Program by Volunteer College Students for Middle School Youth from Underprivileged BackgroundsIntroductionInnoWorks is an innovative science and engineering program designed by volunteer collegeundergraduates for middle-school students from disadvantaged backgrounds, the flagshipprogram of United InnoWorks Academy, a 501(c)(3) non-profit educational organizationfounded in 2003. The primary goals of InnoWorks are to (1) provide underprivileged studentswith an opportunity to explore the real-world links among science and engineering disciplines,(2) foster teamwork, enthusiasm, and career interests in science and engineering, and (3) usecurrent neuroscience and educational research to develop mentoring, teaching
engineering.The high-level objectives of NEET are to: • Reimagine what and how our students learn, to better prepare them to address critical societal challenges in the 21st century. • Strengthen MIT’s contribution to engineering education worldwide.NEET is based on the following four principles: • Our education should focus on preparing our students to develop the new machines and systems that they will build in the middle of the 21st century. • We should help our students to prepare themselves to be makers, discoverers or along this spectrum, and we should teach engineering fundamentals as a foundation for careers both in research and in practice. • We should build our education around the way our students best learn
Engineering Education at Purdue University. Her research focuses what factors influence diverse students to choose engineering and stay in engineering through their careers and how different experiences within the practice and culture of engineering foster or hinder belongingness and identity development. Dr. Godwin graduated from Clemson University with a B.S. in Chemical Engineering and Ph.D. in Engineering and Science Education. She is the recipient of a 2014 American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Educational Research and Methods Division Apprentice Faculty Grant. She also was an NSF Graduate Research Fellow for her work on female empowerment in engineering which won the National Association for Research in
) indicate that mathematics score gapsbetween male and female students are negligible, if they exist at all.4This increase in female student attainment, however, has not significantly impacted middleschool and high school female student interest in pursuing education and a career in science andengineering. As discussed by the AAUW (2010), “a 2009 poll of young people ages 8–17 by theAmerican Society for Quality, 24 percent of boys but only 5 percent of girls said they wereinterested in an engineering career.”5 In 2006, just over 20% of first year male students plannedto major in engineering, computer science, or the physical sciences. However, according to NSFdata from 2009, only 5% of first year female students planned to major in these non
• the sharing of best practices in the content, teaching, certifications, articulation and career pathways for renewable energy technicians among participants and with their international peers • the use of an online learning collaborative site for knowledge-building activities and to share and disseminate curricula and other learning materialsGermany in particular presented an interesting case. The German Energiewende – or “energytransition” – is an on-going, nationally coordinated, comprehensive undertaking that has twofundamental drivers: the development and deployment of renewable energy sources and anincreased and widespread implementation of energy efficiency measures, all of which isoccurring in a relatively
last week of the internship, the second author went on-site to act as a participant-observer.As part of this evaluation, focus-group and exit interviews were conducted with the interns andtheir mentors to collect more in-depth qualitative evidence of participant learning and experiencein the program. Protocol for focus-group interviews with the interns emphasized eliciting furtherdata regarding: a) their understanding of the problem context b) assumptions about the problemcontext or purpose of the work c) overall impact of the program on their learning experience inrelation to prior classroom-based learning and their future education and career planning.Separate protocol for interviews with the university program mentors prompted: a
, IEEE Globecom, IEEE ICC, and IWCMC.Dr. Abd-Elhamid M. Taha, Alfaisal University Abd-Elhamid M. Taha is an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering At Alfaisal University. His research spans radio resource management, Internet of Things (IoT) services, and modeling in networked cyber-physical systems. Abd-Elhamid is a senior member of the IEEE, and a recipient of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) Early Career Researcher Award as well as several awards at Alfaisal University for distinction in teaching and research.Prof. Kok-Lim Alvin Yau, Sunway University KoK-Lim Alvin Yau received the B.Eng. degree (Hons.) in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Universiti Teknologi Petronas
the learning objectives for the real-world computersimulation described in [21, p. 332]. Other objectives include budgetary and time constraints,teamwork, and “large industrial-scale chemical processes” [21, p. 332]. Professional standardsare one element of the real-world examples discussed in [22].Career preparation is another common element in papers describing real-world activities. “Real-world examples tie material to future jobs,” writes Campbell [23, p. 3]. The fact that “all foursenior student interns received engineering job offers before graduation” was noted as anoutcome of the solar charging design project described in [24]. Bridging the gap betweentheoretical and practical knowledge, where presumably practical knowledge is the
residence at the St. Petersburg Conservatory.Jacqueline Rogers, University of Maryland (Retired) Jacqueline Rogers was a Senior Fellow for the Maryland School of Public Policy from 1994 until her retirement in 2006. In her role, she taught in the Management, Finance and Leadership concentration and was lead instructor in a variety of Executive Education Programs for mid-career professionals including Housing and Community Development, Managing Social Services, Military Housing Privatization and Asset Management for Privatized Military Housing. Previous to joining the University of Maryland, Jacqueline was Secretary, Maryland Department of Housing and Community Development from 1987-94 for
Services in the NASA Center for Success in Math & Science at Estrella Mountain Community College, she utilizes her academic preparation and extensive engineering background to prepare students for successful careers in the science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields through student internships and summer research experiences. Page 13.1289.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 Tinkering Self-Efficacy and Team Interaction on Freshman Engineering Design TeamsIntroductionIn the book Talking about Leaving, Seymour and Hewitt interviewed hundreds of
needs-driven technology development. Among the issues that William Wulf,president of the National Academy of Engineering, pointed out in the main plenary address to the 2002ASEE – Annual Conference at Montreal, is the need for reform of faculty reward systems at the nation’sschools of engineering and technology to better reflect the modern practice of engineering.As Wulf pointed out in his address: “I don’t especially want to engage in the teaching vs. research debate. I suspect, like most of you, I believe that teaching and research complement each other. And, by and large, there is a high correlation between good teaching and good research. Good people are good! In my admittedly idiosyncratic career, the number of cases of genuinely
asinstructional staff include increasing their knowledge and core understanding of course materialby learning through teaching. Other benefits include improving their communication skills,practicing their mentoring skills, and gaining more confidence in their leadership skills. Gettingundergraduates in STEM fields to think about teaching at the college level early in their careersmay make them more aware of the possibility of continuing their education in graduate school orfaculty careers. In addition to these higher level professional outcomes, undergraduate teachingassistants and tutors are typically compensated for their work through hourly pay rather thanteaching appointments. With some training, advanced undergraduate teaching assistants
the pilot program. From then on, all students in the pilot programwill be students that passed all required classes the first time they took them. No repeaters fromprevious cohorts enter the group and unsuccessful students “vanish”. The special challenges tobe faced in “trailing sections” are addressed separately in the next section.Regarding class size we can say that starting with the second pilot group, class sizes were alwaysnear the 40 students that regular classes at Louisiana Tech University ideally have. This leavesthe need for an increase in faculty participation to be discussed in this section.The core faculty who designed the program undoubtedly were highly dedicated to education andmade conscious career decisions (which could even
characteristics16, 17. Manyengineers will live and work in different countries during part of their career and many othersinteract on a regular basis with people of different languages and cultures. These interactionsincrease the need for improved language and communication skills and the ability to interactwith people of different cultures18.Recent trends within the United States indicate an ongoing effort to outsource high-technologyjobs to other countries which is creating an uncertainty about the long term future of engineeringemployment within the United States. What seems apparent is that global career competition islikely to continue, and therefore engineering graduates must develop a greater awareness of andfamiliarity with the global world in
for women to choose a CS career. Orthogonally, Wang [43] correlatedfinancial aid with STEM major selection. While our student participants witnessed the impact ofexposure, staff support, and supportive policies, we did not explicitly investigate financial factors.We propose to investigate the influence of financial aid and other SES factors using quantitativeanalysis and to recount the population of varied SES.Gender and Race/Ethnicity: Students from minoritized groups in CS, as defined in [44], areunderrepresented due to both entry and high attrition (switching majors or dropping altogether).For example, women are less represented in the CS field due to pre-entry, institutional, andsocietal factors [45]. Oftentimes, minoritized CS students
with students in grade4. Recognizing the importance of student identities and their development throughout astudent’s educational career, I seek insight into the following question: 1. How does participation in an engineering unit utilizing the engineering design process allow students to authentically engage in critical thinking skills as an authentic engineering performance? 3 Literature ReviewSTEM Identity Development Student identities (specifically STEM identities) are constantly changing and developingthroughout adolescence, influenced by a variety of factors
related careers, show promise in addressing this national shortage7.The authors believe that it is necessary to create local programs such as those mentioned before,aimed at exposing female students in their final three years of high school to basic conceptswithin different areas of engineering and construction management to open the possibilities forthese students to choose a technical major.Since retention of students is another major concern, the camp was designed in such a way thatcurrent female engineering students can participate as mentors and assistants for each activity.The faculty in charge of the different activities trained the students, providing a service learningexperience and giving leadership opportunities to them.Description of
Institute, John Moriarty of Purdue University,Madeline Gibson of the Michigan College of Mining & Technology, Ira Tumbleson of theNewark College of Engineering, and Johanna Tallman of UCLA continued to serve on the ESLCand occasionally attend ASEE conferences. However, the engineering librarian cohort in ASEEwas clearly getting older. Of the nine librarians who served as ESCL chair from 1942 through1960, all but one earned their library degrees and started their professional careers prior to 1939.Fortunately, a new generation of engineering librarians began joining ASEE in the late 1950sand early 1960s. Among these were several leaders who would over the course of the decaderevitalize and strengthen the engineering librarian community within
, E. J., Harper, S., Cashion, T., Palacios-Abrantes, J., Blythe, J., Daly, J., Eger, S., Hoover, C., Talloni-Alvarez, N., Teh, L., Bennett, N., Epstein, G., Knott, C., Newell, S. L., & Whitney, C. K. (2020). Supporting early career researchers: Insights from interdisciplinary marine scientists. ICES Journal of Marine Science, 77(2), 476–485. Scopus. https://doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fsz247Anna (Kia) Nobre. (2017). Neuron, 96(1), 11–13. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2017.09.023Announcements11Announcements are published free of charge for members of The American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG). Please e-mail announcements to ajhg@ajhg.net. Submission must be received at least 7 weeks before the month of
. The authors found that white women, in particular, softened the negative impact ofsexism with white privilege, relying on their race to help them form closer relationships withfaculty. Conversely, undergraduate women of Color found that race served as a barrier torelationship building with professors, which hindered their ability to access career-relatedopportunities. However, the findings of Salazar et al. [11] also indicated that exposure toprofessors of Color facilitated relationships with racially underrepresented students, which thengave these students access to networks that supported their career goals in STEM. Finally, theauthors found that the effects of both racism and sexism were lessened when students wereengaged in research. The
went well: 1. Established a sense of belonging to the Data Science program 2. Introduction to case studies 3. Interview etiquette, resume building & STEM Career Fair prep most successful class taught What did not go well: 1. Spacing of assignments and length of time to complete the assignments 2. Too many topics from University Perspectives 3. Student interaction was lacking during class Continuous Improvement for next year: 1. We are adding a textbook Teach Yourself how to Learn by Saundra McGuire 2. Adding more case studies and information about the data science program + concentrations 3. Reevaluate how many things we utilize from University Perspectives
that, as a corecourse, it was not meeting the intended institutional outcomes. The question posed to thereviewers was; “What should ME 220 offer every student to help them progress in theirdevelopment towards an officer of character?” While the course should and would continue tohave a foundational statics and mechanics of material curriculum, equipping each student withadditional skills necessary for a career as an Air Force officer was also desired. After carefulconsideration of the institutional outcomes, the AEM and CT outcomes in particular, it wasapparent that intentionally introducing students to an engineering design process and giving thempractice implementing the design process to generate solutions to problems would help them
Paper ID #36634ASCE’s Response to the Pandemic: Execution of a RemoteExCEEd Teaching WorkshopKelly Salyards (Professor) Dr. Kelly Salyards is an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Bucknell University. With degrees in Architectural Engineering from Penn State, she began her career as a consulting structural engineer before returning to academia. Her areas of research include vibration serviceability and human-induced excitation while maintaining her dedication to engineering education. She is active with the American Society Civil Engineers (ASCE) through the
infor- mation science from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), Hefei, China, in 1995 and 1998, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Minnesota (UMN), Minneapolis, MN, USA, in 2002. He is currently a Full Professor with the Department of Elec- trical and Computer Engineering, University of Connecticut (UCONN), Storrs, CT, USA. His general research interests lie in the areas of wireless communications and signal processing. He received the 2007 ONR Young Investigator Award and the 2007 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engi- neers. He was an Associate Editor for IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS from 2005 to 2007, IEEE
Paper ID #34466Student Motivation and Self-efficacy in Entrepreneurial-minded Learning(EML): What These Mean for Diversity and Inclusion in EngineeringClassroomsProf. Erin A. Henslee, Wake Forest University Dr. Erin Henslee is a Founding Faculty and Assistant Professor of Engineering at Wake Forest University. Her research spans biomedical engineering, e-sports, and STEM education. Prior to joining Wake Forest she was a Researcher Development Officer at the University of Surrey where she supported Early Career Researchers. She received her BS degrees in Engineering Science and Mechanics and Mathematics from Virginia
students for rapid changesthat will surely come during their careers, it is not the sort of disciplinary barrier-breaking thatmatches the visions in the aforementioned reports.We are motivated by efforts to substantially integrate the humanities and engineering,particularly at the introductory level. UC Berkeley Professor J. M. Prausnitz foreshadowed the1994 ASEE report when he argued in 1989 that “[undergraduate] engineering should be taught ina social context” [7, p. 14]. Draw lessons from the humanities, he expands (addressing a likelyreticent audience): Yes, teach science, teach phenomena, experiment, theory, and correlation. Yes, teach technology, plant design, and product development. But don't stop there. Teach also, or at
inpeople, e.g., faculty, students, and administrators in academia, and employees, clients, and publicstakeholders in industry. Bringing out our best performances increases career satisfaction andproductivity. Yet we also recognize that the engineering education and industry cultures weinhabit often fall (far) short of that ideal.Many of us in engineering education are working towards the transformation and healing of theengineering profession and engineering education cultures – while individually striving to bemore authentically ourselves. We recognize that our inner work is directly linked to our outercommunity. This panel represents the collective thinking of a group of six engineering educatorsin different paths and stages in our careers. We
. She graduated from Purdue University with a PhD in Aeronautical and Astronau- tical Engineering and is interested in increasing classroom engagement and student learning.Prof. Richard T. Mangum, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Richard T. Mangum is an assistant professor at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Prescott Campus. He is a PhD candidate in Texas Tech University’s Technical Communication and Rhetoric program. He is interested in helping engineering students discover the relevancy of technical communication in their academic pursuits and future career paths.Dr. Cristi L. Bell-Huff, Georgia Institute of Technology Cristi L. Bell-Huff, PhD is a Lecturer in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical
that the interaction of gender and thedevelopment of engineering identity is complex and multilayered and that it requiresunderstanding of how women and men develop understanding of what engineering identity is.Jorgenson examines the construction of engineering identities among female students [17] andfinds that many of the participants of the study were reluctant to acknowledge that genderrelations have any consequences in their career. Women who were interviewed for this studystrongly identified themselves with their career but acknowledged the male environment theyworked in was challenging. Many mentioned having to prove themselves before they were takenseriously as professionals. However, they strongly associated themselves with the notion
. I mean, the most successful people, they’re in the industry, and the ones who will, um, be noticed for their work and who will advance in their careers the fastest are not necessarily the ones who, um, are-are the best, um, fundamental engineers. (Darrell, SPRI, Year 3).Darrell noted that the engineers who were successful were not necessarily those who had themost excellent mathematical abilities, but rather those who possessed skills such as working withothers, communication, and the ability to present one’s work. That is, it is not primarily anunderstanding of science that enables one to be successful in engineering, but also, and morecentrally, abilities that have to do with conditions of working with others, such