engineering classrooms. Our work was informed by the effortsaround personal development and discovery and personal inventory where students examine theirvalues and personal and career goals [11].Teaching Vocation in User Centered DesignOur first foray into integrating vocational education into the curriculum has been in User-CenteredDesign, a course taken by all engineering students in their second or third semester in college.This course focuses on the engineering design process with an emphasis on users. Unique to ourversion of user-centered design is that interwoven throughout the semester are issues of diversity,inclusion, and social justice. We highlight the importance of unequal power relationships,particularly relating to how engineers are
fluidity and fuller engagement of humandimensions for maximum effectiveness, and 2) Management to provide needed consistency,structure, and synchronization. A variety of leadership and management topics can beintroduced to engineering students by using experiential learning activities during the course ofstudy. Engineering students can explore various areas such as leadership, communication,negotiation process, global awareness, and workforce diversity. “Experiential learning occurs asa person engages in an activity, looks back at the activity critically, abstracts some useful insightfrom the analysis, and puts the result to work in another situation. It is an inductive process,proceeding from observation rather than from a priori “truth”. The
members.Results have shown an increase in retention of STEM majors due to active involvement inresearch. These experiences have introduced students to academic research and professionalismwithin their disciplines through mentoring from faculty members and graduate students. Industryand business professionals are engaged in the presentations for the students at professionalorganization conferences and student conferences where many industry members provideopportunities for students to interview for summer internships and future employment.Inclusion of academic and summer undergraduate research experiences provided opportunitiesfor students to experience the application of their knowledge to real-life situations and to seewhat graduate school could offer
where students are accustomed to being away from home.The Computer Systems Department at FSC offers two computing programs, namely ComputerProgramming and Information Systems (CPIS), that has existed for over twenty years, andComputer Science (CS), launched in fall 2021. The enrollment has almost doubled, reaching 677at its peak in fall 2022 over the last decade, but the percentage of women hovers between 8-15%(Figure 1). There was a slight spike in the percentage of women enrollment in the introductorysemester of the CS program; however, that has since smoothed. In spring 2020, two tenuredwomen faculty members conducted an analysis of the FSC College activities and initiatives,albeit not sustainable due to assorted reasons, taken by the
value insystematically creating one’s portfolio of leadership experiences and self-tracking their owndevelopment. The detailed comparison of one’s leadership attributes in comparison with theirpeers is also valuable in leading discussions with faculty members or mentors, which could alsohelp to normalize any discouragement a student’s who compares poorly to her/ his peers mightfeel after taking the survey. The methodology described in this paper extends the utility of the survey instrumentcreated by Ahn et al.1, which has thus far been used in gaining insights into the general trends ofthe experiences and observables outcomes of undergraduate engineering students, by providingthem with a personalized assessment of their skillset and
the battlegrounds in America for the AffirmativeAction and Diversity Doctrines. In most cases, higher education has taken the lead to diversifythe student body, and, to a lesser extent, its faculty and staff. Still it is clear and evident that moreneeds to be done to change our demographics and achieve full representation for all Americans.This point will be discussed later in the paper.The intent of this paper is to explore new paradigms in higher education that will start a nationaldebate and dialogue about implementing a holistic diversity model that progressive corporations,colleges and universities will deploy to recruit, retain and promote people of all ethnic groups,achieve gender balance and provide opportunities to persons with
graduate studies; 2) to increase the number ofwomen and minority students from underrepresented groups who engage in security research andprovide support for them to become security researchers; 3) to provide research opportunities ina high-demand area to those who would otherwise have no access to research facilities; and 4) toincrease awareness of, and approaches to, challenging problems of security in mobile devicesand networks. We shared our experience of student recruitment, faculty mentor support, researchactivity planning and logistics of running an REU site at high living cost metropolitan area. Theoutcome and success stories of students’ accomplishments are outlined in this article.IntroductionAs more smartphones, tablets and other mobile
, Tamesue, Asahi, & Ishikawa, 2015), self-regulated learning and past and present academic achievements (Wolters & Hussain, 2015). Theperseverance of effort subdimension of grit has also been found to strongly predict academicadjustment, college grade point average, college satisfaction, sense of belonging, faculty-studentinteractions, students’ intent to persist, and is negatively related to students’ intent to changemajors (Bowman, Hill, Denson, & Bronkema, 2015). While the consistency of interestsubdimension was found to predict career changes in adults (Duckworth & Quinn, 2009;Bowman et al., 2015). The motivation to explore the impact of the grit construct on students’learning outcomes in engineering school stems from the fact
identifiable discernable milestones. Figure 1. Developmental stages of Self-Authorship (after [9]).Without an intentional intervention, most undergraduate students — and even college graduates— define themselves through external formulas, rather than self-authoring their beliefs [11] -[15] [9] [6]. However, evidence shows that with appropriate support, this can be changed. Thereare several types of experiences that produce higher degrees of self-authorship amongundergraduates [16] [17]. These include experiencing dissonance in academic settings, beingchallenged to evaluate knowledge claims and take ownership of beliefs, encountering diverseperspectives, and addressing tragedy or complex personal relationships. Also essential is
holistic mentorship that extends beyondcurricular questions and purely academic concerns. In addition to traditional academic advising,360 Coaching is designed to also support students should they encounter life challenges as theytransition to university life – broader mentoring for our first-year students as they begindiscovering their individual paths to lifelong personal fulfillment.Prior to implementing this advising model, first-year students were assigned engineering facultyadvisors from the departments in an ad-hoc manner, with slight preference toward matchingstudents with a faculty member in the department that they indicated as their first interest inmajor in prior to matriculation. (Our internal data has shown that approximately 50% of
Code.org CS curriculum intheir classes and that they know that their voices are valued in the work of the RPP. Teachers have takenthe initiative in bringing CS to their students, and knowing that involving parents is so important for theirstudents, teachers from two schools even submitted proposals last fall to provide an evening event forstudents and their families in spring. The events will increase the awareness of CS career opportunities toparents/community members by showcasing the connections between CS and the 16 career clusters andhow they will allow students to say in their home state. Both events will broadcast the district’s commitmentto strengthening CS education. One event will be a collaboration with the business community that
engineering technology for elementary students Abstract Mentoring is being prevalently used in higher education. Traditionally, these programsare unidirectional that includes forward knowledge transfer. The internal mechanism of howto form an effective mentoring relationship between mentors and mentees is unclear. This pilotstudy focused on Person-Environment (P-E) fit perspective and zeroed in on how the mentor-mentee relationship affect mentees’ self-efficacy. We conducted semi-structured interviews withthree mentees to explore how P-E fit affected their self-efficacy. This qualitative study is a pilotstudy, future data collection and analysis will continue
practicing engineer in industry,government, or non-profit organization. We also explored if being active in engineering clubs orprograms for women and/or minority students played a role in their career planning. Whenwomen and underrepresented minority students actively participated in these types ofengineering clubs or programs, they were, indeed, more likely to plan to work in engineering, butthey were also more likely to expect to focus on management or sales rather than on becomingpracticing engineers. After two engineering faculty members prominent in promoting a more diverse studentbody commented on these findings, the floor was opened for a discussion of the findings andtheir implications for engineering and engineering education
the program is new, regional campuses had to explore outreach strategies and attractstudents to the major. One of the strategies was to have an overlap between engineering andengineering technology programs for the first year. This overlap of coursework would allowcampuses to retain students and offer opportunity for students to explore engineering technologymajor and make an informed decision on which educational path to take. First-year courses suchas physics, fundamentals of engineering and general education courses remain same forengineering and engineering technology students. In addition to these courses, new courses weredeveloped to teach introductory topics in engineering technology in the first year. Thecurriculum is shared with the
. Phillips was a faculty member and Chair for DVU’s Biomedical Engineering Technology Program where he mentored senior projects, and taught biomedical, electronics, and basic science courses. In addition, he developed curriculum and courses in these subject matters. Before joining DVU, Dr. Phillips was a Faculty Associate at Arizona State Uni- versity (ASU) for the Bioengineering Department, where he taught and assisted in the development of biomedical engineering courses and mentored student capstone projects. He holds a PhD and Master’s degree in Bioengineering from Arizona State University and a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois. Before entering into a career of higher learning
to be resolved. In addition, once programs were developed andapproved both locally and at the state level, it was up to the institute to promote the curriculumand obtain a student body.Initial Institute DevelopmentAs was stated, in 2008, the University started an academic strategic planning initiative whichlooked at academic offerings and departments from across the university. One of the outcomes ofthis undertaking was the ability of groups of faculty and/or administrators to propose new areaswhich represented new of underrepresented areas of study that need to be strengthened. As such,an interdisciplinary group of faculty members suggested that NIU needs to strengthen its courseofferings and degree structure in the areas of energy and the
, SCCT emphasizes the roleof other personal, contextual, and learning variables (e.g., gender, race or ethnicity, ability, socialsupport, external barriers) that can help shape career trajectories, including the means to remediateany disadvantages from being under-represented in particular occupations.24 More recently, Lentand his colleagues have added the construct of educational and vocational satisfaction as acontributor to structural models examining the pathways between self-efficacy and interests andpersistence intentions.25 Page 24.1202.5SCCT theory has made an impact on models attempting to explain the withdrawal of students
that examination is to see howwell students are able to make informed decisions to stay or go in their study of engineering.Students need a welcoming environment that gives them the information they need, and theyneed learning experiences that will enable them to build their engineering knowledge andidentity as an engineer with the skills needed to succeed in the global engineering work world.Our data show that often the undergraduate experience differs greatly for different groups suchas men, women, and underrepresented minorities. The engineering education community,whether policy-makers, faculty, or researchers, must not only recognize the wide variety ofstudent pathways to an engineering degree but also encourage and support these multiple
changes we must make to address these barriers.Guided by the the k2i academy Inclusive Design Framework (Reference Figure 1) (Cole,Goodyer, & Ironside, 2022), the Bringing STEM to Life: Work-Integrated Learning programwas designed to integrate inclusive approaches to both programmatic and operational designthat supports high school students who have opted out of STEM pathways. Over the past fouryears, this program has evolved over 5 iterations to the current model. The program wasintentionally designed to address critical system barriers to access and enable students whohave otherwise opted out of STEM career pathways to reconnect into future possibilities.This paper seeks to provide an overview of the design of the program and explore the
using a concise form. The authors and aprogram director of the granting agency review the proposals received to select a developer foreach module. The developers are required to undergo formal training on how to design andconstruct online learning modules that are highly interactive and of high quality. The Office ofeLearning at UNH provides the necessary training through a 3-week online course to both UNHfaculty and to faculty at other institutions. The modules are designed for course instructors todeploy in an asynchronous mode. Exercises and assessment of student learning are included ineach online module. The online modules will be integrated into the courses identified in Table 1and students will be required to complete them as part of
Interest Levels of Male versus Female Students going into STEM Fields (Evaluation)IntroductionThe fields of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics, also known as STEM, haveexperienced rapid growth in terms of their importance and the demand for qualified graduates[1]. STEM careers provide an essential driving force behind new innovations and growth in theUnited States. STEM fields have seen a job growth rate three times that of non-STEM careers,and are continuing to grow [2]. Despite efforts to increase the number of STEM graduates, TheUnited States is struggling to supply enough qualified workers to fulfill these demands. TheUnited States is facing a problem as students’ interest, and therefore literacy in STEM has
engineering through a two-week residential summer camp. The Summer Engineering Instituteprovides participants an insight into the engineering profession and the engineering educationalsystem through a combination of lectures, hands-on laboratory activities, field trips, workshops,panels, and projects. Among the strategies employed in developing the program are emphasizingall the major fields of engineering and the various paths to an engineering career, including therole of community colleges; targeting first generation students and underrepresented minorities;collaborating with high school faculty and staff through a nomination process to identify andselect potential students; collaboration among community college and university faculty indeveloping
teachers: The event provides an opportunity for faculty Faculty Sponsor sponsor to interact with high school teachers. Such interaction leads to exploration of possible collaborations. In the past the faculty sponsor has submitted a proposal to the National Science Foundation with participating high schools as implementation partners. Personal gratification: Meeting students who may consider the computing field as their career choice and discussing software engineering practices with them and their teachers provides a personal gratification. Host Institution Publicity
topInformation school that has been dedicated to training new librarians since 1928. The authorswill present their experience working with student librarians at the engineering library, which onseveral occasions has led to graduate student workers who return for full-time professionalpositions – a testament to the mutual benefits of the relationship.The authors will also discuss the ongoing mentoring of the newest engineering librarians on theirteam. These efforts include invitations to meetings with engineering faculty to facilitatenetworking, involvement in a variety of decision making processes, and careful training for ahost of new responsibilities. The team’s more experienced librarians impart their expertise andact as coach and counsellor
Officer and the Construction Officer. In this latter capacity, she was the Contracting Officer’s Technical Representative (COTR) as well as Civil Engineering Project Manager for the Academy’s $5.2 million dollar construction program. In 2003, she was selected for graduate school and attended the University of Texas, Austin where she earned a M.S.C.E with an emphasis on Construction Engineering and Project Management. In December 2004, she joined the USCGA faculty as an Instructor. During her time at the Academy, she has been the advisor for both the American Society of Civil Engineering and Society of American Military Engineers student chapters, a member of the SUPT Gender Policy Group, and worked with CGA Admissions
Poly PomonaMechanical Engineering Department’s YouTube Channel as an open educational resource [23].The title, length, and description of each episode are listed below: • Episode 1, What’s it like to be an early career engineer? (1 hr, 12 min) Two former mechanical engineering students from Cal Poly Pomona discuss their experiences working in industry during the past four years • Episode 2, What is Civil Engineering? (38 min) Two Cal Poly Pomona civil engineering faculty members discuss fundamental information about their discipline and the career paths available to civil engineers • Episode 3, What’s it like to be an engineering instructor? (1 hr, 21 min) Two engineering faculty members discuss their path to
student teams, such as FSAE, are there to helpstudents gain skills that will help them seek employment upon graduation. Ensuring that oursoftware support program not only aids in preparing students for competition, but as well as fortheir future careers, is an important consideration.LimitationsAs industry, we do not have a formal Institution Review Board (IRB) like universities do. Thishas led to limitations in the type of research we can conduct. While the information gatheredduring this discussion is invaluable to Ansys in terms of how we can continue to grow ourprogram, we acknowledge there are areas of improvement for our data gathering methods.Specifically, there is a need for more formal research questions and rigorous qualitative
Chairman of the Department of Computer Science at Howard University. His primary research interest is in distributed computing. Dr. Burge is also interested in Computer Science Education and Diversity, and Tech En- trepreneurship and Innovation. His work in CS Education and Diversity has primarily been focused on informal and personalized learning, and on the use of technology to aid in the socio-technical encultur- ation of underrepresented students in CS, K-12 initiatives, and diversity, equity, and inclusion beyond compliance. Dr. Burge practices design thinking as an innovative teaching methodology and promotes immersive learning and learning by doing. He co-teaches the Bison Startup and Bison Accelerate courses
B.S. degree and beyond for several participants, and strongoutcomes for degree attainment. These, in addition to providing students with a sense ofbelonging, community, and a network of faculty members who become a touchstone or constantfor the students, make this bridge experience notable in a student’s academic career. Page 26.1576.14Degree Completion and Graduate School Enrollment: The development of strong educationalgoals leads directly to positive outcomes for degree completion. More than 120 students haveparticipated in the SCCORE program through 2013. At the conclusion of the Fall 2013 semester,69.1% of the participants had transferred
Paper ID #37063U.S. Military Students in Civilian UndergraduateEngineering Programs: A Narrative Review of the StudentVeteran and Servicemember LiteratureHannah Wilkinson Hannah Wilkinson is a graduate student in Engineering Education at Utah State University. She received a B.S. in Chemical Engineering in 2019 from the University of Utah.Angela Minichiello (Assistant Professor) Angela (Angie) Minichiello, Ph.D., P. E., is an Assistant Professor of Engineering Education and Adjunct Faculty in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Utah State University. Her research employs asset-based frameworks to improve