those traditionally underrepresented in rigorous courses and programs in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). She knows that an education in a STEM field leads students to life enriching, family supporting, and community building careers. Morrell brings an entrepreneurial spirit to every effort she undertakes. From developing and leading a research center for advancing women and IT at the University of Maryland Baltimore County to creating an international effort on behalf of women and Information and Communication Technology (ICT) for the United Nations and the World Bank to serving as the Chief Operations Officer for the National Alliance for Partnerships in Equity (NAPE). Morrell has developed
response.They also complete a truss building exercise. The second lab option offered through aninterdisciplinary pairing with architecture is a tour of a space habitat that was developed as aprototype for The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). And, the thirdoffering highlights the lighting portion of architectural engineering with a tour and demonstrationof the lighting dome – counting natural lumens.Although participation in NLD is positive outreach for the STEM community, it has yet toproduce a student at the school of architecture. However, the numbers are small and it is onlyoffered for a few hours, once a year. Also, students are required to attend as a high school groupso the interest is varied.WONDERtorium:The local children’s
, interpersonal interactions, organizations, and institutional change. There areexceptions, perhaps even increasingly so; these “exceptional” courses may be seen as part of alarger movement in engineering education to integrate ethics, human-centered design, leadershipdevelopment and community-based project work—considerations of people, in other words—into more traditional technical coursework [2] - [5].At the center of this paper is one such course newly offered at Stanford in the winter term of2017. The name of the course was ENGR 311C/FEMGEN311C Expanding Engineering Limits(EEL): Culture, Diversity, and Gender. The course was developed to address a curricular gap inthe school of engineering: the absence of an engineering-based formal learning
, Florida State University Faye R. Jones is a Senior Research Associate at Florida State University’s College of Communication & Information. Her research interests include STEM student outcomes and the exploration of student pathways through institutional research. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Assessing Educational Pathways for Manufacturing in Rural Communities: An Investigation of New and Existing Programs in Northwest FloridaAbstractA subset of manufacturing, the AM sector is defined using two criteria: high levels of spendingfor research and development (R&D) and a high share of STEM jobs within companies. In NWFlorida, AM employment is concentrated in two sub-sectors
, takeaways for future development of this and other comparable communitiesof practice for student participants in engineering education are considered.1.1 BackgroundThe EECS Design Student Community of Practice Program at Oregon State University in theSchool of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science was originally developed and piloted in2017 as a means to interweave aspects of academic, extracurricular, career preparation, andprofessional identity-building in the engineering discipline based upon the model presented byWenger [1]. Over the 6 years since the pilot, program leaders have conducted developmentresearch that has guided advancements in basic organization, educational practice, resourcefocus and overall implementation methodology [2-4
and chapters, her research centers on the intersections of career, change, leadership, and resilience. Fellow and past president of the International Communication Association, she has received numerous awards for her research, teaching/mentoring, and engagement. She has worked on Purdue- ADVANCE initiatives for institutional change, the Transforming Lives Building Global Communities (TLBGC) team in Ghana through EPICS, and individual engineering ethical development and team ethical climate scales as well as everyday negotiations of ethics in design through NSF funding as Co-PI. [Email: buzzanel@purdue.edu]Dr. Andrew O. Brightman, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering) Andrew O. Brightman serves
programs as well as programs in the Engineering Education Systems and Design PhD program. Her research interests include topics related to student persistence, STEM doctoral student experiences, faculty mentorship and development, modeling and analysis of complex manufacturing systems, and the development of new discrete event simulation methodologies. Bekki is the co-director of the interdisciplinary, National Science Foundation supported CareerWISE research program, which strives to: 1) understand the experiences of diverse women who are pursuing and leaving doctoral programs in science and engineering and 2) increase women’s persistence in science and engineering doctoral programs through the development and
within biomedical engineering, she was elected Fellow in the Biomedical Engineering Society and the American Society of Engineering Educa- tion. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Tracking Skills Development and Self-Efficacy in a New First-Year Engineering Design CourseAbstract This evidence-based practice paper describes the development and implementation ofsurveys and a focus group to understand the impact of a new first-year engineering design course.With the intent of adding a practical design experience for first-year students, the EngineeringDesign and Communication course was introduced as a pilot program in the fall of 2017 at
Paper ID #16483Student Success through College of Engineering Freshman Year ExperienceProgramProf. John Ross Tapia, New Mexico State University John Ross Tapia has a focus on student engagement and success for all students in their coursework. John Ross is an assistant professor with the Engineering Technology Department at New Mexico State University. He teaches Civil Engineering Technology courses and is the faculty lead for the Freshman Year Experience/ENGR100 course. His research focus is engineering education. Prior to working at NMSU, John worked at New Mexico’s first Early College High school and helped develop the
lack offunding, proper equipment, lab space, and dedicated research faculty [3-5]. In addition, research is not akey component of community college educational master plans. Rather, the ultimate goal of communitycolleges is to prepare students for transfer or employment through certified technical educationprograms [6-8].Undergraduate research has proven to be a high impact practice that helps students increase theiracademic performance, build confidence, and develop critical thinking skills and STEM identity [9-11].These traits are necessary to become a successful scientist, engineer, or educator in these fields— thus itis imperative that research experiences are provided in the early stages of STEM students’ educationaljourneys [12, 13
is an associate professor of mechanical engineering at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical Uni- versity in Daytona Beach, Fla. Her current research in engineering education focuses on cognitive load theory, deliberate practice, and effective pedagogicalJessica Gonzales, The University of Texas at San Antonio Jessica Gonzales received her MA in Learning, Design, and Technology from the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA). She currently works as a Learning Experience Designer with Academic Innovation at UTSA focusing on culture, identity, emergent technologies, and multimodal learning. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023Identify Challenges of Inclusive Practices at the Course Level1
joining NCWIT in 2017, Dr. Sanders served as a senior administrator at The University of Texas at Austin for twenty-nine years, most recently as the associate vice president for inclusion and equity. While at UT-Austin, Dr. Sanders also served as a clinical associate professor in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy and taught graduate-level classes on college student development theory. She earned her Ph.D. in Higher Education Administration from The University of Texas at Austin; her M.A. in College Student Personnel from Bowling Green State University; and her B.S. in Psychology from Louisiana State University.Dr. Melissa C Stange, Laurel Ridge Community College Dr. Melissa C. Stange is a Professor of
STEM, and the development of novel instructional equipment and curricula for enhancing academic suc- cess in science and engineering.Ms. Jenny Ngoc Le, Skyline College Jenny Le serves as a Retention Specialist at Skyline College in San Bruno, California. She received her B.A. in Public Health at UC Berkeley, and her Master’s in Social Work at San Jose State University. In the past five years, she has specialized in coordinating learning communities and mentorship programs, where adolescents and college students can thrive. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 A Cohort-Based Program to Strengthen Retention of Underrepresented Community College
undergraduate STEM education. Core values of thenetwork include promoting student leadership, developing supportive learning communities, and engaging studentsin authentic STEM practices. areas for growth and supporting students along that growth process. Adopting a growth mindset has also been shown to improve persistence through challenges.24 2. Valuing a broad set of metrics of success from day one - often, engineering design courses overtly reward the building of a successful end product. Instead, we wanted LAs to have an expansive notion of what counts as “success” in the Design Course, including aspects such as engaging in authentic design thinking, pursuing a creative but risky idea, and having a
knowledge, concept inventories and self-efficacy.Prof. Nicholas Langhoff, Skyline College Nicholas Langhoff is an associate professor of engineering and computer science at Skyline College in San Bruno, California. He received his M.S. degree from San Francisco State University in embedded elec- trical engineering and computer systems. His educational research interests include technology-enhanced instruction, online education, metacognitive teaching and learning strategies, reading apprenticeship in STEM, and the development of novel instructional equipment and curricula for enhancing academic suc- cess in science and engineering.Mr. Marco Wehrfritz, Skyline Community College Marco received his B.S. and M.S. in
status,” Journal of Science Education and Technology, vol. 18, pp. 163-172, 2009.[3] C. Adelman. Women and Men of the Engineering Path: A Model for Analyses of Undergraduate Careers. Washington, DC: US Government Printing Office, 1998.[4] S. Bhatia and J. P. Amati, “’If these women can do it, I can do it, too’: Building women engineering leaders through graduate peer mentoring,” Leadership and Management in Engineering, vol. 4, pp. 174-184, 2010.[5] C. Poor and S. Brown, “Increasing retention of women in engineering at WSU: A model for a women's mentoring program,” College Student Journal, vol. 3, 421-428, 2013.[6] B. Sattler, A. Carberry, and L. D. Thomas, “Peer mentoring: Linking the value of a
experience. This institute was a part of our researchprogram on new elementary teacher development in engineering education 18. The overall goal ofthe CBE Institute was to prepare these new urban teachers to incorporate student-centeredengineering design experiences into their future elementary classrooms, and to do so in a waythat reinforced science learning opportunities. All engineering learning experiences during theinstitute followed the community-based engineering approach 19, which involves finding andsolving engineering problems in students’ neighborhoods, community centers, or schools. Afocus on the local community provides a common lens through which teachers and students cansee the cultural and linguistic diversity of urban environments
minorityand female students. According to National Center for Education Statistics [2], [3] of the share ofUS Citizens who graduated with a bachelor’s degree in aerospace engineering in 2019 and 2020,56% were white males and only 14% were female. There is a need for more diversity in thespace industry and overall, more degrees in aerospace and related fields. SpaceLab* (SLI) wascreated to address these issues. The hope is that by creating accessible and interestingcoursework, students who would not otherwise be interested, learn about the opportunities andbenefits that exist in space-related careers. Literature suggests that engaging students in design-based science learning activities can help them develop problem-solving and science inquiryskills
learning, inquiry-based laboratory instruction, and any ini- tiative that empowers students to do hands-on learning. Additional service interests include teaching and leadership training for graduate students, enhancing communication education for undergraduate en- gineering students, developing evidence-based design project team formation strategies, and improving engineering design curricula.Dr. Molly H Goldstein, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign Molly H. Goldstein is an engineering design educator and researcher at University of Illinois, Urbana- Champaign. She previously worked as an environmental engineer specializing in air quality influencing her focus in engineering design with environmental
curricula tend to lack engineering design education overall. Students’development of competencies related to the engineering design ideation phase tends to be limitedin their typical degree required courses.Vertically Integrated Projects (VIP) Model of Experiential LearningOne curricular solution to integrate PBL in the middle years and extend the timescale ofengineering design education is through the Vertically Integrated Projects (VIP) Model. The VIPModel has been implemented at over 37 institutions around the world with varying institutionalstructures and student populations. The VIP Consortium was recognized by ABET with the 2019Innovation Award for implementation of and community-building around the VIP Model [17].“VIP teams” comprise faculty
Paper ID #23677A Study of the Attitudes and Practices of K-12 Classroom Teachers who Par-ticipated in Engineering Summer Camps (Evaluation)Dr. Amber L. M. Kendall, North Carolina State University Amber Kendall is the Coordinator of STEM Partnership Development at The Engineering Place at North Carolina State University. She recently received her PhD from Tufts University, where she worked as a graduate research assistant with the Center for Engineering Education and Outreach. She graduated from North Carolina State University as a Park Scholar with a BA in Physics, and spent several years teaching physics to high-school
self-efficacy (belief) in their ability to study engineering, the reality is that half tested belowCalculus I, 66%% had no engineering coursework in high school, only 32% had a familymember in the field, and only 5% had ever had an industry mentor to introduce them tothe profession.These descriptive statistics are at odds with established predictors of engineeringpersistence, including likelihood of having a family member or parent in the discipline,participation in pre-college engineering activities, and ability to build on prior knowledgeand identity (Byers, et al 2010), particularly through peer mentoring (Good, Halpin &Halpin, 2002). Given the majority of engineers in the US are predominately white males,it is generally understood that
practices, sociotechnical knowledge and skills, and queer student experiences in engineering. Their work is motivated by their passion for and experiences with inclusive teaching and holistic mentorship of students, seeking to reimagine what an en- gineer looks like, does, and who they are, especially for queer folks, women, and people of color, through empowerment, collaboration, and co-development for a more equitable world. Shannon is also a Senior Graduate Facilitator and Lab Manager with the Center for Socially Engaged Design.Berenice Alejandra Cabrera, University of Michigan Berenice Alex Cabrera (she/her) is a Ph.D. student in Higher Education at the Marsal School of Education at the University of Michigan. She
the rolesthey play within engineering as a discipline, with their peers, and within engineering classrooms[13]. Women must author their individual engineering identities that will relate to the groupidentity of an engineer [13]. Educational experiences within the classroom have the potential tofoster agency through participation in engineering and directly influence a woman’s pursuit ofengineering both at secondary and post-secondary levels [8]. Development of this identity willrequire active participation in engineering curriculum and social integration into engineeringacademic communities [13].Social Cognitive Career Theory Social cognitive career theory (SCCT) was developed originally to connect anindividual’s career development
B.S. degree and beyond for several participants, and strongoutcomes for degree attainment. These, in addition to providing students with a sense ofbelonging, community, and a network of faculty members who become a touchstone or constantfor the students, make this bridge experience notable in a student’s academic career. Page 26.1576.14Degree Completion and Graduate School Enrollment: The development of strong educationalgoals leads directly to positive outcomes for degree completion. More than 120 students haveparticipated in the SCCORE program through 2013. At the conclusion of the Fall 2013 semester,69.1% of the participants had transferred
Shore. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Envisioning Equitable Pathways to STEM Graduate Education: Creating a Coalition including two public HBCUs and a public Research 1 University to Make It HappenAbstractTwo public HBCUs and a public Research 1 University established a coalition to developpathways to STEM M.S. and Ph.D. programs among Black, Latinx, and Native Americanstudents. Through a mixed-methods research project, the team: (1) identified Faculty Championsto support and advocate for the students; (2) developed a Memorandum of Understanding forSTEM programs between the institutions to facilitate sustained effort by our coalition; and (3)identified Pilot
an interest in humanitarian engineering for international development, particularly related to energy access and sustainability, which she hopes to further pursue after graduation. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024Lessons Learned: Looking Back at Ten Years of Student Engagement in Malawi through Engineers Without BordersAbstractThe Engineers Without Borders (EWB) program at the University of Delaware (UD) hassupported a water access project in Malawi since 2014, assessing, constructing, monitoring, andrepairing borehole well projects in four communities. UD’s EWB chapter, a student-run,faculty-advised organization with professional engineer mentors and nonprofit partnerships
arehoping that through the process of sharing our thoughts with the broader ASEE community, wecan further develop ideas regarding opportunities for anti-racist institutional transformation andincorporate them into ongoing research with students, program coordinators, and universityleadership across the five PNW LSAMP universities and four PNW LSAMP communitycolleges.Theoretical frameworkOur research is motivated by an assets-based Critical Race Theory (CRT) approach aimed atdeveloping a better understanding of the ways that knowledge and experience possessed bystudents from systemically marginalized groups both contribute to their educational success anddraw attention to opportunities for institutional transformation [5], [7], [8]. In this paper
with prospective freshmen and transfer engineering students. In 2018, he transitioned to the role of Assistant Research Professor in the Department of Bioengineering at the Clark School. His research interests transfer students who first enroll in community colleges, as well as developing broader and more nuanced engineering performance indicators.Dr. Medha Dalal, Arizona State University Medha Dalal is a postdoctoral scholar at Arizona State University. She received her B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Gujarat University, M.S. in Computer Science from New York University, and Ph. D. in Education from Arizona State University. Her research seeks to build capacity for engineering education stakeholders at the
leveraging the NSF INCLUDES Alliance awards (NSF #1834628 and #1834608),Engineering Momentum builds on the success and knowledge gained from the current STEM CoreExpansion initiative by developing a sustainable and replicable program to broaden participationin STEM, both in education programs and the workplace. Engineering Momentum also includesthe implementation of the STEM Core model at each their five community college partners. Figure 1. The Engineering Momentum pathways project.The initial three-year program design and intervention activities (Phase 1) will include five cohortsof approximately 25 students each (125 students total). During Phase 2, years 4-6, the project plansto scale to three additional colleges and include