word count for compassion than kindness) and 21 papersalso discussed empathy (6 with higher word count for empathy than kindness). Related termsthat commonly appeared in these 29 papers also included: caring (20 papers), respect(ful) (17papers), ethic(s/al) (15 papers), and altrui(sm/stic) (14 papers). A detailed exploration of notionsof care in engineering was conducted by Strobel et al. [41]. Kindness may be more active andpersonal than care, as in showing kindness to others (or even oneself), and avoids potentialconfusion around notions of care and diligence in conducting accurate calculations. This quickanalysis shows the inter-relatedness of the ideas of kindness, compassion, empathy, and caring,illustrated somewhat more clearly in the
- components proposed in the fulfilled (40 points) missing 1-2 items. proposal successfully. Total: 90 points* Creativity track project should accompany a brief written report with student(s) name(s), and 1) thelearning objectives it includes, 2) description of the project, 3) justification of difficulty, 4) explanation offinal deliverable (artwork, videos, etc.), and 5) references (optional).Out of 122 students in Section 1, 69 students submitted the letter of intent, and 51
quantitative methods, descriptive and t-test, to analyze studentconfidence (instead of preparedness).Students provided responses to the prompt “Give a brief description of the experiences you havefound most influential in your career choice(s).” Participants were able to respond to thisquestion up to four times if they had or wanted to list more than one experience. The maximumresponse count was 171 for the first experience listed, which can be argued as possibly the mostimpactful experience on students' professional identity.The responses for the prompt were analyzed using thematic analysis [26]. A single coder initiallyconducted the analysis of the responses, starting with a set of a priori codes that came from thedevelopment team’s vision of the
computing. She is currently involved with an NSF-funded S-STEM project that awards scholarships to students studying computing at USF. The project implements a suite of community- building activities designed to improve scholars’ self-efficacy and develop computing identity. Sami also co-directed a project that developed system support and user-driven strategies for improving energy effi- ciency in residential buildings. Sami has served in a number of service roles at USF and in her professional community. She was chair of the Computer Science department at USF from 2013-2016. She also served on the editorial board of Sigmobile’s GetMobile Magazine from 2014-2018. She has been involved with the discipline-specific
increases our sample range and will enrich our study by enabling us to understandhow these results might be different and/or similar across different types of institutions. Second,we intend to expand our sources of data to include students as participants in our study. Webelieve this is important for the triangulation of our data. Hence, we intend to interview studentsto understand how they perceive the study abroad program’s marketing materials.References[1] S. Jorgenson and L. Shultz, “Global Citizenship Education (GCE) in Post-Secondary Institutions: What is protected and what is hidden under the umbrella of GCE?,” J. Glob. Citizsh. Equity Educ., vol. 2, no. 1, Art. no. 1, Apr. 2012, Accessed: Feb. 26, 2021. [Online]. Available: https
perceptions of their level of engagement with the class and active learning. Thestudents in both sections were asked a series of questions designed by the authors, to elicitcandid responses. The survey was conducted separately from the regular student courseevaluations and was completed before the final course grade postings. Table 7 compares studentresponses on the midterm survey (S = Synchronous, N=41/41 and A = Asynchronous N=19/20).The only significant difference (p < 0.1) found using the Mann-Whitney U test was for thestatement “I felt more engaged during activities than lectures”. Table 8 compares studentresponses on the final survey (S = Synchronous, N=39/41 and A = Asynchronous N=20/20). Theonly significant difference (p < 0.5) found
ProgramsWhile literature examining the term “onboarding” specifically is limited within higher education,programs designed to support newly admitted students are commonly described in first-yearexperience literature [20]. These programs are meant to support students’ transition into collegeand have been around since as early as the 1600’s. In fact, Harvard College implemented anorientation program that connected new students with current students in 1636 [21]. The firstonboarding programs were primarily designed to support the transition of new students into post-secondary education. Today’s onboard programs vary among institutions, but it is common tosee one- or two-day orientation programs, first-year seminars, welcome weeks, and commonbook reading
the ADVANCE program, although strides have been made at the undergraduatelevel, yet the number of M.S. and Ph.D.’s awarded to underrepresented groups has not increasedappreciably since the mid 1990s [3], [4]. For instance, between 1997 and 2017, the number ofHispanic undergraduates grew from 14% to 24% whereas Hispanic faculty only increased from3% to 5% during the same time frame [5]. Zellers et al. [6] reported in 2008 that less than 10%of the full professors in sciences were women and only 3% of assistant and associate professorswere African American.There were 12,156 doctoral degrees were awarded with Native Americans earning 0.3% of thePh.D.’s, Hawaiian/Pacific Islanders 0.6%, African Americans 4.2%, Hispanics 6% and women23.6% in 2018
[19]. In addition, we will survey sophomore-levelstudents in spring 2020; all of these students will have taken the course. In summary, this work-in-progress paper presents a survey that measures a range ofoutcomes to assess the impact of a first-year engineering design course. By surveying thestudents at the beginning and end of the semester, positive changes in student self-efficacy andstudents’ perceptions of their skills are measured.References[1] A. Bandura, “Self-efficacy,” in Encyclopedia of human behavior, V. S. Ramachaudran, Ed. New York: Academic Press, 1994, Vol. 4, pp. 71-81.[2] A. Bandura, “Self-efficacy: toward a unifying theory of behavioural change,” Psychological Review, vol. 84, pp. 191-215, 1977.[3] A
Board. Graduate education, enrollmentand degrees in the United States. S&E Doctoral Degrees. [Online]. Available:https://www.nsf.gov/statistics/2018/nsb20181/assets/561/higher-education-in-science-and-engineering.pdf. [5] R. S. Sowell, N. Bell, S. N. Kirby, and S. Naftel, “Ph.D. completion andattrition: Findings from exit surveys of Ph.D. completers,” Washington, DC: Council ofGraduate Schools, 2009.[6] H. Okahana, J. Allum, P. Felder, and R. G. Tull, “Implications for practice and researchfrom Doctoral Initiative on Minority Attrition and Completion,” Washington, DC: Councilof Graduate Schools, March 2016 [Online]. Available:https://www.cgsnet.org/sites/default/files/2016.03%2316-01%20Discussion%20on%20DIMAC.pdf .[7] G. Crisp and I
into the teamthat most interested them. Youth thrived on having a specific goal and a set of team members towork with. “The valuable components that were important to me was [sic] having a specificgroup, which was the media team, because that is what I wanted more experience with. I feltmore comfortable being with that team since I already had some experience as a film editor.”This focus did mean, however, that youth had limited opportunities to learn skills not within theirtrack. One said s/he wished they had the chance to work more with the general visiting public atthe Hall while another wished for more time to explore computer programming
College John R. Williams Outstanding Teacher for 2012, and the 2012 Statler College Teacher of the Year.Dr. Robin A. M. Hensel, West Virginia University Robin A. M. Hensel, Ed.D., is the Assistant Dean for Freshman Experience in the Benjamin M. Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources at West Virginia University. While her doctorate is in Curriculum and Instruction, focusing on higher education teaching of STEM fields, she also holds B.S. and M.A. degrees in Mathematics. Dr. Hensel has over seven years of experience working in engineering teams and in project management and administration as a Mathematician and Computer Systems Analyst for the U. S. Department of Energy as well as more than 25 years of
win” to demonstrate successful town-gown efforts. Finally, we are exploringmembership and workshop fee structures, but it is unclear that there is sufficient draw from therelatively small local communities to attain sustainability based on this revenue alone, or that itcan cover both personnel and supply costs.References[1] Schön, S., Ebner, M. and Kumar, S. (2014). The Maker Movement. Implications of new digital gadgets,fabrication tools and spaces for creative learning and teaching. eLearning Papers, n. 39 (July), 14 - 25. Availableon-line: www.openeducationeuropa.edu/en/elearning_papers.[2] Benton, C., Mullins, L., Shelley, K., and Dempsey, T. (2013). Makerspaces: Supporting an Entrepreneurial
; however, there were students in each grade level who recounted how their groupnegotiated specific disagreements around design decisions. Consider, for example, the followingexchange, in which one student describes a disagreement about the placement of the catapult inthe 6th grade design challenge: R: Did you feel comfortable sharing your ideas with the others in your group? S: Yes ma'am. R: Why do you think that is? S: We was all buddies and stuff. She let us choose groups. We got to choose our buddies. I felt comfortable because, you know, there was really no target answers. It was just an idea. R: Was there a time when there was any kind of disagreement in your group? S: Yes. One time me and this
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market for the product(s) and other revenue generating streams was discussed (Outcomes 2 and 6). e) A clear recommendation as to whether the project should be considered in more detail was made. This recommendation was based on the I/O economic assessment, as well as on environmental and social measures. It was also made clear which process alternative(s) were viable, if any (Outcomes 1 and 4). f) The proposal was written in a logical format. There were minimal typos and formatting errors, the figures were clear and readable, and the references were cited correctly (Outcome 1).Students were assigned the prompt on the first day of class and were allowed eight weeks tocomplete the
strategies and style). Presumably,improved instructional support would mitigate the damaging impact of negative perceptions such asstereotype threat (Steele & Aronson, 1995) or avoidance orientation (Midgely, 2001) that limitengagement, and at the same time support student tendencies related to cultural norms and practices.Future research that can untangle the complex combination of these factors can provide new insights intohow to support UREM’s in engineering education contexts. ReferencesBenson, L., Kirn, A., & Faber, C. (2013, June). CAREER: Student motivation and learning in engineering. In ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings.Borrego, M., Cutler, S., Prince, M., Henderson, C., &
. References[1] National Science Foundation. (2017). Women, minorities, and persons with disabilities inscience and engineering. Arlington, VA. Retrieved, from www.nsf.gov/statistics/wmpd.[2] Crim, S. M., Iwamoto, M., Huang, J. Y., Griffin, P. M., Gilliss, D., Cronquist, A. B., ... &Lathrop, S. (2014). Incidence and trends of infection with pathogens transmitted commonlythrough food—Foodborne Diseases Active Surveillance Network, 10 US sites, 2006–2013. MMWR. Morbidity and mortality weekly report, 63(15), 328.[3] Baron-Cohen, S. (2009). Autism: the empathizing–systemizing (E-S) theory. Annals of theNew York Academy of Sciences, 1156(1), 68–80.[4] Baron-Cohen, S. (2002). The extreme male brain theory of autism. Trends in cognitivesciences, 6(6
financially remunerate faculty who partnered with us, andin fact several excellent researchers turned us down for this reason. (5) Courses housed withindepartments may be better able to prepare undergraduates for the rigors specific types of research(e.g. ecological field research), than an interdisciplinary course.With the resources given, the course instructor(s) worked hard to make this course fly. Strongefforts were expended in assembling a curriculum, accepting overloads etc. In the end, consideringlow enrollment and lack of support from departmental chairs, the interdisciplinary “Ramps intoResearch” course that the STEM center had tested for one year was canceled. We have committedourselves to finding more viable ways for promoting effective
person primarily or even exclusivelyin terms of how s/he relates to other people in her/his network. For example, our colleague WeiWang in the preceding scenario is not simply the individual person Wei Wang. Instead, Wei is aplant manager who supervises eight engineers, he is his parent’s son, he is your colleague, etc.In line with this conception, Wei likely gives a great deal of consideration regarding hisrelationships with his employees. Focused on interpersonal relationships, it is likely that Wei willbe very hesitant to say anything negative about the engineers he supervises, as doing so couldpotentially have detrimental effects on their lives and careers. Furthermore, writing down hisopinions and ratings of the engineers in an e-mail could
University.Dr. Kenneth A. Loparo, Case Western Reserve University Kenneth A. Loparo is the Nord Professor of Engineering in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and holds academic appointments in the Departments of Biomedical Engineering and Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in the Case School of Engineering. He has received numerous awards including the Sigma Xi Research Award for contributions to stochastic control, the John S. Diekoff Award for Distinguished Graduate Teaching, the Tau Beta Pi Outstanding Engineering and Science Pro- fessor Award, the Undergraduate Teaching Excellence Award, the Carl F. Wittke Award for Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching and the Srinivasa P. Gutti Memorial
dimensions of diversity explored hereare presented as a useful first step in the necessary and difficult process of reimagining ourengineering institutions, classes, spaces and research environments in order to create the roomfor different kinds and types of voices to speak and be heard. References[1] “Engineering - Field of degree: Women - nsf.gov - Women, Minorities, and Persons with Disabilities in Science and Engineering - NCSES - US National Science Foundation (NSF).” .[2] E. Mather, “Facts and Stats,” University of Virginia School of Engineering and Applied Science, Jun-2017. .[3] C. E. Brawner, M. M. Camacho, S. M. Lord, R. A. Long, and M. W. Ohland, “Women in
engineering include a program at University of Arkansas that showed significantly higherfall-to-spring student retention and higher average GPA among students who were part of a freshmanpeer mentoring program [6], as well as Marra et al.’s study of students who participated in a peermentoring program and their subsequent feelings of belonging and intentions to persist in engineering[7].Summer Bridge ProgramsIt is well established that summer bridge programs work. Summer bridge programs have beenimplemented at many universities in an attempt to combat the high rates of attrition observed in STEMmajors, especially in students from underrepresented backgrounds in STEM [8]. Bridge programs takemany forms, with some focusing substantially on
, "The green report: engineering education for a changing world," American Society for Engineerig Education1994, Available: https://www.asee.org/papers-and-publications/publications/The-Green-Report.pdf.[5] M. Klassen, D. Reeve, C. Rottmann, R. Sacks, A. E. Simpson, and A. Huynh, "Charting the Landscape of Engineering Leadership Education in North American Universities," in ASEE Annual Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana, 2016: ASEE Conferences.[6] S. Stryker and P. J. Burke, "The past, present, and future of an identity theory," Social psychology quarterly, pp. 284-297, 2000.[7] K. L. Tonso, "Engineering identity," in Cambridge handbook of engineering education research, A. Johri and B. M. Olds, Eds
design from the start. The fifth principle is to ensure allscience and mathematics concepts, and technology tools employed are necessary forstudents’ successful completion of the STEM-design projects. With these principles inmind, the next step is to examine classroom enactments of the curriculum, focusing onthe extent to which students apply mathematics and science concepts to their designwork and the challenges and affordances for doing so (Berland, 2013).Effective Instructional Methodologies Contemporary engineering education should emphasize the design process,challenge-based learning, and other engineering habits of mind (Berland, Martin, Ko, etal., 2013). The results of Berland, Martin, Ko, et al.’s (2013) study revealed that as
engineering textbook, Fundamentals of Engineering Thermodynamics, which is used worldwide in over 250 institutions. Dr. Bailey is the Principal Investi- gator (PI) for the RIT NSF ADVANCE Institutional Transformation grant. The goal of this large-scale ($3.4M), multi-year university-level organizational transformation effort is to increase the representation and advancement of women STEM faculty. At the university level, she serves as Senior Faculty Associate to the Provost for ADVANCE and co-chairs the President’s Commission on Women.Prof. Joseph A. Raelin, Northeastern University Joe Raelin is an internationally recognized scholar in the fields of work-based learning and leadership. He holds the Asa S. Knowles Chair of
Development Program) in the early 1980's, the RESP curriculum aims for the mostdifficult parts of first-year calculus, chemistry, and physics. In other words, RESP is notremedial.Put another way, RESP’s guiding philosophy is to give students the chance to have a badsemester, if one is coming, without impacting their academic record and with ample support todevelop new skills for student’s new collegiate setting. Students do not receive course credit, toremove the threat of permanently codifying poor performance on a student’s transcript. Thisdiffers from models that offer course credit, which carries the risk of permanent academicconsequences. During the summer, students build resilience as well as technical skills and entertheir fall semester aware
advanced education or career advancement. Many Morgan State University (MSU) graduate students come from economically disadvantaged families and have very limited financial support for their full-time graduate study. Some of them solely count on the scholarships provided by the school or have to take out student loans. Supported by National Science Foundation (NSF) Scholarships for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (S-STEM), NASA research grants and other Federal research grants, many MSU engineering graduate students have been involved in applied research projects with NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Army Research Laboratory, and the local industry. These projects include but
Conference & Exposition, Vancouver, Canada. Page 26.629.11 [4] Meyers, K. L., Ohland, M. W., Pawley, A. L., Silliman, S. E., Smith, K. A. (2012). Factors relating to engineering identity. Global Journal of Engineering Education, 14, 119-131.[5] Tonso, K. L. (2006). Student engineers and engineer identity: Campus engineer identities as figured world. Cultural Studies of Science Education, 1, 273.[6] Camacho, M. M., & Lord, S. M. (2011). Quebrando Fronteras: Among Latino and Latina undergraduate engineers. Journal of Hispanic Higher Education, 10, 134-146.[7] Pew Research Center: U.S
projects in the future? 6 3 5 4 2 x = 4.86 x = 3.88 3 s = 0.38 s = 1.13 2 1 1 0 1 2 3 4 5 1