, and I can personally see myself using the printer throughout college, if it may be for other classes or clubs or for my own ventures into a variety of engineering projects.”Although not as prevalent, several students mentioned taking the initiative to spend extra timeoutside of class to further their learning of what was introduced in the class though not beingasked to. For example, one student noted that: “I was able to learn from my team members how to use screwdrivers and cut wood as I have never worked with these tools before. I even took the time outside of class to get familiar with them, as they are valuable skills that I can use at home and in my career.”ConnectionsAccording to the connections rubric [11] that
increasing students' course grades and motivatingthem to continue studying biology.Another subtheme from the EVT review was a focus on differences in expectancy-value beliefsin students based on biological sex. An excellent example of this focus within engineeringeducation comes from a study by Jones et al. [47]. The researchers were interested in first-yearengineering differences in self-efficacy expectations, engineering success expectations,engineering identity, engineering values, achievement, and career plans between male andfemale students. An interesting finding was that males had higher expectancy beliefs, includingthose related to self-efficacy than females, but both populations saw losses in their expectancyand value beliefs over the first
Paper ID #39228Caregivers’ Roles in Supporting Children’s Engagement in EngineeringActivities at Home (Fundamental)Dr. Kelli Paul, Indiana University-Bloomington Dr. Kelli Paul is an Assistant Research Scientist at the Center for Research on Learning and Technology at Indiana University where her research focuses on the development of STEM interests, identity, and career aspirations in children and adolescents.Lauren Penney, Indiana University-BloomingtonDr. Adam Maltese, Indiana University-Bloomington Professor of Science EducationAmber Simpson, State University of New York at Binghamton Amber Simpson is an Associate
majors [3]. This reflects an influence of self-efficacy on career choice. Self-efficacycan influence students at the beginning of their studies in selecting their major and at thecompletion of their studies by increasing their perceived career options [6]. Finally, self-efficacyis also associated with better mental health in students, specifically seen in reduced anxietylevels in students with higher self-efficacy [7].Clearly, the beneficial practices and traits associated with self-efficacy indicate it as a desiredcharacteristic in students. However, self-efficacy is not simply a static personal attribute thatshould be selected for in admissions processes. It is, rather, a dynamic quality, the cultivation ofwhich should be a central aim of
Large Universities," Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education, 2020.[32] "The 2018 Status Report on Engineering Education: A Snapshot of Diversity in Degrees Conferred in Engineering," The Association of Public and Land-grant Universities, 2018.[33] J. B. Main, L. Tan, M. F. Cox, E. O. McGee and A. Katz, "The correlation between undergraduate student diversity and the representation of women of color faculty in engineering," Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 109, no. 4, pp. 843-864, 2020.[34] M. Gray and K. D. Thomas, "Strategies for Increasing Diversity in Engineering Majors and Careers," Advances in Higher Education and Professional Development, 2017.[35] "ASEE Diversity & Inclusion
transform the social conflicts and building peace and democracy. In her careers in international development at UNICEF and Education Development Center, in the Middle East and East Africa, Najme had been working to strengthen institutional capacity to promote equity and justice for minoritized populations and women. Before switching into education, Najme was a civil engineer for eight years. Her passion for education and development made her to quit engineering and switch to social sciences. Her current role, as the research associate, bridges her engineering background to her passion and endeavors for social justice and gender equity.Prof. Aimy Bazylak, University of Toronto, Canada Prof. Aimy Bazylak is a Professor
). I havelimited experience with qualitative research, and kept this in mind while interperting the resultsof our study. I tend not to think about how my identity is affecting my interpretation of datawithout prompting. As a non-engineer, educator, and social scientist, my biases are that empathyand critical thinking are integral to the development of deep-thinking. Career-focused beginningstudents are unlikely to take a critical look at the field of they have just entered, and need to seeexamples of this. I attempted to assist with data analysis and interpretation as the project hasbeen implemented.Michael Laver: I am a forty-nine year old white, cis-gender male from Indiana, currently livingin Rochester, New York. I received my bachelor’s
interest in computational and theoretical condensed matter and materials physics. Working under the supervision of Prof. Dallas R. Trinkle, Yang is currently doing research on modeling defects in materials, alloys and magnetism in materials using first- principles tools.Andre Schleife (Assistant Professor) André Schleife is a Blue Waters Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and his degrees in physics are from the Friedrich-Schiller University in Jena, Germany (Diploma, 2006; Ph.D. 2010). He was a Directorate Postdoctoral Researcher at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (2011–2013). At UIUC, which he joined in 2013, he received the NSF CAREER award, the ONR YIP award, and was an ACS PRF Doctoral
graders, largerclasses lead to less grading time per submission. As a result, the benefit of the feedback couldvary from step-by-step critiques or a simple “x” indicating that something in the response isincorrect. The potential advantage the student may gain from quality feedback can besignificantly affected by the effort and clarity provided by the grader. Furthermore, students mayadjust their efforts, rather than understand the material itself, to adhere to a grader’s bias for amore favorable grade [5, 6]. The method of feedback is as essential as the feedback itself andassessment has proven to be a critical point in students’ academic careers [5, 12].Additionally, many students who are stressed about their grade or who do not understand
Alliance (IEA) [13] expects that graduates from WashingtonAccord programs will have “knowledge of professional ethics, responsibilities, and normsof engineering practice. Awareness of the need for diversity by reason of ethnicity, gender,age, physical ability etc. with mutual understanding and respect, and of inclusive attitudes”(WK9) and “Knowledge of the role of engineering in society… such as the professionalresponsibility of an engineer to public safety and sustainable development” (WK7).Teaching Ethics in EngineeringDespite the importance of ethics in the career of engineers and the requirement for ethicseducation in accredited undergraduate degree programs, engineering continues to struggle withthis complex educational requirement. The
and strong connections to the faculty. Those findings wereechoed by Griffin et al. [19]. Alston et al. [17] explored the experiences of Black men, US andforeign born, with mentoring at HBCUs in STEM. Alston et al. [17] found that Black menoverall were satisfied with their mentoring experiences, in terms of career preparation, eventhose with mentors whose cultural backgrounds were different than theirs which was what themajority experienced. Their participants, on the other hand, also expressed that their mentoringrelationships did not always live up to their expectations, suggesting that the lack of Black menSTEM mentors constricted developing more potentially satisfying mentorships. “Even on theHBCU campus, STEM environments do not appear
. It costs humanity more effort to limit someone’s potential than to foster it.Kevin’s Positionality Kevin identifies as a Puerto Rican, gay, male, industrial engineer from the west side ofPuerto Rico and is currently a Ph.D. student at the School of Engineering Education at PurdueUniversity, but why does this matter? Some of these intersecting identities are not a uniquecrossroads, but many more people in the world that identify as LGBTQ+ and Latinx may want topursue a career in engineering. Yet, it is rare to find research talking about these intersectingidentities. Studying small sample sizes, especially those at the intersections, has value [12].However, there was not enough literature about the intersection of the Latinx and LGBTQ
of this paper have backgrounds in engineering and experiences with seekingaccommodations in undergraduate engineering. Although some of the authors and researchers inthis work identify as neurodivergent, disabled, or have close family members who areneurodivergent or disabled, not all authors identify as having predominantly neurodivergentcharacteristics. We each share a passion for decentering the societal norms for ability particularlyaround cognitive functioning.Collaboratively, we bring expertise in identity-based motivation, career goals, wellbeing,neurodiversity, particularly autism and ADHD. Two authors contribute self-identifieddescriptions of their experiences in undergraduate engineering as a neurodivergent students,while the
had been three separate threads comprising what became the Climate &Sustainability Systems thread, namely Advanced Materials Machines, Digital Cities, andRenewable Energy Machines. Past developments in the NEET program have been publishedelsewhere [11–15]. Joining NEET is voluntary for students, and it does not fulfill any requirementstoward an engineering degree as prescribed by MIT. The NEET program is based on the following four principles: 1. Student education should focus on preparation for developing new technologies 2. Student education should prepare them to become makers and discoverers, with engineering fundamentals applicable to both research and in practical careers
, their beliefs, and graphic about EL experiences at the intersection of race and gender [25] Traits 4 Veteran EL Development Programs developing student veterans' engineering leadership [26] Academic 4 Teacher Leader Model Building STEM capacity in K-12 through developing teachers as leaders [27] Preparation Personal & 3 Women’s Oral History Gathering, preserving, and interpreting the voices and memories of women leaders' STEM social exp. careers [28] Organizational Context Internal 11 EL in Academia Explanation of
Paper ID #38347The Development of Sociotechnical Thinking in EngineeringUndergraduatesKathryn Johnson Kathryn Johnson is a Professor at the Colorado School of Mines in the Department of Electrical Engineering and is Jointly Appointed at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. After starting her career with a research focus on wind energy control systems, first developed an interest in engineering education research in the Fall 2011 when she experienced Aalborg University's (Denmark) Problem-Based Learning philosophy. Since then, she has led two NSF grants in social justice and sociotechncial thinking in
Minnesota.Marissa H. Forbes (Research Associate) © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.com US-Sweden Bioinformatics IRES: Investigating Engineering Students’ Attitudes and Perspectives Throughout a 10-week International Research ProgramAbstractThe US-Sweden Clinical Bioinformatics Research Training Program is an NSF-fundedInternational Research Experience for Students (IRES) program that aims to develop a diversecohort of globally competent and engaged scientists/engineers that seek career opportunities andcollaborators throughout the world. The program consists of a six-week preparatory virtual trainingseries
technology greatly impact [students]career goals," [1] the last two authors at the University of Wyoming have increased their de-velopment and offering of Professional Developments (PD) to enable K-12 teachers to extendand broaden their abilities to bring CS to their students. These PDs include two funded byNational Science Foundation grants (DRL Grant #1923542; CNS Grant#2055621), and an-other by the National Security Agency (H98230-21-1-0122). This paper provides an overviewof the camps as well as the assessment of the PD’s effectiveness at enabling K-12 teachersto implement CS topics in to their existing lessons and/or curriculum.1.2 Wyoming CS StandardsAs a means to address the lack of policy dictating pre-collegiate engineering education
, field placement, internship,mandatory professional practicum/clinical placement, service learning, and work experience.Past research in WIL in the context of engineering education has found that students whoparticipate in WIL experiences tend to earn higher GPAs and have higher starting salaries upongraduation than their peers who did not participate in WIL [4]. Johrendt et al. [5] found thatcooperative education is “valuable in academic progress, career enhancement, and developmentof generic skills and attributes”, and that students who worked several shorter, varied work termsenabled them to better understand workplace culture, and develop professional networks. In arecent survey of papers examining design practices in WIL experiences
incorporate education and capacity building into my research and future career in water and sanitation development.Walter Alejandro Silva Sotillo (University of South Florida)Victor Ventor (University of South Florida)Ardis Hanson (Assistant Director, Research and Education, USF HealthLibraries) © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.comWritten Communication to Achieve Data Literacy Goals in a Probability and Statistics CourseAbstractEducational best practices indicate that engineering students learn professional communicationskills most effectively within their engineering courses. To provide for this practice anddocument its
stereotype threats, the malleability of intelligence, and self-affirmations shouldhave a powerful impact in breaking this negative cycle when implemented systematically and asearly as possible in a student’s STEM education.Course Based Undergraduate Research Experiences (CUREs)Participation in undergraduate research promotes confidence, motivation, and ultimately,persistence in STEM. Undergraduate research is a “high-impact practice” [25] with positiveeffects on both student persistence and learning. Large studies show that students with researchexperiences have a stronger intention to pursue a STEM career than students who do notparticipate [26], [27]. Meta-analyses with large student populations also support the conclusionthat student research
to have learned modelling techniques - “… would do the modeling to check how a power system network would operate undercertain conditions and check that it actually meets the standards.” Power electronics were a specific technology that had great significance in generation ofelectricity and are pivotal in converting renewable energy to more useful forms and yet, an Table I. Interview Questions. No. Junior Engineer Senior Engineer 1 Please introduce yourself and give a brief Please introduce yourself and give a brief background into your career. background into your career. 2 How do you see your current line of work
Pacific University in 2021.Jabari Kwesi, Duke UniversityAlicia Nicki Washington, Duke University Dr. Nicki Washington is a professor of the practice of computer science and gender, sexuality, and femi- nist studies at Duke University and the author of Unapologetically Dope: Lessons for Black Women and Girls on Surviving and Thriving in the Tech Field. She is currently the director of the Cultural Compe- tence in Computing (3C) Fellows program and the NSF-funded Alliance for Identity-Inclusive Computing Education (AiiCE). She also serves as senior personnel for the NSF-funded Athena Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI). Her career in higher education began at Howard University as the first Black female fac- ulty
students exhibiting highermath/science self-efficacy and identity were more likely to pursue careers in science, technology,engineering, and math (STEM). Further there is a technological divide in underrepresentedcommunities driven by financial factors, school structures, traditional pedagogical practices, andpeer dynamics informed by gender, race, and socioeconomic factors [6], [7], [8]. Master andMeltzoff [9] propose the STEMO (STEreotypes, Motivation, and Outcomes) to understandcultural stereotypes and foster a sense of belonging in STEM to counteract gender gaps. Theyrecommend interventions to broaden stereotypes, strengthen belonging, and foster a growthmindset to counteract preexisting dynamics contributing to a lack of belonging among
career where they would be able to use their talents, feel like they belong,and look forward to working in. Factor 3 depicts students’ academic self-confidence and self-efficacy, in terms of their confidence in their engineering problem solving abilities, academicperformance, and confidence in succeeding in a college curriculum. Factor 4 characterizesstudents’ understanding of the broad nature of engineering, with respect to how they understandthe relationship between engineering and society and how engineers work with others. Factor 5describes students’ attitudes toward persisting and succeeding in engineering, in regard tostudents’ beliefs about their engineering capability, their confidence in succeeding in anengineering curriculum, and
Paper ID #39567Sense of Belonging in the Cybersecurity Field of StudyDr. Robin A.M. Hensel, West Virginia University Robin A. M. Hensel, Ed.D., is a Teaching Professor in the Benjamin M. Statler College of Engineer- ing and Mineral Resources at West Virginia University and an ASEE Fellow Member. Throughout her career, she has supported engineering teams as a mathematician and provided complete life-cycle man- agement of Information Systems as a Computer Systems Analyst for the U.S. Department of Energy; taught mathematics, statistics, computer science, and engineering courses and served in several adminis- trative
University of South Dakota, her M.S. in Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering and her PhD in Engineering Education from Purdue University. Her research expertise lies in characterizing graduate-level attrition, persistence, and career trajectories; engineering writing and communication; and methodological development. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Synthesizing Indicators of Quality across Traditions of Narrative ResearchMethods: A Procedural Framework and Demonstration of Smoothing FramesAbstractThe purpose of this methods paper is to describe and discuss one of the main indicators ofquality in narrative analysis, which is the process of narrative smoothing. Narrative analysisrefers
instudents who are socially inclined, particularly women and underrepresented minorities [5, 22-23, 31-33]. University students are generally becoming more committed to projects with socialimpact, with 72% claiming that working in a profession with social impact is a higher prioritythan a prestigious career [34-35].Here, we attempted to engage first-year engineering students in a team-based multi-disciplinary project that would provide several benefits: a) application of each stage of theengineering design process using a real-world problem; b) exposure to the large variety ofsocio-technical factors that must be considered in complex engineering challenges; c)components that are of interest to multiple potential majors; and d) an opportunity to work
to be a good teammate. It taught me how to lead.” Efficacy We had somebody on our team that was actually working in an engineering Professional Vicarious company, but he came back to school, so he was working at the same time. He Engineering Experience was like, "Ugh, if it could only be this easy." I'm like, "Oh my God, for me, Self- this is so hard. He's like, "No, no, no. You don't know." This is a very small Efficacy glimpse sense of how the career, lifestyle will be like. And so it gives you a, it's exciting, but it also is like, "You get a glimpse of it." And it's like, "Okay, this is how it will be eventually if I do take it to a career with group work."After the