demonstration (Roadshow-in-a-Box) will complement the outreach programactivities that includes a more in-depth program that invites students from the participatingcounty area to the ECSU campus and its satellite partners for a one-week camps during summer.The camp focuses on NASA STEM curriculum and hands-on learning modules, as well as guestspeakers and field trips in related subject matter. Undergraduate student interns will be used tohelp develop and present the message. As their “near peers,” student presenters can connect withschool audiences in a distinct way. Developing and presenting the message serves an importantpart of the interns’ education as well.Program ImplementationScope and Impact: The program will serve to carry these STEM areas to
made mention of the fact that he was gay and I forget which term they used for him. I kind of bemoaned that on Facebook and then, one of my colleagues from [university], she [VCP leader] came in and offered me a position in the, the LVCP to kind of explore, you know, concepts of LGBTQ identity within STEM. And, I personally have been trying to engage in that space personally just as another way to, kind of, I guess, like, develop myself a little more and maybe hopefully, get a deeper appreciation of what it means to be an engineer.” “I'm not doing it all the time per se, but I've been able to integrate this [VCP and Safe
engineering. Her other research interests include mixed-methods research design, integrating sustainability and professional ethics into the engineering curriculum, and communication of science and engineering concepts to non-technical audiences.Dr. Idalis Villanueva, Utah State University Dr. Villanueva is an Assistant Professor in the Engineering Education Department and an Adjunct Pro- fessor in the Bioengineering Department in Utah State University. Her multiple roles as an engineer, engineering educator, engineering educational researcher, and professional development mentor for un- derrepresented populations has aided her in the design and integration of educational and physiological technologies to research ’best
to as the old boys club [14].This ideology stems back to when certain behaviors, derogatory language, and interactions wereaccepted as the norm and received no backlash from society. Studies found that some of theparticipants described their professional workplaces as boys clubs as they were run by agedwhite heterosexual men who do not know how to interact with women and integrate women intothe community of a company. This lack of ability to integrate women into the culture andaccepted practices within an organization has been observed to negatively and positively impactwomen experiences in the workplace. Positively women expressed the ability for them tosurprise their supervisors with their technical abilities. On the contrary women also
Science. She spearheaded design and launch of the Engineering GoldShirt Program to provide a unique access pathway to engineering for high potential, next tier students not admitted through the standard admissions process; early findings revealed significant challenges in calculus readiness. Sullivan was conferred as an ASEE Fellow in 2011 and was awarded NAE’s 2008 Gordon Prize for Innovation in Engineering and Technology Education.Tanya D Ennis, University of Colorado, BoulderBeth A Myers, University of Colorado Boulder Beth A. Myers is the engineering assessment specialist for the Integrated Teaching and Learning Program at the University of Colorado Boulder. She holds a BA in biochemistry, ME in engineering management
instructors.The Kano kits were appropriately balanced; it allowed students the challenge of constructing theirkits, while also allotting enough time left over to spend learning how to code. Once assembled,students were able to work together in their pre-assigned pairs to follow along step by step withthe content created by a CodeIT day team member.The curriculum introduced the students to the different programming categories and parts thatcould be added (i.e. text and speaker) on Kano’s integrated development environment, KanoWorld. The categories included events, control, logic, math, variables, color, lists and draw. Eachof the nine categories and their sub-functions were introduced to the students individually andthen were combined into several coding
Curriculum Scorecard. [Online]. Available: https://steinhardt.nyu.edu/sites/default/files/2021-02/CRSE- STEAMScorecard_FIN_optimized%20%281%29.pdf. [Accessed: 26-Jan-2023][13] Prior ASEE publication (will be added in final paper)[14] “ARDEI -Context Question Writing Workshop,” ARDEI Context Question Writing Workshop. [Online]. Available: https://sites.northwestern.edu/ardeiquestionworkshop/writing-an-ardei-context-question/. [Accessed: 26-Jan-2023][15] C. Griffith, “Before & after the Flood,” ArcGIS StoryMaps, 08-Aug-2022. [Online]. Available: https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/b2157f19173a4495bd7b6c0d2a960528. [Accessed: 09-Jan-2023]
the University of Texas at Austin. Additionally, Dr. Austin Talley holds an undergraduate degree from Texas A&M University in Mechanical Engineering. His research is in engineering design theory and engineering education. He has published over 25 papers in engineering education journals and conference proceedings. He has worked to implement multiple National Science Foundation (NSF) grants focused on engineering education. He has been an instructor in more than ten week long summer K-12 teach Professional Development Institutes (PDI). He has received multiple teaching awards. He has developed design based curriculum for multiple K-12 teach PDIs and student summer camps. c
incompletewithout engineers becoming more aware of long-term implications of their engineering work onsociety, especially those concerning how costs and benefits of civil engineering projects aredistributed across different social groups and affect their wellbeing in the long-run [3]. Forexample, it has been argued that engineering education should put greater emphasis onengineers’ social responsibility toward "an equal distribution of rights, opportunities, andresources in order to enhance human capabilities and reduce the risk and harms among thecitizens of a society" [4, p. 10]. Thus, complementary education on social justice implications ofcivil engineering may benefit civil engineering education further.We argue that integration of social implications
level engineering courses and designing and enhancing curriculum to increase engagement and student motivation. Her interests within engineering education include inno- vative teaching pedagogies for improved retention, specifically focused on women and underrepresented minorities.Dr. Lindy Hamilton Mayled, Arizona State University Lindy Hamilton Mayled is the Director of Instructional Effectiveness for the Fulton Schools of Engineer- ing at Arizona State University. She has a PhD in Psychology of Learning, Education, and Technology from Grand Canyon University. Her research and areas of interest are in improving educational outcomes for STEM students through the integration of active learning and technology-enabled
Paper ID #37625University-industry Partnerships for Enhancing the Workplace Readinessof Professional Masters in Engineering: A Comparative Case Study in ChinaFangqing Yi, Tsinghua UniversityDr. Xiaofeng Tang, Tsinghua University Xiaofeng Tang is Associate Professor in the Institute of Education at Tsinghua University. Prior to his current position, Dr. Tang worked as an Assistant Professor of Practice in the Department of Engineering Education at The Ohio State University. He did ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 University-industry Partnerships for Enhancing the Workplace Readiness of
support from a school administrator, and committed to launch or expand a STEM cluband assist in nominating students to attend STEM summer camps. Five schools provided schoolteams for the 2019-2020 school year. Several additional schools expressed interest prior to thesummer institute, but they chose to delay their participation to a future date. Each participantreceived a $1,200 stipend plus housing and travel costs for the summer institute. Each schoolreceived $3,000 engineering curriculum and materials for supporting up to 50 students in STEMclubs plus an additional $1,500 for flexible spending toward STEM-Club activities (e.g., 3Dprinter, virtual reality headset, etc.). An ethics review board approved our research design, andwe received
for review by their teachers.In addition, instructor materials will be created to support the use of the tensile strength testingsimulator in classroom settings: A User’s Manual that walks the instructor through each of the three modes of the simulator and present best practice options for integrating the tensile strength testing simulator into class, including: o The objectives covered by the virtual tool o A list of acceptable answers for the questions posed to students A Learner’s Guide to present questions and provide an opportunity for student note taking.2. Conduct research to compare the costs and learning outcomes for using on-site tensiletesting equipment compared with an online simulation.The research will
rare. This further emphasizes theneed to internationalize the curriculum in existing domestic STEM programs such as renewableenergy, so that students who lack first hand travel experience are nevertheless provided anopportunity to develop global literacy skills.Against this backdrop, the challenges facing STEM educators in emerging fields such asrenewable energy include not only identifying critical knowledge and skills presented by newtechnology, but also determining how to incorporate an international perspective in technicalcurricula. Likewise, from a professional development standpoint, the question becomes how toprepare faculty and empower them with international expertise so that they may teach therenewable energy professionals of the
/home/CAIB_Vol1.html 5. Bates, S., “Flint water crisis: For young engineers, a lesson on the importance of listening”, NSF, 23 March 2016. Web. 29 March 2016. http://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=138060&WT.mc_id=USNSF_1 6. Herkert, J., "Engineering ethics education in the USA: content, pedagogy and curriculum", European Journal of Engineering Education, 25(4), 303-313 (2000). 7. Walther, J., Kellam, N., Sochacka, N., & Radcliffe, D., “Engineering Competence? An Interpretive Investigation of Engineering Students' Professional Formation.” Journal of Engineering Education, 100(4), 703-740 (2011). 8. Clark, D.B., Tanner-Smith E. E, & Killingsworth, S. S., "Digital Games, Design
tobuild circuits on breadboards. From here, hands-on activities alternated with very short talks aimedat introducing students to new components or types of projects. First, simple loops with an LED ora motor were built in order to understand the closed loop setting and how to power a circuit. Afterthat, the integrated development environment (IDE) was introduced and students learned how theycan install the IDE on the computers, how to locate examples, and how to download them ontotheir boards [10]. For this part of the workshop, a Sparkfun Inventor kit was used [11].The kit comes with a variety of components, besides the Arduino board, and a full set of predefinedexperiments, which are available for downloading on the company’s website. It turns
Paper ID #44292Improving Outreach Interactivity in the Virtual Environment – Evaluation ofA Computer Vision Controlled Soft Robotic Hand to Broaden Participationin BioengineeringDr. Holly M Golecki, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Dr. Holly Golecki (she/her) is a Teaching Assistant Professor in Bioengineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and an Associate in the John A Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University. She holds an appointment at the Carle-Illinois College of Medicine in the Department of Biomedical and Translational Sciences. She is also a core faculty member
class that is inhigh demand from the first-year engineering student body and that greatly enhances students’understanding of manufacturing.Tags: manufacturing, education, engineering, first-year, volunteerismIntroductionToday’s engineering curricula provide adequate design and analysis experience for students, yetprovide little or no formal education related to manufacturing tools and processes (Todd, Red,Magleby, & Coe, 2001), despite calls from industry to provide more focus on manufacturing inthe engineering curriculum (Mason, 1998). At the same time, many engineering programs in theU.S. now provide students with access to high-tech “maker spaces” to manufacture their designsfor student projects (Wilczynski, 2015). This provides an
education system.This paper looks across three qualitative studies during the work-based experiences (WBEs) ofeleven undergraduate computer engineering and information technology systems students fromgroups traditionally underrepresented in STEM. In this paper, WBEs are defined as paidengagements for students as they work on solving real-world problems, while performing tasksand projects in partnership with an employer or community partner. Three types of WBEs arerepresented: internships (Study 1), apprenticeships (Study 2), and company employees (Study 3).All three studies used the Socio-Technical Integration Research (STIR) methodology which hasbeen established in 80 studies worldwide and over a dozen peer-reviewed publications. As amethodology
curriculum. This has direct implications for the diversity ofengineering students and workforces. Qualitative studies, for example, find that undergraduatewomen who place a high value on social responsibility leave engineering programs when theyencounter unsupportive environments, decontextualized technical courses, and curriculardifficulty.This paper builds on prior literature by sharing the results of research that integrated criticalsocial science perspectives on corporate social responsibility (CSR) into technical courses inpetroleum engineering, mining engineering, and electrical engineering – three fields routinelycharacterized as enrolling the least diverse student bodies in terms of gender. Our data consist ofthree years of pre- and post
. However, if you can marry these two concepts together, then you have hit a home run.In our school, the Computer Engineering Technology curriculum is set up so that programming andembedded circuit design is taught via a series of courses: (a) Introduction to ‘C’ programming, (b)Digital Design and Embedded Systems, (c) C++ and object orientated programming and (d) anIntermediate Embedded Systems course. After completing this series, the students can continue onwith an Embedded Linux course, as well as a Software Engineering (process and agiledevelopment) course. Page 26.971.2This arrangement of courses is a bit unusual in that Technology
culturalidentities and formal teaching experiences. This work is guided by the research question: How docultural identities influence the self-determination of international doctoral students inengineering to pursue careers in engineering education?BackgroundTeaching experiences are an integral part of the professional development of graduate students inengineering. Research on graduate students' experiences reveals that engaging in teachingpractices can influence the professional development of graduate students [5]. This engagementhas been shown to enhance communication skills [6], [7] as well as facilitate self-efficacy toteach [8], [9]. Engaging in teaching as a graduate student also contributes to buildingrelationships with faculty and peers, which
compare with other countries, the conceptions and attitudes about chemicalengineering and chemical engineering technology contribute to making visible the differencesand similarities between these concepts related to the sociocultural and historical approach.Additionally, it is an opportunity to set up undergraduate curriculums and policies aboutengineering education taking into account the context in which they are developed.Background and PurposeThe biggest challenge that diverse educational institutions have in Colombia is to build curriculawhich include the experience, knowledge, beliefs, and attitudes of different actors. Highereducation institutions should not be outside to these characteristics because they allow moremeaningful learning [1
stress and negatively correlated with elements of department inclusion.Low perceived inclusion or lack of belonging, has been an identified issue for engineeringstudents, particularly affecting their retention and success [11]–[13].Recent critiques to the engineering and engineering education research culture have highlightedthe need to question: “for whom are we making engineering hard?” (p. 259); arguing that therhetoric of meritocracy within a mentally and physically taxing engineering culture in whichonly the “fittest” succeed results in the exclusion of talent based on characteristics such as race,class, and disability [14]. Some elements of the engineering culture are now being exploredunder the concept of hidden curriculum, which are
. Derrick James Satterfield, University of Nevada, Reno Derrick Satterfield is a doctoral candidate in Engineering Education at the University of Nevada, Reno. His research focuses on engineering graduate students’ experiences and motivation centered on career planning and preparation.Dr. Adam Kirn, University of Nevada, Reno Adam Kirn is an Associate Professor of Engineering Education at University of Nevada, Reno. His research focuses on the interactions between engineering cultures, student motivation, and their learning experiences. His projects involve the study of studenDr. Alexandra Coso Strong, Florida International University As an assistant professor of engineering education at Florida International University
will include improved critical thinking andwriting, increased motivation, improved life-long learning skills, better topic coverage, andincreased depth of coverage. Ideally, iSLR would be introduced into the wider curriculum andwould address student skills and abilities that are difficult to attain in regular coursework.The rest of the paper is organized as follows: Section II gives an overview of uses of SLR inother disciplines, especially in medicine and software engineering. Section III discusses uses ofiSLR as pedagogical tool in engineering and includes implementation details. Section IV isdevoted to assessment methods and results. Finally, section V discusses lessons learned, offerssome conclusions, and points to future work.II
make current efforts and practices more visible and accessible,including by identifying accredited programs, different formats and approaches tried, and types of capstonedesign experiences. Three phases of review were conducted with emphasis on multidisciplinary programs,multidisciplinary approaches, and multidisciplinary capstone, separately. The results reveal an increasing trendin the development of multidisciplinary engineering programs, the significant role of capstone projects infacilitating multidisciplinary engineering education, including integrated and real-world trends inmultidisciplinary capstone experiences. In addition, there are gaps in the literature that required more insightsregarding non-accredited programs, student outcomes
in a curriculum underconstant pressure to cover broadening technical fields. Often these leadership courses areoffered as options on top of existing requirements, resulting in students taking additional credits,at significant cost to them. The Engineering Leadership Development (ELD) Program at Penn State University hasoffered an 18 credit minor in Engineering Leadership Development for over 20 years, with over600 graduates. While approximately two times that many students have benefitted by takingcourses in engineering leadership during that period, it still represents a fraction of the more than20,000 who have graduated from the College of Engineering in the same time span. Further,anecdotal evidence has shown that, while many
language-learning [10], and the adoption of CPthrough humanistic lenses [11] as a means of contributing to the development and well-being oflearners in these contexts [12]. Throughout this paper, we describe our experience building fromprior work and applying CP elements in the curriculum. We also describe student and courseoutcomes as a result of our integration of CP elements. As this is a classroom application study, we have broad objectives (not empirical researchquestions) that we address in this paper. The first objective is: (1) What aspects of theintroductory engineering course (intended outcomes, assessments, and activities) werecontextually aligned to opportunities and constraints in the Azraq refugee camp? The tworemaining
description of thesecourses to include the topics covered in the training sessions, thus making them an essential partof the course content.What We Hope to Achieve: We want to expose our students, faculty, and staff to inclusion anddiversity issues of which they might not be aware. By requiring students to go through training inboth the sophomore and seniors years, we hope to achieve maximum impact. The early exposureas sophomores will give the students a chance to apply the concepts they learn throughout theiracademic careers, while the second round of training as seniors will serve as a refresher coursebefore they begin their team-based senior projects and, later, enter the engineering workforce.We specifically designed this training curriculum to