as outcomes assessments, graduate career performance andemployer feedback. Programs were also required to demonstrate continuous improvement. Giventhat we expected TAC/ABET to move toward the same criteria as EAC/ABET (a completelyoutcomes assessment based approach), we decided that we needed to do a better job ofspecifying our goals and objectives and of measuring our performance against those objectives.Accordingly, a Quality Management Workshop for faculty and IAB members was organized.The workshop was facilitated by Manny Torres and Mack Thorn from the Texas Department ofTransportation. After working as a group to identify our goals and objectives, the group (facultyand IAB members) was divided into teams to work on generating details
survey. The differences between the exit survey andthe semester survey are also illustrated in Appendix B.The alumni survey is designed to question graduates on the effectiveness of the VMI ElectricalEngineering program, in preparing them for their careers. The design of the alumni survey willbe virtually identical to that of the exit survey. The demographic questions will be expanded toidentify career paths, progress, time since graduation, etc. Nevertheless, the same 16 Outcomesand seven Objectives will again be addressed, now by individuals with a new perspective ontheir experience at VMI.The use of alumni surveys for program assessment is not uncommon.2,8,12,13,15 However, thereremains a great deal of uncertainty regarding the timing of
, and to take students to women in computing events. Dr. Villani has been active publishing and presenting these experiences in an effort to share within the research community and to ultimately broaden participation. Dr. Villani is the co-advisor of the Supporting Women in Computing Club where she has mentored many women students in the program. Dr. Villani is the recipient of the Chancellor’s Award for Teaching Excellence, 2012. Prior to joining FSC, Dr. Villani had a 15 year computer consulting career in the Risk Management and Insurance Industry.Dr. Lisa Cullington, Sacred Heart University Lisa Cullington, Ph.D. is an educational researcher with expertise in academic program development, learning outcomes and
with a deep knowledge of this borderland area as a localinhabitant, a first-generation student, and a Mexican American mixed-race person. My educationin history, anthropology, and technology education along with my professional experiences inSTEM focused on K-12 and higher education informs my approach to supporting undergraduatestudents in STEM. I know how to connect with students and enjoy interacting with them in myrole as a graduate research assistant.Author3. I am a Hispanic engineer eager to provide mentoring and guidance to minorityundergraduate students, interest them in scientific careers, and encourage them to pursuegraduate studies. I have experience in advising student organizations, such as the Society ofHispanic Professional
physical and sensorydisabilities may feel hesitant to request accommodations, or how there are still gaps present inthe design and provision of these accommodations.Challenges in the Engineering Field. Certain students with disabilities in engineering programsthink about leaving their careers or they do not see themselves working as engineers in the nearfuture [4] [9] [11]. Some of these students find engineering education “as individualistic andcompetitive” and encounter barriers in the engineering curricula, such as struggling to passmandatory courses or experiencing a waning interest in the curriculum's content [11]. Additionalhurdles in engineering include students with disabilities facing a lack of readiness for college-level coursework after
students and faculty members with the tools to promote effective and inclusive learning environments and mentorship practices. Homero aspires to change discourses around broadening participation in engineering and promoting action to change. Homero has been recognized as a Diggs Teaching Scholar, a Graduate Academy for Teaching Excellence Fellow, a Global Perspectives Fellow, a Diversity Scholar, a Fulbright Scholar, a recipient of the NSF CAREER award, and was inducted into the Bouchet Honor Society. Homero serves as the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Chair for the Commission on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (CDEI), the Program Chair for the ASEE Faculty Development Division, and the Vice Chair
enabled studentswith different tangible skills that they could deploy in their own growth as potential engineers ofthe future. Students' testimonials bear witness to the transformative power of these experiences,recounting personal growth, newfound passions, and the development of skills that transcend theboundaries of academia. Engagement in these programs sparks a genuine interest in STEM fields,encouraging participants to consider potential career paths they might not have otherwise explored.As students embark on their educational journeys, the seeds sown during these summer programscontinue to flourish, equipping them with a strong foundation and a unique perspective that setsthem apart in an increasingly competitive landscape. Additionally
thatcentered around electric energy systems, focusing on foundational courses for undergraduatestudents to provide career flexibility [11]. This curriculum was developed with insights fromexperts in the field and further disseminated through the Consortium of Universities forSustainable Power, garnering participation from 170 universities. However, it primarilyaddresses the undergraduate program, and the postgraduate level is less explored. Reed andStanchina propose a renewed curriculum in power engineering that incorporates smart gridtechnologies and clean energy integration [12]. They suggest a model that includes distancelearning options to widen student and stakeholder engagement. However, this work lacksempirical evidence to validate the
typically workclosely with faculty and other researchers on a specific research project, and in some cases aregranted stipends [6]. Studies have shown that students who participate in REUs show increasedinterest in pursuing degrees and careers in the STEM fields [3]. REUs provide students withopportunities to develop skills valued by both graduate schools and employers, such as workingon challenging problems, presenting research to an audience, and communicating findingsthrough technical writing [3].While REUs have the potential to positively influence persistence in STEM fields, there areinequities in who gets to participate in these experiences. Questions have been raised as to whysome REU programs receive very few applications from students in
Paper ID #42838A Cross-Institutional Study of Engineering Education Faculty ProfilesMr. Gadhaun Aslam, University of Florida Gadhaun Aslam is currently advancing his academic and research career as a Ph.D. student in the Transforming Workforce by Interconnecting Structures of Training, Education, and Research (TWISTER) Lab within the Department of Engineering Education at University of Florida (UF). His research interests include conducting systematic literature reviews by extracting data from institutional websites, using multi-modal tools (e.g., eye tracking and physiological electrodermal sensors) and integrating
) financial literacy education. She serves as the Director of the READi Lab (readilab.com) where her research portfolio consists of equity, access, and inclusion within education for historically excluded individuals, with a particular focus on women in engineering and computing and STEM education at HBCUs. Additionally, Dr. Fletcher is researching economic equity, and the impact of finances on students’ success and academic persistence. She is a 2022 recipient of the NSF Early CAREER award and has received several awards at the institutional and national levels. Prior to academia, Dr. Fletcher served as the Director of Pre-college for the National Society of Black Engineers and worked for two Fortune 500 companies. You
important for a professional engineer. 5.6 (0.9) 5.8 (1.2)It is important to me personally to have a career that involves helping people. 6.6 (0.7) 6.4 (0.6)I will use engineering to help others. 6.8 (0.4) 6.6 (0.6)The needs of society have no effect on my choice to pursue engineering as a career. 2.5 (1.2) 2.8 (1.4)Engineers should use their skills to solve social problems. 5.8 (1.0) 5.9 (1.2)It is important to use my engineering abilities to provide a useful
course was designed specifically to sparkthe interest and knowledge of non-aerospace engineering freshmen and sophomores in theworld of rocketry and potential space careers. The study presented here delves into aquantitative analysis of the cognitive fatigue in assessment structure.ProcedureThe research was conducted within a spring 2024 course titled "AE298: Introduction toRocketry" offered by the Aerospace Engineering Department at a major public university inthe United States. Recruitment involved various advertising across the university, includingdepartmental emails, strategically placed flyers, and outreach to 4 undergraduate engineeringstudent groups. The target audience was first- and second-year STEM students outside ofAerospace
projectwith new learning objectives was incorporated into both courses. Through expert lectures and arobust project, students were introduced to technology commercialization and the entrepreneurialmindset, skills that aid in the development of career-ready and innovative engineers. Studentsapplied these concepts through a laboratory-based design project by participating in a productpitch competition to justify the value of their design to a panel of experts in the field whoexemplified potential investors. To measure outcomes, we assessed students’ self-reportedexpertise in various components of these disciplines through surveys administered at multiplepoints throughout the modules and gathered anonymous feedback through end-of-semestercourse
be most useful.Background According to the American Society of Quality, problem solving is the process of defining,determining the cause, creating or identifying a variety of solutions, and then selecting andimplementing one of the solutions to a problem [1]. The ability to problem-solve is consistentlyone of the most sought-after competencies that a prospective employee can have [2].Additionally, the ability to problem-solve impacts critical thinking, teamwork, and leadershipskills, all of which are also considered important competencies needed for career readiness.However, despite their importance, many employers note a proficiency gap in several of thesecompetencies in recent graduates [2]. One of the most important parts
prototyping, where learners can simulatescenarios, such as building robots in virtual factories or optimizing traffic flows in simulatedcities. The practical, gamified experiences not only enhance CT, but also serve as powerfulmotivators for learners, helping them develop problem-solving skills that are essential forengineering careers [25], [26]. The comparison between a CAVE and HMDs is summarized in Table 1. CAVEs provide a more immersive and spatial experience, enabling users to walk and interact naturally within the virtual environment, making them advantageous for collaborative learning and group projects. In contrast, HMDs, although immersive, may have limitations in physical movement and may require networked solutions for collaboration
engineering and a Masters in engineering management from Stanford University and a BS from the United States Military Academy, West Point. He is a retired US Army Corps of Engineers officer who has had assignments in the US, Germany, Korea, and Afghanistan. During his military career he spent over 10 years on the faculty at the US Military Academy at West Point teaching civil engineering. He also served as the Director, Graduate Professional Development at Northeastern University’s College of Engineering. He is the recipient of the 2021 NSPE Engineering Education Excellence Award and the 2019 ASCE Thomas A Lenox ExCEEd Leadership Award.Dr. Xiaomei Wang, Brigham Young University Dr. Xiaomei Wang, a Civil Engineering
, including activities of different duration and content. The duration variesfrom 30 min to a class-long and beyond, going into a series of class meetings to finish anactivity. A lot of content is focused on the school subject topics. Some of those subjects,like mathematics, physics, and chemistry are present in both high school and college.Others, like some types of engineering, have no direct link to the school subjects. Oneexample is manufacturing engineering and manufacturing engineering technology. Whenstudents are unaware of the manufacturing possibilities, they end up selecting thedifferent career paths, which is the negative scenario for the United States domesticmanufacturing efforts.The authors designed a series of high school activities
fields.All team members have chosen STEM as their career path.Results from Summer CampsFigure 6 illustrates feedback from three summer camps. Each camp adopted the LPS frameworkand trained 20 students from grades 2-8 for a week. To ensure direct hands-on experiences, fourstudents shared one set of hardware during practice sessions. Across the three camps, there was anoticeable increase in positive feedback regarding returning to the camp, participating in FIRSTrobotics programs, and recommending the camp to others. This improvement confirms theeffectiveness of the LPS framework to prepare the team to make a bigger and more positiveimpact as the trainers accumulate more experiences through the learning-practice-service cycle.Notably, one child from
believecontributes to a "usefulness" factor might be: The material presented in this class will behelpful in my future career and assessed on a Likert-type agreement scale (numerical scaledesigned to measure agreement with a statement). Generally, at least twice as many itemsshould be generated as you desire to have in the final instrument (i.e., for a 10-iteminstrument, you should generate 20 items). Another rule of thumb is to have no fewer thanthree items per factor in your final instrument, while five items per factor are even better [4].So, if we proposed a 5-factor model in the ideation stage (see Figure 1), we would need aminimum of 15 - 25 items in the final instrument. Thus, we would generate at least 30 orperhaps even 50 items to test in our
“Writing is both a cognitive process and a deeply social process” (p. 583). Teaching engineeringstudents to write supports the development of their capacity to critically develop relationshipsbetween their communication purpose, intended audience, and the arguments, evidence, andreasons that will persuade their readers. Also, it supports their ability to build, test, and criticallyreflect on knowledge. Thus, Berdanier and Alley argue, “we do not think that outsourcing this[writing] process is good for the development of expertise, especially for early career[engineering] students” (p. 583). Engineering educators should thus attend to the when/howwriting is taught with/without GenAI. As Irish (1999) explains, “Careless use of writing may
INTRODUCTIONEngineering has a considerable role in addressing many of the challenges facing society. Engineeringschools and the engineering professional bodies have increasingly recognized that for the engineeringdiscipline to reach its full potential, all segments of society must be included. Engineering mustactively engage and help promote the pursuit of engineering education and engineering careers withthose individuals who have been historically under-represented within the field. For example, femaleparticipation in the engineering profession is considerably below the proportion of females in societyat large (Figure 1). As a result of this differential, Engineers Canada launched the 30 by 30 EngineersCanada initiative which aims by 2030 to increase to 30
careers. Python is popular, accordingto the PYPL index [25] and Stackoverflow Developer Survey 2021 [30], Python is the mostpopular and the fastest-growing programming language (10.4%) in the world as of June 2022.2.2. Pedagogical ApproachesProgramming language plays an important role in computing education. Many systematic studiesexplore the teaching in introductory-level programming classes [14, 21, 27, 28]. Through ourobservation, a tremendous amount of research has been done on how the programmingenvironment can improve students' coding experience in recent years, especially theprogramming environment for Java and Python, which are the most taught entry-levelprogramming languages in college. The selection of the programming environment is
courses and have the potential to benefit students in their career endeavors as anengineer [5]. The term "statics" refers to particles and rigid things in equilibrium (i.e.,immobile or at rest) [6].Engineering statics includes more advanced topics than mechanics concepts taught in highschool physics classes, including: “rotational equilibrium and the inclusion of moments offorces and couples”; and “the interplay between forces and couples (i.e., statically equivalentcombinations of loads) that produce similar motions, deformations, or reactions” [9]. Staticsemphasizes analyzing problems with multiple bodies that need to be separated ordisassembled, whereas physics focus on analyzing problems involving single bodies [1], [7];Statics also considers
University and a M.S. in Biomedical Engineering from Cornell University. Among other awards for her research, she was awarded a National Science Foundation CAREER Award in 2022 to study epistemic negotiations on interdisciplinary engineering education research teams. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Representing Interview Data with I-poemsAbstractIn this methods paper, we describe the use of participant-generated I-poems as a tool to representdata from qualitative interviews. I-poems are poems composed of I-statements a participantmade during an interview. This form of qualitative analysis highlights a participant’s voice andself-focused statements within a text. For
students for careers in robotics and automation. In a traditional undergraduatemechanical engineering program, an introductory controls course is mandatory. A typicalcontrols course covers topics such as mathematical models of systems, feedback control systems,and an introduction to frequency response methods, among other topics. This type of controlscourse may or may not have a lab component associated with the class. Lab topics often includesystem identification, dynamic response characteristics, and tuning a PID controller for aphysical system such as a DC motor with an encoder [3] or a magnetic levitation system [4].A traditional undergraduate controls course is often highly theoretical, and students sometimesstruggle to connect the underlying
typical engineering program, they tend tobecome more disengaged in social issues, and this disengagement is seen to persist into theirprofessional careers [12] [13] [14]. Lack of engagement around social issues can cause situationsof environmental injustice to be perpetuated in engineered systems [12]. Still, in manyengineering programs, “engineering neutrality” in design is a defined part of the curriculum, andstudents are explicitly taught to depoliticize their engineering solutions [15]. By depoliticizingengineering, students focus only on the technical aspects of a project and not the socialimplications. This pedagogical choice ultimately negatively impacts the engineering profession.Focusing on social and environmental justice in engineering
allowed for identification of surveyparticipants. Our Institutional Review Board (IRB) approved the survey prior to its distribution.Students completed the survey on their own time (outside of class). Survey participants wererecruited by emailing the authors’ advisees and by advertising the study in the following classesbeing taught by the authors: senior project, steel design, and construction engineering.We advertised the study to civil engineering students but could not limit responses because of theanonymous nature of the survey. For example, the construction engineering class had 27 studentsand four of the students were engineering management majors with a concentration in civilengineering. We felt that the educational background and career
results are rarely reported, although there were sporadic reports of no impact onstudent’s sense of belonging, sense of “excitement” for the major, math learning, or futuregrades. Identified Best PracticesSome studies reported suggestions for implementing SBPs, including: • schedule portions of the bridge program in various locations (i.e., avoid having students sit in one classroom all day) [32] • for programs targeting specific student populations, invite those on campus with expertise (e.g., a Dean of Inclusion) to participate in program planning [82] • leverage extant campus services such as tutoring centers and career services [24] • be prepared to respond to instances of student misconduct [24]DiscussionWe found that
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