(NIE) at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore. He is an affiliated faculty member of the NTU Centre for Research and Development in Learning (CRADLE) and the NTU Institute for Science and Technology for Humanity (NISTH). Additionally, he is the Director of the World MOON Project, the Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Education, and the upcoming Program Chair-Elect of the PCEE Division at ASEE. His current research interests include STEM+C education, specifically artificial intelligence literacy, computational thinking, and engineering.Dominick Fantacone ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Exploring K-12 STEM Teachers’ Views of Nature of Engineering
. With the help of two graduate student fellows,ACE was built and launched. Proceedings of the 2022 ASEE North Central Section Conference 1 Copyright © 2022, American Society for Engineering EducationThis paper discusses the development of the STEM-focused portions of the ACE coursecurriculum, lessons learned while supporting accessible OER development in STEM disciplinesand areas for future growth of the course. First, the paper discusses models used for and strugglesin designing the course. Lessons learned include accessibility challenges inherent to STEMresources, lack of librarian competency in this area and special issues with STEM tools likeLaTeX. The paper concludes with areas for future development of
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in Table 1.[5]Table 1. Comparison of Percent Female Graduates at UPRM and Nationally (2019) Civil Electrical Industrial Mechanical Chemical Computer CS & Eng UPRM 28% 13% 43% 17% 55% 18% 8% ASEE 25% 14% 31% 16% 36% 13% 19%Nevertheless, except for Chemical Engineering and Industrial Engineering, women are under-represented in the various engineering programs. This pattern is apparent at the graduation,admissions, and application levels. As a result, the focus of this project is on the recruitment offemale students. Results from recent studies by members of this team provide a baseline
ASEE Board of Directors’ Advisory Committee on P-12 Engineering Education.Dr. Richard J. Freuler, Ohio State University Richard J. (Rick) Freuler is a Professor of Practice and the Director for the Fundamentals of Engineer- ing for Honors (FEH) Program in Ohio State’s Department of Engineering Education in the College of Engineering. He teaches the two-semester FEH engineering course sequence and is active in engineering education research. He is also affiliated with the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department and conducts scale model investigations of gas turbine installations for jet engine test cells and for marine and industrial applications of gas turbines at the Aerospace Research Center at Ohio State
their findings to their peersand a panel of judges using a rubric based on one used for regional science fair competitions. TheBioengineering 101 module has been performed four times from 2019-2023 at the same highschool; however, the design and implementation of the module significantly evolved due to studentfeedback, faculty observations, and the COVID-19 pandemic. The evolution of how the modulewas implemented included changes in the age of the students (first year vs. third year students),the duration of the modules (two weeks vs. four weeks), and how the chemical engineering facultymember was able to directly engage with the students (in-person, virtually, or asynchronously).Assessment of the program through pre- and post-surveys found
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University in College Station. A native of Columbus, Ohio, she attended North Carolina A&T State University where she received a B.S. in Bio Environmental Engineering in 2006. She then began pursuing her graduate education at Purdue University in the Agricultural and Biological Engineering Department, completing her Ph.D. in 2015. Her primary research areas include 1) mycotoxin risk assessment and treatment in stored grains and 2) innovate instructional strategies for Biological and Agricultural Engineering students. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Connecting specific knowledge areas throughout core courses in Biological and Agricultural
taxonomy on which our work in thispaper is based. We would also like to thank Dr. Chelsea Andrews at the Tufts Center forEngineering Education and Outreach (CEEO) who helped co-create the disability and designdiscussion exercise with Dr. Desen Ozkan, one of the authors of this paper. Additionally, wethank Dr. Ethan Danahy and Dr. Jenn Cross for implementing this discussion exercise in theirfirst-year engineering computation classes.ReferencesAmerican Society for Engineering Education (ASEE). (2016). Engineering by the Numbers: ASEE Retention and Time-to-Graduation Benchmarks for Undergraduate EngineeringAndrews, C., & Upadhya, R., K. (2019). Lessons from the Long Sixties for Organizing in Tech. Science for the People. 22(1). https
LGBTQIA+ CommunityThroughout this paper, we reference the term “LGBTQIA+,” which is an umbrella acronym usedto describe any person who does not identify with heterosexual and cisgender norms (Gold,2019). Recent research on the LGBTQIA+ student experience shows a growing interest on thistopic, both within and outside of the field of engineering education (Lange et al., 2019). Withinthis encouraging trend, the disciplines that have placed the greatest sense of urgency onunderstanding this community’s experiences appear to have been higher education, psychology,and queer and gender studies. Research from these fields have shown that LGBTQIA+ studentsexperience heightened levels of verbal and physical violence, harassment, and discrimination. Asa
received for the best paper published in the Journal of Engineering Education in 2008, 2011, and 2019 and from the IEEE Transactions on Education in 2011 and 2015. Dr. Ohland is an ABET Program Evaluator for ASEE. He was the 2002–2006 President of Tau Beta Pi and is a Fellow of the ASEE, IEEE, and AAAS.Dr. Misty L. Loughry, Crummer Graduate School of Business at Rollins College Misty L. Loughry, Ph.D. is a Professor of Management in the Crummer Graduate School of Business at Rollins College. She studies peer control, peer evaluation, and teamwork. She earned her Ph.D. from University of Florida.Dr. David J Woehr, U. of North Carolina Charlotte David J. Woehr is currently Professor and Chair of the Department of
paperaccepted by the Minorities in Engineering Division of the 2021 ASEE annual conference (areference with the title and author details will be provided). For this specific project, theretention rate of the participants was 100%, higher than that of all freshman and sophomorestudents in CBAS, which is 69.1% from Fall 2019 to Fall 2020. As the delivery method of mostcourses offered by MTSU switched to Remote, Online, or Web-assisted in Fall 2020, manystudents had financial difficulties, mental health related issues, and difficulty adjusting to thenew learning methods. As a result, there was a significant negative impact to the students’ GPAin Fall 2020, caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Therefore, we did not see an improvementover the participants’ GPA
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enrollments.During 2023, economic inflation, concern about student debt and employee shortages couldfurther affect university enrollments in the United States. The full effects of inflation in theUnited States might be benchmarked by mortgage rates which are expected to rise to nearly 8%by the end of 2023, up from 4% in 2019 [4]. In 2022, President Biden’s attempt to forgivestudent debt increased awareness about the high costs of a university degree. A university degreein the next decade will be more expensive than in the previous decade, especially for students © American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 2023 ASEE Southeastern Section Conferencewho must borrow money to attend college. The inverse
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engineering education. Using the ASEE Annual Conference proceedings as an example [24],the number of papers identified that included the term “social justice” increased steadily from 49in 2015 (2.7% of the papers) to 117 in 2019 (6.6% of the papers), with a drop to 82 in 2020(4.6% of the papers, perhaps due in part to the ~20 SJ papers presented at the ASEE CoNECDconference in 2018 and 2019). The divisions publishing the most papers that included SJ wereLiberal Education / Engineering & Society (n=91; 30%), Educational Research & Methods(n=53; 7%), Engineering Ethics (n=45; 26%), Community Engagement (n=30; 19%), andMinorities in Engineering (n=29; 14%). In the majority of the conference papers, SJ was not thefocus but rather mentioned in
c Society for Engineering Education, 2021Creating a Diverse Next Generation of Technically- and Community-Minded STEM Professionals Purdue UniversityAbstractIn 2019, the National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center, CISTAR, partnered withthe National Society of Black Engineer’s Summer Engineering Experience for Kids, NSBESEEK, to develop a summer program like no other! Through an NSF Research Experience andMentoring (REM) summer program, CISTAR was able to give students and teachers anopportunity to do 6-weeks of cutting-edge research at CISTAR and then “give back” bymentoring kids for 4-weeks at NSBE SEEK—all in one summer. In this paper, we elaborate onthe rationale for the program, namely
Engineering Education, 2023Work in Progress: Towards a participatory action research approach to improverepresentation of Black Ph.D.s in engineeringAbstractThis work-in-progress introduces a conceived participatory action research approach to improverepresentation and support for Black Ph.D.s in engineering. In 2019, only 3.9% of doctoralengineering degrees were awarded to Black students (ASEE, 2020), thereby affecting who goeson to become future faculty members, leaders, and role models (Burt et al., 2019). Most researchon broadening participation in engineering has focused on undergraduate education with relativelylimited work on graduate populations (Burt et al., 2018). A recent systematic literature review onBlack students in engineering a
various classes. Students were told that participants who completed both a start-and end-of-semester version of the survey would be entered into a random drawing for one ofthree $50 gift cards. Three hundred forty-eight FTIACs were eligible to participate. One studentdied during the Fall 2019 semester and four others made complete withdrawals from theuniversity for unknown reasons. These students were removed from the analysis, leaving apotential pool of 343 participants. One hundred four completed the start-of-semester survey(30.3% response rate) and 42 completed both the start- and end-of semester surveys (12.2%response rate). Only results from the start-of-semester survey are included in the current work.Table 1 shows the demographics of
students perceive bias within machine learning and search algorithms.Over 700 computer science and computer engineering students from three different institutionsparticipated in the survey from Fall 2018 to Spring 2019. Based on survey results, Google wasoverwhelmingly the preferred search engine. The participants also predicted that artificialintelligence algorithms will improve over time. The majority of respondents believe that privatecompanies, not government organizations, need to regulate their own artificial intelligencealgorithms. On average, computer science and computer engineering students acknowledge thatalgorithm bias could occur when people create algorithms. The results suggest that students arefamiliar with search engines and in
test and interpreting the results.Importantly, the course is delivered virtually, which makes the implementation very differentfrom that in an in-person classroom setting. This paper provides a detailed discussion of the virtual laboratory modules added to‘Nondestructive Evaluation of Flaws’. In addition, we report how the changes impacted thestudent learning in Fall 2020 compared to Fall 2019, when the delivery was strictly lecture-based. Finally, we discuss ‘lessons learned’ and modifications planned for the next offerings ofthis class. Our overall assessment results indicate a positive impact of the virtual laboratories on
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