, gender disparities persist across many engineeringdisciplines and are particularly high in mechanical engineering and electrical engineering, with less than20% of undergraduate degrees being awarded to women (ASEE By the Numbers 2021). K12 roboticsprograms have shown potential in increasing a student’s likelihood of enrolling in a mechanical orelectrical majors. By broadening the applications of robotics to human-centered designs and highlightingsoft and biomaterials used in building robots, the field of soft robotics may be a platform to engage adiversity of students in K12 robotics and later, engineering majors. This paper presents a pilot studyaimed at answering the research question: Can a soft robotics curriculum impact high school
board in quarterly meetings over two years. The board included national experts inengineering education, STEM education, project evaluation, and the field of engineering. Theengineers represent both individuals from rural communities and historically underrepresentedpopulations (female and African American). Together, the group prepared the integrated content,assessments, and reflections, which led to the design of a 3.5-day NEIR-ED PD workshop.Following the design phase, the PIs identified rural high schools to participate in the workshopthat covers the following: (details and examples will be provided at the ASEE conference)• Knowledge of engineering core ideas;• Practices and pedagogical knowledge and skills to teach engineering design in a
thoughtful engineers.References[1] N. Alaraje, L. A. Meadows, L. K. Fiss, S. L. Amato-Henderson, G. C. Hembroff, A.Sergeyev, K. H. Raffaelli and J. L. Irwin, “Board 3: Engineering Technology Scholars-IMProving Retention and Student Success (ETS-IMPRESS): First Year Progress Report,” Paperpresented at 2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Tampa, Florida, June 2019.https://peer.asee.org/32317[2] R. Kegan, In over our heads: The mental demands of modern life. Harvard University Press,1994.[3] M. B. Baxter Magolda, “Three elements of self-authorship,” Journal of College StudentDevelopment, vol. 49, no. 4, pp. 269-284, 2008.[4] L. A. Meadows, M. Raber and L. K. Fiss, “Innovation and Inclusion—Applying designthinking and lean startup in the honors
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Virginia University. Dr. Elshehabi taught numerous Petroleum Engineering and Engineering Science courses. He received several teaching and learning awards. He published several technical papers and posters in the areas of Petroleum Engineering and Engineering Education. He is an active member and fellow of numerous Petroleum Engineering and Education societies, including SPE, AADE, IADC, ASEE, NETI, AAC&U, LAMP, and NSPE. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Visual Teaching Philosophy Empowering Inclusive Learning and Managing Expectations Tawfik Elshehabi, PhD, PE
Research and Outreach Center in the School of Engineering, Mathematics and Science. In 2019, Dr. Kerzmann joined the Me- chanical Engineering and Material Science (MEMS) department at the University of Pittsburgh. He is the advising coordinator and associate professor in the MEMS department, where he positively engages with numerous mechanical engineering advisees, teaches courses in mechanical engineering and sustainability, and conducts research in energy systems. Throughout his career, Dr. Kerzmann has advised over eighty student projects, some of which have won regional and international awards. A recent project team won the Utility of Tomorrow competition, outperforming fifty-five international teams to bring
traditional systems. In 2019 the EU program launched a series of faculty developmentworkshops framed with both a systems approach and design thinking. A summary of the program changesover time is shown in Figure 1.The primary goal of the faculty development program is to foster EM in engineering education byengaging faculty in EM activities and perspectives that they can implement with their students [1].Faculty needs were mapped to a suite of faculty development offerings that included workshopsaddressing EM activities and perspectives targeting curriculum, teaching, research, industry, andleadership. Figure 1. Timeline of EU faculty development; iterative elements are shown for feedback processes.Design thinking is a systematic problem-solving
Paper ID #30775Undergraduate Students as Visiting Students in the UKProf. Ali Mehrizi-Sani , Virginia Tech Ali Mehrizi-Sani received the B.Sc. degrees in electrical engineering and petroleum engineering from Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, both in 2005. He received the M.Sc. degree from the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada, and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, both in electrical engineering, in 2007 and 2011. He is currently an Associate Pro- fessor at Virginia Tech. He was an Associate Professor at Washington State University (2012-2019) and a Visiting
your engineering educationand help prepare you for your future?” The reflection can be in the form of a presentation, video,or 2-page impact statement for public dissemination. The first cohort of nine Global EngineeringPerspectives Scholars graduated in 2019, including students from five degree programs withcompetencies spanning five different languages.Motivation for the programGlobalization is driving the need for engineers to work effectively in international environments,and navigate differences across cultures [1]. Studies on intercultural competencies for engineeringstudents typically describe the benefit of such competencies as allowing them to work with peoplefrom different cultures in an increasingly globalized world. There is also
recipient of School of Engineering Education Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching and the 2018 College of Engineering Exceptional Early Career Teaching Award. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 WIP: An Intersectional Conceptual Framework for Understanding How to Measure Socioeconomic Inequality in Engineering EducationIntroductionSince the late 2000s, there has been a surge of research that focuses on the effect of socioeconomicdisadvantage in the American engineering education context [1]–[8]. Through these studies,authors have continued to uncover more about the experiences of socioeconomicallydisadvantaged students in engineering education
–University Of St. Thomas - Minnesota. [online] Stthomas.edu. Available at: [Accessed 1 October 2019].[3] AM. Thomas, A. Miller, and H. Spicuzza, “Dance + Engineering: A Collaboration forFreshmen Engineering Design Students,” proceedings of the ASEE North Midwest SectionMeeting, Mankato, MN (2010).AcknowledgementsThe authors would like to thank the Kern Family Foundation for their generous financial support.They would also like to thank the Playful Learning Lab and University of St. Thomas School ofEngineering for support in building.Appendix A. Project GuidelinesThe second project for the semester is designing Little Free Libraries for some exciting partners.Project Partners: • Partner name o External links.Final Deliverables: • A
Paper ID #27260Board 18: Social Network Analysis of In-Group Biases with EngineeringProject TeamsNitzan Navick, California State University, Channel Islands Nitzan Navick obtained a B.A. in Psychology from California State University Channel Islands. She is now a post-bacc student working on a new, original study and will be entering the MA/PhD in Com- munication Program at UCSB in Fall of 2019. Currently, she works as a grant coordinator for Projects iPath and Adelante at CSU Channel Islands, two Title V grant sub-awards dedicated to increasing the 4-year college attendance rate among community college students in Ventura
Engineering from UPRM and Ph.D in Engineering Education from Purdue University. Dr. Santiago has over 20 years of experience in academia and is currently the Department Head of the CIIM Department. She’s also the founder and advisor of the first ASEE student chapter in Puerto Rico. Her pri- mary research interests include investigating students’ understanding of difficult concepts in engineering sciences, especially for underrepresented populations. She also works in the development and evalua- tion of various engineering curriculum and courses at UPRM applying the outcome-based educational framework.Prof. Christopher Papadopoulos, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus Christopher Papadopoulos is Professor in the
thelast decade and will highlight the main capacity-building challenges that engineering educationin Afghanistan is facing at present. On this basis, practical recommendations will be made toaddress these challenges, which can enhance the quality of engineering education in the countryand thus lead the Afghan people towards a better, more self-sufficient future.2. Overview of the higher education sectorThe education sector in Afghanistan has experienced significant progress in terms of studentnumber entering the universities in addition to establishing new colleges and universitiesthroughout the country. According to the Ministry of Higher Education (MoHE) strategic planfrom 2014 -2019 [4], there were only six public universities and no private
University of Central Florida and is anticipated to graduate in Spring 2019. He has two masters degrees one in mechanical engineering from UCF and another in aerospace engineering form Sharif University of Technology. He currently works in the Nanofabrication and BioMEMS Laboratory at UCF and his research areas include Nanofabrication, Microfluidics, Sensors and Actuators, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Optimization, and Mathematical Modeling. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019Running Head: Project CoMET RETCollaborative Multidisciplinary Engineering Design Experiences for Teachers (CoMET) Train the Trainer Model of Supports Type 5 Work in ProgressThe K-12 learning environment is
holds a PhD in Engineering Education from Purdue University and other degrees in Manufacturing Engineering from Western Illinois University and a B.Sc. in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the University of Technology, Jamaica. Her research interest is eliciting conceptual understanding of AC circuit concepts using active learning strategies. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Work in Progress – Designing a Capstone Course Towards Effective Collaborative Behaviors in Interdisciplinary EnvironmentsAbstractSenior capstone classes are unique and crucial experiences for undergraduate students, in thatthey provide long-term, often synthesis-based
of online delivery of en- gineering content with emphasis on how the material can be modified to provide a personalized learning experience. LaMeres is also researching strategies to improve student engagement and how they can be used to improve diversity within engineering. LaMeres received his Ph.D. from the University of Col- orado, Boulder. He has published over 90 manuscripts and 5 textbooks in the area of digital systems and engineering education. LaMeres has also been granted 13 US patents in the area of digital signal propa- gation. LaMeres is a member of ASEE, a Senior Member of IEEE, and a registered Professional Engineer in the States of Montana and Colorado. Prior to joining the MSU faculty, LaMeres
Women in Engineering (WIE) Division, a member of the Society of Women Engineers (SWE), and a member of the American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE).Dr. Vladimir Genis, Drexel University Dr. Vladimir Genis - Professor and Head of the Department of Engineering Technology in the College of Engineering, has taught and developed graduate and undergraduate courses in physics, electronics, nanotechnology, biomedical engineering, nondestructiveSusan Herring, Bucks County Community College Susan Herring, Executive Director of the Center for Workforce Development at Bucks County Commu- nity College, directs the college’s workforce development activities as they relate to business incumbent worker training, industrial
learning on the development of first-year students’ ethical reasoning, as well as research on the development of culturally responsive ethics education in global contexts. He is an active member of the Kern Engineering Entrepreneurship Network (KEEN), the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), and the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE)Dr. Andrea Gammon, Delft University of Technology Andrea Gammon is Assistant Professor of Ethics and Philosophy of Technology at TU Delft. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Foreign Language, Ethical Reasoning, and Moral Intuitions in Global Engineering Ethics Education [Global Engineering Ethics
Academy of Sciences, 117(12):6476–6483, 2020. [8] Ang´elica Burbano, Katherine Ortegon, Silvia Guzman, and Henry Arley Taquez Quenguan. Active learning: Faculty mind-sets and the need for faculty development. In 2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, 2019. [9] Michael Prince. Does active learning work? a review of the research. Journal of engineering education, 93(3): 223–231, 2004.[10] Charles C Bonwell and James A Eison. Active learning: Creating excitement in the classroom. school of education and human development, george washington university, 1991.[11] Jim Eison. Using active learning instructional strategies to create excitement and enhance learning. Jurnal Pendidikantentang Strategi Pembelajaran Aktif (Active
, early-career women in engineering, sustainable design, and improving diversity,equity, inclusion, and justice within engineering education and the engineering workforce. She isalso interested in student and faculty development. Elizabeth received an M.S. in CivilEngineering as well as a certificate in engineering leadership from the University of Florida anda B.S. in civil engineering from Clemson University. She is an Engineer in Training (EIT) andLeadership in Energy and Environmental Design Green Associate (LEED-GA)Denise R. Simmons, Ph.D., PE, F. ASEE, PMP, LEED-APDenise R. Simmons, Ph.D., PE, F. ASEE, PMP, LEED-AP is the Associate Dean for WorkforceDevelopment in the Wertheim College of Engineering and a tenured Associate Professor in
ethnicity, without considering the intersectional nature of identities and how theyinteract to shape student experiences (Figard et al., 2023a). Although intersectionality research is growing in engineering education, studiesdiscussing disability as an aspect of intersectionality or identity are almost entirely nonexistent.While higher education research has slowly grown to address disabled students’ experiences oncampus and recognize disability as a social identity and aspect of campus diversity, it has stillfailed to address how ableism intersects with other aspects of oppression to impact disabledstudents’ experiences (Naples et al., 2019). Scholars have called for an expanded use ofintersectionality to study and work with disabled people
, doi: 10.1111/j.1744- 6570.1988.tb00632.x[3] D. Jackson, J. Fleming, and A. Rowe, “Enabling the Transfer of Skills and Knowledge across Classroom and Work Contexts,” Vocations and Learning, vol. 12, pp. 459-478, Mar. 2019, doi: 10.1007/s12186-019-09224-1[4] L.A. Perry, and J.S. London, “The Transfer of Learning Between School and Work: A New Stance in the Debate About Engineering Graduates’ Preparedness for Career Success abstract Paper,” in 2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access, Jul. 2021. [Online]. Available: https://peer.asee.org/37899[5] M. Taguma, E. Feron, and M.H. Lim, “A Literature Summary for Research on the Transfer of Learning,” in Future of Education and Skills 2030
stakeholders, it translates to narratives about the community that are more accurate andwherein the community has and feels more agency in the process.Future DirectionsThe authors intend to build from this concept paper into a research exploration of engineeringeducator’s experiences with stakeholder analysis. We seek to collect data from gatherings ofengineering educators (e.g. at the ASEE convening), as well as some surveys and interviews ofengineering educators about curriculum and training for stakeholder analysis. We seek to solicitfeedback on our examples and rubric above, as well as learning from educators on theirexperience with ethics and stakeholder analysis. We will further develop the work byelaborating the rubric into more nuanced steps
do more’: A qualitative meta-analysis of early career engineers’ perceptions of agency in their workplaces,” in American Society for Engineering Education, 2019.[4] J. Glass, K. Takasaki, S. Sassler, and E. Parker, “Finding a job: An intersectional analysis of search strategies and outcomes among U.S. STEM graduates,” Res Soc Stratif Mobil, vol. 83, p. 100758, Feb. 2023, doi: 10.1016/J.RSSM.2023.100758.[5] K. Boudreau, M. P. Quinn, Z. Reidinger, D. Dibiasio, and P. Quinn, “Exploring Inclusive Spaces for LGBTQ Engineering Students,” in CoNECD - American Society of Engineering Education, 2018. [Online]. Available: https://www.asee.org/about-us/the- organization/our-board-of-directors/asee-board
://www.abet.org/accreditation/accreditation-criteria/accreditation-policy-and- procedure-manual-appm-2023-2024/[2] J. M. Cruz, C. Hampton, S. G. Adams, and N. Hosseinichimeh, “A systems approach to instructional change in academia,” presented at the 126th ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Tampa, FL, USA, Jun. 2019.[3] J. E. Groccia and W. Buskist, “Need for evidence‐based teaching,” New Dir. Teach. Learn., vol. 2011, no. 128, pp. 5–11, Dec. 2011, doi: 10.1002/tl.463.[4] M. Borrego and C. Henderson, “Increasing the Use of Evidence-Based Teaching in STEM Higher Education: A Comparison of Eight Change Strategies: Increasing Evidence-Based Teaching in STEM Education,” J. Eng. Educ., vol. 103, no. 2, pp. 220–252, Apr. 2014, doi
of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.[2] Churches, A., and Magin, D., 2005, “Student Design-And-Build Projects Revisited,” International Conference on Engineering Design.[3] Pahl, G., and Beitz, W., 1988, Engineering Design: A Systematic Approach.[4] Sozen, M., 2016, “A Design-and-Build Project for Heat Transfer Course,” American Society for Engineering Education.[5] Platanitis, G., and Pop-Iliev, R., 2009, “Design-Build Project Approach in a First Year Engineering Design Course,” Canadian Engineering Education Association.[6] Renu, R. S., 2019, “Observations from a Two-Semester Design and Build Project,” ASEE Southeastern Section Conference .
male-female ratio that isreflective of the local work force), there are laws that prevent such goals from unduly harmingnon-targeted groups, from hiring people who are unqualified for the job, or to have rigid quotasfor any job or position (ACLU of Southern California, 2019). That is, while women might haveit easier in a certain job interview at a certain institution, it is typically to account for biasesthroughout the entire pipeline of their STEM career as indicated in the literature and analysisdone in this paper. Such a provision does not in fact make it easier for women in STEM. Suchsentiments are harmful for women as indicated by many in the survey who feel “unsure ofthemselves”, “drive(n) … to do better to prove (their) worth”, “look(ed
between 2018-2019. The remaining 5 participated inremote cohorts between 2020-2021 (see Appendix A for more details on participants’ cohorts). Table 1: Participants’ demographics and CSSI cohortFactor Value #. Factor Value #.Gender Women 10. First-generation college student Yes 4. Men 6. No 12.Race/Ethnicity* Asian 4. CSSI Location In-person 11. Black or African American 4