follow up of a reflectionsurvey tailored to the specific activity. The research team identifies how these tasks fall into oneof three categories, including why engineers should care about diversity, how to work on diverseteams, and keeping in mind the stakeholders of engineering design problems. The results of thisstudy showed that over the course of the semester, students felt they could create a moreinclusive and understanding culture when working on a diverse team of engineers. With the useof the included activities to encourage and intentionally place students of diverse backgrounds onteams, this research team was able to help students identify how to promote a healthy culturewithin a team.In conclusion, there are feasible paths to implement
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, professionalorganizations, and engineering ethics. Planned Strategies for the CAM program: CAM scholarmeetings will include career and graduate school preparedness topics every year (with theassistance of the Career and Internship Center) so that the students are prepared at all academiclevels. E-portfolios will be created with applications for internships, jobs, and graduate schoolsin mind.5. Current Academic Tutoring. In addition to general academic tutoring available through theUniversity, the CET offers tutoring specific to engineering in lower-level classes at theEngineering Tutoring Lab. Tutors are advanced upper-level students. CAM scholarship recipientswill receive tutoring as needed. Planned Strategies for the CAM program: Additional tutors willbe hired
contribute to lesson that problem” Persistence Commitment to the role/job “I’d like to continue working until I’ve of being an SEL; identify accomplished the projects I have in mind and with being a mentor see the change in person” Uncertainty Discomfort with variable, “So, that is one part of the job that I’m not sure inconsistent nature of the how I would lead it. It’s probably somebody else work that will probably lead it. I’ll just learn from it.” Culture of Engineering stereotype; “[connecting] is not the easiest for engineering Engineering personal or professional students, especially with
Paper ID #43247Impacts of Near-Peer Mentoring Between Graduate Students and UndergraduateTransfer Students in Engineering and ComputingShannon Conner, Clemson UniversitySkylar Hubbarth, Clemson UniversityDr. D. Matthew Boyer, Clemson University Dr. Boyer is a Research Associate Professor in the Department of Engineering & Science Education in the College of Engineering, Computing, and Applied Sciences at Clemson University. His work focuses on how technology supports knowledge building and transfer in a range of learning environments. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Impacts of
Paper ID #45194Think-Aloud Insights: Exploring QuantCrit Challenges and Diverse SurveyResponses Among Undergraduate Engineering StudentsMs. Sheila Kathryn Castro, University of Florida Sheila Castro is a doctoral student in Science Education at the University of Florida’s School of Teaching and Learning. Her research focuses on Latina’s STEM identity, family support, and influences on the experiences of undergraduate engineering students.Dr. Bruce Frederick Carroll, University of Florida Dr. Carroll is an Associate Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of Florida. He holds an affiliate
Paper ID #37075Influences on Displaced Engineering Student Professional IdentityDevelopment: A Scoping Literature Review Across Forced Migration Con-textsMargaret E.B. Webb, Virginia Tech Margaret (Maggie) Webb is a master’s and Ph.D. student in sustainable land development (civil engi- neering) and engineering education, respectively, at Virginia Tech. She graduated with her mechanical engineering degree from Rice University and worked for ExxonMobil as a subsea engineer and as a high school STEM teacher in a Houston charter school before starting grad school. Her research interests in- clude supporting the needs of
Paper ID #34327Integrating History and Engineering in the First-Year Core Curriculum atBoston CollegeDr. Jonathan Seth Krones, Boston College Dr. Krones is an Assistant Professor of the Practice in Boston College’s new Department of Human- Centered Engineering (HCE). Before starting this position in 2021, he was a Visiting Assistant Professor of Environmental Science and Environmental Studies at BC, where he introduced engineering-style ped- agogy into the first-year Core Curriculum and helped to establish HCE. In addition to engineering educa- tion, his research focuses on industrial ecology and environmentally
engineering can change to be better aligned with students’values and interests and how intentional curriculum design can change the culture in engineering.With these motivations, experiences, and prior literature in mind, we came to this studyexpecting to find some students’ interests in engineering not aligned with the messaging theyreceive in their coursework. Because of the technical focus of many engineering courses, weexpected some students to seek out skills and knowledge beyond what courses emphasized,while other students would have a strong sense of alignment with their engineering curriculum.3.2 Research questionsThe aim of this study was to understand what curricular messaging engineering students receivedabout engineering practice within
Paper ID #25708Women’s Experiences in the Transition from Capstone Design Courses to En-gineering WorkplacesDr. Susannah Howe, Smith College Susannah Howe, Ph.D. is the Design Clinic Director in the Picker Engineering Program at Smith College, where she coordinates and teaches the capstone engineering design course. Her current research focuses on innovations in engineering design education, particularly at the capstone level. She is invested in building the capstone design community; she is a leader in the biannual Capstone Design Conferences and the Capstone Design Hub initiative. She is also involved with efforts to
, and learning as socio- culturally organized phenomena. A major strand of his research explores the varied trajectories taken by students as they attempt to enter professional disciplines such as engineering, and focuses on the dilem- mas encountered by students as they move through these institutionalized trajectories. He is co-editor of a 2010 National Society for the Study of Education Yearbook, Learning Research as a Human Science. Other work has appeared in Linguistics and Education; Mind, Culture, and Activity; Anthropology & Education Quarterly, the Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science; the Journal of Engineering Education; and the Cambridge Handbook of Engineering Education Research. His teaching interests
illuminate the shared history of a community to help with the tracking of learningprojects and membership as well as focus attention on important community practices. Forexample, many disciplines have a top tier journal as an ongoing artifact that helps to orient theircommunity members around important shared ideas.With this framework in mind, we designed a social learning system for our REU program aroundthe practices of engineering and Wenger’s11 community building elements. We expected thissocial learning system to be a more accessible CoP to REU students within the larger communityof practice of photovoltaic (PV) engineers; we can think of this as a smaller CoP within a largerCoP. The REU practices were defined by the larger community, but we
experiences.Dr. Marie C Paretti, Virginia Tech Marie C. Paretti is an Associate Professor of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech, where she co- directs the Virginia Tech Engineering Communications Center (VTECC). Her research focuses on com- munication 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 exploring com- munication, design, and identity in engineering. Drawing on theories of situated learning and identity development, her work includes studies on the teaching and learning of communication
, learning power skills, such asteamwork, can pose a significant challenge for engineering-minded students. This often results infrustration for students and instructors alike. To address this issue, we implemented an innovativeapproach toward group lab writing in a lab class for 35 junior-level Chemical Engineeringstudents. In this study, individual contributions were worth 30% toward the group-written labreport. Students were required to complete their individual contribution submission as acompletion grade 24 hours before the group-written report was due. The group lab report wasgraded on quality and was worth the other 70%. The purpose of this initiative was twofold: 1) toenhance accountability among team members, as students’ individual grades
Paper ID #37578How Do Students Take up Notions of Environmental Racism in anEngineering Computational Methods Course?Dr. Desen Sevi Ozkan, Tufts University Desen is a postdoctoral researcher at Tufts University in the Center for Engineering Education Outreach and the Institute for Research on Learning and Instruction Tech. She holds a Ph.D. in Engineering Edu- cation from Virginia Tech and a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Tufts University.Ms. Cynthia Hampton, Virginia Tech Cynthia Hampton is a postdoctoral fellow with the Center for the Enhancement of Engineering Diversity (CEED) at Virginia Tech. She has done work as a
. For example, some male studentsmentioned that maybe there are not as many women in engineering because it does not interestwomen, or that we should not push diversity into STEM fields so much because diversity does notimprove the performance of a group.In a study published by the American Sociological Review, Herring suggests that diversity canhave a positive impact on business performance. Diverse groups can leverage their experiencesand perspectives to solve problems and make decisions in a way that like-minded groups cannot.While some men in our study see this as diversity quotas where women are hired solely based ontheir gender, there is growing research that shows diversity adds value to teams and organizations.Herring’s findings show
Paper ID #38465Unpacking Engineering Faculty’s Discrepant Views of Mentoring throughthe Lens of Attachment TheoryMrs. Jennifer Hadley Perkins, Arizona State UniversityDr. Samantha Ruth Brunhaver, Arizona State University Samantha Brunhaver, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor within The Polytechnic School of the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University. Her primary areas of research include engineering ca- reer pathways and decision-making, undergraduate student persistence, professional engineering practice, and faculty mentorship. Brunhaver graduated with her B.S. in mechanical engineering from
, girls only go to civil engineering. That's all you have.” “Everyone questioned my abilities at the first school. It hurt my pride, so I started studying math. I wanted to enter a mathematical lyceum. And atQ22 Int CS.3.2 this lyceum, the second school, I was lucky that my teachers knew how to encourage and support the interest of students.” “High competition and no prior knowledge in CS were an obstacle duringQ23 my studies I even considered changing majors, but then changed my mind, Int CS.3.1 and overcame the challenges.” “It is called imposter syndrome. I came with zero knowledge of programming to
Engineering for SocialJustice [17], and Reynante [33] also created and used a framework of four key mind shifts indesign-for-charity to design-for-justice.In the following, we give a brief overview of the courses described in the papers we reviewedand note that several courses were described across multiple papers.Introduction to Feedback Control Systems courseA seminal example of a course that integrated social and technical aspects of engineering is anIntroduction to Feedback Control Systems course that intentionally integrated social justiceconsiderations [13], [28], [29]. Three iterations of this course were studied. Third and fourth yearelectrical or mechanical engineering students took one of two sections of the course. One sectionof the course
a pattern of Christina's marginalization in team dynamics; in one case, sheexperiences gender bias from her professor, in other cases, she is confronted with gender bias byher peers. Christina synthesizes these experiences in complex ways; she claims she doesn't let theexperiences get to her although they linger in her mind, and yet she frames it as a story about herpeers and instructor being the problem, not her.6.2.3 Comparison of Alberto’s and Christina’s marginalizing experiencesBoth participants expressed discomfort with the environment on their engineering campus, whichexudes an unwelcoming atmosphere for their identities because of the prominence of hetero-patriarchal norms. Alberto fears being outed or experiencing generalized
2020). We believe adding thebreakout room facilitators helped, and we continue to address these comments.Overall, these findings also confirm the assumption that independent of the specific case studyparticipated in, participants found the case studies were valuable in assisting their learning. Weattribute this high-value ranking to the specific nature of the case studies and their directconnection to chemical engineering topics, where the majority of participants (graduate students,post-docs, and faculty) are conducting research in related areas. These case studies providedconcrete examples of analyses of research topics with social justice in mind, ideally givingparticipants a framework for similarly analyzing their own research
Paper ID #38606Preparing Engineering Students to Find the Best Job Fit: Starting Earlywith the Career Development ProcessDr. Cheryl Carrico, P.E., E4S, LLC Cheryl Carrico is owner of E4S, LLC. E4S, LLC conducts external evaluations, engineering education research, and industry consulting. Her current research focus relates to STEM career pathways and con- ceptual understanding of core engineering principles.Dr. Holly M. Matusovich, Virginia Tech Dr. Holly Matusovich is the Associate Dean for Graduate and Professional Studies in the College of Engineering at Virginia Tech and a Professor in the Department of Engineering
Paper ID #36814Why engineering needs women—insights of female and nonbinary Finnishupper secondary schoolersDr. Johanna Naukkarinen, Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology, Finland Johanna Naukkarinen received her M.Sc. degree in chemical engineering from Helsinki University of Technology in 2001, her D.Sc. (Tech) degree in knowledge management from Tampere University of Technology in 2015, and her professional teacher qualification from Tampere University of Applied sci- ences in 2013. She is currently working as a post-doctoral researcher and project manager with the School of Energy Systems at Lappeenranta-Lahti
Paper ID #38700Studying the Development of Design Thinking of Undergraduate Engineer-ingStudents in Singapore: Qualitative Reflection Analysis (Research)Dr. Eileen Fong, Nanyang Technological University Eileen Fong, PhD, is a Senior Lecturer at School of Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore. She is also currently the Associate Chair (Students) at MSE, responsible for student matters and admissions. She teaches third-year MSE undergraduates, and have received several teaching awards including the prestigious Nanyang Education Award for School (2019) and College (2021
, designing a freshman programaimed at improving engineering self-concept is comparable to subduing the issue at its point oforigin. Having educators administering such mindful techniques to influence and buildengineering self-concept aims for the benefit of students. Improving engineering self-conceptamong freshmen requires that we educate future engineers to identify with the field, understandwhy their job is important for humankind, and have the motivation to persist in their career.ConclusionThe sampling of relevant research based on the set criteria for this systematic review resulted in16 papers that addressed the constructs of self-concept or self-efficacy. The analysis in this papercarefully delineated the features of these constructs into a
participation in higher education, and the educational attainment and schooling experiences of Mexican descent youth in the mid-20th century.Dr. Valerie Martin Conley, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs Valerie Martin Conley is dean of the College of Education and professor of Leadership, Research, and Foundations at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs. She previously served as director of the Center for Higher Education, professor, and department chair at Ohio University. She was the PI for the NSF funded research project: Academic Career Success in Science and Engineering-Related Fields for Female Faculty at Public Two-Year Institutions. She is co-author of The Faculty Factor: Reassessing the American
Paper ID #33112Uncovering Strategies to Improve Student Engagement and Enhance theEngineering Education CurriculumDr. Ekundayo Shittu, George Washington University Ekundayo (Dayo) Shittu is an Associate Professor of Engineering Management and Systems Engineering at George Washington University. Professor Shittu conducts basic and applied research that take a systems approach to address the different dimensions of decision making under multiple and sequential uncertain- ties. His focus is on the economics and management of energy technologies, the design and impacts of climate change response policies, sustainability
mindful of how systemic discriminatory biases and inequalities play out in the local,individual behaviours. Those who hold social capital, may have the opportunity and a greaterresponsibility to share and increase the shared level of social capital [10].3.2 Exclusion and Inclusion in Peer LearningDuring university, two types of peer-mediated experiences of exclusion were highlighted:Isolation and microaggression.3.2.1 IsolationSome students experienced or observed difficulty in engaging with peers for collaborativelearning, feeling excluded or unwelcomed by smaller groups that formed in the cohort. Peerlearning has an important place in engineering education, and yet there can be small groups peersthat do not engage beyond their circle throughout
skills. Additionally, in the context of SD1, SD1 requires that students beginto think about how they are going to handle the different tasks within their project (i.e., includescreating a timeline of the project, dividing tasks among team members, etc.). With the projectmanagement components of these Engineering Design Courses, the students perceivedconfidence in using project management might be impacted.Overall, the results from the Mann-Whitney tests are supported based on the structure andcomponents of University Core, Engineering Pre-requisite, Engineering Core, and EngineeringDesign courses in mind. However, 5 of the ten skills tested did not yield a statistically significantrelationship with any of the courses. This result may indicate
Paper ID #29698To Be, or Not to Be, a Professor: Views of Engineering PostdoctoralScholarsDr. Sylvia L. Mendez, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs Dr. Sylvia Mendez is an Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Leadership, Research, and Foundations at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs. She earned a PhD in Educational Leadership and Policy Studies from the University of Kansas, a MS in Student Affairs in Higher Education from Colorado State University, and a BA in Economics from Washington State University. Dr. Mendez’s research centers on the educational attainment and schooling experiences