conducted on how female and low-income students function in a cooperative,learner-based studio environment and advance understanding of the role different levels ofmentorship (peer, senior members, assistants, and faculty) play in the PWS model and how itimpacts the performance of female members of the cohorts. By working together in a team-basedenvironment, the PWS built strong connections among the PWS scholar cohort. The PWS isdeveloping well-rounded students who are afforded hands-on experiences, and the opportunity towork in multi-disciplinary team environments and gain exposure to real-life projects in computerscience, engineering, and technology. These experiences, combined with professionaldevelopment and mentorship, will enable scholars to
, technical support, and encouragement. • GiggleBot programming workshop. One ExCITE student volunteer demonstrated three GiggleBots [16] to the CS I students. Three CS I students and five ACM/ACM- W members participated. Among these five students, two were freshmen, and three were upperclassmen. The presenter demonstrated how to drive a GiggleBot with a pre-programmed Microbit [17] and then let the participants do the same. The students also plugged markers into the GiggleBots, to let the robots draw lines on the papers on the floor by moving. Then the students were divided into groups to write programs for the robots on the computers in the lab and then download their code to the robots to
difficulties with online writing tools” [7, p. 3].Computer Science faculty were surveyed in June 2020 by Bizot et al [8]. 450 faculty respondedto the survey which had been distributed to the Computing Research Association (CRA) and theACM Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE) mailing lists. Thefaculty reported that they changed their pedagogical techniques after the move online. Beforemoving online, 250 faculty had used active learning in their classes. After moving online, 34.9%discontinued active learning, 43.4% made minor changes and 21.3% made significant changes.Collaborative projects and labs were also impacted by the move online. Of the 180 faculty whoused collaborative projects, 13.9% discontinued them, 71.7% made
develop the skills and writing habits to complete doctorate degrees in engineering. Across all of her research avenues, Dr. Matusovich has been a PI/Co-PI on 12 funded research projects including the NSF CAREER Award with her share of funding be ingnearly $2.3 million. She has co-authored 2 book chapters, 21 journal publications and more than 70 conference papers. She has won several Virginia Tech awards including a Dean’s Award for Outstanding New Faculty, an Outstanding Teacher Award and a Faculty Fellow Award. She holds a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Cornell University, an M.S. in Materials Science from the University of Connecticut and a Ph.D. in Engineering Education from Purdue University.Dr. Cheryl Carrico
○ I can communicate design work in writing. ○ I can communicate design work verbally. ○ I can communicate design work graphically. ● Management and Planning ○ I can monitor progress toward team goals. ○ I can divide a project into manageable components or tasks.Table 4: Engineering Identity and Belonging Survey Category Survey Item Definition ● I understand what it means to be an engineer. Interest ● I enjoy learning engineering. ● I am interested in learning more about engineering. ● I find fulfillment in doing engineering. Recognition
February 2020 the World Economic Forum published its report on the characteristics ofEducation in the Fourth Industrial Revolution, of which several stand out for their relevantimpact on engineering programs. These are: (i) Global citizenship, building awareness aboutthe wider world and playing an active role in the global community; (ii) Collaborativelearning, requiring peer collaboration and a move to project- and problem-based content thatmore closely mirrors their future work; (iii) Innovation and creativity skills, includingcomplex problem-solving and analytical thinking.In March 2020, the emergence of COVID-19 forced educational institutions to abruptly adoptsocial distancing and quarantine measures, making compliance with the
dropout rates can be achieved and thus achieve good academic behavior. However, thecommitment of the Faculty of Engineering at the university, through its mission, is to incorporatethose who aspire to progress [3].ReflectionConsidering students' interests, the Construction Engineering program is developing an electivecourse based on talks by successful women engineers in working life. The program is interestedin coordinating gender and self-esteem workshops focused on career women to learn to faceconflicts in predominantly male workspaces. The program supports students to form a newstudent center, providing facilities to encourage their peers to participate in the elections. It isessential to have a student center so that the students of the
it became evident that she felt encouraged, a sense ofbelonging, and supported. Stemming from this, Kayla and Gretchen had a collaborativeconversation that was recorded over Zoom at the end of Kayla’s internship in order to understandhow her experiences were influenced by gender and how they impacted her engineering identity.The conversation also brought up memories as well as other journal entries. The frameworks ofin/authenticity and engineering identity were chosen for this paper because of their relatedness tothe research in the form of assets. When writing her narrative, we aimed to use it as a means of“gaining cultural understanding” [5, p. 125]. This helped to ensure that Kayla was not merelydescribing her life and experiences but
pursuing their major [10] [12] [13] [14].Hutchison-Green et al interviewed first-year engineering students to determine what factors, inthe students’ first semester, begin to affect self-efficacy [15]. They found that performancecomparison (i.e., a student comparing his/her performance to his/her peers) makes a significantimpact on self-efficacy, and that depending on the student and the situation, self-efficacy couldeither increase or decrease in response to the situation. Team-based project courses can thusmitigate the possibility of decreasing students’ confidence because they do not require studentsto work individually and then compare their performance to that of their peers. Instead, studentswork together toward a common goal. Team-based
students in doctoral STEM programs is a recalcitrant issue that hasbeen taken up by scholars and government agencies with great vigor. Sowell, Bell, Kirby, andNaftel [5] found that financial support, mentoring and advising, family non-financial support,and social environmental/peer group support were among the top things that impactedattrition. Okahana, Allum, Felder, and Tull [6] further reported that institutional levelinterventions for URM STEM doctoral students were scant and limited in intervention focuswith most providing additional financial resources as the means to reduce attrition. Beyondthat, institutional-based support existed in the forms of peer support groups and mentoring.Mentoring in particular has been noted as a key intervention
Leadership by Jo Ann Ross and Willa Zakin Hallowell “Leadership for Engineers: The Magic of Mindset” by Ronald Bennett & Elaine Milliam Book Excerpts 9The EDGEs program included ten 1.5 hour sessions. Each week a topic was covered utilizingan array of readings, articles, videos, and activities. The course starts with an overview ofdiversity, inclusion, and equity- understanding the terminology and diving into eachperson’s individual identity as it relates to their peers in the classroom and internationally.Then students took on understanding bias, stereotypes and even imposter syndrome. Next,we dived into privilege, what it is, and
arrive at many higher education institutions where these structures have been removed and expectations have shifted to self-directed learning outside of the classroom, initial struggle and sometimes failure become highly probable. There is limited evidence of teaching engineering students discipline-specific metacognitive strategies. A recent study conducted using modelling and coaching of discipline-specific metacognitive strategies in an introductory computer science course using peer tutors, showed that encouraging students to implement these learning strategies had a significant impact on their ability to apply knowledge to programming problems and also had long-term effects on students' future course outcomes.25 Two of the authors have also
energy.Implementation of the College of Engineering strategic planFaculty recruitmentThe national need to improve inclusivity and increase diversity in STEM disciplines poses acomplex challenge that is associated with a variety of policy and social issues described andanalyzed by a huge volume of scholarship and archival reports [1-5]. The engineering facultydiversity challenge in particular has proven to be quite durable. Despite this complexity and theslow pace of progress in diversifying faculty ranks overall, there are universities of everyCarnegie classification that have created faculties far more diverse than those of their peers,often starting with faculty diversity levels well below average. Superior recruiting practices arecited as principally
, and Computer Science at the University of California,Berkeley.A substantial amount of research over many years has examined undergraduate student retentionand why students leave STEM majors.12-17 Challenges that prevent minority students’ persistencein STEM education include: lack of role models, inequitable academic preparation, lack of astudent peer group, and inadequate advising.18-21 For minority students or first generation collegestudents in the physical sciences at the nation’s research institutions, the lack of role models andinadequate advising are particularly problematic since few faculty members are of an URM.21Minority students, often the only URM in their department, are generally isolated and not likelyto seek out advice or
versus global). Along each of these dimensions, students are categorized as having amild, moderate, or strong preference in each of these four learning style scales.This study takes place in a mid-size, public university in the western United States. The samplefor this study includes mechanical engineering undergraduate students across four sections of arequired programming course in MATLAB, taught by the same instructor. These students wereprovided the Index of Learning Styles at the beginning of the semester. Students wereadministered a weekly quiz to assess their ability to write code, but construction of thisassessment varies by section to favor different preferences of one of the four Felder-Solomanlearning style dimensions. Performance on
tends to focus more on knowledge acquisition9. It has been shown thatproject-oriented courses increase retention rates10-12, intellectual development13, and increase notonly students’ technical and design knowledge, but also their technical writing and researchskills14. In addition, project-oriented courses expose students to the broader context of engineeringdesign, and students learn best when experiencing the entirety of the content area through real-lifeexamples and working with and learning from their peers6, 15-17.Project-oriented learning and capstone design courses allow for the concurrent teaching of designthrough application and teamwork skills, which are needed for future professional success3,4,18,19.This teaches students the
a Turbulent Era.Katie JohansonDr. Kinnis Gosha, Morehouse College Dr. Kinnis Gosha (Go-Shay) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Di- rector of the Culturally Relevant Computer Lab at Morehouse College. Dr. Gosha’s research interests include conversational agents, social media data analytics, computer science education, broadening par- ticipation in computing and culturally relevant computing. More specifically, Gosha’s passion lies in his research in virtual mentoring where he has several peer-reviewed research publications. Gosha’s Cultur- ally Relevant Computing Lab is comprised of approximately 10 top undergraduate researchers each year from Morehouse College, Spelman College
Centerwith a planetarium and rooftop star deck and observatory. Students volunteer to operate thetelescopes for the public on Friday nights. The professional development workshops includeresume writing, creating a LinkedIn profile, club officers’ retreat, e-portfolios, scholarship essays,transfer tips and research paper sessions. In 2017, 98 students participated in these workshops; in2018, 94 students participated. Because families think the students spend an inordinate amount oftime at the MESA Center, Family Night was implemented to share some of the projects in a fun,engaging and interactive environment. Another highlight for 2018 was the center’s visit byCongressman Joaquin Castro, who wanted to learn more about the undergraduate
maximum) In-class Lecture, students takes Lecture using KACIE video (5-15 min.) notes, solve problems Each student work on his/her KACIE based on white board sheet developed for EACH of the demos concepts Mandatory submission of sheets Peer discussions allowed Teacher work with individuals on demand Repeated view of video lectures
Computer Science Principles (CSP)classes.Observers used a structured observation form, designed to focus the observer onelements of classroom behavior that were considered important to the model. Theform was used to note classroom size, composition and arrangement, technologyissues, start and end time of instruction, and a Likert-scale assessment of the qualityof teacher instruction across a set of instruction styles: lecture, problem-based, etc.and across a set of observed student behaviors: working in teams, peer-to-peerlearning support, students sharing music content, etc. Qualitative observationalevidence was used to support each score. Additional open-ended questions on theobservation form were used to capture unanticipated behaviors and
internationaldevelopment professionals, their added perspectives are key to helping the students discernappropriate actions and are vital to the success of the projects.The Course ObjectivesThe course is founded on eight governing principles for successful projects. The lead courseinstructor developed these principles over time as she participated on various internationalservice projects in Latin America and Western Africa. The governing principles are as follows: ● Vision and understanding: The project must have both vision and understanding; one without the other will lead to failure ● Community empowerment: The community must commit in writing to governing the system ● Skin in the game: The recipient community must invest in the system
degrees. We sought to understandnot only how librarians teach students about information seeking and lifelong learning, but howfaculty instructors and advisors approach teaching these critical professional skills. In additionwe sought to understand what information sources students actually use by reviewing the workscited within five award winning project team reports per year of our study, for a total of 60projects and almost 3000 works cited. We learned that student teams, despite year, projectlocation, or discipline of study and faculty advisor use a broad range of sources, both peer-reviewed and not, and that these sources only partially correlate to the sources recommended byfaculty. Most advisors depend on the support of librarians to help
skills including presentation of the results ofdeeply-embedded security research orally or in writing, team-work, decision-making, and thelike, and (c) hard technical skills for simulations and implementations of the fault diagnosisschemes for crypto-systems including those based on AES and ECC. Page 26.989.7 ECDH, ECDSA, ECIES One Q= k.P Point
Lego MazeRobot had significant impact with respect to the Autonomous Waste Sorter project. Thus, aftercompleting the Grand Challenges Project and the Lego Maze Robot Project, both groups ofstudents considered that their engineering related skills had improved compared to their peers,while students who completed the Autonomous Waste Sorter Project did not think that their skillsimproved compared to their peers. Page 26.259.8 Highest 10% Score Relative to Classmates Above Average Pre-Survey
. However,once a student has made contact and then a commitment to attend, there are a number ofactivities and processes employed both before they arrive and during their first year to maintainthe pipeline and retain them in engineering once on campus. The main focus of these efforts areto create a culture of open communications with potential students and increase engagement ofengineering students with faculty, engineering professionals, and peers to scaffold resiliency inpersisting in engineering degrees.The overall goal was to design an effective recruiting and retention program that allowedstudents to be a part of a dynamic and supportive educational environment inside and outside ofthe classroom. While each first-year student has different
Engineering, and Civil Engineering from Ohio University, and B.S. in Industrial Engineering from Istanbul Technical University, Turkey. His re- search interests cover a variety of topics that include engineering education, applied optimization and simulation modeling, social, economic and environmental life cycle assessment, data analytics, energy and sustainability, input-output analysis, transportation sustainability and safety. Gokhan has over 50 peer-reviewed publications in prestigious academic journals, books, and conference proceedings related to sustainable development, life cycle assessment, manufacturing system design and control, supply chain management, transportation safety assessment, and predictive modeling
faculty at Rowan University since 1998 and is currently Professor and President’s Fellow. She was Chair of Civil and Environmental Engineering until very recently. Under her leadership, the Civil and Environmental Engineering Program had seen considerable growth in student and faculty numbers. Her area of expertise is in micro-geomechanics and has published over 100 peer reviewed conference and journal papers including several papers on engineering education and the unique undergraduate curriculum at Rowan University, especially the Engineering Clinics. She has been involved in various outreach activities to recruit more women and minorities into engineering and is Program Chair Elect of the Women in Engineering
small numbers, already face heavier service loads than their majority, men peers. So,in this study we asked, “What differences have these programs made in the hiring outcomeswithin our college?”This case study describes some of the recent interventions implemented at the University ofColorado Boulder (CU Boulder) College of Engineering and Applied Science (CEAS), apredominantly White, very high research activity doctoral institution [1]. We present thedemographic history of the college’s tenured/tenure-track faculty compared to national averagesin the United States, a discussion of changes incorporated into the tenured/tenure-track facultysearch processes over the past five years, the hiring results over the past decade, and insights
STEM initiative and translate her passion for STEM into opportunities that will attract, inspire and retain more girls in STEM to make it the new norm. She has also architected SFAz’s enhanced Community College STEM Pathways Guide that has received the national STEMx seal of approval for STEM tools. She integrated the STEM Pathways Guide with the KickStarter processes for improving competitive proposal writing of Community College Hispanic Serving Institutions. Throughout her career, Ms. Pickering has written robotics software, diagnostic expert systems for space station, manufacturing equipment models, and architected complex IT systems for global collaboration that included engagement analytics. She holds a US
analysis for a local wastewater plant facility.Ms. Shelly Tan Shelly Tan is an undergraduate researcher working with Dr. Lucietto. She is currently pursuing a Bach- elors of Science in Health and Disease at Purdue University, and began working with Dr. Lucietto in the summer of 2019 as part of the Summer Stay Scholars program. In addition to her biology course- work, Shelly is pursuing minors in Studio Arts and Chemistry. Outside the classroom, she enjoys writing creative fiction, making art both physical and digital, and moderating for her favorite online communities. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Professional Women Identify Their Professional