Paper ID #20467Fostering an Asset Mindset to Broaden Participation through the Transfor-mation of an Engineering Diversity ProgramDr. Beverly Louie, University of Colorado, Boulder Beverly Louie is the Director for Teaching and Learning Initiatives in the Broadening Opportunities through the Leadership and Diversity (BOLD) Center in The University of Colorado Boulder’s College of Engineering and Applied Science. She holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in chemical engineering from CU, and a D.Phil. in mechanical engineering from the University of Oxford, England. Louie’s research inter- ests are in the areas of engineering student
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
Paper ID #27793The On-going Status of The 3+1 Dual Degree Program in Electrical Engineer-ing and Computer Engineering between Northern Arizona University andChongqing University of Post and TelecommunicationDr. Xi Zhou, Northern Arizona University Dr. Zhou is an Assistant Professor of Practice in the School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Sys- tems at Northern Arizona University and is primarily focused on the NAU/CQUPT dual degree program. He completed his Ph.D in Material Science and Engineering in 2014 at Norfolk State University in Vir- ginia. Dr. Zhou’s research interests are in semiconductors and electronics. He
individual experiences (cases) and collaboratively inquiring across them, we hopeto illustrate common ideas that may be central to this type of work, and that should likely be partof an ongoing conversation about the nature and practice of SOI in engineering education research.Though we do not offer definitive answers, using our collective reflection upon and across ourexperiences could support others as they consider if a current project or program might be an SOIeffort, or as they find new directions in on-going projects that could benefit from this form ofscholarship. Our examples and collaborative inquiry can also be potentially used to reflect uponthe common strategy of keeping the user in mind throughout SOI efforts, the challenges
Paper ID #41719”Ima Nmadu”: Building Academic Success Through Relationships—A BlackCivil Engineering Ph.D. Student’s Autoethnographic InsightsMiss Mary Ifeoma Nwanua, University of Florida ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024"Ima Nmadu": Building Academic Success Through Relationships - A BlackCivil Engineering Ph.D. Student's Autoethnographic Insights Mary Ifeoma NwanuaDivision: Graduate StudiesAbstractThe need to diversify the engineering workforce is a national imperative, emphasizing broadeningparticipation and fostering inclusivity. Achieving this goal necessitates
Tech, College of Engineering and theUniversity of Nottingham, Faculty of Engineering, now entering its fourth year. The programfacilitates the exchange of students, faculty, technology and ideas pursuant to researching futureelectronic transport systems and alternative energy systems. This strong institutional partnershipprovides students with the opportunity to conduct this international research while acquiringglobally minded engineering practices. The National Science Foundation grant (#1261162)supports up to (10) students from Virginia Tech in conducting paid summer research related totheir academic and professional interests under the mentorship of faculty members at theUniversity of Nottingham and in cooperation with Virginia Tech
involved in at least two offerings of First Year Design, either initially as a learner or by teaching or coaching multiple courses – or both). ● First Year Design brings together students from different disciplinary foci (Figure 7).Figure 7: The distribution by majors for students enrolled in First Year Design since the 2019-2020 academic year. The left-hand graph depicts majors by university division, while the right-hand graph shows enrollments by major within Engineering.We designed the exit survey instrument with the following goals in mind: to surface studentlearning and confidence in a set of engineering technical and professional skills; to evaluate theefficacy of different instructional features implemented across courses
2005, and which has been held annually since that time. The outreachevent takes place in Boise, Idaho, and at the time of its onset was the only outreach or campactivity in the state focused on girls or young women. Across ten years, 510 total girls haveparticipated, with approximately 85% of them coming from the immediate metropolitan area.The program was developed with a mind toward marketing engineering as an exciting, creativeactivity; including activities developed specifically from that perspective.1 The specific topic ofthis paper is an investigation into the motivation for volunteers and students to support thisprogram. Our hypothesis is that, in particular, the women found this an experience that helped tocreate community among like
Paper ID #16891A Two-Step Program for Undergraduate Students to Gain Authentic Experi-ence in the Research ProcessDr. Charles E. Pierce, University of South Carolina Dr. Pierce is a Bell South Teaching Fellow and Associate Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of South Carolina. He is a member of the American Concrete Institute, American Society of Civil Engineers, and American Society for Engineering Education.Dr. Nicole Berge, University of South Carolina Dr. Nicole Berge received her B.S. and M.S. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of South
belonging on their campuses and in their programs. Morework within the overall veteran community as well as the engineering education community maybe needed to understand this concern fully.Recommendations for ASEE support to veteransThe ultimate purpose of the roundtable was to identify ways that ASEE could support veteranengineering education, relevant veteran diversity research, and engagement within the veterancommunity. With discussion from the affinity mapping exercise fresh in mind, a brain writingexercise was used to develop actionable ideas.Each attendee was given a brain writing 6-3-5 worksheet [30] with the following prompt: “Howcan ASEE support 1) engineering education, 2) relevant diversity research, and 3) engagement ofthis community
, and provide financial, academic and professional development support systems for them from matriculation to the time they graduate and join the workforce. 4. Partnering with local K-12 school systems, especially those serving marginalized groups in our society, to develop talented minds, support them and transition them to higher education. 5. Recognizing and celebrating national and state holidays in recognition of individuals and groups who have fought for social justice. 6. Creating an annual national IEC event to engage our communities on how Electrical and Computer Engineering promotes social, economic, and environmental justice. 7. Reaching out to institutions from across the higher education
, and the difference compared with Group C, university visitors, is statisticallysignificant. The higher score is likely due to the environmental engineering students, many ofwhom are female and are expected to want to do good for society [10]. However, it does notexplain why the environmentally and socially minded secondary school students are notdrawn into engineering.Being a male predicts interest in technology more than being a Scientist or an Idealist. It alsopredicts an interest in engineering studies more than the Scientist orientation. This stronggender-related divide has been found to be typical especially for the economically developedcountries with high levels of gender equality. It has been suggested to relate to the gender
Paper ID #29514Teaching ’Diversity in Design and the Design Thinking Process throughhands-on in-classroom prototyping (Resource Exchange, Diversity)D’Andre Jermaine Wilson-Ihejirika P.Eng., BrainSTEM Alliance D’Andre Wilson-Ihejirika completed her B.Eng in Chemical Engineering at McGill University and her MASc. from the Centre for Management of Technology and Entrepreneurship (CMTE) at the University of Toronto. She worked for several years as a Professional Chemical Engineer in the Athabasca Oil Sands, before taking a Project Management role in Research & Innovation at York University. D’Andre is the founder the STEM
Paper ID #14503Learning about Design from the Lakota NationDr. George D. Catalano, Binghamton University Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Binghamton University Previously member of the faculty at U.S. Military Academy and Louisiana State University. Two time Fullbright Scholar – Italy and Germany. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Learning about Engineering Design from the LakotaAbstractAn engineering design paradigm is developed using an enriched morally deep world-view. Thenew design approach borrows from the wisdom of the Lakota Nation as evidenced through anexamination of
]. Engineering faculty frequently provide closed-ended,decontextualized technical problems to solve, which sends the message that social considerationsare either irrelevant or of significantly lesser importance. Prior research has suggested thatsociotechnical integration could benefit engineering students by allowing them to think moresociotechnically and better develop engineering habits of mind [2].Sociotechnical integration refers to the integration of the social and technical dimensions ofengineering problems [3]. Such an integration is integral to engineering work [1], but often notmade visible in engineering education. Furthermore, sociotechnical thinking refers to ability toidentify, address, and account for “the interplay between relevant social
Paper ID #20261Cognitive Processing of Cryptography Concepts: An fMRI StudyMr. Joseph William Beckman, Purdue University Joseph Beckman is a Ph.D. student in information security at Purdue University researching cognitive processing as it applies to learning in information security.Ms. Melissa Jane Dark, Purdue University Melissa Dark is W.C. Furnas Professor of Technology in the College of Technology at Purdue University. Her work is in cybersecurity teaching, learning and thinking.Mr. Pratik Kashyap, Purdue University Pratik Kashyap is a PhD student in Electrical Engineering at Purdue University whose field of research
Paper ID #28676Role of Social Interaction in the Barriers Facing First-yearInternational Students in the United StatesMr. Johnny Crayd Woods Jr., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Johnny C. Woods, Jr. is a Higher Education Ph.D. Student and a Graduate Research Assistant in the Department of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia. His research interests are STEM Education; Migration and Immigration issues in education; and Quality Assurance.Dr. Homero Murzi, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Homero Murzi is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Engineering
Arizona Byron Hempel is a PhD graduate student at the University of Arizona, having received his B.S. in Chem- istry at the University of Kentucky and Masters in the Chemical and Environmental Engineering Depart- ment at the University of Arizona. Working under Dr. Paul Blowers, Byron is focusing on improving the classroom environment in higher education by working in the flipped classroom. He is a University Fellow, a Mindful Ambassador, and Chair of the Graduate Student Working Group for the ASEE Chapter at the University of Arizona. In his ”free time” he enjoys rock climbing.Ms. Christina Julianne Loera, University of ArizonaSamantha Davidson, University of ArizonaMs. Savannah Boyd, University of Arizona Graduate
they need to communicate theirmeaning-making and its value to others? The purpose of this paper is to describe a newlyrequired course, The Art of Telling Your Story, for undergraduates in biomedical engineering atone highly selective STEM-focused university. In this course, students develop and sharepowerful stories of events that transformed them in some meaningful way. The course instructorand students engage in joint dialogues around these stories that build self-concept and that helpthem to see themselves as being entrepreneurially minded. Preliminary findings suggest thatstudents: 1) thoroughly enjoy the course, but more importantly, 2) explore their unique identities,and 3) improve their self-concept clarity. In this paper, we describe
ideas, which helped them to minimize evaluation of early ideas. They aimed togenerate a specific number of ideas and further used idea generation techniques such as MindMapping, Brainstorming, Design Heuristics, and Functional Decomposition to expand thepossible number of concepts. For example, Brian used Mind Mapping to come up with sub-component ideas and synthesized whole idea by combining various sub-components. Ideationtechniques helped students to come up with a larger number of ideas that varied. Currently, only a few engineering courses provide explicit instruction on promotingcreativity in idea generation and problem solving [39-42]. A common instructional method inengineering to encourage creative problem solving is through
different idea generationmethod. Since all idea sections were conducted at the same time, four different faculty memberstaught each section. All the faculty members teaching idea generation had prior experience inteaching the engineering design process. Within the idea sections, teams of four students wereformed which are referred as ‘concept teams’ throughout the paper. The students worked withtheir concept teams in the idea sections for the duration of the study. The ‘project team’ refers tothe actual senior design project teams to avoid confusion with ‘concept team’.Idea Generation MethodsThe ideation methods that were covered in this study were brainstorming, collaborativesketching, mind-maps, morph matrix, design by analogy, TRIZ, bio-inspired
Paper ID #38044Experience with the Development and Implementation of Online andHands-on Rocketry Education and OutreachMr. John Juhyun Kim, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign John Kim is currently pursuing a master’s degree in aerospace engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His work focuses on the impact of hands-on kits and MOOCs towards enhancing science literacy.Timothy Plomin, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Tim Plomin is currently pursuing a master’s degree in aerospace engineering from the University of Illi- nois at Urbana-Champaign. His work focuses on the impact of hands-on
Paper ID #33437Inclusive Writing: Pre- and Post-COVID-19Dr. Teresa L. Larkin, American University Teresa L. Larkin is an Associate Professor of Physics Education and Director and Faculty Liaison to the Combined Plan Dual-degree Engineering Program at American University. Dr. Larkin conducts ed- ucational research and has published widely on topics related to the assessment of student learning in introductory physics and engineering courses. Noteworthy is her work with student writing as a learning and assessment tool in her introductory physics courses for non-majors. One component of her research focuses on the role
Paper ID #22709Successfully Building a Diverse Telescope Workforce: The Design of the Aka-mai Internship Program in Hawai’iMr. Austin Barnes, Institute for Scientist and Engineer Educators Austin Barnes is a program manager with the Institute for Scientist and Engineer Educators, which is housed in the Division of Social Sciences at UC Santa Cruz. Coming from an educational background in astronomy and engineering, Austin manages the Akamai Internship Program, a seven week summer internship program in Hawai’i dedicated to retaining local undergraduate participants in science, technol- ogy, engineering, and mathematics
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Paper ID #34794The Role of All-Female STEM Spaces in Encouraging High School Girls toPursue STEM (Fundamental, Diversity)Dr. Mariel Kolker, Morris School District Dr. Mariel Kolker is a second-career teacher of high school physics, engineering and nanoscience. She earned her B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Rutgers University, and her MBA in Finance from Ford- ham’s Gabelli Graduate School of Business, and worked for a decade in the Power Generation, Trans- mission & Distribution Industry before entering teaching in 2000. She earned her Ed.D. in Educational Leadership in STEM from UMass Lowell. Her interests are in
Paper ID #27494Training Modules for Improved Storage Techniques to Reduce Post-harvestLosses of Maize in Ghana, Work in ProgressMs. Hallie E Supak, Texas A&M University I am a senior undergraduate student at Texas A&M University studying Biological and Agricultural Engi- neering. I have been working with my partner and co-author Victoria Baltazar since May on this project. We are apart of the Post-Harvest Engineering and Education (PHEED) research group under the super- vision of Dr. Janie Moore PhD focusing on post-harvest loss education and improvement in African countries with a special interest in women farmers
Paper ID #34090Design and Build at Home: Development of a Low-cost and VersatileHardware Kit for a Remote First-year Mechanical Engineering Design ClassTania K. Morimoto, University of California, San Diego Tania K. Morimoto received the B.S. degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, in 2012 and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Stanford University, Stanford, CA, in 2015 and 2017, respectively, all in mechanical engineering. She is currently an Assistant Professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering and an Assistant Professor of surgery with University of California, San Diego. Her research interests
Paper ID #21208Engaging Children in Design Thinking Through Transmedia Narrative (RTP)Dr. Glenn W. Ellis, Smith College Glenn Ellis is a Professor of Engineering at Smith College who teaches courses in engineering science and methods for teaching science and engineering. He received a B.S. in Civil Engineering from Lehigh University and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Civil Engineering and Operations Research from Princeton Univer- sity. The winner of numerous teaching and research awards, Dr. Ellis received the 2007 U.S. Professor of the Year Award for Baccalaureate Colleges from the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teach
design toproduce solutions that meet specified needs with consideration of public health, safety, welfare,as well as global, cultural, social, environmental, and economic factors” whereas the ANSAConly requires that the design must meet “desired needs.” With this in mind, we haveimplemented a project that is completed by students at the end of the second semester ofintroductory physics where students are required to follow engineering design principles todesign and build simple speakers that must meet given specifications. In this paper, we discussthe details of the student project specifications, the rubric developed to assess the studentprojects, and show select student projects from the first two cohorts assigned this project.Additionally, we