hopefully) carefully scaffolded, “the same intentionality and evaluationshould be undertaken for the liberal component of a student’s undergraduate experience.”6Though some choice is necessary, too much choice can be detrimental;29 thus, providing choicein a balanced manner is essential. Engineering educators must be mindful
Paper ID #17192Utilizing an Innovative Engineering Skills Curriculum and Technology to Ex-pand Classroom Learning in Low-Resource SettingsMr. Dhinesh Balaji Radhakrishnan, Purdue University Dhinesh Radhakrishnan is a doctoralstudent in the School of Engineering Education at Purdue University. His research includes utilization of technology in education, and socially constructed education in low- resource settings. His current work is on developing engineering skills curriculum for out-of-school youth in Africa utilizing digital learning materials. He is the Global Student Forum Chair for 2016 in SPEED. He is also the
Paper ID #16169Work in Progress: Developing a Quantitative Instrument for Measuring Un-dergraduate Engineering Students’ Future Time PerspectivesCatherine McGough, Clemson University Catherine McGough is currently a graduate research assistant in Engineering and Science Education at Clemson University. She obtained her B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Clemson University in 2014. Her research interests are in undergraduate engineering student motivations and undergraduate engineer- ing problem solving skill development and strategies.Adam Kirn, University of Nevada, Reno Adam Kirn is an Assistant Professor of
sustainability componentsOne of the main objectives of the development of K-12 outreach activities via service learningexperiences was to provide a sustainable way to promote active CPP engineering studentparticipation in the education and motivation of the K-12 community. The sustainability of theprogram was achieved developing the curriculum model shown in Figure 1.Sustainability component 1-The service learning instructional model provided academic credit tostudents(this provided time in students’ schedules to engage in the creation, modification andfurther implementation of the hands-on outreach activities while keeping in mind thecharacteristics of the K-12 partner). The course was officially designated as a service learningcourse, which added all
Paper ID #25851NSF S-STEM: Transfer Success Co-Design for Engineering Disciplines (Tran-SCEnD)Dr. Rachel McCord, University of Tennessee, Knoxville Rachel McCord is a a Lecturer and Research Assistant Professor in the Engineering Fundamentals Divi- sion at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. She received her Ph.D. in Engineering Education from Virginia Tech. Her research interests include the impact of metacognitive and self-regulated learning development on engineering student success, particularly in the first year.Dr. David J. Keffer, University of Tennessee, Knoxville David Keffer received his B.S. in Chemical
Engineering and Computer Science Projectexpands these practices at Wright College and extends the collaboration to the CCC system. Theacademic departments, the student support services and the administration, collaborate to recruit,retain and transfer students. Through this Project, Wright College established an EngineeringCenter, a place where students build their community of practice (CoP), network, support eachother both academically and professionally, and develop Professional Identity. Students at theEngineering Center find support from like-minded students, all working together to be successfulin the major. During the first semester of the project, the Engineering Center hosted 176 uniqueengineering students (EP, Bridge, IIT and non-pathway
Paper ID #29993Optimizing Student-Faculty Rapport for the Engineering Classrooms:Dimensioning the Behaviors That MatterDr. Fethiye Ozis P.E., Northern Arizona University Dr. Fethiye ”Faith” Ozis is a lecturer in the civil and environmental engineering department at Northern Arizona University. Dr. Ozis holds a B.S. in environmental engineering from the Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey and a Ph.D. from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. She is a licensed Professional Engineer, Environmental, in Arizona. Dr. Ozis is an ExCEEd fellow, and enjoys every dimension of being an engineering educator
to remain anengineering student next semester?, How likely are you to complete your engineering degree?,and Explain your answers for the two previous questions. The averages calculated from the 5-point Likert-scale questions did not reveal any trends nor statistical significance, with all groupmeans in the narrow range of 4.04-4.64. The students who increased their response between thepre and post surveys often cited reasons related to enjoyment: “I am truly enjoying and interestedin engineering” and “I enjoyed this course and learned a lot through it.” Students who loweredtheir response between the pre and post survey often cited challenges with math or other courses:“My mind isn't mathematically inclined” and “My classes right now are very