past several decades, there has been an increasing emphasis on the importance of engineerspossessing important professional skills, including global readiness or awareness. In 2004, theNational Academy of Engineering (NAE) described the Engineer of 2020 as being proficient in“interdisciplinary teams [with] globally diverse team members” (p. 55).1 As the NAE stated,“While certain basics of engineering will not change, the global economy and the way engineerswill work will reflect an ongoing evolution that began to gain momentum a decade ago.” (p. 4).Engineering graduates will be called to solve increasingly global problems and to work in teamsthat contain members who are either from international locations or are globally distributed.Across the
concentrated on the reform of engineering education, broadening participation in engineering, and the scholarship of teaching and learning.Ms. Jennifer O. Burrell, Howard University Jennifer O. Burrell is a Ph.D. student in developmental psychology at Howard University. Burrell is a Graduate Research Assistant with the Department of Civil Engineering at Howard University. Her dissertation research explores how using culturally relevant pedagogy can increase students’ motivation and create pathways to academic success, particularly in STEM. Through her research and evaluation of education programs and interventions, she hopes to improve the schooling experiences of public school students by promoting the use of evidence
which all undergraduates are required to take at least three WI classes forgraduation. These classes are a standard part of their curricula but contain specific writingcomponents. Specially trained student-tutors work with their fellows to ensure writingskills are being developed.We propose a similar idea with ethics education.The critical part of our program is a three-phase tutor-training program for upper divisionand graduate students. In Phase I, students are introduced to the major ethical philosophiesby instructors playing the leading thinkers of those traditions. For example, an instructormight play Socrates or Confucius or Augustine or Kant, thus providing a more personal
) and Accessible Technology Services at the University of Washington. DO-IT promotes the success of students with disabilities in postsecondary programs and careers, employing technology as an empowering too.Richard Ladner, University of Washington Richard E. Ladner, Boeing Professor in Computer Science and Engineering, graduated from St. Mary's College of California with a B.S. in 1965 and received a Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of California, Berkeley in 1971, at which time he joined the faculty of the University of Washington. Since 1994, as part of the DO-IT Project, he has held a one week summer workshop for disabled high school students encouraging them to pursue college
degrading behavior,students can interpret that inaction as tacit support for bad behavior.20-22 One advisor mentions atime when the team had some members with “grating personalities,” during which he spent moretime assisting with interpersonal relations than usual. He felt that he needed to intervene as thosestudents were contributing to a hostile climate for new members. Finally, a young advisorbelieves that his wife exerts positive influences on team cultures. His wife, a highly successfulengineer in industry, provides input during design critiques and reviews and aids introubleshooting. They sometimes bring their young children to team activities. She becomesvisible proof of a successful engineer who is also a wife and mother, an important role
experiences for undergraduate students that simulate professional “real world”problems creates a natural tension with the obligation to teach course content and skills. Thepressure by employers to produce graduates who are better prepared to work on multidisciplinaryteams is one reason faculty incorporate student project teams into their courses. Yet, mimickingthe professional world may produce performance measures that value product quality overindividual learning in the classroom. Professional settings, which value efficiency and highquality, expect employees to be specialists (depth at the expense of breadth). Educators valuecontent and conceptual mastery with an appropriate balance of depth and breath. Anotherdifficulty with adopting the
Paper ID #37659Connecting Education Abroad with an in-class EWBInternational Challenge ProjectThomas J. Siller (Associate Professor) (Colorado State University) Thomas Siller has been a faculty member at Colorado State Unversity for over 34 years.Abigale Johnson Abigale Johnson is a learning and development professional who most recently served as the Education Program Director at Engineers Without Borders USA, leading the organization's transformational educational initiatives. Through her role, Abigale served on the international steering committee of EWB organizations that were responsible for developing and
engineers fromprofessionals in other fields. This skill gives engineering graduates a competitive edge forpursuing diverse career paths and for responding to a range of social and technological needsthroughout their careers. A component of this competitive edge includes affording students theopportunity to develop an entrepreneurial mindset (EM). According to the Kern EntrepreneurialEngineering Network (KEEN), the EM includes three dimensions: curiosity, creation of value,and connections. While entrepreneurship is frequently associated with commercialization andbusiness, it is a critical but undervalued aspect of designing products and solutions inengineering. Over the past decade, various members of KEEN have embedded the EM inengineering
studentsperceive to be most responsible for their build-up of social capital, as well as how the resultingsocial capital influenced school and/or career decisions in CS. With an understanding of CSSI’simpact on students’ persistence in CS, our findings will inform the design of future CS supportprograms such that they encourage and build social capital and persistence amongunderrepresented students in the field, ultimately working towards greater diversity in CS.Background A. Persistence in CSPersistence refers to an individual’s commitment (whether intended or realized) to stay in a field.Its study is motivated by the substantial opportunity cost that results when undergraduatestudents leave the field [26] and CS’ highest attrition rates among Science
Catherine Mobley, Ph.D., is a Professor of Sociology at Clemson University. She has over 30 years experience in project and program evaluation and has worked for a variety of consulting firms, non-profit agencies, and government organizations, including the Rand Corporation, the American Association of Retired Persons, the U.S. Department of Education, and the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research. Since 2004, she been a member of the NSF-funded MIDFIELD research project on engineering education; she has served as a Co-PI on three research projects, including one on transfer students and another on student veterans in engineering.Dr. Catherine E. Brawner, Research Triangle Educational Consultants Catherine E. Brawner is
Engineering curriculum as it teaches thestudent how to select appropriate devices for electronically measuring the biomedicalphenomena. At the University of Wisconsin-Madison, two courses in bioinstrumentation areoffered on an annual basis. BME 310, Introduction to Biomedical Instrumentation is a required, Page 14.734.3core course in the undergraduate Biomedical Engineering program geared towards sophomorestudents, while BME/ECE 462, Medical Instrumentation is an advanced course intended forseniors and first-year graduate students 1-2. BME 310 is offered to around 40 students eachspring, while BME/ECE 462 is offered to around 20 students each fall
., is the director of the University of Washington Center for Evaluation & Research for STEM Equity (UW CERSE) and an affiliate assistant professor of sociology. She has been at UW working on STEM Equity issues for more than 15 years. Dr. Litzler is a member of ASEE and a former board member of the Women in Engineering ProActive Network (WEPAN). Her research interests include the educational climate for students, faculty, and staff in science and engineering, assets based approaches to STEM equity, and gender and race stratification in education and the workforce. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021Who benefits most from a holistic student
Page 13.795.5report on a particular industry. Plus3 students also interact with local students, hear guestlectures from host universities and make several cultural visits while in the host country. Eachtrip is led by either an Engineering or Business faculty member accompanied by a support staff from Engineering, the College of Business Administration or the University Center for International Studies (UCIS). Plus3 aims to cultivate interest in foreign language study
adjustment and their success in college.4 In fact, the academicachievement of Latino students in particular tends to be enhanced by professors perceived to besupportive and accessible.4Students’ level of comfort approaching faculty for academic and social support can contribute totheir sense of belonging.3 Students who cultivate relationships with faculty members outside theclassroom tend to both report higher levels of satisfaction with their college and graduate.4 Infact, minority students who complete science and engineering degrees often highlight the role ofa faculty member as being instrumental to their success.4 Positive experiences with supportivefaculty can increase students’ sense of belonging and contribute to a climate that
choices. Firstly, a fundamental factor that contributes to prior experience is individuals’ deep-seated passion for flight and aviation. Several studies found that this passion often develops at ayoung age and serves as a primary motivator for individuals to pursue aviation education [11],[6], [12]. One study of professional female pilots found that their decision to pursue a career inaviation happened at 18.2 years of age [14]. A replication study done with graduates from acollegiate aviation program found this number to be 15.2 years of age [15]. This underscores theimportance of creating an interest in aviation at an earlier age if students are to enroll in acollegiate aviation program prior to entering the workforce. In addition
AC 2012-5469: INTERDISCIPLINARY PEDAGOGY FOR PERVASIVE COM-PUTING DESIGN PROCESSES: AN EVALUATIVE ANALYSISDr. Lisa D. McNair, Virginia Tech Lisa McNair is an Associate Professor in the Department of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech where she serves as Assistant Department Head for Graduate Education and co-directs the Virginia Tech Engi- neering Communication Center. Her research includes interdisciplinary collaboration, communication studies, identity theory, and reflective practice. Projects supported by the National Science Foundation include: interdisciplinary pedagogy for pervasive computing design, writing across the curriculum in stat- ics courses, and a CAREER award to explore the use of e-portfolios
, and largely presumed by professional associations and licensingbodies. Many formal courses and programs have in turn been created to promote professionalresponsibility and ethical integrity among engineering graduates. Other interventions (e.g.,service learning programs) have also been developed to more broadly challenge engineeringstudents to develop as engaged citizens and community members. Yet there has been a notablelack of research on measures and understandings of social and ethical responsibility amongundergraduate engineering students. Further, few studies have looked at how such indicatorschange over time and are impacted by specific kinds of learning experiences. As a result, facultyand administrators often have little evidence to
Cavalry Company Commander, Installation Commander, and as a Maintenance Test Pilot. His engineering and industry experience is in the repair of gas and oil pipelines with non-metallic materials and in the fabrication and testing of composite and lightweight structures, primarily aircraft and wind energy devices. French and his wife have served as full-time missionaries in Korea, China, and Mongolia and have lead student missions teams to several countries to conduct engi- neering missions support work. French joined the LETU faculty in the fall of 2010 and teaches design and engineering science courses at the undergraduate and graduate level in addition to advising graduate students and directing two senior projects.Dr
and retaintheir Pell funding; such an observation suggests that throughout one’s academic career at acommunity college students receive some form of college attending support.26 With that form ofcollege attending support, institutions may be improving college attendance and completion.(2) Program Planning and Execution Support. Our second determined category of pedagogicalpractice refers to services designed to facilitate student decision-making about program choiceand accommodating program requirements within the constraints of employment and homeobligations. In contrast to the first type of pedagogical practice, this category assumes theviability of some kind of postsecondary schooling, and instead addresses the uniquecharacteristics of a
does not extract funds from the host schools but,rather, helps those institutions garner financial support from corporate and local stakeholders.There are no prerequisites (academic or otherwise) for participation imposed on students by theHSE program; project interest is the deciding factor. There are in-curricular instances of HSEteams and, in those few cases, prerequisites for participation are a decision of the host school.High School Enterprise Objectives High School Enterprise offers secondary students an opportunity to engage in STEMpractice in an environment that is at once “real life” with workplace demands/expectations andyet a safe place to try, to fail, and ultimately to learn. It is hoped that HSE equips high schoolstudents
and participation for almost 20 years. A series of linked courses and an international service- learning project make up the minor.University of University of Toronto’s Institute for Leadership Education inToronto (2002) Engineering (ILead) began as a small co-curricular program in Chemical Engineering, and over time has grown into a faculty wide institute. Currently offers fourteen elective courses and numerous co- curricular programs on engineering leadership for undergraduate and post-graduate students. U of T also has a dedicated team doing research on engineering leadership.Massachusetts
with industry, providing students with hands-onexperience in this specialized field, but not in an international environment [4], [9], [21] .This study focuses specifically on a subset of the 2023 IRiKA cohort, examining how theirinvolvement in microelectronics research abroad contributed to developing their globalengineering competencies. This study seeks to explore the intricate processes through which globalcompetencies are developed among engineering students at both undergraduate and graduate levelswho possess varying levels of research experience in microelectronics. Through the lens of threeresearch questions, the study examines the influence of the International Research Initiative inKnowledge and Academia (IRiKA) on the global
Graduate/5 year 1i Based on pre data collected in the Fall of 2014 by project evaluators.ii Data presented in the following tables are based on Fall 2014 responses to evaluation surveys.Additional data for spring 2015 are available; fall 2015 data are in the process of being collectedand analyzed.iii Following is a listing of papers available for download review and attendance.References 1. A. W. Astin, What matters in college?: Four critical years revisited vol. 1: Jossey-Bass San Francisco, 1993. 2. R. J. Light, The Harvard Assessment Seminars Second Report 1992: Explorations with Students and Faculty about Teaching, Learning, and Student Life: Harvard Graduate School of Education, 1992. 3. R. J. Light, Making
labs, however, were offered. Upon entering their senioryear students were to choose the campus at which they would complete their degree objective.In 2004 the City of Lancaster completed renovation of the Challenger Memorial Center, creating theLancaster University Center. This event initiated the evolution of the existing program. Programdevelopment was initially inhibited by the lack of engineering laboratories. In 2007 the City ofLancaster completed construction of a building to house the mechanical engineering laboratory andalso completed renovations within the Lancaster University Center for an electrical engineeringlaboratory and for faculty offices. Laboratory equipment has been supplied by the Air ForceResearch Laboratory and the
be presenting on COVID-19 and U.S. Higher Education: The Realities of Undergraduate International STEM Students’ Experiences.Trina L. Fletcher (Assistant Professor) Dr. Trina L. Fletcher is an Assistant Professor of Engineering and Computing Education and a Faculty Fellow for the Division of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) at Florida International University. Her research includes asset-based studies on women and people of color within STEM education and engineering and computing education at historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs). Dr. Fletcher uses large-scale data sets to conduct research using mixed- methodologies focused her target populations. She is a 2022 NSF CAREER awardee for a project
Associate Vice Provost for Digital Learning at UT San Antonio, where he established the Office of Digital Learning that created a unit focused on innovative delivery across the entire spectrum of technology enabled learning - from in-class to online. Over his career, he has helped a few hundred faculty from varied disciplines develop hybrid and online courses. He has also taught traditional, hybrid and online courses in various STEM disciplines ranging in size from 28 to 250. He is also co-developer of a Digital Academy which was a finalist for the Innovation Award by the Professional and Organizational Development Network and an Innovation Award winner. He was also named as the Center for Digital Education’s Top 30
and explorations of engineering students’ pathways in industry support theneed to determine how to better prepare students to incorporate stakeholder considerations intodesign. In an IEEE Spectrum article titled “What keeps engineers from advancing in theircareer,” Hinkle [8] outlines four pieces of advice for early career engineers, one of which isto Know your stakeholders. This can be much more difficult than knowing your customers, who are a subset of your stakeholders. The broad definition of a stakeholder is anyone who is affected by your work in any way, or who affects your work in any way. Think about that, and you’ll start to realize the impact you are having on the world. It’s probably much bigger
personal level to the students and their families, those who attempt afour-year degree program but are unsuccessful have expended their limited resources.Additionally, as technology becomes a larger portion of our modern life, the need for individualswith technical skills grows. Therefore, the inability to retain students who could becomedegreed, practicing engineers has a detrimental impact on society as a whole. Retention ofstudents who are interested in a career in engineering is therefore a way to both reduceexpenditure of resources and while also increasing the supply of skilled workers for tomorrow’sjob market.II. The Challenge of Increasing RetentionStudents leave the difficult path of an engineering education for a variety of reasons
Toronto District School Board. Teachers of both classes werefamiliar with Discovery and had previously participated in multiple in-person program offerings.Discovery-related deliverables graded by class-specific teachers made up 10-15% of final coursegrades.Discovery mentors were volunteer undergraduate and graduate students from the University ofToronto Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering. Prior to student interaction, mentors wereprovided a pedagogical approach “cheat sheet” that included technical specifics of the projectsand was compiled based on the experience of previous Discovery mentors and teachers.Program OutcomesEvaluation of the Fall 2020 offering of Discovery was completed using a combination of studentgrade data, student
Paper ID #12161Electronic Notebooks to Document the Engineering Design Process: FromPlatform to ImpactDr. Rachel Louis Kajfez, Ohio State University Dr. Rachel Louis Kajfez is an Assistant Professor of Practice in the Engineering Education Innovation Center and the Department of Civil, Environmental, and Geodetic Engineering at The Ohio State Univer- sity. She earned her B.S. and M.S. degrees in Civil Engineering from Ohio State and earned her Ph.D. in Engineering Education from Virginia Tech. Her research interests focus on the intersection between motivation and identity of undergraduate and graduate students, first-year